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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: CA-04-453 (55) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Nominee for Novastar Mortgage, Inc., Plaintiff, vs. PAUL J. FUSCO, PAMELA FUSCO, THE OAKBRIDGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., THE SAWGRASS PLAYERS CLUB ASSOCIATION, INC.; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION #1 and #2, et. al., Defendant(s). NOTICE OF ACTION TO: PAUL J. FUSCO and PAMELA FUSCO last known residence: 110 Altar Mar Drive, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082, current residence unknown, if living, and ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES, including, if a named Defendant is deceased, the personal representatives, the surviving spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors, and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against that Defendant, and all claimants, persons or parties, natural or corporate, or whose exact legal status is unknown, claiming under any of the above named or described Defendants. YOU ARE HEREBY NO TIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following property located in St. Johns County, Florida: LOT 7, BLOCK 3, OF INLET BEACH UNIT TWO, ACCORDING TO PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 12, PAGE 60, 61, AND 62, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Brian L. Rosaler, Esquire, Popkin & Rosaler, P.A., Plaintiff's attorney, at 10 Fairway Drive, Suite 302, Deerfield Beach, FL 33441, within 30 days of the first date of publication of this notice, and file the original with the clerk of this court (P.O Box 300, St. Augustine, FL 32085) either before August 17, 2004 on Plaintiff's attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise, a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition. Dated on July 13, 2004. CHERYL STRICKLAND As Clerk of the Court By Linda G. Barton As Deputy Clerk L1676-4 July 16, 23, 2004
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Syria Calls for Establishing Tehran-Damascus Railway
Syria is seeking installation of a passenger train between Tehran and Damascus via the Turkish capital Istanbul, reported Iran News Agency (IRNA), quoting chief of Syrian railways, Mohammed Ayed Gazal, who is currently on a visit to Tehran.
Gazal held talks with his Iranian counterpart, Rahman Dadman, and discussed the possibilities of establishing "the railway" as soon as possible, said IRNA.
Iran had earlier agreed to undertake a study on the construction of an Anakhsi-Akari railway in Syria.
Syrian Railways has also voiced its readiness to make use of Iranian railway technology in the construction of three express lines, said the agency.
During the meeting the two sides also discussed upgrading their technical, educational and research cooperation as well as a number of other issues.
The Syrian official, leading a delegation of experts, arrived in Tehran on Friday for a one-week stay, said IRNA - Albawaba.com
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Audit finds fault with Vermont state police payroll
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - An independent audit of the Vermont State Police payroll requested after a trooper fraudulently claimed large amounts of overtime pay has found that the process for approving, reporting and monitoring overtime is vulnerable to fraud, abuse and waste.
The audit done by StoneTurn Group LLP says the state is planning to implement a new payroll reporting system that is likely to address some of the problems.
The audit recommends that the state implement detailed reports to monitor overtime and criteria to limit overtime amounts have periodic independent reviews done to look at whether overtime is or was required.
It also found that supervisors provide "rubber stamp" approval of time reports and perform inadequate review.
It recommends requiring supervisors to do overviews of overtime and to hold them accountable for errors.
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In San Francisco Bay Guardian (US), February 21 2013.
The phenomenal house DJ and experimental musicmaker on mainstream visibility, transgender globalism, Bay Area queer culture, and the "shopping mall diversity" of the current dance music scene.Techno has always had room for theorists and intellectuals, from Derrick May to the Mille Plateaux label roster, and social activists, like Moodymann and Underground Resistance. Most of that discourse usually takes place musically, however, with concepts emerging from the vinyl itself. The celebrated DJ Sprinkles, a.k.a. Terre Thaemlitz, the American head of Japan-based label Comatonse, tops all that by making intellectually grounded music glimmering with poetic touches and expounding in interviews and writing on such heady, heated topics as essentialism, gender idenitity, surveillance, and authenticity. She leads workshops, goes on speaking engagements, and isn't afraid to let loose in interviews. (For example -- see below -- rather than "born this way" platitudes, she considers her queer identity "beat this way.")
It's a beautiful thing, especially in the rare context of controversial truth and radical opinion pouring from the mouth and keyboard of an outspoken transgender major player on the stubbornly homogenous global house-techno DJ scene. Of course, it all comes down to the music -- we'll get a treat when Sprinkles (who chose the name because he wanted something that sounded "totally pussy" in opposition to macho DJ culture, to buck the testosteronal scene) performs Sun/24 at Honey Soundsystem -- and Sprinkles certainly has the goods. He's released umpteen pieces in an astoundng breadth of genres under multiple pseudonyms over the past 20 years. Masterpiece deep house album Midtown 120 Blues siezed the top of several best of 2009 charts and was, typically, followed by Soulnessless, a 30-hour "mp3 album" of music and video. Because why the hell not?
I got a chance to exchange emails with Sprinkles before her appearance here. It'll be an interesting return to the Bay Area, where she lived for several years before decamping to Japan. Here's all she had to say.
SFBG It's been 13 years since you lived in Oakland, is that correct? Can you tell me why you decided to leave and what it was like to live here then, with regards to the music, political, and queer scene?
DJ SPRINKLES Yes, it's been a long time. I used to live across the street from a hotel where the Unabomber once stayed. Honestly, I can't say I miss California. I never really connected with any queer or transgendered communities in SF or Oakland. Whenever I tried, they seemed immersed in West Coast spiritualism and zodiac bullshit, which I found completely alienating. Most of the transgendered people I met there were prone to metaphysics -- by which I mean they were ideologically (and economically and medically) invested in defining their transgenderism in relation to a perceived split between their "physical bodies" and their "true inner selves." I'm an anti-essentialist, non-op, materialist, anti-spiritualist... so that clearly wasn't a match with my own transgendered identity.
There was also a weird conservatism in SF's queer scenes that I associated with the fact a lot of people in SF had been raised in conservative Midwestern towns, so they were in SF to "live the life." I felt there was a lot of unacknowledged parody and role play going on -- people trying to overcome a life of repression and closets by wrapping themselves in rainbow flag culture. Yet, when going to buy groceries or such, I still found myself being harassed as a "fag" on the street like in any other town in the US. I felt my four years there was all quite standard. I don't really think of the Bay Area as a "special place" for being queer and transgendered.
US identity politics have a particularly inextricable link to the concept of the ghetto -- not only as a place of economic strife and forced communal ostracization from a "white middle-class mainstream," but also as a self-invested "safe space" for non-mainstream social movements. This is part of migrant culture. For example, after my grandparents passed through Ellis Island, they immediately moved to a place where people spoke the same language as their homeland, etc. The Castro, New York's West Village, Little Italy, China Town... these are all migrant-based communities formed by people seeking safety in numbers in the face of not being welcome elsewhere -- these two dynamics of "safety" and "alienation" are inseparable to most US identity politics. So these communal zones all display the problems and contradictions of cultural identification that plague mainstream US culture as an "immigrant nation" that is simultaneously "anti-immigrant" - because the "immigrant" is a brutal reminder that there are no "real Americans" beyond Native Americans, which the majority are not. And of course, the fact that recent generations of immigrants are primarily people of color does not jibe with conventional black/white US race discourse, which continues to be largely devoid of other browns, as well as the concept of the person of color as a willing immigrant (as opposed to the descendant of a slave). This history and context is peculiar to the US social landscape, and it creates a lot of weird identity essentialisms and hostilities around gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class...
