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3D Flip Clock & World Weather
1,000,000 - 5,000,000 downloadsAdd this app to your lists
+ By Droid27
The widget features the following:
- 2 widget sizes; 4x2 and 5x2 (for Galaxy Note or other tablets)
- 36 skins to choose from
- Support for external theme packs containing even more skins (theme packs can be downloaded separately)
- 5 weather icon skins
- 8 fonts for the time
- 12 or 24 hour clock with date
- Display of current week number and next alarm
- Current location (city, country) taken automatically from cell/wifi or GPS, or specified by the user
- Weather conditions for current location (condition and temperature, low and high temperatures and weather icon)
- Weather forecast in different languages (currently supporting English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Greek, Polish, Russian and Dutch)
- Detailed weather forecast display including the following:
- Local time
- Sunrise and sunset time for current location
- Length of day
- Humidity and wind conditions
- Current condition, temperature, low and high temperatures
- Current condition icon
- 4 day weather forecast
- World weather and time: Choose to display weather information for any number of different locations worldwide. Just select your favorite locations and you will immediately have updated weather and local time information.
- Launch up to four different applications by tapping different widget hotspots (user defined)
The application is localized in the following languages:
Afrikaans, العربية, български, Català, 中文(简体), Hrvatski, Čeština, Dansk, Nederlands, Suomi, Français, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, עברית, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 한국어, Lietuvių, Polski, Português (Brazil), Português (Portugal), Română, русский, Cyrillic, Slovenčina, Español (Spain), Svenska, ไทย, Türkçe, Українська, Tiếng Việt
- To install the widget read the instructions on our blog
- If you are using a task killer exclude the widget from it
Please report any problems, suggestions or requests via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Version 1.25
- [new] Finnish localization (thanks to Daniel K.)
- [new] Support for LG and ASUS device alarm applications
- [fix] Weather forecast - select location fix
- [fix] Bug fixes
Version 1.24
- [fix] Fixed lock screen issues
- [fix] Fixed layout related bugs
- [fix] Minor bug fixes
- [chg] Increased month and weekday hotspot areas
Version 1.22
- [fix] Bug fix
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Excellent app
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It needs to have an extended forecast option and an hourly feature so we can see what the weather is going to be during the rest of the day in detail.
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South Florida is not GMT time zone and can't correct for it... I like the looks and customizations tho.
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It is not working on my iphne6
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easy, informative really like the app but recently it ha been switching itself off.
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it gives my home screen a new look. I love that I can customize it to fit me. I liked the weather widget that came on my galaxy s3 but dont like the one that came on my galaxy s4 which is why I downloaded this one.


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President Long to retire in June 2014
The Baker University Board of Trustees announced Friday, Feb. 8, that University President Pat Long will retire on June 30, 2014. Long informed the Trustees of her intentions at their meeting this afternoon. She has served as University President since July 1, 2006.
"Being president of Baker University during the past seven years has been my highest privilege and blessing," Long said. "I believe when I retire in 16 months we will have seen my primary goals fulfilled, and the institution will be in a wonderful place to usher in the next era of leadership."
Long has the distinction of being Baker's first female president since its founding in 1858 as the first University in Kansas. Since taking office, Long has been committed to maintaining academic excellence and strengthening student life. She has guided the development of several signature academic offerings at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and expanded campuses across Kansas and Missouri.
Her accomplishments include the opening of the $6.3 million New Living Center, the first new residence hall on the Baldwin City campus in nearly 50 years. Long also oversaw the renovation of Denious Hall, home to the Janice and David von Riesen Welcome Center and the Donald R. and Martha Hardy Mather Admission and Financial Aid Suite. Long championed the fundraising efforts for the $11.3 million Ivan L. Boyd Center for Collaborative Science Education, the largest capital project in the University's history, which was completed in October 2012. The facility comprises the newly renovated Mulvane Hall, the Ross and Christine Hartley Hall and the Baker Greenhouse. During her tenure, Long navigated the University through the national recession in 2009 while Baker's students enjoyed record-breaking academic and athletic success.
Long's dedication to students is reflected in the Higher Learning Commission's 10-year reaccreditation recommendation, the Quest program, a new liberal arts curriculum focused on critical thinking and developing versatile graduates, and the establishment of the Institute for Leadership and Positive Change, which debuted in January. In 2012, Baker University launched an Ed.D. program developed for leaders pursuing a career in higher education, which is another initiative stemmed from Long's passion.
"Dr. Pat's genuine love of students has always been No. 1 in her heart," said Hoot Gibson, Baker's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "The relationships she has developed are what have made her tenure so special. Her calling has been a perfect fit for Baker. Through her comprehensive vision, Baker University has expanded its facilities, academic programs and athletic endeavors, and strengthened its position at the forefront of higher education, which is reflected in our consistent national rankings.
"We are thankful she has given us ample time to perform a thorough search and that she remains committed to fulfilling our remaining goals."
The Board of Trustees will begin a national search for the next president in the near future.

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Coast Guard senior Natalie Moyer (Oklahoma City, Ok.) was named NEWMAC Player of the year. Springfield College freshman Rachelle Walker (Lee, Mass.) was named NEWMAC Rookie of the Year. Melissa Hodgdon, coach of the NEWMAC tournament champions, Wheaton, was named NEWMAC Coach of the Year. MIT won the league's sportsmanship award.
Joining Moyer on the All-Conference first team was teammate Melissa Martinelli (Vero Beach, Fla.). Clark junior Sarah Roderigue (Oakland, Maine), Wheaton junior Krystin Hickey (Manchester, N.H.) and WPI sophomore Kaileen Selen (Worcester, Mass.) rounded out the first team.
The All-Conference second team consisted of Babson senior Linsey Poulson (Leominster, Mass.), MIT senior Kimberly Soo Hoo (Benicia, Calif.), Springfield senior Tara McCarthy (Bristol, R.I.), Wellesley junior Jessica Duff (Milton, Abingdon, UK) and Wheaton senior Becky Aitchison (Norwalk, Conn.).
