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"Life. Don't it go?I mean, I'm only thirty. I'm not old.But, you know, I've been in here since I was a kid.It just goes so fast. Man! It just goes so fast.And everybody overlooks enjoying it.They just put themselves in so many prisons."--Larry Newton
Larry Newton knows about prisons, physical and mental. As a youth, he spun through juvenile detention centers like they were revolving doors until at 17 he landed in prison with a conviction for murder.
And a life sentence. No parole.
For decades, Laura Bates has walked down prison corridors armed with William Shakespeare's plays and allowed the Bard of Avon to unlock the doors of prisoners' minds. Then she walked into the segregated housing unit at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility and encountered Newton.
Now, the nationally known educator and associate professor of English at Indiana State University has published a book chronicling her and Newton's Shakespearian experience in a memoir, "Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard." Sourcebooks released the paperback in early April.
"It's learning to appreciate life by reading about these people in solitary confinement," Bates said, referencing Newton's quote on prisons. "I hope the readers put themselves in the same position to think about what are the prisons that hold them back."
Bates has spent more than 25 years teaching prisoners from first tutoring inmates in an Illinois county jail to leading discussions on Shakespeare's plays in a state maximum security prison. Recently, Bates has had the opportunity to teach Shakespeare to federal inmates. Her book focuses on a program created in 2003 by officials at Wabash Valley that allowed Bates to take Shakespeare to the prisoners kept segregated from the others in a prison for the prisoners.
"They created a wonderful forward-looking program," she said about the prison officials.
In the book, Bates tells of her journey into teaching in prisons alongside the story of Wabash Valley Correctional Facility prisoner Larry Newton's path to Shakespeare. Newton, who was convicted of murder, spent more than 10 years in the segregated housing unit, in solitary for 23 hours a day for a variety of crimes, including attempted escape and stabbing a prison guard.
"His transformation is such a remarkable one. It's a testimony to the power of education, the power of literature," Bates said. "That's something all faculty experience on some level in that we're changing our students' lives. Larry's story validates what we're doing, whether we're on campus or in prison."
Bates also includes other prisoners she has worked with through the years in her memoir, telling anecdotes of working with the "worst of the worst" confined to a super max prison. Those prisoners, some of whom had never heard of Shakespeare, eventually rewrote his plays into modern language. Prisoners in the general population performed those plays, which prison officials recorded to broadcast to the more than 2,000 men confined at Wabash Valley.
By telling their stories, Bates hopes the book presents the reader with a new way to look at prisoners and at Shakespeare.
"On paper, they look awful," she said about the prisoners in segregation. "But they are human beings whose voices deserve to be heard."
She listened to their thoughts, their humor and their philosophies as the prisoners discussed such plays as "Macbeth." The prisoners also began comparing Macbeth's actions and thoughts to what happened in their own lives. In discussing Macbeth's thoughts on killing Duncan, one prisoner said, "You gain everything but you lose your humanity. This is what happens to Macbeth. And that's what happens to us, out of the choices we make."
A literary agent contacted Bates after seeing an MSNBC broadcast on the Shakespeare program. She told Bates, "There's a book here. You need to write this book." Bates turned to her hundreds of recorded hours with Newton and to her memories and notes from teaching the inmates and began to write.
Reviews by Booklist and Kirkus have praised the book. The reviewer at Booklist called it, "A powerful testament to how Shakespeare continues to speak to contemporary readers in all sorts of circumstances." The Kirkus review described it as "An eye-opening study reiterating the perennial power of books, self discipline and the Bard of Avon."
Bates worked with about 200 prisoners in segregation at Wabash Valley during the program. She examined the records of 20 who spent the most time studying Shakespeare. Before Shakespeare, the men had more than 600 write ups, with most of those falling into the Class A felony and violent felony categories. After studying Shakespeare, Bates examined the inmates' records for a similar number of years and found only two violations for cell phone possession.