Not to say other countries don't have their own fucked up ways of causing and dealing with social problems, but moving to Japan and realizing that pretty much the entirety of Western identity politics did not function here was a big life experience. It was like leaving the Earth's gravitational pull -- it didn't mean gravity no longer existed, but almost everything I had internalized and believed I understood about my relationship to gravity was no longer helpful in understanding the dynamics of dominations at work in this other context. I wasn't freed of gravity, but lost in weightlessness. I had to learn to feel weight in a completely different way. This is why so many of my projects dealing with my own immigration and cultural issues consistently invoke the rather limited and problematic US language of black/white race relations. It is a critical gesture intended to highlight the limitations of my having been raised amidst that US language and social conditioning, yet now living within a non-US context with few tools to work with.
Because music's value is so often tied to an essentialist concept of racial authenticity, it becomes difficult and risky to ask an audience to question their relationships to the very value systems through which they likely purchased the album - but that is also why I choose to work with audio. Not because of its possibilities, but its all-too-clear limitations. Since I am unable to believe in the authenticity or purity of identities of any kind, when I invoke "identifiable" sounds (a "queer" sound, a "black" sound, etc.) I am doing so to question the social relationships around their construction, proliferation, and distribution. The moment we become lazy about our use of those "identifiable" sounds -- the minute we take it for granted that the essentialist associations they have come to carry are unquestionable and real reflections of material social experiences -- everything becomes one-dimensional and shallow. This is why almost all music is one-dimensional and shallow! [Laughs.] For example, if I can beat a dead horse, my problem with Madonna's "Vogue" is not that it was "inauthentic," but that its terms of discourse misrepresented its relationship to vogueing by actively erasing the very contexts of Latina and African-American transgendered culture that inspired it (via lyrics about "It makes no difference if you're black or white, a boy or a girl"... it TOTALLY made a difference, and THAT SOCIAL REALITY is where any real discussion on vogueing BEGINS.). So I'm interested in these other directions of audio discourse that cannot even occur if one is preoccupied with conflated essentializations of identity and sound. There is never a true point of origin for anything. It's all referential and contextual. In my opinion, there is no point in discussions focussing on identifying the source of a sound or style -- that is a hopelessly futile exercise, although it is the dominant exercise! It's a distraction from the real discussions needing to be held, and those are discussions on relations of domination.
As a DJ in the late '80s and early '90s, there were a lot of drag queens asking me to play Madonna's "Vogue" when it first came out. I refused, but I could understand their requests. We all have very complicit and complex relationships to dominations, and a perverse desire to celebrate our visibility within the dominant mainstream, no matter how unfamiliar or distorted that reflection may be... often because we are conditioned to feel so unhappy with what we see in the mirror to begin with. Mainstream visibility is like getting approval of the Father. It's a mental and abusive process. It is also totally standard. So I get it... But there is also that which remains unrepresented and invisible to most. That which existed, and may have already been lost, but did so without seeking approval of the Father. And again, this is generally not a freed or liberated space, but a space of intense hatred for the Father. These are difficult things to speak of and represent, because any act of representation has the potential to be a violation of the cultural site it wishes to speak of. So to speak of them requires obfuscating or complicating the usual functions of language - not through vague poetry, but unexpected flashes of clarity coming from unexpected vectors.
SFBG You left during the first Internet boom I believe, and now SF is in the middle of a second one (although a bit different than the first -- the first wave seemed to have much more geeks and freaks in it, while this one seems much more regimented and Ivy League, even while many longtime residents are still feeling the results of "global recession"). When was the last time you were back here? And what are some of your recent thoughts on how house music is being affected by economic circumstances?
DJ SPRINKLES I was only back once about 10 years ago, visiting friends for a few days. When I moved away at the end of 2000, internet and web development had already undergone a rigid formalization. Years earlier, a web designer did a bit of everything. By 2000, developers were already split into specific teams focussing on interface, coding, page flow, etc... all processes were specialized, departmentalized, corporatized. I hadn't heard about the "second internet boom" there, but the way you describe it doesn't surprise me since it would surely be an extension of that regimentation that took place in the first boom.
And in a way, the same can be said of this "second boom" (third?) around house music. In the same way almost all websites have taken on the same continuity and feel, so has electronic dance music. You buy an album, and all the tracks sound similar -- as opposed to the old days when an electronic dance track like Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" was tacked on to the end of an otherwise standard soul-band album that didn't sonically match it at all. Today's music consumer experience is much more streamlined and organized, which affects how people produce an album as well. Younger generations -- 20-somethings -- grew up amidst this homogenization, so I am fairly sure they do not feel what I am speaking of... although they may recognize it as a historical process.
I try to play with discontinuity and mixing things up, like in my K-S.H.E album, "Routes not Roots," which had monologues and ambient tracks interspersed between house cuts. But I once made the mistake of reading people's blog comments, and they really seemed upset about this kind of thing. "Way to ruin the mix," or "Why the fuck didn't you put that monologue at the end of the album?" They have no patience for non-homogeneity. The same goes for my Comatonse Recordings website itself -- people seem utterly confused and helpless. If one doesn't do everything completely standard and at the same level, people get disoriented. It's a kind of cultural compression going on, similar to audio compression, where everything has to be "punched up" to the same intensity or people feel lost. What the fuck is so wrong with being lost? Why would you expect -- let alone insist -- your interactions with non-mainstream media to be completely mainstream in process?
SFBG I've been hanging out recently with the new, young generation of ACT-UP activists who are transcending mere '90s revival and undertaking a lot of energizing political discourse and action. Were you involved in the queer activist movement back then -- or now? Would you characterize your musical project as a form of activism, especially in its more intellectual and challenging aspects?
DJ SPRINKLES That's nice to hear. Although you use the term "action," I assume the real interesting stuff has little to do with demos and "direct actions," and more to do with communal education initiatives, etc.? My direct action days were mostly during the late '80s and early '90s, while living in New York. Most of those activities were in conjunction with various caucuses in ACT-UP, and WHAM! (Women's Health Action & Mobilization).
