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The New Manhattan Project: Q&A with NYGC Scientific Director Robert Darnell
November 28, 2012
| Rockefeller University physician scientist Robert Darnell, son of Lasker Award winner James Darnell, is the newly appointed scientific director of the New York Genome Center (NYGC). Darnell gives his first in-depth interview to
Bio-IT World
editor Kevin Davies on his reasons for taking the job and his initial goals for the high-profile center.
Bio-IT World: Bob, did you have much involvement with the New York Genome Center before your appointment as scientific director?
Yes. My involvement with the center came through my own lab's struggles in bioinformatics. We've been successful on a do-it-yourself scale. Tom Maniatis moved to Columbia, we were both dealing with these issues. He introduced me to [NYGC Founding Executive Director] Nancy Kelley, who already had the center up and running to some degree.
The bottom line is: I'm a user of genomics and a physician, and I've spread my wings among these two fields. My group—about 25-30 people—started doing genomics fairly early, around 2006, when the first [next-generation sequencing (NGS)] machines were coming out. We had to devise our own ways of approaching it.
We were much more interested in the 'dark matter' of the genome—there's a huge amount of the genome transcribed that we don't know anything about. We were working in this area way before it was popularized. We did our own bioinformatics, and then we hired a few people. What I saw in my own group and at Rockefeller University, where I'm a professor, is an unsustainable status quo. You can do a bit [of NGS] on your own but it's not adequate.
And so what appealed to me about this [opportunity] was the idea we could have both a core platform to do high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics, standardized approaches for my lab, Rockefeller and New York in general. But superimposed on that is the larger idea that what we really need is computational science—using the value of machine learning, network analysis and so on. All of that is stuff we've done custom in our own laboratory… I'm an egalitarian in science—making a level playing field and an opportunity for everybody to harness the power of genomics is very appealing to me…
The bigger part of [this opportunity] is trying to harness this stuff for the benefit of mankind—for clinical medicine. The challenge there is several-fold: one is dealing with the mass of information, making collaborations happen, making things CLIA-certified etc. Once that data is together, there's low hanging fruit to be plucked away—exomes, coding sequence—but there's the potential of machine learning, identification of information in non-coding RNAs—largely unconserved and have things we don't understand in them—that needs mathematicians and computational scientists and powerful machines.
That's the real hope here—building enough bioinformatics, using the core to make an incredibly useful facility for doing personalized medicine and clinical genomics, but to also do it at a level that is not just the simple, straightforward, trivial, but do it in a way that is deep and sets the standards going forward for how this should be done. So this opportunity has a practical arm and a scientific discovery arm.
On the clinical side, how will this advance the treatment of your own patients?
Well, I'm sort of one of the world's 'experts' on a very rare group of diseases… These diseases are really interesting, rare, but provide the potential for cracking open insights into really big questions. These are diseases where people have elements of naturally occurring, successful tumor immunity. That's triggered when they make an immune response against proteins in their cancer that are normally brain-specific proteins. That triggers effective suppression of the tumor and that immune response, similar to lupus, can cross into the brain and cause an auto-immune disease. We figured early on we needed to harness molecular biology to get at pathophysiology, and that led us to discover the target genes in these disorders. They turn out to be brain-specific gene regulatory proteins, but not things regulating transcription at the DNA level, but regulating RNA. So the brain has its own system for regulating this dark matter that no other cell in the body uses, and presumably it relates to normal brain function and brain disease.
So we're interested in using high-throughput sequencing in these patients to ask what's different about their tumor, their immune response, and maybe in some cases think about what's different in their brain. It's a very interesting issue, which we've broadened and generalized into a question of what makes the brain different from a liver, kidney or spleen cell? It's really genomic information, but as far as we can tell, it's not the machines that turn genes on or off at the DNA level but the processing and regulation at the RNA level. That's partially what makes neurons so complicated and special.
We've developed technology to look at this, which turns out to be very relevant to fragile X mental retardation, Lou Gehrig's disease, which has blossomed in recent years as an [accepted] RNA-mediated disease, neurodegenerative diseases, pediatric disease… all of these are things that our lab has touched on. So you can see why we're interested in being a user of the NYGC, driving the science forward, how to handle all the data, how to discover things in the data and tie it back to human disease.
You're a physician scientist running a big lab. When did you start to think seriously about becoming the scientific director of NYGC?
