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"Interesting theatricalization of The Search"
I'd wish my usage of the term "theatricalization" to be taken, not in a negative way, at all, but, rather, in a "neutral" one. Actually, I began considering the word "novelization", but, as the reading is delivered on the stage, and as it works so well in that setting, I consider it to be a better way of describing it.
That notwithstanding, the concept is also useful for expressing my impression that Sweeney did a lot of "adapting" to her, let's say, "spiritual" experiences, in order to drive her message home more effectively. Regarding this, the well-timed aparition of both couples of mormons looks rather suspicious.
But I hardly think this is something to make much of, as it's a well known fact that most writing is "subjective" (i.e., a fiction), in some measure, and rhetoric ought to be expected. In any case, I'd have preferred that Sweeney had avoided over-dramatizing her lecture: it gets too pathetic on occasions, and too teary from time to time -in a noticeable forced way-.
Also, perhaps, I'd have liked the author to comment more about the "imprint" phenomenon, that is, the lasting effects of religion being instilled in young minds. Sweeney refers to it in passing: "once a Catholic, alwasys a Catholic".
Apart from that, I think this is a work worth listening to: it explores the experiential aspect of the free-thinker mind, which is a matter rarely considered on more "technical" atheist books.


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Deviations in the amount of genomic content that arise during tumorigenesis, called copy number alterations, are structural rearrangements that can critically affect gene expression patterns. Additionally, copy number alteration profiles allow insight into cancer discrimination, progression and complexity. On data obtained from high-throughput sequencing, improving quality through GC bias correction and keeping false positives to a minimum help build reliable copy number alteration profiles.
We introduce seqCNA, a parallelized R package for an integral copy number analysis of high-throughput sequencing cancer data. The package includes novel methodology on (i) filtering, reducing false positives, and (ii) GC content correction, improving copy number profile quality, especially under great read coverage and high correlation between GC content and copy number. Adequate analysis steps are automatically chosen based on availability of paired-end mapping, matched normal samples and genome annotation.
seqCNA, available through Bioconductor, provides accurate copy number predictions in tumoural data, thanks to the extensive filtering and better GC bias correction, while providing an integrated and parallelized workflow.
High-throughput sequencing; Cancer; Copy number; R; BioconductorBackground
Genomic structural rearrangements are a hallmark of cancer. Among them, deviations in the amount of genomic content that arise during tumorigenesis, called copy number alterations (CNAs), can critically affect gene expression patterns [1,2]. A priori, expression could be expected to correlate with gene dosage. However, although a certain global correlation exists, individually, it has not been observed to be linear and, in some cases, it can even be inverse [3]. This is due to a range of dosage regulation mechanisms [4] that confer the cell with robustness to the presence of CNAs. Still, greater expression variability arises from such regulation [5] and, if large amounts of DNA are affected by CNAs, cell control cannot be kept [6]. Furthermore, post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications, folding stability and gene-protein and protein-protein interactions greatly mask the effect of copy number changes, but correlation between gene dosage and protein expression has been found to be greater in the case of oncogenes [7]. Indeed, the importance of CNAs in cancer is demonstrated by the existence of CNA patterns that allow to differentiate between cancer types [2,8] and to analyze cancer progression and complexity [9].
High-throughput technologies, including array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH), single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays and high-throughput sequencing (HTS) follow a similar computational analysis workflow for the detection of CNAs: preprocessing of raw data, copy number profile segmentation and CNA calling, based on the average values of the resulting segments. The first step, preprocessing, is vital for improved CNA detection and is often underrated [10]. For HTS data, this step starts with read summarization, which involves counting the number of reads that fall within genomic windows, typically non-overlapping and fix-sized. The result is a window read count (RC) profile, which is a proxy to the true copy number profile. Some reads, such as those with low mapping quality [11], can be filtered during summarization, while whole windows can be filtered afterwards. Preprocessing may continue with normalization, which corrects for technical or biological factors that confound the true copy number profile, mainly the GC content [12]. Normalization against a matched normal sample allows a better correction of confounding factors [13] and reduces the need for filters, but it is not always available [14], hence the relevance of optimal filtering and GC content bias correction.
