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|System: Xbox 360, PS3
|Dev: Team Ninja
|Pub: Tecmo
|Release: Q1 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Patriel Manning
Fans of actions games have never had it better, as E3 2011 displayed titles that catered to every corner of the vast genre. One such title was Ninja Gaiden. Fans of the characteristically frenetic gameplay the series is known for will be thrilled to know that that pacing hasn't slowed down one bit. In fact, there are a few additions that might speed things up a bit. More on that in a moment.
The demo opens up with the main character, Ryu Hayabusa, perched atop one of Big Ben's gargoyles. At night. In the rain. Ryu's looking about as brooding and happy (read "not happy") as a 21st century ninja should. I'll have to apologize for lack of details on the story that I should be providing at this point as audio at the show was drowned out by the sound of Jane's Addiction playing the roof off the arena. From what I could gather from watching the opening cinematic, a town that's somehow connected to Ryu was attacked by a rebel army of sorts whose objectives run contrary to the outfit Ryu is working with.
At this point it really doesn't matter because having an army of people to fight against allows a setup that showcases the developers' focus for this action game: blood and bone on steel. The concept is demonstrated in the takedown moves, which can be performed frequently with a little skill. Ryu has three main types of attacks: a light attack (square), a heavy attack (triangle), and shuriken (circle) or throwing stars. You block by pressing L1 and in conjunction with movement in any direction Ryu will perform a dodge. Combat can be enhanced by pulling off properly timed combos. Combos, in turn, can lead to takedown moves, which take us back to that 'blood and bone on steel' concept the developer had been emphasizing.
During the takedown moves, the player is prompted by a mini QTE that isn't really much more difficult or involved than mashing the light attack button. Ryu then struggles a bit to, and I can't put this any other way, tear his sword through the nasty bits of bone and organ that happen to comprise the torso of the unfortunate individual who happens to be standing in front of him. The concept of what is actually taking place is enhanced by slight rumbles from the controller as the takedown is happening. The whole package comes together to emphasize the very, very visceral nature of the combat in Ninja Gaiden 3. A note for the uninitiated: if you haven't figured it out yet, there are copious amounts of blood filling the screen at almost all times there is any combat going on. It's not unlike most other Ninja Gaiden titles, so fans will be right at home here.
One major change to the gameplay comes from the way the life meter and 'special' meter are handled. Orbs have been removed completely. Instead players will be able to trigger certain events that fill either meter in-game. For instance to refill your health bar you have to perform successful combos. This isn't too difficult with some of the lower level minions who couldn't block to save their lives, not that it would. But some of the higher-tiered enemies are slightly more stubborn. The 'special' meter fills up (signified by Ryu's arm glowing red) by doing well in combat and once filled allows Ryu to take down up to three enemies instantly at the level the attack was as in the demo. There was no word on whether that can be upgraded in the future.
Under certain circumstances, Ryu can perform instant takedowns. At the beginning of the demo, Ryu leaps off his perch high above the streets of London only to come crashing down on an unsuspecting enemy. Later moments provide opportunity for stealth takedowns by sneaking up behind the enemy and performing a heavy attack. At one point there was a thick fog filling one area of the level, which lent itself to the performance of many such takedowns. It's only fitting that a ninja should be able to do that sort of thing on the fly.
Those familiar with the franchise will also recognize some of the platforming sections present in the demo, although there are some interesting changes that have been made. Instead of just being able to scale walls effortlessly, the developer has opted to work in a mechanic that's congruent with their desire to help the player understand the kind of effort necessary to pull some of these moves off. To scale a wall, or at least this one, the player will first have to grab on to the wall with Ryu's claws using both the L1 and R1 buttons. Climbing is performed by alternating these buttons, pressing L1 then R1 alternatively. The mechanic worked to create a little bit of immersion where there otherwise wouldn't have been any and, again, was in keeping with the developer's goal. The demo ended with a battle with a spider-mech that shot missile launchers, which I'm told were quite widespread in ancient Japan.
All things considered, Ninja Gaiden 3 is shaping up to be a sequel that shaves off unnecessary ideas in favor of ones that are less-explored without sacrificing the core ideas that the fans have come to appreciate. Look forward to more coverage as the release date draws closer, and stay tuned to CheatCC for more coverage of the games at E3 2011.
Patriel Manning
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We Think There's a Remote Chance We Can Get 1,500 hp to the Ground. Here Are the Suspension Tactics for Project F-Bomb, Plus Detroit Speed and Engineering's First Minitub Kit for Second-Gen F-Cars.
Here's the biggest challenge with our F-Bomb project '73 Camaro: suspension. We want too much. The car's life is predicted to include street driving, drag racing, and top-speed racing. We'd be happy if we could squeeze in some open-track time while we're at it. No single chassis setup is gonna do all that perfectly, especially considering the fact that we can crank up 1,500 hp at the flywheel. So what'd we do? We left it stock.
Sorta. We thought long and hard about a custom four-link setup out back, which would be ideal for drag racing, and with a Watt's link or Panhard bar, could work for handling and land-speed racing. But it would be harsh on the street, all the Heim joints would be loud and might wear out often, and it'd be expensive. Ladder bars would be cheaper, but they'd be drag-specific with an even worse ride on the street. Up front, we thought about a conversion to Corvette control arms but decided that the factory second-gen ('70-'81) clip was significantly improved from the first-gen ('67-'69) and did not require such extreme tactics. We figured that stock-concept suspension with quality bolt-on upgrades was going to give us the best overall balance of our performance goals. After all, there are street racers running high 7s on leaf springs and slapper bars. We'll see if we can figure out how that's done. To lend some chance of keeping egg off our faces, we wanted the biggest rubber possible without a Pro Street tub job, so we minitubbed the car for the widest possible slicks.
We haven't had a chance to test all this stuff yet, but we know the car has a killer stance. You'll find out how well it works in a few issues when the car runs for the first time. Meanwhile, come back next month to see the guts of the TCI Pro-X Powerglide trans and the Strange 9-inch rearend.
Rear Suspension
We wanted leaf springs not only for simplicity and reliability but also because it makes you kind of cool when you can run really fast and claim stock, bolt-on suspension. Our favorite way to do that is with CalTracs bars-a more advanced version of the old traction-bar concept. The design resists rearend rotation-and the resulting movement of the pinion angle-shifting the angle of force through the front spring pivot. To further reduce deflection, the front spring-eye bushing is solid aluminum, and while the solid bushing is not as compliant as a soft bushing for street use, we have not found it too objectionable on other cars we've used with CalTracs bars. Also, the preload on the CalTracs bars is adjustable, or the Force Transfer Link under the leaf springs can be removed to allow more spring movement during street driving. It makes a great street/strip combo. The CalTracs bars are $339 for virtually any leaf-spring application. For the Camaro, we told Calvert we had swapped the shocks to the aft-axle position to get the correct lower spring plates. We also used the Calvert Racing 2-inch-drop rear springs, which are similar to monoleaves but use two separate spring halves that are clamped in the middle.
