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Apple Danish Cheesecake Recipe
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup ground almonds
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cold butter
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 cups thinly sliced peeled tart apples
- 1/3 cup slivered almonds
- 1. In a small bowl, combine flour, almonds and sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Add extract. Shape dough into a ball; place between two sheets of waxed paper. Roll out into a 10-in. circle. Transfer to a greased 9-in. springform pan; gently press dough against the bottom and up the sides of pan. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- 2. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and cream of tartar until smooth. Add egg; beat on low just until combined. Pour over crust.
- 3. In a large bowl, combine the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Add apples and stir until coated. Spoon over the filling. Sprinkle with almonds.
- 4. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer. Refrigerate overnight. Remove sides of pan. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 slice: 356 calories, 22g fat (11g saturated fat), 71mg cholesterol, 169mg sodium, 36g carbohydrate (23g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein.
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"Sorry nobody in my family was overly crazy about this. I bake often and the leftovers are still sitting in my frig (which never happens).It looked pretty, but for me this dessert seemed to have an identity crisis. It didn't know if it wanted to be apple cheesecake or apple pie. I often make and enjoy unusual desserts, but this one was not for us."
"Out of sight!!! So many have asked for the recipe!!!!!!!"
"This was delicious! It reminded me of a mix between apple pie and cheesecake. I enjoyed this recipe because it was not as rich as a regular cheesecake. I used frozen apple slices and baked it for 5-10 minutes longer. It turned out great!"
"This cake was a huge hit. The crust is absolutely delicious and I will use it in other recipes in the future. The only change I would make is to double the amounts for the cheese layer."
"I have made this recipe several times and it is always a big hit."
"Delicious. Made it for Easter Sunday lunch and it was a hit. Very easy to make - don't expect the pastry to be like a usual one, as it's very crumbly but works perfectly. Yummmmmm."
"I actually had made this recipe before & had given the cheesecake to a friend. Thank you for sharing this recipe! I adjusted the recipe by omitting the ground almonds and adding 2 Tbsp. milk to the crust. I didn't roll out the crust dough, I just pressed it into a greased and floured 9" springform pan. I used 1 tsp. vanilla extract in the filling. I omitted the slivered almonds in the topping. I'd even made mini cheesecakes and cut the butter down to 1/4 cup and melted the 1/4 cup butter for the mini cheesecake crust which I'd placed in fluted paper liners in muffin pans. For the 9" cheesecake and the mini cheesecakes, I used the 4 cups of apple topping. I'd recommend slicing the apples in half for the mini cheesecakes, but keep the apples slices as is for the 9" cheesecake. I baked the 9" cheesecake 45 minutes and the minicheesecakes 25 to 30 minutes! As for refrigerating, I chilled the cheesecake in the springform pan overnight before removing the cheesecake. It WAS NOT easy to get the cheesecake out of the bottom of the springform pan-I did have to use several utensils to get it off the bottom!I did manage to get the cheesecake off the bottom of the pan. The mini cheesecakes I'd just chilled in my refrigerator! I would say that this recipe rated a 5* recipe! delowenstein"
"Loved this cheesecake. I used hickory nuts for the "nut part" and it was excellent!"
"I meant extra crunch not crush."
"I always share this cheesecake with friends that haven't tried it; I also toasted chopped peanuts and walnuts and almonds in brown sugar with butter in saucepan for extra crush and always use green apples.Has not let me down the 10 times I made this."
"I have made this many times and it is always great!"
"Used 2 packages of cream cheese, also added walnuts to apples. Didn't use any almonds. Have made 2 times, big hit both times."
"It was great. Has anyone tried making the cheesecake portion ahead of time and freezing it?"
"The picture was so pretty I couldn't wait to try it, I baked it on Christmas eve, and it was just "ok", I thought it would be alot more "special" than it turned out...Maybe I did something wrong,but I did follow directions to a t.....So, while it was good, I don't think I would go thru the trouble to make it again."
"Loved it, loved it, LOVED IT!! It's a combination of an apple crisp and cheesecake. Light. It was a hit at a dinner party! :o)"


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High drama in front of Mudragada house
Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 04:43 PM
High drama is continuing in front of the house of Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham, at Kirlampudi. His supporters have locked the gates of his house and he is refusing to climb down the police van. Police officials are making vain attempts to make him heed them. The police had a tough time on the way to Kirlampudi and wielded their lathis to ward off the agitating activists.

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Islamabad, Mar 5 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf has claimed they still have faith in under-pressure national team coach Dav Whatmore after various former players demanded his sacking following humiliating Test series whitewash against South Africa.
The chairman went to add that the coach would stay at least until the expiry of his two-year contract with the board, which is valid till February-March in 2014, the Express Tribune reports.
Whatmore has just completed one year of his association with Pakistan and has been under fire after the team failed miserably in the three-match Test series in South Africa, handing a 3-0 triumph to the hosts.
Former Pakistan cricketers have questioned the Aussie's effectiveness, declaring him an 'over rated coach' and demanding his removal.
However, the PCB chairman indicated that the board has no plans to remove the coach in the near future.
Ashraf clearly said Whatmore's contract is still active, adding they would review the performance after the expiry of the contract, and then the decision taken on that evaluation would reflect what is best for Pakistan, but for now PCB still has faith in Whatmore
Meanwhile, a PCB official declared the heavy criticism against Whatmore unjust, saying the team's performance under the coach was not a complete failure. (ANI)


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SEMINOLE — Osceola's volleyball history hangs on the north wall of the school's gym for all to see. Wedged between banners from other sports, it reads "Volleyball District Champions: '83."
There is plenty of room to add on, but the Warriors haven't been able to do it for 30 years. In 2011, Osceola advanced to the region semifinals for the first time as a district runnerup — but lost to Lakewood Ranch.
This season, the Warriors find themselves in the same position with district nemesis Mitchell awaiting.
"Our objective this year was to put a '13 next to that '83," coach Ryan Kramer said. "I told the girls that I was 6 when that number was printed. We have to do something about it. So let's replace a district (banner) with a regional banner. Let's celebrate a regional win on their floor like they celebrated a district win on our floor."
The fact that Osceola ended up in the second round of this season's region tournament is a bit surprising.
After the 2011 season, the Warriors graduated seven players. Only two players with any volleyball experience, setter Hayley Misewich and outside hitter Emily Barton, returned for the 2012 season. Kramer said tryouts were eye opening.
"I coached middle school volleyball 10 years ago, and that is what it was like," Kramer said. "It was awful. I told them I'm going to take the top 10 athletes. That's how we had to do it."
Also a track and field coach, Kramer said he had to recruit some of his better athletes for volleyball. High jumper Jeanna Cube became a right side hitter. Pole vaulter Jen Kistemaker became a middle hitter.
They really didn't have a choice.
"I just said, 'Hey, you're going to do this,' " Kramer said with a laugh. "I need you to block some volleyballs."
The result has been a competitive team that has a chance to make school history.
Osceola (14-9) has lost to Mitchell three times this season, twice in five games and once in four games at the district final. Mitchell has won 19 straight matches.
"They are huge," Kramer said. "They have giants up front. They really gave us a hard time this year. Our focus is to not go through them. We have to put the ball where their defenders won't be."
Despite the losing streak to Mitchell, Osceola is confident. The Warriors were 0-7 in five-game matches prior to beating King in five games at the region quarterfinals.
"I didn't think we would get this far," said Misewich, who has 601 assists. "When we play as a team we are really good, but when we don't we just fall apart. We'll beat a team 25-12 and then the next game we'll lose. We're getting better at communicating."
Barton, who averages three kills per game, said beating King last week was a big boost.
"That was our first time ever winning in five," Barton said. "It was nerve wracking. But I think we have more confidence now."
Kramer has seen his team improve since the rebuilding project of 2012. He believes the Warriors are equipped to get to a region final for the first time.
