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A Legislative Perspective on the Kentucky General Assembly with State Representative Rick Rand
FRANKFORT– For those of us who remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on Sept. 11, 2001, it may be difficult to believe that 11 years have slipped by since that tragic morning.
That date is of course forever etched in the country's memory, much like the end of World War II, President Kennedy's assassination and Neil Armstrong's setting foot on the moon.
And just as those dates ushered in new eras in our history, 9/11 has proven to be no different. Since then, we have rededicated ourselves to our security, both here and abroad, so that we are better prepared whenever disaster strikes, whether caused by man or Mother Nature.
With September now known as National Preparedness month, it is a good time to recall just what that means.
Kentucky has long played an outsized role in this area. No military base has seen more deployments than Fort Campbell since 2001, for example, and Fort Knox's presence has grown significantly over the last half-dozen years in the wake of federal base realignments across the country. The Kentucky National Guard also routinely exceeds its recruiting goals each year.
According to a report last year by the Washington Post, we are exactly in the middle of the 50 states when counting the number of counterterrorism and homeland security organizations we have. In terms of raw dollars, however, Kentucky was eleventh during the 2009 fiscal year when measuring federal homeland security funding.
The Post added that we were one of just 13 states during the decade following 9/11 where U.S. Attorneys secured at least one terrorism-related conviction. Since December, two others have also pleaded guilty here to federal terrorism charges.
There are other ways Kentucky is involved when it comes to improving our safety. Six years ago, the FBI opened a regional computer forensics lab in Louisville, which is helping law enforcement sift through thousands of gigabytes of data found at crime scenes.
The U.S. Secret Service, meanwhile, has the Kentucky Electronic Crimes Task Force, which helps find, stop and prosecute technology-based crimes, such as identity theft. At the state level, we have the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center, which for the last seven years has brought together local, state and federal agencies so that all are one the same page when it comes to analyzing potential threats across the commonwealth.
According to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, Kentucky is the only state to own a statewide mobile data network and require that all local first responders – such as police and fire departments – be able to access it at no cost. This, too, greatly improves communication, especially when time is critical. Given the devastating weather Kentucky has faced – there have been 11 presidentially declared disasters here alone since 2008 – the need for this has unfortunately become quite clear.
Another important step Kentucky has taken recently is implementing a statewide electronic warrants system, so that charges filed in one county can be seen in another. Before, under the paper-based system, there was almost no way for law enforcement agencies to know if someone they had stopped was wanted elsewhere in the state for a crime. This change has understandably helped reduce the backlog of un-served warrants.
Our universities are also playing a role when it comes to better protecting the public. Eastern Kentucky University offers a bachelor's degree in homeland security, while research at the University of Kentucky has led to such developments as a fast-drying, spray-on concrete, which would help stabilize buildings damaged by the weather or terrorist attacks. Other research has been done to protect milk supplies from contamination, to detect trace amounts of explosives and to keep ammonium nitrate fertilizer from being used as an explosive.
As citizens, there are ways we can help as well when it comes to improving safety. If you see or are aware of any criminal or even terroristic activity, please call 1-866-EYE-ON-KY. This is an anonymous tip line sponsored by the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center and the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security.
If you have thoughts or concerns about this issue or any other affecting the state, you can always reach me by writing to Room 367, Capitol Annex, 702 Capitol Avenue, Frankfort, KY 40601.
You can also leave a message for me or for any legislator at 800-372-7181. For the deaf or hard of hearing, the number is 800-896-0305.
I hope to hear from you soon.


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"Film, I believe, lends itself particularly to the poetic statement, because it is essentially a montage and, therefore, seems by its very nature to be a poetic medium." —Maya Deren
Welcome to Moving Poems, an on-going anthology of the best poetry videos from around the web, appearing at a rate of one every weekday most weeks. Subscribe by email to get a weekly round-up of all our content (including posts at the magazine), follow @moving_poems on Twitter, or pick up the full-content RSS feed and follow along in Feedly or some other feed reader.
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My main focus here is on videopoetry, "a genre of poetry displayed on a screen, distinguished by its time-based, poetic juxtaposition of text with images and sound," as videopoetry pioneer Tom Konyves puts it. Other names for this genre — or examples of closely related genres, depending on one's perspective — include filmpoetry, poetry-film and cinepoetry, and animated poems form an important subset. I am especially interested in videopoems created by the poet him- or herself, which can often take ekphrastic form ("Hey, I've got some cool footage — let's see if there's a poem in it!"), and which grade into active collaborations between poet and filmmaker. I do also post other kinds of poetry videos, too, including poetry readings, spoken word performances, documentaries, poetry dance videos, concert performances of poems set to music, and the occasional interview with a poet. See the directory for a complete listing of poets, nationalities, and filmmakers.
I sometimes produce videos for Moving Poems, but otherwise everything here is someone else's work, available for embedding without any special permission needed at YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, VideoPress and other sites. So the main thing that makes this site special is my curatorial instinct and the several hours a week I devote to scanning the web for new videos. I have two basic strategies. When I'm looking for specific kinds of videos, I use Google video search. Otherwise, I rely on a weekly search of Vimeo for the most recent uploads of videos containing the word "poem" somewhere in the text or tags. Vimeo tends to be favored over YouTube by serious artists, and has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio. I'm sure I miss a lot, though, so any and all tips are greatly appreciated. Please
use the comments below use the contact form, or simply email me: bontasaurus [at] yahoo [dot] com.
This is obviously an English-language site, but I do my best to keep it as international as possible. I'm happy to include videos in other languages as long as they contain English subtitles, and sometimes I'll even waive that requirement, especially if a translation is readily available to include in the commentary.
