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Oil Exploration and Production is a complex process, and each step of the oil supply chain involves specialized technology. Oil reservoirs are identified through geological field work, geological modeling, seismic imaging and exploratory drilling. Oil is then extracted with production equipment and transported in tankers and pipelines. Oil refineries refine crude oil into various marketable end products including gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, marine fuel, petrochemical feedstocks and other chemicals. Most oil companies, even vertically integrated giants like Chevron and Exxon Mobil, don't build the equipment needed to complete all of these difficult and costly tasks. Instead, oil companies turn to engineering and industrial firms that build and operate the oil rigs, tankers, and pipelines that are the backbone of the industry. These oilfield services companies provide the infrastructure, equipment, intellectual property and services needed by the international oil and gas industry to explore for, extract, and transport crude oil and natural gas from the earth to the refinery, and eventually to the consumer.
These companies deal in a wide range of oilfield services, allowing them access to markets ranging from seismic imaging to deepwater oil exploration.
These companies build rigs and supply hardware for rig upgrades and oilfield operations.
These companies provide saltwater disposal and transportation services for Oil & Gas..
These companies deal in seismic imaging technology for oil and gas exploration.
These firms contract drilling rigs to oil and gas companies for both exploration and production.
These companies build onshore pipelines to transport oil and gas between cities, states, and countries.
These companies supply the tankers and service staff needed to get large quantities of oil and gas across the ocean.
Oilfield services companies provide the equipment and services used in the exploration for and extraction of oil and natural gas. Companies that provide oilfield services such as Blowout Preventer (BOP) Testing include K & K Energy Services, LLC and others.
Seismic imaging bounces concentrated sound waves off of underground rock formations and picks up the returning wave patterns; computers then analyze the data to "see" below the surface of the earth. These imaging techniques are useful for determining if there is oil or gas in the ground and, sometimes, how much of it there is - all without causing the environmental damage and racking up the dayrate costs that come with exploratory drilling.[9]
Most oil and gas companies don't build their own drilling rigs; for this, oil well equipment companies offer drill bits, lubricants, pumping equipment, subsea "trees", and even entire rigs for purchase and contract. For example, Blowout Preventer Testing is generally done by contractors and not the drilling company.
There are a number of companies that provide onshore and offshore drilling equipment for conventional, unconventional, and deepwater oil exploration. These "rigs" are used for a variety of purposes, though most often they are used to try and "strike" oil (exploration) and to get down to it once it's been found (production).
Onshore drilling rigs are usually pretty simple; they are drills attached to platforms that can usually be towed from place to place. Increasingly, as easy-access onshore reserves are being sucked dry, contractors are outfitting their land rigs with drills, drill bits, controls, and fluids that allow the drills to be maneuvered through trickier geology, which is how regions previously thought to be mature, like the Middle East, are seeing increasing productive activity.
The offshore sector is much more diversified, as there are many types of offshore drilling rigs.
Currently, the emerging difference between these types of offshore drilling rig is whether or not they can easily be used for deepwater drilling. Those that float without being anchored down (semisubmersibles, drillships) are much more likely to be outfitted with high-cost, high-risk, high-yield deepwater and ultra-deepwater drills (which can go as deep as 9,111 ft of water[10]) than rigs that must somehow be attached to the ocean floor.
While many rig contractors build their own machines, oil rigs are far too complex for any one company to develop every single part required for them to work effectively. Furthermore, a contractor could have rig equipment that is outdated, and might want to spend on upgrades instead of building a new ship. For this reason, rig contractors often turn to equipment suppliers purchase a range of rig parts, including:
Once oil has been found and a well has been drilled, oil and gas companies must extract it without losing spills, and without incurring environmental damages that could subject them to costly fines. To this end, oilfield services companies provide the technology needed to prepare a well (completion) to get oil and gas out of the ground quickly and efficiently (extraction). Some of the equipment needed for proper completion and extraction includes:
Once oil and natural gas have been extracted, they must be transported from the rigs to refineries, and then from refineries to distribution centers. At sea, they are transported in supersized tankers operated by a number of maritime transportation companies. On land, it is transported through pipelines that can span entire continents, built by companies that rent pipe space to oil and gas vendors.
Strong international drilling activity as well as a rebound North America contributed to the rise in earnings for all of the largest oilfield service firms. Rising oil prices led to the rise in global drilling activity and also helped improve the margins of oilfield service firms as well. Some of the top earners in the final quarter of 2010 include:
Several CEOs of oilfield service firms provided positive outlooks for 2011. In particular, oil prices that fall in the $70 - $90 range have the potential of encouraging investment in exploration and production, which would require oilfield service equipment and technology.[14] While the North Sea, West Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are identified as potentially lucrative areas in 2011, operations in Mexico and Russia are predicted to remain relatively weak early in 2011.[15] In 2011, Andrew Gould of Schlumberger expects prices to remain relatively depressed due to the increases in supply from unconventional gas in the US and LNGs globally.[16] Steady natural gas prices are likely to limit the demand for oilfield services by producers.[17]
For oilfield service companies, Gould's outlook illustrates the role technology has the potential of playing in the industry.[18] Because less conventional sources of exploration and production rely on more advanced technology to extract the oil, oil field service companies that offer an array of advanced technology have the potential of benefiting from the rise in exploration and production investment.[19] In the industry, technology for drilling has been developed in traditional research and development departments as well as through merger and acquisitions, including Schlumberger's acquisition of Smith International in 2010.[20]
For companies that rent offshore rigs, the temporary ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has the potential of reducing revenues from the area for the remainder of 2010. The stock prices of rig contractors like ENSCO International (ESV), Transocean (RIG), and Noble Energy (NBL) have all dropped from April to July 2010 because they have all lost business in the second quarter of 2010 as a result of the moratorium.[21] However, analysts are predicting that the full impact of the ban is likely to be felt after the initial six-month stoppage ends.[22] Not only does it take time for rigs to obtain permits and run the necessary tests, but analysts expect rig costs to remain permanently higher due to potential taxes and safety regulations.[23] As a result, the impact of the moratorium is likely to continue into the third and fourth quarters of 2010.[24] For companies that have strong land service operations, the ban is unlikely to hurt earnings or stock price as much.[25] Companies like Halliburton Company (HAL) and Baker Hughes (BHI) have benefited in the second quarter from higher oil and gas prices, which have led to a higher demand for drilling.[26] Companies with large portions of earnings coming from onshore services have the potential of gaining a competitive edge in terms of future revenues and contract opportunities over their offshore competitors.[27]
For both Schlumberger and Haliburton, international operations showed signs of recovery as drilling activity begins to stabilize in the second quarter of 2009. Schlumberger's oilfield services revenue slumped 31% in North America but dropped 3% internationally.[28] Haliburton and Weatherford reported similar earnings.[29] Although prices are far below 2008's highs, the rise in prices has led oil producers to resume drilling. International drilling increased especially in countries with developing economies such as Russia, Mexico, Norway and China.[30] Internationally, oil and natural-gas prices rose in the second quarter, and rig counts increased slightly in June. More drilling activity outside of the U.S. has the potential of benefiting international oilfield services companies like Schlumberger, Haliburton, and Weatherford.[31] However, North America produces primarily natural gas and has not experienced that same increases in drilling activity due to low natural gas prices.[32] Drilling activity has the potential of remaining low as long as natural gas decline.[33]
