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Chanasa PowerPoint Presentation March 2017 (34,533 kB)
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After a lot of hard work we now have a pull up banner displaying the work of Chifundo and Chanasa to use at stalls and events.
Soko fund bags with Soko Fund Graduate students at the launch of their Graduate Association.
Fashion Revolution, a global civil movement, is trying to clean up the $3trn fashion industry based on low wage economies. During Fashion Revolution Week we are asked to find out and answer the question 'Who made my clothes?' as well as to love our clothes and to want to make them last a long time. So Chifundo UK that supports a sister charity Chanasa – a Women's Enterprise in Malawi organized a Spring Fashion Show with a Difference. Click on the picture for the full story.
The One World Shop in Edinburgh held a Malawi Evening on Thursday 16 March. Akuzike, who worked for Chanasa in Malawi last summer, gave a talk about the work of Chanasa and Chifundo.
The Scotland Malawi Partnership are promoting a Buy Malawian 2017 competition on their website. See:
Buckley Cwtyn Fair Trade Evening on Thursday 9 March 2017 at Buckley was a great success. There was a illustrated talk, fashion show, sale of goods made by Chanasa in Malawi and by the Sewing Group in Chester together with refreshments. £261 was taken on the stall which is a fantastic result. Thank you to all those who took part and to all those who supported the event.
Women Making a Difference had a stall at the Chester Fairtrade Fun Day in the Grosvenor Park, Chester on Saturday 4 March 2017. The stall sold products made by Chanasa in Malawi and by the sewing group in Chester and took £100. Women Making a Difference and Chifundo trustees manned the stall and an enjoyable, if cold, time was had by all.


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It's the most successful day of trading in Woolworth history today! With a load of debt from living in credit, the Woolworth-less head crackpots have hit on a goldmine with a clever marketing scam aimed at the dim-witted.
Theresa (16), single mother of 2 from Birmingham said 'yesterday I got these variety pack of chocolates to feed me kid's this christmas for £2.50. Today with all this excitement i have to pay £3.99. It's fucking great!'
With the scenario and scam explained, Theresa promptly took a shit in the pic 'n' mix and smashed her lambrini in the polish assitants face.
She then promptly headed to Tesco's for a buy one get one free offer.
Sir G. Mulcahy has advised 'yeah sure, we have removed anything worth selling from the stores in preperation for the event and have stocked the shelves with worthless crap like tinsel covered tampons. And it's working great ey!'
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Derek Yee's "Lost in Time" is like a gust of fresh air washing over the Hong Kong movie industry, cleansing it of the foul stench of Popstar-itis that has been plaguing it for the last couple of years. If the great unwashed of moneymaking schemes (or "films", as the purveyors of such schemes call them) starring fresh-faced, bubbly and peppy teens with shiny smiles has dulled your enthusiasm for Hong Kong films (as they have mine), then have faith. "Lost in Time" is the kind of honest, genuine, touching, and — most of all — adult drama that will make you re-discover why this niche called "Asian Cinema" was such a revelation all those years ago.
Could it possibly be that good? Yes. It is that good.
The film is headlined by Cecilia Cheung, who once again proves that, given the right material and the right director, she is one of the most under appreciated and natural actress in Hong Kong. Cheung plays Siu Wai, a young woman whose fianc' (Louis Koo) is killed in a bus accident, leaving her stranded with her fianc"s young son. Although Siu Wai soldiers on, even taking over the fianc"s minibus business to earn a living, she is very much over her head. Ill-tempered, stubborn, and at the same time unyielding to her grief, Siu Wai refuses to acknowledge that she is wholly unprepared for the rigors of single motherhood.
Siu Wai's salvation comes in the form of fellow minibus driver Dai Fai (Ching Wan Lau), who was the last man to see Siu Wai's fianc' in the aftermath of the accident. After a tenuous and platonic relationship develops between them, Dai Fai takes pity on the young woman and becomes involved in her life. What starts out as an honest attempt to help her survive on the job becomes something more, although the two are always on the alert to separate themselves from any emotional investment in each other. They are both still scarred, and a romance is the last thing either one wants at the moment — although it might just be what they both need.
"Lost in Time" proves to be heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The script avoids all the usual pitfalls of genre conventions, deciding instead to show a series of events that flows naturally, without any sense that things are being forced. Siu Wai is no superheroine, and although the death of her fianc' has spurned her to take more control of her life, she is nevertheless unprepared for the burden. But if Siu Wai's pitiful attempts at responsibilities leave her a mess, it stuns her family even more. Her parents don't believe she's capable, and her mother sneaks into her apartment each day to leave food and cooking instructions. Also, her sister can see no good in Siu Wai's newfound responsibilities and is not afraid to tell her so.
If Dai Fai's assistance helps Siu Wai to survive, it also illuminates the gap between her attempts at self-preservation and her inability to make it happen. The futility of her own shortcomings drives Siu Wai crazy, but it drives Dai Fai even crazier. As for Dai Fai, his life is equally a mess despite the polished and orderly condition of his large but empty apartment, and a woman's voice on his answering machine seems to be the key to understanding him. If he's not interested in Siu Wai sexually, why is he so persistent in helping her? What are his motives? The film guards Dai Fai's personal thoughts almost as much as Dai Fai guards his emotions.
Anchoring "Lost in Time" is two of Hong Kong's brightest mainstays. Cecilia Cheung proves again that she's genuinely talented and not just another pretty face. Her last great film was the South Korean "Failan". I won't say if Cheung's tour de force performance here rivals her turn in the other movie, but I can say that "Failan" now has some company. Of course working opposite a talent like Ching Wan Lau ("Running Out of Time") doesn't hurt. It's not a surprise that Lau gives a heartfelt and effortless turn as Dai Fai; it would only be a surprise if he didn't. The man is that good.
"Lost in Time" was directed by Derek Yee, who also helmed the Leslie Cheung film "Viva Erotica". Yee's direction is flawless, moving the film along at just the perfect pace, never rushing things and never making any mistakes along the way. Running at around 110 minutes, "Lost" takes its time, moving slowly from point A to point B, but doing so in such a way that the film is never boring and never loses momentum. If there is one nitpick it will be the use of a constant piano in the soundtrack; while the instrumental eventually recedes into the background, becoming a part of the movie, the first 30 minutes or so are too noticeable. Then again, the occasional piano keys do keep the film from becoming stale.