"Earlier in the year we struggled with everyone not knowing their role and trying to do everyone's job," Kramer said. "As we move on, they are getting a lot more comfortable just doing their role. That's made the difference for us.
"And when you've got a setter like Hayley, who gets to everything, who is super athletic and willing to outwork everybody else, and then a hitter like Emily, who hits the dog snot out of the ball, and a libero like Katie (Newman), it's easy to build around that."
Region semifinals
7 p.m. Tuesday
8A: Bloomingdale at Palm Harbor University
6A: Osceola at Mitchell
3A: Sarasota Out-of-Door at Clearwater Central Catholic
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
SoCal Sees Summertime Surge In Exits
In what looks to be an unprecedented surge in high profile, high value exits for high tech companies in Southern California, there have now been six big exits in the region over the last month worth over $100M. Those exits--worth more than a collected $3.8 billion--include the recent sales of Vizio, Dollar Shave Club, Nervana Systems, TouchCommerce, and Orbitera, and Aurrion. Irvine-based Vizio was sold for $2 billion to Chinese television maker LeEco; Santa Monica-based Dollar Shave Club was sold to Unilever for $1 billion; San Diego-based Nervana Systems sold for $350M to Intel; Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce sold to Nuance for $215M; Santa Barbara-based Aurrion sold to Juniper Networks, for $165M, and West Hollywood-based Orbitera sold to Google for $100M. The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.


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New product lines seeing double-digit growth, says Li Ning CEO
The new product lines for Chinese sportswear brand Li Ning are seeing double-digit growth this year, its interim chief executive Jin Goon Kim said yesterday after the company's annual shareholders' meeting.
"The impact has been quite substantial. The growth of the new products has shown very good results, and is steadily increasing in the double digits," Kim said.
Earlier this year, the sports brand, founded by the Olympic champion gymnast of the same name, revamped its product mix to include sports shoes in three price tiers, ranging from 299 yuan (HK$370) to 399 yuan and 999 yuan.
Like many domestic sportswear players that were cash-rich after their listings, Li Ning expanded too quickly in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and had been suffering from poorly differentiated products compared to foreign players like Nike and Adidas.
It had also ventured into the highly competitive space of fashion casual wear, which it has now exited.
Kim said the inventory situation had been "solved" and any remaining inventory would be cleared by the end of this year.
Suffering from bloated stock, the firm had to offer steep discounts of as much as 70 per cent to clear inventory.
Besides changing its products, the company is also engineering a shift from a wholesale business model to a more retail-oriented one, where the brand is dictated by the customer.
As a result, the number of stores fell from 8,255 in 2011 to 5,915.
Kim, who was brought on in 2012 to help turn the company around, has experience with many business transformations under his belt, including helping footwear company Daphne International evolve into a fast retail operation.
Li Ning still had yet to find a permanent chief executive, management said.
Shares in the company yesterday jumped 5.41 per cent, ending at HK$5.46, while the Hang Seng Index rose 0.31 per cent.
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TAMPA — Three cars struck and killed a pedestrian shortly after midnight today as he tried to cross Hillsborough Avenue near 34th Street, Tampa Police said.
The victim's name is not being released because his family has not been notified.
Police said the first two cars that struck the pedestrian stopped. The third car drove off.
According to reports, Harold Darrell Barrett of Lakeland, was driving a Lexus eastbound on East Hillsborough Avenue in the middle lane when the pedestrian tried to cross Hillsborough Avenue from the south side of the street, against the crosswalk sign, about 12:09 a.m.
Barrett did not see the walker, authorities said, and hit the man with the front right side of his car.
The driver of an Acura Legend, Willie Davis Jr. of Tampa, also hit the victim, reports state. A third car also hit the man, but did not stop.
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Romanian communism between commemoration, nostalgia, and scientific debate. Edited by: Ursprung, Daniel (2012). online: Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland).
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AS an ex Middlewich lad I enjoy reading about news and events in and around the town, some of them bring back fond memories of growing up there 60 odd years ago.
A recent article on the waterways reminded me of fishing in the River Dane when junior membership to the fishing club was one and sixpence. I'd spend all day fishing both sides between King Street and Byley Lane.
I look forward to reading more. Thank goodness for the internet.
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Gift Wrapping
I love wrapping gifts and I thought Saber might want to get in on the fun. ^_^
Saber, would you like to help me with something?
Saber: Of course master. It would be my pleasure.
Saber: What is it that you would like me to do?
It's on the floor dear. :)
Saber: These things? What shall I do with them?
I'd like for you to help me wrap them. They are Christmas gifts. ^_^
Saber: Wrap them....like package them like we did those monster girls a while back?
Yeah....something like that. haha. Except we won't be mailing them thins time around.
*thinks to self* ...Saber's skirt is lose....is she not eating as much snacks?
Well, let's get started! We are going to need some wrapping paper.
Saber: Will this colorful paper suffice?
yes, that's exactly what we need. :)
You take that and roll it out.
Saber: *roll roll roll*
Then you take this little box,
and put it in the bigger box. :D
Saber: *throws little box into bigger box*
Don't just toss it down like that! Its precious cargo.
Saber: ......is it for me?
Of course not, if it was I wouldn't let you wrap it.
Saber: Then it is not very precious....next!
*sighs* alright, then you fold the paper over the box.
Saber: Like so?
Then I'll put some tape on it. So hold it still.
Saber: okay.
Then I'll cut away what we need. Look out! *Snip snip snip*
Saber: Pft, you could not cut me even if you tried master.
Then you fold tape some more and you're done!
Saber: How is this master? Is is satisfactory?
It's okay for your first time. Would you like to try again?
Saber: *determined* Yes!
Here, lets use this paper next. :)
Saber: ...it's, it's beautiful...this deep, rich red and the pattern....it's fit for a king's gift.
haha, glad you like it, but thats just the inside of the paper. No one will see it until its ripped apart on Christmas morning.
Saber: *admiring the paper some more* Such a waste..
here is the next gift.
Saber: !!! More red. <3
Saber cuts and tapes and wraps and wraps and wraps until*
Saber: Master, how is this!??!
uuummmmm, you're getting there.....you sure did use a lot of tape this time, didn't you ^_^;
Saber: UGH!!!!
Saber: Please Master!! Let me try again!!
Sure. Not a problem, these is still one more left to wrap for tonight.
Saber: Gimme, gimme, gimme!!!
Here you go.
*Saber gets right to work*
Saber:.......nooooo, I tried so hard to.
Saber, what are you doing?
Saber: I'm sorry master, I have failed you...this one doesn't look nice either.
Silly girl, this is your best one! It looks great. After we wrap the gifts I have left you'll be a gift wrapping pro!
Saber: Really?
Of course! After all, you are my servant, my Saber. <3
Saber: *Sniff*
Now, lift your head and rise from that position. A noble warrior such as yourself does NOT take such a stance.
Saber: Yes Master!!!
As a thank you for helping here you are.
Saber: What's that?
Its a stocking. You hang it from the fireplace during the holidays and at christmas santa comes down the chimney and leaves you goodies in it.
Yes, Santa, good ol Saint Nick. haha. He delivers gifts to all the good boys and girls and warriors and masters and servants all over the world in one night so that all the good people can open their gifts Christmas morning.
Saber: Wow.
Yup, and if you want something, then hang your stocking anywhere you'd like. Our fireplace doesn't have a mantel so you can't hang it there, but don't worry, I'll make sure Santa finds it. :)
Saber: I see, thank you very much master, its even in my favorite color and its sparkly. :)
No problem love. <3 Hey! Oki!! Ooooookkiiiiiii!!!
Oki: ????
Here you are, this one is for you. :D
Saber: !???!?
Saber: Master!! Why would you give him one!? He doesn't deserve it!
Don't be silly Saber, Oki is a good boy. <3
Remember! If you are a naughty girl santa will leave coal in your nice, pretty, sparkly, red stocking.
Saber: *gasp*
Saber: *clutches stocking* ...I'll, I'll be a good girl Master.
