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posted by Jenna .
A field trip for free everyday at school. Examples they are bad?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you want us to do. Please explain.
Please phrase this into a comprehensible question. What you're asking doesn't make sense to me.
Help me get examples of what would happen if there were fiel trips everyday for school for free. Help me come up what bad stuff would happen
Like what bad stuff would happen to the school teachers and people
#1 -- Schools/districts would run out of money pretty fast.
#2 -- Students wouldn't learn much because there would be no lessons or learning time in class or on their own.
You know that saying -- All work and no play make Jack a dull* boy -- yes? Well, the opposite is true, too. All play and no work make Jack a dull** boy.
*not much fun to be around
**not very knowledgeable about anything!
If there were field trips every day, the students would get bored with them. Also, they wouldn't learn very much of the important subjects like math, English, science, and social studies.

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I don't know about top items, but if I am starting up gun shop I want things that are gonna sell.
I would start with the usual suspects. Popular items like XD's, M&P's. Round out your plastics and then move to the 1911's. Kimber, Springfield and so on. Don't forget the popular snubbies.
One thing I would love to see in my local shops are good quality holsters. All the shops carry around here is the Galco stuff. Maybe you could get with some of our makers and get your hands on some really fine holsters. The nice custom rigs often cost about the same or even less than the Galco garbage. God forbid you offer nice stuff at a nice price.
A really nice sharkskin holster is hard to pass up when it's on the counter in front of you. Even if the price is a little higher.
Bottom line is think about your clients and what they are going to want. Are you catering to CCW folks (if not why) or are you trying to attract the big spenders with custom or limited items. I think you should have a mix of both. Make it easy to find a $400 gun and a $1600 one as well.
Look at your demographics and also at other shops. What are they selling? What is stocking their shelves?
In the end though it depends how much you have to spend.


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After the Revolution, What?
By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN
Published: December 11, 1988
''This is hard work,'' Wendy Wasserstein says. Her new play, ''The Heidi Chronicles,'' opens tonight at Playwrights Horizons, and most of her time the last couple of months has been spent at the theater, first in rehearsals and then in previews. ''My mother tells me I shouldn't work so hard. I'm a girl, my mother says, and girls shouldn't work so hard.''
And she laughs. Wendy Wasserstein laughs a lot, as anyone who knows her will tell you. But what they will also tell you is that behind the laughter, or perhaps as part of the laughter, is a seriousness, a concern for people, and for society, and for the lives we are living today.
That concern - and that laughter - is reflected in the play. It begins in 1988 with Dr. Heidi Holland, a professor of art history, giving a lecture about women artists, whom the art historians have neglected. It then goes back a quarter century and follows Heidi - played by the Tony Award-winning actress Joan Allen - as well as some of her male and female friends, from a high school dance in 1964 to the present.
Through them, and with humor as well as seriousness, it relates the history of the women's movement from the prehistoric, unenlightened days of the mid-60's, to the consciousness-raising groups and the togetherness of the 70's, to the era of ''superwomen'' and of alienation. It looks at the effect the movement has had on men and women, as well as at the gains and the problems of women's liberation -at the expectations that were raised and then, for some reason, were just left hanging.
''Serious issues and serious people can be quite funny,'' says the 38-year-old author of ''Isn't It Romantic'' and ''Uncommon Women and Others,'' both of which addressed the same issues. ''I think that's quite important. The thing about comedy is that it avoids self-pity. It punctures self-obsession. So what I try to do in this play is deal with social issues and people's lives in a comedic fashion.''
Ms. Wasserstein has come to the lobby of Playwrights Horizons to talk about the play. So has Ms. Allen, who won the Tony last season for her role in Lanford Wilson's ''Burn This'' on Broadway. For a while the talk emphasizes the serious.
Toward the end of ''The Heidi Chronicles,'' Heidi Holland is at the Plaza Hotel addressing her Chicago high school alumnae association. The topic is ''Women, Where Are We Going?,'' and Dr. Holland is telling of a locker-room encounter with her exercise-class teacher, Jeanette.
''No, Jeanette, I'm just not happy,'' she recalls saying. ''I'm afraid I haven't been happy for some time.'' Then she looks up at the audience.
''I don't blame the ladies in the locker room for how I feel,'' she continues. ''I don't blame any of us. We're all concerned, intelligent, good women. It's just that I feel stranded. And I thought the whole point was that we wouldn't feel stranded. I thought the point was we were all in this together.''
''One thing Wendy told me,'' Ms. Allen says, ''was that her whole idea for writing the play came from the image of a woman standing in front of a group of other women and saying she'd never been so unhappy in all her life. Wendy told me she found writing that speech a very cathartic experience.''
''That's probably the kernel of the play,'' Ms. Wasserstein says. ''That's why it was written.'' She pauses for a moment, and when she resumes speaking there is an unhappiness in her voice. ''If we were all in this together, why does it feel so separate now?'' she says. ''What is that feeling of being stranded, of being alone? What happened to these movements? What happened to this feeling of a generation together?''
''I remember when I was in college, reading 'The Feminine Mystique' on the steps of my dormitory, and I saw one sentence that Betty Friedan wrote,'' she says. ''It went something like this: 'I never imagined I would ever be over 21.' And I remember thinking, 'That's me.' I never thought I would be over 21 either. And it meant so much, seeing the possibilities for your life that you hadn't thought of before - the thought that you didn't have to marry a lawyer, that you could be a lawyer.''
''That part still exists,'' she says. ''That's what's come out of everything. But that's the personal pursuit. That is not the 'We,' that is not the 'We're making a better world.' What's missing is the 'We,' the making sure that not only can you pursue your potential, but that others can too. It's the thinking about others, as well as about 'me.' ''
One reason the ''We'' is missing, she says, is the ''differences between movements and what it is to take something to heart - to be a true believer and to live your life by something.''