"It verifies what we hear again and again - education makes a difference," she said.
Bates and Newton are scheduled to be interviewed for NPR's "Tell Me More" show on April 23, Shakespeare's birthday. Bates also will be discussing her memoir and signing copies at Left Bank Books in St. Louis at 7 p.m. on April 26.
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A "typical veteran" shared his experience with nearly 50 residents and volunteers at the Gino J. Merli Veterans Center on Friday.
"It was an honor to be born in the United States," John L. "Sarge" Soentgerath said. "It was a privilege to serve in the Pennsylvania National Guard."
Despite a bit of nervousness over his public speaking debut, he spoke confidently about his military service and the freedom he and other veterans had worked to preserve.
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The gathering was one of the first of many Memorial Day festivities scheduled throughout the weekend. Joseph Albert, chairman of the Lackawanna County Council of Veterans reminded all in attendance to recall the importance of the holiday.
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Lackawanna County President Judge Thomas J. Munley, a Bronze Star recipient who served during the Vietnam War, and state Sen. John Blake, D-22, Archbald, also shared a few words before Mr. Soentgerath's remarks.
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Germany's second-largest bank filed the case in the Commercial Court last week, according to documents seen by The Independent on Sunday.
Although it is currently unclear what the dispute is about, it is likely to attract attention as it progresses due to the fact that Mr Karamehmet was jailed in Turkey last month for embezzlement.
The businessman is one of the world's richest men with an estimated fortune of $2.4bn (£1.55bn), according to Forbes. He is best known as the founder of Turkey's largest phone company, Turkcell.
However, he was sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in Istanbul over loans issued under his watch while at Pamukbank, a private bank of which he was deputy chairman. Mr Karamehmet was previously sentenced to 11 years in 2010, although this was later overturned by Turkey's court of appeal.
Commerzbank did not return calls for comment, while Mr Karamehmet could not be reached.
News of the court filing comes just weeks after it emerged that the Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk was suing two of his compatriots in the High Court, claiming they failed to hand over an iron ore business for which he paid $143m.
Mr Pinchuk claims he agreed to buy the factory in the city of Krivy Rih from Gennadiy Bogolyubov and a second oligarch in 2004, but they didn't transfer it after being paid.
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Results from a recent study in a mouse model of cocaine addiction suggest that the type 3 dopamine receptor (D3R) may play a protective role against the addictive power of cocaine. When researchers deleted the D3R gene, the resulting D3R knock-out mice displayed increased cocaine-seeking and taking behaviors. D3R knock-out mice also show increased expression of dopamine transporters (DATs) in the striatum--a part of the brain involved in reward. Since DATs are in charge of removing excess or left over dopamine from the synapse, increased DAT activity could blunt the cocaine-driven dopamine spike, which, in turn, could lead these mice to try and compensate by taking more drug. If this finding generalizes to humans, individuals displaying lower D3R availability could be at increased risk for the development of cocaine addiction. (Song et al, 2012)
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Gregorio Luperón | |
20th President of the Dominican Republic | |
In office December 6, 1879 – September 1, 1880 |
Preceded by | Cesáreo Guillermo |
Succeeded by | Fernando Arturo de Meriño |
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Born | September 8, 1839 San Felipe de Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic |
Died | May 21, 1897 (age 57) |
Political party | Blue Party |
Profession | Military General |
Gregorio Luperón (September 8, 1839 – May 21, 1897), is best known for being a Dominican military and state leader who was the main leader in the restoration of the Dominican Republic after the Spanish annexation in 1863.
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Gregorio Luperón was born 8 September 1839 in Puerto Plata to Pedro Castellanos and Nicolasa Luperón. His parents owned a Ventorrillo (small business) that sold homemade foodstuff such as piñonate, a local delicacy made of sweetened pine-nut kernels. Most of these were sold on the street by Gregorio and his siblings in order to help the family livelihood.
