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Four-man rotation an option with upcoming days off
By Bill Chastain / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Even though Monday's scheduled off-day is now being used for a makeup game with the Red Sox, the Rays will have five off-days in the first four weeks of August, and that has brought up the possibility of going to a four-man rotation.
"We've discussed different things," Rays manager Joe Maddon. "We haven't put it all together. Of course we have our different thoughts and our different schedules. We'll announce that relatively soon. It's possible to do something like that, yes. But we're still trying to put it all together."
Before Matt Moore struggled (five runs over five innings) in Sunday's 6-5 loss, the Rays were 24-1 in the last 25 games started by David Price, Moore, Jeremy Hellickson and Chris Archer. The four had pitched six or more innings in all but two of those starts and were a combined 21-1 with a 1.65 ERA. Roberto Hernandez at 5-11 with a 4.92 ERA currently rounds out the rotation.
"They've been pretty good," Maddon said. "They've been pretty good. And again, Roberto, I know people have been pretty critical of him, but he's also pitched very well, too. The other guys, Archie, David, Matty and Helly, that's been over the top a little bit. The other part of it is [Alex Cobb] is getting well, which also bleeds into it and makes it more interesting. But it's something we're considering, but we haven't decided on that yet."
Cobb, who is 6-2 with a 3.01 ERA, is on the mend from a concussion. His rehab was recently slowed when he developed a blister on his right forefinger, which might turn out to be a good thing as far as keeping the state of the rotation less complicated.
"It definitely would have added a degree of difficulty for what we're trying to do," Maddon said. "But of course we want to get Cobber back. It's a nice problem, we want to keep that problem, always want to have that problem. So we still have a little more time to figure that out, and we're going to use that time."
As of right now, the only scheduled starts on the horizon are Price against the Red Sox on Monday followed by Hernandez and Hellickson against the D-backs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
August off-days a bonus ahead of stretch run
NEW YORK -- The Rays originally had six off-days in August, but that number got reduced to five because of the makeup game against the Royals in Kansas City on Aug. 26. Nevertheless, five off-days in a month is still rare.
The schedule, though odd, is agreeable to Rays manager Joe Maddon's way of thinking because of the nature of a 162-game season.
"I think in August you tend to be a little more tired," Maddon said. "I think it's just a hotter time of the season. They call it the dog days of August for a reason. September comes up, you have extra players [because of the expanded roster]. And I'll tell you, if you're in the hunt, you know the weather's cooling off and there's kind of an adrenalin thing during the day that you don't want days off. So I think if you needed to regroup and get strong and replenish, I prefer doing that conceptually in August."
Sam Fuld agreed with his manager.
"I think there's some truth to that," Fuld said. "I think you get some added energy [in September] from callups. I think the days that you need to dig the deepest are probably August. Although, at this point, we're in late July and I feel like we're kind of thriving off the playoff race already, like we're already checking the scoreboard every day.
"I think we really had to grind a couple of years ago when we were several games out in August. That's when I felt like it was just sort of a challenge to get up every day. It helps that we're winning so much right now. I think, all things else being equal, August is the most difficult month to get your emotions going."
Extra bases
• The Rays travel to Boston on Monday to complete their 10-game road trip and make up the game that was rained out there on Thursday, which will enable the Rays to play their seventh one-game "series" in club history. The Rays have never won one. It also is the fourth time the Rays have had to fly into a road city to play one game.
• Archer and Moore each threw complete-game, two-hit shutouts this week. The last American League team to have two pitchers throw complete games and allow two hits or fewer in the same week was the Orioles in 1992 (Mike Mussina and Ben McDonald).
• Since Wil Myers joined the Rays on June 18, they have gone 26-9. In the last 50 years, only six players have matched his totals for hits (42), home runs (five), and RBIs (22) in their first 32 games: Oakland's Mitchell Page (1977), California's Wally Joyner (1986), Milwaukee's Ryan Braun (2007), St. Louis' Albert Pujols 92001), Atlanta's Jeff Francoeur (2005) and Colorado's Josh Rutledge (2012).
Myers added two homers and four RBIs in Sunday's 6-5 loss to the Yankees.
Bill Chastain 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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i would like to see a column selection mode .
You can drag with the middle mouse button (generally the mouse wheel), or shift+right mouse button to do a column selection.
Ah, didn't try that, thanks.
although it would be nice if this could be trigged via keyboard only too (alt+ up/down/left/right?)
another thing:
when i have something like this
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar
and want to replace/select the first "bar" i get this
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
Imho it would be nice if empty parts would be ignored when selecting columns, so only the bars would be selected.
Sometimes you want the column selection to select empty areas, such as dragging to the right of the text to quickly get one cursor per line.
I'll take a look at changing the behaviour so that all the empty regions are removed as soon as there's at least one non-empty region in the column selection.
I'm new to Sublime so I'm not sure if this is already possible, but it would be really useful to be able to do column mode selection from the keyboard - maybe alt+arrows, rather than the normal shift+arrows - does anyone know if you can do this now, or if it's planned for the future?
Welcome to the forums! There's no way to do it yet, but I'll add something for the next beta.
Any update on binding column selection to keyboard shortcut?
Still only half way there: As Sublimator mentioned, Ctrl+alt+up/down implements a sort-of column select.
...and finish with shift to do the actual selection.it's good enough, thanks
And if, like me, you need to cut & paste some columns using the keyboard, here's a simple plugin to do it:
import sublime, sublimeplugin
class pasteColumnCommand(sublimeplugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, view, args):
clip = sublime.getClipboard().split(u"\n")
for region in view.sel():
view.replace(region, clip.pop(0))
def isEnabled(self, view, args):
return sublime.getClipboard() != ""
delicious! i was missing this kind of ability
Column selection and replace works amazing, but it is only for rectangular selection e.g. replacing - with _ in the name attribute without touching the other -
<string name="x-x-x">a-a-a</string>
<string name="y-y-y">b-b-b</string>
<string name="z-z-z">c-c-c</string>
I have tried other editors as well and then replace in the column selection was not possible (selection disabled or all lines were selected)
But what if it looks like:
<string name="x-x">a-a-a</string>
<string name="y-y-y-y-y">b-b-b</string>
<string name="z-z-z">c-c-c</string>
What I would like is an organically adjusting selection. You select x-x and then like column selection it auto adjusts the selection upto the double quotes. It looks constantly for the same shape in every line and add it to the selection.I don't know if this already possible in Sublime Text by the way or what the real name for it is ( "organic block selection", "column selection with Gaudí feature","shape based selection", "auto regexp selection" ).
There are different ways to do this with multiple selections in Sublime. On approach is to use whole-word navigation (ctrl+shift+arrow_keys) once you have the cursors at the beginning (or end) of your desired text. shift+home/end are also very helpful. I'm almost always able to fulfill my oddly-shaped selection criteria using that approach. In the few cases where that approach hasn't worked, you can always do a regular expression search.
In your example, you could easily get your desired multiple selections in the following way:1) select all of the end of the name attribute values: closing quote with closing angle bracket (">)2) extend the selections to the beginning of the line with shift+home 3) deselect to the beginning of the name attribute value with 3 times ctrl+shift+right_arrow.