''Things change,'' she says. ''People marry. They have children. They want money. They choose other things. ''Sometimes I see these Good Housekeeping ads for a return to traditional values, and I see these mothers in their pearls and little dresses, and I just think, 'What's happened? How has all this happened?' I read all the stuff about a gentler, kinder life, and all of that, and I find it very upsetting. Are they saying that the women who decided to fulfill their potential have made a mistake? That's completely unfair. It makes you feel stranded. It makes you feel part of a tidal wave.''


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Proving that cancer is not a death sentence, local middle school teacher Lisia Farley underwent medical treatment while still teaching her class
There's never a good time to hear your doctor utter the 'C' word.
So when eighth-grade social studies teacher Lisia Farley picked up her classroom phone last September and heard the word cancer, she nearly collapsed.
She admits being 'scared to death.'
'I was called during class, and they told me over the phone that I had cancer,' said Farley, still unable to hold back the tears while speaking about it. 'And I did the best I could to not upset the kids.'
With tears running down her face, the 23-year teacher left the room and went directly to Rosemont Ridge Middle School Principal Thayne Balzer's office.
She didn't hold back her tears. After all, she was just beginning a new school year, and she had lots of plans for her students.
'I walked into the principal's office, and he shut the door and just let me cry,' she said. 'He was very, very supportive, along with everybody on the staff.'
The road ahead seemed uncertain to Farley because she has been around long enough to know that cancer and death used to be synonymous.
'The people that I know that have had cancer aren't around anymore,' she said. 'That made it very scary.'
Knowing that the road ahead would be filled with potholes, she decided to undergo the treatment while still maintaining her teaching position at Rosemont.
And the result was a huge learning experience - not only for Farley, but also for the members of her teaching team as well as for her students and their parents.
'After I found out I had cancer,' she said, 'I put the kids in a big circle and asked them about their family and friends who had been diagnosed with cancer. After I told them what I had, I asked (the school nurse) to come in and answer questions about the disease.'
Farley also brought the school counselor into her classroom and she discussed how the kids could support Farley in what she anticipated would be a challenge.
'I try to do this whole process with the kids of taking on the responsibility of running the classroom,' Farley said, 'helping me do a mental attendance and designing things that are put on the wall. So, as things needed to be done in the classroom, kids would walk up and say: 'Can I help you? Is there anything that needs to be done today?''
Farley not only worked with the four other members of her teaching team (Jeff Coleman, Allison Gilbert, Charles Kralovec and Jessamyn Van Hook), but also with substitute Helene Callagan.
During chemo treatments, Farley would require a week to recover from the injections, and Callagan would teach the lessons Farley had prepared.
Then, Farley would return for about two weeks before taking another week off for another chemo treatment.
That schedule was repeated from October 2005 to March 2006.
'Our goal was to keep things as consistent as possible,' Farley said. 'And Helene was available (to substitute) almost all of the year.'
Throughout the process of treating the cancer and the recovery, Farley was very open with her students, thus making it a strong learning experience for them.
And a fun experience, too.
'I let them know early-on that one of the chemo drugs that I would get would make me bald,' she said. 'And some of them brought me temporary tattoos. Some of them had a little contest to see who could find the best dark chocolate, because I told them about the diet my doctor gave me (dark chocolate is a good anti-oxidant).'
An example of the compassion and caring attitudes unleashed in the wake of Farley's cancer diagnosis is the girl who brought a teddy bear for Farley to hug while receiving chemo treatment.
Parents of her students also gave her support. Farley kept them updated, especially about the way the students were dealing with Farley's disease.
Callagan wasn't the only teacher that Farley appreciated. She got a lot of support from her eighth-grade teaching partners.
'(Coleman, Gilbert, Kralovec and Van Hook) have just been fabulous,' Farley said. 'I know that my kids talked with other teachers about me. It was a good way for them to process what was going on. And it made our little group (of teachers) even tighter than it already is. They and my substitute just picked up any slack that I left behind.'
Farley also praised the group of professionals that surrounded her in her time of need.
'(Receiving cancer treatment and teaching) was pretty seamless,' Farley said. 'I feel very blessed to be in this teaching community because I could see this happening a lot differently; it could have been a lot harder. And the administration was very good about letting me do what I needed to do to take care of myself. I was just overwhelmed by the support.'
She tried very hard, she said, to give this year's students the same experiences all of her other classes have received. And she hopes her example will remind her students if a life-changing experience should befall them that there will be a web of support on which to depend.
Farley made it through the chemo treatments and then began six weeks of radiation therapy.
'I did the radiation in the morning before I came to school,' she said, 'and taught full days.'
In fact, her students also made it through a variety of challenges: her chemo treatments, the days when she needed help just lifting something that any of her students could easily lift, the few days when she didn't have the energy to get out of bed, the uncertainty of their teacher's health and a year of not knowing which teacher would be in the classroom when they arrived.
On the last day of school, when the reality of the eighth-graders' graduation came home to roost, Farley became very emotional at the thought of losing those kids.
'They're leaving,' she said of her entire class. 'And there will always be a special place in my heart for this group. We've gone through this together.'
She still takes a regimen of cancer drugs even though the cancer is gone. And to prove she's not intimidated by limitations, Farley and her husband are spending the summer in Italy, Turkey, Switzerland and France.
'This is a great opportunity for a social studies teacher,' she said. 'No dust is gathering under my feet.'


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You need to set up a wireless network that allowed users can easily authenticate to join, that keeps out unwanted users, and maybe even automatically disconnects computers infected with known viruses. What's the best way to proceed? Read on to find out what the experts recommend.
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Watercolors and mixed media works by Kees Salentijin, and pottery by Sasha and Tari Federer, will be exhibited as part of Francis Marion University's Art Gallery Series, Nov. 3-19.
The displays are open to the public, free of charge, and may be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday in the Hyman Fine Arts Center galleries.
