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PAUMA INDIAN RESERVATION -- With a calypso band and a Caribbean-style party for about 500 guests, the Pauma Band of Mission Indians opened the fourth tribal casino in North County on Tuesday night.
"This is very exiting," said Chris Devers, the band's chairman.
But inside the casino, not everything was ready for the opening. About a quarter of the casino's 850 slot machines were shut down, and the 200-seat restaurant will not open for a week.
"That was a decision that we made before we started," Devers said about the opening date.
Tuesday was supposed to be the deadline for tribal casinos to put their machines in play or risk losing the privilege to operate them. But the state's gambling control commission, which regulates gambling in the state, including American Indian casinos, said Monday that it was not ready to enforce the deadline.
Inside the 65,000-square-foot casino, no one was complaining.
"It's right there in the top two," said Carmen Fitzgerald, a Valley Center office manager who attended the party. "It's not as big as Pala (Casino), but it's got a relaxed, friendly atmosphere."
The band started construction on the casino in November and hopes to complete the work inside and landscaping outside in the next few weeks.
The casino also is unable to serve alcohol because the county protested the tribe's liquor license application with the state based on traffic concerns.
The state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said it would take until the end of the month to render a decision on the casino's liquor license.
The tribe's chairman said he was optimistic about the outcome.
"It's politics, and we'll get over it," Devers said. "We'll get through it."
Twelve miles east of Interstate 15 on Highway 76, the casino is about seven miles from Pala Casino and about six miles north of the Rincon Casino. San Pasqual's Valley View casino is about 12 miles south of the Pauma Indian Reservation.
But tribal leaders from the neighboring bands who attended the party said they are not worried about competition.
"There's enough for everybody," said King Freeman, vice chairman of the Pala band. "One is not going to put the other out of business."
The La Jolla Band of Mission Indians, which is just a few miles nearer to Palomar Mountain on Highway 76, is the only other band in North County that has a gambling agreement with the state. But it has not announced plans to build a casino.
"It's nice," said Henry Rodriguez, a tribal elder of the LaJolla band, looking at the brightly colored machines.
Asked if he wished his tribe could have a casino, Rodriguez said: "No. I like my mountain the way it is."
The Pauma casino is set to host a grand opening party next month.
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The weapon breaking is very annoying, and doesnt really add to the atmosphere or gameplay at all. Yes, i realize that it probably gets better later on, overall i don't mind weapon breaking (like in SS2), but here it's just stupid, how can my crowbar or whatever break in like a minute?? Duh.
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Tallmadge -- It has been an up-and-down season for the Tallmadge girls basketball team, particularly against Suburban League opposition.
However, it appears the Lady Blue Devils could be peaking at just the right time.
Tallmadge scored one of its biggest victories of the season Feb. 10. The Lady Blue Devils raced past Mogadore 70-42 at James O. Maddox Court.
Host Tallmadge then raced to an early lead and held on to defeat league rival Cloverleaf 49-40 on Senior Night Feb. 12.
The Lady Blue Devils' record stood at 14-7 overall and 6-7 in the Suburban League prior to its regular-season finale at Green Feb. 13. Results were not available at press time.
Tallmadge head coach Bill Johnson said, after a wild first quarter, the Lady Blue Devils pretty much had their way with the Wildcats.
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Senior Kirsten Lightel added nine points, while senior Kelsey Rice was her usual well-rounded self, finishing with seven points, seven assists, seven steals and four blocked shots.
Rice, Lightel and Ryan were honored prior to the game against the Lady Colts.
All three players have been on varsity all four years with Johnson.
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Perhaps buoyed by the energy of Senior Night, the Lady Blue Devils came out of the gates on fire on both ends of the floor.
All five Tallmadge starters scored in the first quarter, while the Lady Blue Devils' defense limited Cloverleaf to a single field goal in the first eight minutes.
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The Lady Colts managed to cut the lead down to 43-37 off a Burgos layup, before Ayres hit a pair of free throws to stretch it back to 45-37.
Cloverleaf went into quick fouling mode and Tallmadge didn't have its best night at the line, going 13 of 22 from the charity stripe.
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Johnson called a time-out with 12 seconds left to allow his three seniors to get a standing ovation as they left the court.
All three seniors had good nights. Lightel led all scorers with 15 points and four steals, while Rice had six points, nine rebounds, six assists and four blocked shots. Ryan added eight points, six rebounds and three assists.
Ayres and junior forward Joanna Catalano each had 10 points.
Jessica Lindemeyer led Cloverleaf with 10 points.
Tallmadge is scheduled to play one more game at Maddox Court this season. The second-seeded Lady Blue Devils are set to host the winner of Navarre Fairless-Akron Buchtel Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. to open their Division II playoff run.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- A sinkhole collapsed part of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday, damaging eight cars.
Museum spokeswoman Katie Frassinelli said six of the cars were owned by the museum and two -- a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil -- were on loan from General Motors.
A Bowling Green city spokeswoman said the hole opened up at about 5:40 a.m. CST, setting off an alarm and a call to the fire department. Frassinelli said no one was in the museum at the time.
The hole is in part of the domed section of the museum, and that area will remain closed. The fire department estimated the hole is roughly 12 metres across and 7.5 to nine metres deep. A short distance away, other Corvettes sit undamaged.
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The Lee Tamahori-directed drama The Devil's Double has a new trailer. It was one of the most buzzed about films at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Lionsgate. Dominic Cooper plays Saddam Hussein's brutal son Uday, as well as the man pressed to be his lookalike. Cooper has jumped from the film to get a role in Fox's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and was on a short list of actors who tested for the lead in The Bourne Legacy. Here is the trailer:
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This trailer makes the movie look like it could be from the same people who brought you Medellin. Dominic Cooper is talented, but I think this was above his ability and that accent is horrible
Read the script. There's no way this movie will be bad.
Dominic's performance is outstanding in this film.
I've been looking forward to seeing what this actor could do since 'The History Boys', where, in a very good cast, he still stood out as the guy to watch.
Already seen this movie. Dominic Cooper has the best performance of the year so far. Extremely entertaining but ultra violent.
As an industry person but generally smart person, I want to say thank you for anyone who made or financed this. Whether this is good or not, it's a great subject for a film, and just because The Hurt Locker or Rendition don't do well, it doesn't mean anything Middle East shouldn't get made. This looks fun, if anything, and I hope this gets marketed to Black and Latino audiences, because it's got this Scarface aspect to it, or it's a violent, gangster type deal. It's the kind of movie I *would* pay for, even though I gravitate to more serious fare. We just want to see more diverse stories, and I'm not talking ethnicity. I just mean, if you're going to do a romcom, make it a good one, not like these terrible ones that get made and yes, do make money. But at least this is something different.