According to economists at Schlumberger, rig count and drilling activity in the second and third quarter of 2009 suggest oilfield drilling has the potential of recovering as soon as the fourth quarter of 2009. Latin America and Russia have the potential of experiencing the biggest recovery from 2008 in terms of rig count.[34] A recovery in drilling activity means a larger need for the equipment, technology, and services that oilfield service companies provide.[35] However, the economists also noted that growth in oilfield activity is likely to remain slow in 2010 and oil production has the potential of remaining well below its 2008 peak. As a result, spending by service providers is going to be about the same level or slightly up from 2009.[36]
Obtaining a stable workforce also has the potential of effecting the industry in the long-run. According to Gould, the number of young recruits hired to replace older petroleum engineers has declined over the past 10 years.[37] Hiring difficulty has the potential of stymieing Schlumberger's and the industry's ability to expand. As a possible remedy, more engineers are coming from schools located in China, India, and Indonesia.[38]
The $5.5 billion dollar deal is the first major merger since oil prices collapsed in July 2008 and the largest merger in the oilfield services sector since 1999.[39] Through the merger, Baker Hughes' pressure pumping operations have the potential of comprising 20% of the company's annual revenue. In the first half of 2009, pressure pumping accounted for 1% of Baker Hughes' revenue.[40] The two companies struck the deal at a time when North American onshore shale gas prices are dropping despite rising prices for other commodities. While the deal expands the number of services offered by Baker Hughes, it also expands BJ Services' international presence; 73% of BJ revenue comes from operations in North America.[41] With oil prices and production rising, several other oilfield service companies have the potential of merging in order to diversify the services they offer and expand their geographical presence.[42]
In February 2010, executives at Schlumberger and Smith International announced a merger-agreement between the two companies.[43] Out of the acquisition, Schlumberger hopes to improve the engineering and design parts of its operations. Schlumberger, which is the largest oilfield service provider in terms of revenue, hopes to combine its advanced measurement and steering equipment with Smith's engineered drilling systems.[44] According to Schlumberger, the merger has the potential of generating incremental pretax synergies--after integration costs--of approximately $160 million in 2011 and approximately $320 million in 2012.[45] In March 2010, Schlumberger acquired Geoservices for $1.07 billion.[46] Geoservices, a French oilfield services company, specializes in mud logging technology, which is used to extract evidence of oil and natural gas from the drilling fluid as the well's total depth increases.[47]
In particular, Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration companies are spending billions of dollars in 2009 to uncover deepwater oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, and West Africa. As a result, larger service companies like Schlumberger, Weatherford, and Haliburton are looking to acquire or merge with small niche players in order to increase their presence in these deepwater hot spots.[48] Many of the small companies are cash strapped and unable to acquire additional lines of credit.[49] The Baker Hughes and Schlumberger mergers illustrate two trends that have the potential of playing a significant role in future mergers. Adverse economic conditions and tighter credit markets in 2007, 2008, and 2009 have the potential of making smaller oilfield service companies more financially attractive to acquire.[50] However, technology also has played a significant role in 2009 and 2010's acquisitions.[51] The increased complexity of horizontal and multilateral drilling are making niche service companies strategically valuable to companies like Schlumberger and Baker Hughes. Through mergers and acquisitions, a large-cap oilfield service company is capable of bringing several complementary technologies under one provider.[52] As a result, mergers have the potential of reducing drilling and operation costs.[53]
Oil discovery had reached its peak around the year of 1960. Most of the of the largest oilfields had been discovered, and what have lefted are the smaller ones. Many of the larger oilfield have been in production for more than 40 years, and their depletion rate is increasing in a faster rate year after year. In order to meet the increasing globle oil demand, oil company will have to keep drilling in a faster rate from the smaller oilfields and from the more challengeing unconventional sources such as shale oil. The service intensity will have to increase because the depletion rate from those smaller oilfileds are much greater than the depletion rate of the larger ones. That is going to be a long term trend which a few of the big oil service company such as Schlumberger will be benefited from such higher intensity and technologicaly more challenging service environtment.
For drilling and exploration companies, the cost of producing oil has declined substantially since the beginning of 2009. While lower steel and diesel prices have contributed to declining drilling costs, the most significant factor has been the reduced demand for drilling equipment.[54] In response to declining demand for drilling equipment, the rates oilfield service companies charge have fallen 30% on average.[55] Companies like Schlumberger N.V. (SLB) and Halliburton Company (HAL) have laid off employees and reduced their capital expenditures budgets. Although oilfield service companies have lowered their rates, only about half of U.S. rigs are operating.[56]
Schlumberger N.V. (SLB), Baker Hughes (BHI), and Halliburton Company (HAL) combined have cut about 10,000 jobs already since January 2009.[57] Although oil prices have risen 35% since the start of May, and the number of rigs in the U.S. rose in June 2009, the number of rigs operating in the U.S. is down by more than a 1,000 from a year ago.[58] As a result of lower energy demand, many oilfield service companies have begun cutting costs by reducing the size of their operation.[59]
Although rig counts in July 2009 are less than half of their levels a year earlier, U.S. rig counts have increased 5% in July 2009 since hitting a low in June 2009. There is more need for rigs because oil producers have the potential of increasing their revenue from oil prices that rose 25% during June and July.[60] On the other hand, natural gas rigs have remained relatively flat in 2009. Many oil producers have financed additional drilling operations by issuing debt, selling shares, or selling assets.[61] While increased rig counts have the potential of benefiting oilfield service companies, higher oil inventories are capable of reducing oil prices.[62]
Drilling activity has increased outside the U.S. as well. Russia, Mexico, Norway and China all experienced double-digit growth in drilling in the second quarter 2009.[63] Additionally, long-term deepwater drilling has also been increasing internationally.[64] Growth in drilling activities internationally has the potential of increasing sales for companies that operate internationally like Halliburton Company (HAL) and Schlumberger N.V. (SLB).[65]
On April 22, 2009 the Energy Information Association reported that crude inventories had reached 361.1 million barrels.[66] At this level, oil stocks are 14.3% above their 2008 level and are 1 million barrels short of their highest level since 1990.[67] In addition to the global recession beginning in 2007, high inventory levels are partially responsible for low 2009 crude prices. In order to reduce inventory levels in order to improve crude prices, many oil and gas producers reduced their crude oil production during the first four months of 2009.[68] Although the crude inventories and crude oil production vary from region to region, the overall decline in crude production has the potential to hurt the revenues of oil service companies that provide crude producers with equipment.[69]
According to several analysts, the demand for oil-field services and oil rigs has the potential to drop farther than analysts or oil service companies expected during the first three months of January.[70] The decline in the oil services sector is a result of the decline in oil prices beginning in 2008 and overall lower consumption levels of energy.[71] The number of active oil and natural-gas rigs fell 47% between September 2008 to March 2009.[72] Additionally, Schlumberger N.V. (SLB) reported that several of its clients have tried to negotiate current contract prices lower.[73]
Worldwide, 93% of jackups, 97% of semi-submersibles, and 100% of drillships are currently being utilized, with very few new offshore rigs coming online in 2008[74]. This makes significant offshore growth in 2008 relatively unlikely, as capital is already being used almost to capacity. With oil prices so high, rising demand will drive up oilfield services rates, as oil and gas companies must compete for oilfield services business. ,
The average drilling rig found anywhere in the world is about 25 years old[75]; while this technology may have been appropriate for extracting the easy-access oil that was right below the surface, as these reserves dry up companies are looking to deeper water and more complicated technology. Rig contractors and exploration companies worldwide are beginning to invest in building new rigs or upgrading old ones, taking advantage of the high margins caused by the current oil price level's effect on dayrates to spend on expensive technology. This spending has been met with high demand, as oilfield equipment companies are increasingly seeing record-level orders and backlogs[76] for new and upgraded rigs.