Salentijin's exhibit is titled "Between Abstraction and Figuration." Born in Amsterdam in 1947, Salentijin's work is characterized by a duality between figuration and abstraction. He has been a forceful presence in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and other European countries for decades. Strongly influenced by Spanish painters such as Saura and Millares, Salentijin's style is evocative of spontaneous creation without aesthetic premeditation.
Selections from Salentijin's sketches and notebooks were published as a book earlier this year. Salentijin has developed a personal style that combines expressionist, painterly, vigorous strokes with smaller but equally expressionist marks that are quick and slightly nervous, but sure and on-target.
The Federers' exhibit is titled "Shapes from Within."
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia Republic, Sasha has lived in the U.S. for half of his life, and in Florence for nine years – as a clinical psychiatrist by profession, and as a potter by passion. He studied pottery in Washington and Wisconsin, worked three years as a professional potter in New Hampshire, and served as artist-in-residence with the National Endowment for the Arts.
"Working in clay represents, for me, a timeless desire to combine objects of use with beauty, by creating the unique from the ordinary, and to experience beauty in everyday moments," said Sasha.
Spending much of her life in the Southwest, Tari studied as an art major at Ventura College and the University of California at Santa Barbara. A few years ago, she closed her studio in North Carolina and moved to Florence to marry and join forces with Sasha. Their joining has resulted in a creative collaboration in their quest to create in clay at their studio, Feather Pottery.
"Working with clay represents the interconnectedness with the forces of nature that surround and inspire us, along with the shapes that evolve from deep within. My mission is to combine these shapes and forces into art form and functionality," said Tari.
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To Be Honest – A science teacher writes
Junior Cert science is too easy – on every level
I am a science and biology teacher and I think the current Junior Cert science curriculum does not have enough scientific information. It is too basic, indeed the current higher level should be ordinary level.
The experimental aspect of the course takes far too much of the teacher's time and not enough of the student's. Teachers have to pull and drag material from them, which dominates Christmas to Easter. Some teachers take the easy option, just ticking the 30 boxes to get the students their 10 per cent, deserved or not. Others either do the project (worth 25 per cent) for their students or give extra time to complete it.
After all, projects remain in the school until June, so why bother finishing by the April deadline? The system is unfair for honest teachers, or those who try to instil deadline discipline in students.
I supervised this year in our average school, with a good mix of ability in students. They behaved very well in their exam, proving that when necessary and expected, teenagers can be diligent and hardworking. They are not students who just finish up quickly and leave the exam.
Yet with the two-hour science exam, all ordinary level students finished within 35 minutes. After 20 minutes checking scripts they were all gone within the hour. Is this a "testing" exam? At that point, higher-level students were on the last question and most had left by 90 minutes. One of the students remarked as he left, "This is my favourite subject. That exam was rubbish."
Extra bits could be added to the exam. The paper of short answer questions does not permit good students to show their abilities; it could easily include three experiments for ordinary level students to write up, and six for higher level. This might increase the time spent in the exam and give the science exam some respect (it is viewed as an easy exam). Students wrote for twice as long in CSPE exams and three times longer in religion, two other subjects with course work projects.
The paper layout is also a disadvantage for good students, or those with large handwriting. Students cannot show what they know because the answer spaces are tiny, without room even for grammatically-correct answers. Boxes for the few diagrams they are asked to draw are also tiny, with no space for detail or labels.
In a subject such as technical graphics, students are expected to and capable of drawing beautifully accurate, large and neat pencil drawings but in science any pen-drawn, messy, tiny "diagram" is accepted. The question paper should be separate from the answer booklet.
Students are not asked to draw the diagrams they are supposed to know in biology.
Instead of being asked to draw and label the heart or digestive system this year, for example, they were presented with diagrams already partly labelled.
In ordinary and higher level science, students when asked to draw a graph do not have to draw their own axes, which is standard in ordinary-level maths. More detailed explanations should be required in some answers. Surely a true explanation requires more than one line in an answer book or a phrase in a marking scheme. Science is supposed to be about precision and truth, not vagueness.
The curriculum is too simple and of a poor standard. The name of the arm bones is deemed too hard for ordinary-level students. It's not hard, just a couple of names. Yet in the course work leaps of deduction are sometimes expected, even for ordinary level. Course work expects them to be able to make sense of information available, without teacher's help, on the web.
Body parts are too difficult to learn. Chemical equations are too hard to balance. Axes are too difficult to draw. But they should be able to notice strange graphical relationships and resolve them by squaring or cubing one or more of the variables. Or they should be able to read and understand science papers online. How does this make sense? Let them get to know basic, yet accurate, information at a young age to be able to interpret the detail later on, as they mature.
The curriculum is not challenging enough. The course work is easy to cheat. The exam is laughable. The marking scheme is too generous. And we want to compete at a global level? The Minister for Education may think getting rid of the exam will solve these issues, as teachers set their own standards and exams. But we don't all go to exclusive schools with cooperative parents and students eager to learn. Many students want good grades, but with as little work as possible.
Many parents want their children to get good grades, but do not press them to study. With a high level independent exam, they have to work. Learning to study, concentrate and delay reward are valuable life tools.
There should be no bias, no favouritism of topic depending on your teacher's interests, no variation in measure with a subjective exam and an over-familiar examiner. A national curriculum is standard. A national exam is standard. It is a good and fair preparation, if it is a good exam, fitting a good curriculum.
I know. I'm a dinosaur. It's not about education anymore, it's all about "fun". But people experience fun in many different ways.
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Ridge Vent leak
We recently moved in our new place. The roof is asphalt shingle and is 14 years old. During heavy rains and wind last week, we saw water trickling down the ridge vent in the attic. We received a quote from a contractor to cap the ridge vent and instal 5 new square vents. Would capping the vents and installing the square vents solve our problem and also ventilate the roof enough? It also snows in winter here. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
I wonder why ridge vents are leaking. But yes. It can be re-ridged and go with the others. There is a formula for amout of vents you need according to cubic feet of attic space. Make sure your roofer follows this spec.
