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His value has never been higher.
We need a shake up, badly.
Court is kind of crowded
Calderon plus Bargnani for Gay/Selby?? One could only dream..
His value has never been higher.
We need a shake up, badly.
Court is kind of crowded
Calderon plus Bargnani for Gay/Selby?? One could only dream..
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I'd pull the trigger on the hawks or jazz trades in a second. Doubtful either team would go for that though. Atlanta because they don't want Bargnani's contract eating cap space and Jazz for the same reason, unless they are sure that Millsap is leaving at the end of the season.
Probably Boozer and Deng
I said it on the showcasing thread: I don't think the theory of value is all that big a player. Is anyone surprised at what JC is doing? No. It's exactly what one can expect from him. Sure the Assist numbers have been rather gaudy recently but we all know that's his game. Hasn't translated into oodles of wins has it? Calderons value is as much tied to his ending contract as to his play.
The most realistic might be the Golden State trade. We get them out from under Jefferson's onerous contract (we'd owe Jefferson $11M next year if he exercises his player option), allow them to put a true PG next to Curry, and we swap PF/C's who have underachieved on their respective teams, with us getting the better PF out of the bargain, albeit the one with the much larger contract. GS will likely be looking to shed some salary to get under the luxury tax next season, so this one seems at least plausible.
I'd do it. I'm a big fan of David Lee's game and think his contract is reasonable. Last season he put up 20pts 10reb 3ast 50%FG, and he's been doing this consistently for the past 4 seasons. Big upgrade over Bargs and someone I would like on the team regardless.
Of all those trades I like the LAL one the best as it nets us the best possible player in return and really helps the Lakers, seems to me the best win/win.
The most likely trade a rival GM would like would prob be the Chi town Boozer and Rip trade. Rip has given them nothing and Booz is an overrated scorer (like AB) who disappears in the post season and who is owed more money. I think it's a lateral move in that sense and an upgrade in the rip for JC department until Rose is healthy again but it's a huge win in cap terms for an apparently rebuilding on the fly Chicago team. Hurts Toronto big time though.
Have always been a big fan of Andy V, our pick and roll D would b insane with AV and JV with 100% hustle all the time, not much on offense though.
pau would be the best because he is a winner. we need winners
Do you think it's possible that the GM would approach said players and point out that if they want to be another a team, now would be the time to showcase their talents (given the injury to Lowry). And maybe, Bargnani just doesn't want to get traded? Or is it more likely that Bargnani just sucks. I'm a believer of the latter scenario, though I could see Jose stepping up so he can leave..
All those trades may seem reaonable in the trade machine - salary wise but in real life they would NEVER happen. The only one remotely possible would be the one with Detroit. I think we reaaaaaaly overvalue Bargnani and Calderon. If we get a decent player + picks in return we should be happy. I don't see another Turkoglu for Barbosa type of trade + didn't turn out so great in the end anyway.
Can we trade Bryan instead?
Yes, it's time to "Decelerate the Rebuilding Process". (tm)
Stop it ! Stop it ! Stop it ! Keep the man until he retires. Hang up his Jersey in the Rafters( derservedly so!!). You need 2 good PG these days due to the obvious chance of injury. He does a great job with utter professionalism. He is a role model for the younger ones.
It's not like Calderon is an unknown commodity, he's been playing like this for the last eight years. Teams know who he is, a stretch like he is having now will not change his value.
How about Jose and a second round pick to Atlanta for Devin Harris and a first rounder.
Atlanta could use a PG like Jose and both guys are on expiring deals.
Harris coul dbe better suitied to play in teh back court at teh same time as Lowry and he can run a team in a pinch.
Edit: I don't want to trade Jose, but if we could get a first round pick out of it I would be OK.
Jose for Perkins Maynor, and our pick back.
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text: I can only compare it to the PDR, the standard PD is too light. firstly, if i was forced to choose from the whole babolat stable, i would choose the PRD. Awesome racquet. big power, big serves, big groundies, big everything but it still has that Babolat feel. Which is tinny, stiff and uncomfy. bit harder to control all that power sometimes when you really need to place a shot. the Pro One, is very very comfortably. if you train and play proper 3 set matches 12-15 hours a week, you need to look after your arm. the P1 hasnt got the punch that the PDR provides, but it has controllable power! this is crucial!!. serves and groundies are still very very powerful compared to alot of players sticks. Both sticks are perfect for the current modern game, baseline bashing all day long. But for me, I still need to control my heavy shots and need a tad more comfort. So the P1 for me. On another note, I beat an undefeated 5.0 using a Head YT PP last night. the P1 just had a tad more easy power at the end of the 3rd set.


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Recently our former beloved and at-times agitating PF hustle-man Kris Humphries is tearing it up with good off-the-pint contributions for the New Jersey Nyets.
Look at his stats for this score at the same night we dispatched the Heat:
That stat-line ain't bad, ain't it? Check out his game log on:
*Take note he started playing for the Nets on Jan 13, 2010 after a trade with Dallas
Consider the fact that Eduardo Nejara is traded and Sean Williams has been arrested for dumb-ass off-court activities, Kris Humphries is almost or is guaranteed with getting all the playing time he needs/wants.
So Hump is doing some serious stat-padding while his entire Nets team is in the crapper. Don't you feel good for this guy a bit? At times I totally wanted to clock this dude every time in the head when he takes an ill-advised jumper as a Raptor, but he really should still stay on the court because he chases every loose ball and swings the momentum of the game for the Raptors with his fast-break dunks. Blame him, his injuries, or just Smitch's atrocious rotations, but wouldn't you want this guy in our team again in exchange for POB under Jay Triano's rotation?
Prolly not because we have Amir Johnson, but we should always be in stock with quality Front court depth and hustle.
So the Nets are 4-40 now, but as I always put in mind for every NBA team: a single decent new player on a 15-player roster can change the attitude and complexion of an entire NBA ball club. So they got rid of an old guy, subtracted a criminal-record-dumb-thug , and added beef-and-hustle from Humphries. This might rub off on the Nets very positively and make them actually win against bad teams or teams that are sleeping. I think Humphries might make his current team the 2nd or 3rd worst team in the NBA.
We still got 3 games with the Nets to play and Hump will, yes I said WILL, get 30 minutes a game off the bench to to damage. Imagine if he sees us again, I'm sure he will be so motivated to steal rebounds away from us and make us throw a remote to our TVs. So don't ever take these Nets likely if they have Humphries off the bench, I'm telling ya'll.


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SNOW HILL – Residential building permits in Worcester County and its municipalities have fallen, in some cases drastically, in 2008.
In the county, outside the towns, residential building permits have gone down by as much as 75 percent since 2005.
In 2005, Worcester County issued 511 building permits, for 532 units, an average of 42 building permits a month, but that number has steadily dwindled. In 2006, residential building permits dropped precipitously, to 334 permits for 423 units, an average of 28 permits each month.
The downward motion continued in 2007, with 184 permits issued in the county for 240 units, averaging 16 permits per month. The first 10 months of 2008 have seen just 114 Worcester County residential building permits issued, or 11 permits on average each month.
If November and December also see average permit numbers, the final tally, estimated at 137 permits for 2008, would have dropped 76 percent since 2005, with 374 less permits issued.
The 2008 Worcester County numbers so far break down to 87 single-family stick built homes; one duplex; zero multi-family projects; three manufactured homes; and 23 mobile homes.
While single-family dwellings in Worcester County have dropped steadily for the last several years, multi-family units have seesawed up and down.
Mobile homes appear to be holding steady over the last four years, hovering around the high 20a, with 31 permitted in 2005, and 23 permitted in 2008 to date.
The county saw 28 permits for manufactured homes issued in 2005, but just three issued so far in 2008.
Berlin has seen a tremendous decline in building permits over the last year. In 2007, Berlin issued 256 residential building permits, but in 2008, as of October, Berlin has handed out 15 residential building permits, a 94-percent decline.
Residential building in Berlin actually went up between 2005 and 2006, from 188 permits pulled to 303, only to fall in 2007 to 256.
Ocean City has seen a relatively smaller downward trend in number of building permits issued, but a drastic change in the estimated value of new construction. In fiscal year 2005, the estimated value of permitted structures in Ocean City was $190.7 million. In fiscal 2008, that number is just $69.6 million.
The Ocean City numbers, which were not broken down into residential and commercial permits, have varied only slightly over the last four fiscal years: in fiscal year 2005, the resort issued 1,979 permits; in 2006, fewer permits with just 1,838 issued; and in 2007, the permits peaked at 2,065. In fiscal 2008, permits stood at 1,795.
Snow Hill has seen a drop in building permits but the change is less significant than in other county jurisdictions, with few residential building permits issued at all in recent years. In 2005, the county seat issued only six permits, with 10 in 2006, nine in 2007, and just three so far in 2008.
Pocomoke City, not usually considered a development hotspot in Worcester County, has also seen a decline in residential building permits, from 130 in 2005, to just 14 in 2008. The number of 2008 Pocomoke City permits issued comprises roughly 10 percent of the permits pulled in 2005. Permits went from a high of 130 in 2005, to 105 in 2006, then 69 in 2007, to just 14.


text: Well, it's been DECADES since I last watched TOS regularly. In the mid '80's, Channel 9 here in Perth ran the series between 5:00 and 6:00pm, before the 6:00 nightly news. I know I never saw it all but I remember it was my FIX and I LOVED it! Having recently seen STID, I wanted to wash the not so good taste out of my mouth. That and the fact my partner has never seen a single episode and I decided it would be wonderful to go back and watch TOS from the beginning, to show him where it all started! I have the remastered versions because I know it's going to be hard for my partner to be watching it as it is. The least I could do was get the upgraded effects. I started watching last Monday(24/6)and we are actually watching the eps in air date order(starting with "The Man Trap"), something I now regret. C'est la vie, we've started and it's too late to back out now. Reviews, thoughts and whatever I feel like posting when I feel like it, will follow.


