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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Disgusting Colors.
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those tights are a very... interesting color! haha. i actually think they work well with this outfit though! you pull it off!ReplyDelete
nice poses! ;)
You look like you come from a movie these pictures are so great! And I agree the tights are really cool color they work with the outfit!ReplyDelete
That dress! I'm dying, is it wool? What a dream. Also, I one million percent agree about getting caught taking outfit photos. Even in my own yard, I feel sheepish thinking my neighbor is hearing waaay too many shutter clicks going off and thinks me vain. Also, that whole gorgeousness comment should be spun in your direction. Just saying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Splendid styling and photos! This dress is fab, and the tights are obviously amazing. I wish I were somewhere cold enough to warrant tights right now.ReplyDelete
i love the puke green haha and it looks really nice against that rich purple.ReplyDelete
I love everything about this outfit-honestly. I'm also very attracted by unusual color combinations, and I love the purple shoes with the toxic green and orangish coat. The neutral dress breaks it up perfectly. :)ReplyDelete
You call them "puke green," I call them "Poison Ivy green." All around a win, I think.ReplyDelete
K, so lets get a few things straight... I have tights that color and they are awesome, so stop saying that they're disgusting! Also, you bought that dress? I seriously considered buying that a few weeks ago and I'm jealous that you got your mitts on it. Lastly, You look freaking amazing and I'm jealous. That is all.ReplyDelete
Your newest frenemy,
Wow. I love this whole outfit. When I was a kid, I was banned from wearing purple and green because my mom hated the combination (and I usually ended up looking like Barney) but you make it all work!ReplyDelete
I think this works quite well. I especially like the purple shoes with them. It also was a good choice to choose a neutral dress.ReplyDelete
I love this whole outfit, the individual pieces and all together! I know how you feel about the pictures. I've been doing them in a back stairwell, and whenever people come through I do the awkward 'I'm just standing here fiddling with a camera, don't mind me' until they go away.ReplyDelete
OMG....my bike is the same colour!ReplyDelete
People tease me mercilessly, but I bought it specifically because it is, as I call it, "avocado green".
I love, love, love the purple suede - I'd pair the tights with a bold, bright colour on top. Neon purple or electric blue would be my choice. Do you have a neon yellow perhaps? Orange or pink even?
Have fun matching! :)
YOU LOOK AMAZING. i love the color combinations. and the colors of those tights. i keep putting off buying things in that color and in the similar pea green because i feel like it's not versatile. now i want to go for it!ReplyDelete
You've done well. Youvemade puke look HOT and now I need a pair too. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2011 at 5:49 AM
I love the color combinations in this outfit! And also - I *love* those yellow/green colors that you can't define and usually needs a p-word to describe them (I had another than puke in my mind, but yours is slightly less inappropriate for conversations with other people). I'm so glad these muddy colored things are even available to be bought right now.ReplyDelete
I have same colored tights but I thought about them as like puke green :). anyway I adore your shoes and whole outfit and color palette !ReplyDelete
Sometimes I buy things or try them on just because they are weird or hilarious. My friends don't understand, but I have never regretted buying something weird.ReplyDelete
i love all shades of green and yellow, especially when they mix together and reach that perfectly pukey colourReplyDelete
What a wonderful color!ReplyDelete
The Bootlace
VERY difficult to pull off, but you obviously manage it! You look lovely in the pictures with the wind blowingReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM
This outfit is amazing! I think it totally works! Love the coat and your poses :)ReplyDelete
Such a wonderful (gross) color palette. I love this!ReplyDelete
I think these colours are lovely, and really suit you!ReplyDelete
From Carys of La Ville Inconnue
so great! the colors are amazing, and that dress looks great on you. and your too cute about being embarrassed taking outfit photos... i get that way too!ReplyDelete
You are so stunning! I love that shot of you flicking around.ReplyDelete
Also - hilarious - I do this, buy yucky things, but I don't think I have ever been brave enough to own it like this! I would try and convince you they are actually a lovely 'moss green'!
ha! i love the tights! they look puce to me, and i love them with the camel colored dress...maybe go all out and wear them with yellow! i love wearing things i think are slightly off.ReplyDelete
I love the mossy green puke! That is gorgeous and fab on you, and the windy pictures - love!ReplyDelete
you made the tights look amazing! and these are some great photos, totally worth the mortification of getting caught. i hate when people catch me taking photos of myself. embarrassing!ReplyDelete
Okay, those tights are actually the greatest ever <3 <3 <3 I love your shoes too!ReplyDelete
Lost in the Haze
I think the color worked really well! It's a super cute outfit and I didn't even think anything about the color of the tights until I read what you wrote! It looks great! I'm also attracted to tights that don't match anything I own. I bought this pair of really great mustardy gold tights, and it took me a really long time to figure out what to wear it with!ReplyDelete
Aw, nah... it's not so bad a color! It's more pea green than puke green. I had some Vans sneakers in high school that were very nearly the same shade. Kids called them my booger green sneakers. Whatev. I loved them.ReplyDelete
Anyway. Your assemblage of colors here is really lovely whether you meant it or not ;)
i know how you feel re: getting caught taking outfit pictures. i basically get caught every time since im almost always somewhere on the street in brooklyn or manhattan. i feel like a loser haha!ReplyDelete
i wish i was brave enough to pull off colored tights, but alas i am boring and a wimp and stick to black or brown. you look cute!
Haha I think this is wonderful!ReplyDelete
Great poses!
They may have puke colour, but I love them too. And I love the other colours you paired the with, overall amazing.ReplyDelete
Actually I am loving this green!ReplyDelete
Looks fun with purple shoes but I see your doubt. I owned a weird dead-rat colored cardigan and I had no idea what to do with so - so I got rid of it. Yay! Have a nice week xx
absolutely awesome. I am very much drawn to ugly-pretty tights as well and you work these to perfection, even if it is a hard task to make puke tights work!ReplyDelete
The tights totally remind me of pea soup!!! And I love them with the red coat and purple shoes, all the girls in Istanbul were doing that when I was there in Feb. and its so envy inducing when I see girls who can pull it off to perfection!!! I LOVE THIS!!! Totally saving it to my inspiration files.ReplyDelete
These colors are so gorgeous together! Purple, red, beige, and puke green! I just pinned your photo :)ReplyDelete
Like the whole outfit, I think it looks great. I completely understand getting caught taking outfit shots. Happened to me this weekend and I tried to act (badly) like everything was normal.ReplyDelete
"disgusting colors"--- haha! i'm way into this whole ensemble, girl!ReplyDelete
These 'disgusting' colours are really quite lovely! i love the green with the purple shoes. The combination of shades makes me think of oil paints mixed on a palette, rich, thick, complex. Amazing! xReplyDelete
beautiful, I love the colour contrasts and the shoes <3ReplyDelete
Haha, indeed, the color is so disgusting, yet such a lovely outfit you put together!ReplyDelete
they are an odd colour for any type of clothing -however you totally rock these tights with this outfit! :)ReplyDelete
Heh, I have a puke green obsession too. I actually had the saem reaction to those tights and bought them with little or no thought the other week. I like your outfit better, but here is how I styled them:ReplyDelete
Love your blog!