Why not replace the ridge vent with one of the more screening and weatherproof options?
If it's three tab shingles then 14 years is about all your going to get out of them, there would be no since just doing a fix when your due for a new roof. If one if the caps is cracked where the two pieces come together it's going to leak.
Even if it is one of those "30-year" roofs...you are nearing its projected lifespan as well.
30 is the new 'lifetime".....
These guys probably know their roof is old. Some new ridge caps or vents will probably buy them a few more years if they can't afford a new roof right now.
I'd wager that you have an improperly installed ridge vent. Slot cut too wide, torn ridge caps, improper nailing, etc. I prefer ridge vent over box vents in most instances. It would be wise to figure out what the problem really is before solving it.
There are a couple of things you can do:
1. Remove the existing ridge vent and install a newer version. The older style type might be letting wind-driven rain in in a way a newer one (with side baffles) wouldn't.
2. The way you can determine sufficient ventilation in pulling off the old ridge vent, capping, and going with new pod vents goes like this: a standard pod vent will allow 50 square inches of exhaust ventilation. Essentially, you want 1 square inch of exhaust ventilation (plus one square inch of intake ventilation at the soffits) for every TWO SQUARE FEET of attic floor space. If your contractor is any good at what they're doing, they ought to be able to show you the calculation for ventilation.
3. Try the COBRA Snow Country Ridge vent from GAF if you get snow.
Thanks everyone! We have decided to go with a new ridge vents. The roofer will be coming in today. Will test them when it rains on Thursday.
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Food "in.se.cu.ri.ty" (noun) the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable nutritious food.
Depending on whom you ask, this means different things to different groups. I counted at least 11 web sites on the Internet that had different definitions of food insecurity. The number of food insecure households in Columbia County is difficult to get because it is calculated differently by different agencies. I feel that food insecurity is being well addressed in Columbia County.
"And Mary brought forth her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manager, because there was no room for them in the inn."
- Luke 2:7
Every Christmas was the same in Hazel Harrison's church.
Oh, she could handle the children dressed up as Mary, Joseph, angels and shepherds. She didn't even mind the cardboard lambs someone had covered with cotton batting.
But that "Baby Bright-Eyes" doll with the fakey cry they used for the Baby Jesus was just too much.
Now that the final election totals are in, let's look at a couple of Georgia's voting trends.
One of the most definitive results of election night was the overwhelming rejection of Gov. Nathan Deal's "Opportunity School District" involving a state takeover of low-performing schools.
Voters obviously did not like the idea of the state assuming the power to control their schools and grab the local taxes that go along with those schools.
The "no" votes against Amendment 1 amounted to nearly 60 percent and the margin of defeat was just under 800,000 votes.
Thanksgiving dinner assignments from "headquarters" arrived by electronic mail early in the week. The yearly assignment email tethers itself to the same type of suspense as the big present tucked behind the Christmas tree. Just like putting on a happy face when the big gift turns out to be a vacuum cleaner, polite acceptance of one's Thanksgiving dinner assignment demonstrates good upbringing.
For both Georgia and the United States as a whole, the election of Donald Trump as president is going to mean some major changes in our lives.
For a start, you can expect to see more air and water pollution, more closings of rural hospitals, and more people without access to health insurance under the new administration.
The most concise blueprint of what lies ahead comes from Sen. David Perdue.
"Thanksgiving is not just a day, but a way of life."
- Our Daily Bread
Several years ago I attended a different kind of Thanksgiving program. Instead of telling what we were most thankful for, we were asked to name something we were thankful we did not have. This novel idea has become a Thanksgiving habit of mine ever since.
The headline in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week sums up stormy presidential politics: "2016 race devolves into ugly fight over treatment of women."
With Hurricane Matthew bearing down on the East Coast, it seems timely to think about our planning for natural disasters. Natural disasters can destroy your personal property and severely impair your ability to conduct financial transactions. If you had only a few minutes to evacuate your home, and had to be away for several days or weeks, would you have access to cash, banking services and the personal identification documents you would need to support your family?
August marks the 20th anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This bipartisan welfare reform legislation signed by President Bill Clinton on Aug. 22, 1996, dramatically transformed the nation's welfare system, implementing strong welfare-to-work requirements and incentivizing states to transition welfare recipients into work.
The law, which created Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and replaced the 61-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children, also implemented stricter food stamp regulations.
Over the next several weeks, more than 1.7 million students will walk through the doors of Georgia's public schools. Some of those students are kindergartners just starting their journey. Others are high school seniors almost ready to take the next step. They'll be welcomed by more than 113,000 dedicated teachers.
I want to take a moment to personally welcome every one of our students and teachers back to school. I offer my best wishes to each of you for a safe, successful year of learning.
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Lets all just go back to talking about how awesome the mk2 is and how nothing else can compare.
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All the girls wanna ride the fatty!! [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
Update for Sunday: I didn't even look at it today. I spent a big chunk of my day at my buddy's garage pretending to help him on his project mk1.
I did help em some but nothing worth talking about really... I just got home from work, I'll play around with some small stuff tomorrow. [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
anything new, what happened with the adapters?
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anything new, what happened with the adapters?
Yeah, I just ordered some 15x1,5x28mm with 17mm heads to crank em down. The stock lugs are 19mm thus too fat for anything I have to fit within the adapter to tighten them properly. Also have new metal on its way for above engine flooring. Also have stock front door glass waiting to be installed... work has been keeping me really busy though. [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthdown.gif[/IMG]
Raf - I had no idea you got this but saw the link in your sig. Congratulations! It looks great.
There is no further education to be gained by the second kick of a mule
Laura! Hi!!! How are you and Michael doing!? Any plans for coming up for any shows this season?
So a quick update for everyone else... I haven't really been doing a heck of a lot since its end of quarter at work and it gets crazy. I did manage to do a little work on the rear cargo area this weekend.