Good. ^_^
Saber: Come here you.
Oki:.....? :D
Saber: *hugs Oki, squeezing him* See master? We are getting along just fine.
Oki: *hugs Saber back* <3 <:'D
*thinking to self* ......Oki seems really happy....has she ever hugged him? -_-
Okay, you two continue to be good. I have other things to attend to. See you later. :)
Saber: Bye master, we'll be good.
*As soon as I'm out of sight and ear shot*
Saber: Get off me you! *pushes Oki off*
Oki: ???? *whines*
Saber: Honestly! What respectable master would hug and adore a servant like you. humph! *goes back to her 'throne'*
Oki: ????? *shrugs*
Later on I found Oki and Saber and we all decided on a spot for their stockings. Saber wanted to hang them from my dresser so she could see them from her 'throne'. She says something about wanting to catch santa in the act of leaving her goodies. lol


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15 years ago I remodeled our main bathroom. I must plead ignorance and budget for how it turned out. Looked great for the first 5 years and then the stapled drawers started to fall apart. (Repairing multiple times and struggling with putting a bow tie on a pig kind of feeling) It's been falling apart more and more and the coup-d-grace was my better half stuffing too much stuff under the sink against the low quality pvc (former owner) pipes causing a pin hole leak under the vanity that caused everything to swell up. I discovered the leak when the bathroom door started hitting the transition where it should have had a 1/4" gap. The vanity top also began delaminating.
Flash forward a few years. I remodeled a half bath into a full and that serves as our main bathroom currently. So lately the disaster bathroom has moved up the to-do list and I have begun the planning with one of my sons who at 13 years has been interested in wood working. My plan was to work with son Mike to teach him how to plan and complete such a project. And do it right. The plumbing is going to be upgraded to Pex. This is going to be difficult given it is in a tight crawl space. The vanity build will be out of solid wood with dovetailed drawers. I am thinking about how to waterproof the vanity pedestal. (base) I may use q-sawn white oak for everything else to match the mirror trim and in-wall medicine cabinet, the 2 things I built right.
This was the plan and aside from the current issue of no heat in the wood shop which I am in the process of dealing with, I now have to vent...
2 of my older children who have moved out, went out and bought another particleboard vanity and a cheap vanity top on clearance because the edge is chipped for a "Christmas present for mom" Frankly I blew a cork. I do appreciate their thought but, my son who is one of the 2, knew of my plans and is aggressive by nature. This is an asset when running a organization, which he is good at, but a pain when youth does not listen to the wisdom of experience.
Now I have to figure out how to extricate myself from the situation...and hopefully not bruise to many feelings.


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Beam: 3.80 m
Draft: 1.10m
Cabins: 3
Berths: 6 berths + 2 additional saloon
Water: 400 litres
Holding tank (black water): 150 litres
Fuel: Diesel
Tanks: 2 x 400 litres - (new, stainless steel)
Engine: Twin 200hp Volvo
Generator: Onan 3.5 KW
Hull: Fiberglass
This lovely motorboat in its interior houses three cabins. One owners cabin with large double bed in the stern, one guest cabin with two single beds in the bow and a a second guest cabin with bulk bed. The boat has 2 bathrooms, one reserved for the owner's cabin. All bathrooms are equipped with head, sink and a shower. The saloon houses a kitchen and a L shaped sofa surrounding a table. The sofa and the table can be reconfigured into a bed for two.
The boat is well equipped whit navigational and additional equipment to secure safe and pleasant cruses.
Navigation: Plotter/Radar, autopilot: Raymarine C 70.
Equipment: Electric Windlass, Webasto Heating, Electric, Microwave, Fridge-Freezer, Sink with Hot and Cold Water, Outside Shower on Stern, Tender: Zodiak whit Yamaha 2KW Outboard Engine, CD-Player/Radio, TV.
The boat is registered under the Croatian flag. NO FEES PAID!
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On our first full day in Sydney, we decided to go to Bourke Street Bakery in Surry Hills before heading off to Manly Beach. This place seems to be very popular, so we decided on making the 20 minute walk from our hotel to see how good their baked goodes were.
This is the original Bourke Street Bakery location, and there are now quite a few others around Sydney.
Bourke Street Bakery is a popular place in Surry Hills. I ordered the Spinach Mushroom Quiche, which was still warm but still came out pretty quick. I found it to be under seasoned though. There wasn't much flavour at all. The egg was kind of crumbly, but the spinach and mushrooms were tender. The Chicken Meat Pie wasn't that good either. it had a strong ketchup taste.
They had something similar to a bagel, but they didn't have butter or cream cheese. They served it with jam. It was pretty good. It's thinner than a bagel, and very crispy.
My favourite of the dishes was the carrot cake. It was really good. The cake was light and airy and the top was had a very good crispy texture. Really liked it, and the frosting was sweet and creamy.
The ordering area is fairly cramped, but they some outdoor seating. The staff was also friendly. We weren't fans of the quiches, or meat pies, but the other baked goods and breads were better.
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Personal NPCs
One of the ways that RP gets "expanded" is through the use of personal NPCs; characters that you create with a bit of story and personality, whose sole function is to work in or with your major characters inside of a plot or story. Villains are often of this variety, as are assorted family members/friends from the days before your character was an adventuring sort.
Occasionally, if you have the need for in-game interaction, you or a friend can roll up a level 1 alt to "play" that character, but in most cases they don't get leveled. They're there for a function – either to advance a plot or complicate things or just be an innocent bystander for the bad guys to murder. (Most recently Bertrand was one such NPC)
I've got quite a few NPCs in various places that get used for different things:
- Mrs Elizabeth (Lizzy) Cross, the wife of Bryan Cross, and co-proprietor of The Silver Shield. Mrs Cross is a big, buxom woman that can swing a blacksmith's hammer as well as a frying pan. Aely and Phileas rent the walk-down apartment under their shop, and she's taken quite a liking to the two Northerners. She also has adopted "Lady", the mother of the puppies that Aely was trying to get rid of a few months back.
- Randolf Crebain, one very bored, very grumpy Argent Crusade member who has been "temporarily stationed" in Stormwind for the last 9 months. He's losing some of his hair, has an unruly beard, and is utterly fastidious about the two messengers in his employ, holding frequent inspections. He's basically a glorified errand boy, and he knows it.
- Amber Brightraven, an elf who rents a room in the Cantrips and Crows in Dalaran's underbelly. She doesn't look like a whore, but it's hard to tell with the folks she's constantly bringing in and out. She's too clean and too blonde to really fit in at the Cantrips, but doesn't seem to ever leave. Always accompanied by a powerful looking, wolfish dog. They say she spends a lot of time betting on the Arena matches.
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Buntport's Horror: The Transformation is based on Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, a novel published in 1798, and inspired by the true story of a farmer who killed his wife and children. It's not done as a period piece, though the clothes and setting aren't strictly modern, either: At one point, a character puts a record on a turntable, which would set the date somewhere in the mid-twentieth century. A lot of the dialogue retains Wieland's eighteenth-century focus and rhythm.
Although the acting is somewhat naturalistic -- at least in spots -- the production has many stylized elements. The actors all wear gloves; their eyes are heavily shadowed. Two children are represented by ingeniously-constructed puppets. There are long periods during which we, the audience, sit in absolute darkness, and often the theatre is filled with odd and insinuating sounds: Music. Panting. A low, breastbone-vibrating rumble. Footsteps. Instrumental shrieks.
It's difficult to scare audiences these days, with films routinely providing rivers of blood, grotesquely splintered bodies and realistic brain splatters. It's particularly hard for a theater group that lacks the technical resources of, say, the Denver Center. In addition, the plot of Brown's novel doesn't entirely hold together, and concepts that would have spooked people a couple of centuries ago -- ventriloquism, the practice of magic, spontaneous combustion -- don't have the same impact today.
