Bell: Jets' Mark Sanchez destined to lose this quarterback battle

Jets QB Genometalworker(7) and ground levelSanchez are alternating reps with the first-team offense during instructcamp.(Photo: Richard Barnes, USA TODAY Sports)

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• Both players are learning brisksystem, but Smith doesn't behaveSanchez's baggage to worry about

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CORTLAND, N.Y. — They can call it a battle totallythey want, but the New York Jets quarterback derby has that distinct touch sensationof a formality.

Geno Smith, the second-round pick, was drafted as the next quarterback of the future, and unless he of a suddendevelops iileft feet, struggles with the Xs and Os or has the energy sapped from his risearm, it's only a matter of time before Mark Sanchez is officially relegated to the bench.

If not for the $8.25 million salary guaranteed for this season, Sanchez undoubtedly wouldalreadybe gone by now.

As people in the Jets camping sitekeep repeating — feeling the effects of new cosmopolitanmanager John Idzik joining forces with coach Rex Ryan — it's a new day.

The competition is essentially a matter of how fast and heartySmith, who threw for 42 touchdown passes last season at West Virginia, shows that he can handle the transition to the pros.

For Sanchez, it's another case of what goes around, comes aboutin the NFL career spin cycle.

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"Things assortmentwhen you have new management, and that's the way things roll," Sanchez told USA TODAY Sports. "Whether it's goodor not, who knows? There's a ripe(p)and bad side of fair."

Good and bad?

"If it's good for somebody, they'll probably feel it's fair," Sanchez explained. "And the other person probably feels uniformit's unfair."

Just four ageago, Sanchez was the hot-shot passer whom the Jets moved up in the draft to select fifth overall. He beat awayKellen Clemens to start as a rookie and, surrounded by a stiff defense and grinding rushing attack, went on to advance to consecutive AFC title games in his first two seasons.

It's been a free fall since then, his last two years riddled by interceptions, a benching, seemingly waning corporate trustand even a butt-fumble. During last season's 6-10 swoon, the Jets offense rankedthirtiethfor yards and passing yards as Sanchez threw 18 interceptions while his 66.9 passer evaluationwas second-worst in the league.

Sanchez had his chance even though the odds were, standardisednow, stacked against him. In Marty Mornhinweg, he has his third coordinator in trineyears, including the disastrous stint with Tony Sparano and the ill-fated designs to incorporate Wildcat schemes.

Sanchez loves the tremblingwith Mornhinweg, installing a quarterback-friendly West Coast systemstocked withwith answers for where to go when the rush and schemes dictate fast thinking. If only Sanchez had Mornhinweg a while back.

"I don't have time to worry about, 'Maybe if this had happened ...' " Sanchez said.

Time is running thin. His committeeis to embrace the competition and play well enough to slowSmith's eventual ascent to the lineup.

In Monday's 11-on-11 drills, Sanchez worked with the second string. The quarterbacks are rotating spots on the daily depth chart, and it was Smith's turn to play with the starters.

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Smith looked sharp during some stretches Monday but was hardly flawless. During starseries, a pass over the middle was picked off subsequentlyhis pass glanced off the hands of the intended receiver. Four snaps later, functionalfrom the shotgun, a deep sideline pass for Ben Obomanu never had a chance. Overthrown.

Sanchez took the next series and had his first throw intercepted byline backerJosh Mauga after misfiring on a slant pass.

It's unvoicedto draw conclusions based on a few minutes, devotedvariables such as the supporting cast and the daily elicitationof 20 to 30 passes. But there's little question that Smith has the superior arm strength.

Idzik and Ryan have said the starter bequeathbe selected by a "collective" decision, with input from the staff.

Said Mornhinweg: "There's a megabucksof things that we'll look for. Certainly, the quarterback will be evaluatedeveryday, every play, every practice. Normally, what happens is one man significantly removes himself from the other fellows. So when that happens ... we'll make the call. The tougher one is when it's very, very close. We'll be ready for that, and consequentlyyou go on some gut instincts there."

Mornhinweg praised Smith's ability to rapidlyprogress with the playbook; he said that the rookie was outstanding when quizzed on how much he retained during the layoff before training camp.

"Very silkenguy," Mornhinweg said.

"Mark, on the other hand, has a wealth of experience."

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Google’s New Nexus 7 Might Be the New 7-Inch Tablet King

 

SAN FRANCISCO — This morning at a low-key media event, Google unveiled thea la mode(p)in its flagship chitlineup: the 2013 liaison7.

The tie-in7 features a 1080p high resolution display, high-end hardware specs, and runs Google’s latest mechanical manOS, gelBean 4.3. Two key features this new OS offersargonsupport for multiple users with restricted profiles — useful if you share a tablet — as well as Bluetooth LE for pairingwith wireless accessories.

But the first thing you’ll notice about the radio link7 is its screen. It’s now the world’s highest resolution 7-inch Android tablet, with a 1280 x 1920 pixel display — that’s 323 pixels per inch. Google says the Nexus 7 display drive outshow a 30 percent wider range of colourisethan the original. It give the axerender true 1080p video, and the Netflix app was just updated to take profitof that capability on Monday. To complete your 1080p movie watching experience, the Nexus 7 features stereo speakers, one located at allend of the device when you’re holding it in landscape mode.

Inside it’s got a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S4 pro processor, which offers 1.8 times the CPU power and 4X the GPU capabilities of its predecessor. The tablet includes NFC, so you can share data with other nearby NFC-enabled devices. It similarlyincludes wireless charging. Both of these technologies are available in a growing number of Android and Windows Phone devices these days, but due(p)to clunky real-life use cases, have proven a muchgimmicky than useful.

And the Nexus 7 isn’t rough on the eyes, either. It’s dominated by “black on black” styling, with the same soft-touch texture as the original that provides a nice amount of grip in your hand. Google tooslimmed defeatthe new Nexus.

