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Super Rugby round five, team of the week
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March 17, 2013
Lelia Masaga was hugely influential in Port Elizabeth © Getty Images
Sharks 10 - 29 Brumbies Queensland Reds 12 - 19 Force Crusaders 41 - 19 Bulls Southern Kings 24 - 35 Chiefs New South Wales Waratahs 26 - 27 Cheetahs Highlanders 19 - 23 Hurricanes
Dan Carter Robert Ebersohn Hika Elliot Ben Franks Owen Franks Robbie Fruean Hugh McMeniman Lelia Masaga Alby Mathewson Jesse Mogg Raymond Rhule Conrad Smith George Smith George Whitelock Sam Whitelock
Australia Brumbies Bulls Cheetahs Chiefs Crusaders Force Highlanders Hurricanes New South Wales Waratahs New Zealand Queensland Reds Scotland Sharks Southern Kings
15. Jesse Mogg (Brumbies)
Dragged after 57 minutes due to injury, but still comfortably did enough to earn back-to-back jumpers: one try, one linebreak and 83 running metres; what more do you want? Clearly has the front-running for the Wallabies jumper on this season's form.
14. Lelia Masaga (Chiefs)
The Chiefs winger was Man of the Match in Port Elizabeth, making four linebreaks as he ran for 145 metres and scored a hat-trick of tries. You can't ask for more from an outside back.
13. Conrad Smith (Hurricanes)
The All Blacks star produced his best game of the season, damaging the Highlanders at every turn either with ball in hand or in defence. Made 13 runs for 85 metres and two linebreaks, and he was at the heart of everything good in yellow.
Robbie Fruean was back to his best against the Bulls © Getty Images
12. Robbie Fruean (Crusaders)
Robbie Fruean made a shaky start to the game against the Bulls, but he finished the fixture having shown form to suggest he will be pushing for All Blacks honours before the Rugby Championship.
11. Raymond Rhule (Cheetahs)
The Cheetahs flyer enjoyed a day out against New South Wales Waratahs, making two linebreaks and scoring two tries including the match-winner in a hugely influential display.
10. Dan Carter (Crusaders)
Directed the Crusaders brilliantly against the Bulls, and finished the match having played a leading hand in three of the Crusaders' tries and showing just why he is the best No.10 in the world.
Alby Mathewson earned his right to celebrate © Getty Images
9. Alby Mathewson (Western Force)
The New Zealander was Man of the Match against Queensland Reds, making two scything linebreaks - one to set up a score, and one that should have. A key influence in the shock result.
8. Fota Auelua (Brumbies)
Man of the Match against the Sharks, his direct running in the first half setting up two tries as he twice drew three defenders to create an overlap. Just edged the worthy Kieran Read for the jumper.
7. George Smith (Brumbies)
Produced another masterclass at the breakdown against the Sharks, and rampaged in the loose for 73 metres from 11 runs, to show why Robbie Deans and the Australian Rugby Union must move heaven and earth to get him involved against the British & Irish Lions.
6. George Whitelock (Crusaders)
The eldest of the Whitelock brothers produced a masterful performance against the Bulls, making 99 metres from 16 runs and impressing with his strength when he reefed the ball from rag-tagged Wynand Olivier to lay the foundation for another try.
Hugh McMeniman enjoyed his return to Queensland © Getty Images
5. Hugh McMeniman (Western Force)
Had a lot to prove returning to the state of his birth with Western Force, and boy did he prove it. May yet play his way into Wallabies contention.
4. Sam Whitelock (Crusaders)
Produced a dominant performance in the lineout against the masters from Pretoria, and was hugely visible with his runs and work in the loose.
3. Owen Franks (Crusaders)
Wyatt Crockett grabbed the headline with a try, but Owen Franks rumbled strongly and was among the key men who laid a foundation for his steam's improved effort.
2. Hika Elliot (Chiefs)
Busy throughout against the Cheetahs, impressing with work in the set pieces and also his running in the loose.
1. Ben Franks (Hurricanes)
How can you not pick him after he dropped a shoulder and produced a Jonah Lomu-esque Maori sidestep to run over Ben Smith to score a try in the opening match of the round?
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Minister of Health Dr David Clark and Minister of Greater Christchurch Regeneration Megan Woods have today celebrated the success of Mana Ake, which has helped more than 1500 young people in Canterbury and Kaikōura in its first year.
