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THE GREAT IMMENSITY Premieres at Kansas City Rep, 2/24-3/18
The world premiere of The Great Immensity will take place at Kansas City Repertory Theatre's Copaken Stage, February 17-March 18. The Great Immensity is presented by Kansas City Rep and The Civilians, the center for investigative theatre led by Founding Artistic Director Steve Cosson.
Written and directed by Cosson with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, The Great Immensity is described as "a fast-paced exploration of the current state of the environment and the natural ecosystems that have been impacted by the shift in climate. Woven throughout the story about two sisters' global journey are interviews with individuals from all walks of life who are directly affected by climate change, including botanists, paleontologists, climatologists, indigenous community leaders, polar bear tour guides, trappers and others."
For more information about The Great Immensity and The Civilians please visit: http://www.thecivilians.org/current/the_great_immensity.html
The play takes its name, The Great Immensity, from an enormous Chinese Panamax ship that Cosson and Friedman observed crossing the Panama Canal during a research trip to Barro Colorado Island, Panama, which is located in the middle of the canal. Additional research for the play was conducted in Churchill, Canada, the only Arctic port in the Western Hemisphere. A special 18-minute version of The Great Immensity, featuring three of the show's original songs, will be presented live on February 29, 11 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. PST, at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit clearinghouse of free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers.
The Civilians received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create extensive public educational programming and materials that will serve as a model for how theatre can increase public awareness, knowledge and engagement with important science-related societal issues. The NSF is the federal agency that funds science, engineering and mathematics research and education nationwide. This grant is one of only a few such awards that the NSF has ever given to a theatre company.
The Civilians is the center for investigative theatre, supporting the development and production of new theatre from creative inquiries into the most vital questions of the present. Since its founding in 2001, The Civilians has supported the creation of thirteen original shows produced at numerous theatres in New York and across the country. Works by the company have been produced at regional theatres, arts presenters and festivals in over 40 cities nationally and internationally. The Civilians received an Obie in 2004 and the company's work has been included in top ten lists in the New York Times, The New Yorker and Time Out New York.
Cosson, writer and director of The Great Immensity, also directed the Rep's much-admired 2010 production of Bus Stop. His many theatre credits include: A Devil at Noon (Humana Festival and O'Neill Conference), the coming premiere of Mr. Burns at Woolly Mammoth, In the Footprint, This Beautiful City, Paris Commune and Gone Missing. Friedman, who wrote the music and lyrics for The Great Immensity, also wrote the music and lyrics for Saved (at the Rep in 2010), the Broadway production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best New Musical); and, with The Civilians, In the Footprint, This Beautiful City, I am Nobody's Lunch, Gone Missing and Canard, Canard, Goose?
The cast of The Great Immensity includes Molly Carden as Julie (NY: P.S. It's Poison, The Bird and the Two-ton Weight, Gentrifusion); Todd Cerveris as Rob/Ship Spotter/Medvedkov (Bdwy: South Pacific, Twentieth Century; National Tours: Spring Awakening, Twelve Angry Men); Dan Domingues as Marcos/Charlie (Off-Bdwy: The Cherry Orchard, His Greatness, King Lear); Rebecca Hart as Phyllis/Polly (NY: Dead City, Vendetta Chrome, Mr. Burns); Eddie Korbich as Harold/Pete (Bdwy: The Little Mermaid, Face the Music, The Drowsy Chaperon, Wicked); Meghan McGeary as Allie/Emmanuelle (Off-Bdwy: The Blue Flower, A Christmas Carol).
The design team includes Daniel Doss, Music Director/Pianist (KC Rep: Into the Woods, A Christmas Story, The Musical!; National Tour: The Color Purple); Mimi Lien, Set Design (NY: Milk Like Sugar, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, Queens Boulevard, Elephant Room; Sarah Beers, Costume Design (KC Rep: Bus Stop, Cabaret; NY: Canard, Canard, Goose?, The Ladies, Nobody's Perfect, Tales from our Parents' Divorce; Tyler Micoleau, Lighting Design (NY: Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Middletown, God's Ear, When the Rain Stops Falling; Jason H. Thompson, Projection Design (KC Rep: Venice; Bdwy: Baby It's You; Off-Bdwy: Remember Me, This Beautiful City; Ken Travis (Bdwy: Newsies, Memphis, The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Steel Magnolias; Tracy Bersley, Choreography (NY: On the Levee, Paris Commune, Max and Ruby, Jane Eyre, The Tempest. Bonnie Brady is Production Stage Manager.

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GSoC 2011
- 1 Welcome to the Genome Informatics GSoC
- 1.1 About Genome Informatics GSoC
- 1.2 Contact Us
- 1.3 How to apply
- 1.4 Guidelines and Advice
- 1.5 Resources
- 1.6 Project Ideas
- 1.6.1 IDEA 1: Your Original Idea
- 1.6.2 IDEA 2: Export Reactome layout in BioPAX
- 1.6.3 IDEA 3: HTML 5 canvas based visualization tool for pathways and networks
- 1.6.4 IDEA 4: Cytoscape Web pathway visualization tool
- 1.6.5 IDEA 5: Pathway Summary visualization
- 1.6.6 IDEA 6: Reactome RESTful API
- 1.6.7 IDEA 7: Chado RESTful API
- 1.6.8 IDEA 8: GIS Indexing for Chado
- 1.6.9 IDEA 9: Develop collaborative genome assembly tools and databases
- 1.6.10 IDEA 10: The genome game: crowd-sourcing better crops
- 1.6.11 IDEA 11: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Information in Biological Data
- 1.6.12 IDEA 12: Reactome-R/Bioconductor
- 1.6.13 IDEA 13: Genome Browser Community Tracks
Welcome to the Genome Informatics GSoC
"Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 4,500 students and more than more than 4,000 mentors & co-mentors from over 85 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all."
GSoC has several goals:
- get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all
- inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
- help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers
- provide students the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer
- give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios.
About Genome Informatics GSoC
The Genome Infomatics group is organizing the joint efforts of WormBase, Reactome, and GBrowse (see below). This is a great opportunity for students to contribute to the work of three different bioinformatics projects.
- WormBase
- An online bioinformatics database of the biology and genome of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. It is used by the C. elegans research community both as an information resource and as a mode to publish and distribute their results. The database is constantly updated and new versions are released on a monthly basis. WormBase is a collaboration among the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Washington University in St. Louis, and the California Institute of Technology. Links: Website.
- Reactome
- A manually curated database of core pathways and reactions in human biology that functions as a data mining resource and electronic textbook. The Reactome data model describes diverse processes in the human system, including the pathways of intermediary metabolism, regulatory pathways, signal transduction, and high-level processes, such as the cell cycle. Reactome software uses only freely available (and often open source) components and has been created with cross-platform compatibility and wide usability in mind. Data is stored in a MySQL database, the web site is implemented in Perl and data entry tool in Java programming language. The Reactome team is composed of individuals who are both biologists and programmers at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, New York University Langone Medical Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and The European Bioinformatics Institute. Links: Website, ReactomeWiki .
- Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD)
- An open source project to develop a complete set of software for creating and administering a model organism database. Components of this project include genome visualization and editing tools, literature curation tools, a robust database schema, biological ontology tools, and a set of standard operating procedures. This project is collaboration of several database projects, including WormBase, FlyBase, Mouse Genome Informatics, Gramene, the Rat Genome Database, TAIR, EcoCyc, and the Saccharomyces Genome Database. Links: Website, GMOD Blog
Contact Us
- Email: robin.haw[AT]oicr.on.ca - contact me to find out more about a project or your potential mentor(s).
- Discussion mailing lists: Genome Informatics Google Groups - ask about our projects; join the community!
- IRC group: #genomeinformatics on Freenode.
