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James Storm and Jeff Hardy defeated Bad Influence to kick off another edition of Impact Wrestling. Once again, it seems like an odd pairing, with Hardy and Storm having each other's back. I really thought the wrestling part of this match was entertaining, with Hardy taking over on Kazarian. He comes in to save Storm, hits a few clothesline and a spinning kick to get control. Also, I just love the atomic drop followed with a leg split leg drop. I love the chemistry Hardy has with pretty much anyone he wrestles, and you can tell in this match. The overall progression and flow of the match was great, and the ending was much talked about. Daniels, who will face Hardy, beats him down after the match. Even though Daniels is an odd pick to face Hardy, at least they are making something out of him being the contender. If this is the build, it is small, but at least they are being logical. Grade: B
Kenny King defeated Christian York in some X Division action. Kenny King is so much more athletic, faster, and more complete in the ring than York. I am always a huge fan of great stories, and York is one. I see York as a guy who really struggles in finding the right pacing of the match. When he hits a spinning heel kick, it looks like it takes him time to actually follow through, and also has him planning out each spot. The fans should not be able to see and guess what is coming next, especially in a tough move like that. King gets a quick rollup for the win, and he continues to be a guy I look at in dethroning RVD for the X Division Championship. Grade: C+
Velvet Sky defeated Gail Kim. The Knockouts match of the night features two women of different careers. Kim is always considered to be one of the best technicians in the ring, as a female. Sky has come back to TNA, and it looks like she is getting the full push to the top. In my personal opinion, Kim deserves to face Tara with her overall track record, but the fresh blood and face that gets over with the crowd is what you need. Gail did not look extremely weak when losing, since it took Sky's foot under the rope to break up the count. Velvet hit her finisher for the victory, and kept the focus on her climbing the ladder. Grade: C
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Packers WR Cobb practices, tests ankle
Green Bay --- Wide receiver Randall Cobb may be on the verge of playing this weekend at Minnesota. Then again, maybe not. Coach Mike McCarthy will speak here at Lambeau Field shortly, but Cobb did appear to move well in the portion of practice open to the media Friday.
Today, Cobb (ankle) went through a test to determine whether or not he can play Sunday. In the corner of the Don Hutson Center, Cobb worked with a team trainer through multiple drills based on quick, sudden footwork. One drill, he sped forward and backward in a condensed area through cones. In another, he circled around the cones.
Overall, the second-year receiver tested his ankle by starting and stopping on a dime.
Later in practice, Cobb caught passes with the other wide receivers and also joined them at the jugs machine. He did appear to be limited, however. During the few plays of team work open, Cobb was on the sideline.
Elsewhere, cornerback Davon House (shoulder/hip) and running back James Starks (knee) did not practice.
More updates later on the Packers Blog.
- Familiarity brought Starks back to Green Bay
- Video: Breaking down Saturday's Packers practice
- Packers haven't forgotten about ILB Beniquez Brown
- Packers heighten emphasis on punt return after 2015 struggle
- Packers WRs learning Getsy's way of doing things
- Thompson: 'We're starting a new year and we're playing for a championship'
- Video: Breaking down Packers' first padded practice
- Spriggs earns valuable lesson from Peppers
- Linsley still fighting through hamstring injury
- T.J. Lang eager to return for contract year

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Ubly students earn spots in Tri County Honors Band
Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Lisa Rutkowski, a junior, earned 1st chair honors with her audition. She is joined in the baritone section this year by freshman Shelby LaBuhn. Michael Koglin earned a spot in the trombone section and also is a freshman. Students from all three counties, Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac, auditioned in November for admission into the band.
The concert will be conducted at at 3 p.m. Sunday at Laker High School's auditorium, and admission is free of charge. In addition to the concert band, CMU's director of Jazz studies, Robbie Smith, will be conducting an honors group of the three counties leading jazz musicians.


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ORLANDO (AP) — The Orlando Magic signed free agent guard Ronnie Price, giving them another veteran reserve in their backcourt.
Team officials announced the signing on Thursday. If Price serves in a point guard capacity, he will likely be the Magic's third option behind starter Jameer Nelson and possibly rookie Victor Oladipo, if he continues to successfully transition to the position in the NBA as he showed the potential to do during summer league play.
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There's an art form that's been around for more than 50 years, but you've probably never heard of it. It's called "horse yoga," and before you start to think that it couldn't possibly be what it sounds like, let me correct that idea: Horse yoga absolutely is what it sounds like. Horse yoga is the […]


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Santa Claus is coming to Duncan Regional Hospital
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By all accounts, I'm rather new at knitting. When I was a senior in college I threw out my back and couldn't move for a week. My roommate at the time was knitting and I asked her to show me. That fall I made a couple one color scarves for my niece.
Now I want to make one for myself but need a lot of help. I want to do a checkered pattern alternating purl and knit stitch with orange yarn and navy yarn. eg: the scarf if 28 stitches wide, I'd want 14 purl orange, then 14 knit navy for 10 rows to make a squre of orange and a square of navy. Then I'd change the color to alternate.
I've never changed color mid-row and I have no idea what this entails. Does anyone have any advice for me? I could really use some help!
~new guy
It sounds as if you should
It sounds as if you should use a technuiqe called intarsia (I think)and it must be described in almost every book about knitting. Just remember to twist the strand of yarn around each other when you change coulor, other wise they will not be joined together. God luck!
If you don't mind it being a
If you don't mind it being a little thick you should try double knitting... it's like knitting two scarves back to back so you wont have a right side or a wrong side, and it's easy. It's perfect for knitting a checkered pattern. here's a web site with a video on how to double knit: http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/advanced_techniques/
Hope this helps.
Yes, what you want is
Yes, what you want is intarsia. And you will find directions in almost every book.
However, I have a concern about your pattern. You want to do 14 knit, and then 14 purl. The next row will be ---? I am assuming you are going to do it so one square has a stocking stitch face, and the other will have a purl face? ANd then you want to switch the colour and the knit pattern too? If so, have you thought this through. You do know, don't you, that this will make the edges of your scarf curl -- one side will be inwards, the other outwards. And this will reverse with every square.
So you will need to add some sort of stabilizing border (in the appropriate colour) so it doesn't happen.
I have to agree with Cosmo and suggest that this would look terrific if you did the scarf in double-knitting. Yes, you knit two layers at once, and they change postions being on the front or back. Actually, there is no real front or back, but you know what I mean. Again, there are many good sites which feature instructions on how to do this. If you have limited experience, this may really frustrate you!
Perhaps you will have more luck by doing the scarf all in garter stitch, but change colour in the middle. That would be the simplest thing to do.
I'm a knitter with not much
I'm a knitter with not much more experience, and I taught myself intarsia from a book. The technique itself is rather simple -- just remember to twist the strands -- but it quickly gets frustrating because you're having to keep track of multiple bobbins. My intarsia pattern (check my first blog entry to see a picture of it) was fairly simple -- just three colors -- and I still needed to have five bobbins of yarn dangling while I was working on the center section.
I'm really happy with the end result, and I know it's doable for an "advanced beginner," but if you get frustrated easily or have low patience if things don't look presentable right off the bat, I'd recommend trying another pattern.


