BH sez… We should start a ASB fund, so Chicago sez, sure why not.
So…
Finally, we bring what everyone been waiting for, Risky Devil vinyl!
Help us Chicago guys get out to ASB, and we will all promise to drive hard,
and make people happy, cuz really we do it for you guys… Aw. Also this
helps T2 Films get out there also, so there will be dope video coverage!
and… Infamous Grip Gamblers Simba, and Lil Phil. We’re all making the long haul **** NEW DESIGN COMING SOON! Slightly modified. The inners are too flimsy. So don’t worry guys. We will re-do the design and ship out the new batch. email riskydevilchicago@gmail.com for Questions.****
Color is white only, sorry guys. White keeps the cost down, while being a good contrasting color. Plus looks COOL and its simple.
Sizing is H-3 in x L-9 in. Not too small, not too big.
Donation for (1) Sticker – $5, and (2) for $9.
Also, there will be a silent donation as well, send anything you got and
we will hook you up, the highest donation will get a awesome sticker pack,
signed copy of T2 Films DVD, by TF, Risky Devil, and Grip Gambler members, plus some cool crap we’re still deciding on.
History homies, Lets make it happen
Shipping will be $5, via USPS envelope , so your stickies don’t get damaged.
Paypal – riskydevilchicago@gmail.com
Don’t forget to leave your name, and full address.
Every batch/wave of stickers will be printed every weekend, so don’t be scared if its delayed. Everyone is going to help make these stickers regardless of the insane schedules we have.
Long Beach, Calif. – March 24, 2009 – Formula DRIFT has announced the 2009 Pro Am Schedule. Formula DRIFT will partner with the nation’s most experienced regional, grassroots, and amateur organizations to take this three year old program to new heights in search of the future stars of drifting.
The Pro Am program is multi-faceted with events taking place directly during Formula DRIFT weekends, events held within Hot Import Nights, and events that are in affiliation with Formula DRIFT such as Drift Mania Canadian Championship East and West and Just Drift. These affiliate events will be awarding their champions and top finishers will be granted automatic Formula DRIFT licenses. Additionally, affiliates also have the right to qualify their drivers for the Pro AM Nationals held later in the year.
Pro Am events held directly in alliance with Formula DRIFT will be qualifying events for the Pro AM nationals. Pro AM events held at Formula DRIFT events also come with a unique experience for amateur drifters as they will be pitted directly with the Formula DRIFT drivers and will experience a professional drifting atmosphere from beginning to end. The events held at Hot Import Nights will also be qualifying events for the Pro Am Nationals.
“Formula DRIFT has had the Pro Am system in place for the last 3 years and it has produced FD Pros like Justin Pawlak, Bill Sherman, John Russakoff, Joon Maeng and others. This new program will only push the search for the next Formula DRIFT stars forward,” said Jim Liaw, co-founder and president of Formula DRIFT. “We are proud to have partnered with the most experienced and respected organizations in the country and are excited to put together the largest Pro Am Nationals event later this year.”
Affiliate Programs Qualifying Competitions:
Hot Import Nights in association with US Drift
April 11 – Austin, TX
April 25 – Tampa, FL
May 15 – New York, NY
July 11 – Chicago, IL
Top 4 drivers from each competition will receive invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
Formula DRIFT Round 2 in association with US Drift
May 8-9 – Braselton, GA
Top 4 drivers will receive invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
Formula DRIFT Round 4 in association with Vegas Drift
July 10-11 – Las Vegas, NV
Top 4 drivers will receive invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
Formula DRIFT Round 5
August 7-8 – Monroe, WA
Top 4 drivers will receive invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
Formula DRIFT Round 7 in association with Drift Association
October 16 – Irwindale, CA
Top 4 drivers will receive invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
Affiliate Series:
Just Drift’s Top Drift Series
Round 1 – March 1 – Willow Springs Raceway
Round 2 – April 26 – Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Round 3 – Sept 5 and 6 – Willow Springs Raceway, Streets of Willow
Round 4 – Oct 24 and 25 – Willow Springs Raceway, Horse Thief Mile Canyon Course
Series Champion, #2 and #3 will automatically receives FD Pro License
Series #4-8 receives invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
DMCC East
Round 1 – June 13 and 14 – Autodrome Montmagny, Quebec
Round 2 – June 27 and 28 – Autodrome St-Eustache, Montreal
Round 3 – July 25 and 26 – St Croix, Quebec
Round 4 – August 15 and 16 – Downsview Park, Toronto
Round 5 – Sept 6 and 7 – Autodrome St-Eustache, Montreal
Series Champion automatically receives FD Pro License
#2,3,4 in Series receives invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
DMCC West
Round 1- May 31 – Castrol Raceway, Edmonton
Round 2 – TBD
Round 3 – August 22 – Western Speedway, Vancouver Island
