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I've often said that more important than the stories, the writers, the pictures and videos to Kotaku, are the commenters.
You are Kotaku's lifeblood, the thing that drives us to inform and entertain. Your input is often invaluable. The ever-growing sense of community is really what makes Kotaku what it is today and continues to move it onward and upward.
That's why today we are launching a revised and much more robust commenting system. It is one that takes into account many of the solid requests and suggestions you have made of us. That means that now, yes, you can edit your comments.
More interesting, more importantly, we have also tiered commenting, meaning that if you are one of our star commenters your comments will now get much deserved top billing. These star commenters will also have some interesting new powers. Yes, POWERS!!!
Here's a quick guide to the new commenting system. I'll also be updating our official commenting FAQ.
The Key Changes
* Privileges for star commenters
* Image and video embedding in comments
* Comment threads will appear newest first. Comments in a thread, though, will remain in chronological order.
* Related stories show to the right of each post
* Comments can now be edited for 15 minutes after publishing
The new commenting system now has levels, four of them. Here's a run down of what they are and what they can do.
* A gold star next to the commenter's name.
* Comments given priority and published immediately after post
* A star commenter can see comments even before a moderator has approved them
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Comments are filtered such that only those comments made by starred commenters ("Stars") or selected to be featured by our Editors or starred commenters appear by default. You can view the unfiltered comments on any post by clicking the "Show all comments" link at the bottom of the page.
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Even a Star can be off-topic sometimes. Moderators — rather than applying the rather extreme sanction of banning — can now demote an individual comment. So that's why you can't see it among featured comments. Try clicking on "Show all comments."
Designed with a mind toward more readership participation, this new system will allow us to do some pretty cool things like hosting liveblogs and live chats with developers directly in our comments. You will also, moving forward, have many more chances to participate not just in the conversation, but the substance of Kotaku's articles. Think reader-generated lists and photoshop and video contests.
This is, we at Kotaku hope, the start of a brand new day in commenting. A step toward finally giving some much deserved readers and commenters the spotlight they so richly deserve.
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InterMune Reports New Analyses from the RECAP Study of Esbriet® (pirfenidone) at ERS
Sep 03, 2012, 12:44 ET
VIENNA, Sept. 3, 2012 /CNW/ - InterMune, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITMN) announced that new analyses of data from the RECAP extension study of Esbriet® (pirfenidone) were presented today at the 2012 Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in Vienna, Austria by Dr. Ulrich Costabel of the Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany.
The RECAP study is an ongoing open-label extension study evaluating the long-term administration of Esbriet in patients who completed InterMune's Phase 3 CAPACITY program. The CAPACITY program (studies 004 and 006) was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Esbriet in IPF patients with mild to moderate impairment in lung function.
Dr. Costabel presented new analyses of Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and survival in patients who received placebo in CAPACITY and were newly treated with Esbriet in RECAP. These analyses show that patients with mild-to-moderate IPF newly-treated with Esbriet in RECAP for 60 weeks had similar FVC and survival outcomes when compared to those treated with Esbriet for the same duration in CAPACITY.
Dr. Costabel commented, "The population in this RECAP analysis represents the fourth large, well-defined cohort of IPF patients to be treated with pirfenidone and followed prospectively for more than one year. FVC and survival outcomes in the RECAP patients treated with pirfenidone were highly consistent with those in pirfenidone-treated patients in three previous randomized, controlled Phase 3 studies. While these data should be interpreted with due regard to the limitations inherent to the open-label study design of RECAP, the results provide further support for the role of Esbriet in the treatment of patients with this devastating disease.
Methods of the Analyses
The new analyses are based on the patients who received placebo in the CAPACITY studies and therefore first received Esbriet in RECAP. To facilitate comparison to outcomes in the CAPACITY trials, the analyses focused on the patients who at the time of entry into RECAP had baseline FVC and DLco values that would have met the original eligibility criteria for CAPACITY. Of the 274 newly treated patients in RECAP, 178 met the CAPACITY FVC and DLco criteria and were included in the analyses.
Results of the Analyses
The first analysis examined the proportion of patients at Week 60 with an FVC decrement of 10% or greater, an outcome that is highly clinically relevant and predictive of mortality. Analysis of pooled data from CAPACITY demonstrated that treatment with Esbriet resulted in a 32% reduction in the percentage of patients who experienced an FVC decrement of at least 10% at week 60 (p=0.011). A comparison of outcomes in patients newly treated with Esbriet in RECAP showed similar results: the proportion of patients who experienced a 10% or greater decline in FVC at week 60 was 16.3% among patients newly treated with Esbriet in RECAP, compared with 16.8% in the Esbriet group in CAPACITY. The proportion of placebo-treated patients meeting this criterion in CAPACITY was 24.8%.
The second analysis was based on the mean change from baseline in percent predicted FVC in the entire population of patients. The analysis of data at week 60 showed that the mean change in percent predicted FVC in patients newly treated with Esbriet in RECAP was -5.8%; the mean change over the corresponding interval during CAPACITY was -7.0% in patients treated with Esbriet and -9.4% in patients treated with placebo. Analysis of data at earlier time points also showed very similar results between patients newly treated with Esbriet in RECAP and those originally treated with Esbriet in CAPACITY.
The last analysis examined overall survival from baseline to week 60 in patients newly treated with Esbriet during RECAP. While neither RECAP nor CAPACITY was powered to evaluate the effect of treatment on survival, analyses showed that overall survival at 60 weeks post initiation of therapy was similar in patients newly treated with Esbriet in RECAP and CAPACITY, and greater than that of patients who were treated with placebo in CAPACITY. Additionally, fewer treatment emergent deaths, defined as deaths occurring within 28 days of the last dose of study drug, were observed among Esbriet-treated patients in both RECAP and CAPACITY compared with patients who were treated with placebo during CAPACITY. Treatment-emergent death occurred in 3.4% and 2.9% of Esbriet-treated patients in RECAP and CAPACITY, respectively, compared with 5.8% of patients treated with placebo in CAPACITY.