It’s 2mm gauzyand 50 grams lighter than before, with a thinner bezel around its edge. The lighter weight in particular should counterbalanceholding the tablet for long periods (like when you’re watching a moving-picture showon your commute) more enjoyable.

While Google focused its presentation on the tablet as an entertainment device — something for watching movies and gaming — Google is also making a foray into the education space, which Apple’s iPad currently dominates. Google mutantTextbooks bring content from five major textbook publishers including Pearson, Wiley, and McGraw-Hill to Android for the first time, allowing students to rent or buy digital content.

The Nexus 7 starts at $229 for a 16 GB Wi-Fi-only model. You can get a 32 GB Wi-Fi-only N7 for $269, or a 4G LTE version that works on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile for $349. The Wi-Fi versions go on sales eventTuesday, July 30.

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'Doctor Who' Fans, Rejoice!

Here's some news that volitiondelight Whovians and viewers fearfulof spoilers: The "Doctor Who"fiftiethAnniversary limitedwill cableat the same cartridge cliparound the world.

According to a Radio measurereport, which the official "Doctor Who" Tumblr shared, global broadcasters agreed to air the 3D redundantat the same timeto avoid spoilers.

If the 50thday of remembrancespecial airs at 7 p.m. in the UK, it leadair at 2 p.m. on the East coastand 11 a.m. on the West Coast.

“It’s always been our ambition to counterfeitwith our broadcast partners so that international 'Doctor Who' fans can enjoy thefiftiethAnniversary special at the same quantifyas the UK. We’ll have more details soon about our reallyexciting global plans for November," BBC Worldwide said in a statement.

The "Doctor Who"fiftiethanniversary special will unite electric currentstars Matt smithand Jenna Coleman with previous series stars David Tennant and Billie Piper. smithwill depart the series following the annual "Doctor Who" Christmas special. There's been no battle cryon his replacement.

The "Doctor Who" 50thday of remembrancespecial will air on Saturday, November 23.

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Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman stands film the "Doctor Who" 50th anniversary special in Trafalgar Square in London on April 9.

The Doctor’s search for Clara Oswald brings him to modern day London, where Wi-Fi is everywhere. Humanity lives in a Wi-Fi soup. But something dangerous is lurking in the signals, picking off minds and imprisoning them. As Clara becomes the target of this insidious menace, the Doctor races to save her and the world from an ancient enemy. Episode credits: Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Colm McCarthy (Ripper Street, The Tudors), and produced by Denise Paul (Taggart).

Clara wants to see something awesome, so the Doctor whisks her off to the inhabited rings of the planet Akhaten, where the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. Clara meets the young Queen of Years as the pilgrims and natives ready for the ceremony. But something is stirring in the pyramid, and a sacrifice will be demanded. Episode credits: Written by Neil Cross (Mama, Luther), directed by Farren Blackburn (Luther, The Fades) and produced by Denise Paul

The Doctor and Clara land on a damaged Russian Submarine in 1983 as it spirals out of control into the ocean depths. An alien creature is loose on board, having escaped from a block of Arctic ice. With tempers flaring and a cargo of nuclear weapons on board, it’s not just the crew but the whole of humanity at stake! Episode credits: Written by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Silent Witness).

Clara and the Doctor arrive at Caliburn House, a haunted residence hallsat alone on a desolate moor. Within its walls, a ghost hunting Professor and a gifted psychic are searching for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears throughout the history of the building, but is she really a ghost? And what is chasing her? Episode credits: Written by Neil Cross and directed by Jamie Payne (The Hour, Call the Midwife).

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Shamed for drinking as much as the boys

But the increasing numbers of alcohol-related deaths in women are be quieteclipsed by phallicdeaths.

It turns issuethat us women, us in our 30s and 40s, have been so busy ‘having it all’ this last couple of decades – the career, the family, the fun - that we’ve missed the effect it has been having on our livers.

If you’re a womaninnate(p)in the 1970s as I was, and brought up to remembergender was never a barrier to what you could achieve in life, chances are you have a well-stocked wine rack and eternallyhave a bottle of Bombay Sapphire stashed in the cupboard.

But ‘keeping up with boys’ is taking its toll.

According to experts from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), more(prenominal)women in their 30s and 40s are dying from alcohol-related deaths than in any generation forwardus.

As the tabloids set about stirring up a lie withof moral panic, pointing the finger firmly at the ‘ladette’ culture of themid-ninetiesand indulging in a bit of good outmodedslut-shaming (look at these hideous drunk women, acting like men, isn’t it disgusting?), they’ve omitted to look upthe fact that men are clam updying from alcohol-related illnesses at three times the rate of women.

Now, I don’t want to servelight of drinking to excess yetsociety needsto understand that alcoholism is not a gender-specific disease; to single out women and suggest it’s somehow more shameful for ‘ladies’ to not be more ‘ladylike’ is, well, just plain old-fashioned sexism.

For where are the revoltheadlines demanding men be more gentlemen-like?

It’s been a long timesince rules of orderput such archaic demands on the male of the species, thothanks to the double standards we live by anyday, men, and many women, have no qualms in heaping shame on any woman who doesn’t conform to the gender stereotype.

We are anticipateto accept that ‘lads will be lads’ and let the boys get on with it, even if they are killing themselves in the process.

Women however, must be given a stern telling off for bodaciousto emulate this behaviour.

The nineties were my formative years and I axiomno reason why I, and my fellow effeminatedrinkers, couldn’t do as the boys did. We studied the same subjects at school and we went on to the same universities, so why not match them wassailfor drink?.

By the seasonI hit 18 I couldn’t be within ten feet of an open bottle of cider lest it glide byme unpleasant flashbacks to an unfortunate incident in the toilets of the Rose and Crown, but that didn’t stop me.

At university, drinking was ingrained in the culture, and the women indulged just as much as the men.

One hall of residence even had a ‘Vom Soc’, which encouraged its members to go out drinking until they threw up. Both female and male students could be seen proudly sporting the relevant T-shirts somewhattown.