2007-08 Women's Basketball All-Conference Team and Award Winners
NEWMAC Athlete of the Year:
Natalie Moyer, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
NEWMAC Rookie of the Year:
Rachelle Walker, Springfield College
NEWMAC Coach of the Year:
Melissa Hodgdon, Wheaton College
NEWMAC Sportsmanship Award:
Sarah Roderigue, Clark
Natalie Moyer, Coast Guard
Melissa Martinelli, Coast Guard
Krystin Hickey, Wheaton
Kaileen Selen, WPI
Linsey Poulson, Babson
Kimberly Soo Hoo, MIT
Tara McCarthy, Springfield
Jessica Duff, Wellesley
Becky Aitchison, Wheaton


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"my submission for Airtight Garage. Here's a giant robot black guy. It wasn't until I was halfway through this that I realized I was basically drawing a black Phantom." - k.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Moebius' "Airtight Garage" by Khary Randolph
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Moebius' "Airtight Garage" by Tyler Crook
"I think the Air Tight garage was the first thing I ever read by Moebius. If I understand it right, he was pretty much making up the story as he went along in sort of a stream of consciousness kinda way. And it shows when you read it. The story meanders and feels a bit disjointed and kinda pointless sometimes. Some of the pages look like they took a week to draw and others look like they took two minutes. But the thing that is really great about it is this: it's an amazing artist playing with the medium. He's having fun and trying stuff and not worrying the work as a whole. It feels like it was fun to make and I think that makes it really fun to read." - Tyler
15 x 11, gouache and water color on watercolor paper.
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Moebius' "Airtight Garage" by Robbi Rodriguez
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Master Race by Nathan Fox (EC Comics Week)
"Homage to this EC Impact Series & Krigstein's horror/suspence classic.
In grad school, my thesis advisor brought in a tattered, well thumbed through edition of EC Classics. Among them was MASTER RACE and my first exposure to B. Krigstein and his work. Needless to say - it blew my mind.
I was enthralled with the collection of stories. It was easily my first real sit down with ANY form of EC Comics. (A new world, door, window, whatever - was opened that day...). Something about the pace, suspense, movement and storytelling of this story, especially, made everything suddenly click into place - How I got interested in visual-storytelling, illustration and the possibility of working in comics as a profession - it all just clicked. Krigstein's work lead me to Berthet & Bernet, rediscovering Caniff and so on (too many to name but much respect to all) - I was hooked...
...and have been happily addicted to this narrative/ink on paper crack-habit ever since.
Inspirational stuff. Long live storytelling!" - Nathan
Original: Ink on Bristol. Title is scratched out of paper. 13x18.5
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In time for the 3G auctions to be completed and Indian carriers now set to roll out 3G, Research In Motion has wasted no time in announcing one of their latest devices into the area. The BlackBerry Pearl 3G will be released in India. Both keyboard (14 and 20 key) configurations will be available for customers to choose from. No official release date or pricing was revealed at the announcement but with Research In Motions BlackBerry smartphones increasingly selling well in India it's no doubt the BlackBerry Pearl 3G will be a big seller.
don_poky Jun 14, 2010 at 8:48 am
Price is blvd to be around 20,000 INR ($429)
Status45 Jun 14, 2010 at 8:51 am
OMG I swear that's it I give up on this phone ever coming to the US.. INDIA? lol..
*blows brains out
Sashko Jun 14, 2010 at 9:23 am
You sure that there are not other alternatives prior to shooting yourself? ;-)
Connor83 Jun 14, 2010 at 8:55 am
When is a US carrier getting this. It needs to come to AT&T already.
Blitz_Empire Jun 14, 2010 at 9:08 am
"in India it's no doubt the BlackBerry Pearl 3G will be a big seller"
:) hehehe
Sashko Jun 14, 2010 at 9:22 am
I take it the "BlackBerry Pearl 2G" part in the last sentence is supposed to say "BlackBerry Pearl 3G" :-/
BTW for everyone complaining about it not coming out in the US, if you're within driving distance to Canada, why not hop on over and buy one from here? I got my 9700 from the States myself, so I don't see why it would be much of an issue going the other way around :-)
immortali Jun 15, 2010 at 4:18 am
What do you suggest for someone living in a more southern part of the World, i.e. Malta (Europe)? I need to buy this before I go abroad next month.... any suggestions?
infinus Jun 14, 2010 at 10:48 am
To be very honest,
But BB is not much loved handheld in india..
Pearl is just another BB silently launched in india.
More than 60% of people using qwerty uses barakberry or bluecherry
Rest 39% is shared by Samsung and Nokia...
BB is rest and shared with winmo based handhelds..
tanayjain Jun 14, 2010 at 9:53 am
BB is doing very very well in India and has an increasing user base. In a few years i see India being one of the biggest markets for blackberry
infinus Jun 14, 2010 at 10:55 am
Yes definitely,
If rim offers BB in less than 5K.
May be barakBerry and BlueCherry is good option for big lobby
Of mass market.
robinater4223 Jun 14, 2010 at 10:54 am
release in america renards. i dont want to make the 10 hour drive to canada.
Pearl9100 Jun 14, 2010 at 11:36 am
before a well developed country does? does this make any sense to anyone?
BTW, im in southern california here. I'd have to fly, and my plane ticket would cost more than the phone. at this rate, ill have to wait for another 3rd world country like mexico to get the pearl 3g and ill get one there.
this is really starting to get ridiculous!
Status45 Jun 14, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Gas prices alone would cost so much, enough to buy if from eBay from those shadey mobile phone dealers. Plus the down side, I'd actually have to go to Canada and that is every US citizens nightmare.
husnimd Jun 14, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Even if it's already launched in India, but the availability is only limited to Mumbai. As for other places, I don't see it will come any sooner. Nevertheless, for a brand new BB in India would be very costly and I can say, few Indians are interested with BB. Thanks to the Govt's import duty, the prices are sky high and there are still many other qwerty based phones for the Indians to choose from.
If you say BB is a very much loved phones in India, I'm sorry but I don't believe that. Indians are more interested in Micromax, FLY and Karbonn phones. I'm not making up this fact, but as a foreigner living in India, this is what I see.


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Roman Augustoviz spends Minnesota's winters covering college hockey, specifically the Gophers, and other University of Minnesota sports. During the summer, he writes about the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, with a dose of U sports sprinkled in. Follow him on Twitter @RomanStrib.
The Gophers softball team is quietly having an awesome season. The Gophers (32-6, 10-3) will play at Michigan (33-6, 12-0) this weekend with a chance to move into first place in the Big Ten with a sweep.
The Wolverines lead the conference in hitting (.363), pitching (1.54 ERA) and fielding (.981) and are 9-0 at home.
But the U also has got some talent. The Gophers are second in ERA (1.80) and lead the league with 47 homers (Michigan is third with 35).
The Gophers won two of three from hard-hitting Northwestern last weekend, taking the rubber game 3-1 on Sunday on Sara Gronewegen's five-hitter. The Wildcats had scored 18 runs in the first two games.
Tyler Walker hit a two-run homer for the U in the third game and also got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to drive in all three runs.
The Gophers are 10-2 in road games.
Minnesota is No. 19 in the national RPI ratings in softball, Michigan is No. 18.
It's a three-team race for the NCAA wrestling title.