These results, coupled with new results to be presented at ERS during a poster discussion session on Tuesday, September 4 on the long-term safety data in IPF patients treated with Esbriet for up to 7.7 years, provide further evidence to support the clinical efficacy and safety of Esbriet in patients with IPF.
About RECAP
RECAP is an open-label extension study for patients who participated in the Phase 3 program for Esbriet, known as CAPACITY. The CAPACITY program (studies 004 and 006) was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Esbriet in IPF patients with mild to moderate impairment in lung function. In the CAPACITY studies, 779 patients were randomized to treatment with Esbriet or placebo and 626 patients completed the study. Of these, 603 (96 percent) were enrolled in RECAP.
Long-term safety results from RECAP were initially presented at the Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in September 2011. These results demonstrated that long-term treatment with Esbriet was safe and generally well-tolerated, with a long-term safety profile similar to that observed in CAPACITY.
About Esbriet® (pirfenidone)
Esbriet is an orally active drug that inhibits the synthesis of TGF-beta, a chemical mediator that controls many cell functions including proliferation and differentiation, and plays a key role in fibrosis. It also inhibits the synthesis of TNF-alpha, a cytokine that is known to have an active role in inflammation.
On February 28, 2011, the European Commission granted marketing authorization for Esbriet in adults for the treatment of mild to moderate IPF. The approval authorizes marketing of Esbriet in all 27 EU member states. Esbriet has since been approved for marketing in Norway and Iceland. Esbriet is commercially available in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden.
InterMune is conducting a Phase 3 study, ASCEND, to support the regulatory registration of Esbriet for the treatment of IPF in the United States and expects to complete patient enrollment of the study around the end of 2012.
About IPF
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive, debilitating and ultimately fatal disease characterized predominantly by fibrosis (scarring) in the lungs, hindering the ability for gas exchange in the lungs. IPF is a progressive disease, meaning that over time, lung scarring and symptoms increase in severity. The median survival time from diagnosis is two to five years, with a five-year survival rate of approximately 20-40 percent, which makes IPF more rapidly lethal than many cancers, including breast, ovarian and colorectal. Patients diagnosed with IPF are primarily between the ages of 40 and 80, with a median age of 63 years. The disease tends to affect slightly more men than women.
About InterMune
InterMune is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases. In pulmonology, the company is focused on therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal lung disease. Pirfenidone, the only medicine approved for IPF anywhere in the world, is approved for marketing by InterMune in the EU as Esbriet® and is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial to support regulatory registration in the United States. Additional information about the study is available at www.ASCENDtrial.com. InterMune's research programs are focused on the discovery of targeted, small-molecule therapeutics and biomarkers to treat and monitor serious pulmonary and fibrotic diseases. For additional information about InterMune and its R&D pipeline, please visit www.intermune.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that reflect InterMune's judgment and involve risks and uncertainties as of the date of this release, including without limitation the statements related to the role of Esbriet in the treatment of patients with IPF and our expectation regarding the timing and nature of full enrollment in the ASCEND study and the prospects of success thereof to support regulatory registration of Esbriet for the treatment of IPF in the United States. All forward-looking statements and other information included in this press release are based on information available to InterMune as of the date hereof, and InterMune assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements or information. InterMune's actual results could differ materially from those described in InterMune's forward-looking statements.
Other factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in detail under the heading "Risk Factors" in InterMune's most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 29, 2012 (the "Form 10-K"), most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 8, 2012 (the "Form 10-Q") and other periodic reports filed with the SEC, including but not limited to the following: (i) the risks related to the uncertain, lengthy and expensive clinical development process for the company's product candidates, including having no unexpected safety, toxicology, clinical or other issues and having no unexpected clinical trial results such as unexpected new clinical data and unexpected additional analysis of existing clinical data; (ii) risks related to the regulatory process for the company's product candidates, including the possibility that the results of the new 52-week Phase 3 clinical trial (ASCEND) having an FVC endpoint may not be satisfactory to the FDA for InterMune to receive regulatory approval for pirfenidone in the United States; (iii) risks related to unexpected regulatory actions or delays or government regulation generally; and (iv) risks related to our ability to successfully commercialize Esbriet in the EU. The risks and other factors discussed above should be considered only in connection with the fully discussed risks and other factors discussed in detail in the Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and InterMune's other periodic reports filed with the SEC, all of which are available via InterMune's web site at www.intermune.com.
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Description: I already submitted the video for this famous Youtube figure that a lot of people seem to be fans of. I am familiar with his works and like I said in the first video description, he is pretty funny. This step by step lesson is going to show you "how to draw Ray William Johnson", step by step. I know that watching the video is a bit different than actually following a step by step laid out version. My favorite type of tutorial is the ones I always submit and I think its because I feel that artists can learn better from them. You are able to take your time, and draw at a pace that is right for you. You can even leave the lesson and come back to it in a few days to tackle the drawing once again. There is also more descriptive detail when following a step by step tutorial as well, which is very beneficial to people that want things explained in a simple manner. Nonetheless, I think you will enjoy "how to draw Ray William Johnson" in this form too. Come back to see what other stuff I have for you guys to draw in just a bit. Adios mi amigos!


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In the Scrum
By Jen A. Miller
Annemarie Farrell, assistant professor of sport management and media, came to Ithaca College to teach. Her other job on campus is head coach of the men's rugby club team, a position she's had since 2008. Last spring the team was undefeated and came in fourth at the national championship for Division III club teams.
Farrell played rugby herself in college and had coached the women's team for Ohio State, where she earned her doctorate. When an Ithaca College student approached her to discuss a coaching position with the Ithaca men's team, she didn't immediately think of herself. While men coach women at almost every sporting level, female coaches for men's teams are still rare.
"I started talking about men in the area who may be interested," she says and was surprised to find that the student meant her. "Everything that I knew about men's rugby and the culture of men's rugby — I didn't think it was going to work."
There are only five female coaches of men's college rugby teams in the United States. Farrell told the student that he needed to go talk to the team about the possibility of a female coach.
"They had a meeting and didn't see why gender would be an issue," she says.
And it hasn't been an issue. At all. "It's a testament to the kinds of students we have here at Ithaca and the changing view of how men see women in sport," says Farrell.