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The play's ending left me confused. It wasn't just that I couldn't figure out whether the impulse that drove the protagonist, Theodore, to murder was supernatural or only the workings of his own religion-maddened mind -- that ambiguity was obviously intended. It was that I wasn't sure what had actually happened until I got home later and Googled: "Brown. Wieland. Plot."
Despite this, the Buntport production does succeed, both as an extended rumination on the first Gothic novel ever published in America, and in creating a real sense of fear and unease in a contemporary audience.
Theodore is forever talking with the members of his family -- his sister Clara and her friend Henry, his wife Catherine and their two children -- about science and belief and the role of God in human affairs. Those who lack belief, the play suggests, also lack any reason for action in the world. But those who do believe risk illusion, illogic and even madness.
Theodore and Clara's father was a highly religious man who built a temple where he worshiped alone. One night he was found there, naked, bruised and burned; the play suggests that he had spontaneously burst into flame. This man's own father had thrown himself over a cliff. Somehow, these deaths seem to pre-ordain Theodore's murders. Buntport communicates all this in a series of scenes that move backwards and forwards in time and are punctuated by flashes of light, periods of darkness and retina-teasing images.
The violence, when it finally comes, is well-staged and -acted, but also almost anti-climactic, far less troubling than the thoughts and feelings the production has already aroused. We know that children are killed by parents who think they've heard voices far more often than most of us like to think about; we know also that these horrors are ultimately incomprehensible. Yet I couldn't help wanting more coherence between the evening's earlier hints and portents and the actual murders, and a greater understanding of the link between Theodore's religiosity and his killings.
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There are elements I just didn't get. Whenever someone on stage performs -- a child dances for the adults or the magician, Carwin, shows off his tricks -- the other actors turn and stare at the audience, instead of watching the performer. Why? And the phrase "When people come to look at something, there must be something there for them to look at" is frequently repeated, but I have no idea what it's supposed to mean.
Yet many of the tricks are brilliant. At one point, Carwin magically creates a pretty, oval image of a garden against the back wall. When Clara approaches to examine itwell, you'll have to see for yourself. And although the moment doesn't quite work, I was impressed by the conceptual daring of having the two children play with dolls representing their grandparents, so that what you see is puppets manipulating smaller puppets. The puppet-children are eerily effective throughout. Kate, the little girl, says several times that she's afraid monsters will suck out her life force through her fingertips. At the moment when she's about to be killed, the Kate-puppet stretches out her arms to her murderous father. As she does, you see the white gloved hands of the puppeteer above her. It's a moment of genuine sadness.
Horror: The Transformation places us inside a disintegrating mind. It creates the sense of dislocation you feel waking up in the gray, predawn light, utterly alone, divorced from the habits and distractions that steady your daylight hours, aware that death has stepped one increment nearer and that if your mind starts sliding into oblivion, there's nothing in the wide, empty universe to stop it.


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Like a proper pint of Ben & Jerry's, history gets made in all sorts of flavors. A Rangers post-season series win is new and exciting, and Cliff Lee's feats as far as LDS strikeout records are indisputable numerical facts. But at the end of Tuesday night's anti-climactic shutdown of the American League's best team by the AL's best pitcher, you got left with some obvious questions: Why 162 games, if it all just gets burned away in a subsequent quintet of contests? Will Andrew Friedman's brand of poopadoodle wind up amounting to that much better than Billy Beane's? Does home-field advantage really just not matter quite so much after all?
After the Rays' inspired two-game rally in Texas against the back end of the Rangers' rotation, Cliff Lee's performance brought matters back to their most basic—short series rest on the best, and Lee's late-season struggles with back woes are yesterday's news. Tuesday night was a matter of Lee toying with his foes, whether as a matter of waiting to get into throwing breaking stuff his second and third time through the lineup, or just dicing up an increasingly frustrated team before sending them to posterity. Combined with the decision to push matters on the bases, it's a brilliant bit of risk taking in the abstract, but it's one that depends entirely on Lee showing up and doing the Mr. Invincible act. Which he did.
Subsequent studio jabber among likened Lee's dominance to Picasso, which is swell—after all, nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole, not like you, not in New York. But let's face it, that's the wrong burning sensation, especially after his humiliation of the Rays. Lee's post-season record is more Rembrandt in its perfection in execution and detail, the sort of thing that leaves subsequent generations breathless. If anything, the man leaves batters looking like Picasso's cubist portraits, diced-up deconstructions of the whole that initially stepped in.
But Rangers baserunning makes for another storyline, one well worth crediting because it reflected the tactical variant on a mindset already established by trading for Lee in the first place: now or never. That showed up from the start, with Elvis Andrus' creation of a run through his basepaths aggression. He paused at third base, checking out the action at first base, but motored on home once the slow-developing play took shape with Carlos Peña patiently flipping to David Price.
So sure, that's about baserunning, but if ever there was a single-play illustration in assumed caution and its discontents, you've got it right here—the Rays played the percentages, and got the out. The Rangers didn't, and scored. It's hard to fault the Rays for just taking the out this early in a game, and as far as Andrus, it's the sort of play where everyone loves you if you score, and laments your aggression if Price hits the deck and Peña throws home in good time. It's worth noting that Andrus ranked second in the league in extra bases taken on non-hits, beyond none other than much-loved gamer Derek Jeter, but he also did so on a much higher percentage of his opportunities.
This was part of a theme on the night. In the third, Bengie Molina swiped his first stolen base in more than four years—it may not be Ozzie Smith's '85 homer, but good luck on capturing that, Strat. In the fourth, the Rangers untied the game again with Nelson Cruz's steal of third. Cruz may not seem like the type, but with seven steals of third in 2009 and four more in 2010—getting caught just once each season—he's done a better job snagging the last base before home on his career than he has second base.
The problem with taking the meme of those "hustlin', rustlin' Rangers" too far is that Cruz's run scored was the product of happy accident after baserunning indifference—he pasted a pitch to center he thought was gone, it wasn't, and if he hadn't been making like Manny or Mel Hall or whoever your loudest-arfing hot dog might be these days, and observing and admiring the flight of the ball, he'd have wound up with a triple. If he executes soundly on that base hit, he may not necessarily score—sure, Ian Kinsler subsequently singled, but he probably doesn't see the same pitches with two outs and a man on third. Instead, what plated Cruz was Kelly Shoppach's wild throw—or Evan Longoria's poor positioning, or what might be chalked up to defense-wide failure on Cruz's stolen base attempt.
Even so, during the broadcast Ron Darling said that all of the basepaths mayhem was about forcing the Rays to make mistakes, but I wonder how much of it was really about that. If anything, it was about exploiting the Rays' prosaic execution, as I noted before. The Rays threw to the correct bases to get the right outs. It would be hard to identify "mistakes" made if you look at this game in the abstract. In the first inning, Price and Peña made an unextraordinary, safe play—it took Andrus to stretch the opportunity.
Take what happened in the sixth inning: Sean Rodriguez's attempted fielding of the force on Jason Bartlett's desperation throw to second to get the lead runner (Vladimir Guerrero) illustrates how easy it can be to underrate the difficulty of playing first base; Bartlett really didn't have much of a play, and he certainly couldn't go to first to get Cruz, the lead runner. Rodriguez wasn't in great position to scoop the throw; maybe a guy used to making that play is in better position, but it wasn't an easy play. The mishap proved critical because Ian Kinsler's double play grounder to short wound up just being a force thanks to another questionable officiating call at first base; Vladi, undeterred by his leading the league in outs made on the bases, motored home to score. If Kinsler is ruled out, the inning's over. Baseball can at least take some satisfaction that the 35,000 throats weren't howling for replay at that point; despair was probably producing a paralyzing effect, because the game was slipping away with Lee cruising. Kinsler's two-run homer in the ninth just poured cement on a grave already well dug.
