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Lauren Canuel, a Fall River native, at one time weighed 285 pounds. Today, she's 43 and weighs 135 pounds — and that's after having two children. She is featured in Fitness magazine.
Lauren Canuel is a happy woman. And, why not? The blond, blue-eyed mom of two is fit, pretty and runs her own psychotherapy practice — and she doesn't even have to commute, it's out of her own home in North Smithfield, R.I.
But, don't hate her yet.
Most of what she has is due to a little thing she did 23 years ago. Well, maybe it's not so little. Canuel lost 140 pounds. What's more, she's kept it off all this time and will be featured in the September issue of Fitness magazine, due out in mid-August.
Fitness magazine, Canuel said, was looking for women over 40 who lost weight. Canuel sent in pictures and told her tale of being a "chubby" kid, and then a "fat" girl and finally a "grossly obese" young woman.
They bit and interviewed her for a story.
Canuel, a Fall River native, at one time weighed 285 pounds. Today, she's 43 and weighs 135 pounds — and that's after having two children.
"It's the best thing I ever did," Canuel said. "It's made me a much happier person."
It started her senior year in college at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. And, she remembers it perfectly.
"It was Dec. 15, 1986 and I said, 'I cannot go on another day.'"
Canuel and a friend over winter break joined the YMCA on North Main Street. It was a six-week membership for $25. "It was every dime I had," Canuel said.
She exercised every day for six weeks and lost about 25 pounds. Back in college, she joined a fitness program that actually gave credit. It was based on attendance and everyone started with an "A." One missed class and the grade would slip to an "A-," then a "B" and so on. Well, Canuel had a very good grade point average and wasn't going to ruin it with laziness.
"I was forced to behave," she said.
Never missing a class, coupled with better eating habits — the salad bar instead of burgers — and by graduation, Canuel had lost even more weight. In her cap and gown, she weighed 200 pounds.
"It was wonderful, unbelievable," said Canuel. "I knew I was going to go all the way."
Having to exercise taught her something, and that something she passes on to her patients — along with a nutrition program.
"They need someone who can push them long enough until they believe they can do it," Canuel said. "Anybody can do it. It's all in their heads."
As a clinical social worker, she helps people (mostly women) learn to love themselves by discovering why they're hurting themselves with food. Sometimes, it's a bad marriage, substance abuse, work stress, children, and various other life problems.
People use food for "comfort and distraction," she said. "You have to replace emotional eating with something healthy."
Canuel's program, "Why Weight? Inc." gives patients a concrete plan to replace their emotional eating with something that's good for them.
It includes eating healthy Monday through Friday and on the weekend "having your cake and eating it, too." The eating plan is all based on likes and dislikes so a person who works long hours can figure out how to eat without hanging around the snack machine. The program also eases the person into an "active lifestyle."
Losing weight, Canuel said, takes "discipline and self-love.
"You have to make yourself do something whether you like it or not. It's for the better good of everyone in your family," she continued. "I help and teach people to change their belief systems."
It's this healthy attitude that's kept Canuel thin, and may even have saved her life.
She developed a congenital heart disorder while pregnant with her first child, a dangerous arrhythmia that soared to 165 beats per minute. There were no drugs she could take while pregnant, but doctors told Canuel that she wasn't as affected as other patients might be because of her fitness level.
She underwent surgery after she had her baby and, though she is still at risk, was able to have another child and is healthy today — and still exercising.
Canuel said she exercises for 30 minutes three times a week.
"I still have the fat cells of a 285-pound woman," Canuel said. "I'm predisposed to gaining it back. You've got to exercise like you change your underwear. It's got to become that much a part of your life."
To learn more about Canuel or her program, call 401-766-1993.
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The Master (born Richard Moreau and also known as Richard Grey) is the horribly mutated brain behind the Mutant Army that roamed California in 2161. He is worshiped by the Children of the Cathedral and serves as the primary antagonist of Fallout. He is eventually defeated by the Vault Dweller.
At times, the Master is referred to as the "Dark God," especially by those opposed to the Children of the Cathedral. By his Children, he is referred to as the "New God," "the Holy Flame," and "Father Hope." He is a hideous FEV-mutated creature that has somehow hybridized with not only other human mutants, but also computers, turning him into a rather grotesque monster who speaks in multiple voices. Apart from his appearance, one of his most notable features is his unique way of speaking. His voice is computer-generated and sentences are composed, apparently in real-time, from samples of several people's speech.
Richard Moreau was a resident of Vault 8, later known as Vault City, where he worked as a doctor. In 2092, he was exiled from the city for murder, although the circumstances surrounding the murder are unknown. He changed his name to "Richard Grey" and headed south, eventually settling in the Hub, where he met Harold, a prominent trader. Following ever increasing attacks on Harold's caravans by mutated creatures, the pair teamed up on May 22, 2102, and led a team of scientists who mounted an expedition to the northwest to investigate the source of the mutated animals, which were attacking the survivors of the nuclear war. On June 23, 2102, Grey and his party stumbled upon the Mariposa Military Base, in which the U.S. government had been mass-producing and experimenting with the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).
With the exception of Grey, Harold, and Mark, the party was cut down by the mutated creatures and the base's internal defense systems. Grey and Harold made it to the central core, a room full of vats. Harold managed to escape, but Grey was plunged into a vat of FEV by a mechanical arm. Floating in the vats for almost a month, the FEV transformed Grey into the amorphous, blob-like being that would eventually become known as the Master. This entity expanded its biological mass by absorbing other creatures and people that came near the base, and bionically merging itself with computer equipment from the base. The beings he consumed also became part of his multiple personalities. Soon, the rapidly expanding creature was virtually one with the base itself, its immense biomass extending down every corridor. It also began capturing humans that stumbled upon its lair, and intentionally exposing them to the FEV. These initial mutated humans were incredibly flawed, and the newly named Master consumed them rather than letting them live.
As he began to feel stronger and more capable than ever before, he came up with the idea to "unify" the wasteland, to make it as perfect as he believed himself to be. In January of 2103, the Master perfected his method of infecting, or "dipping" humans, and began creating the super mutants, who followed the Master's every command. Unfortunately for him, as he began to dip others in the vats he found the resulting creatures were not like himself: most often, they mutated into brutish soldiers, losing much of their brain function. It became apparent that only those with low total radiation count would not suffer this fate.
|The following is based on the Fallout Bible and is not considered canon.
In 2130, the Great Winter occurred, causing a scarcity of human subjects for dipping, making it difficult to expand his army further.
|End of information based on the Fallout Bible.
From 2131 to 2135, the Master started to abduct caravans for human subjects. Most of the caravan disappearances are blamed on desert monsters, steering away suspicion. Starting in 2137, the Master began to mass-produce super mutants with 1 in 6 being successful super mutants. Only half of these successful super mutants became soldiers of the Unity.
The CathedralEdit
In 2152, as the influence of the Master's army began to spread throughout the wastes, the Master came into contact with a group of human Doomsday cultists, led by a man named Morpheus. Realizing the benefits of retaining unaltered humans in his service to act as spies throughout the region, the Master recruited Morpheus's cult into his service, thereby expanding his power.
In 2155, the Master discovered the location of an unnumbered experimental Vault-Tec vault prototype, located just south of the center of the ruins of Los Angeles, California, now called the Boneyard. Seeing great opportunity there, the Master relocated to the vault with his human cult followers and a portion of his ever-growing super mutant army, and oversaw the building of a large cathedral on the surface above the vault the following year. The cult became known as the Children of the Cathedral, and continued to be led by Morpheus, who reported directly to the Master. The cathedral was guarded by the nightkin, which were super mutant elite troops equipped with Stealth Boy technology.
While the Children appeared to be a fervent religious order - and, in fact, some of the low ranking members may not even have been privy to the more sinister reason behind the cult's existence - in reality, the Children and Morpheus were simply a front that the Master uses to advance his plan for the future of mankind: "The Unity."
In 2162, a human from Vault 13 known as the Vault Dweller destroyed the mutant army by defeating the Master and destroying the Cathedral, and then later causing an explosion in the FEV vats at Mariposa.
The UnityEdit
The Master is the creator and leader of the super mutants. He is also the mastermind behind a movement called "The Unity," the aim of which is to turn every human into a super mutant by means of the FEV, by force if necessary. He claims that those who cannot be mutated by the virus, as well as those that choose not to, will be allowed to live—provided they submit themselves to sterilization. Those that resist the Unity outright will be executed for trying to stand in the way of the Master's "progress." In theory, the Unity is for humanity's own good, as super mutants are better adapted to live in a post-nuclear wasteland. Also, according to the Master, turning all living beings into one single race would finally eliminate the differences and the human fallacies that ultimately brought about nuclear war.