I just love the combo...it works!ReplyDelete
great shot with the twirling
fun colors!ReplyDelete
This look is fabulous. I love your color aesthetic.ReplyDelete
i like to call my puke colored tights pea soup. the color on the pack was "burnished olive," a color which i have in a few other items, but yes, in tights form it takes on a different tone. do try navy; it definitely works!ReplyDelete
Due to the title of your blog I had expected topics similar to those discussed at my blog.ReplyDelete
Even though this was not the case I do have to say, "not to snazzy"! I like your creative spin on creating a blog and it seems to be working for you. I wish you the best of luck, maybe I'll send my fiance here for some style tips!
First off I love the tights and that's so funny because I live on Madison and my friend lives near the apartment you were standing next to! Oh, Smalbany =DReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 1:08 AM
I cant wait for this month's update :) I currently work from home so I usually pass by this site.ReplyDelete
Good luck with your mac! I know mine can be bothersome at times, too! Also, I love the photographs of your room! It looks like a wonderful little sanctuary.ReplyDelete
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I one million percent agree about getting caught taking outfit photos. Even in my own yard, I feel sheepish thinking my neighbor is hearing waaay too many shutter clicks going off and thinks me vain.ReplyDelete
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totally in love with this coat and the dress.ReplyDelete


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Commercial, Military, Products, Public Service, Services, Training
By Staff Writer | January 1, 2012
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Becker Avonics has exciting product news and milestones coming up and we believe that 2012 will be another great year. We are continuing to strive to provide innovative solutions for new fit, as well as retrofit, modification and upgrade programs. Some of our new products will be specifically tailored to the demanding environments of the rotary wing industry and will be introduced in "Dzus" fastener format for ease of integration in a variety of aircraft platforms. Over the past three years we have consistently gained market share against the competition, particularly in the audio and intercom segment.
Today we are recognized as the market leader when it comes to airborne digital audio and intercom systems to meet the requirements for a multitude of rotary wing applications, including helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS), airborne law enforcement (ALE), forestry and wildlife management, search and Rescue (SAR), and corporate missions.
As digital audio technology is still not that well known to the rotary wing industry, we will continue to devote a significant amount of time to inform and train customers and operators, crew members and decision makers on the benefits of airborne digital audio technology, in order to help the industry to transition from legacy analog to digital audio technology.
Markus Schmitz, Becker Avionics CEO
In March 2011 the U.S. Army awarded Aero Dynamix a $12.5-million, five-year IDIQ contract to provide NVG compatible IFR upgrade kits for up to 650 AH-64 Apache helicopters. The NVG-compatible IFR kits supplied to the U.S. Army will include avionics upgrades required for IFR certification, which includes Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS) upgrades that ensure optimum night vision performance. 75 aircraft have been completed and another 108 aircraft are scheduled for completion in 2012. Aero Dynamix is the preferred supplier of NVIS upgrades for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) aircraft. These aircraft include 20 EC120, 25 AS350B2 and 45 AS350B3 helicopters. ADI will continue to support CBP in 2012 with ongoing aircraft avionics upgrades on approximately 25 aircraft.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LACSD) awarded Hangar One a contract to complete and modify new AS350 helicopters for use in law enforcement operations. Aero Dynamix was selected by LACSD to provide complete cockpit modifications for the fleet including new NVG Edge Lit Panels, instrument panel overlays, and spec-compliant NVIS avionics modifications. This project is in its final stage of completion with 14 aircraft delivered.
LACSD has now purchased three AS332 Super Pumas and awarded Heli-One a contract to perform modifications and integration. Aero Dynamix will provide complete cockpit modifications including external lighting for these Super Pumas in 2012. Aero Dynamix will continue to grow its fixed-wing capabilities in 2012 after being awarded two complete CASA-235s NVG upgrades and a Cessna 182 NVG cockpit upgrade.
Dennis Trout, Aero Dynamix General Manager
Presagis continues to focus on delivering cutting-edge simulations to the rotorcraft market by delivering innovative, off-the-shelf solutions. Recently announced, SEGen Server will become available in February 2012.
SEGen Server addresses the need for realistic, low-cost training and mission rehearsal environments for pilots.
SEGen Server is a cost-effective server-based software solution for the low-cost generation of high-fidelity, highly-realistic synthetic environments for training. It enables the user to save valuable time, money, and resources by eliminating the need to invest in costly imagery, database development, and storage.
Ideal for use in high flight, low flight, and ground simulations, SEGen Server quickly generates highly realistic ground environments of any location in the world, making it ideal for helicopter training.
At higher altitudes, SEGen Server generates terrain with appropriate lower amounts of detail, based on the requests it receives from our own high-fidelity flight model, HeliSIM, or any other flight model, allowing for a wide variety of simulations to take place.
Guillaume Herve, Presagis President
We recently reached an agreement with AgustaWestland to offer factory-authorized training for the increasingly popular AW139. During 2012, we will be engineering and manufacturing a Level D full flight simulator while simultaneously working closely with AgustaWestland to develop mission-specific training programs, including full courseware. We plan to install the simulator in our dedicated helicopter Learning Center in Lafayette, La., and will offer training beginning in early 2013. As with all new FlightSafety simulators, this one will feature electric motion and control loading—attributes we pioneered—and our exclusive VITAL X visual system.
VITAL X is optimized for low-level flight operations training, and offers increased scene content, greatly improved weather features and enhanced levels of detail for optimum cueing. The AW139 is a staple of the offshore industry but also sees significant use for executive transport, HEMS, law enforcement and other missions. FlightSafety customers receive training specific to their mission, using realistic scenarios that prepare them for the type of routine, abnormal and emergency situations they might actually face in the aircraft. We also can tailor training for full or partial crews, allowing them to develop and hone teamwork and work on crew resource management issues. We're extremely pleased to be working with AgustaWestland and look forward to the same long association with them as we enjoy with many other OEMs.
George Ferito, Director, Rotorcraft Business DevelopmentFlightSafety International
Precision Aviation Group (PAG) continued to expand and grow in 2011. We completed two acquisitions —Gardner Aviation Services (GAS)—located in Peachtree City, Ga., and Aero Technology, Inc. (ATI), which is located in Long Beach, Calif. These acquisitions greatly enhance our MRO capabilities, expand our geographic footprint, and gives PAG two "on-airport" locations with expansive hangar facilities. With these acquisitions, our total employment has grown to over 160, and our four facilities now encompass more than 150,000 square feet.