Letting Lee pitch into the ninth telegraphed another bit of obviousness—he's going to pitch Game Three in New York next Monday. Maybe that sets him up for Game Six on three days' rest, or Game Seven on regular rest, which makes matters especially interesting. If they're to win, it'll be on the merits of their initial risks, not just the one involving the most famous gambit. As much as the Rays have been sabermetrics' favorite dish to savor for the last three seasons, the Rangers represent just as many positive developments at once. The virtues of several Jon Daniels deals, of course, but also a rejuvenated farm system popping out prospects that help on the field or as fodder for those swaps. Not even those things would have been enough, though—the willingness to take huge evaluative risks to conjure up an initial rotation probably represents the season-making decision of the year, not just for this team, but for any team. Success with C.J. Wilson and Colby Lewis is what puts the Rangers in position to not just trade for Lee to get an obvious ace, but to have enough going for them to win a five- or a seven-game series against their full-season betters.
If, on the other hand, the Rangers had simply settled and accepted that their window is only just opening—which it is—you'd have seen a club using Tommy Hunter earlier, and starting Derek Holland or Scott Feldman. That the Rangers decided not to settle for that is why they're in the LCS, and why they'll make a good series of it. The expectation is that this is the inauguration of something dynastic, at least as far as the league's short stack is concerned. More than that will come, perhaps as soon as next week.
Christina Kahrl is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Oct 13, 2010 06:24 AM
It's an old, favorite euphemism because I was a big fan of Dan O'Neill's Odd Bodkins comic strip from way back when--what I was doing reading them before I was in grade school, in retrospect, seems amusing--where the discovery of a poopadoodle surplus is additional evidence of a Martian invasion of the US, with domestic automakers as the Martians' proxy. Abe Lincoln and J. Edgar Hoover were among the cast of characters. What's not to love?
Oct 13, 2010 07:46 AM
How often does an attempted steal of third result in an E2 leading to a run? It seems like this happens way more than any other throw I can think of (Ryan Howard throwing to 2nd excluded).
Oct 13, 2010 06:47 AM
"Why 162 games, if it all just gets burned away in a subsequent quintet of contests?"
Oct 13, 2010 07:45 AM
Great to see the Jonathan Richman shout out, but why not stick with other painters he's written songs about and compare Lee to Vermeer? There's certainly no one like him. Plus it took a long time for people to appreciate Lee (but perhaps it just took him a long time to be worthy of appreciation).
Oct 13, 2010 08:30 AM
Thank you Christina for lauding a team that "goes for it" (as opposed to grimly going with young cheap players forever and them trading them off). Flags fly forever, after all.
Oct 13, 2010 11:09 AM
J Scott
Somewhat strange to see no mention of the bewildering decision by the Mariners to walk away, at the last minute, from a Lee-to-the-Yankees deal for a package involving Montero; to trade him to the Rangers because Texas made...Justin Smoak available? Really? Justin Smoak?
Oct 13, 2010 12:16 PM
Spoken by a Yankees fan, no doubt.
Oct 13, 2010 14:17 PM
J Scott
If you want to search through the BP archives I think you'll find everyone of the "BP People" who commented on the trade expressed similar thoughts.
Oct 13, 2010 14:35 PM
The Yankees have a rep for touting prospects as the next great thing in order to trade them when they are overvalued. Any time I hear about a 'great Yankee prospect', I just assume they are overrated until they prove otherwise in MLB.
Oct 13, 2010 19:44 PM
The Rays were beaten by a team doing all the things (aggressive baserunning)the Rays have been praised for the past 3 years.
Oct 13, 2010 16:17 PM
"The Rays threw to the correct bases to get the right outs. It would be hard to identify "mistakes" made if you look at this game in the abstract. In the first inning, Price and Peña made an unextraordinary, safe play—it took Andrus to stretch the opportunity."
Oct 13, 2010 17:12 PM
Cruz' play was both boneheaded and selfish and I can't believe no one else saw it that way. He lollygagged his way into 2nd. Then, knowing he should have been on 3rd decides to put himself ahead of the team to make up for his lack of hustle. A DECENT throw and he's out. And you better believe he'd have been excoriated for making that last out at 3rd. I guess the end justifies the means but to not hear the TBS "experts" discuss the risk/reward of stealing 3rd with 2 outs and the potential inspiration (making up for not hustling) for taking that risk was disappointing.
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IU students present "Lauren Project" to Spierers
The case of missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer has inspired new campaigns for campus safety.
Lauren disappeared in Bloomington nearly a year-and-a-half ago.
Wednesday, her parents were back on campus, for the "Lauren Project," with a goal of keeping co-eds safe.
Hoosier freshmen weren't even on campus when Spierer disappeared June 3, 2011. They didn't experience the searches, the posters and the daily pleas from her parents for answers.
But Lauren's story is still their story.
"Coming in, everyone knows about Lauren," IU freshman Zack Bassi told the Spierers.
"What happened to Lauren could happen to any of us," another student said.
"It really affects everybody still. It affects the way we go out, it affects the mindset that we have here," explained IU freshman Julianne Howell.
That is at the heart of the "Lauren Project," a classroom assignment through the Kelley School of Business, to turn Lauren Spierer's tragedy into an opportunity for change on campus. The young business students were charged with creating a campaign for student safety.
"We propose an idea that will take campus security to a new high," one student told the class.
Robert and Charlene Spierer flew in from New York to listen to students' ideas. It's more than a lesson to them, it's a legacy.
"The most important thing here is for them to be thinking about safety, for them to be considering how they make their lives and their friends' lives better," Robert Spierer said.
"It would be so nice to see it go forth and to do some good somewhere, because it's a tragedy for our family, so something positive would be great," Charlene Spierer added.
From all-hours safe ride escorts to "Hoosier Buddy" systems to video campaigns, most presentations focused on the campus culture at night. That's when many students, just like Lauren, still walk alone.
"The harsh reality is there are so many people walking home alone at 2 am. I'm a freshman and I see it all the time," said IU student Alyssa Sheets.
Other student groups in the class suggested creating a smartphone app that would include Lauren's story, campus safety resources and connections to cab companies to get students home unharmed.
"I was quite impressed and I think that this is a great starting point," Robert Spierer said. "Some of these ideas were absolutely terrific and I would hate to see them die on the vine."
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In fact, the Spierers hope they get explored more deeply and become a reality outside the classroom at IU and even on campuses nationwide. Students would like to see that too.
"They (the Spierers) came all the way here to hear these ideas and we wanted to make them ideas that could really help make sure that what happened to Lauren never happens again," said one of the students.
The Spierers say their daughter's case remains an active investigation. They continue to communicate with Bloomington Police and their own private detective, who are all working to find Lauren.


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Rosemount, Minn., woman charged with stealing from bank where she works
A 48-year-old Savage woman has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing more than $3,000 from the Rosemount bank where she worked.
The theft was reported to Rosemount police on Sept. 20. According to a complaint filed in the Dakota County Attorney's office Suzanne Mary Dertman came to the bank's attention after a computer flagged an error in one of her transactions. When the bank investigated they found Detrman's drawer short $3,200.
In a conversation with police Dertman reportedly admitted stealing $2,000, then said she'd stolen $3,000 during the time she worked at the bank to pay her bills and to help her daughter with college expenses.
Dertman said she didn't steal the additional $200. She said that discrepancy was the result of two mistakes she made. She told police she didn't report those mistakes because they would have called attention to the missing $3,000.
If convicted on a theft charge Dertman could spend up to five years in jail and face a fine of up to $10,000.
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A late-night traffic stop has led to charges of driving under the influence for a 26-year-old Savage man.
A Dakota County Sheriff's deputy stopped Ryan Andrew Baker just before 1 a.m. Aug. 14 after she noticed him swerving while driving through Empire Township.
According to a complaint filed in the Dakota County Attorney's office, Baker admitted having two beers at a wedding in Hastings.
According to the complaint Baker performed poorly on field sobriety tests and a breath test administered it 1:46 showed a blood alcohol content of .14.