However, the Master is unaware of a fatal flaw in his plan: all super mutants are sterile. The Vault Dweller can help Vree, a scientist of the Brotherhood of Steel, come to this conclusion, and later use this information to convince the Master that his endeavor has no chance of success. Or if they decide to join the Unity, the ending will show the Vault Dweller being turned into a super mutant, then show the Vault 13 residents being killed by the super mutants. This ending is non-canon however, as it would undo and prevent the events of Fallout 2.
The Master's DestructionEdit
One of the main objectives in Fallout is to destroy the Master. The Vault Dweller has three options to choose from. They can either kill the Master through combat, convince him to abandon his plan (in which case the Master commits suicide), or bypass the Master entirely by manually setting off a nuclear device, located on the fourth floor of the vault in which the Master lives. If the dweller encounters the Master, he also has the option of joining forces with the Master instead, giving a non-canonical ending.
Unless the Vault Dweller joins the Master, the end result remains the same. The Master's death would trigger the nuclear device anyway, resulting in the destruction of the Cathedral.
Returning to the Cathedral after the Nuclear Device is detonated, the Vault Dweller simply sees a gaping black crater.
Several mutants led the armies after the fall of the Master. Remnants of the Master's army, such as those led by Tabitha, were found to relocate to inhospitable regions such as Black Mountain. However, despite their lacking numbers and remote locale, they were still found to pose a threat to the populace of the Mojave Wasteland due to frequent and brutal attacks carried out against travelers.
In his attempt to become master of all humanity, the Master tried to create guardians through gene splicing, but was stopped by the Vault Dweller before he could complete his plans. However, some of his creations have outlived him and continue to roam the wasteland. These abominations include centaurs and floaters, which are often found together as though they feel some sort of kinship for one another.[1]
The Master's Powers and AbilitiesEdit
The Master has extremely powerful psionic abilities, able to project extremely vivid hallucinations that easily break the mind of any enemy without some form of mental protection. Besides his psionic abilities, the Master also has a genius-level intellect and incredible natural charisma, having rallied an army of sycophantically devoted human and super-mutant followers around him. He has mastered genetic engineering through his experiments with the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
The Master is also hard to kill in combat without specializing in such, due to the Master's bio-electrical integration with the Cathedral Vault's Overseer Chair, giving him access to its twin gatling lasers, providing the Master with considerable firepower, though the real danger in the fight comes from the repeatedly spawning super mutants.
If, on the other hand, with the proper equipment, such as a turbo plasma rifle, hardened power armor or Tesla armor, a few stims and high stats in Energy Weapons, Endurance, etc., then the Master is fairly easy to defeat. Aiming for the eyes while going back to cover improves the chances of success.
Because the Master is integrated into the Vault Overseer's chair, he counts as a robotic enemy and is highly vulnerable to pulse grenades (which are a viable way for non-combat oriented characters to still defeat the Master in a straight fight).
The psychic nullifier (which is possibly based on alien technology) can dampen the Master's psychic attacks.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
|This character is involved in quests.
|This character has a talking head.
- Destroy the Mutant leader: The Master is the mutant leader; as such, he needs to be destroyed.
Death animationEdit
- Killing the Master will trigger a unique death animation:
|The Master's death animation
Tell me aboutEdit
|The Master's Tell-me-abouts
|I am not here to answer your questions. You are here to answer mine.
|Anything else
|I am the Master. I don't have to answer to you.
|Other items
|Gatling laser
- In Project V13's trailer, one can read a crude carving on the table: "The Master Lives!"
- If the Vault Dweller leaves the base after attacking the Master, the super mutants will stop spawning, making the fight a lot easier.
- If a save is done during the fight, it can be reloaded and the super mutants that have spawned disappear.
- One of the Master's most prominent weaknesses is his vulnerability to pulse grenades. His hit points will drop dramatically with each successful throw.
- But an even greater vulnerability is the limited range of his Gatling lasers, which means that there is a window further away in the long hallway from where one can shoot him with sniper rifle without him being able to retaliate. It is also very easy to defeat any approaching nightkin one by one.
- He has four voices - one robotic, two male (one calm and one angry) and one female (possibly because of the effect of the FEV and merging himself with computers).
- Harold speaks of him fondly, he seems to have enjoyed him as a friend and he seems sad about what had happened to him in Mariposa.
- The Master is the strongest enemy in Fallout. He has 500 HP, can attack twice per round, and is protected by an almost constantly respawning supply of super mutant bodyguards.
Notable quotesEdit
- "So what shall it be? Do you join the Unity, or do you die here? Join! Die! Join! Die!"
- "The Unity will bring about the master race. Master! Master! One able to survive, or even thrive, in the wasteland. As long as there are differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. We need one race. Race! Race! One goal. Goal! Goal! One people... to move forward to our destiny. Destiny."
- "Of course, mutants are best equipped to deal with the world today. Who else? The Ghouls? Please. Normals? They brought nuclear death to us all. This will be the age of mutants! Mutants."
- "But it cannot be. This would mean that all my work has been for nothing. Everything that I have tried to... a failure! It can't be. Be. Be. Be."
- "You must be joking."
- "I am the Master. I do not have to answer to you!"
- "I don't have to prove anything to you! Prove."
- "I... don't think that I can continue. Continue? To have done the things I have done in the name of progress and healing. It was madness. I can see that now. Madness. Madness? There is no hope. Leave now, leave while you still have hope..."
- "We won't change. Not unless we are of one people. One. One. One. One race. One. One. One. The Unity will allow us to move beyond these petty concerns and deal with the major problems at hand. You do want to be a part of that, don't you? Part. Don't."
- "I'm not after the world, yet. When I turn your fellow vault-dwellers into mutants, my forces will be too strong for any to stand against! But don't worry, you won't care. Care! Care!"
- "All that resist, yes. All those that are required for the Unity as well. The remainder will be allowed to live out their days, but under Unity control and protection. But none shall breed, for they will be the last of their race."
- "I must digest this information. One moment... I understand now. You made a clever forgery. You made this up to fool me. Fool! Me!"
- "Of course not. Most will be offered a chance to become a mutant. Those who deny this opportunity will be sterilized and let go. Those that resist will be executed."
- "We are all biased, are we not? We each care more about our individual communities than other people. We haven't changed, and I'll tell you something else..."
- "I will conquer it and turn all those pure strain humans into mutants. They will give me the army I need to bring peace to the entire wasteland."
- "Oh, I think you are wrong. But just to be sure, I will order this matter researched. After I have taken care of you. Care. Care!"
The Master appears only in Fallout as a talking head. His "male" voices are provided by Jim Cummings, and his "female" voice by Kath Soucie.
However, although he appears only in the first game of the series, the Master is mentioned in most Fallout games (with the exception of Fallout 4 and Fallout 76).
- In Fallout 2, it is revealed that he was previously called Richard Moreau and was exiled from Vault City. He is also mentioned by several characters like Marcus, Leanne, Harold and Fung.
- In Fallout 3, Harold states that he remembers a friend who fell into the FEV vats at Mariposa, but does not explicitly state any names.
- In Fallout: New Vegas, the Master is frequently mentioned by several characters:
- Tabitha and Rhonda, the two hosts of Black Mountain Radio.
- Lily Bowen, Marcus, along with some of his fellow super mutants and nightkin in Jacobstown.
- Davison, leader of a small band of nightkin in the Mojave Wasteland.
- Klamath Bob mentions that Mean Sonofabitch is from the Master's Army.
- The Lonesome Drifter mentions the Master and the Unity in his song Home on the Wastes.
- Dog and God, Dean Domino and Elijah reference him in the Sierra Madre.
- In Fallout Tactics, Toccomatta mentions his name before dying in Osceolla and Latham references him in one of his holodisks also in Osceolla. He is also mentioned by Joe Grimm in a special encounter.
- In Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Attis references him during one of his dialogues in the Secret Vault.
- In the Project V13 web-page introduction, the phrase "The Master Lives" is scratched into the desk.
Behind the scenesEdit
- The Master was going to be the main antagonist in the canceled Fallout movie. He would have taken the place of the Lieutenant, torturing the Vault Dweller, leading the attack on Vault 13, and killing the Overseer personally. In the end he was killed by the Vault Dweller, as he attempts to infect Max with the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
|The following is based on unverified behind the scenes information and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- In Fallout 2, the Master's true name is revealed to be Richard Moreau. This may be a nod to the 1896 science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau about a scientist who conducts bizarre and cruel experiments on animals he has imported in an attempt to create sentient beings out of them.
|End of information based on unverified behind the scenes information.