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A statement released earlier today by finnCap about Accsys Technologies PLC (LON:AXS) bumps the target price to 100.00GBX
- Updated: October 18, 2016
finnCap bumped up the target of Accsys Technologies PLC (LON:AXS) to 100.00GBX stating a potential upside of 0.37%.
On Tuesday June 16, 2015, Numis Securities released a statement for Accsys Technologies PLC (LON:AXS) bumped up the target price from 0.00GBX to 117.00GBX that suggested an upside of 0.50%.
Boasting a price of 73.13GBX, Accsys Technologies PLC (LON:AXS) traded -0.52% lower on the day. With the last stock price close up 7.28% from the two hundred day average, compared with the S&P 500 Index which has decreased -0.01% over the date range. Accsys Technologies PLC has recorded a 50-day average of 72.03GBX and a two hundred day average of 67.00GBX. Volume of trade was down over the average, with 4,000 shares of AXS changing hands under the typical 36,105
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With a total market value of 0 GBX, Accsys Technologies PLC has with a one year low of 56.00GBX and a one year high of 75.75GBX .
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Crossing the Cho-La Pass
Everest Base Camp The Lazy(?) Way Day 13
Crossing the Cho-La Pass
The Cho-La Pass should bring us from the Gokyo Valley over the mountains to just below Everest Base Camp. That "should" marks the single biggest variable in our trek so far.
It's not always possible to cross the Cho-La. And, even where conditions permit, some people do turn back. Nir thinks we can do it, though, to be honest, it's not my skinny just-turned-twelve-year-old I'm worried about, but me.
My map has ominous things on it like "stay to left side to avoid crevasses" ("LEFT" – what kind of map IS this?), "crampons and ropes recommended" (neither were on my Everest Base Camp gear list) and "danger of rockfalls".
I bought a length of mountaineering rope in Khumjung, but we have neither crampons nor harnesses.
It's six hours walk if you're fast. We're not. So I'm allowing ten hours.
As far as I understand it, we start from Dragnag (circled), walk up the valley, and then head over the top of the glacier (also circled), and down the other side. It looks, to be honest, like quite a long way, and I can't help noticing that both Nir and I have avoided pointing this out to Zac.
The glacier crossing is only 300 metres, apparently, but we should allow an hour or two. Wha'?!
Slob that I am, I'd have liked to take a rest day, or, rather do the short walk to Dragnag the day after climbing Gokyo Ri, but Nir is insistent that we need to cross the Cho-La pass today, because there are other groups crossing and it will be safer.
He's anxious, I think, because he's not a guide but a porter-guide, and he'd really rather be doing this in a group than escorting a woman who's scared of heights and a twelve year old boy across what the locals all concur is a dangerous pass while carrying far too much stuff.
We engage in some negotiations as to starting time. A Sherpa has told us the danger of rockfalls gets worse after 9am, when the sun starts to melt the ice, so we should be through the pass by 9am. At the rate we walk, that's going to be a 3am start with head torches.
Someone in the lodge says that the rockfalls don't look sun-sensitive and that we'd be better off climbing in the light because it would be really easy to break a leg.
Zac says there's no way on earth he's getting up at 3am two days in a row, particularly not with the Cho-La to cross, and in that he speaks sense.
We're both a little bit tired after the crack of dawn start for sunrise on Gokyo Ri, not to mention the landslide drama, so we settle on breakfast at 5am.
I try, yet again, to discreetly lose some of the weight from the pack that Nir will be carrying. He catches me in the act and refuses.
And by the time Zac's eaten and hydrated, I've bundled the sodding sleeping bags back into their rollbags with the broken catches, and we're good to go, it's after six.
Normally, I like to walk at our own pace, which involves endless stops for photos, rests, snacks, drinks, furry animals, skating on frozen streams, breaking ice, chucking rocks and climbing stuff, according to the mood of our party.
For, yes, gentle reader, not only am I scared of heights but I'm rising forty, a hopefully reformed smoker and, though my fitness is improving after days of walking up and down steep hills and along these impossibly corrugated valleys, I'm really not that fit.
In this instance, I've got Zac to agree to stop only every hundred vertical metres, when Nir, who will for this be much more guide than porter-guide, says he can. Which means I have to do that too.
We follow the frozen stream up a stark, black, boulder-strewn valley in the slowly dawning light for what feels like quite an unconscionable time.
Measuring by the rest breaks, though, we've ascended 400 vertical metres (1300 feet) before the sun is properly up.
Great, I think! We're at 5100m (16,730 feet). Only a couple of hundred more and we're actually at the Cho-La pass.
"Oh, great," I say, as we emerge from the head of the valley, to a new valley that undulates quite ridiculously up and down towards a field of boulders, work our way down into the sunshine and crack open some nak cheese, oranges and Snickers.
"Cho-La there," says Nir.
"Wha'?" I say. "There?!"
It's not the glacier at all. It's the gap next to the glacier, what appears to be a rockfall with a bit of fissured rock exposed and plenty of gigantic boulders poised to squash anyone who's unlucky to be under them at the time. After our mini-drama with the landslide, I'm a bit scared of rockfalls.
"Yes," Nir says.
"But…" I say, feebly. "But… Where's the path?!"
"Up that way," says Nir, pointing to the right of the rockfall.
I squint at the rockfall. I cannot see ANYTHING by way of a path. Further, I have a sneaking suspicion that once we've crossed the black boulder field below the rock fall, we're going to drop down into something and have to go back up the other side.
"So we go down then up?" I ask Nir, resignedly.
He giggles. "Little bit down," he says. "Big up."
There is, indeed, a little bit of down, and then a hoppety-leapety-scramble over a little field of boulders, which is (whisper it) rather fun.
Well, if you like jumping from boulder to boulder, that is (I do, and so does Zac).
And then we're at the base of the first rockfall. I look up. I STILL can't see the bloody path.
A Korean guy and his guide overtake us, and begin to ascend.
"Take break here now," says Nir. "We need go fast up. Little bit danger."
Oh great, I think. Another bloody rockfall. And this one's steep.
"Looks like fun," says Zac, sardonically.
By the time we surmount the first rockfall, my hamstrings feel like lead, I'm breathing more deeply than I could have imagined possible before hitting this altitude, my wusssy 10 kilo pack feels like 30 at sea level, I'm at least 50 vertical metres behind Zac and Nir, and, at the risk of sounding British, I could really do with a nice cup of tea and a sit down.
Zac, ahead of me, has clearly had the same idea.
"No rest now," says Nir. "Danger."
We're scrambling 400 vertical metres up a rockfall at 5000m without a break?! What the fuck does he think we are? Nepali?
"You need to keep moving, Zac," I say. "We're in danger of falling rocks so the faster we get up this the better."
Zac starts to protest.
"GET UP THE FUCKING MOUNTAIN," I yell caringly. "It's dangerous!"
Zac heads up the mountain at a pace that almost rivals the Korean's, who is, I realise, doing some actual climbing on the rock face, proper athletic leg reaches, the whole shebang.
Wow, I think to myself. That looks a bit dangerous unroped.