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Most relationships are not abusive. However, feeling threatened or intimidated are usually signs of an abusive relationship. See the questions below for more information.
Does your partner ever:
Degrade you by calling you names or putting you down?
Control who you see, where you go or what you do?
Stop you from seeing your friends or family members?
Use your children to control you?
Intimidate you with threatening words, looks or weapons?
Shove you, slap you or hit you?
Deny their actions?
Repeatedly blame your for their actions?
Threaten to kill you?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, please consider reaching out for help.


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Charlie Sheen's Fiancée Wants To Show You the Sticks She Pees On
What is with celebrities and their pregnancy tests these days? Halle Berry admitted on Oprah that she has a drawer at home full of 35 used pregnancy tests (jesus, is that even sanitary?). Now comes word that Charlie Sheen's fiancée. Brooke Mueller, is trying to get pregnant and is flaunting the pregnancy sticks around like a middle schooler showing off her first Dooney & Bourke. Reports Page Six:
The gorgeous Palm Beach native visited Sheen on the set of a Hanes commercial he was filming with Michael Jordan outside LA, and took pregnancy tests in his trailer, says one insider. "She would throw them out in the garbage on set and place them right on top . . . everyone could see the sticks," said our spy, who added Mueller would walk around showing off her "enormous" yellow diamond ring to the crew.
No word on whether the pregnancy tests boasted a minus sign or the plus sign of doom, but one can only hope the former. At this point, Sheen's blood stream looks a lot like the East River — full of flotsam, discarded bottles of Jack, the occasional hypodermic needle, a dead hooker or two. Really it's lucky that the first kids were born with only one head and didn't have hands for feet. Let's not tempt fate here. We also can't imagine what Hanes was thinking signing up Charlie Sheen, but we're looking forward to their new spring ad campaign: "Look whose toxic, prostitute-penetrating bulge we have our Hanes on now!"


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I have win98 and as you all know by pressing F8 we can open in safemode that way bypassing the initial files - autoexec.bat etc.
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UNESCO chief speaks out against deaths of journalists in Syria and Eritrea
|UN News Service
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|12 September 2012
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The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the recent killing of a Syrian journalist, and voiced grave concern over the death of three Eritrean media workers who had been kept in a prison camp for over a decade.
The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, said she was "appalled" at the killing of Musab Mohamed Said Al-Oudaallah, who is reported to have been killed in his home in the Syrian capital of Damascus on 22 August.
"Once again, I call on all those fighting in Syria to respect the civilian status of reporters and the basic human right of freedom of expression," sheJournalists must be able to perform their duties and keep the public informed without fearing for their lives. stated in a news release.
Mr. Al-Oudaallah was a journalist for the arts and culture section of the government newspaper Tishreen. According to the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders, he also published articles critical of the Government under a pseudonym.
At least 28 local and international journalists have been killed this year in Syria, which has been wracked by violence since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 18 months ago.
More than 18,000 people, mostly civilians, have died since fighting broke out and reports indicate a major escalation of violence in recent weeks in many towns and villages, as well as the country's two biggest cities, Aleppo and Damascus.
Ms. Bokova also spoke out over the death of Dawit Habtemichael, Mattewos Habteab and Wedi Itay, who were reported to have been arrested separately in 2001 and kept in a prison camp in Eritrea for over a decade.
She urged the authorities to respect journalists' fundamental rights to freedom of expression and free those detained over issues related to these rights.
"I deplore the detention of journalists in Eritrea, whose only offence is that they tried to exercise the inalienable human right of freedom of expression. I call on the Eritrean authorities to free all such prisoners," said the Director-General.
"Journalists must be able to perform their duties and keep the public informed without fearing for their lives," she added.


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SEATTLE, June 21 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say a bigger version of Earth is locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger Neptune-sized planet around a distant star.
The planets around a star dubbed Kepler-36A occupy nearly the same orbital plane and sometimes approach within about 1.2 million miles of each other, just five times the Earth-moon distance.
"These are the closest two planets to one another that have ever been found," University of Washington astronomer Eric Agol said. "The bigger planet is pushing the smaller planet around more, so the smaller planet is harder to find."
The planets are designated Kepler-36b and Kepler-36c, with Planet b being a rocky planet like Earth, though 4.5 times more massive and with a radius 1.5 times greater.
Kepler-36c, which could be either gaseous like Jupiter or watery, is 8.1 times more massive than Earth and has a radius 3.7 times greater.
The larger planet was originally spotted in data from NASA's Kepler satellite, and researchers used a mathematical algorithm to analyze the data for a possible second planet.
"We found this one on a first quick look," Joshua Carter of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
"We're now combing through the Kepler data to try to locate more."


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21/7 convicts to launch appeal bid
Four men jailed over a failed plot to bomb London in 2005 are launching a legal bid to overturn their convictions.
Muktar Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Manfo Asiedu were jailed in 2007 for their roles in the planned attack on July 21, 2005.
In papers expected to be lodged with legal review body the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and at the Court of Appeal as early as Thursday, their lawyers will claim that doubts cast by a senior scientist about whether their bombs were viable were not disclosed to the defence during their trial and that their convictions are unsafe.
Channel 4 News said the papers would be lodged on Thursday, while a CCRC spokesman said: "We are told by lawyers representing (the men) that an application is imminent."
Ibrahim, Omar and Mohammed took rucksacks packed with explosives on to Tube trains and a bus in July 2005, just a fortnight after four earlier bombers had killed 52 commuters. They were all jailed for life. Manfo Asiedu backed out at the last minute and removed the battery from his bomb before ditching it in a bin in a west London park, and he was jailed for 33 years.
The plots involved virtually identical homemade devices - but the trial of the July 21 bombers heard the second set of bombs failed because the bombers had got the chemical recipe wrong.
During the 2007 trial, the defence argued the men had deliberately constructed their devices so that they would not explode.
According to reports, the bombers' new appeal will focus on concerns raised by Sean Doyle, former principal scientist at the Forensic Explosives Laboratory (FEL), a top security government facility, which carries out extensive tests on all bombs found in the UK. The results of those tests later formed a key part of the prosecution evidence.
In a witness statement, Mr Doyle says a number of FEL scientists "openly expressed concerns" relating to the work of the prosecution's expert witness, Dr Stuart Black, who argued that the bombs were viable and would have worked.
But the papers submitted by the four bombers' lawyers say Mr Doyle told the Metropolitan Police that the "methodology employed by Dr Black and the interpretation of the results may not be reliable", the BBC website reported. The lawyers for the four men will argue that there was a failure to disclose Mr Doyle's doubts to the defence, it added.


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Though it became a well-known pop culture joke after Samuel L. Jackson's 2006 fictional movie, snakes can sometimes be found on a plane.
That's exactly what happened on Tuesday when a cabin crew was checking an airplane that landed in Glasgow, Scotland, according to The Scotsman newspaperin Edinburgh. The flight had come in from Cancun, Mexico when staff found a 18-inch long, juvenile snake under a row of seats in the passenger cabin, the newspaper reported.
A Scottish animal welfare charity was called in to recover the snake, The Scotsman reported.
Ok, not exactly a new story. I delayed commenting due to travel. Anyone want to guess where I was?
My first thought was: "Silly snake! Why would you leave Cancun to go to Scotland?"
My second thought was that I could completely understand how the little fellow got on board. His home was mere yards from the tarmac.
Cancun — the "nest of the snakes" — was carved out of the jungle. The airport itself is testament to that, and it is even more obvious if you travel South towards Playa Del Carmen. Outside the Hotel Zone, there are clear and constant efforts to keep the jungle from reclaiming territory. Even within the Hotel Zone, sun and salty air mean an ongoing battle against modern human-built structures. A bright coat of paint appears to be shorthand for "recently maintained." You'll see at least one person with a paint brush on a regular basis at any resort.
In Closing: about time!; I'll skip the Winter Garden Loaf, thanks; what's wrong with Lime Squeeze?; hmm; escaping poverty; security theatre; Nevada Supreme Court quietly wades into serious issues with national implications; and truth in numbers.


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FIVE people were arrested this morning in connection with the death of Lee Balkwell who has found dead trapped under a cement mixer ten years ago.
Officers from the Essex and Kent Police serious crime directorate arrested three men and two women at 5am.
Mr Balkwell, 33, was found dead between the drum and chasis of a cement mixer at Baldwin's Farm, Dennises Lane, South Ockendon, on July 18 2002.
An inquest in 2008 found he died as a result of gross negligence manslaughter, but no one was arrsted until now.
In January an Independent Police Complaints Commission report heavily criticised Essex Police's original investigation into the death.
Those arrested include a 43-year-old man from South Ockendon on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, perverting the course of justice and perjury.
Three people, also from South Ockendon, a 66-year-old man, 63-year-old woman and 49-year-old woman, and a 38-year-old man from Southend, were also arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and perjury.
They remain in custody.


