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Midway through a plate of 100 Hooters wings, it was clear the Reef team came to their Hooters Challenge ready to win. Team Captain Chris Abad-astan anchored the team by eating a whopping 40 wings. "I'm from Oceanside so I'm just stoked to get a free meal," said Abad as he chugged down a beer. "Is this supposed to be a challenge?" he asked.
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Highlands' Kendric Moore battles asthma trouble during 2-1 day at Allegheny Tournament
The scene and sensation at the end of Kendric Moore's final match Friday at the Allegheny County Wrestling Championships struck the Highlands senior 120-pounder as all too familiar.
Moore picked himself up off the mat after an 18-6 loss in the quarterfinals and put his hands to his chest in search of a solution for his breathing trouble.
He knew nothing, not even his inhaler, would completely ease the pain in his lungs.
This was the wretched routine Moore, a seventh-place finisher at 120 pounds in the county as a sophomore, wanted to avoid this season. Asthma forced him to miss almost his entire junior season. And the medical condition reminded him of its unrelenting nature during the county tournament's first day, which Moore managed to get through with a 2-1 record.
Moore will start his Saturday morning in the consolation bracket, where he'll need one more win to guarantee himself a top-eight finish in the 120-pound weight class.
"I'm a lot more rusty than I would have hoped," said Moore, who is 8-4 this season. "I used to wrestle with a real quick pace; we actually practiced with Valley last year, and I practiced with Patrick Dewitt and Josiah Hughes. I could hold my own against them, and they both went to states that (season)."
First-year Highlands coach Grant Walters advised Moore to adjust his style by easing off the intensity early and pacing himself for a third-period push. Moore, though skeptical and uncomfortable with the idea at first, has slowly embraced it.
"It's going to need tweaking as I go along," he said. "You get these kids that are good, and in the first period, you can't just sit there. You have to be able to stop their shots. So if they get in there, I'm going to be using a lot of energy. I just have to keep working on it."
Moore's asthma almost doomed him in the opening round. Leading No. 6 seed Patrick Keyser of Hampton late in the second period, Moore ended up on his back and in a headlock. Keyser cut his deficit to 6-5 before an illegal hold allowed Moore to call for injury time and use his inhaler.
His breathing somewhat stabilized, Moore went out for the third period, escaped, and scored a takedown within seconds. He held on to win 9-5.
His quarterfinal demanded less endurance, as he pinned South Fayette's Kevin Chaussard with :32 left in the first period.
Moore aspires to make it back to the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional tournament, which he qualified for as a sophomore. He wants his senior season to end in Hershey. He hopes his parents, who worry about his breathing and don't want him to end up in the hospital for the second time in as many seasons, will give him the chance, even if his asthma acts up from time to time.
"I just want to figure out what do I need to do so that I can go to the third period," Moore said. "I'm leaving it up to (Walters), and he's analyzing."
Highlands has just Moore and senior 145-pounder Nolan Wise to worry about Saturday — both are in the consolation bracket.
Plum and Fox Chapel will be much busier.
The Mustangs, who sit in second place in the team standings with 103 points, have five semifinalists and six wrestlers still in contention for third.
Among the Plum semifinalists are brothers Nate and Steve Turchick. The latter, a senior heavyweight, pinned two opponents Friday, while the former, a junior 195-pounder, had one fall.
"We have a competition going right now with whom has more pins," said Nate Turchick, who has 13 pins. "For a while, I had the lead because he was getting forfeits. But I think he just tied it up with that one (in the quarterfinals)."
Fox Chapel no longer has a wrestler in the running for a championship, but it has 10 team members alive in consolation brackets. Andrew Kopco (113 pounds), Ian Moritz (132), Cory Mahon (152), Tristan Houser (160) and Rich Giovenetti (182) each made the quarterfinals before taking their first loss.
Senior 220-pounder Bill Novakovic remains alive in the consolation bracket for Riverview.
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When dioceses drop or combine national collections, the effect is about $3 million a year lost to important parts of the church's mission at home and abroad, Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas, chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops' National Collections Committee, told the bishops Nov. 13.
Farrell, reporting on the decline in national collections in recent years on the second day of the bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore, urged the bishops not to drop or combine those collections.
In part of a written report he submitted to the bishops before the meeting, he said that just the act of combining two or more national collections into one has cost those collections an average of $1.4 million a year over the past three years.
By latest count, there were 64 ways in which dioceses combined two or more national collections, making it difficult to track the net negative effect on any given collection – but in general when any two national collections are combined in second collections in parishes, both end up with lower contributions than when each is given separate treatment.
The committee's written report to the bishops was far more detailed in charting how the dropping of certain national collections by some dioceses between 2005 and 2011 has hurt the contributions of U.S. Catholics to causes they have long supported:
- Six dioceses that contributed more than $122,000 to the Catholic Communications Campaign in 2005 gave nothing in 2011.
- Twenty dioceses that in 2005 gave a combined total of more than $700,000 to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the bishops' chief domestic anti-poverty program, gave nothing in 2011.
- Catholic Relief Services lost more than $103,000 when the diocese of Oakland, Calif., and the Archdiocese for the Military Services dropped that collection.