The other person who deserves accolades is James Yuen, whose script never forces anything and never makes the characters do anything they shouldn't. It's the brutal honesty about Siu Wai's stubbornness and her inadequacy that makes the film stand out from all the pre-fabricated, pre-marketed, and pre-demo whoring that goes on routinely in the Hong Kong film industry. Even when the film is sad, it's not depressing. Even when it's light, it's not silly. Sometimes the film seems on the verge of making a mistake, but it never does.
All of the above is not to say that the film travels where we want it. It's just that the film travels so naturally to where it wants to go, that we accept it without question when it finally gets there.
Derek Yee (director) / James Yuen (screenplay)
CAST: Cecilia Cheung …. Siu Wai
Paul Chun …. Siu Wai's Dad
Mei Yee Kong …. Siu Wai's Sister
Louis Koo …. Ah Man
Ching Wan Lau …. Dai Fai


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So I am currently working with a wallpaper maker who wants color samples for his new product to use on his homepage.
There are 12 patterns with 10 colors each making it a total of 120 combinations, since it will take a lot of time and money to produce in real life I will create 120 renderings.
I have some experience using vray + 3ds max, I consider myself intermediate but I still have a lot to learn.
All I know has been self study using tutorials, mainly Vis corbels.
I have been trying for a while now but i still can't wrap my head around to get a realistic result.
I'm attaching some of the more difficult ones, there are 2 photos each, one without reflections and one with.
The patterns use urushi, Japanese lacquer, it is a reflective paint made from natural materials.
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Women Who Run With the Wolves - The Tale of Bluebeard
He is the quintessential predator. The bane of Wolf Woman's (and every women's) existence. However, knowledge of the predator in a women's life is essential to her survival, safely and ability to thrive.
The grotesque tale of Bluebeard in Women Who Run With The Wolves is disturbing, yet essential to understanding the people and influences in our lives which can crush our souls dismember our dreams.
To identify a predator in your life and to metaphorically dismember it, is to be in charge of it. It is about reclaiming your life.
There are so many artworks about Bluebeard, I have just chosen a few to feature here. Bluebeard is so dark, I don't think I will be delving into the story for inspiration for my upcoming exhibition - however, the story is important nonetheless. Ideas are coming thick and fast, so stay tuned!
"To render the parts of Bluebeard is like taking the medicinal parts of the deadly nightshade, of the healing elements of the poisonous belladonna plant, and using these materials carefully and for healing and helping."
- Women Who Run with the Wolves p.65
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A delegation consisting of EU, ECB and IMF "experts" came to Greece, saw and said "more cuts." Greece, in turn, is doing all it can to soft circle enough support to come to market with a €3-5 billion 10 year bond issue, and has no option but to oblige. The troubled PIIGS member has so far proposed a 5.5% maximum cut in gross salaries to civil servants via entitlement cuts, while the EU is now suggesting an average 7% cut. How this will be accepted by Greece's already striking unions, whose protesters earlier barricaded and shut down the primary building of the Athens Stock Exchange, is unknown but will hardly inspire enthusiasm for wage cutting programs.
As Dow Jones reports:
Already, public-sector umbrella union ADEDY and its private-sector counterpart, GSEE, have announced plans for a 24-hour general strike Wednesday.
The strike is seen as the first major test of the government's commitment to push through its harsh austerity program. So far, the government has resisted demands by farm groups seeking further handouts, while separate strikes by tax collectors and customs officials have been called off or else ruled illegal.
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Clarry Conners-trained filly Dear Demi will add some serious star power to the Group 1 2013 Queensland Oaks (2400m) which will take place at Eagle Farm on June 1.
The three-year-old will trial in Sydney on Friday week before embarking on a Queensland campaign that will begin in the Group 3 2013 The Roses (2000m) on May 18.
Dear Demi will chase a second Group 1 title in the Oaks after taking out the Crown Oaks at the 2012 spring carnival.
The Crown Oaks win came as the seventh start in a long spring campaign and she will follow a similar path to the Queensland Oaks.
The daughter of Dehere has already had five starts this preparation at the Sydney autumn carnival, winning the Group 2 Surround Stakes and finishing second in the Group 1 Australian Oaks.
From 20 starts the three-year-old has won five times and recorded eight minor placings for more than $1.35 million in prizemoney.
Dear Demi was one of 69 horses yesterday included in Queensland Oaks nominations.
Also entered on the back of a long Sydney carnival campaign is Patinack-owned filly Longport who was second in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes behind classy filly Norzita.
Longport was fifth in the Australian Oaks at her last start while fellow Queensland Oaks entrant Gondokoro was third.
Another Queensland Oaks nominee with decent results behind her is La Zuma who finished third in the Schweppes Oaks.
Fourth in the Schweppes Oaks was Anthony Freedman's filly Kazanluk who will have another Queensland carnival lead-up this weekend in the Adelaide Guineas.
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A number of studies have examined the relationship between tax collection and various demographic variables. However, until recently most of those studies have involved a United States sample population. The Internal Revenue Service provides demographic data for researchers on a regular basis. The present study goes beyond those studies in several important ways. For one, it uses data on Malaysia taken from the World Values database. Not much work has been done on the Malaysian tax or public finance system. Thus, the present study expands on the very limited research done on Malaysian public finance.The present study expands on existing literature in at least two other ways as well. For one, it examines how various demographics interact with attitudes toward tax evasion. Secondly, we examine several demographic variables that were not examined in prior studies.One of the questions in the World Values database asked whether it would be justifiable to cheat on taxes if it were possible to do so. Respondents were asked to choose a number from 1 to 10 to indicate the extent of their support for tax evasion. This study examines those responses, both overall and through the prism of more than 20 demographic variables. A comparison is made with other ethical issues to determine the relative seriousness of tax evasion.The study found that attitudes toward the justifiability of tax evasion often do vary by demographic variable. Tax evasion was found to be a less serious offense than homosexuality, prostitution, abortion, suicide, wife beating, accepting a bribe and euthanasia and more serious than divorce, avoiding a fare on public transport and claiming government benefits to which you are not entitled.Although the present study focuses on Malaysia, the methodology used in the present study could serve as a template for research on other countries or regions.
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Paperbox is a document browser. It lets you nicely view your ebooks, office and text documents and organize them by tags. Relying on Tracker, it is able to instantly discover all documents on your desktop and present them in a convenient way. Tags and other metadata are shared across all Tracker-based applications.
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A laid-off staffer and a middle school dad are spearheading a plan to save an after-school program that helped thousands of Irving ISD students.