Please visit the magazine (formerly called the forum), which I set up in 2010 to host conversations about videopoetry theory and practice, pass along information about contests and screening/publication venues and discuss videos that may be slightly outside the purview of what I post here. If you're interested in submitting poetry video-related news items or articles, please get in touch.
About the curator
My name is Dave Bonta — here's a bio. I'm also on Facebook and Twitter. I started this site in part to learn how to make better videopoetry, but as a matter of basic propriety I don't share videos of my own poems on this site, even when they're made by others. See the Plummer's Hollow Poet channel on Vimeo if you're interested in that.
About videopoetry, poetry film, cinepoetry, etc.
In 2012, I gave a paper at the AWP conference titled "Videopoetry: What Is It, Who Makes It, and Why?" which might serve as a good, basic introduction. A more recent post of mine at the magazine might also help to contextualize what I'm doing here: "Poetry videos on the web: some preliminary observations."
Here are some other online sources about the filmpoetry/videopoetry genre:
Weldon C. Wees, "Poetry Film" (1997):
In 'Six Memos for the Next Millennium', Italo Calvino proposed "two types of imaginative process: the one that starts with the word and arrives at the visual image, and the one that starts with the visual image and arrives at its verbal expression'. Cin(E)-Poetry (also known as poetry video and poetry film) put both process of the imagination on display simultaneously. They combine the verbal energy of poetry with the visual richness and diversity of experimental cinema. Through a synergy of expressive words and images, successful cinepoems produce associations, connotations, metaphors and symbols that cannot be found in either their verbal or their visual texts taken alone. They might be thought of as imaginative interpretations of 'readings' or poetic texts in visual terms – and vice versa.
Fil Ieropoulos, "Poetry-Film & The Film Poem: Some Clarifications":
[N]ot everybody in the modernist avant-garde as it developed between the '20s and the '70s was opposed to the notion that words could be used to enhance the poetic qualities of a film. Man Ray used text in his 'Etoile de Mer' cine-poem. Even someone who believed very strongly in the visual qualities of film like Maya Deren did not consider the possibility of using spoken language as a contradiction to film's visual value. In a 'Poetry and Film' symposium and in answer to Arthur Miller's claim that words should not be used in films, Deren suggests that words
…would be redundant in film if they were used as a further projection from the image. However, if they were brought in on a different level, not issuing from the image which should be complete in itself, but as another dimension relating to it, then it is the two things together that make a poem.
American filmmaker Ian Hugo worked in this way in his 1952 work 'Bells of Atlantis'. As Abel Gance argues "…the marriage of image, text, and sound is so magical that it is impossible to dissociate them in order to explain the favorable reactions of one's unconscious".
George Aguilar, "Promoting Poetry Films, videos and Cin(E)-Poems via Emerging Technologies Part 1":
Cin(E)-Poetry is an artform which combines images, sounds, music with a spoken or text-based poem to create a unique multi-media work of art.
Tom Konyves, "Videopoetry: A Manifesto":
Presented as a multimedia object of a fixed duration, the principal function of a videopoem is to demonstrate the process of thought and the simultaneity of experience, expressed in words – visible and/or audible – whose meaning is blended with, but not illustrated by, the images and the soundtrack.
Heather Haley, "About Visible Verse":
I believe Jean Cocteau was the first poet to employ film. In 1930 he produced Blood of a Poet, usually categorized as surrealist art. Recently I read about "film poets" from the West Coast abstract school, James Broughton, Sidney Peterson and Hy Hirsh, the latter two collaborating with John Cage in 1947. In 1978 Tom Konyves of Montreal's Vehicule Poets coined the term "videopoetry" to describe his multimedia work. Rather than get bogged down in semantics, I'd like to point out that I think in terms of moving images and don't make a huge distinction between film and video. I have worked primarily in digital video as it is accessible and affordable, important considerations to a poet with a small budget and again, poetry exists beyond media. […]
In my experience the greatest challenge of this hybrid genre is fusing voice and vision, aligning ear with eye. Some poets like to see words on the screen. The effect can be exquisite but I find that film/video doesn't accommodate text well. We are busy listening to the poem with our eyes, assimilating it through our ears. I prefer spoken word. Voice is the critical element, medium and venue secondary considerations. Unlike a music video—the inevitable and ubiquitous comparison—a videopoem stars the poem rather than the poet, the voice seen as well as heard.
Michelle Bitting, "The Muse and the Making of Poem Films":
I love the tension of two minutes—how much, but not too much—needs to be packed into that very limited space. The automatic compression it imposes in the same way as a poem! And how whatever is happening visually can layer, augment or work "constructively" against what is being spoken: the challenge of figuring out when two elements are making mush or blotting each other out. How to have actual words, the text, come into play on the screen and how they pop and expand beyond their two-dimensionality. I love how a poem and a poem film become a little dance—the words shaped and choreographed just right. Same goes for staging visuals and sound.
Alastair Cook, "The Filming of Poetry":
[T]he Poetry-film should successfully bring the work to the audience through visual and audio layering, attractive to those who would not necessarily read the poetry. The film needs to provide a subtext, a series of suggestions and visual notes that embellish the poem, using the filmmaker's subtle skills to allow the poet's voice to be seen as well as heard. The collaboration remains with the words. If this subtext is missing, the film resorts to being a piece of media, the reading of a text over discombobulated imagery, a superimposition.
Gerard Wozek, "poetry video":
A poetry video is an illuminated electronic manuscript that records the voice, the spirit, and vision of the poet, and frames this technological intersection between visual art and literature.
Ren Powell, "If not a manifesto, an explanation":
While it was not my original intention, I can see that animated poems could serve as a reader's guide to my own system of poetics: they demonstrate the way I invite the reader to approach the text from several directions and allow phrases to interact vertically as well as horizontally, and refer back within the text itself through parallel structures (spacial and grammatical).