Every child in Canterbury's primary and intermediate schools now has access to mental health and wellbeing support through their local school thanks to the Government's Mana Ake programme.

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Do you know someone who is a small business owner? Small business owners who want to learn more about managing and expanding their businesses — and about hiring great employees — are invited to apply for the Goldman-Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The deadline to register is Feb. 9.
Teaching small businesses how to run their companies more efficiently and providing capital to support their efforts are key components of the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative created by Goldman Sachs, an internationally-known finance corporation. In May 2014, the 10,000 Small Businesses program came to Dallas-Fort Worth – and the DCCCD delivers courses for the initiative through the Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development at El Centro College.
The 10,000 Small Businesses initiative seeks out community colleges like DCCCD to deliver its education component of the program because they are at the center of economic development and they are accessible to many people who are in need.
The program involves three key components: business and management education; access to capital; and business services. The business education classes are designed to help small business owners develop a business growth plan to help them increase revenues and hire new employees. The course modules include: "You and Your Business"; "Growth and Opportunities"; "Money and Metrics"; "You Are the Leader"; "It's the People"; "Marketing and Selling"; "Operations and Processes"; "Being Bankable"; and "Action for Growth" (two parts). The 100-hour curriculum is taught in 11 sessions.
Other local DFW partners in the program with DCCCD and Goldman Sachs are LiftFund and PeopleFund; those two institutions will use funds from the program to make loans to small business owners in the area.
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Hot wheel sets are a staple of many a childhood, but they're also a staple of creating a huge sprawling mess that someone will inevitably trip over and start cursing. So! Take that racetrack off the floor and put it on the wall.
Hot Wheels Wall Tracks are (gasp!) tracks for your wall, stickable using 3M adhesive strips, and packing all the zany flips, curves, and loops of the horizontal equivalent. The vertical courses, available in the fall for 30 bucks, can even go around corners, and once you reach bottom, can plug right in to the traditional Hot Wheels floor tracks you might already own. Anyone with a cramped apartment or bedroom lacking in floor space would have a blast with this, even if it lacks the normal round and round aspect of a floor race. But who cares! Watching a car plummet to a destructive end is way more exciting. Just don't stick the tracks over any emergency exits or something.
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Hey all,
I've been wondering about using OGL material for a while now. On the surface, it seems fairly clear-cut: You can use it as you wish, provided you put anything you build on top of it under the OGL as well, and include the license with a list of source products. Easy-peasy, right? There's even a way (albeit clumsy and redundant) to specifically exclude other content from the OGL.
There's also a lot of material to use out there by now, covering all kinds of genres. Pathfinder proved that you can create an awesome product with good commercial success on top of OGL.
And yet, I am not sure I feel comfortable using OGL material. I've tried to analyze this hesitation, and I have not really been able to come to a clear conclusion. I do not fear that someone else might re-use my contributions commercially; that's part of the deal after all.
So, am I just being irrational, or is there some basis that may be nagging my brain without really coming out into the open? How do you feel about the OGL - and if you do not use it, why not?
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Cleveland County Schools is one of seven North Carolina school systems to be named to the Third Annual AP Honor Roll.
The College Board recognized school distracts that offered an increasing number of Advanced Placement (AP) courses as well a rising percentage of students with high exam scores.
�For our children who will go on to college, these courses give them the experience of college rigor,� said Cleveland County Schools Superintendent Bruce Boyles. �From the perspective of the children, they are excited about the challenge of the classes.�
According to the NC Report Card, the percentage of district-wide student enrollments in AP Courses in Cleveland County Schools has increased from five percent in 2009-10 to eight percent in 2011-12. The state average is five percent.
�In this day and age, if students have an opportunity to gain college credit in high school, its helpful to their parents,� Boyles said. �With the AP courses, some students can go into college as a sophomore and only go for three years instead of four.�
Cleveland County Schools tries to make sure AP courses are accessible to all the schools in the county and have teachers trained to teach them, Boyles said.
Other districts in North Carolina recognized are Ashe, Chatham and Davidson counties, Nash/Rocky Mount, Winston-Salem/Forsyth and Elkin City.
