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DUBUQUE, Iowa - The 19th-ranked Coe College football team put it together in all areas Saturday, as they defeated Loras 56-0, spoiling the homecoming of an Iowa Conference opponent for the second-straight week.
Coe wasted no time scoring this week, as they put together a 2:55 drive to start the game. Coe faced just one third down on the opening drive, as sophomore Josh Rekers (Dike, Iowa/Dike-New Hartford) found junior Nick Lenstra(Peosta, Iowa/Western Dubuque) for a four-yard gain. Three plays later, Rekers and Lenstra hooked up again, this time from 44-yards out, as Coe took an 8-0 lead with 12:05 to play in the first quarter. The two-point conversion came as senior Jordan Atwater(Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Linn-Mar) took a high snap in for a run, his second career rushing two-point conversion.
Loras moved the ball to the Coe 45-yard line, but was eventually forced to punt on its opening drive. It would be the only drive in the game that the Duhawk offense would move the ball into Kohawk territory. Loras would have two drives later in the game start in Coe territory, but only gained seven yards on those two drives combined.
On Coe's second drive, the Kohawks faced two third downs, converting both of them. The drive was sparked by a 40-yard pass from Rekers to senior Chase Cooling (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Xavier), moving the ball to the Duhawk five-yard line. Three plays later, Rekers found senior Keaton Juergens (Elkader, Iowa/Central) for an eight-yard strike, the first touchdown reception of the year for Juergens. A Wes Anderson (Newhall, Iowa/Benton Community) point after attempt put Coe ahead 15-0 with 2:21 to play in the first quarter.
Senior Carvin Thompson (Dallas, Texas/Life Charter) took the first two carries for the second quarter for gains of 33 yards and 11 yards, the second of which was the first rushing touchdown of the year for Thompson. An Anderson PAT gave Coe a 22-0 lead with 14:30 to play in the half.
Another three-play drive for the Duhawks gave Coe the ball at its own 45-yard line to start the drive. The Kohawks again faced just one third down on the drive, as Thompson rushed in from three-yards out with 8:44 to play in the half. An Anderson PAT gave Coe a 29-0 lead.
Both teams exchanged punts before the Kohawks took over again at their own 43-yard line, thanks in part to a 20-yard punt return by Juergens. Coe needed just six plays to score, as Rekers found sophomore Elijah Phillips (Miami, Fla./Southridge) for an eight-yard touchdown pass, the second in two weeks for Phillips. An Anderson PAT put Coe ahead 36-0 with 2:32 to play in the half.
Loras opened the second half with the ball, but gained just six yards on three plays. A 25-yard punt return by Juergens allowed Coe to start its first drive of the second half at its own 46-yard line. After back-to-back rushes for gains of 16 and 13 for Thompson, he busted loose for a 25-yard touchdown run, giving Coe a 42-0 lead with 12:50 to play in the third quarter.
The Duhawks gained two yards on the next drive, as Coe started in Duhawk territory after a 14-yard punt return from juniorDavin Roach (Guffey, Colo./Cripple Creek Victor). Coe put together another quick drive, needing only six plays to score. Sophomore Mark Atwater (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Linn-Mar) found Thompson for a 20-yard touchdown pass. An Anderson PAT gave Coe a 49-0 lead with 8:05 to play in the third quarter.
Coe's final points of the game came with :25 to play, as senior Travis Cullen (West Point, Iowa/Holy Trinity Catholic) returned an interception 46-yards for a touchdown. Anderson hit his final kick of the game, giving Coe a 56-0 victory.
The Kohawks had 203 yards rushing and 261 passing, for a total of 464 on 71 plays. Coe's defense held the Duhawks to 107 yards rushing and 24 yards passing, a total of 131 yards on 56 plays. Earlier this year, Coe held Washington University-St. Louis to 124 yards. Coe is one of six teams in NCAA Division III to hold two different opponents to less than 131 yards of offense in a game. The 24 yards passing by the Duhawks were the second fewest in an NCAA Division III game this year and the sixth fewest in the four NCAA divisions.
On top of Thompson's career-high three rushing touchdowns, he also ran for a career-high 128 yards on 12 carries. M. Atwater rushed a career-high eight times for 49 yards. 11 different Kohawks carried the ball a combined 46 times. Rekers finished 17-of-20 passing for 217 yards and three touchdowns, a career high. Atwater completed three of four passes for 36 yards.
Juergens finished with four receptions for 51 yards, while senior Blake Miller (Ottumwa, Iowa/Ottumwa) caught a career-high three passes for 19 yards. Cooling caught two passes for 52 yards, while Lenstra caught two for 48. 11 different Kohawks caught a pass in the victory.
J. Atwater led the defense with seven tackles, while seniors Dylan Youel (Traer, Iowa/North Tama) and Mitch Montgomery(Lisbon, Iowa/Lisbon) added six tackles apiece, including two tackles for loss and a sack for each. All three hit the 100 tackle mark for their careers in the game. Junior Matt Schmitz (Jesup, Iowa/Union) and junior Evan Bolt (Janesville, Iowa/Janesville) each recorded five tackles. Schmitz added two and a half tackles for loss and a sack.
With the second shutout of the season, it is the first time since 2003 that Coe has recorded two shutouts in a season. The win was the 10th-straight road win for the Kohawks, the second longest in NCAA Division III and eighth longest streak in all four NCAA divisions.
The 19th-ranked Kohawks (5-0, 2-0 IIAC) return to action next Saturday, as they host the University of Dubuque (3-2, 2-0 IIAC). The homecoming kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Clark Field. A link for live video, stats and audio can be found on the front page of CoeAthletics.com.


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If you need frequent access to all sides of the equipment and cabling, an open rack is more convenient than a cabinet. If your equipment needs ventilation, racks offer more air circulation than cabinets. With the open design, racks are a good choice in areas where security isn't a concern, or inside data centres and closets with locked doors.
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If you're installing patch panels, a two-post rack with some cable management is the right choice. But if you have a mix of networking Equipment, servers, and patch panels, then a 4-post rack makes more sense because it provides more stable, 4-point mounting for deep equipment.
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Height, or rack units, is one of the most important specifications in choosing a rack. One rack unit (1U) is 1.75" of usable space. Most freestanding racks come in a standard 45U height, so they fit rooms with standard ceilings.
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Wall mount-style racks save floor space. They're very convenient for installing in cramped wiring closets or narrow hallways. Some even swing out for easy equipment installation and cable connections. Other low-profile racks enable you to flush mount equipment vertically against a wall to further reduce the amount of space they take up. Wall mount racks typically require a solid or reinforced wall. To determine which wall rack is best for your application, measure the deepest piece of equipment and cable(s) out of the back end to be sure they will fit. Then verify the weight capacity needed.
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Many racks have built-in cable management troughs and cable rings for routing cable. If your rack doesn't have these, consider adding managers for neatly routing cable. Vertical managers are great for organising cable runs top to bottom. Horizontal managers are designed to guide cables and hold them precisely at the same level as mounted equipment. You can also add inexpensive hook-and-loop cable ties to hold and bundle cable securely.
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The York College field hockey team dropped a 7-2 decision to #5 Christopher Newport in Capital Athletic Conference action on Saturday afternoon in Newport News, VA.
The Captains remain perfect on the season with a mark of 17-0 overall and a 5-0 in the conference. The Spartans fall to 4-11 overall and 1-4 in the CAC.
The Captains controlled the play from the start. CNU's Belle Tunstall opened the scoring with an unassisted tally just 3:41 into the game. The Spartans battled back to tie the game at one when Kailey Brewer (Hartley, Del./Smyrna) scored off a Nancy Saylor (Manheim, Pa./Manheim Central) penalty corner 6:24 into the game.
The game remained tied until the 18:45 mark when Newport's Marlene Lichty found the back of the cage, giving the hosts the 2-1 lead. The Captains added a third goal just 30 seconds later as Tunstall notched her second goal of the game off a pass from Sarah Smith.
Spartan goalie Abby Baker (Baltimore, Md./Mercy) would keep the Captains off the board the remainder of the half despite being under constant bombardment from the CNU offense.
