Chelsea Star Terry out for upto two months after the last night defeat match with Arsenal

Arsenal defeated Chelsea for the first time since February 2004 to reclaim top spot in the Premier League.

Manchester United had moved above them earlier in the day but William Gallas's header after Petr Cech failed to collect a corner ensured a Gunners win.

Shaun Wright-Phillips should have equalised but missed from six yards, while Manuel Almunia saved an Andriy Shevchenko free-kick in injury time.

Robin van Persie missed from 14 yards and was then denied by Cech late on.

Arsenal did not beat Chelsea during Jose Mourinho's entire tenure as Blues manager but have defeated Avram Grant's team at the first attempt.

Chelsea had gone 16 games without defeat in all competitions under Grant but now trail the Gunners by six points and United by five at the top of the league.

As with United's match at Liverpool earlier in the day, it was a tight game with little to choose between the teams.

But Arsenal showed a little more invention and ability on the break than Chelsea, who crucially lost John Terry to a suspected ligament injury after 38 minutes.

Even so, Chelsea should have equalised through Wright-Phillips, who scuffed his shot from six yards after Gallas had diverted a cross into his path midway through the second half.

Arsenal started brightly, their crisp passing and intelligent movement heavily in evidence as the home team looked for an early goal.

They had Cesc Fabregas, Mathieu Flamini and Alexander Hleb back in their line-up but Chelsea, with their five-man midfield, soon ensured that space and time on the ball was at a premium.

And it looked as though the first half would remain goalless before Gallas, playing against his old team, struck in time added on.

Chelsea had lost Terry after he failed to recover from a challenge by Emmanuel Eboue and, without the skipper's commanding presence in the box, Gallas was able to nudge Tal Ben Haim off the ball and convert Fabregas' corner.

But culpability for the goal lay with the normally reliable Cech, who came off his line to clear the corner but failed to make any meaningful contact with the ball.

Brazilian defender Alex had almost gifted Arsenal the lead earlier in the half when he tried to head the ball to Cech but only succeeded in looping it over the keeper and, thankfully for him, narrowly wide of the Chelsea goal.

It was a fractious game with plenty of niggle, two melees and 10 yellow cards.

Possession was surrendered far too cheaply for either team to find any kind of rhythm and for long spells it seemed to suit Chelsea, who forced first-half saves from Almunia with decent long-range strikes from Wright-Phillips and Shevchenko.

Almunia dived sharply to his right to prevent Obi from scoring his first goal of the season in the second half, while Wright-Phillips's horrible miss was a real let-off for the home team.

The game became increasingly stretched as Chelsea searched for an equaliser and Arsenal cut them open with a precise break that substitute Van Persie was unable to finish from 14 yards.

Van Persie had the ball in the net after another break but the goal was ruled out for offside and later saw another effort saved by Cech, who then denied Fabregas with a follow-up.

Shevchenko had a late chance for Chelsea with a free-kick but Almunia tipped the effort over his bar.

The final action saw Arsenal waste another chance on the break and Fabregas booked for a tackle on Ashley Cole, who was booed throughout the afternoon on his return to his former club.

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Lineups:
Arsenal: Manuel Almunia; Bacary Sagna, Kolo Toure, William Gallas, Gael Clichy; Emmanuel Eboue, Tomas Rosicky, Mathieu Flamini, Cesc Fabregas, Alex Hleb; Emmanuel Adebayor

Chelsea: Petr Cech; Paolo Ferreira, John Terry, Alex, Ashley Cole; Mikel John Obi, Claude Makelele, Frank Lampard, Shaun Wright-Phillips; Joe Cole, Andriy Shevchenko

a 4-5-1 formation, with Alex Hleb playing just off of lone striker Emmanuel Adebayor as a not-yet-match-fit Robin van Persie watched from the bench until the 70th minute.

Chelsea, unlike the Gunners, were missing top scorer Didier Drogba and fellow African Michael Essien, and therefore played with Joe Cole partnering Andriy Shevchenko in an offensive 4-4-2 which Avram Grant had hoped would bring some beautiful flowing football to Chelsea's game.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Eboue (Van Persie 69), Flamini, Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb (Silva 77), Adebayor (Bendtner 90).
Subs Not Used: Lehmann, Senderos.

Booked: Adebayor, Eboue, Flamini, Toure, Fabregas.

Goals: Gallas 45.

Chelsea: Cech, Ferreira, Alex, Terry (Ben-Haim 38), Ashley Cole, Wright-Phillips (Kalou 75), Obi, Makelele (Pizarro 65), Lampard, Joe Cole, Shevchenko.
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Belletti.

Booked: Terry, Lampard, Joe Cole, Ben-Haim, Obi.

Att: 60,139

Ref: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire).

CHELSEA have been rocked by the news that John Terry has been ruled out for up to two months.

Doctors today confirmed that the England skipper has broken three bones in his right foot, including a metatarsal.

That is not just a blow for Blues boss Avram Grant, who now has to get their season back on track without his influential captain.

It also means Terry may well have to sit out Fabio Capello's first game in charge as England manager.

CRUNCH ... Eboue and Terry collide

The defender hobbled off during Sunday's 1-0 defeat at Arsenal after being injured in a challenge by Emmanuel Eboue.

X-rays have shown that Terry has broken the third metatarsal in his right foot, which is understood to be as bad as it can get.

A close friend said: "The doctors were surprised as they said it's very unusual to break that third metatarsal.

"It's more common for footballers to break the first or fifth metatarsal.

"The bad news is they say it will take longer to heal than normal.

Chelsea were not expecting such devastating news as an initial scan had failed to show the true extent of the damage.

Club doctor Bryan English said: "An X-ray taken in the Arsenal medical room straight after John left the field didn't show the injury.

"However, as is usual with mid-foot injuries, the fractures were revealed following scans, which were performed this afternoon.

"John will start his rehabilitation immediately with the Chelsea medical team and we will continue to monitor the injury."

Capello, who was unveiled as new England manager today, will make his Wembley bow with a friendly on February 6 against Switzerland.

But doctors believe that could come too soon for Terry to have recovered fully.

The third metatarsal bones are in the middle toe, which normally suffer injury through wear and tear rather than a clean break.

Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen have broken fifth metatarsals before and took at least six weeks LONGER for both players to get back into action than specialists originally predicted.

In 2004, Scott Parker broke a second metatarsal and although an eight-week absence was predicted, it was 34 weeks before he made a return.

After yesterday's game, Chelsea striker Salomon Kalou revealed that Eboue had apologised to Terry for the tackle.

He said: “I was saying to Eboue that it was a red card because he did it on purpose - but he denied that.

“He said he tried to block the ball and it was not on purpose. He said sorry to John.

"He didn’t mean to do it but to apologise was a nice thing to do. John will be a big loss and is very important to the squad.

"We will miss him and it will be difficult to do it without him but we have the players to do that.”

In February 2007 J0hn Terry was seriously injured

Famous Communicable English Disease

Metatarsal

JOHN TERRY has become the latest England ace to be struck down with the curse of the metatarsal.

Here SunSport looks at the previous Three Lions stars to have fallen foul of the injury and their eventual recovery periods.

April 2002 - DAVID BECKHAM broke his second metatarsal while playing in the Champions League for Manchester United against Deportivo La Coruna. He played at the World Cup three months later but it was clear he was unfit. Predicted: 6 weeks Return: 7 weeks later

April 2002 - Manchester United defender GARY NEVILLE broke his fifth metatarsal against Bayer Leverkusen, also in the Champions League, forcing him to miss the World Cup. Predicted: 6-8 weeks Return: 21 weeks later

May 2002 - DANNY MURPHY was drafted into the World Cup squad but fractured a metatarsal while training. Predicted: 6-8 weeks Return: 21 weeks later

June 2004 - WAYNE ROONEY broke his fifth metatarsal in England's quarter-final clash with Portugal at Euro 2004. Portugal eventually win on penalties. Predicted: 8 weeks Return: 14 weeks later

September 2004 - STEVEN GERRARD broke his fifth metatarsal in Liverpool's 2-1 defeat at Manchester United. Predicted: 6-8 weeks Return: 10 weeks later

December 2004 - SCOTT PARKER fractured his second metatarsal playing for Chelsea. Predicted: 8 weeks Return: 34 weeks later

October 2005 - ASHLEY COLE broke a metatarsal before England's World Cup qualifiers against Austria and Poland. Predicted: 6-8 weeks Return: 12 weeks later

December 2005 - MICHAEL OWEN broke a metatarsal bone in his foot when he collided with England team-mate Paul Robinson during Tottenham's clash with Newcastle at White Hart Lane. Predicted: 6-8 weeks Return: 17 weeks later

April 2006 - Tottenham defender LEDLEY KING damaged his metatarsal playing against Everton and, unlike Rooney, England decided not to risk him for the World Cup Predicted: 6 weeks Return: 8 weeks later

April 2006 - WAYNE ROONEY broke the fourth metatarsal of his right foot after tackle by Paulo Ferreria in league match with Chelsea. Returned in time for World Cup 2006 but lacked match fitness Predicted: 6 weeks Return: 8 weeks

Is this the best goal ever?