Around the age of 14, Gregorio began working for Pedro Eduardo Dubocq, an owner of a major company specializing in wood. While working there, he displayed a strong strength of character and a knack for getting any job assigned to him completed in the best possible fashion. Because of this, Mr. Dubocq promoted Gregorio to a management position. Mr. Dubocq also allowed Gregorio to spend time in his personal library because Gregorio wanted to enrich his intellect.
In 1861, the annexation of the Dominican Republic by Spain took place. Gregorio was only 22 years old at the time but a sense of nationalism began to swell within him. During one instance, Gregorio was arrested but managed to escape and flee to the United States for protection. Shortly thereafter, Gregorio managed to return to the Dominican Republic through the town of Monte Cristi in time to take part in the uprising of Sabaneta (1863). However, this uprising was short-lived due to the quick Spanish response.
After the failure at Sabaneta, Gregorio and his compatriots hid in the mountains of La Vega in order to prepare for a full-scale revolution against the Spanish forces.
Present Day References: The Gregorio Luperón International Airport in Puerto Plata and the Gregorio Luperón High School for Math & Science in New York are named after him. The small peasant city of Luperon, located 50 km west of Puerto Plata, is also named after him.
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Sure-Fire Inc., a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) service company in Horicon, Wis., has had telematics for more than four years with different companies. But Sure-Fire's Risk Manager Casey Malesevich says that what became most effective in achieving those goals is how information from those telematics systems is used to promote friendly competition and open communication.
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Since tracking speeding and other driving behaviors with NexTraq beginning in February 2012, Sure-Fire has realized a noticeable decrease in speed alerts. The company has a two-tier system: drivers caught speeding up to 15 miles per hour over the speed limit receive a regular speed alert; greater than 15 miles per hour warrants a severe alert.
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- E. Activities Ineligible for TEDC Grant Funding
- F. TEDC Grant Proposal Mandatory Components
- Component 1—Tribal Resolution
- Component 2—TEDC Grant Project Description
- Component 3—Existing and Prior Energy Resource Development Experience
- Component 4—Planned Energy Resource Development
- Component 5—Detailed Budget Estimate
- G. Evaluation and Ranking Criteria
- (1) Mandatory Component 2—TEDC Grant Project Description—30 Points
- (2) Mandatory Component 3—Existing and Prior Energy Resource Development Experience—20 Points
- (3) Mandatory Component 4—Planned Energy Resource Development—25 Points
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Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
Solicitation of Proposals.
The Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), through the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (IEED), is soliciting grant proposals from Federally-recognized Indian tribes for projects to build tribal capacity for energy resource development under the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) grant program. Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, 25 U.S.C. 3502 (Act), Congress appropriates funds on a year-to-year basis to DOI for grants of funds to Indian tribes for use in assessing, developing, and sustaining the managerial and technical capacity needed to develop energy resources on Indian land and properly accounting for resulting energy resource production and revenues. We will use a competitive evaluation process based on criteria stated in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice to select projects for funding awards.
Submit grant proposals August 29, 2011. Grant proposals must be postmarked by this date or they may not be considered.
Mail or hand-carry grant proposals to the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Energy & Economic Development, Attention: Ashley Stockdale, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., MS 20-SIB, Washington, DC 20245, or e-mail to Ashley Stockdale at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Start Further InfoFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
If you have questions about the TEDC program, or have technical questions about the tribal energy resource capacity you wish to develop, please contact David B. Johnson at the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., MS 20-SIB, Washington, DC 20245, telephone 202-208-3026, fax 202-208-4564, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental InformationSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
The IEED administers the TEDC grant program for the benefit of Federally-recognized Indian tribes that wish to build capacity to develop conventional or renewable energy resources on tribal lands. The TEDC grant program helps such tribes in assessing, developing or sustaining the managerial and technical capacity needed to develop energy resources on Indian land and to properly account for resulting energy production and revenues, as provided for in the Act, Title V, Section 503.