- Twelve dioceses whose people together contributed more than $184,000 for aid to churches in Eastern and Central Europe back in 2005 gave nothing in 2011.
- Even Catholic home missions, long a mainstay of financial support especially for rural and southern dioceses with special financial needs, suffered a hit of more than $100,000 as seven dioceses who took up the collection in 2005 did not do so in 2011.
- Eleven dioceses that took up a collection in 2005 for the Church in Latin America did not do so in 2011, and the hit from their nonparticipation was more than $260,000.
Patrick Markey, executive director for national collections for the U.S. bishops' conference, told NCR that while the figures show that a diocese dropping a collection or combining it with others leads to lower donations, the entire picture is more complicated.
He noted that recent years have seen several extraordinary events such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the massive earthquake in Haiti and most recently the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York, New Jersey and neighboring states, along with the economic effects of the 2007-08 recession, which can skew annual collection donation figures.
Nevertheless, he said, when a diocese drops a national collection or combines it with another, it hurts the church's effort to meet the needs that collection is addressing.
[Jerry Filteau is NCR Washington correspondent. His email address is email@example.com.]
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It was a comfortable win for the Parisians, achieved through goals from Jeremy Menez, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ezequiel Lavezzi.
"All the games are difficult especially at the Parc des Princes where our opponents come to defend," midfielder Blaise Matuidi told BeIN Sport television.
"It is going to be a long season and that is why the coach let some players rest a little bit with Tuesday's big game in mind."
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I am restoring some plaster walls in my very old house. Most of the areas that need restoration are around the bottom of the walls since I ripped out old ugly baseboards and that also crumbled the old plaster. Since the walls are plaster-over-brick, there are 2x8 wood inserts into the brick that were used as anchors to nail the baseboard to.
Now, what confuses me is this: The inserts are flush with the brick -- how plaster should be bordered around those inserts so as to not smear it over the insert but be butted all the way (or close) to it in its regular thickness? What I did was make small 2x8x3/8 plywood cover shims and screw the (1, 2 or 3, depending on the offset as it varies since the wall is old) into the insert to be flush or close to flush with the projected finished plaster (approx. 3/4"). In fact, since I am now ready for the final coat of plaster, I think I may add another shim on every insert so that it goes above the surface of plaster and then, when the plaster dries, take the top one off.
I hope you understand what I am saying. I did not want to plaster over the inserts because the baseboard nails wouldn't make it through the plaster. Ideally, the inserts would be coming out of the brick for the thickness of the plaster and not be flush to make this easy but they don't.
My questions are:
1. Am I overengineering this?
2. Is there a better way to do it?
3. Do baseboards even need to be nailed? Can I just liquid nail them to the plaster without using actual nails? I was thinking to do both -- nail into the inserts and do liquid nails between inserts.
See the pics. One shows bare brick wall with the original inserts, the other shows shims on top of inserts with the base coat of plaster around them.
Please advise
what is your question?
probably not. A good plaster man could run his plaster right to the edge of the wood. working it to a finished edge as the plaster is setting up.....question, is that joint compound on the wall a calcite based plaster? It looks realll wet
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The Golden Age of Advertising
With Season 3 of Mad Men premiering last night, a renewed interest in all things retro – the fashion, the lingo, the drinks – can be expected to tighten its grip on popular culture. The Mad Men wave might also leave in its wake an increased curiosity for the advertising that the series celebrates.
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Stella Artois' latest campaign utilizes the illustrations of Robert McGinnis – retired illustrator of the posters for classic films like Breakfast at Tiffany's – to speak to it's targets interest in timeless elegance. We wouldn't be surprised to see the wave of Mad Men to leave an impact on advertising in its wake, as well. Possibly as a response to the trend towards all things retro – and possibly as a response to consumers again seeking out brands and products that represent more aspirational indulgences as we eek out of a Global recession. And history repeats itself in advertising…
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amy Van Dyken severed her spinal cord in an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend, and she told emergency workers she could not move her toes or feel anything touching her legs.
The 41-year-old swimmer, who goes by her married name Amy Van Dyken Rouen, was injured Friday. She was airlifted to a hospital and had surgery to stabilize her spine.
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Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
Was The Miz winning the main event of Wrestlemania against John Cena one of Vinnie Mac and WWE's greatest blunders in recent years? Obviously this guy should never have main evented the show in the first place, he's f*cking embarrassing, if ever there was a "Sports Entertainer" this guy is it. I'm no Cena fan, but Cena should definitely have won this, nobody took seriously or even cared that the Miz won, Cena won back the belt a month later and now where is Miz? Back with a mid card title, looking back at this match makes me sick, I can't see any reason for why Cena shouldn't have gone over here and given a nice ending to the show. It's really a shame JBL didn't succeed in forcing Miz out of wrestling.
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
I'm a throw a wild guess out here, but you don't like Moz a lot, do you?
You sound butt hurt about Moz winning the main event of WM and finishing the show with a concussion.
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
The Miz worked his ass off and probably deserved a WM main event win for the effort he put in to make himself in the WWE. In the midst of history it will be remembered as probably the worst main event of all time, but he did deserve his time in the lime light.