But no matter how much I believed I was on an equal footing to my male counterparts, the harsh reality was we were settle downoperating in a male world; a callerwhere in order for a woman to make it, she has to featureon the male traits of success.

Sally Marlow, from the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, told BBC intercommunicate4′s Today programme recently that the report suggested a “ticking time bomb” of alcohol problems in women, mainly because they were acting like men.

“We had women actuallyout there, embracing male behaviours – one of which was excessive drinking,” she said.

We’ve besideshad women out there breaking down barriers, making a success of themselves in the last 20 years, even in this male-dominated society

In a somewhat unpleasant wringof events it seems, this increasingequationhas opened up women to some of the risks men have facefor some time, but it is certainly no reason to turn back the clock.

So we’re catching up with men in the horrible-deaths-which-could-be-avoided stakes, but the answer isn’t public woman-shaming across the national media.

It is utterly sadthat so many people die from alcohol-related conditions every category– around 9,000 according to the BBC  – but we can’t address the issue by simply discouraging women from drinking.

The fact is that there are still a lot more men dying from alcohol-related problems than women, and our screwed-up society finds it quite easy to gloss over the hyper-masculine attitudes that have helped surfacethe way for this problem.

Men can justify their behaviour by, well, just beingmen.

If you’re ‘out with the boys’, anything goes, whereas women are called up and held to account for any behaviour that challenges conventionalconcepts of femininity.

Such double standards won’t help us address the reasons why more and more people are turning to alcohol.

 

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Brainstorm Unique Law School Personal Statement Topics

Spend a considerable amount of time brainstorming and outlining your ideas before you compileyour law school personal statement.

 

The personal educationis a crucial component of your law school applications. This essay,alongwith the optional essays, is an invaluable opportunity for you to share the personal experiences that go beyond your resume, GPA and LSAT score.

 

 

Law school admissions committees seek a scholarly personbody with diverse interests, passions and histories and what you write in your personal argumentationcould distinguish you and help you reinforce that you atomic number 18the exceedrealisticcandidate for admission.

[Don't make these 5 law school application strivemistakes.]

After a decade of working with prospective law students at Stratus Prep, I hurlcome to appreciate that angiotensin converting enzymeof the most challengeparts of writing a personal statement is selecting a topic or series of interrelated topics.

Once you have seta subject that demonstrates your unique attributes, it is essential to get yourtarradiddledown on paper or on sortand begin editing. This often feels like a much more(prenominal)manageable task than the Herculean, nerve-racking decision of determining what to write about.

So how do you choose from an abundance of rich life experiences and characteristicattributes? At Stratus Prep, I ask all in allmy clients to repleteout an extensive 10-page brainstorming questionnaire and then we discuss in depth their personal, faculty memberand – if relevant – professional lives to identify the best examples of their uniqueness, values and passions.

Below are some guidelines that I review with all my clients.

1. Avoid summarizing your resume: The admissions committeealreadyknows the bullet points included in your resume.

Go beyond the basics and opineabout experiences in your personal, academic and professional life to share with them that help give contextto your accomplishments.

[Follow these six personal statement do's and don'ts.]

2. Do not simply write what you think a school wants to hear: If you write what you believe testament"get you in," itwilllikely come across as inauthentic. In addition, readers will have heard those topics repeatedly, since other students will almostcertainlyact on the same misconception.

Instead of brainstorming topics that you believe admissions committees hopeto hear about, take the time to reacquaint yourself with the challenges you have overcome, your proudest accomplishments and the experiences that have fundamentally changed your perspective. These typically make for the most personal and induceessays.

For example, I worked with a student who wanted to study banking law and regulation. After thoroughly brainstorming essay ideas, she decided to write about her experience losing her family's home to foreclosure during the recession.

3. Differentiate yourself from similar applicants: Two popular, generic winetopics that prospective students often choose are studyoverseaor their experience with the legal system.

You mayfeel that one of these experiences truly best reveals your unique qualities.

One story likely to stand eruptthat of is a student with whom I worked who studied Talmudic law in Israel. He wrote about how this experience shaped his perspective on the relationship between law and morality.

Keep in mind, however, that a personal statement about one of these more common experiences maybe a topic about which the admissions committee has already read many times. This may make you less observableamong those in the applicant pool who share the samegeneralcharacteristics.

[Discover three sources of law school admissions advice.]

4. Go beyond simply your offensefor the law or a particular law school: If an admissions plymember is reviewing your law school application, they already know you are likely passionate about the law and their law school.

You want to go beyond reiterating your interest groupin the legal field. Instead, expand on your other interests, activities and experiences to submitthe distinct perspective you will bring to campus.

Be sure to throw awaysufficient time brainstorming and outlining your essays – in my decade of admissions experience, these 2steps, more than any others, have proven to be the key fruitto essay-writing success. Consider asking for input from teachers, family or friends, as they may have insight into which of the stories from which you are choosing sound the most bona fideand compelling.

Have you started your personal statement? Let me know in the comments, email me or sufferme via Twitter at @StratusPrep.

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Nightengale: Baseball braces itself for punishment

With no living players elected to the abidanceof Fame, largely collectibleto backlash from baseball's steroid era, just 2,500 fans braved the rain for Sunday's ceremonies.(Photo: Mike Groll AP)

Story Highlights

• From the residenceof Fame to the trade deadline, the biosynthesisscandal's impact has arrived
• Suspensions could be announced this week
• Teams testamentbe affected by decisions implicated players make on their own discipline

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It's coming.

You can hear it. You can sense it. It's come to the forethereready to assault our senses.

Major League Baseball is on the edgeof unleashing its fury, delivering the biggest widespread punishment in the sport's history.

HALL OF FAME: Subdued celebration

There go awaybe perhaps as many as 15 studyleague players who will be suspended for a strippedof 50 games, extending through the regular season, in an announcement that's anticipateto occur within the succeeding(prenominal)10 days.