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By Tara Capsuto, KF12 Ecuador / KF 13 Kenya
Kiva is ultimately about people: lenders helping borrowers, borrowers helping themselves, and the staff at MFIs and Kiva who make it all happen. As other Fellows have commented before, one of the many humbling aspects of a Kiva Fellowship is the extent to which people reach out to help. One of the most frequent reactions I got in the field was, "You're traveling and working completely on your own?!" I would answer that, "Technically, yes, I am." But, as you'll see, I wasn't really alone. Here's a little window into a Kiva Fellow's support system.
As my plane touched down in Nairobi I felt energized for the next chapter of my Kiva Fellowship – a journey that has taken me from South America to Africa and which I have unofficially dubbed "microfinance adventures along the equator" (both of my fellowship countries, Ecuador and Kenya, lie along the equator). I had many hours of flying time to reflect on my experiences as a Kiva Fellow in Ecuador over the past 3 months and I can easily say the most salient theme is the role of people. The past 13 weeks has been a rich tapestry of experiences sewn together by the many people I've met along the way. Really, it's a story about the strength of the Kiva community.
From help with housing to providing tips for disembarking from moving public buses, many people reached out to provide a helping hand. I owe a great deal of gratitude to each one of them for demonstrating the strength of the Kiva community and ultimately making my time in Ecuador a valuable experience. Here are a few of those people:
Kiva Fellows
From sharing stories of success and failures at our host MFIs to commiserating over adventurous eating gone wrong, the Kiva Fellows 12th class banded together and supported each other in our various corners of the world. As long as I had an internet connection there was camaraderie available in almost any time zone.
Cynthia McMurry (Kiva Field Support Specialist for South America)
Cynthia's timely and helpful responses to my inquiries and those of other Fellows, especially in the early weeks of our time in the field, played at key role in helping us support our host MFIs.
Karina Pico (Fundación Espoir staff, Quito)
Karina took me under her wing and into her apartment for several weeks. She often invited friends and co-workers over for dinner and was very generous in sharing her social life and whatever she happened to be serving up, from empanadas to Chinese food.
Santiago Guillen (Fundación Espoir staff, Quito)
Santiago is the head of human resources at Fundación Espoir. He made a tremendous effort to show me ropes at Espoir and became a great friend during my short stay in Quito.
Sonia Juana (borrower, Fundación Espoir & Kiva)
Meeting borrowers is hands-down the most rewarding aspect of a Kiva fellowship and their stories serve as a great source of inspiration. I met Sonia at a village bank meeting in Portoviejo, Ecuador where she juggled variety of small businesses to support her family – from selling cosmetic products and Tupperware from catalogs to making soy milk and natia, a flan-like dairy dessert, which she shared with a number of women at the village bank meeting. She managed all of this with five young children and seemed to have boundless enthusiasm and for her work.
Luis Alverto (borrower, Fundación D-MIRO & Kiva)
A single father of 3, Luis and his children live in very difficult conditions in a marginalized area of Guayaquil called "Paraiso," made up of dirt roads, where most homes have no running water or electricity. Yet, he radiated optimism during our interview. He was able to construct a cement floor in his home and open a small grocery store with loans from Fundación D-MIRO. He said "thanks god for his loans" and for the Fundación.
Nelly & Family (Fundación Espoir staff, Portoviejo)
Nelly, a supervisor in Fundación Espoir's Portoviejo office welcomed me into her home with four generations of her family, for two weeks. Pictured here are Nelly and her daughter, Nicole, as we were getting manicures at their neighbor's house. During my stay they pulled a frozen cuy from their freezer (guinea pig, a traditional Ecuadorian dish) which, for better or worse, deterred me from trying the dish!
Lenders In particular, I owe a special thanks to the University of California Berkeley Alumni lending team and the member who made six loans to Espoir and D-MIRO when I let them know that I'm working as a Kiva Fellow. This particular lender's generosity and comments from other group members served as examples I used to show staff at my host MFIs the power of the connections between lenders and MFIs and within the lender community.
Rubi Chaca (Kiva Coordinator, Fundación D-MIRO)
As part of her role in spearheading D-MIRO's Kiva work, Rubi has the difficult task of encouraging loan officers to carry out Kiva responsibilities. Her enthusiasm for Kiva is the driving force behind D-MIRO's Kiva connection and she works hard to share this through monthly bulletins to loan officers and updates on D-MIRO's intranet. Rubi's work is especially impressive: in addition to working full-time she's also a university student working on her economics degree at night.
In addition to the many wonderful people I've gotten to know over the past 3 months, I've been humbled by the many borrowers who welcomed me into their homes for village bank meetings, served me a soda in their convenience stores, and in one instance, allowed me to try on an elaborate ball gown she had just made.
I can only hope that I have been able to give back as much as I've gained by being a Kiva Fellow…and to all the new Kiva Fellows who just landed out in the field – remember, you're not alone!
Make a loan to either Fundación Espoir or Fundación D-MIRO, or to an entrepreneur at any of Kiva's field partners in Ecuador. Are you a UC Berkeley Alum? Join the Cal Alumni lending team!
Tara Capsuto recently completed three months as a roaming fellow in Ecuador, serving at Fundacion Espoir and Fundacion D-MIRO. She is kicking off the next segment of her fellowship in Kenya at three of Kiva's field partners in Nairobi.


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Of worldwide interest, Unbreathable assesses the seriousness of the situation.
The documentary explains very clearly the different types of pollution throughout the world and their sanitary repercussions, notably the lesser-known effects of pesticides, which emit particles that are airborne towards… our cities.
However, all over the world, some cities have taken the matter in their own hands and initiatives multiply to lower the CO2 emissions.
Director's statement
Our investigation takes us all over the world, in direct contact with this kind of pollution, which spares no one, at various degrees. But the local emergency is quickly becoming a global emergency: the large Chinese cities' pollution doesn't stay there, it moves towards the sea, flies over Japan, crosses the Pacific Ocean and ends up on the West Coast of the U.S.
The scientists' measurements are indisputable: the air pollution is now borderless and also poisons diplomatic relations.
We have to admit, we must stop this pollution very quickly. What to do?
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This film blows the whistle on the air pollution levels that keep getting worse all over the world. More reportage than documentary, this film is rich in information.
A subject not often enough talked about in France and whose dangers on health and the environment are underestimated.
Taking the example of India, it covers the problems the use of fossil fuels creates.
Buy green energy
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This can be an important choice for the environment, as standard fossil fuel generated energy emits large amounts of greenhouse gases.
Nuclear power, on the other hand, creates highly toxic waste.
Wind turbines and photovoltaic panels, on the other hand, involve significantly less CO2 emissions. Photovoltaic panels, for example, can pay off their CO2 costs in green electricity generated in just three years.
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We generate about 300 million tons of plastics a year and we estimate that 8 to 12 million tons end up in our oceans – the equivalent of a garbage truck every minute…
So let's remember to recycle, refuse products with too much packaging and the ones with microbeads or even pick up trash on the beach.
Consuming less dairy, eggs and meat
Greenpeace recommends a maximum of 12kg of meat issued from eco-friendly breeding farms per year and per person (so, about 230g a week) and 26kg of milk per year and per person (or 1/2L per week).
It's up to each to switch to a vegan or a vegetarian diet of course, which allows to contribute even more to the collective effort to reduce the consumption of animal products.
Fast fashion
We now have "throwaway fashion": we buy and throw away garments faster than the planet can absorb.
Within the framework of its "Detox" campaign aiming at fighting the use of toxic chemicals in the textile industry, Greenpeace has published several studies, which denounce the impact of this field on the environment: considerable consumption of energy and drinking water, pesticides to grow cotton, river and farmland pollution, greenhouse gases emissions and some of the world's most remote areas contamination.
Let's not forget inhumane work conditions imposed upon textile industry workers, especially in the developing countries.
So, we have to revise our way to "consume" clothes, buy less but of better quality, recycle, trade…
Reduce our electronics waste
Our smartphones, from the moment they are made to when they end up in a mountain of other discarded electronics are a true burden on the environment.
You have no idea how many dangerous chemicals come into the making of your smartphone. For instance, such carcinogenic substances as benzene and n-hexane as well as other just as dangerous substances so, instead of buying the latest model of smartphone that just came on the market, let's try to keep our smartphones and other appliances longer, or have them fixed.
On a picnic
When going on a picnic, bring along airtight containers for food, flasks and everyday hardware cutlery.
That way there is less rubbish left over at the end of the picnic, which of course will be thrown in the nearest bin, or even better taken home for separating and disposal.