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another well-coached, well-played game, except for the 4th quarter.
typical Asstoni.
I don't remember exactly, but wasn't Ronnie in the works when The Cripples began to mount their ultimate deathblow towards end of the 3rd?
Specially w Dolan right now, and the options out there, I'd much rather hold off all talk on jumping the ship on our players...and coach,
Till some very basic but very important things materialize:
Time for amare-melo, time for billups (especially to either heal, or get cut), and for Walsh to bring in one veteran big who is an NBA center.
Perimeter sitting in the 4th. Where was the 3 man threat that NBA TV so recently praised as the league's most potent?
Where the **** was Ronny T when needed?
2 of the league's best scorers go for a combined zero points in the 4th?
Tell me how Philadelphia have, not only a better team, but a better record than we do. How the **** is that even possible?
If we end up under .500 and are swept in the playoffs, what will happen to this franchise?
Until this point in time, the amalgam of the trade, the cohesiveness that Melo has NOT brought to the team offensively and the effect it's had on Amar'e and Fields, as well as the 'stick in the mud' stratagem of D'antoni have quickly become the worst thing that has happened to the NYK this season.
It hasn't worked so far, and if it doesn't show some merit or real promise in the next week, I don't believe that Anthony has the personal resolve to handle the psychological strain of not meeting expectations as a NY basketball star that earns in excess of $20M.
Not saying he/we won't, but the likelihood of an implosion needs to be avoided with some real, heads down tweaking of a failing enterprise that's dealt away its chances of being something special, by not waiting 5 months to sign an individual who, thus far and undeniably, has brought it a very disappointing -.500 record.
MDA and Melo are under the scrutiny of New York's magnifying glass. If they can't find a solution to a snow balling problem, they'll burn like ants underneath it.
Idk why ppl think a time out automatically means we leave the huddle in an improved position. The other team is game planning, too.
I was calling for a time out here r there that wasn't...but may have been more for emotional reasons.
Pierce was an animal, but he rose to that occasion on his own accord. Amare and Melo going for 0 in the 4th, amidst a final 10-0 Cripple...You can't hold these guys' hands when their problems are so painfully simple, and simply in their direct control.
Another loss that shouldn't have happened. 31-17...
I think the first 2/1/2 quarters showed this team is capable of defense. MDA showed he wasn't competent enough to coach at the end. The players panicked, for sure; but, so did D'Antoni. He needs to be a better leader.
It's gonna feel wierd being under .500 after Wednesday night..
But you mainly do TO's to get ur team a new strategic edge or adjustment, when you think you'll leave the huddle with this accomplished and most importantly the opposition can not.
You honestly think we call a TO when the oiled BOS machine, top to bottom, is grinding us down...That their "momentum" will somehow dissapear? Or that they won't simply add in a few fine tuning to their rock solid team play and gameplan?
Our team is worse. Our individual players are/can be better. Our team problem runs deeper than anything a TO can help, but does allow a better team the chance to make final adjustments on how to stop our players.
Momentum can change in a single moment. A time out, a well drawn out play, and basket can provide confidence and turn a game around.
The team was losing confidence. He needed to do something to help give it back to them. Letting Boston score on them again and again was not the answer.
We lost this game b/c Carmelo and Stoudemire scored ZERO points in the 4th quarter. Remember when AMAR'E was the best scorer in the NBA in the 4th earlier this season?
The encouraging sign is (once again) this team is competitive playing against above .500 teams. People can talk about DEN all they want, and to their credit they beat the bad teams they're supposed to beat. BUT, they do have players, their PG knows what his coach wants him to do, and the "new" Nuggets are humbled and fitting into Karl's rotation (not dominating the ball).
AGAIN. WARNING ALERT. WHO CARES ABOUT THE NEXT 12 GAMES? I predict the Knicks will go 7-5. Finish season 42-40. This should be good enough for the 6th spot. We do play PHI again, so maybe a win there is good enough to help us finish 1 game ahead of the Sixers. IF NOT, then so be it. Knicks will be the 7th seed. NY wont collapse to the point they slip into the 8th seed, or out of the playoff picture.
SO... AGAIN... WHO CARES. Don't drive yourselves nuts. Relax and treat the next 12 games like exhibition contests. Relish the fact we do get at least one playoff series.
THIS TEAM DESERVES our patience. I know it's hard, especially with that fool Mike D'antoni roaming the sidelines. Last night was another perfect example how the players were good enough to win, but the coach just spoiled any hope the players had to win the game.
AND... the main reason I can't stomach MD, is his offense lets us down when we need it most. He may know how offense works in theory and his system my bring out the best in players... BUt you put 1 minute on the clock, get in the half court situation, and he just turns into a spectator... and since his offense is about spacing not movement, well... you get what we see most games.... EPIC FAILURE to get an open look at a high pct shot.
SO... we just chill. Watch the next 12 games. Save our judgement for what happens in the first round. IF we get swept or ousted in 5... LET THE SLAMMING BEGIN. If we win, then the season was a success. If we battle and go 6-7 games... That at least shows us hope.
NEXT YEAR will be put up or shut up time. For coach and 'Melo. Well, 2012-2013 season will be... there wont be a season next year.


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The audios are cleaned so there no static.
The only downfall is that it's less than 2 hours. These episodes are free on the internet so I'm boggled as to why you don't get more.
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Everyone knows who Superman is. they make movies and cartoons to go with his comics. the best part of this is your imagination is at work. each person individually sees what they want to see as the cast of this great show only gives you basic ideas for what he is doing. we see the speed he can fly. we imagine how superman sees in the dark (me i personally envision night vision goggle mode) and we sore around the world beside our childhood hero
The only down side is right now there is only four volumes, four adventures of the superman story. the show ran almost every day for 11 years, if Audible can get more of this classic show i would love to buy more.
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This old radio program was thouroughly enjoyable! It was fun for me to be able to relive a radio drama as they had used to be performed in the days of my parents with my young son. A wonderful blend of time and technology. Thanks for this opprotunity!
"old time radio all the way."
old time radio is always the best. and this is one of the best old time radio programs. I just wish that this program had more episodes in it.
"Superman radio"
I liked it but it is not George Superman Reeves. Give me the 50s tv-show.
"loved it!!!"
Wish they had radio shows like this now days.
At least I have adibule so that i can listen to the jems of yesteryear.
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TROY -- The defense of Alberto "A.J." Rivera pitted criminal against criminal Tuesday as it began its case by assailing the credibility of a man who previously testified that the defendant admitted the 2005 killing to him.
Kevin Gervasio testified Monday for prosecutors that Rivera admitted killing Amanda Burns in a conversation the two had at St. Mary's Hospital on Nov. 7, 2005, two weeks after Burns was shot and killed as she sat in a vehicle parked in an alleyway off 102nd Street.
Gervasio, a 25-year-old whose rap sheet includes some 51 arrests, said Rivera told him he killed her because she was going to give police a statement implicating him in arson.
"He made up the whole thing," defense witness John Emma testified Tuesday. "Kevin Gervasio said that he made the whole thing up because he was trying to get out of going to jail ... The reason being he didn't want to go to prison because he had put so many people there, you know?"