Where credit is due
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NEWPORT, Wales – European Captain Paul McGinley will take the first shot in his team's 2014 Ryder Cup qualifying process on Thursday when he goes out in the opening group in the ISPS Handa Wales Open at Celtic Manor.
It will be the first time that a current captain of the European team has the honor of teeing up first in the opening qualifying tournament for the biennial match against the United States.
McGinley says "there are a lot of milestones along the way on the Ryder Cup captain's journey, and the start of qualifying is certainly a big milestone."
The Irishman has ruled himself out of appearing as a player in the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in Scotland. However, he says "I am extremely proud to set the example for my prospective team members."
McGinley has been a popular member of several previous teams both as a player and vice captain, but insists his affable nature doesn't mean he'll shy away from the tough decisions that lie ahead.
"I've been very fortunate, I've been involved in five of the last six Ryder Cups, and we won all five that I was involved in (three as a player, two as vice-captain)," he said. "I've seen the template, I've seen what works and I just want to make that template better and roll it out again.
"I'll meet any challenges I have head on and I understand that not everybody is going to be in agreement with the decisions that I make."
McGinley also expects to see plenty of players push their case this week when he tees off at 7:20 a.m. alongside Q-School winner John Parry and Challenge Tour leader Espen Kofstad.
"I'm not afraid of having rookies on the team, and if those guys step up to the plate and play really well, I'll be delighted to welcome them to the team," said McGinley. "Generally, all I'm concerned about at the end of the day is having the 12 strongest players to represent Europe at this time next year.
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Mary Grace Tan – Mango and Asian coconut rice.
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Matthew Nugent – Crawfish Victoria
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Women?s Outdoor T&F Athlete of the Week - No. 4
By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Emily Post of Tabor (Kan.) has been named NAIA National Women's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week and Stacy Warrior of Oklahoma Baptist has been tabbed as the NAIA National Women's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Post and Warrior were selected based on their performances from April 1 – 7.
Post, a senior from Wray, Colo., had a career day at the Hutch Night Relays on April 6 hosted by NJCAA member Hutchinson Community College. Post set a Tabor record in both the triple jump and high jump and finished first in the long jump. Her leap of 12.00 meters (39-4 ½) in the triple is the best in the NAIA this season. With a mark of 1.71 meters (5-7 ¼) in the high jump, Post moves to No. 2 on the national list. She wrapped up her day with a mark of 5.69 meters (18-8) in the long jump, which now ranks third on the national chart. All three efforts earned her first-place accolades and qualified her for the NAIA Outdoor National Championships.
Warrior, a junior from Wewoka, Okla., finished in the top three in a trio of events at the NCAA Division I Texas Tech Open on April 6. She pushed to the front of the NAIA list of top times in the 400 meters with a clocking of 53.96. That time was good for third overall. She was the lead leg of both the 4x100-meter (45.16) and 4x400-meter relay (3:46.42) teams that now stand as the No. 1 NAIA times this season. She faced competitors from Division schools, including Texas Tech, Oral Roberts (Okla.) and UTEP.
The next women's outdoor track and field Athlete of the Week will be announced April 17. For the complete Athlete of the Week calendar, click here.
Track Nominees: Larissa Wilden, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Rachael Estabrook, Corban (Ore.); Sarah Miller, Judson (Ill.); Layne Callow, Berea (Ky.); Jessica Davis, Texas Wesleyan; Jessica Shepherd, Wiley (Texas); Meagan Governor, Northwest (Wash.); Ragan Duax, Grand View (Iowa); Kelsey Klettke, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Hope Carr, Jamestown (N.D.); Marlisa Stevenson, Missouri Baptist; Gregria Higgs, Florida Memorial; Hillary Holt, College of Idaho; Rea Samuels, McPherson (Kan.); Danielle Hoop, Cumberlands (Ky.); Ruth Olson-Jeffries, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Nicole Wager, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Kristen Garwood, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Andrea Finkbeiner, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Kaitlyn Emig, Central Methodist (Mo.); Tarah Alexander, William Penn (Iowa); Tatlor Lucero, Great Falls (Mont.); Katie DeHaan, Taylor (Ind.); Ashlee Eady, South Carolina Beaufort; Lisa Nicolas, Warner (Fla.); Kristie Adams , Friends (Kan.); Britta Patterson, Aquinas (Mich.); Lauren Nygren, Webber International (Fla.); Chloe Brooks, Indiana Tech; Kimberly Garrett, Sterling (Kan.); Kyla Morgan, Indiana Wesleyan; Tisa Smith, William Carey (Miss.); Justina Jones, Tennessee Wesleyan; Kristina Kendrick, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Katrina Nolan, Oklahoma City; Sabrina Whitaker, Grace (Ind.); Neeia Cooperwood, Morningside (Iowa); Annie Hills, Loyola (La.); Lammy Sokunbi, Brenau (Ga.); Gortia Ferguson, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Catherine Fakler, Xavier (La.); Linsie Michels, Concordia (Ore.).