While John Calvert did not feel it was necessary in this application, we decided to add a rear antiroll bar, just in case it was needed either in dragstrip or handling situations. This torsion-bar-type setup is based on a Dick Miller Suspension kit with custom-fabricated installation and end links by Red Zone.
Front Suspension
One of the advantages of doing a frame-off for a race car is that you get to inspect everything in bare metal, and in doing so, we found a hairy crack in one of our lower control arm mounts. The control arms and brakes were also mismatched side-to-side, telling us the car had probably been hit in the right front at some point. The crack was repaired and the entire subframe squared in the car before all the chassis work began. Aside from that work, the suspension components we used were direct bolt-ons, all from Performance Suspension Components (PSC).
The PSC kit includes Global West (GW) tubular upper and lower control arms, and though GW now offers its TLC-series drag-race only arms, we instead chose the conventional G-Series arms that retain the antiroll-bar tabs in case we ever want to add one to the front of the car; we're currently not using one. We also opted for GW's premium Del-a-lum bushings (nondeflecting Delrin plastic and machined aluminum), bringing the price for all four arms to $1,321.
The GW arms are also available specially made for coilover conversion systems, though on John Calvert's advice, we elected to stick with stock-type coil springs. Calvert says they may be heavier, but they also have more stored energy that can contribute to better dragstrip launches for this application with a heavy nose. Our current front coils are Moroso Trick Springs. We cut a coil off them for stance, and the car currently sits too low to steer. We'll need to fix that before our first track blast, and Calvert advises that we should try to get stock-rate springs that will support the car at an acceptable ride height without having to trim coils.
DSE Deep Tubs
Minitubbing is the act of widening a car's rear wheeltubs by moving the inner halves as close as possible to the outer face of the rear framerails. It's allowed in many street-racing sanctioning bodies as long as the framerails are left intact. While minitubbing does not allow as much tire room as a full-on Pro Street tub job, it is less invasive and allows the car's stock floors and trunk to be retained. Also, minitubbing usually keeps the stock outer wheeltubs in place whereas Pro Street fabricated wheeltubs are often butted to the insides of the quarter-panels without being firmly attached by anything but a swipe of seam sealer. This leads to leaks, rattles, and loose quarters. If fabricated tubs are welded to the quarter-panels, it leads to warping either during welding or after the car has made a few brutal dragstrip launches. So, to minimize fabrication and to maximize streetability and handling potential, we elected to minitub the F-Bomb rather than Pro Street it.
The shape of the rear framerails makes the second-generation Camaros and Firebirds some of the most difficult cars to minitub. Detroit Speed & Engineering (DSE) recently released its Deep Tubs to simplify the process, and we got the very first kit to try out. The installation was handled by Nick Miserendino at Red Zone Race Fab, the same shop that did all the rollcage work seen in the March '07 issue. The DSE minitub kit includes the stamped Deep Tubs, new fabricated front spring perches, an upper shock crossmember with mounts, offset shackles, leaf-spring pads for the rear axle, lower shock plates and U-bolts, Delrin spring bushings, and filler panels for areas of the stock framerails that need to be cut out with the provided templates. An instructional DVD is included, though we strongly suggest buying it first to make sure you understand the work you're getting into. The base kit is $1,699, or you can get one with shocks and 2-inch- or 3-inch-drop springs for $2,294.
We've used QA1 Stocker Star adjustable shocks in the past and have been very happy with them, so we're really excited to try the newest in the line: double-adjustable versions. While the originals were 12-way adjustable, these new ones have 24 compression settings and 24 rebound settings for 576 possible valving combos. Being able to set compression and rebound resistance totally independent of each other will be a huge boon to the multipurpose goals of this car. We'll share the tuning process with you once the car is on the track.
With the DSE minitub kit, eyelet/eyelet-style shocks are required in the rear rather than eyelet/stud-style.
The double-adjustable Stocker Stars bolt in to stock locations and feature 5/8-inch-diameter, centerless-ground, hard-chromed piston shafts and bright-anodized, forged-aluminum bodies. They are rebuildable by QA1 and sell for about $300 each. The single-adjustable versions are roughly half that price.

We had to think hard about our braking options, and in the end, it was clear that no one system was going to serve both our top-speed goals and our drag needs. The main issue was that we had to have 15-inch wheels to mount the best possible drag slicks, but we couldn't fit today's top-end six-piston calipers and big rotors behind the 15-inch wheels. Therefore, we knew we'd have to start with smaller street/strip brakes, then later step up to 18-inch wheels and far more serious street/track brakes once the F-Bomb's drag days are over.
We consulted Wilwood with the dilemma. It was important that the car be equipped with a reliable Stroud parachute for the dragstrip and that we wouldn't be driving 150-plus on the street. Therefore, we used a braking setup compatible with our 15-inch wheels, using 10.75-inch-front and 11.75-inch-rear rotors with Wilwood's Dynalite forged four-piston calipers. Rather than using drag-style, solid steel rotors, Wilwood recommended vented rotors for better street use and rotor cooling on this heavy car. Also, the company advised against drilled or slotted rotors, as holes and slots are mostly decorative and would provide points for cracks to begin during the cold stops associated with drag racing.
Steering and Hydroboost
It's unusual for a drag car to be loaded with power steering and power brakes, but again, we were thinking long term and wanted to add these features while the car was being built the first time rather than trying to integrate them once the rollcage and turbo-plumbing fabrication were complete. We also knew that power brakes would help crutch our slightly undersized drag-race brakes before we had a chance to upgrade.
Our choice from the beginning was to use a hydroboost setup from Hydratech. Hydroboost uses hydraulic assist from the steering pump rather than vacuum from the engine to power the brake booster. This is similar to the system used on older heavy-duty trucks and on current Hummers and Mustangs. The major advantages of the system for our car were that engine vacuum/boost would not affect booster operations and that the elimination of the vacuum booster would save us a ton of space. The complete '70-'81 Camaro kit from Hydratech runs $695, minus the master cylinder of your choice but including the plumbing.
Wheels and Tires
For the first round of dragstrip use, the F-Bomb uses Mickey Thompson ET Drag wheels that we had anodized black to match the theme of the car. The wheels are 15×3.5 with 2.5-inch backspacing and 15×12 with 6.5-inch backspacing. Tires are M/T ET Fronts in 27.5×4.50-15 and ET Drags in 28×10.50-15W. Note that the W means these are extra wide. The actual measured size of the rear tires mounted on 15×12 wheels with 15 psi of air is 28 1/4 inches tall; the overall width is 14 3/8 and the measured tread width is 11 1/2 inches.
Our Strange 9-inch rearend with the Wilwood brakes installed has an overall width from wheel-mounting flange to wheel-mounting flange of 58 5/16 inches. With the tires on 15×12 wheels with 6.5-inch backspacing and with the DSE Deep Tubs in place, the tires just barely clear with about 1/4 inch before they rub the leaf springs. They're OK for drag use, but street tires will need to have less section width.
Want More F-Bomb?