Title V, Section 503 of the Act also amended Title XXVI (Indian Energy) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to provide for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements (TERAs). The TERAs are agreements between Federally-recognized Indian tribes and the Secretary that allow the tribe, at its discretion, to enter into leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way for energy resource development on tribal lands without further review and approval by the Secretary. The Act and the implementing regulations (25 CFR Part 224) provide that the Secretary must determine that a tribe has the capacity to regulate the development of its energy resource(s) before approving a TERA. The TEDC grants are, therefore, particularly useful to tribes that may wish to pursue a TERA, since the funds are used to help fulfill one of the key requirements for TERA approval—demonstrating capacity to perform the administrative and technical functions included in a TERA. Tribes that are not considering entering into a TERA may also benefit from a TEDC grant for energy resource development on Indian land under other options available to tribes, such as Indian Mineral Development Agreements.
The information collection requirements contained in this notice Start Printed Page 41298have been reviewed and approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3504(h). The OMB control number is 1076-0177. The authorization expires on July 31, 2014. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and you are not required to respond to, any information collection that does not display a currently valid OMB Control Number.
B. General Requirements for TEDC Grant Proposals
1. The TEDC grant proposals must be submitted to IEED in digital format and postmarked by the date in the DATES section.
2. Proposals should be presented succinctly, yet in enough detail to allow the TEDC grant evaluation team to quickly and thoroughly understand the purpose, scope and objectives of the proposal.
3. Projects proposed under the TEDC grant program must be capable of being completed within one year of a grant award.
4. The TEDC grant projects may not duplicate previous or ongoing energy resource development capacity building projects.
5. The TEDC grant projects may not include any activities that duplicate efforts of other projects for which federal funds have previously been awarded.
6. Tribes currently under Bureau of Indian Affairs sanction resulting from non-compliance with the Single Audit Act may be ineligible for consideration of a grant award.
7. The TEDC grant proposals will be deemed incomplete, or, at a minimum, points will be deducted, if all mandatory components are not included.
C. Purposes of TEDC Grants
The TEDC grants are intended to help Indian tribes meet the following goals as they relate to assessing, developing, and/or sustaining tribal energy resource development capacity for energy resource(s) the tribe intends to or is developing on Indian land:
1. Determine the current level of the tribe's scientific, technical, administrative, or financial management capacity for identified energy resource development activities;
2. Determine which scientific, technical, administrative, or financial management capacities for tribal energy resource development need enhancement;
3. Determine what process(es) and/or procedure(s) may be used to eliminate capacity gaps or sustain the continued development of energy resource development capacity (including training); and
4. Determine how the process(es) and/or procedure(s) identified in (c) will be implemented.
D. Activities Eligible for TEDC Grant Funding
Examples of activities eligible for TEDC grants include, but are not limited to, assessing or determining how to develop or sustain the tribe's capacity for:
- Reviewing proposals for leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way;
- Negotiating and reviewing leases, business agreements, or rights-of-way;
- Evaluating the environmental effects of energy resource development projects a tribe may enter into, including those related to cultural resources;
- Monitoring the compliance of a third party with the terms and conditions of any leases, business agreements, and rights of-way a tribe may enter into;
- Establishing and/or managing energy development-related departments or administrative divisions within the tribe;
- Providing for energy development-related technical, scientific, and/or engineering expertise within the tribe;
- Developing or enhancing tribal codes, regulations, or ordinances related to regulating energy resource development; and
- Accounting for energy resource production and revenues.
E. Activities Ineligible for TEDC Grant Funding
- Feasibility studies and energy resource assessments;
- Purchase of resource assessment data;
- Research and development of speculative or unproven technologies;
- Purchase or lease of equipment for the development of energy resources;
- Payment of fees or procurement of any services associated with energy assessment or exploration or development activity;
- Payment of tribal salaries for employees not directly involved in conducting the assessment project and payment of salaries beyond the one-year project;
- Establishment or operation of a tribal office or purchasing office equipment not specific to the capacity building project;
- Indirect costs and overhead as defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR);
- Purchase or lease of project equipment such as computers, vehicles, field gear, etc;
- Legal fees;
- Contract negotiation fees; and
- Any other activities not authorized by the tribal resolution or by the approved proposal.
