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interviewBy Aliu Akoshile and Okello Oculi
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is the first woman Chairperson of the African Union Commission. Before that, she held cabinet posts in her native South Africa. From her office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, she speaks on Africa's youth, food security, energy issues, tourism, reviving PANA and more. Excerpts:
Weekly Trust: As the OAU/AU marks its 50th anniversary this year, and considering the challenges the continent has overcome, what does the future portend?
I think the future is very bright, but it is not a given. It depends on what we do - all of us as Africans. I think it is very bright because, looking at where we are now, Africa is free and we've got our sovereignty now except Western Sahara. But generally, we are all free. So, it means we have space to determine our own future. Secondly, our economies are growing, may be not at a sufficient rate but they are growing. We are a continent with a very large population, with a substantial part being young and energetic people. If we do the right things, the youth population will be one of our greatest assets. If they are healthy, if they are skilled and get into the field of technology, they will innovate and drive the modernisation of our continent. So, it is very important that we invest in them, that is why I said it is not a given. If we don't invest in them they are likely to rebel and cause instability in the continent. They are not going to sit-by and rot away. Of course some of them will take the perilous journey across the continent, moving through the seas, in the desert and in the process meet their fate, which should not be acceptable to us. But if we invest in them they will be a real asset.
Apart from the youth population, what other factors could lead the continent into the bright future you desired?
I will consider food security as a key factor. Luckily agric-business is spawning in the continent, and we have a vast proportion of arable land. Most developed countries are exhausting their arable land-up to 90% in some cases. So, they have to consider other options, including going elsewhere to look for food. But we are not faced with that challenge as 60% of available arable land is in Africa. If we can explore the potentials, we could move from being net importers of food to net exporters. But a number of things need to happen. We need to make the land available to both men and women, and especially women who are already working on farmlands. They have the skill to produce, but they don't have access to land. They must have access to improved technology to enhance their productivity. We need also to improve our infrastructure, even for agriculture. We need to irrigate and be able to store the farm produce. In this way agriculture can be a very big driver for industrialisation.
In addition to land, we have maritime and terrestrial space which could be utilised to develop our economies, in terms of maritime transport, highways and the sea ports.
Most of our imports and exports are undertaken by foreign vessels with foreigners working on then, with food on-board coming from somewhere else. So we are not involved as all those jobs are given to other people. And these are jobs that could have been given to our own people, our youth. Then, the industry itself and all the things in the sea that can be utilised for food, for industry, export, tourism. So we have the raw material but we need to turn it into wealth. We have the natural resources; we have probably a huge percentage of forest that is also arable. We have plenty of water. West Africa has a huge amount of water, Central Africa also. The place that is a bit problematic is Southern Africa. But if we capture the water through there, it will still be okay.
So, it is very important also that we add value to our resources. What do we export, for instance? We export logs; other people sell furniture to us. If we can harness our resources and add value to them before exporting, I think the continent has a bright future. There are minerals, oil, gas and we are still discovering more resources. But the structure of ownership is sometimes complex. We get taxes from there and even get some royalties, but the assets are not exactly ours. It is geographically located in our space. I think that must change. And the agreement between these companies and government must ensure that governments do get adequate revenue whilst the companies also make profit, because that is possible. It means we must also invest in the teams that are able to negotiate those contracts.
If you asked non-experts to negotiate those contracts on your behalf, they will be tricked. So, you need experts and we don't always have them. But companies we deal with have huge legal departments with fat budgets that are bigger than what is available to the entire department/industry doing the negotiation, sometimes bigger than the budget of a country. So, we do need to pool resources and assist those countries needing the specialists, because we lose money to many foreign companies due to lack of capacity on certain technical issues. They inflate their cost, they undervalue what they take and even the things we are supposed to receive free of charge, they still add it to their cost. So they give us very little. But if we develop our capacity, we would be able to determine, for instance, how much oil is being lifted, and where they submit invoice, we can be able to interrogate them for justification. We are losing more money than what is claimed we are getting in form of aid. Of course, the ownership of some of these companies is very opaque, you don't know who to chase. Above all, we have to ensure that our gold, our oil, our diamond and other mineral resources are utilised for economic development of the continent.