For 2012, we will be expanding our capabilities at all of our facilities, but our primary focus will be expanding our Rotary Wing services at our newly acquired companies. ATI and GAS will launch helicopter-specific programs which will expand the type of services that we can provide to our Global customer base. At ATI, we will be expanding their MRO capabilities to include helicopter-specific Accessories, Avionics and Instruments. In addition to this, we will be adding customer service and support staff to specifically support the West Coast Helicopter market for ATI. In January, we will launch the Rotorcraft Services Division at GAS. The Rotorcraft Services Division will provide airframe maintenance, avionics upgrades/installations, and aircraft retrofits for the helicopter market. PAG hired two helicopter industry veterans to run this division in November, and we have already seen a dramatic increase in the number of helicopters serviced at GAS. We are excited about the future opportunities this division creates for our commercial and government customer base.
In our continuing efforts to expand our geographic footprint, in 2011 we hired a Regional Sales Manager in Lafayette, La., to better serve our customer base in the Gulf region. In 2012, we will be opening a facility in Lafayette that will include MRO services. In addition to this, we will continue to selectively pursue acquisitions that enhance the MRO services we provide to our customers.
In addition to the above, we will continue to focus on expanding our proven customer focused business model—Inventory Supported Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (ISMRO), and we will make substantial capital investments in all of our facilities. However, as previously mentioned, the emphasis in 2012 will be on our Peachtree City and Long Beach locations. In direct support of ISMRO, we will continue investing in inventory that supports the aircraft our customers operate, and we have doubled our capital expenditure budget over 2011. Our capital investments will include tooling/equipment, logistics, technology-based customer service improvements, ERP software upgrades, and various facility enhancements.
David Mast, Precision Aviation Group President and CEO
Aspen is working on several very interesting projects in the coming year. We will continue to expand our helicopter STC list, providing more opportunities for both civilian and military helicopter operators around the world to transition from steam gauge cockpits to glass cockpits—at a sensible price point. Aspen offers all of the glass panel features that reduce pilot workload and increase situational awareness; features that make flying safer for helicopter operators today. We are also working on a Connected Panel product. It provides inter-connectivity between hand held devices (like the iPad, for example) and the onboard avionics. We have signed up several partners who are developing applications that range from performance monitoring to flight planning.
John Uczekaj, Aspen Avionics President & CEO
As helicopters expand their operating envelope so must our air filtration technology. In 2012 we will be developing new filtration technologies to overcome two past obstacles, high-engine airflow and high airspeed. Going faster and larger introduces additional challenges, and Donaldson will continue to be the industry leader with high-technology solutions. Flexible architecture systems will be introduced this coming year in the form of universal filtration units that can provide a solution for multiple platforms with limited integration. This technology was recently proven and will be available in 2012 for various applications.
Mike Scimone, President, Donaldson St. Louis, Donaldson Aerospace & Defense
Unmanned or optionally piloted technologies for military and civil missions are going to drive our industry and Kaman Helicopters' growth for many years to come. Our Lockheed Martin/Kaman team is very excited about the Afghanistan deployment contract for unmanned aerial truck (UAT) K-MAX helicopters from the U.S. Marine Corps. The challenging environment in Afghanistan is the ideal opportunity to showcase the tremendous capabilities of our UAT, and give testament to Charlie Kaman's vision and innovative development of unmanned systems that goes back to the early 1950s.
As you would expect, Kaman has many new innovative ideas and long-term solutions that will ensure its unmanned heritage is applied to the next generation of rotorcraft for the U.S. military and our allied nations.
Additionally, Kaman will be expanding its manufacturing operations into Asia, bringing the AH-6 Little Bird composite main rotor blade to market, re-opening the K-MAX production line, and achieving additional SH-2G Super Seasprite multi-mission maritime helicopter sales. All of these activities help drive Kaman's growth and meet strategic objectives during these challenging times.
Mark Tattershall, Kaman Helicopters
Many of BLR's original FastFin(R) STCs were certified with no change to performance. Over the past 18 months BLR has certified significant increases in hover performance for the UH-1H, Bell 412, and most recently the Bell 212. Over the next 18 months, additional helicopter models will be added to that list.
Dave Marone, BLR Aerospace
Avionics from Cobham are fully digital for higher dispatch rates and increased mission completion and success, and our technologies delver greater situational awareness for reduced pilot workload and enhanced flight safety. Cobham's 3D synthetic vision EFIS is the lightest, most comprehensive Electronic Flight Instrument System in the world due to integrated HTAWS, FMS, HITS, and hover vector functionalities. Our HeliSAS autopilot and stability augmentation system is incredibly lightweight, easy to install, and offers hands-free flight at the industry's most affordable price. Audio and radio systems from Cobham deliver enhanced communication and navigation performance at reduced weight, complexity, and installation cost. End-to-end, an integrated Cobham cockpit offers a reduced panel box count and lighter weight to enable increased helicopter payload capabilities.
With avionics from Cobham, operators of Part 27 and Part 29 rotorcraft will realize best-in-class capabilities throughout the cockpit, an extended useful airframe life, and superior performance versus standalone or ad hoc avionics solutions.
David Ashton, Vice President, Cobham Commercial Systems
AIS is working on several new projects for 2012. One is continuing to expand our large and wholly owned major component rotables pool, in order to support our many customers who operate Bell 206, 407, 212, 412, Eurocopter AS350, 355, 365, EC155, BK117 and Sikorsky S-76 helicopters. Our ever growing inventory includes main, combining, intermediate and tail gearboxes, hydraulic servos, dampners, main and tail hubs, etc.
Aviall's commitment to the rotor- craft industry factors prominently in its plans for 2012. We will continue to look for products to add to the offerings in our product market basket, extend and enhance our reach around the world, and work with OEMs to strengthen our supply chain capabilities—all in an effort to support the operations of our customers in this industry.
Aviall is preparing for emerging opportunities this year in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the Gulf of Mexico, and operations around the globe. We are supporting Aviall customers operating in major oil fields off the coasts of Nigeria and Brazil, and providing supply chain services for rotorcraft used to transport security personnel in densely populated cities with traffic congestion.
There are opportunities for the industry in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Department of Interior has reorganized and reformed its offshore energy management into the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Contracts have been awarded that will double the bureau's fleet size to regulate and enforce energy management in the Gulf of Mexico. Aviall remains dedicated to serving its customers operating on the U.S. outer continental shelf and aiding efforts in this region to improve efficiency and effectiveness, enhance safety, and support job creation and economic development in coastal communities.