How to apply
We would like to know who you are and how you think. Incorporate the following into your application:
- Your information
- Name, email, and website (optional)
- Brief background: education and relevant work experience
- Your programming interests and strengths
- What are your languages of choice?
- Any prior experience with open source development?
- Your interest and background in biology or bioinformatics
- Any prior exposure to biology or bioinformatics?
- Your ideas for a project (an original idea or one expanded from our Ideas Page)
- Provide as much detail as possible
- Strong applicants include an implementation plan and timeline (hint!)
- Refer to and link to other projects or products that illustrate your ideas
- Identify possible hurdles and questions that will require more research/planning
- What can you bring to the team?
Guidelines and Advice
- GSoC Main Site
- This year's flyer
- GSoC Presentations
- Program FAQ
- Program Timeline
- GSoC Discussion List
- Announcement List
- GSoC YouTube Channel
- GSoC Blog
For Students
For Mentors
Project Ideas
As we are developing new features for WormBase, Reactome and GBrowse, we are exploring a number of areas ideal for Google Summer of Code students. These projects include a broad set of skills, technologies and domains, such as GUIs, database integration and algorithms. You are also encouraged to propose your own ideas related to our projects. If you have strong computer skills and have an interest in biology or bioinformatics, then you should apply!
IDEA 1: Your Original Idea
Feel free to propose your own idea. As long as it relates to one of our projects, we will give it serious consideration. Creativity and self-motivation are great traits for open source programmers, but make sure your proposal is also relevant.
IDEA 2: Export Reactome layout in BioPAX
It is difficult to exchange pathway layout or diagrams among different pathway databases. BioPAX is a pathway exchange format, but without support of pathway diagram. In this project, we propose to create an XML file format for visualization based on Reactome pathway diagrams for BioPAX level 2 and 3 exports, and a Java applet or Web Start visualization tool based on our curator tool to display this format.
- Language and Skills: Java, XML, OWL and BioPAX
- Idea by: Guanming Wu
- Potential Mentors: Guanming Wu
IDEA 3: HTML 5 canvas based visualization tool for pathways and networks
With modern browsers' support of HTML5 canvas, it is a time to develop a canvas-based, dynamic visualization tool for biological interaction networks and pathways based on the new canvas tag. In this project, we propose to develop a canvas-based network interaction visualization prototype that can run in both modern browsers in a full-fledged computer, or in a tablet (e.g. ipad). The whole ideas are based on these two canvas based web applications: LucidChart and HTML 5 canvas painting.
- Language and Skills: HTML5 (esp canvas), JavaScript, Java, GWT
- Idea by: Guanming Wu
- Potential Mentors: Guanming Wu, Robin Haw and Marc Gillespie
IDEA 4: Cytoscape Web pathway visualization tool
Cytoscape Web is a new technology that allows programmers to present networks of nodes and arcs on a webpage in a very flexible way. It is part of the Cytoscape project, but unlike regular Cytoscape, it can seamlessly integrate into a website, without the need for Java Webstart. Currently, Cytoscape Web uses Flash for performing animation, but the special appeal for developers is that the API is accessible from Javascript and is independent of the animation engine, so that if a future version switches to HTML5, all of the code written for this project will continue to work.
This would reuse pre-existing server-side code wherever possible, to reduce the initial learning curve, and would give the student an opportunity to work with cutting edge bioinformatics technology.
- Language and Skills: Java, Javascript
- Idea by: David Croft
- Potential Mentors: David Croft and Guanming Wu
You are strongly recommended to set up a local Reactome installation on your own computer now, before starting with the project. Take a look at the Reactome Supplementary Information for instructions on doing this. Click here for a loose specification of what we want to do.
IDEA 5: Pathway Summary visualization
The original Reactome website provided a view called the "Sky", which gave a visual summary of all of the pathways in the Reactome database. Unfortunately, this overview was lost in the migration to the new, GWT-based website.
This project would produce a replacement for the old "Sky". In particular, it would show expression and species comparison information in a multi-pathway context. The project would be GWT-based, giving a student experience with an increasingly popular website construction environment.
- Language and Skills: Java, GWT
- Idea by: David Croft
- Potential Mentors: David Croft
You are strongly recommended to set up a local Reactome installation on your own computer now, before starting with the project. Take a look at the Reactome Supplementary Information for instructions on doing this. Click here for a loose specification of what we want to do.
IDEA 6: Reactome RESTful API
It is crucial to have a nice API for Reactome so that the Reactome annotated data can be used programmatically and integrated in other web applications (e.g. Wormbase) easily with very low maintenance. In this project, we propose to develop a Reactome RESTful API which should be lightweight, easy to use, and well-documented.
- Language and Skills:RESTful Web Service, Java, Jersey , MySQL
- Idea by: Guanming Wu
- Potential Mentors: Guanming Wu
IDEA 7: Chado RESTful API
Chado is the database schema underlying several GMOD projects, and there are many installed instances around the world. Having a RESTful API would allow both the creation of "mashup" sites that pull data from various Chado instances but would also facilitate data sharing between sites that have Chado installed.
- Language and Skills: RESTful Web Service, Perl (Dancer or Catalyst), PostgreSQL
- Idea by: Scott Cain
- Potential Mentors: Scott Cain, Josh Goodman
IDEA 8: GIS Indexing for Chado
Genome feature sequence data is stored in Chado and getting it out quickly can be a bottleneck. In this project, we propose creating "geographic" coordinate indexes on the feature location table, as well as functions to use them.
- Language and Skills: PostgreSQL and plpgsql, Perl
- Idea by: Scott Cain
- Potential Mentors: Scott Cain
IDEA 9: Develop collaborative genome assembly tools and databases
This idea is speculative!
Required reading: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforStudents
With the advent of NGS sequencing technology, more complex genomes are being sequenced than ever before. However, after the initial sequencing funds have been spent, much more long term 'curation' work is needed. Most sequencing projects will produce an obligatory 'draft' genome, after which the community needs tools to enable it to continue to work on improving the assembly and annotation of this draft.
The rough outline of the idea is to create a hybrid between a genome sequence assembly database (such as Chado, BAM or Bio::SeqFeature::Store) and a version control system (such as GIT). Using this system the community can work together on building and rebuilding the reference genome for their model organism.
- Language and Skills: Perl (BioPerl, Catalyst, Moose), Chado, Java, PHP (MediaWiki), GIT, RDBMS, creativity, vision, insight
- Potential Mentors: ?
- See GSoC/IDEA 9.
IDEA 10: The genome game: crowd-sourcing better crops
This idea is a mix of a few different ideas...
Required reading: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforStudents
With the ongoing 'data deluge' in biology, approaches for integrating knowledge from disparate groups of specialists have never been so important.
The genome of a specific individual (potato, tomato or human) varies at specific positions along it's length, and these variations (e.g. SNPs) give different individuals their different traits and propensities. In many cases, traits can be 'scored' according to some objective requirement (typically responses to various biotic and abiotic stresses or disease propensities).
We can build a wiki system that allows the community to collectively assign (and negotiate) scores for specific SNPs via published association studies. Players can then submit and rank their personal genomes (in a given 'environment'), as well as work on defining 'optimum' genotypes for given requirements (in a given 'environment'). The system would provide a platform for education, allowing direct comparison of cumulative risks for specific combinations of lifestyle choices and genetic factors.
- Language and Skills: The best tools for the job, argumentation, game mechanics, wiki (MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki), creativity, vision, insight, fun, ...
- Potential Mentors: Many others.
Similar projects:
- SNPedia, a wiki for human SNP association studies.
- 23andMe, when they eventually steal this idea.
- The PGP 'wiki': GET-Evidence, "assists genome analysis by providing a Wikipedia-style location where individuals can record their interpretations of individual variants and review relevant literature".