Availability of road infrastructure is another factor that will determine the future of our continent. I think our countries understand that we need to construct more roads and do it with speed to really boost trade and commerce. Energy is another very critical factor. All the things I have mentioned earlier, including industrialization, can't be achieved without sufficient energy. But we have water and we can have a renewable way of generating energy. We have the wind, sun, we can generate different kinds of energy, but we have not really taken full advantage of these energy sources.
What other sectors are you looking at, especially with the challenges you have mentioned?
ICT is another very critical factor because if our countries don't have broadband, it's going to be difficult to communicate smoothly. So, it's very important because a country that is unable to communicate can't compete favourably. Of course, all these things are means to an end and not the end in themselves.
They are meant to improve the well-being of our people. We must also trade amongst ourselves. We are already more than a billion people and by 2050 we would be about two billion people in Africa. The continent is a huge market which everybody is aiming at, but we are not doing the things that will make us access its market. If we don't have easy transport for goods and people, either it is rail, road, sea or air, then we will still have our biggest trading partners across the seas. Whereas every African country is supposed to have its biggest trading partner within the continent, or within their regions. Look at the Asians, Americans; if we were asked to name some of our trading partners, we are more likely to quote countries in other continents. Therefore we will never be competitive. So we need to increase the trade amongst ourselves. And with infrastructure, that is possible. But if we don't industrialise, what are we going to trade? If we don't manufacture the right items, what are we going to trade?
Tourism, especially intra-African tourism, is very important as it has multiplier effect on creation of jobs, because tourists will need food, accommodation, entertainment and transport. It is a good way of generating employment and also showcasing what we have. In any case we have the most beautiful continent, easily the most diverse. But a tourist in the year 2025 will not want to just come to South Africa or Nigeria. The tourist will want to explore a bit more of our various countries, and if we have efficient rail or road transport, they will be able to do that. What they do now is when they go to Europe, they don't just go to one country, they visit various countries. Of course we also need to deal with softer parts of integration, such as free movement of goods and people, harmonisation of law and customs at the border. All those things will eventually help in creating one free market in the continent. So, these are all the things we need to do. But in the process, if there are conflicts, we need to resolve them. We need to deepen our democracy, improve the healthcare delivery. We need to mobilise resources from alternate sources to bridge the funding gaps we have in projects implementation. President Obasanjo is very passionate about this and he is trying his best to assist. He also, through his recommendation to AU leaders, has to explain why we need to raise funds internally and externally to do some of the things like capacity building, training of women, training of entrepreneurs, youth empowerment and looking at areas that we need to strengthen. We hope that all the business people in Africa will contribute whatever they can to the fund. The UN Foundation was established by one person, Ted Turner, who gave a billion dollars to the UN. We think it's possible in Africa if we can ask every business person, even if they give $10,000 and you get a million of such givers, that is already a huge amount. We can do it collectively as we have done in our liberation and in many other instances when we do things together. If we could endow such money, it means we have a source of income to address some of the priorities. But for me, what is also important is for us as Africans to believe that we can be better than people of other continents.
You have canvassed at different fora that Africans should tell their own stories and not to allow other people to persist in the negative narratives about the continent. The Pan African News Agency (PANA) which was established to address the imbalance in news flow has been virtually comatose. What is the AU doing to strengthen PANA to enable it compete with other global news agencies?
They have said they would want to open a Bureau here in Addis, and we are willing to support them. And, of course, they have access to everything that happens here. But I don't think they have come yet. But we will need to check, because they were very keen to open an office here when we discussed with them early in the year. We are also working to have a network of media platforms - radio, TV, newspapers, online - so that we can feed what is happening to the continent. You see, people may not really know the role of AU, they see things happening in their countries in the areas of health, education, etc., but they may not know some of the policies are made here in Addis and relevant departments here are working with their home governments. So, many of the activities that take place are really not known. But we are very willing to provide information to people who request for it on any of our activities.