FOOTBALL is buzzing with one question right now ? has anyone ever netted a sweeter strike?

Fans of the beautiful game have been gasping in wonder at the cheeky crossed-kick effort by Peruvian Andres Vasquez.

It was the 19-year-old midfielder’s first league goal for Swedish side IFK Gothenburg and it is unlikely he will ever top it.

On Monday night he took the ball from an Orebro player, ran to the edge of the penalty area and, as the ball rolled, moved his left leg behind his right.

With the outside of his left boot he then chipped the ball sweetly into the top corner of the net.

The “crossed-kick” is known as a Rabona and Italian player Giovanni Roccotelli is credited with inventing it in the 1970s.

It has been demonstrated in England this season by Joe Cole and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Heavy Snow in Scotland buries a young Cow...........

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This is a Photo of January 2007 from Scotland. Close ur eyes and picture the scene how many animals must be dying out there every year in snow! what the people care is just a human body.
Who gonna hear there help? when human gonna feel there pain......
Donno How many lives are this January 2008 going to take?

The motorcycle Dairies

Dear mom
Buenos Air is behind us
behind is as also the miserable life
the faculty, the exams and the dissertations
that make u sleepy
Before us lies all of latin America
From now on we will only trust in ''La Poderosa''

I wish you could see us. We look like adventurers
and inspire admiration and envy everywhere


I used to listen the bare feet splashing in the ship
'And had a feeling of the faces darkened by hunger
'' My heart was a pendulum between her and the street
'' I don't know with what strenght i freed myself from her eyes,
'' I broke away from her arms
She was left clouding with tears her anguish
''Behind the rain and the glass

Dear Mom... We are still hitting the road,
but to tell you the truth, the bike is less powerful every day
Money and food are scarce, but we manage to find opportunities to eat and sleep for free
Thanks to our secret weapon:
Alberto's infallible sweet talking

Dear Mom... what is it that's lost when you cross a border.
Each moment seems to be split in two
Melancholy for what was left behind and on the other hand all the enthusiam at entering new lands

Dear mom .........I knew i wouldn't be able to help that poor woman
That up to a month ago she had been serving tables, panting like me
trying to live with dignity
In those dying eyes, there was a humble request for excuses
And a desperate plea of consolation that gets lost in the emptiness
Just as her body will get lost very soon in the magnitude of the mystery
that surrounds us

Those eyes has a dark and tragic expression
They told us about some friends that had disappeared under mysterious circumstances
And that apparently ended up in some part on the bottom of the ocean
That was one of the coldest nights of my life
But meeting them made me feel closer to human kind.
Strange, so strange to me


When we left the mine, we felt reality was changing
.... or were we the ones changing
Going deeper and deeper into the mountain range
we found more natives that don't even have a rood in what used to be their own land
Finally we enter to Peru
Thanks toa truck driver half blind, Felix
i almost forgot........Today is Alberto's 30th birthday
but not in Venezuela, as he had envisioned
we were so tired, mom that we couldn't even celebrate
Finally we arrived to the heart of America
Cuzco.
after entering the city, we met Don Nestor
A very wise man, mom that ended up as our official guide

The Incas had a high knowledge of actronomy, medicine, math, among others
But the Spanish invaders had powder
how would America be today if things had been different?

How is it possible that i feel nostalgia for a world i never knew
How do you explain that a civilization capable of building this
is wiped out to build..........
.......is

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In Time
Monday, June 14, 1999 (published on)
Che Guevara
Though communism may have lost its fire, he remains the potent symbol of rebellion and the alluring zeal of revolution
By ARIEL DORFMAN

By the time Ernesto Guevara, known to us as Che, was murdered in the jungles of Bolivia in October 1967, he was already a legend to my generation, not only in Latin America but also around the world.

Like so many epics, the story of the obscure Argentine doctor who abandoned his profession and his native land to pursue the emancipation of the poor of the earth began with a voyage. In 1956, along with Fidel Castro and a handful of others, he had crossed the Caribbean in the rickety yacht Granma on the mad mission of invading Cuba and overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landing in a hostile swamp, losing most of their contingent, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra. A bit over two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Guevara displayed such outrageous bravery and skill that he was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched what was to become the first and only victorious socialist revolution in the Americas. The images were thereafter invariably gigantic. Che the titan standing up to the Yanquis, the world's dominant power. Che the moral guru proclaiming that a New Man, no ego and all ferocious love for the other, had to be forcibly created out of the ruins of the old one. Che the romantic mysteriously leaving the revolution to continue, sick though he might be with asthma, the struggle against oppression and tyranny.

His execution in Vallegrande at the age of 39 only enhanced Guevara's mythical stature. That Christ-like figure laid out on a bed of death with his uncanny eyes almost about to open; those fearless last words ("Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man") that somebody invented or reported; the anonymous burial and the hacked-off hands, as if his killers feared him more after he was dead than when he had been alive: all of it is scalded into the mind and memory of those defiant times. He would resurrect, young people shouted in the late '60s; I can remember fervently proclaiming it in the streets of Santiago, Chile, while similar vows exploded across Latin America. !No lo vamos a olvidar! We won't let him be forgotten.

More than 30 years have passed, and the dead hero has indeed persisted in collective memory, but not exactly in the way the majority of us would have anticipated. Che has become ubiquitous: his figure stares out at us from coffee mugs and posters, jingles at the end of key rings and jewelry, pops up in rock songs and operas and art shows. This apotheosis of his image has been accompanied by a parallel disappearance of the real man, swallowed by the myth. Most of those who idolize the incendiary guerrilla with the star on his beret were born long after his demise and have only the sketchiest knowledge of his goals or his life. Gone is the generous Che who tended wounded enemy soldiers, gone is the vulnerable warrior who wanted to curtail his love of life lest it make him less effective in combat and gone also is the darker, more turbulent Che who signed orders to execute prisoners in Cuban jails without a fair trial.


Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara at Havana airport in 1962

This erasure of complexity is the normal fate of any icon. More paradoxical is that the humanity that worships Che has by and large turned away from just about everything he believed in. The future he predicted has not been kind to his ideals or his ideas. Back in the '60s, we presumed that his self-immolation would be commemorated by social action, the downtrodden rising against the system and creating — to use Che's own words — two, three, many Vietnams. Thousands of luminous young men, particularly in Latin America, followed his example into the hills and were slaughtered there or tortured to death in sad city cellars, never knowing that their dreams of total liberation, like those of Che, would not come true. If Vietnam is being imitated today, it is primarily as a model for how a society forged in insurrection now seeks to be actively integrated into the global market. Nor has Guevara's uncompromising, unrealistic style of struggle, or his ethical absolutism, prevailed. The major revolutions of the past quarter-century (South Africa, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua), not to mention the peaceful transitions to democracy in Latin America, East Asia and the communist world, have all entailed negotiations with former adversaries, a give and take that could not be farther from Che's unyielding demand for confrontation to the death. Even someone like Subcomandante Marcos, the spokesman for the Chiapas Maya revolt, whose charisma and moral stance remind us of Che's, does not espouse his hero's economic or military theories.

How to understand, then, Che Guevara's pervasive popularity, especially among the affluent young?

Perhaps in these orphaned times of incessantly shifting identities and alliances, the fantasy of an adventurer who changed countries and crossed borders and broke down limits without once betraying his basic loyalties provides the restless youth of our era with an optimal combination, grounding them in a fierce center of moral gravity while simultaneously appealing to their contemporary nomadic impulse. To those who will never follow in his footsteps, submerged as they are in a world of cynicism, self-interest and frantic consumption, nothing could be more vicariously gratifying than Che's disdain for material comfort and everyday desires. One might suggest that it is Che's distance, the apparent impossibility of duplicating his life anymore, that makes him so attractive. And is not Che, with his hippie hair and wispy revolutionary beard, the perfect postmodern conduit to the nonconformist, seditious '60s, that disruptive past confined to gesture and fashion? Is it conceivable that one of the only two Latin Americans to make it onto TIME's 100 most important figures of the century can be comfortably transmogrified into a symbol of rebellion precisely because he is no longer dangerous?

I wouldn't be too sure. I suspect that the young of the world grasp that the man whose poster beckons from their walls cannot be that irrelevant, this secular saint ready to die because he could not tolerate a world where los pobres de la tierra, the displaced and dislocated of history, would be eternally relegated to its vast margins.