Round 4 – September 6 – Castrol Raceway, Edmonton
Series Champion automatically receives FD Pro License
#2,3,4 in Series receives invitations to FD Pro Am Nationals
Formula DRIFT Pro Am Nationals in association with Hot Import Nights:
Hot Import Nights in association with US Drift
December 5 – Firebird International Raceway – Phoenix, AZ
Drivers from Affiliate Qualifying Competitions and Qualifying Series as well as Formula DRIFT Pro drivers needing license renewals will be converging in Phoenix for the largest Pro Am competition ever held
streetsweeper will be touring on the nin|ja tour this year. one half of streetsweeper is tom morello from rage against the machine/audioslave, the other half is boots riley from the coup (real talk hip hop from the 90s)…let’s just say i have never been more excited about a tour than i am about this one. AND nin just announced a show in the philippines. miiiiicheeellllle, pleeeeeeease! . nin|ja 2009 .
streetsweeper: fight! smash! win!
some newsness pulled from cnn…i think i’m going to make an effort to stop using the word retarded. i use it a little too much. .
sample this track from MF DOOM, intro’d by Charles Bukowski poem, “Dinosauria, We”…i love it.
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Obama’s late-night slip teaches how words hurt
By Jessica Ravitz CNN
(CNN) — In a quick and clearly unscripted moment, President Obama exhibited the power of words during his history-making visit Thursday with Jay Leno.
Special Olympics is running a campaign to stop the use of the “R-word.”
While joking on The Tonight Show about his bowling prowess (during last year’s campaign trail he shamefully scored 37 in a game), Obama said he’d been practicing at the White House lanes and boasted to Leno, “I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics or something.” The comment during the taping of the show prompted Obama to pick up the phone on Air Force One and call Special Olympics Chairman Timothy Shriver to preemptively apologize for the remark before it hit television screens. He also reportedly invited Special Olympic athletes to Pennsylvania Avenue to hit the lanes and give him tips or shoot some hoops. The president “expressed his heartfelt and sincere commitment to work with our athletes and make this country a more accepting place for people with special needs,” Special Olympics President and CEO J. Brady Lum said.
This sudden and unexpected spotlight on the Special Olympics, an organization that for more than 40 years has served and honored those with intellectual disabilities, comes less than two weeks before the nonprofit launches a new campaign, Spread the Word to End the Word. March 31 is being billed a “national day of awareness,” a call to Americans to consider their use of the word “retard,” or as the organization would prefer, the “R-word.” “Most people don’t think of this word as hate speech, but that’s exactly what it feels like to millions of people with intellectual disabilities, their families and friends,” a statement about the campaign reads. “This word is just as cruel and offensive as any other slur.”
The push for increased respect is being spearheaded by young people who are collecting pledges or vows to not use the word at http://www.r-word.org/, and are leading online discussions on how people can get involved in this cause. So far, across the country, 300 schools have already committed to hosting rallies on March 31, Lum said.
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FBI planting spies in U.S. mosques, Muslim groups say
By Eliott C. McLaughlin CNN (CNN) — Ten U.S. Muslim organizations threatened this week to cease working with the FBI, citing “McCarthy-era tactics” by the agency, including efforts to covertly infiltrate California mosques.
Stephen Tidwell, then of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, speaks at the Islamic Center of Irvine in 2006.
The groups claim the FBI has sent undercover agents posing as worshippers into mosques, pressured Muslims to become informants, labeled civil rights advocates as criminals and spread misinformation.
The FBI declined to comment on specific allegations but called the proposed move unproductive. “Limiting honest dialogue, especially when complex issues are on the table, is generally not an effective advocacy strategy,” spokesman John Miller said in a statement. “The FBI has continued our outreach efforts, across the board, with a number of concerned groups and where we agree — or disagree — most have concluded the best results are achieved through continued conversation. We believe that, too.” The group’s statement, dated Tuesday, said several incidents of the FBI “targeting Muslim Americans lead us to consider suspending ongoing outreach efforts.” The statement was issued by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, whose director, Agha Saeed, couldn’t immediately comment because of a family emergency. The FBI has sent “agents provocateur” into California mosques, according to the statement, which says an FBI agent threatened to make one mosque member’s life a “living hell” if he did not become an informant.