But I just think that if we believe in ourselves, we have more resources in Africa than some of the other continents. We only need to sharpen our human capacity, to take our destiny in our hand and run with them. When you talk to people they don't even understand that Africans are already putting a lot of funds into the development of their continent. The narratives out there are still about donor funding. There was an interesting story of a president who was said to have been given aid to build 50 toilets in a community, whereas the president had actually built hundreds of toilets with the country's fund. The impression out there is that Africans need aid to do even such a basic things as public toilets. And the donors want a lot of accounting for what they give. When I was in the health sector, for example, the European Union (EU) used to give us two per cent of our budget, but they will demand 80 per cent of our time, until one day when the Director General got fed up with the whole thing and invited all of us to a meeting. He analysed the budget, saying this 98 per cent is ours while two per cent is yours, and that from today you must understand that the time you demand from us must be proportionate to the 2% and not the other way round. Before then, we were used to writing memos, doing the accounting and rationalising the figures to the extent that sometimes you are not able to even spend the money. Which is less than ours, and we end up returning what is ours back to the Treasury. So all these are happening because of the mindset that we get most of our money from a donor which is not true. We get about R50 billion from donors but the rest of about R480 billion is our own money.
How is the AU tackling the challenges posed by international news media, especially on the issue of balance and objectivity in news reporting? Is it a difficult problem?
Really it is a difficult problem. But you see, I have been telling our communications people that we should be up there in the social media because a lot of young people don't bother even to read newspaper hard copies now. They read them online. Perhaps they can't afford to be buying, but they get them online. So, we should be in that space. Two, I think there are some media houses that are trying. I know in Nigeria there is TVC who are trying to build themselves, to use their words, into "Aljazeera of Africa". But of course we are not so much interested in the Aljazeera facts, because when I listened to Aljazeera, it's talking about everybody else's problems but not what is happening in their region. For us, we want to know what is happening in Africa. The continent consists of 54 countries. That means there is a lot to talk about, the AU, every country. If there can be a real source of news, not only good news but news from around Africa and put them in a way which is from our perspective. There are few stations trying to run 24 hours programming and I hope they will not do like some of the TV stations who pick news items from other news giants and report it without verifying the news. You will think you are listening to a local news station not knowing the information is from other news stations. This is one of the things you people who are media owners should look into. I know it is not going to be easy but you need to correct the situation. I know when Zimbabwe was under the British rule, they put their own news station there so that the stories can be transmitted from the perspective of Britain all the time. I believe in the next ten to twenty years we should be able to deal with this.


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A Monster
Cassandra Estrada (Professor, Dr. Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan)
There is a monster that lives in Chicago. She sleeps at day and roams my house at night invading my fridge and eating all the leftovers. She stands a little over five feet and has a dimple on her left cheek. Her short brown hair and brown eyes contrast with her paste-colored skin. She has a devious look that can shatter glass, and her voice is sarcastic and rude. She is more intelligent than expected for only being a sophomore in high school. The worst time to approach this creature is in the morning when she is angriest. However, she is not always unbearable. Sometimes on a good day, if you are lucky, the monster can be funny. She has a crude humor and is very quick-witted. Monsters can be tall, small, green or blue; this monster is my sister, Natalie.
At night when I would get home from work late, Natalie and I would stay up watching everything on our DVR. The two of us are NCIS fanatics and convinced the show educates us on how to become pro crime solvers. We would sit on the couch and eat Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby from the pint with our biggest spoons. In the morning, it was routine to wake up late and complain that staying up all night is never a good idea. Natalie, in a generous mood, would cook mac and cheese for my brother and me. Unfortunately, the noodles would be uncooked and she would forget to add necessary ingredients. Still, she believes herself to be a master chef.
There are many things my sister is not. She is not a chef who masters the art of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Natalie is not an artist, unless you believe a drawing of a person should have a circle as a head, a long line as a body, shorter lines as arms, and little circles for shoes. Then, yes, Natalie is a wonderful "stick-person" artist. Do not worry Adele, if Natalie is your competition you will be okay, considering dogs howl when Natalie belts out "Someone like you." If you are an experienced dancer competing against Natalie, then good luck to Natalie. Bouncing up and down is cute for little babies, not as successful when you are fifteen years old. Thankfully she does not plan to pursue any of her imperfections.
Above all this, Natalie can be tolerable. She can be a comedian even though her jokes are mostly insults. Her special jokes are more delightful when she is not making fun of you. Surprisingly, she can be an educator when she is helping me with my college homework. Of course, she brags that we have the same reading materials. A friend of Natalie's would say she is very attentive and insightful. I've learned that if I trap her in my yellow beetle bug car, she has no choice but to listen to me complain.