The school board voted unanimously Monday to partner with the Amadi Guess Foundation, which plans to revive and even expand the campus-level program after it lost millions in grant funding and shut down over the summer.
"God has brought the Amadi program to Irving to benefit all these little black, brown, red and white children," community activist Anthony Bond told the board before the vote.
The plan began with Delmont Johnson, an Amadi executive whose son was in the after-school program, and Delia Watley, who ran the program for the district until it lost its funding and laid her off.
While it has worked with students in other cities, the Amadi foundation has never run a program this extensive before. Its directors are still figuring out how they will staff more than one-third of the campuses in Irving ISD when it starts up next month.
Still, this is a hopeful turn in what began as a rocky rescue effort for the program.
The after-school program began in 2003 as an attempt to make learning more appealing than the streets to students whose parents worked past final bell.
Free to about 2,200 students at 10 elementary, middle and high schools last year, the program offered homework help, field trips and creative educational activities. Researchers praise such programs for helping students overcome poverty's learning gap.
But after repeatedly winning grants to expand its program, the district lost its last two bids to extend it. As last school year wound down, parents were told they'd need to find somewhere else for their children to spend the evenings when the new one started.
Watley had already been pink-slipped when she began working with residents to save the program she had directed for more than a decade. The Islamic Center of Irving helped raise nearly $3,000 for the program at a June fundraiser — a small dent compared with millions of dollars in lost funding.
Instead of being thanked, the fundraiser's organizers were attacked on Facebook after a parent spread false rumors that it had turned into a Democratic campaign rally. Convinced by the rumors, trustee Steven Jones complained when media covered the event.
But the attention was starting to make a difference.
'It hit home'
Delmont Johnson had seen the after-school program shepherd his son through Houston Middle School, helping the boy build confidence and earn academic awards.
He hadn't realized it was ending until he read the new reports.
"For me, it hit home," Johnson said. "It's the same kids I'd see when I'd go to the grocery store or I'd go to the bank. Those are the same kids that would be impacted."
As it happened, Johnson had been hired a few months earlier as the Amadi Guess Foundation's operations director. The group partners with nonprofits in cities like Fort Worth and Arlington to give kids after-school meals and tutoring.
Johnson looked up Watley's email address and offered to bring the foundation to Irving.
"They were just reading the paper and said, 'How can we help?'" Watley said.
She and Johnson got to work on a plan for an after-school program using the same model as the old one. Instead of district employees, the foundation would put staff and volunteers in the campuses. It would also use its central kitchen to bring them food. The district would pay next to nothing.
"Totally Fabulous Update!!!" Watley wrote when she sent the plan to the superintendent in early July.
District staff had a long list of questions about the proposal. They hadn't worked with the foundation before, and were already working on their own plan to keep the after-school program running with district funds and help from the YMCA.
But after touring Amadi's sites and talking to its directors, Irving ISD scrapped its own rescue effort and backed the foundation's plan.
"Let me get this straight," Superintendent Jose Parra said after the foundation's director pitched the plan to the school board last week. "There's no cost to families. You'll serve any student who shows up. You'll provide every student a snack. You'll provide every student a dinner ... and there's no required cost to the district. What's not to like?"
By then, Watley had already cleared out her desk and turned in her district badge.
"The Amadi Guess was a godsend," she said. "I knew it wasn't going to cover anything for me. But it would cover the program."
She and Johnson both know there's much work to be done before the foundation launches the program in mid-September at 13 campuses, including Nimitz High, every middle school and four elementary schools.
There are activities to plan and partners to find. Last week, Johnson was still reaching out to nonprofits and colleges in the area to tutor at the campuses.
And while the foundation has been working with kids for years, it's never run an operation of this size before.
Watley has faith.
"That's why I'm working hand-in-hand with them," she said. "I have been doing it for 12 years."


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IT Service Provider Expands Cloud Business With Cisco CMSP Certification
Convincing SMBs that a fully-managed, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure is within their economic reach is not an easy task. Their challenges are to expand Cisco Powered Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) business, demonstrate technology platform credibility and differentiate cloud services from commodity offerings. They chose Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP) and Cisco Powered Services: Infrastructure as a Service, Managed MPLS VPN. The results of deploying Cisco were increased revenues through Cisco reseller channel, streamlined sales to Small and Mid-sized Business (SMB) market through pre-certified, scalable solutions and earned 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award for TotalCloud Data Center (TCDC) solution.


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SHERIDAN — Bill Hawley will present a suicide prevention talk at the American Legion Post 13 Hall, 18 Veterans Lane in Buffalo, on June 14 at 6 p.m.
The American Legion Auxiliary will serve dinner. The cost is $12 per person. Reservations are requested. Call 684-7987 to reserve a spot.
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A current SEC commissioner who has worked at the agency in several capacities, Elisse Walter has been tapped to become the new SEC chairman.
Schapiro among longest-serving agency chairmen; SEC touts accomplishments of her tenure.
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It is time for another week of Quilty Fun using Lori's book. You can get the details at the Jolly Jabber, Pam Kitty Morning's blog, or from Lori herself.
Pam of PKM fame is hosting the cute little mug/cup this week. You can see Pam has her work all set out and ready to sew. Pam has all the particulars for making this cup on her blog.
The cups are so cute in any fabric. Jolly Jabber posted this pic.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Utes have officially kicked things off. They opened preseason camp with a two-hour practice Thursday morning at Ute Field.
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said it was a "good first day" and that the Utes have "upped their talent level" with the last recruiting class.
Whittingham, however, declined to single out any individual standouts in the first practice.
Junior safety Brian Blechen, who has been suspended for the first three games of the season for a violation of team rules, spoke with the media and expressed remorse for letting the team down.
"I'll definitely make it up to them when I get back out there," said Blechen, who will practice with the team throughout his suspension.8 comments on this story
In other news, Whittingham noted that freshman quarterback Chase Hansen has a sore throwing shoulder and may not be able to play this season before leaving on an LDS Church mission in late December or early January. A couple of medical evaluations are planned and Whittingham hoped to have an update on Saturday or Monday, when the best course of action can be determined.
Whittingham noted that sophomore defensive end Nate Fakahafua, a projected starter, missed the opening practice to work through some family and personal things. He is expected to rejoin the team by Monday, however.
Other than that, Whittingham said the Utes were at full force to open camp and everything has unfolded as anticipated.
"No bad surprises," he added.