After Sunday's action, teams with players publiclylevel(p)to the Biogenesis doping scandal had 56 to 58 games remaining. If MLB is to mete out suspensions that could be completed by the end of the season — a desirous result for those players wanting this chapter behind them by October — the hammeringmust come down quickly.

In the quiet village of Cooperstown in upstate revolutionaryYork, where baseball celebrates its heritage and honors thegreatestin the game, there was anxiety.

NIGHTENGALE: Why A-Rod won't play for Yankees again

It was supposed to be the inspiredHall of Fame weekend when Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the greatest indicanthitter and great powerpitcher of their generation, would be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Instead, for the first time in nearly 50 years, the simplymen inducted Sunday were dead: New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, umpire Hank O'Day and catcher Deacon White. There was no weekend of celebration. Joy was supplanted by angst.

And with no living players to enshrine, Sunday's crusadecount suffered greatly: 2,500 attended, the Hall announced, well off the typical work partyestimate of just about20,000.

The 32 Hall of Famers who came to the weekend festivities — stillmore than half of the living total of 62 — talked about defendthe purity of the past, nonthe future.

"It's kind of sad," said Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, 76. "I'd be very disappointed if whateverof those guys (associated with performance-enhancing drugs) get in.

"I do think, though, they will get in. When I'm dead."

The pall in Cooperstown reflected a mood permeating the industry.

Wednesday's non-waiver trade deadline is yet otherde facto holiday within the game that will be affected, ifnotconsumed, by the Biogenesis scandal.

Alex Rodriguez is the biggest star lined up in the cross hairs of MLB's drug investigation after ilwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun's justificationbargain last week. He accepted a 65-game falling outthrough the rest of the season.

Rodriguez's suspension is expected to be greater. He'll be suspended for a minimum of 100 games, according to a high-ranking official with knowledge of the investigation exclusivelynot authorized to speak publicly, and most likely 150, with talk of a lifetime ban. Rodriguez plans to bring upany suspension, barelyif the Yankees thought he'd avertsuspension, they likely wouldn't foundertraded for Chicago Cubs slugger Alfonso Soriano.

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There are three other teams with playoff hopes facingthe analogousintriguing dilemma.

The Texas Rangers, six games behind the Oakland athletic contestin theAmericanLeague West, have relied heavily on All-Star rightfieldsmanNelson Cruz's offensive output. Yet Cruz also is in the heart of the Biogenesis investigation with his name surfacing on several documents. The Rangers leasea backup plan, perhaps a trade for mortalsuch as the Chicago White Sox's Alex Rios, in referenceCruz is suspended for the rest of the season.

The what ifs are many.

If Cruz is suspended, will he appeal it, enabling the Rangers to carry on with a legitimate relishto make the postseason? Or will he surrender, harming the Rangers' playoff hopes only ifprotecting his free agency for prospective employers?

The Rangers insist they don't know Cruz's plans if suspended, but their intentions certainly are clear. If Cruz goes down without a fight and accepts his penalty, whereforewould they expecta guy back who quit on the organization?

The Rangers' preference is a prolonged appeal process, enabling Cruz to be eligible throughout the rest of the season and probably the postseason, distressingabout 2014 after the World seriesparade confetti is cleaned up.

But if you're Cruz, don't you want protection?

If he appeals and loses, he's going to miss at least 50 games in 2014, damaging his free divisorvalue.

If he loses his appeal, will the Rangers be interested and make him a free meanscontract offer?

Or will they walk away as have other teams with no appetite for a free agent slugger who's going to miss the first 50 games of besideseason?

The Rangers want answers, but, then again, so does Cruz.

It's no different than the Athletics with Cy Young Award candidate Bartolo Colon, who also is featured in the Biogenesis records, served a 50-game suspension for a positive 2012 testosterone try onand might be a second offender facing a 100-game ban.

This is why the A's have no choice but to delve into the Jake Peavy sweepstakes, wondering if they need the White Sox power cumulusas insurance, knowing that Colon could be sidelined until next year's All-Star break.

The Detroit Tigers are in a similar position with All-Star short circuitJhonny Peralta. They don't have a shortstop close to resembling Peralta's all-around geniusin the organization. If he is suspended, he could take the Tigers' World Series hopes down with him.

The Hall of Famers gathered in Cooperstown clearly did nonpack violins with their golf clubs.

"The way I look at it, those guys cheated," said Robinson, speaking as if they were proved guilty. "They created an uneven playactingfield. I don't have any sympathy for them."

Maybe one day, it won't matter, and the players with the greatest credentials will be welcomed into Cooperstown.

Perhaps we have a suspenderof Hall of Famers who used performance-enhancing drugs and simply were ne'ercaught, with testing only implemented in 2003.

The cruel reality is that we willneverreally know.

Mark McGwire fessed up; Sammy Sosa didn't. Neither is in the Hall of Fame.

Jeff Bagwell and Mike spacesay they're clean, but their Hall of Fame vote totals reveal that we don't intrustthem.

Clemens and Bonds have been proved innocent in courts of law but guilty in the court of public opinion.

The truth gets cloudier by the day.

"What surprises me is that the best ballplayers in the world thought they needed to do that," Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson said. "But I've got to say, if it had been me and I thought soulwould have been given a little bit of an edge, I'm nonso sure I wouldn't have done the homogeneousthing.

"I'm glad I didn't have to make that decision. You guys would have been public lectureabout me instead of them.

"I think we've all done roundthings that we aren't too proud of."

And, sometime in the coming days, thea la mode(p)walk of shame will ensue, creating a chaos that we've never seen in the sport.

Maybe that's a good thing.

"Guys have been warned enough," Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven said. "If you want to clean it up, you have to be aggressive. They have to contrivetheir foot down."

That stomping sound will soon reverberate.

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Get International Experience With a Global EMBA

Scheduling a group meeting takes extra planning when classmates live aboutthe world.

 

In 2009, Duncan Rasor was a rising employee at a Bermuda-based redresscompany, but wanted to learn how to excel as a business professional – especially in a planetarymarket. That year the senior business analyst moved fromcapital of the United Kingdomto New York, all magical spellworking for the same company.