I am dragging my complaining hamstrings up the steep, gritty path, when I put one foot on a boulder the size of a small car. It wobbles. One of the blessings of having vertigo when it comes to doing things in the mountains, incidentally, is that little things like an enormous boulder threatening to give way and take the entire rockfall and your only child down the valley, not to mention yourself, don't really worry one, compared to the utter fear of being on something sheer without ropes and harness. All the same, it's a bit of an odd moment. Then three strapping fit guys come down the path. I look up the mountain. Zac's nowhere to be seen. Great! I think. I'll just sit down quietly and let them pass. They need room, right? I totally need to sit down, on that nice, cosy rock right there. Because it's not like we could walk round each other. Not in the slightest. Not at all. "You going up there?" says one of the guys. "Yes," I say. I wonder whether he's asking because he thinks I'm with Zac, or because he thinks I'm solo. "Be careful up there," he says. "It's really not nice up there," says his mate. Oh great.
But I can't see the path. There's a dusty narrow strand that kind of peters out, or a trail of dust and pebbles leading over some rather chunky-looking boulders that form a tempting natural staircase.
I'll go with the staircase, I figure, and up I head.
I'm just starting to extend a leg to a tricky-looking boulder when I realise a) this is steep b) I've made the mistake the Korean guy made earlier and c) now would not be a good time to look down.
It's actually amazing what one can do without looking down when one is truly, truly scared of heights.
I reverse, slowly, down the boulders, looking at my feet and the rocks but nothing below that, bear right, regain the dusty strand, and plough upwards on burning hamstrings, poking at rocks inefficiently with my rubbish fake Kathmandu hiking pole.
I neither know nor care how far above me my spawn and my guide are.
Prayer flags!!!!! OMG!!!! There are prayer flags!!!! That means… That means… That means… I'm at the top. Or – I manage my own expectations, as I lumber pathetically upwards, puffing like a steam train and feeling approximately 75 – I'm at the top of something. I may well have to go down the other side and up again, but I'm definitely at the top of something. Anywise. It should mean I can have a break. Nir appears between some prayer flags! Zac's with him. "I take your bag?" he asks. "No," I say. "It's only 20 metres, right?" It takes me a good five minutes to lumber up those few vertical metres. But we're there! And it's awe-inspiring, savage in its beauty, one glacier surging down the mountain side, the other cascading in front of us in slumping steps of ice. We slump down in the hollow of a rock, looking over a jagged cascade of ice – I've read that ice falls are unique to the Himalayas, though that seems unlikely – and unwrap our packed lunches. It's 10am, and my hardboiled egg, slightly slimy nak cheese, chapatti and orange feel like the best meal I've ever tasted. I break the ice on my water bottle and slush it around to stop it freezing entirely. I can't help noticing, though, that the wind's getting up. Cold feels colder at altitude, because your body has to work harder to stay warm, and there's only about half the oxygen in the air here that there is at sea level. I'm wearing Chinese thermals, two pairs of socks, fur-lined boots, jeans, padded snow pants, a long-sleeved cotton top, a single fleece, a double fleece, a 900 fill down jacket, sunglasses, a thin snood over most of my face, sunglasses, a fleece snood, glove liners, -30 rated fleece gloves and a hat. Zac, who is part Sherpa, has stripped off his outer layers, and in the sun I unzip a layer. But when I stand, I can feel the wind slicing through to my kidneys. "Chisu tsar," I say to Nir, still pretty much my only bit of conversational Nepalese. He nods. I've forced a spare fleece on him, but he's still wearing less than us. Although the clothing in which George Mallory may or may not have summited Everest was equivalent to only two modern day fleeces…
We sit in the shelter of the rock, prayer flags fluttering, and I look down over one of those gaping, hellish ice maws I remember from yesterday, while Nir ties sacking to his boots – "Sherpa crampons" they call them. I pull out gauze bandages, which is what we're using, and scissors. Oh god. I'm going to have to take my gloves off. After the (maybe) 90 seconds it takes to wrap bandages around our boots, cut them and tie them, my hands are fuchsia. Unwillingly, I unzip my down jacket and work my hands into under my arms. They feel like blocks of ice, and the cold works rapidly into my ribs: my fingers twang and complain as the circulation returns. I wish I was wearing a bra. Or a vest, at least. "How cold IS it?" I ask Nir. "Minus fifteen?" he says. It feels at least twice as cold as that. We brace ourselves. Zac, who we are rapidly coming to believe is at least part Sherpa, is serenely unbothered by the prospect of walking across an ice fall. "Zoom zoom," says Nir. We edge around the ice cave and down onto the glacier proper, the mountains lowering above us. The path is grooved deeply into the ever-moving ice, a cold, glassy blue, fronds of icicles like stalagmites where it's melted before, transparency marking the history of the sun. The sides are higher, with a crisp fine coating of white snow, so easy to walk on. "No!" says Nir, as Zac veers onto the gripping snow. "Danger!" Really?! I think. Really? You get crevasses under a coating like this?! It's so fine I can almost see through it. But not quite. Not quite enough to see whether it's solid below. We walk slowly, gingerly, inching our way across a surface that's more slippery than an ice rink, planting one foot, lifting the other, planting again. Zac's feet skid from under him, and Nir and I grab him. He seems remarkably unbothered. We come to the place where the ice fall descends in a series of cambered, icicle-ridden steps. "Use rope now?" says Nir. "What do you think?" I ask. Zac's feet go again. He doesn't care. I do, though, because there's an ice slide that could take him right down into the pit below the cliff-face on our right, and once you get started sliding the only thing that's going to stop you is an ice axe or a big, hard rock. "Wait here," says Nir.
We don't talk. We just look around, and wait.
A group of three inches past us, and heavy black Himalayan crows circle
Close to an hour passes by the time Nir returns. He loops the rope round himself and round Zac. I loop myself onto the back, and we begin, inching down the icefall, following in his footsteps.
When Zac's feet fly from under him again, Nir goes with his hands and I pull on the rope. It works. He's steady.
But it's painfully slow. It's a matter of wedging one foot in a gap where the icicles are crisp enough to break and almost grab. The steps are giant stairs, like the sides of the pyramids – there's a stretch.
There's enough slack in the rope for me to descend using my bum and feet to shunt along and my hands to steady myself. I really don't care what I look like, and I'm well insulated so I don't feel the cold.
The ice fall descends towards a frozen lake, which I think marks the end of the glacier, but in the way of moraine, it's still buried below us, sliding and roaring.
We are almost at the base when there's a roar and a crack, a louder roar than the creaking and moaning I've become used to on glaciers.
"Let's MOVE!" says Zac. "Run!"
I look up. On the cliff above us there's a compacted cornice of snow, maybe 10 or 20 metres deep, hundreds of tonnes of the stuff. It looks as dense as concrete, and now there's a fissure. Was that there before?
"We CAN'T run," I say. "We need to go slowly, or we're going to fall."
I look at Nir. "Alright," he says. "No danger."
Then the ice roars again, and cracks, and I can almost feel it move. I swear.
I catch Nir's eye. He looks terrified. "Quickly," he says.
The thing about these icefalls is that every few years or so, great chunks of the stuff collapse and millions of tonnes of it just comes down. You'd be unlucky to be there when it happens, but it does happen.
We speed up as best we can, a limping, slow and halting progress: the rope's short, which doesn't help.
And we're off the ice. "Whew!" says Zac. "We're safe now."
"No we're not," I say. "You think that thing's just going to stop when it hits the bottom of the slope?"
"Little bit danger," says Nir. "Go quickly."