Other issues faced by rotorcraft operators and Aviall, as their supply chain partner in 2012, include aging fleets and the growth of the practice of "just-in-time" (JIT) inventory deployment. There are emerging requirements in many countries for newer twin-engine aircraft fleets, which will increase costs to already financially-challenged rotorcraft operators. These operators have also been driven in this economic environment to maintain JIT inventory systems throughout their operations, which places additional strain on the supply chain to maintain correct levels of inventory in times of fluctuating demand. Aviall offers services to operators facing these issues that will help control costs and improve business efficiency.
Dan Komnenovich, Aviall President and CEO
We are seeing a significant increase in demand from the defense side and from commercial applications related to offshore and remote area operations.
On the defense side, the drive is for highly accurate and effective training and mission rehearsal solutions in single and multi-domain environments. On the commercial side, the demand is for easily deployable and accessible solutions that will help the industry reduce the current excessive levels of accidents and incidents.
In all cases, the challenge is to deliver highly realistic, easily reconfigurable, and scalable solutions at reasonable costs.
Helicopters are complex to handle, to pilot, and to operate in often challenging environments; including in military and civilian operations.
Helicopter pilots must continually develop the skills needed to fulfill their mission and/or job. Because every situation is different, and in many cases too difficult or too dangerous to replicate in live training, virtual environments are required to effectively train for any scenario, including military missions, evacuation scenarios, as well as landing on ship decks or oil rigs.
With cost reduction pressures being felt on both the defense and commercial side, there is an increased need for lower-cost simulation options to meet the needs of helicopter operators and pilots. Live-training is costly and not always accessible.
Presagis off-the-shelf modeling and simulation tools are a cost-effective way to develop high-fidelity simulation systems quickly- enabling the pilots to maintain a degree of readiness between periods of downtime. Moreover, Presagis off-the-shelf software enables you to build real-time visual systems, helicopter flight motion and dynamics, create mission scenarios, and develop high fidelity sensor displays.
Presagis off-the-shelf tools have been used to build or enhance simulations by the likes of The Boeing Company, which uses Lyra IG to enhance features of the Block III Apache simulator, Oktal, that works with HeliSIM for its Tiger simulator, ESG's SeaLynx helicopter simulator for the German Navy which used STAGE, and AMST's Airfox DISO simulator, rotary-wing disorientation trainer, which uses Creator and Vega Prime.
Guillaume Hervé, Presagis President
Beyond the unmanned opportunities, we see demand growing for small ship maritime helicopters that provide nations with a cost-effective capability. This is driven primarily by territorial disputes, anti-piracy operations, submarine concerns, and drug and other smuggling operations.
As the U.S. and European economies work to stabilize, the current markets seem to be more concentrated in domestic helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS), Latin American oil exploration and Asia. We are always looking for quality inventory and offer several consignment programs that can be very lucrative for the consignor.
Our inventory of consignment stock from our many operators such as PHI, Air Methods, and Lider Air Taxi will expand as their fleets are continually changing to newer models. AIS will continue to support its international partners, and bring our unique services to new emerging markets around the globe.
Jim Sensale, AIS President and Founder
BLR will continue to invest in technology to improve the performance and capabilities of existing fielded fleet aircraft. Over time, the gap has been widening between the incremental cost and the incremental capability of new production aircraft. For many business models, the expense of new aircraft is not viable. Innovative modifications that increase safety and capability play an important role in containing cost and increasing efficiency. An aggressive development program to meet this challenge represents a significant growth opportunity for the future.
We see providing affordable synthetic vision and HTAWS solutions to all levels of the helicopter market as a major opportunity for Aspen. Up until now, the expense of glass cockpits and their advanced features have been prohibitive for rotorcraft operators. As Aspen approvals expand in the helicopter market, all operators will be able to take advantage of safety-enhancing technologies that up to now have been reserved for new helicopters at the very high end of the market. Aspen will continue to expand into the helicopter space and will continue to create more opportunities for civilian, military, and public use operators to upgrade helicopters with the latest technology.
Aerial firefighting at night is a relatively recent advancement. The Los Angeles County and LA City Fire Departments have been using NVIS systems the longest, beginning operations in 1999 with Aero Dynamix NVG cockpits. Pilots report not only dramatic improvements in their ability to fight fires at night, but also point out safety improvements in water refilling operations. The Ventura County Fire Department, Orange County Fire Authority and San Diego Fire-Rescue Department have followed suit. All of the above now use Aero Dynamix NVG-equipped helicopters as significant assets in their firefighting inventory.
Under pressure from California legislators, the U.S. Forestry Service is now considering ending its decade-long ban on using firefighting aircraft after dark. Generally, winds die down at night and provide a much improved opportunity to suppress wild fires than during daytime operations. Interest in the use of night vision technology in aerial firefighting is likely to be huge in coming years.
New platforms are on drawing boards or in development with most rotorcraft manufacturers; these will offer new opportunities for 2012. Recent history has proven the vitality of increased inlet protection and old paradigms have been broken, and the documented return on investment data provides a compelling argument for customers to implement our inlet filtration solutions. With our core competencies in barrier and inertial filtration solutions we can provide the most flexible design configurations to meet our customer's requirements.
Becker Avionics has significant opportunities and growth potential in the rotary wing market. We are working on improving the capability of existing technologies through strategic development, to offer new capabilities, reduce risk, enhance safety, and enable rapid technology introduction. Currently the most important rotary wing segments for Becker are helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS), airborne law enforcement (ALE), and search and rescue (SAR). Further, we see that due to increased budget pressures, military organizations are adopting current, off-the-shelf technologies in order to save time and money. Becker Avionics is uniquely positioned to meet the upgrade and modification requirements of these organizations. Our new audio technology provides significant improvements for most aircraft audio systems on military or commercial aircraft.
The key issues facing the rotorcraft industry that concern Goodrich are increasing mission readiness, improving performance and reducing operational costs for our commercial and military customers. Current budgetary limitations have surfaced at a time when we see an unprecedented combination of an increasing need for helicopter operations and services, global cost saving initiatives and ongoing political instability.
For our military customers throughout the world, budgetary challenges often result in a reduction of fleet readiness. Militaries may defer maintenance due to a limited ability to fund spare parts purchases or helicopter repairs. In addition, training time for pilots and maintainers is often cut back to save operating costs.
On the commercial side, operators are challenged by an economy that creates large fluctuations in both demand and fuel costs, while their business model is based upon a need to maximize the usage and performance of their helicopters.