So the bad metal has been trimmed and the new metal has been trimmed a little and all the well welds have been drilled out. I'm hopeful to have the new to me bits installed within the next couple of weeks. 8)
And before I forget, it turns out that, for Porsche applications, the adapters from CIP1 do fit the stock 19mm heads... unfortunately, the socket needed to fit said OEM bolt doesnt. This is due to the proximity of 2 of the holes to the lugs that attach to the adapter itself. So what do you do? Either find a place that has 14M 1.5 bolts with a 17mm head (Although H&R used to make them but no longer you can have the wrong kind shipped to you by Eurosport - Ask me how I know - I'm kidding, Ivan and Hubert have been awesome sorting this out). Another option is to trim each bolt to a smaller size so a thinner socket fits in the hole or C (which is what I had done) is to trim a 19mm socket in width to fit. A local machine shop charged me $30 to do it which was a deal considering that bolts from CIP were going to be close to $70 before shipping.
So now that I can properly fit the spacers, tire shopping time.
Modified by RafCarre12 at 8:19 AM 3-18-2008
Nice progress so far. What machine shop, place near you?
Originally Posted by Darryl Jenks
Quote, originally posted by eggman95 » Nice progress so far. What machine shop, place near you?
Yeah, in Paterson... Its owned by a Russian couple, cool people. Let me know if you want their info, I'd be more than happy to send some business their way. [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
Good stuff man. I got the new Rancho Prostreet trans in the beetle the other day. Today I slapped on a new set of P/C's and buttoned the motor all back up. I'll throw the motor in tomorrow morning and take it for a shakedown run/ring break in.
the wife will be glad to have her kitchen table back lol
Looks good!
Here are some pictures of the spacers/ground sockets and whatnot.
Great success!!
Coming along great [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
wow good work raf [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
looking good, keep it going
and i see you have a socket to fit now
doesn't look bad at all Raf. are you bringing it to par this thurs?
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Quote, originally posted by mikebbugn » doesn't look bad at all Raf. are you bringing it to par this thurs?
Nah, it's not going to be out til she's nice and ready.
why not getting some POR15?
Quote, originally posted by a2gtinut » why not getting some POR15?
Because the Eastwood stuff is moar bettarz!
Quote, originally posted by a2gtinut » why not getting some POR15?
because the rust was gotten too poor too try to riding safety in the futures. I'd think that it was the correct things to does for the car two.
Quote, originally posted by Holden McNeil » Because the Eastwood stuff is moar bettarz!
tried Eastwood in past and it did not work
Quote, originally posted by a2gtinut » tried Eastwood in past and it did not work
u tried wrong then


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Can a Christian and an atheist be friends? (rrs mailbag)
> Hope sent a message using the contact form at
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> I am sorry on behalf of my Christian brothers and sisters if we have
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> sorry for any pain that was or has been caused. I will confess I am hurt
> and feel very attacked by the words I have heard on this website. I hope
> that one day we can live in peace and love each other. I quess my qeustion
> is - can a Christain and an Atheist be friends? Do you believe that that is
> possible for us to just love each other and appreciate the differnces in
> each other? Sent with much love and tears.
Yes of course Christians and atheists can be friends, it happens all the time.
If you got to know us you'd find that everything we do is because we care about humanity and our survival. We feel religion is dangerous and harmful, and it's our moral obligation to help end it. While we may be wrong (we don't think there is any chance we are wrong), we don't do this to hurt others, we do it because we think we're helping. The point is... our heart is in the right place, just like yours, I can see that. Hopefully you can understand it the other way around.
I personally feel that any tears you shed over our site are because you were brainwashed into Christ belief, not because we were mean to you. That frustrates me, and it's why I seek to end religion, on your behalf, even though you likely don't agree nor would you want me to.
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Of course.the vast majority of my friends are christians.(In fact i think i have one atheist friend) There is no reason we can't get along, and frankly, I believe that you would even ask tht is an indication of the severe brainwashing we try to end.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
This is getting redudnant. My patience with the unteachable[atheists] is limited.
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
Practically all Americans I have ever met were Christians, and they were good people, it was fun with them, and they were very...Americanish. (you know, playful, always in a challenge, crazy, maybe too much enthusiastic for everything)
I'm not a christian, (in fact I'm a walking parallel version of RRS radio interviews with christians, you know the style) but it wasn't a problem to get along with them. Before they started teaching us pagans a gospel singing and dancing. (God, Jesus, whatever, but I won't sing!)
I'm wondering what people the American atheists are. According to the local chat, they think about a food all the time, but I think it's an internet habit, it says nothing about a real life.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
Nearly all of my friends are Christian or religious. Some are even involved in ministries, one is a nationally known evangelical singer. I'm tolerant of them as I have a sister that is religious and a niece that does overseas missions. So I had practice in dealing with it. This is not to say they don't try to evangelize me, they do. If so, all is fair. I owned a retail business and would be reading a history book, atheist books, or books critical of religion. People would comment what are you reading. If asked I would tell them what I was reading and why. I will explain and listen to them in detail as well. As I had a very Christian background I know what they know. Quoting scripture doesn't work on me, as I'll quote back to them why not this way. I have reached a few people that way. Perhaps it will help them develop understanding of us and hopefully more tolerance.
As an American living in Colorado for years and now Florida for almost as many I find plenty to do other than eat. Skiing snow or water, going to the beach, and the occasional theme park (Orlando). Food is not a priority for me.
"I guess it's time to ask if you live under high voltage power transmission lines which have been shown to cause stimulation of the fantasy centers of the brain due to electromagnetic waves?" - Me
"God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks please. Cash and in small bills." - Robert A Heinlein.
Well, if you think that religious indoctrination is child abuse, one should have a difficult time maintaining a relationship with Christians or Theist that condones this practice.
I've told Theist/Christians friends that I consider it abuse to tell a young child that Hell is fact, and use this fear to control their behavior. If they teach it to children as "this is what I believe, but you don't have to believe", this is OK. If they teach it as absolute fact and put the fear of Hell into them, I would have a hard time being friends them. I think in the long run you're better of spending your time with freethinkers.