Even though I have come to be wary of dead heroes and the overwhelming burden their martyrdom imposes on the living, I will allow myself a prophecy. Or maybe it is a warning. More than 3 billion human beings on this planet right now live on less than $2 a day. And every day that breaks, 40,000 children — more than one every second! — succumb to diseases linked to chronic hunger. They are there, always there, the terrifying conditions of injustice and inequality that led Che many decades ago to start his journey toward that bullet and that photo awaiting him in Bolivia.

The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T shirt where we have tried to trap him, the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience.

Ariel Dorfman holds the Walter Hines Page Chair at Duke University. His latest novel is The Nanny and the Iceberg

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Project - C (International Marketing)

Business College
AP Degree in Marketing Management


Manual
Project C

2nd semester


November 07
1 Aim of the project 3
1.1 Professional aims 3
1.2 Method aim 3
1.3 Aims of the project work 3
2 Topic for project C 3
3 Requirements for the project 3
3.1 Formal requirements 3
3.2 Requirements for format/extent, table of contents, source index, quotes: 3
3.2.1 Format and extent 3
3.2.2 Table of contents 3
3.2.3 Source index 3
3.2.4 Quotes 3
3.3 Requirements for content 3
4 Establishment of groups 3
5 Guidance (tutoring) 3
6 Presentation of the projects 3
7 Evaluation of the project 3
8 Activities 3
9 Sign-up sheet for Project C December 2007 3


1 Aim of the project

Project C marks the end of the second semester and thereby the first year of the AP degree programme in Marketing Management. The overall aim of this interdisciplinary project is to include the levels that have been reached in all subjects so far. It is also supposed to offer you an overview of how the various subjects are connected.

The semester theme is ”Market and society”
The aim of the theme of the second semester is to offer you a general view of the role of the individual and the business in a society with several networks and groupings, as well as a view of the various markets and market segments of the world and their needs. This aim is of course also reflected in the specialist part of the project.


1.1 Professional aims

You must work with the elements that are a part of an export market analysis for a specific company, ROCKWOOL A/S
A strategic analysis with focus on the export problems; a desk research analysis of an existing or potential export market for one the company’s product areas; a quantification of the chosen market’s potential.
You must be skilled in using argumentation techniques that are supposed to help you in strengthening your presentations, perception etc.
Furthermore you should develop the tools given in project management and personal development, among other things project management and group processes.
You must display your presentation skills when you present your project.
You must produce an Executive Summary (in English) to offer an overview of the project to an outside reader.

1.2 Method aim

You must be able to produce a specific and focused problem statement
You must consider method - you must produce a problem statement and use specific tools for problem clarification and problem solving
You must continue developing a project report – it must meet with the standards set for a project report at a higher education level
You must work with an “Executive Summary”


1.3 Aims of the project work

You must develop and gain even greater experience in meeting techniques, including summary reports
You must plan and take advantage of the guidance offered
As an appendix you must produce documentation for your management of time and content of the project
You must put together a project group and be able to control the process




2 Topic for project C

Based on a strategic analysis of a company, you must produce an analysis of an existing or potential export market for one of the company’s products or product areas. The company and market will be chosen by your supervisors.

In your market analysis the following must be included:
A Macro analysis (for instance PEST)
Analysis of demand
- must contain: a quantification of the potential market for the product/product area (how much can be sold – quantity and monetary)
- can contain: a segmentation, target group and purchase behaviour
Analysis of supply must contain:
- an analysis of the line of business or an analysis of the individual competitors’ strategies, including an assessment of the expected development.
Producing suggestions for a realistic goal for the next 1-2 years (realistically, seen from the company’s point of view, as well as from an assessment of the market).
Based on the goal, company and market analysis you must furthermore establish the most important tasks and focus areas for the company before an actual marketing plan is made. An outline for a parameter strategy should therefore not be made.

The external part of the analysis must be carried out through desk research / secondary data.


3 Requirements for the project

In the project there are demands regarding formalities, content, group work, use of guidance and self-evaluation.


3.1 Formal requirements

The written part of the project must meet with all the requirements and formalities that are normally in effect at projects at university level. This means that:

You must observe the following guidelines regarding front page, table of contents, source index, appendices, spacing, number of lines per page, letter size and number of pages:

· There must be page numbering throughout the project, including appendices
· Use footnotes for source reference in the project. Remember: always page reference to facilitate retrieval of further information.
· Source indication is essential to the assessment of the validity and credibility of the information.
· The entire project can be rejected if it is not”amply” supplied with source references.
· All tables and figures must be marked with figure/table number and a headline, which is clearly related to the content. The source and page number should be stated at the bottom of the page.
· A table or figure may not be left without a context. It must be clearly stated by the text which role it has in the assignment.

3.2 Requirements for format/extent, table of contents, source index, quotes:

3.2.1 Format and extent

· 1 copy of the project must be handed in.
· The format must be A4
· Right and left margin 2,5
· Margin top/bottom 2,0
· Spacing must be 1 1/2.

The project must not exceed 20 pages excl. front page, table of contents, source index and appendices. 10% should be allocated for an”Executive Summary”. Regarding the number of appendices – it is (in principle) unlimited but in the evaluation of the project emphasis will be put on ONLY appendices of great relevance to the project being included.


3.2.2 Table of contents

The project must contain a table of contents, which indicates the structure of main, and sub sections, source index, as well as appendices. Page numbers should also be indicated in the table of contents.

3.2.3 Source index

The source index is placed after the project’s conclusion and before appendices.

The project must contain a source/note reference system, which ensures that the reader is always given – and will be able to find – the sources of statements, tables or models.

The source index must contain:

· A list of literature where the individual books are stated in alphabetical order by last name of “first mentioned” writer. Then title, publisher/place, edition and year.
· A list of used sources from the Internet (www) with an indication of date for the find.
· A list of periodicals, name, year, number and page(s).
· A report list with the institutions or organisation’s name, title and page in the mentioned order.
· Material from the company with indication of the report’s name, author and date.
· Interviews, conversations, meetings etc. with indication of contacts, titles and dates of meetings.





3.2.4 Quotes

Literature quotes may not exceed 100 words. All quotes and information must have a source reference.

It is not allowed to hand in written work which is entirely or in part other parties’ written work without a clear indication through citation marks and source references. It is equally not allowed to use projects from other schools or earlier projects (total or partial copying). If you do not live up to these demands then the project will be rejected and you will be expelled from the school.



3.3 Requirements for content

An explanation of the choice of market/line of business.
A carefully considered use of numbered sections.
An ”Executive Summary” including all the most important elements of the project – in order to enable an outsider to understand your project/analyses/assessments and conclusions. The summary must be in English.
A problem statement (focus on what will be analysed and answered)
A method section: Here you will account for the structure of the project, choice of methods, as well as the considerations you have made in relation to the choice of method. In other words: In the problem statement you explain what will be analysed. In the method section you will explain how it will be analysed.
If needed, a limitation (markets, products, time horizons etc.)
Source criticism – a description and evaluation of the source material in relation to your use of the sources.
Stating sources continuously throughout the project, as well as in a source index at the end of the project.
Relevant sub-conclusions and a conclusion at the end.
Footnotes – precise source references – for the reader to be able to find the source and read what is being referred to.
Establish a group and evaluate the process.
Appendices that focus on your own learning progress throughout the project including an evaluation of your co-operation agreement.


4 Establishment of groups

The students will form groups of 4-5 students. If individual students are not in groups at the hand-in deadline then a group will be allocated by the administration.

Before the groups commence their work co-operation agreements must be made.


In the co-operation agreement the following should be indicated:
The group’s work approach
The group’s working hours (project work)
Handling of deadlines
Absence/illness

The co-operation agreement must be brought to the first session with your ”tutor” (During week 50) and will be discussed as the first item on the agenda.

5 Guidance (tutoring)

One tutor will be assigned to each group.

6 Presentation of the projects

After handing in of the written report the group must prepare a presentation of the project work. The presentation will take place in a “class room”; you must present your work to your tutor.

Each group will do a 10-minute oral presentation of the project. The following applies to the presentation:
Use of AV-aids is compulsory – for instance, flip-over charts, black board, overhead, posters, PowerPoint etc.
Illustrations should be prepared for the presentation by the group (photographic or electronic copies of books, homepages etc. should not be used)
Structure in the presentation – the group’s effort and the individual’s effort should point towards a common goal.
The transitions between the individual presentations are planned and rehearsed.
All group members must participate actively at the presentation.

7 Evaluation of the project

The tutor will give each group oral feedback after the presentation (10 minutes). The project and the presentation will be evaluated as passed/not passed. In the overall evaluation the oral presentation accounts for 20%. If the project cannot be passed in the first attempt then the further steps will be agreed upon with the tutor.