This story is just one part of the ongoing saga of the F-Bomb. To see the stories about the twin-turbo engine buildup, the chassis fabrication, and the paint, hit the Project Car section of www.HOTROD.com now or buy the mags at www.primediabackissues.com. You can also talk about it on the message boards of HOTROD.com.


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The Spring Awakening Music Festival scheduled for June 16-17 is expanding inside Soldier Field to meet ticket demand, promoters will announce Tuesday.
The two-day event, which includes headliners Skrillex and Afrojack and dozens more DJs and electronic-dance music artists, will now be held on three stages on the south side of the stadium with a main stage inside, promoters React Presents and the Congress Theater say.
Tickets ($119.99 for a two-day pass) are on sale at clubtix.com. Daily capacity at the event is listed at 30,000.
The complete lineup:
June 16: Skrillex, Benny Benassi, A-Trak, Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, Dillon Francis, Garbriel & Dresden, Morgan Page, Claude Vonstroke, Kill the Noise, Joachim Gerraud, Designer Drugs, Bart Bmore, Downlink, Midnight Conspiracy, Nathan Scott, Krewella, Zebo, Nobody Beats the Drum, Tommie Sunshine, Stratus, Lobounce, Willy Joy, Porn N Chicken
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In adults with narcolepsy, periodic limb movements of sleep (PLMS) occur more frequently than in control population, and presence of increased PLMS is associated with greater sleep disruption and shorter mean sleep latency. This study was performed to determine whether PLMS are common in children with narcolepsy, and whether the presence of PLMS is associated with greater sleep disruption.
Demographic and polysomnographic information were collected from consecutive patients diagnosed with narcolepsy identified retrospectively by diagnosis-based search. Descriptive data were compiled, and sleep characteristics of children with and without PLMS were compared.
Sleep disorders center in a children's hospital.
44 patients, 6-19 years old (mean 13 years, SD 3.57), were identified. Twenty-eight were African American.
Four patients had a PLMS index (PLMI) ≥ 5/h (considered abnormal in literature). Sixteen (36%) had "any PLMS" (PLMI > 0/h). The mean PLMI was 1.3/h (SD 2.5). Sleep was significantly more disrupted, and the mean sleep latency was shorter in patients with "any PLMS" as compared to those with no PLMS. There was no correlation between the PLMI and other diagnostic criteria for narcolepsy. "Any PLMS" were present equally in children of African American and Caucasian heritage, 35.7% vs. 37.5%.
As in adults, children with PLMS and narcolepsy have more sleep disruption and shorter mean sleep latencies than those with narcolepsy but without PLMS. Our findings also suggest that the use of adult criteria for diagnosis of "significant" PLMS in children may not be sufficiently sensitive.
Jambhekar SK; Com G; Jones E; Jackson R; Castro MM; Knight F; Carroll JL; Griebel ML. Periodic limb movements during sleep in children with narcolepsy. J Clin Sleep Med 2011;7(6):597–601.
Periodic limb movements during sleep were first described in adults in the 1980s, however; their occurrence in children and adolescents has only been recently appreciated.1 The exact prevalence of these movements, consisting of repetitive small flexions of the upper and/or lower extremities, in the general pediatric population is unclear. Reported prevalence rates of PLMS at a frequency > 5/h vary between 1.2% to 10% of children not referred specifically for PLMS or restless legs syndrome (RLS).2,3 Although the prevalence of PLMS has been reported to be increased in children with other medical comorbidities,4 the prevalence in children with narcolepsy is largely unknown. A study of 8 children with narcolepsy has shown occurrence of PLMS in 63% of the patients with a mean PLMS index of 49/h.5
In adults, increased PLMS have been shown to be more common in patients with narcolepsy than controls without narcolepsy; the presence of increased PLMS has been shown to be associated with measures of disruption of REM sleep and daytime functioning, leading to a hypothesis that PLMS are an intrinsic feature of narcolepsy.6–9 In addition, adult narcolepsy patients with PLMS have been shown to have more impairment of daytime functioning than those without PLMS, in that those with PLMS have a shorter mean sleep latency than those without, suggesting greater sleepiness. Furthermore, in adult narcolepsy patients with PLMS, a higher PLMS index has been shown to be associated with a higher periodic limb movement when awake index, suggesting greater disruption of daytime functioning.9
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: In adults, PLMS are known to occur more frequently in patients with narcolepsy and are shown to be associated with greater sleep disruption and shorter sleep latency. This study was performed to determine if PLMS occur commonly in children with narcolepsy and whether presence of PLMS is associated with greater sleep disruption and worse daytime sleepiness.
Study Impact: This study shows that presence of PLMS in children with narcolepsy is associated with greater sleep disruption and shorter sleep latency, suggesting the need to evaluate for the presence of "any PLMS" in children with narcolepsy. This study also raises concern about the applicability of the adult threshold for normal PLMS (<5/ hr) in the pediatric population.
Because of the importance of potential adverse effects of worsened daytime functioning on school and social achievement in children with narcolepsy, our study was undertaken to determine whether PLMS are more prevalent in children with narcolepsy and whether PLMS in children with narcolepsy are associated with more disrupted sleep and/or more daytime somnolence.
Our hypotheses were:
Children with narcolepsy and PLMS have more disturbed nighttime sleep than those with narcolepsy but no PLMS.
Children with narcolepsy and PLMS have more daytime sleepiness than those without PLMS.
Children with narcolepsy and PLMS have greater morbidity of narcolepsy (i.e. greater occurrence of sleep paralysis, cataplexy, and hallucinations than those without PLMS).
Children with narcolepsy and PLMS have greater abnormalities of REM sleep.
With the local institutional review board approval, a diagnosis-based search of medical records was undertaken. Polysomnogram (PSG) and multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) reports of children aged 6-19 years (mean age 13.4 years, SD 3.8) who were diagnosed with narcolepsy in the last 10 years were reviewed. Children with a concomitant diagnosis of epilepsy on anticonvulsant medications were excluded from the study due to the confounding role of the potential sedative effect of these medications. All subjects had undergone ≥ 1 night of polysomnography followed by a MSLT on the next day. The MSLT included ≥ 4 naps of 20 min each. The fifth nap was performed if only one of the first 4 naps showed REM sleep. It was not performed if REM sleep did not occur on any of the first 4 naps, or if REM sleep occurred on 2 of the first 4 naps. The excitement of anticipating going home has been reported to confound results of last (fifth) nap.10 Eleven patients (7 without PLMS, 4 with PLMS) had been on alerting medications (6 on dextroamphetamine, 3 on methylphenidate, 1 on atomoxetine, and 2 on modafinil) prior to the study. These medications had been discontinued (dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate ≥ 72 h, atomoxetine for 5 days, and modafinil for 2 weeks—all ≥ 5 half-lives of the drug) before testing. All children met standard diagnostic criteria for narcolepsy: sleep onset latencies less than 2 standard deviations below the mean for their age/Tanner stage11 and occurrence of REM sleep within 15 min of sleep onset on ≥ 2 naps. Other causes for excessive sleepiness were ruled out by careful review of sleep hygiene and medical histories, and with testing of thyroid function. Narcolepsy DNA test (Kimball Genetics) was available on 25 (7 with and 18 without PLMS) patients (16 positive- 5 with PLMS). Patient DNA was assayed for HLA alleles DQB1*0602 and DQA1*0102 by sequence-specific PCR analysis followed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Two patients who met the diagnostic criteria of narcolepsy had Chiari I malformations and had undergone microsurgical decompression surgery. One of these patients also had a positive DNA test for narcolepsy-associated alleles HLA DQB1 0602 and HLA DQA1 0201, and the other had cataplexy, which is considered pathognomonic of narcolepsy, in addition to other criteria for narcolepsy. Other co-morbidities included Asperger syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux, post-streptococcal movement disorder, obesity, sleep disordered breathing, and hypertension. Eight patients had a total AHI greater than 1/hr (1.1 to 6.5), (obstructive apnea-hypopnea index 1.1 to 4.2/hr).