In the face of these issues, we recognize that rotorcraft have robust long-term market performance in production and aftermarket areas. Goodrich has invested in the development of innovative products that directly address these challenges across a wide spectrum of aircraft. We are focused on providing increased value that helps lower total system cost, reduces operating costs, and improves mission readiness and success. For example, our advanced rescue hoists increase mission success because they can operate in adverse conditions such as high winds; now we have further improved them with a version that can operate through a lightning strike. Newer products like our lightweight ballistic-tolerant drive systems provide a simple and complete solution for the helicopter OEM. HUMS—health and usage management systems—are saving millions in maintenance and operating costs for commercial and military users alike. We have lowered the weight and increased the performance of our laser warning systems. As we grow through acquisitions, our newest businesses—Winslow Life Rafts and Microtecnica—are providing helicopter float systems and reversible life rafts, as well as actuation and hydraulic systems which provide reliable performance under extreme conditions.
Goodrich has developed complete integrated ice detection and protection systems that allow helicopters to safely fly in known ice conditions, executing missions that were not practical before. New Goodrich SmartProbe air data systems, widely used on fixed-wing aircraft due to their low weight and advanced functionality, are finding new applications on helicopter platforms. Advanced engine control concepts in development feature more prognostic capability, to deliver better information for improved readiness and mission success rates while lowering operating costs. On the horizon, we are ready to help customers equip for NextGen ADS-B capability with our SmartDisplay electronic flight bags, which have the potential to lower operating costs for the entire fleet while providing improved situational awareness of other nearby aircraft.
Helicopters perform certain activities and missions better than any other vehicle. Larger market and economic forces require industry to invest in continuous improvements to performance and lower operating costs. Goodrich is committed to providing systems that address these drivers and offer increased value in these challenging times.
Curtis Reusser, Segment President, Electronic Systems, Goodrich Corporation
We continue to believe that Energy exploration and support will remain a growth area for Helicopter operations. In addition to this, the Australasia market has continued to be an area of expansion for our companies in the Rotary Wing market. Our support of Government programs presents an increasing opportunity for growth.
We are well positioned for continued growth, and look forward to a strong 2012.
David Mast, Precision Aviation Group President & CEO
Many segments of the rotorcraft industry will feel significant financial pressures in 2012, which will impact the purchase of new helicopters as well as fleet retrofits. Global military spending is likely to remain flat or decline. Municipal airborne law enforcement and air medical transport agencies will face decreased budgets as a result of falling tax revenues. Opportunities abound, however, for avionics component and system manufacturers capable of delivering significant value in the form of lighter, highly-integrated, highly-functional avionics.
Cobham is uniquely positioned to deliver such value, as evidenced by our selection by Carson Helicopters to provide avionics retrofits for Sikorsky S-61, S-76, and UH-60 aircraft, and by our selection as EFIS provider to the Los Angeles Police and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Departments.
A succession of industry and government-sponsored task forces have, in recent years, offered a number of proposals to improve helicopter operational safety. While these have been wide-ranging and, in some cases, far-reaching, they share a common denominator: they all recommend increased training as a fundamental and essential step. For example, the International Helicopter Safety Team has set a goal to reduce the helicopter accident rate by 80 percent by 2016. While it remains well short of that goal, IHST remains optimistic that it can be reached, and concludes that training is key. Large operators know this and for the most part adhere to regular training schedules. At FlightSafety, we're gratified to see a growing number of smaller operators embrace the value of simulation-based training, and we hope to see that trend continue.
On another issue, we're concerned that government-sponsored operations—chief among them law enforcement—are being significantly affected by severe budget constraints. Increasingly, these cutbacks affect budgets for both training and travel for training. This could become a serious issue as funding cuts grow deeper and more widespread.
Airworthiness Certification—on April 9, 2011 the FAA issued N8900.152, to be used as guidance for FAA personnel to use for inspection of NVIS installations, with special emphasis on lighting. Many of these provisions were in effect previously, but enforcement has been sporadic and uneven across the country. The robust inspection and enforcement of these new standards will severely challenge many of the NVIS product suppliers and integrators. Aero Dynamix has completed over 500 cockpit modifications on 32 aircraft platforms without certification issues. Each civil aircraft modified by ADI is fully certified and STC'd by the FAA, and is optimized for NVG, non NVG night operations and fully usable in daylight—a major step ahead of our competitors.
Recent history has shown the rotorcraft industry has been secure, the unique ability of rotorcraft to meet many customers' needs especially the military's needs has allowed us to weather some rough times. But the reality of reduced spending on both the commercial and military side will have its effects. Return on investment only counts if rotorcraft are working, not if they are accumulating low yearly operating hours. At Donaldson St. Louis we try very hard to provide operating performance benefits with our filtration solutions that make that "improved inlet filtration solution" argument even more compelling. Donaldson Aerospace and Defense offers the most extensive rotorcraft platform inlet protection solutions based on core competency in both inertial and barrier filtration solutions.
Beyond the obvious budget and economic concerns, overcapacity and additional competition from emerging nations such as China are the most pressing challenges.
Investment in technology development is a must for the U.S. to remain one of the industry leaders. The main concern, as always, is how can we collectively improve safety, and I think unmanned technologies can significantly contribute to that important goal.
Cost containment is a major challenge as we look to the future of the rotorcraft industry. Despite the efforts of industry groups and government regulators, significant improvement in safety seems elusive, and the result is an ever-increasing cost to insure rotorcraft assets and operations.
In the certification cycle, burdensome regulation hinders innovation and drives up delivered costs of aviation products. Energy costs, over the past decade, add another $400-$500 per flight hour. All factors combined, if left unchecked, will result in a greater number of helicopter missions that are no longer economically viable.
Right now the global economy as a whole is unstable and like every other industry lack of direction in the stabilization is our concern.
Standardizing the approval process. The rotorcraft industry needs to address how to gain Federal acceptance of standardized processes in certification and implementation of new technologies in a timely fashion. Without it, game-changing ideas will not be available to this market.
The economy and the existing instability in the U.S. and across Europe remains a major concern for all of us. Yes, we have seen positive trends in 2011 and the new rotary wing market has somewhat stabilized, but things remain fragile. We believe that 2012 will stay flat for most of the year but hopefully we will see improved economic conditions thereafter that will allow for stronger demand of goods and services. In any case it will be a slow recovery to pre-recession levels. It is clear that national and international fiscal and deficit reduction policies will impact budgets and demand in the public and governmental rotary wing sectors. These impending cuts will have a direct impact on the rotary wing industry and can re-intensify the market pressure. Overall, we remain cautiously optimistic about the growth potential over the next 1-2 years in the rotorcraft industry.
2012 will be a special and joyful year for Eurocopter as we are celebrating our 20th anniversary. Since the creation in 1992—as before in the founding companies—innovation has been and will remain a key pillar of our strategy.