8 Activities





Activities Date
The Manual will be available in BB 3rd December 2007
Forming of groups 3rd to 5th December 2007, 12 o’clock
Assignment of tutor and geographical market in BB
6th December 2007 at 2.30 p.m.

Tutor meeting(s) During week 50

Project period
Week 50

Hand in one copy of your project in a box arranged on the counter in building 1
Be aware that all members of the group have a copy of the project.
An “Executive Summary” must be included in the project.
Remember name of all group members as well as the name of your tutor 14th December 2007 at 1.00 p.m.

Presentation and Feedback on your project

Week 51, the tutor will give you the exact time.

9 Sign-up sheet for Project C December 2007


Class Name of the groups members E-mail address:




The sign-up sheet must be handed-in at the administration office in building 1 no later than 5th December 2007 at 12 o’clock.

FIGURE 2: ESTIMATED ANNUAL CRASH COSTS

FIGURE 2: ESTIMATED ANNUAL CRASH COSTS

Source: Jacobs G, Aeron-Thomas A, Astrop A. Estimating global road fatalities, TRL, 2000

FIGURE 3: PREDICTED ROAD TRAFFIC FATALITIES

Source: Kropits E, Cropper M. Traffic Fatalities & Economic Growth, 2003

BOX 1:
The Impact of Crashes on the Poor Research conducted by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)* on behalf of the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) in Bangladesh and Bangalore (India) in 2004 focused on the involvement and impact of road crashes on the poor, in comparison with the
non-poor, in both urban and rural areas.

The study found that, while the poor were not consistently at greater risk from road death and serious injury, many of the poor households identified were not poor before the death or serious injury caused by a road crash. The poor victims contributed most to their household’s earnings (average 62% in urban areas
and 42% in rural areas), and the loss of income tipped many households into poverty.

Breadwinners were most at risk. Among both poor and non-poor households, the most common road death was a male in prime of life (16-45 years). One in every 4 deaths and 1 in 6 serious injuries to the poor involved a child (under 16 years). The poor are killed and seriously injured mainly as vulnerable road users (pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists).

The surveys also found that many more people, both poor and non-poor, are being killed and seriously injured in road crashes than police data indicate. In Bangladesh the actual number of road deaths is estimated to be four times more, and serious injuries almost 75 times more, than shown in police statistics. In Bangalore the police report 10 injuries (both serious and slight) for every road death. Yet the urban survey found substantially more – particularly amongst the non-poor. The Indian Government’s Planning Commission estimates that there are 15 hospitalised injuries and 70 minor injuries for every road death.

As well as loss of earnings, poor households paid a significant proportion of their household income on funerals (almost 3 months’ income in urban areas) and medical costs (4 months’ income in rural areas).

In Bangalore, the majority of poor households reported at least one person having to give up working or studying to care for the injured. The poor injured also had less job security, and fewer were able to return to their previous job. The rural poor in Bangladesh took longer to find a new job. The consequence of a fatal crash or serious injury for more than 7 out of 10 poor families in Bangladesh was that food consumption decreased as a result of the lower household income.

The burden from road crashes tips many households into poverty. In Bangalore 71% (urban) and 53% (rural) of poor households were not poor before the fatal crash. In Bangladesh the figures were 33% (urban) and 49% (rural) for bereaved households.
The involvement and impact of road crashes on the poor’, Aeron-Thomas et al, 2004; Study commissioned from TRL by GRSP with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and TRL. The report is available at www.grsproadsafety.org

source :
makeroadssafe.org
http://www.makeroadssafe.org/documents/make_roads_safe_low_res.pdf

FIGURE 1: ROAD TRAFFIC INJURY MORTALITY RATES (PER 100 000 POPULATION), 2002

FIGURE 1: ROAD TRAFFIC INJURY MORTALITY RATES
(PER 100 000 POPULATION), 2002


Click over the picture to enlarge

Source: World Report on road traffic injury prevention, 2004

Worldwide, more than half of road traffic casualties
are in the 15-44 age group, the key wage earning and
child raising age group. In Kenya, for example, more
than 75% of road traffic casualties are amongst economically
active young adults4. The loss of the main
wage earner and head of household due to death or
disability can be disastrous, leading to lower living
standards and poverty, in addition to the human cost
of bereavement.
A recent study in Bangladesh and India examined the
direct economic impact of road traffic crashes resulting
in death or serious injury on individual urban and
rural households (Box 1). The study shows that road
deaths often act as a trigger for poverty. The majority
of households suffering a road death see a decline in
household income after the crash. For those families
in a precarious economic position, a road crash can
be the unexpected event that topples them below the
poverty line.
Road traffic crashes can also disproportionately affect
the poorest groups in society. In low and middle
income countries poor people are usually vulnerable
road users (pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists).
They are at particular risk from the greater variety and
intensity of traffic mix and the lack of separation from
other road users. Slow moving and non motorised
modes have to share road space with fast moving vehicles,
leading to increased conflict and risk. In Kenya,
pedestrians and passengers in mass transportation
accounted for 80% of all fatalities5, and in Mumbai,
India, 78% of road fatalities were pedestrians6.
As vulnerable road users, children are at particular
risk. Children in low and middle income countries are
much more likely than children in high income countries
to be involved in a road crash. In South Africa,for example, more than 26 child deaths per 100,000
population occur as a result of road traffic crashes
compared to 1.7 per 100,000 population in the EU as
a whole7. Overall, 96% of child road fatalities occur in
low and middle income countries8. Peter Adamson,
senior adviser to UNICEF, warns of the consequences
of failing to act on road traffic injuries: “Without
being alarmist you can see that there will be millions
of young children killed on the roads of the world in
the years ahead. There is so much that could be done
by developing countries at their current stage of economic
development, and it could prevent so much
misery and tragedy. It would be outrageous if it were
allowed to continue in the years ahead”9.
Indeed, unless there is concerted action, the World
Bank expects global road fatalities to increase by
more than 65% between 2000 and 2020, with different
trends across regions of the world. Fatalities are
predicted to increase by more than 80% in low and
middle income countries, but to decrease by nearly
30% in high income countries (Figure 3), a widening
gap between the road safety rich and the road safety
poor.

A Global Public Health Crisis

A Global Public Health Crisis
Requiring a Global Response

Road traffic injuries are a hidden global epidemic affecting millions of human lives and costing billions of dollars in economic costs every year. They are a particular burden on the poorest people and countries.

A hidden epidemic of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes is growing in the world today. The World Health Organization estimates that, each year, almost 1.2 million people die in road crashes worldwide and as many as 50 million are injured or disabled. Every month a silent tsunami wave of road traffic crashes sweeps away 100,000 lives. For developing countries
in particular, road traffic deaths and injuries represent a serious and rapidly worsening public health crisis.

More than eighty five per cent of all road traffic deaths and injuries occur in low income and middle income countries. The injury/mortality rates per 100,000 population differ by region (Fig 1) with Africa enduring the world’s highest rates per population and most dangerous roads, but South East Asia experiencing the highest number of actual fatalities and injuries and the highest predicted growth in road traffic injuries.

Road traffic deaths and injuries (RTIs) impose a huge economic burden on developing economies, amounting to 1-2% of GNP in most countries (Figure 2). These costs, some $64.5 billion1 - $100 billion2, are comparable with the total bilateral overseas aid contributed by the industrialised countries, which amounted to $106.5 billion in 20053. These estimates take account only of the direct economic costs – mainly lost productivity – rather than the full social costs often recognised by industrialised countries. There is also the direct impact on health services, with road traffic victims accounting for almost half the hospital bed occupancy in surgical wards in some low income and middle income countries.

Just read this!!!!!!

If your father is a poor man,
it is your fate but,
if your father-in-law is a poor man,
it's your stupidity.

I was born intelligent -
education ruined me.

Practice makes perfect.....
But nobody's perfect......
so why practice?

If it's true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?

Since light travels faster than sound,
people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Money is not everything.
There's Mastercard & Visa.

Every Man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in
life.

The wise never marry.
and when they marry they become otherwise.

Success is a relative term.
It brings so many relatives.

Never put off the work till tomorrow
what you can put off today.

"Your future depends on your dreams"
So go to sleep ppl... lol

There should be a better way to start a day
Than waking up every morning

"Hard work never killed anybody"
But why take the risk

The more you learn, the more you know,
The more you know, the more you forget

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IT'S NOT everyday a bike-builder gets his hands on a tank engine to play
with but that’s what happened to German motorcycle nut Tilo Niebel at the
Harzer Bike Company.