I fell in love with the place early, through Nancy, because I loved the vision of the place. Selfishly I wanted it to happen—I was an unbiased observer for a while, volunteering my time trying to make the center happen. The way the search worked initially was that we originally thought [the scientific director] should be someone outside of New York…
It could have worked out, but in some ways that was the wrong idea. We're talking about a consortium that's never been done before. This is going to be the new Manhattan Project! This will involve a new generation of clinical medicine, with science and computers all fitting together. It's never been done, and here it's being done as a consortium of all the major institutions in New York. Trying to pull that together might in fact need a New Yorker!
I had been comfortable watching this from afar. As Nancy likes to point out, I've been associated with more than half the founding institutions. That's a lot of fun, I'm very comfortable interacting with these people, and I collaborate scientifically with a large number of people at many of these institutions. And I'm a New Yorker—I grew up in New York.
So frankly I wasn't thinking about [the position] until they approached me. My initial instinct was, wow! It clicked right away. NYGC is interested in clinical medicine, computational science and biology. That's exactly what my lab does—and that's exactly where my lab is stuck. The struggles in my lab are a microcosm of the struggles of all labs in New York and science in general, dealing with the revolution in genomics.
Will you move your lab into NYGC?
Yes and no. I'm remaining a Rockefeller professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. My wet lab does a lot of mouse genetics, and we're not going to set that up at the NYGC. But the genomics there will be very powerful, so that part of my lab will move.
Will there be other senior investigators conducting research at the center?
Definitely. There's the intention to make this an academic tower of power. If we're really going to figure out how to do the next generation of genomics and apply it to clinical problems, it's a research problem. It can't be done by a computational scientist alone, or a clinician, or a classical genomicist alone. It demands this sort of consortium. I'm the nidus for recruiting future investigators.
Do you envision NYGC leaning more towards basic or clinical research?
We need to bring clinicians in who have access to patients and want to sequence their DNA. We have to educate them about why they might want to do that, how to do it. Once it's brought into the center, we want to do more than just sequence and spit it out. We want to help them learn. It's not as trivial as it sounds. Even when you hit a single-gene defect, it's not easy to figure out how that translates into a treatment. It requires a mixture of interested scientists—you can call that basic [research]—and computational people to deal with the data. I see a large amount of bioinformatics and computational science, with some interested users, some of whom will interface with clinicians, and some (like me) will be clinicians.
Apparently you're quite the triathlete. Will you be jogging the five miles from your Rockefeller lab to NYGC?
Yes, I could swim too! I'm very excited… My history is a little peculiar, because I've done two careers. An MD/PhD, I see these patients with rare disease, I teach at Memorial Sloan Kettering as an attending physician, and I run a very serious basic science lab that's out of the box—that's why I'm an HHMI investigator. One of the questions that comes up is, how will I do this additional thing? I'm good at multi-tasking. If I wasn't, I wouldn't be here. The triathlon is the same genre.
Your father is a Lasker Award winner, and your daughter seems to be following in the family business. I read she come second in the Westinghouse Science competition a few years ago?
Yes, they almost got it right! She finished at Yale undergrad and is now a brand new baby graduate student at Harvard in Molecular and Cellular Biology, with David Liu.
A fun personal story: My dad was a left-leaning scientist when I grew up, we used to march against the Vietnam War. I became very interested in science, like my dad, but wanted to be a humanist. As a 14-year-old, I saw him as an ivory tower scientists working on RNA, so ironically, I went to great efforts to distinguish myself in science and stayed committed to idea of doing clinical medicine, trying to do basic science on human disease. I ended up working on one of the world's rarest diseases—perineta degenerations—figured out a way to discover the basic patho-physiology and the genetics, and it turns out I discovered these multi-gene families of brain-specific RNA proteins! Even I could not believe the way fate set this up. I ended up at Rockefeller, where my dad is, and we're doing RNA genomics collaborations.
Do you have any concerns about the challenges you face at this stage?
I would just say that it's going to be a grand adventure in bringing clinical science forward to something that is more than just intellectually interesting, but clinically powerfully important.
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Console Gaming Rise and Fall:
As a gamer of the late 80's I grew up during a time when Nintendo exploded out of the shadowy grave of Atari whom nearly took the entire gaming industry with them, I was locked into being a console guy. At the time, I presumed computers were only meant for making spreadsheets or it was a glorified calculator. I didn't get a PC in our house until 1998 and I was just a few short years from high school. My first game on it was some pinball games that I couldn't get to work on it. I abandoned the idea and went back to my N64. Eventually, I came to discover Final Fantasy 7 in the infamous TV spots they had for the game making everyone think the game looked like the greatest looking thing ever. I bought the PC version of the game, again having no idea if the PC I had could run it. Luckily it did, and I was able to play one of the greatest games of all time.