Utah opens their season on Thursday, Aug. 30 at home against Northern Colorado.
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We just lit our neighborhood up with fireworks. Had the time of our lives. We celebrate our freedom. We celebrate the hundreds of thousands of people who have sacrificed their lives to give us these freedoms.
Rock on Americans. Light up the sky.
Happy 4th of July!
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne
Do not back up. Severe tire damage.
Although my gripe is more with the time... I have to work today, and my neighbors were setting off fireworks well after midnight.
So I believe that hating fireworks has NOTHING to do with whether one is patriotic or not.
He attends many veteran funerals to stand a flag line. He volunteers at the VA hospital. He is a proud member of a veterans organization. There are more ways to show your patriotism than to shoot off fireworks.
The city I live in has several sponsored fireworks shows, and if people want to watch them, they should go there.
The backyard fireworks drive me nuts every year. I work early in the morning, and I don't appreciate the noise after midnight and later.
So I'm the bitch neighbor who calls the cops. And I don't care.
I don't break noise ordinances, and I expect my neighbors to respect them as well.
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I like watching fureworks but not so much hearing then. FWS and I sat in the dark in our dining room watching them go off everywhere (we are in the country and this great state doesn't pass laws-ha!). We watched from 9-10 and then went to bed. They went off for another three hours. It sounded like a fricken war zone. I feel sorry for people with PTSD because you can't get away from it.
Years ago, a friend of mine's son lost his eye from an adult amateur (a friend of theirs) shooting off a firework. He had been shooting the fireworks off for years with no issues, yet still there was an accident. Some people know what they are doing, are careful, and watch the time. Others? Not so much.
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I'm originally from a state where fireworks are illegal... just moved to basically waterfront property where they are "illegal" but everyone has them.... foolishly took my dog out after I thought they were over....
They weren't and she held her poop for 24 hours because she's terrified to go outside now.
Ugh. Just let the professionals do it! One show per town! Stop at 10 or 11!
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In this post, I want to focus exclusively on narrative elements that create foreshadowing, yet are very much part of the plot — actions and objects that participate directly in the story. It may be best to describe this sort of foreshadowing as planting and paying-off to differentiate it, for the sake of precision, from foreshadowing though theme and symbol.
Planting for the Pay-Off
In writing, every narrative action ought to have clear consequences. This is especially true in screenwriting, which uses fewer pages to tell the story than are afforded a novel. If the writer plants a gun in a scene, it has to be used in the scene, or at some later point in the story to justify its inclusion. In the television series, Jericho, for example, we notice that a gun in a frame on the wall is part of a display in a home where a couple of bogus cops are lurking. Later, we see that the gun has been removed, indicating that the potential victim is now armed and can fight back. In the movie, Mask, Stanley's (Jim Carrey) dog shows us his prowess by catching a flying frisbee, setting up the pay-off later in the plot, when it crucially jumps to retrieve the magical mask in mid-flight.
Where is the best place to put plants and pay-offs? A plant should remain innocuous and be situated at a natural and believable point along the story spine — as part of the story's natural development. Its pay-off ought to be held back for as long as possible, and revealed only when it can deliver the most dramatic impact.
In Summary
Plants and pay-offs deal with specific elements in the plot. The main characteristic of a plant is that it should appear innocuous, while a pay-off should be delivered at the moment of highest dramatic impact.
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CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, AND TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2009) Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas, USA. October 11-14, 2009 http://www.smc2009.org ========================================================== Theme: Intelligent Human-Machine Systems for Quality of Life Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper(s) electronically through the conference website. Each paper should be concise, but contain sufficient detail and references to allow critical review. Each paper will be judged by at least two referees. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings only if one of the authors is registered for the conference and is presenting the work. The goal of Special Sessions (SS) is to provide a focused discussion of new or innovative topics. SS organizer(s) must collect at least five papers. An individual can download an SMC2009 SS proposal form from SMC2009 official site, and send a full-filled form to the SS Chair. SS papers will be reviewed with the same criteria as Regular Session papers. Please check website for submission process and other details. Important Dates Feb 1, 2009: Deadline for submission of proposals for Special Sessions. Mar 15, 2009: Deadline for submission of full-length papers for Regular Sessions and Special Sessions. Apr 15, 2009: Deadline for submission of proposals for Tutorials/Workshops May 15, 2009: Acceptance/Rejection notification for Tutorials/Workshops May 15, 2009: Acceptance/Rejection notification for regular papers and special session papers. Jun 29, 2009: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form and deadline for submitting tutorial/workshop materials. PDF version of full Call for Papers is available from: http://www.smc2009.org/CFP.pdf


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The sun was high, the road was dry, and I was cruising at 75 miles per hour on I-94 and slowly gaining on the car ahead of me. I tapped on the brake pedal to cut off the cruise command and slow the car. But it did not slow down.
Instead, the accelerator pedal suddenly went to the floor, as if jumped on by an invisible foot, and the sedan leaped forward. Startled, I tapped the brake several times to turn off the cruise command, but to no avail. I then mashed the brake pedal to the floor. This slowed it only a little, as the two pedals and their electronic control systems dueled, the engine raced, the brakes smoked, and the car continued to accelerate.
I shifted the car into neutral gear and then turned the ignition key to "off," and the car began slowing down. It was a dead stick without power steering, but I was already in the left lane and the Interstate highway had a broad shoulder and grassy center median. I cruised off the highway and, after coming to a full stop on the grass, again turned on the ignition. The cruise command, at this point, was disengaged and I resumed the trip—using my own feet to control the pedals.
That car wasn't built by Toyota. It was an Ambassador, the top-of-the-line of the sedans built in the 1970s by American Motors; then it was the fourth Detroit auto company and now it's just another member of the automakers' graveyard. The problem lay in the intricacies of the early days of electronic vehicular systems. Laptops hadn't been invented then, and programmable systems were novelties, prone to failure. While advances in technology promised a lot for the future of the car industry, this early glitch showed the pitfalls of putting a computer chip in charge of a two-ton, fast moving machine.
American Motors eventually recalled cars with the advanced cruise command systems and modified them. The electronic comfort systems known as cruise control continued to improve and, over the decades, more and more technology was added to vehicles.
Which brings us to the unprecedented recall of several models of Toyotas and Lexus vehicles and the halt in production of eight Toyota models worldwide. Trouble has been reported when some models of Toyotas have suddenly accelerated, jumping out of control and running full speed into accidents—some of them fatal.