"It's not unusual now for a high school female to be a three-sport athlete. Title IX opened such incredible doors at the high school and college level that now the cool kids in school can be the female athletes," she says. "I think there's been a change in culture there. Maybe we're going to see it more on the sidelines."
She also gives credit to the Ithaca community and to the kinds of students who choose to study here. "They care more about the quality of the person with the whistle than their gender," she says. "What athletes are looking for is someone who is knowledgeable and who can lead them to success, and someone who cares about them," she says.
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'Achieving balance' luncheon speaker's topic
Norah O'Donnell, the chief White House correspondent for CBS News, will address "Work and Family: Achieving Balance and Leaving Time For Yourself" at STAR Inc., Lighting the Way's luncheon Thursday, April 3, at the Woodway Country Club in Darien.
The luncheon, which will take place from noon to 2 p.m., will benefit STAR's programs and services for people with developmental disabilities. The luncheon will be moderated by Sharon Crowley, TV reporter and anchor for WNYW Fox5 News.
O'Donnell also is the co-anchor of CBS This Morning, substitute anchor for Face the Nation and contributor for 60 Minutes.
She covered the 2008 presidential election and the terrorist attack on the Pentagon and traveled extensively with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and reporting on the war in Afghanistan and the war on terrorism.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, O'Donnell graduated from Georgetown University with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees. She is the author of "Baby Love: Healthy, Easy Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Todder," and the mother of three. She is married to restaurateur Geoff Tracy.
The luncheon sponsors include the Komansky Family, Prospect Hill Foundation, Obie and Beth Harrington-Howes, Callari Auto Group, Anne DeBowes, Mary Dellarusso, Kristen Eveland, Wells Fargo, First County Bank, Andrew Stefanou Salon and Spa, Bling, Michael Joseph's Catering of Darien, PCI Creative Group, Point-to-Point Livery Service and Nestle Waters NA.
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"The Neighborhood of Saturdays" is a collaborative research project undertaken by the Department of Anthropology at IUPUI along with a number of community-based organizations, including the Concord Neighborhood Center, Etz Chaim Sephardic Congregation, South Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, the Southside Picnic Committee and the Babe Denny Neighborhood Organization. Through oral history interviews and archival research, students are reconstructing a portrait of this unique Indianapolis neighborhood, located on the near Southside, that was once home to a range of immigrant groups as well as to significant populations of African-Americans and Appalachians. The students have focused primarily on documenting the experiences of two communities: Sephardic Jews who came to Indianapolis from what was then the Ottoman Empire and African Americans, who migrated up from the south and from other Midwestern industrial cities. These two communities lived side-by-side in the neighborhood from the 1920s up to the 1960s when many of the Jewish residents migrated north. The remaining residents, many of whom were African-American, were then displaced ten years later by the construction of I-70.
The culmination of this project resulted in the publication of The Neighborhood of Saturdays: Memories of a Multi-Ethnic Community on Indianapolis' South Side. This project was funded in part through a Venture Grant from the IUPUI Solution Center. Thanks also to the IUPUI Department of Anthropology and the IU School of Liberal Arts.
Read the 2012 article, Christians and Jews Rediscover Interracial Haven, in the New York Times describing the near Southside Neighborhood project of Dr. Susan B. Hyatt and its connections with the library's Neighborhood of Saturdays digital collection.
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pytest: helps you write better programs¶
pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet
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An example of a simple test:
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — Officials closed off an area around the Big Lots retail store on Milton Road Tuesday afternoon as Rochester police towed away a black SUV believed to be related to a home invasion and shooting in Lebanon, Maine, earlier that day.
At about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, it is believed a home invasion occurred at a Second Street home in Lebanon. By midafternoon, a residence at 11 Second St. was cordoned off with crime scene tape for what was being called an active criminal investigation.
WMUR-TV was reporting Tuesday night that the 41-year-old Lebanon homeowner had returned to his residence for lunch and encountered an armed intruder inside the home.
The homeowner was shot in the shoulder and is expected to survive, according to the WMUR report. In an interview with Foster's Daily Democrat, the parent newspaper of the Sanford News, Lebanon Assistant Rescue Chief Jason Cole called the incident "unfortunate." At 3 p.m., as Rochester officials were investigating a recovered black Ford Explorer at a shopping plaza, Cole confirmed officials were readying a LifeFlight helicopter at Skydive New England in Lebanon to transport a man in his mid-40s with injuries.
In a press release later, Cole referred to the incident as "a serious medical emergency" but would not reveal the circumstances. He told Foster's the matter was a "law enforcement issue." Cole noted the patient was transported to Maine Medical Center Trauma Center with assistance on scene from Frisbie Memorial Hospital.
In Rochester, a police official said the recovered vehicle, which was spotted around 2:30 p.m. and towed just before 4 p.m. from the business parking lot, would be towed back to Maine for processing. Area departments were asked to "be on the lookout" for a black F-150 pickup truck but later recovered the dark SUV. The vehicle recovered in Rochester is believed to be that of the shooting victim.
Police Lt. Gary Boudreau declined to comment as a K9 unit from Portsmouth combed the area behind the plaza for evidence.
The York County Sheriff's Office could not be reached Tuesday evening for further comment, but the Middleton Police Department posted on Facebook that the public should be wary of a subject reportedly last seen at the Rochester Market Basket, next door to the Big Lots location, wanted in connection with a shooting. The posting described the while male suspect as wearing a "Cargill jacket and camo hat" and noted the subject could be violent if approached.
"If anyone sees this person, please contact police immediately," it read. "Do not try to apprehend. Subject is possibly armed and dangerous."
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Taught by Preston Reed in Integrated Percussive Technique with Preston Reed seriesLength: 6:37Difficulty: 3.0 of 5
Thank you Preston! I have your Guitar of Preston Reed DVD and these videos are an excellent supplement.
Awesome and informative. You are inspiring me!
Preston Reed is a world renowned acoustic guitar player. He single handedly created his own style of guitar which he dubs the "Integrated Percussive Technique." In this series of lessons he will explain his method of playing and get you started on your path to guitar mastery.