I do consider my audio and other projects "political" -- in theme, and also in their attempts to (dis)engage with standard industry practices. But clearly this is something different than direct action "activism" or community outreach, because my main social engagements are with people working for labels, distributors, music festivals, museums, and other culture industries. Maybe "culture jamming" is a better way to put this kind of political activity. Personally, I found myself distanced from direct action groups because the terms of identification they cultivated out of strategic necessity so often folded back into essentialisms that excluded me on a personal level. So I was always advocating for the recognition and acceptance of something other than myself (like the way "born this way" ideologies take over discussions of LGBT rights... I consider myself more "beat this way," my queer identity being primarily informed by material ostracism and harassment than by some mythological self-actualization and pride). That, combined with the mid-'90s move away from direct action toward CBO's (Community Based Organizations) -- largely because the tactics of direct action had been so thoroughly coopted by mainstream media - was pretty much the end of my serious direct action involvements. Over the years, enunciating this process has become the core political act of my projects and activities. I do not do this to discourage people from forms of direct action, but as a simultaneous form of critical analysis that hopefully contributes in other ways to our various attempts to react to dominations.
SFBG Do you feel that, as the means of production and distribution have been more and more democratized in the past decade, house and techno music-making and DJing have been living up to their potential as a form of resistance to mainstream capitalism and culture, or do you feel they've become more homogenized and/or annexed by neoliberal, bourgeois culture?
DJ SPRINKLES I do not believe the means of production and distribution have become more democratized. I take issue with the way people always confuse "commercial accessibility" with "democratization." The breadth and variation of today's music production strategies is no more than a shopping mall diversity. We are all working with similar software on similar platforms. Mac, Windows, Unix... Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Gap... Having said that, if these musics had a potential, I believe it was lost back in the '90s when anti-sampling legislation (mostly focusing on hip-hop) laid the groundwork for today's electronic music. It basically reinvigorated house with "musicianship," "authorship," and all that crap which used to play far less of a role in this genre's early days. And the younger generation - basically, today's 20-somethings who grew up after the whole sampling debates -- really don't seem to understand how record label legal departments work.
So they list up all the samples they recognize in a track in the comment fields of music websites, which is putting the producers they wish to support at risk. There is no sense of how we can cultivate -- let alone protect -- "underground" media and information in this online era. Everything is about "sharing," when in fact we need to be developing a parallel discourse around meaningful information distribution patterns, including strategically withholding information from the web. The cliché idea of making "everything accessible for everyone" is not only naïve, but negates the social and cultural specificities that give certain forms of media their alternative values, in particular collage and sampling. Anyone who has used a random image taken from a Google image search on their blog page, and then gotten an email from Getty Images' legal department asking for back royalties, knows what I'm talking about. Treating subcultural musics as though they are meant for "everyone" -- whether this is being done by fans, or the labels and online distributors themselves -- is the biggest sign of people not understanding the media they are dealing with. And since all of that is SOP these days, it's pretty much a sign that the sample-based genres of house are dead. Is talking about house's political potential in 2013 really all that different than the trend of talking about the radical politics of '60s rock during the '80s?
SFBG I feel like, with parties like Honey Soundsystem, there is a huge resurgence of interest in an underground queer dance music culture -- a kind of new underground opposed to corporate or low-quality dance music (yet still taking place in corporate spaces). Is this phenomenon occurring in Japan as well? Do you feel there are specific possibilities with this, not just in terms of opportunity for queer DJs to travel but of transformation of queer discourse and politically actualizing a new generation?
DJ SPRINKLES Hey, low-quality is where it's at. It's what it's all about. What was Chicago house if not low quality? It's important to place value within the "low" in order to counter conventional associations between the terms "good," "high quality" and "upper class." I'm not talking about celebrating kitsch, or that kind of petit-bourgeois trivialization of the "low." I'm talking about finding other values in the "low" that cannot find expression within a language developed to express everything in terms of "low vs. high." This is ultimately about the identification of other values amidst class struggle.
I don't think house resonates as a queer medium anymore. Those days are over. Today it is primarily a white, heterosexual, European phenomenon. That was the case early on. I mean, how many Americans became aware of house music in the '80s by buying Chicago house sold back to us on UK compilations? The US has always treated its own history of electronic music like utter shit... The US is such a fucking rock'n'roll shithole. So I think for people to appreciate house music's queer roots, and to actively invest in those themes today, requires people becoming deliberate and explicit about those interests. But whether that deliberate action would focus on "queer visibility" or not is another issue. It doesn't have to focus on "visibility" -- especially since visibility has become such an oppressive aspect of dominant LGBT movements. Explicitness can also be about closets. Not only the usual closets born of heterosexism, but less considered closets around sexuality and gender that have been formed by the actions of the "born this way" LGBT mainstream. Well, that's the direction I try to take it... reflecting on, and constructing, queer and transgendered histories that are as skeptical of Pride[TM] as they are angry about violence. And I do believe, globally speaking, queer and transgendered experiences are much more informed by violence than pride. So this should be reflected in how and where we make noise. In my opinion, music that functions in completely standard ways - socially and economically - does not have much potential for reflecting queer or transgendered contexts in politically precise, helpful or meaningful ways. You end up with essentialist, humanist shit like Lady Gaga's, "Born This Way." She is not somebody I would consider an ally.
You know, American media is so fixated on the idea that sexuality and gender must either be biologically predetermined, or a personal choice. The "it's not a choice" argument is a common theme in television shows, etc. Both of these options revolve around a fiction of free will. Like, if it's not a choice, then the only other possibility must be some supra-social, biological reason that cannot be questioned. Both of these conclusions preserve the status quo brutality of how culture forces gender and sexual binaries upon us. The thought that our absence of choice might be rooted in social tyrannies - not biological predispositions - remains unthinkable. The mainstream has it half right when they say, "it's not a choice," but it's a half-truth that has been twisted into a decoy from the real issues at hand - the inescapability of the hetero/homo and female/male paradigms. We are given no other choices through which to understand our genders and sexualities. Sexuality is far greater than two or three. The same goes for gender -- and yes, I'm speaking biologically, human bodies are way more diverse than A or B. To argue that the reason you deserve rights under a humanist democratic system is because of genetics is a retreat into feudalist logic. It's the same as an aristocrat arguing that their rights and privileges were deserved because of their family blood-line and DNA. "Born this way" is antithetical to any democratic argument for rights rooted in a social capacity for understanding and transformation. It is astounding that the majority of people cannot comprehend that any "born this way" argument is a complete obliteration of their social agency. "I can't help it, so give me the same rights as you..." Fuck that. We shouldn't be asking to participate in the rights and privileges of those who have oppressed us. We should be trying to divest those groups of privileges. That is the best way to help ourselves and minimize the violence we enact on others.
Humanist legislative practices are still rooted in feudal ideologies, and I am convinced the long-term repercussions of this is a cultural entrenchment that makes any democratic project (including US-brand democracy, socialism or communism) an impossibility. We can already see how the post-Cold War world is retreating into clan-based, privatized, anti-state organization structures. Capitalism is increasingly liberated of democratic agendas because -- surprise! -- capitalism works better with slavery. Capitalism is not about the distribution of wealth, and everyone's equal chance to partake in a petit-bourgois lifestyle. It is about the isolation of wealth. There is no doubt in my mind that today's moral insistence that all people must work at whatever job society throws them, and the accompanying presumption that all lower-class unemployed people are "lazy" (which is perpetuated by many lower-class peoples themselves), is an argument for slavery: forced labor in return for base subsistence at best. How is that not the reality of poverty under globalized capitalism?