Here, we present a user-friendly and highly-parallelized R package, called seqCNA, which allows an integrated copy number analysis workflow. The package includes novel methodology on (i) window filtering, reducing false positives in comparison to assessed existing methods, and (ii) GC content correction, improving profile quality, especially under great read coverage and high correlation between GC content and copy number.
seqCNA is available as an R package through the Bioconductor project [15]. It depends on the GLAD [16], adehabitatLT [17], doSNOW [18] and seqCNA.annot R packages, which are automatically downloaded from the Bioconductor and CRAN [19] repositories as needed. The seqCNA.annot companion package contains annotation on GC content, mappability and presence of common CNVs for the included genome builds, enabling several optional steps of the analysis.
An integrated read summarization function, seqsumm, written in C++ and interfacing with the R code through Rcpp, makes seqCNA the only tool required to obtain copy number profiles from SAM alignment files (SAMtools [20] is necessary to read BAM files). The subsequent functions in the package return visual feedback throughout the analysis and require little parameterization. A vignette with a worked example and detailed help on functions and parameters are included within the package.
Results and discussion
The seqsumm function summarizes read counts into windows of the selected size, but it also classifies paired-end mapping (PEM) reads based on their SAM flags - which consider read pairing, separation and orientation - and calculates mean window mapping quality, enabling two of the five window filters available in seqCNA. The first filter involves PEM read classification, which has previously been used to select reads prior to summarization [21] and to detect the limits of structural genomic rearrangements, including CNVs [22]. Improper reads are considered those that are not in read pairs with correct separation and orientation. We saw that genomic windows with an elevated proportion of improper reads tend to be outliers in the RC profile, probably indicating the presence of intra-window structural polymorphisms. If these windows are not of interest, they can be filtered by setting a maximum proportion of improper reads within each window. Second, directly filtering low mapping quality reads reduces the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the RC profile [23] so, instead, seqCNA provides a filter that discards windows, based on the mean mapping quality of proper reads. A third filter, the trimming filter, removes windows with extreme RC values, with the distinctive feature that a prior correction against GC content is performed, avoiding trimming extreme RCs that are only due to extreme GC content. The remaining two filters discard windows with the presence of common CNVs described by Altshuler et al. [24] and low mappability, where the mappability of a window reflects the uniqueness of 35-nucleotide long sequences within it [25].
A matched normal sample is preferable (but not necessary) for the PEM-based, mapping quality and trimming filters, in order to prevent biases that arise due to the presence of CNAs. For instance, some extreme RCs on an unpaired tumoural profile can be due to CNAs and should be kept, so the process of trimming should be able to spot them to avoid their filtering. For the matter, the trimming filter in seqCNA uses an algorithm based on the Wald-Wolfowitz runs test to tell apart CNAs from outliers on unpaired tumoural profiles. It measures the randomness of the position of those windows with RC above a certain threshold, where the higher the threshold, the greater the randomness due to outliers. The threshold is set where a sudden change in randomness occurs due to the inclusion of adjacent windows, not likely to be outliers (see Additional file 1, Automatic trimming Section, for more details). The five filters are independent and are applicable based on availability of PEM reads, matched normal sample and genome build annotation. While each filter targets windows with a specific behavior, many windows are captured by more than one filter, increasing the filtering robustness (see Figure 1).
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Figure 1. Window filtering on HCC1143 sample's RC profile. Visual assessment of the filtering performed by seqCNA on sample HCC1143. The profile (top) shows where the filtered windows lie within it. Mappability-filtered windows are marked as orange triangles; mapping quality-filtered, as magenta crosses; and trimming-filtered, as purple dots. The Venn diagram shows the overlaps among the windows filtered by the three applied filters. The plots on the right depict the density maps on which thresholds delimit the windows to be discarded based on the different filters.
The next step of the analysis is normalization, which accounts for confounding factors in the RC profile. If a matched normal sample is not available, normalization involves GC content bias correction, which removes a great part of the observed bias. The described relationship between GC content and RC [12] is generally non-linear, so, until recently, GC content correction has been tackled through local regression (LOESS) or polynomial fitting [10,11,26]. Such approach is adequate for genomes where (i) gains and losses account for a small fraction of the genome or they are rather balanced and (ii) GC content distribution is similar among regions with different copy numbers, but this is not typically the case of cancer genomes, where a linear relationship between copy number and GC content produces a bias in the regression. The GC correction algorithm in FREEC [14] tries to improve mere regression by looking for the GC content curve of the main copy number, sampling window densities at specific GC content levels. Thus, FREEC is able to handle the possible correlation between copy number and GC content, as long as the correlation does not affect the convergence of the algorithm towards the main copy number. Furthermore, such algorithm works under the assumption of known sample ploidy and proportionality between RC and copy number, which may be shifted by the presence of subclones in the cell population.