Defense attorney Danielle Neroni had noted Monday that several pending felony charges against Gervasio were reduced to non-criminal violations after he testified against Rivera in 2007, when Rivera was convicted of the murder.
That conviction was overturned on appeal last year.
Gervasio recently testified against his mother in an Albany County case, and Neroni suggested his 20 felony arrests never saw convictions because he frequently cooperated with police and prosecutors.
"I never had a deal. That's why I've spent half my life in prison," said Emma, 39, who is currently incarcerated at the Downstate Correctional Facility for a parole violation.
Prosecutors in turn attacked Emma's credibility, highlighting his numerous burglary convictions and stints in state prison.
Assistant District Attorney Keith Muse was unsuccessful in arguing to Judge Robert Jacon that Emma should not be allowed to testify.
Muse told the judge that Gervasio's testimony would be bolstered if Jacon would allow a prosecution witness, Amanda Rafferty, to testify to a conversation she had with Burns the day before Burns was killed.
Burns allegedly told her she feared Rivera because he saw her watch him flee a fire. Jacon ruled before the trial that Rafferty could not tell the jury about that conversation, and he did not budge on his ruling Tuesday.
Neroni also called several Troy police officers to the witness stand to testify to their actions at the crime scene. Officers initially had a report that the suspects they sought were two black males, according to testimony.
Prosecutors allege Rivera smashed the driver's side window of a white Jeep and fired seven shots, with one striking Burns in the side and killing her.
Derrick Rosa testified that Rivera bought the gun from him earlier that day, and several witnesses -- including two sisters who encountered Rivera in the alleyway shortly before the murder -- testified that Rivera displayed the weapon.
Neroni said in her opening argument that Rivera was in the alleyway that night but did not commit the crime.
In a statement he gave to Troy Police the day after the killing, Rivera contradicted the testimony of several witnesses and said he went from a bar to a friend's house and then to his Park Avenue home that night, returning around 10 p.m., about an hour and a half before the shooting.
Two prosecution witnesses, Frank Lashway and Anthony Acuna, had testified that Rivera drove his car to the alleyway minutes before the incident. They testified that Rivera told them not to tell police what they knew.
Neroni will continue to present her case Wednesday. It is unclear if Rivera will take the witness stand.
He did not testify at his previous trial.
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in agreeance with a 92 for carmelo... what will LBJ get?
Also glad they put pippen in, that's great. Watched a movie called "1 Love" about basketball last night, was pretty good, showed a lot of AI. man AI was the **** when i was in high school. That guy was as "Real" as you get. He went hard on the court. Can't wait to see the game wit him in it.
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Given all the market volatility, a lot of folks are wondering about whether now might be the right time to rebalance their portfolio.
Vanguard researchers present an in-depth discussion of rebalancing in this paper. This analysis emphasizes that historically, rebalancing once or twice a year—and only doing so when a portfolio had wandered from its asset-allocation target by at least 5%—produced absolute return/risk results quite close to those resulting from more frequent, complicated, and time-consuming rebalancing efforts. The "take away" is that when it comes to rebalancing, doing it once or twice a year can be useful—and for many investors, there's little point in making it more complicated than that.
But assuming your financial schedule is such that you're due for your "once or twice a year" rebalancing right about now, how likely is it that your portfolio is out of whack by 5% or more and actually needs an adjustment?
My colleague Joel Dickson put together a neat little chart* that may give a quick answer. For any given initial portfolio allocation to stocks (on the horizontal axis) in a stock/bond portfolio, the chart shows how far the equity portion would have to slide before the portfolio's allocation changed by 5% or more. The chart assumes that the non-equity portion of the portfolio has increased by 6%, which is close to the change on the Barclays Capital Aggregate Index year-to-date through Friday, August 19, 2011.
Equity decline to trigger rebalance at 5% interval
It's kind of a neat picture for a couple reasons. First, it clearly shows that unless and until the equity portion has dropped by more than about 13 %, you won't be at that 5% trigger level with any initial equity allocation. (Through August 19, 2011, year-to-date, the MSCI US Broad Market Index hasn't been down more than 10.5% at the close.)
Secondly, the chart shows very clearly the obvious relationship between the level of equity exposure in a portfolio and the need to rebalance: as stocks make up more or less of a portfolio, larger and larger market swings are needed to move the allocation by 5%.
If your strategy is really conservative or really aggressive, much larger market declines are needed to "trigger" rebalance.
Given the shape of the line, Joel likes to refer to this chart as the "Rebalancing Frown"—which is certainly how most of us feel about the markets lately. I told him we just need wait for the market to recover, and we can "turn your frown upside down," as you'd get a similar picture that looks like a smile in the case of positive market changes. (You don't hang out in the Vanguard research departments for the humor.)
Bottom line, while many of us are frowning a lot about market volatility, my conclusion is that "Don't just do something, stand there!" still makes a lot of sense for an awful lot of investors—yours truly included.
Note: All investments are subject to risk. Investments in bond funds are subject to interest rate, credit, and inflation risk.
* For the mathematically inclined among you, here's a detailed look at the calculations behind the chart above.
General case: (all fractions/percentages expressed as decimals, e.g., 5% = .05)
Initial equity allocation:
Rebalance trigger/threshold (always a positive number):
Return on non-equity portion:
The formula that applies when the market is declining is different from when the market is rising:
For 50%, 5%, 6%, you get (.5–.05)*(.5)*(1.06)/((1+.05–.5)*.5)–1 = –.1327
The return on equity required to trigger rebalance (selling equity) in the case of a market increase is:
For 50%, 5%, 6% you get (.5+.05)*(.5)*(1.06)/((1–.05–.5)*.5)–1 = .2956


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I have the following issue : firefox is killed violently when using logout (or shutdown or restart...), and a subsequent run of firefox will bring up the "restore firefox tab" state. Is it possible to have xfce kill firefox gently ?
Last edited by epsylon (2012-07-21 15:59:23)
I assume that the "shutdown" "restart" and "logout" buttons invoke a script that preforms the needed actions. If you were to add the line "pkill firefox" somewhere at the beginning of the script, this will send SIGTERM to firefox, and it will shutdown gracefully.
You can try this yourself by opening a terminal and type "pkill firefox" -no quotes of course- and this will shutdown firefox gracefully.
Hope that helps. Someone else will have to help with the script.
It's a known and long-standing bug of (I believe) xfce4-session that doesn't ask running programs to exit if you don't save your session. It's annoying but I got into the habit of killing all running programs manually…
@_kurt_: pkill does kill firefox violently as well !
Anyway, I'll do the same as stqn and kill my apps before shutting down.
Thanks for your replies !
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The Sand Lizards (5-2, 2-2 4A-4 Conference) scored on every possession of the first half and were up 41-0 by the close of the second quarter. When it was over, Dardanelle won 54-7 on Friday at Keenan Field.
For Sand Lizards head coach Josh Price, the win not only snapped a two-game losing streak, but bolstered confidence for his team.
"I was really proud of our kids for bouncing back," Price said. "Last week was a total team implosion and the coaching staff was truly concerned with how our team would bounce back."