Lesson 1
Preston demonstrates two of his popular tunes and talks about what he has in store for you.Length: 2:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston demonstrates the dazzling array of techniques that can be played on acoustic guitar. After watching this, you might look at your guitar in a different light. He also addresses some of the common...Length: 8:46 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston's Style heavily revolves around alternate tunings. In this lesson, he discusses the advantages open tunings offer.Length: 5:45 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Preston talks about percussion, why he prefers not to call this style "tapping," and introduces the first basic exercise.Length: 5:59 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Preston explains how he is able to play his over-the-neck style without hurting his hands and uses a hammer-on to illustrate the point. This lesson is quick, easy and crucial to playing his style.Length: 3:43 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Preston talks about how the left hand is used in his "Integrated Percussive Technique". This includes left hand hammer-ons, pull-offs, overtones, and how to dampen strings.Length: 8:36 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Preston discusses how he uses his right hand to generate percussive sounds. This lesson covers hammer-ons, double hammer-ons, and "barre hammers". He also talks about combining left and right hand techniques.Length: 6:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston demonstrates a cornucopia of left hand techniques that use a barre. This includes "barre hammers," "barre pulls," "barre hammer slides," and the "barre hammer slide pulls".Length: 7:35 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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This lesson's name might strike you as a bit esoteric, or even downright silly; nothing is silly about the sound these techniques make, however. Head on into the lesson and find out what they are, and...Length: 6:37 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Preston Reed demonstrates how to transform your acoustic guitar into a drum kit. The versatility of the guitar is magical!Length: 7:05 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Knowing when not to make sound is an important part of music that is often overlooked. In this lesson, Preston talks about the techniques he uses for dampening.Length: 5:16 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Preston demonstrates how to combine both of the hands for greater speed, variety, and musicality.Length: 8:32 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston talks about one of the most essential aspects of any musical piece, the groove. He uses one of his songs as an example.Length: 7:14 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Though Preston's technique generally features intense rhythms with soaring melodies, he is certainly not above standard thumb/finger picking. He talks about how he makes use of the technique and graces...Length: 6:25 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston demonstrates how to play chords using his "Integrated Percussive Technique" with his favorite tunings.Length: 6:13 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston talks about how he combines his techniques to create thrilling arrangements.Length: 5:46 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Preston takes some time to share his thoughts on music, creativity and his style of playing. This lesson is in a lecture format.Length: 9:32 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Preston Reed has virtually reinvented how the acoustic guitar is played. Reed practices a flamboyant self-invented style, characterized by percussive techniques and simultaneous rhythm and melody lines that dance and ricochet around each other, giving his music a level of excitement that is unparalleled among today's guitarists.
Playing an array of guitars from acoustic to electric to classical Reed's vast range of explosively original music will forever change your expectation of a guitarist.
First-time listeners find it impossible to believe that they're hearing just the one musician, in real time. Reed attacks the entire instrument in a never-ending search for the orchestra he knows is lurking inside. At full tilt, his fingers, thumbs, fists and hands at once suggest a drummer, keyboardist, bassist and several guitarists at work.
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Just getting on a train from his native Armonk in New York State to Washington was a cool adventure. And it was just the first of many, not least of which was the one which resulted from his signing his first deal with a major record company, MCA, through the auspices of his friend, country singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett.
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Reed's compositional talents extend to film soundtracks and prestigious commissions for the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, and as well as appearances alongside Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt his major performances include an historic live satellite broadcast on Turkish National Television in 1997 with renowned saz player and composer Arif Sag which reached an audience of 120 million in 17 countries, prompting a flood of international telephone calls to the station from stunned viewers.
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Biden and Ryan started the debate on the topic of Libya, specifically, the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. We now know that this attack was perpetrated by terrorists.
Ryan accused the Obama administration of not properly protecting the ambassador.
"What we should not be doing is rejecting claims for calls for more security in our barracks we need marines in Benghazi when the commander on the ground says we need more forces for security there were requests for extra security, those requests were not honored," Ryan said.
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During Thursday's debate, Vice President Joe Biden and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan spar over the Obama administration's foreign policy.
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Biden is mostly correct: the administration did marshal international support for the most crippling sanctions, although they did not want to sanction Iran's central bank until Congress forced the president to do so.
Biden accused Ryan of being a big government spender.
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The Chicago Fire (0-1-1, 1 point) host the New York Red Bulls (0-1-1, 1 point) for Opening Day at Toyota Park, presented by Giordano's Chicago Pizza on Sunday, March 23, at 2:00 p.m. CT (My50/TWCSC Wisconsin/LA Ley).
This is the first of three meetings between the two sides this season. The Fire head to Red Bull Arena on May 10 before again hosting the Red Bulls at Toyota Park on Aug. 10.
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The Fire are 9-4-3 on Opening Day at home dating back to 1998.
Fire assistant coach Clint Mathis was a member of the then-MetroStars for four seasons from 2000-2003. In 67 regular season matches, Mathis scored 33 goals and added 21 assists. A 2000 MLS All-Star, MLS Best XI honoree and finalist for the MLS MVP award, also added three goals and two assists in five playoff matches.
In 2003, Mathis' final season in New York, the MetroStars selected Mike Magee in the first round (fourth overall) in the MLS SuperDraft.
Magee made his professional debut and became the youngest player in New York history at the time at 18 years, 222 days on April 12, 2003 vs. the Columbus Crew. Over six seasons with the New York side, Magee made 130 regular season appearances and scored 23 goal and notched 13 assists.
A product of Montville, N.J., Fire midfielder Dilly Duka came up through the New York Red Bulls Academy system before matriculating to Rutgers University.
Red Bulls forward Andre Akpan spent time with the Chicago Fire PDL squad during his collegiate career. Red Bulls midfielder Ian Christianson was a three-year Fire Academy player prior to his collegiate career at Georgetown University.
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Augmented Reality apps have been popping up all over the App Store, but they are about to meet their match in terms of portability. The University of Washington has a team working on soft-contact mounted displays which project images directly onto the retinas of the wearer. Better yet, the contact lens will be 'powered' by external radio waves like those a mobile phone emits, so you can probably imagine the possibilities.