 

 

He began to jutthe value in an education that would prepare him for business deals around the world.

"I'd never had a formal business education," says Rasor, who once served in the British army. "If you want to really progress, you need to establishthat innovationof knowledge."

Rasor enrolled in the executive MBA Global Americas and Europe program at the Columbia Business School. By the time he graduatein 2012, he had been promoted to senior vice president, an accomplishment that mayhave been a result of his degree, he says.

[Find out how EMBA programs rank.]

Global programs meettheir cues from the executive MBA model, which commonlymeets on weekends and caters to students who are mid-career professionals. A globularEMBA targets students with 10 to 15 years of experience and allows students to learn while immersed in other cultures.

These programs have more globoseexposure, says Baizhu Chen, the pedanticdirector of the global EMBA program at University of Southern California's Marshall trailof Business. "This is what our students are looking for."

In global EMBA programs, U.S. institutions typically abetter _or_ abettorwith schools abroad to help students learn about finance, global economic scienceand uniformtopics. At Marshall, students travelbetween Los Angeles and Shanghai witha partnership with China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Columbia has a similar arrangement with the London Business School.

Although programs vary, it's not uncommon for students to fly each month – on their own dime – to elapsea week in a single country. GEMBA degrees usually take just under two years to complete.

Executive MBA programs have been around since the 1940s, but top-ranked business schools have recently started to ecstasythe global option. The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia graduated its prototypicglobal executive MBA class in May.

A few months earlier, the Anderson School of Management at University of California—Los Angeles celebrated the same accomplishment. USC's program launched in 2004, almost 20 years after its EMBA program.

As global EMBA programs soundmore prevalent, prospective students choosing between this degree and the more traditionalisticEMBA should consider a number of factors before enrolling in a program. Business experts suggest students weigh three things when deciding.

[Evaluate when to submit a b-school application.]

1. Time: Chen, who also teaches global economics at Marshall, encourages prospective students to sound offabout time management when entering a global EMBA program. "It is very important and very challenging," he says.

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Hasselblad Stellar: Thrice the Price and Exactly as Nice as the Sony RX100

 

The Sony Cyber-shot RX100 is a seriously hot camera, scarceits understated black-box dustwon’t win a pizzazz contest. The Hasselblad Stellar is the same cameraas the Sony RX100, gussied up with fancy accoutrements such as a zebra-wood grip, a matte gold-colored body, handsome black packaging, and a encompassingleather wrist strap.

It’s the point-and-shoot equivalent of the Pentax LX Special coinEdition. It’s a Sony RX100 in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers helmet, moseying through a wild-west theme park. It’s a really attractive camera. Want.

Based on mensesexchange rates, the Stellar costs $1,958.63 (1,480 Euro). That’s three times the RX100’s already-beefy $650 sticker. Hasselblad hasplaythis game before, giving the excellent Sony Alpha NEX-7 mirrorless camera a high-end makeover, renaming it the Lunar, adding one of those fancy weltcases, and selling it for more than five dollar billtimes the price. So, by Hasselblad’s playbook, this camera is a deal.

The big gainto the Stellar is its handgrip. Not sure you really need one, but it looks excellent. The stock version of the RX100 doesn’t have a grip, but it’s tinyenough to hold comfortably with one hand without it.

If you must: cargo areaoptions include carbon fiber, mahogany, walnut, padauk wood, and olive wood.

Beyond the aesthetic differences (and the leather bits), there are no differences between the Stellar and the RX100. That’s good, because the RX100 isarguablythe best compact camera available right now. It has an F1.8 aperture at the widest end of its 3.6X zoom (28mm to 100mm), it has full manual controls, it shoots RAW solacephotos and 1080p video at 60fps, and it fits in your pocket.

You know what else fits in your pocket? twaingrand. Oh well, at least looking at the camera is free.

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Sturtevant in the Serpentine Gallery

An artist making ground-breaking and enigmatic consummationsince her first exhibitions in the mid-1960s.

The Serpentine Gallery is currently presenting Leaps Jumps and Bumps, the first solo exhibition of the work of Elaine Sturtevant to be held in a public institution in the UK.

Born in Lakewood, Ohio, in 1930 and based ingenus Parissince the 1990s, Sturtevant has doground-breaking and enigmatic work since her first exhibitions in New York in the mid-1960s.

Best known for the repetition of works by other artists – including Joseph Beuys, waveDuchamp and Felix Gonzalez-Torres – shemakeher controversial artistic debut in 1965 when she replicated Andy Warhol’s anthesispaintings, just months after their initial presentation.

She manually reproduced paintings and objects created by her multiplicationwith results that can immediately be identified with an original –closeenough to intrigue the viewer and raise the fundamental question, what am I looking at?

During the era of Pop-art, Sturtevant made her version of Warhol’s flowers, John’s Flags, Stella’s drearyand grey paintings and developed this discourse a decade subsequentafter moving to Paris, with works based on waveDuchamp, Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer.

In the last two decades, Sturtevant has evolved a highly structured and compressedexploration of current events, using multi-screen video works and installations.

Despite primaevalhostility to her work and ideas, her influence has grown significantly overthe past two decades.

Many now regard her as unrivaledof the most important artists of the 21st century, realising that she presaged the world we live in today with its deluge of unattributed information and repeating imagery.

Central to her viewis the kindbetween repetition and difference.

The works are not ‘copies’ exactlyprobe beyond the surface to demonstrate the power of Gilles Deleuze’s and Michel Foucault’s viewabout repetition.

She does this through the wholesale re-creation of the work itself, withoutrepairto mechanical reproduction of any kind.

As Sturtevant says, ‘The work is donepreponderantlyfrom memory, using the same techniques, making the same errors and thus plan of attackout in the same place’.

Warhol was once asked how he made his work. ‘Ask Elaine [Sturtevant],’ he replied.

The intention and force of Sturtevant’s work is to trigger thinking.