Price said the Sand Lizards played their biggest challenges of the year back-to-back in the Pottsville Apaches in Week 5 and the Booneville Bearcats in Week 6.
"We hung with Pottsville," Price said. "But we laid a big goose egg against Booneville. We still have a chance to have an 8-2 season if we play well for the rest of the season."
Dardanelle set the tone on its first possession when Parker Witt returned a Waldron (0-7, 0-4) punt to the Bulldog 26. Quarterback Chris Kershner found the end zone four plays later when he hit Logan Broyles for 21 yards and a touchdown. Gerardo Hernandez nailed the PAT, and the Sand Lizards were on their way to a lopsided scoreboard.
Dardanelle runningback T.J. Tucker, who finished the game with 232 yards and three touchdowns, scored on the first play from scrimmage on the next Sand Lizards possession with a 53-yard dash up the left side. Hernandez added the extra point and made it 14-0 with 3:37 left in the first quarter.
Dardanelle kept it moving. After forcing a turnover, Tucker took off for 23 yards at the close of the first quarter. Tucker picked up 17 yards on two plays before Kershner punched it in from 10-yards out to make it 20-0 after a missed PAT with 9:50 in the second quarter.
Witt forced a fumble, recovered and ran to the end zone on the next Bulldogs drive, but a holding penalty reversed the touchdown and instead gave Dardanelle the ball with a short field.
From there, the Sand Lizards took three plays to score. Tucker and Kershner picked up 12 yards before Tucker booked it 33 yards past four defenders into the end zone. Hernandez hit the PAT to make it 27-0.
Dardanelle wasn't done. With less than five minutes left until halftime, the Sand Lizards scored twice more. The first one came on the heels of a six-play, 57-yard drive when Witt pulled in a deep pass for 20 yards and a touchdown to make it 34-0 with 2:32 left in the half.
Turner Partin's interception set up the next Dardanelle touchdown. Kershner, who was 4-of-6 for 23 yards passing and a touchdown and another 115 yards and a touchdown on the ground, capitalized with a 35-yard pass to Broyles. Tucker finished the drive with a 5-yard carry across the goal line to make it 41-0 with 1:01 left in the half. The Bulldogs didn't have an answer.
Price rested the usual cast from the opening kickoff of the second half. Still, the second string found a way to score on the first drive from kickoff. Tyler Cotton broke free for 45 yards, then four plays later crossed the goal line to make it 48-0 after the PAT.
"That was good because it let's us stay healthy," Price said.
The inexperience cost a touchdown on the ensuing kickoff return, when Waldron scored its first special team touchdown of the year to make it 48-7 with 2:57 left in the third quarter.
Cotton scored again with 12 seconds left in the game to set the final 54-7 score.
"The key to this game was taking care of the football," Price said. "We didn't have a single turnover, and that's a big improvement for us."
The Sand Lizards travel to Subiaco to take on the Trojans on Friday. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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Cowlishaw: Jason Garrett salvages a win, more time with the Cowboys
Ill-timed timeout nearly costs Garrett and Cowboys a win against hapless Philadelphia Eagles
ARLINGTON — This is the kind of late-season victory that helps secure Jason Garrett's place as head coach for 2013. Looking into why the Cowboys' 38-33 victory was such a struggle, it's questionable whether that should be the case.
A Philadelphia Eagles team that hasn't won a game since September struck first and kept the Cowboys on the ropes almost all night at Cowboys Stadium. The Eagles had clearly outplayed Dallas in the first half when Garrett made a timeout call that can only be described as mindless and disrespectful, eventually costing his team three points.
To overcome that mistake, Garrett was forced to make a gutsy challenge in the third quarter that depended upon equal parts good eyesight and good luck. Then his own superior talent — yes, you can say that when the Cowboys are playing an Eagles team missing so many key elements — and a late fumble by Eagles rookie Bryce Brown helped Dallas climb back to the .500 mark at 6-6.
First, the key mistake: Jason Witten, who had a huge night running free in the wide-open Eagles secondary, took a Tony Romo pass to the Eagles' 1-yard line. Garrett called timeout with 45 seconds to go, presumably hoping a replay ruling would credit Witten with a touchdown.
But the ball already had been marked inside the 1. And by using a timeout, he kept the Eagles from having to use one of theirs. When DeMarco Murray scored on the next play to cut Philadelphia's lead to 14-10, the Eagles had 41 seconds to work with.
Using all three timeouts, they drove to the Dallas 24 where a 43-yard field goal gave a team with a seven-game losing streak a seven-point halftime lead. It also continued the streak of horrible first halves Garrett's teams have endured. During a three-game homestand against teams with losing records and rookie quarterbacks, the Cowboys were outscored 58-13 before halftime.
"We had some third downs early we didn't convert, and they ran the ball well early," Garrett said. "We've got to correct a lot of mistakes in all three areas."
The Eagles still led by seven near the end of the third quarter when Murray was stopped short on a fourth-and-1 run at the Eagles 39. Garrett hesitated, then finally threw the challenge flag although he had just burned a second-half timeout two plays earlier.
It was left to referee Jeff Triplette to examine replays and estimate where Murray advanced the ball in the midst of a crowded pile. Triplette decided it was the 38, the officials measured once more and Dallas was given the first down.
That worked to Garrett's benefit. It was by no means automatic. It was a risk he had forced upon himself with his own greed.
By the end, the Eagles' inability to handle Dez Bryant and Brown's fumble that Morris Claiborne returned for a touchdown sealed the win for Dallas although a 98-yard punt return in the last minute kept things interesting.
But the Eagles are an awful 3-9 team playing without quarterback Michael Vick, running back LeSean McCoy and wide receiver DeSean Jackson among others. They just cut their sack specialist Jason Babin. Coach Andy Reid, despite five trips to the NFC Championship Game, is probably coaching his final month in Philadelphia.
In fact, a Trenton Times writer speculated this weekend that Reid would be coming to Dallas to replace Garrett. There are several reasons that probably won't happen, but the biggest is that Jones doesn't want to give up on his hope that Garrett can develop as a head coach.
But with the schedule Dallas is facing, this is not going to be a season of progress. In fact, it's a stretch to find two wins in order for Dallas to get to 8-8, although we all know in this NFL that most games are settled by a touchdown or less.
Most Eagles games don't finish that way, although Sunday's five-point loss was the closest they have come to a win since Oct. 14 against Detroit — long before Philadelphia lost its primary offensive weapons.
This victory sent most of the 81,851 fans home happy. It probably meant a lot more than that for a coach who was this close to saying goodbye to all reasonable hope of avoiding a losing season.
And for a man who has fought clock management issues for two seasons, a timeout call that was as arrogant as it was unnecessary could have been his downfall.