And it has a LIMITLESS feel to it, in that audiences want to get taken on a ride. They want to be Bradley Cooper, to become better versions of themselves, and to then go into a new world with a life that they'd rather have instead of their own.
Friends of Deadline Hollywood, gather around….
This post above by "dl" says it all, why we're lost as a nation, people, culture.
If this was sarcastic parody, I tip my hat.
If this comment is genuine, Dec 12, 2012, can't come soon enough!
Based on this trailer, "The Devil's Double" is simply an excuse to market brutality, violence, gangster idiocy, to males 18-50.
There is not a single socially redeeming feature to this film.
Lionsgate should be ashamed-then again, Hollywood has no shame.
"dl" says it best with unreserved glee: "This looks fun, if anything, and I hope this gets marketed to Black and Latino audiences, because it's got this Scarface aspect to it, or it's a violent, gangster type deal."
Market it to "Black and Latino audiences"?
Are you fucking crazy?
Killing, shooting, sluts on the prowl, torture, sinister sociopaths, living the high life from literally blood money…what's not to like?
"dl" again: "It's the kind of movie I *would* pay for, even though I gravitate to more serious fare."
What, you fool, this shithole trailer isn't "serious" enough for you? Maybe "Hostel" or "Saw" is more to your "serious fare" liking.
Make no mistake: "The Devil's Double" marketing hook is how much abhorrent violence can we cram into 90 minutes. That's it.
Then again, maybe I'm missing the more subtle cinematic value of seeing the lifestyle of a crazed sociopathic killer.
Thankfully, "dl" explains the finer point of this movie's hidden attraction:
"And it has a LIMITLESS feel to it, in that audiences want to get taken on a ride. They want to be Bradley Cooper, to become better versions of themselves, and to then go into a new world with a life that they'd rather have instead of their own."
Fuck me, I didn't get "taken for a ride" by this video-game like barrage of violence vomited on us by this trailer for "The Devil's Double".
Nor did I watch this violent orgy trailer and "go into a new world with a life (sociopathic killer) that I'd rather have instead of my own."
People, if "dl's" ignorant praise of gangster/murderer/greed movies represents the majority of males 18-50, Lionsgate and its investors will win, and our society will lose big-time.
"Scarface" was an equally violent piece of shit, too, without a SINGLE redeeming social value, marketed the same way: Gross violence, a captivating sociopathic killer, babes, booze, guns, torture, all promoted to 18-50 boys and their lust for blood.
Hollywood continues to excrete these vile films and sell them to the "dl's" of the world.
No wonder we're the world's most violent society!
Looks great. The filmmakers went for something different. Good for them and I hope it does well.
This film looks interesting, and it's nice to see Hollywood acknowledging what heinous, insanely horrible people Saddam and his sons were. Though, I wonder if the film will also depict how Saddam's sons used to abduct young virgin girls from schools, rape them, and then feed them to lions that they kept under their palace? Because if that is shown graphically, I'm not sure I could watch this…
Of all the 'rich-poor switcheroo" movies EVER MADE in the history of film, this is gonna be on the top of that list! Dominic C. has it all going on too
This is one of those films that will most likely be entertaining as long as you leave any comparison between Dominic Cooper and the real Uday Hussein at the door. For starters, Uday was a fearsome creature, standing 6 feet 6 inches. Dominic is not quite the menace at 5'9 1/2″.
I read the script and had high hopes for this one, but this trailer suggests otherwise. Clearly they are hoping to attract the Scarface poster owning audience. I saw the 60 minutes piece on this story and Cooper may look the part but he sure doesn't sound it.
oh come on it was SO NOT one of the most buzzed about films at Sundance. That is pure BS. All anyone talked about was How to Die in Oregon, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Another Earth and Buck
Oh yeah Buck was a huge buzz title. Sold to IFC Sundance Selects for seven figures with a big theatrical commitment.
Gotta say it looks pretty darn good. Might be the new scarface. And Ludvine Sagnier doesn't hurt things. I'm in.
saw the film at Sundance, it's awesome, if people see it Cooper will win the Oscar, plays both characters so beautifully. also Ludivine Sagnier is amazing in it.


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Dr. Whiteley is actively involved in the design and development of spacecraft batteries, especially nickel-hydrogen cells. This has included technical consulting for the Hubble Space Telescope and Space Station Freedom programs. He is a contributing author to NASA's handbook for Nickel-Cadmium battery cell analysis.
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"Acid/Base Equilibrium in General Chemistry Using Maple" Maple Summer Workshop, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, July 2004
"Characterization of Lithium Battery Electrolytes by Computer Modeling" B.K. Moore, R.V. Whiteley, Jr., K.E. Johnson, and J.O. Currie, Jr., 2000 NASA Aerospace Battery Workshop, 14-16 Nov. 2000, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
C.O. Kelly and R.V. Whiteley, Jr. "Recent Developments in Cathode Material Preparation and Characterization for Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries," Proceedings of the 37th Power Sources Conference, 17-20 June 1996, pp195-199.
"Low Temperature Synthesis, Chemical and Electrochemical Characterization of LiNixCo1-xO2 Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries" K.S. Nanjundaswamy, D. Standlee, C.O. Kelly, and R.V. Whiteley, Jr., 1996 NASA Aerospace Battery Workshop, 5 Dec. 1996, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.
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Recent Presentations and Publications
Chan, J. M., Bollinger, J. A., Grewell, C. L., Dooley, D. M. (2004) Reductively activated nitrous oxide reductase reacts directly with substrate. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 3030-3031.
Sorlie, M., Chan, J. M., Wang, H., Seefeldt, L. C., Parker, V. D. (2003) Elucidating thermodynamic parameters for electron transfer proteins using isothermal titration calorimetry: Application to the nitrogenase Fe protein. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 8, 560-566.
Chan, J. M., Wu, W., Dean, D. R., and Seefeldt, L. C. (2000) Construction and characterization of a heterodimeric Fe protein: Defining roles for ATP in nitrogenase catalysis. Biochemistry 39, 7221-7228.
Christiansen, J., Chan, J. M., Seefeldt, L. C., and Dean, D. R. (2000) The role of the MoFe protein a-125Phe and beta-125Phe residues in Azotobacter vinelandii MoFe protein-Fe protein interaction. J. Inorg. Biochem. 80, 195-204.
Chan, J. M., Christiansen, J., Dean, D. R., and Seefeldt, L. C. (1999) Spectroscopic evidence for changes in the redox state of the nitrogenase P-cluster during turnover. Biochemistry 34, 5779-5785.
Chan, J. M., Ryle, M. J., and Seefeldt, L. C. (1999) Evidence that MgATP accelerates primary electron transfer in a Clostridium pasteurianum Fe protein-Azotobacter vinelandii MoFe protein nitrogenase tight complex. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 17593-17598.