Only two people are privileged to experience the greatest characteristic of Natalie. My brother and I know her as a sister. A sister is most definitely an unwanted gift, but I am blessed that I have Natalie. No matter how devious, she has a special place in my heart.
A note on process from Cassandra: When writing my character essay I was inspired by missing home and my sister, and I was pushed by my teacher to use my emotion to write my essay. I spent time in class writing a first and second draft, as my teacher and classmates helped to edit my paper.


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Spring Fever in 58 Amazing Photos
As I sit, working in my apartment, I see the beautiful deep blue sky from the window. The spring is gently touching everything outside and I saw the first flowers in bloom yesterday. The earth is still cold but in a week or two it'll be filled with young tender greenery and soft blooming colors. The strangers in the streets are hiding the smiles but we all feel that wonderful sensation of "spring fever." See if it spreads when you check out these lovely spring images.
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There´s just one word to explain the joy looking to all the pics: amazing! Thanks for the joy it brings to all of Us.
Gorgeous pictures, every last one of them.
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Truly beautiful photographs.
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I've been on Facebook since October 28, 2004 (I now know, after trying to wrestle my Timeline into a presentable state). At the time, a .edu email address was required, and I had never heard the phrase "personal brand." Facebook was correct in removing the ridiculous .edu stipulation and opening up to the world at large, but I mention this in order to emphasize that in the beginning, no one was under the impression that the site was anything more than a platform for college kids to say stupid things that we thought were charming and clever for the purposes of winning love and glory. No one was looking to break into a career path or advertise a product or service or their own marketability - we were mostly interested in bantering with each other and sharing the gory details of our bad decisions. Immature and shortsighted, most definitely.
Then our professors started joining, and we started hearing rumors of people making REALLY bad decisions, like bragging about cheating on exams, or missing class because of various illegal substance indulgences. For the most part, I don't think professors minded us acting like we were coasting through a period of extended adolescence, but it became immediately apparent that you needed to be careful about what you said and posted, especially if it was something against academic rules and regulations.
Then our parents joined. Then our bosses. Then every person we ever crossed paths with ever. Then it became a situation where saying anything political, religious, or otherwise opinionated put you at risk for a Facebook tussle with someone you'd never dream of offending in real life (though perhaps you hadn't even thought about the person in years). And I think that's fine - being a social critter is a messy, tricky business in real life, and of course a wildly popular online social service will mirror that. And the golden rule of the internet is, post not that which you would not say to your mother. Please understand that I'm not trying to say I don't want the world to have access to a special college kid clubhouse - I'm just trying to explain how Facebook evolved from a fairly obnoxious college kid clubhouse to something much bigger, and much more interesting.
However. This new Timeline business seems tailored not to socializing, but to stalking - the casual "I wonder what happened to so-and-so" variety that most of us do occasionally and joke about often, or the "so-and-so thinks I should hire him, so let's see what dirt we can find" style which seems a little unfair to me on separation of work and play grounds but that I've accepted as part of the world I live in, or the truly threatening kind. Older posts on Facebook have always been accessible, but Timeline makes them infinitely more so, lowering barriers to serious amateur private investigation. It's upsettingly simple to get dates on all of my major life events (which might help an unscrupulous person figure out my account protection secret questions in one extreme and unlikely scenario), and it's embarrassingly easy to catch me out as not having always been a relatively mature adult with reasonably well-supported opinions and tempered judgment. Looking at the earlier sections of my Facebook feed didn't fill me with a warm glow of nostalgia - it felt like a one-click-away dream in which I suddenly realized I wasn't wearing any pants.
Combining user profiles with user walls is streamlined, and I like that aspect of it. I'm also grateful for the seven-day cleanup period, and for the fact that in spite of my obsessive/self-obsessed anxieties about being "caught out" as less than a perfect human being, there's really nothing that bad in my backlog. I am not shy about using privacy controls and I've mostly made good sharing decisions (except for all those China party pics - ex-pat life is just different, I don't know what else to say). Nevertheless, I did not craft the past seven and a half years of Facebook activity as a cohesive document that explains who I am as a person, and that's exactly what it's about to become, whether I like it or not.
