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DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Shell Oil Products US – Deer Park, Houston, Texas is being awarded a maximum $882,846,124.00 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for aviation fuel. Other location of performance is Deer Park, Texas. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. There were 48 proposals originally solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is April 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-D-0470).

Delek Refining, Ltd., Tyler, Texas is being awarded a maximum $101,902,496.10 fixed price with economic price adjustment, partial set-aside, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for aviation fuel. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. The original proposal was Web solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is April 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-D-0476).

Hermes Consolidated, Inc., Denver, Colo., is being awarded a maximum $41,079,600.00 fixed price with economic price adjustment, partial set-aside, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for aviation fuel. There are no other locations of performance. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. The original proposal was Web solicited with 23 responses. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is April 30, 2009. The contracting activity is Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-08-D-0478).

ARMY

Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Orlando, Fla., was awarded on March 31, 2008, a $91,340,065 firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of a building complex to support United States Southern Command and their collaborative partners. Work will be performed at U.S. Southcom Headquarters, Miami-Doral, Florida. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by April 16, 2009. Web bids were solicited on Aug. 8, 2007 and three bids were received. Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Ala. is the contracting agency (W91278-08-C-0021).

Stewart & Stevenson Tactical Vehicle Systems Limited Partnership, Sealy, Texas, was awarded on March 31, 2008, a $43,579,276.55 firm-fixed price contract for adding long-term armor strategy A1P2 cabs to 730 family of medium tactical vehicles. Work will be performed in Sealy, Texas. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by Nov. 15, 2008. Two bids were solicited on Aug. 15, 2002 and two bids were received. U.S. Army TACOM, Warren, Mich. is the contracting agency (DAAE07-03-C-S023).

Archer Western Contractors, Chicago, Ill., was awarded on April 1, 2008, a $41,000,000 firm-fixed price contract for design and construction of the joint use intelligence analysis facility. Work will be performed in Charlottesville, Va. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by Sept. 31, 2011. 80 bids were solicited on Sept. 21, 2007 and two bids were received. U.S. Army Engineer District, Norfolk, Va. Is the contracting agency (W91236-08-C-0031).

Sundt Construction, Tempe, Ariz., was awarded on March 31, 2008, a $20,745,734 firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of one new unaccompanied personnel barracks building. Work will be performed at Fort Carson, Colo. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by May 30, 2009. Five bids were solicited on Dec. 4, 2007 and two bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, Neb. Is the contracting agency (W912DQ-08-D-0008).

Foster Miller, Waltham, Mass., was awarded on March 31, 2008, a firm-fixed price contract for spall liner kits for the RG-31 Mark III and Mark V. Work will be performed in Waltham, Mass. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by March 30, 2009. One bid was solicited on Nov. 30, 2007. U.S. Army TACOM, Warren, Mich. is the contracting agency (W56HZV-08-C-0172).

Sletten Companies, Phoenix, Ariz. was awarded on March 28, 2008, an $11,981.566 firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of a human intelligence training facility. Work will be performed in Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by July 31, 2009. Web bids were solicited on Jan. 24, 2008, and six bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, Calif. is the contracting agency (W912PL-08-C-0008).

Jacobs/Huitt-Zollars, St. Louis, Mo. was awarded on March 31, 2008, a $8,644,805 firm-fixed price contract for design implementation and integration services for the site infrastructure and brigade combat teams projects. Work will be performed at Fort Bliss, Texas. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2008. One bid was solicited on March 21, 2008. U.S. Army Engineer District, Fort Worth, Texas, is the contracting agency (W9126G-06-D-0011).

AIR FORCE

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Air Combat Systems of San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a contract for $10,000,000. This effort is for Lot 8 advance purchase items for: two Block RQ-4 Air Vehicles; three Block 40 Air Vehicles (AV); four Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensors; four Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suites (EISS); Mission Control Element (MCE) One Launch Recovery Element (LRE). At this time $10,000,000 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-08-C-3001).

GSD&M Idea City, LLC of Austin, Texas, is being awarded a requirement contract for $6,000,000. The Air Force requires a full-services advertising agency capable of providing non-personal services necessary to management, supervision, personnel labor, material and equipment (except for Government furnished items) required to plan, create, design, produce, place, evaluate and measure the effectiveness of advertising and special events in support of Air Force active duty national, regional, and local recruiting marketing support. At this time $0 has been obligated. Randolph AFB, Texas, is the contracting activity (FA3002-08-D-0019).

NAVY

Lockheed Martin Corp., St. Paul, Minn., is being awarded a $9,204,957 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-04-D-0082) to procure thirty-seven (37) advanced data storage systems and install, along with R-4100-02 chassis, into P-3 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASuW) Improvement Program (AIP) aircraft. Work will be performed in Oldsmar, Fla. (65 percent); and Eagan, Minn. (35 percent) and is expected to be completed in April 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $1,208,550 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