The hot new trend that has recently arisen in the oil industry is deepwater drilling - with shallower wells yielding less and less, and with potential profits through the roof thanks to high prices, oil and gas companies are paying the big bucks to oilfield services companies who can drill where they couldn't drill before. Though deepwater success rates have only averaged around 30% since 1985 (before which they averaged 10%)[77], newer technology means these numbers are increasing, and with oil prices so high, exploratory drillers have the pocket money to fund such risky ventures. There are currently a limited number of deepwater and ultra-deepwater drills in the world, putting a premium on their contract prices; companies that own and contract deepwater rigs, as well as those that build them, are seeing prices, revenues, and backlogs skyrocket as oil and gas companies dig deeper into their wallets to drill deeper into the seabed.
Many companies are attempting to extract more oil than before from existing wells, using complex new technologies - this is the primary driver of increased investment in Middle Eastern oilfields. Most of the more accessible reserves in the region have already been developed, but companies are now looking to get more out of them, and to extract from more difficult terrain. This has driven demand for oilfield equipment that can access and extract from the more complex geological formations that made draining a reserve previously impossible. Though these technologies were previously too expensive for oil companies to take interest in, the current level of oil prices means that there is enough cash flooding the industry to fund investment in this hardware.
Whenever rigs are set up in regions that have turbulent storm seasons, they are at risk of receiving costly damages. Furthermore, oil and gas companies often cut back on production when storms are passing through to avoid worker injuries and other problems, lowering revenues for oilfield services companies. Third-quarter income for companies with rigs in the Gulf of Mexico tends to lag when production is brought down to prevent damage from the hurricanes that sweep the coast in late summer. Similar problems exist during the fourth quarter for companies with rigs in the turbulent North Sea, as well as in the snowier regions of Russia.
Whether it's because of climate change fears, the uncertainty surrounding the price of oil, or the desire to separate energy needs from terrorist regimes, people are slowly becoming disillusioned by the world's dependence on oil and gas. Many developed, politically-progressive regions like Europe are beginning to transition away from these sources of energy, and towards renewable energy. The recession of 08 and 09 is only a temporary setback. The new American president has made clear his support for renewable energy,[78] and oil prices are expected to steadily recover. In emerging markets like China and India, the drive for economic growth supersedes environmental concerns, but growing popular and legislative support for renewables in these regions threatens oil's long-term dominance. China has announced its intention to increase nuclear energy production in its country 455% by 2020, and 1677% by 2030.[79] Any decline in oil demand will lead to a decline in oil prices - and a decline in demand for oilfield services.
Turbulence in the Middle East poses a threat to many oilfield services companies because the region is a smoldering hotbed of drilling activity. Oil rigs, as "western establishments", would be likely targets for terrorist attacks. Aside from harming the employees at such facilities, terrorist attacks could slow production and effect costly damages to expensive equipment - all leading to declines in regional profitability. Political instability in many oil producing regions also threatens the operations of oilfield services companies through the possibility of violence or asset nationalization; the latter was seen recently when Hugo Chavez of Venezuela seized the assets of multiple oil majors (Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell) in 2007.


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Swarthmore Labor Action Project (SLAP) would like to update the campus community about the status of the campaign for card check neutrality at the proposed Swarthmore Inn. This week, we met with President Bloom and came to a mutual understanding that the College can make a timely decision, regardless of its economic situation or the status of the hotel project. We communicated to President Bloom that our concern stems from the reality that the hotel's operator—not the College—will have ultimate control over jobs at the hotel and as such could not be held accountable to the campus community. Consequently, it is imperative that the College sign an agreement guaranteeing workplace democracy in advance.
Broad campus-wide support for the hotel campaign and growing national consensus in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act clearly indicate that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) process is seriously flawed and that card check neutrality is the appropriate alternative. We hope that President Bloom and the Board of Managers will act accordingly.
In our meeting, President Bloom agreed that his senior staff will discuss the issue in the coming week and will meet with a union representative to look over the language of card check agreements. We look forward to hearing back from the administration as to the results of those conversations and to a timely decision that reflects the College's stance on workplace democracy. It would be a shame if the College fell behind other comparable institutions in its longstanding commitment to social responsibility.
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School board rejects bids to purchase abandoned elementary
Board and city council intend to work together to demolish building
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The Southern Calhoun School District closed the Lohrville elementary building following the 2011-12 school year.
September 26, 2013
In a joint special meeting of the Lohrville city council, the Southern Calhoun (SC) school board and the South Central Calhoun (SCC) school board, Southern Calhoun officials voted to work with the city to demolish the abandoned elementary school in Lohrville, rejecting all current bids to purchase the building. The demolition project could cost as much as $350,000.
The Southern Calhoun school board, which currently owns the building, will split the cost of the demolition bidding process with the Lohrville council. Once official bids have been received, the governing bodies will meet again to determine what portion of demolition costs each entity will pay if all agree to move forward with demolition.
This decision was supported by the SCC board, composed of members of both the Southern Calhoun and Rockwell City-Lytton districts. The two will officially consolidate on July 1, 2014. Though the SC board currently controls the fate of the Lohrville building, an agreement made without the support of the future board could be overturned once the consolidation is finished.
Tuesday night's special meeting in the Lohrville EMS building was the second of two held this month to specifically address the issue of the abandoned school. The first was held Sept. 18.
In a brief presentation on the financial situation of the districts, shared superintendent Jeff Kruse laid out the options available to the board: sell the property, keep the property and transfer the ownership to the SCC board next year, give the building to the city, demolish the building and deal with an empty lot, reject current bids and reopen the bidding process to try to sell the building, or try to negotiate another agreement.
The elementary building is the third closed in the two districts. Southern Calhoun closed its Lincoln Elementary building in Lake City in 2007, and RCL closed its Lytton Middle School building in 2009. Both buildings were sold, the former to Larry Waters for $22,000 and the latter to Mike Penniman for $10,000. Both buyers were from the area.
The Lohrville elementary building was closed in 2012, at which point board members stated a desire to work with the community in disposing of the building, though the council has no official vote on the issue. According to Kruse, the board's initial hope was to sell the building. The Southern Calhoun district received about $20,000 from a sale of the building's contents and is in the process of selling the bus barn for $27,900.
"It's my feeling that we've done a good job trying to communicate our intent the entire time," said Kruse.
The SC school board received two bids for the Lohrville property. Fort Dodge Youth Development offered $6,000 to convert the building and grounds into a seminary and facility for troubled youth. However, Lohrville residents expressed concerns about that bid, referencing director Eric Jones' past, which included multiple felony charges for drugs, weapons, assault and sexual assault, the latter landing him on the Iowa Sex Offender Registry.
The board also received a bid from Missouri contractor G.W. Duncan, who offered $11,100 for the building and stated his intent to resell the building to a third party that would renovate and convert the building. Residents and council members were also not satisfied with the Duncan bid, stating fears that he would not be able to sell the property, that the dilapidated structure would detract attention from the appealing parts of the community, and that the town would eventually end up fiscally responsible for tearing it down.
"The Lake City person (Waters) is local, he's come in, mowed the law, made it presentable," said council member Denise Brobst. "We can't guarantee this guy (Duncan) is even going to mow the lawn once he takes it over."
The Lohrville City Council would rather see the building demolished and the lot converted to a green space, or empty lot that could be used for future development.
Duncan, who attended the Sept. 18 meeting, said that buildings he has resold before have become preschools, libraries, gyms and community centers. In one case, he was not able to resell a building, so the district bought it back and tore it down.
"Best-case scenario, a thriving business or family of 10 moves in," said Duncan. "Worst-case scenario, it gets torn down either way."