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
Miz won one of the worst main event matches ever in one of the worst Mania's ever. If he won under better circumstances it would have made the show better. I hated that Mania. The match was so awful and to end the show they have Rock standing tall over the champ, when does that ever happen.
The Streak match should have ended the show but i guess they wanted Rock to end the show. Hell having him Rock Bottom taker could have caused a huge amount of buzz cuz the Rock hasnt done it all. Rock vs Taker for Mania 29 could have been built from that mania.
Oh and to answer the question no it wasnt Vince's biggest blunder. That end just made a bad mania worse. And who is really gonna remember Miz winning the ME of Mania.
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
Who cares what the guy deserved, the people who bought Wrestlemania deserved better than that, a mid carder for life beat Cena in the main event, Cena losing a title match like that should be reserved for someone who can acually headline
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
Everyone respects The Miz for his hard work but the main event of Wrestlemania should involve people who are great workers and/or have great in-ring skills. We know that The Miz doesn't exactly excel in that department so having him in the main event wasn't the best idea.
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
You are absolutely wrong, Miz deserved to be in that match, he deserved to main event at that time. It's just a shame that the feud and match revolved around setting up Rock vs Cena for WM28. Miz became an afterthought, which sucks.
The feud could have been a lot better too, they didn't even bring up the fact that they had feud in 2009, and it was a loss to Cena that had Miz change the course of his career, he changed his look, his attitude and went on to become AWESOME!!
Up until that point Cena had never lost a one on one match at Wrestlemania, I was glad he lost, and Miz won, just not under those circumstances, the restarting of the match, Rock helping Miz, felt tainted. Then of course Rock stealing Miz's spotlight after the match and becoming the lasting image of WM27.
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Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
I wasn't a fan of Miz winning if only for the fact that it did absolutely squat for him on top of a horrible Wrestlemania main event. He beat Cena at Mania yes, but in hindsight it sure felt like it didn't mean much since Miz was an afterthought that entire feud leading up to the event and was effectively phased out of the ME by the summer of that year.
Re: Miz winning the ME of Wrestlemania?
He should have never been in the main event of Wrestlemania, but the booking decision was actually the right one. It was the only significant reason Rock and Cena actually had for going at it the year after. Everything else was just insubstantial "I don't like you very much" fluff, but costing someone the main event of a Wrestlemania is a perfect reason to seek revenge.
They could have gone the "I'm a big star, you're a big star, let's do this" way, but it was clear from the get-go that they didn't want to go down that path.
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Discussion in 'TiVo Roamio DVRs' started by bradleys, Jun 17, 2013.
I wouldn't describe the experience of the Elite as horrible... the word I like to use is sluggish...
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We watch a lot of live TV and more VOD, On Demand, and Netflix than DVR-ed shows these days. And we also only have two "real" TVs at this time. I'll probably stick with my Premiere Elite. If Netflix and Amazon come to the Mini, I'll move the Elite to the basement as a headless hub and pick up a second Mini for the living room.
I'd say general usage is sluggish. Apps are borderline horrible. There's easily a 50% chance Netflix will make my system go unresponsive to my remote during a 42 minute program. Odds go up for a full length movie. I can't be bothered with it.
I gave up waiting and instead velcro'ed a Roku 3 to the back of my TV. It is very fast, Netflix and Amazon load in 5 seconds, and the apps haven't crashed yet. I'd love to not have to switch video inputs or handle a second remote, but the experience and extensive app options override that completely.
The S5 will help, but I'm still doubtful Tivo cares to thrive as an app platform on the whole. And even if it did, by the time that happens, they'll probably be selling Roku 5's with voip apps or whatever else.
So its beginning to look like the only Series 5 unit that will support OTA broadcast will still not support Mini's, will require external MOCA and will loose component video outputs. It also will not have stream capabilities.
Gee, Thanks Tivo for supporting OTA users. Not really sure this is any sort of an upgrade at all.
Call me VERY disappointed in this news. Its a Premiere with a slightly faster interface and less features. Its not even significantly smaller.
I don't see why it wouldn't support the Mini. But the other stuff, yeah.
I would say that depends on the app. I agree that the Netflix app is the single biggest problem. Its unfortunate that TiVo needs to rely on Netflix to fix the problem since they wrote the app. I would say the new MLB.TV app is an example of an app that works pretty well. I also think that Google has pushed some YouTube updates to the app. My recent experience with the YouTube app is pretty positive. Lastly, I think the Hulu Plus app is pretty usable as well. With all that said, the launch time of the apps is a problem and the overall OTT experience is much better on my Roku or ATV.
I believe that it is essential for TiVo to create a thriving app environment going forward. The processing power of the Roamio and Mini will help but they need to significantly improve the apps. If Dave's rumors about DIAL support are true that will be a first step in the right direction.
I'm also encouraged that TiVo is looking at Flash alternatives that offer higher performance apps --> http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=9760826#post9760826
For a comparison between Adobe Air and NME see this link --> http://www.openfl.org/developer/forums/general-discussion/nme-vs-adobe-air/
I agree. I'm pretty certain it will support the Mini. It may not have embedded MoCA.