I didn't think much of it though, the novelty of playing a game on a PC. I just figured it was a good way to play games my N64 couldn't play. Fast foward to near the end of the Gamecube era, when nothing was coming out for it, and everyone was enjoying release after release while Nintendo spends a year transitioning to their new console and ignoring their current one as they always do, and I sit twiddling my thumbs trying to get more life out of Smash Brothers and Mario Sunshine.
Having nothing new to play, I started playing around with my new PC, that I bought for college. I heard about a game called Lost Planet, and it looked gorgeous, and I knew Nintendo would never get it on their new system the Wii, because it wasn't capable of running it. I didn't want to buy an Xbox though, at the time I was quite a Nintendo fanboy. I still am, but I'm not against a system anymore because of who makes it. But at the time I was totally that way, I wanted nothing to do with anything Xbox. Then I discovered Lost Planet was out on PC, so I searched to discover how to get it on my PC.
That's when I discovered Steam. My very first purchase on Steam, was Lost Planet. I had no knowledge of PC gaming though, literally none. I tried to run Lost Planet and it would barely launch. After some research, I learned I needed a graphics card. Didn't know anything about those either, so I bought one that was $150 and figured I'd be good. I was good luckily, the game ran great. I also learned how great it felt to do my own handy work on a PC and get things running. Also, I really liked using the mouse to aim and shoot. It felt way better than controllers.
Still being the Nintendo fanboy I was though, I tried my best to get through my gaming needs with the Wii and would use the PC sparingly for games I couldn't get on the Wii. It wasn't long until I learned Nintendo didn't care about a gamer like me anymore, and was busy making casual games with crappy waggle. I defended it, tried to work with it, forced myself to like it. But something in me knew I wasn't happy. I even bought a Playstation 3 when it came out. Buying the Playstation 3, and having a Wii at the time I did, was what drove me away from console gaming to PC. Neither console had any killer games on them for quite a while, what felt like an eternity. I got very impatient.
Emergence of a PC Gamer:
Then Crysis became all the rage. A game to end all games in terms of sheer beauty and action and only PC gamers would be getting it. I obsessed over how I would play it, what did I need, etc. I wanted to spend as little as possible, and did everything I could to limp my cheap computer along giving it new graphics cards, and a new processor, more ram etc.
I learned a lot about PC's trying to get Crysis to run. I finally did, and I was rewarded with a really good FPS game. I also now had a PC that was on par with a PS3 and Xbox 360. The 360 was getting a lot of great games the PS3 either wasn't getting or was getting sub-par horrible ports. From Bioshock to Oblivion, I started collecting games on PC. I discovered modding, old RPG's I never heard about, and the infamous Steam Sale. The value of PC gaming was compiling, and I was drawn in. I still bought console games, but I was ready to actually build a fully fledged gaming PC and pour some real money into it.
I built a great gaming PC. It was more powerful than current gen systems, I could mod games, the load times were superb, the system didn't update every time I wanted to play since it did that stuff in the background. The interface of Steam was just so perfect. I started to notice PS3 games ran jittery or would lag making me start to concern myself with frame rates. Playing on PC these same games ran smoothly, like Fallout 3 and Far Cry 2. Developers were seemingly making games barely able to run on the consoles they were developing them for, but the PC could with ease. It became apparent to me putting forth the effort on PC gaming rewarded me with the gaming experience developers were intending on their games.I started buying games on PC first before considering consoles.
It was a magical time. I got the better versions of games like Dragon Age, Metro 2033, I got PC exclusives like Civilization 4 and Diablo 3. Apart from console exclusives I got all I needed out of my PC. Load times, modding, mouse control, all digital games no need to change discs (yes I'm lazy), cheap game sales, etc etc. I felt like the future of gaming was PC.
Driven Out of Paradise:
Jump to today and PC gaming is in shambles. Negative after negative of being a PC gamer rears its ugly head. From having to maintain expensive parts, to rampant online cheating, to baron online games, and the most egregious non-functional PC ports.
Starting with expensive parts, I've never been a good judge of being able to future proof. I'm too cheap I guess. I kept buying graphics cards that were just good enough. Then a new game would come out that I could barely run, and force me to buy a new card. This has happened about 4 or 5 times, and it's REALLY expensive to keep making those mistakes.