I own the fact that I started out on Facebook as an excessively privileged and naive child, and I do understand the internet well enough to know that you can never really take anything back. I just feel really weird about having all of my online skeletons summarily exhumed from underneath layer after layer of "older posts" links for public perusal unless I do some labor-intensive housecleaning. I understand that it's my responsibility to make sure everything's in good order, but it's going to take an awful lot of time to get through the past seven and a half years to prepare for a compulsory and drastic change in the way my profile functions.
[I did enjoy the existential character of old-school status updates, though. Here's a transcript from 2006:
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happy as a clam, hidden from predators, with an endless food supply, and whatever else might make clams extra happy.
just a lonely puppy.
all about fortune cookies.
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Tripoli, Siham Ali in Rabat, Jamel Arfaoui in Tunis and Jemal Oumar in Nouakchott — Top diplomats from across North Africa gathered in Tripoli on Saturday (February 15th) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA).
"There is no doubt that the results in terms of consolidating this entity are still much lower than the aspirations of our peoples," Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan said in marking the occasion.
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdulaziz chaired the meeting in the presence of his counterparts from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania as well as UMA Secretary-General Habib Ben Yahia.
"What we face in terms of challenges and obstacles are too large and requires effort and hard work on a political level as well as a real, serious, and focused dialogue," Zidan pointed out.
"Compromise is essential and necessary, and relations between states and peoples cannot be consolidated without concrete initiatives in the fields of economy, trade, education, and culture," the Libyan premier continued.
Zidan also called for "co-operation in security, the exchange of information, border protection, experiences and the development of expertise".
"There is no doubt that the situation in which we live now is tense and dangerous," he said.
The union was formed February 17th, 1989 in Marrakech with the aim of promoting the free movement of people, goods and capital between member states and encouraging a common policy in all areas. Yet years passed without these goals being achieved.
Government officials seem aware of the need for unity. However, according to political analyst Jamal Farhan, there is a wide gap between the rhetoric and acts.
"We must develop concrete initiatives. The expression of good will alone is not enough," he said.
Speaking in Tripoli on February 15th, Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar stressed that political will was the only way to promote conditions conducive for understanding and co-operation.
"The best way to realise the hopes of Maghreb peoples is through unity, development, security and stability, in order to meet the challenges of globalisation and fight terrorism and transnational crime," Mezouar said.
In order to revive the union, Farhan said it was necessary for Morocco and Algeria to sit at the same table and first settle their political differences.
"Other Maghreb countries must ensure the resolution of the difference of views between Rabat and Algiers. A solution must be reached for the good of the entire region," he noted.
In Tunisia, Central Bank Governor Chadli Ayari also lamented the absence of real plans and solutions to achieve the dreams of the Maghreb Union.
Speaking at a Saturday conference organised by the al-Majd Foundation for Strategic Studies commemorating a quarter century since the birth of UMA, he said that "the Maghreb dimension for which the union was founded was absent at the level of developmental or economic achievements in the plans of the countries that are part of it."
"The crisis experienced by Tunisia and Libya after the revolution was an opportunity for the promotion of the union in order to cope with difficulties and achieve the aspirations of its founders. Unfortunately, this proved to be absent and empty and just a show," Ayari said.
Meanwhile in Mauritania, citizens await integration as security threats mount in the Sahel.
Filmmaker Ahmed Ould Al-Hassan said a unified bloc could serve the region's peoples and governments but added that "the problem lies in the different policies of the states composing it, especially the decades-old problem between Morocco and Algeria, the two biggest countries in the Maghreb."
"This problem limits the effectiveness of any security alliances between the countries of the Maghreb," he said.
Gallo Hamat, a Mauritanian journalist, said he had not seen "any concrete steps made over the past years for the sake of integration and union".
"Despite the lack of effectiveness, I think the fact that it remains in place even as a token is important," Hamat added.


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Impress your friends by turning on your lamp with the wave of your hand. Find out how here.
Move over Clapper. There's a new way to control your lights, and it's way cooler (not to mention quieter).
The Luminch One is an interactive lamp that you can turn on and off simply by waving your hand. Created by Francisco Castro, the lamp features an Arduino (an open-source electronics platform) connected to infrared distance sensors that track your hand.
Waving your hand above the Luminch One will turn it on or off, while hovering your palm over the lamp and then moving it up and down will adjust the brightness of the bulb.