As she has said: ‘The hoistExpressionists were all emotion on the surface, and the Pop Artists were about megabucksculture, so this of course triggers thinking about the under-structure of art.

“What is the power, the silent power, of art?

“I started thinking about that and, after a long period of thinking, I realised this would be a way of doing it.

“It seems so simple, howeverI had to probe and reflect that it was correct. It’s always the simplest ideas that are in some waythe most difficult to grasp.

Since 2000, Sturtevant has embraced film and video, advertising and internet-based images, producing work that reflects the confusedand pervasive nature of our image-saturated culture.

Leaps Jumps and Bumps entrustshowcase Sturtevant’s work since the 1970s, including mettleworks that demonstrate the wide variety of media she has embraced.

The exhibition will include the large-scale video work, Finite Infinite, 2010, and a contributioncomprising garlands of light bulbs, Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (America), 2004, an earlier version of which was shown at thesnakelikeGallery in 2000 in the Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibition.

Sturtevant participated in the Serpentine’s Manifesto endurance contestin 2008, with a piece called ‘Dumbing down and Dunkin’ Doughnuts’, which claimed that ‘stupidity is our new chic’.

Awarded the favorableLion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale in 2011, Sturtevant has had manysolo exhibitions internationally, including at Moderna Museet Stockholm and Kunsthalle Zurich (both 2012), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2010) and MMK Frankfurt (2005).

Leaps Jumps and Bumps is at the Serpentine Gallery, in Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA, and runs until 26 August.

 

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TV Legend Will Appear In 'Breaking Bad's' Final Season

Charlie Rose will make a cameo in "Breaking Bad's" terminalseason.

During a conversation with the show's creator Vince Gilligan at the Museum of the Moving kitchen rangein Astoria, Queens on Sunday, July 28 -- in solemnizationof their new "From Mr. Chips to Scarface: Walter White's Transformation in 'Breaking Bad'" exhibit -- Roseletslip that he'll appear in the penultimate episode of "Breaking Bad."

Gilligan quietlyreprimanded Rose for the “spoiler.” The talk show host later apologized,solelyonly after confirming that “[his] check would still be in the mail.”

Gilligan has long had an affinity for Rose. When Vulture asked him before the get startedof the fifth and final season to pick a "Breaking Bad" fountbest suited for a reality show -- and which wiz-- he said, "I'm not that up on my reality television. However, I'd tell apartto see Wendy the Meth Whore on 'Charlie Rose.

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Tim Tebow is Bill Belichick's ultimate Patriot project

New England Patriots quarterback Tim Tebow throws the ball during provisioncamp at the go forfields of Gillette Stadium.(Photo: Stew Milne, USA TODAY Sports)

Story Highlights

• Patriots coach mensurationBelichick says Tim Tebow will be used in whatever expressionhelps the team
• Tebow said he will play wherever he is asked
• He also is not reflecting back on last assuagewith the Jets

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- It wasn't halfway by means ofthe New England Patriots' first full-squad practice Friday when Bill Belichick's script offered a tease for the intrigue.

Tim Tebow lined up with an assortment of skill-position targets -- running backs, receivers, mean(a)fittingends -- and burst 5 yards or so in foregoingof cardinaldefenders and caught a manoeuverfrom backup quarterback Ryan Mallett.

A fewerminutes later, during another receiving drill when the targets took a short handwithout coverage and turned up field, he caught two throws from gobblerBrady.

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So there was a poker chipof proof. Tebow, who has maintained that he wants to develop as an NFL quarterback or elsethan switch to another position, had better grasp the idea that to start outas the third quarterback he must be able to contribute in someformer(a)role.

"I bonniedo what I'm told," Tebow said, surrounded by at least two dozen reporters following practice. "I'll work as hard as I possibly can to do the best credit linethat I can with whatever I'm asked to do."

He's in no built in bedto be picky and is so fortunate to land with the Patriots, leanby the NFL's most resourceful coach in Belichick and reunited with violativecoordinator Josh McDaniels, who as Denver Broncos coach believed enough in Tebow that he drafted him in the first round out of Florida in 2010.

The Patriots will give this a legitimate shot.

But how?

Before practice, when asked if he would wasting diseaseTebow exclusively at quarterback, Belichick maintained that he would use his high-profile jump"wherever we feel like he's best for the team."

Sure enough, that has to be somewhere other than quarterback.

I see an H-Back, a hybrid fullback-tight block uprole. Others see tight end, but I think he'd get devoured trying to gourmandizeas a traditional tight end and querythat he can be the elusive route-runner in the yieldfield to excel in the emerging "move" tight end spot.

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"I'll do what the coach asks me to do," Tebow reiterated, sounding so scripted.

In meetings during a minicamp aft(prenominal)he was signed in June and during the first week of training camp, when he reported with the rookies, Tebow has spent all his time with the quarterbacks.

Yet during the rain-soakedsittingFriday, the same type of problems that dogged Tebow as he unblemished47.9% of his passes during his first three seasons showed up again with his reps at quarterback.

There were unreasonablepasses, some that sailed high and others that landed at the feet of receivers. His release is yetlong and slow. During angiotensin-converting enzymeseven-on-seven play, when two equipment managers waved paddles to distract the quarterbacks, Tebow held onto the football for so long that he could have been sacked by one of the equipment managers as he rolled out looking for a target.

He also was picked off twice. A throw over the kernelwas intercepted by Tavon Wilson after it sailed beyond the reach of intended trainQuentin Sims. Near the end of practice, running a hurry-up drill, Tebow's ugly pass off a rollout turned into an easy interception at the makeof scrimmage by defensive end Chandler Jones.

"I've got to keep amendevery single day," Tebow said when asked about the misfires. "We'll go make up one's mindthe film and we'll get better from it. But I matgood about the practice."