The approach we propose for GC bias correction, called seqnorm, accounts for the correlation between copy number and GC content independently of sample characteristics. textitseqnorm is a two-iteration algorithm, with a first pass regression that removes much of the GC bias and a second step that accounts for the correlation between GC content and copy number before a second pass regression. While the first regression is sensitive to the correlation and can, therefore, under- or over-correct the GC curve, the GC bias generally decreases. Afterwards, GLAD [16] produces a segmented profile in a way that segments represent the maximal neighbourhoods in which the local constant assumption of the statistical model holds. Such property is interesting because low intra-segment variability is key to the second regression, which is applied segment-wise. Namely, segments with the highest RC variability, as well as those spanning few windows, may not provide robust enough fits. In turn, those with little GC content variability do not allow estimating the effect of extreme GC content. Therefore, segments undergo a selection process (see Additional file 1, seqnorm Section, for more details). Centering the selected segments removes the read count differences due to copy number changes, essentially removing the undesired correlation. Thus, the subsequent segment-wise regressions provide good approximations to the genome-wide effect of GC content on read counts without the bias that emerges from the correlation and their median gives a robust estimate of the true effect (see Figure 2). Although devised to improve GC content normalization, seqnorm can also be used to normalize against matched paired normal.
Figure 2. GC correction of HCC1143 sample's RC profile. GC correction results over the HCC1143 sample's RC profile. (Left) Density plot of the normalized RC profiles. The density of the seqnorm-corrected profile distinguishes better the different copy numbers in the mixture. (Right) Read counts depending on the window's GC content, with greater density as darker grey. In blue, regression line estimated through the typical approach. In orange, regression line estimated by seqnorm.
Existing tools for CNA detection on HTS data perform a basic preprocessing and put their focus on the copy number calling step, taking advantage of allele-specific information [14,27,28] and automatically predicting copy number profiles [10,14,27]. On the other hand, seqCNA focuses on preprocessing and provides additional simple methods to obtain the final copy number profiles. Hence, the analysis is completed by segmenting the seqnorm-corrected profile with GLAD and, through visual assessment, defining copy number limits (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Copy number calling of HCC1143 sample's segmented RC profile. Visualization of the GC corrected and segmented profiles of sample HCC1143, together with the thresholds that delimit copy number calls. Chromosomes are delimited by black vertical lines. The GC corrected profile is shown as a black-coded density map, the segmented profile is shown in green and the thresholds are marked in red.
Methodology assessment
For the methodology assessment, we used data from human samples according to the Declaration of Helsinki, the European Guidelines on Good Clinical Practice, relevant national and regional authority requirements and Hospital Clinico San Carlos's Clinical Investigation Ethics Committee (Madrid, Spain). Informed consent was obtained from every subject.
In a recent comparison [29], we found GAP [30] to be the best performing CNA-detecting method on SNP-array data. Knowing that, we compared the results from seqCNA, GAP and state-of-the-art CNA-detecting methods on HTS data, namely FREEC [14], CNAnorm [10] and Patchwork [28], over two colon cancer samples we hybridized on SNP-arrays and paired-end sequenced (raw data is deposited at the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) under accession number EGAS00001000558). seqCNA's copy number profiles were the closest ones to GAP's (Additional file 1: Table S3) and presented the lowest departure from consensus profiles: 0.04% in both cases (Additional file 1: Table S2). The novel PEM-based and mapping quality filters are the main reason behind the reduced false positive rate in comparison to FREEC and CNAnorm (Additional file 1: Figures S1 and S3).
In order to assess seqnorm's performance, we built a semi-simulated dataset from the combination of the copy number profiles of 676 cell-lines [31], determined using PICNIC [32], and the RC variability of 7 non-tumoural samples (see Additional file 1, Simulated dataset Section, for more details). On the semi-simulated dataset, real cell-line [33] and prostate cancer samples [34] the median signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement with respect to typical regression ranged from 1% to 4% (Additional file 1: Figure S9), with a maximum improvement between 27% and 77%, where 2% already yields a visibly more defined density map (see Figure 2). We investigated the factors that affect this improvement and saw that it directly depends on: (i) the SNR of the RC profile and (ii) the correlation between GC content and copy number, which tends to be greater when the top main copy number (spanning at least 5% of the genome) is 4 or 5 and there are between 3 and 4 distinct main copy numbers (Additional file 1: Figure S11).