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The problems on homework assignments and exams require students to integrate a rich background of material from Calculus and Discrete Mathematics. Many "real-world" problems can be rephrased as problems that require the application of a statistical test. These tests are used throughout industry.
Exploring, conjecturing, examining and testing all aspects of problem solving.
A strong emphasis is placed on problem solving in this course. The use of computers to simulate random processes yield important opportunities to carry out the multiple stages of active problem solving.
Formulating and posing worthwhile mathematical tasks, solving problems using several strategies, evaluating results, generalizing solutions, using problem solving approaches effectively, and applying mathematical modeling to real-world situations.
In Mathematical Statistics, as in Probability more generally, problems oftentimes admit a "rigorous" solution through the use of Calculus as well as a heuristic solution obtained through the use of probabilistic "intuition." Most of the statistic theory developed in this course arose from the need to make statistical inferences in situations that arise quite naturally from modeling certain real-world phenomena.
Making convincing mathematical arguments, framing mathematical questions and conjectures, formulating counter-examples, constructing and evaluating arguments, and using intuitive, informal exploration and formal proof.
Certain examples allow students the opportunity to develop their own (mathematical) statistics that estimate parameters of some kind, with the goal of achieving sufficiency, consistency, etc.
Expressing ideas orally, in writing, and visually-, using mathematical language, notation, and symbolism; translating mathematical ideas between and among contexts.
Students regular submit homework assignments are take exams; in-class participation is strongly encouraged.
Connecting the concepts and procedures of mathematics, drawing connections between mathematical strands, between mathematics and other disciplines, and with daily life.
An important example of this concerns the identification of certain underlying assumptions that must be satisfied before a given statistical test can be performed or deemed to be valid.
Selecting appropriate representations to facilitate mathematical problem solving and translating between and among representations to explicate problem-solving situations.
Where possible, issues in Mathematical Statistics are translated into models that are encountered in Calculus and in Discrete Mathematics.
Mathematical processes including:
. Problem solving.
. Communication.
. Reasoning and formal and informal argument.
. Mathematical connections.
. Representations.
. Technology.
In class work and out-of-class assignments lead to the development of problem solving and communication on the part of the student. Problems such as the computation of bias require students to identify the need to use integration to perform an "averaging."
Number operations and relationships from both abstract and concrete perspectives identifying real world applications, and representing and connecting mathematical concepts and procedures including:
. Number sense.
. Set theory.
. Number and operation.
. Composition and decomposition of numbers, including place value, primes, factors, multiples, inverses, and the extension of these concepts throughout mathematics.
. Number systems through the real numbers, their properties and relations.
. Computational procedures.
. Proportional reasoning.
. Number theory.
Mathematical concepts and procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level number operations and relationships including:
. Advanced counting procedures, including union and intersection of sets, and parenthetical operations.
. Algebraic and transcendental numbers.
. The complex number system, including polar coordinates.
. Approximation techniques as a basis for numerical integration, fractals, and numerical-based proofs.
. Situations in which numerical arguments presented in a variety of classroom and real-world situations (e.g., political, economic, scientific, social) can be created and critically evaluated.
. Opportunities in which acceptable limits of error can be assessed (e.g., evaluating strategies, testing the reasonableness of results, and using technology to carry out computations).
In Mathematical Statistics, the question of whether or not a test has been applied in a legitimate manner is of paramount importance, and is addressed frequently. The inappropriate use of a test leads to an invalid numerical argument.
Geometry and measurement from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and mathematical concepts, procedures and connections among them including:
. Formal and informal argument.
. Names, properties, and relationships of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
. Spatial sense.
. Spatial reasoning and the use of geometric models to represent, visualize, and solve problems.
. Transformations and the ways in which rotation, reflection, and translation of shapes can illustrate concepts, properties, and relationships.
. Coordinate geometry systems including relations between coordinate and synthetic geometry, and generalizing geometric principles from a two-dimensional system to a three-dimensional system.
. Concepts of measurement, including measurable attributes, standard and non-standard units, precision and accuracy, and use of appropriate tools.
. The structure of systems of measurement, including the development and use of measurement systems and the relationships among different systems. Measurement including length, area, volume, size of angles, weight and mass, time, temperature, and money.
. Measuring, estimating, and using measurement to describe and compare geometric phenomena.
. Indirect measurement and its uses, including developing formulas and procedures for determining measure to solve problems.
The expected values of various order statistics for uniform distributions can be discussed in terms of a uniform partition of the underlying interval for the distribution; these examples have a strong geometric flavor.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level geometry and measurement including:
. Systems of geometry, including Euclidean, non-Euclidean, coordinate, transformational, and projective geometry.
. Transformations, coordinates, and vectors and their use in problem solving. Three-dimensional geometry and its generalization to other dimensions. Topology, including topological properties and transformations.
. Opportunities to present convincing arguments by means of demonstration, informal proof, counter-examples, or other logical means to show the truth of statements and/or generalizations.
An ambitious discussion of the rigorous proof of the independence of the sample mean and the sample variance for a random sample requires the use of linear algebra reasoning and concepts.
Statistics and probability from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections between them including:
. Use of data to explore real-world issues.
. The process of investigation including formulation of a problem, designing a data collection plan, and collecting, recording, and organizing data.
. Data representation through graphs, tables, and summary statistics to describe data distributions, central tendency, and variance.
. Analysis and interpretation of data.
. Randomness, sampling, and inference.
. Probability as a way to describe chances or risk in simple and compound events.
. Outcome prediction based on experimentation or theoretical probabilities.
The uses of randomness, sampling, and inference are basic to all that we do in this course. By pursuing a rigorous treatment of these concepts, their connections with purely mathematical concepts become very well established.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level statistics and probability including:
. Use of the random variable in the generation and interpretation of probability distributions.
. Descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of disbursement, including validity and reliability, and correlation.
. Probability theory and its link to inferential statistics.
. Discrete and continuous probability distributions as bases for inference.
. Situations in which students can analyze, evaluate, and critique the methods and conclusions of statistical experiments reported in journals, magazines, news media, advertising, etc.