Inorganic Chemistry: Synthesis of Biomimetic Polymers
with Dr. Joel Gohdes
Students working with Dr. Gohdes are trying to develop metal containing polymers that mimic the reactivity of naturally occurring proteins and enzymes. One of our initial targets, hemocyanin, is a copper containing protein responsible for oxygen transport in mollusks. Our approach entails synthesizing copper containing molecules that are then embedded in polymers. We follow the reactivity by monitoring the UV-vis spectrum as we expose these materials to different conditions. To the right is the structure of a hydroxide-bridged, copper dimer synthesized for this project.
Recent Presentations and Publications
"The synthesis and catalytic activity of a novel iron(II) molecularly imprinted polymer," Adam Glass and Joel Gohdes, Inorganic Poster session, 231st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 2006
"Complexes covalently bound to silica surfaces: a new approach to a dioxygen-binding catalyst," Erik Yukl and Joel Gohdes, 229st National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2005
"Synthesis and dioxygen reactivity of a copper-containing polymer," Justin Crossland and Joel Gohdes, 227st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2004
Disalvo, D.; Dellinger, D.B.; and Gohdes, J.W. "Catalytic Epoxidations of Styrene Using a Manganese Functionalized Polymer" Reactive and Functional Polymers, 53(2-3), 2002, 103-112.
Joel W. Gohdes, Brandy L. Duran, Noline C. Clark, Thomas W. Robison, Barbara F. Smith, and Nancy N. Sauer.,"Synthesis and Metal Binding properties of Novel Sulfur-Containing Water Soluble Polymers" Separation Science and Technology, 36(12), 2001, 2647-2658.
Physical Chemistry: Surface Chemistry Research: Spectroscopy and microscopy of liquid/solid interfaces
with Dr. Kevin E. Johnson
Students in Dr. Johnson's laboratory participate in research that investigates the molecular structure at the interface between solids and liquids. At an interface the structure of both the solid and liquid differ from that in the bulk material. The study of interfacial structure has bearing on the understanding of electrode surfaces, solid-state sensors, as well as cell surfaces in biological chemistry.
Student researchers will employ two techniques to study molecules at interfaces. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) are both scanning probe microscopy techniques that allow for the imaging of molecular structure of surfaces in situ. It is also possible to measure the molecularvibrations at interfaces using infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS) and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
The surfaces studied are Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs); that is a single molecular layer on a well defined metal surface.
Recent Presentations
Kevin E. Johnson "Projects in General Chemistry Activity Sessions: Putting Theory into Practice" Presented at The 16th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 31 July 2000.
Kevin E. Johnson "Electrolyte influence on lithium-ion batteries: SEI formation, damage to graphite electrodes, and the semi-empirical ethylene carbonate reduction pathway" Poster Presented at The Sigma Xi Forum and Annual Meeting in Raleigh, NC, 8-11 November 2002.
Kevin E. Johnson "Electrolyte influence on lithium-ion batteries: SEI formation, damage to graphite electrodes, and the semi-empirical ethylene carbonate reduction pathway" Poster presented at The Gordon Conference on Electrochemistry in Ventura, CA, 20-25 January 2003.
Kevin E. Johnson "Surface vibrational spectroscopy of nonaqueous electrolytes under potential control" Poster presented at The National American Chemical Society Meeting in Orlando, FL, 7-10 ASpril 2002.
Kevin E. Johnson "Implementation of model research projects in the general chemistry laboratory" Presented at The 17th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Bellingham, Washington, 29 July 2002.
Natural Products Synthesis as well as Structure - Activity Relationship (SAR) Studies of Antioxidant Agents
with Dr. Roxana Ciochina
The main focus of our research is synthesis of natural products with interesting biological properties. Laurenditerpenol is a natural product that potentially inhibits HIF - 1, a key factor in cancer progression. We try to synthesize laurenditerpenol by using the Diels - Alder reaction in the key steps of the synthesis. Students will have the chance to explore a wide variety of organic reactions, almost all studied in their sophomore courses, with a main focus on the Diels - Alder reaction.
Our group also developed a series of curcumin derivatives and is currently looking into their antioxidant properties as well as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and carcinogenic properties. Some curcumin derivatives showed a strong fluorescence and we have already started looking into their optical properties and their potential uses as fluorescent dyes in biomedical research.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
This paper is focused on the automatic construction of 3D basic-semantic models of inhabited interiors using laser scanners with the help of RFID technologies. This is an innovative approach, in whose field scarce publications exist. The general strategy consists of carrying out a selective and sequential segmentation from the cloud of points by means of different algorithms which depend on the information that the RFID tags provide. The identification of basic elements of the scene, such as walls, floor, ceiling, windows, doors, tables, chairs and cabinets, and the positioning of their corresponding models can then be calculated. The fusion of both technologies thus allows a simplified 3D semantic indoor model to be obtained. This method has been tested in real scenes under difficult clutter and occlusion conditions, and has yielded promising results.
The concept of "intelligent environment" arose in the late 90s to characterize a set of technological elements which were capable of communicating with the user and making decisions by means of an intelligent process. This interaction between user and device is carried out in a transparent manner, in the sense that the presence of these elements is sufficient to establish communication between them. In [
One of the best known examples concerning intelligent environments is radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID systems are able to store and retrieve significant data from identified items by means of small tags in which this information can be easily read and written. These small tags can be attached to or incorporated into products, animals or people, and contain relevant information about the associated item, thus permitting their identification and the control of some of their features.
The relative low cost of this technology, together with its rapid development and the tags' adaptability for use on a great variety of surfaces have led to the constant expansion of RFID technology over the last few years. There are diverse fields of application of this technology. In the fields of manufacturing and distribution, RFID systems have been used in the identification of packing and containers and for component tracking in factories [
RFID technology has also been applied in the field of robotics where it has been used as a complementary technology to laser sensors for robot localization and for environmental map construction, for example in [
Our work with RFID technologies is framed in the area of construction, particularly in civil and industrial buildings. RFID technology fits well into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) standard that won general acceptance in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC)-field several years ago. The advantage of BIM is that the entire life-cycle of the building is covered by a unified numerical model. RFID tags help to identify elements of this model on-site. A wide number of references exist in the AEC field. RFID technology is becoming a very useful tool in this research field because of its rapidity in identification and information localization, together with the tags' durability and the high range of action of these systems.