�This award affirms that we have some smart young people. We aren�t just increasing the number of students in the classes but we are also increasing out performance,� Boyles said. �It is a credit to those young people studying and working hard.�
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Virtually everyone agrees that it is important to invest for retirement, take care of inheritance details, prepare for long-term care and otherwise plan for the future.
Virtually everyone agrees that it is important to invest for retirement, take care of inheritance details, prepare for long-term care and otherwise plan for the future.
There is a big difference, however, between understanding the value of these tasks and actually taking action. With the financial, social and political stresses that come with caring for an aging population, figuring out how to motivate people to do what is necessary to plan for the future is drawing more and more attention.
One new tactic stems from unique psychological research on financial motivation. As reported in the Journal of Marketing Research, researchers from New York University, Stanford University and other schools found that one way to spur real action on long-term planning was having individuals visualize their future, elderly selves. Interestingly, the researchers found the best results when people actually saw digitally enhanced images of themselves, rather than merely imagining themselves as senior citizens. The surprise of seeing their own faces in old age inspired them to stop putting off the necessary planning.
The authors of the research propose that, "having people interact with photorealistic age-progressed renderings of themselves will cause them to allocate more resources to the future."
In line with this thinking, Bank of America's "Merrill Edge" program allows anyone to go online, take a picture of themselves, and see how they might look in the future. The tool is known as "Face Retirement." The website is faceretirement.merrilledge.com.
The program allows you to view images of yourself at various ages. In addition, the tool provides estimated cost-of-living figures for each of those ages. The cost-of-living calculators adjust for inflation so that consumers have a real idea of what they'll need to do to be financially secure well into their golden years.
Since the tool was created by a financial services firm, the program also provides information about steps to take now to prepare for the future.
You have nothing to lose from taking action today to plan for the future. Thinking about money tends to be stressful, particularly when worrying about retirement and other end-of-life issues.
Taking steps to address the planning is the best way to ease the stress. No matter what your current financial situation, good or not so good, facing the facts and considering a plan have great value.
Bonnie Kraham is an attorney practicing elder law estate planning with Ettinger Law Firm, 75 Crystal Run Road, Town of Wallkill. She can be reached at 692-8700, ext. 119 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. This column is intended to provide general information, not legal advice.


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On my Yankee Yapping Facebook page, I noticed that I am closing in on 500 fans. The number 500 is pretty high and it takes a baseball player a long time to reach that number, especially in terms of home runs.
On August 4, 2007, Alex Rodriguez became the first Yankee player to reach 500 home runs since Mickey Mantle, who slammed his 500th long ball on May 14, 1967. The current Yankee third baseman became only the third player to hit his 500th career homer in a Yankee uniform, of course joining Mantle and the legendary Babe Ruth.
A-Rod, Mantle, and Ruth are now in the record books and are pretty much considered to be three of the greatest home run hitters in baseball history.
But Rodriguez's 500th home run could not have come at a worse time. For me.
The day after A-Rod left the yard for the 500th time I went to the Yankees vs. Royals game. I've always said (and still say it to this day) that I wished he had waited one day. By about 24 hours, I missed a moment in Yankee history.
Two of my cousins had four tickets to the game and invited my sister and me to go with them to Yankee Stadium. We had excellent seats; we sat on the main level on the third baseline, practically right behind the Royals' dugout. We had such a wonderful view of the field!
Then-manager Joe Torre (sort of) rested Rodriguez the day after he reached 500. Before he hit the big homer, A-Rod had been struggling immensely at the plate. He waited eight days and 28 at-bats to hit the elusive 500, but he eventually got a hold of one and accomplished the feat.
So on Aug. 5, A-Rod started at the designated hitter position while Wilson Betemit played third. As Torre used to say, A-Rod had "half a day off."
The Yankees jumped on the Royals early, scoring four runs on the second inning. Melky Cabrera singled to score his buddy Robinson Cano, Derek Jeter drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in Betemit, and Bobby Abreu singled to score Andy Phillips and Cabrera to put to the Yanks ahead, 4-0.
In the bottom of the third, Hideki Matsui launched a solo home run into the right field porch, giving the Yanks a 5-0 lead. What some people may not know was that home run was Matsui's 100th career home run as a member of the Yankees (and in Major League Baseball in general).