Field Nominees: Jenna Higgins, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Christy Mosier, Corban (Ore.); Sarah Dede, Judson (Ill.); Alexa King, Berea (Ky.); Val Veiock, Grand View (Iowa); Kaytlyn Coleman, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Kayla Roemmich, Jamestown (N.D.); Jamie Crouse, Concordia (Neb.); Lexus Smith, Langston (Okla.); Kiounnie Blanchard, Florida Memorial; Kait Ervin, Indiana East; Megan Pohlmann, McPherson (Kan.); Madison Wakefield, Doane (Neb.); Kayla Thayer, Ottawa (Kan.); Taylor Mayes, Cumberlands (Ky.); Miranda Burton, Bethany (Kan.); Hannah Payne, Davenport (Mich.); Katie Hartney, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Holland McCoy, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Meaghan Foster, William Penn (Iowa); Kelly Klusmeyer, Central Methodist (Mo.); Taylor Statton, Great Falls (Mont.); Phoenix Duncan, Siena Heights (Mich.); Haley White, Taylor (Ind.); Ty'Chelle Freeman, South Carolina Beaufort; Liciane St. Jean, Warner (Fla.); Tina Clausen , Friends (Kan.); Gabby Lovelace, Missouri Valley; Stacia Murray, Indiana Tech; Kaitlyn Mikel, Grace (Ind.); Kaycee Harris, Tennessee Wesleyan; Allison Trevithick, Indiana Wesleyan; Jennifer Maag, Hastings (Neb.); Tisa Smith, William Carey (Miss.); Megan Hoesing, Midland (Neb.); Tara Cockerill, Briar Cliff (Iowa); Kayse Cornett, Union (Ky.); Reta Woodard, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Christina Guzman, Loyola (La.); Gabriella Dixson, Concordia (Ore.); Devinn Rolland, Xavier (La.); Briana Vander Woude, Dordt (Iowa).
2013 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week (Field, Track)
Week 1 (March 20): Reta Woodard, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Adella King, Indiana Tech
Week 2 (March 27): Kassi Conditt, Oregon Tech; Zahri Jackson, Xavier (La.)
Week 3 (April 3): Evan Shimanek, Oklahoma Baptist; Hillary Holt, College of Idaho
Week 4 (April 10): Emily Post, Tabor (Kan.); Stacy Warrior, Oklahoma Baptist


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Why the St. Louis Cardinals will win the World Series
The random nature of baseball's playoffs often blindsides regular-season juggernauts. Not this year. The 109th World Series, starting Wednesday in Boston, pits the 97-win Red Sox against the 97-win St. Louis Cardinals, the first time since 1999 each league is represented by teams with its best records. And these are two franchises loaded with tradition, smarts, resources and passionate - some might say entitled - fan bases.
So who has the edge? USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale and Paul White make the case for each pennant winner:
The Cardinals will win because...
They actually have the edge at DH: There's no advantage this time for the Red Sox, because the Cardinals' DH happens to be Allen Craig. Yes, the same Craig that had 97 RBI, and was hitting a major-league leading .454 with runners in scoring position Sept. 4 when he suffered a sprained left foot.
He declared Sunday that he is back, and certainly looked it in the batting cage, spraying the ball to all fields against his teammates, and running fine to first base.
"I'm not a doctor,'' Craig said, "but I feel like I timed it pretty well with the World Series starting this week. I'm starting to feel better.''
ON THE OTHER HAND:Why Boston will win
NO COMPLAINTS:Series features baseball's best
While David Ortiz had the key hit in the ALCS - a Game 2 grand slam - he was 1 for 21 in his other at-bats.
The Cardinals haven't formally placed Craig on the World Series roster yet, but it's only a formality.
"He's such a prolific hitter,'' GM John Mozeliak said, "it's definitely worth the chance. We're trying to get him as much live pitching as we can, but to simulate Game 1 of a World Series is virtually impossible.''
They are October regulars: This will be their fourth World Series in 10 years. It has become so routine that the Cardinals might as well include it in their pre-season pocket schedules.
Certainly, they won't be intimidated. If they can beat the Los Angeles Dodgers' tandem of Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke three times in four starts, they're certainly not going to be scared of Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, John Lackey and Jake Peavy.
And, unlike their miserable 2004 World Series experience, they will be staying in a five-star hotel in downtown Boston, unlike 2004, where they found themselves marooned in a Quincy, Mass. hotel without late-night room service. They instead were forced to dine on pizza and chicken, like Little Leaguers.
"That was one of the toughest experiences in my baseball career,'' says Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, a catcher on that team. "You don't forget that.''
This time, they vow to make it a World Series the Red Sox won't want to remember.
While they don't have home advantage, they still get three games in St. Louis: Sure, we know the Red Sox have four home games in the World Series.
Yes, they love to remind us that no National League team has won a World Series game at Fenway Park since Oct. 22, 1986, and won eight of 10 games in interleague player this season at Fenway.
Well, guess what?
The Cardinals are even better at home at Busch Stadium in front of the Clydesdales and a passionate, fanbase.
They've won 24 of their last 29 home games since Aug. 15. And the Red Sox will likely lose the services of Ortiz or power-hitting first baseman Mike Napoli in St. Louis with no DH.
The Cardinals believe they're invincible at home, and instead of fearing the Green Monster, can't wait for their lefty power bats to take aim.
The Cardinals, who have scored 11 runs in their last nine innings this postseason, can't wait to unleash their new offensive attack in Fenway, and they'll let their pitching take care of the rest back in Busch.
Michael Wacha can't be beat: The question isn't will Wacha beat the Red Sox; it's what inning do we start our no-hit pool?
This 22-year-old is that good, going 3-0 with a 0.49 ERA this postseason, yielding eight hits and one run while striking out 22 in 21 innings.
Wacha, with his nasty fastball and devastating changeup, doesn't give teams a chance. The Red Sox can study scouting reports, but when you're facing him for the first time, you've got no chance. Just ask the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates this month.
Wacha, who visited Fenway Park a few years ago in a college tournament, concedes he'll benervous when he's expected to pitch Game 2.
Oh, it's got nothing to do with the offensive exploits of Dustin Pedroia, Mike Napoli or Jonny Gomes.