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See Michael Jordan's Wedding Pictures!
Michael Jordan married Yvette Prieto in Palm Beach on Saturday. The couple, who started dating in 2008 and got engaged in 2011, tied the knot at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea and later celebrated with a reception at the Bear's Club. Michael and Yvette, who is a model, had 500 people to witness their nuptials and a reported 1,500 more at the reception, where Usher and Robin Thicke performed. Among the guests were Michael's former Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen and his wife, Larsa, NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, Tiger Woods, and Michael's mom, Deloris, who wore a mint gown and carried a white bouquet. Yvette chose a J'Aton Couture gown, which featured Swarovski crystals, for her big day. This is Michael's second marriage, following his split from Juanita Vanoy, with whom he has three children, in 2006. The nuptials fall just in time for wedding season — make sure to check out our roundup of dresses, decor, music, and more!


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"I'm honored to have this position," Jones said. "I have been blessed. ... I've enjoyed meeting the people, and look forward to serving them as sheriff."
Jones said his first priority will be to replace the retiring jail administrator followed by restructuring the department to "get more boots on the streets."
Because no Democratic candidates filed for the position, Jones will not have to endure the general election in November and will assume the role of sheriff on Jan. 1, 2015.
The same goes for Republican Caleb Moore, who unseated incumbent T. J. Curtis for Pope County Justice of the Peace District 2 by a vote of 380 to 284.
Diane Willcutt and Gina Skelton will face off in a June 10 runoff election to be the Republican candidate for Pope County Circuit Clerk after receiving 1,702 and 1,670 votes, respectively. Karen Yarbrough, with 1,546 votes, and Larry Pettus, with 930, will not be in the runoff. Whoever wins the runoff will face Democrat David L. Vance in November.
Election Coordinator Sherry Polsgrove said after a low turnout for early voting, she was pleased to see a lot of voters on Tuesday.
"It's been steady all day," she said. "I appreciated voters coming in with their IDs ready."
Polsgrove said at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday that 31 votes had to be hand counted, and a few provisional votes remained.
Early voting for the runoff will be conducted 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays June 3-9. Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Election Day, June 10.
Look for more election coverage in future editions.


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Nokia, Panasonic and Samsung are facing a new lawsuit from a
U.S.-based research institute over their use of Bluetooth technology in mobile
phones. The Washington Research Foundation claims that the three companies infringe
on a patent filed in 1999 for a "simplified high-frequency broadband
tuner and tuning method."
The Bluetooth standard was developed by engineers at
Ericsson and was eventually rolled into the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(SIG). The first version of the freely available wireless standard was made
available in 1998 -- a year before the patent in question was filed.
Patent number 6,427,068
was filed on May 24, 1999 and issued on July 30, 2002. The patent in general
covers the transmitting and receiving of RF signals without the inherent
disadvantages of using discrete-time processing (high DSP performance
requirements and related costs) and direct conversion (1/f noise, phase and
amplitude errors). The patent goes on to describe the use of quadrature mixing
with the help of a coarse-tuned local oscillator to produce approximate digital
I and Q signals.
The patent dispute would directly affect all Bluetooth
devices sold within the United States. That means that the red-hot
Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone market in the United States, which currently
accounts for 15-20% of global sales, will see the biggest impact.
British-based chip maker CSL was not named in the suit even
though the company currently holds over half of the global market for Bluetooth
chips. CSL, which does not directly sell chips in the United States, stated
that "CSR has taken advice from its attorneys. The suit is without merit
in relation to CSR's Bluetooth chips, and CSR will defend its products
Another company untouched by the lawsuit is US-based
Broadcom. Broadcom had the foresight to license the radio technology in
"The document is positive news for Broadcom, but
negative for CSR. These two are the main global players in the Bluetooth chip
market," said Strategy Analytics analyst Neil Mawston.
Products featuring Bluetooth technology have been adopted
rather slowly in the United States, but globally the technology has blossomed.
The Bluetooth SIG announced in November of last year that the number of
Bluetooth devices shipped globally have topped
the 1 billion mark.


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CEOs from the domestic auto makers took their lumps yesterday, but the two-day dressing in the House hit a low point when Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) asked if any of them flew from Detroit to DC on a commercial plane. No hands went up. It appeared they each took private jets. Thus, the humilation was complete.
"It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo. It kind of makes you a little bit suspicious," Ackerman was quoted as saying in a CNN.com story.
My question is this: did GM CEO Rick Wagoner, Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli or Ford CEO Alan Mulally (our 1996 Engineer of the Year when he was at Boeing) return to Detroit on a comercial airline. Wouldn't have it been smart if one or all of them did? What do you think?
I have put the question to GM public relations.


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Kelly set to return to rotation after All-Star break
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- Joe Kelly will make two more Minor League rehab starts, manager Mike Matheny said on Thursday, which means the Cardinals do not plan on having him back in their rotation until after the All-Star break.
The need to have Kelly (left hamstring strain) pitch twice more before coming off the disabled list is related to pitch count, as the Cardinals want the right-hander built up to carry a starter's load upon his return. Kelly threw 41 pitches in his first rehab start and 49 in his most recent one on Tuesday. Matheny said Kelly is expected to throw about 70 pitches in his next outing (Sunday with Triple-A Memphis) and around 85 in his final one.
With this timetable, St. Louis will need two more starts from Marco Gonzales (or another fifth starter) leading up to the All-Star break.
Here is a rundown of progress being made by other injured Cardinals players:
Kevin Siegrist (left forearm strain): Siegrist is expected to throw a low-intensity mound session on Friday after noting improved progress with his shoulder during his last two times throwing on flat ground.
Kolten Wong (left shoulder contusion): Wong is expected to come off the DL on Sunday, his first date of eligibility. After playing two straight days in his rehab assignment with Memphis, Wong will sit on Thursday. He'll return to the field on Friday and Saturday to wrap up his rehab stint.
Jaime Garcia (left shoulder inflammation): Matheny said that Garcia is in the process of getting additional opinions from shoulder specialists to determine his next course of action.
Michael Wacha (right shoulder stress reaction): Wacha continues to rest his throwing arm.
Martinez brings 'contagious' energy to rotation
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's hard to miss the energy and charisma that Carlos Martinez brings to the mound, along with an upper-90s fastball and complementing curveball. It was all on show again Thursday as Martinez pitched the Cardinals to a 7-2 win, the fourth for St. Louis in as many starts for Martinez.
And apparently you have to listen to the 22-year-old, too, to get the full appreciation of his gregarious personality.
"He comes back in and he's saying all kinds of stuff, sounds like a rooster sometimes," manager Mike Matheny began to explain after the team's series win. "I haven't figured that one out yet. Whatever he's doing, guys are laughing, and they're smiling. That energy that you're talking about when you bring young guys up is contagious. And then he made a couple things happen, too.
"If you're just out here making all kinds of noise and not producing, that's a whole different animal. But he's doing a nice job making things happen on the mound and, today, at the plate."
Martinez's athleticism was on display, first as he singled home two runs in the fourth inning and then as he laid out to stop a Gregor Blanco bunt from getting past him in the fifth. The latter play briefly knocked the wind out of him, but Martinez bounced back up and later closed the inning with a bases-loaded strikeout of Buster Posey.
Afterward, with bullpen catcher Roberto Espinoza translating, Martinez described his five-inning start as "the best one I've had." His manager concurred.
"This was his best, no question," Matheny said. "I thought he had a consistent, fluid delivery. It looked like his arm was timed up with his body. It looked to me more like pitching today, rather than raring back and seeing how nasty he could be."
The Cardinals have never questioned the potential, long labeling Martinez as one of the most exciting young arms in the system. He has begged for a chance to start since arriving as a reliever last season, and he now finds himself with that chance as the Cardinals have three starting pitchers on the disabled list.
Martinez threw a season-high five innings (one walk, six strikeouts) on a season-most 88 pitches Thursday. One of his tasks now is to improve that efficiency so he can go deeper. The upside is certainly high, and with the Cardinals' decision to open the year with Martinez in the bullpen, the club sets itself up to use him as a starter as long as needed.
Thus far, that's proven to be a winning combination.
"I've never seen a lack of confidence from this kid no matter what the situation," Matheny said. "Maybe one time when he came up last year, it looked like he was a little shell shocked, and that's when [catcher] Yadi [Molina] knocked some sense into him on the mound. After that, I haven't seen a guy where I didn't look out there and not think, 'This guy has complete confidence and is going to get the job done.' That's one of his greatest strengths."
Cardinals sign four Dominican prospects
SAN FRANCISCO -- A day after the start of the international signing period, the Cardinals announced that they signed four players from the Dominican Republic. The group includes right-handed pitchers Junior Fernandez and Sebastian Nunez, shortstop Starlin Balbuena and second baseman Ezequiel Delgado.
MLB.com previously reported the signing of Balbuena to a $300,000 bonus.
Fernandez, 17, will begin his professional career on Saturday when he joins the Cardinals' Dominican Summer League team. The other three, because of their ages, have signed contracts for 2015 and are subject to approval by Major League Baseball's Office of the Commissioner. Balbuena and Delgado are 16 years old. Nunez turned 17 in mid-May.
The Cardinals have been allotted a bonus pool of $1,866,300 for this yearlong signing period. Clubs that spend in excess of their pool will be subject to fines and future signing limitations.
Auction will be held to benefit Cardinals Care
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Cardinals, along with FOX Sports Midwest and the Cardinals Radio Network, will hold an in-game auction while the team hosts the Pirates next Tuesday. Six Cardinals experiences are up for bidding, and all money raised will go to Cardinals Care, the organization's charitable arm dedicated to assisting children in the community.
Among the items to bid on include a chance to play catch with Michael Wacha, talk strategy with manager Mike Matheny, participate in the organization's fantasy camp and spend time with various members of the FOX Sports Midwest and Cardinals Radio Network team.
Bidding will open at first pitch on Tuesday and continue through the seventh innings. Bids can be placed by calling 314-345-9418. A full description of all the auction experiences can be found at cardinals.com/auction14.
St. Louis is also offering Wacha Fan Packs during the auction, each of which include a Wacha bobblehead, replica 2013 National League Champions ring and two tickets for a 2014 home game. These packs cost $99.99 and can be purchased from first pitch until midnight at cardinals.com/auction14.
Worth noting
• Outfielder Stephen Piscotty will represent the Cardinals in the Triple-A All-Star Game, as he was named to the Pacific League's 30-man roster on Thursday. Piscotty, selected as a reserve outfielder, is hitting .306 with five homers, 24 doubles and 45 RBIs in 81 games for Memphis. The All-Star Game will take place in Durham, N.C., on July 16, and will be televised by MLB Network.
• Though St. Louis was facing a left-handed starter on Thursday, Matheny pulled Allen Craig from the lineup to instead start Oscar Taveras in right field. Craig entered the day 6-for-34 on the road trip and hitless in his last seven at-bats.
• The Cardinals announced the addition of another theme night, this one the 2014 Outdoors Night presented by Cabela's on Sept. 16. Fans who purchase a theme ticket to the game will receive a camouflage Cardinals cap, Cabela's koozie and Drury Outdoors decal. To purchase tickets and/or VIP packages, visit cardinals.com/theme.
• Matheny visited with Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, in the Cardinals' dugout for several minutes after Thursday's 7-2 win. Harbaugh, like Matheny, was born in Ohio and went on to play college sports for the University of Michigan.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This construction will add new sidewalks, landscaping including trees and shrubberies, a park bench and decorative light poles.
Dardanelle Mayor Carolyn McGee said the project started in May and will take approximately 120 days to finish.
McGee said this type of project has been done in other area communities and AHTD just recently started funding the program again.
One block of Front Street is under construction this year. McGee said there are plans to apply for another grant.