Baker's driver's license was revoked in February of 2008 for an impaired driving violation. If convicted this time on either of two gross misdemeanor DWI charges Baker could face up to a year in jail and fines of up to $3,000.


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I had a breast implant revision 3 weeks ago after my first surgery left me with an under-disected pocket on the right side. I also went up from 325cc to 400cc mentor moderate profile silicone implants under the muscle. My breasts are uneven again except this time the right breast is the one sitting lower. It is also a different shape, much rounder. Is it possible it is taking longer to settle than the left? I also worry about the incisions. Please help as I can't go back to my surgeon.
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Breast Implant Revision after 3 Weeks
At 3 weeks, the results are appropriate, and I see minimal unevenness. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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Your revision results look pretty good, I would not do anything else at this point. Good luck.
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I think and see a very minimal difference that I would assume was present pre operatively. To me your result is very very good. Any further surgery might be a too high risk level. Best of luck.
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thanks for the post. I understand your concerns. I would agree with the other PS here: you have a very mild sign of a double bubble on the right. However, at only 3 weeks, it's too early to tell. I would let your PS know and see what recommendations he/she has.
Typically, at this early stage, I have patients doing breast massage daily on both breasts. I like them to continue this for at least 3 months.
what type of bra are you using? sometimes, a tight support bra will help prevent the implant from dropping too low. This is important in the early healing process ( now for you) . But ask your PS if that is what they recommend.
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I can't quite see enough from just these photos--45 degree views would help, as would pre op photos.
There is a hint of a double bubble on the right, with a visible crease that may represent the original breast fold.
Three weeks is a bit early to be concerned about shape after a revision and size increase as it may take 3 or more months for the implants to settle, and it may well be that any differences today will no longer be present. If these looked even to your surgeon at the end of the surgery, chances are they will look even after the implants settle.
Your surgeon should be a better resource than surgeons looking at photos on line.
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Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) promises to deliver connectivity features in Windows Vista not possible with today's Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4).
Microsoft Corp.'s "community technology preview" was issued in December. The second version ships in February. Both versions already support IPv6-enabled file-sharing and remote-access features.
Driving Microsoft to adopt the IPv6 protocol in Vista is the ability to enable "new application experiences."
It meant being able to incorporate "richer collaboration," multiplayer gaming, or voice and video into applications. Sinead O'Donovan, product unit manger for networking at Microsoft, said "When we looked at key applications such as MSN Messenger, we learned that developers needed to do too many tricks to get them to work over NAT."
Network Address Translation, or NAT, is a technology commonly used in the United States in which several devises can connect to the Internet on one IP address. It was developed as a temporary patch for the lack of IP connection points as more devices link to the Web.
As for the cost, software developers who are designing these applications for Windows in IPv4 were finding it too expensive. "If you had to route all the file-sharing traffic in MSN Messenger through your server it's very expensive to build that application because they must have a lot of servers to support the application," O'Donovan said. "IPv6 allows them take advantage of end-to-end connectivity, so if it makes sense for the traffic to go between two peers they can."
O'Donovan said it's important for applications with both voice and video traffic to travel directly between two piers because latency is an issue and users will notice any delay.
O'Donovan believes IPv6 offers securer data transmissions through longer IP addresses. The header length for IPv6 is 40-bytes and address 128-bits, compared with IPv4's 20-byte to 24-byte header and 32-bit address, Dale Geesey, vice president of consulting, v6 transition at UPIPv6 Summit Inc, confirmed in an e-mail.
IPv6 has inherent security features. Risks, such as worms, that quickly scan a range of addresses to find a vulnerable machine for an attack will need to scan more address, which requires increased computing power. Alex Lightman, chief executive officer and president of IPv6 Summit Inc., said "IPv6 has 2128 [or 3.4 1038] addresses," a number so large it's incomprehensible, "compared with IPv4, which has 232 addresses, or roughly 4 billion addresses."
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The effects of patient-related and technical factors on the risk of revision due to dislocation after primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) are only partly understood. We hypothesized that increasing the femoral head size can reduce this risk, that the lateral surgical approach is associated with a lower risk than the posterior and minimally invasive approaches, and that gender and diagnosis influence the risk of revision due to dislocation.
Data on 78,098 THAs in 61,743 patients performed between 2005 and 2010 were extracted from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register. Inclusion criteria were a head size of 22, 28, 32, or 36 mm, or the use of a dual-mobility cup. The covariates age, sex, primary diagnosis, type of surgical approach, and head size were entered into Cox proportional hazards models in order to calculate the adjusted relative risk (RR) of revision due to dislocation, with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
After a mean follow-up of 2.7 (0–6) years, 399 hips (0.5%) had been revised due to dislocation. The use of 22-mm femoral heads resulted in a higher risk of revision than the use of 28-mm heads (RR = 2.0, CI: 1.2–3.3). Only 1 of 287 dual-mobility cups had been revised due to dislocation. Compared with the direct lateral approach, minimally invasive approaches were associated with a higher risk of revision due to dislocation (RR = 4.2, CI: 2.3–7.7), as were posterior approaches (RR = 1.3, CI: 1.1–1.7). An increased risk of revision due to dislocation was found for the diagnoses femoral neck fracture (RR = 3.9, CI: 3.1–5.0) and osteonecrosis of the femoral head (RR = 3.7, CI: 2.5–5.5), whereas women were at lower risk than men (RR = 0.8, CI: 0.7–1.0). Restriction of the analysis to the first 6 months after the index procedure gave similar risk estimates.
Patients with femoral neck fracture or osteonecrosis of the femoral head are at higher risk of dislocation. Use of the minimally invasive and posterior approaches also increases this risk, and we raise the question of whether patients belonging to risk groups should be operated using lateral approaches. The use of femoral head diameters above 28 mm or of dual-mobility cups reduced this risk in a clinically relevant manner, but this observation was not statistically significant.
Dislocation remains a major problem after primary total hip arthroplasty (THA), and has a considerably negative effect on the quality of life after THA, especially if it is recurrent (Enocson et al. 2009b). Revision due to dislocation accounts for 9% of all revisions of primary THAs in the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register (SHAR), and it is therefore the second most common reason for revision after aseptic loosening (SHAR Annual Report 2010). An even higher proportion of revisions due to dislocation—of 26%—has been reported by the Australian National Joint Replacement Registry (2011). Most dislocations occur during the first postoperative year, and up to 50% take place within the first 3 months (Woo and Morrey 1982, Phillips et al. 2003, Meek et al. 2006). The Norwegian Joint Register reported that the number of revisions performed due to dislocation has increased over time, possibly related to changes in head sizes and surgical approaches during the study period (Fevang et al. 2010).
Several factors have been proposed to influence the risk of dislocation, but many questions still remain unsolved (Meek et al. 2006). Various diagnoses such as femoral neck fracture (Conroy et al. 2008), the posterior approach to the joint, and small femoral head size of the prosthesis are parameters that have been identified as risk factors for dislocation (Furnes et al. 2001, Bystrom et al. 2003, Berry et al. 2005, Lachiewicz and Soileau 2006, Enocson et al. 2009b, Sariali et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2012).
The use of dual-mobility cups, synonymously termed tripolar cups in primary THA, leads to a low risk of dislocation (Farizon et al. 1998, Philippot et al. 2009b, Bouchet et al. 2011, Boyer et al. 2012). Revision surgery of patients with recurrent dislocations by the use of dual-mobility cups has also shown promising results (Langlais et al. 2008, Philippot et al. 2009a).
We studied the influence of both patient-related and surgical factors on the risk of revision due to dislocation in the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register. We hypothesized that age, sex, primary diagnosis underlying THA surgery, femoral head size, and surgical approach can affect the risk of revision due to dislocation. Furthermore, we specifically investigated the effects of dual-mobility cups on the risk of dislocation.