Data were obtained utilizing the Sandman Elite 9.1 digital sleep system, Embla Systems, Denver, CO. The following variables were recorded: electroencephalogram (C3/A2, C4/A1, O1/A2, O2/A1), right and left electroculograms, submental electromyogram, tibial +/− upper extremity electromyograms, electrocardiogram, abdominal and chest respiratory effort (Sensormedics inductance plethysmography), end-tidal CO2 (BCI capnograph), airflow (Dymedix thermistor), and SpO2 (Nellcor pulse oximetry). Expanded 8-channel EEG monitoring and nasal pressure monitoring (ProTech PTAF2) were added in studies performed after publication of the new AASM criteria.12 Continuous time-linked sound/visual recordings were also obtained using audio and infrared technology. All PSGs were rescored for PLMS by a single board-certified PSG technologist, blinded to the results of the MSLT, using the criteria in the 2007 AASM manual.12
Forty-four children and adolescents 6 to 19 years of age with narcolepsy diagnosed between January 2000 and May 2009 without a concomitant diagnosis of seizure disorder or any other medical condition responsible for excessive daytime sleepiness were included. Demographic data, clinical signs and symptoms of narcolepsy, sleep characteristics from the PSG reports, and multiple sleep latency scores were collected and tabulated. Four children had PLMI > 5/h. Due to the small number of children with PLMI > 5/h, we compared children with "any PLMS" to those with no PLMS in order to assess the impact of "any PLMS" on daytime alertness and sleep study variables in our population.
Statistical analyses were performed using the Design, Hmisc and foreign libraries available on the free open-source statistical software "R version 2.11.1 (The R Foundation for Statistical Computing)". For each one of the continuous variables (sleep efficiency, spontaneous arousal index, stage REM percent, REM latency minus awake and number of REM periods), a Wilcoxon rank test was used to compare patients with and without "any PLMS." At the 0.05 level, the significant variables were spontaneous arousal index (higher in children with PLMS) and mean sleep latency (lower in children with PLMS). For the categorical variables (sleep paralysis, cataplexy, or hallucinations), χ2 test was used to compare differences between the proportions in every group.
Six patients had OSA according to the current definition for OSA in children (AHI > 1). Our study did not have enough patients to perform subgroup analysis and compare patients with AHI > 1 per hour with those who had AHI < 1 per hour.
Demographic data are shown in Table 1. The predominant patient race was African American (63.6%, 28 children). Twenty-seven (61%) of the participants were male. Four of the 44 patients (9.1%) had PLMI > 5/h; 16 (36%) had "any PLMS." The mean PLMI was 1.3/h (SD 2.5) (range 0.6-18.2). Six of the 16 (37.5%) children with any PLMS were Caucasian, and 10 (62.5%) were African American. Ten of the 28 (35.7%) African American children with narcolepsy and 6/16 (37.5%) of Caucasian children with narcolepsy had "any PLMS," i.e. PLMI > 0/h.
Demographic data
[i] N, number; kg, kilogram; m, meter; cm, centimeter.
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Notably, those children with "any PLMS" (n = 16) had more disturbed sleep (i.e., increased arousal index) than children with no PLMS. They also had shorter mean sleep latencies during the day (Table 2). The difference was most striking in the second nap, i.e., during that period of the day when diurnal wakefulness is maximal. There were no differences in other sleep study variables between the 2 groups. The presence of PLMS did not correlate with the occurrence of cataplexy, sleep paralysis, or sleep related hallucinations (Table 3). The frequency of PLMS (PLMI) did not correlate with the mean sleep latency.
Comparison of demographic and sleep descriptors in children with and without PLMS
[i] p values are based on a Wilcoxon Rank test for continuous variables and a χ2 test for categorical variables.
[ii] BMI, body mass index; AHI, apnea hypopnea index; TST, total sleep time. Numbers in parentheses indicate standard deviation.
Clinical characteristics: comparison of children with PLMS and without PLMS
PLMS, first described in children by Pichietti and Walters13 have been reported with a variable prevalence in this population. Genetic factors, altered iron metabolism, and dopaminergic dysfunction have been thought to be involved in the pathophysiology of PLMS. OSA, autism, ADHD, William syndrome, Tourette syndrome, narcolepsy, and medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, lithium, and tricyclic antidepressants are thought to be risk factors for PLMS.14 PLMS have been suggested to be an intrinsic feature of narcolepsy—the two probably related by the commonality in dopaminergic pathway dysfunction in both conditions.9
The main new finding of this study is the effect of PLMS on nighttime sleep and daytime sleepiness in children with narcolepsy. These findings may suggest that PLMS in children with narcolepsy lead to worsening of sleep quality and daytime sleepiness. However, it may also suggest that PLMS are a feature of more severe narcolepsy, as has been suggested for adults.9
Based on the commonly used criterion of PLMI ≥ 5/h, our group of children did not have a higher prevalence of PLMS as compared to most of the previously reported prevalence rates in control population or children with other co-morbid conditions. The prevalence of PLMS at a rate ≥ 5/h (9%) in our sample compares to the reported prevalence of 12% of children 4 to 7 years of age in a community-based sample,15 a prevalence of 5.6% in a sample of 591 children who underwent PSG for various reasons,2 and a 10% prevalence seen in 100 consecutive children undergoing PSG for various reasons.3 It is higher than a prevalence of 1.2% of children (7 of 591 children) referred with a predisposition to sleep disorders but who had no other disorder identifiable except PLMS.6 It is actually lower than the prevalence of PLMS reported in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obstructive sleep disordered breathing (OSDB).3,15–17 Studies have reported PLMS (PLMI > 5/h) in 26% of a sample of children with OSDB12 and as high as 64% of children with ADHD.17
A large proportion, i.e., 36% (CI 22.15% to 50.57%) of the patients in our study had "any PLMS" (PLMI > 0/h); however, we do not have prevalence data available for a control population, as previous studies have looked for PLMI ≥ 5/h as the definition of the group of patients with PLMS. The mean PLMI in our group of patients was 1.3/h (SD 2.5/h), compared with 1.3/h (SD 2.2/h) reported in a group of 70 normal children 2-9 years of age.18 It is lower than that quoted by a study with a small number of normal subjects that reports the mean PLMI of 4.8/h in children 5-9 years of age (n = 7) and 3.3/h in the 10-19 year olds (n = 9).19
The most important finding in this study is that those children with any concomitant PLMS had more sleep disturbance than those with narcolepsy and no PLMS, even though most of them had a PLMI < 5/hour. This finding is in keeping with the results of Dauvilliers et al., who noted that adult patients with narcolepsy and PLMS had more sleep disturbance, especially related to REM sleep.9 We did not find a significant difference in specific nighttime REM sleep characteristics between the 2 groups. Despite the proclivity of patients with narcolepsy to have increased sleepiness and sleep attacks during the day, the nighttime sleep of narcolepsy patients has been recognized as abnormal, with increased arousals and stage shifts.20 Any factor that further deteriorates sleep quality, such as PLMS, would thus seem inherently undesirable.