You can impress your friends with this magical lamp by making your own Luminch One. Castro has posted a full set of instructions on Make's Web site, and the project should take five to six hours.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Photos from San Jose by Allen Chuck. Thanks to Bill Barrett for sharing them. Gary Nixon on the #9. Gene Romero in the badass argyle leathers on the #3. Who was #20x? The others?
Friday, November 27, 2009
Check out the full ad at: http://www.vft.org/ForSaleWanted/CardottTriumphs/CardottTriumphs.html
Thursday, November 26, 2009
In the spirit of the holiday I'm thankful for guys like Mike "Stu" Stuhler. Mike does the Stu's Shots blog and has taken the time on several occasions to share photos he has shot over the years. They are always very cool and the background info he sends along always brings the photos to life. So thanks Mike. Happy Holidays!
From Mike "Stu" Stuhler:
I've been doing a lot of scanning lately, and came acrossed this batch of shots I thought you might like that I took back in August of '75. This was my second year, and first full year of having just gotten into flat track racing, I had just graduated high school and was working with one intention in mind for the summer--go to as many flat track races I can.
My old friend Dick Jones--who I have mentioned before and who had taken me under his wing so to speak in turning me on to this great series--and I traveled to 9 or 10 races that year. Of course, Peoria a couple of weeks before the now infamous '75 Indy Mile, was a must see. Only 192 miles west of here, we made the trek.
Back in those days, all you pretty much had to do was get an AMA membership and make application for a mechanics license and wammo, you had your way into the pits. It was titties and beer as you were right there with all the gods of this great series.
Sonny Burres Natl #69 and Chuck Joyner Natl #60 were two hot shoes out of the Pacific Northwest area that were considered TT specialists in the day. I know they ran Peoria then and of course Castle Rock. I'm not sure about Houston at the time.
Both had immaculately prepared Triumphs that were a testament to the worthiness and durability of the brand. Even in later years as when Gary Scott won Castle Rock for what I believe was a five year run. Burres won Peoria this year as you can tell from the shot of him and his wrench taking the checkered flag. As a matter of fact he ran away with it.
In no particular order of shots, one is of Gary Scott #64-who would of course claim the championship that year on a factory H-D tuned by Bill Werner-and Chuck Joyner #60 run it into 1.
Another shot shows Scott, Phil McDonald on the #58 --which I think was a Harley--and Joyner running it into 1 as well.
Another is of Joyner grabbing the front brake so much in a testament to his riding prowess in these things, that the rear wheel is starting to come off the ground while Gary Scott is just starting to get it on the brakes hard coming in behind him.
And last but not least you have the field lining up for the national. On the far left you can see #65x Jay Springsteen just over #26 Mike Caves' right shoulder. Just off Caves' left elbow in the second row is #35 who I believe was Randy Scott--I stand corrected if not so--but also on a Triumph. To Caves' left on the front row you have the late, great Rex Beauchamp #31. I can't make out the rider just over Rex' left shoulder in the second row. To his left, though, is of course #69 Sonny Burres and just behind him you can just make it Joyner's #60. And just off Sonny's left elbow on the second row is Natl #14 Hank Scott on the Shell Thuett Yamaha. And do I even need to mention who is on the pole on the #1. Probably not, but yes, it is The King, Kenny Roberts, on the Bud Askland-tuned Yamaha parallel twin.
You can tell from all the shots that the crowd, as it still is today in Peoria, SRO. And even if someone HAD a seat, they probably didn't get used too much that day.
Just a note of interest. My buddy and close friend Rick McGuire, who now resides back in the Champaign, IL. area after having lived the good life for the last 8-9 years in Hilo, HI., ran into Sonny Burres at an AHDRA event in Bristol, TN. back in late summer of '07. He's still racing, and for a guy now in his early '70s has gravitated to nitro-burning Harleys after also having taken up hydroplane racing over the years. Obviously this man is an Iron Man for still taking on a schedule like that some 34 1/2 years after wowwing an 18 year old kid. Pretty cool stuff.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Awesome shot of Gene. Who needs a full face...or gloves for that matter? Thanks to Bill Barrett for the photo.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Scooter on an awesome Triumph at Springfield last year. Who owns this bike? Where was it this year?? Will we ever see it again???