The Captains built on the lead seven minutes into the second half as Tunstall completed the hat trick with her third goal of the game off an Allie Hackbarth helper. CNU added another goal at the 48 minute mark when Meghan Sullivan scored off an Alexa Hendrickson assist, pushing the hosts' advantage to 5-1.
CNU tallied another goal in the 52nd minute as Shelby Judkins scored. The Spartans cut the deficit to 6-2 when Brewer and Saylor hooked up a second time in the 60th minute. CNU's Taylor Williams closed out the scoring with the Captains' seventh goal at the 63:23 mark of the game.
Baker stood tall all day long for the Spartans as she went the distance in goal, registering a career-high 25 saves in her 70 minutes in cage. The 25 saves ranks second all time behind Megan Eckenrode's 30 stops in a September 2004 game at Salisbury. Junior Alyssa Martin (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley) recorded a career-high three defensive saves in the game.
Brewer's two tallies raises her team-leading total to ten as she now has 23 points for York. Saylor's two assists give her four for the year, which ties her for the team lead. Tunstall finished with three goals on the game as five different Captains scored goals in the game.
The Captains finished the game with a 51-5 margin in totals shots and a 37-4 margin in shots on goal. CNU registered a 13-5 edge in penalty corners.
The Spartans conclude their 2013 regular season on Tuesday afternoon when they host St. Mary's in a Capital Athletic Conference match. Game time is set for 4:00 pm.


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RTC Conference Primers: #21 – Atlantic Sun ConferencePosted by Brian Goodman on October 16th, 2011
Will Rothschild is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic Sun. You can find him on Twitter at @warothschild.
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- Belmont's Last Dance In The A-Sun: In May, realignment hit the conference when it was announced that Belmont will join the Ohio Valley Conference starting in the 2012-13 season, meaning this campaign will mark the Bruins' A-Sun swan song. The repeal of a stipulation requiring every OVC program to field a football team (which Belmont doesn't have) appeared to be the final hurdle. Belmont's new home is a step up in terms of competition and is more favorable for its travel schedule. As the Bruins have represented the Atlantic Sun in the NCAA Tournament four of the last six seasons, a new leader will have to rise.
- New Coaches To Watch: On paper, the A-Sun's three first-year coaches look to be as good a collective group as has ever entered the conference. How they deliver – and how quickly – both on the court and in recruiting will be worth watching. All three – Casey Alexander at Stetson, Andy Enfield at Florida Gulf Coast, and Lewis Preston at Kennesaw State – inherit programs that lost 20 or more games last season. All three also are first-time head coaches who were highly-regarded assistants at successful programs: Alexander at Belmont, Enfield at Florida State, and Preston at Notre Dame, Florida (where he was on the staff of the repeat title teams in '06 and '07) and Penn State.
- ETSU Hopes To Stay Afloat: In eight seasons in Johnson City, coach Murray Bartow has taken the Bucs to three NCAA Tournaments while averaging just under 20 wins per season and finishing third or better in the standings five times. Most recently, the Bucs enjoyed a 24-win campaign in 2010-11, earning a spot in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament and advancing to the semifinals of that event, marking the first time in school history the team had captured two postseason victories in the same season. During the regular season, the Bucs enjoyed their highest RPI ranking since 2004, and won road games against quality opponents such as Mississippi State and Dayton. But to keep ETSU near the top of the A-Sun this year will require Bartow to do one of his best jobs. Gone are POY Mike Smith and two other standouts who combined to average more than 42 points per game, a whopping 60 percent of ETSU's offensive production. Bartow welcomes in another highly-regarded recruiting class and welcomes back 6'4″ forward Tommy Hubbard, a major talent who missed all but four games last season with an injury. How well Hubbard regains his old form and meshes with the talented newcomers will determine whether this proud program maintains its traditional perch among the top three or gets overtaken by one of several improving programs.
- Bruins Poised For A Cinderella Run: For what has become one of the best mid-major programs in the country, the only thing missing on Belmont's"To Do" list is a run in the NCAA Tournament. After nearly knocking off Duke in 2008, the 13th-seeded Bruins lost to four-seed Wisconsin last March and are seeking their fifth NCAA tournament trip in the past seven seasons. So Belmont is well past any "We're just glad to be here" feelings about making it to the Dance. With four starters and all but two of its 11-player rotation back from a 30-5 (19-1 A-Sun) team, the Bruins have the look of a team that could become a national darling in March.


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Funny man John Cleese is selling signed photographs to bankroll alimony payments to his ex-wife.
Cleese split from his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, in 2008 after 16 years of marriage and her divorce settlement included an annual handout of more than $960,000 for seven years.
The writer famously devised a stand-up comedy show — dubbed The Alimony Tour — which is based on his divorce battle, to help raise money to pay his bills.
He also sold his prized Bentley car and props from his 1974 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" to boost his coffers, and now it has emerged Cleese is offering signed photographs of classic moments from his TV comedy shows.
The limited edition prints, showing scenes from sketch show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and sitcom "Fawlty Towers," are available for around $48 from an online memorabilia website.
Cleese bounced back from the divorce by marrying his fourth wife, Jennifer Wade, last August.


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By Terri Fedonczak
Life Coach, Parent Counselor and Author of Field Guide to Plugged-In Parenting, Even if You Were Raised by Wolves
Field Guide To Plugged-in Parenting
Website www.girlpowerforgood.com
It's March, and we are prepping for warmer weather, green beer, and the portent of parental doom (cue scary music)—Spring Break. How can such a festive idea evoke so much dread? Because we have all heard the horror stories. I talked with one mom last week who said, "When I think of Spring Break, my mind automatically jumps to Natalee Holloway"; and she's not alone.
I live in an area that is known for Spring Break visitors, as we are near bars and beaches. Every year, at least one teen is hurt or killed by making really poor choices. As parents, what can we do to protect our kids? Here are a couple of simple tips that will help calm the dread. I'm not saying they are easy, but they are simple:
- Vote for good choices with where you spend your money: My girls are forbidden from going to raunchy Spring Break sites, and I enforce that by not paying for travel expenses to those places. Even though my kids are adults, they are still poor college students lacking funds to sponsor their own festivities. I vote for safer alternatives with my dollars. If my kids want to go to places you see on MTV, they will have to raise the funds themselves. This eliminates most of the arguments right off the bat. I make choices based upon our family value of helping others; sometimes that means helping others make good choices. By basing my decisions on our family values, I don't have to fight my kids; I just remain firmly rooted in what's right for our family.
- Approve roommates, especially if you are paying for the room: Get cell numbers for all the roommates. This may be tricky, but if they want to stay in a room paid for by you, they will comply with your rules. Talk to the roommates to let them know that you care about all of them. Tell them to designate a driver and NEVER leave a friend alone. There are really sketchy people out there who prey upon single girls. Make sure your kids are surrounded by kids who have the same values. This will nip the majority of all problems in the bud.
- If your kids are paying for themselves, all you can do is trust them: You have raised your kids to act in a way that lines up with your family values. If this family values thing is new to you, this is the perfect opportunity to sit down and discuss your values with your young adult. Figure out what is important to your family and then tell your kids that you expect them to uphold those values when they are away from you. Remind them that everyone has camera phones, and those pictures will follow them FOREVER. If they are going to drink too much (forbidding it won't stop it) they need to pick a buddy to watch out for them. I know what college students are like, after all, I was one back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
- If your kids are still in high school, don't let them go on a Spring Break trip without you or a chaperone that you trust—period. This is a recipe for disaster, and no amount of sweet talking by your kid will make it sound any better. If you are unsure whether the chaperone seems trustworthy, err on the side of caution. Better a mad kid than a damaged one.
- When all plans have been set, release the outcome: Even if you have taken all these precautions, some uncertainty may still remain. It is crucial to take very good care of yourself to quiet the worry that inevitably arises when your kids are outside your sphere of influence. Be sure to exercise, eat right and get plenty of sleep to quiet the worry; there is nothing you can do except take good care of yourself and be ready to act in case of emergency. Set up emergency contingencies before your kid leaves you. Devise a system whereby your kid communicates with you every day, or twice a day, to let you know that they are alive and well. This is not negotiable. It only takes 1 minute to send a text, and, since they love you, they need to show you by doing this one small thing.
