TRUENOCOUPE

Here's a funny thing... 12-01-2005 01:32 AM Maybe if you weren't such an ass, people wouldn't harass you.

Here's a funny thing... 12-01-2005 06:35 AM talk about holding a grudge from 3 months ago

Buttonwillow- March 3rd 01-17-2006 05:24 PM you're a dumbass filipino, go back to the PI

D1 Drivers Search... 02-16-2006 08:03 PM I'm no idiot

Myspace'r - Who can... 02-24-2006 07:50 AM Don't be thuggin on V. Not cool.

Myspace'r - Who can... 02-27-2006 12:17 AM You're a fuckin' retard and your driving skills are just as fucked as your car when you crash......bitch. =)

Luke opens up shop Sr... 03-23-2006 07:27 AM Stop string up shit before you get banned.

UFC:Hughes vs Gracie 05-31-2006 03:06 AM Well seeing that this is a competition. There was dis filipino, chinese, and one portugi. they was hiking up dis mountain on a very hot and sunny day and they when stop for a rest. the chinese and the potugi when ask the filipino what he brought. h

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my life, my car, over,... 06-18-2006 06:37 AM die

Best route to WSIR from... 06-12-2006 07:09 PM die

No more norcal. 06-06-2006 04:21 PM Seriously, get a life.

Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 04:01 PM Yeah.... That's it... Lukes Nuts baby...

Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 07:25 AM your worthless...hit the big bank yourself and lets see that shit....

No more norcal. 06-04-2006 01:08 AM loser

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cfrost

yeah, someone is stalking me with this negative rep stuff, it's hurting my feelings really bad and making me want to listen to linkin park


my life, my car, over,... 06-17-2006 11:38 PM die
9,990 mile kouki on ebay 06-13-2006 04:35 PM die
Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 11:28 AM die
No more norcal. 05-30-2006 06:42 PM die
Drift Day 1 NM 05-24-2006 12:07 PM die


here are some of my favorites:
No more norcal. 05-18-2006 12:05 AM shut the fook up...

who the hell says "fook"? is this the 4th grade? fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

No more norcal. 05-18-2006 08:30 AM You jerk it that much?

not sure what this has to do with norcal.

Now I will F5 on my rep and see "die"

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Sound like someone hate us both.

my life, my car, over,... 06-18-2006 06:37 AM die
Best route to WSIR from... 06-12-2006 07:09 PM die

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blu808

Al Lagura and i actually had a conversation today in a polite mature manner. He clarified some things with me, and i clarified things with him.

I dont hold a grudge on Al anymore and i wish i had spoken with him months ago, instead of making myself look like an idiot by lashing back with immature and degrading comments.

I see now that eventhough he was instigating arguments with me it wasnt getting me anywhere but in a hole from trying to get back at him. Same with that rx-7 thread.

Sorry to everyone on here for wasting forum space, time, and participating in drame.



Yea yea now you are all going to think im apologizing to Al. But i am just setting the record straight. Its not an apology. lol

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TRUENOCOUPE

But hey. I got some Positive reps.

Altamont Inventational... 06-07-2006 12:13 AM al your hilarious!! -George

Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 10:14 PM your efforts to speak your mind with luke have not gone unappreciated...i hate the luke fanboys...its good to know that some of us know the real story about luke...

No more norcal. 06-04-2006 02:55 PM Damn these idiots Al. They all get worked up over nothing

No more norcal. 05-31-2006 10:32 PM al, youve been cool since we were on sro together. - spidey

UFC:Hughes vs Gracie 05-31-2006 03:23 PM Hey Al, screw these idiots. I know you are cool. -Matt Chase

Luke opens up shop Sr... 03-23-2006 05:28 PM how many SR motors has he gown through again?

Buttonwillow- March 3rd 03-05-2006 10:09 PM Great Event! - DJPimpFlex

Formula d 01-19-2006 02:25 AM here's one cause you are honest

Formula d 01-18-2006 12:42 AM Because having an ls1 makes me a good driver, haha.