And why would you want to be friends with someone that believes you it's OK for a God to send you to Hell and torture you for all eternity just for following your conscience and being honest with yourself?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Seneca
Yes Christians and atheists can be friends...as long as they live on opposite sides of the planet.
Just kidding. My girlfriend is a Southern Baptist while I am an atheist. We get along fine.
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
Ayn Rand
You asked whether Christians and atheists can be friends. I think we can at least get along. I'm an atheist, but I've been playing the piano in many Gospel groups, so you can imagine that many of my friends are Christians.
While it's vital for me to spend time with my atheist friends, I'm just as happy when I'm with my theist ones. I have this friend who is getting heavily involved in her church, and of course we talk about that a lot, amongst other things. Even though both of us hold different convictions we try to do the intelligent thing and avoid being self-righteous jerks.
I live in France, and whether you believe it or not, very few of the theists I know have a holier-than-thou attitude and are easy to get along with. Many of them don't even believe in hell. If their religion gives them self-confidence and makes them nicer people, I sure won't complain.
I think life should be simple.
On the other hand, it hasn't been very long since I outed myself as an atheist to my believing friends. Perhaps the worst is yet to come? I'll let you know in a few years.
Email back from Hope...
I just want to say I am really impressed that you emailed me back personally. Way to go. If you want to effect people, that is the way to do it. I still walked away from the email feeling very unseen and abused, but was really impressed that someone actually read it and responded to individual comments I made. For that, I say thank you. Sincerely, Hope
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Its like asking can you be friends with someone who has a drug addiction or has a mental illness (which is what christians basically have) and of course you can . May cause a few strains at time but thats life
Email back from Hope...
Quote:I just want to say I am really impressed that you emailed me back personally. Way to go. If you want to effect people, that is the way to do it. I still walked away from the email feeling very unseen and abused, but was really impressed that someone actually read it and responded to individual comments I made. For that, I say thank you. Sincerely, Hope
I don't get it. Why did she feel "unseen and abused" ?
As for atheists and christians being friends, of course they can.
People shouldn't let trivial things get in the way of friendship.
The great equalizer to all humans now and future and all of past history is death, no one can escape it. We do not think we are better than any other human, we will not live forever.
So when people come here and read our blunt criticisms and blasphemy and even ridicule, it is not out of hate. It is because there is no way to sugar coat reality. If you had a 45 year old friend who litteraly believed that Thor made lighting, you might not disown them as a friend, but if you didn't tell them their claim was absurd, you would be being dishonest with them and you wouldn't be helping them. At least when you are honest with them you are giving them the oportunity to consider it.
Of course atheists can be friends with Christians or any other label. There are 6 billion people on the planet and it would be impossible for anyone of any label to try and completely isolate themselves from the rest of the world around them.
We are not facists, we are not bigots or hatemongers. We simply want to see humanity grow out of thinking they need magical fictional friends in the sky, by any name.
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there are two possibilities... Either there is a god and we're wrong, or there is not, and YOU are wrong. And untill we have the abitlity to converse socially and change one another's minds, we'll still be seperated by our differences.
There is one important ingredient to any christian-atheist friendship: A sense of humor. You must be willing to let one another pick fun at your own beliefs, and accept rational critizicism.
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
there are two possibilities... Either there is a god and we're wrong, or there is not, and YOU are wrong. And untill we have the abitlity to converse socially and change one another's minds, we'll still be seperated by our differences.
There is one important ingredient to any christian-atheist friendship: A sense of humor. You must be willing to let one another pick fun at your own beliefs, and accept rational critizicism.
The atheist must believe the Christian doesn't really believe. It's just their drug of delusion. Seriously, could you be friends with some that loves and worships someone(God) who is ready to torture us for eternity just for not believing without evidence? If the theist is right, they are going to love and worship the all powerful being that finds it necessary to torture you in hell. Some friend.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Seneca


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We know Audi is at least working on an S1 version of its new A1 hatch if not a full-blown RS 1. Still, that hasn't stopped the photoshoposphere from imagineering such a beast and we like what we see. We found this particular shot that uses many cues from the RS 5 PR photography over at AudiBlog.nl. Read more about it after the jump.
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Photoshop ace and Audi enthusiast Jon Sibal was inspired last week by the R8 Spyder starring in the new Iron Man 2 movie and also by the just-released R8 GT when he put together these renders of an R8 GT Spyder. Of course with the coupe just announced there's no real indicator yet that Audi might consider building such a beast but if Jon's renders are any indicator we hope that they do.
Audi has released their latest A1 video short as part of 'The Next Big Thing' webisode series starring Justin Timberlake and Dania Ramirez.
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We regularly sing the praises of Georg Kacher, contributor for mags like Automobile, UK-based CAR and more. The German automotive journalist is in like flynn with many German auto executives including those at Audi which has all combined to earn him E.F. Hutton status in these pages. Kacher's just published a piece with the cool render
Europe's biggest VAG enthusiast show Worthersee is happening this week and we've uploaded what will be the first wave of photos from the event. Audi revealed last week that they'd built a collection of special A1s for the event and no surprise this first round of pics primarily from Audi AG is heavily populated with shots of the cars or the models that presented them.


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BUDAPEST – Spain's Javier Fernandez boosted his Olympic medal hopes as he defended his men's crown at the European Championships in Budapest on Saturday as Russia faced a dilemma over who to choose for their men's team at the Sochi Games.
The 22-year-old from Madrid landed three quadruple jumps in the free skate to take the gold by a 14.56-point margin on Russian Sergei Voronov, with another Russian veteran, Konstantin Menshov, taking bronze.
Fernandez's free skate to the "Peter Gunn" soundtrack and "Harlem Nocturne" was not without error but in a weak field it was enough to hold his title as he scored 175.55 points for an overall total of 267.11.