Eat seasonal products
When buying seasonal fruits and vegetables that were not greenhouse-raised, you help in diminishing the energy used in growing them, therefore you're helping to lessen the impact of farming on the climate.
Download the Greenpeace seasonal fruit, vegetable and cereal calendar:
Limit your exposure to formaldehyde
Wood furniture kits, chipboard wood and some glues may contain formaldehyde, a toxic chemical that should be avoided at all costs.
Make sure you know what kind of materials a product contains before purchasing and whether its best to ventilate the room for a few days after installation.
Buy green energy
Depending on your region, you may have the option to purchase green energy.
This can be an important choice for the environment, as standard fossil fuel generated energy emits large amounts of greenhouse gases.
Nuclear power, on the other hand, creates highly toxic waste.
Wind turbines and photovoltaic panels, on the other hand, involve significantly less CO2 emissions. Photovoltaic panels, for example, can pay off their CO2 costs in green electricity generated in just three years.
Heat loss
Insulating your home stabilizes your indoor temperature and protects you from outdoor temperature changes. It also reduces the need for heating and thereby reduces your enegy costs.
Investing in the energy efficiency of your home can help you reduce your energy costs by as much as 40%.
In adjoining buildings, heat generally escapes through the roof first, then through windows, walls and floors. Make insultaing your roof a priority.
Limit your purchase of electronics
If you're really serious about reducing your CO2 footprint, this is the way to do it. Electronics make up 62% of the greenhouse gas emissions that result from our purchasing habits.
Why is this?
To manufacture just one 2 g computer chip, you need 1,7 kg of fossil fuel, 1 m3 of nitrogen, 72 g of chemicals, and 32 litres of water. For a 750 kg car, you need 1,5 tonnes of fossil fuel—two times the weight of the final product.
For aluminum cans, it's about 4-5 times the weight; it's 6000 times the weight of the 2 g computer chip.
Carpooling: It's better together
If you travel to the same place most days, you're likely to find someone else traveling a similar route. Riding with others reduces the number of cars on the road and allows you to share costs: that's carpooling.
Some businesses post announcements for those seeking a carpool. Maybe could you ask your employer to initiate this service in your company ?
Certain websites allow you to search for a carpool or offer your own ride to others and increase the efficiency of your vehicle.
Choose the train for long distances
An airplane requires six times as much energy as a train for the same distance. A roundtrip flight from Paris to Zurich, for example, emits 300 kg of CO2 per person, compared with only 48 kg of CO2 per person for the same round trip via train.
About 40% of flights travel less than 800 km, which means a distance that would be more efficiently covered by high speed train. The train is also more likely to land you in the center of a city.
Walk more
In the city, many people use cars to travel just 3km or less. These short trips have a big impact, as the 1st km can use 80% more fuel than the average km traveled – for the 2nd km, it's 50% more.
Using a car for short distances is expensive and polluting. Choose a nonmotorized alternative.
Diminishing traditional resources
Traditional energy sources (oil, gas, uranium, carbon) are running out.
These sources aren't renewable, and their reserves are diminishing faster and faster: global consumption has increased by 75% in the past 30 years and doesn't show signs of slowing.
If we don't change our habits, we will surpass our planet's capacity for supplying traditional energy sources in the near future.
Use renewable sources
Once your home is well-insulated and well-equipped, you can go even further by using renewable energy sources – at no cost!
Solar power can heat up to 60% of your daily hot water use or provide 40% of your daily electricity use. You can also capture heat from the soil by using a heat pump.
When you buy imports, choose fair trade
When you can't procure an item locally, choose an import with fair trade origins.
The fair trade label is most often applied to products that you can't produce locally (bananas, chocolate, coffee) and are usually transported by boat, which is less polluting than air travel. The best way to protect the environment, however, is to stick to seasonal, locally produced items.
Ride a bike
Bicycles are economic, quiet, safer for the people around you, faster in the city, and don't pollute or require fossil fuels—plus they're good for your health.
Be wary of promotions
Watch out for "clearance" promotions on fresh foods that might entice you to buy too much . . . and end up throwing most of it away. Certain foods, of course, will last a while in the fridge, but that means you'll be paying for their keep in energy expenditures. Unless you're getting something that really will last (jams, preserves), it's always better to eat fresh foods quickly.
Give your time
• Volunteer with solidarity associations, fair trade activities, or other charitable arenas
• Spread the word on info, news and petitions related to local and international solidarity and how everyone can make a different in their everyday lives
• Work with your school: take charge and build awareness in your school community. You could help your institution become a model for sustainability.
• Take action at work: encourage your employer to choose ecological products from fair trade sources to sell/use/manufacture.
• Make a Facebook group calling on your favorite brand to transition to 100% fair trade
• Write to your preferred brands by posting on their Facebook wall
• Ask your local grocers and storekeepers to offer more fair trade products
Share a vehicule
If you don't need a car everyday, why not share one with a family member, friend or neighbour?
Car sharing can be easy, practical, friendly, and effective.
Adjust settings according to your needs
You can see serious energy savings by adapting your appliances according to your needs.
For example, a hallway doesn't need as strong of lighting as an office or reading room.
Place your living room lighting strategically according to where you are most often seated and in need of light. You can also reduce your energy needs by taking advantage of natural light sources.
Support public transportation
Public transportation can get you anywhere in the city, and has been growing in popularity. Its often faster than a car, less polluting, and avoids the stress of traffic and parking. It also allows you to use your travel time for other occupations, like reading a book or having a conversation.
12 tips for reducing your daily energy consumption
1. Keep your thermostat around 19 or 20C
2. Lower the thermostat to 16C at night or during extended absense
3. Keep your thermostat properly adjusted
4. Turn off the heat during summer or extended absense
5. Defrost your refridgerator and freezer regularly
6. Do your laundry at low temperatures
7. Choose "eco" cycles for washing machines and dishwashers
8. Avoid using a clothes dryer unnecessarily
9. Turn off electronics that aren't in use – avoid standby mode
10. Take a shorter shower
11. Cover the cookware
12. Clean the light fixtures
Buy second-hand
There's nothing like buying second-hand for ensuring the long life of a product.
Many websites allow you to search a plethora of used products that are often still in great shape.
Ban all chemical fertilizers
Many chemical fertilizers contain heavy metals, such as lead, mercury or cadmium. When transmitted through the soil to vegetables, they contaminate the entire food chain. Avoid them at all costs!
Pesticides and insecticides contaminate soil and groundwater via rain runoff.
Their production also consumes large amounts of energy. As these products are dangerous even for the farmers that use them (who risk accidental inhalation or ingestion), their packaging becomes dangerous waste that requires costly and complicated disposal.
There are many natural alternatives.
Favor "Eco-friendly" FSC label wood furniture
The FSC certification is today the most reliable label to guarantee the wood you buy comes from a sustainable management forest. Technically, the label should be seen directly on the wood, it guarantees the chain of transformation has been correctly controlled, from the forest to the finished product, everywhere in the world.
The use of local products will diminish transport, which is a huge energy hog and protect local jobs.
Give your time
• join an animal protection association
• sign internet petitions
• participate in tree planting and reforestation activities with environmental associations
Watch out for palm oil
Palm oil is found as an ingredient in about one out of ten food products sold in Europe (cookies, chocolate, candy, ice cream, sauce, margarine, etc.) It takes 17 m2 of palm plantation to satisfy the annual demand of one French person.
But this crop is responsible for 90% of the deforestation occurring in Malaysia. In Borneo, it has caused the destruction of 1/3 of native forests in 20 years, resulting in significant losses of unique species of both plant and animal. One of these is the orangutan, the "men of the forest", who suffer from loss of forest.
From thousands of miles away, our food purchases are determining the fate of this great ape.
Palm crops are also treated with 25 unregulated pesticides, adding further damage to precious habitats.
Water foot print
We also talk of virtual water. This is calculated by taking into account the volumes of water withdrawn or polluted to produce a product (but not its transportation to where it is consumed).
It takes :
- 1,000 liters of water to produce a liter of milk (water consumed by the cow, animal feed and washing);
- 3,920 liters to produce a kilogram of chicken (30 liters to drink and 6,630 liters to grow its feed (cereals and oils);
- 100 liters to produce a kilogram of cotton (mostly for irrigation);
- 15,155 liters of water to produce a kilogram of beef (120 liters to drink, 35 liters for washing and 15,000 liters to produce the feed the animal consumes.
Don't use disposable products
Always choose washable dishes and silverware. Kick your plastic dishware habit. If you don't have enough plates for a large gathering, borrow a few (they are generally washed up for the same price).
Choose eco-friendly foods
(for example products carrying the "organic" label). The more organic farming gains in popularity and volume, the less greenhouse gases we'll emit. For instance, pesticides, nitrogen based fertilizers and GMOs can't be used.