Here's a funny thing... 12-01-2005 07:34 AM xander is an idiot

paint shop looking to... 09-30-2005 09:15 PM Thanks for your nice comments about me in the paint shop thread - Joe

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ManoNegra

The first step in your journey is to think blue grasshopper...

s13silvia03

this thread is so emo

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TRUENOCOUPE

I think you were talking to my little sister on AIM dude...

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cfrost

drift day 32 irwindale 05-25-2006 01:10 PM For be ing a sexy guy with a ugly bumper.

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TRUENOCOUPE

I have this ready.

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ramblux

Hahaha, this is so great. People don't realize that Al and yes even Cfrost feed on this.


Long live Al and Colin!

TRUENOCOUPE

Why are you trolling on my thread dude?
What did I ever do to you?

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ManoNegra

^ See, there's your answer. You're coming accross hostile and defensive. People here see that will instigate you.

cfrost

That's not how it works Al.

You can't post about stuff like that. You just have to negative rep him, and use words like "fook." Just don't let him know you don't like him. Keep it on negative rep. anonymous. that's safe.

also, die.

(i haven't received the "die" for this thread yet. it'd be cool if i got some "die" positive reps, cuz then you could let me know that you want me to die and i can get those fashionable green squares below my name and girls will like me)



i <3 mike

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Chasmoore04

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to TRUENOCOUPE again.


This is such bullshit

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TRUENOCOUPE

What are you blabbing about fat ass.

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Chasmoore04

+ Altamont Inventational... 06-07-2006 12:52 AM -7 rep point for you
- Altamont Inventational... 06-07-2006 12:06 AM uhmmm ok
+ Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 10:57 PM +100 for al ftw
- Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 07:28 PM AL lagura is your dad.
+ Altamont Inventational... 06-06-2006 05:56 PM yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaa

I am getting mixed emotions from these people.

Right now I am sitting at +93 points, which is more then you dicks can say

And no, al is NOT my dad, that he knows of.

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Al and I watched "Fever Pitch"

Where it began, I can't begin to know when
But then I know it's growing strong
Oh, wasn't the spring, whooo
And spring became the summer
Who'd believe you'd come along

Hands, touching hands, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Oh, sweet Caroline
Good times never seem so good
I've been inclined to believe it never would

And now I, I look at the night, whooo
And it don't seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two, oh
And when I hurt
Hurting runs off my shoulder
How can I hurt when holding you

Oh, one, touching one, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Oh, sweet Caroline
Good times never seem so good
Oh I've been inclined to believe it never would

Ohhh, sweet Caroline, good times never seem so good

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o, hopefully, this is interesting news for you. It would be something good to read if you are bored at work, or have no social life. But read it anyway, because you all know, you all know you have nothing better to do.

My parts line has been moving, slowly, and I blame myself. The big issue is where to store the stuff. I am moving to the LBC next month, so I don't want to order a crate of product and then have to move it all. But if you guys want to order, I can do sample orders for my shift-lock friends. Colin has been using the parts on his car, so far, with no problems. He is doing very well also, in all the events he drives in. Any relation? Probably not, but they haven't broken yet. Colin can share more input on these, as soon as he ditches those "stickers". And rocks a......Shit.

I still haven't thought of a name for this whole project, but I am leaning towards four friends. Why? Well that's what the company really is. You may have met or seen my "crew" at some events, changing my tires or fixing my car while I sleep. They are great guys, but they stick mostly to Honda stuff so you wont see them here or on any other drifting forum. I think that's what I am going to go with. But then there's the FF part, for friends, FF, damnit. Ill keep you posted.

I have contacted another company over seas, hopefully trying to sell there parts here. They make some kickass stuff, I showed Colin some photos today, and he seemed to be all smiles. The good thing about this company, is that I will be selling, gasp, corolla parts. And who better to test them then our beloved Pat. He doesn't know it, but if he agrees, he will be my newest test drive, sort of like a Colin of the 86 world. Yea, Lance will probably rocking the stuff too, if I can touch his mustache.

I am holding off on my super crazy angle kits, cause they are becoming expensive for me to test. Don't worry Dforce, one day, one day.