- The Solanaceae Genomics Network, some of the best plant bioinformaticians around.
- See GSoC/IDEA 10.
IDEA 11: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Information in Biological Data
Are you passionate about social media? Do you dream in Pantone? Are you interested in exploring the clearest way to display a vast amount of information? Does working on a project to make science faster and more open make your heart race? Do you speak REST, CSS, Javascript, Perl and related technologies? If so, please consider joining us at the intersection of Bioinformatics, Web Design, and Information Architecture as we rebuild one of the original model organism databases.
Since its inception on the web in 2001 -- and with a long tradition of electronic sharing of data that predates that -- WormBase (http://www.wormbase.org) has grown to support an active research community of nearly 50K unique visitors a month from across the globe. Initially, WormBase focused on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, a genetic model system well known for studies of things like programmed cell death and neuronal development. WormBase is now a true clade resource with complete genomes of both free-living and parasitic nematodes.
WormBase is a highly distributed project that includes biologists and computer scientists at four centers: Caltech, Washington University, The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (Toronto), and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Hinxton, UK), so you should be able to jump between an editor and an IM window with ease.
You'll be helping us to develop an entirely new look-and-feel for WormBase, and in turn introduce novel user experiences rarely seen in biological databases. You'll have the opportunity to work with and learn about biological data spanning the breadth and depth of a robust experimental system. A particular focus will be on mashing up third party data sources to build a more complete picture of gene and protein function.
- Language and Skills: modern CSS, Javascript (JQuery), consuming RESTful services, Perl
- Idea by: Todd Harris
- Potential Mentors: Todd Harris, Abigail Cabunoc
Contact: Todd Harris (email@example.com)
IDEA 12: Reactome-R/Bioconductor
Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. This idea would see the development of Reactome to support Bioconductor, resulting in the creation of libraries, vignettes, sample workflows and documentation.
- Language and Skills: R, BioConductor
- Idea by: Robin Haw
- Potential Mentors: Robin Haw and Guanming Wu
IDEA 13: Genome Browser Community Tracks
JBrowse is a next-generation Genome Browser which provides conventional desktop & tablet-based browsing of experimental annotations on the human genome. This idea is to enhance JBrowse with an easy-to-use facility that allows genome researchers to create community tracks from their own data to share with other members of the research community. This facility would incorporate social networking features such as Facebook's "like" mechanism.
- Language and Skills: AJAX, Javascript and a server-side scripting language such as Python, PHP or Perl
- Idea by: Lincoln Stein
- Potential Mentors: Lincoln Stein


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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Felix Hernandez threw his first live batting practice of the spring on Sunday as the Mariners ace progresses toward what will be a club-record seventh Opening Day start if all goes as planned over the next five weeks.
Hernandez says he feels physically stronger this spring after working hard over the offseason with Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, who dropped about 30 pounds under the supervision of trainer Rafael Alvarez in Venezuela. Alvarez previously worked as Bobby Abreu's personal trainer. He helped Sandoval slim down, while Hernandez's goal was to get stronger.
"I'm throwing pretty good. I'm feeling great," Hernandez said. "That's why I prepared myself. I was hitting the weights. It was me and Panda working with Rafael Alvarez and he's pretty good. We were running, doing the little things, shuttles, hitting the weights, a lot of stuff."
Hernandez lost quite a bit of weight the previous two offseasons, but also lost some strength in the process. He feels more power in his lower body this spring, which should help both increase his velocity and his endurance.
"I think last year I came too light and it was too much," Hernandez said. "I had no power. My legs weren't strong enough. Now, I think I'm good. You have to figure out which way you're going to be."
If Hernandez finds the right balance, opposing hitters beware. He was 10-4 with an AL-leading 2.53 ERA in 20 starts before the All-Star Game last year, but just 2-6 with a 4.11 ERA in 11 starts after the break.
As usual, Hernandez is on a slightly slower spring schedule than most of Seattle's pitchers. He'll back off from live BP now and throw a bullpen session Wednesday, then he has a simulated practice game scheduled before making his Cactus League debut, which is currently projected for March 6.
He faced young prospects Chris Taylor, Gabriel Noriega and Ji-Man Choi on Sunday and it wasn't a fair matchup. Manager Lloyd McClendon said Hernandez was "unbelievable," then joked about needing to tweak his approach to get more out of the 2010 AL Cy Young winner next session.
Could he have hit Hernandez in his playing days?
"No, I could not," said McClendon, a career .244 hitter in eight Major league seasons. "I'm not going to lie to you. I asked Chris [Taylor] and he said, 'That's a lot of movement, Skip.' And I said, 'Yes it is.'"


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Luis Millones Figueroa, Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish, has been teaching language and literature at Colby since 1998. He has been Chair of the Spanish Department and Director of the Latin American Studies Program. Professor Millones Figueroa's research interests include: Pre-Columbian and colonial studies with an emphasis on the Andes; Early Modern science and natural histories of the New World; and Jesuits writings from a transatlantic perspective. He is the Book Review Editor of CLAR, Colonial Latin American Review, and a member of the Editorial Board for the book series Parecos y Australes of Iberoamericana-Vervuert. Go to this link for a pdf of his Curriculum Vitae
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Drinker, Henry Sandwith, 1880-1965, Creator
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Henry S. Drinker (1880-1965) was graduate of Haverford College, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1904, Drinker joined the prominent Philadelphia Law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath in 1904. An authority on legal ethics, Drinker's book on the subject, "Legal Ethics," was published in 1933 and went on to become a classic. An amateur musicologist, Drinker founded the Drinker Library of Choral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Drinker Music Center was dedicated in his name at Haverford College in 1962. Primarily writings by Henry S. Drinker regarding criticism by Sir Francis Newbolt over some of his books, an essay called "Legal Plots," and a writing called "The Lawyers of Anthony Trollope. The collection, 1929-1950, also includes correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf and Sir Francis Newbolt.


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Norway spruce makes way through downtown Cincinnati
It's not officially the holiday season until the tree arrives at Fountain Square.
The much awaited event took place Saturday morning, when the 65-foot tall Norway spruce made its way through downtown Cincinnati and landed at its final resting place on the southwest corner of the square.
Organizers said the tree left northern Ohio about 3 a.m. and arrived downtown shortly after 7 a.m. Tree mover Dan Zuk, of Zuk's Tree Moving, said it takes about a year to find the right tree, and they're very pleased with what they found.
"We really try to find the biggest one we can, and we're able to get it down here. This one is 65 feet tall and 35 years old," Zuk said.
Glenn Scherzinger, of Christmas Lightning Co., said the Tri State will see bright lights like it has never seen before.
"What's great about the tree this is year we're using LED lights. We put 20,000 clear, white bulbs on the tree," Scherzinger said.
Doug McHenry came to Fountain Square with his granddaughter to watch his son help put up the tree. McHenry said he's proud that his family gets to take part in what his granddaughter called an awesome event.
"It's great. (My son) does it almost every year. It's great to come down, bring the kids down and watch," McHenry said.
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Utah is home to 50 community fishing ponds. Most of the ponds are found in cities along the Wasatch Front (from Logan to Santaquin). Several ponds are also found in and near Cedar City and St. George.
Areas outside of those locations, including Helper, Monroe and Huntington, have ponds too.
You can learn more about the ponds at www.wildlife.utah.gov/cf.
A video about the ponds is also available at www.youtube.com/UDWR. After you log onto the website, click on the �Overview of Utah�s Community Fishing Ponds� selection to watch the video.
The community waters provide anglers of all ages, from young children to senior citizens, a convenient, inexpensive and fun place to fish.
And the fishing at the ponds can be really good.