...and that's why I hate Lady Gaga. [Laughs.]
SFBG You have some fascinatingly poetic thoughts about the intersection of transgender issues and immigration, the idea of "living as a ghost" in politicized and police-monitored spaces. Do you have any current thoughts on how globalization continues to affect transgender issues?
DJ SPRINKLES I think the fact that the world's two largest economies around gender transitioning are in Thailand and Iran, yet the aesthetics of those economies follow largely western models of beauty and body, says a lot about how globalization affects transgendered issues. Thailand's dominant transgendered culture revolves around the "Ladyboy" -- a very essentialist transgendered model that is rooted in heterosexism and the cultural/ideological necessity for some men to "unbecome-man" in order for "straight men" to have sex with other men. Western transgendered discourses love to fetishize the "Ladyboy" as some kind of locally celebrated and accepted third-world transgendered native other, but this is patent orientalism. It refuses to envision how the strict regimentation of social codes for those transgendered people can be oppressive, or how the mythical "transgendered native's special place at the edge of the village, possibly as a shaman" is a form of segregation. People also never address how such cultures are invariably patriarchies, and their models for transgenderism almost exclusively revolve around the MTF paradigm. And far as I know, Thailand has still not lifted their government prohibition on homosexual government employees, which is relatively new legislation passed just a few years back. This is all part of that context of transgendered production.
Meanwhile, Iran is a country where Islamic law prohibits homosexuality by fatwah. Since the '70s, gender transitioning has been promoted as a way for men who have sex with men to avoid the death penalty, although many transitioned people still face the possibility of being murdered by their families or local communities. The cost of their procedures is partially subsidized by the Iranian government itself. While some Westerners have attempted to portray that as "progressive," clearly it is the opposite. Many post-op transsexuals find themselves ghettoized, unemployed and cut off from the family structures that play such important roles in Iran's social structure.
In both Thailand and Iran one can see how the global growth of gender-transitioning economies is connected to heterosexism and homophobia -- something current Western gender analyses attempt to separate from gender transitioning through clear ideological divisions between gender and sexuality. While I believe these divisions between gender and sexuality are important and do have social value in the West, it is clear that the West is not the world. And the West has surely not overcome its heterosexism and homophobia, either. I believe it is more than coincidence that the global proliferation of gender transitioning technologies is happening parallel to medical industries' attempts to divest of their previously blatant attempts to cure homosexuality, due to such methods falling out of cultural favor in the West and elsewhere. I also believe it is more than coincidence that today's inescapable "born this way" arguments serve and justify today's medical agendas so well.
For sure, my stance on medical transitioning has always been that I support peoples' abilities to transform their bodies as they see necessary. Considering how few options for gender identification are offered to us, I can understand how a person can become no longer able to live within one's body as it has been defined and shaped by social gender constraints. But, for obvious reasons, I am unable to believe those medical systems which propagated today's gender binary are capable or willing to offer us a way out of our gender crises. Those industries move us further and further away from cultural environments that enable transgendered people to build medically unmediated relationships to our bodies. I just can't accept that the medical industry's methods for mediating our suffering are the only way. It really angers me... particularly since so many transgendered people are impoverished and without health care...
Hmm, you're probably getting an idea as to why I am never invited to perform my more thematic projects in the US -- just to DJ some house and go back home to Japan. [Laughs.]
SFBG Speaking of essentialism, ha: Any food or restaurants you miss from living here?
DJ SPRINKLES Mexican food...! It's shockingly absent in Japan... and when you do find some, you generally wish you hadn't. But what a weak note upon which to end this interview. [Laughs.]


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12:14 a.m. Someone reported a loud party in a backyard in the 600 block of East Fourth Avenue.
10:46 p.m. Two men were trying to break into a red Land Cruiser in the 3500 block of Main Avenue.
10:31 a.m. Tour buses were blocking the road near East Third Avenue and 32nd Street.
12:19 p.m. A counterfeit bill was used at the Conoco Express, 1991 Main Ave.
9:04 p.m. Someone was shooting paint balls from a SUV in the 200 block of East Eighth Avenue.
9:22 p.m. A woman putting fuel in a gold four-door sedan seemed intoxicated at the Everyday Store, 799 East College Drive.
Durango Fire & Rescue
3:50 a.m. Medics from the Bodo Industrial Park fire station responded to an assault.
9:24 a.m. Firefighters responded to a vehicle fire in the 31000 block of U.S. Highway 160, about a mile east of Elmores Corner at U.S. Highway 160 and Colorado Highway 172.
11:17 p.m. Someone reported smoke in the 5400 block of Florida Road (County Road 240) northeast of Durango.
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Discussion in '2 smokers' started by FloridaSteve, Dec 30, 2007.
Here's my 2003 Suzuki TS 185
Holy sheeit! That is just sick! I hope you don't mind but I HAVE to do a blog post on that monster!
The ATK Intimidators, 500, 620, and 700 are just Koestler Maico's with different graphics. I think I'll probably end up yanking the ATK decals and 'make' the bike a proper Maico eventually.
As it has a street legal title I think a supermoto conversion will happen as well.
What year I want one !!!!!!!
REALLY cool scoot with huge potential. All the key pieces and important parts are there for a nice resto!
This is NOT mine but I took this at a Florida motorcycle show last year. Just go for it!
Thanks, I just picked it up that day. It had been sitting outside uncovered for 10 years by the original owner. I hope to do a right job on it, but have my work cut out for me. Looking forward to it though.
Plated Husky wr144. I'm new to the world of 2 strokes but I'm loving it so far.
Hey guys ive been creeping around this website for months, But just haven't posted anything yet. I am really interested in the old 2 strokes. Where is a good place to find and trade these bikes? what website if the internet has one.
Great photo PSchrauber, calendar material easily !
Lovely Rotax powered trials bike, caught in a perfect backdrop.
Both still a work in progress, I'll get there.[/FONT
Are you sure? Thats a $10,000.00 restoration project if I have ever seen one.....
Just started rebuilding this 197.? Suzuki DS100.
Any info on this model would be appreciated.
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When the Giants signed Juan Uribe, they envisioned him being a utility player, but Uribe has started 26 of the last 28 games during the club's battle for the NL Wild Card spot. Uribe has hit .341 with eight homers and 18 RBIs in that stretch.
"It's a credit to Juan -- he's kept himself ready," manager Bruce Bochy told the San Francisco Chronicle. "He got shut down a little bit and became our utility guy, but he's done well to get himself ready, and he's getting the playing time he obviously deserves."
"Uribe is a unique character," teammate Sergio Romo said. "I've never really played with anyone who has as much charisma. He's always energetic, always up-and-going. He reminds us [by the way he acts] that we're still playing a game, and, if we have fun, we're going to do well."