The bike Niebel's built uses a motor from a Soviet T-55 tank, The machine's 19-ft long and 9 feet wide. The builders says the biggest problem has been finding tyres and wheels to fit the mammoth 4500kg project.

Rioting continues over joyriders' death

RAMPAGING gangs of youths continued to set cars ablaze and clash with riot
police last night as violence spread to at least six towns in the northern Paris suburbs, 24 hours after two teenagers were killed when their motorbike collided with a police cruiser.

Police and French officials urged calm, fearing the continuing violence was about to spread to the troubled public housing projects nearby where there were the bloody riots of two years ago.

It has been claimed by the relatives of the victims that the police fled their damaged vehicle after in collision with the motorcycle and did not stop to
assist the youths after their bike hit the police car early Sunday evening
in Villiers-le-Bel, north of Paris.

Police said that the two teens, aged 15 and 16, were travelling at high speed and were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash.
"I call on everyone to calm down and let the justice system decide who was
responsible," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said during an official visit
to Beijing late yesterday.

Last night demonstrators in Villiers-le-Bel threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police, who responded with rubber-coated bullets and tear gas. Eight police officers have been injured in the scuffles so far on top of the 21 police officers and fire fighters injured in the initial outbursts of trouble on Sunday evening.
“We have seen cars set on fire and building attacked in six other towns outside Paris,” a police spokesman said.

Speeding Police Chief wastes court time

MEREDYDD HUGHES, Britain’s most senior traffic policeman, has been slated for wasting court time after he failed to answer a speeding charge yesterday.

Hughes, 49, the was due to appear at Wrexham Magistrates’ Court charged with driving at 90mph in a 60mph zone. Sources say the high-flying copper pleaded for an adjournment as he couldn't find a solicitor to represent him. Funny that.

Supersonic Hughes, who was allegedly caught on camera on the A5, has admitted committing two speeding offences in the past and having six penalty points, despite being one of the UK's strongest critics of speeding motorists.

Teenage joyriders killed in Police pursuit

Published: 26 Nov 07

TWO FRENCH teenage bike thieves were killed when their motorbike collided with a police car.

The incident sparked riots in the northern suburbs of Villiers-le-Bel and Arnouville, near Paris. Sources said the two were riding a stolen mini-motorcycle, and that neither was wearing a helmet.

Witnesses have accused the police of leaving the scene and of preventing local people from trying to help the youngsters as they lay in the road. The brother of one of the victims has called for the officers involved to be convicted.

The mayor of Villers-le-Bel, Didier Vaillant, appealed for calm and said he would ensure there was "an impartial investigation, for full light to be shed" on the accident.

A brother of one of the dead teenagers, Omar Sehhouli, said the rioting "was not violence but an expression of rage".

In 2005, country-wide riots erupted after the electrocution of two teenagers from another Parisian suburb - Clichy-sous-Bois - in an electricity sub-station. They were reported to have been fleeing police at the time.

Relations between police and young people in many deprived areas have continued to be tense ever since.


Source: BBC News

Suzuki Confirms China Factory

FOLLOWING A thread in news earlier today Visordown can confirm Suzuki will set up a new joint venture to build a motorcycle factory in China.

The Japanese bike-building firm's second factory will make up to 500,000 motorcycles per year. Production is due to start around April/May 2009. The joint venture will be funded by the company to the tune of around £25m, giving it 40% stake in the Changzhu Haojue/Suzuki Motorcycle Company.

The company says it is expanding its motorcycle production in China and
India, the world's two largest bike markets, to meet demand.

Suzuki to build factory in China?

Suzuki is likely to announce later today that it will build its first motorcycle factory in China in just over a year’s time.
"We are in talks and will probably make an announcement by the end of
today,'' said Yoichi Kojima, a Suzuki spokesman.

Suzuki, based in Hamamatsu, Japan, is expanding motorcycle production in China and India, the world's two largest motorcycle markets, to meet demand in
both countries and to help boost overall volume drives in Europe. The company
currently makes motorcycles in China under a joint-venture with the Jinan Qingqi Suzuki Motorcycle Co.

Visordown understands that Suzuki will produce 500,000 motorcycles a year at
a second factory starting in early 2009.

Two other Chinese motorcycle makers, Nanjing Jincheng Motorcycle Co. and
Dachangjiang Group Co. Ltd., also produce Suzuki's motorcycles in the country.
Suzuki made 1.15 million motorcycles in China in the year ended on March 31 and sold 1 million units. Suzuki started selling motorcycles in India on its own from last year.

Ten year ban for pulling a wheelie

STUNTING BIKERS in Miami may have gone just a step too far at the weekend,
and their antics look set to bring in tough new laws that is likely to see their bike taken off them, their licences revoked for TEN years and a mandatory stay in prison.

State representative Carlos Lopez-Cantera went on a ride-along with the Florida Highway Patrol to check out the local problem of speeding bikers for himself.

"This guy did a wheelie," Lopez-Cantera said of one motorcyclist. "It's unbelievable. These motorcycles passed us like we were standing still." Lopez-Cantera said he witnessed racers speeding at up to 120mph on the Dolphin Expressway.
"They're just blatantly riding in excessive speeds, putting themselves and other motorists in danger," Lopez-Cantera said. "It's just too much."

Police officers had complained that they were virtually powerless to pursue the bikers and said that they were frustrated as they watch their tactics, like flipping the bike's number plates around so they can't be traced.

True to his word, Lopez-Cantera filed a bill in Tallahassee after the ride-along that would toughen penalties on speeding, stunt driving and hiding or flipping number plates.

"They'll lose their bike," Lopez-Cantera said. "Their motorcycle license will be revoked for 10 years, and it's a mandatory arrest so they will go to jail."

If there are no delays with the law-changing bill, it could be heard as soon as this December which would place it for a full vote on implimentation next year.

Rossi wins in 4 wheels Monza Rally

Rossi wins with Ford at Monza Rally Show.

Published: 26 Nov 07
VALENTINO Rossi won last weekend's Monza Rally Show, a special end of season event that combines rally excitement on a Formula One track.

Rossi was driving a Ford Focus WRC car, the same one he won the event in last year. And like last year, heavy rain made the conditions tough, by reducing visibility and traction on the course. Alex Perico took the event's lead early on, but Rossi remained fast and consistent, winning with over a 30-second advantage over second-place Subaru driver, Piero Longhi.

Rossi will switch back to business this week, when he visits Jerez where he'll test his Yamaha with Bridgestone tyres for the first time.



from rossifiles.com

Valentino Rossi has added to his growing rallying credentials by taking victory in the Monza Rally - then declared that winning feels the same on two or four wheels.

Rossi, who recently drove a privately entered 2005-spec Subaru Impreza to 11th overall in Rally New Zealand, took his first Monza Rally victory in a Ford Focus WRC - and also won the ‘Master Show’ competition, which uses a head-to-head knockout format, for the second year in succession.

Although far from a ‘full’ rally - the Monza event uses parts of the famous Italian racetrack and its access roads to create seven asphalt stages - it attracts top drivers and machines.

Last year, Rossi finished second overall behind former Le Mans winner Rinaldo Capello, but ahead of former World Rally Champion Colin McRae. This year, Rossi won five of the seven stages to beat Monza specialist Capello by a solid 24 seconds and claim his first official rally victory, and outpaced former World Rally Champion Didier Auriol by seven seconds in the head-to-head Master Show final.



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Valentino Rossi

came through to take his second successive victory at the Monza Rally Show at the weekend.

The former five-times MotoGP world champion, who fractured his hand earlier this month, drove a Pirelli-shod Ford Focus World Rally Car at the end-of-season asphalt event.

Alex Perico had set the early pace for Peugeot, but Rossi took the lead halfway through the first leg and was able to build a 33-second advantage over Subaru's Piero Longhi by the finish - despite treacherous weather conditions producing standing water on many parts of the track.
Pirelli rally manager, Mario Isola was delighted with the result: "Our consecutive wins at the Monza Rally Show should be seen in the light of the fact that we operate two separate lines of development for our rally tyres: those to be used on the WRC – of which we will be the exclusive supplier next year – and those used on non-WRC events, which are no less important to us.



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"Thanks to our know-how and the experience we have developed from every event, we are able to supply competitive tyres to all our drivers using Pirelli PZero rubber on rallies.

"We have also proved our ability to hand-cut these tyres precisely, as we did for many drivers at Monza including Rossi and [Luca] Cantamessa [who took the Group N win], in order to suit variables such as the car, road surface and weather conditions."


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For the record, Rossi had been in talks to do this coming weekend's Wales Rally GB, the final round in the 2007 FIA World Rally Championship, which runs from November 30 to December 2, however in the end the Italian opted not to take part.