Three-time defending champion Penn State has 91 points, two wrestlers in the finals, and five in the wrestlebacks, three in hunt for third, two for seventh.
The Gophers are almost in the exact same spot, with 90.5 points, two in the finals, four in the wrestlebacks going for third, one for seventh.
Then there is homestate favorite Oklahoma State. The Cowboys have four in the finals, one in consolation and 87.5 points.
All three have legitimate shots to win it all.
Here are four key matches that could swing the title race:
At 157 pounds, the final between Dylan Ness of the Gophers and Alex Dieringer of Oklahoma State. Going to be big point swing here. ... Ness came in as ninth seed, but has four wins, the first three by pins. He is 27-6 and hot. Dieeringer, the third seed, is 35-1.
Ness said he expects a great watch. Is willing to take risks. Even go on his back for points, which Dieringer said he would never do. Ness said, whose style has been called funky, said even he doesn't know what he will do on the mat sometimes.
Ness was second as a freshman in the NCAA meet, Dieringer was third last year.
At 165, David Taylor of Penn State, 35-0 and the top seed, faces Tyler Caldwell of Oklahoma State in the final. Another big points swing match. If Cowboys can win both, would sure help their chances. Caldwell is 28-3 and the second seed.
At 174, in the wrestlebacks, Logan Storley of Gophers wrestles Matt Brown of Penn State. Winner advances to third place match. Both are 36-7. Brown is 4-1 in NCAA meet, Storley 3-1.
At heavyweight, Tony Nelson, 34-4 and the top seed, faces second seeded Nick Gwiazdowski of North Carolina State in the finals. He is 46-2. Nelson is going for his third consecutive NCAA title. Nobody in U's rich wrestling history has won three. This is last match of the finals, and if Gophers are close to the lead, Nelson could put them over the top. He said he changed his training regimen after four late-season losses. Worked more on moving his feet, always staying active. Had more 20-30 minute intense workouts, rather than longer, grind-it-out workouts. Nelson calls the G-man from NC State athetic and agile.
Almost halfway through its regular-season -- without playing a single home game, the Gophers softball team is an impressive 22-3.
They have traveled to six different states to play: Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina and Oklahoma. ... Lost to the nation's No. 1 team, Florida; beat Arizona State, then No. 3, and Louisiana State, then No. 17.
The Gophers have repeatedly shown they are for real. They lead the Big Ten in ERA, 1.57, in shutouts, 11, and strikeouts, 238. Mostly because they have an ace, senior righthander Sara Moulton.
She won her 100th career game when the Gophers edged South Carolina 1-0 on Wednesday and is 15-2 this seson with a 1.17 ERA.
This team can also handle a bat. The Gophers' batting average is only .294, fifth in the Big Ten. But they are first in homers with 30, in RBI with 131 and in slugging percentage at .509. They have a bit of speed, too. Their 37 steals are the third most in the conference.
And they can field adequately. Their .965 fielding percentage is fifth in the Big Ten.
Here's a look at Gophers' batting order -- scary at the top:
Shortstop Tyler Walker leads off. She is hitting .380 and has scored a team-high 24 runs. She gets on any way she can. Walker has walked four times and been hit by a pitch six times. She has some pop: four doubles, four triples, two homers. Has 20 RBI, second on team. And some speed, seven stolen bases in eight attempts. Good contact hitter, with only nine strikeouts.
Second baseman Erica Meyer bats second. She hits only .250 but has scored 17 runs, had seven sacrifice bunts or flies. Has hit four homers and like Walker is 7-for-8 on steal attempts.
Hitting third is the stick that stirs the Gophers' offense, to borrow a line associated with Reggie Jackson at one time. Third baseman Kaitlyn Richardson is hitting a robust .446, with five homers and 27 RBI, all tops on the team, in 25 games. Her slugging percentage is .800. She has scored 22 runs and walked a team-high 21 times. Teams pitch carefully to her. Only five strikeouts.
The cleanup hitter is a freshman, Sara Groenewegen. She is the team's second pitcher and when not in the circle, the designated player. She is hitting .274. Has six doubles, a triple and four homers and 16 RBI. Nice to have someone like Groenewegen behind Richardson so she gets some pitches to hit.
Bree Blanchette, the centerfielder, bats fifth. She is hitting only .243 but her 17 hits have helped drive in 14 runs and she has scored 13. Has eight walks.
No. 6 hitter Taylor Lemay, the catcher, has a team-high six homers and 14 RBI. She is hitting .283 with a .600 slugging percentage. She has scored 13 runs. The Gophers had a big hole to fill behind the plate when Kari Dorle graduated, but LeMay has done the job.
Leftfielder Sydney Fabian is the No. 7 hitter. She is hitting a solid .304 with 14 runs scored and 11 RBI.
Hannah Melick the first baseman hits eighth. She has struggled at the plate. She is hitting .132 with four RBI.
Kayla Wenner, the rightfielder, bats No. 9. She is hitting a low .184 with seven RBI and 11 walks.
The Gophers are No. 16 in one national poll, No. 19 in another. They play No. 15/17 Nebraska(19-8) at 6 p.m. Friday at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln in their conference opener. Not the easiest place to win.
They are averaging 5.72 runs per game.
Minnesota is hoping to play Illinois next weekend at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium, its home field, weather permitting. That's a big if, of course.
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The following is an excerpt from the Woburn Police Department log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log.
Featured Call of the Day:
Dec. 13 - At 4:30 p.m. a Lillian Street called police to report a possible scam. Caller stated she had been contacted by a man identifying himself as Andre King who said she had won the grand prize in a Publisher Clearing House contest. The man told her she needed to purchase $500 in "green cards" in order to claim her prize. The caller told police she did not purchase the cards because she thought it was a scam.
Police called the number and spoke to a man who identified himself as "Andre." When police identified themselves he hung up. Police looked up the number which seemed to be out of Jamaica
Other Incidents:
Dec. 13 -
At 8 a.m. a resident came to the station to report credit card fraud. Victim stated that Capital One called to inform her of a $4,000 charge made to her account at around 3 a.m. The bank said the charges were for auto parts out of Fort Dix, NJ.
At 9:12 a.m. a Winstead Ave caller reported two fraudulent charges on her credit card, one for $179.61 and another for $1,300 that were charged to a cosmetic company out of Saudi Arabia. Caller stated she has no connection to Saudi Arabia or the name on the charges.
At 9:31 a.m. police responded to a call from a School Street resident of a possible theft. Caller stated he ordered a tablet computer on Ebay but it was shipped to his old address. Known acquaintances at the old address said they took the package inside but that it then disappeared and nobody knows where it is. Person at the old address said he had a 'stalker' who might have taken it.