So even though I missed A-Rod's 500th homer by one day, I saw Matsui's 100th homer in-person, the day it happened.
In the bottom of the fourth, Rodriguez stepped up to the plate. He received a thunderous ovation for what he had done the day before and almost every Yankee fan was on their feet cheering and chanting, "501! 501! 501!"
Although he wasn't able to smash yet another homer, A-Rod drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to deep left-center field to score Jeter, giving the Yankees a 6-0 lead.
Kansas City finally broke out and scored in the top of the sixth when Ross Gload belted a long, two-run home run into the upper deck in right field off Mike Mussina. His home run went a long way, and I mean a long way. I'm not sure if that ball has landed yet. Just watching that ball fly out of the park and into the upper deck was pretty amazing, even though it was for the opposing team.
But the Yankees would get those runs back in the bottom of the frame.
Cabrera hit a solo home run to right field, a screaming line drive that just cleared the right field wall. Yankees were now on top, 7-2. I didn't notice at the time (and I didn't find out until I watched Sportscenter after I got home) but the same person who caught Matsui's home run ball caught Cabrera's.
That's one lucky fan; he caught two home run balls by two Yankees in the same game. After I heard that, I wished my seats were behind the wall instead of behind the dugout!
Later in the sixth, Matsui drive in another run with a sacrifice fly to score Jeter, putting the Yankees ahead, 8-2. It seemed the Yankees were doing everything right, but the Royals did not go down without a fight.
Mark Teahen singled off side-winding reliever Mike Myers to score David DeJesus in the top of the seventh and on the same play Esteban German scored on a throwing error by Cabrera, cutting the lead to 8-4.
Myers gave up yet another run in the top of the eighth, surrendering an RBI single to Joey Gathright that scored John Buck. All of a sudden the Royals were down by only three runs. Uh oh…
Replacing Myers was the great one, Mariano Rivera. The Yankees' ace closer was summoned to record a four-out save. As Enter Sandman blared through the Yankee Stadium speakers, I noticed a sign someone in front of me was holding up. It read:
"1977 The Bronx is Burning. 2007 The Yanks are on Fire!"
Very clever sign.
It was the truth; right around that time the Yankees were on their run to the Wild Card title in a season that looked hopeless. The Yankees had no business even being considered for the playoffs toward the beginning of the year, but they picked up their game over the summer and earned the Wild Card spot, basically on the shoulders of Rodriguez.
I still believe that if A-Rod had not been as good as he was, the Yankees never would have made the playoffs. He undoubtedly carried them to into the postseason.
Three groundouts and a strikeout later, Rivera notched the save and procured an 8-5 Yankee win over the Royals. It was a good day to be at the ballpark and a good day to be a Yankee fan.
Win Mussina, loss Gil Meche, save Rivera. Win A.J. Martelli. My sister, my cousins and I smiled as we listened to Frank Sinatra's New York, New York as we filed out of the turnstiles.
Any day the Yankees win, it's a good day.
I had a lot of fun that day, I only wish Rodriguez had not hit the big home run the day before. Although seeing Matsui hit his 100th career home run was exciting, it would have been nice to see A-Rod's 500th. The whole team came out of the dugout to congratulate him and you could just tell it was a special and historic moment.
Some of the Yankees have said that Rodriguez's milestone homer was their favorite memory in the old Stadium and to be there for it would have been amazing. Missing it by one day fills my heart with regret and I still wished he had gotten that one pitch to hit just 24 hours later.
The bottom line, however: 500 is a big number. And to have almost 500 fans on the page for this blog is pretty neat. Thank you all for reading and I hope it continues to grow!


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Reports of economic growth don't feel real
Feeling rich yet?
The Dow hit another all-time high on Friday. The whole stock market has been soaring like an eagle out of Lance Armstrong's medicine chest. The Labor Department's latest jobs report was "brisk" (Wall Street Journal), "great news" (Washington Post) and "about damn time" (me). Even Long Island housing prices, which have been lingering in the basement longer than a 30-year-old slacker son, are stirring again.
All the numbers seem to be pointing skyward -- except for the ones most people live by. My mortgage payment was nine days late again, and my Citibank account is back in the negative territory known as CheckingPlus. Wouldn't CheckingMinus be a more honest name?