Though the statement does not name the mosque member, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said last month it would seek an investigation into the February 21 arrest of Ahmadullah Niazi, an Afghanistan native.
“Mr. Niazi previously reported to [CAIR's Los Angeles office] and other community members that, during a raid of a friend’s house, an FBI agent urged Mr. Niazi to work with the agency, saying that if he refused to cooperate his life would be made a ‘living hell,’ ” a news release said. Niazi, a member of the Islamic Center of Irvine, told CAIR his arrest was retaliation for his refusal, the release said. The FBI directed questions about Niazi’s arrest to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, California, which declined comment. Niazi, 34, was indicted last month on charges of perjury, procuring naturalization unlawfully, using a passport procured by fraud and making false statements. A search warrant for Niazi’s Tustin, California, home said Niazi became a naturalized citizen in 2004 and made false statements about his past aliases and international travel.
He also made false statements about contact with his brother-in-law Amin ul-Haq, the indictment said. Ul-Haq is said to be Osama bin Laden’s security coordinator and has been labeled a “specially designated global terrorist” by the U.S. government, the indictment said.
All new 2009 WORK styles. These new models was just recently launched at 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon, one of the largest after market product trade shows in Japan. WORK Co. LTD. has resurrected the ledgendary EQUIP performance luxury wheel series, the Equip 05 & E10. Due to the success of our two piece wheel program, WORK also launch the latest GNOSIS series to broaden our 2 piece line up.
Went to Advanced Auto last nite to change the power steering pump on the Kota. They actually had it in stock so I bought it. Took the old one off but I couldn’t get the old pulley off to put it on
the new one. So after three hours in the snowy parking lot, I put every thing back on and missed dinner so we went to a crappy chinese buffet. And it snowed again last night. Life is great…
For the year 2009 the crew over at Drift Mania has some interesting concepts for change in the series. They are splitting the series into two segments which include an East coast leg and a West coast leg.
DMCC EAST COAST DIVISION ROUND 1. Autodrome Montmagny Montmagny (Qc) June 13th & 14th
ROUND 2. Autodrome St-Eustache Montréal (Qc) June 27th & 28th
ROUND 3. Riverside Speedway St-Croix (Qc) July 25th & 26th
ROUND 4. Downsview Park Toronto (On) August 15th & 16th
ROUND 5. Autodrome St-Eustache Montréal (Qc) September 6th & 7th
DMCC WEST COAST DIVISION
ROUND 1. Castrol Raceway Edmonton (Ab) May 31st
ROUND 2. Western Raceway Vancouver (Bc) June 20th
ROUND 3. Calagary Racecity Calgary (Ab) TBA
ROUND 4. Castrol Raceway Edmonton (Ab) September 6th
Below are some notes from the Drift Mania PR:
In 2009 & 2010, the East and West coast divisions will run separately from one other. While the east coast division is planned to keep growing at a similar rhythm it has been for the past 3 years, the objective for the western division is to catch-up with the east coast. A two year timeframe is planned for the west coast to achieve such a goal.
Highlights of the 2009 season:
• New West coast division
• 9 events scheduled from Vancouver to Québec City
• New venues in both Eastern and Western Canada
• More onsite activities for fans such as extreme sports competitions, show
and shine, model zone, fireworks, flip a “ride” live contest, and more
• More prize money than ever with 2000$, 1000$ & 500$ for top 3 finishes
• New contingency programs for easier access to drifting for drivers
• New Quebec based PR agency
• Revised web site with more features and more frequent updates
• Increased on and off-site staff
• Two new event guides (one for each division) produced by PASMAG
• New and stronger media and marketing partners
LOS ANGELES — In an announcement that launched a thousand unprintable puns, adult-entertainment moguls Larry Flynt and Joe Francis said Wednesday that they are asking Washington for a $5 billion federal bailout, claiming that the porn business is suffering from the soft economy.
Went to Strauss for some wipers and noticed more japanese products around then I forgot autobacs bought out Strauss…..so I bought a mirror for cubicle. Damn bosses…