Children with narcolepsy and PLMS had shorter sleep onset latencies during daytime naps than did children who had narcolepsy but no PLMS. This again agrees with the findings of Dauvilliers et al. in their adult sample.9 In our study sample, the difference in sleep latency was most striking in nap 2 (Table 2), which usually occurs at 10:00, the period that is associated with maximum diurnal wakefulness. This occurrence may have an effect on daytime functioning, especially performance in school.
There was no correlation between the severity of PLMS (PLMI) and the measure of sleepiness (mean sleep latency). However, this may have been due to the small study sample.
We found an equal prevalence of "any PLMS" among the races. The possible differential occurrence of PLMS in otherwise normal children of different races or ethnicities is unclear. A large study looking at ethnic differences found that Caucasian children were more likely than African Americans (16.5% vs. 7%) to have PLMS (PLMI > 5), a difference that was independent of AHI, BMI, or SES.21 Our results suggest that African American children with narcolepsy may be more prone to have PLMS than African American children without narcolepsy, and that PLMS may occur with narcolepsy more often in African American children than in Caucasian children. However, as this was a retrospective study not designed to determine PLMS prevalence, this finding remains suggestive.
The majority (64%) of our study sample was African American. This is disproportionate to the population distribution of the state, with only 15.6% of the population being of African American descent, which may suggest a higher prevalence of narcolepsy among African Americans in the state of Arkansas.10 This has been reported in only two prior adult studies, one in 1945 using military recruits,22 and the other published in 2009, an estimated prevalence study in King County, Washington.23 The literature has otherwise suggested no significant difference in prevalence between Caucasians and African Americans.24
Our study also raises concern about the applicability of the adult threshold for normal PLMS (< 5) in the pediatric population. In our study, patients with "any PLMS" had poorer sleep quality and increased daytime sleepiness compared to those patients with narcolepsy and no PLMS in spite of a PLMI < 5/h in the majority of the group with PLMS (only 4 children had an index > 5). This suggests that PLMS of lower frequency may be disturbing to nighttime sleep. This finding may be unique to children with narcolepsy who are by definition predisposed to excessive daytime sleepiness, but suggests the need to assess all children with "any PLMS" for evidence of sleep disturbance and effect on daytime functioning.
We did not find a correlation between the occurrence of PLMS and presence of other manifestations of narcolepsy, i.e., cataplexy, hallucinations, or sleep paralysis, which may suggest that cataplexy, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis are independent manifestations of narcolepsy not related to degree of sleep disturbance or the daytime sleepiness.
The main limitation of our study was the small number of patients. We found only 4 patients with PLMI ≥ 5/h, suggesting that prevalence of PLMS with a PLMI ≥ 5/h is equal to or lesser than that reported in general population. A larger number of subjects would have enabled subgroup analyses, separating out patients with AHI greater than 1/h, to detect the role of OSDB in the group of patients with narcolepsy. However, in spite of this small number of study subjects, we found a correlation between the presence of PLMS and mean sleep latency, suggesting a strong correlation between the two. Narcolepsy is a relatively rare diagnosis in the pediatric age group, and multicenter trials would be necessary to make more certain conclusions.
Several of the children in this group had other disorders including OSDB, which have been described with PLMS. Our study was not powered sufficiently to study the effect of OSDB (defined as AHI > 1/h in the pediatric population) on the PLMS in narcolepsy. However, we do not think that OSDB contributed to the effect of PLMS on sleepiness in our sample, as all except one of the patients with AHI > 1/h had no PLMS, and the one with PLMS was 19 years old with an AHI of 2.2. This AHI would not have been considered diagnostic of OSA in the adult population. If anything, the inclusion of these patients may have diluted the effect of PLMS on daytime sleepiness.
Another important limitation of this study is that it was retrospective in nature; hence all data (e.g., details about familial restless legs syndrome, information about presence/absence of ADHD after specific testing) were not available for all patients; we did not have all tests performed (e.g., genetic testing, MRI, ferritin levels) on all patients; we may also have been unable to exclude cases of secondary narcolepsy; and we did not have a control group. The lack of normative controls for prevalence of "any PLMS" in the general population is also limiting, as we cannot confidently infer how the prevalence of "any PLMS" in children with narcolepsy compares to the prevalence in the general pediatric population. However, based on the similar mean PLMI between our study and a study on a normal pediatric sample,18 we may infer that children with narcolepsy do not have higher incidence of "any PLMS" than do control children. Nevertheless, the presence of PLMS in children with narcolepsy appears to be associated with increased daytime somnolence.
Data in prior studies may not be comparable due to differences in the scoring criteria. The new AASM scoring rules require that PLMS be scored even if preceded by an arousal if less than 0.5 sec of time lapses between the end of one event and the beginning of another, regardless of which occurs first.12 A PLMS arousal is defined as an abrupt shift of EEG frequency including alpha, theta, and/or frequencies greater than 16 Hz (but not spindles) that last at least 3 seconds, with at least 10 seconds of stable sleep preceding the change. Previously the rules required that if the arousal preceded the leg movement, then the leg movement not be independently scored. This may have led to underscoring of leg movements in the past as compared to recent studies. However, the bias due to this change would have led to an overestimation of PLMS, which was not seen; our sample actually had fewer patients with PLMI ≥ 5/h as compared to previously reported data.
The variables monitored during the PSGs were not uniform for all study subjects. After the introduction of the new AASM criteria, expanded 8-channel EEG monitoring and nasal pressure monitoring (ProTech PTAF2) were added to the PSG. However, we do not believe this affected the results of this study, as it did not affect the scoring of the PLMS or the MSLT.
Our study suggests the need for careful analysis of PLMS in children with narcolepsy. PLMS may contribute to worsening of nighttime sleep and daytime sleepiness, or the presence of PLMS may suggest greater severity of the underlying condition. However, this study is limited due to its retrospective nature and small sample size. Larger, possibly multicenter studies are needed to substantiate these suggestions. Prospective controlled therapeutic trials assessing the effect of treatment of PLMS on extent of daytime sleepiness may be necessary to appropriately define the causative role of PLMS on excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy and the need to treat PLMS in children with narcolepsy.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
Work for this study was performed at Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR.