But unlike American Motors, which immediately looked at the technology involved, Toyota, with a reputation for quality on the line, is blaming the problem with unprovoked acceleration on a "sticking" or "slow return" accelerator pedal produced by the Indiana firm of CTS Corp. When the driver's foot rises off the accelerator pedal, the company says the pedal—in a few cases—either does not rise completely or does not rise at all. Toyota first recalled the floor mats in some models, and then issued the current recall, still focusing solely on the pedal.
Company spokesman Brian Lyons said "this is a mechanical wear issue internal to the accelerator pedal itself. We never found anything wrong with the electronic system."
While that is reassuring, the company's explanation is technologically implausible. People have died because the cars inexplicably accelerate. If the pedal stays put, or rises only part way, there is a change in the rate of deceleration—but the car does not speed up. Toyota, therefore, seems determined to pursue a solution to the wrong problem, substituting a target that may be a nuisance for a different target that may be demonstrably fatal.
CTS Corp., in a statement posted on its Web site, said "the rare slow return pedal phenomenon, which may occur in extreme environmental conditions, should absolutely not be linked with any sudden unintended acceleration incidents."
The issue is more than one of dueling press releases.
Cars today are increasingly two-ton mobile electronic platforms with a plethora of items for both convenience and safety. The cruise commands on today's Toyota and Lexus vehicles use radar to sense cars in front and in adjacent lanes, maintaining a steady distance between the vehicles. Other technology can alert the driver when the car is drifting across lane lines—an especially useful tool on dark rainy nights when the lines are all but obscured—or sense a collision and begin slowing the car and tightening the seat belts. Command systems in the cars' computers interact with each wheel and brake system thousands of times per minute, monitoring each revolution to detect skids or other road-induced problems and selectively applying either brakes or more power as needed to keep the car going forward.
And all of these critical safety systems are working in a small metal environment replete with audio, broadcast, music, Bluetooth, lights and other electronic systems. That is an intense electronic field: Consider the static that typically erupts from home radios whenever a blender or vacuum cleaner is turned on.
With interlocking control systems like these, it is not surprising that a system may, on a rare occasion, encounter a problem. The marvel is that safety-related systems rarely break down with so much control vested in so many electronic systems that can interfere with each other. It is a testament to modern engineering that cars containing more computerized systems than the Apollo moon lander work so smoothly that they are considered standard features in the average car or truck.
And therein lies the danger for Toyota and Lexus. If the company rushes to defend its internal engineering and lay the blame for its problems on external mechanical systems, it runs the risk of prematurely declaring "mission accomplished" and ignoring a potentially fatal problem that will not go away.
That would not bode well for either the company's reputation for quality and responsiveness, or for the owners of future runaway Toyotas.
Roger Witherspoon is a journalist based in New York who writes about energy at Energy Matters.


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Junior transfer Pierre Jackson brings another gear to Baylor's offense.
Since James Naismith hung the first peach basket on a wall and invented the game in 1891, basketball has been a game for the tall. In that sense, head coach Scott Drew's roster is one of the best-equipped in the country, with a regular rotation that features four players standing 6-9 or taller.
But for all that height, the most important player on the team might be the one you're most likely to overlook (literally): the generously listed 5-foot-10 Pierre Jackson. What Jackson lacks in size, however, he more than makes up for in energy and intensity.
"He's a little energy plug," says fellow guard Brady Heslip. "He's able to make a quick play and change the momentum of the game, then get a steal and change the momentum even more. ... He can pass, he can score, he can really guard people. He's a really smart basketball player."
"He can do whatever he needs to do on the court," echoes senior Quincy Acy. "He brings clutchness, toughness. He wants the ball in his hands."
Those hands have brought good fortune several times already this year. Jackson hit a game-tying 3-pointer with 18 seconds left to force overtime against West Virginia in a game the Bears eventually won, then hit game-winning shots in the final 30 seconds to clinch wins against Mississippi State and Texas A&M.
And in one of his first games as a Bear, the diminutive guard blocked a BYU 3-pointer at the buzzer to end Baylor's 86-83 win over the Cougars in Provo. Yet, Jackson came close to missing out on all of this.
After a sterling high school career, Jackson's academics prevented the Las Vegas native from signing with a Division-I program right away, heading off his first shot at college glory. Instead, he followed the recommendation of a former teammate and enrolled at the College of Southern Idaho.
And then ... "As soon as I got there, I hurt myself," Jackson recalls. "I hit my elbow on the floor real hard. The doctors said it was kind of broken before, because I fall a lot, but this time I shattered it completely."
The injury took away Jackson's biggest weapon: his scoring prowess. He says he led the state in scoring for much of his senior year of high school, but limited by his elbow, Jackson was held to fewer than 8 points a game as a freshman.
"It changed my game a lot," reflects Jackson today. "Coming out of high school, I used to score a lot, but now I couldn't shoot. I was just distributing the ball and getting to the rim."
Again, Jackson could have been discouraged. Instead, he found the silver lining.
"It was a blessing in disguise, a big blessing. It made me a better team player all-around, and I'm really glad I went through that."
As a sophomore, Jackson bounced back to lead his team in scoring as CSI won the junior college national championship. It was during that postseason run that Baylor came into the picture, eventually offering a scholarship that Jackson quickly accepted.
He began his first year at Baylor coming off the bench behind incumbent starter A.J. Walton, but quickly began to see more playing time and eventually claimed the starting role in late January. From then through the end of the regular season, he averaged 15.2 pts and 5.9 assists per game, leading the team in both categories over that time.
"I've just tried to make the biggest impact I could to try and help us win, no matter how many minutes or points I have," he says. "We're like family, like brothers. I'd do anything for these guys, and they'd do the same for me."
Family means a lot to Jackson. More than 1,200 miles from home, he still talks to his grandmother, Linda Allen, every day --
sometimes multiple times a day.
"She's my everything. I don't know where I'd be without her," he says. "She put the basketball in my hands first when I was real little. Now she doesn't really care about me playing basketball; she wants me to get my education. She's my rock."
In fact, Jackson and his grandmother rarely talk about the game at all.
"She tells me about her soap operas, and about my little brother. She wants to hear how I'm doing in school, am I getting married, stuff like that. She talks about whatever she sees, and I listen. She's a very smart woman and helps me with a lot of stuff."
Jackson says his grandmother listens to most of his games online. If he can add a few more big plays to his resume like the ones he's already made in a Baylor uniform, she might get to listen to the Bears make a deep run all the way through March Madness.