It's those bushy, unkempt beards - putting Wacha'sstubble to shame.
"I might have to shave mine,'' Wacha said, "so I can't get embarrassed.''


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Paxton, Mass. – AMCAT quarterback Santino Simone (Worcester, MA) accounted for 417 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-33 victory over visiting Becker College at AMCAT field on Saturday afternoon. The well-earned victory marks the first win in program history for the Anna Maria football team. The win improves the AMCATS record to 1-8 (ECFC) while Becker falls to 1-9 ( 1-6 ECFC) with the loss.
Santino Simone, Josh Sundquist and Jason Campbell starred for the AMCATS, as the aforementioned Simone passed for 264 yards and a score while adding 153 yards on the ground and three scores. Josh Sundquist added 78 yards receiving and a touchdown while Campbell chipped in with eight tackles and three sacks.
Kyle Gregg (Charlotte, NC), Robert Baker (Monroe, CT) and Asante Harris (Charlotte, NC) starred for the Hawks, as Gregg paced the offense with 129 rushing yards and two scores to go along with 48 receiving yards and a score. Baker added 215 yards in the air and a score while Harris accounted for eight tackles and two interceptions.
Becker started off the scoring after Andrew Reid forced a fumble on the AMCATS' first drive of the contest. Kyle Gregg scampered into the end zone on a 21-yard rush on the following play, giving the Hawks a 7-0 advantage.
The AMCATS responded after taking over on the Becker 45-yard line following a Hawks' punt. Santino Simone hit Josh Sundquist on consecutive plays, the first a 14-yard completion while the second was a 31-yard touchdown reception to even the score.
The next two possessions the team traded scores, as Becker struck first with a Kyle Gregg two yard rushing touchdown while Anna Maria countered with a 17-yard rushing touchdown by Simone.
The visitors padded their lead on the following two drives of the contest, as quarterback Robert Baker hit Kyle Gregg for an athletic 33-yard reverse field touchdown. The Hawks proceeded to strike again after Asante Harris returned an interception 75 yards to pay dirt, giving Becker a 27-14 advantage.
The first-half lead was short lived, as a Dom Concepcion reverse put the ball on the Becker 1-yard line. Santino Simone pushed his way through the opposition and snuck into the end zone to cut the lead to 27-21.
Anna Maria's defense stepped up on the following kickoff, as Nii Quartey (Worcester, Mass.) and Jason Campbell (Melrose, Mass.) sacked Robert Baker on back-to-back plays, setting up a 4th and 25 on Becker's own one-yard line. The snap sailed high and gave Anna Maria a safety and possession of the ball following a free kick.
The AMCATS wouldn't let the free kick opportunity go to waste, as Chris Nelson returned the kick 35 yards to the Becker 37-yard line. The return set-up a Jamal Mitchell 22-yard field goal and cut the Hawk's lead to one point (27-26) heading into the locker room.
Anna Maria had possession to start the second-half and used a 40-yard Dom Concepcion reception and a 21-yard Santino Simone rush to put them in field-goal range. The big plays set-up a 19-yard field goal from Jamal Mitchell (Shelton, Conn.) that gave the AMCATS their first lead of the contest, 29-27.
Both defenses stepped it up in the 3rd quarter, as Mitchell's field goal was the only scoring down in the third frame.
The Anna Maria defense was exceptionally strong in the quarter, forcing Becker on a pair of three-and-out's while only allowing the Hawks to convert one first down.
Turnover's proved costly for both teams in the 4th quarter, as Tino Lopes (Stoughton, Mass.) forced and recovered an Anna Maria fumble at mid-field.
After being held in check the entire 3rd quarter, Robert Baker hooked up with a Corinthian Bostic (Jacksonville, Fla.) for a 30-yard gain. Ezequiel Torres (Ledyard, Conn.) finished off the drive with a one yard touchdown plunge to give the Hawks a 33-29 lead.
Becker would give the lead right back on their ensuing offensive position. Kyle Gregg coughed the ball-up and the AMCATS' recovered the fumble on the Becker 20-yard line. A pass interference penalty on the visitors put the ball at the Becker 2-yard line and Santino Simone promptly polished off the drive with his third rushing touchdown of the contest. After a missed point after, Anna Maria took back control of the lead, 35-33.
Becker had one last final shot to take the lead, as they started their final drive at the Anna Maria 49-yard line. The AMCAT defense held strong and forced the Hawks with a 4th and 2 situation on the AMC 41 yard line. Kevin Card (Deer Park, NY) and Joseph Williams (Capitol Heights, MD) brought down quarterback Robert Baker for no gain and sealed the first program win in AMCAT Football history.
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Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission Approves Multi-Party Settlement Agreement, Including Increase in Energy Assistance Funding for Customers
SPOKANE, WA--(Marketwire - Dec 26, 2012) - Avista (
The approved rates are designed so that, effective Jan. 1, 2013, Avista will increase base rates for electric customers by an overall 3.0 percent to provide an additional $13.65 million in annual revenue. Base rates for natural gas customers will increase by an overall 3.6 percent to provide an additional $5.3 million in annual revenue. A one-year credit of $4.4 million will be returned to electric customers from the existing Energy Recovery Mechanism (ERM) deferral balance so that the net average electric rate increase to customers in 2013 would be 2.0 percent. The credit to customers from the ERM balance will not impact company earnings.
Effective Jan. 1, 2014, Avista will increase base rates for electric customers by an overall 3.0 percent to provide an additional $14 million in annual revenue. Base rates for natural gas customers will increase by an overall 0.9 percent to provide an additional $1.4 million in annual revenue. A one-year credit of $9.0 million will be returned to electric customers from the then-existing ERM deferral balance, if such funds are available, so that the net average electric rate increase to customers effective Jan. 1, 2014 would be 2.0 percent.