We go quickly as we can.
We're on the rockfall, now, climbing up a catastrophic heap of boulders that line the side of the mountain, dull grey ice below them, holding them up, sliding under the dust.
I can't believe how hard this ice is, how much it holds up, carrying thousands of tonnes of rubble as if it were nothing.
We scramble up, and around, and along, and down. And then we're in the sunlight, looking out over the other side, a magical vista of new mountains opening ahead of us, and a path down into the valley.
We sit in the sun. "I am very happy now," says Nir. "We have success on the Cho-La."
And he's right. He's got one not terribly fit woman and a twelve-year-old boy across the Cho-La in one piece on what is, I think, his first attempt as a porter-guide rather than a porter.
"Well done!" I say. "You've really been a guide today."
Nir claps his hands together in applause, and we give Zac a round of applause. "Well done, Zac!" I say.
We drink our chemical water, pound some sugar, and then look up. Nir points, and we augh.
We're sitting below an overhang lined with boulders. Right now, though, I couldn't even care.
We're through. And all we need do is scramble down the rockfall on the other side, walk a couple of scant miles down the valley, and head to Dzonghla.
I can see it. We're through, and it's actually not been that bad.
Slowly descending the vast slabs of granite that make up the Dzonghla descent from the Cho-la pass, I realise that I'm not feeling as bad as I thought I would.
In fact, I'm not really feeling bad at all. There's no pain in my legs. No pain at all. We're descending, so there's more oxygen and less cold.
"How does this compare to Mount Kinabalu?" I ask Zac.
It's not entirely a fair comparison. We've been walking every day for a fortnight now, plus or minus, we're acclimatised to altitude, and Zac is more than two years older than he was then, when we both went up it with zero acclimatisation.
"Oh," he says. "Mount Kinabalu was harder."
"Yeah," I say. At the end of our second day of Mount Kinabalu, having ascended more than a kilometre and descended more than two, my knees were locking and buckling, and I was really struggling to walk. Here, they feel fine.
And I start to feel a sense of anti-climax.
We've done the hard bit now. We've beaten the Cho-La. Zac's got his bragging rights. We have Everest Base Camp, now, which is not so much a view as a vague entity on a moraine, an end point for the journey. And Kala Patthar, a hundred metres or so higher than the Cho-La, but a really easy hill.
"Is it colder in Gorak Shep than here?" I ask Nir.
"Yes," he says. "Gorak Shep is very cold."
Bugger, I think. I could really do with a wash now. I've been smearing Vaseline on my face like there's no tomorrow, and I feel grubby.
This rhythm we've been in, this blissful rhythm of wake, breakfast, pack, walk, no longer feels so serene.
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Makes 24
- 2 1/2 cups roasted salted peanuts
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- 14 ounces can sweetened condensed milk
- In a food processor, pulse together the peanuts, sugar, flour and salt until coarse. Pour in the sweetened condensed milk and pulse again, stopping to scrape down the sides when needed. The dough will be slightly sticky.
- Shape into balls, cylinders or squares and set on parchment lined baking sheets to firm up. It takes about 20 minutes to firm. No baking necessary.
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As this year and this decade come to a close, we begin first by taking a look back at some of our favorite albums of 2009 at DOA. I'm sure it will come as no surprise to many of you that the album at the top of this list is pretty much a forgone conclusion since it topped nearly all of the lists that I saw in every other publication print and online as well. It's a fantastic album by a band that will most certainly be seen as one of this generation's most definitive acts. The most fun I had reading these other "Best of 2009" type lists this year was seeing all of the other albums that ended up making the cut. Hopefully you'll see some things here that will turn you on to something else new. – Joe Davenport
50. Mr. Gnome – Heave Yr Skeleton
Mr. Gnome casts a surreal spell, creating an eerie, unsettled atmosphere where songs segue from reverie to nightmare and back again, conjuring up a (dis)enchanted Alice lost deep in Wonderland, sipping from the "Drink Me" bottle and hallucinating white rabbits. Singer and guitarist Nicole vocally goes from breathy and ethereal to bristling and razor-sharp in an instant, striking out with serrated guitar riffs while drummer (and keyboardist) Sam reins it in or rocks out with quicksilver timing, unleashing battering drum and cymbal upheaval or tempering the tempo to a pervasively hazy sway. The best songs, like "Spain," "Slow Slide," Plastic Shadow," and "Sit Up & Hum" commandingly meld equal measures of the soft and the rough, with the mercurial Nicole's dreamy, airy singing shifting to fiery cries amid fuzzed-out guitar lines, galloping drum beat, and cymbal swells. Like Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Nicole and Sam know when to hold back and when to charge ahead full force, carving out foreboding lulls that heighten the impact of the ensuing turmoil. – Jen Stratosphere Fanzine
49. Glen Johnson – Details Not Recorded
Glen Johnson has appeared so regularly on this writer's pages across DOA over the last year or so, that it's almost embarrassing. But then we shouldn't be self-conscious about digging-up the rich produce of a fertile creative mind, however prolific. Through scribing his still passionate/provocative Anything But Silence blog, leading yet another spine-tingling Piano Magic LP, sneaking out blink-and-never-hear-'em wares from his electro-ornithological Textile Ranch project and co-founding DIY boutique label Second Language, Johnson hasn't wasted a nanosecond in the last 12 months. On top of all this, the crowning glory of Johnson's illustrious ongoing reign as a quiet Renaissance man is undoubtedly his long-awaited solo debut, Details Not Recorded. Recorded mostly at home, the long-player adroitly takes in skeletal Kraftwerkian electronica, Leonard Cohen-indebted folk-noire and dreamy '80s 4ADisms to paint from a peerless lyrical palette infused with venom, wit, romance and brutal honesty. It's the kind of modern day classic that may only be properly recognised in twenty years time, but should be snapped-up now, so you can feel heartily smug about it come the day. Masterfully, Details Not Recorded also in avertedly includes the best line to describe Glen Johnson's overlooked omnipresence in 2009; "The one who leads the way, is leading from the back." – Adrian Pannett
48. Odawas – The Blue Depths
Ever felt like you might enjoy the sounds of new age but didn't want to be lulled into a healing fugue, become one with anything, or feel like a shamanistic flautist was pushing you toward a heightened state of awareness? If you said yes, the Odawas ' fourth album, The Blue Depths, is just the thing for you. Taking the essence of the disturbed-mystic songwriting of their past work, boiling off the left-field freakouts, and moving forward with a full commitment to a production aesthetic aiming to integrate far-flung inspirations like Vangelis, Dennis Wilson, and '80s mood music, Odawas succeed in repurposing new age-isms to meet the needs of their songwriting style, and make one of the most gently gorgeous records in recent memory. Theirs is a fantasy world constructed of lush strings and radiant synths, where one muses on thoughts light and heavy, about "picking the turnip of our dreams" and the thought that "we all must die for anyone to survive." Both surreal and comforting, The Blue Depths envelopes the listener as it soundtracks a dazed float through the deepest ocean and widest skies. – Greg Argo
47. Leyland Kirby – Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was
For the better part of this decade, James Kirby has been recording under the moniker of The Caretaker. It's a reference to the Stanley Kubrick film version of Stephen King's The Shining. Just as a scene from that movie combined disturbing imagery of Jack Nicholson slowly losing his mind with blurry ballroom dance music from the beginning of the 20th century so did Kirby smear old ballroom LPs using modern software to create a drift of fog that barely resembled the original recordings. Taking his grandfather's name as Leyland Kirby, this time he has created every sound on this six LP set himself. It's the kind of modern ambient music that can lean heavily into a vast cavern of noise without giving up the ability to be both haunting and sad. It's a monumental statement of intent from a musician at the peak of his powers. – Joe Davenport