Future development
As of the initial release, the annotation package covers the human genome with builds hg18 and hg19. In the future, we aim at extending the package to include further genomes and builds based on users' necessities.
We are also pondering possible extensions to the main package, including relevant region annotation and support for side-by-side displaying of copy number profiles in existing databases. Increased automation is also plausible, especially in the final calling step, but we reckon that improved methodology needs to be developed in this regard in order to replace human judgment. In general, while GC bias correction is a mature issue, we expect the filtering and calling steps to see further developments. Specifically, additional intelligent filter threshold selection and multifactorial filtering are issues that remain open.
We have presented seqCNA, a tool that allows integral analyses for the detection of CNAs in HTS tumoural data and provides relevant advancements in the preprocessing steps. Namely, it incorporates a novel normalization method, seqnorm, which significantly improves the performance of typical regression, especially on samples with high SNR (e.g. due to greater coverage) and under high correlation between GC content and copy number. The tool also incorporates novelties for the filtering of windows in RC profiles - thus reducing the amount of false positives, including a PEM-based filter, a method that automatically sets trimming thresholds and a sensible window filter that replaces the removal of low quality reads.
Availability and requirements
Project name: seqCNA
Homepage:http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/ devel/bioc/html/seqCNA.html webcite
Operating system(s): Platform independent
Programming language: R
Other requirements: SAMtools (only if using BAM files)
License: GPL-3
Any restrictions to use by non-academics: None
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
DMA developed the methodology, software and corresponding testing. AMA supervised the project, was responsible for the sequencing of the contributed samples and assessed the user interface. NT worked on the clinical data classification and in the sample selection. SV, VDO and MLM collected the tumoural and non-tumoural tissues from colorectal neoplasms after surgery, extracted the DNA and purified it. All authors have read and approved the manuscript as submitted.
DMA is supported by the Navarra Government. AMA, partial research expenses and article-processing charges are supported by the Basque Country Government (Etortek Research Programs 2010/2012) and Bizkaia County's Innovation Technology Department. This research was also funded by the Spanish Government (CDTI 2008-2010) and the Basque Country Government (Gaitek 2008-2009) under the Eurotransbio 2007 call.
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Casa sul Monte is an imposing 200-year-old traditionally built stone house, nestled high in the forest-covered hills of central Umbria. The recently completed rebuild and refurbishment of the ground floor stables, wood store and cellars has created two beautiful, airy and spacious apartments, each furnished and equipped to very high standards in a contemporary style.
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Unique to this property is its wonderful location. 520 meters (1,700 feet) above sea level Casa sul Monte (House on the Hill) is surrounded by indigenous, primarily oak, forests with amazing views east over the Tiber valley to the Apennine ranges in the distance. Sunrises are particularly spectacular and the clear air ensures deep blue skies and wonderful star-filled skies at night.
Long walks through these forests will delight with the number and variety of butterflies, flowers, mushrooms and wildlife that can be found, although good shoes and a strong stick are essential if wandering off the designated pathways. On early morning or evening drives you might encounter badgers, porcupines, hares, red squirrels, deer, pheasants, partridges and many other fauna including wild boar, for which this area is renowned and which can often be heard, and sometimes seen, foraging at night for walnuts, acorns and black truffles.
Although surrounded by woods Casa sul Monte is actually just on the outskirts of the small village of San Vito in Monte making us and our guests a very welcome part of the local community. A few minutes walk on a warm summer evening will bring you to the local square where many of the villagers sit out to chat through the events of the day and, if you wish, will happily give you plenty of opportunity to try out your Italian vocabulary. The local restaurant/bar, 'Il Piccolo Mondo'. provides a natural hub to the village and is a favourite of ours for excellent home cooked local fare, fresh pasta and brilliant desserts as well as the occasional cold evening beer, espresso coffee or shot of grappa - a real must for anyone staying at Casa sul Monte!