At 8 p.m. police responded to the YMCA for a report of larceny. Reporting party told police his wallet was stolen from the locker room while he was working out. The wallet contained $80 in cash, a Massachusetts ID and several credit cards. Victim advised to cancel cards.
At 8 p.m. police responded to a caller from Kimball Court who said a camera he had ordered had been stolen after delivery. Caller stated that Fed Ex tracking showed the camera had been delivered and that he had found an opened package in the stairwell adjacent to his apartment.


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Singer discussed how he wants to be seen in the future
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Unlocking The Truth's incredible story to be told on film
Digital release pencilled in for August 2014
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First new song since the singer's split from her label
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- In a large bowl mix together all ingredients. Stir into a ball, then turn dough out onto a floured surface . Knead dough for 1/2 hour. If you have a mixer with a dough hook attachment, mix for about 15 minutes.
- Let dough rest for 10 minutes.
- On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into strips that are 3 inches long and 1 inch wide. In the center of each strip, cut a 1 inch slit, lengthwise. Pull one end of the strip through the slit to form a bow.
- In a frying pan or an electric skillet, melt shortening and heat to about 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). in a frying pan this would be on medium high heat.
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- Dust finished cookies with confectioners sugar.
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These are fantastic cookies. Light and airy with the powdered suger dusting make them irresistible. You can't eat just one! I made these with my mother when I was growing up and were always a special treat. The recipe was lost in a fire and I have looked everywhere for another. You cant imagine how excited I am to have found this one.
Wonderful! I've been trying to find the recipe most like my Baba's because I left mine with my brother. We don't use alcohol in ours, either. I'm allergic to alcohol, so it was very important to find a recipe that doesn't use rum or whiskey. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I was excited by this recipe, but unfortunately it was very bland and I had a really hard time cooking the dough all the way through in the oil. Also, make sure in the first step where it says 'Combine all ingredients', do not include the shortening! This was tricky. Also, maybe I am inept, but I couldn't make anything that looked like a 'bow' from the strips that I cut. All-around awkward.
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Leodis McKelvin's new 20 million, 4 year contract is currently the source of much anguish among Bills fans who seem to only know McKelvin as one of the previous administration's first round busts. And it is true, as Leo never really played up to the expectations set for him with the 11th overall pick in 2008.
But in order to evaluate this early decision, a little bit of context is necessary. Bills GM Buddy Nix is generally pretty straightforward (sometimes to his detriment) when discussing how the Bills do things. Regarding the team's approach to negotiations with pending free agents, Buddy explained that basically they set a value for each player, and negotiate from that point. Nothing groundbreaking, but since the players agent essentially does the same thing and if the numbers are close enough the deal gets done, which is obviously what happened here.
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North Korea's long-range missile might have crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff, but the defiant regime got most of what it wanted from the failed launch.
The North set off global geopolitical ripple waves Friday when it fired what it claimed was a rocket carrying aa civilian weather satellite into orbit. The launch drew the immediate ire of Washington and its Asian allies, which had lobbied hard against what they perceive is a test of a long-range missile that could one day contain a nuclear warhead.
North Korean state television admitted Friday the rocket failed to put a Kwangmyongsong-3 earth observation satellite into orbit. U.S. officials said what the North called a rocket really was a Taepo Dong-2 missile that fell into the Yellow Sea.
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While some experts were quick to deem the botched launch a failure for new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the youthful strongman achieved many of his broader strategic objectives.
A longtime bedrock strategy of so-called rogue regimes with nuclear arms ambitions is to repeatedly buy more time to continue their atomic weapons and missile development program free of outside inspections and other influences that would slow or halt them. North Korea also will use the launch as internal propaganda to show its defiance against its many global foes.
President Obama had hoped a deal hammered out earlier this year that was to send food aid to the North in return for it halting nuclear work and missile tests would lead to U.N. weapons inspectors finally getting a chance to check out Pyongyang's atomic program.
But such unprecedented inspections would require, at the very least, lukewarm relations among the Kim regime and the U.S., South Korea, Japan, and the U.N. Security Council. As soon as the rocket's engines fired, relations cooled--even China, the North's lone ally, is peeved.
"The North Koreans certainly hope they're buying themselves more time," says Jan van Tol, a former senior White House and Pentagon official. "If the U.S. doesn't do something more forcefully this time, the North Koreans--like the Iranians--simply continue to buy time building nuclear weapons and acquiring a ballistic missile capability."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton already has warned the North the United States is ready to seek new action from the United Nations.
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"We have a pattern of setting red lines as warnings that turn out not to be anything of the sort," says van Tol. "We always seem to say, 'This time it'll be different,' but it isn't."
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He called Clinton's warning of further U.N. action "merely the usual ballet" that amounts to "Lucy and the football." The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments analyst was referring to the popular "Peanuts" cartoon strip where Charlie Brown's friend promises not to pull away a football when he is ready to kick it, but always does.
"This is very dangerous," says van Tol, who adds the U.S. should step up its actions by targeting Kim Jong-Un's "slush funds." The United States did this with past North Korean leaders, and gained some "valuable leverage," van Tol says.
"It seems we're in a dangerous position of being all talk, no stick," says van Tol, noting George W. Bush's second term featured a similar big rhetoric-small action foreign policy.
All eyes are now on Obama for early clues on just how he will respond. After North Korea so strongly defied the deal his aides struck last month, the launch was a major foreign policy black eye for the president, who many experts say has shown surprising skill on the global chess board.
"President Obama made this deal ... because, arguably, they didn't want any provocations, and they wanted to get eyes on this uranium program, which has been going really completely untouched for really the past decade," says Victor Cha, a former National Security Council official and a North Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "With this missile launch, they're going to get a provocation, and they're not going to get the [U.N.] inspectors. I think it's a real problem."


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Jack Lew's confirmation hearing featured none of the theatrics of other recent cabinet confirmation hearings, but the former White House Chief of Staff nevertheless faced a tough round of questioning.
The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday threw dozens of broad-ranging questions at Lew about virtually every pressing economic issue of the day. Exactly how Washington should deal with its fiscal woes was a top query, and as a two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget, Lew had answers at the ready, particularly on the most urgent economic matter currently facing Washington.
Lew said that simply rearranging the sequestration cuts set to kick in at the start of March would still deliver a significant hit to the economy. Rather, he advocated a "balanced approach" to avoiding sequestration cuts, the Obama administration's language of choice for its policy toward sequester. Lew advocated increased revenue alongside spending cuts as important parts of how to tackle the nation's fiscal problems—a stance that stands to rankle Republicans, many of whom have advocated against revenue increases.