The uses of random variables, descriptive and inferential statistics, and discrete probability theory are basic to all that we do in this course. By pursuing a rigorous treatment of these concepts, their connections with purely mathematical concepts become very well established.
Functions, algebra, and basic concepts underlying calculus from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Patterns.
. Functions as used to describe relations and to model real world situations.
. Representations of situations that involve variable quantities with expressions, equations and inequalities and that include algebraic and geometric relationships.
. Multiple representations of relations, the strengths and limitations of each representation, and conversion from one representation to another.
. Attributes of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, algebraic, and exponential functions.
. Operations on expressions and solution of equations, systems of equations and inequalities using concrete, informal, and formal methods.
. Underlying concepts of calculus, including rate of change, limits, and approximations for irregular areas.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level functions, algebra, and concepts of calculus including:
. Concepts of calculus, including limits (epsilon-delta) and tangents, derivatives, integrals, and sequences and series.
. Modeling to solve problems.
. Calculus techniques including finding limits, derivatives, integrals, and using special rules.
. Calculus applications including modeling, optimization, velocity and acceleration, area, volume, and center of mass.
. Numerical and approximation techniques including Simpson's rule, trapezoidal rule, Newton's Approximation, and linearization.
. Multivariate calculus.
. Differential equations.
Integrals are used almost daily to compute expected values; series are used to evaluate probabilities of events that are described in terms of discrete distributions
Discrete processes from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Counting techniques.
. Representation and analysis of discrete mathematics problems using sequences, graph theory, arrays, and networks.
. Iteration and recursion.
Counting techniques arise in a natural way in the rigorous computation of the order statistics.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level discrete mathematics including:
. Topics, including symbolic logic, induction, linear programming, and finite graphs.
. Matrices as a mathematical system, and matrices and matrix operations as tools for recording information and for solving problems.
. Developing and analyzing algorithms.


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The Science of God
By Tina Erwin
There are those who can easily separate the spiritual world from the world of science. Many people believe that science has absolutely nothing to do with God, that God is somehow neatly separated from the world of logic and fact. However, one has only to study the world of nature to see the hand of God in every single element that is life itself.
God is the first scientist, mathematician, chemist, geologist, astrophysicists, psychologist, sociologist, musician, biologist, physician and metaphysician. God is all science, all math, and all elements of the humanities, because God is ultimately, all of everything.
The truest metaphysician—one who studies that which is beyond known physics—understands that to begin to know God, you have to know science. God and science are one. You can no more separate them than you can separate the night from the day. The irony is that the very fact that human beings do not "know it all" proves that there is a vast universe of knowledge that was/is divinely inspired. Inspiration literally comes from that spark of divine connection that allows us a peek at the larger picture. But can we prove to those diehard separatists that there is only the light of the Divine in the study of the "hard" sciences? Of course we can!
Ultimately, everything in all of life is a function of a mathematical formula. Every single thing that exists is part of a larger [math] pattern. As an example, look at any fern leaf as it is all curled up, or a pine cone spiral, a sunflower seed pattern, a chambered nautilus, a humble snail shell, a pyramid, and the Milky Way galaxy to name just a few. What they all have in common is the following mathematical formula: 1+ 1+ 2+ 3+ 5+ 8+ 13+ 21. This is called the Fibonacci sequence or number. This purely mathematical formula, this elegant element of essential science, exists throughout the Universe. How is this possible if not divinely inspired?
All existence is math, from the frequencies of light, color, sound, and smell to the densities of minerals, the math of plants, and the perspectives of literally moving through the air from one point to another. Look around you. Every single thing is math and can be described by some type of math formula. That discipline, that consistency, that perfection, is ultimately Divine.
What about human beings? What causes the human heart to beat for the first time? Where does the energy come from, allowing that to happen? How can the human body be one astounding math and science experiment? How can the human brain balance the requirements to understand complex math calculations as well as the emotional tenderness required to love another human being? How do we know how to do that? Is human and animal instinct just another word for math programming—with an emotional heart? What is the math of emotion?
What of architecture? Isn't architecture the mathematical inspiration to energetically shape space? The more mathematically balanced the space, the better we each can feel, physically and emotionally.
How can it be that energy—no matter what its form—can neither be created nor destroyed? Why is it utterly impossible to give a scientific definition of energy itself? Even the United States Navy, in their training classes, explains that energy is not definable by itself. Energy is explainable only by how it relates to everything else. Perhaps energy is only as definable as God is definable, and we are all still working on that.
As we each seek to take greater steps on our spiritual path, perhaps it is a good idea to look for the science in our spiritual moments, the math in the mundane elements of our days and the inspired ideals of our own individuality. We are all God inspired, mathematically perfect science projects. Perhaps looking at life that way will offer a new spiritually scientific perspective on the way we view even life itself.
Q) "[…Matter then would be the offspring of energy and not the parent, as is often thought.]" Is this correctly stated?
A) Correctly stated, and just what happens in the human organism.
Edgar Cayce Reading 195-70
TINA D. ERWIN, CDR, USN, Ret. has studied metaphysics all her life to enable her to understand her own psychic abilities. These intense studies were further enhanced by the experiences of a dynamic 20-year career in the Navy, working for the U.S. Submarine Force, retiring at the Commander level. Erwin is the author of the A.R.E. Press book, The Lightworker's Guide to Healing Grief.


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Since he lives and made a house in Southern Cali I thought he would sign with the Angels, but then again these are harder times and who would turn down $160-MILLION?LAS VEGAS -- Closing the deal required a mixture of firepower and finesse, with a smidge of midnight magic thrown in for good measure. With their double-barreled checkbooks and convincing speeches too much to ignore, CC Sabathia has decided to become the new staff ace of the New York Yankees. The left-hander will be handsomely compensated for his commitment, agreeing Wednesday to sign the richest contract of any pitcher in Major League history.
Ready to flex their financial muscle at a time when many other clubs have turned a cautious eye to the bottom line, the Yankees rescued a languishing winter by procuring their No. 1 target, bolstering their rotation by adding the top starter on the open market.
