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On a team lacking in offense for much of the season, rookie Nick Franklin has been a shining light for the Mariners as they search for the right balance of productive pitching, hitting and defense.
Franklin drove in all three of Seattle's runs in Friday's series opener against the A's with his fourth home run of the season, and his two-run single in the eighth of the Mariners' 7-5 win helped snap a three-game losing streak Saturday at Safeco Field.
Manager Eric Wedge said Franklin is the type of player who hits better in the Majors than in the Minor Leagues.
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Since Franklin made his debut on May 27, he leads AL rookies in home runs with four, extra-base hits with 11, RBIs with 13 and is tied for first with seven doubles.
The Mariners hope Franklin can come through again in Sunday's rubber match, when Jeremy Bonderman takes the mound at Safeco Field.
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Standing in Bonderman's way is 24-year-old Jarrod Parker, who is 6-6 with a 4.30 ERA in a sporadic second season with Oakland.
The right-hander is 3-0 with a 1.91 ERA over four starts in June, 2-3 with a 3.86 ERA in six road starts and 1-1 against the Mariners this season. He won his last outing at Safeco Field in early May. He surrendered two runs in the third inning in his last win against the Rangers last week, but that was all the Texas could score. He ended his outing retiring 12 of his last 14 batters.
"My changeup was pretty good tonight," Parker said after picking up his sixth win of the season. "I think I found it in the last game. It's starting to come back to where I can throw it for a strike or put it down in the zone for a punchout."
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A left palm abrasion kept catcher John Jaso out of the starting lineup for a second straight day, though he was considered to be available off the bench if necessary.
"Between [the two catchers], I think it probably equates to having one and a half right now," manager Bob Melvin said. "But if he had to go back there, he could, even if I had to pick him up and carry him back there."
Jaso, who suffered the injury while sliding in Texas on Thursday, was a late scratch from Friday's game after experiencing significant pain in the hand while attempting to take batting practice. It wasn't any better Saturday, when Derek Norris received another start behind the plate.
"I don't know what kind of time it's going to take," Jaso said, "but I definitely can't swing. It hurts way too bad."
The timing of the injury is unfortunate for Jaso, who has reached base safely in 18 of his last 19 games, going 20-for-58 with 13 walks over that span for a .466 on-base percentage.
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On Saturday, Michael Morse was placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to Friday.
While pinch-hitting against the Angels on Thursday, the 31-year old slugger felt pain in his already aggravated right leg. He has seen only limited action since straining his right quad on May 28 against San Diego.
After missing seven games following the injury, Morse saw occasional time as a designated hitter, pinch-hitter and first baseman. His ability to play through injury was crucial for the Mariners, with players such as Justin Smoak and Franklin Gutierrez recovering from their own injuries. But playing through the pain has come at a price for Morse, who has seen his OPS has fall from .799 in April to .774 in May to .653 in June.
"For him to suck it up and try to get through it was great but we did feel like he was going to progress better than he did," Wedge said. "But ultimately he didn't, so I think the best thing for him and for us in regard to the season is to shut him down and get him healthy."
Worth noting
• Third baseman Kyle Seager leads the team in hits (83) and walks (28), giving him a .354 on-base percentage. No player has led the Mariners in both categories since Edgar Martinez in 1995.
• Seager enters Sunday's game with a seven-game hitting streak, his third streak of five or more games with a hit in 2013.
• The A's are 12-9 in June after going 16-12 in both April and May and have gone six consecutive months with a winning record dating back to last June.
Jeff Kirshman is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Russell Wilson completed 16 of 27 passes for 293 yards and three touchdowns as host Seattle overcame a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to stun New England, which fell into a four-way tie atop the AFC East.
Sidney Rice caught three passes for 81 yards and made the key play, beating the Patriots secondary and hauling in a 43-yard touchdown pass from Wilson with 1:27 left to give the Seahawks the lead. Braylon Edwards and Doug Baldwin each added a touchdown catch for Seattle, which beat New England for the first time since 1993.
Tom Brady completed a season-high 36 passes in a career-high 58 attempts for 395 yards and a pair of touchdowns but was called for two key intentional grounding penalties and was picked off twice.