There are no guarantees that your child will be perfectly safe on Spring Break, just as there are no guarantees that your child will be perfectly safe anytime. Some things are out of your hands. But if you have raised your kid to be a good person with self-respect and respect for others, have faith that your years of effort will prevail and that your kid will make good choices.
We can't keep our kids under our wing forever. Our job as parents is to raise good citizens who better the world by being in it. Eventually, we just have to let go and have faith that our love will guide them even when they aren't with us.
With 22 years of parenting experience and a certified life coach specializing in parent and teen coaching, Terri Fedonczak wants to live in a world where girls recognize their own power and choose to use it for good. On a trip to South Africa, Fedonczak witnessed the power of lionesses as they supported each other within the pride; it was a lightning bolt of realization, leading her on a mission to bring the power of the pride to girls and their parents. Today, Fedonczak takes the girl power message into schools, talking to middle school and high school girls about how to thrive in the wilds of high school/college. Field Guide to Plugged-In Parenting, Even If You Were Raised by Wolves is available for purchase at www.amazon.com. For more information, please visit: www.girlpowerforgood.com


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'Doctor Who' Season 8 Matt Smith Recasting: Read the 12th Doctor's Audition Scripts!
For as exciting as 'Doctor Who''s recent Comic-Con 2013 panel proved, with its exclusive release of the upcoming 50th anniversary trailer, we couldn't help but feel a bit let down by the lack of any news on Matt Smith's inevitable replacement. And while casting for the twelfth Doctor remains ongoing, how would you like to read the audition scripts each potential Doctor reads in casting?
The three scripts come to us courtesy of DoctorWhoTV (via this month's Doctor Who Magazine), wherein showrunner Steven Moffat offered up the brief scenes with a caveat that all three had in fact been made up for the audition process. That isn't to say that the writers don't yet know how stories will proceed with the twelfth Doctor in 2014, but for now the audition scripts are merely meant to show an actor's ability to create a unique personality for the ever-evolving character
We're likely to hear an official announcement of Matt Smith's 'Doctor Who' replacement in the next month or so, given the production schedule to feature the new actor in time for the 2013 Christmas special, but in the meantime read the audition scripts below, and tell us in the comments what you want to see the new Doctor bring to the role!
The new Doctor is checking out the new body. Clara, watching. It's been a few minutes, they're both still adjusting.
THE DOCTOR: Right then, eyesight. Not bad, bit blue. Ears – not pointy, right way up, more or less level. Face – well I've got one. Oh, no -French!
CLARA: French.
THE DOCTOR: I've deleted French! Plus all cookery skills, and the breast stroke. And hopping. Never mind hopping, who needs to hop. Ohh, the kidneys are interesting. Never had that before – interesting kidneys.
CLARA: Are you all right?
THE DOCTOR: I don't know, do I look all right?
CLARA: I don't know.
THE DOCTOR: How's the face? Seems all right from the inside. Nice action, responsive. Bit less heft on the chin. How is it?
CLARA: It's… okay.
THE DOCTOR: Okay?
CLARA: It's a bit… you know.
THE DOCTOR: No I don't, I haven't seen it yet.
CLARA: Maybe it's just new.
THE DOCTOR: Have you changed height?
CLARA: No.
The Doctor is facing down the Cyberleader, who stares balefully down from the screen. The bridge around the Doctor is burning, ruined.
THE DOCTOR: Ah, Cyberleader, hello!
CYBERLEADER: Do you have a response, Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, I do. Definitely got a response. And here it is. Yes, your ears look big in that! Sorry, did I misunderstand the question?
CYBERLEADER: You will return the stolen cargo.
THE DOCTOR: Yeah, well, two points. One, I didn't steal it. No, actually, I did steal it, I was just hoping if I said that I'd think of a really good excuse before the end of the sentence. Didn't happen, never mind. Point two – well, point one, second attempt – that isn't cargo. Those are human beings.
CYBERLEADER: They are primed for conversion.
THE DOCTOR: I've unprimed them.
CYBERLEADER: You will return the cargo.
THE DOCTOR: No, I won't.
CYBERLEADER: Then the cargo will be taken.
THE DOCTOR: Not going to happen, and do you know what's going to stop you?
CYBERLEADER: We will not be stopped. The Doctor raises a finger.
THE DOCTOR: Tell it to the finger. See this finger? See what I'm doing with this finger right now. The Doctor moves to the screen. Starts drawing a line across.
THE DOCTOR: I'm drawing a line between this ship and you. Between all these people and all your metal men. And this line, it's a magic line.
CYBERLEADER: Magic is not logical.
THE DOCTOR: I know – isn't it great? Because I'll tell you what. All these people on this ship are now, officially, under the protection of the magic line. Now, I'll be honest, these guys in here are a bit annoying. They keep having their own opinions, and sometimes they take turns talking instead of me, which is just boring for everyone. But facts are facts, they're behind the magic line, and that's the way it is now. And to be clear, so we all understand the deal here, if any of your handle-heads happens to cross the magic line, even by accident, do you know what will happen to you then?
CYBERLEADER: What will happen?
THE DOCTOR: Me.
3. The Doctor and a little boy. They're sitting in the little boy's bedroom.
THE DOCTOR: Does everyone tell you it's going to be all right?
LITTLE BOY: Yes.
THE DOCTOR: Do you believe them?
LITTLE BOY: No
THE DOCTOR: Good man. Tell me what happens when the lights go out.
LITTLE BOY: No.
THE DOCTOR: Because you're scared? (Silence) Because you think I won't believe you. Because you think I'll tell you everything's fine, when you know it isn't, and leave you alone like all the other grown-ups?
LITTLE BOY:… yes.
THE DOCTOR: Look at me. Am I grown up?
LITTLE BOY: Yes.
THE DOCTOR: Good! You're the very first person I've fooled. Look, what if I promise I won't tell you it's okay. What if I just listen, and then try my best to help, and never tell you that I know better. How about that?
LITTLE BOY: …okay.
THE DOCTOR: Okay. So. You turn the lights out -then what?
LITTLE BOY: The room… changes. In the dark.
THE DOCTOR: You mean the room is different when you can't see it.
LITTLE BOY: Yes.
THE DOCTOR: Every time?
LITTLE BOY: Yes.
THE DOCTOR: Different how?
LITTLE BOY: It's wet. When 1 touch the walls, they're all wet.
THE DOCTOR: Like damp. Like water running down them?
LITTLE BOY: No. Wet like a mouth.


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JoRay McCoy, Chief Auditor
Megan Hannabass, Senior Auditor
Based on our audit of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety's procurement processes, we determined the Department of Public Safety materially complied with the following audit objective:
Determine if the Agency's acquisition process for sole source/sole brand purchases of any amount and open market purchases above $25,000 are in compliance with the Agency's approved internal purchasing procedures, Central Purchasing Procurement Information Memorandums, Central purchasing Rules, and the Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act.
In January of 2009, the Agency was one of the first in the State to develop and launch a procurement web page (www.dps.state.ok.us/bids/) where they post all open market and sole brand invitations to bid, requests for information, requests for proposal, and requests for quotation. This makes solicitation information readily available to potential suppliers. The Agency has made great strides in attracting new vendors due to the development and utilization of this webpage and continues to make improvements to the system. In addition, the agency has increased transparency by publishing the name of the supplier that won the bid and pricing information, if applicable. As a result, DPS purchasing officials have noticed that vendors anticipate annual invitations to bid packet postings on the DPS website.
FINDING 11-585-01 The Department of Public Safety's internal purchasing procedures regarding the approval of acquisitions $2,500 and over require eight pre-approvals, consuming a significant amount of the agency's resources, and diluting accountability.