Drew Cushing, warm water sport fisheries coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says the DWR stocks catfish into most of the ponds once every two weeks until July. (In July, the water and air temperature gets too hot to transport catfish from a catfish grower in the East and stock them successfully in the ponds.)
When they're stocked, the catfish are about 10 - 14 inches long and weigh about one pound each.
In addition to the catfish, most of the ponds have bluegill and largemouth bass in them. The bluegill can provide fast fishing that lasts all day. Largemouth bass aren't as abundant in the ponds, but when you catch one, get ready for a fun fight.
(Because largemouth bass aren't abundant in the ponds, Cushing encourages you to release any largemouth bass you catch.)
Cushing says it doesn't matter whether it's spring, summer or fall, the ponds almost always produce good fishing. "Agreements we have with each city allow us to keep a stable amount of water in each pond," he says. "Having stable water levels, and placing lots of fish in the ponds on a regular basis, means fishing at the ponds is almost always good."
And you don't need to be an advanced angler or have fancy equipment to catch the fish-a fishing rod and reel, some nightcrawlers, a hook and some sinkers, and maybe a bobber or two, are about all you need.
To catch fish at the ponds, Cushing says placing a worm on a hook, crimping some split shot about 12 inches above the hook, and then casting the hook out and letting it rest on the bottom of the pond is all you need to do.
You can also place a bobber two or three feet above the hook, cast the hook and the bobber out, and let the worm dangle under the bobber. "Fishing with a bobber is fun," Cushing says, "especially if you're fishing with kids. Kids love to watch the bobber move as a fish takes the bait."
A third method is also very simple�attach a wet or dry fly to the end of your line and place a clear plastic bubble, filled with water, about five feet above the fly. Then cast the fly and bubble out, and slowly retrieve it back.
If you use these simple techniques, you should wind up with a catfish, a bluegill or a largemouth bass on the end of your line.
Any of these techniques will also put plenty of rainbow trout on the end of your line too. After taking a break in July, the DWR will start stocking catfish again in August. Then, when the water temperature cools at the start of September, the DWR will stop stocking catfish and will start putting rainbow trout into the ponds.
Trout stocking will continue until the waters freeze in the winter.
Cushing says taking your kids fishing at a community pond will not only build better memories than taking them to a movie�it might save you some money.
He says children under the age of 12 fish for free in Utah. "And for only $5," he says, "kids who are 12 to 13 years old can buy a license that allows them to fish for 365 days from the day the license is bought."
Young people who are 14 to 17 years of age can buy a 365-day fishing license for $16.
"With a license and some basic fishing gear," Cushing says, "you and your kids can have a great time. And you'll build memories that will last forever."


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Small Plant News: Volume 3, Number 10
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Applying for Financial Assistance When Disaster Strikes
- Disaster Assistance Contacts in USDA Rural Development
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Applying for Financial Assistance When Disaster Strikes
By Natasha Williams
The water in the room is 3 feet deep. The entire building is filled with the smell of mildew and spoiled meat. There's everything from chubs to pre-processed meat—even protective coats and hats—floating in the water. Within a matter of minutes, thousands of dollars have been lost and valuable merchandise destroyed. The damage seems beyond repair, and a feeling of helplessness settles in. Many might think, "This could never happen to me."
Natural disasters can be unpredictable. And while certain geographic areas are more prone to natural calamities than others, we could all be susceptible to a flood, tornado, hurricane, or earthquake. As a business owner, you must be prepared for anything, especially for something as unpredictable as a natural disaster.
While the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has prepared resources to advise on the preparation, response, and recovery of your products and employees, such as the brochure Flooding: A Checklist for Small and Very Small Meat, Poultry, and Egg Processing Plants , where would you turn to if you had to rebuild?
In addition to your insurance policy, there are other sources of financial assistance you can tap to put your business back on the road to financial recovery after a disaster. USDA's Rural Development has programs that small and very small plants can use to help repair damage from natural disasters. Although it does not have the authority to provide disaster assistance, Rural Development can help existing borrowers who are victims of a disaster. This means you need to be a current customer of Rural Development, already participating in one of the five following programs, to receive more financial aid:
- Business and Industry Guaranteed Loans,
- Rural Business Enterprise Grants,
- Rural Business Opportunity Grants,
- Intermediary Relending Program, and
- Rural Economic Development Loans and Grants.
Many of these programs were covered in the article "Assistance Available to Small Plants in Rural Areas" in Small Plant News, Volume 1, Number 3. However, two of these programs might help the most if you need to rebuild after a disaster.
With the Business and Industry Guaranteed Loans (B&I) program, eligibility for financial aid is based on whether your business resides in a rural area. "They [small and very small plants] can be approved if the small business is in a designated rural disaster area. We cannot grant eligibility outside of the rural area," said Lisa Siesennop, loan specialist for the B&I program's business industry group.
Rural Development instruction 4729 defines a rural area as "Any area other than (1) a city or town that has a population greater than 50,000 and (2) the urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town, as defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census using the latest decennial census of the United States."
The Rural Business Enterprise Grants (RBEG) program provides grants for which most small and very small meat and poultry processing plants might be eligible. Under RBEG, small plants within a rural area, with a population of less than 50,000, can be eligible for a grant to renovate their establishment. RBEG funds projects that involve construction, plant renovation, equipment, and machinery, just to name a few.
In order to be considered a business that is small enough to receive the RBEG grant, plants must make less than $1 million per year and cannot employ more than 50 employees. Under this grant program, small plants destroyed by a natural disaster can be renovated and valuable equipment needed for processing can be restored if the business owner is deemed eligible. This grant has no price limitations; however, those needing less funding are usually given precedence.
A natural disaster is not something you probably want to think about; however, being fully prepared and knowledgeable of available assistance is vital. Natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, or earthquakes do not have to completely wipe out your livelihood. Rural Development is not only another source to consider for providing financial assistance, but it also gives guidance as to what loans and grants you best qualify for and can point you in the right direction for natural disaster assistance.
For further information on programs for business owners in the event of a natural disaster, visit www.rurdev.usda.gov/rd/disasters/ or contact the Rural Development's Business Programs office at (202) 720-7287.
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Disaster Assistance Contacts in USDA
Rural Development Briefs
To apply for financial assistance, business owners should contact a business program specialist at their local USDA Rural Development office listed below.
|Open Federal Cases
|Contact Number
|(334) 279-3400
|(907) 761-7705
|(602) 280-8701
|(501) 301-3200
|(530) 792-5800
|(720) 544-2903
|(413) 253-4300
|(302) 857-3580
|Florida (including U.S. Virgin Islands)
|(352) 338-3402
|(706) 546-2162
|Hawaii (including American Samoa, Guam, Common Wealth of the Marianas Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, and Marshall Islands)
|(808) 933-8380
|(208) 378-5603
|(217) 403-6200
|(317) 290-3100; ext. 4
|(515) 284-4663
|(785) 271-2700
|(859) 224-7300
|(318) 473-7921
|(207) 990-9160
|(302) 857-3580
|(413) 253-4300
|(800) 944-8119
|(651) 602-7800
|(601) 965-4316
|(573) 876-0976
|(406) 585-2580
|(402) 437-5551
|(775) 887-1222
|New Hampshire
|(802) 828-6000
|New Jersey
|(856) 787-7700
|New Mexico
|(505) 761-4950
|New York
|(315) 477-6400
|North Carolina
|(919) 873-2000
|North Dakota
|(701) 530-2044
|(614) 255-2400
|(405) 742-1000
|(866) 923-5626; ext. 1
|(717) 237-2299
|Puerto Rico
|(787) 766-5095
|Rhode Island
|(413) 253-4300
|South Carolina
|(803) 765-5163
|South Dakota
|(605) 352-1100
|(800) 342-3149
|(254) 742-9700
|(801) 524-4320
|(802) 828-6000
|(804) 287-1551
|(360) 704-7740
|West Virginia
|(800) 295-8228
|(715) 345-7620
|(307) 233-6700
Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. Can the temperature of eviscerated and non-eviscerated poultry carcasses be allowed to exceed 55 °F?