46. Nirvana – Live At Reading 1992
I clearly remember the summer of Nevermind back in my adolescence. My friends and I spent a significant portion of 1991 and 1992 basking in the glow of that album's rough and tumble jams. Needless to say, I loved that album and that goes double for its successor, the incalculably brilliant In Utero. Hearing Nirvana performing songs from these albums as well as tracks from both Bleach and Incesticide here on Live At Reading serves as yet another in a series of exclamation points that highlight a career ended too soon. It would be impossible at this point to individually name the extremely important lessons that myself and many others learned from this band. I could easily call them the gateway drug that lead me starting at age eleven down a path from which I never turned away. It's less telling to me that Nirvana managed to knock Michael Jackson from the top of the pop charts than that I learned about hardcore punk and twee from Kurt Cobain. If From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah was kind of a let down when it came out, this should serve to put things right. Live At Reading is Nirvana real and raw. And as those who were old enough to remember at least some of it as it happened, an accurate depiction of one of the greatest groups of all time. – Joe Davenport
45. Circulatory System – Signal Morning
Eight years! I still find it hard to believe we got an album out of them at all! Circulatory System's self-titled album was released to much fanfare in 2001, and the years following were replete with rumor, false release dates, and unbearable delays. So, it's odd that the band's most grand irony, having made the passage of time such a notable aspect of the recording process, is that this album, finally released in September, sounds positively timeless. Signal Morning is 46 minutes of jittery, wide-awake goodness. Will Cullen Hart – mastermind of this group, and previously Olivia Tremor Control – peppers the album with ho-hum pantheistic platitudes ("let's try breathing along with the universe"), but even such lyrical missteps can't falter his ear for a powerful pop melody or a truly affecting voice with whom few frontmen in the underground can compete. Fuzzy but not incoherent, Signal Morning summons '60s psychedelia and '90s tape-based indie experimentation into one of the year's more uplifting records, even if the circumstances under which it was recorded were painful. – Jacob Price
44. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
Following the sleepy and lackluster Sky Blue Sky, Wilco needed to change things up once again. Sure, it had its moments, but there was something missing and that something was the actual Wilco touch. Wilco (The Album) is a step in the right direction with an album that features their playfully heartfelt side ("Wilco the Song"), further experimentation with sound, a la "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" ("Bull Black Nova"), and a sincere ode to the military ("I'll Fight"). And still, we find touches of that older Wilco with various shades of genius interspersed throughout the album. The metaphorically creative "One Wing" follows a relationship that is slowly breaking down and before you know it, "we can only wave goodbye" and at the end, on "Everlasting," the band glows with influence from none other than The Beatles. Everything from the piano, to the guitars' sound, to the way the drums come from around the corner the way Ringo's did on "A Day in the Life," you'd swear it was them. Maybe they've re-found something or maybe they're just content with their arch but whatever it is, Wilco (The Album) is a welcoming and welcome album to love. – Bryan Sanchez
43. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
There's nothing wrong with changing up your sound, especially when you have impressive musicianship in your band. After two raucous, upbeat, storming albums of frenetic music, England's Arctic Monkeys significantly alleviated their sound on Humbug. Mostly recorded with Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, the album features a distinct difference from what had made the Monkeys such a loveable act. Yet, even with these kinds of changes, there is nothing that can deter them from still being able to write marvelous music – loud or not. Attracted by the atmospherics, they filled the spaces on the outside with somewhat cloudy production that only back-dropped their goal with tremendous results. Still, the novelty of the Monkeys is Alex Turner's compelling accent; whether he's singing about a torrid love game on "Crying Lightning," or asking all of his new affairs if he can call them by 'her' name on "Cornerstone," this is gripping music. And that's just it, very few bands have this kind of stellar musicianship and too bad because it makes Arctic Monkeys that much better and Humbug's the proof. – Bryan Sanchez
42. Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
Lightning Bolt's previous four album titles – Lightning Bolt, Ride the Skies, Wonderful Rainbow, and Hypermagic Mountain each reached skyward from our paltry terra firma, as if the two Brians (Chippendale on drums, Gibson on bass) harbored some sort of heavenly aspirations that only punky, proggy rock could substantiate. A big deal, here, then: Earthly Delights. Do these words portend some sort of stylistic sea change (Ooh, the sea! That'd be a prime idea for the next record!) for our favorite disorderly duo, a monkey wrench in the aloof machinery? Ha ha, no, and we're probably fortunate for it. Earthly Delights is, save a few refinements and tweaks to the group's standard operating procedure, the same album they'd already recorded numerous times in the past. Lightning Bolt still present an unabashed, unpretentious barrage of instrumental noise (aside from Chippendale's incomprehensible caterwauls), and the results couldn't be better. – Jacob Price
41. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Dante Terrell Smith-Bey had an interesting decade. Amazing with 1999's Black on Both Sides, the future appeared promising. But, on the contrary, the decade was mired with an album that was criticized for its genre-blurring (The New Danger) and another album that was poorly constructed and released amidst a label dispute (True Magic.) But even with the aforementioned negatives, there was no reason why Mos Def wouldn't come up swinging with a decade-ending triumph in The Ecstatic. For the first time in almost ten years, Mos Def sounds exuberantly alive, fully displaying his skills for all to admire. Whether he's touting his Boogie Man demeanor with the ominously looming "Twilite Speedball" or channeling his inner Casanova with his Spanish-versed "No Hay Nada Mas," there is an incredible amount of brilliance sprinkled all over. Assured and full of swagger, there is no better way for The Ecstatic to close than with the speedy, white-hot and nostalgic "Casa Bey." Mr. Smith-Bey leaves us with a strong foray of creativity – as if we actually needed to be reminded of his capability. – Bryan Sanchez


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While Katrina would be trained in Mumbai by acro-experts , Aamir would be taking lessons for the same in Chicago.
After rigorously learning belly dancing for the song My Name Is Sheila in Farah Khans Tees Maar Khan and another intricate form of belly dancing for the Mashallah number in Ek Tha Tiger, Katrina has moved to another far more complex form of dancing in Dhoom 3.
A very complex combination of classical dancing and the elastic-bodied skills of acrobatics, acro-dancing is considered one of the most complex forms of modern dancing.
Yeh sabki bas ki baat nahin, said a choreographer who heard about Katrinas new and most daunting career challenge. Not every heroines cup of tea at all. I once wanted one of our top heroines, who is also a fab dancer, to attempt acro-dancing. We practiced for a fortnight and then gave up. Iss ladki ko mera salaam.
The choreographers salutation to Katrina is not unfounded. She will be spending a good two months practicing her acrobatics for the dance. Aamir will train for less time since he will join Katrina only briefly for acro-dancing.