LaPorta hitting comfort zone at first base: Matt LaPorta, one of Cleveland's top hitting prospects, doesn't mind whether he's playing left field, right field or first base, the latter of which he's fielded in recent games and back in college.
"I'm enjoying it now," LaPorta told the Akron Beacon Journal. "It's about being comfortable there. First is more of a skill position, being in the infield. So it's a little hard to get back to where I was a couple of years ago [in college]. Plus up here, the game is a lot faster."
And, he likes chatting it up with the opposition while he's at first base.
"I like that part of the game," he said. "I just chat with guys, ask, 'How you doing?' You don't have to know someone to ask how things are going."
First home run a hit for Carp: Mike Carp hit his first Major League home run on Wednesday. Teammates congratulated the Mariners rookie by hitting him in the face with an ice cream pie and by presenting him with a ball that read, "Congradulashuns Mike Karp" before giving him the actual home run ball.
"Everything you dreamed of," Carp told the Seattle Times about the moment. "You grow up as a kid wanting to hit a home run in a big league ballpark, and I finally got it out of the way."
Cervelli's heroics worthy of pie to the face: Francisco Cervelli got to play hero for the Yankees on Wednesday night. The rookie hit a single to left field in the ninth inning for a game-winning RBI single as the Yankees defeated Toronto, 5-4.
Afterward, he sprinted into right field in attempt to get away from teammates Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera.
"I know Cano and Melky want to kill me," Cervelli told the New York Daily News. "It's unbelievable."
He then got the customary whipped-cream pie in the face after the game during a television interview.
"I was waiting a long time for the pie," Cervelli said. "It tasted good."
Vazquez might stay in Atlanta: With the instant success of rookie Tommy Hanson and the return of Tim Hudson, the Braves pitching staff is on the upswing. Javy Vazquez wouldn't mind being part of the staff again next season.
"Hopefully I'll be here," Vazquez, recently named National League Player of the Week, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I really want to be here. Hopefully they want me here, too."
"It's a great town to play in," Vazquez said. "Every time I came here, I loved it over here. The guys are awesome. The coaching staff is great. I don't have any negatives."
Pierzynski joins millennium club for eighth year in a row: A.J. has now caught 1,000 or more innings in each of the past eight seasons, the last five of which have come as a member of the Chicago White Sox. For the Sox, that's a franchise record.
"It really means a lot, and it's kind of a cool thing to have," Pierzynski told MLB.com. "You know, it's something that means that I've been lucky, for one, not to have anything strange happen.
"Two, I've been able to run out there every day and I've been on some pretty good teams. We've been in pennant races where I've been fortunate enough to have to go out there a lot. And it means Ozzie [Guillen] has enough confidence in me to keep putting me out there."
Harang treats clubbies: Aaron Harang presented Reds clubhouse manager Rick Stowe and staff with the keys to a top-of-the-line, six-seat golf cart on Thursday. Of course the cart is red.
Harang ordered the all-electric cart from a local auto dealer, paid for it and handed it over to the clubhouse personnel. And they took it on a trial run around the underground circumference of Great American Ballpark.
"I've been thinking about doing this for a while," Harang told reporters. "These guys do so much for me and for the other players.
"They don't have their own cart," he added. "Whenever they need to take us out to the bullpen or haul stuff around, they had to go hunting for a golf cart and borrow it."
Theriot ready to take leadoff spot: There is no way to know who will be leading off for the 2010 Cubs, but Ryan Theriot says he'd accept the challenge.
"Look, I enjoy hitting first," Theriot told MLB.com. "I think I can do it, for sure. You change your approach just a tad, but it's something I've done in the past and feel very comfortable doing.
"When I'm called on to hit up there, I enjoy it. When I'm called on to hit second or eighth or seventh -- or like I always joke with [manager] Lou [Piniella], I need to be hitting third or fourth. You just kind of adjust and figure it out."
Greinke gets win, hit in the arm: Zack Greinke picked up his 14th win on Thursday, pitching five innings in the Royals' 5-2 victory over the Tigers, but not before being struck on the right arm by a line drive.
"I don't remember even moving out there, but when I saw it, I thought, 'Man, I was sort of close to catching it,'" Greinke told MLB.com. "But still not even close, I didn't even get a glove on it."
Oswalt's back puts him out for season: Roy Oswalt will not pitch any more this season. Oswalt, who has been pitching with a degenerative disk in his back, aggravated the back once again on Tuesday during his start against Cincinnati.
"It just ain't going away," Oswalt told the Houston Chronicle. "I've pitched with it for [four] starts, and it's just not getting any better. It's just kind of lingering more and more. If we were in contention fighting for the playoffs, I would probably get up and just try to block it and ride it as long as I could. But I don't want it to linger on for next year."
Tejada glad to serve as mentor to Manzella: With the Astros all but eliminated from the playoffs, manager Cecil Cooper informed Miguel Tejada that rookie Tommy Manzella will probably get at least one start and perhaps two per series the rest of the season.
Manzella, who is 1-for-4 this year and made the first start of his career on Wednesday, said Tejada has offered a lot of help and guidance.
"When I got to the big leagues, people helped me," Tejada told the Houston Chronicle. "That taught me that, when a kid like Manzella came up, I should help him and give him advice.
"He's a young player with talent to be in the big leagues and be the future shortstop of this team. My job is to help him if he's going to be my substitute for the future."
Beltran trying to make the most of final weeks: While the Mets have been eliminated from the playoffs, the season still has a lot of meaning for Carlos Beltran.
Beltran missed 10 weeks due to a bone bruise below his right knee and is using the rest of the season to settle back into a groove at the plate before the season ends.
"This is helping a lot," Beltran told Newsday. "Because, if I were to go home without coming back, it would have been something very difficult for me. I would have been feeling worried about the situation, but just getting back out there erased all of those negative thoughts. This is what I needed to do to get back to be what I was."
Wakefield still trying to regain strength in legs: Tim Wakefield had a meeting with manager Terry Francona, general manager Theo Epstein, pitching coach John Farrell and team medical director Thomas Gill on Wednesday in an effort to determine what plan they will try to follow the rest of this season. Wakefield is suffering from strength deficit in his legs and it has not improved.
"The meeting we had, basically, was to determine whether or not it was safe for me to continue to pitch because my strength has gone down," Wakefield told the Boston Globe. "We wanted to get everybody together and decide, you know, am I throwing another side [tomorrow], see how it feels from there? As of now, I'm planning on pitching."
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SEATTLE -- It was quite the eventful night for Galaxy defender AJ DeLaGarza.
During his 90 minute shift in the LA Galaxy's 4-0 defeat to the Seattle Sounders, DeLaGarza was involved in one of the turning points of the match in the 15th minute of play when he appeared to be brought down by Leo Gonzalez in the box. However, referee Chris Penso, ultimately waved off the challege. The excitement did not end there for DeLaGarza as the outside back was awarded a yellow card less than ten minutes later for a challenge on Sounders forward Eddie Johnson.