With negotiations stalled for weeks, the clincher was executed in clandestine and dramatic fashion. Given quick notice, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman abandoned his schedule at the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas and boarded a flight for Sabathia's home in California, meeting with the hurler for the third time in three days.
The extra effort paid off. A source familiar with the situation confirmed that Sabathia, the 2007 American League Cy Young Award winner, relayed to Cashman early Wednesday morning that he intends to accept the Yankees' offer and wear pinstripes for the upcoming season and beyond.
Cashman said that he could not discuss the reports of an agreement because it had not yet been finalized, but a baseball official confirmed that the parameters are set and that Sabathia has accepted the offer in principle.
An official announcement will not be made until numerous items can be completed, most prominently the passing of a physical examination, but no issues are anticipated in the agreement. For the Yankees, Sabathia represents the man they had wanted all along.
Sabathia to accept Yankees' offer
Bauman: CC is Yanks' big splash
Sox-Yanks just got more intense
Brewers' offer more than reported
Tribe should see CC early
Signing draws 29 clubs' attention
Other teams must be aggressive
CC represents next Yankees' era
Cashman's diligence pays off
Jeter's contact with Sabathia a factor
Yankees mean business with deal
CC won't be last of Yanks' moves
Brewers must move on without CC
Dodgers never seriously courted CC
Angels backed out early
Giants move on with CC off market
White Sox happy Central is CC-free
Celebrate CC's arrival in style
Fantasy: Sabathia to buck trend
Jeter weighs in on new teammate
Harold Reynolds on CC's future
Bryan Hoch discusses signing
Jim Duquette on signing
Sample, Micucci break down deal
"CC is left-handed, a tremendous competitor, and his talent is obvious," Cashman said. "He matches that with his character at the same time. That's obviously why we've been extremely interested in bringing him in the fold."
An additional season and $20 million, authorized by Hal Steinbrenner and offered in the final minutes, sweetened the package. The deal now represents a record-setting seven-year pact for about $161 million, adding to the original offer presented to Sabathia on Nov. 14, which was reported to be for $140 million over six years.
With a new Yankee Stadium rising across 161st Street in the Bronx and set to open in just a matter of months, the organization is free to begin stitching a size XXL jersey and preparing to watch the prized addition pitch on Opening Day 2009.
"You get very excited about it," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "I think you stay a little bit reserved because there's still things that have to be done. But you do get excited about it, because it's a guy that we talked about that we were going to pursue very heavily all along."
Reports on Wednesday afternoon said the package is worth $161 million and will include a buyout clause that will give Sabathia the right to opt out after three years. The opt-out clause helped to satisfy concerns Sabathia and his family had about living in New York.
A person familiar with the Yankees' thinking and early-morning maneuvers told MLB.com that the club extended its offer to Sabathia from six to seven years at about 3 a.m. ET on Wednesday. The Yankees had no trepidation in offering a seventh year to Sabathia, and Sabathia's agent, Greg Genske, later finalized the dollar and year amounts with Cashman.
Regarding his trip to Sabathia's home in Vallejo, Calif., Cashman said, "When the opportunity was given, that's a flight I had to take."
Genske informed Brewers general manager Doug Melvin via telephone early Wednesday morning that while "there are a lot of things to do yet, it looks like it's going to take place," and that Milwaukee would no longer be considered as a return destination. The Brewers' ambitious offer was surpassed by two years and approximately $61 million.
"Once the Yankees got involved, we knew what we were up against," Melvin said. "We were hoping that maybe we were close enough that [Sabathia] might have reconsidered, but he got a very good deal. That would have been hard for him to walk away from."
As for the impact the agreement might have on other Yankees plans, a source said that the team believes it can top the Braves' offer to right-hander A.J. Burnett if it is for five years at $15 million per year, and that the Yankees' interest in first baseman Mark Teixeira has waned.
After meeting twice in Las Vegas, the final rendezvous in the Bay Area was made with attention to the concerns of Sabathia's wife, Amber, and their three children, who will likely relocate to New York during the season. Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter also helped alleviate concerns about the city lifestyle in conversations with Sabathia last month.
"You can stay out there six months in the offseason and still be a West Coast guy, right?" Jeter said. "I think one of the questions that a lot of people have when you come to New York is they have families that don't necessarily want to live in the city. There's a lot of different places you can live."
In Las Vegas, Yankees officials were privately optimistic late Tuesday that discussions with Sabathia had taken a positive turn since Cashman had again been invited back. The GM rapidly cleared his schedule.
Cashman, Girardi and special advisor Reggie Jackson met with Sabathia and Genske for approximately two hours at the Wynn Hotel on Sunday. Jackson took the lead in those discussions, representing a Bay Area product who went on to stardom in New York and looks back upon his Yankees time fondest.
Cashman was then invited back on Monday, answering follow-up questions in a meeting of less than one hour with Genske present. Then came Tuesday's meeting, which resulted in the Yankees landing the biggest pitching prize of the Winter Meetings.
Sabathia, 117-73 in eight big league seasons, will bring something to the Yankees that they haven't had in three decades: a relatively youthful pitcher at the top of their rotation. At 28 years old, Sabathia will be the first prominent Yankees ace under 30 since Ron Guidry, another left-hander, in the late 1970s.
New York had pitchers in their 20s, notably Dennis Rasmussen and Melido Perez, at the top of its rotations during losing seasons in the early '90s, and one could argue that Chien-Ming Wang, currently 28, was the Yankees' "ace" in 2006 and 2007.
But Sabathia clearly represents something different. Traded to the Brewers by the Indians on July 7, the left-hander almost singlehandedly carried Milwaukee to its first postseason berth in 26 years by going 11-2 with a 1.65 ERA in 17 starts.
He lost his only start in the playoffs, lasting 3 2/3 innings in a 5-2 loss to the Phillies. The Brewers lost the best-of-five National League Division Series in four games.