Says a source, Katrina will start with learning acrobatics and gymnastics suspended from a harness. This form of training for acro-dancing is really hard because it hones in on a dancers ability to maintain grace suspended in air. After this, Katrina will go on to training for classical dancing, and then do a combination of the two styles. Its a huge challenge. But as far as her dancing is concerned Katrina wants to keep moving to a new level with every film.
A world-renowned acrobat would be flown down to Chicago where Dhoom 3 would be shot, and then to Mumbai. Katrina and Aamir are expected to continue their acro-dancing training even while attending to her other commitments in-between the Dhoom 3 schedules.
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Police look for suspects passing fake cash
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Midland police are looking for counterfeiters, as well as those who have passed counterfeit money around the Tall City at local convenience stores, restaurants and even garage sales.
MPD Sgt. Alfredo Grimaldo said the number of reports filed for fake bills increased last month, so much so that police are working several cases where the bills look to be from either one or two of the same printers.
While most complaints have come from different businesses around town, a few filed have even come from residents who were swindled at garage sales.
For example, those passing off the bills purchased a low-priced item for $2 or $3, gave a fake $50 bill and were given back real money in change, Grimaldo said.
"We have very little suspect information," he said. "We've always investigated counterfeit money cases; this is just someone who's made counterfeiting a little more frequent than in the past."
Authorities believe there are two different makers of the fake bills, possibly printing from their home computers.
They've recovered several hundred dollars, said Grimaldo, but "can't even guesstimate an amount" that could have been printed and floating around West Texas.
"Someone found a way to make some extra money, and they've obviously gotten away with it," he said. "It's a crime of opportunity."
Any individual can check to see if they've received any of the counterfeit bills. Grimaldo suggests checking the bills with a counterfeit pen or taking a suspect note to a bank to be tested.
Some of the fake cash being spent around the Tall City has a lower ink quality than an actual bill and some are unevenly cut, edges showing a different-color paper in the background. Many of the watermarks also do not match what should be on the bill, police said.
Bills chemically processed recently by the MPD for fingerprints have been colored red.
Those passing the bills could face state-jail felony charges of counterfeiting, which carries a term of imprisonment of six months to two years upon conviction.
If law enforcement can link several hundred dollars worth of the fake cash to an individual, that individual could face federal charges as well.
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Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact the White Collar Detective Unit at 432-685-7175.
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From Rochester - A new report published in Neurology examines the use of antidepressant medication in people with Parkinson's disease. Studying over 100 Parkinson's disease patients, researchers found that antidepressant medication eased depression without adversely worsening symptoms of their disease.
And finally from Florida - New research published in online in Nature Communications finds that a fragment of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) can help prevent the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain. The researchers found that this protein fragment, called sAPP-α, interacts with the main protein responsible for converting APP into amyloid-β, the main component of brian plaques.


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After a week of intense cold I'm glad the temperature is getting higher here. Is there anything better than simple and easy looks? Sometimes a single different piece is enough for an entire production. This is the case of today's look with this asymmetrical skirt.
I loved this different shape of the Pop Up skirt, with eyelet cutouts and details. It's a basic piece but with a different twist. I took the warmth to put my arms out and chose a Shoulder's strap that I love with lace. A look all black with focus on details.
I wore it with the Cravo & Canela boots, which is heavier with lace up details, perfect to contrast with the lightness of the blouse. I love these contrasts! I chose the ZeroUV's marble effect sunglasses, black and silver bracelets and black mini bag.
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Buckwalters open enduring Bergren series
Alfred University's (AU) longstanding lunchtime series, the Bergren Forum, opens for the 2014-15 academic year at 12:10 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 4, in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center. The program is free and open to the public.
The first talk for fall semester, marking the continuation of the weekly forum presentations which have consistently welcomed lunchtime guests the 1970s, will feature Laurel and John Buckwalter of Alfred who will share "What We Learned in a Year about Chinese Higher Education."
The couple will discuss what they learned about the educational system in China during their academic year (2013-14) teaching assignment at the Xiamen University of Technology in southeast China, where they taught English (Laurel) and science (John).
Laurel is a technical specialist in music and University carillonneur at AU. John retired in May 2013 as a professor of biology at Alfred State College.
The Bergren Forum is sponsored by the Division of Human Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Guests are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch; coffee and tea will be provided.
The series known as the Bergren Forum began in 1970. Rick Bergren, who taught at the University in the '70s, started the forums after being inspired by learning of the gatherings that (AU) students in the 19th century were known to conduct in Alumni Hall to discuss community issues. After Bergren's death in 1974, the University decided to continue the tradition in his name. Various faculty members have taken on the coordinator duties since that time. William S. Dibrell, professor of philosophy, is the current coordinator.
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Responsive Images Baked Server-side, yummy!
Photo borrowed from talented Kevin Racape.
***RIBS is still at an early development stage and is not ready for production yet!***.
Responsive images is the next big challenge!
Some client-side patterns already exist along with build tasks in order to produce, optimize, manage and pick the right image for the right screen size.
But they have several pitfalls. The biggest one is that you often load more that you are going to show, wasting bandwidth, load time, device memory and CPU.
In the wild, this is not used as much as it should be. AFAIK this is probably because it asks a certain amount of time to choose and implement a solution. It often involves too much tools and management in the process. The fact is, developers don't take enough time for this and tend to neglect this part of a modern Web application.
I believe in the on-the-fly way of thinking that the Web can offer. So, you just ask the image you want, and you receive it already processed, end of story. This also guaranties that you:
From RESS slides.
Some great commercial services already exist to tackle this problem. But none of them is open source. This needs to be available in the wild, with a good level of customization, so that Web developers can leverage their images responsiveness.
RIBS will:
✓ Basic Node module.
✓ Command line interface.
✕ Plugins for Grunt, Gulp, ...
✕ Express middleware with an effecient caching system.
✕ Client-side library.
✕ New awesome features...
RIBS will offer several independent layers, that work well together:


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William Grant , of the Parish of St. Ann Westminster , was Tryed for Deserting his Colours, in the Company of Capt. Parsons, and in the Regiment of his Grace the Duke of Grafton; on the 20th. of September last , and upon Tryal it appeared he had not only Received his Shilling Enterance or Retaining Mony, but had further Received the Kings Pay; and in March last was Mustered, which he not being able to deny was found Guilty of the Fellony.


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HOUSTON (AP) — A 38-year-old Houston-area man who once hailed from Batavia has been arrested on charges ranging from explosives possession to attempted interference with commerce by robbery.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Houston says Robert James Talbot Jr. was arrested Thursday after an eight-month undercover investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and is in the federal detention center in downtown Houston.
A criminal complaint alleges Talbot aimed to recruit a small group to blow up government buildings, rob banks and kill law enforcement officers.
The complaint says Talbot met with others Thursday to plan an armored car robbery and placed two bombs made of C4 plastic explosives into a backpack for use to blow up the vehicle. He was arrested while en route to the robbery.
His attorney, public defender Philip Gallagher, declined to comment.


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The establishment of an authoritative, rabbinical tribunal in the United States for the interpretation of Jewish religious law was placed on the agenda for discussion at the opening session of the twenty-ninth annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis, affiliated with the Jewish Theological Seminary and the United Synagogue of America. About 150 rabbis were in attendance at the New Howland Hotel here when the session was opened. Rabbi Louis Finkelstein presided. Three committees were appointed: a nominations committee headed by Rabbi Max D. Klein of Philadelphia: a resolutions committee headed by Rabbi C. E. H. Kauvar of Denver, and a committee on the president's message, headed by Rabbi B. Birnbaum.