On Halloween, Deborah Myers (Sheri Moon Zombie) is called into her son Michael's (Daeg Faerch) school after the principal becomes concerned with Michael's behavior, as well as the discovery of a series of Polaroids of dead animals Michael keeps in his locker. Present at the meeting is Dr. Samuel J. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), a child psychologist, who informs Deborah that Michael displays the warning signs of a psychopath and urges her to allow him to further assess the boy. Earlier that day, Michael had been bullied in the bathroom over a flyer advertising Deborah's strip club, where she was a dancer. Michael followed one of the bullies into the woods and brutally beat him to death with a tree branch. That night, Michael goes home and murders his mother's boyfriend (William Forsythe), his sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), and her boyfriend (Adam Weisman). Deborah returns home to find Michael bloodied and sitting on the porch with his baby sister. Michael is convicted of first degree murder and taken to Smith's Grove Sanitarium, where he is placed under the supervision of Dr. Loomis. For the first eleven months, Michael cooperates with Dr. Loomis, claiming no memory of killing anyone. Deborah visits him regularly, where he shows her the papier-mâché Halloween masks he has been constructing in his room and wearing all day. One night, Michael befriends orderly Ismael Cruz (Danny Trejo), an ex-con who teaches Michael to cope with incarceration by internalizing himself. Michael takes the advice literally, entering a state of semi-catatonia. Shortly thereafter, he kills a nurse (Sybil Danning); Deborah Myers, who saw the event, returns home that night and kills herself. For the next fifteen years, Michael (Tyler Mane) continues making his masks and not speaking to anyone. Dr. Loomis, wanting to move on with his life, retires, deeming his former charge a true psychopath and writing a book about his time working with Michael. Michael is scheduled to be transported to maximum security, but breaks free of his chains, murdering all of his guards, and escapes. He finds his way to a truck stop and murders a driver for his clothes. Michael returns to his childhood home and retrieves a kitchen knife and a Halloween mask he stole from his sister's boyfriend from underneath some floorboards.

The story shifts to Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), and her friends Annie Brackett (Danielle Harris) and Lynda Van Der Klok (Kristina Klebe) on Halloween. Throughout the day, Laurie witnesses Michael watching her from a distance. That night, she heads to the Doyle residence to watch their son Tommy Doyle, who persistently asks her about the boogeyman. Meanwhile, Lynda meets with her boyfriend Bob (Nick Mennell) at Michael Myers' childhood home, where they drink beer and have sex. After they finish having sex, Michael appears, murders them, and then heads to the Strode home, where he murders Laurie's parents. Having been alerted to Michael's escape, Dr. Loomis comes to Haddonfield looking for Michael. After obtaining a .357 Magnum handgun, Loomis approaches Annie's father, the town sheriff, telling him that Michael has returned home and that people's lives are in danger. Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif) and Dr. Loomis head to the Strode home, Brackett explaining along the way that Laurie is actually Michael Myers' baby sister. He was the responding officer the night of Deborah Myers' suicide; not wanting the infant to grow up with the stigma of being related to Michael, he faked her disappearance and left her at a nearby hospital.

Meanwhile, Laurie gets a call from Annie, who is babysitting Lindsey Wallace across the street from the Doyle home; Annie convinces Laurie to watch Lindsey long enough so she can have sex with her boyfriend Paul. Annie and Paul return to the Wallace home; during sex, Michael murders Paul and beats Annie until she is unconscious. Bringing Lindsey home, Laurie finds Annie on the floor, bloodied, and calls 911. She is attacked by Michael, who chases her back to the Doyle home. Sheriff Brackett and Loomis hear the 911 call and head to the Wallace residence. Michael kidnaps Laurie, and takes her back to his home. At the Myers home, Michael approaches Laurie and tries to show her that she is his younger sister. Unable to understand, Laurie grabs Michael's knife and stabs him before escaping the house; Michael chases her, but is repeatedly shot by Dr. Loomis. Loomis and Laurie are just about to leave when Michael grabs Laurie and heads back to the house. Loomis intervenes, but Michael kills him by crushing his skull. Laurie takes Loomis' gun and runs upstairs; she is chased by Michael, who, after cornering her on a balcony, charges her head-on and knocks both of them over the railing. Laurie finds herself on top of a bleeding Michael. Aiming Loomis' gun at his face, she repeatedly pulls the trigger until the gun finally goes off just as Michael's hand grips Laurie's wrist.

I just found out that a fellow singer/songwriter has gone into managing. Jeff Goodin used to be in a rock band several years ago. He decided along with his wife and family to give up the touring time and spend that time with his family.  Jeff continued to write songs, as many of us do, with no thought as to what he would do with the songs written. For many of us, when the words and music hit, you have to write it down.

In the last few months Jeff decided to go to the recording studio and get some of  stuff down on tape with thoughts of maybe sending it to some artist in hopes they would listen to and want to record his music. I have heard his demo and think it is great. Of course I have my own favorites.

Jeff came upon a young artist at the studio and just for the heck of it asked her to sing a few of his songs. One inpaticular song is called " The Table At The Door"  She did a great job in the recording of the song. Jeff began to pitch the song around to a few radio stations and I am proud to announce that it is getting some airplay in the Texas area.

Instead of waiting on the studio or other factors, Jeff approached the young lady with an offer to be her manager.  He said instead of sitting around waiting for someone else to do it, or just letting the song sit around collecting dust he decided to really get in the swing and push it. 

Lacy is now appearing in several places around Texas and getting more radio time as well. Congratulations Jeff on taking the inituitive to get your songs heard. Also Jeff has taken on another new talent, Tyler Wade.