Our data were derived from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register (SHAR Annual Report 2010), initiated in 1979. All public and private orthopedic units report demographic data, laterality, surgical approach, and detailed information on implants and fixation to the Register. The SHAR has been validated, and the completeness has been found to be about 99% for primary THA (SHAR Annual Report 2010) and 94% for revision hip arthroplasties (Söderman 2000).
Femoral head sizes above 28 mm and dual-mobility cups have only been in frequent use in Sweden since 2005. Thus, only primary THA procedures registered in the SHAR from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2010 were extracted. An extension of the selection criteria to earlier time periods would only have resulted in the addition of more head sizes below 28 mm and of more historical cup designs that are no longer in clinical use.
To reduce the influence of cup designs used in small numbers, we included only cups that had been inserted in at least 1,000 hips—with the exception of the dual-mobility design, which had only been used in 287 THAs. In Sweden, this type of cup has only recently been introduced, and, with few exceptions, only one design has been inserted (Avantage; Biomet, Warsaw, IN). Hip resurfacings and implants with rarely used head diameters (24, 26, 30, and 40 mm; n = 140), 20 hips with missing data on head diameter, and 487 hips with uncertain information on the type of surgical approach were excluded. Thus, we identified and analyzed 78,098 procedures in 61,743 patients.
The term "revision" was defined as an intervention where 1 or more components of the prosthesis were exchanged, where an augmentation device was added, or where the whole prosthesis was removed. Thus, other types of reoperations in which the implant was left in situ, e.g. closed reductions or incision and drainage, were disregarded.
The covariate "diagnosis" was divided into primary osteoarthritis (pOA), inflammatory joint disease, femoral neck fracture, osteonecrosis of the femoral head (FHN), previous pediatric hip diseases such as developmental dysplasia of the hip, Perthes' disease and slipped femoral epiphysis, and other diagnoses. The category "other diagnoses" included secondary osteoarthritis due to previous trauma or malignancy. The covariate "surgical approaches" was divided into lateral, posterior, and minimally invasive. The category "lateral approaches" included the approaches described by Hardinge, Gammer, or Bauer, with or without trochanteric osteotomy. "Posterior approaches" included approaches based on the description by Moore, with or without trochanteric osteotomy. "Minimally invasive approaches" included lateral (n = 604), posterior (n = 100), and 2-incision approaches (n =30).
Continuous descriptive statistics used means, median values, ranges, and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) where appropriate. Cox proportional hazards models were used to analyze the influence of various covariates on the relative risk (RR) of revision due to dislocation. Follow-up started on the day of primary THA and ended on the day of revision, death, emigration, or December 31, 2010, whichever came first. The covariates age (< 50, 50–59, 60–75, > 75), sex, primary diagnosis, head size (22, 28, 32, 36, dual-mobility) and surgical approach were initially investigated as singular covariates resulting in a crude RR with 95% CI. All covariates mentioned above were subsequently entered into the model, and adjusted RRs were calculated using the Breslow method for handling ties. A separate analysis was performed for the first 6 months after the index procedure. The assumption of proportional hazards was investigated by calculating the correlation coefficient between transformed survival time and the scaled Schoenfeld residuals. The level of significance was set at p < 0.05 in all analyses, and we used the R software package (version 2.14.1).
The inclusion of both joints in bilaterally operated patients does not appear to lead to dependency issues in registry studies of this size, and both joints in bilaterally operated patients were thus included in the analysis (Hailer et al. 2010). To confirm these previous observations, separate analyses excluding the second THA in bilaterally operated patients were performed without affecting parameter estimates.
The population studied consisted of 36,968 females (60%) and 24,775 males. The distribution of age and diagnosis groups is given in Tables 1 and and2.2. 35,460 THAs (45%) had been performed using a lateral approach, 41,904 (54%) using a posterior approach, and 734 THAs (1%) had been inserted using minimally invasive approaches. 28 mm was by far the most widely used head diameter (Table 3). 71,094 cups (91%) were cemented and 7,004 (9%) were uncemented. 2 different types of Avantage cups had been used: the cemented, polished version (n = 275) and the uncemented, hydroxyapatite-coated version (n = 12). Cross-tabulations for diagnosis or surgical approach by femoral head size are summarized in Table 4. The Lubinus cup was the most commonly used acetabular implant (Table 5). Cups had been combined with a wide variety of stems, both cemented (n = 64,808; 83%) and uncemented (n = 13,251; 17%, with missing data for 39 stems), creating both cemented, hybrid, and uncemented systems. Mean follow-up time was 2.7 (0–6) years.
At follow-up 1,302 hips (1.7%) had been revised, 406 (0.5%) due to infection, 399 (0.5%) due to dislocation, 213 (0.3%) due to aseptic loosening, 146 (0.2%) due to periprosthetic fracture, and the remaining 138 (0.2%) for various reasons. Most revisions due to dislocation (n = 274, 69%) were performed during the first postoperative year, and another 60 (15%) occurred during the second postoperative year (Figure 1). Of all revisions performed during the first postoperative year, revision due to dislocation was the second most common reason after revision due to infection (n = 295).
In the unadjusted Cox regression analysis, a head diameter of 22 mm was associated with a higher risk of revision due to dislocation than the reference diameter of 28 mm. The diagnoses of femoral neck fracture and femoral head necrosis, and the group of other diagnoses, were associated with an increased risk of revision due to dislocation when compared with the reference category of primary osteoarthritis. Finally, the minimally invasive approaches resulted in a significantly higher risk of revision due to dislocation than the direct lateral approaches (Table 6).
All covariates mentioned above were subsequently entered into a multiple regression model and adjusted RRs were calculated (Table 6). The use of the smallest head diameter of 22 mm resulted in an increased risk of revision when compared with 28-mm heads (RR = 2.0, 95% CI: 1.2–3.3). We found a reduced risk of revision due to dislocation with increasing head diameter, with the lowest RR being observed for dual-mobility cups (RR = 0.4, CI: 0.1–2.9). This observation was not statistically significant, however. In an exploratory analysis, we found no evidence that the type of cup fixation (cemented or uncemented) influenced the risk of dislocation (data not shown). Moreover, we performed a separate analysis investigating the risk of revision due to dislocation within the first 6 months, but the adjusted risk estimates remained similar to those described for the entire study period (data not shown).
Femoral neck fracture, femoral head necrosis, and the group of other diagnoses were associated with an increased risk of revision due to dislocation. THA performed because of femoral neck fracture had an RR of 3.9 (CI: 3.1–5.0) when compared with hips operated due to primary osteoarthritis. We found an RR of 3.7 (CI: 2.5–5.5) for hips with femoral head necrosis. Hips with inflammatory diseases showed almost the same risk as the group with primary osteoarthritis. In patients with sequelae after pediatric hip diseases, the adjusted RR was higher, but this was not statistically significantly different from the reference group.
Minimally invasive surgical approaches showed a higher risk of revision due to dislocation than the direct lateral approach after adjustment for covariates (RR = 4.2, CI: 2.3–7.7) (Figure 2). In the adjusted model, the posterior approaches showed a higher risk of revision due to dislocation than the direct lateral approaches, with an RR of 1.3 (CI: 1.1–1.7).
The demographic covariates age and sex were also entered into the regression model. Age at the time of index THA had no influence on the risk of revision due to dislocation, whereas females had a lower risk than males (RR = 0.8, CI: 0.7–1.0).
The risk of revision due to dislocation in subgroups of THA found to have a higher than average risk was studied separately. In the group operated because of fracture, for femoral head necrosis, or for other reasons (n = 10,370), 137 (1.3%) had been revised because of dislocation. A dual-mobility cup had been used in 206 of the hips belonging to these risk groups, and, notably, none of these had been revised because of dislocation. The covariates age at index operation, sex, type of surgical approach, and head size were then entered into the regression model with the endpoint "revision due to dislocation". Factors that influenced the risk of revision due to dislocation in these risk groups were a femoral head size of 22 mm (RR = 2.5, CI: 1.1–5.7; p = 0.03), female sex (RR = 0.5, CI: 0.4–0.7; p < 0.001), the posterior approach (RR = 1.6, CI: 1.2–2.3; p = 0.01) and a minimally invasive approach (RR = 5.0, CI: 1.2–21.1; p = 0.03). The risk of revision due to dislocation was dependent on femoral head size for patients with a femoral neck fracture, and the use of dual-mobility cups was associated with the lowest risk of dislocation (Figure 3).