However, councilwoman Tami Mohr and Lohrville mayor Donny Hobbs were concerned that it would be more expensive to demolish the building in the future, and that there would be fewer salvageable materials at that point to help offset the cost. The building is already leaking in several places and does not generate much property-tax revenue. Mohr also said that she found Duncan's proposal "unimpressive" and thought it wasn't likely the building would be repurposed as Lohrville already has a library, community center and emergency services building.
Council members approached Impact7G, a company recommended by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources that specializes in community redevelopment, environmental compliance, sustainability and telecommunications. According to Mohr, the company provided the city with an "opinion of probable cost" that estimated the price of demolishing the elementary building at $345,800. Asbestos abatement accounted for $85,700 of the total.
But the city does not have the money to demolish the building itself. Mohr said that the city could be eligible for up to $75,000 in competitive grant money to help with the demolition but suggested that the school board cover a majority of the demolition cost.
At the Sept. 18 meeting, SC board members explained that any large expenditure now would affect the South Central Calhoun board's ability to provide for students in the future by taking away funding for the new district. In addition, the district has already set aside a portion of its future revenue to pay for a fine-arts addition at the high school, a debt the SC board disclosed to Rockwell City and Lytton residents before they voted to move forward with consolidation. Furthermore, South Central Calhoun would not be required to uphold an agreement made by Southern Calhoun.
"You can never bind a future board to a decision by a past board," said Kruse. "If we hold the building past July 1, they (SCC board members) have to take over and it becomes an asset, or a liability depending on how you look at it, of the new district."
Mohr indicated that she didn't understand how all the financial incentives received for district consolidation were already spent.
"Explain it to me," she said. "Closing the building would have been cost-savings. It seems like we could scrape up a little more money somewhere."
In the follow-up meeting Tuesday night that included members of the SCC board, Kruse explained that the districts had come together in large part for financial reasons. Both districts ran general-fund deficits in recent years. General-fund money pays for instructional costs such as salaries and textbooks.
"Closing buildings is one piece that has allowed both districts to get their houses back in financial order," he said.
Only two budget funds are eligible to use for building purposes - physical plant and equipment levy (PPEL) revenue and 1-cent sales tax revenue. These funds also cover technology and transportation needs for the district. Based on estimated costs and revenue for the 2013-14 school year, Kruse believes the SC and RCL PPEL accounts will have balances of $230,000 and $160,000, respectively, at the time of consolidation, while the 1-cent sales-tax funds have current balances of $135,000 and $700,000 for SC and RCL, respectively.
According to Kruse's figures, the new SCC district is expected to generate about $130,000 annually through PPEL funds and about $600,000 annually through 1-cent sales-tax revenue. About $230,000 of the 1-cent sales tax funds is pledged to the fine-arts addition at Lake City for the next seven years. Proposed buildings projects for the combined SCC districts include parking and roofing needs, as well as about $100,000 annually on increasing technology needs. Funds would be constricted if used for demolition, Kruse said. He suggested that the SCC board could go to the polls and request a voter levy, which could generate up to $500,000 a year for infrastructure needs for the next decade.
"I see us trying to balance academic needs, our mission statement, what's best for the school and community, as well as financial issues that will face us as a district," said Kruse.
SC and SCC board president Jim Brown said that he felt it would be in the best interest of the new district to have the Lohrville issue behind it when the consolidation took place. He asked what percentage of the cost of demolition the city would be willing to share. SCC and SC board member Roscoe Simpson thought the question was unfair.
"Really it's not theirs, it's ours," he said. "Getting rid of the structure is part of having the structure."
SC and SCC board member Mark Schleisman disagreed.
"We have another option, they just don't like it," he said. "And I understand why you don't like it," he added, addressing the council members.
However, after 90 minutes of deliberation Tuesday night, the intent to demolish prevailed in a unanimous vote to reject bids.
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The group recently released its debut album, From the Hills Below the City. Hear Houndmouth perform four of its songs on this installment of World Cafe.
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Fright Night (2011) (US - BD)
Gabe witnesses the most orange and teal vampire battle in cinematic history...
After years of awkward adolescence Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) has come out of his shell, and is one of the cool kids at his Las Vegas high school. He has a great girlfriend Amy Peterson (Imogen Poots), he gets along with his divorced mother Jane (Toni Collette), and he's more or less living the teen dream. Then Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. Despite a fair bit of construction, Jerry seems like a normal enough guy, until Charley's childhood friend Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) explains that people started going missing when Jerry appeared in town, and that Jerry shows all the signs of being a vampire. Charley initially disregards Ed's suspicions, attributing them to his obsession with the occult, but soon realizes that Jerry is, in fact, a vampire.
Usually I don't really care when I don't love popular movies, but I've always been a little sad that the original Fright Night didn't connect with me. I enjoy most of writer/director Tom Holland's other film's ( Class of 1984, Psycho II and Child's Play specifically), enjoy the general concepts found in the amusing script, and I quite enjoy Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowall's performances, but as a whole Fright Night never quite clicked with me. But this is good news in remake terms, considering the original has all the ingredients for something I love. Surely someone else could take them and concoct them into something truly magical.
This Fright Night's modernization of the original film's basic character elements is perhaps a little too on the mark, occasionally even awkward (we really don't even need to mention Twilight at this point guys, it's understood), but it's also a necessary part of the remake process. Teenagers aren't afraid of their moms dating debonair types like Chris Sarandon anymore, they're afraid of raw, dirty, sexy mother f**ckers like Colin Ferrell. This particular subtext is the original film's best and most novel subtext. Ferrell is very well cast here, and is clearly enjoying himself with the role. He's hammy without tripping over himself, and his occasional sardonic one-liners are among the film's biggest laughs. I also kind of like the fact that Jerry the vampire watches reality TV trash and likes beer. The more that's different about the character, the better. There's also little reason for teenagers to be watching late night horror hosts anymore, and readjusting the Peter Vincent character to be a Chris Angel type douche bag magician is rather brilliant. Roddy McDowall's original version (which he played in two films) is a more likeable person, but there's room for a pricklier Vincent in this film. David Tennant threatens to over do it with the whole filthy cuss-bucket thing, but he reels it in just enough, and sells what could've been a one-note joke. However, the original Fright Night has become a part of the pop-culture horror lexicon, and even those who haven't seen it have seen parodies, references, and rip-offs. There's a heavy sense of déjà vu throughout the film, which isn't unusual for a remake, but shouldn't be this prevalent. The first half of the film ticks away pleasantly enough, but the changes struck me more as clever than good.
What's ironic is that just when Marti Noxon's screenplay starts moving away from the original film the movie starts to lose me. A lot of this stems from the film's relatively low budget, and Gillespie's inexperience with special effects and action. The car chase that kicks off the third act looks cheap, the apparently digital backdrops are empty, and there's never any real sense of taking place outdoors. The following fight scene lacks physical and emotional weight, none of the scares really land, and I was disappointed by the lack of heavy gore (which was also a problem I had with the original film). But this would be pretty easy to overlook had I felt any real emotional investment in what was going on. There are neat ideas aplomb, even some genuinely creepy ones (especially the basement-cum-dungeon nest), but there's little sense of inevitability, as if the film wasn't quite written, but made up on the spot based on set availability. There's also a lingering sense of Noxon and Gillespie showing their cards way too early. The original film has much more of a build, which leads to a shorter, but more satisfying climax. Farrell's sly and libidinous performance is bereft of enigma too early, turning him into an equally libidinous monster without an entirely satisfying build up. And Farrell's performance isn't the only one robbed of impact thanks to the action heavy focus of the film's second half. We're forced to take Yelchin's relationship with everyone around him for granted. His scenes with Collette and Poots are affecting enough to make some sense, but Mintz-Plasse is an afterthought (along with the first act bullies and hot neighbor), only acting as a somewhat backhanded reference for the original film's fans. In fact, only Tennant is given more to do thanks to the strange division of style between the first and last halves of the film.