FINDING 11-585-02 The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety does not have procedures in place to ensure they have not entered into a sole source or DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
The Department of Central Services', Audit Unit completed an audit of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, referred to as the "Agency" during the audit report. Our audit was to determine if the agency's procurement program for the period December 1, 2009 to October 15, 2010 complied with the audit objective.
This publication is issued by the Department of Central Services, as authorized by the Department of Central Services. Printed copies have not been produced. Electronic copies are available through the Oklahoma Department of Central Services website (www.ok.gov/DCS). Two printed copies were deposited with the Publications Clearinghouse of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
professional service contract for the services of any person who has terminated employment with the Agency within one year of the contract period.
In addition, The Agency does not have procedures in place to verify a supplier has not been suspended or debarred by the State Purchasing Director or Federal Government.
FINDING 11-585-03 The Agency does not have detailed guidelines in place to address how minor mistakes in sealed bids will be treated or procedures for resealing bids that are opened in error.
The following chart depicts the Agency's acquisitions by category for the period December 1, 2009 to October 15, 2010.
The Agency's acquisitions for the audit period totaled $43.2 million. The Agency made open market acquisitions for $3,118,172.71. Our audit focused on open market acquisition of $25,000 or greater and sole source / sole brand acquisitions. This audit was performed pursuant to 74 O.S. § 85.5.E. in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards.
We tested 100% of open market acquisitions greater than $25,000 and all sole source / sole brand acquisitions. The population tested consisted of thirteen (13) open market acquisitions totaling $1,402,279.35 and forty-seven (47) sole source /sole brand acquisitions totaling $2,845,031.22. See breakout by total dollar amount below.
Criteria: The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) Internal Purchasing Procedures Section 11.3 states:
In order for requests for acquisitions costing $2,500 and above to receive an acquisition recommendation to present to the Commissioner, such requires the approval of the DPS Legal Counsel Representative, DPS Budget Director, DPS Comptroller and the recommendation of the DPS Contract Review Committee. The DPS Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner in the absence of the Commissioner, shall then approve or authorize the acquisition, or disapprove such. It is preferred the entire DPS Contract Review Committee review and initial their recommendation and approval, but the individual's signatures or initials are required on every request/PCF in order for the committee to make a recommendation of acquisition to the Commissioner.
An effective internal control system provides reasonable assurance for the safeguarding of assets, reliability of financial data, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Internal control systems should be designed and implemented to ensure that risk is mitigated while efficiency is maintained. The cost associated with a control should not exceed the resulting benefit. Condition: We tested all agency open market purchase orders over $25,000 and sole source/brand of any amount to ensure that the acquisitions were properly approved in accordance with the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) internal policies. Sixty items totaling $4.2 million were tested and the following deficiencies were noted:
S creates a purchase order in PeopleSoft, the State's accounting system. This purchase order is created in-lieu-of a requisition. Once the acquisition has received all necessary approvals, the purchase order is "Dispatched" in the PeopleSoft system. No charges can be placed against the purchase order until it is in "Dispatched" status. The agency "Dispatched" sole source purchase order number 5859013246 for a communication tower lease in the amount of $9,600 on June 3, 2010, prior to receiving required approvals from the DPS Comptroller, DPS Legal Counsel Representative, DPS Budget Director and DPS Commissioner. All required signatures where obtained by June 14, 2010. On average procurement control forms reviewed during our audit contained eight to eleven signatures prior to the purchase.
addition we noted one contract file (for purchase order 5859013247) that the agency was not able to locate. This was a sole source acquisition, in the amount of $135,630, for light bars. The agency was able to provide copies of some documentation related to the contract file; however, the agency was not able to provide the Procurement Control Form (PFC). Therefore, we were not able to determine that the acquisition was properly approved.
The two noted deficiencies represent 3% of both population dollars and items.
e agency does not have a formal process in place to ensure that all required approvals are received prior to "dispatching" purchase orders. However, based on testwork performed it appears that this is an isolated incident.
e agency misplaced the original contract file and was not able to locate the Procurement Control Form for purchase order 5859013247 elsewhere.
Effect or Potential Effect:
e lack of additional approvals had little to no effect on the final acquisition.
e absence of the Procurement Control Form, in this particular case, had no effect on the integrity of the acquisition.
Recommendation: The Department of Public Safety's internal purchasing procedures regarding the approval of acquisitions $2,500 and over require eight approvals, consuming a significant amount of the agency's resources, and diluting accountability. We recommend that DPS revise their internal purchasing procedures in order to simplify their approval process for acquisitions $2,500 and above in order to provide a more efficient process and heightened accountability.
We do not recommend that the agency add more layers of controls to remedy the exception noted during our audit. A reduction in layers of authorization, however, would promote individual accountability and increase purchasing efficiency. Based upon review of the agency's internal purchasing structure, we recommend the agency reduce the number of approvals and require only one or two approvals from the central office and that of the troop commander/division director prior to processing the acquisition. The purchasing rules allow the agency to delegate purchasing authority by documenting and maintaining delegated signature authority within the agency's central office for purchases made by the agency.
It should be noted that the agency has implemented procedures to maintain digital copies of all contract files. This will help to ensure that contract files are not misplaced.
Management's Response
Date: 10.17.11
Respondent: Director of Procurement
Response: Concur - "Recommendation: simplify approval process":
In discussions with Commissioner and Comptroller it was stated that a review of all agency processes is under way. It was acknowledged improvement in efficiency could probably be achieved. It was also acknowledged although that process of approval of procurement files could be improved, it is working. Addressing this issue is low priority compared to other issues that must be addressed.
Corrective Action Plan
Contact Person: Director of Procurement
Anticipated Completion Date: TBD - Commissioner's Office.
Corrective Action Planned: TBD
Criteria: The Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act, 74 O.S. 85.42, Certain Contracts Prohibited - Contract Limitations, states:
Except as otherwise provided for in this section, any agency, whether or not such agency is subject to The Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act, is prohibited from entering into a sole source contract or a contract for professional services with or for the services of any person, who has terminated employment with or who has been terminated by that agency for one (1) year after the termination date of the employee from the agency. The provisions of this subsection shall not prohibit an agency from hiring or rehiring such person as a
The Oklahoma Administrative Code, 580:15-6-6 (f), (2), Supplier Selection, states:
The state agency shall solicit a price quote from a minimum of three suppliers, which may be from the Suppliers List in the appropriate commodity classification compiled by the Central Purchasing Division and made available to state agencies. Selection of suppliers shall be rotated. Suppliers that have been suspended or debarred by the State Purchasing Director or the Federal government shall not be solicited.
Condition: The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety does not have procedures in place to ensure they have not entered into a sole source or professional service contract for the services of any person who has terminated employment with the Agency within one year of the contract period.
In addition, The Agency does not have procedures in place to verify a supplier has not been suspended or debarred by the State Purchasing Director or Federal Gover
Cause: The Agency failed to identify the requirements.
Effect or Potential Effect: The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety could unknowingly contract with employees terminated within the last year. These individuals may have an advantage as they know current Agency employee's and may have knowledge of the Agency's internal workings that other bidders do not. In addition the Agency may be contracting with suppliers that are suspended or debarred.