Size | Sleeps up to 6, 2 bedrooms |
Will consider | Long term lets (over 1 month) |
Access | Car essential |
Nearest travel links | Nearest airport: Perugia (Assisi) 50 km, Nearest railway: Perugia 40 km |
Family friendly | Great for children of all ages |
Notes | Some pets are welcome - please contact the owner, No smoking at this property |
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Luxuries | Internet access, DVD player |
General | Central heating, Satellite TV |
Standard | Kettle, Toaster |
Utilities | Dishwasher, Cooker, Fridge, Freezer |
Rooms | 2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Shower rooms |
Furniture | 1 Sofa beds, Single beds (2), Double beds (1), Dining seats for 6, Lounge seats for 8 |
Other | Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair |
Outdoors | Shared garden |
Access | Parking |
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The Umbria region
At 520 m above sea level 'Casa sul Monte' (House on the Hill) sits high in the hills of central Umbria with spectacular views over the Tiber valley to the Apennine ranges beyond. Surrounded by thousands of hectares of natural forests our home is perfectly located for seemingly endless walks through the spectacular and dramatic landscape of this region while providing an ideal base from which to visit some of Italy's most beautiful medieval cities such as Perugia, Orvieto, Assisi, Todi, Norcia and Gubbio - each less than one hour's drive away.
Extending journey times to between 2 and 3 hours brings Rome, Florence, San Gimignano and Siena well within reach for those wanting to visit the unique Renaissance heritage of Tuscany or the historic monuments of the ancient Roman Empire. For days when longer drives don't appeal there are dozens of smaller villages, towns and hamlets in this region, each offering unique opportunities to wander unhurried through quiet cobbled streets to find the local Bar for mid-morning refreshment or a friendly Trattoria for a simple lunch of local fare.
Surprisingly, although surrounded by forest-covered hills, 'Casa sul Monte' also provides the opportunity to experience first hand the day-to-day life in San Vito in Monte, a small rural community of central Umbria. A few minutes drive and 12 kilometres from San Vito in Monte is San Venanzo, our nearest village with a bank and ATM; a Post Office; three bars; a couple of small supermarkets; pharmacy; fresh pizzeria and bakery; news agent, stationer and tobacconist as well as the local general store, petrol station, hairdresser, etc. San Venanzo is also where the Doctor's surgery and Police Station can be found.
Interestingly, San Venanzo is located on the edge of a long-extinct volcano and a specialist museum, visitor centre and related open air park can be visited by appointment and for a small fee throughout the year. Offering visitors a look at its volcanic craters and long-cold lava flows the 'Parco Vulcanologico di San Venanzo' is also known for the rarity of some of the rocks and minerals that lie in its territory, the best known being undoubtedly 'Venanzite'.
Tearing yourself away from this unique geology and rural charm of San Venanzo our nearest town is Marsciano, a further 15 kilometres down into the Tiber valley and 25 minutes from Casa sul Monte. Marsciano is a well established town with an excellent range and variety of shops and supermarkets, a weekly market, several banks, bars, restaurants, petrol stations and a couple of excellent wine cooperatives where a good selection of local wines can be bought already bottled or by the litre in petrol-pump style dispensers to fill your own containers!
To see and experience first-hand where and how these Umbrian grapes are grown, harvested and processed many local wineries offer tours and wine tastings, several of these located within an hour's drive of Casa sul Monte. For those particularly interested in the rustic rural cuisine of central Umbria there are many weeklong food festivals throughout the year. Each of these 'Sagre' is based on one or more specialist foods such as wild boar, black truffles, onions, snails, cured meats, strawberries, flat breads, mushrooms, etc. and all foods prepared by local villagers to age-old recipes. A traditional menu at a fixed price, including beverages and live entertainment, ensures large crowds and long queues but creates an unforgettable experience and great opportunity to share your meal with tourists and locals alike.
Another 'Must Do' when staying in the region is to visit Deruta where the world-renowned hand painted pottery is famous for its wide variety of traditional and modern styles, complexity of designs and intensity of colours on items ranging from ornate decorative plaques to table-tops, dinner plates to massive urns, serving platters to wall tiles. Deruta is just 30 minutes drive from Casa sul Monte.
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"Perfect get away with the girls"
I have just returned back from an a lovely long and relaxing weekend at Casa Sul Monte with three of my girlfriends. Being four busy young professionals, we decided to book a long girly weekend away t… More
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unicode possibilities
It would be nice if cl-user would display unicode input for CJK text. With PCL and On Lisp getting new printings in Japan, it might be beneficial to attract more brain-share from that side of the world. Would this be considered out of cl-user.net's scope?