Wilson found Edwards with a 10-yard scoring pass to pull the Seahawks within 23-17 with 7:26 left. The Seattle defense forced the Patriots to punt on each of their next two possessions and gave their offense the ball back with 2:38 left.
Marshawn Lynch bulled his way for a first down to keep the drive alive and then Wilson went up top to Rice for the go-ahead touchdown. The defense stepped up again, forcing a pair of incompletions and sacking Brady once on the ensuing drive to clinch it.
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Dramma per musica in three acts
Libretto by Giambattista Varesco after a libretto by Antoine Danchet for the Tragédie lyrique Idomenée (Paris 1712) by André Campra
World premiere of 1st edition January 29th 1781, Hoftheater, Munich
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A contradictory figure caught the 25 year old composer's imagination: his characters move in situations with existential boundaries. In his »Sturm und Drang« opera Idomeneo Mozart conjures the power of nature to surge up in the orchestra. Superior powers are at play. Idomeneo, King of Crete, is hunted down by Neptune's fury on his voyage home from Troy. He vows to the gods that he will sacrifice the first creature he meets on land if his life is spared. He survives the storm but, the first person he meets is his son, Idamante. He tries to postpone making the sacrifice, which brings new catastrophies on himself and his people. He explains what happened. Idamante offers himself as a sacrifice but is spared by the god, who stipulates that Idomeneo must abdicate in favour of his son.
When Mozart wrote the opera in the summer of 1780 his score was influenced by many styles and contemporaries and his desire to write another opera seria, a stipulation from the court in Munich. Idomeneo marked a turning point in Mozart's music: the framework was preserved but, internally, opera seria's rigid structure was broken entirely. This may not be Mozart's most popular opera but it is certainly the »wildest«.
When Mozart wrote the opera in the summer of 1780 his score was influenced by many styles and contemporaries and his desire to write another opera seria, a stipulation from the court in Munich. Idomeneo marked a turning point in Mozart's music: the framework was preserved but, internally, opera seria's rigid structure was broken entirely. This may not be Mozart's most popular opera but it is certainly the »wildest«.
King Idomeneo, returning from the Trojan War to his island Crete, is eagerly awaited by his son Idamante, the Mykenian King's daughter Elektra and his subjects, and, less eagerly, the Trojan King's daughter Ilia. The curse of ten years of war weighs heavily upon him. His life is spared in a terrible storm at sea by Neptune, but only on condition that Idomeneo sacrifice the first person he meets on land, which turns out to be his son. The King puts his own people in danger in trying to avoid carrying out his side of the bargain. When his son finds about the oath his father has taken he offers himself as sacrifice. When Ilia says that she wants to take his place the God is appeased, as long as Idomeneo hand power over to his son.
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The CMI8788 does not have hardware mixing support. That being said, I own a X-Meridian which has the same chipset and the support in linux is extremely good. I haven't had an issue with it in linux, windows, or os x.
I am considering buying a Xonar D2 soundcard, after reading this page http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...ClemensLadisch I think the card feature set available at the moment is good enough, but there is one thing I can't find info about: Hwmix support.
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The CMI8788 does not have hardware mixing support. That being said, I own a X-Meridian which has the same chipset and the support in linux is extremely good. I haven't had an issue with it in linux, windows, or os x.
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Card arrived today, I got it working by recompiling Alsa. Does seem to work correctly.
I have tested it with some mp3 (new details in some songs) and Quake Wars with stereo heaphones, need to test microphone and surround 5.1 speakers.
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I am wondering how did you do the recompiling I sort of get it but in the instructions it mentions about the fully configured source what is that? I have downloaded the newest CMI8788 driver where do I go from there?Quick install
1) You must have full configured source for the Linux kernel which you
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I was using Ubuntu Gutsy (includes Alsa 1.0.15) and downloaded ALSA 1.0.16. Compilation was done with the help of module-assistant.
Latest Ubuntu Hardy has ALSA 1.0.16 included, card should work "out of the box".
The sound card I installed is XonarDX(Asus)PCIe 7.1 and my OS is Ubuntu Hardy not sure if this helps
Wierd when I booted up the Volume control was muted I turned it up but no sound so I then went into preferences and there was only two choices alsa mixer and generic I tried both but niether seem to work
Try using alsamixer in console, to keep the configuration between reboots use "alsactl store" as root or "sudo alsactl store".