We have engaged a very dynamic innovation policy to continue to set the standard in today's highly challenging operational and economic environment. Our product range will be expanded to the EC175 with the first delivery end 2012. And just now we have announced improved performances for the EC175, that will allow operators to reach 90 percent of the global Oil & Gas rigs with full payload/16 pax. The EC145T2 will go toward certification and has already today an overwhelming market success. Both helicopters will offer to our customers and unmatched productivity, and both will have our new HELIONICS avionics on board. And for tour and EMS operators preferring single-engine helicopters, we will have good news at the Heli-Expo in February.
The X4 will go on to develop the successor of the Dauphin family. This extremely ambitious program will incorporate breakthrough technologies developed by Eurocopter and our partners, in terms of performance levels, operating costs, environmental impact and the overall way of how to fly and control a helicopter.
Focus will equally remain on safety and as you may know we have opened the door to a major evolution for single-engine helicopters with the first flight of the AS350 hybrid helicopter demonstrator. This electric engine backup system will deliver assistance in case of a main engine failure to ease the autorotation maneuver. Decision about implementation should be taken in 2012. Last but not least, the X³ will resume flights again and achieve its top speed potential in 2011.
We will equally focus on the other pillars that have made the success of our business model in particular by further developing our services offer and expanding our international network. In parallel, we have launched major industrial projects to continue to rationalize and strengthen our industrial capacities in our founding countries and expand on emerging markets.
In regards to new and emerging opportunities for rotorcraft operations in 2012, the market recovery starts to be there and is very strong in some segments already.
We still expect a full recovery in 2012. The positive net order trend has been led in particular by renewed strength of the oil and gas market. In the U.S. light and medium helicopter markets, both the emergency medical airlift and law enforcement segments are pacing the business.
We have achieved remarkable commercial successes on the civil market in particular with the EC225, which has become the reference in the most demanding conditions, as for oil and gas and SAR operations.
The dynamic market development in regions like Asia or Latin America is confirmed and we will continue to strengthen our activities in these fast growing markets. The continued increase of the military market will equally create new opportunities, even if we will face strong pressure on governmental budgets in Europe. In both markets, constant work to increase cost-effectiveness, improve safety and performance levels will ensure that we will continue to meet the most demanding customers' needs. The impact of the global economic crisis is a major issue for the future of the helicopter industry. The impact was global, even if the situation was contrasted depending on geography and mission segments, and affected mainly the civil market.
Our business model has limited the impact of the crisis and Eurocopter Group not only managed to continue growing despite the global economic downturn, but also continued investing in innovation and product policy.
With this, we are today well positioned for a recovery in the market in 2012 and beyond. However we closely monitor the latest financial crisis (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, etc.) in order to mitigate possible effects on its activities. Should we have to face a new economic downturn, our order backlog, our significantly increased services business as well as the important improvement measures implemented in the last few years will keep the company in good shape.
The competitive landscape will remain very dynamic and be marked by the growing importance of new competitors in civil and military markets. For us, in this fierce competitive environment, continued investment in innovation, services and international deployment will be key to achieve our Vision 2020 objectives.
Lutz Bertling, President & CEO, Eurocopter Group

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Join us for our Annual Slow Food Seattle Annual Meeting and Potluck
Slow Food Seattle Membership Meeting & Potluck
MEET fellow Slow Food Seattle members, LEARN about the Seattle chapter, SHARE your potluck dish and GET INSPIRED about what is going on and coming up! We'll share some wonderful food, introduce our current board members and the slate of new candidates, as well as take some time to chat about the different programs and areas that Slow Food Seattle is currently working on in the our community.
Please register for this FREE event: RSVP by Saturday, March 31st via Brown Paper Tickets
- Potluck lunch and welcome
- Slow Food Seattle chapter updates
- Announcement of new SFS board member nominees and voting by members
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Indian authorities in Mumbai were battling fires at two luxury hotels on Thursday night , more than 20 hours after a series of terror attacks that killed more than 100 people.
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Post Radiation Pleural Effusions
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
My husband is a 30-year survivor of Stage IIIb Hodgkin's disease. He received radiation only. He has been having recurring pleural effusion in his chest cavity since 97. All tests are negative for cancer, TB, and HIV. Three months ago he had an episode of bradycardia (slow heart rate). He received a pacemaker. The previous tests never showed a heart problem. The doctors want him to have a treatment where they spray a chemotherapeutic agent into his chest cavity to scar and bond the tissue so the lymph fluid can't build up there anymore. I'm not really clear but they also think that with the pacemaker will make him better. If they haven't stopped the fluid from leaking could it then build up elsewhere, maybe around his already ailing heart? Are these side effects of long-term radiation therapy?
Please help. Thank you.
Li Liu, MD, OncoLink Editorial Assistant, responds:
Dear J,
Thank you for your interest and question.
Though rare, radiation treatment has been reported to cause pleural effusion (fluid in the lining of the chest cavity) years after the treatments were administered (Morrone N, et al. Chest, 1993, 104:1276). Other possibilities include recurrent Hodgkin's disease and pleural mesothelioma. These are highly unlikely in the face of negative tests. Mesotheliomas usually are associated with asbestos exposure. There have been few cases of mesotheliomas associated with thoracic irradiation reported in the English literature (Shannon VR, et al. Cancer, 1995, 76(3): 437).
One test for pleural disease in selected patients suspected to have malignant effusion is thoracoscopy using either a rigid or fiberoptic endoscope. This procedure can be done under general anesthesia or in the sedated patient with local anesthesia. The pleural surface can be visualized under direct vision and biopsy of any suspected areas can be done at the time of the procedure.
Cardiac complications of mediastinal irradiation usually involve the pericardium (sac covering the heart), the ventricular myocardium (heart muscle), and the coronary arteries. Cardiac conduction abnormalities (such as slow heart rate caused by atrioventricular block) can be associated with prior irradiation, but are rare. These are probably secondary to radiation damage of coronary arteries. There have been a few case reports in the past (Knight CJ, et al. Chest, 1995, 108(6): 1748). Radiation may also cause pericardial effusion (fluid build-up around heart) due to injury of pericardium (Gutierrez CA, et al. American Surgery, 1983,49(2): 113).
You should talk to your husband's doctor about these concerns.


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The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), 298–304. presented at the 08/2012. doi:10.1890/110294. (2012).
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Cammalleri's power-play goal at 16:30 of third period sends Flames to 4-3 win over AvalancheNHL.com @NHLdotcom
DENVER - The Calgary Flames broke out of their offensive doldrums in a big way.
Jiri Hudler and Joe Colborne had a goal and assist each, and Mike Cammalleri scored a power-play goal at 16:30 of the third period to lift Calgary to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Monday night.
Sean Monahan also scored and Karri Ramo stopped 22 shots for the Flames, whose snapped a four-game skid with the offensive outburst.
"It feels very good. It's been a tough little stretch for sure," Cammalleri said. "When things like that happen, it's easy to get negative."