F. TEDC Grant Proposal Mandatory Components
Component 1—Tribal Resolution
Provide a current tribal resolution or other formal, official action of the tribe's governing entity, such as a tribal council or tribal business committee or executive committee, as established under tribal or Federal law and recognized by the Secretary. This document should be signed by a duly authorized tribal official representing the tribe's governing body.
Component 2—TEDC Grant Project Description
(a) Tribal point of contact, including name, title, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address;
(b) Name and title of responsible party(ies) for technical execution and administration of the project;
(c) Amount of funding requested for the project;
(d) Description of the tribe's identified energy resource(s);
(e) Scope of work describing the proposed project, including: capacity areas related to the identified energy resource on which the proposal's assessment(s) will focus and the approach and justification of the approach to be used in assessing, developing or sustaining the tribe's capacity to manage energy resource development activities and to determine next steps to be taken to eliminate any identified capacity gaps;
(f) Objectives of the proposal describing how the proposed project will contribute to the tribe's capacity building (in assessing, developing or sustaining particular identified areas to be included in the project);
(g) Method of measurement of meeting stated objectives of the proposed project, including data collection and analysis;
(h) Description of deliverable products the proposed project will generate;
(i) Completion date for proposed project, date for interim progress report, and date for final report (see Section I—Post-Award Requirements below);
(j) Resumes of key personnel (tribal employees, consultants, subcontractors) who will work on the proposed project, including information on expertise; andStart Printed Page 41299
(k) Description of the tribe's current staff and/or tribal financial resources the tribe plans to apply to performance or completion of the objectives in the tribe's TEDC grant proposal.
Component 3—Existing and Prior Energy Resource Development Experience
(a) Description and examples of the tribe's experience with energy resource development activities, including any previous or current capacity assessment and energy resource assessment, feasibility studies, exploration for or development of specific energy resource(s); and
(b) Description of the tribe's experience and level of existing capacity to manage and regulate energy resource development in areas including, but not limited to:
(1) Land and lease management (including evaluation, negotiation, and enforcement of terms);
(2) Technical, scientific, and engineering evaluation;
(3) Financial and revenue management;
(4) Production accounting;
(5) Environmental review, monitoring, compliance, and enforcement;
(6) Regulatory monitoring (Federal, state, and tribal environmental and safety regulations); and
(7) Tribal environmental code, regulation, or ordinance development or enhancement.
(c) List of all previous or on-going energy resource development capacity building projects for which the tribe has received Federal funds, the source or the funds (e.g., Department of Energy, US Environmental Protection Agency, or DOI), the year(s) for which funds were awarded, and whether such projects were completed and completion dates.
Component 4—Planned Energy Resource Development
(a) Description of the tribe's planned energy resource development activities including capacity assessment, energy resource assessment, feasibility studies, exploration for or development of specific energy resource(s); and
(b) Description of the tribe's plans for managing energy resource development and growth (including plans to develop or enhance tribal offices or independent tribal business entities related to energy resource development, if any).