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The word kusali means "beggar". Hermits and renunciates who lack any other possessions make offerings of their own bodies. We cherish our bodies more than any of our other belongings, so the benefits of making them into an offering are also greater. As it is said:
Offering your horse or elephant is worth hundreds of other offerings;
Offering your child or spouse is worth thousands;
Offering your own body is worth hundreds of thousands.
Jetsün Milarepa described the meaning of the syllable Phat as follows:
The outer Phat gathers together thoughts that are scattered.
The inner Phat clears away the dullness of awareness.
The ultimate Phat is resting in the natural condition.
By abandoning all thoughts of self-grasping and attachment to this body held so dear, the demonic forces of seduction through desire (the "Mara of the Son of the Gods") are destroyed. Your consciousness becomes a sphere of light, which shoots out through the 'aperture of Brahma' at the crown of your head into all-pervading space. Immediately, in order to destroy the demonic force of death (the 'Mara of the Lord of Death') your consciousness transforms into Tröma Nakmo, holding a hooked knife in her right hand and a skull-cup in her left, and with a sow's head protruding from behind her right ear.
With her right hand she uses the hooked knife that symbolizes destruction of the demonic forces of conflicting emotions (the 'Mara of Disturbing Emotions') to slice the top off your corpse's skull, destroying the demonic forces of the aggregates of ego (the 'Mara of the Skandhas'). Her left hand holds the skull-cup to carry out her activity, which she places on the hearth of three human heads inwardly representing the three kayas, each as big as Mount Meru. The skull-cup is placed so that the brow is facing towards you and then the corpse, now an offering as vast as a billion worlds, is placed inside it with the hooked knife in her right hand.
Below the skull-cup, the fire of wisdom blazes up from the stroke of a letter A and this causes nectar to melt and drip from the upside-down white syllable HAM above. Consider that any impurities are purified through OM, the offering is multiplied through AH, and transformed through HUNG into great clouds of 'space-treasury' offerings with the essential nature of wisdom nectar, but manifesting as whatever beings desire.
Recite OM AH HUNG as many times as you can.
Then visualize the field of merit as it appears in the refuge practice, surrounded by all the beings of the six classes, especially those beings that cause you harm. From your heart, emanate countless offering goddesses. Immaculate nectar is the white feast offered by the offering goddesses to the guests above, pleasing and satisfying them. Inconceivable offering substances manifest out of the steam that rises from the boiling nectar: the five offerings such as flowers, the five sensual pleasures such as visible forms, the eight auspicious symbols, the seven emblems of royalty and the five meats and five nectars. This is the variegated feast, and offering it pleases the guests, whereby the two accumulations of merit and wisdom are accumulated and, as the attainment of the supreme siddhi, your mind is perfected in the two types of bodhichitta. You also attain the ordinary accomplishments of long life, increased merit and so on.
For the guests below—the beings of the six classes of samsara—the dakinis take the nectar from the skull-cup and scatter it so that it falls from the sky like rain. Consider that all sentient beings receive some of the nectar to drink and are satisfied. As the variegated feast, consider that whatever the beings of the six classes desire rains down on them and through this they are pleased and satisfied. The creditors to whom you owe karmic debts that shorten your life because you have killed, that plague you with sickness because you have attacked and beaten others, and that make you poor because you have stolen, receive whatever they desire: food, clothes, houses, land and so on. As they enjoy these offerings, consider that all your debts are repaid.
In particular, think of the jungpo demons of the eighty thousand classes, who create obstacles for you and cause harm to sentient beings, together with the lame, the blind, the deaf and the mute, who gather in the hope of receiving the leftovers. To all the harmful influences and obstructing forces that crave flesh and blood, dedicate a mountain of flesh, an ocean of blood and a mass of bones piled up like the banks of a river, imagining it all to be like the flesh and blood of a seventh-birth brahmin. Consider that it satisfies them physically and they develop the attitude of bodhichitta in their minds. Then the remaining guests all receive and enjoy whatever they desire, such as food or clothing. The lame receive the limbs of miraculous powers. The blind obtain the eyes of wisdom. The deaf hear immaculate sounds. The mute receive the tongue of intelligence and so on. In this way, all those who are weak and underprivileged are satisfied.
Through the merit and virtue of this, all illnesses that plague the body, all conflicting emotions that disturb the mind, and all destructive influences and obstacles are pacified into all-pervading space. Harmful circumstances that conflict with the Dharma, all selfish clinging to wealth and possessions, and thoughts of self-grasping are exploded.
Finally, the offering of the body and the mind that offers, together with all the guests to whom the offerings are made, dissolve into the nature of Dzogpachenpo, the fundamental nature of your mind, in which they are no longer clung to as being true, but seen as illusory and dream-like. This is the state of shunyata. Resting in this great simplicity, seal the practice into the dharmadhatu sphere of intrinsic reality with the syllable AH.
Unless you exert yourself in gathering the accumulations and purifying your obscurations through practices such as this, meditative experience and realization will never arise.
The Treasury of Songs of Realization (Dohas) says:
Ultimate coemergent wisdom can only come,
From gathering the accumulations and purifying obscurations,
And through the blessings of a realized master.
It would be foolish to rely on any other method.
Kusali Chod of Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro by Chökyi Drakpa
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Downs in starting lineup for first time
By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com
"It's kind of hard to get your timing early in the year with an at-bat here and at-bat there, and it's always good to get three or four at-bats in one night to try to get some timing and track some pitches and see some balls," Downs said. "[Manager Brad Mills] was good about getting me in there last year."
Downs, who led the Majors with 15 pinch-hit RBIs last year and averaged a homer every 19.9 at-bats, was hitless in his first six at-bats entering Tuesday.
Mills wanted to give him a start earlier in the year, but third baseman Chris Johnson and second baseman Jose Altuve - the starters at the two positions which Downs is most likely to play on defense - were off to hot starts at the plate.
"It's hard to pull a guy out of there if he's hitting real well, and I don't blame him," Downs said.
Mills said Downs will likely get at least one start this weekend against either Dodgers left-handers Ted Lilly (Friday) and Clayton Kershaw (Saturday).
Buck sits out with hamstring strain
WASHINGTON -- One day after straining his left hamstring while swinging the bat, outfielder Travis Buck wasn't available to play Thursday against the Nats.
Buck, who started the previous three games, could return by the weekend and doesn't appear to be headed to the disabled list.
"It's still really tight," Buck said. "My hamstring is the anchor of my swing. I can still feel it a little bit in my stance. It's obviously not as bad as I've had in the past, so hopefully I'll get a lot of treatment on it and be back out sooner rather than later.
"It depends on how I feel and if I'll be able to produce, than just throw me out there. I don't want to hurt the team if I feel like I won't be able to have a good swing."
Buck hit in the cage underneath the stands on Thursday, but didn't take batting practice on the field.
"I was kind of feeling for it a little bit and kind of guiding it in the cage," Buck said. "Hopefully they won't need me and they'll score some runs. I want to be out there every day, but you realize what the smart thing is to do."
Buck said the knot in his hamstring is higher on his leg, which is a good sign.
"It's going to take a little bit of work to get in there, but it's more playable than if it was lower in the hamstring," he said.
Three Astros on first All-Star ballot
WASHINGTON -- Online balloting to vote for players for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game gets underway Friday, with Astros outfielder J.D. Martinez, second baseman Jose Altuve and outfielder Brian Bogusevic making their first appearance on the ballot.
The online ballot is up through June 28 -- exclusively at MLB.com and all 30 club sites, wired or mobile -- allowing you to cast up to 25 ballots per email address.
"That's pretty cool," Martinez said. "I know it's a long shot, but it's pretty neat. It's obviously one of my goals and it's tough to do. You just have to keep working hard and have a good season and just do all the things right and you never know. You could put yourself in a good spot."
Also on the ballot for the Astros is first baseman Carlos Lee, catcher Jason Castro, shortstop Jed Lowrie, third baseman Chris Johnson and outfielder Jordan Schafer.
The 2012 AL and NL All-Star Teams will be unveiled on Sunday, July 1, on the 2012 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show presented by Taco Bell, televised nationally on TBS. The NL All-Star Team will have eight fan-elected starters.
The All-Star Game is slated for July 10 at Kauffmann Stadium in Kansas City.
Worth noting
Astros manager Brad Mills and shortstop Jed Lowrie were both invited to be part of Friday's 100th anniversary celebration at Fenway Park. Of course, Mills, the former Red Sox bench coach, and Lowrie, who played four seasons in Boston, will be busy. The Astros play the Dodgers on Friday in Houston.
Astros catcher Jason Castro will be signing autographs for free from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the team store inside Union Station.
Brian McTaggart is reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Upton ties AL mark with seventh HR
Rays star one long ball from MLB record in one postseason
By Bill Chastain / MLB.com
"I'm still feeling pretty good up there," Upton said. "Hopefully I can keep things going the way they are right now."
The home run was Upton's seventh of the playoffs, moving him into a tie for the AL record for a player in a single postseason. Troy Glaus also hit seven for the Angels during their run to a World Series title in 2002. Barry Bonds and Carlos Beltran share the Major League record with eight. Bonds set the record in '02 with the Giants, and Beltran tied it in '04 with the Astros.
Upton's homer included his 11th RBI, which tied him for the LCS record set by David Ortiz in the Red Sox's seven-game triumph over the Yankees in 2004.
Upton smiled when asked to explain his home run barrage.
"You just shake your head," Upton said. "But more importantly, we've got to get wins. We're not really worried about how many home runs I have or anything like that. We're here to win. You can go 0-for-10, and as long as you win the game, everything is all right."
Stepping it up in October
|B.J. Upton's stats vs. the Red Sox during the 2008 regular season and in the American League Championship Series
Combine Upton's postseason total with that of Rays third baseman Evan Longoria, and the teammates have produced 13 home runs in the playoffs, extending their AL mark and pulling to within one of the Major League standard set by Bonds and Rich Aurilia on the 2002 Giants.
Four of Upton's homers have come in the ALCS. The latest was a tape-measure shot off Red Sox starter Josh Beckett that appeared to hit one of the catwalk supports coming down from the Tropicana Field roof. The "C" ring catwalk it holds sits 125 feet above the playing field.