I just don't think there is much of a market for an OTA DVR and what market there is won't pay the price necessary for TiVo to offer a high end OTA DVR. I don't mind using a basic OTA DVR and another box or two to cover my other needs. I will be happy if my TiVoHDs work for another five years, I won't buy an OTA DVR. No other company is trying to make anything for the market either, so there must not be a market worth competing for.
What have you seen that makes you think the base S5 will not support Mini in OTA mode? The Mini is designed to work with any 4+ tuner TiVo and the base Roamio (hate the name) definately meets that criteria.
Stream integration? You are correct, but you can purchase the Stream as an add-on box. Some used boxes should go on sale after the S5 hits the market.
Am I a buyer? That is an interesting question... I have never had that big of an issue with the performance of my Premier and I don't use a lot of OTA apps and if I did a $99 Roku is a better investment.
The big push for me would be the Hub and Spoke implementation. I have six tuners accross three TiVo's. It would be nice to consolidate those tuners into one box (effectively bringing the cooperative tuner allocation I have wanted) and use a few Mini's.
So - I won't be a fast adopter, but I will probably upgrade.
Dave just sent out a tweet about possible pricing.
$199 and $399 with a September 30th release date.
I know in the past we discussed $199 for the 4 tuner as a sensible goal for TiVo.
$399 is hopefully the 3TB model, but I would guess it is the base 6 tuner with the Pro going for $499 like the Elite launched.
These may both be placeholders in the system... although I'm more confident about the pricing, less confident about the date - which may be earlier. (Edit: And of course we're still missing one price. Wonder how long the Premiere will carry on - a few months?)
The date makes sense if they want to debut it at CEDIA the week before. The Elite launched around the same time.
Am I correct in my assumption on the pricing? Just saw your edit. I guess they could always offer the 6 tuner base for $199 and the Pro for $399 so maybe there are only two price points for three models.
It will be interesting to see what if any offers they have at launch for upgrades and Mini bundles.
Exactly. The extra two tuners in theory would be providing the streams to the Mini's the majority of the time.
Placeholders in the system would more fall along the lines of the prices that one sees new Apple products show up in the Best Buy system. The $199 and $399 sound legit.
I wonder of $199 to $399 is the range? That would be interesting...
More likely:
P5 - 4 Tuner @ $199
P5 - 6 Tuner Plus @ $399
P5 - 6 Tuner Pro @ $499
Hopefully the DTA issue will be deployed by then so we actually "have" a 6-tuner box.
I can't imagine why the 4 tuner would not have MoCa. It's built right into the chipset. There would be no cost savings to turning it off. Maybe it's not listed on the label because that port can be used for either cable or OTA and MoCa will only work with the former?
I'm betting it is. This is something their MSO partners want as well, so I'm sure they're getting pressure for it on all sides.
$199 for the 4-tuner would be pleasantly surprising (I was expecting 300-400-500 price points).
Hopefully the jump from $200 to $400 doesn't just get the you the Plus model. $200-300-400 would sound good.


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Although folding and other portable bikes are commonplace in many areas, many are not full-sized when deployed. Bike manufacturer Cannondale is throwing their expertise at the idea of a folder and have developed the "On," a full-sized folder that incorporates some smart design and weight-saving techniques to make a bike that is both durable and light. (In theory!)
A 2004 "Jacknife" prototype, developed in partnership with the Elisava Design School in Barcelona, had a hydraulic pedaling system that ditched the chain entirely. The On has a chain, but one encased fully inside a single-sided "fork" that can be fully detached from the rear wheel without loosening the gears or disk brakes.
For now Cannondale just has the prototypes, which I imagine they'll be shopping around to retailers and customers to see what the interest level might be. Even if they don't release a commercial version, it's quite a piece of engineering.
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Addressing barriers to physical activity among adults age 50 and older through community-based organizations
The National Blueprint for Promoting Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older was developed to serve as a guide for multiple organizations, associations, and agencies, and to inform and support their planning work related to increasing physical activity among America's aging population. The Foundation funded the Blueprint Implementation Project in 2001 in order to assist organizations in addressing barriers to physical activity for people age 50 and older. The Blueprint also includes recommendations on potential strategies for overcoming these barriers. The purpose of this project is to extend the work of the Blueprint Implementation Project by providing small grants to 19 community-based organizations to address barriers identified in the Blueprint that are most relevant to their work. Small grants will be available in two areas: (1) support for local community efforts to deliver physical activity interventions for adults age 50 and older that target diverse populations, especially programs that reflect an intergenerational approach; and (2) support for new partnerships and collaborations among two or more of the organizations to help implement and advance the Blueprint. If successful, the 19 community-based projects will reduce barriers of physical activity for adults age 50 and older.
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This recipe came about for a few reasons, the first being my desire to try the new Meander Valley Saint Omer butter, I had read somewhere it was as good as some French and that definitely piqued my curiosity. Also I had some lovely eggs from Matthew Evans farm via A Common Ground that I am addicted to, they are sooooo good. So what to do with eggs and butter?