With LA trailing, DeLaGarza became a focal point in the Galaxy attack as the club attempted to battle back from the deficit, ultimately to no avail.
Below are DeLaGarza's thoughts on the match...
(On the controversial call...)
DELAGARZA: "It's a play that could have changed the game, but regardless of that we gave up four goals and in Seattle, you're not going to win a game having to score five or six goals."
(On the defensive play....)
DELAGARZA: "We learned from Higuain that we need to drop on those through-balls and I think that sometimes, we might have dropped too early and then they were able to get the ball and turn on us. We were really forced to turn around so it's a give and take I guess."
(On his play going forward...)
DELAGARZA: "I was just trying to get up the field man. I was a forward at point while we were down 3-0 and 4-0 just trying to get anything we can. I think we didn't do well defensively or attacking wise. I don't think we got a shot on goal for 80 something minutes. With the players that we have, that's unacceptable."
(On moving forward from the result...)
DELAGARZA: "You know, we've had seven or eight games, weekend and weekday. That's not an excuse, but they're tough. Real Madrid's not easy to play, Tottenham's not easy and Dallas in a hundred degrees, I think you saw in the second half when we gave up two or three goals, our legs kind of gave out on us. We were playing lazy balls out of bounce and I think we got to get our legs back and get ready for Chivas, which is a huge game."
(On whether or not, he could be moved back to center back with the result...)
DELAGARZA: "You know, that's Bruce's call man. I would love to be back with Omar, but Bruce makes the shots and who he thinks can help the team the best and right now that's with me on the outside."


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A number of things happened Habs-wise this summer, the most surprising being I was able to decipher the notes I'd made regarding the things that happened Habs-wise this summer.
Gone are Daniel Briere, Josh Gorges, Brian Gionta, Tomas Vanek, Ryan White, Douglas Murray, George Parros, and anthem singer Charles Prevost Linton.
Francis Bouillon, at this writing, remains stranded on the desert island named Limbo. Douglas Murray's island is slowly sinking. George Parros' island is somewhere near the lost continent of Atlantis.
White now finds himself in Philadelphia where one of his jobs will be to protect captain Claude Giroux from grabbing police officers' buttocks, and Bouillon's future seems secure. If he doesn't find a hockey job, the City of Montreal is ready to step in and make him a fire hydrant.
Auditions are now in process for the anthem singing gig. Unfortunately, management, with a somewhat prickly attitude, has informed me that I'm not allowed to be singer AND stick boy.
Forward P.A. Parenteau, from Colorado in exchange for Briere, is now part of the family, and Gorges and Gionta aren't, as the two UFAs were picked up by Buffalo, a place Gionta is probably happy about being. Gorges, maybe not as much, considering it's Buffalo.
Parenteau is 31 and hopefully more effective than Briere, who is on the verge (Oct. 7th) of becoming 37. Gorges' passion and shot blocking will be missed. Gionta's captaincy will be replaced in a year or two, and until then, Max, Markov, Pleks and P.K. will serve as assistant captains.
In the spirit of fairness, Markov, with the most seniority, should be the one to accept the Stanley Cup from Mr. Bettman next spring.
Signings this summer involved free agents Manny Malhotra (1-year, from Carolina), Tom Gilbert (2-years, from Florida), and goaltender Joey MacDonald (1-year, from Calgary). And Jiri Sekac from the KHL Lev Praha squad signed a two-year entry level deal.
Those with new contracts include P.K. Subban, at 9 million a year for 8 years. Apparently there is no truth to the rumour that P.K. has bought the Sun Life Building in downtown Montreal to use as his winter residence, so you can stop thinking about that.
Regulars Andrei Markov (3 years), Dale Weise (2-year extension), Mike Weaver (1 year), Lars Eller (4 years), and coach Michel Therrien (4-year extension), also penned their names on paper.
Chosen in the 2014 Entry draft, 26th overall, was Moscow-born Nikita Scherbak, who looks, speaks, and plays like a young Alex Galchenyuk, who's a grizzled old guy now.
Assistant coach Gerard Gallant is now the head guy in Florida and replaced by Montreal native Dan Lacroix.
Lacroix helped out behind the Rangers bench last year, and if it was he who advised the despicable Chris Kreider to run Carey Price and then Dustin Tokarski, he should be hung by the thumbs outside a Bell Centre window for several hours, and then be forced to teach our guys (aside from Brendan Gallagher) how to run goalies too.
Player Development guru Patrice Brisebois leaves and replaced by former NHLer Rob Ramage. And Trevor Timmins has had the title "Vice President of Player Personnel" added to his "Director of Amateur Scouting" handle.
Timmins is widely respected, particularly in Northern Ontario where they named a small city after him.
Former Canadiens captain Saku Koivu, an ultra-talented battler if there ever was one, retired after 1124 regular season games played, with his last 5 seasons in Anaheim and 13 years and one lockout season with Montreal before that. Thank you Saku, for all you did for the Montreal Canadiens and the city. Which was plenty.
And finally, Mensa member Brad Marchand mentioned that he dislikes Tomas Plekanec quite a bit. "Anybody who spells "Thomas" without an "H" is a rotten bastard", said Brad.
Other things could happen in the days and weeks too. If so, just mentally paste them to this.


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With shooting for "Green Lantern" set to begin in March, Tim Robbins has hopped aboard, joining a cast that already includes Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard.
Robbins will play Sen. Hammond, the disapproving father of Sarsgaard's Henry Hammond, who develops super powers after discovering a chunk of a powerful radioactive meteor, according to Heat Vision.
Reynolds is playing the title role and Blake Lively is his love interest -- natch -- Carol Ferris, with Martin Campbell ("Casino Royale") directing the shoot in New Orleans.
Robbins' last foray into comic book adaptations was the grossly misunderstood "Howard the Duck."
The movie is set for release on June 17, 2011.


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Discussion in 'Vendors' started by jungleplant, Aug 24, 2011.
Well I'm sure he will , I'm gonna let him know to check out this thread .
What price are you getting out of those supports? By the way, after about 600 miles with a cinder block on that rack you sent me, it is fairing very well!!!! Nothing wrong with it except all the powdercoating is scraping off!
Ok thanks
after riding the 650R for awhile and seeing the rear fender flap around a little to much i decided to do something else for the poor little beast so ill do a few tests with the homies,
it works pretty good , you can really tell its on there , Looks like your eating good
Yea we are, to bad you dont live in the neighborhood Mr Rogers.
hey thats good news , We have stopped all testing on the honda XR650R rack and have decided on a final design , so keep your rack and enjoy ok mike
PS For the Honda XR650R sub frame support for the rear fender $40 bucks on the website but $30.00 Cash for the inmates here on advrider , and i will pay for the shipping
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Ok Mr Rogers, I hollared at my buddy and he's gonna post up here to test your fender support out , he's the guy in the pic with the R . I garonety he will put it to the test.
And if your ass is ever in Tx , bet he wouldnt mind Cracking your Back for you a few times also .