Linking the RFID technology to the construction industry is a challenge which began the late 90s, particularly in areas such as vehicle access control, personnel control, tool maintenance, or cycle times and resource tracking. In fact, the principal application of the RFID in the construction processes is currently the tracking of materials. Several authors [
Information management in the areas of civil engineering and construction goes beyond the constructive process. It is also necessary to record certain data during the lifespan of the building. The safety of a building can be improved, for example, with a good management of its set of fire-extinguishers, by indicating on their tags whether any inspection is required, whether they work properly or where they are located [
Our work is focused on the automatic construction of 3D basic semantic models of inhabited interiors using laser scanners with the help of RFID technologies. An inhabited environment involves certain disorder in the scene: there are objects on tables, in racks, papers stuck to walls and to windows,
In the field of laser scanning applied to buildings, there are some lines of work particularly developed during the last years. Different techniques for the automatic reconstruction of as-built facilities are presented in [
As regards the detection and modeling of single objects or parts of large scenarios, Kwon
In [
As regards walls and façades detection, detailed models of part of these components are obtained in [
To perform the automatic reconstruction of a scene, we process a dense cloud of points to identify certain objects whose 3D models are stored in a knowledge base. Owing to the occlusions and the complexity of the geometry of the scanned elements, the identification of objects from the cloud of points generated by the scanner is a very difficult task. To date, few papers have tackled the occlusion problem by using range data for indoor reconstruction. Papers which process laser scanner data to model predominantly planar surfaces, such as walls, floors, and ceilings, can be found in [
As has already been mentioned, this article proposes a solution based on the combination of two technologies of a different nature, these being laser scanners and radio frequency identification. RFID tags adhered to different objects provide valuable information about them, which makes the identification and positioning of basic elements in the scene faster and easier. In this work, we propose an innovative approach in this challenging research field. Obtaining an accurate model of an interior can be very useful in applications related with exploration, manipulation and autonomous navigation with mobile robots or vehicles. In these cases the robot needs to know the principal constructive elements of the interior, the objects in the scene and their position.
The paper is organized as follows: Section 3 presents the structure of the proposed system, based on two different sensorial technologies. In Section 4 we show the information that is available from both the laser scanner and the RFID sensor. Section 5 proposes a solution by which to identify and calculate the pose of basic elements (both static and dynamic) in a facility. Finally, Section 6 shows the experimental results obtained with our proposal.
The outline of the proposed system is depicted in
With the purpose of obtaining a general view of the process carried out in this work, a flowchart is presented in
At first, the two sensors (scanner and RFID reader) are placed together in several strategic locations of the scene to cover the whole indoor environment. For each of these positions, a data acquisition process is carried out. A set of 3D points is provided by the laser scanner and at the same time, certain geometry and color information of the different elements is obtained from the tags by means of the RFID sensor.
The 3D point clouds, which are acquired from different positions of the inhabited interior, are pre-processed and registered in accordance with a universal coordinate system (UCS). These two datasets, corresponding to 3D points and object information (in purple in
3D information of the environment is obtained by virtualizing the scenario by means of the laser scanner sensor mentioned in the previous section. Its field of vision allows it to be employed in scenes under study up to 80 m. The information provided by the sensor is associated with the geometry and the texture of the scanned room. Several acquisitions of the same room are carried out from different points of view. Then, all the range images provided by the sensor are filtered and transformed to a universal coordinate system in a first pre-processing phase. For a given acquisition, several fiducials are identified in a planar image of the scene and the user marks their centers of mass. A set of correspondences between the center points from two different sensor positions are manually established, and a transformation matrix is obtained between both reference systems by means of commercial scanning software. The same procedure is followed with the next sensor positions, having considered the first sensor position as the universal coordinate system. All the data thus remain registered in a common reference system, as do all the sensor positions considered. This registering process is habitual in the field of the digitalization of interiors or exteriors in buildings.
All the available geometric information of the scene consists of an unconnected set of points which is gathered after registering all the 3D data under a common reference system. Certain geometric features can be extracted from the treatment of these data which allow the automatic segmentation and recognition of certain components. Walls, ceilings, floors, doorways and windows or the frames around them can be obtained in this manner. Nevertheless, these recognition processes are extremely complex in inhabited interiors.
RFID technology is an information exchange system for automatic identification inspired by radio frequency waves. The information is stored in devices named tags or transponders. Three types of tags exist: active, passive and hybrid. Active tags incorporate the power supply for their circuits and propagate the signal to the reader. Passive tags obtain the required energy by induction from the readers. Passive tags can be used for distances of up to approximately 15 m, whereas active tags have a much bigger range of action (up to 500 m) and can store a large quantity of information. Hybrid tags can transmit, but they have to be told to transmit. They need to be turned on by a signal, as could be a satellite.
The system's range of action is also influenced by the type of antenna installed in the reader. The use of a low frequency (LF) antenna or a high frequency (HF) one thus allows operating distances in the range of dozens of centimeters, whereas the installation of an ultra-high frequency (UHF) antenna allows communication in the range of meters.
The previous information will allow the reader to deduce that the greatest range of communication is achieved by the use of UHF antennas and active tags. In our particular case, where the required working range is of dozens of meters and where it is necessary to modify the tags' content, we have used UHF antennas (865–868 MHz) and passive tags with a storage capacity of up to 512 bytes.
In our work, tagged elements are classified into static (structural) and "dynamic" (equipment). Until now, the model of the scene has been reduced to a set of static and dynamic basic elements. The essence of our research is to obtain the complete model of the scene. We define some objects as "dynamic" because they can be moved or even removed in the same scenario, depending on the time in which the scenario is sensed.
The objects considered and the information that is stored for each one are shown in
Wall tag. This contains the properties of the wall at the moment at which the scene is scanned: wall type (ceiling, floor, wall), wall dimension (length, width), paint color, number of openings on the wall.
Opening tag. This concerns the holes in the walls which are usually covered by other structures. An opening is characterized by: type (door, window, closet and pure hole), opening dimension ((length, width) and color.
Molding tag. It may be a molding on the opening or a molding on the wall. The information is as follows: type (wall molding and opening molding), molding dimension (length) and color.
Column tag. The columns correspond to the pillars which can be found in the scene but not next to the walls. We distinguish between cylinders and square pillars.
The so called "dynamic" elements, are those which can be added, removed or changed with regard to its initial position in the scene. The approach presented in this paper considers the minimum number of dynamic elements which can be found in an inhabited scene. To date we have distinguished three dynamic elements: tables, chairs and wardrobe/filling cabinet. There are a wide variety of shapes for each type of dynamic element. In order to facilitate the matching process between the model corresponding to the tag recognized by the RFID and the 3D data provided by the laser scanner, we include basic information of the models. The main idea is to carry out a model based segmentation of the 3D data in order to carry out a further model-data matching process.