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Obama to throw out first All-Star pitch
President will be fourth in office to perform ceremonial honor
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
"Major League Baseball is truly honored that President Obama will be in attendance to throw out the first pitch at the 80th All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis," MLB Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig said in a statement. "The central theme of the 2009 All-Star Game is community service, celebrating the extraordinary work being done by ordinary people. We are thrilled that we can come together with President Obama, who has encouraged a renewed spirit of national service, and illustrate a call to action in our communities. President Obama will continue a great tradition that joins our nation's leader and the national pastime."The All-Star Game will be nationally televised on FOX Sports, with pregame ceremonies beginning at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN Radio will provide exclusive national radio coverage, while MLB.com will provide extensive online coverage. "That would be nice if I get a chance to meet him," said Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez, who is currently leading the voting at his position. "But I've got to make it first. It would be fun to meet the president of the United States." Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who will be a coach on Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel's National League squad, was on the field when President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch for the 2004 season in St. Louis, and he's looking forward to this Midsummer presidential visit. "The President threw it out Opening Day for us in ['04]. It's exciting. The only thing is, he's pulling for the American League." Obama is a devout White Sox fan. As a U.S. Senator, he threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the White Sox defeated the Anaheim Angels 2-1 in Game 2 of the 2005 AL Championship Series. On April 22, MLB dedicated this year's All-Star Game and surrounding events to raising funds and awareness for charitable initiatives and community service. The charity and community-service initiatives, themed "Going Beyond," will be the most extensive in MLB All-Star history. In addition, MLB is supporting Obama's call for community service through "United We Serve," a program that encourages Americans to engage in community service. Obama is encouraging all Americans to visit www.serve.gov to find service opportunities in their area.
Alden Gonzalez 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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Legislators in India should substantially amend or replace the new criminal law on violence against women in the forthcoming budget session of the parliament, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. On February 3, 2013, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee signed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013, amending criminal laws, over protests from human rights and women's rights groups across the country.
Legislation addressing sexual violence should reflect international human rights law and standards, and incorporate key recommendations of the recently appointed Verma Committee, the rights groups said.
"The new ordinance at long last reforms India's colonial-era laws on sexual violence, but fails to provide crucial human rights protections and redress for victims," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Indian parliamentarians should insist on a law that deals with these critical issues."
Criminal law reform to address sexual violence has been the subject of national debate in India since the gang rape and death of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in December 2012. The Indian government set up a three-member committee, headed by former Supreme Court chief justice J.S. Verma, to consider reforms to strengthen laws against sexual violence. The new ordinance unfortunately ignores the committee's key recommendations, especially on police accountability and framing sexual violence as a violation of women's rights to bodily integrity.
"There should be a robust discussion in parliament before any law is enacted, and amendments should not ignore key recommendations of the Verma Committee or the views of women's rights groups in the country," said G. Ananthapadmanabhan, chief executive of Amnesty International India.
The ordinance falls short of international human rights standards in several ways, the rights groups said. It fails to criminalize the full range of sexual violence with appropriate punishments in accordance with international human rights law. It includes vague and discriminatory provisions, and introduces capital punishment in some cases of sexual assault. The ordinance also retains effective legal immunity for members of state security forces accused of sexual violence, harms rather than helps teenagers by increasing the age of consent to sex, and defines "trafficking" in a way that might conflate it with adult consensual sex work.
Definitional Concerns
Some of the definitions incorporated in the ordinance do not appropriately protect women from sexual violence, the human rights groups said. The ordinance retains archaic and discriminatory concepts used to define criminal offenses as "insults" or "outrages" to women's "modesty" rather than crimes against their right to bodily integrity. This violates India's international legal obligations to amend all laws containing gender discriminatory provisions.
The ordinance includes penetrative sexual offenses within the definition of "sexual assault" and fails to draw a distinction between the harm caused by penetrative and non-penetrative offenses. For example, the act of touching another person's breast is given the same punishment as penetrative sexual offenses.
Limited Recognition of Marital Rape
The ordinance discriminates against women based on their marital status and denies them equal protection before the law. Under section 375 of the amended Penal Code, wives cannot bring a charge of "sexual assault" against husbands except under extremely narrow grounds: where she is "living separately under a decree of separation or under any custom or usage."
India has ratified treaties and supported declarations that uphold the right to sexual autonomy as a matter of women's equality, including the right to decide freely whether to have sex free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Criminal law must provide protection from martial rape under all circumstances, the rights groups said.
Enhanced Punishment
The ordinance introduces the death penalty for sexual assault when it results in death or "persistent vegetative state" for the victim and in cases of certain repeat offenders.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose the death penalty under all circumstances as the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment and a violation of the right to life. This irreversible form of punishment has been abolished by a majority of countries.
Rather than focusing on punishment, legislators should ensure that the law substantially reforms the system by which sexual violence is reported, investigated and prosecuted, the rights groups said.
Immunity for Police and Armed Forces
The ordinance leaves in place procedures that put police and armed forces above the law in cases of sexual violence. Under current criminal procedure and other special laws, police and security forces are not subject to prosecution – including for sexual violence – unless the government body overseeing the respective force approves prosecution. This seldom happens, resulting in effective immunity for police officers and soldiers who commit serious abuses. The Verma Committee recommended that these legal immunities, including in the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, be removed. Protracted legal procedures to prosecute police and armed forces have consistently caused injustice to rape survivors in India's North East, Jammu and Kashmir, and Maoist-affected areas, the rights groups said.
"India's laws should not give the police and armed forces special privileges to commit sexual violence and other human rights abuses,"Ganguly said. "Requiring government permission to bring cases against public servants is an unacceptable barrier to justice for survivors of sexual violence."
Age of Consent to Sex
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, enacted in 2012, increased the age of consent to sexual intercourse from 16 to 18. The Verma Committee recommended that the age of consent in the Indian Penal Code should revert to 16.
Indian law should continue to acknowledge that below a certain age, sexual contact with a child or adolescent who is unable to give meaningful consent must be criminalized. But the law should also take into account adolescents' evolving capacity and maturity to make decisions about engaging in sexual conduct for themselves, age differentials between those engaging in sexual activity, and remove inappropriate penalties, the rights groups said. The legal framework should help adolescents deal with their sexuality in an informed and responsible way, and not punish the same population that it is designed to protect.
Potential for Conflating Adult, Consensual Sex Work with "Trafficking"
The new ordinance conflates the crime of trafficking with adult, consensual sex work in section 370 of the amended penal code, the rights groups said.
The ordinance introduces a new definition of "trafficking" by which a person "recruits, transports, harbors, transfers or receives a person or persons" by using force, threats, fraud, abducting, inducing, or abusing one's power for the purpose of "exploitation." But the ordinance states that "exploitation shall include prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation" and adds that "the consent of the victim is immaterial in a determination of the offence of trafficking." While forced prostitution should be treated as a crime, and consent to a crime should not be a defense, the language of this provision risks conflating adult, voluntary sex work with trafficking into forced prostitution.
Criminalizing Consensual Same-Sex Relationsbr /> The ordinance fails to repeal section 377 of the Penal Code, which criminalizes consensual same-sex relations among adults. In 2009, the Delhi High Court ruled that criminalizing consensual same-sex relations among adults was a violation of their constitutionally guaranteed rights to equality, non-discrimination, and the right to life with dignity and privacy.
Given these serious flaws in the new ordinance, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called upon the Indian parliament to reject the ordinance in its present form and urged the Indian cabinet to introduce a revised bill to amend the criminal laws.