"He just left a fastball up and out over the plate and I took advantage of it," Upton said.
Upton's shot was the fourth home run surrendered by Beckett in this series. The Rays hit three off the right-hander in the first four innings of his Game 2 start, including a solo homer by Upton.
Elite company
The lead that Upton's latest homer provided on Saturday didn't last long. Kevin Youkilis hit a homer in the top of the second off Rays starter James Shields to tie the game at 1.
"We started out pretty well with B.J.'s homer, but we could not string anything together," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "We had four hits, whatever it was, and they left 12 guys on base, and I was taking that as a good sign, but it just didn't want to come through for us."
Upton hit nine home runs in 531 at-bats during the regular season, which could be partially credited to his having to deal with left shoulder pain due to an injury in the labrum area that will cause surgery once the season is complete.
"Right now, it feels pretty good and has felt pretty good for the last couple of weeks," Upton said. "So I'm doing everything I can to keep it that way."
Now Upton hopes to contribute while playing in Game 7 Sunday night, an experience that has been in his dreams for much of his life.
"I've been excited for every game [of the postseason]," Upton said. "Nervous? Definitely not. [Playing in a Game 7 is] something that you dream about from the first time you start throwing a ball up the front yard."
Bill Chastin 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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Sonsini Animal Shelter hires new director
Saturday October 13, 2012
PITTSFIELD -- Megan Padgett has taken the lead as the new director of the Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter.
A former animal enforcement officer for the Animal Services department of Grand Prairie, Texas, Padgett was hired over the summer as part of a reorganization process that will continue this fall.
Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter board chairman Larry Hazzard said the change came about as the result of former volunteer services manager Michelle Scully taking a new job at a shelter in Vermont. At that point, both the board and staff decided to implement a vertical leadership model.
Last fall, the shelter staff consisted of animal care manager Lynda Demke, adoption program manager Tricia DeHart, and Scully as volunteer services manager.
Current staff includes full-time members Padgett, under the new title of director, and DeHart continuing as adoption program manager. Former volunteers Amanda Rock and Danielle LaPointe assist the shelter as part-time employees.
"For us, in finding a dir ector, it was critical to find someone with a strong animal care back ground, which is certainly Megan. Inter personal skills and be ing good with the public was also important, and Meg an naturally has that southern charm," Hazzard said.
The shelter also has a five-member board of directors. Hazzard said he hopes to increase the number of board members to seven this fall.
Both he and Padgett said the shelter's goals include re-engaging with the community by doing more outreach and education.
"If we really want to get to the heart of the problem with caring for these animals, we really want to help make good pet owners.
"Once they adopt a pet and go home with them, we want pet owners to actively call us back as a resource," Haz zard said.
The shelter is already seeing signs of success with its new initiatives. Last Saturday, the Sonsini shelter held an open house with a push for adopting cats. The staff found homes for 12 adult cats and four kittens.
"This place is unique. The volunteers are extremely dedicated and the staff has devoted many overtime hours to help our animals," Padgett said.
The new director formerly worked in a shelter that had a maximum capacity for 400 animals.
The Sonsini shelter has 16 dog kennels, with two typically left vacant for any new canines. The Sonsini shelter also has the capacity for about 16 cats.
"We have a very small staff, so our daily operations depend on volunteers," she said.
At the hands of volunteers, the shelter was able to renovate its indoor kennels, paint outdoor dog houses, create a mural on the storage shed by the backyard outdoor kennels, and create a new indoor visiting area where potential adopting families can meet with an animal.
The shelter has also emphasized using new research in its behavior training programs for dogs and expediting the adoption process to allow for same-day pet adoptions.
Padgett said that in addition to continuing to improve the Sonsini shelter facilities, she hopes to work more with other area animal rescue and care agencies to promote the overall industry which she has grown to love.
As a child, Padgett grew up helping her family care for farm and domestic animals, and she began volunteering at animal shelters as a high school student. From there she worked as a veterinary technician and in veterinary management, before working in the animal enforcement field.
She said she is also the proud owner of a German shepherd and two cats, one of which comes from the Sonsini shelter.
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Discussion in 'Old's Cool' started by dorkpunch, Jan 18, 2009.
Sorry I can't help. I don't know.
I'd just keep looking for a '72-'73 XL tach. Don't know about Australia,
but, good used ones aren't to hard to find here in the U.S.
on my old xl i just had a cheap speedo off ebay and just had to make sure the cable size is right.
Here's mine, a 1976 XL125k2
finally got most of the NOS & other stuff I can think of to start the tear down, but have been unemployed for too many months and I fear opening up this beauty if I can't afford to get any other parts I might need (can of worms)
A set of the xl250 on ebay for $36 free shipping http://www.ebay.com/itm/H-00313-Hon...Parts_Accessories&hash=item27bc1133ea&vxp=mtr
Granted they are not in the best shape but with a little paint they will look good... If you don't like em patience is your friend. These bike are old and sometime take a while a for part to show up. I waited 6 months from my box wire case for my XL500R before one came up.Good luck...
Broken motor in my 1974 XL 125...Rebuild to larger nets ~150cc @ $5-600 cost.
Has anyone swapped in an already larger motor? XR 200? XL 175??
The Lifan pushrod 200 fits into a XL 100 frame & so I assume the 125 frame also, but I'm trying to stay with the "General".
Anyone have experience?
Thanks for the heads up.
I ordered one of these a week ago :
Turned the motor over and it took 7 turns of the crank to turn the tacho cable once, so I'm hoping that means the 7:1 tacho ratio is correct .
The xl185 motor goes straight in with a minor mod to the frame to clear the lump at the back of the kickstart, and taking the bolt holes out to 10mm. I'm currently working on putting a 185 barrel on a 125 six speed bottom end with a 185 crank and a one-off 125k2 cyl head converted to roller bearings on the cam.
There's a lot of info around on the net if you look for it.
Anyone know where I can find information on stiffer fork springs and suspension mods for a 1978 Honda XL125? I am 165lbs and I bottom the front wheel out (wheel to fender) every time i go over a rut or big tree root. The front suspension has probably never been serviced. I would assume it needs new oil and seals, but I wanted to know where I would be able to find stiffer springs if i'm tearing into it. I'm not planning on taking it over motocross jumps, but i would like a little improvement. I have yet to find a place that sells stiffer fork springs for the XL125, would springs from a newer bike work? On the road it does just fine besides the usual front dipping under hard braking force. Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
Well a couple things you can do, first off if there isn't any oil in the forks they will probably bottom out, second it was typical back then to use ATF as fork oil, it's even the recommended oil in the Honda service manuals. Now we have varying weight fork oils (ATF is effectively <5W). You may try using a heavier fork oil, say 15-20W, this will give you more resistive damping in the forks while maintaining the same spring rate. You can preload the forks by putting a spacer between the caps and the springs, this will stiffen the effective spring rate but the springs will bind sooner. Lastly you can look for either new replacement springs or progressive springs. I'm not absolutely sure on the 125, but there is probably 3 springs in each fork, a very short one at the bottom (the rebound spring) and 2 stacked springs with a spacer between them which provide dual rate loading. Progressive springs will replace both of those stacked springs and will compress harder the more they are compressed. Springs are sized by diameter and uncompressed length plus a rate.
On my 250s I use 15W oil, about 3/4 inch of preload (and I have adjustable caps to add more if I want) and progressive springs that are about 1/2 longer than the proper size. My setup would probably be too stiff for much jumping but then again I'm starting to drift into "old guy" territory so I'm really not looking for jumps. This setup plus a fork brace and Works Shocks spec'd for more street than dirt (custom made, you tell them how you want them... not cheap, but a bargain compared to Ohlins) on the back and the bikes have become quite sticky on the street. Before the bikes felt like they bounced around almost unrelated to the surface and felt a bit weightless over bumps, now it feels like the tires are always being shoved into the ground, like the bike is really attached and not just kind of flowing over the surface.
Thanks for the info! Where did you get the adjustable fork caps? Are they a standard size made for newer models? What material do you use for the fork spring spacer? Thanks again!
The fork caps on early XL250s and 350s are the same as CB750s, the caps add about 3/4" of preload over stock caps. The caps are a custom milled CNC item from ttr400.com in South Africa. The springs I use are S&W progressive springs for a 74-75 XL350 but I use them in a 72 XL fork tube which is about a half an inch shorter than the 350 tubes. But again this is not necessarily relevant to the 125. I also use taper bearings in the steering head, and a modular fork brace from Tarozzi. As far as a simple preload spacer, there is a whole host of materials you could make them from, aluminum rod, black iron pipe, brass or bronze rod. Black iron pipe is probably the cheapest and easiest, bronze probably the best as it will saturate with the fork oil and let the spring spin easier when it compresses, especially if it happens to bind. Rod is just about any material is available from McMaster.com under RawMaterials/Metals.
I've used PVC pipe for spacers.
Hey all,
I'm totally new to the board, and I only joined because this thread is the best source of vintage XL info I've found during hours of scouring the interwebs.
I'm just getting into riding, and I needed something cheap and reliable, so I bought my neighbor's 1981 XL185s. I want to commute on it (10 miles each way) when the weather is good, and ride fire roads when I go camping/hunting. I'm a little guy (150lbs), so the 185 seems to have all the power this newbie needs.
The bike runs and shifts great, but there are a few things I need to fix before it will be street legal. I'm drooling over the full XL restores some of the inmates have done, and I wish I had the time/money for that. Alas, I'm just trying to get going, so vintage, stock, prettiness, etc., is not what I'm aiming for (yet).
Here's what I have to do before I can use this bike as a daily putt-putt:
1. One of the rear turn signals is falling off. It's that rubber piece that's hard to find now. I plan on fabbing one out of an old flip-flop.
2. The blinkers don't flash, so I guess I need a new 6-volt flasher unit.
3. The headlight case was smashed up. I took it off (man, what a rat's nest of cables behind it) and epoxied it back together. There is a chunk missing along the front (about 1"x2"), so now I need some Quick Steel to fill that in (unless you can recommend something better).