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The 2014 ObamaCare Tax Wave
January 14, 2014
2014 is full of new taxes thanks to ObamaCare, says Politico.
Insurance companies say that all of the higher taxes that they will be forced to pay will be passed on to consumers who will have to pay higher premiums. Of the new taxes set to go into effect this year, one of the largest is the HIT (health insurance tax):
- HIT is a multibillion dollar tax imposed on insurance companies based on their market share. Companies will collectively pay $8 billion in the HIT this year, with annual collections rising to $14.3 billion by 2018.
- Consulting firm Oliver Wyman conducted a study that found that the HIT would increase health insurance premiums by more than $2,800 per person and $6,800 per family over a decade.
- The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said that premiums should increase by about $350 to $400 per family by 2016. In a letter to former Senator Jon Kyl, the Committee wrote, "The fact that the statutory incidence of the health insurance fee is on the insurer does not alter the economic incidence of the tax, which is the same regardless of who writes the check to the government."
Insurers are also subject to a temporary, three-year tax that kicked in at the start of 2014. Insurers will have to pay $63 per health insurance recipient to the government, which will redistribute that money to insurance companies that are taking on the most expensive patients.
- There is also a 3.8 percent surtax on capital gains and dividends for couples earning above $250,000.
- That, combined with the 0.9 percent Medicare wage tax increase that was imposed in 2013, is expected to bring in $317 billion over 10 years.
One of the other major ObamaCare taxes, the Cadillac health plan tax, is not set to begin until 2018.
Source: Rachael Bade, "The 2014 ObamaCare Tax Wave," Politico, January 6, 2014.
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BAGHDAD, April 24 (UPI) -- Violence in Iraq that claimed 36 lives risks pushing the country's Sunni provinces into an open revolt against the Shiite-led government, observers warn.
Government figures close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Los Angeles Times the deaths at a Sunni protest encampment Tuesday were triggered by militants who opened fire when Iraqi forces entered the camp.
However, Sunni politicians said government forces shot at demonstrators without being provoked.
The violence in the Sunni town of Hawija spread to three other towns leaving at least 36 people dead and nearly 100 wounded.
Members of both political factions agree that if the government can't bring calm to the county, a Sunni uprising could result and merge with the war across the border in Syria.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- It was an excruciatingly long 12-minute wait.
For the coaches. For the players. And for anybody watching in the building or on TV.
When it started the clock on the wall said 10:30 p.m ET. The scoreboard clock said 4:01 left in period No. 5. Vermont and Air Force were tied at 2-2 in the second overtime, and the winner of the NCAA Hockey East Regional final would advance to the Frozen Four in Washington, D.C.
At the time, everyone in the Arena at Harbor Yard was waiting for play to resume so the game winner could -- and would, eventually -- find the back of the net.
The only problem was that it had already been scored. Only no one really knew that for sure. At least not at that time.
As the crowd grew increasingly impatient with each passing minute and the players tried to stay loose, referees Todd Anderson and Marco Hunt huddled in the official scorer's booth and watched one play over and over again.
And finally, at 10:42 p.m., Hunt emerged from the booth, skated a few strides and pointed to the center dot to signal a goal.
The Vermont players and bench erupted in joy, the scoreboard changed to 3-2 and the Catamounts began to celebrate at their end of the ice.
Wait. What? You can't end four hours of playoff college hockey with a video review of a play that almost no one saw take place in real time.
Apparently you can.
As it turned out, defenseman Dan Lawson had actually scored the game-winning goal with 5:50 left on the clock. It was a blast from the left point that not only went to the net, but also went past Air Force goalie Andrew Volkening and then through the net.
After it deflected off the boards behind the net play continued for another 1:49 until there was a stoppage, and then the referees began their exhausting look at the videotape.
"The puck was shot and I observed the net move," Hunt said in a statement. "At the first stoppage of play, after confirming with the rest of the on-ice crew, we determined a review was necessary. Video confirmed the puck entered the net inside the post and under the crossbar."
And with it the Catamounts (22-11-5) head to their second Frozen Four in school history in search of their first national title. Vermont will play the winner of Sunday's Northeast Regional final between No. 1 Boston University and No. 3 New Hampshire on April 9 at the Verizon Center.
But all anybody could talk about after the game was the play. And the delay.
"I saw Danny take the shot as a left defenseman and I saw the back of the net move on the other side," Vermont coach Kevin Sneddon said. "And the puck kind of took a weird bounce after that. It was a bullet of a shot. It just didn't make sense how it came out of the net.
"It was a long time waiting, just hoping they would go to review. And thankfully that's the system in place. We're very fortunate to have that bounce go our way."
The game winner was Lawson's second goal of the game. His first one gave UVM a 2-1 lead midway through the third period. And for his efforts, he was named the Most Outstanding Player of the East Regional. Joining him on the all-tournament team were Catamount forward Viktor Stalberg and Air Force players Jacques Lamoureux, Sean Bertsch, Greg Flynn and Volkening.
In the other dressing room, the mood was suitably subdued. But the Falcons and their coach left the arena with a sense that the officials got it right.
"They took a tremendous amount of time looking at that play, and they took the time that they did because they wanted to get it right," Air Force coach Frank Serratore said. "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they made the right call -- because if it wasn't conclusive, I can't imagine that they would have allowed the goal stand.
"The longer it went, I started to get a good feeling because it must have been conclusive for them to make the call that they made, but it must have not been blatantly conclusive or it wouldn't have taken 12 minutes to figure it out. At first I had a sick feeling, but the longer it went, I'm going, 'Maybe it didn't go in or it's not conclusive.'"
It turned out to be conclusive and a very tough way to end a college hockey season. Air Force was one play, one goal away from a magical ride to the Frozen Four for a school and a conference (Atlantic Hockey) that aren't supposed to dream those kind of dreams.
The Falcons finished the year 28-11-2 but left Connecticut with their first NCAA win (2-0 over No. 1 Michigan on Friday) and with a realistic sense of perspective -- which shouldn't be a surprise coming from a military academy.
"There's nothing that anybody can do or say that's going to make you feel better regardless of how you lose that game," Serratore said. "I don't want to equate it to a death in the family, but for an athlete and a competitor, when you lose a big game like that, there's nothing that anyone can say. It's unfortunate that Cinderella isn't going to be taking her show to Washington, D.C., but that's life.