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Perhaps it would be interesting to open up a "universities" category (or subcategory of Organization) to list universities that teach lisp?
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re: unicode possibilities
I have to think about it.
The use of English as the standard language is prefered so that the information is useable by most lispers.
I don't mind some other language content though.
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Repository access
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Complex bond deals haunt cities, counties
Knox officials say they're OK; spiking rates hurt others
Complex bond deals that city and county officials across Tennessee thought would lower their interest payments have come back to bite some governments with skyrocketing fees and little time to pay off the debt.
State records show that about 20 percent of outstanding municipal debt — roughly $10 billion used to build infrastructure such as schools and sewers — has been approved for financial derivatives like interest rate swaps for 24 counties, 23 cities and 12 utility districts and building authorities.
Knoxville and Knox County finance officials say they're avoiding problems experienced by other municipalities, although they both do business with a firm at the center of Tennessee's current concerns, Morgan Keegan & Co., which owns Knoxville-based Cumberland Securities.
The derivatives used by local governments statewide were intended to lower interest rates, but worldwide credit market problems have instead caused some rates to skyrocket while shortening the deadline for paying off the debt. It's similar to a homeowner dealing with interest that shot up on an adjustable rate mortgage and a balloon payment now due.
State Comptroller Justin Wilson, who took office in January, said Wednesday he has frozen applications for financial derivatives like interest rate swap agreements until the State Funding Board can re-evaluate guidelines starting at its May 4 meeting.
Morgan Keegan questions
Wilson's call for a possible overhaul of state rules comes amid revelations first reported Wednesday in The New York Times that Memphis-based Morgan Keegan taught state-approved courses on financial derivatives to local government officials while also serving as their financial advisers and underwriters.
Joseph Ayres, a Knoxville-based managing director with Morgan Keegan, said Tennessee towns and counties were properly advised by the company about risks associated with the derivatives. Several firms besides Morgan Keegan devised the extensive curriculum, and no seminars could be used for promotional purposes, he said.
Despite all that, "some local officials are saying: 'We didn't know what we were doing,' " Ayres said.
Morgan Keegan, a subsidiary of Regions Financial Corp., partnered with prominent Nashville bond lawyers at the Bass Berry and Sims firm to run 12 seminars from 2001 to 2007, according to the comptroller's records.
Karen Neal, a lawyer with the firm who helped teach the seminars, said there was a thorough, unbiased presentation of the risks and benefits.
Former Comptroller John Morgan said he tried involving experts from the University of Tennessee while designing an innovative curriculum, but they declined.
"The curriculum that was shown to us did at the time adequately disclose the nature of these transactions and the risk associated with them," Morgan said. "Whether or not the people who attended … really understood what they were hearing … I suspect some did, some didn't."
Ayres called the New York Times article unfair and off- base in any implication that Tennessee lacks financial services regulations.
"We successfully did hundreds of transactions last year," he said. "We've worked through issues with other Tennessee municipalities that have successfully moved ahead" with refinancings of derivative deals. Most municipalities have "weathered the storm quite well," he said.
He said Morgan Keegan has been involved in 17 percent of interest rate swap transactions approved by Tennessee, with other Wall Street investment banks authorized for the rest.
Local officials
Lewisburg Mayor Bob Phillips said Morgan Keegan advised the town when it decided to fund its new sewer through bond derivatives in 2005, but in January the town was saddled with annual interest payments that had quadrupled to $1 million, and the pay-off period fell from 20 years to seven.
"Something as complex as the derivatives and the swap should never have been sold to small communities," he said. "We depend on advice from other people."
Michael Tuten, accounting and finance manager for Claiborne County, said Morgan Keegan in 2007 advised a derivatives deal on an existing $18 million bond to pay for a new school. The deal was also underwritten by Morgan Keegan.
But interest rates began to inch up, and he said the company told county officials earlier this year that they had only a few weeks to refinance the entire bond or make a quadrupled payment of $700,000.
Knox County Commission recently approved refinancing $224 million in variable rate debt to secure lower, fixed interest rates. The county's financial adviser is Ayres' firm, Cumberland Securities, owned by Morgan Keegan.
County Finance Director John Troyer said variable rates "made sense" in the past because the county could take advantage of weekly and monthly rates lower than a fixed 20-year rate.
Morgan Keegan's parent firm, Regions, is handling the refinancing.