A. No, eviscerated and non-eviscerated carcasses are required to be chilled to 40 °F immediately after slaughter following the time requirements for weight of carcass in 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 381.66(b) (2). During further processing, they may rise to a maximum of 55 °F, provided the temperature is promptly lowered to 40 °F or less, or they are placed in a freezer.
Q. A plant is approved to operate two 8-hour shifts, and it routinely operates up to 12 hours per shift. It also communicates, in advance, with in-plant inspectors whenever the schedule is going to exceed the 8 hours. Does the issuance of FSIS Directive 12,700.1 affect this practice?
A. No. If the plant is following the regulatory requirement in 9 CFR 307.4(d)(2)(3) or 381.37(d)(2) and (3) and is notifying the inspection team in advance, the establishment has met its regulatory responsibilities. FSIS Directive 12,700.1 specifically addresses a situation in which an official establishment fails to notify inspectors that it will be operating outside its approved hours of inspection and produces product without the benefit of inspection. The directive provides instructions to FSIS inspectors regarding enforcement actions if they find that a plant has produced products outside its approved hours without the benefit of inspection.
Q. How often should the accuracy of the thermocouple thermometer be verified?
A. If the thermometer is being used, the accuracy of the thermometer should be verified at a minimum of once a month. If the thermometer has been mishandled in some way (dropped on the floor, left in an extremely hot or cold place), then its accuracy should be verified prior to taking a temperature.
Q. Is a plant required to use a Mercury-in-Glass (MIG) thermometer as a known standard when performing calibration of a thermometer?
A. No. It's the plant's responsibility to provide support for the procedure that it uses to calibrate its process-monitoring instruments (e.g., thermometers) to ensure that the instruments are accurate [9 CFR 417.5(a)(2)]. Use of a certified MIG thermometer is recognized as an accurate standard; however, plants may use other methods or equipment to verify accuracy of thermometers.
Q. Is 180 °F water required for sanitizing equipment used during livestock carcass dressing procedures?
A. Plants are required to maintain equipment and utensils in a sanitary condition so as not to adulterate product (9 CFR 416.3) and to clean and sanitize the equipment and utensils as frequently as necessary to prevent adulteration [9 CFR 416.4(a)]. When dressing livestock carcasses that are affected by any disease condition mentioned in 9 CFR 311.16(b) requires sanitization of equipment using hot water at a minimum of 180 °F. Chemical sanitizers may be used in lieu of 180 °F water if the requirements of 9 CFR 416.4(c) are met and the chemical sanitizer used provides an equivalent sanitizing effect.
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@John: thanks for the suggestion, but get a bit too big, it needs to fit inside a wristband. Or are there very flat motors that would do the job?
What is going on for the user here?? Is it something like a heart rate monitor??
The idea is simple: it's a "Boost Converter" often used in power supplies. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter I think all you'd need is the inductor and a small transistor to act as the switch.
You said "up to an inch (25mm) in diameter". Here's a nice little 5V DC motor with a 12mm diameter body (10mm across flats):http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/M1N10FB11G/P14354-ND/2417078
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Cull & Pistol Nails the Classics and Creates Some New Ones
Cull & Pistol
75 9th Avenue (In Chelsea Market; map); 646-568-1223; cullandpistol.com
Setting: High end but casual New England-style oyster bar
Must-Haves: Oyster & Leek Soup, Uni Tagliatelle, Hamachi Collar
Service: Well-informed, a little harried, but friendly
Compare To: The John Dory Oyster Bar, Mary's Fish Camp
Recommendation: Recommended
Even if Cull & Pistol, the new sister restaurant to the 40-year old Lobster Place in Chelsea Market, served nothing but the sandwiches that Lobster Place introduced to their menu after some renovations in May, it would have been a spot worth hitting for lunch if you were passing by on the High Line. But Cull & Pistol, a New England-style seafood shack of sorts, goes far beyond that, offering some of the city's most solid renditions of classic coastal fare, along with a few surprises on the menu by Chef Dave Seigal. It's oddly named after maimed lobsters—a cull is a lobster that's lost a claw, while a pistol is a completely claw-less lobster—but don't let that stop you from going.
The space is as long and narrow as a proper oyster bar should be, accented with wood and a few Maine-inspired fittings—caged light bulbs, driftwood-colored blackboards, and the like. On any given night, you'll have a choice of a dozen or so raw bar offerings picked off sashimi-style from a white card in which you check off how many of each you'd like for the table. They range from sweet and tender Jonah Crab Claws from Maine for a couple of bucks a piece to half lobsters for $13 and oysters from both coasts priced very reasonably between $2 and $2.50 a pop.
We went with a few plump and briny Wellfleets from Cape Cod, some Beau Soleil from New Brunswick, and a few buttery Littleneck Clams from Maine ($1 each!). They come served with a mildly hot and plenty tangy cocktail sauce and a peppery mignonette, along with a spiced mayonnaise for the crab claws that could have used just a touch more spice.
There's no liquor license at Cull & Pistol, but there are plenty of wines by the glass ($9 to $15) and beers ($7 each) to choose from, along with two beer-based cocktails: A classic michelada made with clam juice and old bay, and the Gator Beer 2.0, which sounds like it'll be too sweet with its pilsner and lemon soda base and lemon drop-esque sugared rim, but actually comes out more refreshing. It's what I'd choose to wash down my raw bar platter.
There's no clam chowder on the menu here, which is fine by me if it means that there's room for their Oyster & Leek Soup ($10), a creamy concoction that's buttery-smooth with the rich savoriness of cooked oysters combined with just enough potatoes to lend it some body. It comes sprinkled with dill croutons and fancy Spanish chili.
There's "Long Island Clam Toast" ($13) proudly listed under the appetizers here as if it's some sort of transplanted regional specialty, though frankly, I've never heard of the dish (and neither has Google). No matter. Deeply charred bread from market neighbor Amy's with a thick smear of softened butter topped with whole clams, onions, herbs, and some bacon from Dickson's Smoked Meats (also a couple doors down) would be just as delicious even if it were called Siberian Clam Toast. It has the same satisfying chewiness and smoked pork-and-clam flavor duo that my mom's clam spaghetti had in the 80's (and perhaps your mom's too).
Our group of three diners was a little miffed that the Deviled Eggs ($9) came in three different flavors. All of us wanted to try the salmon, crab, and lobster-caviar versions. We ended up splitting them, cutting the eggs to reveal the little pockets of dressed seafood underneath their piped-egg caps.
You won't see Uni Tagliatelle in a Maine seafood shack, and it might not be the greatest sea urchin pasta dish in the city (that honor goes to either the version at Esca or at Marea), but it has an advantage over those: the ability to order half portions. For $15 you get a sizable tangle of squid ink noodles coated in a creamy sea urchin emulsion along with crunchy bread crumbs and roasted tomatoes. $21 will get you a full-sized entree portion. The sauce could have been a bit more saucy and the tomatoes didn't bring much to the table, but the tiny grilled squid perched on top won the award for most surprisingly tasty bite of the night with their tender smokiness.
I used to work at a restaurant where two lucky customers per night would get to order the collars off the hamachi that we butchered daily—like chickens with their wings, each fish has only got two. That's one of the the advantage Cull & Pistol has, being the sister restaurant to a sushi joint: They can stick the specialty cut on the menu and serve it all night long. If you've never had Hamachi Collar ($24), this is a good place to get your first dose of the incredibly succulent, tender, mildly flavored meat. A sweetened miso glaze coats flesh that melts on your tongue like the finest toro, while a thin ponzu-style broth adds a touch of acidity to the mix. The only improvement I'd have looked for is for some crisp skin to go with it, but we can't always get everything we want.