Well, I have a bunch of real racing parts now, and personally, I think it blows away a lot of the crap out there.

That comes to me, personally, and I really enjoy watching Entourage.

My car is not progressing. All my money goes into the move, tires(no more hookups), and the business. It is getting some new wheels per Jline and fenders and fresh paint, yay. It will be looking right for the event I am working on.

The event, well, I cant say much right now, except it will be the biggest drifting event that has been held in the us, that the entry fee is unbelievable, lots of money for the winner, and mike Jones will be there. If you want to know more, you cant, until I drop the ball on it. It will be after summer.

So yea, I hope you are all well, as for me, you'll be seeing me around much more.


Chas

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This repping thing is the most retarded thing evar. This reminds me of 2000 forums of who can be so e-cool.

This is for people that has no balls and retards.

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The War and Reconstruction in Sierra Leone
Freetown.

To understand post-war reconstruction in Sierra Leone one has to first understand the war. Without such an understanding, reconstruction runs the risk of rebuilding the causes of war. The eight-year war in Sierra Leone began as a revolutionary guerilla insurgency. A group of radical students, alienated by political thuggery and deteriorating conditions in Sierra Leone’s university and schools during the 1980s, dreamed of a new and more accountable government. A handful, supported by Libya and led by charismatic army corporal Foday Sankoh, began guerrilla training in Benghazi, later gaining combat experience in the civil war in neighboring Liberia before launching a cross-border strike into Sierra Leone in March 1991.

The theory of guerrilla war suggests that a handful of dedicated revolutionaries taking to the hills or forests can out-face a much larger conventional army if the guerrilla group enjoys local support. The organizers of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) hoped to gain support from alienated peasants in the eastern border districts before rallying students and unemployed young people throughout the country. But by deploying Liberian-style terror against rural chiefs and merchants the RUF failed to gain any significant peasant following. It survived because it seized and forcibly inducted youngsters as loyal supporters. The RUF also combed rural areas for adult dissidents, and found willing recruits among laborers in border-zone diamond pits. Nonetheless, it found itself hemmed into forest enclaves by irregulars recruited and trained by loyalist army officers and by local civil defense teams.

A temporary peace
After the election of 1996, the army was sidelined and nominal peace was reached with the RUF. The civil defense militia that helped to bring about the peace, however, came mostly from the South and East of the country and government reliance on it upset the balance of power among the political elites. As a result, the northern-dominated army started a revolt in 1997, hoping to avoid war by inviting the RUF to enter into a power-sharing regime. But the civil defense remained loyal to the democratic president and the war continued. The only beneficiary was the RUF, which used its brief access to state resources to reorganize and rearm. The junta was deposed by Nigerian troops of the West African intervention force early in 1998, with the RUF and some army units retreating into the bush to well-prepared positions.

In January 1999 a re-equipped RUF sacked Freetown, the capital, and quickly withdrew to await the outcome of further negotiations leading to a new, and perhaps more stable, peace agreement signed in July 1999.

On the road to peace
What makes the war in Sierra Leone common to other wars in the Post-Cold War era is that it resulted from an imbalance among political elites. There is no point, therefore, in discussing reconstruction unless this internal situation is addressed. The first question, then, is whether the political elites in Sierra Leone are ready to turn over a new leaf.

Sections of the national elite are only partially resident in the country, and, for long, not every potential power broker saw how destructive war could be. But after the sack of Freetown, there are fewer illusions. Under war, the flow of alluvial diamonds has not slackened, but other mineral resources—hard-rock (kimberlite) diamond mining, for example—are frozen. Unfreeing these valuable assets was part of the rationale for private security, but private security allied to a regional militia is a recipe for further political instability. Nor did the civil defense-mercenary strategy work militarily, since the increasingly desperate enemy became more and more unstable and dangerous in its stop-at-no-atrocity struggle to stay alive.

This is why there is now a growing sense across the elite factions in the country that peace is the only real option. But what should the donors be bargaining for to ensure a sustainable peace?