"There's nothing that simulates battle better than athletic competition -- and keep in mind that we're an underdog in most of our games. But the team that these guys are going to be playing on a year from now, we're never the underdog. So this is where they learn how to deal with adversity and our guys will deal with it just fine, and our country is in good hands with these guys moving forward."
And somehow that dose of reality made a long wait and an unsatisfying end to a college hockey game seem truly trivial.
David Albright covers college sports for ESPN.com and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A 14-year-old Oakland boy was charged Wednesday with four felony counts for allegedly robbing and sexually assaulting two 28-year-old women, according to court documents.
The boy turned himself in at the Alameda County Juvenile Hall in San Leandro on Monday, two days after Oakland police asked for the public's help in locating him.
Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said that in the first attack on Jan. 6, a woman was walking in the 1200 block of Market Street around 10 p.m. when a male who appeared to be armed with a gun approached her and demanded her wallet, police said.
The robber then forced the woman to an isolated area, where he sexually assaulted her, police said.
The second attack occurred around 9:15 p.m. on Jan. 12 in the 600 block of 11th Street.
Watson said that in that case, another woman was approached by a stranger on a bicycle who simulated a handgun and demanded her purse, police said. As in the first attack, the woman was taken to an isolated area where she was sexually assaulted.
Watson said it appears the attacker simulated a handgun in both incidents.
The boy is charged with two counts of robbery and one count each of sexual assault and kidnapping for sexual assault.
Alameda County District Attorney spokeswoman Teresa Drenick said the boy is charged as a juvenile at this point but her office will file a motion to ask that he be remanded to adult court after a behavioral study is completed.
The boy is being held in custody and is scheduled to have a detention hearing in Alameda County Juvenile Court at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.
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When Eazy E died on March 26, 1995 it shocked a lot of his fans. To this day many can't let go of the iconic West Coast rapper's memory. Some of those fans and a few thrill seekers are being disrespectful however, according to Eazy's son.
Eric Wright Jr. told TMZ that when he recently visited his father's grave on the 17th anniversary of his passing, his , the gravestone was covered in empty beer bottles and marijuana cigarette butts.
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When a quaint little man appears with a traveling bookshop that he wants to sell, and Andrew away for a couple of hours, Helen decides to buy the shop. She is sure that Andrew would buy the shop-on-wheels as soon as he saw it, and, fed up with his antics, she decides to be one step ahead of him. This time it will be her to do the rambling!
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De la Rosa was a last minute replacement for Perez in Canada after Perez felt unwell following his heavy accident during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix. Should Perez need to sit out the next race in Valencia then Sauber would again call on de la Rosa, as technical director James Key said "He did a great job for us."
Team principal Peter Sauber, however, said he didn't foresee a scenario where Perez would need to be replaced.
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That view was backed up by Sauber's managing director Monisha Kaltenborn, who told motorsport-total.com "He is doing very well. We see no reason why he shouldn't drive in Valencia."
Sauber also defended his decision not to call upon reserve driver Esteban Gutierrez in Canada, saying it was too early to rush him in to a Formula One car.
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Malian singer Bako Dagnon's voice has a grit and power that will likely remind listeners of Salif Keita. Unlike Keita, though, there's no attempt, no matter how slight, at pop crossover. If you're interested in authenticity and tradition, this album, featuring primarily acoustic instruments (guitar and gentle percussion), traditional melodies, and call-and-response vocals, will make you happy; Dagnon and her producers have made every effort to keep the music sounding "world music-ish." She takes a soulful lead vocal as two or three other women sing backups like gentle breezes floating past. Dagnon's emotional voice, atop the repetitive guitar figures, recalls both the "African blues" of fellow Malians like Ali Farka Tour� and flamenco. The lyrics, primarily in Bambara save "La Guide de la R�volution," which as its title suggests is sung in French, presumably deal with traditional topics, folklore, et cetera; Dagnon has been singing for over three decades, and Sidiba is her seventh album, though only the second to achieve release outside her homeland. Without understanding a word, it's possible to let this music drift from the speakers and fill the room with a paradoxically calm urgency. ~ Phil Freeman
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Jackson still sore, hoping to start rehab stint soon
BALTIMORE -- Austin Jackson went through a full batting practice on Saturday, hitting outside at Camden Yards before shagging fly balls. However, he had some lingering soreness in his left hamstring which has manager Jim Leyland concerned.
"He was sore today, so I don't really have anything for you," Leyland said.
Jackson said the soreness simply lingered from running the bases on Friday, which he did at about 80 percent speed.
"It was just sore from the first time running the bases," Jackson said.
All the same, Jackson did not run the bases Saturday.
"Just took it easy today," he said.
The running is the biggest test for Jackson. Everything else is a matter of getting back to game readiness again after spending the last three weeks on the disabled list.
Jackson is expected to do more work Sunday. If that goes well, he'll meet with Tigers staffers, including the training staff, to determine the next step, which could be a Minor League rehab assignment.
"I don't want the kid to take his time, and I don't want him to rush himself," Leyland said. "I want him to just, whatever happens, the nature of it should take care of it.
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notice the comments at the end of the story: the first one lists a website URL for the Long Island pharmacy murders earlier this year. The link I posted above is from current news. I wasn't sure whether or not to post this in legal/civil forum(please move if necessary & thank you), and basically I am typing more and more just trying to avoid a driveby
just kidding!
No, in all seriousness, I back this guy 100 percent!! Having corporations, policies, and laws are one thing, but society still needs a place for basic common sense in my opinion! One far off example was the travesty that young kids faced during the Industrial Revolution where again corporations could basically get away with 'murder' in the workplace. Something needs to be done to protect this man and others like him who are law-abiding and need their careers(not jobs) to care for their families just like how something was done to protect workers way back when. Getting fired can drastically affect someone's future, not to mention the retirement this man hoped to have thru Walgreens someday. This is another example in my opinion of how the 2nd amendment rights of Americans can be taken away from us wrongfully. I always go to Walgreens; it is our pharmacy of choice with the rewards program, quick service, etc, but this kind of thing is making me upset there is no barf icon anymore so I guess I'll just go wide eyed instead
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Relevant inquiries
EDITOR: My first reaction to Honora Russell's letter ("Irrelevant questions," Thursday) was anger. And because I read the paper daily, there is no doubt that almost every letter about the Andy Lopez shooting agrees with what she says. Not all of us agree with Russell.