Baron online games is another good place to show the cracks of PC gaming. The PC gaming community is small, and I didn't expect it to be as small as it actually is. Today, if you're not CSGo, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Star Craft etc, the tip of the iceberg of games on PC, then you're going to struggle finding games to play with others online. Battlefield Hardline was when I first noticed this problem. The game died in less than a month. $60 completely down the drain, you literally cannot find a game online to play on PC for that game now. I had this happen with Street Fighter x Tekken also. And believe it or not, it happened with Call of Duty AW on PC too. You can find games, but only TDM and it takes a long time, sometimes there are no games.
After finding no games in SFxT, I popped in my copy on PS3 and there's an abundance of people still playing it. It's then I realized I really shouldn't buy multi-player games on PC unless they cater to the PC crowd who seems to like free to play type games, MMO's, or games that if you put thousands of hours into you can unlock hats and shit. The PC crowd is just too small, and too picky. They'll hold onto their 15 year old Counter Strikes and 10 year old World of Warcraft and not embrace new games like console gamers do. They are just not the crowd I can relate to. I can't play a game more than 50 hours anymore it feels like before I move on to another game.
Lastly, non-functional PC ports has been the last straw. Two series specifically caused the straw to be the last one...that broke the camel's back? Anyway...Assassin's Creed and Batman are two game series I bought exclusively on PC from the get go. They looked great, they ran even better. Then Unity and Arkham Knight came out...I'm not sure I even need to go into the gory details of those suffice it to say Arkham Knight is still not available to purchase anymore after being taken away for how broken it was on PC and no one could run Unity properly even if they had a $4,000 PC. I've been lucky enough to not have bought any of these broken messes of PC port games because reviews come out fast and hard on Steam warning me of them. Mortal Kombat, Watchdogs are two other notable PC port debacles, as was Dark Souls and Final Fantasy 13 (both have mercifully been fixed).
I shudder to think how Mad Max will run or Metal Gear Solid V. I can only presume they'll be awful on PC, the track record in the past year has been appalling, and I can't with confidence buy any of these games on PC like I can on PS4. In many of these instances, the core development team has nothing to do with these PC ports. They are hiring contractors to port these games to PC, and on the cheap because the return on PC isn't as good as console. They are treating PC gamers like a dog and throwing them table scraps. It has made me give up on treating PC as my first choice for new games.
So, as I sit here reflecting on gaming in general I find myself disappointed. The potential of PC gaming is so high, the heights of which console gaming wishes it could do, and it's being ignored because there's no money in it versus making a game on PC where you can sell digital hats, or digital cards. I understand it, that doesn't mean I have to like it, so I return to my roots, back to console gaming where making a buggy mess of a bad game is punished with reduced sales and angry people on twitter and your sales suffers because of it. They're just not as afraid of when that happens on PC because they don't need as many sales to make it profitable.
If PC gaming keeps going this way, the progress made will quickly contract. Steam was growing at a very fast pace, but this kind of behavior from developers will ruin PC gaming further than it already is. To wrap this article up in a nice little bow as I pretend to be a good writer, this is what Atari went through. They released a deluge of buggy, non-functioning, or complete garbage games that drove players away and stopped trusting that their $50 would amount to anything more than buying a plastic paperweight thus culminating into the video game crash that Nintendo eventually swooped in to fix. It was also the very reason they had what was called the Nintendo seal of quality badge on their boxes, to ensure customers they were buying a quality game.
This isn't the road you want to go down PC developers, you're going to lose us.
*That picture is us leaving...not literally on a ship mind you...figuratively speaking...thought I'd explain that...seemed important...yeeeeeaaahh....*


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Bit of a setup here to get people in the right mindset. Batman senses a moment of metahuman takeover is on the horizon (Kingdom Come-ish), and realizes it's now time to nip the meta/magic human movement in the bud. Knowing that it will be extremely difficult to do it alone, he enlists the help of the other master strategist, Deathstroke, and of course uses millions upon millions of Bruce Wayne's money to entice him. Here's the setup:
Batman and Deathstroke - Batman (and thus Deathstroke too) have access to the Brother Eye satellite and all of the data/protocols it contains concerning meta and magic-powered humans across the earth, plus all the gadgets, old and new, that he would need (both pre and new-52). They get 2 months of constant prep in the Batcave (and wherever else they need to go to setup the fight). Deathstroke has his new-52 gear. Battle takes place in Gotham (Batman creates some sort of distress scenario to lure in all the people in question - assume they don't know it's a trap - Deathstroke does the same for the legion). Morals off for Bats/Deathstroke - every other individual is in character (new-52 versions, where applicable). Victory by KO, death, or BFR. The list is:
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Flash (Barry)
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Green Arrow
Booster Gold
Martian Manhunter
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Mister Terrific
Lex Luthor (pre-52, new 52 doesn't have any feats)
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Donna Troy
Wonder Girl
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Johnnie Michael "Johnny" McElroy
Johnnie Mic-hael McElroy, 54, of Glasgow, Ky., died Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, in Green County, Ky., from injuries sustained in an auto accident.