The Fish & Chips ($17, one of my seafood shack benchmarks) has a batter that's slightly thinner and darker than I like mine, causing the very edges of the hake inside to begin to toughen, but the Maine Lobster Roll ($25) is as fine a rendition of the dish as you could hope for. It's done in true New England style with just enough mayonnaise to barely bind it together, a sprinkle of scallions, and a buttery toasted top-split hot dog roll. The roll might be a little small for the price tag, but a big pile of perfect fries will fill you up nicely.
Everyone seems to mention the Fish Tacos ($18), and they really are excellent. Seasoned hunks of tender grouper piled high with shredded red cabbage and served with lime and spicy mayo in homemade charred corn tortillas. The tortillas could be a little more tender, but they're a big step up from most you'll find in New York.
There's no dessert menu at Cull & Pistol, but nobody leaves without a little thimble-ful of orange creamsicle gelato custom-made for the restaurant by L'Arte del Geltao.
I'm a big stickler for properly cooked, ultra-fresh seafood at oyster bars like this, to the point where even the tiniest thing out of place can bring down the experience for me. At Cull & Pistol, they hit all of the classics just right, and even create new dishes that seem like they've existed forever. Are there really seafood shacks serving clams and bacon on toast out on the beach in Montauk? Not that I know of, but maybe there should be.
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Standardization and health information among the key challenges awaiting Vivek Kundra's successor, state CIOs say.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is set to depart his office in August for a fellowship at Harvard University. What will Kundra's successor have on his or her desk?
In interviews with Government Technology this month, state CIOs said standardization and consolidation will continue to be key issues.
New Hampshire CIO Bill Rogers said he believes the federal budget crunch will make it tougher to invest in new technologies. He said the next federal CIO will still be knee-deep in standardization, cloud computing and consolidation issues. Whoever is appointed to the post won't be able to get around the looming specter of funding challenges.
"You have to spend some money in the beginning to get projects implemented," Rogers said.
Illinois CIO Sean Vinck wasn't so sure. When asked if budget concerns might have a negative impact on the changes Kundra began and projects in the future, he said resources will always be a challenge, but what he learned from Kundra was that it's not that we're spending too little money, but we're spending too much.
Kundra said his office had saved $3 billion in only five months through its IT reform plan, which involved moving the federal government toward a cloud computing strategy, beginning the consolidation of more than 2,000 federal data centers and canceling underperforming or over budget IT projects.
"Kundra's whole tenure was about we're spending a hell of a lot of money and we're not getting where we need to get," Vinck said, adding that success in IT challenges is more a function of management strategy and flexibility.
Vinck felt strongly that health-care reform should be a major priority for the person stepping into Kundra's shoes. The Illinois CIO said the timelines and objectives of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 — which involves the states establishing health benefit exchanges by 2014 — is "ambitious."
His concern is that some states may not be able to meet deadlines without the federal government making strides to provide states with clear instructions.
"Unless the federal government has a game plan that is concise and realistic ... we will not meet those time frames," Vinck stressed. "It is absolutely critical that [Kundra's] successor understand that and realize his or her mission is to shepherd those agencies and make it so federal agencies are speaking with a unified voice."
Brenda Decker, CIO of Nebraska, didn't pinpoint health benefit exchanges as an issue area of concern directly, but she did say that vague or confusing initiatives coming from the federal government was a regular occurrence in the course of IT business between the states and Uncle Sam.
"That's one of the things we tried to work with Vivek on," Decker said. "I think he was making some headway, but not as much and as quickly as everyone wished he had."
She added that leadership changes often bring hesitation from decision-makers, particularly until the new person gets comfortable. Some IT issues Kundra was working on may take awhile to get back on track.
"I think there will be some things that will stumble and stall for a period of time, if for no other reason than that people aren't going to operate for fear of what will happen next and what the next person will do," Decker explained.
Prior to Kundra's arrival, Decker said she and many of her colleagues felt states were brought in after many federal program decisions were made, forcing states to find the right solution to meet mandates. Decker said that Kundra made great strides in changing and improving the federal-state relationship and stressed the importance of continuing to build that bridge.
Georgia CIO Calvin Rhodes agreed and called Kundra's assertive effort to reach out to states "unprecedented."
"If the person following him does not embrace those things, I think that would truly be missed," Rhodes said.
Editor's note: Read the August 2011 issue of Public CIO magazine for an extended look into Kundra's tenure as the first federal CIO.
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Municipal bond investors worried about the risk of default may be looking in the wrong direction.
Sure, investors were spooked by Meredith Whitney's prediction in December 2010 that the muni market would see hundreds of billions in losses. But now, they don't see what is actually a much greater risk on the horizon, according to Priscilla Hancock, a J.P. Morgan Asset Management client portfolio manager and fixed income strategist with a specialty in municipal bonds.
While the vast majority of traditional, plain-vanilla muni bonds carry virtually no risk of default, the real danger lurking in muni bonds comes from low-quality, high-yield municipal bonds, Hancock said Wednesday in a phone interview.
Hancock, who served as head of strategy for Standard & Poor's and global product development for Moody's before joining JPAM, pointed to risky high-yield munis, especially highly illiquid, thinly traded private activity bonds.
"In the rare cases where traditional muni borrowers such as state and local governments do default, the recovery rate is very high," Hancock said. "Those are not the same issuers that you find in the muni high-yield market, where 41% of the market is private activity bonds. The payor on those bonds includes corporate entities such as airlines or the flow of funds from a tobacco company."
Within the private activity market, 55% are tobacco bonds. A Moody's report published July 12 says declining rates of cigarette consumption in the U.S. pose a major credit risk to tobacco settlement bonds. As smokers quit their habit in ever greater numbers, tobacco settlement bonds are seeing a greater risk of default.
"Under our projection of an annual [drop in smoking] of 3% to 4%, bonds constituting 74% of the aggregate outstanding balance of all tobacco bonds we rate will default," Moody's reports. "This finding is consistent with the bonds' current ratings, 79% of which are B1 or lower."
What does this mean for high-yield muni investors? Now is a good time to sell off.
"Maybe it's time to book your profits, especially if you think taxes are going to go up next year," Hancock said. "Illiquidity is a terrible risk, particularly today when we are at what may be the end of a bull-market cycle."
High-yield munis are risky for these three reasons, according to Hancock:
- Concentrated credit risk. These bonds are nondiversified and generally dominated by risky sectors such as nursing homes, health care centers and "dirt bonds," meaning speculative real estate projects.
- Illiquidity. Relative to the high-yield corporate debt market, which exceeds $1 trillion, the muni high-yield market is incredibly small, at only $65 billion, with an average issue size of $23 million. That means it has virtually no active secondary market and little opportunity to liquidate loss-making positions if an investor gets stuck with unsellable bonds.
- Duration. The average duration in high-yield munis is nearly 10 years, compared with just four years for corporate high-yield bonds. Duration has a direct correlation to interest rate sensitivity, so when rates start to rise, investors are setting themselves up for a painful reckoning.
Yet in their search for yield, investors have been pouring money into long-term muni bond mutual funds all year. Lipper data show that long-term fund flows have almost reached $14 billion, the most since 2007. During the same period in 2011, investors fearing plain-vanilla bond defaults were pulling their cash out of muni funds in droves.
Since the beginning of this year, the flows have been extremely disproportionate into high-yield municipal bonds versus the stock of money in high-yield funds. Currently, about 12% of assets under management in the muni space are in high-yield funds, but more than 30% of the flows in the second quarter went into muni high-yield funds.