So a friend of mine linked me a blog article about the dreadful place digital grading has left modern Hollywood. The original writer was pointing out the fact that a scary number of movies that are effectively orange and teal. All I can do now is notice how right this is, and it's sort of ruined everything I've seen since. The good news is that Fright Night isn't exactly orange and teal. The bad news is that it's almost fetishistically yellow and teal. Or perhaps amber and teal. Sure, there are reasonably warm skin tones, some brownish furniture, and there is a strong sense of red as a poppy hue (you know, blood and all), but for the most part Gillespie and cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe appear to have a hard on for teal specifically. The costume design is even based almost entirely in the colour. Dark sequences are the biggest offender, appearing quite literally monochromatic save the deepest black shadows. Besides the ridiculous colour timing, there's nothing much to complain about with this 2D transfer. The consistent colours look solid, details are sharp enough that you can count the discoloured spots on Ferrell's t-shirt, and the digital HD photography ensures some really nice, subtle blends. There's practically nothing in the way of digital noise and artefacts, outside of some minor ghosting, low level noise in the darkest backdrops, and a few minor pieces of edge enhancement. The biggest issue I have with the transfer is the utter darkness of the night scenes, specifically night scenes that take place indoors. Perhaps the 3D process somehow magically separates these over-shadowed images, but I couldn't tell what the hell was going on for entire chunks of scenes, especially the central car 'chase'.
There's not a whole lot to say about this particular DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack outside of the fact that it sounds good, and its minor shortcomings are found in the scope of the original tracks. There's quite a bit going on throughout the channels, some of it noisy, some of it soft and subtle, all of it clear and warm. There aren't many excessive directional effects (injured vampires have a cool habit of scurrying into the rear channels, and the front part of the end credits are a bit of a surround sound celebration), but there's plenty of general ambient business throughout the film. Ramin Djawadi's score is delightfully brassy, hitting some really aggressive, high volume notes, deep, vibrating bass, and is active throughout the stereo and surround channels. The heavy, uber-theatrical nature of the score is genuinely awesome, even when it's overselling generally un-frightening scares. There's also (apparently required for this type of film) a club scene, which will give your sub a decent workout. My only complaint here is that I found the overall volume levels of the center channel dialogue too soft.
The extra features here begin with Peter Vincent: Come Swim in My Mind (2:09, HD), an amusing mock-advertisement featuring Tennant discussing Vincent's stage show in character. This is followed by The Official "How to Make a Funny Vampire Movie" Guide (8:00, HD), which is a general behind the scenes EPK all gussied up in a fun framing device. This includes interviews with writer Marti Noxon, director Craig Gillespie, producers Alison R. Rosenzweig and Michael De Luca, actors Imogen Poots, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Colin Ferrell, David Tennant, Toni Collette and Anton Yelchin, effects supervisor Howard Berger, prop master Ben Lowney, and production designer Richard Bridgland. Subject matter includes Colin Ferrell's performance, the vampire rules, the film's gore quotient, the film's props, music, production design, and the mix of comedy and horror. The disc also features five deleted/extended scenes (4:50, HD), Squidman: Extended and Uncut (3:00, HD), a blooper reel (3:20, HD), Kid Cudi's 'No One Believes Me' music video (5:20, HD), and trailers.
I'd love to say that Fright Night is a member of the incredibly rare remakes that tops the original, but it's such an overall disappointed it only makes me appreciate the original film more than I previously had. If that disc wasn't so bloody expensive I might've ended up buying it. This isn't a bad film, and it features some great performances, but it's frustratingly uneven. The Blu-ray looks good (assuming you're a fan of orange and teal), and sounds decent, but features very little in the way of extra material.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th December 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, DVS 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Peter Vincent: Come Swim in My Mind, The Official How to Make a Funny Vampire Movie Guide, Bloopers, Music Video, Deleted and Extended Scenes, Squid Man: Extended and Uncut, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette
Genre: Comedy and Horror
Length: 106 minutes
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State transportation officials are reminding Memorial Day drivers of Ohio's roughly 1,000 construction zones.
Ohio's Department of Transportation says construction work may be suspended over the holiday in many work zones, but some restrictions could impact drivers.
Transportation Director Jerry Wray is warning of possible crashes and slowdowns around the sites. He encourages drivers to ease their speed around the construction zones and wear a seat belt.
In central Ohio, near Columbus, drivers will see the reduced speed of 45 mph through parts of construction on Interstates 71 and 670.
The Interstate 90 Innerbelt Bridge through downtown Cleveland remains open, though multiple ramps along the downtown corridor are closed.
Permanent work zone restrictions remain in place on Interstate 75 in Hamilton County, but work is suspended over the holiday.


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August 3, 1935 - July 21, 2013
Milford, PA
Harold L. Tampier, age 77, of Milford, PA, passed away Sunday, July 21, 2013 at Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, NY. The son of the late Ernest and Viola (Maillet) Morgan, Charles was born August 3, 1935 in Port Jervis, and was raised by Jennie Tampier.
Harold worked as a welder for Perk's Welding in Port Jervis. A US Army veteran, Harold was a member of the American Legion Marsh-Kellogg Post #139, a 50-year member of the B.P.O.E. #645 in Port Jervis, and a former member of Rescue #3, also in Port Jervis.
He was predeceased by his wife, Merilda (Presto) Tampier; his son, Charles Tampier; his two sisters: Betty Wood and Dixie Balmos, and his brother, Paul Manwaring. Harold is survived by his daughter, Merilda and her husband, Shawn Cronin of Sparta, NY; his sisters: Lovyon and her husband, Jim Eckart and Shirley and her husband, Ray Ostrom, both of Port Jervis; his brothers: Robert Morgan of Cuddeback Village, NY, Ernest Morgan and his wife, Sue, and Richard Morgan, both of Port Jervis. Harold also leaves behind his seven grandchildren: Jennie, Bryce, Rachel, Keith, Emily, Mary, and Daniel; one great-grandchild, Hanna, as well as many nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at Stroyan Funeral Home, 405 W. Harford St., Milford, PA (www.stroyanfuneralhome.com) on Thursday, July 25th, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. A Funeral Service for Harold will be held on Thursday, July 25th, at 8 p.m. at Stroyan Funeral Home.
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Goffstown resident pushes for better handicap access for voting
GOFFSTOWN - As a polling site on election day, Goffstown High School is technically compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act access requirements, but more could be done.
That was the conclusion of Jillian Shedd of the Governor's Commission on Disability and Wayne Perreault, a Goffstown resident and longtime advocate for the disabled, during a walk through the high school this week. They were joined by Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Manning, Town Administrator Susan Desruisseaux and Town Clerk Cathy Ball.
"This has to be fair and accessible for everybody," said Perreault. "We should take the time this morning to go over the checklist and see what can be done. The ADA doesn't have to cost a fortune. I'm just hoping we can all get something done here today."
Among the options being considered is a temporary ramp or curb cut in front of the section of the building that houses the gymnasium and the cafeteria, additional handicapped parking spaces in front of the gym, additional signs pointing out access routes during elections and installation of a temporary ramp off a loading dock in the rear of the building closer to the room where voting takes place, along with additional handicapped parking spots there.
The meeting was called at the urging of Perreault, who has long advocated on behalf of the disabled for better access to public buildings. Perreault, who had a kidney transplant last August and suffered from neuropathy, said the distance between handicapped parking spaces at the high school and where voting takes place is about 300 feet.