A few more people may be working again, but that doesn't mean they aren't still broke. Those 236,000 jobs the economy created in February aren't all for hedge-fund execs and Yankee relief pitchers, although there could soon be an opening in that second category. Most of the jobs that are coming back aren't nearly as good as the ones that have been lured or chased away.
The 850 jobs Northrop Grumman will soon be shipping to Florida and California -- they might be replaced, eventually, by jobs in sectors like health care, retail and leisure and hospitality. And that's nice. Any job is better than no job.
But it's still almost impossible to raise a family or a buy a home on some of these shrunken wages, no matter how great you are at bussing tables or emptying bedpans.
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ASKED AND UNANSWERED: No more booing at Riverhead town board meetings? How long will council members have to wait to hear residents clap? Under newly adopted no-boos legislation, clapping is allowed. Who's surprised? . . . So now Long Beach wants a Corps of Engineers coastal-protection plan? The same plan that was rejected in 2006 -- or as that era is now known in LB, "six years before Sandy blew the beach away"? . . . Does Manorhaven Village attorney Charles Casolaro need anger-management training? At a recent village-board meeting, the blustery barrister sure blew up over a newspaper ad ("garbage!") from local critic Jim Avena and the Manorhaven Residents Party . . . Will a state-of-the-art projection system and feeds from NASA make the stars any nicer to gaze at in Centerport's revamped Vanderbilt planetarium? . . . How many more false-arrest lawsuits will be filed against suspended Southampton street-crimes cop Eric Sickles? . . . Thieves stole $15,000 worth of "food products" from a Dunkin' Donuts in Hicksville -- and no one made a cops-and-doughnuts joke? . . . Gerry-what? If all 10 Republicans voted yes and all nine Democrats voted no, which party do you think will be aided by the Nassau Legislature's new district map . . . Did the Suffolk Legislature's energy-drink hearing really go for four hours? Just under the wire for a 5-hour ENERGY drink? Who needs a nap now?
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There was a day, a time of Hellcats, Intruders and Apollos, when the aeronautics firm that Leroy Grumman built had a Long Island workforce of 25,000. This past week, the once beloved defense behemoth announced yet another major whack. This one will pare the local payroll to a keep-the-lights-on level of 450. Every one of those missing jobs left a giant vacuum for the man or woman who lost it and the many, many others -- all of us, really -- who counted on them. With little Grumman employment left now, an inevitable tipping point has finally arrived. The still proud name is less an employer and more an alumni club. "Yeah," people still say: "I'm ex-Grumman."
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Designing is the fun part of building a new facility or renovating an existing one. It is exciting to start sketching and thinking about the wonderful spaces we can create. Although it is important to have enthusiastic initial inspiration, only careful planning and evaluation of the project's needs can ensure success and save you from expensive headaches down the line. That means taking time to understand the project's big picture and breaking down that big picture to minute details.
Building right also means establishing the right environment. The look and feel of the club must accommodate the users. Early in the process, the architect and owner must review the business plan so each understands the demographic and economic goals of the project. Synergy must exist among the architectural programming, aesthetics, spaces, designs and construction cost in order to accommodate the long-term vision in the business plan.
Architectural programming is defined by the American Institute of Architects as a "comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the interrelated values, goals, facts and needs of a client's organization, the facility users and the surrounding community." At its most basic, programming can start as a list of spaces the club should include. Then, approximate sizes and relative locations are added. A variety and multitude of spaces need to be considered, each with hundreds of necessary and detailed specifics. Power, lighting, air conditioning, flooring, acoustics, storage, accessibility, maintenance and moisture issues are just some of the items that, if overlooked, will become big issues once the space is completed. These specifics need to be documented and the information relayed to various groups who will participate in the construction. Missing a few important items can lead to disastrous results.
During programming, the architects keep a running total of the square footage for all the spaces. This square footage is then tied into a construction cost factor that keeps tabs on the building size and the budget. Again, before any drawings are initiated, we develop a sense of how spaces are affecting the final cost and what our probable costs may be so we can meet the budget.
After conducting interviews and analyses, the architect adds detailed information to the plan, including the storage needs of each room, the power requirements, the sound and entertainment items to be placed, flooring types, water/moisture issues, user data, equipment needs and the environmental conditions needed.