4. The battery is dead, so the horn only works on the power from the stator. At idle it's a low raspy tone, but it sounds nice revved up. I'm not sure if it will pass safety inspection like that.
I would like to upgrade the lights at some point, and I've seen some helpful posts here on that topic. It will take me a while to read through all 80+ pages of posts, but I intend on it.
One more question: Which shop manual is best for XLs? Clyburn or the Honda? The more clear the pictures and directions, the better for me.
As far as manuals, by far the factory Honda service manuals are the better choice.
Good luck with your build. Those are tough little bikes.
I have a clymer manual for my xl500 and it has all the important stuff you need for any major task. That said It can aso be a bit confusing because it also covers the early wet sump dsign the later dry sump design as well as the later 600 along with all the other changes that went along with changing from a twin shock drum brake bike to a mono shock twin disc bike. It is easy to get confused but all the correct info is still all there. On the strong plus side is that it was written in english. I have a honda manual for my ct90 and it was obviously translated and it has a few Engrish oddities.
That is the problem with the Clymer manuals, they are very generic and tend to muddle all the models covered all together. I think the Haynes and Honda Service manuals are worlds more useful. The Clymers are generic to the point that you could get one for a model not covered in the manual and it would be about the same as one that is.
Hi, I put xr200 fork tubes and springs on my 74 xl125,they fit the original sliders and triple clamps, they are much longer, also I run 20 weight oil in them, helps a lot
Hey all.. New here so I hope I am posting correctly.
Going to look at (hopefully buy) a 1983 xl 200r with sub 2k miles. The guy I am buying it from says it has been in a heated garage, never stored outside and still runs great. Since I am new to this bike what are the general items you all would inspect for a 30 yr old xl? Any words of wisdom to help a newbie out is appreciated.