"Difficult questions continually arise demanding solution, questions which our ancestors never were called upon to meet; the very freedom which we enjoy involves new modes of religious adjustment. We cannot permit individual rabbis to go beyond the accepted code and custom in interpreting the law. The anarchy which is growing up because of the daring of some rabbis who arrogate to themselves the authority to introduce unheard of precedents is one of the greatest dangers to the future of our religion. Such delicate and responsible matters as the nullification of marriage, for example, belong properly not to individual rabbis but to widely recognized tribunes, representing whole groups. We deny to our own individual members the authority to deal with these questions and we deny it also to individual members of any other group." Rabbi Finkelstein said in his presidential message.
The president of the Rabbinical Assembly added that the Assembly would welcome the opportunity to join other groups of rabbis who accept the authority of the Jewish religious tradition to establish the tribunal. The Assembly realizes, however, that many difficulties must be overcome before such a tribunal may be established. Pending this, the Rabbinical Assembly feels justified in creating for itself
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a Committee on Jewish Law, whose purpose it is to guide the rabbis in questions of ritual and religious adjustment.
Denial of charges made in certain quarters that the rabbis who were graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary and are affiliated with the Rabbinical Assembly are creating a "third party" in Judaism was made by Rabbi Max Drob, former president of the Assembly, in a paper entitled: "A Reaffirmation of Traditional Judaism." Rabbi Drob asserted that the Reform rabbis in the United States have made "a mess of their task" and emphasized that traditional Judaism as expounded by the Jewish Theological Seminary does not differ fundamentally from so-called Orthodox Judaism. In fact, he said, they are identical except for the method used.
Statements of the late Dr. S. Schechter and Dr. Cyrus Adler were quoted by Dr. Drob in support of his view, Dr. Schechter had stated repeatedly that the Jewish Theological Seminary is not the center nor even the nucleus of a third party in Judaism. Dr. Cyrus Adler summed up his view in one sentence: "What has been preserved for 4,000 years was not saved that I should overthrow it."
"Traditional Judaism as it was taught in the Seminary differs from the so-called Orthodox Judaism as practiced in Eastern Europe only in method Without casting any reflection on our East European brethren, we believe that traditional Judaism in this land can only be promulgated in synagogues that are architecturally beautiful and at services where calm and order prevail. We believe that traditional Judaism must be preached in English, a language which the people understand, and by men who are the masters of their congregation by virtue of their secular as well as religious education. As to the contents of Judaism there is really no difference between the traditional Judaism as it was taught at the Seminary and Orthodox Judaism," Rabbi Drob said.
Some progress in the publication of a critical text of the Mishnah, undertaken by a committee of the Assembly, was reported by Rabbi Finkelstein. The work is being done cooperatively among members of the Assembly and one treatise, Menachoth, has been completed for publication and several others are partly done. A fund is now being raised to photograph some of the sources for the purpose of comparison.
Rabbi Finkelstein further reported that the Rabbinical Assembly, following the adoption of a constitution at its last convention, was incorporated by an act of the Legislature of the State of New York and approved by the governor. The act includes the preamble to the Assembly's constitution, which makes the organization by its charter bound to cooperate with the Jewish Theological Seminary and the United Synagogue of America.


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Completed on 10 Mar 2016 by NIH/NHGRI preprint journal club and John Didion. Sourced from http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/01/28/038174.
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We discussed this paper in our preprint journal club on 3/3/16. Our comments:
We appreciate that the authors corrected for demographic covariates and batch effects. However, there are additional potential confounding factors for which we are not confident that the authors have properly corrected:
• RNA quality: samples from individuals with heart failure are subject to hypoxic stress and increased apoptosis, and thus may display substantially different expression profiles from healthy tissue due to non-biological causes (or at least not the biological causes you are interested in).
• Medications: those with failing hearts are more likely to be on medications that may alter expression profiles.
• Cell type composition: failing hearts are likely to have high infiltration of immune cells, which would change the make-up of the tissue you are profiling, and thus the expression profile.
We urge you to report RIN scores and summary phenotypes for your case and control samples. Additionally, RNA degradation is correlated with duration ex vivo, so it would be nice to see data showing whether there were any differences in surgical conditions, sample handling, etc. between the healthy and failing hearts. There are various strategies for estimating cell type composition, and/or for estimating the composition by computational deconvolution (e.g. DeconRNASeq).
It was also not clear as to the criteria for selecting case and control samples. Were control samples rejected for transplantation, or was the tissue sample taken from explanted hearts during the transplantation procedure? If the controls were rejected, what were the reasons, and might they constitute additional confounding factors? It would be nice to see additional detail on the methods of RNA isolation (including how much tissue was used and how much RNA was isolated).
A general comment about the figures is that font sizes should be increased for readability. Figure 2 a,b are not intuitive, and it is unclear what additional information they convey beyond figure 1c; we already know that the healthy network is more interconnected, so it seems obvious that there should be more trans effects. If you want to be able to claim that trans effects are more significant for disease versus healthy hearts, you need to normalize by network size/connectedness.
Figure 3 is the strong point of the paper, and we found it to be very effective in conveying the points you seem to be trying to make with the paper. We also find the method to be generally useful, and we urge you to release the source code used to perform this analysis as supplementary material. However, we are confused as to your end goal. Are you trying to create a community resource and starting point for investigating genes underlying heart failure? If so, then you should publish the entire list of genes that meets some significance threshold, not just the top 10.
In figure 4 b,f,g, it is unclear what the scales mean. How are we supposed to interpret normalized expression difference of 0.850 versus 0.875? Is that a big difference? It would be nice to know the magnitude of difference that constitutes significance. The legend for figure 4 is difficult to follow, and we don't see where you even discuss panels F and G.
Thank you and your journal club members for discussing our paper and giving us careful suggestions! We really appreciate both the kind words and the constructive feedback. We have already taken them into consideration for the next draft of the manuscript. Here's some commentary on that.
Regarding covariate correction, we did not correct for RNA quality since the sample RINs did not co-vary with case/control status. In addition, when building the networks for the individual cohorts we did not find evidence for differential expression of processes/networks relating to RNA degradation (e.g. apoptosis). The RIN values were consistent with what's expected for human tissue collection with a mean of 8.1. At your suggestion, we are adding a table with RIN values into the supplement.
Addressing medication use is another good question but more challenging. Typically, most heart failure patients enter a final 'common pathway' that involves admission to the intensive care unit and support with adrenergic agonists pre-transplant. Whereas, heart donors are by definition without heart failure or a prolonged course. Their hearts function normally or near normally without the need for any such support. Thus, this differential is an unavoidable aspect of the collection of human tissue (the benefits of which we believe outweigh the limitations). We will add a short section to the manuscript to explain this rationale.
Estimating cell type composition and in particular immune cell infiltration is a fascinating idea. At your suggestion, we are currently testing in silico decomposition algorithms using various immune signatures. While interesting, it is unclear whether any such signal should be classified as a covariate to be controlled for or would better be considered a signal of interest. In addition, there might be a different inflammatory response in the unused donors that obfuscates any effect in the failing hearts.