Calgary came into the game having been shutout in three of its last four games. The Flames' only goal since Dec. 23 came in a 4-1 loss to Philadelphia.
"We wanted to come in and have fun and be loose a little. We had nothing to lose coming in here," TJ Galiardi said. "We wanted to string something together and this was a good place to start for us."
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and Paul Stastny had a goal and two assists for the Avalanche, who had won three straight coming into the game.
The Avalanche may have lost more than the game. MacKinnon, who has four goals in the last two games, took a shot to the ankle late in the game and was visibly hurting. Colorado coach Patrick Roy said the rookie was going for an X-ray after the game.
"He got the puck on the ankle at the end of the game," Roy said. "We'll have more details tomorrow."
The game was tied at 3-all when Colorado drew a bench minor for too many men on the ice. With Jamie McGinn in the penalty box, Hudler fed Cammalleri in front of goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere for the winner.
Giguere finished with 15 saves.
The Avalanche pulled Giguere for an extra skater with about a minute left but couldn't get a shot on net.
Giguere said the Flames played with more intensity throughout the game.
"They were hungrier," Giguere said. "They got, some would say, lucky bounces, but they created those bounces by going to the net, by creating traffic and that's how you score a goal in this game, in this league. I'm not sure we were willing to do that in front of their net."
Roy saw it differently than his goaltender.
"We may not have had the jump that we should have, but Giggy should have been better," Roy said. "He hasn't played well in the past four or five games and he should stand up and say, 'I'm not playing up to what I should.' He needs to be better and we need to have him playing better. Period."
After scoring just one goal in 240 minutes, the Flames scored twice in a span of 2:28 of the second period to take the lead. Colborne tied it when he tipped Galiardi's shot from the point with 2:32 left in the frame.
Hudler gave Calgary the lead when he battled for position in front of Giguere and then flicked a backhand through the goalie's legs to make it 3-2.
It was small consolation for Hudler, who was disappointed after he was left off the Czech National Team for next month's Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
"Right before the game we took a little walk with Jiri. He knows that people sit in the room, there's debate, you get picked, you don't get picked," Flames coach Bob Hartley said. "Obviously, everyone wants to be in the Olympics to represent their country so you're disappointed. But we saw that he's a pro."
The Avalanche got a power play at the end of the period but couldn't capitalize.
They tied it on Stastny's 12th goal of the season at 9:33 of the third.
The Flames took a 1-0 lead just 1:08 into the game. Monahan took a shot from the right circle that Giguere saved, but the rebound went off McGinn and into the net.
It was Calgary's second goal in the last five games and its first lead since beating St. Louis two weeks ago.
The celebration didn't last. MacKinnon tied it on the power play six minutes later when his shot from the side of the crease went off Ramo and through the goaltender's legs into the net.
The Flames took a bench minor for too many men on the ice, MacKinnon struck again. Stastny sent him a pass to the slot and MacKinnon buried it to make it 2-1 at 14:32 of the first.
NOTES: Colorado's Gabriel Landeskog extended his points streak to seven games with his 100th assist. ... Avalanche D Nate Guenin (ankle) was out after getting hit with a puck Saturday. Tyson Barrie took his place in the lineup. ... Flames RW David Jones was a scratch. He has one assist in his last 15 games. ... Colorado D Ryan Wilson was sent to Lake Erie of the AHL for a two-week conditioning assignment. Wilson has missed 22 games with a back injury but has been a healthy scratch for the last two games.


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User names, identifications ("IDs"), and email addresses (as well as any additional information that a user may choose to post) may be publicly available on the Sites when a user voluntarily and publicly discloses personally identifiable information, such as when a user uses features to send a message to another user, or as part of a message posted to a public forum or a publicly-released software application. Users may not be able to change or remove public postings once posted. Such personally identifiable information may be used by visitors of these pages to send unsolicited messages. DHI is not responsible for any consequences which may occur from the use of personally identifiable information that a user chooses to submit to public pages.
With respect to surveys, in the event that responses are publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey. DHI will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users, i.e., anonymous information that does not identify any specific individual. Circumstances under which DHI would publicly disclose such aggregate information include, but are not limited to, sharing survey results with the Sites' users, providing data to DHI advertisers on user preferences and/or demographics, and publicizing overall usage data in press communications. Where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where DHI advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, DHI reserves the right to disclose any information provided by users, provided that no personally identifiable information identifying a specific user is disclosed. Participation in surveys is at a user's option; DHI does not conduct mandatory surveys.
C. How we share information we gather
Subject to the foregoing, DHI uses your personally identifiable information in several ways. DHI may share your personally identifiable information with service providers to help us with our business activities such as processing credit cards, email and digital marketing activities (including social media and display marketing), offering customer service, or operating a community forum. These service providers are authorized to use your personally identifiable information only as necessary to provide these services to us. With respect to job applications, DHI will not disclose your profile or resume on our Sites to prospective employers without your consent or to carry out your instructions.
If you "opt in" to receive promotional materials from third parties, information you have made available to us may be made available to third parties who provide goods or services that we believe may be of interest to you. Such aggregate information is provided in a collective manner, and no single person can be identified from such information. You may "opt out" of receiving such materials at any time in a variety of ways: by using the "opt-out" link included in each email, by changing your subscriptions preferences on the "user settings" page in your DHI account or by contacting us at email@example.com If you have provided more than one email address to our service, you may continue to be contacted, unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided. If you opted in to receive information directly from third parties, then you must contact those third parties directly to opt-out.
In addition, DHI reserves the right to share aggregate information collected from users of the Sites, without prior notice, with entities that are part of the DHI corporate family and unrelated third parties. Aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified by such compiled information.
When you submit any personally identifiable information on this Site, we will obtain your consent authorizing the Sites to sell to Third Party Contractors any and all personally identifiable information that is necessary to enable additional service offerings.
To provide services to our customers, DHI collects indexed content from a variety of publicly available websites. Indexed content may include personally information such as post on blogs. In general, such indexed content is available through standard search engines or by visiting the websites themselves. DHI may append this information to your profile or use this content to create a profile, whether or not an individual has an account with us. If you would like to remove the information we collect, see section I to submit your request. DHI has no ownership rights to the indexed content sourced from third party sites and cannot guarantee that we will not collect information from a publicly available source at a later point in time.
Please note that DHI reserves the right to disclose information submitted by or concerning any visitor or user as we reasonably feel is necessary to protect our systems or business. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or Services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution, or to suspend or terminate your use of the Services in connection with any suspected illegal or infringing activity or if you are in violation of our Terms of Use Agreement or other published guidelines.
If DHI is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on the Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information. DHI reserves the right to assign, sell, license, or otherwise transfer to a third party your personally identifiable information in connection with an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition of any portion or all of DHI's or its affiliated entities' assets or stock.