He was the son of Annie Agnes Shively McElroy of Finley, Ky., and the late Henry Leo McElroy.
He was a member of Our Lady of the Hills Catholic Church and owner and operator of Little Pony Express Trucking in Glasgow.
He was married to Bobbie Teresa McElroy. She survives.
Survivors also include two sons, Michael Brian Spurling and his wife, Tammie, and Jonathan Leo McElroy, all of Campbellsville; a daughter, Elizabeth Ann McElroy of Finley; a stepdaughter, Melissa Renee Ross of Merry Oaks, Ky.; eight grandchildren, Isabelle Spurling, Sophia Spurling, Gabby Vanhoose, Jonathon Sanders, Cheyenne Adkins, Cayden Lane Titsworth, Emily Grace Titsworth and Bryson Lane McElroy; two brothers, Roy Thomas McElroy and his wife, Patsy, of Lebanon, Ky.; and Charles Wayne McElroy and his wife, Brenda, of Finley; six sisters, Billie Mae Turner and her husband John of Bardstown, Ky.; Nancy Marie Moore and her husband, Charles, and Mary Elizabeth Parrott and her husband, Wallace, all of Lebanon; Gloria Lillian McElroy of Finley, Roberta Ann Lewis and her husband, Larry, of Willisburg, Ky.; and Brenda Kay Goatley and her husband, Charles, of Springfield, Ky.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded in death by a half-brother, Afton Leroy McElroy.
Funeral was Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Our Lady of the Hills Catholic Church in Finley. Burial was in the church cemetery. A. F. Crow & Son Funeral Home in Glasgow was in charge of arrangements.
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The multimedia campaign speaks to teens in their own language.
In late January, billboards with the cryptic message "inNw?" began appearing across the country. Since then, the campaign expanded to TV, text messaging, and a Web site that reveals that solves the mystery. The campaign's message: "If not now when?"
The mysterious effort is promoting a new Doritos flavor, Black Pepper Jack, to 16-24 year olds, a group PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division calls "Millennials."
"'If not now when?' is all about living life in the now and taking advantage of every single opportunity possible," said Lora DeVuono, advertising VP for Frito-Lay North America, in a statement. "This attitude is what is important to Millennials, and it's how they look at the Doritos brand."
The main agency behind the concept and the traditional advertising is BBDO New York. Tribal DDB Dallas created the Web site and online advertising. Hip Cricket, a Connecticut-based mobile marketing firm, designed the mobile marketing interaction. Spending on the effort wasn't disclosed.
The shorthand language of the campaign, including the central "inNw," is inspired by the way teens use text messaging and IM (define) to communicate. One billboard urges viewers to "Gt 2 Kno Jack," while the Web site urges people to "Speak UR Mind" and "Vote 4 UR Fave Music Videos." Text messages sent as part of the campaign tell people, "U culd win cul stuff frm Doritos, incl ipods, Digi Cams, DVDs + mor!"
"That's the language the Millennials speak these days, and that was a great fit for us to experiment with text messaging," Jared Dougherty, a spokesperson for Frito-Lay, told ClickZ News. Dougherty says it's the first time the company has tried text messaging in a campaign.
Text messages and billboards send users to the campaign's Web site, at innw.com. The site rewards people's curiosity by explaining that "inNw?" stands for "If not now when?"
"We were charged with taking that [concept] and making it come to life online," said Scott Johnson, executive creative director of Tribal DDB Worldwide. "We thought clearly the most important word in that phrase is 'now.' We wanted to design a site that really expressed 'now' in a completely different way."
To do that, Tribal DDB built a site whose main element is video of people walking by. As they stroll past, they seem to touch the screen, generating little icons with codes on them, such as "MYTUNE," "COWPOK," and "MATCHIT." Site visitors can drag those icons and enter the codes into the INNW? Instant Messenger alongside the video display. Different codes generate different rewards. Some link users to screensaver downloads, others to streaming audio, and still others to advergames.