"We think (using the related firms) makes financial sense," Troyer said. While many localities, including Knoxville, prohibit using the same firm as financial adviser and underwriter, Troyer said, "Regions is certainly plenty large to handle our transaction without any trouble at all, and efficiently."
He said the firms' fees haven't been finalized, but the county expects to save $1 million a year in interest.
Asked if the refinancing was driven by a particular rate increase that was looming, Troyer said, "This transaction is not motivated by fear. This transaction is motivated by savings, to capture the savings while the market afforded the opportunity."
The city's finance director, Jim York, said Cumberland Securities served as underwriter on roughly $60 million in variable rate debt that has swung as high as 2.25 percent in the past year, and a separate variable-rate piece now totaling $33 million, which the city swapped to a "synthetically fixed" rate of 4 percent in 2002. The swap was estimated to save $150,000-$200,000 per year and has performed with the exception of the past year.
The city's financial adviser is Public Financial Management Inc. of Memphis.
"You cannot be our financial adviser and our underwriter," York said.
Meanwhile, Knox County said Wednesday that Standard and Poor's reaffirmed the county's AA+ rating, the county's highest ever.
Also, in recent years Morgan Keegan gave $5,000 to the mayor's hospitality fund, which was closed after a critical county audit. The fund used private money to fund public events.
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Inside a train car on the Chūō local line I saw an interesting sign, but didn't have time to fully translate it. It basically said that the current car (a 209 series, I'm pretty sure) was eco-friendly, and used just 47% of the power required by the 103 series cars it had replaced. The sign made it seem like it was a recent innovation, but, this article aays that the 209s have been around for awhile. It also seems odd that they would be promoting an energy savings which was 13 years old; but stranger things have happened... Does anyone know anything about this? If I get a chance to ride that line again, I'll see if I can snap a picture to supplement by bad memory. Neier 00:13, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- Bad memory indeed. It was most definitely not a 209; but an E231 I saw the sign in. Unfortunately, I didn't see the sign today... Neier 09:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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How does the site know when you reach your limit? DH thought it stored cookies in my browser and if I cleared them I could print more but that didn't work. Does anyone know?
only printing 2 coupons per computer
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It's actually stored in the coupon printing app, which is a Java applet and much harder to clear. It can be done, but you have to be pretty teck-no-logical, if you know what I mean,
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I was just wondering if uninstalling the coupon printer and reinstalling would work.
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I think they limit it to two for a reason. Just get someone else (parents, siblings, friends, etc.) to print them for you, too!
I have been printing from my mom's and from my home and work computer. I just thought there may be an easy fix to do them from one.
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There is also a unique number printed on some of the coupons per computer. So even if you could 'trick' it into printing more than 2--if they notice it, they can ban your computer altogether.
At least I think that's how it works. :P
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Yeah I guess they want us to work for our coupons lol I will just keep using several computers. Otherwise it would be too easy to save so much money.
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It tags your IP address. but clearing it and printing more is wrong. theres a limit of two (one by some peoples debate). print your two and be happy with it. if you NEED more ask other to print for you...
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Honestly I have multiple computers and rarely use them for coupons anyhow. I haven't even installed the coupon apps in all of them.
I usually just get by on what I get in the paper and a few IPs. But then I also have a very limited space to stockpile in. I can see how someone with a nice stockpile could use more 2 coupons. Like Brenda said, you can always ask people to print specific coupons for you.
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Sebastian Mikael - Last Night
Artist: Sebastian Mikael
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Avg Rating: 3.9 ( 9 votes )
In December 2012, Swedish singer/songwriter Sebastian Mikael made his grand entrance into the Booth with promo single Take Me Higher. Though many appreciated the joint's catchiness and energy, its bubblegum pop vibe was a little too "high school" for other readers. The Gothenburg native's clearly been paying close attention to your feedback, as the newly-released Last Night showcases a more sophisticated, grown-and-sexy side of the artist's persona. Lamb and Bigg D double up behind the boards, crafting an impeccably smooth, futuristic backdrop for Mikael's seductive verses, which he delivers with seemingly effortless vocal finesse. MMG heavyweight Wale grabs the mic to drop a characteristically suave, affable middle 16. Last Night is slated to appear on Sebastian Mikael's Slip-N-Slide Records debut EP, which has yet to receive either a title or a solid drop date. As always, fans can keep it locked for the latest.
Update: Click "Watch Video" above or scroll down (for mobile) to view Sebastian Mikael's Last Night visual.
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