"Instead of passing a deeply flawed ordinance, the Indian cabinet should table a well-drafted comprehensive bill addressing gender-based violence, especially sexual violence, in its forthcoming budget session," Ananthapadmanabhan said. "The parliament should engage in meaningful consultations with civil society groups, and ensure that any new law complies with international standards."


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She was born Nov. 29, 1934, at Lancaster, Ill., to Henry Elmer and Effie Mae Mathena York. She attended nursing school right out of high school, and worked as a nurses' aide and physical therapist in nursing homes in Illinois and Missouri. She ministered alongside her husband for 62 years in churches in Illinois, Missouri, Texas and Arkansas, and spent her life ministering to others. Her greatest joy was her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Billy Ray Groff; and eight brothers and sisters, Ancil York, Mary York, Howard York, Joy Spond, Hazel Nepote, Edna Mae Weir, Glenn York and Esther Burket.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Ruth Groff of Branson, Mo.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Cathy and Mike Littlefield of Russellville, and Gloria and Bob Possage of Chickalah; a brother and sister-in-law, Ralph and Evelyn York of Mount Carmel, Ill.; eight grandchildren and their spouses, Chris and Tim Ferguson of Pelham, Ala., Sharra and Adam Smith of Branson, Shanna and Toby Roberts of Charleston, Shayna and B.J. Crain and Denise and Trevor Bettley, all of Branson, and Niki Possage, Bobby Possage and Miranda Possage, all of Chickalah; and eight great-grandchildren, Kindell and Onnalyce Smith, Jessica Joy and Grace Ann Ferguson, Caiden Bettley, Fischer Roberts, and Dominic and Tiara Crain.
The graveside service and burial will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, at Brearley Cemetery at Dardanelle, officiated by Dennis Groff and Michael Crites, and under the direction of Shinn Funeral Service of Russellville.
The family will receive friends from 3-4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
The online obituary and guestbook are available at www.shinnfuneral.com.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - After learning that the outgoing Duval County Clerk of Courts plans to hand out $126,000 in bonuses to 35 of his staff, Channel 4 uncovers that 23 employees -- some of the same ones -- already got bonuses last month.
That this is coming at a time the city is laying off employees and cutting back services angers City Councilman John Crescimbeni, chairman of the Finance Committee.
"I am not going to stand for that, and I don't think the taxpayers should stand for this," Crescimbeni told Channel's Jim Piggott on Monday. "I have every intention of moving a floor amendment (Tuesday) night that would recover all this bonus money and put it back in the general fund."
Clerk of Courts Jim Fuller, who is leaving office due to term limits at the end of the year, is out of town and has not returned calls. His wife, however, fired back at Crescimbeni in an email:
"Maybe, if you didn't have your head in the clouds and actually knew what you were talking about, you would know what planet Jim fuller is on," Barbara Fuller wrote, referring to Crescimbeni as Mr. Arrogant Crescimbeni. "There are no taxpayer dollars used in any of the clerk's budget!!! If you and your cronies ran the city as well as Jim has run the courthouse, you might have some surplus funds, too!"
Crescimbeni responded by sending her documentation from the city budget book showing a $500,000 transfer to the clerk of courts' budget.
DOCUMENTS: Emails from John Crescimbeni, Barbara Fuller
List of employees receiving bonuses
Sharen Stevens, a member of Fuller's appointed staff scheduled to receive an $8,000 bonus, justified the extra payments.
"We did not feel it was right to ask the people to come in on a Saturday or Sunday, 10 or 12 hours a day, and work and not compensate them," Stevens said. "So what we did is a three- of four-month plan, this is what we expect and this is the compensation we are giving for them."
Piggott asked if she was one who worked all those extra days and hours.
"Absolutely. During the courthouse move itself I worked three months straight. I did not get compensated for it," Stevens said. "That's OK, because we are here to serve the people, and that is what we are doing."
The remaining bonuses are scheduled to be paid on Friday.
Crescimbeni says this issue will be addressed during the final budget vote at Tuesday night's City Council meeting.
Copyright 2012 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Afrojack Teams With G-Star Raw For Limited Edition Capsule Collection
DJ phenom Afrojack has teamed with G-Star RAW for a limited edition capsule collection. The collection is inspired by the leather pants designed by G-star personally for the Dutchman's performances this year. The G-Star RAW X Afrojack six-piece capsule collection consists of some of the DJ's favorite designs including his trademark pants, a hoody, hat and t-shirts embedded with a new iconic 3D innovation from G-Star.
The Dutch DJ was recently honored with handprints on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, and then headed to New York to be the first DJ ever to ring the closing bell at Nasdaq. With a new single, "The Spark," Afrojack and his partnership with G-Star will definitely upgrade his fashion resume.
The capsule will be available on Gstar.com starting Nov. 10.


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I like the new thread name even though I haven't read BDB. I've always thought peaches were a very guttery fruit.
Variety - I'm not a mom yet but I was going to suggest the same thing as Heart Song for cleaning his room. That's what my parents did with my brother. He had to clean something each day until the whole room was clean and it could be a big job like vacuuming or a small job like dusting his TV. When it comes to him sneaking out, do you know how he's getting out? Like if he's going out a window, nail it shut. It's really hard to stop the sneaking out though, I think kids always find some way to pull it off. As far as consequences that will affect him, what does he like? Whatever it is, you have to find a way to take it away. Maybe cut off his allowance if he gets one, take away TV or video game privileges, no friends allowed over, no junk food. I'm probably not much help since I'm not a parent myself but those are things I've seen my parents or my friends' parents do in the past.


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Pubs, Parades, and St. Patrick's Day in Dublin
Published 3:55 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2013
Several years ago, I served as the Grand Marshal for Seattle's St. Patrick's Day parade. That year, the visiting dignitary was Noel Dempsey, then the Irish Minister for Communications. Noel explained to me that each St. Patrick's Day, the demand for Irish dignitaries empties their country of politicians as they fan out to festivals around the world, bringing Irish cheer to all corners of the globe.
Some years I celebrate vicariously through my son Andy, who is usually at the heart of the action in Dublin. There he's joined by about a hundred foreign-exchange students, as he leads them on a three-day tour of the festivities through his student-based tour company (www.wsaeurope.com). Like Carnevale in Venice, Easter in Rome, and Oktoberfest in Munich, St. Patrick's Day in Dublin is the type of experience where lifelong memories are created.
Dublin's St. Patrick's Day festivities are highlighted by a giant parade. All along the two-mile parade route, revelers sport an assortment of goofy hats and festive face paint. Delicate little sprigs of live shamrock clover are pinned to lapels and hats everywhere.
The parade features a quirky conveyor belt of visual and audio stimuli, including school marching bands, giant puppets spidering along the street on long poles, crosier-staff-bearing St. Patricks in flowing green robes anointing the crowds with mock blessings, and colorful floats blowing Lawrence Welk bubbles and swirls of cloudlike foam into the air. The general public is invited to participate in the parade; this is the only day of the year when anyone can be an honorary Irishman.
The revelry continues long after the parade ends. Bands on outdoor stages churn out lively rhythms laced with fiddle, banjo, and flute. Irish dance troupes featuring lasses in short skirts perform a precision swirl of set dancing as locals break into their own ragged impromptu dance steps, locking elbows and kicking up their heels.