"You have to act now if you want to take advantage of the code and unlock whatever is associated with that icon," said Johnson.
The video's background adds more immediacy: it's synched to the user's computer clock. A viewer checking out the site at twilight would see characters walking by at twilight.
"We're also planning on continually refreshing with new backgrounds and new people and new things you can unlock," said Johnson.
Online ads to drive users to the site include a sponsorship of Yahoo Music's "Dig It or Dis It." The creative promotes a sweepstakes, the innw.com site, and the Black Pepper Jack Doritos.
The text messaging portion of the campaign began with the teaser billboards, which urged people to text "46691" on their mobile phones with the message "innw?" When they did, they received a reply from Doritos asking them to guess what "innw" meant. The intent was to get people to communicate with Doritos, but most messages simply encouraged users to visit the Web site. "Go 2 innw.com anytime 2 c whats goin on," read one message.
Though the campaign has been running since late January, Frito-Lay won't provide visitor numbers or provide any data that would measure success.
Dougherty would only say, "We're off to a great start."
Pamela Parker is a former managing editor of ClickZ News, Features, and Experts. She's been covering interactive advertising and marketing since the boom days of 1999, chronicling the dot-com crash and the subsequent rise of the medium. Before working at ClickZ, Parker was associate editor at @NY, a pioneering Web site and e-mail newsletter covering New York new media start-ups. Parker received a master's degree in journalism, with a concentration in new media, from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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2009 cash rent data given on county level
For the second year, U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is publishing county-level data on cash rental rates for agricultural land.
The information, which is available online, includes average rental rates for non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, and pastureland for the 2009 calendar year.
"These data will provide an important decision-making tool for farmers, ranchers and other landowners," said Joseph Parsons, Director of the NASS Nebraska Field Office. "In addition, USDA agencies will have these new data available to help develop and administer important farm programs used by farmers and ranchers."
Since 1997, NASS has published rental rates at the state level. The agency is providing the county data in response to requests from customers as well as the new requirements of the 2008 Farm Bill.
"In many counties, we have received enough survey responses to publish reliable county-level estimates," Parsons said. "In areas where cash rental arrangements are less common, the estimated rental values are combined with those of neighboring counties and district estimates published."
The 2009 county-level cash rental rates data are available online at www.nass.usda.gov through Quick Stats, NASS's agricultural statistics database. Maps of Nebraska cash rents by county and district can be found on-line.
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"Gordon tackles the power and puzzle of the Christian gospels with measure and imagination, providing welcome relief for those left cold by scholarly or fundamentalist parsing . . . Her savoring of particular lines is poetic and amplifies the beauty and sometimes ambiguous challenge of the language, stories, and injunctions of the gospels."
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Praise for Circling My Mother"What's inspiring about Circling My Mother is Gordon's deeply personal portrayal of her mother . . . a woman in full belief of the love of God . . . Accompanying the author while she comes to terms with her is thrilling."
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"Everywhere she looks, Gordon finds the same mix of life and strife, beauty and decay. There's no escaping the fact that one way or another, we lost what we hold dear. But remembrance is preservation. Art, we believe, immortalizes. Gordon's encircled portrait of her mother is a daring and perceptive work or memory, catharsis, and literary grace."
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Despite both the band and album name, Black Helicopter's Invisible Jet won't sneak up on anyone. The group dirties up its guitars and powers ahead for the length of the disc, mixing some metal influences with a grunge feel. The resulting sound comes across a little as a throwback, but without the baggage that term usually carries. The opening ode to a car may lyrically be an updated '50s romp, but songwriter Tim Shea shows he can nail intense problems on "Take My Life", in which a divorced man growls, "How's my kids / How's my wife / How's my house / How's my wife?" The wordplay is more functional than impressive, but it combines with the music for an effective and surprisingly even-keeled track. The album, while enjoyable throughout, seldom reaches that kind of memorable peak, leaving this Invisible Jet a good ride, but a little short on thrust.
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A money market instrument that represents an obligation between a borrower and a lender as to the terms and conditions of the loan. Collateralized borrowing and lending obligations (CBLOs) are used by those who have been phased out of or heavily restricted in the interbank call money market.
BREAKING DOWN 'Collateralized Borrowing And Lending Obligation - CBLO'
CBLOs were developed by the Clearing Corporation of India (CCIL) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The details of the CBLO include an obligation for the borrower to repay the debt at a specified future date and an expectation of the lender to receive the money on that future date, and they have a charge on the security that is held by the CCIL.