To date, Rossi has done two WRC events, and last year he impressed on the Rally New Zealand, finishing eleventh overall, just 18.8 seconds off a place in the top ten in a Subaru Impreza WRC car.



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The result was in stark contrast to how he did on his first WRC outing in 2002, when he crashed out on the Rally GB in his Michelin-backed Peugeot 206 WRC just 17 kilometres into the event.
Rossi meanwhile will be back on two wheels this week, during testing at Jerez, when he is due to ride with Bridgestone tyres for the first time.



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stolen vehicles were taken to Nepal by road for disposal in the Market there...

25-09-2007

PRESS RELEASE NORTH DISTRICT

MEMBER OF DESPERATE INTER-STATE GANG OF AUTO LIFTERS ARRESTED: ONE LOADED FIREARM RECOVERED AT THE TIME OF ARREST :

FIVE VEHICLES STOLEN FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF DELHI RECOVERED AT HIS INSTANCE

With the arrest of Amrik Singh s/o Pyare Singh r/o T- 441, Baljeet Nagar, Patel Nagar, Delhi, North District police has unearthed an active gang of Auto Lifters, operating in Delhi and disposing off cars/motorcycles in Grey Market in Nepal.

TEAM AND INCIDENT

A team comprising of Inspr. Rajender Bhatia SHO/Kotwali, Inspr Vimal Kishore, Addl SHO/Kotwali, SI Subhash Meena, ASI S.S. Dogra and Ct. Prem Raj, 2231/N was constituted under the close supervision of Sh. Harendra K. Singh ACP/Kotwali.

On 20-09-2007, a specific information was received from one of the sources deployed in the area that a young man aged about 30-35 years carrying illegal Fire Arm was seen near SIS GANJ Gurudwara, Fountain Chowk. On receipt of this information, a trap was laid by the team at the place of information. At about 3.00 P.M one person who was later on identified as Amrik Singh s/o Payare Singh r/o T- 441, Baljeet Nagar, Patel Nagar, Delhi was spotted near parking SIS GANJ Gurudwara, Chandni Chowk road, Delhi. He was immediately intercepted and checked. On checking, he was found to be carrying a loaded country made Fire Arm of .315 bore. On this, a case of Arms Act was registered at PS Kotwali and the investigation was taken up.

INVESTIGATION AND INTERROGATION

During investigation the accused Amrik Singh was put to sustained interrogation so as to ascertain his motive for carrying Fire Arm with him. He disclosed that he was waiting for his accomplice namely Gurpreet Singh r/o Jaliyanwalan Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab to commit a crime during evening hours in the area of Chandni Chowk. During further interrogation, it surfaced that he is an active member of an Inter- State Gang of auto lifters being led by one Channa and Paley, the natives of Bilaspur, Uttarakhand. It further surfaced that accused Amrik Singh has been involved in at least nine cases of auto lifting registered in different Police Stations of Delhi. During investigation accused Amrik Singh led the police team to recover two Maruti Esteem cars, one Maruti 800 car and two Bajaj Pulsar motorcycles stolen from the areas of PSs Shalimar Bagh, Model Town, Inderpuri and Roop Nagar.

The accused Amrik Singh further disclosed that gang members were mostly active in North, West and North West Districts of Delhi. They used to dispose off the stolen vehicles in Nepal through one of their Nepalese contact namely Babu Ram. The Gang Members used to steal vehicles and park them in parking site of Sunder Lal Jain Hospital for a day or two. Thereafter, the stolen vehicles were taken to Nepal by road for disposal in the Market there. The average sale price for a motorcycle used to range between Rs. 12,000/- to 15,000/- and for a car Rs. 35,000/- to 50,000/-. The gang member who would take the stolen vehicle to Nepal used to get Rs. 2000/- extra as a commission in addition to his share in total booty.

A hunt has been launched to arrest the rest of gang members. Further investigation/ interrogation is in progress.

RECOVERY

1. Two Maruti Esteem cars
2. One Maruti 800 car
3. Two Bajaj Pulsar Motorcycles
4. One country made pistol (.315 bore)
5. One live cartridge (.315 bore)

PROFILE

1. Amrik Singh s/o Pyare Singh r/o T- 441, Baljeet Nagar, Patel Nagar, Delhi is 35 years old. He has studied upto class 11^th. He is married and has one daughter and one son. He is involved in this crime for the last 10 years and is an active member of an Inter- State Gang of auto lifters being led by one Channa and Paley, the natives of Bilaspur, Uttarakhand.

(DEVESH CHANDRA SRIVASTVA)

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,

NORTH DISTRICT, DELHI.

Monk rider

The Photo is taken from China. It's a mystery what are they doing with the bike at the moment...

Just a moonlight ride

Jenny was so happy about the house they had found. For once in her life 'twas on the right side of town. She unpacked her things with such great ease. As she watched her new curtains blow in the breeze. How wonderful it was to have her own room. School would be starting; she'd have friends over soon. There'd be sleep-overs, and parties; she was so happy It's just the way she wanted her life to be. On the first day of school, everything went great. She made new friends and even got a date! She thought, "I want to be popular and I'm going to be, Because I just got a date with the star of the team!" To be known in this school you had to have clout, And dating this guy would sure help her out. There was only one problem stopping her fate. Her parents had said she was too young to date. "Well I just won't tell them the entire truth. They won't know the difference; what's there to lose?" Jenny asked to stay with her friends that night. Her parents frowned but said, "All right." Excited, she got ready for the big event But as she rushed around like she had no sense, She began to feel guilty about all the lies, But what's a pizza, a party, and a moonlight ride? Well the pizza was good, and the party was great, But the moonlight ride would have to wait. For Dan was half drunk by this time. But he kissed her and said that he was just fine. Then the room filled with smoked and Dan took a puff. Jenny couldn't believe he was smoking that stuff. Now Dan was ready to ride to the point But only after he'd smoked another joint. They jumped in the CBR for the moonlight ride, Not thinking that he was too drunk to drive. They finally made it to the point at last, And Dan started trying to make a pass. A pass is not what Jenny wanted at all (and by a pass, I don't mean playing football.) "Perhaps my parents were right....maybe I am too young. Boy, how could I ever, ever be so dumb." With all of her might, she pushed Dan away: "Please take me home, I don't want to stay." Dan cranked up the engine and floored the gas. In a matter of seconds they were going too fast. As Dan drove on in a fit of wild anger, Jenny knew that her life was in danger. She begged and pleaded for him to slow down, But he just got faster as they neared the town. "Just let me get home! I'll confess that I lied. I really went out for a moonlight ride." Then all of a sudden, she saw a big flash. "Oh God, Please help us! We're going to crash!" She doesn't remember the force of impact. Just that everything all of a sudden went black. She felt someone remove her from the twisted rubble, And heard, "call an ambulance! These kids are in trouble! Voices she heard...a few words at best. But she knew there was a car involved in the wreck. Then wondered to herself if Dan was all right, And if the people in the other car was alive. She awoke in the hospital to faces so sad. "You've been in a wreck and it looks pretty bad." These voices echoed inside her head, As they gently told her that Dan was dead. They said "Jenny, we've done all we can do. But it looks as if we'll lose you too." "But the people in the car!?" Jenny cried. "We're sorry, Jenny, they also died." Jenny prayed, "God, forgive me for what I've done I only wanted to have just one night of fun." "Tell those people's family, I've made their lives dim, And wish I could return their families to them." "Tell Mom and Dad I'm sorry I lied, And that it's my fault so many have died. Oh, nurse, won't you please tell them that for me?" The nurse just stood there-she never agreed. But took Jenny's hand with tears in her eyes. And a few moments later Jenny died. A man asked the nurse, "Why didn't you do your best To bid that girl her one last request?" She looked at the man with eyes so sad. "Because the people in the other car were her mom and dad." This story is sad and unpleasant but true, So al yu people take heed, it cud hab been one of us too........may b u....

so Stay away from drugs....

Note : some modification has been done with the necessity of the culture....

On Oct 1, 2006 I was on my way home from a night of riding. I had a bad feeling but still went on the bridge. As, I came upon the bridge a silver SUV pulled up next to me as wanting to race. I nodded my head no and rested my arm on the gas tank. He kept pulling next to me so I dropped it down a gear and took off. I looked behind me and no cars were behind me so I dropped back to the speed limit.


I remember the cool night breeze and being happy riding on my R6. The next thing I remember was a large bang and seeing the sky. I realized I was down and held on to the bike with dear life while it was sliding on it's right side. All I could think about was my little ones and I couldn't die. I remember letting go of the bike and tumbling and sliding, wondering when I was going to stop.
While I was tumbling, ahead of me I could see the same SUV hit the Jersey Wall and spin around and take off. I finally came to a stop, realized I was in the middle of the bridge with oncoming car coming towards me and got up and moved to the edge of the bridge. A vehicle stops, a lady steps out and tells me the SUV intentionally hit me & she saw the whole thing.