Bread and butter pudding is something I have only recently – well, in the past few years – thought of as a dessert I would eat, and honestly I have no idea why I had reservations about it! If done well it is amazing. I brought some brioche from a local patisserie called Jean Pascal that I knew would work perfectly, somewhat nicer than some soggy old white bread!
Bread and Butter Pudding with Dark Chocolate and Orange Zest
½ a loaf of brioche cut into slices and then in half
butter to grease the dish, plus enough to butter both sides of the brioche)
6 eggs
600ml milk
Seeds from one vanilla bean
½ teaspoon cinnamon
zest of one orange
1 small block of dark chocolate (I used the lindt 70% cocoa)
1/4 cup caster sugar (I use raw)
Preheat the oven to 180 celcius. Grease an oven proof dish (1 litre capacity) and butter both sides of your sliced bread. Layer them in the dish poking in bits of broken chocolate as you go. Once done whisk the milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, orange zest, and cinnamon together and gently pour over the bread, you might need to do this in installments waiting for the bread to absorb the mix. Sprinkle a little bit of extra sugar over the top and place in the oven. Bake for approximately 35 minutes but as always keep an eye on it. Serve warm with cream or ice cream.


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I had Prior on my team and I just traded him for Oswalt and Percival please tell me I didn't screw up.
I had Prior on my team and I just traded him for Oswalt and Percival please tell me I didn't screw up.
This is the ol Left Hander rounding third and heading for home.
No, you didn't screw up. But it sure looks like the other guy did.
I'd make that trade even if Prior was healthy.
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An early learning program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children will be rolled out in Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum, in southern Queensland, early next year.
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In my Senior year of undergrad I took a class called "DNA." It was a cross-listed course; Computer Science and Biology. I thought it might be interesting, and it involved coding up some stuff in Perl. The course was basically a crash-course in both Perl and DNA. As such, some of the starting code (such as reading from a file) was given to us. Lucky!
For our final project we had to come up with an application summing up the knowledge we learned in class. I decided to do the following:
In DNA there are four possible nucleotides that can be used: T, C, A, and G. Codons are formed by joining three of these nucleotides together. This means that there are sixty-four possible codons (4x4x4). The purpose of these codons is to provide a mechanism for the organism to produce amino acids. There are 20 different amino acids. This means that there will be some codons that, while having different nucleotide structures, allow for the production of the same amino acids.
Different organisms may show different preference, or a bias, towards different codons to encode the same amino acid. The reasons for this happening are still vague, but much research is being done to get a clue as to why certain codons are preferred over others.
In bacteria, for example, different variables have been found to contribute to certain codon usage. Some of these include GC-composition, the likelihood of a specific strand to mutate, and RNA stability. (Curr Issues Mol Biol., Oct 3 2001) It has also been found that codon bias may be used to improve translation efficiency. (Yizhar Lavner, Daniel Kotlar, 2004)
Proposed Solution
The software being proposed will be able to compare different biases toward codons in any set of organisms. It will be able to find GC-rich regions, as well as output information to an Excel format file for analysis. By reading in a DNA sequence, breaking it up into codons, and using a hash table to keep track of the counts of each different codon, a statistical analysis can be performed on the bias towards one codon or another to encode the same amino acid. A visual analysis can be performed using Microsoft Excel's chart capabilities.
The program will start by getting the input. This is done by using glob to grab a bunch of files stored in a local folder. The file names will be stored in an array. The program will then enter a while loop to go through each file in the array and perform work on it.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # needed for MacOS X if using BBedit or TexWrangler (see comments below) use File::Spec; #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # CONSTANTS #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- my $MAX_CODONS_OUTPUT = 64; # top-N most frequent codons my $dataDirectory = "inputGeneDirectory"; # relative path of directory holding input files my $outputFileName = "outputResults.xls"; # set-up OUTPUT file (tab-delimited for Excel) my $TRUE = 1; # bool value for true my $FALSE = 0; # bool value for false my $CODON_LENGTH = 3; # size of codon to use in current run #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # VARIABLES/DATA STRUCTURES #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ARRAYS my @fileList; # all files in the directory ($dataDirectory) of data files my @allCodons; # an array to hold each codon my @aminoAcids; # a list of frequency counts for each aminoAcid and codons my @sorted; # a list of the counts sorted highest to lowest # HASH MAPS my %codonCounts; # a hash table of frequency counts for each codon my %codonMap; # declare a hash table to hold the Amino Acid abbreviations # corresponding to each possible triple of DNA (codon). # Amino Acids are abgreviated with the ONE LETTER codes. # (see the table at the bottom of this program for AA codes) # VARIABLES my $pathname; # the path to the files my $filename; # the file name being worked on my $nextFile; # the next file in the list of files my $sequence; # the DNA sequence being read in my $sequenceLength; # the length of the DNA sequence my $numCodons = 0; # the number of codons found my $nextCodon; # scalar to hold each codon, one at a time my $numSortedCodons = 0;# the number of sorted codons, useful if less than N my $numToPrint; # the final number of top-N codons to print my $num = 0; # counter variable, i would not work for some reason my $rank = 0; # the rank of the current codon my $currentCount = 0; # the number of times the current codon was found my $proportion; # the proportion of this codon compared to all codons my $GCRich; # the GC-rich region that was found my $lengthGC; # the length of this GC-rich region my $firstGCRich = $TRUE;# is this the first GC-rich region found for this file? my $sumGCLengths = 0; # the sum of all of the GC-rich region lengths my $percentGCs = 0; # the percentage of the file that is rich in GC my $nextAcid; # the next amino acid in the array #=============================================================================== # START PROGRAM #=============================================================================== %codonMap = getAminoAcidLookUpTable(); # populate the codon hash map->amino acids printTitle(); # print the title of the report (to the console) #============================ # SET OUTPUT INFORMATION #set the path name for the directory setPathname (); # set the output filename $outputFileName = $pathname.$outputFileName; # create the output file (tab-delimited for Excel) open (OUTPUT, ">", $outputFileName) or die "Cannot create the file: $outputFileName: $!"; #============================ # SET INPUT INFORMATION # use filename with .fna to get all FASTA files in the directory $filename = $pathname.$dataDirectory."/*.fna"; # grab a "glob" of files, each filename is put into elements of the array @fileList @fileList = glob($filename);
The first step when entering the while loop is to get the DNA from the file. The input expected will be a FASTA format file. The sequence must also begin with a start codon and end with a stop codon.