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By Micki Bare
The last movie I viewed in three dimensions required the use of a free pair of cardboard 3-D glasses. The old eyewear was fashioned with red and blue heavy duty cellophane lenses.
Examining the glasses while waiting for the latest JAWS flick to begin, my youthful self thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if the plastic wrap companies started marketing red and blue plastic wrap." Apparently some other kid, who is now a rich plastic wrap executive, had the very same idea.
My youngest child desperately wanted to see Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3-D. Meanwhile, my mother had been plotting to use my son as an excuse to see not only this movie, but all family movies that teenagers and grandpas avoid. I was thrilled to tag along.
Unfortunately, in my parents little town the movie was only available in 2-D.
The three of us stood at the ticket counter debating whether or not we wanted to shell out the money to see another two-dimensional movie. Finally, my son, who had clearly remembered the movie trailer disclaiming that the movie was only presented in 3-D in selected theaters, decided he really wanted to see the movie. He assured Grandma he would still love the movie and then threw in the big eyes and extra cute, big-toothed grandson grin.
Grandma bought the tickets and a big bag of popcorn - those big eyes work every time. The previews indicated several 3-D movies were on their way to theaters soon, so we made sure to note which trailers went on to state, "In selected theaters only," so we would know ahead of time to be choosy about the theater.
After the closing credits, we stopped at a nearby coffee spot to sip exotic caffeinated beverages and engage in opinionated banter. We decided the movie was excellent, even though it was two dimensional. We were glad the big eyes and toothy grin convinced us to stick it out. The popcorn was perfectly buttered, however, in retrospect, we concluded we should have purchased something sweet to compliment the salty kernels.
Less than a week later, back home, my son approached me with big eyes, a grin that could make the polar caps melt and the entertainment section of the newspaper. Without seeing the paper, I knew the movie, in all of its digital 3-D glory, was playing in a nearby theater.
I tried to debate with the eyes and grin, based on the argument we had just seen the movie. However, an 11-year-old has no way of conceiving the impracticalities of seeing a movie twice in the same week.
Considering my youngest will soon grow out of the ability to create such an adorable, who-could-say-no-to-that face and will be just another teenager who doesn't talk unless he wants the car or make eye contact outside of the overused eye roll, I caved.
We called the theater to make sure that they were, in fact, showing the movie in all three dimensions, and then headed out to a matinee.
The special 3-D glasses were $2 extra. Normally, $2 would trigger the highway robbery lobe of my brain and cause me to rudely question the expense. But Hubby bought real glasses about a month ago, and in comparison, $2 for paper glasses seemed acceptable.
When we received our glasses with our tickets, I was pleasantly surprised. The digital 3-D glasses were plastic with gray lenses. No cardboard or cellophane was used in the manufacture of these high tech optical devices. Not only that, but while wearing them I seemed to project a dorky, yet sophisticatedly cool persona.
We remembered the Sno-Caps when purchasing the popcorn and promptly dumped the box of sweet into the bag of salty. We then settled in for the previews.
I must admit, even though we'd seen some of the previews before, it actually was as if we were watching them for the first time as we observed from behind our new shades. We looked at each other and giggled; not because we looked silly, but because at that moment, we knew we were about to watch the movie for the first time ... again.
Technology sure has changed since 1983. At the time, JAWS 3-D didn't seem all that scary after having seen the first two JAWS movies. But Journey to the Center of the Earth in digital 3-D had us jumping, screaming and laughing - and we KNEW what was coming.
I have only two suggestions to the folks in Hollywood. First, it would be nice if the fancy new 3-D glasses came in a bi-focal edition for those of us who need more than a split second to re-focus. Second, somebody PLEASE contract with Johnny Depp to do a digital 3-D movie!
Micki Bare is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau and the Courier-Tribune in Asheboro, N.C., and author of the book, "Relative Expressions." She lives in Asheboro with her husband and three children. Her e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Who's hounding whom now?
The very people who bitterly complain that George Zimmerman stalked Trayvon Martin now seem intent on dogging Zimmerman, even after a jury acquitted him in what everyone concedes was a fair trial.
They say they want justice, but only if it leads to the outcome they expect. The justice system spoke for itself, and on Saturday found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter.
As we warned in an editorial Saturday, those who tuned in to the former mainstream media were exposed to a perverted view of the case that presented the prosecution in an unrealistically favorable light – and were likely shocked by the outcome as a result.
The case was not only riddled with conflicting evidence and reasonable doubt, but also arguably some pretty compelling evidence that Zimmerman was being beaten before shooting Martin – which would buttress Zimmerman's claim of self-defense. As other news outlets reported long ago, the physical evidence indicated wounds on Zimmerman's face and head – and on Martin's knuckles.
If there is any reasonable belief that Zimmerman was defending himself – and there is – then the jury was duty-bound to acquit him.
Even in the face of such facts, the former mainstream media just couldn't resist selling the story line that this was a racial incident reminiscent of America's inglorious past. Many in the left-wing media seem to want that past to be true today. They want to believe the worst in America. They're not interested in the evidence. It gets in the way of a good, self-loathing story.
There was no evidence that Zimmerman had any racist tendencies whatsoever. In fact, there was evidence to the contrary, with one black witness calling Zimmerman a friendly neighbor. FBI reports say the police concluded Zimmerman was an "overzealous" neighborhood watchman who exhibited "a little hero complex, but not as a racist."
Indeed, the only racist intonations in the trial came from Trayvon Martin himself, who used a racial slur in describing Zimmerman to a friend on the phone just before the fateful encounter.
These facts, and many more, not only point clearly to a verdict of not guilty, but also bring into question the pretext for the charges. As strongly as Mr. Martin's supporters feel about the verdict, many folks believe just as strongly that this case was filed as much for political reasons as legal.
Yet, even after the verdict, some still want to hound Zimmerman, urging the U.S. Department of Justice to put him on trial again for violating Martin's civil rights – again, in the face of absolutely no evidence of racial motivation.
This mob-like pound-of-flesh incitement on the part of some is causing a hysteria that leads to civil unrest and irrational statements such as one protester's lament of "58 years, and nothing's changed." That's just lunacy. And it's a particularly perilous genre of fiction.
Leaders appealed for calm before and after the verdict, while not really achieving it. What we might want to appeal for is reason.
George Zimmerman is not a cop, and he should've left law enforcement to the law enforcers. He should never have followed anyone as he did. But our hounding him makes just as little sense. The jury has spoken.
Neither this case nor its conclusion have anything relevant or coherent to say about race relations in America.
Unfortunately, the reaction to it does.