As a result of the approval by the UTC, Avista has agreed to not file a general rate case in Washington that would cause an increase in base retail rates before Jan. 1, 2015.
"The decision is positive for both our customers and our shareholders, providing for cost recovery over the next two years from investments made to update our energy delivery systems," said Dennis Vermillion, Avista Corp. senior vice president and president of Avista Utilities. "It gives our customers more certainty in their energy rates and keeps their energy prices at some of the lowest levels in the Northwest and the nation. The revenue increases reflected in the approved rates, together with our continued management of the growth in utility costs, provides the opportunity to reduce regulatory lag in Washington in 2013 and 2014."
Beginning Jan. 1, 2013 an electric residential customer in Washington using an average of 989 kilowatt hours per month would see an increase of 1.5 percent or $1.20 per month, inclusive of the proposed ERM rebate, for a revised bill of $78.69. As a result of proposed changes in rate design, natural gas customers in Washington using an average of 68 therms per month would see a decrease of 0.6 percent or $0.38 per month, for a revised monthly bill of $60.37.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2014, an electric residential customer in Washington using an average of 989 kilowatt hours per month would see an additional increase of 2.0 percent or $1.60 per month, inclusive of the proposed ERM rebate, for a revised bill of $80.29. Natural gas customers in Washington using an average of 68 therms per month would see an increase of 0.9 percent or $0.57, for a revised monthly bill of $60.94.
As a result of the UTC approval, funding available for Avista's Low Income Rate Assistance Program (LIRAP) will increase by $176,000 in 2013 and $131,000 in 2014. In total, 2013 funding available for the LIRAP program will be approximately $3.8 million for electric customers and approximately $1.8 million for natural gas customers. In 2014 the funding level for electric customers will be approximately $3.9 million and for natural gas customers approximately $1.9 million. The LIRAP program is funded through a separate tariff.
Avista offers a variety of energy efficiency programs for residential, limited income, commercial and industrial customers. In addition to helping customers manage their energy use, the programs also help reduce the need for more costly energy resources to meet future customer demand.
In addition to support for energy assistance programs, Avista also offers services for customers such as comfort level billing, payment arrangements and Customer Assistance Referral and Evaluation Services (CARES), which provide assistance to special-needs customers through referrals to area agencies and churches for help with housing, utilities, medical assistance and other needs.
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After you estimate labor hours and labor costs, you're ready for the nextstep in preparing an accurate bid price — determining material requirements for the job. We're all familiar with how to transfer the cost of material from the pricing worksheets to the summary worksheet. But once you accomplish this task, you must adjust this value to account for miscellaneous material items not accounted for on the take-off such as waste and theft, small tools, fixture and switchgear quote indifferences and taxes. Let's take a closer look at how each of these important items can affect your estimate and possibly put you in the red on your next job.
While preparing an estimate, there is never enough time to take-off every item required to complete the job. To manually complete an estimate in a timely manner, you must compromise the accuracy of the cost of material. However, if you use software to generate your estimate, you can probably avoid this dilemma.
If you decide to manually estimate a job, you need to account for as many items as time permits during the take-off phase. You can typically take-off about 90% of all material items needed for the job. Therefore, you'll need to adjust the total cost of material for those items you did not account for. These items, like phase tape, ground screws and other inexpensive items, can add up.
What material cost adjustment is reasonable to account for miscellaneous material items you don't take-off? It depends on the accuracy of your take-off and bill-of-materials. If you estimate a job manually, your total cost of material will be low, possibly by as much as 7% to 12%. Therefore, you need to increase the total cost of material from the take-off to compensate for this shortage. Add 10% to the estimate to account for these items.
If you're generating an estimate with a software package, you don't need to adjust your material cost. You can program most estimating software to automatically include almost every item required for the job. In this case, you should not add more than 2% or 3% to your estimate.
In addition to adjusting your total material cost for items not accounted for in the take-off, you must be sensitive to the effect that wasted material and stolen items will have on the job. Material waste can occur hundreds of times during the life of the job when an electrician drops wire nuts, connectors, screws or boxes, or leaves material in the work area overnight. Sometimes the electricians will take home nail-aprons full of straps, connectors, drive pins, ground screws, couplings and phase tape for themselves. This might not seem like a big deal — especially if you're not paying for it — but if 10 people do this each day, it could cost you thousands of dollars a year in lost material.
What material cost adjustment is reasonable for waste and theft? You can't control everything, but you can hold waste and theft to a reasonable amount, if you make it a priority. The more efficiently you organize, manage and control your material, the closer you'll come to the suggested factor of about 5%.
You must include the cost for ladders, cords, cordless drills, screw guns and other small tools somewhere in the estimate. Some contractors recover the cost of small tools when they apply overhead, but most do not factor the cost into their estimates. Naturally, if you do not include the cost of small tools in the estimate, your actual net profit will be less than you anticipated.
How do you account for small tools? Electrical contractors typically record the cost for tools like drills, ladders, cords and drill bits to the job for which these items were delivered. This cost is never accounted for in the estimate. This results in less net profit than anticipated.
What do you do if the cost for small tools is not recorded as an overhead expense? I suggest you provide an allowance of 3% of material cost for the cost of small tools. But you need to recognize that a job with higher material cost will have a greater dollar value for small tools than a job with lower material cost.
In an attempt to generate the greatest profit margins, equipment manufacturers generally hold their prices until the last moment, thereby denying their competitors the chance to undercut them. You can overcome this obstacle by making sure you're ready to complete the estimate as soon as you get your quotes. But be careful not to make a mistake when you transfer the supplier prices to the summary worksheet. Also remember to insist on written quotes from the supplier and never estimate a job with a verbal quote.