"That's way too far to walk for someone who has a disability," Perreault said. "The hidden disability thing - it's always been an issue for a lot of people."
Shedd said that while the Governor's Commission on Disability has no enforcement power, it does make recommendations on how a town or school department can either comply with ADA guidelines or improve access to polling sites if the town is already compliant.
Shedd added that communities are free to take steps that go "above and beyond" what the ADA requires, and often that means volunteer participation.
Ball said about 50 students typically volunteer their time during elections to assist people as they're voting. That includes students who use two wheelchairs from the nurse's office to shuttle people who have difficulty walking from the school's handicapped accessible entrance to the cafeteria where voting takes place. In addition, she said, those students are easily recognizable because they wear T-shirts identifying themselves as election volunteers.
Manning said difficulties with ADA compliance often arise because public buildings are not necessarily designed as polling places. "The challenge is we don't build buildings for voting," Manning said. "We build them for other things, and this presents challenges for local officials."
Still, Perreault said he doesn't think enough has been done locally to remove all the election day barriers to voting for disabled people. "I know a number of people who feel this way but are afraid to speak out," said Perreault. "I don't think it has to be this way. I think we can do better."
Desruisseaux said the next step is to wait for a report from Shedd that will suggest recommendations on how to improve voter access for the disabled. Once she gets that report, she will present options to the Board of Selectmen.


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A report is sitting at the Justice Department, unpublished. It has been there for two years. Titled The Health Status of Soon-to-be-Released Inmates, it was compiled by experts who sat on three panels: one on communicable diseases, one on chronic diseases and a third on mental illness. Their findings are, to say the least, somewhat startling. Estimating that 11.5 million Americans cycle in and out of jail or prison each year (the great majority of them short-term jail inmates), the report suggests that more than 18 percent of hepatitis C virus (HCV) carriers in the country pass through the jail or prison system annually, as do 8 percent of those with HIV and one-third of those with active tuberculosis (TB). Six percent of incoming inmates, according to the report, show evidence of recent syphilis infection, 6 percent have chlamydia and up to 4 percent have gonorrhea. Experts believe that for these diseases, the infection rates (the number of cases per 100,000) among prisoners are upward of ten times those found in the American population as a whole.
"It's clearly a public health issue," says Ted Hammett of the Boston-based research group Abt Associates. "These people find themselves in prisons and jails; therefore there's a tremendous opportunity for intervention."
Intervening would be a smart economic move, too. In tandem with the medical report, economists affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control were commissioned to write three background papers positing economic models for treatment and screening protocols inside prisons. Although their data also remain unpublished, one of the authors, CDC health economist Dr. Beena Varghese, reports that their models predict that for such a disease as HIV, offering screening to an additional 10,000 inmates will likely detect fifty new cases; counseling those who test positive will, their model estimates, prevent the disease from being passed on to four more people than would be the case absent such a program. Since the additional screening and counseling (minus the fixed costs already incurred for starting up a blood-testing program) runs to approximately $125,000, while the cost of treating four more cases of HIV/AIDS over the patients' lifetime is estimated to be $800,000, Varghese's team believes such screening to be extremely cost-effective.
The economists also predicted that universal screening of inmates for STDs and treatment for those who test positive would curb transmission of diseases like syphilis when inmates return to the community and thus save the public health system tens of millions of dollars per year. "You get a bigger bang for the buck," says one doctor involved in compiling the report. "If there's only one in a thousand, it's not very cost-effective" to screen all inmates. "But if you have a prevalence rate of more than one in twenty and you're able to cure the disease, you have tremendous costs saved."
In response to these dramatic statistics, The Health Status of Soon-to-be-Released Inmates, according to those with access to its contents, recommends a massively expanded data collection system that would allow public health authorities to track and treat infectious diseases among this population group (that is, of cons and ex-cons) and their friends and lovers out in the community. It also endorses a policy of universal hepatitis B (HBV) immunization for incoming inmates–as a way to limit the amount of liver disease in an at-risk group already deeply vulnerable to the often-untreatable HCV. And it urges a far greater degree of coordination between correctional health systems and public health authorities, so as to provide continuous medical treatment and adherence to treatment regimens, for patients both inside jail or prison and those recently released.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 14 (UPI) -- Dejan Kravic tipped in a shot at the buzzer Wednesday to push Texas Tech into the Big 12 quarterfinals with a 71-69 decision over West Virginia.
Texas defeated TCU in the other opening-round game 70-57.
Wednesday's two winners will meet the conference co-champions in Thursday's quarterfinals -- Texas Tech taking on No. 6 Kansas and Texas facing 12th-ranked Kansas State. The other quarterfinals will send Oklahoma against Iowa State and Oklahoma State against Baylor.
Jaye Crockett scored 18 points to lead Texas Tech (11-19), which quickly ended the Mountaineers first appearance in the Big 12 Tournament.
Julien Lewis made four 3-pointers and scored 19 points for Texas (16-16) in its victory over the Horned Frogs. The Longhorns pulled away in the second half after owning only a two-point lead at the break.
TCU's season came to an end at 11-21, but the Frogs had the consolation of pulling off one of the year's biggest upsets in college basketball -- a victory over Kansas.


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Pretty but too-short-to-be-fashion-models, uniformly caucasian actresses, with the exception of future "Matrix" star Carrie-Ann Moss who is in fact not height-challenged in the slightest, portray fashion models in the mid-1990's when high fashion dictates mandated 5'10" minimum height to go with that anorexia, then as now. Its other genuine model height star Stephanie Romanov could also act, hence her character's being killed off in the pilot, to keep the playing field level.
That field included Cassidy Rae portraying a young Christie Brinkley type, were the latter a foot shorter and and alcoholic; Teresa Hill as the most modern-looking model, a total 90's archtype replete with de rigeuer parasite rocker boyfriend; Moss as the emotionally tormented, over the hill (gah! 27!) loser; Kylie Travis as the foxy Aussie Vixen model; Romanov as a dead model and her doppelganger; and later, Garcelle Beauvaise as the whoops, we forgot an African-American beauty model.
There were also a slew of forgettable (with the exception of David Goldsmith, so slimey-appealing as the parasite rocker boyfriend that his part was continued far after the initial scripts aimed to phase him out) male actors to accompany same, and "Dallas"'s Linda Gray looking more flustered than evil as the beeyotch owner of the Models, Inc. agency. She was supposed to be "Melrose Place"'s Heather Locklear's co-vixen mum in order to jumpstart the show. Emma Samms crept into later episodes in order to collect a salary.
Put them all together with the most turgid soap cliches and you get squat, right? Wrong! This show was so very over the top in every iota it attempted that it makes for fun an hilarious viewing. It is Cheese Supreme, and that's always yummy. Very, very, very watchable. Particularly the pilot and the first eight episodes of the show (halted in coitus interruptus cliff-hanger after 29 eps) which were shot in part at the house of Tv.com correspondent fastfilm.


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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) —
Unknown gunmen shot dead a Somali radio producer on Friday, the first journalist to be killed this year, an editor with his Somali radio station said. Eighteen journalists were killed last year, making Somalia one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists.
Two gunmen shot dead Shabelle producer Abdihared Osman Aden in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, said Mohamed Bashir Hashi, the radio station's editor.
Somali journalists say impunity is fueling the killings. The National Union of Somali Journalists said in November that journalists in almost every region of the country commonly face harassment, blackmail and arbitrary police detention. In addition, criminals are hired to suppress them.
"It's an appalling murder but my message is they cannot silence us from telling the truth," Hashi said.