We who have to hear and read about the shooting almost every day deserve to have all of the answers, even if they're irrelevant to some. The questions we have aren't about what happened; they're about why it happened in the first place. To find out why, questions about Andy's schooling, behavior and parents' citizenship are completely relevant.
Recognizing heroes
EDITOR: I stand to correct Dennis Tobin ("Jaded accolades," Letters, Tuesday). Armistice Day is not what Veterans Day is supposed to be. And heroes are not always praised. Veterans Day is a day to honor the men and women, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers who leave their loved ones and postpone their lives to protect us all.
Please tell the 90-year-old merchant marine ("Survivors on the seas," Monday) the hangnail joke. I guess that's what it was. Or tell it to all the nurses, doctors and combat medics who put themselves in harm's way to save lives, the clergy who risk their lives to save a soul and the combat engineers, the Red cross workers, the police officers and firefighters. Tell them and the families who hope they come home that they deserve no recognition. Recognize that they are all heroes. Please just give it a try.
Jobless and forgotten
EDITOR: Paul Krugman's Nov. 10 column ("True cost of our economic self-mutilation") should be required reading for anyone concerned about poverty and unemployment in our country. He does a great job of explaining how our government has followed a policy of reducing employment opportunities in the name of deficit reduction.
The net result is that we reduce our rate of economic growth and then reduce jobs for our grandchildren. He points out that long-term unemployment — people out of work for six months or more — is four times what it was before the recession. As he points out, these numbers translate into millions of human tragedies in our country.
I find it outrageous that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats talk about this as a national tragedy. Probably the most troubling part of Krugman's column is the realization that President Barack Obama and many Democrats have accepted the Republican argument of long-term deficit reduction at any cost.
Where is the concern about the enormous number of poor and unemployed who have little hope in our society? Where is the outrage? I hope the president finally wakes up and starts talking with some passion about these people in need and articulates the steps we have to take to produce more jobs in our country.
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EDITOR: The July 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association reported: "Fluoride incorporated during tooth development is insufficient to play a significant role in caries protection."
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Dream as if I'll live forever. Live as if I'll die today.
I'm Quebecoise and proud to be, and I am literally in love with Life. One could say I am a life addict. I take advantage of every single experience that life puts on my way, absorbing the good, and flushing the bad. I live from adventures and experiences of all kind, and I always try to see the good side of every situation. I am also extrovert on surface, but pretty introvert about the true things that get through my heart.
One of my favorite quote is in Latin and says: "Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero." Be curious, search the meaning and start your couch request with the translation, this way I know you're not an asshole.
This quote rules my life at every moment, and when I take something too seriously, I refer myself to it. I sometimes refer to it too much too, like that time I booked a flight 12-hour prior to chicago ^_^
BUT, even if I can seem composed and calm, I have to say that a big part of myself is totally uncontrolable and immeasurably sarcastic. I am also a very shy person, even though nobody believes it. (frustrating)
Otherwise, I like to clean and wipe the dishes, I'm omnivorous and bring with me my own sleeping bag, AND, I always smile! What do you need else as a guest?
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I hosted here in Montreal, as well as in Beijing. I love it, I hope that one day, with my future family, I'll keep involved in CS :) I also meet Csurfers for a tea, wine or city tours
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I prefer wine to beer
tea to coffee (quite addicted to tea)
yellow than orange, blue than green, purple than pink, but pink more than green. Yellow is my favorite color, equal with black...
Ski to snowboard.
MAC than pc
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Discussion in '2 smokers' started by FloridaSteve, Dec 30, 2007.
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Nice Bike Jim. That is a 2 stroke? I'll be jiggered.
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Thanks for fixing the pic!
More info on these bikes at:
Good lord YES. That IS a 2-stroke. And a beauty at that.
There's got to be more 2-strokes out there.
Let's see them.
Oh they're out there... and plenty of us crazies who still love em..
I believe that of all the previously owned motorcycles, the 185 Suzuki was my favorite!! I built a TS185 for TT's back in the 70's. Wish I still had it!!
Awesome bike! I haven't run across much info on these. This is the first pic I've seen of any cool mods. What year is it? Mine has a different pipe, it runs up higher and across the top up by the seat. The fins on the head and cylinder are different as well. and mine has a rear brake rod instead of a cable (I think I could set it up either way). Thanks for posting it!
This was a 1971/first year model. The pipe, head and cylinder are part of a kit that Suzuki put out for racing. It reduced the displacement to 175cc. At the point that this picture was taken, I had a 34mm carb on it and was still messing around with different ignition boxes to get the best HP. It worked pretty and regularly beat the 200cc Bultacos at Perris and Elsinore raceways in California.
I love the IZH! Awesome. Wanna buy another KTM? If so PM me. 85 250 EXC.
I had an early 70's ts 250, ran the pizz out of that bike on Senator Highway in arizona to our gold mine at 7,000 ft. A 40 mile dirt comute over two mountain ranges. The shift lever and brake lever were welded on.
'89 xt 600
'81 r100rs
Hell no, I'd probably give you this one if would come get it.
does it run
I'll throw my Buffalo in here since I haven't seen one yet.
Complete with circa '73 backrest
That is a great looking bike
But I think I have the same radiator in my '72 Chevy...
Great Bike. Those big 750's are possibly the most reliable 2 stroke roadgoing bike ever built. Yuoi can't kill them. I know of one with 86,000 miles on the original crank, seal AND bore. Really amazing bike. Mos of those miles were done in recent years on the good oils though.
1st bike. Bought it new for $295 in '69 and rode it over Wahington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and BC with camping gear in a backpack. Nobody ever told me it wasn't a real adventure bike. This picture is from about 1996 with over 25,000 mi. when I gave it to a buddy heading to Alaska. It was still running strong.
I eventuall upgraded to a proper adventure bike.
Those are damn good little bikes. I got a '68 F3 as an around town/backup bike that is dead reliable. Giving it a little "freshening" up so I can run it in vintage cross country/enduro next season.
And now for the other end of the 2-stroke spectrum (because I have no pictures of my 72 H2 Kawi)....
Nice and warm when setting up at TWO.
Not so warm getting up for the Rally...
Rally? What Rally? The True Grits Rally, 2005!
Yes, it's an adventure getting out on public mountain roads & highways with 150 fifty cc machines all at once - but like the poster says, It's NOT a Race!
Even though it's not a race, we did have Speed TV there...
Brian Drebber & crew.
How often do you see a street legal 50cc machine with not only the ADV sticker up front, but a route map holder lashed to the fairing stays?
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