"[W]e cannot allow the series of harmful automatic spending cuts known as the sequester to go into effect on March 1. These cuts would impose self-inflicted wounds to the recovery and put far too many jobs and businesses at risk," he said during his opening statement.
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The discussion included a variety of other economic topics—international trade and income inequality, for example—but also ventured into relatively new territory for a Treasury nominee. As Treasury Secretary, Lew, like his predecessor Timothy Geithner, would serve as chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a financial regulatory body created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.
How Lew would handle financial regulation was a key question in the banking industry going into Wednesday's hearing.
"With less than half of all of the rules required by Dodd-Frank completed, and many required to be promulgated by multiple agencies, it is critical that agencies do so in a coordinated fashion," wrote Kenneth Bentsen, Jr., executive vice president of public policy and advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a finance industry trade group, in a blog post Wednesday morning. Bentsen, a former congressman and the nephew of Lloyd Bentsen who served as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary in the 1990s, emphasized that an unnecessarily complex regulatory framework may in fact create more risk within the financial sector.
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"We have a fragmented mess of a regulatory system. We have literally hundreds of regulatory agencies at the state and federal levels, and they don't always play nicely together," says James Angel, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
Lew, a former Citibank executive, fielded extensive questions about how he would handle regulation. Lew said implementing oversight provisions of Dodd-Frank would be "an extraordinarily high priority" if he were confirmed, but he provided few specifics regarding his ideas about financial regulation. He told New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez that he would not support reimplementation of Glass-Steagall, the law that once upon a time divided commercial and investment banking activities (it was repealed during the Clinton administration). Instead, he said, new regulations should be created to fit modern banking.


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Facebook has certainly taken notice of its photo offerings with (Google+ inspired) updates to the picture viewer on the web and support for high-resolution photos up to 2048 x 2048, and now it's bringing a minor but significant change to its iPhone, Android, and mobile web apps. As shown above, the news feed on all three mobile versions of the social network now display larger photo previews instead of the abysmally tiny ones that were previously-avaialble (see before on right, after on left in picture above). We've been told that the feature is server-side, so you shouldn't need to update your apps to get the improved layout. For what it's worth we're not seeing the changes yet, but it should be rolling out soon.


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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, jailed since March, have received expressions of support from musicians including Paul McCartney, Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers during legal proceedings that have been criticized as a politically motivated show trial intended to chill dissent against Putin. The women said that theirs was a political protest that was never intended to offend the Russian Orthodox Church.
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We were big fans of the original Withings Blood Pressure Monitor, but the new model introduced at CES 2014 is a vast improvement since it works wirelessly. No longer requiring to be tethered, the Withings Wireless Blood Pressure model works with the iPhone, as well as Android devices (the previous version only worked with older iOS device that used the 30-pin connector.) You launch the app after applying the cuff, and you get your blood pressure and heart rate, which can be archived so you can refer to the data later, and view trends. You'll be able to get it soon for $129.95.
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I've got a lot of love for Mophie and its line of Juice Pack and Powerstation charging devices for smartphones, tablets, and pretty much anything that charges over USB. I've owned them since the original was released for the iPhone 3G way back when. Now, the company is looking to expand into new territory with the Mophie Space Pack. The Space Pack is a battery case for the iPhone that also incorporates built-in storage, allowing users of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s expand the overall storage capacity of their devices. Available soon in 16GB and 32GB variants, users will be able to store any type of file on the Space Pack, including iTunes content, photos, and videos, all managed through the Mophie Space app. The 16GB model will sell for $149, while the 32GB version will be $179. Both are available for pre-order today, and begin shipping on March 14, 2014.
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Can the world's fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences asks Meera Subramanian in VQR
At first, one noticed they were missing.
Vultures—massive and clumsy, their naked faces buried in rotting flesh along the roadside, on the banks of the Ganges, lining the high walls and spires of every temple and tower—were once so ubiquitous in India as to be taken for granted, invisible. And something in us didn't want to see them. Vultures are cross-culturally uncharismatic—with their featherless gray heads, their pronounced brows that make for permanent scowls, their oversized blunt beaks capable of splintering bones. They vomit when threatened and reek of death. In South Asia, their broad wings can reach up to eight feet tip to tip, casting a great shadow from above as they circle, drawn by the distant smell of carrion. The world over, these voracious scavengers are viewed with disgust and associated with death—and we, instinctually, look away. more
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Plan B: Eduardo NunezBy
Via Buster Olney, the Yankees have identified their Plan B at shortstop in the unlikely event that Derek Jeter signs elsewhere or retires: Eduardo Nunez. They would rather give the 23-year-old the opportunity to win the job in Spring Training than pursue a veteran free agent (Olney mentions out-machine Orlando Cabrera, yuck). The Yanks sure do seem to have a lot of faith in Nunez, who's drawn 50 unintentional walks with a .102 ISO in 1,034 plate appearances at Double- and Triple-A over the last two seasons. Let's not forget that he was seemingly unable to throw a ball to first base without making it an adventure in his late season cameo this year.
If they want to go in-house, fine. Just start Ramiro Pena then, at least he'll be brilliant defensively.
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The Eduardo Nunez fan club: Mike Axisa, President.
Sources: Yanks expect Jeter to be back, but they have identified their Plan B if he isn't — Eduardo Nunez. The 23-year-old SS (more)
would be given the opportunity to win the SS job in spring, rather than the Yankees immediately pursuing a veteran like Orlando Cabrera.
Why couldn't he fit all of that information in 140 characters or less? It's almost like he enjoys bending the twitter rules.
"Source: Yanks expect Jeter Back. Plan B: 23 yr-old Nunez will get shot to win SS job in ST instead of pursuing vet FA" that has to be less than 140
Assuming this is truly from "sources", do you think Cashman intentionally released this or did it leak without his permission?
i'd say it doesnt really matter. Its not like earth-shattering news. Its more common sense than anything.
Well, none of this really matters, but it is a much different story depending on if it was intentional from Cash to Olney, a leak in the organization from an intern who saw a memo they shouldn't have, or a WAG from Olney.
Bubba Crosby?
Exactly what I was thinking!…
But Nunez cant replace Jeters offensive production
/09′ offseason'd
/'10 offseason too'd
If Eduardo Nunez is the option (I saw him play in the minors this year as well), I'd vote for seeing what Roy Smalley is doing!
Straight out of the Bubba Crosby is our CF & Nick Swisher is our 1B playbook.
If they want to go in-house, fine. Just start Ramiro Pena then, at least he'll be brilliant defensively.
That. Always that before they start someone with no bat AND no glove.
I'm not particularly impressed with Pena's glove, either.
Umm yeah, don't I remember Mike Lamb being the supposed replacement for Aaron Boone after he got injured?