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Nokia, new CEO Rajeev Suri, and BEELLIONS of euros burning a hole in the bank
What next for the Finns now free of phones?
Nokia Oyj begins a new chapter in its 149-year history today with new CEO Rajeev Suri – and a massive pile of cash in the bank.
Last week the venerable Finnish industrial combine finally cast off the mobile phones division that made Nokia a household name across the world.
What's left at Nokia today is an oddball combination of three unrelated businesses: network equipment, a maps company, and an intellectual property licensing operation.
In the first quarter of 2014, sales from the "Pure New Nokia" operation were €2.66bn ($3.68bn, £2.18bn), most of which (€2.33bn) is derived from networking equipment and associated services (revenues down 17 per cent year-on-year).
HERE maps brought in €209m (down three per cent year-on-year), and the IP division scooped €131m in revenues (up seven per cent). All three divisions in the new Nokia were profitable: networks bagged €216m in non-IFRS operating profit for the quarter (up 10 per cent year on year); HERE banked €10m (up from a €5m loss this time last year); and IP technologies grabbed €86m (up 18 per cent year on year).
By contrast, the "discontinued operations" – the phone biz – brought in €1.93bn in revenues (down 30 per cent on the year-ago quarter) and made an overall loss of €306m (it lost €73m in Q1 2013).
Not only was Nokia's phone wing's overall revenue lower this year, but it is declining faster than than that of the networks division - and unlike networks, didn't bring in any profit.
Beat that, Microsoft.
Nokia said that if the Microsoft deal had been completed within the Q1 2014 accounting period, it would have ended the quarter sitting on €10.5bn gross cash (€7.1bn net, $9.81bn, £5.82bn). Which is nice. It's using this cash pile – which is bolstered by the €5.4bn it finally received from Redmond – to hand out €3bn in dividends to shareholders, and will also spend €1.25bn buying back shares.
Nokia's new CEO Rajeev Suri was confirmed this week: he's a 20-year company veteran who previously ran the Networks mobile operation.
Nokia is today valued at €27bn ($37.3bn, £22.2bn). During the dotcom bubble it reached almost €200bn; as recently as 2008 Nokia was worth about €150bn; and until recently was viewed as a safe bet by a lot of European pension funds. ®
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Oracle and SAP diverge on path to SOA
The differing approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) between SAP and Oracle highlights a problem faced by IT organizations across the globe.
Oracle and SAP AG's distinctly different approaches to service-oriented architecture (SOA) encapsulate a major problem faced by IT organizations the world over: whether to go with a packaged application provider or a middleware provider to meet their SOA requirements.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. interviewed 53 early adopters of the SOA approach and in a new report concluded that most are proceeding with caution, concentrating their initial efforts mainly on internal systems. But perhaps more telling is the fact that most of the interviewees still aren't sure whether to standardize on an applications platform provider, like SAP or Microsoft, or a middleware provider like Oracle or IBM.
Experts point out that Oracle is focusing its SOA efforts on building an open infrastructure with its Java-based Fusion middleware offering. Alternately, SAP, with its NetWeaver application platform, is focusing its ongoing SOA initiative on making it easier for customers to deploy and customize various SAP packaged applications.
"SAP's primary goal is to make sure that their applications are supported and their partners are supported," said Forrester analyst R. "Ray" Wang. "Oracle's framework is definitely a lot more open in the sense that the standards adoption is much more open, but the applications being built on top of the middleware have yet to be proven." @24465
Wang added that for folks mulling SOA, it may not necessarily be a question of deciding which vendor's approach is best, but rather a question of determining how many SOA ecosystems they can support. For example, he said, large companies with many suppliers and partners may have to support two or three SOA ecosystems over the long term.
Looking ahead, Wang said he expects the major vendors in the space to work toward somewhat greater levels of interoperability. Oracle is already working closely with IBM and Microsoft with SAP, he said.
"The [vendor] that can deliver on all four platforms is going to win," Wang said.
Web services and the road less traveled
Companies starting down a path toward SOA should expect the entire project to take at least 15 years to complete, but those same firms can begin realizing the benefits of SOA within the first six months, says Anne Thomas Manes, a vice president and research director with Midvale, Utah-based Burton Group.
"People who think that SOA is a six-month project are disillusioned because they're getting nowhere," Manes said. "You can start to see benefits from SOA within six months, but really what you're doing during that time is integration using Web services technology. That's not the same thing as SOA."
SOA, Manes explained, is about identifying replication, eliminating duplicate implementations of functionality and ultimately removing application silos so that all systems share what they need to share at the core level.
"If you go through your systems and identify all of the duplicated functionality and replace that with services, you no longer ever have to do integration," Manes said. "Integration is about bridging those silos. SOA is all about breaking them down."
But not all SOA initiatives begin with integration through Web services, according to Steve Garone, a research partner with Ideas International in Rye Brook, N.Y. Garone said companies can get to SOA without using the specific technologies and standards associated with Web services -- though it's not a very popular approach.
"The [SOA] concept doesn't specify specific protocols or standards or anything else," Garone said. "Most people begin with the Web services standards [they're] familiar with, so it's a logical next step to take the services that you build and have them operate within the context of an SOA."
Getting started
The first thing to do before beginning any SOA project is to make sure that everyone at the company, particularly upper management and IT, is on the same page about the project's requirements, Garone explained.
The analyst said that both IT and the business side should be clear on the firm's entire application portfolio and infrastructure profiles so that they can decide together exactly how far they want to proliferate SOA throughout the organization. He added that the task of auditing those systems alone can take a very long time.
"It's a very good idea to have somebody from within the IT department who has credibility with upper management champion SOA throughout the organization," Garone said.
When firms begin implementing SOA or doing integration via Web services, analysts agree that it's also important to start small.
"By small, I mean something that is easily definable within the organization," Garone said. "Starting small and starting on something that you can quickly and thoroughly understand and define is a prerequisite for being successful with an SOA project."
Forrester's Wang agreed, adding that companies should start with projects that are "easier to get into SOA."
"A lot of people are doing self-service on the employee self-service side, or partner/customer self-service enablement," Wang said. "Those are things that are pretty tangible."
Picking the right vendors
Whether a firm is considering Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft or all of the above for its SOA needs, the first thing it should do is get the candidates to prove their worth in very specific ways, experts say.
This process goes beyond a simple examination of the SOA-related products and services these vendors provide. Rather, the vendor needs to be able to demonstrate that it can support the firm's entire environment as it moves forward to SOA, Garone said.
"You need to make sure that you work with vendors who can cover all of the major elements technologically that sit within your IT infrastructure, including software and hardware," he advised.
Achieving SOA can be a very difficult and lengthy process, but one that's well worth it, Garone added.
"If properly implemented the benefits of SOA far outweigh the costs in most cases," he said.
This article originally appeared on SearchOracle.com


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They might blossom into terrific players, but the rookie seasons of Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley Jr. have the baseball world wondering, "How good are they?"