Recommendation: We recommend that the Agency implement policies and procedures to ensure that all sole source and professional services contract files contain a certification signed by the vendor certifying individuals performing the contract have not been terminated by the Agency within a one (1) year
We also recommend that the Agency design and implement procedures to ensure that contract files include documentation that the Agency verified supplier's suspended and debarred status. In addition, we recommend the Agency consider implemen
Management's Respons
Date: 10.17.11
Respondent: Director of Procurement Response: Concur - CERTIFICATION VENDOR EMPLOYEES HAS TERMINATED OR BEEN TERMINATED BY THE AGENCY: In hopes of finding a form, I researched the DCS Forms Library & did not find anything. I asked Deputy Director of Central Purchasing-DCS, how DCS handles such. His response was: "We don't have a form for the certification you are looking for. We typically see a term embedded within a sole source or professional service contract to handle the certification one year separation from the state." Therefore we will devise such form for all sole source and professional services acquisition. Many times there is not a "formal contract" in our awards. We would love to see such a certificat
Verification of Vendor's Suspended and Debarred Status. - Deputy Director also stated: "The debarment status can be researched through the vendor verification link on our web page. T
provided on that page that
We shall pursue this route. DPS Procurement always assumed the "Not open for ordering" block in PeopleSoft was the method of determining Debarred or Suspended Vendors. In a perfec
Corrective Action Plan
Contact Person: Director of Pro
Anticipated Completion Date: #1 3rd quarter of FY12 for creation, approval and imp
#2 Effective immediately DCS website will
Criteria: The National Association of State Procurement Officials publication, State and Lo
Despite instructions contained in the IFB, a bidder will occasionally submit a sealed without proper identification and the bid clerk will open it inadvertently. That person ought to reseal the bid, and mark it "ope
After bids are opened, but before award, a procurement officer DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
may waive a mistake, or permit a bidder to correct it, only if it is minor and the true intent of the bid is obvious from the bid document itself. In those cases, the bid must substantially comply with the IFB and the correction must not improve the bidder's competitive position. "Substantial compliance" refers to deviations or errors that are not material and do not invalidate the legitimacy of the bid. The term "material" generally means that the mistake theor
Condition: DPS posted a sealed bid solicitation for ammunition (purchase order 585901
Bidder 1: DPS received the completed bid package from Bidder 1, on September 16, 2010. Bidder 1 did not properly label their envelope and it was opened by the Agency. DPS then notified Bidder 1, that their bid was considered "non-responsive" because the envelope was not correctly marked and DPS required that a new bid response package be resubmitted prior to the close date for consideration. Bidder 1 resubmitted their bid, which
Bidder 2: DPS received Bidder 2's bid response on September 22, 2010. The response was properly labeled and DPS opened it with the other sealed bids that were received. Upon opening the DPS realized that the bidder did not included a price sheet containing the per unit price for each round of ammunition and labeled the bid "non-responsive". The bidder was not given the opportun
This bidder also sent a lette
Bidder 3: Bidder 3's bid response was received on September 22, 2010. The response was properly labeled and DPS opened it with the other sealed bids that were received. The total amount of the bid was $42,726.54. Bidder 3 was awarded the bid. However, DPS did not have enough funding available and had to reduce the quantity 163,500 rounds to 155,500 rounds. The contract was in the am
Cause: The Agency does not have detailed guidelines in place to address how minor mistakes in sealed
Effect or Potential Effect: The Agency is labeling bid responses as "non-responsive" do to minor errors and in-turn could be elimi
Recommendation: We recommend that the agency develop policies and procedures regarding "minor mistakes" and determine what guidelines will be applied in ha
Bid resealing procedures
Defining minor mistakes
Defining material mistakes • Determining a timeframe for requesting and accepting
dditional documentation after s
In addition, we also recommend the contracting officers do not open or have access to incoming mail. Therefore, if a sealed bid is opened by mistake it can be resealed and properly labeled so that the contracting o
Management's Response
Date: October 17, 2011
Respondent: Director of Procurement Response: Partially Concur - Would concur review of processes may be in order. This review will include guidance from
and how such situations are handled by them. From our perspe
process is over. To delay awards to give vendors who did not follow instructions or failed to include required documents or information, j
an already cumbersome and involved process. As stated in my preliminary response (see below), the individual evaluation of specific circumstance after the bid is open is subjective. We are still of the opinion that DPS exposes itself to protests, criticism and the need to defend its position on individual cases. To quote from my original response to you on Sept 1: " From our perspective with any case such as this if a vendor submits a bid without identifying as such, when opened and discovered we put the bid back into the envelope and notify the vendor by email that the bid package is being returned and if time permits they are welcome to resubmit. We will do that for any bidder. We declare any bid as non responsive if instructions are not followed and discovered at bid opening. We think that eliminates the chance for inconsistency of the treatment of a vendor. In the instance of bidder 2, forgetting the spec sheet with individual pricing per item disqualified them and we would treat any vendor that overlooked an integral part of the bid response the same. I am going to have to DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
contemplate how we would structure guidelines for requesting additional information from a bidder after a bid opening. What I want to avoid is opening it up for interpretation by CPO or vendors and keep the guidelines consistently
Agree in theory that Contacting Officers should not have access to or open incoming mail. At the time of the ITBs referenced, Procurement had no administrative help. The staff consisted of only CPOs. At this time we have a part time admin person whose responsibilities are to open all mail. As long as we ha
Corrective Action Plan
Contact Person: Director of Procurement
Anticipated Completion Date: 3rd quarter of FY12 Corrective Action Planned: The initial step will be to confer with Central Purchasing Contract Manager and Deputy State Purchasing Director at DCS. Will determine their opinion, DCS procedures for bid openings, investigate processes by other states and
Internal controls over the procurement program were
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Organization Mission Statement - Working to provide a safe, secure env
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Lost & Found / Lost 1 found 2 at Channahon Community park hole #12« on: August 26, 2013, 05:30:23 PM »
My first go around two weeks ago I lost my disc (that Frankie has found) after looking I decided to call it a day. I decided to come back to Community Park to try and finish the course and made it to hole #12 before losing another one. I threw a yellow/green see through Innova Champion Mamba. Still has the price sticker on the bottom due to being brand new. It landed in the little island of forest to the right of the fairway. I think it mightve landed in the trees but not sure. I looked for about an hour but before I gave up I found two discs One is a Star Vulcan with the name Mike L and the other is a monray. Hopefully I can get these back to their owners and get some Karma my way becuase that Mamba is my new favorite disc.


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Move over, Slowhand. Step aside, Jack White.
Meet David DiDonato, an Austin guitarist and music instructor, who has just broken the world record for longest guitar solo. On stage at Austin's Red 7, the guitarist for local metal band Modok surpassed the record of 24 hours and 18 minutes to stand as the world's reigning champ, according to the music venue:
Done did it, y'all! David Didonato just beat the world record for longest guitar solo! And he's STILL GOING #HITP—
Red 7 (@Red_7) May 14, 2012
The bleary-eyed guitarist began his quest at 7 p.m. Sunday night and was allowed a five-minute break every hour to maintain sanity. Like a drawn-out interlude at a jam band music festival, DiDonato shredded for a gruesome 24 hours and 55 minutes, streaming the performance on UStream.tv. Though the music venue was closed to the public from 2 a.m. to noon, DiDonato offered $25 to anyone willing to watch him perform the entire solo. The question is, are you up for the challenge to watch it the whole way through?
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Mortgage applications fell last week as FHA insurance premiums rise
Mortgage applications fell last week as demand waned because of higher insurance premiums for government-backed loans, according to a leading trade association. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its market composite index declined 5.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ended April 22. The MBA made no adjustment to account for Good Friday, when markets were closed. On an unadjusted basis, the index also decreased 5.6% last week. The seasonally adjusted refinance index slid just 0.6%, but the purchase index fell 13.6% to the lowest level in two months. Government purchase applications declined 26.6% last week, according to MBA. "Purchase applications fell last week, driven primarily by a sharp decrease in government purchase applications as new, higher FHA premiums went into effect," said Michael Fratantoni, MBA vice president of research and economics. "This decrease reverses a 20% increase in government purchase applications over a four-week period, which was likely driven by borrowers attempting to beat this deadline." In February, the Federal Housing Administration announced plans to raise the annual mortgage insurance premium by 0.25% on all 15-year and 30-year mortgages it backs. The agency was responding to a congressional mandate to keep its insurance fund liquid. The MBA said the unadjusted purchase index decreased 12.8% last week and is nearly 30% lower than a year earlier. In four-week moving averages, the market index is down 2.4%, with the purchase index off 0.8% and the refinance index down 3.2%. Refinancings accounted for 61.6% of all mortgage applications last week up from 58.5% the previous week and at the highest level in a month. The MBA said the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage inched down to 4.8% last week from 4.83% the prior week. The average rate for a 15-year fixed mortgage also fell slightly to 4.03% from 4.07%. Write to Jason Philyaw.