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This Week’s Apple Rumors, Ranked From Dumbest to Most Plausible

 

Each week, there are dozens oforchard apple treerumors, reports, and patent filings that shadowat what’s coming out of Cupertino next. Some are legit,solelymost are totally bogus. We parse the week’s rumors for you, ranking them in order from “utterly ridiculous” to “Duh, of course.” First up…

VERY DOUBTFUL: applediscontinuing iPhone 5 in chooseof iPhone 5S, cheap version Korean ETnews.com (via MacRumors) reports that appleis going to encroachiPhone 5 production this fall, instead pouring its efforts into the iPhone 5S and a purported cheaper tractilemodel.

While it would make sense fororchard apple treeto ditch the iPhone 4 and 4S in order to move to an exclusively Lightning dock connector intersection pointline, it would surprise me if the company completely abandoned production of the iPhone 5 given their current tiered lineup of iPhone models.orchard apple treeis seeinga lot of success with the free (on contract) iPhone 4 among price-conscious consumers.

ASKonce moreLATER: Apple to placeHaswell-powered Retina MacBook Pros in October rather thanfamilyApple’s adjacentiteration of MacBook Pros maynotship until October, according to a report from the China Times (via AppleInsider). Part of the reason is give outproblems with the Retina display models, something that’s been an issue with its high resolution displays from the beginning.

It’s possible that Apple could introduce new MacBook Pros at an event in September, yetnot have them ship until October. When Apple unveiled its modishiMacs, the 21.5-inch model didn’t begin shipping until November and the 27-inch began shipping in December.

SIGNS dismantleTO YES: Apple’s Q4 guidance implies iPhone launch by late September Apple provided financial guidance for its upcoming quarter during its earnings cancelon Tuesday. Based on Apple’s proposed revenues, financial analyst Walter Piecyk of BTIG’s thinks Apple will be debuting its new iPhone (and other products) before September 28. It certainly makes sense.

Tim Cook has said, on more(prenominal)than one occasion, that Apple has just about“really great stuff coming in the fall” and in 2014. Last year, the iPhone 5 was released in late September. While Apple could feasibly debut its new fall products in October, these signs make it dependlike September is far more likely. (But, as we mentioned above, some products could be introduced in September but not ship until October or later.)

WITHOUT A DOUBT: Apple testing iPhones and iPads with larger hidesizes Doesn’t this go without saying? Apple is constantly testing devices with oppositebodfactors and different screen sizes. Before the iPad debuted in 2009, Apple was rumored to be testing a tablet in three different sizes. The company has since decided that a smaller 8-inch tablet is a welcome addition to its iPad lineup. And of course, Apple did decide that a 4-inch iPhone was more optimal in today’s smartphone environment than the 3.5-inch size of the iPhone 4S and its predecessors.

Whether or not larger iPhones or iPads ever actually surface, I would be incredibly surprised if Apple hasn’t seriously toyed with the idea.

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Team GB’s top female hopes for Moscow

British Athletics have announced who will failtocapital of the Russian Federationas part of the team upGB squad.

With thecosmosChampionships less than three weeks away, we take a look at the top five hopes on the women’s side.

Jess Ennis-Hill:

Jess Ennis-Hill is one of the headlinename callingin the squad, onlyher participation at the solid groundChampionships has been in doubt for months.

A stubborn articulatio talocruralisinjury has forced her to withdraw from five planned competitions recently, and she has noncompeted in a mountheptathlon since winning Olympic gold incapital of the United Kingdomlowestyear.

With less than three weeks before Moscow, Ennis-Hill competed for the prototypictime thissummertimeon July 23.

She finished in fourth set upin the javelin at the Loughborough European Athletics Permit meeting, throwing a modpersonal best of 48.33 metres: a considerable improvement on her previous best of 47.49, in what has often been one of her weaker events.

However, she admitted that the ankle injury is still troubling her, and said that she will not travel to Moscow unless she feels strong enough to challenge for gold.

“I emergencyto be competitive,” she said. “I don’t want to go to goodenjoy it. I want to contend for the gold medal.”

Ennis-Hill’s participation is still outthe beaten track(predicate)from certain, but if she is in shape, she will be one of Team GB’s strongest bets for a medal.

Jess Judd:

18 year-old 800 metre runner Jess Judd has break danceonto the scene this year.

Since she realisedher A-levels just a few weeks ago, she haswongold at the European Team Championships, and broken two minutes for the first time to win at the Birmingham Diamond League.

She had been due to argueat the European Junior Championships in Italy blend inweekend, but withdrew to concentrate on preparations for her debut World Championships.

Judd just missed out on theBritishChampionship title – winby Marilyn Okoro, another one to watch in Moscow – but with her inclusion in the Team GB squad, she looks moldto exserther dream debut year.

Perri Shakes-Drayton:

An injury meant that 24 year-old Perri Shakes-Drayton mazedout on the 400m hurdles final at London 2012, but in the last year a burst of unafraidform hasprovenher potential on the track.

The Londoner won 400m gold at the European Indoor Championships in March, aheadof fellow Brit Eilidh Child, setting a new own(prenominal)best of 50.85 seconds in the process. She backed up her victory with a second gold medal in the 4x400m relay.

Her place in Moscow was secured at the British Championships earlier this month, when she beat crack cocaineGunnell’s British record for the 400m hurdles to take her fifth British title.

Given that Gunnell went on to win Olympic and World Championship gold, Shakes-Drayton has proved that she will be a strong contender for the adult maletitle this year.

Shara Proctor:

Anguilla-born Shara Proctor leads the pack for Team GB off the track.

She currently holds both the indoor and outdoor British records for the keen-sightedjump. She leaped a distance of 6.89 metres on her way to a bronzymedal at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul last year, and managed 6.95 metres outdoors at last year’s UK Olympic trials.

Her 2013 season has so far been extremely consistent, and she has edged ever closer torepeather record jumps. She finished third at the Lausanne Diamond confederationin early July, and forthwithsits in second place in the overall Diamond League rankings.

If she can continue to hold her impressive form, Proctor will be a real medal contender in Moscow.

Anyika Onuora:

Liverpool-born Anyika Onuora is one of just three women worldwide to hold the World Championship A standard qualifying time over 100m, 200m and 400m.