War has spread and become endemic in Sierra Leone because combat, while not a preferred option for so many young people (including about 5-10 percent of females) is their only means to survival. More than 50 percent of Sierra Leone’s population is under 18 years old, and schooling and employment opportunities are severely undermined due to inept government and bungled economic reform. Perhaps as many as 50,000 to 100,000 young Sierra Leoneans are under arms, roughly about 5 to 10 percent of the age group. They differ according to whether they volunteered or were recruited by force. But when interviewed it is often hard to tell their reasoning apart—whether they come from the RUF, the regular army, or the civil defense militia factions.

The earliest combatants were sucked into war because they lacked schools and job prospects. As the violence spread, more and more young people lost parents, found schools closed, saw rural employment opportunities disappear. Locked out of school these youngsters became unwilling recruits to war, which they saw as offering tools, training and livelihood—the horrendous risks notwithstanding.

But as they count their dead comrades the fighters also know violence is a trap and long for peace. Even as they fought, the opposing combatants dropped letters for each other explaining their frustrations and the lack of prospects driving them to war. The political elite and international observers have been surprised by the rapidity with which peace has broken out among the exhausted ranks, even as the 1999 peace deal was being finalized.

What is needed
The peace will remain very fragile if the international community denies food aid to watchful combatants, suspicious after earlier failed peace initiatives, that they are entering a trap. Food is the first sign the fighters look for that the peace is genuine. If this hurdle can be overcome, a genuine transformation from war to peace will then require real commitment to the longer-term needs of youth—not the combatants alone, but the groups most at risk of becoming combatants. The priority is major reassessment of the links between education, training and jobs, since those sucked into war are those for whom the regular routes to adulthood and economic independence have failed.

The rebels often complain that allocation of jobs and educational opportunities in Sierra Leone depend not on merit but on having political friends. Aid donors are perhaps better placed to see that behind the manifest injustices associated with the politics of patronage lies a more fundamental problem concerning the kind of education and jobs provided. The education system is geared at the wrong targets. It must be focused more on knowledge and skills that will help young people find viable self-employment opportunities in the interior. And there has been too little emphasis in the past on developing agricultural opportunities to support the mining sector.

Sierra Leone has the land and young people have the energy and talent to change this situation. A good illustration is what happened in the rutile-bauxite mining area of southern Sierra Leone, where demand from mine workers and a dense network of mine roads created conditions for a major homegrown expansion in the foodstuffs economy based on simple mechanization of cassava production. The work was mainly done by gangs of young men—exactly the types otherwise sucked into combat—operating grating sets powered by machines with which they were already familiar as motors for pumps in alluvial mining pits.

But to help such developments spread to other areas so that stabilizing dependencies begin to emerge between diamond mining and food production, more is required than a renewed program of rural road reconstruction (though that will be a start, perhaps employing ex-combatants as labor). More fundamental issues of technology, training and land entitlement also have to be addressed.

The young rebel fighters cannot be eliminated. That much is now clear. Under mercenary provocation they become even more unstable and hard to deal with. The alternative is to explore what it might take to reintegrate and root these combative youngsters. They need to find their place in a more complex and integrated interior economy than the one they have—in weariness—just left off to wreck.

Paul Richards is Head of the Technology & Agrarian Development Group, Wageningen University & Research Centre, The Netherlands

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wtf !^^^^^^^^


Yeah I wish I had more posi reps myself...I'll try to throw some posi juice your way

EDIT:damnit I just got a neg rep for this post hahaha

TRUENOCOUPE

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Chasmoore04

Hello!

Don't forget to vote for June 's Employee of the Month!

By the way, Al Lagura, the Nomination Raffle Winner, won a $25 Starbuck's gift certificate for voting last month! You can win too... LET'S GET VOTING!

Attached is the nomination form to return to Gewn Frost on or before June 27th. The winner of the EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH and NOMINATION WINNER will be announced thereafter.



Thank you for nominating!

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blu808

Hahaha Wtf?

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Chasmoore04

So true HAHAHAHAHAHAH

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