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Farmingdale State's Tiffara Steward Named 2009 Comeback Award Recipient
V Foundation Award announced on ESPN Tonight
For TUESDAY Release March 31, 2009
Cary, N.C. – Farmingdale State College's
women's basketball junior guard Tiffara Steward has been named the
recipient of the ninth annual V Foundation Comeback Award, given
annually by The V Foundation for Cancer Research in collaboration
with ESPN. ESPN will make the announcement during their telecast of
the NIT semi-finals on Tuesday night. The award will be presented
to Steward later this year at the Jimmy V New York City Basketball
A junior starting point guard on the Farmingdale State College women's basketball team, Steward stands at only 4'6", but her short stature hasn't been her biggest obstacle. She was born three months premature (May 12, 1988) weighing only 2 ½ pounds and was eight inches long. After undergoing six surgeries by the time she was three years old, Steward still battles multiple permanent disabilities. She is blind in her right eye, as she was born without a cornea, and has over 50% hearing loss in both ears. She has a leg discrepancy, and also battles severe scoliosis. Her spine, to date, is still not completely fused. This was all unknown to many of her teammates, the coaches and administration until recently. She received major minutes off the bench her freshman and sophomore years before earning the starting spot this season.
"I would like to thank the committee for selecting me, because all the other finalists were as worthy as I was for this prestigious award," said Steward. "The V Foundation does great things for cancer research which makes this more important, as cancer has affected my family many times. My grandfather passed away after a long and courageous battle with lung cancer, my grandmother lives on today as a 14-year breast cancer survivor, my other grandmother survived a battle with colon cancer and my mom is a survivor of cervical cancer. Through their hope and fight, they've taught me that nothing can stop you, unless you let it overcome you."
"I am humbled to receive an award given in memory of Coach Valvano," she continued. "I believe, like Coach V, that one should never give up, no matter what disabilities or hardships you are faced with. Your goals may be a little more difficult to achieve, but if you try and try again, you can accomplish anything that you set your mind to," she concluded.
The V Foundation Comeback Award is open to men and women collegiate basketball student-athletes in all NCAA divisions. It is awarded to an individual or a team who has accomplished a personal triumph in the face of true adversity, be it in health, life or moral dilemma. The award is presented in memory of Jim Valvano, the late basketball coach and ESPN commentator, whose personal battle with cancer inspired the creation of The V Foundation. In his memorable speech at ESPN's inaugural ESPY Awards announcing the creation of The V Foundation, Valvano's "Don't Give Up… Don't Ever Give Up!"® motto created a legacy from which the Comeback Award has been created.
"Tiffara is very deserving of this award. She stands for all that is good in college athletics. She is an inspiration to her teammates and I can't think of a more appropriate individual to be honored," said Chris Mooney, Farmingdale State's head women's basketball coach.
"It is with great pleasure that we honor Tiffara Steward with the 2009 V Foundation Comeback Award," said V Foundation CEO Nick Valvano. "My brother Jim was a great fan of women's basketball, so he would be doubly pleased that the award created in his memory be given to Tiffara. Her comeback battle has been a lifelong display of sheer courage and determination. She embodies a never give up spirit every day of her life. We are proud to welcome her to the list of incredible young men and women who have received this award before her."
Past recipients of the award are Purdue's Katie Douglas (2001), Western Michigan's Kristin Koetsier (2002), Arizona State's Justin Allen (2003), Texas' Jamie Carey (2004), Washington's Kayla Burt (2005); Western Washington's Grant Dykstra (2006), the United States Military Academy Women's Basketball Team (2007) and Drexel's Nicole Hester (2008).
Steward was selected from a group of 12 finalists who were nominated by their athletic departments. The recipient was chosen by a committee of members of The V Foundation Board of Directors. The other 2009 finalists were: Suzanne Albert, Felician College; Jermaine Bishop, Northern Arizona University; Kelvin Davis, San Diego State University; Joe Ford, University of the Pacific; Jerika Jenkins, Hampton University; Brooke Johnson, Western Carolina University; Cait McMahan, University of Tennessee; Ole Miss Men's Basketball Team, University of Mississippi; Eleia Roddy, University of Kentucky; Dana Pernell Smith II, Longwood University; Azania Stewart, University of Florida.
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A new look at the RST model (1996)
The RST model is augmented by the addition of a scalar field and a boundary term so that it is well-posed and local. Expressing the RST action in terms of the ADM formulation, the constraint structure can be analysed completely. It is shown that from the view point of local field theories, there exists a hidden dynamical field 1 in the RST model. Thanks to the presence of this hidden dynamical field, we can reconstruct the closed algebra of the constraints which guarantee the general invariance of the RST action. The resulting stress tensors TSigma Sigma are recovered to be true tensor quantities. Especially, the part of the stress tensors for the hidden dynamical field 1 gives the precise expression for tSigma . At the quantum level, the cancellation condition for the total central charge is reexamined. Finally, with the help of the hidden dynamical field 1, the fact that the semi-classical static soluti on of the RST model has two independent parameters (P,M), whereas for the classical CGHS model there is only one, can be explained.
Application of Instatons: Quenching Of Macroscopic Quantum Coherence And Macroscopic Fermi-Particle Configurations (1996)
Starting from the coherent state representation of the evolution operator with the help of the path-integral, we derive a formula for the low-lying levels E = ffl0 Gamma 24ffl cos(s + ,)ss of a quantum spin system. The quenching of macroscopic quantum coherence is understood as the vanishing of cos(s + ,)ss in disagreement with the suppression of tunneling (i.e. 4ffl = 0) as claimed in the literature. A new configuration called the macroscopic Fermi-particle is suggested by the character of its wave function. The tunne- ling rate ( 24fflss ) does not vanish, not for integer spin s nor for a half-integer value of s, and is calculated explicitly (for the position dependent mass) up to the one-loop approximation.
Quantum tunneling between degenerate ground states through the central barrier of a potential is extended to excited states with the instanton method. This extension is achieved with the help of an LSZ reduction technique as in field theory and may be of importance in the study of macroscopic quantum phenomena in magnetic systems.
The constraint structure of the induced 2D-gravity with the Weyl and area-preserving diffeomorphism invariances is analysed in the ADM formulation. It is found that when the area-preserving diffeomorphism constraints are kept, the usual conformal gauge does not exist, whereas there is the possibility to choose the so-called "quasi-light-cone" gauge, in which besides the area-preserving diffeomorphism invariance, the reduced Lagrangian also possesses the SL(2,R) residual symmetry. This observation indicates that the claimed correspondence between the SL(2,R) residual symmetry and the area-preserving diffeomorphism invariance in both regularisation approaches does not hold. The string-like approach is then applied to quantise this model, but a fictitious non-zero central charge in the Virasoro algebra appears. When a set of gauge-independent SL(2,R) current-like fields is introduced instead of the string-like variables, a consistent quantum theory is obtained, which means that the area-preserving diffeomorphism invariance can be maintained at the quantum level.
Significance of zero modes in path-integral quantization of solitonic theories with BRST invariance (1996)
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Interview date: 02/09/2008
Run date: 02/26/2008
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Tift Merritt is back with her new Concord Records release, Another Country, and it's some of her best work yet. The Americana-ish artist has been labeled many things, but as she suggests herself, she is not looking to be labeled, but rather just wants to be an artist who makes music for art's sake. Good for her, and good for you, if you are a fan. We recently had the chance to speak to Tift about her new album and more.
Bullz-Eye: Hi Tift, I love the new album, and I see that you're a huge Joni Mitchell fan.
TM: Well, yes.
BE: I heard that in your voice. Do you have any other big influences?
TM: It's not the easiest thing to put your musical influences on one person. I definitely have lots of people and writers, as well as painters and photographers who have influenced me too.
BE: Okay. So who are some of those people?
TM: In the music world, probably a lot of the 70's singer/songwriters who were speaking really directly like Joni Mitchell or Neil Young or Carol King or Bob Dylan. Eudora Welty (novelist) has always been a hero of mine too. And Robert Frank as a photographer.
BE: And you're from North Carolina?