"As investors see a lack of income in fixed income, they're reaching, and they're reaching farther out the curve, maturity-wise, taking on more duration risk, and farther down the credit curve," Hancock said. "You have all this money chasing high yield. In fact, we're seeing these high-yield funds having to buy slightly higher quality paper because it's the only thing out there. There's not a big enough supply of bonds, and there's illiquidity because the deals are so small."
A white paper published this week by Charles Schwab fixed-income strategist Kathy Jones says munis remain relatively attractive overall.
"Nominal muni yields are greater than yields on Treasuries of comparable maturities," Jones wrote. "And we believe that bankruptcies of municipal governments will remain relatively infrequent events. Many municipalities are taking the steps needed to address strained budgets by cutting spending and raising revenues. In our view, the revenue picture for state and, to a lesser degree, local, governments is generally stabilizing."
According to "The Untold Story of Municipal Bond Defaults," a commentary posted Wednesday on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's website, S&P rated municipal bonds defaulted only 47 times from 1986 to 2011. Similarly, Moody's indicates that its rated municipal bonds defaulted only 71 times from 1970 to 2011.
For investors, Hancock prefers corporate high yield over muni high yield.
"On a risk-adjusted basis, we think the corporate high-yield market is a better place to go today if you're taking additional risk in your portfolio. Since 2008, high-yield corporate issuers have firmed up their balance sheets, reduced leverage and extended out maturities. They're in a very good financial position, and that position is poised to do better if the economy starts getting better."
She noted that JPAM manages the Tax Aware High Income Fund (JTISX), which offers exposure to higher-quality housing and health care bonds and taxable leveraged loans that are liquid in the secondary market and have shorter durations. In this period of market uncertainty, investors increasingly want large asset management firms to do their credit research for them, Hancock said.
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To root out terrorism we need, first and foremost, to understand what makes the terrorists tick. To begin, let's dispose of some popular red herrings: poverty; ignorance; national liberation
What drives terrorists into action? The answer is "religion" - or, to be more precise, that kind of it which is called "idolatry"
Can the problem that is lodged in the mind be solved through social, economic, or military means? How to treat a malady that is rooted in religion?
Here is one helpful piece of statistics: of the hundreds of millions of people around the world to whom it is obvious that Mohammed had been a prophet and who matter-of-factly rely on Koran as the ultimate record of God's will, only a mere 0% have the actual ability to determine whether this is so, or not. The remaining 100% of self-proclaimed "True Believers" cannot possibly know what they are talking about.
We call them "evil," but in fact they are merely WRONG - wrong about their ability to know what is God's word and what isn't, wrong to claim to know who is a prophet and who isn't.
So what should be done to rid the world of terrorism?
The answer is simple: we must heal their minds by showing the "True Believers" the fatal flaw in their worldview.
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Lineup Change for Hard Rock Band Sister
Swedish hard rockers Sister have posted the following on their site today:
After almost four years, We have decided to go separate ways with Dani. We had reached a point where we couldn't work together as a band anymore and our friendship almost became suffering. Before that happend, we decided to do something about it.
It's now official that we have hooked up with a new killer-guy called Lestat!
We have already played two gigs with Lestat on guitar, in Oslo and Stockholm and it just went great! Lestat fits perfectly in Sister in all ways and it feels like he has always been one of us.
The new lineup has been working hard the latest months, the songwriting is on top and we're are working on several brand new songs to be released in 2010!
We wanna say good luck in the future and thank you for those first four years to Dani. AND a big fucking welcome aboard to Lestat! And we hope that you out there gonna do the same!
For more info on Sister, check out the band's myspace page at this link. You can watch the band's video, "Too Bad For You" below.


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Fed In-House Spying Is Ordered
In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for "high-risk persons or behaviors" among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.
Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing "indicators of insider threat behavior" are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when "suspicious user behavior" is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to "insider threat personnel."
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do "harm to the United States." Managers of special insider threat offices will have "regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access" to employees' personnel, payroll, disciplinary and "personal contact" files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.
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A book which attempts to reconstruct two ancient Sumerican stories from photographs of the stone tablets on which they were originally written: one story concerns an ancient account of a deluge (or flood) which destroyed much of civilization); the other concerns the exploits of the mythical Gilgamesh who takes a stand against Agga, the king of Kish. The epic also presents a striking portrayal of human limitations. Gilgamesh becomes arrogant with his success, and the people of Uruk call on the gods to deliver them from this tyrant. In response, the gods make Enkidu, the wild man, who is Gilgamesh's equal in strength. Gilgamesh's battle with Enkidu tempers his character, and the two embark on a series of adventures, leaving Uruk in peace. Some readers have interpreted this as an early recognition of the need to use power to limit power.
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"School 2013's" Lee Jong Suk and Kim Woo Bin Show Off Modelesque Force
Actors Lee Jong Suk and Kim Woo Bin, who were originally models, showed off their experienced "model force" in a recent photo spread.
Lee Jong Suk and Kim Woo Bin posed together for the January edition of "Vogue Girl," where they displayed their superior body proportions, especially their long legs. The two actors wore a collection of classy suits and showed fans and viewers that they were indeed successful former models in the past.
The pictorial highlighted Lee Jong Suk and Kim Woo Bin's manly and charismatic charms. They posed with a gray,black, and white toned theme with car parts as props, giving off a sense of masculine energy. Fans were especially able to see their modelesque aura through their experienced facial expressions and poses.
Before acting, Lee Jong Suk started his modelling career in 2005 and became the youngest male model of the Seoul Collection program. Kim Woo Bin debuted as a model in 2006 and walked on the runway for many different fashion brands and collections.
The two actors are currently playing enemies with a sad history in the drama "School 2013."


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New Deal Art During the Great Depression
On May 6, 1935, the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was created to help provide economic relief to the citizens of the United States who were suffering through the Great Depression. The artistic community had already become inspired during the 1920s and '30s by the revitalization of the Italian Renaissance fresco style by the inspired creations of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueriros.
Certain visionary U.S. politicians decided to combine the creativity of the new art movements with the values of the American people. The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions of the W.P.A. created under Federal Project One. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had made several attempts prior to the F.A.P. to provide employment for artists on relief, namely the Public Works of Art Project (P.W.A.P.) which operated from 1933 to 1934 and the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture which was created in 1934 after the demise of the P.W.A.P. However, it was the F.A.P. which provided the widest reach, creating over 5,000 jobs for artists and producing over 225,000 works of art for the American people.
It is this legacy of the thousands of workers who labored at their craft for little money but great pride which we have to inspire us today. Although many of these works of art found in post offices in Alabama to as far away as the Virgin Islands, have been destroyed or stolen, those that remain must be preserved. They stand as a reminder of a time in our country's history when dreams were not allowed to be destroyed by economic disaster.
Who is in charge of the legacy of the WPA Federal Art Project?
The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 transferred all functions of the Federal Works Agency, including works of art produced under the various art projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to the General Services Administration (GSA).
The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. §471 et seq.) provides General Services Administration (GSA) with the authority to procure and supply real and personal property and non-personal services, and transferred all functions of the Federal Works Agency, including artwork from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to the GSA. -
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Holidays like no other! (20-07-01)
This year, we didn't see the spring go by. Caught in the turmoil of the covid, our attention and concerns were focused on this invisible and devious virus that we continue to tame.
Habits such as washing our hands more often, keeping our distance and, occasionally, wearing a mask may be part of our daily lives for a long time to come.
The media point this out and the Boss confirms it, for most of us this summer, holidays will take place at home. He had noticed a phenomenal increase in traffic on his website during the confinement and is now pleasantly surprised to also note a very marked increase in store visits following the deconfinement. It seems that the holiday budget will partially turn into a DIY budget.