These services are typically included in a full-service commission, but they also can be contracted separately. The review and documentation of the concrete specifics are fairly straightforward and include schedule and budget development, financial feasibility studies, site studies, space-by-space needs and green strategies. Equally important, however, is considering abstract ideas about delivering services, dictating emotional expectations and your club's connection to the community, and determining what the spirit and the soul of the club should be.
Once we discuss the physical spatial data, we go on to the abstracts, such as who will use the room, why and when they use a room, what each room should feel like, and what images and emotions we want people to feel while they're in each room. Items to consider include whether a space purely produces revenue or whether it is a support space. This affects the location and the expense of the space. These details are documented for every space and are reviewed and updated over the course of the project.
Once completed, each space typically has one or two sheets worth of information recorded about it. These space-defining sheets then become a manual and checklist as a design is initiated and continue serving as a reference through the final construction documents.
Having key staff from the club and the architectural firm work together to develop the information ensures nothing is missed. The best ideas typically come from early discussions among all team members about how things are done now and how we could improve on them. Innovation in a static industry gets rewarded with success.
Evaluating and planning are smart and powerful processes that can simplify the complexities of construction and ultimately save club owners money.
Rudy Fabiano, a registered architect and interior designer, is president of Fabiano Designs, an architectural firm for health clubs, wellness centers, sports clubs and spas. The company has produced more than 400 projects in the past 20 years.


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L.J. Hoes was at home in Mitchellville watching a Tom Selleck baseball flick Tuesday around noon when his phone rang.
A week after his Triple-A season ended, Hoes received notice to come to Baltimore — and be there in two hours or so.
"I got the call at 12:15 today, I was actually sitting at home, watching a movie, "Mr. Baseball," and they called and said we need you here by 2:15," said Hoes, the organization's third round pick in 2008. "So now I'm here."
With Nick Markakis breaking his left thumb on Saturday, the Orioles needed to fortify their outfield. So Hoes and veteran Endy Chavez were both put on the 40-man roster and summoned to the big leagues. To make room for them, right-handed reliever Kevin Gregg and minor league infielder Ryan Adams, who hit .224 in 65 games with Triple-A Norfolk, were designated for assignment.
When Hoes makes his big league debut, he'll be the first position player to have grown up in Maryland and play for the Orioles since Cal Ripken Jr. in 2001.
"It's great. It's a great feeling," said Hoes, who batted .300 with a .374 on-base percentage in 82 games with Triple-A Norfolk as a 22-year-old after a promotion from Double-A. "I dreamed of this day happening at some point, so I'm just glad to be up here now and help out any way I can."
Chavez was in New York with his family, assuming his season, and likely his career with the Orioles, was over when he was told he was needed.
"It's kind of shocking for me to be in this position," said Chavez, who batted .190 in 47 games with the Orioles this season before being taken off the roster on Aug. 4. "I'm happy to be back and try to do something for the team to help them to win."
Chavez, 34, batted just .149 with Norfolk in 15 games, so he really didn't think he'd be an option even when Markakis was injured.
Showalter said executive vice president Dan Duquette looked at obtaining an outfielder after Markakis' injury, but "we felt like what was out there wasn't any better … than Endy or L.J. that were already here."
There were offers, Showalter said, but not enticing ones, especially considering the acquired player would not be eligible for the postseason roster since they weren't in the organization by Sept. 1 (Hoes and Chavez were).
"If you want to trade Manny [Machado] for a guy that's going to be here for three weeks and not eligible for the playoffs, if we're lucky enough to make it, we probably could have done that. Not gonna do it."
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Markakis only needed pins to be inserted into his broken left thumb Tuesday during surgery in Florida, not a plate as originally expected. Showalter said the surgery was successful and not invasive and that in 21 days Markakis can have the pins removed. The club is still holding out hope he could return to the Orioles at some point in October if the Orioles reach the postseason. … Jim Thome (herniated disk in neck) is expected to take batting practice in a cage Wednesday in Sarasota, Fla. … Troy Patton (right ankle sprain) is expected to participate in another side session Wednesday and potentially throw batting practice Friday. … Chris Tillman (elbow) threw a bullpen Tuesday, felt fine and could start later this week. … The Orioles starter for Thursday is still listed as TBA.
Baltimore Sun reporter Eduardo A. Encina contributed to this article.


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