With all of the beer-drinking and celebrating going on, it's easy to forget the origins of St. Patrick's Day. March 17 commemorates the day St. Patrick died. A Roman boy enslaved by the Irish, Patrick helped Christianize Ireland peacefully in the fifth century. Legend has it that Patrick used the shamrock, with its three petals on one stem, to explain the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) while converting a pagan Irish king.
As is typical of any day in Ireland — not just St. Paddy's — the real action is in the pubs. Pub is short for public house — an extended living room where, if you don't mind the stickiness, you can feel the pulse of Ireland.
In Dublin, my favorite pub neighborhood is Temple Bar, south of the river. While rundown through most of the 20th century, this revitalized and now-trendy center feels like the social heart of Dublin. It's fun to people-watch here. The girls are wrapped up like party favors, and the guys look like they're on the way home from a hurling match. Good places to hit include Gogarty's Pub, the Palace Bar, and Porterhouse, featuring Dublin's best selection of microbrews.
But the king of beers is still Guinness. This is where Arthur Guinness began brewing his famous stout in 1759, and to this day, his brewery still occupies several city blocks along the river. A huge exhibit fills the old fermentation plant like a shrine (www.guinness-storehouse.com). A tall beer-glass-shaped atrium — 14 million pints big — soars past several floors of exhibitions to the Gravity Bar, which gives visitors a commanding 360-degree view of Dublin. Despite competition from other brews, Guinness still rules: When you say "a pint, please" in a Dublin pub, you'll get Guinness.
If you think you don't like Guinness, try it in Ireland. It doesn't travel well and is better in its homeland. Murphy's is a very good Guinness-like stout, but a bit smoother and milder. For a cold, refreshing, basic, American-style beer, ask for a lager, such as Harp. Ale drinkers swear by Smithwick's. Caffrey's is a satisfying cross between stout and ale. Try the draft cider (sweet or dry)...carefully.
In Ireland good beer comes with good music. For a toe-tapping introduction to "trad," as traditional music is called, I recommend the Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl in Dublin. The group visits three pubs while witty musician-guides explain and demonstrate their instruments, offering travelers an educational foundation for Irish music appreciation (and generally a nice Guinness buzz). After this tour, a night at an Irish pub listening to trad will hold much more meaning.
The atmosphere in an Irish pub is something you won't find elsewhere. When the beer, the music, and the convivial spirit of the crowd all come together just right, you feel you know what it is to be Irish — even if it's not St. Patrick's Day.
Rick Steves (www.ricksteves.com) writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. Email him at email@example.com and follow his blog on Facebook.
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Resting arm, Hart sits out of finale vs. A's
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
OAKLAND -- Designated hitter Corey Hart was not in the Mariners' lineup in Sunday's series finale with the A's as manager Lloyd McClendon hoped to get the right-hander a quick two-day break to help a sore right biceps muscle continue to recover.
Hart did not play in the season opener but was at designated hitter the next four games until Sunday, when Logan Morrison got the start at DH and Michael Saunders opened in right field.
Hart missed a week toward the end of Spring Training because of soreness in his right arm, which did not help his effort to regain his timing after he missed all of 2013 following two knee surgeries. He has hit .167 (3-for-18) with a home run this year.
The Mariners are off Monday prior to Tuesday's home debut against the Angels, so McClendon wanted to take advantage.
"It's a great opportunity to get him two days off, get him freshened up and ready for the home opener," McClendon said. "I think the light is starting to flick a little bit for him. You can see the hands starting to quicken up; he's starting to recognize breaking balls a little better. He's still not quite over the hump with the tissue issue with his bicep, but he's getting there. I just want to be careful with him and keep him moving forward. The opportunity to give him two days off just makes sense."
McClendon said the sore arm did not hinder Hart's throwing, just his swing, so that would not affect when he would play in right field. For now, McClendon has revolved Saunders, Morrison and rookie Stefen Romero in right, with Romero's use limited so far because the club has faced only two left-handed starters.
McClendon likes having Morrison's bat in the lineup against right-handers, bringing Saunders in for late-inning defense when both Morrison and Romero have started. Saunders replaced Morrison in the eighth inning of Saturday's 3-1 win and immediately caught a tough, low-sinking line drive.
Morrison immediately turned to McClendon in the dugout and told him he had made the right move.
"When Saunders caught that ball he said, 'That was one heck of a move, Skip, getting me out of there,'" McClendon said with a laugh. "But he's been fine. He plays the outfield a little better than I thought he would. I've been pleased with it. He'll be back out there."
As for Saunders?
"Michael is a tremendous defensive outfielder that can play all three positions," McClendon said. "There's a certain comfort with having him in the outfield. I'd be lying if I said if I had a chance to DH Morrison or Hart and play Michael in the outfield that I'd rather do it the other way around. He gives us the best defensive outfield to have him out there. But to this point, everything has worked pretty nicely for us."
Young perfect in two innings in bullpen debut
OAKLAND -- Chris Young well remembers the only other time before Sunday he has pitched out of the bullpen while wearing a Major League uniform.
"It didn't go well," Young said with a smile. "It was the 2007 All-Star Game. Ichiro hit an inside-the-park home run off me."
Young, 34, made a better showing Sunday in his first regular-season relief appearance, as the 6-foot-10 right-hander threw two perfect innings with two strikeouts for the Mariners in a 6-3 loss to the A's.
Now in his 10th big league season, Young has made 159 career starts, and he signed with the Mariners two weeks ago to be their fifth starter after he was released by the Nationals. But his first scheduled outing was skipped when Friday's game with the A's was postponed due to poor field conditions at O.co Coliseum.
Manager Lloyd McClendon chose to keep his other starters on schedule and moved Young into a long relief role for now. With two off-days coming up during this week's opening homestand at Safeco Field, a fifth starter most likely will not be needed until April 15 at Texas.
By that time, it is possible that Taijuan Walker will be ready to come back from a Minor League injury rehab stint. So Young's opportunity to show how far he has come since his surgery last year to relieve thoracic outlet syndrome could rest largely on his relief outings.
The big right-hander says his shoulder finally feels healthy for the first time in five years, but getting a chance to prove that has been elusive. His most recent Major League game before Sunday was in 2012. In Sunday's 6-3 loss to the A's, he replaced Erasmo Ramirez in the fifth inning with no outs and two on.
Young allowed one of Ramirez's runs to score on a sacrifice fly, but he retired all six batters he faced.
McClendon said he took Young out after two innings so he would still be available in relief if needed Tuesday when the Mariners open their home season against the Angels. Young will take whatever he can get.
"I felt strong," he said. "Those two innings went by pretty quickly, but I'll be ready to go Tuesday and give the club whatever they need.
"The game is still the same. You have to make quality pitches. There are no excuses. Once you get the ball, you've got to get the job done. So that's been my mentality, take the ball and try to get outs."
Mariners to usher in home slate vs. Angels
OAKLAND -- Only scattered single tickets remain for Tuesday's home opener at Safeco Field when the Mariners face the Angels at 7:10 p.m. PT.
The game kicks off a five-game homestand, with the Angels in Seattle on Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by a three-game set with the A's on Friday through Sunday.