To learn more: greenpeace.fr/agriculture-ecologique/
Eat local
Consuming locally produced food reduces the number of intermediaries, shortens highly polluting transportation and contributes greatly to reinforce the economic vitality of our regions.
To learn more: bioetlocalcestlideal.org
Have the Amap (Associations to maintain family farming) reflex
These associations maintain a direct link between farmers and consumers.
By subscribing to Amap, the buyer chooses the frequency and quantity of fruits and vegetables they need/wish, then comes to pick them up on a regular basis at one of the network's POPs.
To find an Amap close to you: www.reseau-amap.org
Consume less dairy, eggs and meat
Greenpeace recommends a maximum of 12kg of meat issued from eco-friendly breeding farms per year and per person (so, about 230g a week) and 26kg of milk per year and per person (or 1/2L per week). It's up to each to switch to a vegan or a vegetarian diet of course, which allows to contribute even more to the collective effort to reduce the consumption of animal products.
Avoid excessive packaging
Too many food products are over-packaged in several layers of material that is often disproportionate to the volume of its contents.
Unpacking three shopping bags generate about one shopping bag full of packaging waste . . . all of which will go straight into the rubbish bin.
You also pay for this packaging: in the case of food products, packaging can account for as much as 20% of the item cost!
We also recommend avoiding single-serving products (cookies, yogurt, drinks, etc.)
Think pulses and dried fruits
They bring you good fats, unlike the meat products' saturated fats and make you feel full faster.
Eat your leftovers
Do you find vegetable which have lost their freshness to be unappetizing? We don't blame you, but that doesn't mean they can't be eaten! Toss them into a soup for added flavor and texture! Try to use all the veggies hiding in the bottom of your fridge for your soup, certain vegetable leavings, and some old cheese. You'll end up with a delectable soup!
Choose your fish carefully
Today, 90% of commercial marine species are overfished or fished at their sustainable limits… Greenpeace isn't anti-fishing, but for a type of fishing that affects the least our planet, fishermen and the balance of our oceans.
That is why it is so important that you choose the fish you buy depending on the species (don't buy threatened species, be aware of reproduction cycles) but also the fishing techniques (forego the fish caught in a destructive manner).
Check out all our detailed recommendations: greenpeace.fr/poissons-consommer-nuire-a-planete/
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Ruelle · Monday August 21st, 2017 at 06:10 PM
La qualité de l air me paraît la base pour la vie pensons aux générations futures
Nathalie · Monday August 21st, 2017 at 08:51 AM
On connait les alternatives depuis très longtemps. Pourtant poyr l argent rien n a changé. Dans quel état on va laisser notre planète pour les geneeations à venir ? Il serait temps de changer nos énergies fossiles pour du renouvelable et de l écologie.
Sébastien TROLLE · Sunday August 20th, 2017 at 07:21 PM
Bravo au Greenpeace Film Festival d'avoir mis en avant un film sur la qualité de l'air. Le sujet des effets à long terme de la pollution de l'air sur la santé est assez peu abordé dans les médias. Le film intègre des plans très instructifs sur les poumons autopsiés d'un non fumeur… de quoi me conforter dans ma décision d'avoir quitté Paris intra-muros pour sa pollution chèrement payée ! Je vote pour le film "Irrespirable : des villes au bord de l'asphyxie".
Joana Marques · Sunday August 20th, 2017 at 01:33 PM
J'ai beaucoup appréciée ce film. La thématique m'intéresse tous les jours et je fais de mon mieux dans mon quotidien. J'agit en respect en vers notre planète et je fais suivre mes idées a toutes mes connections. Continuez!! je vous soutiendrez!!;°)
Bennis · Sunday August 20th, 2017 at 12:47 PM
Excellent film traitant à la fois des aspects scientifiques, économiques et socioculturels. Il a le mérite d'attirer l'attention des décideurs politiques sur leur responsabilité en soulignant que la solution réside dans une bonne Gouvernance aux niveaux mondial et local. Film à faire visionner par les décideurs.
Desportes · Saturday August 19th, 2017 at 12:21 PM
Très bon documentaire mais trop long monotone
Il faudrait que ce film soit plus ludique.
pierre · Thursday August 17th, 2017 at 04:57 PM
Superbe film , on explore les problèmes de pollution de l'air aux quatre coin du monde , Inde , Chine , Mexique , Usa , Europe pour ce rendre compte qu'il s'agit commun à toutes les grandes villes. On se demande encore comment les 7 millions de morts sont passés sous silence, un problème de santé majeur pour nous et nos enfants. On espère que ce film permettra une prise de conscience rapide des populations et surtout des gouvernements pour garantir un air propre.
STAEBLER · Wednesday August 16th, 2017 at 01:40 PM
Un détail : mais pourquoi nous présenter des images trafiquées ? A 30'07 on nous parle d'une journaliste dont le documentaire est diffusé dans les rues. Mais il me semble que ce film est incrusté à un vue de la rue. Le sous-titre que l'on voit ne suit pas la courbe de l'écran !! Pourquoi ce genre d'images. Le propos est assez puissant sans cela. Du coup cela éveille ma méfiance quant au reste…
Marie · Wednesday August 16th, 2017 at 12:23 PM
Ce qui est incroyable ces la réponse de Ségolène Royal et Anne Hidalgo!!! 2 femmes qui assument bien à quel point elles sont – je trouve pas le mot ni d adjectifs pour les qualifier !!! Plus de 7 millions de mort – des autopsies – des tests – des expériences sont la !!! 40 000 mort en France et toujours aucune interdiction du diesel et charbon! !!
morin G; · Wednesday August 16th, 2017 at 11:47 AM
Il faut donc toujours se battre contre les mêmes : les cupides ,prêts à tout même éradiquer la vie sur Terre, pour gagner de l'argent .Hélas jusqu'où peuvent-ils aller ,c'est d'une logique suicidaire,pragmatisme ?.Bravo pour ceux qui se battent pour un monde meilleur.


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Peyton Manning is the first member of the Indianapolis Colts to have his number retired, making him the face of the franchise. (The other retired numbers are Baltimore Colts.) But what about the other 31 teams?
Not only am I presenting you the face of the franchise for the other 31 teams, I ranked them. That's right, two different ways for you to tell me that I got it all wrong.
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Kurt Busch Leads Penske Racing at Phoenix; Finishes Second
November 10, 2008
After grabbing the third starting spot in Friday's qualifying at the "Desert Mile," Busch led laps, was a top-three competitor the majority of the race and came home as the runner-up finisher. Racing with the new Dodge R6P8 power plant for the fifth time this season, Busch faced a major scare on Lap 168 when all the engine overheating lights went red on the No. 2 car. Debris was clogging the front grill area on the Miller Lite Dodge and the water temperature shot up to 270 degrees.
In a great display of teamwork, Busch worked through his spotter to have his teammate Newman, running laps down due to earlier tire and suspension problems, come to the rescue. Newman slowed to allow Busch to run right up on his rear bumper in order to suck the debris from the front of his "Blue Deuce." Once the grill opening was cleared, the temperatures immediately started decreasing and the red warning lights went off.
"I have to thank my crew and crew chief Pat Tryson," Busch said. "We made great adjustments all day. My guys did a tremendous job in the pits all race long; they were awesome. I love working for Roger Penske. The Miller Lite Dodge was fast. We really put up a fight. I was proud to finish second today."
With only next weekend's 2008 season finale remaining on the schedule, Busch remains 19th in the Cup Series point standings.
Newman and the No. 12 Alltel Dodge started sixth and appeared to have a car that would contend for a solid finish at Phoenix International Raceway, but a flat right-front tire and a subsequent broken sway bar at lap 71 derailed the run and led to a 34th-place finish.
"It was a tough race for the Alltel Dodge because I believe that our car was a top-10 car at worst," Newman said after the race. "We just haven't had much luck at Phoenix this year. The flat tire and broken sway bar just ended our day way too soon. Luckily, through attrition, we were able to pick up some spots, but it was not what I know this car was capable of."
Newman is 17th in the Cup Series driver point standings heading into next weekend's season finale in Miami.
An early-race incident unfortunately set the tone of the afternoon for Hornish as he battled an ill-handling race car for much of the race. Involvement in a second incident relegated the No. 77 Mobil 1 Dodge team to a 33rd-place finish, five laps off the leaders.