Do not mark up the value of quotes. Many contractors add 10% to 20% to fixture and switchgear prices. Some have no idea why they do this — they just always have. Some contractors say, "Well, I should make money because I'm handling these items." That may sound like a good justification, but you need to add profit at the profit stage, not when you're estimating the cost of the job. Others argue it's there to cover the cost of handling the items on the job. This is wrong. Handling material in the field is part of the labor-unit for field labor. The administrative cost of ordering material is an overhead expense.
Sales tax varies from state to state, county to county and at times from city to city. Be sure you are familiar with the sales tax rules in the area for which you're preparing the estimate, and ask your accountant how to handle tax-exempt jobs. Be aware some states apply sales tax to labor cost.
The following example (below) demonstrates how to determine the total material cost for a job including miscellaneous items, waste and theft, small tools, fixture and switchgear quotes and taxes.


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Make peace with your inner overachiever: Your quest for the perfect job, the perfect family, and the perfect life may boost your satisfaction temporarily -- but will you ever be truly happy?
So what should you do? Lower your standards? Not exactly. Here are three classic characteristics of the perfectionist personality trait, and 10 easy strategies for breaking out of the stickler mind-set.
The goal here is to empower your decisions so that you can free yourself from perfectionism and move your life forward -- one healthy achievement at a time.
If your idea of success is never making a mistake -- ever -- then this is you. However, striving for nothing short of success may cost you that success. Plus, if you're paralyzed by a fear of making mistakes, you might not take as many risks. The workplace can be a minefield for anyone with these perfectionist tendencies. The following slides will help you break out of this mind-set.
Done the right way, comparing can help release your perfectionist grip. It's easy to assume, for instance, that everyone is doing a stellar job. But take notice: Do your coworkers take longer lunches than you do, or send emails with the occasional typo? If they're not perfect, why should you be?
If you could earn college credit for cleaning and organizing, you'd have a Ph.D. Sound like you? If so, your extreme level of neatness works as a benchmark of perfectionism. But it's doubtful that a clean and ordered environment equals success.
People forget that tidying everything takes a lot of time. One study revealed that 66 percent of Americans making $35,000 or less per year described themselves as neat freaks, while only 11 percent of those earning $75,000 said the same.
So weigh the benefits before you put energy into organization. The following slides will give more tips on helping you through this.
If you pride yourself on keeping an orderly home, you might see even small-scale messes as a personal failure. This cognitive distortion can wreck your self-esteem. Catch yourself when you feel yourself falling into one of these downward spirals. Rather than react emotionally, see socks and dishes for what they are: everyday facts of life that need tending to, not evidence of your incompetence.
If looking in the mirror reminds you of what you wish you looked like, this perfectionist is you. The ruthless proliferation of perfect-seeming images, particularly of women's bodies, is enough to make even the most confident among us turn a critical eye on ourselves.
Recast your perspective and rethink what standards you're holding yourself to, and you can begin to feel beautiful and lovable -- without squeezing into a size 0. The following slides will help.
Rather than pick on what you don't like about your arms or thighs or belly, think about ways to improve your health, whether that's eating better or biking a few times a week. When your health, not your looks, is the motivating factor, you're more likely to see the results you want.
Expecting to defy the passage of time by looking decades younger is another way we set up impossible goals. What makes you attractive has more to do with your carriage, your confidence, and your hard-won wisdom than how much you resemble a designer-jeans model.
Do you view your physical worth in the strictest of terms, thinking that one bad-hair day or an extra five pounds renders you unattractive? The challenge is not to let a single factor derail your efforts. If you had a moment of weakness, just skip dessert that night and you're on track again.


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The Library has two computer labs, Room 9 and Room 8.5 for your use. These public-access computers are primarily intended for educational research by TU students, faculty, staff, and other students. Both labs are open whenever the library is open. The Library is also equipment with WiFi for your laptops and other equipment.
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Library computers are not installed with filtering devices or software to limit Internet access,although the campus network may utilize such security and other filtering or restrictive devices/software.
It is the Library's policy that parents or legal guardians must assume responsibility for deciding what library resources are appropriate for their children. Therefore, parents or guardians, NOT library staff, are responsible for the information selected and/or accessed by their children on the Internet. Parental supervision of children searching the Internet is advised.
Parents/legal guardian must directly supervise any child under the age of sixteen (16) using library computers. No child under the age of seven (7) may use or occupy computer workstations.
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- Login to the computer using your Hawklink/Blackboard user name (lastname.firstname) and password. (A guest login is used for community users).
- Save all personal research and word processing to an external data storage device. Do not save on the computer's hard drive.
- Only use closed drink containers near the computer terminals/tables. Please keep our computer keyboards clean.
- Illegal copy or transfer of copyrighted materials such as movies, music, or software is prohibited.
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- It is the responsibly of each patron to log off their computer; Thomas University is not responsible for any infractions occurring should the patron not secure their information.
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VALDOSTA, Ga. - Georgia Southwestern dropped both games to the Valdosta State Blazers Tuesday afternoon in Steel's Diamond at Blazer Park.
Game 1: VSU 8, GSW 5
After sitting through a two and a half hour rain delay, the first game of the doubleheader between Georgia Southwestern and Valdosta State got underway.
VSU got on the board first as Shelby Altman hit a two-run homerun in the bottom of the first inning to give the Blazers the early advantage.
Valdosta State added to their lead in the second inning as a Hannah Strickland single drove in another run to put VSU up, 3-0.
GSW got on the board in the third inning when a Hayley Knight single drove in Avery Purser to bring the Lady Hurricanes closer, 3-1.