The Mariners will salute the Super Bowl-champion Seahawks on Tuesday as part of their Opening Night ceremonies at Safeco Field, with quarterback Russell Wilson among multiple players who will be part of a pregame presentation and the ceremonial first pitch.
Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith and teammates Jermaine Kearse, K.J. Wright and Bobby Wagner will also be among the Seahawks taking part.
Opening Night festivities will begin at 4:40 p.m. PT, when the gates of Safeco Field will open to the general public with a countdown at the Home Plate Gate with broadcasters Rick Rizzs and Aaron Goldsmith. All fans on Tuesday will receive a 2014 Mariners magnetic schedule.
Pregame ceremonies start at 6:30 p.m. PT and will include the ceremonial first run around the bases by a Make-A-Wish child, with Avinash Day, a 10-year-old from Tacoma doing this year's honors. Day has a diagnosis of familial polyposis, a life-threatening medical condition.
The national anthem will be performed by Navy Band Northwest, and the flags will be presented by the Lakewood Police Department and the Joint Base Lewis-McChord I Corps Command Honor Guard.
New Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano will be presented with the Silver Slugger Award he earned last year with the Yankees, and former Mariners outfielder Raul Ibanez, now playing for the Angels, will be recognized for his 2013 Hutch Award.
Worth noting
• Right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma played long toss in the outfield, throwing about 120 feet on Sunday morning, as he continues progressing back from a sprained tendon in his right middle finger that wiped out his entire spring. The plan is for Iwakuma to throw a bullpen session midweek after the team returns to Seattle as he continues building up his arm strength.
• D.J. Peterson, the Mariners' first-round pick in the 2013 Draft, went 4-for-4 with two doubles and three RBIs on Saturday night for Class A Advanced High Desert in a 9-3 win over Inland Empire. After an 0-for-4 opener, Peterson has gone 6-for-8 to put his average at .500. Outfielder Gabriel Guerrero is also off to a hot start, batting .545 (6-for-11) with a double and three RBIs.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Fergie + Josh Duhamel Show Off First Photos of Baby Axl Jack
Brand-new parents Fergie and Josh Duhamel welcomed their son Axl Jack on Aug. 29, and now they're finally sharing photos of their little bundle of joy from the first days of his life.
Spoiler: They're adorable.
The first snap which was posted by Duhamel shows their child on day one of not being inside a womb. It also comes accompanied with the cheeky caption aimed at paparazzi sitting outside their house which reads, "Axl Jack Duhamel Day 1 Life is good #paparazziyoucanleaveourhousenow."
The second photo is of Axl getting his hearing tested. Fergie captioned this sweet picture: "Axl Jack Duhamel. Day 2 of life. Hearing test complete. All systems go. #chillin"
Go ahead, try not to "awww," we dare you.


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Monetary policy offers chance to hit winners
THE actions of central bankers around the globe will trump all other issues in determining the performance of sharemarkets in 2013. While a raft of topics - including Chinese and US economic growth, European elections and the fast approaching deadline on the US debt ceiling - will all sway opinion, it will be monetary policy that takes centre stage.
One only has to look at recent events in Japan to realise that monetary policy is the current elixir of stockmarkets.
Japan is the Lleyton Hewitt of global equity markets. Australian tennis fans are beside themselves every year as Hewitt wins a string of matches leading into a grand slam competition. The headlines bellow how Hewitt can recapture past glories and go all the way. Invariably the fundamentals catch up to the former champion and he is bundled out.
The Japanese sharemarket seemingly fills investors with the same hope about every 12 months, as commentators call an end to the bear market that began in 1990. The market briefly charges higher only for the fundamentals of no economic growth, ageing population and a strong currency working to lure the bears back into the game.
With this backdrop, it comes as some surprise that investors have shunted the benchmark Nikkei index some 23 per cent higher since mid-November.
The catalyst has been the election of the Liberal Democrat Party, which had run on a promise to inflate Japan out of its economic stupor through a tsunami of money printing. The party targeted 2 per cent inflation and a weaker yen. Despite Japan already printing money for more than a decade and racking up the highest level of government debt on the planet, investors piled into the Japanese sharemarket.
It is obvious the latest stimulus policy has next to no chance of succeeding longer term. Unless it lubricates the engines of private sector economic growth, the Japanese economy will continue to ride the gyrations of the yen. What the latest round of government stimulus does emphasise, though, is that loose monetary and fiscal policies are the No. 1 drivers of equity markets around the globe. And investors can't afford to ignore this phenomenon.
Economic growth in the US has been pallid since the great recession of 2008-09 but still the Federal Reserve has pumped enough money into the system to push equity markets up a thumping 121 per cent in less than four years.
Investors are happy to go along for the liquidity ride betting that eventually, unlike Japan, the fundamentals will improve.
Only time will tell and a day of reckoning is near at hand, but until then share prices grind higher. With the US 10-year bond still trading at just 1.8 per cent, it is quite feasible to value the US sharemarket above its long-term average price to earnings multiple of 15 times.
The big conundrum for US investors is working out when bond rates will start to move higher on the back of tighter monetary policy.
The Fed has laid out a blueprint for the future by saying that money printing will stop if unemployment falls from the current 7.8 per cent to around 7.2 per cent and interest rates will be ratcheted up when unemployment hits 6.5 per cent. Under this scenario economic growth may jump but price to earnings multiples will compress and the sharemarket will struggle. With US economic data strengthening, this change in monetary policy could start to take hold in late 2013.
In the case of Europe, loose monetary policy has seen the German, English and French markets rocket between 26 per cent and 47 per cent higher in the past 16 months.
Meanwhile, Italy and Spain have both spiked 44 per cent since the European Central Bank said it would print money to avoid disasters.
Europe, like Japan, is a dead man walking.
Eventually the fundamentals of a stagnant, ageing population and declining relative productivity will see the benefits of an indulgent monetary policy fade.
Australia has also recently joined the monetary policy game and the stock market has found its legs.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut official interest rates 175 basis points in 14 months. Investors did not respond immediately but since June 2012 our market has risen a healthy 15 per cent, creating concerns that equities are getting expensive on a price-to-earnings multiple with a benign earnings outlook.
Company earnings are always critical to the price of a sharemarket in the longer run but in the shorter term (12 to 18 months) investors will buy equities if they are cheap compared to interest rates. How else can you explain the kick in the domestic sharemarket last week when the unemployment rate jumped to 5.4 per cent?
The soft economic data was seen as a green light for the RBA to cut official interest rates either in February or March. As the economic data has disappointed during the Christmas/New Year period the bond market has gone from betting on one interest cut of 25 basis points in 2013 to possibly two cuts totalling 50 basis points. The net result has been a 6 per cent lift in the sharemarket since the end of November.
The behaviour of investors around the globe strongly suggests that 2013 will be a year determined once again by monetary policy. For some it could see policy tightening causing equity valuations to fall, while for others such as Australia it is all about how loose will the RBA get. For the moment poor economic news means lower interest rates and higher equity prices. The message is clear: keep a close eye on what RBA governor Glenn Stevens has to say in the coming weeks.
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