#======================================================== # FOREACH file in the directory of input data files print "========================================================\n\n"; foreach $nextFile (@fileList) { %codonCounts = (); # clear the hash table # print the current filename to the screen (console, stdout) print "Next file is: $nextFile \n"; # print filename to Excel (output) file print OUTPUT "$nextFile\n"; # skip Linux files with names that start with "."; if ($nextFile =~ m/^\./) { next; } # get the DNA sequence and its length. $sequence = readInDNA($nextFile); $sequenceLength = length ( $sequence ); print "Length of the DNA sequence: $sequenceLength \n\n"; # get the last codon from the sequence my $lastCodon = substr ( $sequence, $sequenceLength - 3, 3 ); # check if the sequence starts with an ATG. if ( substr ( $sequence, 0, $CODON_LENGTH ) ne "ATG" ) { print "Gene must start with ATG.\n"; print OUTPUT "Gene must start with ATG. Results may not be valid!\n\n"; } # check if the sequence ends with a STOP. if ( $lastCodon ne "TAG" && $lastCodon ne "TAA" && $lastCodon ne "TGA" ) { print "Gene must end with stop codon.\n"; print OUTPUT "Gene must end with stop codon. Results may not be valid!\n\n"; }
The next step is to break the DNA sequence given into codons. Since we know that the sequence is in the correct reading frame, no changes in the reading frame will need to occur. For each codon a count will be increased. This will be implemented using a hash table. So if the sequence is CCACCA, the hash table will have one entry, CCA, with a count of 2.
# break the sequence into codons, storing each codon in a slot in an array @allCodons = breakIntoCodons($sequence ); $numCodons = scalar ( @allCodons ); # set the number of codons found print "Number of codons: $numCodons \n"; print OUTPUT "Number of codons: $numCodons \n"; # go through the array of codons... foreach $nextCodon (@allCodons) { $codonCounts { $nextCodon }++; #increase the count for this codon }
After reading all of the codons in the sequence, all of the unique codons found, along with their counts, will be output to an Excel format .xls file. This is the first of two Excel files being used for this project. Next, the hash table will be analyzed to see which types of amino acids are present. These will be matched up to the codons to get a count of how many amino acids were formed using a specific codon. The results of this will be output to the same Excel format file as above. This will include all of the amino acids, sorted by the most biased codons that formed that amino acid.
# sort the array of codons by their count @sorted = sort { $codonCounts{$b} <=> $codonCounts{$a} or $a cmp $b } keys(%codonCounts); # get the length of how many unique codons were found $numSortedCodons = scalar ( @sorted ); # get the amino acid that corresponds to each unique codon for ( $num = 0; $num < $numSortedCodons; $num++ ) { $aminoAcids [$num] = translate ( $sorted[$num] ); }
The next part is to find GC-rich regions in the sequence. The point of doing this is to find if there is a certain bias only during GC-rich regions. The same procedure will be applied as above, but a new file will be created just for the GC-rich regions.
#=============================================================================== # start search for GC-rich regions #=============================================================================== print "Searching for GC-rich regions greater than length 4...\n"; # Search for GC-rich sequences of 4G/Cs or more while ( $sequence =~ m/([GC]{4,})/g ) { $GCRich = $1; # the region $lengthGC = length ( $GCRich ); # length of region $sumGCLengths += $lengthGC; # total length of GC regions $firstGCRich = $FALSE; # no long first region found } # if this is the first GC-rich region in the file... if ( $firstGCRich == $TRUE ) { print "No GC-rich regions were located. \n"; print "========================================================\n\n"; } else { print "Found some! \n"; print "========================================================\n\n"; } # find the GC percentage $percentGCs = ( $sumGCLengths / $sequenceLength ) * 100; $sumGCLengths = 0; # start over the GC-length $firstGCRich = $TRUE; # set the next GC-rich region found as the first
The next part is to loop back to the beginning and move-on to the next file. Each file will be separated by a few spaces.