For example, for table tags we include only the information which is related to the table top (area and height) so that we can search for 3D data fitted to a plane for a particular distance from the floor. A description of dynamic tags is as follows:
Table tag. Any type of table is characterized solely by the height and area of the top. It does not make sense to store more detailed information because, owing to the occlusion and the incomplete scanning of the scene, information concerning a part of the table's surface might not be available.
Chair tag. Here we distinguish between simple chair and sofa elements. Chair tags only contain information concerning the chair's legs (length and separation) whereas sofa tags store information about surface and volume.
Wardrobe/filling cabinet tags. These elements tend to be parallelepipeds and the scanner usually provides vertical or horizontal flat faces. We therefore store the dimensions of the element's three planes.
Although color information is also stored in all the aforementioned tags, in this paper it is not used as discriminatory feature. This is owing to the fact that color might be a highly variable property which strongly depends on the illumination of the scene. This challenging issue will be tackled in the future.
Note that tags coordinates in the world reference system are not necessary in this work since we only need to identify the object in which the tag is placed.
The general strategy is presented in the diagram of
It consists of carrying out a selective and sequential identification of the elements of the scene. Each element is segmented from the cloud of points by means of a different algorithm depending on the information that the RFID tag provides. Whenever an element is identified, its pose is calculated and its corresponding 3D points are removed from the cloud of points before searching for the following element. Once the pose is calculated for each element, the corresponding 3D model is integrated in a virtual scenario. The identification sequence for the elements of an inhabited interior is the following: static elements (walls, ceiling, floor, openings in the walls and moldings) and dynamic elements (tables, closets and chairs).
After registering 3D data from the different positions of the laser scanner, we can recover all available geometric information from the scene: a multitude of unconnected 3D points must then be processed. As will be shown later, apart from outliers and noise, the point density is usually irregular owing to overcrowded and low density areas on the walls. The volume of the interior room is obtained through the walls' positions and 3D data corresponding to other rooms or outside space are removed. Therefore, determining the volume of the room does not mean giving a quantity in cubic meters in advance but establishing the boundaries of the room after determining the position of the walls.
The projection of the 3D data from a specific viewpoint allows us to obtain a normalized binary image in which each pixel can be occupied by one or more 3D points (white pixels in
After creating image
Once the walls' points are identified, the next process consists of labeling the different walls and fitting each one of them to a plane. Thus, we obtain a simplified 3D model of the room. A simple model in this context signifies a model which contains the labels, the pose and the relationship between the objects in the scene. Complex semantic models are those that include much more information like sort of material, history, physical and chemical properties. In
In each plane fitted to a wall we distinguish between three types of regions: empty (A), occupied (B) or occluded (C). This labeling stage is obtained after carrying out a ray-tracing process from each of the laser scanner positions. In order to discover which parts of the wall must be filled and which must not, a segmentation algorithm of wall occluded regions is carried out. Finally, openings (
Once the static elements have been identified and reconstructed, the next step consists of identifying each of the dynamic elements present in the scene. As was mentioned previously, in order to facilitate the identification of tables, information related to the height from the floor and the area of the top is stored in the RFID tags adhered to them. A search of flat surfaces at certain height is carried out when a table tag is read. Once a table is detected, we take one horizontal slice at the height of the table top and process the points which fall into it. In the first step, we project the slice from a top view and generate a 2D image in which the pixels represent the points of the slide. After this, we segment the image and calculate the pixels of maximum curvature. Since sparse areas may appear in the image, a dilation filter is previously applied in order to obtain compact regions in which high curvature points can be discovered in a more robust manner. Harris's method [
Wardrobes and cabinets tend to be placed against a wall and are parallelepipeds, as shown in
As regards the chairs, the data gathered by the RFID sensor provide information about the separation between the legs. The pattern of the chair legs is searched in a slice of points near to the floor. As in the previous case, the slice of points is transformed into an image in which 2D matching algorithms can be applied. The pattern to be matched in the image consists of a group of 3, 4 or 5 dots, or of a starry form of 3, 4 or 5 arms. These patterns can be easily identified by using cross correlation algorithms [
This section describes some of the experimental results obtained after testing our approach on a panoramic range of data appertaining to interiors of buildings in which we placed a set of RFID tags. Note that we are dealing with very complex scenarios with a high degree of clutter and occlusion. They contain a wide variety of objects that occlude not only the walls but also the ceiling and floor. In spite of occlusion problems, we want to collect as much data of the scene as possible. So, we need to take several scans per room.
Under our work conditions, the FARO Photon laser scanner provided between 30 to 40 million of points per room, depending on the number of scans. In this work we have used a set of 17 RFID tags, which are read by a LRU 3500 FEIG reader. The tags were placed from 40 cm to 600 cm from the tag reader. The main purpose of the experiences carried out in this setup was to perform reading processes on the tags and to combine this information with the laser scanner information with the aim of attaining a basic geometric and semantic model of the inhabited interior. In all the cases the RFID reader worked properly.
Our approach has been tested in four different inhabited interiors in which we have changed the distribution of the dynamic elements in the room aiming to test several configurations.
As regards the equipment cost, the scanner is by far the most expensive component. An accurate and reliable large 3D scanner can be acquired by tens of thousand dollars whereas the RFID system costs a few thousand dollars. On the other hand, the computational time mainly depends on the data density that the scanner takes. In this case, the scanner worked with medium densities, getting one point per 0.08° × 0.08°, which provides 5.5 million points per scan.
To date, various partial solutions for generating automatic 3D object models using a laser scanner have been published in literature, most of them in simple and non-panoramic scenarios. In building and facility environments the obtaining of automatic 3D models becomes much more difficult because of the huge amount of information to be processed and the presence of significant clutter and occlusion, which frequently occurs in natural indoor environments.
This paper aims to fuse a laser scanner with RFID technologies, with the intention of greatly alleviating the segmentation, recognition and positioning of basic elements in an inhabited interior. As is well known, the segmentation/identification of objects among millions of points generated by the scanner is a very difficult task. RFID tags adhered to different objects can provide valuable information which facilitates the identification and positioning of basic elements of the scene. In summary, this makes the automatic modeling more reliable, faster and simpler.
The approach proposed in this paper is capable of identifying and modeling the main static structural components of an indoor environment, such as walls, floor, ceiling, windows, and doorway, along with the so-called moving or dynamic basic elements, such as tables, chairs and wardrobes/cabinets. The main idea is to refine the results provided by pure 3D data processing algorithms with the RFID tag information or to run specific algorithms for each particular object in the scene. With this strategy, we were able to provide 3D basic semantic indoor models using a FARO Photon scanner and a FEIG OBID scan UHF sensor as an RFID system.