Players usually show something positive in their rookie seasons. Bradley has been stellar defensively, but his hitting has been off-the-charts bad. Bogaerts hasn't excelled in either area, though at 21 he's the youngest Red Sox rookie starter since Ellis Burks in 1987.
Dustin Pedroia won AL Rookie of the Year hitting .317 with an .823 OPS in 2007. Jacoby Ellsbury hit .280 with 50 steals in 2008 in his rookie season. Mike Greenwell hit .328 with 19 homers and 89 RBIs with a .956 OPS in his first full season in 1987 and finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year voting. Burks, 22 at the time, hit .272 with 20 homers, 59 RBIs, and 27 steals.
Is it a lack of seasoning for Bogaerts and Bradley? Hurried to the majors? Bogaerts had 225 at-bats at Triple A, Bradley 320. Former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein always believed you should get 500 at-bats in Triple A.
Have both players lost value?
Exposure can be good and bad. In Bradley Jr.'s case, it was a bad thing.
"Put it this way, at one time he would have been a featured piece in a deal, now he'd be a throw-in," a National League adviser said about Bradley's value. "He's an outstanding center fielder, but there's absolutely no sign of the hitting getting better. He can be pitched to and he doesn't seem to have the capacity to adjust. He gets fooled with offspeed stuff and he's getting overpowered by fastballs. The Red Sox have a tough call there. They've given him every opportunity.''
The Red Sox have no idea if Bogaerts is a shortstop or a third baseman. They have no idea what type of hitter he is.
The good news is he's 21. And right now that's about as good as it gets.
I asked statistician Bill Chuck for stats to reflect the futility of these youngsters. It's gruesome.
Bradley has the seventh highest strikeout rate in the majors at 28.4 percent, tied with Phillies slugger Ryan Howard. Bogaerts is tied for the third lowest home run rate (0.3 percent). Bradley has 70 hits; only sluggers Adam Dunn (69) and Chris Davis (67) have fewer. Bradley swings at pitches out of the strike zone 26.7 percent of the time. He hits the ball on the ground at a 47.8 percent clip
On pitchers' counts, Bradley is hitting .154. He has gone hitless in 52 games this season. He has struck out in 68 games. He's had 17 multi-hit games. He's had 18 extra-base hit games. Among batters with fewer than five homers, he has the most strikeouts (1 HR, 102 K's). Starling Marte is next (5/96). Bradley's had 28 multi-strikeout games.
Bradley is on his second homerless streak of 48 games. He's hitting .214 at Fenway and .218 on the road.
Leading off an inning he's hitting .130. On pitches that are up, he's hitting .087; up in the middle part of the plate, he's hitting .050. He's hitting .128 on curves, .143 on sliders. He has swung at 626 pitches, missed 174, chased 180.
He swings at pitches out of the strike zone 25.7 percent of the time. He has a 38.3 percent called strike percentage, the eighth highest in the majors.
When Bogaerts has two strikes (which he has had 259 times), he's hitting .191. With a runner on third and less than two outs, Bogaerts is hitting .063 (1 for 16). He has had 50 productive out opportunities and has been successful 13 times. He has come to the plate with 254 runners on base and 21 have scored (8 percent). He has had 87 strikeouts swinging and 18 looking. Of the 87 swinging, he's getting killed on pitches down, in and around the strike zone, which accounts for 56 of the whiffs; 47 are on pitches on the outer half of the plate.
On pitches down and away, he's hitting .106. Of his 93 hits, only 11 are to the opposite field. He has gone hitless in 42 games this season. He has gone RBI-less in 81 games this season. He has extra-base hits in 28 games. He has struck out in 67 games.
With two outs, he's hitting .192. With runners in scoring position he's hitting .116. With men on he's hitting .174. With two outs and runners in scoring position, he's hitting .093.
He has hit .182 as a third baseman and .282 at short. Since moving back to shortstop on Aug. 1, he's 3 for 24 (heading into Friday). The Red Sox organization does not believe the back-and-forth moves have led to the downward spiral at the plate. Bogaerts simply hasn't made adjustments. Bogaerts and Bradley were the two most touted Sox' prospects since Pedroia and Ellsbury, Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Varitek (who was developed by the Mariners), Burks and Greenwell. All had very good major league careers.
Although there's still six weeks to go, the Red Sox might not know at season's end what they have in Bogaerts and Bradley. They will commit to Bogaerts, but Bradley seems to have to show some marked improvement to have the center-field job handed to him for 2015.
Never have two young players been so hyped by their own team and by the media (guilty as charged). But nobody saw this coming.
Apropos of nothing
1. Sons of Yankees: Yankees bench coach Tony Pena's son, Francisco, 24, is a catcher at Triple A Omaha in the Royals' system. Pena is hitting . 255 with 24 homers and 51 RBIs, good for an .864 OPS. Hitting coach Kevin Long's son, Jaron, is a combined 10-3 with a 2.27 ERA in 23 games, 13 starts, between A ball and Double A Trenton, where he's 5-0 with a 2.78 ERA.
2. Interesting data from Stats Inc. on walks: hitters are walking at a rate of once every 12.88 plate appearances, the lowest figure since the mound was lowered following the pitcher-dominated 1968 campaign. Home runs are down, one per 39.03 at-bats this season, the lowest since 1992. If the walk numbers hold, this will be the fourth straight season in which MLB establishes a post-1968 low for walk rate. Stats also figured that between 1974 and 1976, batters hitting first in their team's lineup walked at a rate of once per 11.47 plate appearances. In the period from 2011 through Aug. 6 this season, that figure is down about 12 percent to one walk per 12.91 plate appearances for leadoff men. Only one player in 2014 has drawn as many as 50 walks from the No. 1 lineup spot — the Cardinals' Matt Carpenter, who has 63 walks, all of them while batting leadoff.
Between 1974 and 1980, an average of more than five players per season walked at least 60 times from the leadoff spot.
3. The Tigers threw three Cy Young winners at the Yankees last week, and they lost three out of four games, outpitched by the likes of Chris Capuano and Shane Greene. The Yankees are incredibly resilient.
4. How can anyone compare Mike Lowell leaving money on the table to sign with Boston over Philly and Shane Victorino taking three years with Boston over four years with Cleveland with Jon Lester's situation? Not even in the same stratosphere. Lester could leave up to $50 million on the table to sign with Boston? Yeah, right.
5. David Ortiz believes it will be harder for Alex Rodriguez to return to the Yankees next season. "The older you get the harder it is," Ortiz said. "He'll be 40 years old. Maybe he'll heal up from his physical things [hip], but I know if I got hurt and I took a year off, I don't know if I'd be able to come back at this age. Alex is older than I am." Ortiz said he's had no contact with A-Rod this season.
6. If Pedro Martinez thinks he can fix Clay Buchholz, why isn't he fixing him?
7. Don't think in 30 years of covering baseball I've ever seen a team (the Phillies) spend so much time scouting another team (the Red Sox) and not pull the trigger on a deal. Even after the trade deadline, the Phillies have had a scout in Boston, St. Louis, and Anaheim watching Boston's young players. The match would be Cole Hamels for young players, and it may very well heat up this offseason. Hamels, according to a source close to him, would be open to a deal with the Red Sox.