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The pepper is a doctor, OK, I get the Dr. Pepper reference...that's cute. But what kind of apple is it? Certainly unappetizing, so its not a Red Delicious if it has a worm in it. Great, now I'm going to spend a couple of hours researching what kind of apple that is supposed to be, rather than getting some needed sleep.
creativehack wrote:Is that Dr Pepper?! (~Bell pepper that is)
Since they contain seeds aren't all peppers female? So Dr. Belle Pepper makes sense.
Ojoya wrote:I might be thinking too hard about this, but the alarmed-looking individual seems to be a tomato... so is he a friend of the apple?
Well, the doctor is a red bell pepper, so I guess anything goes...
For those of you wondering about his name, just look at the write up. Clearly his name is Adams Apple. Get it? ;)
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zekecatz wrote:The worm must have known that he was having his picture taken - he's smiling.
as it gets microwaved
Another clever 'n cute (and a little scary to think about!) win - congratulations Walmazan!
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Kinda reminds me of those Alien chestbursters.
This is picture is slightly dirty... in a good way.
This is not good news to get on a shirt on my birthday.... :,( Not cool doc not cool
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Posted on 03/13/2013 8:33:23 PM PDT by neverdem
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has drawn the ire of the poverty-industrial complex for launching a gutsy ad campaign against teen pregnancy. Posters in thousands of bus shelters and subways show tiny tots bewailing the bad news about teen pregnancy. Because you had me as a teen, cries one, Im twice as likely not to graduate high school. Other stressed-out toddlers warn of the financial burdens their unwed mothers will face and the near certainty that their fathers wont stick around. One little sage identifies the simplest way to avoid poverty: graduate from high school, get a job, and wait until marriage before having a child.
These are all incontrovertible facts that social science has known for decades but that professors and politicians have not dared inject into the public sphere. And the reason for their reticence is fully on display in the advocacy worlds reaction to the ad campaign. Like clockwork, Planned Parenthood of New York put out a press release blasting the ads for stigmatizing teen parents. Equally predictably, the New York Times provided a platform to amplify the groups complaint: Haydee Morales, vice president for education and training at Planned Parenthood of New York City, [told the Times that] the organization was shocked and taken aback by the tone of the new campaign. Hurting and shaming communities is not whats going to bring teen pregnancy rates down, she added.
Less predictable was the charge in the Planned Parenthood press release that the posters perpetuate gender stereotypes. Even the most seasoned observers of the academic-advocacy-victimology axis might not have seen this one coming. Presumably, the ads perpetuate gender stereotypes by pointing out to Dad the costs of child support and to Mom that when the father takes off, as he likely will, shell be left holding the diaper bag. It appears that we have a new politically correct fantasy: unwed teen fathers are as likely to be the sole provider for their child as teen moms.
The backlash illustrates two defining features of contemporary poverty discourse. First is the stigma against stigma. Accusing someone of being stigmatizing is almost as powerful a means of silencing him as calling him a racist. For millennia, humans relied on social disapproval to reduce behavior that produced disproportionate costs to individuals and the community. Now, however, one cannot point out the bad consequences of actions that generate multigenerational poverty, because that would be judgmental. Even abstract statements of fact, like those in the Bloomberg ad campaign, are now reviled as insensitive, even when not directed at any particular individual.
The second defining figure of our poverty discourse is the philosophical divide over poverty and causality. Planned Parenthoods Morales told the Times that the ad campaigns message—that teenage pregnancy leads to poverty—was backward, in the Timess words. Its not teen pregnancies that cause poverty, but poverty that causes teen pregnancy, she said. The question of whether poverty is the all-encompassing explanation for self-defeating behaviors or the result of those behaviors—where, in other words, personal responsibility ends and ineluctable social causes begin—forms a dividing line between what may be loosely characterized as the liberal and conservative worldviews. There are some situations where one could plausibly argue that a persons environment is so lousy that it is unfair to expect him to act responsibly—a student in a hopelessly chaotic classroom, say, who doesnt do his schoolwork. But it requires an extremely strained storyline to maintain that the decision about whether to have intercourse and whether to use contraception is forced on teens by poverty (even assuming that New Yorks unwed teen parents, many of whom possess the latest handheld electronic devices and cutting-edge sneakers, may be properly characterized as poverty-stricken). Free or low-cost contraception, including the morning-after pill, is widely available to New York teens, including in their own high schools. Is the lack of self-control or the inability to plan ahead also the result, rather than the cause, of poverty? The advocates would say yes.