No action has ever been taken following a case of violence against a Somali journalist, The National Union of Somali Journalist said in a report to mark the International Day to End Impunity on Nov. 23, sponsored by the free expression group, IFEX.
Somalia's government should implement judicial reforms that will aid free and fair trials, as well as provide judicial protection for the media and ensure that police adhere to the law, according to the report titled "Impunity: War on Somali Journalists." The international community can assist Somalia's federal government to put in place effective and functional public law and order, the report said.
Somalia made significant strides politically last year in trying to establish its first functional government to move the country away from its failed-state status.
Somalia had not had a functioning central government since 1991, when warlords overthrew a longtime dictator and turned on each other, plunging the impoverished nation into chaos.
African Union troops have helped to push Islamist extremists called al-Shabab out of all Somalia's major cities, giving the newly elected government a chance to rebuild the country.
The International Federation of Journalist says the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab insurgent group has maimed and killed journalists who do not toe their line.
With Hizbul-Islam, another hardline insurgent group, they have in recent years ratcheted up pressure on radio stations, first and foremost to ascertain their authority on what goes on air and to impose Taliban-type commandments on un-Islamic music, ringtones, film and football, says IFJ.


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Actually I heard today that his parents has already warned the School that their son was suicidal.LennyeTran wrote:Yeah, I wonder why he wasn't treated properly. Did his family pull him out of the treatment, or the authority decided that he would be fine afterwards? I mean, it'd be imbecile if they thought he would be fine by himself.danyet wrote:I think that the biggest failure here is that the records that showed that he was dangerous were ignored by a judge, who refused to have him treated in a state hospital. This was even after psychologists had said that he was dangerous to the public.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Microsoft Releases The Nokia X2
Navigating around the Nokia X2 is easy, thanks to Fastlane and the home and back buttons – the latter providing quick multitasking support.
Fastlane makes it easy to see what events you've got coming in the future, what apps you've used recently, as well as the different tasks you've performed throughout any given day, and with one tap, you've launched an app or responded to a notification.
The Nokia X2 is also equipped with another navigation option; the new 'apps list', which keeps your home screen clear for your most used apps.
More personalisation options are now available on the start screen, too, thanks to the tile color-picker feature.
Under the hood th3e new X2 has a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor. The phone is also equipped with a bigger 4.3-inch ClearBlack WGVA display, a dual-SIM, a 5MP camera with flash and auto focus on the back as well as a front-facing camera.
In terms of Microsoft-made apps, Skype, Outlook.com and OneDrive with 15GB storage are available right out of the box. Bing Search app, Yammer and Xbox games, including SnapAttack, Wordament and Kinectimals are available from the Nokia Store. The note-taking app, OneNote also makes its debut. For the socialites amongst you, LINE, WeChat, Path, Facebook and Facebook Messenger are also available. Naturally, HERE Maps and MixRadio come preloaded and can be used offline for when you've not got an Internet connection.
The Nokia X2 has the ability to run Android apps and is priced at €99 and available immediately in select countries globally.
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2G: up to 10 hours
3G: up to 13 hours
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As the growers of Tree Top, we take pride in sharing the pure goodness of our Washington orchards. And as the owners of the company, we sincerely thank you for enjoying the fruits of our labor.


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Skip Hop Toolbox Diaper Caddy – Review
December 18th, 2009
Our family uses most of the products we sell. That's how we seperate the great from the not-so-great. The combination of having 3 floors in our house and a 6-month old baby made me realize just how great this item really is. The Skip Hop Toolbox Diaper Caddy
The box itself is made of hard plastic, totally maintenance free and easy to wipe down. It's got 2 handy side slots and 2 little drawers for the small stuff.
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New technology and atmosphere greet Amityville School District students
Students and staff in the Amityville Public Schools have begun what school officials said should be an exciting year of learning and progress. From new computers to renovated playgrounds and spotless facilities, Amityville students have a positive environment.
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I have a quirky, smart-assed, intelligent sense of humor that can either bring the levity needed to lighten up the VERY dry area of law that I practice or can turn people off completely because the don't "get it." I am going to take the test and see what my FASCINATION FACTOR is!!! I loved this episode of Marie TV and I am excited to develop this area of my business personality! Thanks so much!
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In early February, a small Virginia-based company—REAN Cloud—that partners with Amazon Web Services announced a nearly $1 billion deal to provide cloud computing services for the Defense Department.
The contract caught many industry players by surprise, in part due to the $950 million value and partly because it was awarded without a traditional government procurement. This deal may be a harbinger for how the Defense Department plans to purchase certain technologies moving forward.
Using buying powers quietly imbued by Congress over the past three years, U.S. Transportation Command made the award to REAN Cloud under an other transaction production contract based on a prototype project last year to migrate military applications to Amazon Web Services' GovCloud region. The contract is a type of other transaction authority, commonly called an OT or OTA.
Led by the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, which acts as a liaison between the Pentagon and industry, the Defense Department is targeting non-traditional suppliers to rapidly provide cutting-edge commercial technologies that address national security and military challenges.
And unlike traditional purchases under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, which can take months or often years to award, OTAs can be issued in a matter of weeks.
"What we're seeing is a strong shift in the pendulum of those who'd like to replace regular contracting processes with OTAs," said Andrew Phillip Hunter, director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
REAN Cloud, which helps customers migrate to commercial cloud environments, is among the first companies to transition from a pilot contract with DIUx to a follow-on production contract.
REAN Cloud was awarded a $2.5 million proof of concept last May by U.S. Transportation Command only five weeks after responding to a DIUx white paper, the company's managing partner, Sekhar Puli, told . REAN Cloud earned about 70 percent of its $70 million in revenue last year from the commercial sector, where Puli said business happens fast and there are fewerbureaucratic hoops to jump through.
"Normally, we just don't play that [public sector] game," Puli said. "We were pleasantly surprised at the speed at which [DIUx and TRANSCOM] were moving."
The company's successful pilot led to February's much larger award—without additional competition—that could grow its business tenfold.
How Congress is Changing Procurement Rules
The Defense Department's new experiments with OTAs come from congressional pushes to buy technology more quickly.
Congress first granted the Defense Department the ability to use OTAs in 1994, mirroring authorities NASA first used in 1958. Congress rescinded some of those authorities to the Defense Department after the epic failure ofFuture Combat Systems, an OTA program that cost taxpayers $18 billion and produced almost nothing of value by the time the department canceled it in 2009.
Several years ago, however, defense hawks like Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., became concerned that adversaries like China and Russia were gaining technological ground on the U.S. military. Those countries exert control over companies within their borders and forsake fair and open competition for speed to market.
To combat the growing threat, the House and Senate Armed Services committees began expanding acquisition authorities in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, said Bill Greenwalt, formerly a Senate Armed Services Committee staffer who helped write portions of the 2016 and 2017 NDAAs.
New authorities gave the Defense Department the ability to grant follow-on production contracts without competition if competitive features were used to select prototype participants and participants successfully completed the prototype. The 2016 NDAA also allowed the Defense Department to grant OTAs to "a novel application of commercial technologies for defense purposes," a broad scope that brings ubiquitous technologies like cloud computing into the fold. Most analysts estimate the market for cloud computing within the Defense Department is several billion dollars and growing, due to the $40 billion it spends on IT each year.
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for what the Defense Department can spend on OTAs from $250 million to $500 million per transaction.
The 2018 NDAA also appears to institute a preference for awarding OTAs in science, technology and prototyping "to be applied in circumstances determined appropriate by the [secretary of Defense]."