He made me feel so good before when My shoulder was acting up.
when he gets in touch i will ship it to texas , have you guys had any trouble with the southern people yet
hey BIGMAN I just talked to GRASSHOPPERXR650R he's gonna call ya
when did ya get the BIG-ASS-BBQer.!:dg me like TEXAS-BBQ
we are the people of the SOUTH........GOD-BLESS THE CONFEDERACY.
how's it going jungleplant...(mike)....?
NO THANKS, if it ant broke don't fix it
but ill just take a beer and some BBQ texas cicken
hey hancock long time no here , everything OK, , hope so , i am doing great thanks for asking
I meant the drug running mexicans down south
BTW. i'm the one in the pic that marco posted that is grasshopperxr650r
Man says he needs a rack , looks like a sale to me .
I thought the rack in the video a few pages back was in production , and the assembly line was rolling these out a couple hundred a day.
what happen , did immigration officials pay you a visit.
Thats cause they're looking for Mescan Dirt , they don't know what Kali Pickle Bucket Homegrown looks like.
I'll buy a rack , as long as it comes with one them test packs with it.
They wont scratch the powder coat off either.
i think i just nuked myself
WTF did you say now.
I'm glad we aint podners in crime , you talk to much.
I was nuking your buddies addy but something went wrong and i lost all that comedy, that was some good stuff, damn


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Greylock football won't dwell on streak history
WILLIAMSTOWN -- The streak might as well be ancient history for the Mount Greylock football team.
The Mounties had won 33 straight games -- including two Western Massachusetts Division III Super Bowls -- before Wahconah beat them 20-8 on Oct. 26. It was a score that sent shock waves through Berkshire County football. The streak had ended.
"At the time, I think there was some deflation because it felt like the team sunk because the streak was over," said Mounties coach Shawn Flaherty. "Immediately I said the streak was a special bonus but we're not here to have a streak. You don't get a trophy for a streak. You don't get a ring for a streak."
Greylock could secure both of those with a third straight Super Bowl victory on Saturday at Westfield State University against Belcher town. The Mounties (10-1), despite losing senior quarterback Hank Barrett in that lone loss, look better than ever.
Consider Greylock's last two games. The Mounties rallied from a 10-point deficit to beat Wahconah in the county championship game the night before Thanksgiving. Less than a week later, Greylock rolled past Greenfield in a 62-0 romp to reach Saturday's sectional final.
"We're just so prepared because of Coach Flaherty," said 1,000-yard rusher Ethan Ryan. "He tells you what's coming. Kids here just want to get the job done. That's the biggest thing."
Perhaps Flaherty's words after that October loss were the best prep he's given his team all season. Freshman Brodie Altiere, who has had to step in for Barrett under center, called the defeat "a little crushing." Flaherty told his team to take a look across the field that night in Williamstown. The Mounties would see the Warriors just a month later, this time for the county title. This time, Greylock would win.
Flaherty said that little speech was the best medicine he could give his team. The message sunk in for his players.
"I think that [loss] even helped us a little bit," Altiere said. "It took us down to earth. We don't have anything on our back. Going into that Berkshire County [championship] game, we had a lot more reason to win. We had more motivation to win that game."
Now, Greylock is riding high again. The winning streak isn't so grand, but that doesn't seem to bother this group. Ryan said his teammates are like businessmen: they want to quietly go about winning games without any loud proclamations.
The Mounties remember exactly how it felt to lose in October. As the calendar turns toward December, there's no bigger motivation. Well, except for the chance to take home a third trophy in three years.
"It showed me what type of kids we have," Flaherty said. "I think they learned something about us. They came back and to do what they've been doing so far is really impressive."
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ARLINGTON -- C.J. Wilson understands why Rangers fans would not be happy seeing Josh Hamilton come back to his former home in the uniform of the their team's American League West rivals, the Angels. It's a simple case of fans being fans, for better or worse.
"We're all baseball players," said Wilson, who experienced the same sensation last season coming back to Texas as an Angels starting pitcher after serving the Rangers in multiple roles, from starting to closing. "It's not real life. Sports gives you something to cheer for or boo about. It's your choice. They're not going to cheer for him, obviously."
That leaves two options, basically. Boo, hiss and unleash unkind chants, or stay silent as a rock. Most Rangers fans have not been rocks this weekend.
"Moving on is hard for people in life, and this is no different," Wilson said. "I like to say that the team you're playing for is your girlfriend. It's not a marriage. You're going to go home when it's over. It's always going to be temporary.
"Nolan Ryan pitched for the Angels, the Astros, the Rangers. All those teams he had to go back and face. There are emotions you go through any time that happens. You always want to do well, whether you're facing the Yankees, Cubs or Rangers. The same thing happened to me when I came back here, to a degree. My first game back it's a rain [delay]. I loaded the bases and all the runs scored."
That was last May, when Wilson's ERA took a beating with four earned runs charged against him while he was getting one out. When the game resumed, Wilson did not reappear. He took the loss, started the following day, giving up two earned runs in 5 2/3 innings, but did not get the decision in an Angels victory. So it goes.
Hamilton is hitless in the first two games, dropping his average to .050. The Rangers walked Albert Pujols intentionally three times in front of Hamilton on Saturday.
"Josh will realize there's nobody on the fence anymore," Wilson said, referring to the emotional tug of war of coming back to the place he considers home and getting booed lustily. "Be thankful for the time you spent with your old organization and make the best of where you are now."
Most Rangers fans eventually will carry fond memories of Hamilton's years in Texas, Wilson believes. They were five great years, with two World Series trips and coming as close to a championship -- one more out in Game 6 in St. Louis -- as possible to winning it all in 2011. Hamilton was a huge part of that team.
"The guy put up the best numbers on his team in the non-steroid era -- .310, 28 [homers], 100 RBIs," Wilson said, referencing Hamilton's statistical norm for Texas. "He gave these fans a lot to cheer about."
Frieri benefits from a short memory
ARLINGTON -- Ernesto Frieri has learned through experience not to carry a rough outing over into the next day, the next game. The Angels' closer gave up a ninth-inning homer on Saturday to Nelson Cruz, but it was in a non-save situation. With a five-run lead, Frieri was getting in some work, not trying to nail down a one-run game.
"I remember when I was in that streak last year of [27 1/3] innings without giving up a run," Frieri said, referring to his remarkable run after coming to the Angels in a trade with the Padres. "When I gave up my first runs in New York against the Yankees, I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. It couldn't go on forever. It didn't bother me the next time I went out there. I didn't give up any runs [against the Tigers]. Next chance I got, I got the save.
"That's why this is the best sport. You have a bad day, you can make up for it the next day. You never want to do bad, but this game is tough. We're facing the best hitters in baseball. They're going to hit one out of the park sometimes. You've got to have a short memory and learn to let it go, move on to the next one."