Hornish still holds a slight lead in the battle to become NASCAR's 2008 Rookie of the Year, setting the stage for a dramatic finish to the season next weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
"Today was definitely a challenge," said Hornish after the race. "We just couldn't get a handle on the Mobil 1 Dodge and seemed to have bad luck out there after getting involved in two incidents. The guys did a really good job in the pits today and I'm proud of this team. We head into the final race of the season in a really close battle for Rookie of the Year honors. We're going to put this week behind us and focus on achieving that goal in Homestead next Sunday."
The No. 77 team remains 37th in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series owner point standings, 101 points outside of the top 35.
The Penske Racing trio heads into the final race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season next weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Ford 400 will be televised live on the ABC television network on Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. EST. Coverage will also be broadcast on MRN Radio beginning at 3 p.m. EST.


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I have over 300,000 on K-bikes. I had a 1985 K100RS 230,000(I wish I kept it), and a 1998 K1200RS 110,000 that I'm still riding today.
I have over 300,000 on K-bikes. I had a 1985 K100RS 230,000(I wish I kept it), and a 1998 K1200RS 110,000 that I'm still riding today.
The bikes that get ridden the most are the bikes that the riders who ride the most happen to have. Voni has ridden over 900,000 miles on BMW's - split fairly evenly between assorted K bikes and Airheads; and Oilheads - with about 140,000 Airhead miles earlier in her riding life. The most miles on a single bike is just over 350,000 on one R1100RS and about 135,000 on another R1100RS. Last year her touring bike of choice was her F650 and this year she is riding her K75S. (We travel all over all summer, leaving home in April and returning in September.)
I have about 650,000 miles on assorted BMWs but my long term favorite was Old Smokey, my K75 that I rode 370,000 miles. Last year I also toured on my F650 and this year am on my R1150R.
The bikes are all capable: some are better than others for some trips - eg. our F650s to Alaska last year. Big mile bikes are the result of big mile riders - whatever they happen to like.
Paul Glaves - "Big Bend", Texas U.S.A
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell
From the K-BMW mail list;
I've got 65k on mine, guess it's good for a few more...Just for the record, I't now 712,000+ miles on my K75. I just completed by second trip to Death Valley, CA, this year three days ago.
Reno A. Del Ben
Tenafly, NJ
This was posted as a follow up;
Since you asked:
1) The original cylinder head was replaced at 327,404 miles with a salvaged head. This was done because I was down to a 2.05mm shim on exhaust valve #2, snd while I would be down to minimum clearance with the smallest shim available in about 20,000 miles, that would have been in the middle of the summer, so I chose to replace the head in January, 2001.
2) The salvaged head was not really that good, since, while my original head started with exhaust valve shims of 2.45mm, the salvaged head started with exhaust valve shims of 2.25mm, or half of the shims available as the original head (the smallest shim size is 2.00mm), so the salvaged head only lasted for 132,000 miles before I was out of available shims (valve clearances decrease as the engine ages, with the exhaust valve clearnces decreasin at a rate that is about 4 times the rate that the intake valve clearances decrease.
3) At 459,449 miles in February, 2004, I had the orignal head rebuilt, with new injectors and valve seats and the salvanged head was replaced. The valve seats on the build were cut so that I started out with valve shims of 2.80mm, much more than originally. At the time the rebuilt head was installed, new cam shafts were also installed.
A new timing chain was also installed -- but I consider the timing chain to be a normal maintenance item and it gets replaced about every 150,000 miles. The original head (albeit rebuilt) is what is now on my K75, and I expect it to last at least another 200,000 miles, based upon what size shims I currently have installed.
4) At 507,746 miles, in March 2005, I considered that my K75 had probably reached half-life, and that I should do some work on it. New pistons and piston pins were installed, and all bearings in the engine were replaced. At that time the fuel pump, brake hoses, thermostat, and throttle cable were replaced. Also replace was the water pump, which I again considerer to be a normal maintenance item, and the water pump gets either replaced or rebuilt every 150,000 miles. The piston skirts showed some wear. The cylinders were like new, with the manufacturer installed cross-hatching still clearly visible, and nothing was done to the cylinders.
5) The starter motor brushes were also replaced at 507,746 miles for the first time. The original alternator brushes and regulator were also replaced -- but the brushes and regulator I consider to be normal maintenace items which get replaced about every 150,000 miles.
So at this point the original engine and the original cylinder head (both rebuilt) are in my K75, and I don't expect to be doing any major work on the engine (other than normal maintenance items) for a long time.
Reno A. Del Ben
Tenafly, NJ
1993 K75 with 712,000+ miles; 2005 R1200GsBMW oil filter, Mobil-1 synthetic motorcycle specific oil (20W-50 in summer, 10W-40 in winter)--available at Walmart superstores at a decent price, 4000 mile change intervals (oil and filter).
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ride what you've got; enjoy the ride!
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Don't rule out the new bikes... I have 20,000+ on my 5 month old 09' f800gs, and 45,000+ on my 07' R12R. While it's nothing compared to the high mileage folks around here, I'm on my way... I would expect the R to last much longer.
I'm not even close to retired, I just have my priorities right.
Glad someone pointed out Reno's bike. It is amazing what he has done with it.
The other major mileage guy that I know of is Dave Swisher. He is a member of our local club. He has well over a million miles on BMWs (1.3 now?) and I believe a huge amount of that has been on K-bikes, with that porta-potty styled custom body work I know he loves K-bikes.
I personally have a 1984 K100 with 145,000 on it, and a 1996 K1100RS with 121,000. The K11 has been set on fire, submerged in the Altantic Ocean, and T-boned by a red light runner in northern Italy, yet is still running today. That bike is a tank.
My R1150GS now has 125,000 on it and is the current Alpha bike in the garage, but she is way higher maintenance than the K's.
In the end, it is not the type of bike that is important for big mileage, it is the rider, and the maintenance. IMHO.
It is the rider, not the bike, when big mileage is accounted for; witness the one million mile plus, Harley, that has been recently featured in the motorcycling press, and is now in the Harley museum. Albeit on a lot of engine work. Still, Harleys are reliable enough to get the job done.
Reno A. Del Ben's K75 I have no doubt, will see a million miles if he does not sell it,which I am certain he will not. Now, I ride quite a bit, but if his bike came into my possession I do not think it'd ever reach the million mile mark. So agree with others here; it is the rider and not the bike. Paul ,as a big mileage rider, knows of what he speaks!


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Windows 8 Page Setup: Adjust Work to Fit Printed Pages
If what you see on your Windows 8 screen isn't what you want to see on the printout, use the Windows 8 Page Setup dialog box to tweak your content. Page Setup, found on nearly any program's File menu, offers several ways to flow your work across a printed page (and subsequently your screen).
Page Setup dialog boxes differ among programs and print models, but the following list describes the options that you'll find most often and the settings that usually work best:
Size: This option lets your program know what size of paper lives inside your printer. Leave this option set to Letter for printing on standard, 8.5-x-11-inch sheets of paper. Change this setting if you're using legal-size paper (8.5 x 14), envelopes, or other paper sizes.
Source: Choose Automatically Select or Sheet Feeder unless you're using a fancy printer that accepts paper from more than one printer tray. People who have printers with two or more printer trays can select the tray containing the correct paper size. Some printers offer Manual Paper Feed, making the printer wait until you slide in that single sheet of paper.
Header/Footer: Type secret codes in these boxes to customize what the printer places along the top and bottom of your pages: page numbers, titles, and dates, for example, as well as their spacing.
Unfortunately, different programs use different codes for their header and footer. If you spot a little question mark in the Page Setup dialog box's top-right corner, click it; then click inside the Header or Footer box for clues to the secret codes.
Orientation: Leave this option set to Portrait to print normal pages that read vertically like a letter. Choose Landscape only when you want to print sideways, which is a handy way to print wide spreadsheets. (If you choose Landscape, the printer automatically prints the page sideways; you don't need to slide the paper sideways into your printer.)
Margins: Feel free to reduce the margins to fit everything on a single sheet of paper. Or enlarge the margins to turn your six-page term paper into the required seven pages.
Printer: If you have more than one printer installed on your computer or network, click this button to choose which one to print your work. Click here to change that printer's settings as well.
When you're finished adjusting settings, click the OK button to save your changes. (Click the Print Preview button, if it's offered, to make sure that everything looks right.)
To find the Page Setup box in some programs (including Internet Explorer), click the little arrow next to the program's Printer icon and choose Page Setup from the menu that drops down.
For more information about Windows 8 and its features, explore Windows 8 For Dummies, available online.


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Russian push into Georgia could knock Nasa off ISS
Astronauts could be benched till 2015
Russia's invasion of Georgia is sending ripples right out into space, with NASA facing the possibility of no longer being able to hitch a ride to the International Space Station on Soyuz flights.