Our findings are largely in accordance with those of previously reported medium-sized cohort studies and registry studies. Data derived from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register indicated that dislocation rates were lower after the use of 32-mm femoral heads than after the use of 28-mm femoral heads (Bystrom et al. 2003). The Charnley stem with a 22-mm head did, however, perform just as well as the group with 28-mm heads, which contradicts our findings. In a cohort study of 2,572 hips that received either 28- or 32-mm femoral heads, a 6-fold increased risk of dislocation was associated with the use of 28-mm heads, but this analysis also included cases treated with closed reduction (Amlie et al. 2010). An analysis of almost 248,000 THA procedures from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales suggested that the increasing use of femoral head sizes of 36 mm or larger during the period 2005–2009 was associated with a decrease in the number of dislocations (Jameson et al. 2011). In that study, however, no direct link between patients and specific head sizes was investigated. A comparison of 198 consecutive hips operated with 28-mm femoral heads with 259 hips that had received 36-mm femoral heads showed that the risk of dislocation was almost 8-fold in the group with the smaller head size (Bistolfi et al. 2011).
Dual-mobility cups have a femoral head component of either 22 mm or 28 mm diameter that moves inside a larger-sized polyethylene liner. The liner moves freely in a metal shell with an inner diameter that corresponds to the outer diameter of the polyethylene liner. The metal shell can be fixed to the acetabular bone by cement or press-fit. Only 1 out of 287 dual-mobility cups investigated in our study was revised due to dislocation, although this implant was mostly used for THA inserted because of femoral neck fracture. It should be kept in mind that the subgroup of dual-mobility cups was small compared to the entire cohort in this study, and a high degree of uncertainty remains. However, taking these limitations into account, we suggest that dual-mobility cups reduce the risk of dislocation in patients with femoral neck fracture and other risk groups to a clinically relevant degree. This is in accordance with other studies. In a case-control study of 213 hips, no dislocations were found in primary THA inserted using a posterior approach, whereas 5 dislocations occurred in patients operated with a conventional 28-mm metal head (Bouchet et al. 2011). No dislocations were observed in a series of 150 patients operated with a dual-mobility cup due to primary osteoarthritis, at a mean follow-up of 7 years (Bauchu et al. 2008). This cup design can also reduce the risk of dislocation in patients who receive a THA due to femoral neck fracture (Tarasevicius et al. 2010).
The type of surgical approach influences the risk of dislocation after THA, but several points of controversy remain. A retrospective study of 713 hips indicated that patients with a THA inserted due to femoral neck fracture had a higher risk of dislocation after the use of a posterior approach, and a retrospective analysis of 21,047 THA—mostly inserted due to osteoarthritis—showed that the posterior approach was associated with a higher cumulative 10-year risk of dislocation (Berry et al. 2005, Enocson et al. 2009a). It was also found that the introduction of the anterolateral approach as a routine approach in the treatment of patients with femoral neck fracture reduced the risk of dislocation from 8% to 2% when compared to the previously used posterior approach (Sköldenberg et al. 2010). However, the proposed enhanced risk of dislocation associated with posterior approaches has been questioned. A randomized trial comparing a lateral approach and a posterior approach combined with repair of posterior capsule and external rotators found a higher dislocation rate in the group with THAs inserted using a lateral approach (Ji et al. 2012).
We found that minimally invasive approaches increase the risk of revision due to dislocation relative to the anterolateral approach. There have been numerous reports on intraoperative and postoperative complications associated with minimally invasive approaches, but we have not found any mention of a higher rate of dislocation in larger cohorts. A higher risk of dislocation following minimally invasive procedures could at least in part be explained by suboptimal cup positioning during minimally invasive surgery (Callanan et al. 2011). In that study, the use of minimally invasive approaches increased the risk of cup positioning outside the safe zone by a factor of 6.
It has been suggested that resuturing of the posterior capsule and/or external rotators can reduce the risk of THA dislocation after using a posterior approach. In a retrospective review of 945 THAs inserted using a posterior approach combined with a posterior soft tissue repair, only 8 hips dislocated. However, it is unclear how the authors ascertained completeness of follow-up (Weeden et al. 2003). Meticulous external rotator repair was also found to result in only 1 dislocation in 178 THAs, but without comparison with a control group (Browne and Pagnano 2012). In contrast, an analysis of 713 THAs indicated that a posterior approach gave a higher risk of dislocation than the lateral approach irrespective of whether or not a posterior soft tissue repair had been performed (Enocson et al. 2009a). Our findings support the notion that a posterior approach is indeed associated with a higher risk of dislocation than the lateral approach, but we cannot comment on the possible effects of posterior soft tissue repair since such detailed information is not recorded in the Register.
Our results on the higher risk of dislocation of hips operated due to femoral neck fracture or idiopathic femoral head necrosis are in partial agreement with an Australian Registry study. In that study, the diagnoses femoral neck fracture and osteonecrosis were associated with increased risk of revision due to dislocation. In contrast to our findings, an approximately doubled risk of revision due to dislocation was observed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (Conroy et al. 2008). Our finding that THAs inserted due to sequelae after pediatric diseases of the hip are not at higher risk of revision due to dislocation than THA inserted due to osteoarthritis are contradicted by a Danish registry study. In that study, patients with childhood disorders had an adjusted RR of revision due to dislocation of 3 compared to patients operated due to primary osteoarthritis (Thillemann et al. 2008). A reason for this discrepancy could be that we selected standard implants that had been used in at least 1,000 hips in order to specifically address the influence of head size, whereas custom-made implants and exotic implants were not included in our analysis, although such devices are probably over-represented in patients with sequelae after pediatric diseases of the hip. Another possible confounder is that most patients in Denmark are operated using the posterior approach.
We have only reported cases of revision due to dislocation, since closed reductions are not reported to the Register. The definition of the term "dislocation" varies between studies, and registry studies cannot be directly compared with cohort studies since the former usually do not include closed reductions, whereas the latter do. Factors such as age or medical comorbidity certainly influence the decision-making process for or against revision surgery after recurrent dislocations. We could not adjust for these confounders in our study. If present, one could speculate that cases believed to run an increased risk of dislocation are over-represented in the groups who received 36 mm heads and dual articular cups, in an effort by the surgeon to prevent dislocation. The observation that the majority of dual articular cups were inserted in cases with femoral neck fracture supports this presumption. Finally, due to the relatively short follow-up, we cannot comment on other relevant endpoints such as revision due to aseptic loosening, which is an interesting parameter when analyzing the outcome of large-diameter bearings.
In summary, patients receiving THA because of a femoral neck fracture or necrosis of the femoral head are at a higher risk of dislocation than patients with primary osteoarthritis, whereas patients with inflammatory joint diseases or sequelae after pediatric hip diseases are not. Posterior surgical approaches are associated with an increased risk of dislocation compared to lateral approaches, and minimally invasive approaches quite dramatically enhance the risk of this complication. Our study indicates that the overall risk of dislocation is reduced by increasing femoral head size. Even if the use of dual-mobility cups appeared to adequately address the problem of instability, this observation did not reach statistical significance. Our findings raise the question of whether patients with risk factors such as a diagnosis of femoral neck fracture or femoral head necrosis should be operated using lateral approaches with larger femoral head sizes or dual-mobility cups in order to minimize the risk of dislocation.
NPH: statistical analysis, and writing and revision of the manuscript. AS and RJW: revision of the manuscript. JK: database preparation, statistical analysis, and revision of the manuscript.
We thank all the Swedish orthopedic surgeons and secretaries who contributed data.
No competing interests declared.
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