Frieri is 27, just entering his prime, but he has been a professional since 2003 when he made his debut in the Padres organization. He took tremendous strides last year, holding hitters to a .140 batting average in 54 1/3 innings, racking up 80 strikeouts against 26 walks. His role might change when Ryan Madson is ready to go, but Frieri is all about the team, not personal numbers.
"My confidence every single year is getting huge," Frieri said. "The experience I'm gaining every single day and season is great, especially with the type of team we have. I'm always trying to learn something from everyone. I'm prepared to keep doing what I did last year and help this team win. That's what it's all about. We have a lot of great arms in our bullpen, and I'm happy to be with these guys."
Worth noting
• The numbers and milestones continue to pile up for Albert Pujols, who broke out of a 1-for-14 start with two homers on Saturday, lifting him past Stan Musial and Willie Stargell into 27th place all-time with 477. Next on the list, tied at 493, are Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff, two more first baseman. He is the all-time leader after 12 seasons, according to STATS, in homers, doubles and total bases. Pujols is two extra-base hits away from 1,000, having passed Hall of Famers Honus Wagner and Al Simmons to move into 35th place all-time.
"I don't play for numbers, look at numbers," said Pujols, who on Saturday became the first player to hit two homers and get walked intentionally three times in the same game. "The last thing you want to do is get caught up in numbers."
• Chris Iannetta has hit safely in each of his four games and leads the team with four RBIs. Mike Trout has opened the season with a five-game hitting streak.
• Mark Trumbo seems to thrive in Texas. His opposite-field homer on Saturday gave him five blasts in 11 games at Rangers Ballpark since the start of 2012.
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A 64-year-old man from Halifax has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving in Norwood Green this morning (Saturday).
The man, who was driving a black Volkswagen Golf Estate, was pulled over by police on Station Road at 2.11am and was found to be twice over the legal limit.
He will appear in front of Magistrates' on Tuesday, August 12.
West Yorkshire RPU Tweeted: "male arrested for drink driving in Halifax area after routine stop. Found to be twice the limit, charged and 1st court appearance in 10 days."


text: Hanoi Cozy Hotel is located in Cau Go Street, the central of the Old Quarter - full of ancient streets and is the financial heart of the city, right opposite Hoan Kiem Lake (Sword Lake).Staying at Hanoi Cozy Hotel, you could take a walk and learn about daily life of residents in "36 streets" in Hanoi. It takes you only haft minute to walk to Thang Long Puppet Theatre to enjoy a unique and attractive art of Vietnam, some steps walking to night markets: Hang Ngang, Hang Dao and Dong Xuan market. It also is near international post office, banks, restaurant, souvenir shops etc;All rooms at Hanoi Cozy Hotel are PRETY, CLEAN and COZY. The 31 deluxe rooms are available with 24hrs hot water, private bathroom with modern bath tub and come with fan and air conditioners, fridge, satellite TV, safety box, telephone access, wifi internet access in room and lobby.


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I'm trying to figure this out. I've been told (by a LQS) that you should only by a sewing machine from a dealer because even though the machine may be the same model number, they are different machines. They said that at the factory, the dealer machines are built to different specifications than the ones that go to "big box stores". In other words, there are two assembly lines at the factory. But I also see a lot of people have bought their machines from these "big box stores" and are perfectly happy with them.
Is there really a difference or is this just something that the LQS says to get you to buy their machine for a little more money? I know they also throw in classes and warranties and repair service.
Just a curiosity question. Looking forward to hear what you all think.


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Researchers Examine Oral Acetate for Equine Exercise Recovery
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An inaugural study has found that a sodium acetate electrolyte solution given orally with a typical hay and grain meal following exercise enhanced skeletal muscle metabolism to restore depleted glycogen (energy) sources.
"Glycogen stored in muscle is the primary energy source for horses undergoing either short-term, high intensity or prolonged submaximal exercise," explained Amanda P. Waller (who performed this study as part of her PhD thesis at the University of Guelph in Canada). "Glycogen stores can be depleted in horses that are exercised frequently or undergo several warm-ups that persist at the time of the next performance or athletic endeavor."
Previous studies have found that it can take between 48 and 72 hours after feeding a diet high in soluble carbohydrates to restore muscle glycogen stores following exercise. But since this type of meal can increase the potential risk for colic and laminitis, identifying alternate energy sources that can promote the resynthesis of muscle glycogen stores would be beneficial.
Waller and colleagues collected muscle biopsies and blood from nine exercise-conditioned horses both at rest and for 24 hours following an exercise test that simulated the speed and endurance of a three day event.
"We found that horses supplemented with 8 liters of a sodium acetate/acetic acid solution, in addition to their regular hay and grain meal, had a rapid and sustained increase in blood acetate levels and an enhanced rate of muscle glycogen resynthesis within the first 4 hours after supplementation compared to the control, non-supplemented horses," summarized Waller.
Together, these results suggested that oral acetate could prove to be a viable alternative energy source in horses that promotes restoration of glycogen stores in athletic horses.
Waller said further research is needed, particularly the formation of a more palatable formula, before this can be considered a feasible nutritional supplement.
The article, "Oral acetate supplementation after prolonged moderate intensity exercise enhances early muscle glycogen resynthesis in horses," is scheduled to be published in an upcoming edition of the journal Experimental Physiology. The abstract is currently available on PubMed.
About the Author
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
Stacey Oke, MSc, DVM, is a practicing veterinarian and freelance medical writer and editor. She is interested in both large and small animals, as well as complementary and alternative medicine. Since 2005, she's worked as a research consultant for nutritional supplement companies, assisted physicians and veterinarians in publishing research articles and textbooks, and written for a number of educational magazines and websites.
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The Rangers have signed right-handed reliever Casey Daigle, who pitched last season for the Twins' Triple-A Rochester club, to a minor-league deal. Daigle was 1-5 with a 3.78 ERA in 44 games/69 innings. He last pitched in the majors in 2006 with the Diamondbacks.
A first-round choice in 1999, Daigle is big (6-foot-6, 240 pounds) and from Lake Charles, La. Perhaps his biggest accomplishment in his 27 years is his marriage to softball star Jennie Finch. Here is a picture of the happy couple -- who have a son named Ace -- and here she is pitching to Alex Rodriguez at Rangers spring training a few years back.
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Laura Minteer named director of human resources for Mount Nittany Physician Group
Mount Nittany Health is pleased to announce the addition of Laura Minteer, MHRM, PHR, to its staff as director of human resources for Mount Nittany Physician Group.
Minteer received her bachelor of science in business administration, majoring in human resource management, from Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pa. and received her master's in human resource management from Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa.
A native of the Harrisburg, Pa. area, Minteer previously led the human resources function for Coventry Health Care's Northeast region, including two health plans across three states with a total of seven offices, and most recently served as director of human resources for a non-profit hospice organization with seven locations throughout the North Florida region.
Mount Nittany Physician Group currently employs approximately 65 physicians who provide a variety of primary and specialty care services at a growing number of offices throughout Central Pennsylvania. For more information, visit mountnittany.org/physician-group.