I take off my helmet, walk towards my bike & turn of the ignition. Looking at my bike, I start crying. By then, a few cars have pulled over and stopped to help me. An off duty Registered Nurse tells me, "Hon, you might want to cover your bum". I turn and look and see that my jeans are torn up on my right side and I'm bleeding profusely. I tell her, I'm a nurse and I'm okay.
By then State Troopers, Fire Fighters and EMT's are at the scene and all ask where the rider of the motorcycle is. I state, "I'm right here" and they ask if I was the rider or passenger, I told them I was the rider and they look at me like I was crazy. At first, I refused care but realized I was hurt after the adrenaline rush wore off. I was taken via ambulance to the ER.
While in the ER, the State Trooper informed me that a license plate was found on the bridge near my bike and when they questioned the owner of the SUV he acknowledge hitting a motorcyclist. They charged him with Hit & RUn with Injury & Aggressive Driving. He spent one night in jail.
I sustained road rash on my right buttocks & right lower leg. Multiple contusions & abrasion & my back and neck were misalligned. I had to get a skin graft which was taken from my right upper thigh on Oct 26th & spent two weeks in a soft cast. Physically, I am doing better but emotionally I still have vivid nightmares of the accident.




After months of going to court, the great state of Virginia finally charged the driver with Hit & run with injury and Wreckless Driving on March 14, 2007. He will be sentence on May 30, 2007 for a minumin of 1 year to 10 years.

JULY 8th, 2007 UPDATE!!!!!!----------------------------

An Update from Mica.....

"The guy that hit me last year was finally convicted and sentence on May 30th.

30 days jail
12 months jail for Wreckless Driving (Misdemeanor) - suspended
5 years in a federal prison for Hit and Run with injury (Felony) - suspended
3 years supervised probation
$1000 fine

All in all, I wish he got more jail time but God was on my side when I wrecked so I guess God will punish him somehow. After everything is completed I will be starting a non-profit organization for fallen riders."

Garden of Elitist Dreams

Garden of Elitist Dreams

In one of the world's poorest countries, a potentate's garden is being restored. Will anyone gain besides wealthy tourists?

By Alex Ulam

With its graceful neoclassical pavilions, ponds, and fragrant flowers, the Keshar Mahal Garden of Dreams is a rare place of repose in chaotic Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Beyond the garden’s high stone walls, however, the realities of Nepalese life assault one’s senses. The garden is located just off one of Kathmandu’s busiest intersections, which has one of the city’s few traffic lights. Car horns blare, swarms of minibikes and motorcycles snarl the streets, and beggar children dressed in rags dart in and out of the traffic. The air is so sooty that some pedestrians wear surgical masks. Policemen dressed in blue camouflage uniforms and armed with bamboo sticks and a motley assortment of antiquated guns regularly patrol in front of the garden’s walls.

Nepal is one of the world’s poorest countries, and it has few resources for creating or maintaining sumptuous gardens. The country is also currently under emergency rule by a repressive monarch. Across the street from the garden, in fact, is the enormous royal palace compound where soldiers armed with machine guns peer down from sandbagged perches at passersby. The potentate needs these soldiers, because the masses have risen up and the country is in the throes of a Maoist revolution.

But a stroll through the 1920s-era Garden of Dreams, which is undergoing a restoration project scheduled for completion by October 2006, is an escape from contemporary Kathmandu into a scene that could be from a Merchant Ivory film about the times of Rudyard Kipling.

Field Marshall Keshar Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana had the Garden of Dreams built in the 1920s adjacent to his palace as a private preserve; even his children were allowed in the garden only during certain hours. The garden was designed by the renowned Nepalese architect Kishwor Narsingh and was heavily influenced by Keshar Shumsher’s extensive study of European landscape architecture and his travels in Britain. The axial arrangement of the garden’s main architectural features contrasts with the more naturalistic planting and asymmetrical environments along its borders, a design typical of Edwardian gardens. In addition, the garden’s architectural motifs and plant beds hark back to Europe. There are European-style pavilions, pergolas, balustrades, and urns.

No indigenous Nepalese or Southeast Asian motifs, other than some Hindi lettering on the garden’s pavilions, are to be seen, and the only Nepalese cultural references to be found are in the placement and naming of the garden’s architecture. Originally, there were six European-style pavilions, one for each of Nepal’s six seasons: winter, spring, early summer, monsoon, summer, and fall. Each pavilion had its own color scheme of flowering plants that bloomed during its designated season. Elements of the garden were also arranged according to Bastu Shastra, the Indian system of architecture and space that dates from Vedic time and that was the basis of the Chinese system of feng shui. Keshar Shumsher’s son, Lok Bhakta Rana, recalls that his father removed a pond from the south side of the garden and installed a flowerbed to make it conform to the principles of Bastu Shastra.

The original Garden of Dreams was 3.8 acres, but members of the family sold off a section to developers. Lok Bhakta Rana and his mother donated the remaining 1.5-acre section to the Nepalese government in the mid-1960s. The government, however, allowed the garden to fall into disrepair.

In the late 1990s, prominent expatriate Austrian architect Götz Hagmüller, who has been living in Nepal for the past 25 years, began organizing an effort to renovate the garden. “It was a romantic thing to see the dilapidated ruins of these buildings in the background of a thick overgrown jungle with huge vines hanging down,” says Hagmüller, adding, “but if you looked closely, it was full of bird shit, dead animals, and debris. It was just a neglected garden.”

Hagmüller persuaded the Austrian foreign ministry to wholly finance the Garden of Dreams restoration, which is being implemented through the Austrian nonprofit Eco Himal. Hagmüller estimates that the restoration will cost approximately $2.5 million. He says that he was able to obtain financial commitments from the Austrian government based on the success of his previous projects in Kathmandu Valley. Hagmüller is internationally renowned for his restoration work at the World Heritage Site of Bhaktapur Square, as well as his restoration of the Patan Museum, which was also financed by the Austrian government and which is today widely considered to be one of the most successful museums in Southeast Asia.

With the Garden of Dreams, Hagmüller sees the opportunity for a different kind of preservation project. “The great thing about gardens is that they are not architecture,” he says. “My interest in dealing with historic landscapes as architecture has to do with the hidden reserves of what is already there, sometimes in form, sometimes only intended, or sometimes not even seen by the original creators.”

As the restoration project takes shape, a thorny thicket of cultural and social issues has arisen regarding the garden and its place in the civic life of Kathmandu. The city, which is almost completely devoid of public green space, is about to be presented with a large spectacular garden that would be the envy of any Western metropolis. But the Garden of Dreams, with its elitist history and its foreign influences, raises sensitive issues in a country in the midst of social turmoil. And there is controversy about who will use it, how it should be restored, and how it should be managed. Lok Bhakta Rana, who is secretary and executive director of the government-appointed, five-member Garden of Dreams Development Board, says that the project has strayed from its original master plan and its mandate as a preservation project.

“Except for the existing buildings, nothing is the same,” says Rana. “Before the project even started, we identified all of the original flowers, but now all of the plants and the design are different.” Further, Rana, who is a lawyer for the American embassy in Nepal, contends that the development board does not have any real power over the way the garden is being restored. “It is not the board that really controls the project; it is the money that controls it,” Rana says. “If we act tough and say we are not going to allow this, then [the Austrians] will say ‘we are not going to fund it.’”

But Erich Theophile, project design and restoration manager for the Garden of Dreams Project Team, says that the project has a broader mandate than pure architectural preservation. “It was not funded solely as a preservation project,” says Theophile. “This is a model project that says let’s use preservation as a tourist development tool, which is something we take for granted in London, Frankfurt, and Boston. But so much of the development aid to the third world ignores opportunities for historic preservation, and that is why this project sets an important precedent.”

Even before it was built in the 1920s, there was concern that the Garden of Dreams would be a politically divisive statement. Keshar Shumsher’s father, Maharaja Chandra Shumsher, who was prime minister of Nepal during the early part of the twentieth century, worried that “it wouldn’t suit a poor country like Nepal to build such a nice garden,” says Lok Bhakta Rana. In fact, the maharaja prohibited his son from using his own inherited wealth to build the garden. Keshar Shumsher was able to build the garden only after winning 500,000 rupees during a game of kauda, which is played with conch shells. In the garden there is a sculpture of the Nepalese goddess of wealth Laxmi with shells beside her commemorating the win.