So be careful in your work; be also vigilant in your travels and take advantage of the summer to take holidays like no other...


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MOVIE REVIEW- <i>Eat, Pray</i>, navel gaze: Gilbert's travels not for everyone
Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love, unread by me, spent 150 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and is by some accounts a good one. It is also movie material, concerning as it does a tall blonde (Gilbert) who ditches a failing marriage and a disastrous love affair to spend a year living in Italy, India and Bali, seeking to find the balance of body, mind and spirit. During this journey, great-looking men are platooned at her, and a wise man, who has to be reminded who she is, remembers instantly, although what he remembers is only what she's just told him.
I gather Gilbert's "prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible" (New York Times Book Review), and if intelligence, wit and exuberance are what you're looking for, Julia Roberts is an excellent choice as the movie's star. You can see how it would be fun to spend a year traveling with Gilbert. A lot more fun than spending nearly two and a half hours watching a movie about it. I guess you have to belong to the narcissistic subculture of Woo-Woo.
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Samsung Electronics will consider later this year if it will launch a high-definition movie player compatible with both the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, it said Tuesday.
Samsung is a supporter of the Blu-ray Disc format and its first player will go on sale in the U.S. in the next few days. The BD-P1000 is the first consumer Blu-ray Disc player from any manufacturer and its launch will kick off full competition between the rival formats. Toshiba, which is the main backer of the HD DVD format, started player sales in March.
There are only a few technical differences between the formats but they're big enough to make them mutually incompatible. That's a headache for consumers because most Hollywood studios have initially committed to releasing movies on one or the other disc format but not both.
Samsung is already working on a drive that handles both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, said Kim Du-Hyon, an assistant manager in Samsung's home-platform product planning division, in a briefing with reporters at the company's headquarters in Suwon, South Korea.
"We don't have a plan to make an HD DVD-only player but are considering a universal player," he said. "We are preparing HD DVD [support] now and if we launch a universal player it will be the end of this year or early next year."
Kim underlined Samsung's belief that Blu-ray Disc will beat HD DVD in the commercial marketplace but said Samsung will consider a universal player should HD DVD prove as successful as Blu-ray Disc.
Samsung is not alone in working on drives that support both formats, according to industry sources.
While LG Electronics has publically declared its plans to make drives for both formats, many of the leading Blu-ray Disc backers are also members of the DVD Forum and so have access to HD DVD technology and specifications.
In addition some companies on each side of the battle have optical disc production joint-ventures. Samsung is partnered with Toshiba in Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology and Sony and NEC, which back Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD respectively, formed Sony NEC Optiarc in April this year.
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Augmented reality games (ARGs) are often interesting in theory—and sometimes in practice—but just as often they require far too much work to actually be enjoyable. But with built-in cameras, GPS, and sensors, modern smartphones make ARGs much more accessible. You don't need any extra gear, just the phone you have in your pocket.
To help promote the DVD release of the second Paranormal Activity film, game developer Ogmento has released an iPhone app called Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary, which takes elements of FourSquare and combines them with the board game Risk. And then it throws the whole thing straight to hell.
Ars spoke with Ogmento CEO and co-founder Ori Inbar about the unique game and why the iPhone is a solid platform for ARGs.
Ogmento has been around since 2009 and has released several mobile apps and games. But since ARGs were, and still are, a relatively new phenomenon, the studio began looking for partners to bring the genre to a wider audience. With a combined box office gross of more than $300 million, the Paranormal Activity franchise seemed like a perfect fit. And not only because it had a huge audience; the themes in the films had a lot of potential for augmented reality.
"It fits very well with the idea of things that are happening in the real world that we usually don't see," Inbar told Ars. "And with the special device, the iPhone, which has a camera and everything on it, all of a sudden we have a window, a portal, into that part of the world. It's tying your favorite locations around the city to something that is totally fantastical and imagined and kind of making every step of our life a bit more interesting, a bit more fun."
The game utilizes virtually every feature of the smartphone. You can view a real map that displays the hell holes all around you; you can use the camera to scan your surroundings for lurking ghosts; you can even perform spells by drawing symbols on a piece of paper, which then come to life on the iPhone's screen. Combining all of these elements into one experience presented plenty of design issues that Inbar describes as "technically very challenging."
Sanctuary is also a massively multiplayer experience: some players can be demonologists helping to rid the world of evil, while others can become possessed by that very evil. This creates a constant battle as each side fights to take over areas. But the developers were also careful to make sure that the game was enjoyable for those who may not live in an area with a large population of other players.
"With some location based services and games, when you start playing it and there aren't too many people around you playing it, it's kind of boring," explained Inbar. "So the goal was to first of all make it interesting and challenging for a single player somewhere in the middle of the Midwest. But then when more people join in and you start to feel this global battle between good and evil, which is in the game, that's when it really gets more interesting and more challenging.
"And the social aspect of it is critical."
Ogmento will be adding functionality to the game over the coming weeks, including a messaging system and additional paper-to-screen spells. But the game will remain iPhone exclusive, mainly due to the fact that the platform is "more lucrative at this point." However, the studio is working on an unannounced project that will debut on Android.
You can download Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary free of charge if you want to take it for a spin.


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At 4L it sounds more like pale ale than pale malt.
Kilned a bit higher than Rahr standard 2-row (3-4°L) for deeper color and flavor.
Quote from: denny on November 26, 2012, 04:44:28 PMAt 4L it sounds more like pale ale than pale malt.I think you're probably right on that one Denny. Is 'pale ale' malt something I can use like Rahr 2-row? I'm fresh out of plain ol' 2-row and might pick up a sack if that's the case. From what I can see, I think I could:QuoteKilned a bit higher than Rahr standard 2-row (3-4°L) for deeper color and flavor.
Amanda, I would take this opportunity to split batches, fermenting half (or more) with the strain you determine as likely similar to Stone's and the other half with the strain you're wondering about. You'd sure make White Labs a vial happier and more importantly would have two related brews that would be fun to compare and contrast.I love WLP500 but I've also wondered if it would work with the big C hops. Now I'll probably have to try it next IPA. To me, these kind of musings are what lead to splitting batches and a faster acquaintance with all the amazing yeast strains out there. Other than having so many carboys to store, I have no regrets.


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Do those kinds of things happen at your house, or are you one of those people who call those angels, the home maintenance and repair guys? Maybe I could be that kind of person? Wishful thinking!
A year or so ago I saw some stains on the ceiling in the bathroom. I grabbed my my trusty drywall saw and cut a hole to see what was up. Turns out the shower above was leaking. The neat thing is, when I cut the hole the shower leaked into the tub in the bathroom below. That's my kind of solution. The hole remained for over a year since there was no urgency to actually fix the leak. We finally did figure it out and fix it, but we had gotten sort of fond of the hole and again, no urgency to make that repair. It was time to fix the ceiling. I had to rip a bit more out to make it fixable.
I patched the hole and now I'm in the dusty, mud, sand, mud some more and try to make the ceiling look like one piece. Maybe in a week or so I'll be able to show you a finished room. It could happen.
We got out the chainsaw and cut up and hauled away the giant tree that fell in the storm a few months ago, replaced all the screens in the front windows, powerwashed most of the deck, and tackled a few other miscellaneous things that have been on the list for way too long. We even put in the new shower door that has been sitting in a box in our bedroom for a month or two.
There's always a quilt or two on a chair for when someone gets chilly.
The guest room always has a quilt on the bed.
This one hangs in my room.
This one is hanging in a closet...yes, in a closet, but I can see it from my desk in my office.
Some quilts hang on racks waiting for their turn on a bed.
It's been a nice break, a busy, but productive time. Remember that house god who smiled on me during the flood? Must not be too happy today...I went to change the wash and the dryer isn't heating. I'll add it to the list.