Regarding criteria for selecting non-failing controls, control samples were healthy hearts obtained from organ donors that were not transplanted due to logistical reasons (e.g. a snowstorm). We are updating the manuscript to include this information as well as more information on the samples in the supplement.
Regarding the figures, thanks for the comments! We are reformatting and in some cases remaking them (e.g. Figure 2) to make them more intuitive following your feedback. What we find interesting, and what we tried to convey in Figure 2, is that the failing network has a wider variety of 'network QTLs' despite it being less connected. We have indeed corrected for network size and connectedness and used a permutation test to test this relationship. This was briefly mentioned in the manuscript -- we will look at rewording this section to highlight it more.
As you mention, Figure 3 is critical to explaining the novelty of our approach and at your suggestion we are rewording portions of the manuscript to increase focus on the global/local connectivity strategy for gene prioritization. All in all, our paper is a community resource, and we will be making available our results and networks, as well as updating our public codebase, before we submit the next draft.
Thanks so much again for your comments which have already improved the paper!


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The Final Ashes Test: England 3 : 1 AustraliaJanuary 7, 2011
Paul Collingwood could not have wished for a better stage to retire from Test Cricket. The Ashes retained in Sydney after 24 years with a 3-1 series win alongside the wicket of Michael Hussey with his final ball in Test Cricket.
The final margin of victory was an innings and 83 runs and it was the first time Australia had lost three games in a series by more than an innings.
Australia made 281 in their first innings and it was the story of the series with batsmen getting in before throwing it away on a pitch helpful to both sides.
Mitchell Johnson made 53, Shane Watson 45, Usman Khawaja 37, Michael Hussey 33, Ben Hilfenhaus 34 and Phil Hughes 31, but Australia needed these players to go on, which just didn't happen.
James Anderson, who misses the Twenty20 matches and a couple of the ODIs as he rests at home, took 4-66. Graeme Swann claimed 1-37 and Collingwood, 1-5.
Even England's replacements stood up as Tim Bresnan (3-89) and Chris Tremlett (1-71) shared wickets.
England then proceeded to take the game away from Australia as man of the match and series Alastair Cook amassed 189, Matt Prior hit 118 and Ian Bell made 115 in a total of 644.
Mitchell Johnson took 4-168 at 4.66 runs per over, Hilfenhaus 3-121, Shane Watson 1-49, debutant Michael Beer 1-112 and Peter Siddle 1-111.
The home side were well beaten by this point, but at least took the match into Day 5 as they scored 280 second time around.
Steven Smith (54 not out) and Peter Siddle (43) at least frustrated England on that final morning, along with the weather, but it was only a matter of time before the tourists claimed a thoroughly deserved victory.
Anderson again among the wickets with 3-61, Tremlett 3-79, Bresnan 2-51 and Swann 1-75.
In the short term, both sides can look ahead to the Twenty20 and ODI matches as they build towards the World Cup.
In the long term, England will look to keep the nucleus of this side as they host Sri Lanka and India in the hope of becoming the number one test team, with the only questions being who will replace Paul Collingwood and will Stuart Broad and Steven Finn come back into the team.
For Australia, the questions are much tougher to answer. Captain in this game Michael Clarke has retired from Twenty20 cricket meaning Cameron White will skipper that side but whether Ricky Ponting will even make a return to the test side, let alone captain it, is unclear.
The home side used 17 players during the series, only Michael Hussey who averaged 63.33 with the bat, Shane Watson 48.33 and Brad Haddin 45 can say personal performances were decent.
The bowlers didn't look potent enough, Mitchell Johnson ended leading wicket taker with a 36.93 average but was often belted around the park. Peter Siddle was better with 14 wickets at 34.57 but the pick was injured Ryan Harris with 11 wickets at 25.54.
Australia leave the test arena behind for now and will look to salvage something out of this tour with victory in the Twenty20s or ODIs but in the main event they were soundly beaten.


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Sword Art Online and the Power of Christian Friendships (Part 2)
Continuing on last week's post, there are many reasons that friendships are successful. Sometimes it's because of shared interests, sometimes it's because of a mutual threat, but one of the most important is encouragement. Few things are more uplifting than a friend who helps to share your burdens, one who loves you, and takes it upon himself to give you strength when you're weak. This kind of friendship is praised throughout the Bible, and is nowhere more evident than in the relationship between David and … Read more Sword Art Online and the Power of Christian Friendships (Part 2)


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Madison, WI – Governor Walker has officially proclaimed April 16 as Healthcare Decisions Day in Wisconsin.
Under Wisconsin law, competent adults have the right to accept or refuse medical treatment, and the right to be an organ and tissue donor. An estimated 80 percent of Wisconsin residents, including 50 percent of those with severe or terminal illnesses, have not completed an advance directive documenting their preferences about issues surrounding end-of-life decisions. Studies indicate that despite recent gains in public awareness, most Americans have not exercised their right to make decisions about their health care in the event that they cannot speak for themselves.
"It's important to make these decisions now in consultation with your family and legal counsel," said Attorney Ben Adams, adviser to the State Bar of Wisconsin's Elder Law Section. "If you want your wishes to be met at the end of your life, now is the time to consider future medical care and organ donation."
For more information contact Attorney Andrea Gage, public relations coordinator, State Bar of Wisconsin. She can be reached at org agage wisbar wisbar agage org, or by phone at (608) 250-6025.
To highlight the importance of advance care planning, the State Bar of Wisconsin has produced a video featuring Attorney Adams. The State Bar has also made its consumer guide, A Gift to Your Family: Planning Ahead for Future Health Needs,available for free downloading through the month of April at WisBar.org. Through April, State Bar members also can purchase print copies of the guide for $1, regularly $4.
AGift to Your Family offers practical insights on a range of issues surrounding end-of-life decisions, such as power of attorney for health care, living wills, and organ and tissue donation. The guide also includes state forms to help people put their wishes in writing.
The 24-page AGift to Your Family, now in its seventh printing, initially was produced in 2000 through a partnership with the Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Wisconsin Medical Society, and Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center. In 2006, the State Bar Communications Committee partnered with the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association to make the guide available in Spanish. The State Bar has distributed more than 500,000 print planning guides to hospitals, clinics, lawyers, and the public.
"Conversations about end-of-life decisions don't have to be threatening. It's just really important to get it done," said Attorney Adams. "The Gift to Your Family guide on the State Bar website is a perfect place to start."
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College Radio Day!!
College Radio Day!!
KLBC 1610AM will be participating in this event. Be sure to Tune In on Oct. 11 2011!
The aim of College Radio Day is to raise a greater, national awareness of the many college and high school radio stations that operate in North America by encouraging people who would not normally listen to college radio to do so on this day. It is hoped that those people who do tune in like what they hear and become regular listeners. The organizers of College Radio Day believe that college radio is one of the last remaining bastions of creative radio programming, free from the constrictions of having to be commercially viable, and a place where those involved in its programming believe passionately in its mission. College radio is the only free live medium brave enough to play unsigned, local, and independent artists on a regular basis. Indeed, many famous and successful bands today, owe their initial break to being played on colllege radio. Put simply, college radio is an important part of the North American media landscape because of its unique and fearless programming.
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