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Former first-round draft pick Matt Murton, 32, is in his fifth season with the Hanshin Tigers and is hitting .348 with 11 homers and 62 RBIs. The righthanded-hitting outfielder is second in the Central League in hitting to Ryosuke Morioka, who is hitting .356. Murton was the "other" Red Sox player dealt with Nomar Garciaparra in the four-team deal at the trading deadline in 2004.
Wily Mo Pena, who plays for the Orix Buffaloes, leads the Pacific League with 25 homers and has knocked in 63 runs to go with his .250 average and .885 OPS. Pena, 32, was acquired by the Red Sox for Bronson Arroyo, but he never panned out.
Japan's big home run hitter this season is former Tiger Brad Eldred, who has 33 to lead the Central League. He also has 90 RBIs. The 6-6, 270-pound righthanded slugger plays for the Hiroshima Carp. Another former Red Sox, Mauro Gomez, has swatted 18 homers with 78 RBIs to go with a .288 average.
Last year's MVP, Wladimir Balentien, is following up his magnificent 2013 season, in which he hit .330 with 60 homers and 131 RBIs with a 1.234 OPS, with 23 homers and 51 RBIs with a .300 average this season. He has 1.009 OPS for the Pacific League Yakult Swallows.
Another former major leaguer having a big year is Ernesto Mejia, a former Atlanta Brave. The 6-5, 260-pound, 28-year-old righthanded hitter is batting .313 with 18 homers, 39 RBIs and a .992 OPS.
Righthander Kenta Maeda, who will be the next big-time pitcher posted and coming to the United States, is 9-4 with a 2.10 ERA in 17 starts for Hiroshima. Described as a poor man's Masahiro Tanaka, Maeda, 26, has had a solid Japanese career.
But the most interesting player in Japan is 20-year-old Shohei Otani, who is pitching and playing the outfield. Otani is hitting .268 with five homers and 23 RBIs with a .791 OPS, while going 9-2 with a 2.17 ERA in 17 starts with a 1.098 WHIP. He has 134 strikeouts in 112 innings pitching. Otani is 6-3, 189 pounds.
Scouts see him deciding to pitch since he's been so dominating.
Updates on nine
1. Cole Hamels, LHP, Phillies — It will take four or five prospects to land him. The Cubs were unable to come up with a package to obtain him last week. The Phillies are asking for top prospects but the Cubs were unwilling to part with shortstop Addison Russell, who was obtained in the Jeff Sarmardzija deal to Oakland. The Rangers, Red Sox, Cubs, Dodgers, and Angels are seen as the major players for him this offseason. The Phillies can use Hamels as the major player in their rebuilding efforts and will hold on until they receive their ransom.
2. Justin Masterson, RHP, Cardinals — Huge few weeks ahead for Masterson, whose free agent value has dropped tremendously this season. Masterson is seen as a second-tier free agent who will come at an affordable price. The Red Sox will have interest in their former farmhand to solidify the middle of their rotation. It doesn't appear Masterson will get a huge deal, but one major league source indicated a four-year deal in the $64 million-$70 million range might be the figure.
3. James Shields, RHP, Royals — He'll be 33 when he hits free agency, but that shouldn't deter suitors from offering him at least a four-year deal. The Red Sox, Yankees, Orioles, and Blue Jays will be in the mix for arguably the most dependable starting pitcher in the league the last eight seasons. Shields is a perennial, 30-start, 200-inning guy, is AL-East tough, and the dollars shouldn't come close to what Max Scherzer or Jon Lester will receive in the market. "He's thrown a lot of innings and pitched a lot of games and there's always the possibility of breakdown, but the fact you might be able to get him at a shorter term reduces that big risk," said an American League GM.
4. Jonathan Papelbon, RP, Phillies — That he cleared waivers this week was no surprise given his contract ($13 million remaining next year with a vesting option easily attainable for 2016). That he hasn't been dealt — with the Phillies picking up some of the tab — also is surprising. Papelbon could surely help teams such as Detroit, Baltimore, the Dodgers, and others. "The Phillies are just unreasonable in their demands," said one AL official. "When they get a bit more realistic, I think Papelbon will move, but that may not happen until the end of the month."
5. Koji Uehara, RP, Red Sox — Ben Cherington said there was a lot of interest in Uehara, 39, at the trade deadline, but the Red Sox want him to return. There were preliminary contract talks earlier in the season, but those were tabled until the end of the season. The Red Sox want to offer Uehara a one-year deal, but probably don't want to go as high as a qualifying offer, which could get over the $15 million range. It appears Uehara wants to remain a Red Sox, but his family makes its home in Baltimore, so the Orioles could be a possible destination.
6. Jon Lester, LHP, A's — Lester will be targeted by the Cubs in the offseason, which was further enlightened by the Cubs claiming Hamels on waivers last week. The Cubs were not willing to give up their best prospects to the Phillies to get Hamels, but their mind-set is clear. With top prospects such as Javier Baez now with the parent team, the Cubs are ready to spend for pitching. Lester is familiar with the Cubs brass, but the Cubs also have Max Scherzer on their radar. The Cubs would rather sign free agents than trade away their best prospects.
7. Stephen Drew, 2B/SS, Yankees — Looking more and more like he will be Derek Jeter's heir apparent at shortstop. Drew will likely seek a multi-year deal. He hit .174 with the Red Sox and was hitting .176 through Thursday with the Yankees. "The defensive metrics on him are better than ever at shortstop," said one Yankee official.
8. Kevin Youkilis, 1B — It doesn't appear he will return to Japan to finish out the season for the Rakuten Golden Eagles. According to his agent, Joe Bick, the plantar fasciitis that has curtailed his season is still in a painful stage. He signed to play in Japan in March.
9. Chris Young, RHP, Mariners — Young won his 10th game in what has been a tremendous comeback story for the 6-10 righthander. He has fought through injuries and surgeries and is a candidate for the Tony Conigliaro Award. Young took winning his 10th game in stride. "Earlier in my career, I think it's something I'd get excited about," he said. "But at this point in my career, I know that wins are so far beyond a pitcher's control. One day, the media will stop evaluating us on that."
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I was back in Bird Town for the second time this week.
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I arrived at Camden Yards at 3:45ish, and saw this:
Game: 2 balls (2 thrown)
Season: 281 balls (142 hit, 87 thrown, 52 device)
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General Manager – McDonald's® company-owned and independent Owner-Operator restaurants are staffed by great people, and right now we're looking for more of them. People interested in satisfying careers with competitive benefits. People interested in growing and advancing. People with lots to offer. People like you. If you're interested (and we sure hope you are), let's get together.
The General Manager is responsible for running a profitable restaurant and for making sure the restaurant meets McDonald's critical customer standards of Quality, Service, and Cleanliness. These standards are high, so this is a big job! The General Manager works with his/her leader to set the restaurant's goals and creates a plan to achieve the goals.
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