Component 5—Detailed Budget Estimate
(1) Provide a detailed, line-by-line budget, including all projected and anticipated expenditures under the TEDC grant proposal, covering the amount of funding requested;
(2) Provide in the budget a breakdown for the proposal's line items that involve several components or contain numerous sub-functions to include, at a minimum:
(a) Itemize costs for all contracted personnel and consultants, their respective positions and time (staff hour) allocations for the proposed functions of the project or part(s) of the project;
(b) Document professional qualifications necessary to perform the work for tribal personnel to be funded under Pub. L. 93-638 and attach position descriptions;
(c) Specify how consultants (if any) are to be used and include documentation that clearly identifies the qualifications of any proposed consultants;
(d) Itemize consultant fees and include a line item breakdown of costs associated with each consultant activity. If a consultant is to be hired for a fixed fee, itemize the consultant's expenses as part of the project budget;
(e) Itemize travel estimates by airfare, vehicle rental, training and conference fees (if any), and lodging and per diem, based on the current Federal Government per diem schedule;
(f) Itemize data collection and analysis costs in sufficient detail for the IEED TEDC grant evaluation team to evaluate the proposed expenses; and
(g) Include other expenses such as computer and other equipment rental, report generation, drafting, and advertising costs for a proposal.
G. Evaluation and Ranking Criteria
The IEED TEDC grant evaluation team will review and evaluate grant proposals on a 100 point system based on the following factors (Mandatory Component 1, the tribal resolution, will not be evaluated):
(1) Mandatory Component 2—TEDC Grant Project Description—30 Points
The IEED TEDC grant evaluation team will use the grant project description objectives, measurement methods, deliverables, and commitment of staff and/or resources to the project as part of its evaluation of the project proposal to determine how likely the project is to result in quantifiable results to the tribe in terms of capacity building to benefit the tribe's future energy resource development.
(2) Mandatory Component 3—Existing and Prior Energy Resource Development Experience—20 Points
The IEED TEDC grant evaluation team will use the tribe's existing and prior energy resource development experience as part of its evaluation of the project proposal to determine the tribe's current level of capacity. Prior or current energy resource development will not, by itself, result in fewer or more assigned points. It is an accurate description of the tribe's baseline capacity that we seek.
(3) Mandatory Component 4—Planned Energy Resource Development—25 Points
The IEED TEDC grant evaluation team will use the tribe's planned energy resource development as part of its evaluation of the project proposal to determine the tribe's potential for proceeding with planned energy resource development, whether or not it has prior or current energy resource development experience.
(4) Mandatory Component 5—Detailed Budget Estimate—25 Points
The IEED TEDC grant evaluation team will use the budget proposal as part of its evaluation of the project to determine whether the budget is reasonable and can produce the results outlined in the proposal under Mandatory Component 2. A TEDC grant proposal budget that includes sound budget projections directly related to the project objectives will receive a more favorable ranking than those proposals that fail to provide appropriate budget projections or that fail to reasonably relate budget projections to the project objectives.
H. Award Notification Process
1. The TEDC grant evaluation team will forward the ranked proposals to the Director of IEED for approval.
2. After the Director's approval, the Director will submit the proposals to the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs for concurrence.
3. The Director will notify in writing tribes and tribal energy development organizations of selection or non-selection of proposals for awards.
I. Post-Award Requirements
Tribes that are awarded grants for TEDC projects must adhere to the following requirements:
1. Expend TEDC grant funds only on approved project functions. Tribes are subject to forfeiture of any remaining funds in the project year as well as sanctions against award of any future year TEDC grant funding for expenditures which are not approved;Start Printed Page 41300
2. Prepare and submit an interim report (which may consist of a summary of events, accomplishments, problems, and/or results) to the IEED project coordinator by the date the tribe states in its proposal in mandatory component 2;
3. Complete the TEDC project within one year of the award date;
4. Prepare and submit a final report, including all deliverable products generated by the TEDC project within two weeks of completion of the TEDC project or the anniversary of the award date, whichever comes first; and
5. Provide all reports and deliverable products and data generated by the TEDC project to IEED by providing one digital form and two printed copies to IEED at: TEDC Project Coordinator, IEED, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., South Interior Building—Room 20, Washington, DC 20245.