TM: Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but I live in New York City.
BE: Okay cool. Do you have any ties to Nashville at all?
TM: I was on a record label in Nashville once. But that's about it.
BE: Lost Highway?
TM: Yes.
BE: Okay, cool. I read on your MySpace page about how you recorded this new album, and began writing in Paris, then moved to a house in California. It's really interesting and I'm guessing the whole process was a breeding ground for song ideas?
TM: (laughs) Yeah, time off will do that and being in a great location will do it too. (laughs)
BE: Very cool. So what was a typical day in the life of your band like while recording the album?
TM: We were living in Laurel Canyon, which was awesome. You'd get up in the morning and have a cup of coffee outside and I had planted a garden. And then you sort of live in the studio when you're making a record. So at about noon we'd go to the studio and about midnight we'd get back from the studio.
BE: And how long did that whole process take?
TM: Probably about a month or six weeks. And then I stayed after a little longer.
BE: Cool. Well my favorite track is "My Heart is Free."
TM: Oh thank you.
BE: Which is your favorite, if you have one?
TM: I don't know that I can pick a favorite. (laughs) But it changes. It depends on what's going on in my head or that kind of thing.
BE: At this point are you tired of hearing all these tracks and looking forward to writing new stuff?
TM: A little bit just because that's kind of the nature of the game. But it isn't like I've been blaring the record at my own house. (laughs)
BE: And what was it like to receive a Grammy nomination (2004's Tambourine)?
TM: That was definitely a treat. It was really wonderful to be able to tell our parents and our friends and all the people that support you when it doesn't always seem like the smartest move.
BE: To be a professional musician, you mean?
TM: Yeah. So that was a really nice thing to be able to give those people.
BE: And what category was it and who were you up against?
TM: We were nominated for "Country Album of the Year," which was kind of interesting because it wasn't a country album. So we were up against Keith Urban and Gretchen Wilson and Loretta Lynn. And Loretta Lynn won it, so that was really wonderful.
BE: Okay, yeah. I remember that. Did you go out there for the Grammy's?
TM: Yeah, we did. We all went.
BE: That must have been cool.
TM: It was fun.
BE: Awesome. So you've toured with the likes of Ryan Adams and Emmylou Harris, which might put you into that Americana pigeonhole.
TM: Well I've also toured with Elvis Costello and….well, finish your question.
BE: All I was going to say is, is that something you aim for or are you looking to have a broader audience?
TM: I think genre is always someone else's mechanism and not mine. I really hate to be put in a box ever. As a writer I think you always want to speak to the people who will understand you and not to a marketing box that you check off. (laughs)
BE: Right. It's always a thing more for the radio people more than anything.
TM: I think so. It seems really trite and trivial to me. So I feel like I draw from a lot of different places and hopefully some of those parts are something that's maybe beyond a genre….but that sounds very presumptuous when you say it on your own behalf. (laughs)
BE: (laughs) Gotcha.
TM: But you know, I love Americana music. I love Rock and Roll. I love Punk Rock. I feel like those marketing people made up genres. And I think about like Ray Charles, and he definitely didn't get in a box and say, "yes, this is my marketing category."
BE: Right. What is the songwriting process like for you typically? Are you always writing?
TM: I try to keep writing to be a little outside of the fray of life. So I'm not in between writing lines while you and I are on the phone. (laughs) But usually it starts with an idea that's worth holding onto, whether it's an emotional idea or an idea at the piano. And then I usually sit at the piano with my guitar in my lap and just kind of hash away until I knock something out that's worth keeping. Then after that, I usually do the lyrics last. I try not to get the music and the lyrics too far away from each other, so I make sure the words are okay last.
BE: So do you have an idea, like a bunch of lyrical ideas in a notebook or something, or do you kind of let the music guide the lyrics?
TM: I think it's always really important to start with a lyrical idea or a feeling that you can build the song around. It isn't so much that I go to the piano and plunk something out and go, "Oh hey, this reminds me of this." Usually that starting point is where a feeling and some words and a piece of music all get married.
BE: Gotcha. Tell me about your radio show that you started.
TM: Oh, , it's called The Spark, where I meet the real people behind great works of art. It's really just my excuse to learn from the artists that I admire. I think we get a lot of information about people when they're all dressed up and people when they're in their moment of glory. And I think as a writer, that it's really important to find out about the more human and ordinary sides of these people who are doing such fascinating things, and how they really work and how hard it really is, and how they keep their integrity and keep their fire and keep going, and what it all means to them and how they manage to not get lost in it all.
BE: Cool. So people can listen online to that?
TM: They can listen online…
BE: Is it weekly?
TM: It's actually monthly. But you can listen online and you can listen on Texas Public Radio. Publicradio.org
BE: So what music are you listening to now?
TM: Oh I really love this band, Midlake.
BE: Okay.
TM: And I got this really cool CD of this guy, Niam Amor. He's from Tucson. It's really cool. But he's originally from France, I think.
BE: And you're touring to support the album, correct?
TM: Yes.
BE: What is your favorite place to stop and eat on the road, and what is your least favorite?
TM: Oh! My least favorite place to eat on the road is anywhere that's a chain.
BE: (laughs). That's so funny. I interviewed Rob Thomas once and he said Applebee's, he absolutely hated it.
TM: Oh gosh, you want to go to a place that's local and awesome. So I always love to tour and be in Seattle and go to Pike's Market, and have good sushi and walk on the water and that kind of thing.
BE: Very cool. Okay, I have one more question.
TM: Is it a really hard one?
BE: No it's not. Who do you like in the Super Bowl?
TM: Oh well I moved to New York recently, so I have to pull for the Giants, right?
BE: Awesome.
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Dog Owner Sparks Outrage After Tattooing Pet For Odd Reason
A dog owner has sparked outrage after covering his pet dog with multiple tattoos.
The dog's owner, tattoo artist Emerson Damasceno, claimed the tattoos would protect the dog from cancer.
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The white bull terrier has been pictured with five tattoos of an anchor, a knuckleduster and a diamond, on its mouth, ears and next to its eyes. It also has a logo of the LA Dodgers Baseball team on both ears.
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After images of the tattooed dog appeared on social media, there have been calls for the man to be charged with animal cruelty.
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The owners have since deleted the photo from social media after it caused an online storm.
According to The Mirror, the tattoos have been condemned by veterinary experts.
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People have learned and people have feasted. It goes without saying that the second edition of MAKER WEEKEND was an awesome success and it was great see everyone enjoying and learning new skills. However, this doesn't mean that it has ended. For those who has missed MAKER WEEKEND and wish to follow our DIY WORKSHOPS, we have confirmed new dates for you to sign up!
- BUILD A BERLINER HOCKER | Saturday, March 16th / 5pm-6pm |
Within this workshop you will get to know how to build Berliner Hocker - a little magic thing, which can basically be anything, depending on what you want it to be at the moment, where and how you would like to use it. SIGN UP!
- SCREEN PRINTING | Thursday, March 21st / 6.30pm-9.30pm |
Screen printing is a great technique which can be used to apply designs to lots of different things whether its a t-shirt, cushion or a bag. This workshop will teach you the basics of screen printing as well as how to apply words and type in your designs. Get ready to be creative and leave us with a smile and an awesome bag or clutch!. SIGN UP!
- LEATHER JEWELRY | Tuesday, March 26th / 7pm-9pm |
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- DECOUPAGE TECNIQUE | Saturday, March 30th / 1pm-4pm |
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- MELT A BAG | Saturday, March 30th / 5pm-8pm |
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- PAPIER MACHE: LAMPS | Thursday, April 2nd / 6.30pm-9.30pm |
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- CARDBOARD Up-Light LAMP | Friday, April 5th / 6.30pm-9.30pm |
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- INTRODUCTION TO 3D PRINTING | Friday, April 5th / 6.30pm-9.30pm |A computer is a wonderful thing, it structures your email and shows you video, but can you make things with it too? Things that you can touch ? Things that are useful? Yes you can, with the help of a 3D printer! This production equipment of the future builds up any object layer by layer automatically producing real physical objects from your computer. SIGN UP!