Future improvements to the method will be addressed along various lines. Firstly, in order to improve the efficiency of the algorithms and make them more robust, a more extended test should be carried out in other scenarios. Our approach worked very well for basic planar surface detection and modeling, despite the high levels of occlusion and missing data. However, more complex room geometries and curved/free-form objects in the scene are not yet detected. New detection and segmentation approaches must therefore be investigated in the future.
Another interesting idea concerns the use of reflectance images and color information to make the object identification more robust. Finally, we are also considering improving the semantics of the reconstructed model by explicitly classifying a more extended variety of static and dynamic objects.
This research has been carried out under contract with the Spanish CICYT through the DPI-2008-05444, DPI 2009-14024-C02-01 and DPI2011-26094 projects. It also belongs to the activities carried out in the frame of the RoboCity2030-II excellence research network of the CAM (ref. S2009/DPI-1559).
Overview of the system proposed in this work, where 3D vision and RFID technologies are fused.
Flowchart of the acquisition data process.
Joint registering of two digitalizations of a scanned inhabited interior.
Flowchart of the data segmentation process.
Stages in a wall segmentation process. (
Insertion of the modeled furniture overlapped onto the cloud of points.
The final 3D basic model obtained after running our method.
Summary of tag localization, and the data stored in each of them.
|type (wall, ceiling, floor),dimension, paint color and number of openings
|type (door, window, closet, pure hole), dimension and color
|type (door, window), main dimensions, color
|cylinder/square, main dimensions
|high, area of table top, color
|Wardrobe/Filling cabinet
|dimension of three planes, color
|type( chair, sofa), chair's legs length and separation, color, surface and volume
Computational time for the main processes of our proposal.
|3D Data acquisition (∼5 million points)
|3D Data preprocessing
|RFID Data Acquisition
|RFID Data Processing
|Wall identification and segmentation
|Tables segmentation
|Table identification and positioning (ICP)
|Wardrobes segmentation
|Wardrobe identification and positioning (ICP)
|Chairs preprocessing data
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Whether contacted for an emergency or due to a so-called pocket dial, safety dispatchers have an obligation to follow up on a 911 call.
One Alliance safety dispatcher estimated that only one-third of the 911 calls sent to them are actual emergencies, with the majority of the remainder being accidental.
While Lynn Foughty acknowledged that accidents happen, safety forces have to confirm that it is indeed a misdial.
Recently, dispatchers answered such a call from an Alliance woman who hung up after the inadvertent call.
Dispatchers are the ultimate multi-taskers, manning the city's central communication system, including everything from answering calls and providing vehicle information for traffic stops to monitoring security cameras at the station and taking bond prisoners after regular business hours.
But that doesn't excuse them of their duty to make sure that a caller doesn't need their help, so they still have to call them back and make sure they don't have an emergency.
Only to get a complete denial that the call occurred or arguing "I don't want a police officer here" when an inquiry is made of an address. After all, the resident could be refusing to provide the information under duress.
"We need to make sure everything is OK," Foughty explained, adding that misuse of 911 is only a risk if the call was malicious in intent.
However, the majority of the hang-up calls have a surprising source.
"Goo goo ga ga," isn't an unheard of response to "where's your emergency?"
The veteran dispatcher said many people give old, inactive phones to their toddlers to play with not realizing they can still dial 911 without service because the battery is still in the phone.
If the phone is inactive, so is the Global Positioning System chip, and the calls interfere with other serious calls, so Foughty recommends removing the battery.
Some cellphones also have an emergency contact option that is positioned precariously near the menu on the bottom, which can be problematic.
Other common causes of misdials include use of central office codes that start with a 9 to get an external line. Once the numbers 911 are dialed, the remainder of the digits are ignored.
Best solution beyond just being careful per Foughty: Stay on the line for dispatchers and just say "I accidentally called and I'm just fine. No emergency here."
There have been cases where callers have contacted dispatch in the throws of an emergency and lost consciousness, exhibiting symptoms of a possible stroke, and dispatchers learned their persistence saved lives.
"Our duty is to make sure that everything is OK," she concluded.
To call Alliance police directly, dial 330-821-9140 and avoid 911 altogether.
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AppleSearch.acgi is a gateway program between your WWW browser, MacHTTP, and AppleSearch. AppleSearch is an indexing/document delivery technology developed by Apple. (It is a lot like the WAIS technology originally co-developed by Thinking Machines, Apple Computer, and Dow-Jones, but in reality is it based on the Personal Librarian technology.)
AppleSearch can provide two types of interfaces: an ISINDEX interface and FORMS interface. The ISINDEX interface is rudimentary but allows the same searching syntax as the FORMS interface.
To get AppleSearch to work for you, you must first purchase AppleSearch. It is available from most Macintosh mail order companies for about $1,400. It also a part of the Apple Internet Server Solution. After setting up the AppleSearch server, you must index your data. The AppleSearch.acgi application can only deliver ASCII text files, so make sure the data you intend to make searchable is simple text. Once your data is indexed, all you have to do launch the AppleSearch.acgi program and your are ready to go.
If you want to customize AppleSearch.acgi's user-interface, then you will have to edit a few TEXT resources from the AppleSearch.acgi application itself. The documentation explains how to do this, but be forewarned. Editing documents with tool like ResEdit is not like using regular text editors. Be sure to keep a backup of your work. Editing either the ISINDEX or FORMS interface to AppleSearch.acgi is not difficult, but just a bit scary if you do not have much practice with ResEdit.
AppleSearch.acgi and AppleSearch provide a fast and effective way to search a set of indexed data. Its searching features are robust and yet flexible. It supports nested Boolean queries, wild card searches, and can be used to search remote WAIS databases.
On the other hand, AppleSearch is expensive both in terms of dollars as well as computing resources. AppleSearch requires at least a 68040 processor and 5MB of RAM.
If your indexed data contains relative URLs, URLs not specifying the complete paths to other documents on our server, then the links in the documents returned by AppleSearch.acgi will not work. This is because AppleSearch includes the full path name of the documents it indexes. Consequently, since relative linked documents are being retrieved from a location other than the one intended by the document's author, the links fail.
Last, like TR-WWW, described in the next section, AppleSearch.acgi ultimately returns file names. AppleSearch.acgi does not return the HTML titles of documents. The means you, as the information provider, must save your HTML documents with the most meaningful names possible in order to help your end-users effectively evaluate the output of AppleSearch.acgi.
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Solari Dario, baritone
Dario Solari was born in Uruguay. His repertoire includes Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Conte Robinson in Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa), Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Malatesta in Don Pasquale (Donizetti), Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Renato in Un ballo in maschera, Di Luna in Il trovatore, Germont in La traviata, the title role in Macbeth (Verdi), Cecil in Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) and many other roles. He performs at the opera houses of Verona, Turin, Rome, Monte Carlo, Florence, Athens, Antwerp, Berlin, Montevideo, Naples, Beijing, Salzburg, Cagliari and many others. This is his Israeli Opera debut.