He becomes the first man to defend his European title since seven-time winner Evgeni Plushenko of Russia in 2006.
Veteran Plushenko's bid to return to compete in a fourth Olympics has been boosted as national champion Maxim Kovtun, 18, slumped to fifth after an error-strewn free skate.
Russia has just one men's berth for Sochi and three-time world champion Plushenko, the Olympic gold medalist in 2006 and two-time silver medalist, is due to have a test skate before federation officials.
Plushenko, 31, is not competing in the Europeans with the Russian skating federation due to make a final decision next week.
"I had a couple of mistakes that I have to fix for the Olympics. I think with a little bit more I will have a chance (of gold)," said Fernandez, who trains in Toronto with Canadian coach Brian Orser.
Fernandez went for three quads, but stepped out of the quad toe loop and the second quad salchow.
He nailed another quad salchow, but under-rotated the triple toe loop in this combination jump, and also included a triple axel and four more triple jumps.
Despite his overall score being over 28 points off world champion Patrick Chan's world record, Fernandez believes he can close the gap on the Canadian in the weeks until the Olympic skating gets under way on Feb. 6.
"My quad-triple combination was under-rotated, that was a big mistake, and the step sequence I have to try to make it level 4," he explained.
"These mistakes you lose points and points and points and in a competition like the Olympics, every single point matters."
It is the first podium place for both 26-year-old Voronov and Menshov, 30, who moved up from 11th after the short program, as former winner Tomas Verner of the Czech Republic fell to seventh.
Verner had been sitting third after the short program.
Voronov scored 167.04 for his Tango-themed program for 252.55 overall, with Menshov achieving 165.12 and 237.24 overall.
Voronov, who trains with newly crowned women's champion Julia Lipnitskaia, credited the 15-year-old with his improved form.
"When I was training with her I saw the way she works and I learned from that," said Voronov, whose previous best was a European fourth in 2008.
Lipnitskaia on Friday became the youngest woman to win the European title.
"I continue to skate because I still feel strong. I don't feel like I'm a 30-year-old," added Menshov, the oldest man in the field who hit two quads, two axels and three more triples as well as two level-four spins in his routine to music by Rene Aubry.
Leading up to the Europeans, Voronov and Menshov were mentioned behind Kovtun as contenders for the title and the position of Plushenko's main challenger.
But after his result here Kovtun seemed resigned to his fate.
"After the third quad attempt, I understood this wasn't going to happen," Kovtun said. "I don't really know what happened because it was all fine in the warmup and I had a great practice on (Friday)."
Voronov's silver was his best result in international competition. Though he won the Russian nationals twice, in 2008 and 2009, his career had stagnated. He refused to speculate about Plushenko's tryout, but made it clear that if he were to be selected by Russia, he was ready for the Olympic challenge.
"Of course I want to go, who doesn't want to go to the Olympics?" Voronov said. "Plushenko is an authority in figure skating but we all want to go and there is only one spot. It's not us who decides."
Adding to the intrigue, International Skating Union president Ottavio Cinquanta was showered with questions by reporters in Budapest and had to explain at length the ISU's policy allowing countries to replace injured or ill skaters at the Olympics between the team event and the individual events.


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A major disadvantage of living out on a limb is the fear that everybody else might forget you exist. Perhaps this – a need to be acknowledged, rather than an urge to rabble-rouse – was the reason why earlier this year the Argentinian city of Ushuaia barred two British cruise liners from using its harbour. Both ships had earlier called at the Falkland Islands, and with the fate of the South Atlantic archipelago a renewed source of Anglo-Argentine dispute, the Ushuaia authorities made the big statement of withholding their gangplanks.
But then, Ushuaia is fond of big statements. Pinned to the lower edge of Isla Grande, the largest of the islands that constitute Tierra del Fuego – the fragmented, mist-shrouded foot of South America – its loudest claim is to being the most southerly city on the globe.
How you judge the truth of this suggestion depends wholly on what sort of urban status you confer upon the (admittedly smaller) Chilean port of Puerto Williams, 20 miles to the south-east across the chilly waters of the Beagle Channel. But there is no denying that, huddled 1,400 miles below Buenos Aires, yet only 625 miles from Antarctica, Ushuaia lies off the beaten path. Or that, in branding itself with the romantic motto "fin del mundo, principio de todo" ("end of the world, the beginning of everything"), it does so with relish.
Most visitors venture to the city ahead of a cruise to Antarctica (voyages that sail directly to the frozen continent have been unaffected by the recent fuss) – though in my case, it is for a four-day jaunt around Tierra del Fuego and out to the lonely full stop of Cape Horn.
And in arriving, I am exposed to another of Ushuaia's grand declarations – the Argentine byword for the Falklands rolling off the pilot's tongue as he announces our landing at the city's "Aeropuerto Malvinas Argentinas". This is an interesting idea – not least because Ushuaia lies 350 miles from these craggy bones of contention. But it is an assertion that the city is keen to repeat. Just beyond the airport car park, a colossal billboard brandishes the provocative legend "Ushuaia, Capital de Malvinas" at anyone travelling in or out.
The cause of this chest-beating becomes clear as I drive into town. Ushuaia was a naval base during the 1982 conflict (the ill-fated warship General Belgrano sailed from here) – and at the end of Avenida Maipu, a large memorial remembers the Argentine dead. It is a solemn sight, the outlines of the two main Falkland outcrops caught in outline, blank space cut from iron panels. Opposite, a sticker glares in the window of a wooden home, "Malvinas" written in black on the pale portion of the blue-and-white Argentinian flag. This week marks 30 years since hostilities were ended on 14 June 1982. Emotions here remain raw.
And yet there is much that is welcoming about a city that deserves a day's attention from anyone booked on a cruise to the last horizon. Ushuaia's prettiness is immediately apparent, its houses daubed a merry mix of reds, yellows, blues and greens – a rainbow rising in defiance of the uniform white that cloaks the streets for much of the winter.