With the space shuttle due to retire in 2010, and the US not likely to have a replacement manned space flight option ready till 2015, Russian's space fleet is the only interim option for the US to get people into space and onto the ISS.
But the US and Russia have long been at loggerheads over Moscow's less-than-hard line on Iran's nuclear program, and the 2000 Iran-Syria Non-Proliferation Act bans the US from tech purchases from countries that trade nuke material with those countries.
That bill includes an exemption for Russia's Soyuz program, allowing the US to book seats on Russian manned flights, but that expires in 2011, when it will be put to the vote again.
Senator Bill Nelson, the Florida-based democrat who is a major advocate for Nasa, has publicy acknowledged that Russia's increasingly aggressive stance means Congress is unlikely to let the exemption through.
He told Florida Today: "It was a tough sell before, but it was doable simply because we didn't have a choice. We don't want to deny ourselves access to the space station, the very place we have built and paid for."
"That's a $100bn investment up there that we won't have access to," he said to the Florida Sentinel.
He also acknowledged that even if Congress did extend the waiver an increasingly assertive Russia might simply snub NASA.
Nelson did not let the opportunity pass to take a pop at the Bush administration, criticising it for allowing the US to become dependent on Russia's manned space program. "If I were president I'd be pulling out all the stops to get Russia to understand the consequences of continued bad behavior," Nelson told the Sentinel.
The US has indeed been taking a tougher line with Russia over the Georgian incursion, though whether that makes future space collaboration more likely is decidedly moot. With US forces delivering aid – and whisking Georgian troops back from Iraq – we seem to be heading back to the days when Russian and US astronauts being within 20 feet of one another in space is seen as a major advance in détente. ®


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Mikaela Shiffrin was already a big deal in skiing circles. Now she is a full-fledged star. And still only 17. Her 18th birthday is next month.
With a fantastic second-leg charge, Shiffrin won the women's slalom Saturday at alpine skiing's 2013 world championships in Schladming, Austria.
Shiffrin became skiing's youngest world champion since 1985, third-youngest women's world champion in the event, eighth-youngest world champion in any event.
More: she also became the first American woman to win the slalom in either a world championship or an Olympics since Barbara Cochran in 1972.
The winning combined time: 1 minute, 39.85 seconds.
Michaela Kirchgasser of Austria finished second, 22-hundredths back. Frida Hansdotter of Germany took third, four-hundredths further behind.
The medal was the U.S. Ski Team's fourth gold, its fifth overall at the 2013 worlds -- more than any other nation.
They talk about prodigies when it comes to the arts -- say, the piano or the violin.
Mikaela Shiffrin is a prodigy on skis.
Because the Winter Olympics will be on TV next February from Sochi and alpine skiing will be broadcast into living rooms across the country, everyone will get to see what it's like to watch Shiffrin do her thing.
They are in for a treat.
Skiing insiders have known for a long time -- a long time in teen years, that is -- that Mikaela Shiffrin could be something special.
In a question-and-answer in the fall of 2011, for instance, the Canadian ski expert Michael Mastarciyan asked Mikaela if she was ever afraid of failing or considered herself a perfectionist.
The reply:
"I don't have a fear of failure in skiing. I don't really want to make a fool of myself, but skiing is something I know by heart and failure isn't really a concept for me, and it shouldn't be a concept really for any skier, because you're out there doing something you love so how can you fail at it if you love it?
If you could bottle that single sentence and sell it, you would be a gazillionaire.
When you think like this -- when you believe in yourself like that -- how can you not win?
There are, of course, other pieces to the puzzle.
Mikaela Shiffrin has great support: from her parents, Jeff and Eileen, and family; from the U.S. Ski Team; from her sponsors.
She's obviously in top-notch physical condition.
But, bottom-line, that passion for the sport and that no-fear approach is how you win.
At 15, Mikaela ran her first World Cup race. At 16, she won her first World Cup medal.
This season, in December, she won her first World race, in Are, Sweden. In January, she won two more, in Zagreb, Croatia, and Flachau, Austria. No other woman has won more than once; she leads the season World Cup slalom standings.
On Saturday, she ran third in the opening leg. In the second run, she charged the lower half of the course to take that 22-hundredth of a second advantage over Kirchgasser; Finland's Tanja Poutianen ran next but couldn't beat Shiffrin, ultimately finishing fourth; then came Hansdotter, who looked like a winner until the very end, when she faded to third.
On top of everything else, Mikaela Shiffrin is remarkably well-spoken, collected and poised for 17 going on 18.
In a news conference, she was asked whether the "fight with her emotions" she showed in the finish area was tougher than the fight on the hill itself.
The response?
"Doing what I did on the hill today, especially in the second run - skiing is like dancing or flying, there are so may ways I can describe it, but it just is. And it works for me.
"But coming down to the finish, just knowing it worked, and the whole day came together and I had all these opportunities and it worked out, is unbelievable. And I can't find an emotion to describe it. It's been 17 years in the making. I'm finally here and doing what I set out to do. And it's a really cool feeling. But when people ask me what I'm feeling and how do I do this - I just don't have an answer. I'm just doing what I do and I don't want to wait."
A few minutes later, in a conference call back to the States with a group of journalists who regularly cover alpine racing, referring to her gold world-championships medal, she said, "It's very hard to process. A lot of people never realize their full potential. Their dreams, in a sense, don't come true.
"I'm lucky enough to have gotten opportunities, amazing opportunities. I have a support system around me to help me capitalize on those opportunities. I have opportunities no other girl, no other athlete, might ever get a chance to have.
"It's really crazy. I could never say that I've done this alone -- because that's the opposite of the truth. I've had so much help. But it feels really good to know I've done what I could do to get to this point. It's really amazing, and I'm so grateful for everything that is happening to me."


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Perhaps there can be a new scholarly field dedicated to what it is to be Jewish, that way it wouldn't be simply a matter of religious nor secular authority telling people about it. I'd call it Judiology.
I am an Israeli who lives in community that is 75% da'ti leumi comunity and 25% black hat community. I suspect that the one guy down the road might also be an athiest. So yea, I am a closet athiest. Married within an orthodox family, with grandchildren.
Now, why would I care one iota who gets to make up the rules who can join a religion where I not only don't believe that the Torah is from God, that I don't believe that there is a God?
I don't. In fact, I would prefer that they make it so tough that NOBODY will join. "You're not satisfied with your myth of God, Hey, tough shit, we don't want you either!" It would be best for the world. Looking for a monotheistic religion and can't stomach the pseudo-monotheism of Christianity or the wacky "Let's kill in the name of Allah? Here's an idea: go worship a rock or wake up."
That is my expression of it as an atheist. If I were to put on my "make believe I care" hat, I would express dismay at how the chareidim are controlling who gets to join and can "un-convert" people, and I am encouraged that Shas and other such parties are excluded from the coalition. With a secularlist in chare og the education system, keeping a stranglehold on the Chareidmim in Yeshivot, we might see some other negotiations. But then, I am speaking as one who has no share in the World to Come! :D
According to a few rabbi's and religious Jews I have talked to after coming out as an atheist, when I say that I used to be Jewish and now I am an atheist, they said, nah, you are not an atheist, you are Jewish! Next time I am going to say, who cares or what difference does it mater what you want to label me as? You just need to find fun hobbies and activities to do so you know you are having a nice life given that this is the only life there is, and why worry about or care who your ancestors were or which system of nonsense and obsessive-compulsive behaviors they did and believed in?
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An East Texas woman has been charged in the slaying of her 4-year-old daughter whose beaten body was found in the trunk of a car Monday.
According to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department, 25-year-old Stacie Marie Parsons walked into the headquarters of the Athens Police Department at about 8:45 a.m. Monday and told officials she had killed her 4-year-old daughter.
Parsons was arrested after deputies with the Henderson County Sheriff's Office found the woman's daughter, Victoria Wyatt, dead inside the trunk of a car at the family's home on Henderson County Road 1500, according to police and a report from The Associated Press.
Wyatt's cause of death has not yet been determined, though police did say the child appeared to have been beaten and suffered trauma to her head and chest.
The child's body has been sent to the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science for an autopsy.
Due to the location of the residence, the Athens police turned over the case to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department. Officials have not released a motive in the case.
Parsons, meanwhile, remains in custody at the Henderson County Jail and is being held on $2 million bond.


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I wanted to thank all of you for your support during the Pops in a Post contest. I did not win, but I was very honored to even be a finalist! Check out the winner here.
Anddd I want to apologize. It has been way too long since I posted. But, I do have a good excuse. I have the flu. I have been feeling under the weather for about 3 weeks now but this past weekend is when it hit me, bad. This has compounded to mean no dishes and no cooking. When I say no dishes, I mean it. it got to the point where there was no silverware (not even the backup set!), cereal bowls, plates, mixing bowls...