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T-Mobile Store Rampage Caught On Video For Everyone To Enjoy
For several years, Consumerist and our readers have offered tips and suggestions for getting refunds from wireless providers without resorting to violence. Apparently, there is a man in the UK who does not read Consumerist.
The below video shows a man going bat-poop crazy at a T-Mobile store in Manchester. He smashed shelves and took a fire extinguisher to various displays, reportedly all over a refused refund.
"There were seven members of staff and a number of customers in store at the time," a company rep tells the Daily Express, "and we are very pleased to say that none were injured during the incident.
The rep says the blow-up "was in relation to a refund that we were not able to give — as it was clearly outside of the stated terms and conditions…. We are currently assessing the damage, and will be re-opening the store as soon as possible"
The Express reports that the man has been charged with criminal damage and not maintaining a stiff upper lip (okay, we made that last one up).
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With the repeal of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act after just four years on the books, it's uncertain how quickly the state will resume executions or what the legacy will be for the law that proponents say was intended to rid capital punishment of racial bias.
RALEIGH � With the repeal of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act after just four years on the books, it's uncertain how quickly the state will resume executions or what the legacy will be for the law that proponents say was intended to rid capital punishment of racial bias.
Gov. Pat McCrory's signature of approval for the repeal capped off a debate over the law's intent and effectiveness that started even before it passed the state legislature in 2009 almost entirely along party lines.
But experts and advocates say the issue of promoting racial equality in the criminal justice system will remain salient, especially in light of a growing number of states taking steps to abolish the death penalty completely � which was always the goal at the heart of the RJA, opponents say.
As approved under then-Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, the RJA allowed convicted murderers to use statewide and local statistics to argue that racial bias in court proceedings and jury selection tainted their convictions, earning them life sentences instead of lethal injection if a judge agreed.
The law aimed to address bias in jury selection and sentencing, which has been uncovered in at least 25 states, according to the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center. Studies have shown that juries are far more likely to seek the death penalty for black-on-white murders and that prosecutors are more likely to strike African-Americans from juries.
Republicans, who always opposed the idea of commuting individual sentences using statistics, successfully restricted the use of capital punishment statistics to the local level with a 2012 amendment that also required other forms of evidence to overturn a death-penalty ruling.
Before Republicans weakened the law, though, a Cumberland County judge granted a life sentence to death-row inmate Marcus Robinson under the act largely on the strength of a Michigan State University study of North Carolina that found black jurors were more than twice as likely to be struck from juries than their white counterparts. Judge Greg Weeks also found other evidence of bias among prosecutors, and he ruled in favor of three more inmates under the Racial Justice Act after the 2012 rollback.
Robinson's case was appealed by the state to the North Carolina Supreme Court, which agreed in April to review it. Tye Hunter, executive director of the Durham-based nonprofit Center for Death Penalty Litigation, said he expects the court will hear the case in late fall. The court hasn't yet agreed to hear the three other RJA cases.
This year Republicans with supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly mounted a full repeal. They've argued that the law allowed most of the 153 death-row inmates to challenge their sentences regardless of their race, creating a logjam that amounts to a de-facto moratorium on executions.
Hunter said he doesn't expect executions to begin in the near future because of existing appeals and all-but-certain challenges among inmates that their due process rights were violated with the repeal of an act they used to contest their sentences. Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake and an attorney, said due process violations are bogus because the inmates were convicted before the law existed. He said he would give the state many months, not years, before executions resume because an appeal about the legality of lethal injections is expected to be resolved soon.
The state Supreme Court case was once considered a defining test for the Racial Justice Act with the potential for broader implications. Even with the repeal of the act, that review could send a signal that either bolsters the case RJA advocates tried to press for four years or prop up the status quo, said Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and an expert on racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
"We'll see if that becomes a legacy of this law and litigation or if people become more comfortable engaging in race-conscious decision-making because they can do it with impunity," he said.
Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, noted that national efforts to create legislation along the lines of the Racial Justice Act and in other states haven't fared well, but at the same time six states have abolished the death penalty since 2007 in large part because of the costs of administering capital punishment and questions of fairness.
"The next solution might be: Is the death penalty incompatible with our fairness to justice and equality?" he said. "We don't seem to be able to fix it, but yet we know the problem persists."
States have taken a skeptical view toward considering statistics in capital cases since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1987 that studies showing racial disparities in sentencing couldn't be used to overturn a death penalty conviction alone, said John Donohue, a Stanford University legal scholar who specializes in criminal justice. Donohue prepared statistical analysis for a recent Connecticut Supreme Court effort to commute the sentences of 11 inmates who remain on death row after the state abolished the death penalty.
Connecticut, like other states, decided the millions of dollars and decades spent pursuing capital punishment wasn't worth it, Donohue said. There's a recognition that money could be spent better elsewhere, he said.
"I think the evidence is sort of overwhelming that the way to stop murder is swift and certain punishment, and Connecticut is only solving about half their murders," Donohue said.
But Dieter noted that the states that have abolished the death penalty in recent years were more politically receptive or had strong minority voices in state government. Stam noted that public opinion in North Carolina sides with capital punishment.
"I don't see that changing in the next several years," Stam said.


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The legacy publishing world often seems focused on bestsellers. How many copies a book sells gets it on bestseller lists, which get it even more attention. Publishers, and authors, crow about big hits, and huge numbers are repeated ad infinitum.
The self-pubbing world seems to be following a similar theme. I was one of the first people to post my self-pub numbers, and this trend has continued. I think this kind of transparency is good.
But the message is getting skewed. I've shared my numbers to show writers what is possible by pubbing on Kindle.
I don't share my numbers to show how many more ebooks I'm selling than you are. And I've never stated that an ebook has to sell X number of copies before it is considered a success.
According to a recent article in Publisher's Lunch (no link because it's a pay site), 11 self-pubbed authors made the NYT List in 2011. I haven't read the article, so I don't know if it is slanted that 11 is an amazing number or a disappointing number. In reality, it is neither. Because that number is meaningless.
The self-publishing revolution isn't about how many bestsellers it produces.
The self-publishing revolution is about authors--all authors--being able to make money on their work without having to jump through gatekeeping hoops.
You don't need to make the NYT list to be a success. You don't need to make $100,000 in three weeks to be a success. And the significance of this revolution isn't based on what the legacy publishing machine thinks is successful.
A writer doesn't have to sell 10,000 ebooks a day. They can sell 10,000 ebooks a year--only 27 a day--and because they keep a large chunk of the royalties, that can make a huge difference in the quality of their life.
Even 5000 books a year, priced at 99 cents, is an extra $150 a month. Money used to pay bills. Buy groceries. Make things a little bit easier.
In the legacy world, if an author didn't make big money, they got dumped. But we writers don't have the overhead a NY publisher does. Smaller sales may not impress the legacy world, but who cares? They're bloated, unwieldy, antiquated, inefficient, and wasteful.
Let NY try to support itself. We need much less to support ourselves. We don't need to hit a homerun like NY does. We can hit a bunch of singles and do just fine.
Bestsellers have always been an anomaly. The real story is about the midlist, and how many writers can get paid. And right now, more writers are getting paid for their writing than at any other point in history. That's freaking amazing. And it's a much more important story than one about 11 authors who made the NYT List.
Don't get me wrong. I'm thrilled for those 11 authors who made the NYT list.
I'm also thrilled for my own success.
But I'm especially thrilled for the thousands and thousands of authors who are making ends meet because they achieved their goals and self-pubbed their ebooks.
Any writer who puts food on the table with their writing is successful. It doesn't matter if it is a box of mac and cheese, or caviar and champagne. Taking your career into your own hands, giving it your best shot, striving to do better... that's the American Dream, baby.
Bestsellers? Fuck bestsellers.
Don't let me, the NYT Times, or the pinheads in legacy publishing make you feel inadequate because you aren't a millionaire yet.
You are part of a revolution that is going to change how the entire world reads.
Your ebooks will continue to earn money, forever.
Be proud. You are a success.


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