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When the CEO asks about your plan, will you have a good answer?
You'd better, because the companies that provide your customers with Internet access are on the move. Broadband service providers--cable, DSL, and mobile--depend on a steady flow of new IP addresses as they grow, and they are actively implementing IPv6. Because of these initiatives, a tremendous number of IPv6-equipped end users will be coming online over the next few years.
While top content providers, including Facebook, Google, and Yahoo, are adding IPv6 capabilities to their sites to ensure their services will be available to both IPv6 and IPv4 users, broadband providers understand that, for the foreseeable future, most Internet content will remain IPv4. The dilemma, then, is that they have only IPv6 addresses for their new customers but must ensure that those customers can still reach IPv4 content. The methods they use to solve this problem can affect your business in some surprising ways.
One solution is for providers to deploy centralized network address translators (NATs, either NAT444 or DS-Lite) that allow ISPs to "dual-stack" new customers with a public IPv6 address and a private IPv4 address. The other option is to use a protocol translator (NAT64) that allows an IPv6-only device to talk to an IPv4-only device. Neither method is ideal--both are known to break some applications, such as VoIP, Universal Plug-and-Play, and many online gaming apps. They also can hurt performance and create a single point of failure. Also, applications that identify users by IP address will no longer work if the user is behind a centralized NAT. Because these systems use a pool of public IPv4 addresses rather than public addresses at the individual customer edge, a single public IPv4 address can represent thousands of users.
Where a company could run into problems is when its content or Web applications no longer work correctly because a broadband provider serving its customers is using one of these transitional technologies. The customer doesn't understand the nature of the networks he's using; he only understands that a site he wants to access is not working correctly. Sure, it may be the service provider's fault, but you can bet he'll blame the one running the Web site--yep, that means you.
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BTC BRIEF: Shutting Down Corporate Tax Shelters: North Carolina Should Follow the Lead of Other States by Adopting Key Corporate Tax Reform
By Edwin McLenaghan
Public Policy Analyst, BTC
June 2011
- Large, multi‐state corporations are able to take advantage of tax shelters because most are structured as parent corporations that each own many separate subsidiary corporations in states across the country.
- Adopting a key corporate tax reform known as combined reporting would require parent corporations and their subsidiaries to "combine" for state tax purposes to file a joint tax return. The profits of the combined corporation would then be apportioned by formula to each state in which the corporation does business according the share of total business activity located in each state.
- Combined reporting would level the playing field between locally‐owned businesses and multistate corporations at a time when small and mid‐sized businesses are struggling to compete with big corporations. That is because multi‐state corporations can take advantage of the multiple jurisdictions within which they do business and through tax planning set up abusive corporate tax shelters.
- North Carolina's share of state tax revenue from the corporate income tax declined by more than all but four states from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Adopting combined reporting would help to slow this steady erosion of revenue from the state's corporate income tax.
- In 2008, 88 percent of all corporate income tax revenue came from corporations with at least some out‐of‐state profits. If multi‐state corporations in the state were able to shelter an additional quarter of their in‐state profits to no‐tax states due to the rising difficulty of restricting tax shelter
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Voyager' started by Qutluch, Apr 14, 2012.
Tell that to Batgirl and her wheelchair.
Good luck!
When I was little I had a phobia about clowns. I loved the circus, but when those creeps showed up I'd bury my face in my mother's arms. I didn't quite have the same reaction to this ep, but it came close. On my bottom 10 list, that's for sure. Seems to me the writers shot their wad with the Investigations arc; there followed a period of unprecedented (and fortunately, not repeated) lull.
The Joker that clown was not.
MY god what am I, the VOY forum bitch. Well if so, I'm a thrall (that's a TOS word, oh lol, oh lol) of my own making. All the way home tonight I was thinking that I had some obligation for the evening, something I said I would do.. and goddamn it this is apparently it.
:: presses play ::
I am sending you vibes of strength across the many oceans that separate us. Send in the Clowns ...
NO NO don't send them!!!!
(it's the theme music, gotta go..)
Well. That was not quite as horridly horrible as I remembered. Michael McKean really shines as The Clown, excellent acting. The big plus in this ep is that Janeway manages to accomplish in 2 minutes of blather what no one else could do in years. Of course she is not really in there so fear loses its power once it no longer has a REAL person, but still nice that it is Janeway who does the banishing.
CLOWN: What will become of us? Of me?
JANEWAY: Like all fear, you eventually vanish.
CLOWN: I'm afraid.
JANEWAY: I know.
CLOWN: Drat.
That's the end of the episode.
I feel like I'm watching some dumbass high school production.
Anyway, we all know what comes next.. TUVIX. I'm going to rewatch it. To prepare.
Tuvix is where the drought of not-so-good eps ends. One of the very best.
Oh Tuvix, the face that launched a thousand threads..
*gets on roof top*
Janeway is a murderer!
The only episode not on amazon prime is tuvix. I ordered the DVDs from the library, and hopefully they will come in soon!
My discs finally came into the library!! Also, I am watching this on my new TV, and it is such a difference. I went from a 16-year-old 32 inch box TV to a 42 inch flat screen. I guess I didn't realize how atrocious the color was on my old TV…
WOW! Love the opening. I have had hints that this was a great episode! The title was well-done. I like the mixture of Neelix and Tuvok! Good costume and makeup design! What a fun combination out of all the characters. Does anyone wish there was a different mixture? I like the combo of the most emotional character and the least emotional character. However, from the opener I was expecting a humorous episode, not a dramatic one! GRRRRR my dumb library disc is skipping through part of the beginning….
While in the medical bay, Tuvix was scanned, but what scan in the Star Trek world takes 20 minutes? Normally, it seems like the Doc scans and heals everyone quickly. I did enjoy the Doc's rant about how Tuvix had Tuvok's intellectual superiority and Neelix's quirks.
It was a good scene when Tuvix went into the mess hall and saw the mad scramble for dinner, which led him to kick everyone out, "on the authority of head chef or head of security; take your pick"! It is kind of weird to hear a highly logical, yet emotional character. In many ways, their personalities are the typical polar opposites, however, the merging acts as a balancing of the yin and yang. It was very strange, but in an enjoyable way!
When Kes went to Janeway to seek advice about Tuvix we get to see Janeway with her hair partially down. I think she looks great that way! Janeway also had a very touching scene when she talks about Mark; it was well-acted (not too sappy, yet distressed).
After Tuvix had been on the ship for a few weeks Kes goes to see him, and tells him that she would like to be his friend...with a hint of something more. At the same instance the Doc calls Tuvix to the med station because he found a way to fix their dilemma. However, Tuvix tells the Doc that he is afraid to die, and he articulates that his death would be an execution if Janeway forces him to die. He argues with Janeway and tells her that that he has the will of two men to live.
Tuvix asks Kes to speak to Janeway on his behalf. When Kes goes to Janeway she tells her that she cannot. She breaks down in tears and tells Janeway that Tuvix does not deserve to die, but that she wants Neelix back. The rest of the crew begins to side-step Tuvix on the bridge, not knowing what status he has of authority until the captain makes her judgment. There is a heart-wrenching moment on the bridge when Janeway orders him to be "healed". He pleads to everyone on the bridge and screams that they will all regret this at some point but that he ultimately forgives them for his murder. No one (other than the doctor) stands by him or his rights. While you can assume it's because he was not willing to sacrifice himself for Neelix and Tuvok, it also seems to have the mob pressure element. It's difficult to stand up in a crowd, especially when under the pressure of a structured hierarchy.
This is quite the moral dilemma. Would you kill a being to save the lives of two others? I bet Janeway is going to feel like shit for the next few days; what a dilemma. Not to nit-pick over her hypocrisy, but she condemned a being begging for his right to live in order to regain her 2 crew members, but she granted Q asylum when she could have gotten home safely AND guaranteed him a supervised release from his prison in the continuum. If these events had happened in a reverse order, would the decision in Tuvix have changed her judgment for Q?
I was quite surprised that this episode was so gloomy and had so many moral issues tied into it. After the opener, I was expecting something funny…I went from being excited about this episode to kind of sad, but I guess that type of emotional swing in a single episode only goes to show that it was a great one.
Least favorite part: I am sad that Tuvix dies. He was a very likeable character, and his death was depressing. I think this was a well-written, produced, and excellently portrayed episode, but ultimately it might be too sad to be in my favorites. I think I will have to mull on it for a day or two to really decide.
Most favorite part: The make-up/costume design for Tuvix was great. I also enjoyed the pick of characters to mix.
This is the episode that named Ayala who was in 113 episodes out of 170.
This is just a small scale rerun of what happened in Deadlock, where Janeway and Janeway were both willing to sacrifice themselves to save the other identical crew ship to their own... Although by the numbers, the Janeway who survived that encounter was the one careless enough to lose Kim and Naomi, which means that she had less right not to be Vidiian-litter than her doppelgänger. Of course the superior Janeway who looked after her crew right with more reserve and care tipped the balance out of her utilitarian favour when she gave the bumbling accident prone Janeway her Kim and her Naomi because clumsy-clogs needed (golf term) a handicap.
Janeway had no right to kill him against his will in this one. Tuvix was exactly right that it was an execution. It's the moral equivalent of killing Chakotay against his will and harvesting his organs to save the lives Kim and Paris who would otherwise die. Really it's worse, given Janeway doesn't even truely respect his life and sentience or is just clearly blinded by her favoritism towards Tuvok and Neelix. She even criticizes him for having Kes speak on his behalf? Yes begging not to be murdered by all means available is clearly a deplorable act.
Does that make Tuvix a coward for not sacrificing himself? Sure, it does. Is cowardice a capital crime? I don't think so. Who can really say with any amount of conviction that they'd sacrifice their life no question asked to save two others? You don't really know until you're in that situation I'd imagine.
Yeah, Janeway's hypocrisy in this one is self-evident. Especially given some of her future actions too. But for one in the past, as not to spoil things for you and because there are so many, doesn't this episode just seem funny when you compare it to Janeway's condescending attitude towards the Viidians in Phage? How she sternly lectures them for stealing Neelix's lungs, and that she's so much better than them for not killing that guy to save Neelix's life? Hypocrite.
Tuvix was a likeable character and the episode was beautifully done. But seriously, there's just no getting around the fact that Janeway murdered him. She can preach all about how it was to save two lives, but that's an excuse and doesn't make it right. She played favorites and played god and had no moral problem doing so. Even the freaking EMH refused to do it because it violated his ethical programing.
It's odd that Janeway didn't just turn off or abridge his ethical subroutines so that that light bulb with his lofty delusions of grandeur didn't retain such a piss poor excuse to be such a wussy.
She did not murder him, the way stabbing him to death would be murder.
If Tuvix can claim that Neelix and Tuvok are alive in him then Neelix and Tuvok can claim once they have been parsed into their separate existences Tuvix is alive in them.
If she had used a needle instead of a hypospray, then he would have been stabbed to death.
I thought it a tragic amalgamation of two people against their will that was fixed by the wonders of science.
How do you know Neelix and Tuvok weren't inside screaming silent screams to get out?
A nice colorful metaphor, but it doesn't change the facts. Regardless of how Tuvix came into being, he was alive, he was conscious and he was sentient. Janeway is captain, she's not god. She has no right to decide who lives and dies. Tuvix had as much right to be alive as anyone else on that ship. Janeway didn't respect that right and decided she'd rather have her friends back. She performed the procedure personally, so yeah.. she stuck that proverbial knife in him.
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Why am I an atheist? Short answer: I was born that way, and never saw a reason to change.
Slightly longer answer: while in my youth I got some of the trappings of what I'd guess would be called the Lutheran faith, such as baptism and Confirmation, mostly (as I understand it) for reasons external to my family (such as convincing Christian adoption agencies to let my parents adopt three more children), religion pretty much didn't happen in my family. In fact, given that I remember getting final confirmation of my distrust in Santa Claus, I probably believed in him for a while, which is certainly more than I can say about any god.
I do remember when I first started reading the Bible, it seemed a familiar kind of text: pretty much like other mythological texts I already knew, such as the Nibelungen. So the idea in "believing" in this stuff was always rather weird.
Fortunately, while it's rather hard to escape religion as a school subject over here, the protestant variant at least for me never included any checks of or requests for belief that I can remember. It was perfectly fine to take that stuff as an atheist (which I can't say for the – I expect in the US it's called "Sunday school" – leading up to the confirmation, which gave me serious ethical stomach aches: I don't like to lie about what I believe).
Not until I first learned about them on Usenet (in sci.sceptic, I believe, back when that was still readable, and a certain VAX (or was that VMS? The memory is fading alarmingly) guy was almost my hero) did I dream of the possibility of Creationists. (And the first people I told of them plainly didn't believe me.) I believe that's about the same time I learned that the correct term for my (non)belief was atheism.
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Prospect Colon to miss remainder of season
Colon, the team's first-round Draft pick in 2010, was injured by his own foul ball last Monday in Tucson. It was just his fifth game for the Storm Chasers after spending most of the season with Double-A Northwest Arkansas. He was 7-for-17 with a home run and five RBIs for Omaha.
According to Scott Sharp, the Royals' director of Minor League operations, Colon has no vision issues.
Escobar joins 'in' crowd with infield hits
ST. PETERSBURG -- Know what tickles Alcides Escobar's funny bone? A dribbler off his bat that he beats out for a hit.
"When I get an infield hit, I'm laughing, because I enjoy my infield hits," Escobar said.
Well, the shortstop has had a lot of enjoyment this season, because his 31 infield hits, as of Sunday, were the second most in the Major Leagues. The Yankees' Derek Jeter had 32.
Last Saturday, Escobar became the first Major Leaguer to have four infield hits in a game since Roberto Alomar did so on Aug. 20, 2003, for the White Sox.
Infield hits are especially gratifying for Escobar after some of his line drives have been picked off by a shortstop or second baseman -- and he has hit a lot of line drives this season. He went into the series opener against the Rays with a .308 average and an eight-game hitting streak, during which he is 14-for-33. Last year he finished with a .254 average.
"I feel much better this year than I was last year," he said, "because I've got more patience at home plate and I'm trying to see more pitches. I want to hit with the count 3-1 or 3-2, although sometimes I swing at the first pitch when I feel like it's going to be a fastball."
Manager Ned Yost stuck with Escobar last season, even when he struggled early, and he sees a much improved hitter this year.
"In every way," Yost said. "He's more patient at the plate, he's using his whole tool set in terms of bunting, his speed, his ability to hit the ball to right field, which he's really improved on. Earlier in his career, he was predominately a pull guy; now he's got much better plate discipline. He's our best situational hitter, he's our best bunter, one of our best basestealers."
Escobar swiped 24 bases in his first 28 tries this season after stealing 26 in 2011, and he is the first Royals shortstop to have back-to-back seasons with 20 or more since U.L. Washington had 23 in 1982 and 40 in 1983.
Perez returns to site of impressive debut
ST. PETERSBURG -- Catcher Salvador Perez has returned to Tropicana Field, the site of his impressive Major League debut a little more than a year ago, on Aug. 10, 2011.
"I was so excited," Perez said.
So were the Royals after seeing him perform. Perez not only got his first hit, first run and first RBI, he caught five popups -- including a bunt in front of home plate -- picked off two runners and almost nabbed a third.
Perez remembers it all vividly.
"The pop flies, the bunt, the throw-outs -- everything," he said.
More forgettable was the end of the game, as the Rays wiped out a four-run Royals lead with a five-run ninth against relievers Aaron Crow and Joakim Soria. The tying and winning runs scored when Sam Fuld hit a triple and scored when the throw from second baseman Johnny Giavotella hit him as he slid into third and rolled away for a game-ending error.
Escobar says he made an error in Guthrie's gem
ST. PETERSBURG -- Shortstop Alcides Escobar believes that he made a throwing error on the play that ended Jeremy Guthrie's no-hit bid on Sunday in Kansas City.
Escobar was trying to make an easy throw because Paul Konerko, the White Sox big first baseman, is a relatively slow runner. But the throw hit the dirt in front of first base, and Eric Hosmer couldn't scoop it up; it was scored a single.
"I saw that was Paul Konerko running, and I knew the throw was a little difficult for Hosmer to handle. If I made a good throw, it's an easy out," Escobar said. "He's throwing a no-hitter for 6 2/3, and that's no base hit; with a good throw, that's an easy out. If it's another runner, that's fine -- OK, a base hit. But in that situation, I thought it was an error."
Konerko's was the only hit until, with two outs in the eighth, the White Sox got two singles. Guthrie was pulled from the game and the Sox tied the score, but the Royals won, 5-3, with a three-run eighth.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. Vinnie Duber is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.