It was near impossible to find something to heat up my Trader Joe's spaghetti Os. Which I lived off of over the weekend. I think I ate about 6 cans.
This has meant that I haven't really caught up. I have dishes to eat off, of course, but each load only puts a tiny little knick in the mammoth piles of dishes in the sink and spread all over the counters. Everything I have cooked has been a repeat and something extremely easy to make without dishes (aka veggie burgers and roasted potatoes).
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Szczesny spurred on by City draw
Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny feels Arsenal can "kick on" from the battling 1-1 draw with Manchester City to secure a strong end to their season.
The Gunners finally produced the required performance against a top-four Barclays Premier League rival to recover from the setback of going behind to an early goal from David Silva with a spirited second-half performance.
Midfielder Mathieu Flamini - who had netted a bizarre last-minute own goal in the 2-2 draw with Swansea on Tuesday night - equalised and German forward Lukas Podolski then came close to turning the match on its head when his angled drive was flicked behind by England keeper Joe Hart.
Szczesny believes it is the kind of display which can lead Arsenal on to a positive ending to the season, as Arsene Wenger's side aim to secure Champions League qualification once again and also a shot at FA Cup glory.
"We have not had a great time in the last couple of games, but it is all about responding well and that is what we did," said the Poland international, who shipped six goals in the heavy defeat at Chelsea last weekend which ruined Wenger's 1,000th match in charge.
"Of course it was difficult times, but we knew if we stuck together, carried on working properly then a result would come. Hopefully now we can kick on."
Szczesny added: "We owed it to the manager, the fans and everyone at the club, ourselves as well.
"We lost 6-0 (at Chelsea) and that is embarrassing for players who represent this club.
"You want to prove to yourself and prove to everyone around you that you are better than that.
"We have still got a lot to play for, the FA Cup and we are in a decent position in the league, so we will be on our toes and at our very best to go on and win all the games.
"I am confident we can have a very good run-in and finish strong."
Gunners boss Wenger hopes his squad are now finally through their "nightmare" of two results which could have derailed what has largely been a promising campaign in the wake of more questions over the character of the side.
"It has been very bad," said Wenger, "but as well very positive because it is always an opportunity to show you have some mental strength, and so I am very proud of my players because they have shown that.
"We have gone through an absolute nightmare, a storm this week.
"It is difficult to protect the players from that, the only way you can deal with it is to respond on the pitch.
"The critics come very quick and very hard, the only way we can deal with it is to respond in the next game and that is what we did."
Wenger - who on Friday hit back at criticism of his side's qualities by former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes - added: "They (players) have to let people talk. I enjoy football and don't want to spend my time responding to everybody because I am long enough in the job to know that is not the most important thing."
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Heart valve problem. If a child had a heart valve replacement, the child may need another replacement surgery when he or she gets older. Abnormally shaped heart valves,
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Endocarditis. A congenital heart defect can raise the risk of an infection in the heart called endocarditis. To prevent this infection, your child needs to take excellent care of his or her teeth and watch for signs of skin infections. Your child might take antibiotics before having certain dental and surgical procedures that could put bacteria or fungi into your child's blood. The antibiotics lower the risk of getting endocarditis.
A heart defect might cause a child to not grow normally. Physical complications include:
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I will NEVER heat my raw honey...against my morals) So, is there a way to make buttery creamed honey WITHOUT heating the honey first? bee03.gif
I will NEVER heat my raw honey...against my morals) So, is there a way to make buttery creamed honey WITHOUT heating the honey first? bee03.gif
It gets to be 95 if not 105 in honey supers all the time. Morals are good. Silly proscriptions are ridiculous and the enzymes are fine until, sources vary; but at least 110. If you are that hidebound, I guess you won't make buttery creamed honey. Sounds really good.
What do you do with your crystallized honey?? Inquiring minds want to know??
You can make creamed honey without heating it first- as long as the honey has not started crystallizing on its own. Just be sure the honey is about 60-70 degrees F before mixing your starter/seed into it. If you use honey over 75 degrees, it will probably melt your starter/seed and you will have to do it over. I have made quite a few 1 gallon batches this year and have not had to heat anything.
Here is another method. The video is about 9 minutes.
The trick to getting fine grained crystalization honey is to strain out all the larger particles. The finer mesh screen/stainer you use, the finer the crystalization. I've always just run the honey thru a paint strainer bag and then bottle it and then put it in the fridge. The fridge keeps it at perfect temp to cause crystalization. To get even finer than a paint bag, some people use new knee-high nylon stockings. I believe that is a finer mesh than a paint strainer bag, but not positive. Anyway, no need for heating and no need for using a starter batch, although a starter batch does make it quicker.
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Yes, I was asking the OP who says he will never heat his honey what he does when it crystalizes. I would consider a hot box a way to heat honey to return it to a liquid state.
I never heat mine. I just add starter and put it on the window sill (shooting for 57F). Sometimes it's already crystallizing in which case I don't even add the starter. The results, when not heating, can vary, but seed and temperature control (57 F) will help.
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I have made creamed honey for 20 years and have never heated it. I use a light honey that has just been extracted. I fill my Kitchen Aid mixer bowl about 2/3 full and put 3 table spoons of a starter. I buy the best creamed honey I can find for this. I you like the product when you eat it your customers will to. You only have to but it once as you will use yours for the starter next time. Put the whisk attachment on the mixer and slowly mix about 4 minutes. You can actually see the starter mix thru the bowl. Pour the mix into your containers and put them in a cool dark place. I use a "mud room" that stays cool. I used the refrigerator once but the wife seemed to get upset when she couldn't get food in it. It takes 7-21 days for the honey to cream depending on the variety. Darker honey seems to take a lot longer. Remember to save some for your next starter.
Good luck
If you extract honey at different times of the season you will find some honey's, Basswood and Bamboo for us, make an exceptionally fine grain crystalized honey w/o starter. I am aware the Canadian clover crystallizes small as well. You can get buttery creamed honey if you know your floral sources and do a litte experimentation.


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BALTIMORE- Eighth-ranked UMBC shook off a tough opening half and outplayed visiting Albany over the final 65 minutes, but could not dent the net and the two teams battled to a 0-0 double-overtime draw before a Homecoming Day crowd of 1,758 at UMBC Stadium.
The Retrievers are now 10-1-1 on the campaign and 1-0-1 in America East play, while Albany is 2-7-3, 0-1-1.
The game was played on the turf at UMBC Stadium due to the heavy rains in the area over the past 72 hours which drenched the Bermuda grass surface of Retriever Soccer Park. A crowd of 1,758 was on-hand as the game was played in overcast conditions.
UMBC senior goalkeeper Phil Saunders (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall) made four saves to post his second shutout of the season and the 19th of his career.
The visitors outshot UMBC, 6-2, in the opening frame and had the best scoring chance when a header by reserve Phil Denara went wide left of the cage in the 28th minute.
The Retrievers turned the tables in the second 45 minutes, outshooting UA, 6-2, but could not cash in on four good scoring opportunities. In the 51st minute, Great Dane starting netminder Tim Allen tipped a Geaton Caltabiano (Lothian, Md./Mount St. Joseph) cross away that was headed for an open Pete Caringi (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall) on the far post. Twelve minutes later, Caringi found himself unattended ten yards away from goal, but his shot skimmed past the far left post.
With 17 minutes remaining, UMBC senior midfielder Kadeem Dacres (Rosedale, N.Y./Mercer County CC) fired a shot from 23 yards that was deflected over the cage by Allen and Caringi's header from close range with less than six minutes to play went just over the crossbar.
UMBC pressed in both extra sessions, but were denied on five shots in the 20 minutes. The best opportunity came in the 96th minute, after Allen collided with a Retriever forward on a free kick in the box. The ball rebounded to junior back Jordan Becker, (Pocomoke, Md./Pocomoke) but his blast from 13 yards hit a well-positioned UA defender and bounded away from the goal.
UMBC outshot Albany, 13-10 and had 11 corners to just a single reply from the visitors. Allen made four saves in 100 minutes, but had to leave the game after the first overtime period. Freshman Michael Pizzuti preserved the shutout for the Danes.
Denara led all players with four shots in the game, while Dacres registered three for the hosts.
The series now stands at 5-4-2 in favor of UMBC and Albany has yet to win in Baltimore as the Retrievers are 4-0-2 vs. UA on their home fields.
UMBC travels to Burlington for a Wednesday match-up with Vermont. Kick-off time is 3:00 p.m.