Or Nick Swisher being the first baseman pre-Teixeira signing.
Which is what makes the whole situation so silly on both ends…Jeter needs the Yankees to get a good contract, and the Yanks kind of need Jeter because there aren't any decent shortstops available, short of a surprise trade.
This has all gone from creepy to stupid creepy. This is whose d**k is bigger disguised as negotiating. I guess if these momos could cancel a WS, they can keep doing this. Dear Baby Jesus – here near Xmas time – please let somebody insult me w/a 3yrs. for 45mil deal. Pretty please, I have Frank incense & myrrh. Plus a Jeter Rookie Card. . ..
I love this post. I also love that you have Frank incense.
I burn Frank incense while enjoying my Richard Simmons DVD collection. It's a great combo.
I actually just spoke to him… Frank is totally incensed with this new Nunez revelation.
Frank incense is incense that get right to the point. No girly smells or anything like that, it just masks the smell of weed. Period.
I am incensed and possibly insane that this Jeter thing is becoming what it is becoming which is very unbecoming.
Frank incense is incense that get right to the point. No girly smells or anything like that, it just masks the smell of weed. Period.
Exactly. (SFW)
Eh, I can see liking Nunez over Pena. We can't be sure that Nunez's offensive improvements over the last year or so won't translate at all, and we can't be sure that he won't or hasn't turned any kind of corner defensively.
With Pena, we can be pretty much certain that we're going to get a wOBA under .300 – probably by a lot. I'd be surprised if his OPS+ is higher than 60 in a full season. If he's putting up UZRs of +10 or better, then that's one thing, but I think it's a bit much to expect him to do that. With Nunez, there's no guarantee of anything, but I could see him being something near average at short while maintaining a wOBA closer to .320 than .300. That sucks, but I still think he's a better option than Pena.
But then again, Nunez didn't sleep with my wife, so what do I know?
Nunez would be more like a plan C, as mentioned this has Bubba Crosby written all over it.
Jeter needs to wake up and realize that just because they blew it with the Arod resigning, they won't make the same mistake twice. Arod had/has a much higher WAR, was/has much more power and it was during Hank's "Boss Jr" crazism.
Jeter was (prior to this off season)regarded as a team guy and I'm all for him cashing in again way above market…which should net him like 3/60M$ with a fourth mutual kicker for 15M$ with a $3 buyout. This would likely be 50% higher than ANY other team would offer. He deserves it in a way, and I hope they don't "Damon" him by offering him less each week. Keep it open until pitcher & catchers report and then move on to which ever scab is available (as there is not much out there this year).
If they want to go in-house, fine. Just start Ramiro Pena then, at least he'll be brilliant defensively.
You can't seriously be down on Nunez enough to want to start Ramiro Pena over him. If you want people to take you seriously on your evaluation of Nunez instead of getting all these You Hate Nunez! comments hyperbole like this only hurts you.
The average SS last season had a .693 OPS. The position isn't exactly filled with guys who can mash.
If you see Cashman lobby at the owner's meetings in December for a rule change to have the option for DH's to bat for any one position (instead of just P's), then you know that his plan could be…
Pena play SS
Posada DH for SS position
CC, AJ, Mo, etc. bat for themselves
Otherwise, Jeet will smell the coffee and resign for the goodness of the Yankee fans, MLB & his sponsors sometime after the New Year when everything is discounted.
Figure Pena is always there, give Nunez a chance, if he sucks, you can always start Pena instead
Why all the Nunez hate? Not saying he's great & would be a great SS to have. Just saying that there are worse options. There's not enough perspective when it comes to Nunez. Don't compare him to a HOF like Jeter, compare him to the dregs that are MLB SS's.
I also believe this is just more of the media bs of what could I write about today that is new & original considering what's been written all season & even more so the last 2 weeks.
The plan B should involve a trade IMO. How about a trade for Alexei Ramirez? Swisher/Granderson could be including plus a pitching prospect. I know I'm a little short on the trade, but I'm sure it could get done reasonable. This puts a younger, arb-eligible SS in the lineup with avg/power, and allows the Yanks to spend the Jeter $$$ on Werth/Crawford. Clearly a Plan B, but honestly, I see this a better option than Nunez.
This is obviously a big load on nonsense since Jeter will resign, but interesting to think about the what ifs.
Holy f#$%balls, Phil Rogers posts at RAB!
Mike's Worst Nightmare: Eduardo Nunez, Yanks starting SS
Clearly, Joe believes that Pena is a better option as he had him bat in the old "double-cleanup" spot. While they both went 2-4, Pena displayed a better ability to drive in runs.
will be happy with Nunez. Thanks
I get the impression that the Yankees could start the entire Columbus Clippers roster and *some of you* would convince yourselves that we have 6-7 diamonds in the rough out there.
The nut jobs maybe. I think there are others who are reading into the Nunez does not suck compared to the rest of MLB SS's crowd as saying that he will be a stud.
The Columbus Clippers? Did we just time warp?
Which pair would have greater offensive production:
2011 Nunez and Montero vs.
2010 Jeter and Cervelli?
Just curious. Jeter WILL be back, but is it just me, or has is it gotten a little easier to imagine life after Jeter over the past 2 weeks? I'll be happy when he re-signs, but the Yankees offense survived with TWO below average hitters (league average, not position adj) last year. They could get by with one next year if they had to.
Also, what about in 2012 when Jorge is gone? Couldn't you use Jeter's money to sign a big DH bat and make up the Nunez-Jeter gap that way? To be honest, the Yankees only really NEED Jeter for one more year.
What does Derek Jeter have to do with Cervelli?
I'd also like to see an end to imaginary acquisitions. There is no "Big DH bat" just like there are no "Young free agent shortstops" on the horizon.
The question was if replacing Jeter/Cervelli with Nunez/Montero gets you the same production. Was that really so hard to follow? Nunez would be worse than Jeter but Montero would be better than Cervelli. Just a hypothetical question for those who see Nunez as the end of the world.
Also, why wouldn't there be any big DHs available? There are several available right now, for much less than Jeter $$. Don't get that objection, it doesn't strike me as particularly controversial.
Who? Guerrero, Thome, Matsui and the like were so available because nobody wanted them. The same risk for flatlining is out there now as existed 12 months ago. DHes are all washed up guys who have proven to be major injury risks. It's not 1999.
If RAB had hashtags, "It's Not 1999″ would be my favorite.
Can't we get a better hitter at SS than this? Wait a year and sign a free agent. #itsnot1999.
Can't we sign a big time DH with Jeter's money? #itsnot1999
We should be looking to trade for an ace instead of giving Lee all that money #itsnot1999
And as I think you attempted to glaze over, the Yankees had zero league average spots in the lineup this season.