The last step of the program deals with the output to the screen. The program will output the number of codons found, each file name, and the relevant number of amino acids found.
#=============================================================================== # start outputting results #=============================================================================== printf OUTPUT "GC%%: \t%5.1f \n\n", $percentGCs; printf OUTPUT "Rank\tCodon\tAmino Acid\tFrequency\tProportion\n"; # if there are less than N "top-N" codons found if ( $MAX_CODONS_OUTPUT > $numSortedCodons ) { $numToPrint = $numSortedCodons; # set the number to output } # otherwise... else { $numToPrint = $MAX_CODONS_OUTPUT; # set to constant N, defined at top } # print the top N codons: rank, codon, occurences, and proportion for ( $num = 0; $num < $numToPrint; $num++ ) { $rank++; # set this codon's rank $nextCodon = $sorted[$num]; # get the codon $currentCount = $codonCounts { $nextCodon }; # get the count $proportion = $currentCount / $numCodons; # calculate proportion $nextAcid = $aminoAcids[$num]; # get the next A.A. # don't output start or end codons, they are unnecessary if ( $nextAcid ne "..." && $nextAcid ne "Met" ) { # now print... printf OUTPUT "$rank\t$nextCodon\t$nextAcid\t$currentCount\t%5.3f\n", $proportion; } else { # if it was a start or end codon, decrease rank by 1 $rank--; } } $rank = 0; # start the ranks over $percentGCs = 0; # start over the %GCs # make some space in the Excel otuput between tables print OUTPUT "\n\n\n"; } # w00t, done! close ( OUTPUT ); print "\n\nDone.\n"; #----- end of Main Program -----------------------------------------------------
The rest of the file contains various subroutines to read in the DNA and break it apart into codons, as well as set up the codon map.
#-----------\ # readInDNA \ #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Subroutine to open a FASTA formatted file of DNA sequence, remove # newline characters at the end of each line, discard any blank lines # discard lines containing a comment(#) symbol, removes any digits, # removes any extra whitespace characters, converts nucleotides # to uppercase, and return as one big string. # # WRITTEN BY MARK LEBLANC/BETSY DYER # # 1 argument: name of file holding the DNA # # RETURNS: file of DNA as one string # # A sample of how you might "call" this subroutine from your program # to 'get' the DNA from a Fasta formatted file for a gene sequence # # $sequence = readInDNA("humanXM_012345.fna"); sub readInDNA { my $filename = shift; my $line; my $firstline; my $seq; # try to open the file; if no file by that name, print a warning and exit open (FNAFILE, "<", $filename) or die "Cannot open the input file: $filename: $!"; if ( !($firstline = <FNAFILE>) ) { print "Can NOT read the header line from the file called: $filename \n"; exit(); } $seq = ""; # WHILE not EOF, grab next line while ($line = <FNAFILE>) { chomp $line; # discard blank line if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/) { next; } # discard comment line (any line with a comment(#) symbol) if ($line =~ m/^\s*#/) { next; } $line =~ tr/0123456789//d; # remove all digits $line =~ tr/ \n\r//d; # remove any extra whitespace $line = uc($line); # convert everything to upper-case $seq = $seq . $line; # concatenate new line onto the entire text so far } # end WHILE not EOF close(FNAFILE); return $seq; } #----- end of readInDNA -------------------------------------------------------- #-----------------\ # breakIntoCodons \ #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Subroutine to break the text passed to it into codons of length $CODON_LENGTH. # # Partially WRITTEN BY MARK LEBLANC/BETSY DYER # # RETURNS: an array of codons. sub breakIntoCodons { my $text = shift; # the sequence being searched my $DNAlen = length($text); # the length of the sequence my @codons; # array of codons to fill and return when done my $i=0; # points to start of the next codon each time my $j=0; # $codon[$j] is the next codon my $end = $DNAlen-($CODON_LENGTH); # don't fall off the end of the sequence my $tempMotif; # the current codon being worked on while ( $i < $end ) { # get the next codon $tempMotif = substr($text, $i, $CODON_LENGTH); # if there is some other letter than ACGT... if ( $tempMotif =~ m/[^ACGT]/i ) { # skip to next valid codon $i += $CODON_LENGTH; } # otherwise, add this codon to valid codons else { $codons[$j] = $tempMotif; # add to array of codons $i += $CODON_LENGTH; # move to next codon $j++; # move to next box in array } } return @codons; } #----- end of breakIntoCodons -------------------------------------------------- #-------------\ # setPathname \ #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Subroutine to set the pathname. Useful to keep the main program a little # more readable. Expects a global variable of $pathname. # # WRITTEN BY MARK LEBLANC/BETSY DYER # # RETURNS: nothing. sub setPathname { #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # establish the absolute pathname to the directory of input files #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # MacOS USERS TAKE NOTE # determine the absolute pathname to the current directory # next two lines need to be uncommented for MacOS X (e.g., BBedit or TexWrangler) # my @path = File::Spec->splitdir( File::Spec->rel2abs($0) ); # $pathname = File::Spec->catfile( @path[0 .. $#path - 1], ""); #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # uncomment if using # WINDOWS or Linux (or MacOS X on command-line) $pathname = ""; #----------------------------------------------------------------------- } #----- end