The Blazers scored three more runs over the next three innings, including a sixth-inning homerun by Courtney Albritton, and VSU (5-0) withstood a late GSW rally to prevail, 8-5.
Georgia Southwestern (7-4) finished with 7 hits on the game all coming from seven different Lady Hurricane players. Ashley Clifton paced GSW with two RBIs.
Lady 'Cane starting pitcher Allison Paster (4-2) was credited with the loss as the junior tossed 6 innings and gave up 8 runs on 11 hits.
Game 2: VSU 12, GSW 6
Georgia Southwestern was the first to light up the scoreboard in the second game of the doubleheader as Mason Moreland scored off an RBI groundout by Jordan Miller in the top of the first inning.
Valdosta State came back with two first inning runs of their own to put the Blazers up 2-1.
GSW countered as Hayley Knight helped chip in two runs over the next three innings for the Lady Hurricanes.
Knight reached base on an error in a bases loaded situation in the second inning scoring Rachel McElroy.
In the fourth inning, Knight drove in Janna Anderson helping the Blue & Gold regain the lead, 3-2.
Valdosta State used the long ball to do damage in the fourth and fifth innings scoring five runs off just four hits to help the Blazers build a commanding 7-2 advantage.
VSU's Fran Johnson homered to center field in the fourth inning and Candace Albrittin hit her second homerun of the day in the bottom of the 5th.
GSW joined the hitting frenzy in the sixth inning as the Lady Hurricanes rallied off a pair of homeruns of their own.
Anderson hit a solo blast to lead off the inning while Nellie Moore followed that up with one of her own.
Ashley Clifton reached base off a Valdosta State error scoring Mason Moreland to put the Lady Hurricanes within one run, 7-6.
Valdosta State was quick to thwart GSW's rallying efforts as the Blazers scored five runs in their side of the sixth inning to put the game out of reach eventually prevailing, 12-6, for the sweep.
GSW notched 10 hits on the night with Janna Anderson pacing the Hurricanes with four.
Southwestern starting pitcher Ashley Cavender was credited with her first loss of the 2013 season as the sophomore threw for 5.1 innings giving up seven runs off five hits.
Georgia Southwestern will be back in action this Saturday as the Lady Hurricanes host Brewton-Parker in doubleheader action at Lady 'Cane field starting at 2 p.m.


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Variety and autonomy also are key, survey finds.
Federal managers can improve employee engagement and motivation with non-monetary tactics such as offering workers more independence and a diversity of responsibilities, according to a new study.
The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent, quasi-judicial agency that serves to protect federal employees, found in its survey of more than 42,000 federal employees that a majority of respondents feel motivated at work, but in times of potential benefit cuts and continued pay freezes, supervisors must find new ways to engage employees.
Seventy-one percent of federal employees feel "highly motivated" at work, according to the survey, but there is significant room for growth. Employees mentioned factors such as personal satisfaction, interesting work and ability to serve the public ahead of "awards and bonuses" as motivating influences.
MSPB pointed to opportunities to use skills, variety of work and significance of projects as areas managers can focus on to improve morale in the workplace. The board recommended rotating employees' duties and for supervisors to communicate how an individual's contributions are important to the mission and serving the public good.
The survey also found autonomy to be an influential contributor toward motivation, meaning employees should have the freedom to choose the sequence and methods used to accomplish their work. Federal managers should allow their workers to complete a project from beginning to end -- rather than working on bits and pieces -- to optimize engagement, MSPB found. Once the work is completed, the survey recommended providing appropriate feedback.
When monetary rewards are used as motivation, variety and clarity are key, MSPB found. Managers must clearly communicate availability of awards and the conditions for receiving them, respondents said. The rewards should be consistently available across different job functions.


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Thoughts on the Marco Scutaro trade from Rockies to Giants
A few thoughts on Friday night's late-night trade of Rockies second baseman Marco Scutaro to the Giants.
Why the Giants? They didn't really want a rental player (Scutaro's in final year of his contract), but they needed veteran help in the infield. And with Pablo Sandoval's hamstring injury a concern, the Giants pulled the trigger.
The Giants will also get cash in the deal to cover some of the $2.2 million left on Scutaro's contract.
What do the Rockies get in return? Infield prospect Charlie Culberson, who's likely headed to Triple-A Colorado Springs. Culberson, 23, was hitting .236 with 10 homers in 90 games for Triple-A Fresno this season. He appeared in six games with the Giants earlier in the year, hitting .136 with one RBI.
Who takes Scutaro's place on the Rockies' roster? It could be "Little Tommy" Field, the 5-foot-9, 175-pound infielder who's been playing well for the Triple-A Sky Sox. He was pulled from the Sky Sox game in the second inning Friday night.
In the meantime, D.J. LeMahieu could also see a lot of action at second base.
When Troy Tulowitzki returns — and he reiterated again today that he wants to play again this season — Tulo would play short and rookie Josh Rutledge would move over to second.
What was Scutaro's reaction? He certainly wasn't shocked, he'd heard the persistent rumors. But he said he'd never been traded in the middle of the season, so it did catch him a bit off guard.
The Giants will be Scutaro's sixth major-league team. He made his major league debut with the New York Mets in 2002. He returns to the Bay Area where he was a fan favorite playing for the Oakland A's from 2004-07.
Despite the Rockies' terrible season, Scutaro seemed to enjoy his time in Colorado.
"I really like it here, I had fun playing here," he said. "But this is the way baseball is, it's a business. … But now I get a chance to play in the playoffs."
He also said he would consider returning to the Rockies if the door is ever opened.
"Next year I become a free agent and hopefully I have the opportunity to come back here," he said. "I want to be part of this. I think they are going to be pretty good pretty soon."