Even were it the case that poverty indeed causes teen pregnancy, crime, or any of the other destructive behaviors that the advocates claim are economically determined, surely it is better to tell children and teens that they have the power to determine their own fate through hard work and self-control, rather than sending the message that society expects them to fail.
Intolerance for the poverty excuse and a universal expectation of personal responsibility would put the poverty-industrial complex out of business, of course, which is why Planned Parenthood admonishes the Bloomberg administration instead: Its time we focus on the root causes [of teen pregnancy] rather than point fingers at teen parents and their children. The implication that the administration is not already focusing on what Planned Parenthood deems the root causes of teen pregnancy is hilarious. New York City has spent billions over the decades fighting poverty through social-service programs and a smorgasbord of transfer payments. Bloomberg has also liberally poured taxpayer dollars into family-planning services, sex education, and—it has come to this—relationship education for students.
Nearly as dangerous as Planned Parenthoods philosophical position on individual will are the groups factual claims about teen pregnancy. Teenage parenthood is simply not the disastrous and life-compromising event these ads portray, the group asserts in its press release, shamelessly denying the overwhelming evidence. The citys farsighted welfare commissioner, Robert Doar, who pioneered the ad campaign, knows better. To be sure, one can always find an individual teen mother here or there who has raised law-abiding, successful children. But such exceptions dont disprove the rule that teen parenting is, on average, a tragedy for parent, child, and society. The administrations anti-teen-pregnancy campaign could be one of its most important initiatives if the campaign inspires public figures elsewhere (including New York governor Andrew Cuomo) to get some backbone and follow suit.
The bigger issue for society is single parenting generally, not just among teens, as the New York Posts Michael Goodwin has pointed out. The consequences of teen parenting—higher family rates of criminal activity, welfare dependency, and educational failure—are no less present when older single mothers have children. And whereas unwed teen births have actually declined over the last two decades, illegitimacy among adults has steadily risen, reaching nearly 41 percent of all births in 2011 (and a catastrophic 72 percent of black births and 53 percent of Hispanic births). By focusing only on teen births, the New York campaign runs a slight risk of implying that single parenting by adults is not an equal problem. But thats a risk worth taking, and the ads facts about financial stress easily translate to the 20-something context.
Given the longstanding bipartisan consensus among policy wonks and social scientists on the costs of teen parenting, one might have thought that the citys effort to publicize those costs would be universally welcomed. The hysterical reaction against the citys public-service announcements, however, shows how much courage it took the Bloomberg administration to say even that much—and how divided the political world remains over the question of poverty and personal responsibility.
"Planned Parenthood of New York put out a press release blasting the ads for stigmatizing teen parents."
Duh! That's the point! Funny how illegitimacy rates were low back when they were stigmatized.
Not that PP cares about their feelings. Less teen parents means less panicked trips to get abortions, and less money for them.
The intelligentsia gets all worked up over self-righteous signs published for themselves and an imaginary audience, while teens everywhere are too stupid to read those signs due to the intelligentsias inability to recognize what constitutes a solid family, solid education, and a resultant civil society.
what did he do right?
These posters are not pro-abstinance
To stop teen pregnancy, stay away from poverty they say
Everything Bloomie touches turns to crap.
But that's what you get when the king wants to micromanage every aspect of the peasants' lives.
He's encouraging "safe sex" and abortion, that's all. Planned Parenthood is to those issues what the Liberal Brain Straw Man Version of the NRA is to the 2nd Amendment. Thanks neverdem.
Where in the brief description does it say that Nanny Bloomberg opposes teen ABORTION? He only wants them not to deliver the baby. No stats on what happens to teenagers who abort their children (drugs, psychological problems, STDs, etc).