Monday, November 23, 2009
Bill Gately at Bonneville Performance has already confirmed they will try to run the full schedule next season. Interested sponsors should get in touch as more races = more miles and more cash.
2010 AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Championship Schedule
1)March 3 DAYTONA® Flat Track (Daytona Beach, Florida) TT
2)March 4 DAYTONA® Flat Track (Daytona Beach, Florida) Short Track
3)May 1 Yavapai Downs (Prescott, Arizona) Mile
4)May 29 Illinois State Fairgrounds (Springfield, Illinois) TT
5)May 30 Illinois State Fairgrounds (Springfield, Illinois) Mile
6)June 5 Gas City I-69 Speedway (Gas City, Indiana) Short Track
7)June 19 The Red Mile (Lexington, Kentucky) Mile
8)June 26 Allen County Fairgrounds (Lima, Ohio) Half-Mile
9)July 10 I-96 Speedway (Lake Odessa, Michigan) Half-Mile
10)July 31 Calistoga Fairgrounds (Calistoga, California) Half-Mile
11)August 7 Hagerstown Speedway (Hagerstown, Maryland) Half-Mile
12)August 14 Beulah Park (Grove City, Ohio) Mile
13)August 22 Peoria Race Park (Peoria, Illinois) TT
14)August 28 Indiana State Fairgrounds (Indianapolis, Indiana) Mile
15)September 4 Illinois State Fairgrounds (Springfield, Illinois) Short Track
16)September 5 Illinois State Fairgrounds (Springfield, Illinois) Mile
17)September 11 Canterbury Park (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Mile
18)October 9 Yavapai Downs (Prescott, Arizona) Short Track
19)October 10 Yavapai Downs (Prescott, Arizona) Mile
Additional dates are expected to be added.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
While out in Pomona Brian Phillips and the Bonneville Performance team ran the WCFTS Open class in additional to their regular AMA GNC program. Phillips proved to be up for the challenge qualifying 6th out of 52. Unfortunately once the racing got going Brian finished 7th in his heat and 14th in the semi and missed the main.
It also seems there was another Triumph running in the open class. Jeff Johnson was aboard the 37R machine and ran 8th in both his heat and the semi, also missing the main. If anyone has photos or info on Jeff and the bike he was on, we'd love to hear about it.
Photo and info from Dennis Suter at VFT.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
If anyone has the details on this bike we'd love to hear them.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Grand National Triumph
Friday, November 13, 2009
The AMA Grand National Series began in 1954 when the series went to a point system for the #1 rider. Prior to that the #1 plate was given to the rider who won the 25 lap mile race at Springfield , ILThanks for the info Joe. Glad to share it.
The first victory for Triumph in the Grand National ERA came from Ed Kretz Jr., who won the Peoria 80 C.I. TT on Sept 11, 1955. In the early era of the series two nationals were run at the Peoria TT. A 45 C.I. and 80 C.I. National 1954 – 1962 ..
Prior to the AMA National Series in 1954 – the following Triumph Riders won nationals.
Ed Fischer: 6-21-1953 100 mile road race Laconia NH
Rick Fishcer: 8 -31-1952 100 lap mile Langhorne PA
Jimmy Phillips: 9-16-1951 45 C.I. 14 Lap TT Peoria IL and 9-16-1951 80 C.I. 14 lap TT Peoria IL
Keep up the good work
Joe Yak
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
I found this photo and letter over on Sideburn Magazine's blog:
From Al McQ:The photo is of my Granddad's two brothers Albert & Mark, aboard the latter's 500cc Triumph – the first motorised vehicle in their village. Both died in WW1.
Albert served in the Middlesex Rgt, Football Bttn. A "pals" outfit comprising footy players and those, like Albert, who wanted to serve alongside their sporting heroes. They first saw action during the Somme offensive of 1916 and were subsequently involved in the battle of Passchendaele (Ypres). In each of their first four major engagements their losses were 50%; every time Albert was in the fortunate half, until his luck ran out in autumn 1917.
Mark was a despatch rider attached to the officer commanding Royal Engineers Q (Special) Coy involved from 1915 onwards in gas warfare. A letter written by his officer to his bereaved family tells how he frequently had to get from the front line to rear areas and return under shellfire when all other communication methods had failed. Against the odds he survived until the end, only to die of influenza in the pandemic of 1918 - 1919.