SecurityA financial instrument that represents an ownership position ...
Collateralized Mortgage Obligation ...A type of mortgage-backed security in which principal repayments ...
Collateralized Debt Obligation ...An investment-grade security backed by a pool of bonds, loans ...
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LANSING -- A Michigan Court of Appeals decision Wednesday rejecting certain electricity rate increases for DTE Energy is a "win for customers," says an attorney who argued the case.
Robert Strong, legal counsel for the Association of Businesses Advocating Tariff Equity, said electricity rates in Michigan are too high relative to the rest of the Midwest and "an impediment" to economic development.
The appeals court ruled that the Public Service Commission should not have allowed DTE Energy a rate increase of nearly $37 million to pay for smart meters because there was insufficient evidence to justify the increase.
"We will not rubber stamp a decision permitting such a substantial expenditure -- a cost to be borne by the citizens of this state -- that is not properly supported," the three-judge panel said in a written opinion.
Even more significant, Strong said, was the court's rejection of a "rate decoupling mechanism" the PSC approved that helps assure DTE achieves certain revenue levels even when consumption drops. The potential future cost of that change -- which would lessen the financial impact of conservation on DTE -- was hard to quantify, he said.
The court ruled the PSC has the authority to approve such programs for gas utilities, but not for electric utilities.
The rates affected by the court ruling were part of a $217.4-million overall increase for all types of customers the PSC approved for DTE in 2010.
On the smart meters, the court ordered the PSC to conduct a full hearing on their benefits and potential burdens. The electronic meters allow for remote reading and greater options to manage usage and billing.
"At best, the actual evidence presented by Detroit Edison to support the rate increase was aspirational testimony describing the (smart meter) program in optimistic, but speculative terms," the court said.
The PSC announced in January that it would investigate the use of smart meters by DTE and other Michigan utilities. DTE spokesman Scott Simons said he hopes the issue can be resolved through that process.
On the decoupling issue, Simons said DTE "will await further clarification ... on how to proceed."
PSC spokeswoman Judy Palnau said, "Commissioners are reviewing the court's decision and will be determining further steps."
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Armed with little more than a petition, an army of volunteer signature-gatherers and their iPhones, political newcomers Victor Head, his brother Adam Head, and Ernest Mascarenas have forced a recall election for state Sen. Angela Giron, a rising star in the state's powerful Democratic Party and a labor favorite in heavily unionized Pueblo.
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"It's unbelievable. How do these guys get 13,000 people to sign the petition, and [roughly] 12,000 of them are good?" Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli asked. "It's a miracle. And it shows the passion here in Colorado behind this issue."
A tattooed 28-year-old "backflow specialist" who works in the family plumbing business, Victor Head helped launch Pueblo Freedom and Rights in March, shortly after the Democrat-dominated state legislature approved three bills restricting access to firearms and ammunition.
Republicans and national gun groups have rallied against the laws, which sparked Erie-based Magpul Industries, a leading firearms and accessories manufacturer, to announce plans to leave the state. The package of bills — signed in March by Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat — were passed in the wake of the movie theater shooting in Aurora last year that killed 12 and wounded dozens more.
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Political analysts initially dismissed the recall talk as a pipe dream. Officials at the Colorado Republican Party and Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, the state's largest gun advocacy group, took a pass on the idea, saying they would wait for the 2014 elections.
The problem for Victor Head was that he couldn't wait. "I just [couldn't] sit on my hands for 18 months," he said. "There are only 19 states that do have the recall, and those that do have a duty to do something."
He and his fellow organizers didn't have college degrees, money, connections or political experience, but they did have two things that would prove pivotal: the outrage of blue-collar Pueblo voters over the gun bills, and the ability to do almost anything with an iPhone.
Setting up petition stands in parking lots, volunteers used their smartphones to check every signature against the Colorado secretary of state's website of registered district voters.
They also videotaped pro-Giron demonstrators who blocked their tables. One recording showed a man passing out $20 bills to demonstrators.
A Giron spokesman said the man was unaffiliated with the campaign, Pueblo United for Angela, and that the money would be handed over to the state's unclaimed property fund.