The largely wholesale borrowing of an imperialistic architectural idiom was befitting for the Ranas, a family that dominated Nepal’s cultural and political life between 1846 and 1951. The Ranas came from the Gorkha tribe, who descended from the hills in the latter part of the eighteenth century to conquer Kathmandu and unify Nepal. The Ranas’ immense white stucco neoclassical palaces stand in marked contrast to the earlier indigenous architecture of modestly scaled brick and carved wooden elements decorating the palaces and temples of the earlier Malla kings, of which many examples remain in Kathmandu. But even Nepalese preservation experts say that there is no known indigenous landscape architecture in Nepal. “We do not know of any garden designs under the Malla kings,” Hagmüller says. “It was the Ranas who introduced the concepts of big palaces like Versailles and big formal gardens from Europe.”

When the Ranas lost political power, many of their palaces were nationalized, and much of their land was redistributed in the 1960s. The neoclassical architectural style associated with the Ranas fell into disfavor, and in many cases the nineteenth-century modifications made to Malla-era buildings, such as the stucco that that was added to the brick exteriors of the temples in Kathmandu’s main historic square, were stripped away.

The Ranas built lavish gardens strictly for their own pleasure. But they did not build public gardens. Hagmüller, who estimates that within the past year alone 80 percent of Kathmandu’s street trees have been cut down, says that the Nepalese culture has a fundamentally different notion of nature in the urban environment that may explain the lack of public gardens. “There is no basic appreciation of gardens here per se,” he says. “Flowers have always been grown by the farmers and merchants of this valley for puja or religious purposes as an offering to the gods, and that is what it still mainly is. One of the dangers here in the garden is that people may come in and pluck the flowers because they are considered God’s property; anyone can come in and take a flower, so we will have to take some precautions in here.”

Could the Garden of Dreams foster a shift in attitude toward greater understanding of landscape architecture in Nepal? As part of the project, Hagmüller is training the Nepalese in horticulture. Muni Rana, a Nepalese adviser to the Garden of Dreams and a self-taught landscape architect who tends to the grounds of the American Embassy, says that the Nepalese upper middle class is just beginning to discover landscape design. Says Rana, “Just a few people are interested in horticulture at this moment, but they haven’t really gone to the extent of hiring landscape architects.”

Nor was lack of public green space an issue for a city where until recently shade trees abounded. Mass arbocide has almost completely denuded the city in the past several years. Many of the trees have been cut down for road-widening projects. Diagonally across the street from the Garden of Dreams, in front of the walled American Club compound, a row of large trees that shaded the street was felled just this past April. Today, in the rapidly urbanizing center of Kathmandu, the only open green spaces of any significant size are the parade ground and the adjacent Ratna Park, a shabby small area with weeds and litter.

Among the books in Keshar Shumsher’s library are several hundred on garden design with classic titles such as Wall and Water Gardens, by Gertrude Jekyll, The Modern Garden, by G. C. Taylor, and Gardens, Their Form and Design, by Viscountess Wolseley, who mentions a “garden of dreams.” Hagmüller’s team has been studying these books and old photographs to establish a historical record of the origins and influences of different design motifs in the garden. The balustrades in the garden, for instance, are similar to those described in Jekyll’s Wall and Water Gardens. The influence of the early twentieth-century architect Edwin Lutyens can be seen in the concave steps of the garden’s Chinese gate.

Another distinctive motif is the charbagh, an Islamic-style garden, which is located in the northeastern section of the Garden of Dreams. The charbagh garden is reminiscent of the Mughal gardens of India. Hagmüller says that use of the charbagh in the Garden of Dreams was most likely drawn from Keshar Shumsher’s study of European gardens. “The charbagh design made a big detour from Babylon or wherever, to Morocco, to Andalusia,” says Hagmüller, “where you have these great gardens such as the Alhambra.”

Many features are being changed to make what was once a private garden into a public one. In a corner of the garden near the spring pavilion, Hagmüller is building a hundred-seat indoor and outdoor restaurant. And in another section, between two parallel walls along the garden’s southern border, Hagmüller has built a new entrance with a small waterfall on one side and a raised seating platform on the other, with a sitting area overlooking the garden. One of the most significant new features is a terraced, grass-stepped amphitheater for outdoor performances and a moat, where there once was a large rectangular flowerbed.

In addition to redesigning sections of the garden to make it function better as a public amenity, Hagmüller views landscape architecture as a medium inherently more accepting of change than pure architecture. He says that this malleable aspect of landscape architecture is exemplified in the Garden of Dreams. “No garden is ever finished,” he says. “For 40 years, Keshar Shumsher Rana was working on the garden, and he was always experimenting with different elements.”

But Lok Bhakta Rana contends that Hagmüller’s changes violate the historical integrity of the garden. “It was supposed to be a preservation project,” says Rana, “but they have changed [the garden] too much.” Rana says that little remains of his father’s original vision for the garden in Hagmüller’s design. For example, he says that birds were an important element of the garden and that the original design had an aviary for pigeons and numerous birdfeeders. But during the renovation, the stone aviary fell over and Hagmüller says that he has no plans to replace it because the pigeons would add too much to the maintenance costs of the garden. Egrets, brown woodpeckers, flycatchers, thrushes, and migrating green mallard ducks frequented the garden, Rana recalls. But now, Rana says that the garden restoration team under Hagmüller has been frightening off the egrets by shaking empty plastic bottles with stones. Hagmüller wouldn’t respond directly to written follow-up questions about Rana’s allegations, but he did state in an e-mail response, “This board has in fact, and in mutual agreement, no role in our present planning, construction, and landscaping activities. Any complaint from a board member would be just a personal opinion as from anyone else.”

Certainly, the Garden of Dreams cannot be preserved as a monument to the memory of the aristocrat who built it for his own personal use when it needs to function as a public amenity. But the politics of historic preservation are different in a third-world country such as Nepal, where the money and the guiding expertise for such projects generally come from abroad. A typical controversy in the West between landscape designers and a property donor inevitably becomes a conflict charged with cultural imperialism in Nepal.

A potentially more volatile issue than the controversy over the restoration work is the question of how to operate and maintain the Garden of Dreams. Much of the garden’s history and design is entwined with the glaring inequities in Nepalese society that form the basis of the current revolution.

Hagmüller says that it is necessary for the garden to be financially self-sustaining because the Nepalese government does not have money to maintain or operate it. He says that he envisions four basic sources of income: a restaurant, cultural events, corporate partners, and entrance fees. “Although it goes against the grain of our Austrian-European mind-set that a public garden should charge an entrance fee,” says Hagmüller, “we are in a different situation here. This government does not have the money to maintain a garden.”

At other cultural amenities in Kathmandu such as the Patan Museum, foreign visitors are charged a higher price than locals. The justification for this practice is that the average foreign tourist has considerably more money than the average Nepali. But Hagmüller favors a uniform admittance fee for the garden. He argues that the situation is different with the garden both because it is not an educational institution that showcases Nepalese culture and because it will have only a limited carrying capacity. “This is not a fairground,” says Hagmüller. “This has always been a luxury place. It is going to be for those who can afford it; otherwise, we cannot afford the maintenance.”

Ironically, the relatives of the prince, who built the garden for his own personal enjoyment, argue that the masses should have access to the garden. Lok Bhakta Rana and his cousin Guatam sjb Rana, public relations advisor for the Garden of Dreams, say that they are concerned that if the entrance fees are too high for a large segment of Nepalese society, the garden will become a powerful symbol of inequity for a country in the midst of a class-based revolution. “Can you imagine what kind of signal [high entrance fees] will send to a society with all of the current troubles?” says Guatam sjb Rana. He should know. Maoists burned his family farm down several years ago after a Time magazine article publicized his opulent lifestyle.

The prospect of expatriates and a wealthy elite dining al fresco behind the walls of the Garden of Dreams wouldn’t be so politically problematic if Kathmandu had more open green space. But free admittance or a nominal fee raises the prospect of beggars and hustlers accosting visitors and people cutting flowers for puja. If the garden is to become ultimately successful as a public amenity, an alternative will have to be found to these two scenarios.

As a work of landscape architecture, the Garden of Dreams has a broader mission than a historic building; it must provide a sense of place and history as does, for example, the Patan Museum, but it also must provide a space to commune with nature. In history and style, the garden has an ambiguous status as a cultural touchstone for citizens of Nepal who claim no descent from the ruling elite. As an open green space in Kathmandu, however, the Garden of Dreams has tremendous value as a public amenity, and it should be accessible to a wide section of society even if that means substantial further modifications in the design to accommodate a larger and more diverse audience than the one being currently planned for. Under the current redesign, the Garden of Dreams is being restored as an elitist escape. That, to a great extent, is what it was designed for originally.

Alex Ulam is a freelance journalist who writes frequently on architecture and design for publications such as Metropolis, Wired, the National Post of Canada, and the New York Observer.