J. Submission of Proposal
Submit proposals in digital form to the following electronic address: firstname.lastname@example.com. Save files with filenames that clearly identify the file being submitted. File extensions must clearly indicate the software application used for preparation of the documents, (i.e., wpd, doc, pdf). Documents requiring an original signature, such as cover letters, tribal resolutions, or other letters of tribal authorization, must also be submitted in paper form to: ATTN: Tribal Energy Development Capacity Proposal, TEDC Project Coordinator, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., South Interior Building—Room 20, Washington, DC 20245.
Complete proposals may be faxed to IEED at 202-208-4564 no later than the date listed in the DATES section of this notice; however an original signature copy, including all tribal resolutions or other letters of tribal authorization must be received in IEED's office within 5 working days of the deadline noted above.
Start SignatureDated: June 13, 2011.
Donald E. Laverdure,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2011-17612 Filed 7-12-11; 8:45 am]


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This review is from: APEX SL-275TFX 275W TFX12V Power Supply
Pros: *Shipped in Eggcellent packaging (see what I did there)
*Very quiet, no noticeable sound once installed.
*Works as it should.
*Has fairly long cables, long enough to fit most Slim PC's
*Cheap in prices.
*Came with power cable and screws (not always the case)
Cons: *Only comes with a 1 Year Warranty, that makes me question the reliability of the unit. (Though it was only $21.99)
*Smaller the the original TFX PSU that came out of my customer's Dell, leading to a gap where installed, and only 2 screw holes lining up. I saw several other comments about this in other reviews. Didn't think I'd have that problem, but I sure did.
Other Thoughts: All in all the unit works as advertised. Like I said, the mounting holes didn't quite match the Slimline Dell that it went into, but it still mounted securely and performed as it should. You get what you pay for here, hopefully the lack of warranty time make me regret the purchase, but hey, it's only a $22 PSU, so it's hard to complain about that.
There is a SeaSonic PSU of this type on here for around $40 or $50 that would recommend for long lasting reliability and wattage, but if you need a quick repair and don't want to spend a bunch on an old machine, this is your sweet ticket.
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Pros: Very High Quality cables here, no issues what so ever.
They look and feel very VERY nice.
I want to point out that these cables do NOT have shrink tubing on the ends, going into the connectors. Personally I liked this, and you don't see many without shrink tubing.
Cons: None!
Other Thoughts: All in all, great cables for the money. They really add some extra life to your computer's look and feel on the inside.
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Pros: Perfect lighting for you case!!!
Works extremely well, hooks up easy, has a nice control panel that fits in 1 rear expansion slit of your case.
SUPER Bright and the sound activated mode works excellent, and being able to adjust the sensitivity of it is nice.
Way cheaper in price than I expected, I was expecting it to be a piece of junk but it wasn't!
Cons: The cable for the light has very VERY soft insulation on it. It is relatively easy to cut into, so PLEASE be careful with it! Not saying it won't work well for you, but if the bare wire touches something important, say bye bye to your equipment. Just don't break the wire!
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City ambassador Patrick Vieira used the self-same jibe earlier in the week as he assessed the reasoning behind Paul Scholes' January retirement U-turn and when Ferguson saw former player Tevez return from six months in the wilderness in City's successful midweek comeback against Chelsea, the Scot felt it was time to go on the offensive.
"If it's desperation bringing back the best midfielder in Britain for the last 20 years then I think we can accept that," said Ferguson. "If you talk about desperation, they played a player the other night who refused to go on the pitch, the manager said he'd never play again and he takes a five-month holiday in Argentina. What is that? Could that come under the description of desperation?"
It was classic Ferguson. Pre-planned, certainly judging by a private comment from one of his backroom staff later.
"He said he was going to drop a bomb," said the chuckling source.
And now City know they are in a fight for real, with Ferguson using tactics that destroyed Kevin Keegan and Rafael Benitez and reduced Arsene Wenger to fury until the pair later made their peace, tactics learned at the feet of the Scot's master, Jock Stein.
"He did (teach me)," said Ferguson.
"I was at Rangers, there were four games to go, and he says 'Rangers can only throw it away' - and we did."
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