I didn't attempt to glaze over anything. The two players I am talking about replacing play the same two positions as the new people, so it's irrelevant how they fared in relation to their positions. The only thing that matters in this exercise is how much offense they generate. Period.
So if Jeter and Cervelli had OPS+ of 90 and 88, could the Yankees get an 80 and 110 out of the same two spots next year with Nunez and Montero?
Seems like a legitimate question, no idea what your problem is.
Jorge Posada took a significant number of ABs at catcher. Jesus Montero has 0 MLB ABs. Derek Jeter was still well above the mean at his position. Eduardo Nunez sucks.
The above information makes the comparison strange, IMO.
What do you consider a big DH bat?
Prince and/or Cecil Fielder. John Kruk might work as well.
raul mondesi
We're talking about fat DHs, not morbidly obese quasi-centerfielders.
Get rid of Jeter put Nunez in short and Crawford in left is better then brining back Jeter for 4 years.
This. I have been saying this for awhile now. It is a bit outside the box but Swish DH's every day. He is a better switch hitter and 10 years younger than Posada who we keep but not as the everyday DH.
Jeter not $18M better than Nunez for next 3 years. Jeets should bat 9th anyway with Montero in the lineup.
$18M for a #9 hitter?
$18M for a #9 hitter?
13M for a DH/PH bench bat?
we are stuck with Posada's contract-not Jeter's
and Posada will catch 30-40 games.
Jeter not $18M better than Nunez for next 3 years.
This is a red herring. Jeter's not getting paid 18M a year to simply be better than Nuñez, a large portion of that 18M is being paid to Jeter to continue being Derek Jeter, Most Popular And Marketable Athlete In Modern Baseball History. You can't judge it on the gross volume of the contract, because the team has all but admitted that it's willing to pay Jeter more than standard market value because his singular branding presence skews the math.
but the icon… the icon deserves it
dont u know the icon deserves more
With or without Jeter, the Yankees still have the best offensive lineup in baseball. How much better offensively is Jeter going to be than Nunez/Pena that it's gonna be worth 15+ million/season?
How much better offensively is Jeter going to be than Nunez/Pena that it's gonna be worth 15+ million/season?
Jeter's not worth 15M more than any other shortstop, at this point. He's easily worth 8-10M more than Peña or Nuñez, though.
So, if it makes you feel better, the Yankees are going to be paying Derek Jeter the baseball player 8-10M a year to be better than Peña and Nuñez the baseball players, and in a separate but concurrent contractual agreement, the Yankees are going to be paying Derek Jeter the global brand icon 5-7M per year to continue to align his brand within the family of the Yankees' multi-sport conglomerate.
Except that is an insulting offer, one that baffles Mr Close.
Honestly, i was surprised to see the Yanks start 15 M. They clearly did not want to insult him. If they wanted fair value then they could have started 3/21M total.
At the end of this the MSM will make it look like Yanks did something despicable. I do wonder how they would react if this were the BoSox though. You could see Neyer and James lecturing the world the Sox are a smart organization running a business.
I understand the 5-7 million, I just don't understand how Jeter is $8-10 million better than Nunez/Pena (replacement player) on the field.
If 1 WAR = $2.5 mil, Jeter had a 2.5 WAR last year, that's only $6 and a quarter million, and that's if Nunez can't do anything with the bat.
That 2.5 WAR was the lowest of Jeter's career. Even a mild, small, non-aggressive bounceback prediction would put him at 3 WAR, and there's $7.5M of that $8-10M.
And 600 plate appearances of Eduardo Nuñez or Ramiro Peña (or both) could easily equal to -1.0 WAR and -$2.5M of value. Easily.
Could a full season of Nuñez and/or Peña look just like Yuniesky Betancourt's 2009 Royals season? You bet your ass it could.
Shit, $10M may be underselling it. 2011 Jeter could easily be 12M better than Nuñez/Peña. That's how bad their bats are, and how good a diminished Jeter bat still is.
Or Jeter could continue to decline as a 37 year old SS would, and Nunez could actually progess as a hitter as he's done the last two years.
Is the probability of Jeter maintaining his conditioning for the next 4 years that exceptional, that you are willing to bet $70 million dollars on it?
This is all besides my main point, that the Yanks still have the best lineup in baseball with or without Jeter. Is $70 million worth it to GAMBLE to make it that much better?
Cashman isn't going to name drop any DJ alternatives as this process is very volatile. Cashman has got to play it close to his vest. It'd be stupid not too, so Olney's sources are just really stating the obvious. Aside from Pena, Nunez is the only other internal candidate who could open next season on the squad.
The Yanks should have put in a huge bid, i.e. big enough to insure it was the best, for Nishioka. That would have put the pressure on Jeter and if he signed, they pass on Nishioka and get their posting bid back. If Jeter doesn't sign, you bring in Nishioka who probably is as good or better than any other Plan B's at the moment, offensively and defensively, could even be better than future Jeter. Win-win.
R. Theriot makes more sense than Nunez I think, assuming he'd come real cheap now.
Move Gardner to SS, defense can't be much worse than Jeter's and his bat fits SS perfectly, then sign Crawford.
This whole post was mostly a joke, although it makes about as much sense as the way the Jeter negotiation has gone, and the Nishioka plan would have been a nice strategy/insurance policy.
you don't get the posting bid back no atter what
Yes, you do get the posting bid back if you don't agree to a contract with the player.
Go for the proven out as opposed to the prospect voted best defensive SS in AAA?
Is that because he isn't proven at the major league level while Pena has "proven" his level of ability?
I was wondering what these people who want to pay Jeter for his "icon" status think the return for this portion of his "value" will be.
Wouldn't we be better off taking all of the old retired stars and paying them 50,000 a year to schmooze season ticket holders and the media?
Jeter isn't going to change attendance one way or the other but the crummy team you build by overpaying players who should be giving retirement a hard look will drop that attendance significantly.
Jersey sales, homie. Jeter's been #1 for like a decade straight.
Attendance isn't the only revenue stream for the team to profit off of The Blazing Copper Horse.
Jersey sales get pooled out to all teams equally. the only jersey sales that the team keeps are those from inside the stadium, that's a drop in the bucket.
I wouldn't argue he has no value above his on field play but nothing that would earn the yanks enough millions to even justify his current offer.
Fans who want jerseys will also just buy some elses.
In either case the team loses more money building a bad team even if the jersey sales go way up. The Yankees resurgence was related to winning far more then Jeter and Jeter no longer is a big factor in making that happen.
Yes, I will definitely get a Jesus jersey.
People will still buy jerseys even if Jeter's isn't one of them.
This website has the most irrational hatred for Nunez…ever.