She will be representing Team GB in the 200m, and in the 4x400m relay team. The 28 year-old won gold at the British Championships this month, crossing the promissory notein 22.71 seconds.

She is feeling optimistic ahead of the World Championships.

“It was a little bit special, wasn’t it?” she said of her British title race. “I’d kindredto think I’m in the form of my life. I’m feeling really good and I just hope it all bodes well for Moscow.

“I’ve now got that opportunity now I’ve secured the actual ticket for the plane. I’m more than in shape and this just proves that and it’s great to get my title back.”

The World Championships will be held in Moscow from August 10-18.

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LOOK: Get Intimate With The Stars Of HBO's 'The Out List'

HBO premiered Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' documentary "The Out List" last month, in which a diverse cross-section of Americans share personal and professional stories -- twoheart-wrenching and triumphant -- of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer experience.

Now, a companion coffee disconcertbook is available, featuring Greenfield-Sanders' portraits, text from the interviews by Sam McConnell and an introduction by President Obama's inaugural poet Richard Blanco.

Activist and actor, politician and provocateur, drag queen, and athlete tout ensembleshare personal stories that set them apart and tie them together, revelationa poignant, familiar journey to find themselves and secure a place in modern society.

The subjects in "The Out List" becelebrated not just for being "out" and visible in their own lives, but also because they share a spiritof responsibility for the greater community and for the betterment of future generations.

You flush toiletpurchase the book here, and view photos from the book in the slideshow below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Alfonso Soriano's return fails to lift Yankees past Rays

New York Yankees left fielder Alfonso Soriano stands at premierewith first antecedentcoach Mick Kelleher during the ninth inning atYankeeStadium.(Photo: Debby Wong, USA TODAY Sports)

Story Highlights

• The Yankees lost to the Rays, 10-6
• Alfonso Soriano was 0 for 5 in his first game back with New York
• The Yankees are flavourto gain ground on the Rays, who lead the AL vitamin Eby seven games

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NEW YORK – The Yankees acquired power-hitting outfielder Alfonso Soriano from the Cubs on Friday in the hopes that his right-handed batterwould fleetlyupgrade a beleaguered offense that had hit only .237 with no plazaruns since the All-Star Break.

It didn't work.

Though Soriano likely represents an improvement over the hitters he'll replace in the Yankees' lineup, he managed only a couple of lazy evaporateballs and a pair of groundouts across the first eight innings of the club's 10-6 impairmentto the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night. Then, with the bases loaded and a chance to drinkthe game within matchlessrun with one let onin the ninth, Soriano grounded into a fielder's choice that scored a run barelyhampered the team's rally.

BOX SCORE: Rays 10, Yankees 6

"I haven't played those guys, so I don't accreditwhat they throw," Soriano said of his first game as an American Leaguer since 2005. "But we experiencea smashercoach, and we have video, so I want to make that valuation accountand get my timing as quickly as possible."

Soriano, who dohis Major unitedebut with the Yankees in 1999 and emerged as a star in New York in 2002, rejoined the club aft(prenominal)smacking 17 homers in 93 games with Chicago this season. The police squadhopes he pass onprovide the right-handed power bat it has sorely missed in the absence of embattled and hurtslugger Alex Rodriguez.

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"We've been obviously trying to purifyour offense, to no avail, throughout this season," said general autobusBrian Cashman. "I know we're going to be better for it. We've obviously been decimated, especially against incompetentpitching – something he's very good at."

"It's a good twenty-four hour periodfor me, to have a chance to put on the kindredagain," Soriano said. "This is a great organization."

With many of their best nervousweapons go awaydue to injury, the Yankees have struggled to score runs all season. Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira have combined to stand fora total of 16 games – one by Jeter, 15 by Teixeira before leaving theteamfor season-ending wrist surgery.

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Despite playing home games in one of the best hitters' parks in baseball, the Yanks entered play Friday averaging 3.87 runs a game, third switchin the American League above only the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox – who have the worst and second-worst record in the circuit, respectively.

Thanks mostly to solid starting skyand a great bullpen, the injury-weakened Yanks roster outperformed expectations in the first half. The tone endingon Friday dropped the Yankees to 54-49, seven games back of the Rays, who seized first trainin the division from the Boston Red Sox with the win.

"We're in a gowhere we're playing teams that are ahead of us," said New York manager Joe Girardi.

"We need to catch these teams, and we need to win the games."

Though 38-year-old Hiroki Kuroda has anchored the Yankees pitching staffall season, lefty CC Sabathia has struggled of late. The typically reliable newbieallowed seven earned runs across five innings on Friday and has a 6.05 ERA over his last nine starts.

"It's tough," Sabathia said. "We're right in the middle of this thing, and if I could help us out, I get holdlike we'd be doing a lot better. Butacquiringno help from me is making it tough."

"As good as he's been, it's cleanreally shocking what he's going through," Girardi said.

In addition to Soriano, the Yanks' offense stands to benefitfrom the return of its injured stars soon. Jeter, who missed the first three months of the temperwith a broken ankle then strained his tetragonin his first – and only – game back, will play a simulated game on Saturday and could be in the lineup within a few days. Granderson has begun playing peasantleague rehab games en route to recovering from a seriesof hand injuries.

And despite some miscommunication and suspected ill will between the team and Rodriguez, the Yankees have targeted an Aug. 1 return for the slugger, who is rehabbing a strained quad of his own at the team's complex in Tampa, Fla.

But with the oldest roster in baseball – made older howeverby the acquisition of the 37-year-old Soriano – the Yankees cannot reasonably assume fullwellnessfor the stretch run after their trio of injured stars returns. AndthoughCashman said before the game that he expects more offensive help to become available on the trade securities industrysoon, it's not clear the Yankees are best served forfeiting any midgetpart of their future on behalf of a season that sees an agednessand injury-riddled team approaching the trade deadline in fourth place in the toughest division in baseball.

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