of setPathname ------------------------------------------------------ #------------------------\ # getAminoAcidLookUpTable \ #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Construct hash that maps codons to amino acids by reading the table # from DATA lines at the end of the program, which have the form: # Residue Codon1 Codon2 ... # # no arguments # # WRITTEN BY MARK LEBLANC/BETSY DYER # # RETURNS: hash table of codon and their one-letter amino acid abbreviations sub getAminoAcidLookUpTable { my %codonMap; while (my $in = <DATA> ) # assigns next line of DATA to $in; fails if none { chomp($in); # remove line feed at end of $in my @codons = split " ",$in; my $residue = shift @codons; # remove first item from @codons and assign foreach my $nnn (@codons) { $codonMap{$nnn} = $residue; } } return %codonMap; } #----- end of getAminoAcidLookUpTable ------------------------------------------ #-----------\ # translate \ #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # translates (presumably pre-transcribed) DNA strings to proteins # # 1 argument: the DNA string to translate # # WRITTEN BY MARK LEBLANC/BETSY DYER # # RETURNS: the protein string. (1-letter Amino Acid abbreviations) sub translate { my $dna = shift(@_); # the DNA string to be translated. my $pro = ""; while ( $dna =~ s/(...)// ) { $pro = $pro . $codonMap{$1}; } return $pro; } #----- end of translate -------------------------------------------------------- #define the mapping from codons to amino acids... __END__ Ala GCT GCC GCA GCG Arg CGT CGC CGA CGG AGA AGG Asn AAT AAC Asp GAT GAC Cys TGT TGC Gln CAA CAG Glu GAA GAG Gly GGT GGC GGA GGG His CAT CAC Ile ATT ATC ATA Lei TTA TTG CTT CTC CTA CTG Lys AAA AAG Met ATG Phe TTT TTC Pro CCT CCC CCA CCG Ser TCT TCC TCA TCG AGT AGC Thr ACT ACC ACA ACG Trp TGG Tye TAT TAC Val GTT GTC GTA GTG ... TAA TAG TGA
The results proved that there is a definite bias towards some codons to create certain amino acids, namely asparagine, aspartic acid, and lysine. GC-richness appeared to have no effect on codon bias. Any answers as to why there is a codon bias at all are still being researched.
For the full project, including raw notes and code, download this zip file: codonBiasFinal
(Note: this project is kind of thrown together, meaning standard coding practices may not have been followed, such as breaking up parts of the program into subroutines, etc. If I remember correctly, it was a requirement of the professors that all work be done in the provided subroutines, with no new subs created, but I could be wrong. Either way, looking at the code now it's atrocious.)


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long time lurker on TDH !
looks like i might be able to begin a project sometime this year !
I'm UK based, and i come with an offering (im away i currently cant acess the cargo hold, however i have acess to some old electronic stock, and i wonder if anyone has any use before it gets scrapped !
let me know either way, i havent had time to search but some of the buttons etc just look around that era of sci-fi prop building use, so i thought i'd through out the offer pics:
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My bioplastic article has been filed and will be out for the March 22 issue of ICIS Chemical Business. Right now I'm working on about bisphenol-A (BPA) which is getting to be really interesting. Can't wait to share that!
For now here are this week's news roundup:
Lithium expansion in Korea
Celgard will expand production capacity of its lithium-ion battery separator production at its existing facility in Ochang, South Korea. The facility will come online in 2011, and will serve customer growth in consumer electronics applications.
Mitsui's biomass refinery in Asia
Mitsui will build a number of biomass refineries in Southeast Asia using Inbicon's biomass refinery technology. Mitsui intends to apply the technology in the palm oil industry, where wastes from palm oil production can be converted into ethanol, solid biofuel for energy production, and animal feed.
Solutia acquires solar biz
Solutia will acquire Etimex Solar, a Germany-based supplier of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulants to the photovoltaic market.Solutia says combining EVA with its existing polyvinyl butyral (PVB) encapsulant capabilities positions the company as the world's only one-stop source for solar encapsulant solutions.
Univar adds bio-solvents
Chemical distributor Univar has announced a pan-European distribution agreement with Italy's Liberty Chemicals srl, sole European representative of Vertec BioSolvents. The product range comprises 15 biodegradable, carbon neutral and cost-effective alternatives to widely-used conventional solvents.
Cereplast starts Indiana operations
Bioplastic producer Cereplast has begun production at its new 80 million pounds/year facility in Seymour, Indiana. The company has also moved its corporate headquarters to offices in El Segundo, California, from Hawthorne, California.
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At least seven resolutions and bills are pending in Congress to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases.
The US recycled at least 361m lb (164,000 tonnes) of non-bottle rigid plastics in 2008, up nearly 11% from a year earlier, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC).
Brazil sugarcane industry association Unica blamed local fuel distributors for keeping hydrous ethanol less competitive than gasoline by not passing a drop in the price of the biofuel to consumers.