Now that the Jeter negotiations are looking up Mike can rest easier, Nunez will have probably been traded away before the SS position is vacant again. Although I still don't understand his aversion to him. He seems like a legitimate ML SS prospect to me. And I don't think Ramiro Pena is evenly remotely an option.


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City council members, city attorneys and school administrators are all experts at building better communities. That doesn't make them expert potters, though.
Local leaders sat down at pottery wheels Wednesday to make bowls for the 15th Annual Empty Bowls fundraiser.
The event raises money for ResourceWest and ICA Foodshelf. People from all over the community first get together for bowl-making events. On Wednesday, Hopkins High School art instructor Terry Chamberlain's pottery students guided the novices through the process.
Empty Bowls then takes place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 12 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Attendees make a free will donation; choose their favorite bowl from among 1,000s created by local artists, students and volunteers; enjoy a simple bowl of soup and bread and return home with the bowl.
There will also be musical entertainment, and professional artists have donated bowls and related art for a silent auction.
Last year, students, staff and community potters created 1,022 bowls—helping the event raise $76,117.
But the community doesn't have to wait until the event starts to begin helping. Residents are able to donate to the event right away through the Supervalu Challenge. Click here to donate online. Sponsors of $250 or more will have their logo prominently displayed.
Sponsors can also donate in-kind items such as soup, bread, coffee and other items, and musicians are needed to perform at the event. Volunteers are needed, as well. Those who would like to help should contact Barb Westmoreland at 952-988-4069 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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2014 Porsche 918 Spyder
Porsche recasts this whole hybrid business in a most amazing way.
Funnyman Louis C.K. does a widely known bit summed up by a phrase uttered early in the performance: "Everything is amazing and nobody's happy." (Go ahead and Google it now, but promise you'll come back to us. Beware the YouTube wormhole!) He's talking about personal technology, but the perspective applies to today's car industry, too. Take a moment to count your blessings as a car enthusiast in today's world and you'll quickly realize that you're going to need a longer moment.
We have Miatas and BRZ/FR-Ss, GTIs and Focus STs, 300-hp V-6 Mustangs (and 400-hp V-8s), 495-hp Jaguar roadsters, 11-second Mercedes-Benz station wagons, and a handful of exotics (and sometimes even near-exotics) in the 10s. There are also 200-mph sedans, beautiful things, weird things—in short, there's no shortage of somethings for everyone. This, plus forums to talk about these things, eBay and Bring a Trailer to buy them, and a mind-blowing generation of video games that let us realistically experience the dreams we can't afford. And yet the mood in the automotive sphere tends to be a little dreary. We yearn for the good old days or, more often, fear the bad ones to come. Diesels and hybrids and EVs are the future, and they're going to ruin it all.
Except they won't, so you can put away your sad trombone. On top of all that other great stuff comes a curious new phenomenon: The million-dollar, 900-hp hybrid hypercar. Want even more evidence that things are going well? In the last decade, several companies have quit making minivans, yet now three different automakers build these insane hybrids. We've yet to drive the Ferrari LaFerrari or McLaren P1, but we just clambered out of Porsche's 918 Spyder, and it turns out that hybrids can be pretty awesome.
The Hybrid Ambassador
There's no family-hybrid-esque Atkinson-cycle four puttering away beneath the 918's perforated engine cover—think a high-output V-8 bristling with modern engine technology. Porsche says that the engine was derived from that in the Le Mans-class-winning RS Spyder, but you really need to stretch the definition of "derived" for that to be the case. In very large part, the only commonalities between the RS Spyder's 3.4-liter and the 918's 4.6 are that they both have flat-plane cranks and 90-degree V angles, and saying that 90-degree Vs on two eight-cylinders implies shared roots is like claiming that you and Billy Joel must be cousins because you both have goatees.
But if it the 918's engine shares little with the racing car's mill, it also shares little with those of any lesser Porsches. For starters, it breathes in reverse. Air enters from the outside of the heads and is exhausted in the valley of the V. Then, rather than wind their way to the back of the car, the spent gases simply exit skyward from a pair of gaping cannons mounted immediately aft of the occupants' heads. There's not room for much muffling before it does that, which is fine by us—not to mention a boon to driver alertness. The block and heads are aluminum, the connecting rods are titanium, and the exhaust system is Inconel, a lightweight and super-expensive nickel-based alloy. Keeping the internals light and the crank flat means that the V-8 can rev to 9150 rpm, a speed at which it emits a scream of such intense, pure rage that we felt obliged to apologize. (The V-8 continued screaming nonetheless.)
Carrera GT + 930 Turbo = 918 Spyder
The V-8 makes 608 horsepower, just three more than Porsche's previous limited-edition flagship, the Carrera GT. But the 918 then adds roughly the output of another old flagship, the 930 Turbo, via two electric motors. One wedges in between the V-8 and the seven-speed PDK transmission, while the other sits just aft of the front cargo hold. The battery pack sits low behind the passengers within the carbon-fiber monocoque. Total system output from the engine and motors sits at 887 horsepower and a maximum of 944 lb-ft of torque. (For even more details on the 918's powertrain and its operation, check out technical director Don Sherman's prototype drive here.) We weren't able to gather instrumented test data, but figure on a 0-to-60-mph time of just 2.6 seconds, and a quarter-mile time of around 10 flat. And in case you missed it, the 918 Spyder is the first production car ever to break the seven-minute barrier at the Nürburgring. Not only that, but Porsche's drivers say they were told to exercise caution, and insist that they could do better than the 6:57 they stamped into the record books. Chalk one up for hybrid goodwill.
It's a good thing that the seats back up to a bulkhead, because under full throttle, the 918 feels as though it might rip them clean out of the floorboards. Every time you floor it, you get a preview of your first (or next) face lift. The pull is relentless. With two different types of electric motors spinning at two different speeds, a gas V-8, and Porsche's seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox all operating in concert, this is among the most sophisticated powertrains on the road. But occupants feel no transition of power flow between motors and engine. To the end user, it simply feels incredibly fast and unbelievably seamless. Not since we discovered QWOP and browser-window Asteroids have we been so happy with computers.
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If Porsche were actually concerned with keeping the seats moored, it would have had to hem in its lightweight buckets on all sides, because this car generates stupefying g forces in all directions. What's truly amazing, though, is how approachable this car's supernatural powers are. We lapped Spain's 2.5-mile Circuit de Valencia behind a 911 Turbo S—no slouch itself, logging a 7:27 on the Nürburgring—piloted by Porsche's own test driver. While the 911 savant in the Turbo S manhandled his mount around the track, wringing every millisecond from his lap time, we flounced along behind, a little bored by the lack of effort required to stay on his bumper.Continued...


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