Top salaries for 2008
Rank // Player // Team // '08 Salary
1 -Alex Rodriguez // NYY // $28,000,000
2 -Jason Giambi // NYY // $23,428,571
3 -Derek Jeter // NYY // $21,600,000
4 -Manny Ramirez // BOS // $18,929,923
5 -Carlos Beltran // NYM // $18,622,809
6 -Ichiro Suzuki // SEA // $17,102,149
7 -Johan Santana // NYM // $16,984,216
8 -Todd Helton // COL // $16,600,000
9 -Torii Hunter // LAA // $16,500,000
10 -Bobby Abreu // NYY // $16,000,000
10 -Carlos Delgado // NYM // $16,000,000
10 -Andy Pettitte // NYY // $16,000,000
10 -Carlos Zambrano // CHC // $16,000,000
A Sabathia signing gives the Yankees the bona fide ace that many, including Girardi, have lobbied for, but it does not complete their winter shopping list. The Yankees have spoken optimistically about landing two of their top choices, if not three.
"We have a need to improve our rotation, and it's not just one," Cashman said. "It's more than one. My intent this winter is to try to improve the club any way I possibly can, but the main focus is going to be the rotation."
That leaves the door open to a full-bore pursuit of free-agent right-handers A.J. Burnett, Derek Lowe and Ben Sheets, and to the future of Andy Pettitte, who remains unsigned. As of the moment, the Yankees' only signed starters projected to be in the rotation come Opening Day are Wang and Joba Chamberlain.
"I think any time you can have a guy like CC, Chien-Ming Wang and Chamberlain, you can add to your rotation," Girardi said. "You want to have five guys that can go out there every day and give you innings, and that you know can shut teams down. That's the ultimate rotation and that's what Brian and our organization are looking for."
The Yankees met with Burnett's representative at the Winter Meetings on Tuesday. With teams circling his client, Burnett's agent, Darek Braunecker, acknowledged that "just overall, the process is starting to advance."
The Yankees do not appear fazed by the Braves' interest in Burnett, with Atlanta prepared to supply Burnett with a four-year, $60 million contract containing a vesting option for the 2013 season. In fact, the Yankees may even be primed to top that dollar amount by surpassing the annual value of the pact.
Rank // Player // Team // Avg Salary // Seasons
Highest average annual salaries
1 // Alex Rodriguez // NYY // $27,500,000 // 2008-17
2 // Alex Rodriguez // TEX // $25,200,000 // 2001-10
3 // Johan Santana // NYM // $22,916,667 // 2008-13
4 // Manny Ramirez // BOS // $20,000,000 // 2001-08
5 // Miguel Cabrera // DET // $19,037,500 // 2008-15
6 // Derek Jeter // NYY // $18,900,000 // 2001-10
7 // Roger Clemens // NYY // $18,700,000 // 2007
8 // Carlos Zambrano // CHC // $18,300,000 // 2008-12
9 // Andruw Jones // LAD // $18,100,000 // 2008-09
10 // Vernon Wells // TOR // $18,000,000 // 2008-14
10 // Barry Zito // SF // $18,000,000 // 2007-13
10 // Barry Bonds // SF // $18,000,000 // 2002-06
10 // Sammy Sosa // CHC // $18,000,000 // 2002-05
The Yankees and Phillies have emerged as the two most prominent contenders for Lowe, according to reports. The Yankees are said to have prepared a four-year offer with a possible vesting option for a fifth year for the 35-year-old former Dodger, who has won 106 games in seven seasons since the Red Sox converted him from closer to starter in 2002.
Late on Monday, Cashman and Girardi met with Sheets and his agent, Casey Close.
"I thought that was a good meeting," Girardi said. "Obviously, I faced Ben Sheets when I was with the Cubs and have admired the work that he's done over the years. It was good to talk to him about his health, his routines, what he likes to do. He was a very open young man and he was impressive."
The New York Daily News reported on Tuesday that the Yankees are preparing to offer Sheets a multiyear deal believed to be for two years and about $30 million. The offer was expected to be made before the Meetings wrap up on Thursday.
Sheets is 86-83 in his career with a 3.73 ERA, but has missed significant time due to injury in four of his eight seasons in the Major Leagues, all with the Brewers.
Pettitte, who has spent 11 of his 14 seasons with the Yankees, is a free agent and has openly said that he wishes to return. But there has been only minimal contact between the team and the 36-year-old left-hander, who went 14-14 last season but is 215-127 in his career.
Sabathia, a first-round Draft pick in 1998, burst upon the scene less than three years later, going 17-5 in his rookie season. He had success, but without impressive records, for the next four seasons, going 52-40 with a 4.03 ERA while recording double digits in losses three times.
However, in 2006, he began to show the results of a dominant pitcher, lowering his ERA to 3.21 and reaching a career high in strikeouts with 172. He went 12-11, but the Indians were 78-84 and finished fourth in the AL Central that season.
In 2007, Sabathia pitched 241 innings, by far a career high, and went 19-7 while boosting his strikeout total to 209. Cleveland won the AL Central and Sabathia won the Cy Young. Those career highs were extended this past season, as he struck out 251 batters in 253 innings.
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"American Moses," the debut novel by Brooklyn journalist Stephen Witt, is the latest in a long line of road trip novels. While many miss the mark, Witt delivers a captivating travelogue through an American landscape at once beautiful, sad, depressing and hopeful. It all starts in a New York City morgue, of course. Where else?
Southie, a luckless family man with an eye for women and sixpacks, gets canned from his morgue job and heads home to the sleepy town of Port Decker, New Jersey- despondent but by no means unoptimistic. The man is a former journalist from the mean streets of Chicago, after all; it's clear this is not his first life setback.
It helps that he has a supportive wife in Zippy, a proud Jamaican woman bent on raising their two children the old fashioned way. When some neo-Nazis hang a swastika in town soon afterwards, Zippy, who is black, unhesitatingly follows an outraged Southie and his small band of Jewish followers on an impromptu journey to Las Vegas.
What follows is a wild journey that takes the group, led by Southie, a modern-day Moses through a run of small towns and cities like Dayton, Ohio and East St. Louis that offer a fresh vision of contemporary American life.
This is a world of eager waitresses and city slums, motel rooms and late-night truck stops; a place where issues of race, love, religion and marriage often complicated and painful. Witt tackles them movingly, with insight and humor. Southie learns much as he treks towards the Promised Land, and so does the reader.