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STREAMING: Paradise Lost "Tragic Idol"/
OK, we've just unveiled our first ever Paradise Lost cover story [Decibel #92] and exclusive Paradise Lost B-side flexi disc---which we're super-chuffed about---but to say that we've been sleeping on one of the UK's most important heavy acts of all time is all kinds of hyperbole. See, at Camp Decibel, Paradise Lost is given "special status." Sure, they've had sophomore full-length, Gothic, inducted into the hallowed halls of the Decibel Hall of Fame, a vibrant defense of much-maligned "sellout" album Host, and a few one-page stories in 2007 and 2009 to commemorate "comeback" albums nobody in the U.S. cared about---except for Decibel and a few dedicated Painless---but for new album Tragic Idol we felt it was high time to honor the creator of "gothic metal", the band that influenced so many and so much.
Part of that honor goes into the group's cover story. Another is the ability to exclusively stream Paradise Lost's thirteenth full-length album Tragic Idol in its entirety. We know the Painless out there will eat this up blind as bats in the sun, but we want the naysayers, the too-cools, and the don't-cares to stream at least one track---you pick! Go on. It's OK.
Other points of Decibel's interest in Paradise Lost: 1. Stream B-side "The Last Fallen Saviour" from our exclusive flexi disc.
2. Guitarist Gregor Mackintosh discusses metal discography-important metal albums.
3. A story on the so-called Peaceville Three.
** Paradise Lost's new album, Tragic Idol, is out April 24th, 2012 on Century Media Records. Pre-order it HERE.


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U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, has created a congressional caucus to focus on local and national water issues, including lake levels, drinking water supplies and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulations.
One of the key issues for the Corps of Engineers Reform Caucus will be lake levels and keeping them as high as possible, Collins' office said.
The 9th District congressman will start to recruit members to the caucus when Congress comes back into session next week. The caucus had to be approved, which happened last week, before it can get participants.
The caucus also intends to focus on national water and infrastructure projects handled by the corps.
Collins toured Buford Dam last week with corps officials and met with community leaders, including Joanna Cloud, executive director of the Lake Lanier Association.
"Congress needs to transform the high-spending, low-transparency Corps into a responsive and fiscally responsive agency," Collins said in a news release.
The central issue the caucus will focus on is lake levels, said Jason O'Rouke, Collins' legislative aide for transportation and infrastructure. Local stakeholders talked in last week's meeting about the impact to Lake Lanier from fluctuations.
Lanier, operated by the corps, was built in the 1950s and has more than 692 miles of shoreline. The corps monitors and makes decisions on lake levels based on the reasons Lanier was built, which include flood control, water quality and supply, recreation and fish and wildlife management, the agency website said.
The problem with fluctuations is the negative impact on the lake and the properties around the lake, Cloud said.
It creates silt runoff into the lake that can reduce water storage capacity and water quality.
It also presents a challenge for individual docks and marina owners because they have to let their docks out.
"That's no small task," Cloud said. "It's quite a bit of a hassle, bringing it up and down."
It will help to have a federal caucus to have a dialogue with the corps, Cloud said.
"The caucus could influence the Corps of Army Engineers to make (lake levels) part of their evaluation criteria of how they operate the lake," she said.
The corps' water control manual, policies and laws for water management for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin would have to be changed. A draft Water Control Manual for the basin was issued March 1 that is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.
Patrick Robbins, corps' Mobile District chief of public affairs, said keeping lake levels stable mostly depends on the weather.
However, the corps does release water from Lanier downstream into the ACF basin to protect endangered species or to supply drinking water to the city of Atlanta.
"There's multiple purposes you have to release water for," Robbins said.
Alabama, Florida and Georgia have spent decades fighting over the flow of water from Lanier through the Chattahoochee River to the Gulf of Mexico. There are at least 35 states dealing with similar water supply issues, Collins said in his statement. The agency's red tape means higher costs for taxpayers and project construction delays.
"In addition, the Corps constantly undertakes new projects before completing ongoing construction," Collins said. "As a result, the Corps has a construction backlog estimated at more than $60 billion."
The caucus is the first step to drafting legislation, O'Rouke said.


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Software Stan denies falling demand in PC market
Slowdown, what slowdown
Microsoft said yesterday worldwide demand for PCs remained strong, despite a seasonal lag in sales. The great software giant reassured Wall Street analysts that business was fine, after profit warnings from computer companies had raised concerns about the PC market, according to today's Financial Times. After the close of trading yesterday, Greg Maffei, Microsoft CFO, made the following statement: "We've seen some pre-announcements, some rumours of pre-announcements, some speculation that the PC business is falling apart." But he went on to reassure analysts: "All evidence that we see suggests that is not true." Maffei said the post-Christmas slowdown was "just like every year," adding that sales were in line with expectations for the current third quarter – apart from the $400 million in lost revenue from the delay in shipping Office 2000. Maffei said projections for the current quarter were $4.2 billion. Speaking to The Register, analysts said the industry was suffering from a slowdown in growth of demand, but were divided on when this would pick up. Andy Brown, IDC research analyst for EMEA PC market, said there was a definite growth slowdown in worldwide PC sales, but this should pick up by the end of 1999. "Microsoft is trying to reassure the stock market. It is worried about share price and confidence," he said. Brown added that the regions showing the greatest slowdown, according to IDC research, were Eastern Europe and the Middle East. But he stressed that this was not a drastic turn of events. "There isn't a massive slow in demand. Key drivers like year 2000, the euro, increasing IT spend in businesses, PII migration and the Internet will bolster sales in the second half of 1999." Clive Longbottom, CSL analyst, thought the situation would not pick up this year. He said: "We can currently see a slowdown in growth of demand, and there will be a slowdown of demand itself in the second half of the year. This will probably continue until around next March." Microsoft's announcement came at a time when fellow computer companies were complaining of weaker than predicted sales. 3Com recently warned its second quarter revenue would fall short of forecasts. The number two networking vendor cited decreasing demand in the US and Latin America as one reason. At the time, Eric Benhamou, 3Com chairman and CEO, said he was unsure whether this decline in the US was a temporary blip or a more long-term trend. But he said he understood his rivals were experiencing a similar situation. This year has also seen Dell, Hewlett Packard and Compaq reporting weaker than expected sales. Yesterday, US distributor Ingram Micro warned its first quarter earnings would be below expectations. It blamed cautious buying trends in Europe, Latin America and Asia. ®


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In early June, SandRidge (NYSE:SD) announced the sale of its subsidiary SandRidge Tertiary LLC to CO2 Investments, LLC in a deal that will see $130 million in cash added to SandRidge's balance sheet. According to SandRidge, SandRidge Tertiary "is the sole gatherer of CO2 from the four natural gas treatment plants located in the West Texas Overthrust". West Texas is a major center for tertiary oil recovery. Major CO2 recovery projects in this area include operations from Occidental Permian, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM).