Behind, the Martial Mountains prod the sky, their slopes host to Cerro Castor, the planet's most southerly ski area. On the dockside, sculpted heads celebrate the Argentine icons of Antarctic exploration (including José Sobral, the first Argentine to endure an Antarctic winter, in 1902), eyes staring south – though there is warmth galore on the central drag of Avenida San Martín, where fat chunks of beef spit on the open grill at Parrilla La Rueda.
Ushuaia was founded in 1870 as part of the Argentinian attempt to settle this low ebb of the Latin landmass in the face of rivalry from Chile (the pair would define their limits in the boundary treaty of 1881), but did not hit its stride until it became a penal colony in 1902 – its isolation making it ideal for the incarceration of prisoners far from Buenos Aires.
A century on, its once-feared jail now shelters the Museo Maritimo. Walking in, I can detect lingering hints of oppression, the thick walls and vacant cells seeming to hold the temperature at unfriendly depths. But the exhibits within cast light on the city's past: models of the ships that charted these distant realms (including HMS Beagle, ferrying Charles Darwin to the Galapagos in 1833); the lost faces of the Yamana, the indigenous population whose existence was extinguished with horrible speed by European disease and persecution in the late 19th century; photos of ships wrecked on Tierra del Fuego's sharp teeth, and of the Almirante Irízar, an Argentine ice-breaker that specialises in tearing tankers from Antarctica's frosty grip; panels on the inmates who found themselves cocooned here between 1902 and 1947 – and shamefaced reference to "a time of terror during the Thirties, when at least one or two coffins filed through town every week".
These convicts built Ushuaia's other key tourist attraction – the Tren del Fin del Mundo. Constructed as a way of hauling timber into the growing city, the world's southernmost railway now enjoys retirement as an antique steam line. Running year round, its engines tootle into the forested interior of Isla Grande. Here is a journey of such remote beauty that it may be – for all the bluster over the Falklands – Ushuaia's biggest statement of all.
Way beyond the end of the world
Ushuaia's self-proclaimed status that it is the fin del mundo ("end of the world") prompts a natural question: what lies beyond the port? And the answer is: nature, at its rawest, wildest best.
The Drake Passage can be one of the lumpiest, least pleasant stretches of open water on the planet. It separates the world we know from Antarctica. A clue lies in the title of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's book, The Worst Journey In The World, which chronicles Robert Falcon Scott's heroic failure to be first to reach the world's southernmost point. It begins: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised."
The driest, coldest and windiest continent is unfit for human habitation. Settlements in Antarctica remain microscopic for a continent twice the size of Australia: a scattering of small research stations around the edges, with another – the Amundsen-Scott Station – at the Pole itself, 90 degrees south. Yet almost all the tourists who venture south from Ushuaia to Antarctica deem it worthwhile: where else are you likely to see an iceberg the size of Terminal 5 drift by, and then land on an island teeming with millions of penguins? The seas and shores of the region comprise one of the most prolific parts of the planet for wildlife, particularly birds: albatrosses, petrels, fulmars, shearwaters and prions are numerous, especially in the sub-Antarctic islands.
About 50 vessels are licensed to operate in Antarctic waters, ranging from small expedition craft, with a few dozen passengers, to larger cruise ships carrying many hundreds. Shore landings are made using rigid inflatable boats ("ribs"). The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (iaato.org) specifies that no more than 100 passengers may go ashore at a time, which can prove frustrating if you are on a larger vessel – though these tend to be cheaper.
A basic 10-day trip from Ushuaia costs about £4,000, including all meals. To this you need to add about £1,500 for the air fare from the UK to Ushuaia. Almost all visits are made between November and March, which corresponds to May to September in the north. Unlike cruises in the far north, which routinely sail well inside the Arctic Circle, very few expeditions venture as far as the Antarctic Circle.
Typically, it takes two days to cross from Ushuaia to the Antarctic peninsula, the arm of land that curls up towards the southern tip of South America – a trip of about 700 miles. Given the uncertainties of weather, you should not set your heart on setting foot on the Antarctic mainland. The broadest definition of Antarctica includes sub-Antarctic isles such as South Georgia, and many Antarctic islands including the South Orkneys and the South Shetlands.
Exodus (0845 863 9668; exodus.co.uk), Explore (0845 163 4498; explore.co.uk) and Hurtigruten (0844 310 1996; hurtigruten.co.uk) have excellent polar programmes, while Discover the World (01737 218802; discover-the-world.co.uk) and Journey Latin America (020-8747 8315; journeylatinamerica.co.uk) offer a range of Antarctic options.
Travel essentials
Getting there
The only airline with a non-stop link from the UK to Argentina is British Airways (0844 493 0787; ba.com), which flies daily from Heathrow to Buenos Aires. Other links to Buenos Aires are operated by Aerolineas Argentinas, Iberia, and Air Europa via Madrid; the Brazilian airline, TAM via Sao Paulo; and a range of American carriers via US hubs. Flights from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia are operated by LAN (0800 977 6100; lan.com) and Aerolineas Argentinas.
Visiting there
Cerro Castor (00 54 2901 499 301; cerro castor.com). One-day lift pass: A$186 (£27). Museo Maritimo, Calle Gobernador Paz (00 54 2901 437 481; museo maritimo.com). Daily 9am-8pm; A$70 (£10). Tren del Fin del Mundo, Ruta 3 Km. 3042 (00 54 2901 431 600; trendelfindelmundo.com.ar). Returns A$155 (£22).
Eating and drinking there
Parrilla La Rueda, Avenida San Martin 193 (00 54 2901 436 540).
Cruising there
Cruceros Australis (00 34 93 497 0484; australis.com) has three- and four-night cruises around Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Departures in September 2012 from US$944pp (£594), full board, based on two sharing.
Staying there
Hotel Albatros, Avenida Maipu 505, Ushuaia (00 54 2901 437 300; albatroshotel.com.ar). Doubles from US$171 (£108), room only.Reuse content