They are buried in the same cemetery in St Omer, France. I think of them every year when I buy my poppy and wear it with pride.
Made me think of this quote from Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions:
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
So here's to Armistice Day. A remembrance of all those who died in the "war to end all wars." A hope for peace rather than an acknowledgment of the growing number of veterans of ceaseless wars.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Beautiful photos of Gary Nixon and Chuck Palmgren battling at San Jose. Photos taken by Allen Chuck and provided by Bill Barrett.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Found this on Ed Youngblood's MotoHistory website...an early article on Triumph's return to flat track.
Dirt Track Déjà vu
With 65 championships between 1958 and 1981, Triumph was one of the great brands of the AMA Grand National era. Men like Gary Nixon, Gene Romero, Eddie Mulder, and Skip Van Leeuwen helped hold the marque high during its best days in America. However, except for vintage racing, a Triumph has not been seen in serious dirt track or road racing competition for nearly a quarter century. This may change during 2005, thanks to a convergence of the recently created AMA Supertracker class with the GNC 750s, a new high-tech Triumph vertical twin engine, Bill Gatley of Bonneville Performance, and an Ohio man named Doug Horner and his cohorts.
Pictured here on its birthing bench is a motorcycle that its builders hope will take the Triumph name out of nostalgia and into the heat of AMA Grand Naional dirt track racing. Its engine is Triumph's double overhead cam, eight-valve vertical twin that its builders believe is capable of 105 horse power. Featuring a 270 degree crank, it is bored and stoked to 990cc. The frame is by VMC, Horner's partnership with Lyle Pizzino, that specializes in building frames for AHRMA vintage dirt track competition. Three engines are being built, and one will be ready for testing in December.
Horner wants the machine to be more than a motorcycle that just carries the Triumph name. He wants to bring back the look of the classic Grand National era. The modern unit-construction vertical twin resembles a Meriden Triumph of yesteryear, which Horner has enhanced with a new aluminum steel fuel tank carefully shaped to look like the Trackmaster tanks seen on the machines ridden by the likes of Nixon, Romero, and the Palmgren brothers.
Horner's build team includes Mark Anderson of Norsman Motor Company and John Zelna, pictured here with Horner's ARHMA Triumph dirt tracker in the foreground and the new Supertracker in the background. The vintage 1970 Triumph 750 racer pictured here was not only used in AHRMA competition, but won its class at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Concours d'Elegance in 2003.
The builders, having built GNC equipment before, find no reason that the new Triumph should not be competitive. Horner points out, "Its frame geometry and center of gravity are very close to that of a Harley XR. This fact, plus more than enough horse power to be competitive even with the Suzukis, gives us a lot of hope for the project." However, Horner admits that there can be a lot of time, money, and unwelcome surprises that stand between a sound idea and a competitive dirt track racer, and he is hoping next month's testing will yield results that may enable the new Triumph to be developed to the level of AMA Grand National competition during the coming year.
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For our 100th post here is some info found on Ed Youngblood's MotoHistory website:
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Triumph's first victory during the AMA Grand National era was delivered by Dick Dorresteyn, who won the Peoria TT on September 7, 1958 . Don Burnett was the first man to win Daytona aboard a Triumph, on March 4, 1962 . Triumph's greatest seasons were 1966 and 1967 with six victories each. Gary Nixon gave the brand two of its three Grand National Championships in 1967 and 1968. The third was delivered by Gene Romero in 1970. Triumph's most winning rider was Gary Nixon, with 14 championships aboard the brand. Next was Gene Romero with eight championships. Both riders went on to win titles aboard other brands after Triumph was no longer competitive. Triumph's last championship of the Grand National era was delivered by Steve Eklund at the Houston TT in 1981.
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Pomona Race was big success despite all the critics. It was a packed house and all the worries about the canceled Love Ride had zero effect on the flat track fans showing up. I think we will be back on the west coast next year. We had a great beginning with and qualifying 17th in the field of 46 riders. This earned us a front row position for the heat race. Brian got a great start and was hanging within a half bike length of Brian Smith in the lead. He went down when he hit a big pot hole and high sided. We got him back into heat the restart but he could not get a transfer position back. He went down again in the semi same scenario. We are looking forward to the 2010 season -- we will make our changes this winter, test our bikes and come back strong for 2010.
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