SIECUS/Planned Parenthood is adamantly anti-abstinence. They consider it to be "unhealthy".
nothing in those posters prinites abstinence as far as I see
Abstinence won't stop the teen pregnancy problem. Ask the church going family down the street from me who are raising a wonderful 3 yr old when their daughter slipped.
Living in Appalachia for so long, I'm beginning to realize abstinence alone won't solve this problem.
What are you talking about?
If that person practiced abstinence, they won't get pregnant, 100% guaranteed
A good first step would be to stop providing financial incentives to unwed mothers.
[Bloomberg got something right!]
...right after he got ruled against on his soda war...now he has to get his (r)epublican mojo back.
You think their daughter got pregnant by abstaining?
Finally. Something I can get behind him on. Of course, the race baiters and government parasites won't see it that way.
But abortions will - right Haydee from Planned Parenthood?
These people are scum.
When the libs first introduced sex education into the public schools, and at an early age, the main rationale was that it would help prevent teen pregnancy ( putting condoms on bananas)..well, that hasn't worked..
You subsidize something, you get more of it. You also get the skimmers who rake off a little for themselves in the process of the wealth transfer.
Poverty pimps is an apt names for the skimmers.
This poster campaign as per the author, Heather Mac Donald.
One little sage identifies the simplest way to avoid poverty: graduate from high school, get a job, and wait until marriage before having a child.The author knows the facts. She never fails to make those points.
I wasn't referring to City Journal I was referring to the Bloomberg ad campaign, which do you think more NYC teens will see more of, the posters or this article?
"Abstinence wont stop the teen pregnancy problem. Ask the church going family down the street from me who are raising a wonderful 3 yr old when their daughter slipped."
It would have worked if she had tried it.
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I'm not going to spend much time on the specifics of the debate, since this will be cross-posted at Right Wing News and John Hawkins has done a great job at breaking the debate down. Here's what I noticed the most
Every time Biden smiles I think he's going to say "you know how I got these scars?" #VPDebate
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The debate was really two very different debates, depending on whether you watched it or listened to it. On the radio, Biden was much more assertive than President Obama was last week, seeming to have taken a page from Mitt Romney's book. He was at all times on the offensive, never letting a point get past unchallenged, and occasionally trying to keep the point from getting past at all. He sounded confident and in command, if not always entirely grounded in facts and logic, while Ryan sounded more deferential.
On TV the story changed. Biden maintained a feral grin throughout, often laughing and smirking when Ryan spoke. His intent may have been to intimidate Ryan or to make him look like a mere boy, but his demeanor was more Joker than vice-presidential. He went back and forth between contemptuous and deranged in a performance that, combined with his frequent interruptions of Ryan (over 80 according to one TV pundit), was both fascinating and slightly disturbing. (graphic from Ashlandic Ramblings)
It was completely inappropriate to watch the Vice President of the USA smirk and smile wildly while discussing serious issues like our ambassador being killed in Libya and Iran being close to developing nuclear weapons.
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"I don't believe I've ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan…. It was openly contemptuous and disrespectful."–Chris Wallace "Fox News"
"Ryan was soft-spoken, sincere, and serious. Biden seemed to take the entire proceeding as a farce. In treating it so, he made it so. More importantly, he made the Obama administration look like what it is: a bullying, bloviating, obnoxious administration more interested in talking over its opponents than working with them to improve the lives of Americans."–Ben Shapiro "Biden Loses It"
Biden may have encouraged his base by his boorishness, and Ryan may have not met his base's expectations of being tougher on Biden's assertions — even when wrong as to facts. But, for many Independents the comparison comes down to Ryan's civility Vs Biden's rudeness. That's an important atmospheric. — See the Twitter negative reactions to Biden's rudeness from reporters across the political spectrum. — Allahpundit has a wrap-up headline quip: "Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes". — CNN instapoll gives the nod to Ryan.
And let's not forget that Biden completely contradicted the State Department on Libya, not to mention so much of the other information that we know now about the Obama administration being informed that it was a terrorist attack within hours. And he threw the intelligence community under the bus.
Last week the talk was about Obama's disconnected debate stance, this week the talk is about Biden's foolish optics. And the RNC already has a web-ad out
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