"Congress has set up an alternative pathway, and that's an OTA," Greenwalt said, adding that lawmakers "really wanted to make it easier for the Defense Department to do business with companies."
OTAs can be issued to consortiums or directly to companies in as few as 10 days, and in the right circumstances, can avoid traditional contracting under the Federal Acquisition Regulation that Greenwalt said can be "mind-numbingly bureaucratic."
But oversight of OTAs is a concern, Hunter said.
The Government Accountability Office, which adjudicates bid protests over traditional contracts, does not handle disputes over OTAs. Companies that contest an OTA must make their case to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Few additional oversight measures are spelled out in the law. Payments of $5 million or more require examination by the Comptroller General, and transactions worth more than $500 million require the signoff of the Pentagon's top acquisition official.
In any case, Hunter said Congress will be watching.
"Congress giveth and Congress taketh away," Hunter said. "This is one of those great debates. From almost the first implementation of OTAs, there were those who said this is a better mousetrap than the federal contracting system and said the goal should be to replace regular contracting with OTAs. And then there are those who say OTAs have a specific, concrete place and that we should limit OTA authority to ensure they aren't abused."
OTAs Business is Booming
REAN Cloud is the second major production OTA award after California-based Tanium captured a contract worth up to $750 million from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. Production contracts like those for REAN Cloud and Tanium are funded entirely by customer agencies, not DIUx. In total, DIUx has awarded $184 million for 59 pilot projects since it relaunched in May 2016.
Analysts at state the Defense Department spent a record $412 million in obligations through OTA contracting in fiscal 2017, a massive increase over $3.5 million reported for OTA obligations in fiscal 2013.
If Congress is dangling OTAs like carrots, the Pentagon is biting.
"Time is of the essence. The work of groups like DIUx, the Strategic Capabilities Office, and the Rapid Capabilities Office should become standard practice, not workarounds to the regular system," McCain in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Dec. 7. "And we need these innovations for major defense acquisition programs, not just science and technology efforts."
REAN's Win Is Also an Amazon Win
REAN Cloud makes its money helping customers migrate applications, services and data to the cloud. In real estate terms, REAN Cloud helps customers move their belongings to the cloud of their choosing—their new home—but it doesn't own the cloud infrastructure itself, just as a realtor doesn't own the dwelling he or she is selling. REAN Cloud's biggest partner is AWS, which is the most profitable business within tech giant Amazon.
Its main competitors in the government space—IBM, CSRA ( now General Dynamics ), Oracle, Google and Microsoft—were noticeably absent from REAN Cloud's press release announcing its Defense Department contract. That's because REAN Cloud has thus far migrated applications and services for TRANSCOM only to AWS GovCloud. The company, if customers want, can migrate to Microsoft's Azure environment through specific task orders. Puli said REAN Cloud is beginning to work with Google and Oracle and hopes to soon be able to migrate Defense Department data to those popular environments, too.
By virtue of its partnership with REAN Cloud and its popularity as a cloud platform, AWS stands to make a lot of money through its smaller partner's $950 million award.
The timing of REAN Cloud's award is important, too. If a large number of Defense Department customers target the REAN Cloud contract as a vehicle to migrate their applications to the cloud, it could impact the Defense Department's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud acquisition. That acquisition, which materialized after a West Coast road trip by the Defense Department's top officials,
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to a multi-award approach and its early timeline has slipped. The Defense Department will host an industry day for the acquisition on March 7. Any significant delays in that process could sway customers toward TRANSCOM's contract, which the entire Defense Department can use.
Already, Puli told his company is adding about 100 employees to meet current demand.
All told, REAN Cloud turned a simple five-page white paper response into potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue by trying a different approach to government contracting that Congress opened up in recent years. Skeptical at first, Puli said the industry players that have long dominated federal contracting better take note because the Defense Department is tired of "traditional beltway bandits milking contracts through time and material." OTAs, he said, alleviate some of what's wrong with traditional government contracting.
"At first, we thought it sounded interesting and gave it a shot," Puli said. "I definitely hope other government agencies take a leap from this and implement technology in a similar way. I think there is something to be learned here."
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a kickerTuesday, June 23, 2009
The beginning of the summer pretty much kicks my butt every year. I have visions of days like this saturday... but they are anything but that. I will get used to all this running soon. I am sure of it.
Last Sunday was a bit of what I had been wanting. A day at home. I mean ALL day at home. I spent most of the day in the kitchen, with an occasional helper floating in and out. There was a fathers day breakfast of challah french toast, granola and bagels (didn't make them) with vegetable cream cheese. Then, hummus, pita chips, lots of raw vegetables, grilled shrimp with mango salsa, grilled vegetables, a huge salad, corn on the cob, sour dough bread with garlic scape pesto, and warm peach cobbler.
I marinated the shrimp in lime juice, olive oil and cilantro. For the mango salsa, I used 2 mangos diced, 1/2 red onion, minced, lime juice and a pinch of cayenne.
My absolute favorite was the bread. I posted a photo on flickr asking what it was. I have never seen a scape. Seriously! I know! And Julie mentioned Brian's post and the next thing I knew I was making this. I spread the scape pesto on sour dough bread, sprinkled feta cheese and criss crossed roasted red peppers on top. Baked at 350˚ for 20 minutes. Sliced on the diagonal about every 1 1/2 inches. Seriously delicious. My sister makes this bread with an Italian loaf, basil pesto and jack cheese. Still including the red peppers.
It stayed light until around 9:15 pm. Love that. It was just long enough to knit two rows before falling into bed. Not nearly enough knitting time, but I plan on changing that this week.
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I always have the "Dream" what the day or week will be but in the end it is usually just the dream as the running and other get in the way. I am learning to accept it. Weekends are especially hard. I need to go through our summer and X off days that will be home days!! They are the best. Enjoy!
I'm so glad you knew the day you wanted and how wonderful it was Father's Day, a celebration of family!ReplyDelete
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Lovely and awesome!ReplyDelete
Looks good. My local farmer's market hasn't been selling scapes, but they have been selling baby garlic (almost the same thing) with the long greens attached to a tiny little bulb. It's delicious and not quite as strong a garlic flavor. Yum!ReplyDelete
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Ah man, when I saw these photos I wanted to dig in!!! That bread...!!!!!! I MUST try that. Don't you just love Barefoot?!?ReplyDelete
What a great table scape, as Sandra Lee would call it. So relaxing, peaceful, and beautiful.
I spent my day in the kitchen as well, preparing food for 10. The rest of the afternoon was just hanging out and knitting. Yay!!
Hugs and a great day~Jan
i am going to have to go looking at the farmers market for garlic scapes. i think it might be too late here. boo.ReplyDelete
anyhow, i hope you get back into the swing of things. we are still working on it here, but it gets better every day.
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I love that last shot- it evokes a mood I would love to set around here... I'm working on it!ReplyDelete
I hope you have many more moments like that this summer- enjoy!
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you can all come cook for me any time - food looks and sounds just gorgeous :-)ReplyDelete
Very envious of your summer weather! Your food sounds delicious - love the look of your sour dough bread with pesto - yummmm.ReplyDelete
Your blog is soo cute & nice!! Regards from Agneta in SwedenReplyDelete
the flowers on the table look so pretty!ReplyDelete
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Oh, oh, oh! When I saw Thanks to Julie and Brian, over on flickr on the tags, I just didn't know it was me! You are so welcome.ReplyDelete
I have to try some of this soon.
Thanks for the credit because all I did was point the references.
I am glad you had a nice saturday, I love that kind of days.
that bread has my mouth watering! it looks delicious!ReplyDelete
(i'm still getting my butt kicked by summer...but i think it's finally getting a little bit better...yay!!)
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