Oxy is the largest injector of CO2 for enhanced recovery in the United States, injecting over 550 bcf of CO2 in the Permian Basin in 2011 alone. Oxy operates a natural gas processing facility in West Texas to fulfill its needs in a joint venture with SandRidge. It is unclear how the sale of SandRidge Tertiary will impact the joint venture, though on its face I think it is likely Oxy is looking at higher costs for methane takeaway as it is not currently using most of the methane separated during processing at the plant.
SandRidge & Chesapeake, Ward & McClendon
Late last month, securities arbitration law firm Klayman & Toskes, P.A. announced it was investigating SandRidge on behalf of its clients for "investment losses due to…over-concentration", though responsibility for over-concentration would not lie with SandRidge. A recently announced investigation by the Shareholders Foundation, Incorporated ups the ante. The Shareholders Foundation is indicating that it believes SandRidge violated securities law by materially misrepresenting SandRidge's "business, prospects, and operations." According to the Shareholders Foundation s website, its proceedings are currently classified as an investigation only, and no suit has been filed.
I think that it was only a matter of time before lawsuits targeting SandRidge came to the fore, given SandRidge CEO Tom Ward's close relationship with Chesapeake (NYSE:CHK) CEO Aubrey McClendon. It's also not surprising that the Shareholders Foundation investigated and filed suit against McClendon and certain members of Chesapeake's board last April, alleging that McClendon's participation in Chesapeake's Founders Well Participation Program and subsequent mortgaging of his interests "represented undisclosed risks to Chesapeake Energy investors". The Shareholders Foundation also charges that McClendon's actions represent a conflict of interest that "could compromise his fiduciary duty to Chesapeake investors." The action against Chesapeake is filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Deborah G Mallow IRA SEP Investment Plan vs Aubrey McClendon, et al., No: 5:12-00436.
As SandRidge and Chesapeake both struggle against low natural gas prices and an increasingly aggressive shareholder base, I think it's increasingly clear that McClendon is basing many of his decisions on what worked in the past for Ward. The problem is McClendon is not Ward. Take for example Chesapeake's recently shelved IPO for Chesapeake Oilfield Services. The IPO of Chesapeake Oilfield Services was a Hail Mary play for Chesapeake's funding gap. At the time the IPO was announced, Chesapeake was already aware of its impending shortfalls and was marketing several of its assets, including the Mississippi Lime in Kansas and Oklahoma and acreage in the Williston Basin. In addition to these holdings, Chesapeake is now also marketing assets in the Permian Basin and the Denver Basin, and is looking for a joint venture partner for the assets in the Mississippi Lime it plans to hold.
Oil India is showing interest in a potential partnership, but given that hydraulic fracturing company FTS International Services LLC underwent a ratings downgrade by Standard & Poor's last week over its relationship to Chesapeake and Chesapeake's reduced drilling forecasts, Oil India and any other potential partners will be stepping carefully and shopping for the best deal possible out of Chesapeake.
Two things about this string of events remind me of Ward's leadership at SandRidge. First, under Ward's guidance SandRidge engineered a number of successful IPOs with the purpose of divesting SandRidge's royalty interests to trust instruments, which instruments in turn pay SandRidge the net proceeds of the offering. The most recent such IPO was for SandRidge Mississippian Trust II (NYSE:SDR). This sounds suspiciously like Chesapeake's plan for Chesapeake Oilfield Services, as outlined in the original S-1, as Chesapeake planned to retain 80% ownership of the Oilfield Services unit.
Secondly, the strategy of seeking joint venture partners is commonplace in this industry, but Ward is a master at exploiting and promoting these arrangements. Last year, SandRidge announced a major joint venture with a subsidiary of Repsol YPF valued at $1 billion, as well as a smaller but still material joint venture with an affiliate of Korea-based Atinum Partners Company, Ltd., in which SandRidge sold a non-operated working interest in 113,000 net acres in the Mississippian play to Atinum for $500 million.
What distinguishes these financial deals authored by SandRidge and Chesapeake (or Ward and McClendon) from daily deals by other energy independents is the fact that neither SandRidge nor Chesapeake has another reliable source of funds. Compared to net leasehold acreage, I believe both firms are far under-producing and over-leveraged for their respective market caps. Additionally, even as Chesapeake tries to raise cash through asset sales, the company is being criticized for continuing to engage in risky investments - which criticism is also leveled at SandRidge.
SandRidge stock is currently battered, trading around $6 per share, 28% below where it began the year. Despite the low trades, the price to book is still high at 2.0, with a forward price to earnings is 19.1. This reinforces the fact that SandRidge is overleveraged and under-producing, with a debt to equity of 1.9. For these unattractive value ratios, SandRidge offers proved reserves of 533 mboe, which are 53% developed. As SandRidge operates in two of the U.S.'s most promising plays, the Permian and the Mississippian, there is a great deal of room for these numbers to move up. Additionally, SandRidge's net operating cash flow from the first quarter 2012 of $153 million and cash balance of $600 million indicate that while SandRidge will not be making major headway on developing its acreage, it is at least able to drill - which the hamstrung Chesapeake is less and less able to do.
For these reasons, I am cautiously bullish on SandRidge. The major concern here is that further inquiry into McClendon's dealings at Chesapeake will uncover information damaging to Ward. However, SandRidge's price to earnings is certainly on the high side, so until SandRidge finds its footing it may be better to hold than acquire.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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We can't relate to most of your life experiences—global fame as a young teenager, platinum records, getting killed on CSI, paparazzi following you everywhere, making out with Selena Gomez—but your most recent exploit is something we've all gone through, and we couldn't be more excited for you on this new journey.
While your burgeoning facial hair is sparse and light, we encourage you to keep growing it out. Fight through these early awkward days. You'll probably get mocked by more hirsute men, but you're no stranger to mockery, and no amount of backlash has ever stopped you from selling records, selling out concerts, and generally "Beliebing" in yourself, right? We would, however, recommend trying a little Just for Men: It'll darken those those early-stage chin wisps and make that Van Dyke look twice as full. This guide to the first 30 days of beard growth should help too.
You're only 20 years old, and you've seen things and done things in the past seven years that 99.999999% of humans will never experience. Embrace this journey, because it makes you more like the rest of us, it helps us relate to you, and in the slightest way, indicates that maybe you're rounding the corner into adulthood (and putting your house-egging days behind you).
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