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- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
- 1 cup blue cornmeal*
- 1/4 cup boiling water
- 8 fresh green chiles such as Anaheim or poblano
- 1 1/2 cups sour cream
- 2 large eggs
- 1 pound cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese (about 4 ounces)
- 1 1/2 cups grated sharp Cheddar (about 6 ounces)
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh dill leaves
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 papaya
- 1 garlic clove
- 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
- 1/2 red bell pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
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Preheat oven to 325°F.
Make crust:
Melt butter and in a bowl stir together with cornmeal and water. Press mixture onto bottom of a 10-inch springform pan.
Make filling:
Roast and peel chiles and cut off tops. Discard seeds and ribs and finely chop chiles. In a food processor blend sour cream and eggs. Add cream cheese and butter and blend until smooth. Transfer mixture to a bowl and stir in chiles, cheeses, dill, cilantro, and salt to taste. Pour filling over crust and bake in middle of oven 45 minutes, or until center is just set. Cool cheesecake completely in pan on a rack.
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- Calories274
- Carbohydrates12 g (4%)
- Fat22 g (34%)
- Protein7 g (15%)
- Saturated Fat13 g (64%)
- Sodium214 mg (9%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber1 g (3%)
- Monounsaturated Fat6 g
- Cholesterol84 mg (28%)


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Brad Rock: It's not there, but Utah program is heading north
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
The Utes said it wasn't a gigantic deal, just one game, but their actions spoke otherwise. They had defeated No. 19-ranked Oregon in their last home game of the season, and several players huddled near the 3-point arc.
Senior Jason Washburn pumped his arm, threw the ball high toward the scoreboard and blew kisses to the crowd.
OK, maybe Saturday's 72-62 win felt bigger than they were admitting. Shhhh. Don't tell a soul. They have at least one game remaining, next week in the Pac-12 tournament. But in that first breathless moment, when the threat had abated, they let their emotions take them. The Huntsman Center wasn't full, though it actually sounded that way. How long has it been? Eons, it seems, since Utah fans could end a week feeling anything but a sinking grayness. This, though, gave rise to the suspicion something is stirring on the hill.
And it's not just the construction cranes, parked down the street.
"We said we loved each other, but that it's not over yet. We're not going to celebrate it like it's our last game, or like we just won the championship," senior Cedric Martin said of the on-court gathering. "We didn't really do anything; it was just one game of basketball."
Well, maybe it was a little bigger than that.
"We took down a giant, took down a top-25 team," Washburn said, fighting back tears. "And it couldn't have been done in any more spectacular fashion."
It's not like the Utes' 13-17 record represents a complete turnaround, but it's a repectable start. All of which raises the question: If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to listen, does it make a sound? And if the Utes beat the first-place team in the Pac-12, at the end of another losing season, will the word get out?
So it goes when you're trying to separate from the bottom of the heap. In winning eight Pac-12 games in the last two years, they have really only shown what everyone knew before Utah ever joined the league: It can occasionally beat big-conference teams.
Even that has been a slow grind. On one hand, coach Larry Krystkowiak's program is undeniably improving. Utah lost five games by four or fewer points, including a pair of winnable ones to nationally ranked Arizona and a four-pointer to UCLA. It also threatened to beat rival BYU — something that hasn't happened routinely since the Big Guy in the Sky, Rick Majerus, was around.
On the watch-ability meter, the Utes haven't often ranked high until lately. They went into Saturday's game with the most turnovers in the conference and in rebounding and scoring they rank 10th and 12th, respectively.
Losses to Sacramento State and Cal Northridge early in the year were inexcusable.
Jim Boylen never won fewer than 13 games, and was fired for it.
Yet it would be unfair and perhaps even unwise to entirely write off the changes at Utah. The Utes led Saturday's game from start to finish, building the lead to 17 and weathering a run that cut it to six. These Utes actually seem interested in playing, going fast and hard. That hasn't always been the case. In an effort to rebuild the program, Krystkowiak used the biggest selling point he could — immediate playing time. A better-than-expected senior season from Washburn, combined with a surprisingly feisty complement of freshmen, gave them what is already a seven-game improvement. More importantly, they increased their conference wins to five.
Had they won a few of the aforementioned close ones, Utah's record would have been downright respectable.
Not NCAA-worthy, but still.
So where are the Utes, really?
They're heading north, not south. At a discernable pace.
"I feel we're moving into the next stage," Krystkowiak said. "We've got a long way to go, but there's no loser talk about what we experienced last year; I think that's important for where we are now. I think you'd be crazy to say we're not quite a bit better."
Up in the stands, screaming like it was a championship, Utah fans couldn't have agreed more.
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