D. Tracking Technologies
Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by DHI and our partners, analytics, and service providers. These technologies are used generally for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We use pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These pixels are provided by our ad management partner, DoubleClick. These files enable our ad management partner to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our Sites. The information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address. For more information about DoubleClick, including information about how to opt out of these technologies, go to https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ or you may also opt out by clicking Here.
The Sites may utilize framing and masking techniques to make it appear that the user is still on the Site when the user is actually on a third party website. We also have co-branding relationships with certain partners. In these relationships, you will notice our service platform on our partner's page. In this situation, both parties are collecting your data and both privacy policies govern the data collected. We will not share your data with third parties without your consent in these and other relationships. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Sites and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
Web beacons
We use web beacons from time to time. A web beacon is a string of code that provides a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page or in an email message for the purpose of transferring data, or determining how many times a specific web page has been viewed. Web beacons enable DHI to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits a Site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to each Site. For example, when a user visits a web page, the code for the page may include instructions to go to another server to gather a single pixel graphic image. Web beacons are not placed on a user's computer. Such web beacons may be provided by DHI's third party advertising companies to help manage and optimize any online advertising.
We use cookies on the Sites. A "browser" or "HTTP" cookie is a unique text file that may be used for data analysis, and enables a web site to tailor information presented to a user based on a user's browsing program. DHI may use browser cookies to personalize a user's pages at our Sites, to remember a user when the user registers for products or services, for fraud prevention, or to track visits to our Sites or to place external vendor tags. If a user does not want DHI or its partners to deploy browser cookies in the user's browser when the user visits the Sites, the user may set the browser to reject cookies or to notify the user when a web site tries to place cookies in the browser program. Rejecting cookies may affect a user's ability to use some of the products, features,
functions, or services on our Sites.
We also may use local shared objects, also known as "Flash cookies" to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our website to personalize your visit. Flash cookies are different from "browser" cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, including how to delete Flash cookies, click here for additional information: https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html#117118.
The ads appearing on the Sites may be delivered to visitors by third parties, such as Google. The third party advertising technology that DHI uses on the Sites uses information derived from a user's visits to the Sites to target advertising within the Sites. In addition, DHI's advertisers may use other third party advertising technology to target advertising on the Sites. In the course of serving advertisements to the Sites, our partners may place or recognize a unique cookie on a user's browser. Information about users' visits to the Sites, such as the number of times users have viewed an ad (but not users' names, addresses, or other personally identifiable information), are used to serve ads to visitors. The use of cookies enables our partners to serve ads to users based on such user's visit to the Sites and other sites on the Internet. As with other cookies, and consistent with DHI's policy on cookies stated above, the user may block or delete such cookies from the user's drive or memory. For more information about Google, Google's use of cookies, and how to "opt out" of Google's email/information lists, please click here: https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union click here) For our European customers you may opt-out here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.
Log files
DHI web servers may automatically log aggregate information, such as a user's IP address, domain name, browser type, date and time of access, and other log file data.
Links to third party web sites
Links to third party web sites or widgets to enable sharing of information through social networks on the Sites are provided solely as a convenience to the user. When a user uses these links, the user leaves the Sites. DHI has not reviewed all of these third party sites, does not control, and is not responsible for, any of the third party sites, their content or privacy practices. DHI does not endorse or make any representations about the third party sites, or any information, services, or products found on the sites. If a user decides to access any of the linked sites, DHI encourages the user to read their privacy statements. The user accesses such sites at user's own risk.
E. Security
The security of your personally identifiable information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information.
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please help keep your account safe by using a strong password. Accordingly, we advise that you do not communicate any confidential information through our Services.
If you have any questions about security on our Site, you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
F. Surveys and Sweepstakes
Occasionally, DHI may conduct surveys in order to better deliver advertisements and content and to better understand your needs relating to the Services. We will not share your survey information with any third party, except in aggregate form.
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). That information, to the extent it conflicts with this policy, will govern that particular promotion or sweepstakes – please remember to read it carefully. We may use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor the Sites use, to personalize the Sites, to send participants an email, and to measure participants' demographics, interests and opinions. We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell another person about a job, we will ask you for that person's email address. We will automatically send that person a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We use this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email, and do not store these email addresses.
G. Social Media Features
The Sites include social media features, such as the Facebook like button and widgets, that run on our Sites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Sites, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
H. Connecting via Sign-in services
You may be able to log in to our Sites using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personally identifiable information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on the Sites to your profile page to share with others within your network.
I. Correcting personally identifiable information
If you would like to have your personally identifiable information removed from DHI's database, or would like to correct an error in such information, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. Keep in mind, however, that there will be residual information that will remain within DHI databases, access logs, and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. If you have provided more than one email address to our service, you may continue to be contacted, unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided.
1. Access: If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove or deactivate it by making the change on your account page or by emailing our Customer Support at email@example.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to all access requests within 30 days.
2. Data Retention: We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
3. Blogs: The Sites may offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personally identifiable information from our blog or community forum, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personally identifiable information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
4. Testimonials: We post testimonials on the Sites which may contain personally identifiable information. We do obtain consent by email or a release agreement prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial.
J. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on the Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Note that, by using the Services, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the Services. Your continued use of the Services subsequent to changes to this Policy will mean that you accept the changes; therefore, please bookmark this page and review it periodically. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or any other privacy issues in connection with the Services, please e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com
K. Questions?
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com . You may also contact us at eFinancialCareers Pte. Limited 22 Cross Street #02-55/58 South Bridge Court Singapore 048421.


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Well I am back from my little weekend away with Matt and I had a lovely time :) We came back on tuesday but i've been at work since so hadn't had much time to post! I have lots and lots of pictures to share with you :) starting with this lovely picture of the front of our little cottage! And here's the view FROM the front of the cottage :) nice and peaceful! When we arrived there was a bottle of champagne and a basket of homemade fudge and lindt chocolate, which was AMAZING! Then an hour later we were greeted with a nommy cream tea in some really pretty china :) After polishing the majority of that off a lovely lady came round with her massage table to give us our back rubs which was a first for both of us! After that we just chilled out for a while before having a reallllyyy scrummy 3 course meal, and rolled our way to bed! It was a great start ;) Here was our lovely comfy bed, before we rolled in of course! And here is the sitting area at the foot of the bed, with matt serving up our welcome goodies And here was our rather sweet little bathroom, it had a double ended bath and a gorgeous oak arched barn door :D The next morning we were greeted with beautiful sunshine (this is when I got the pictures of anything outdoors hehe!)and after the car getting pelted with rain the previous day and the engine not starting we decided to take a wonder around Felbrigg :) Here we are walking around the lake, there was a really lovely view of felbrigg hall from there but it was too far away for my camera! It was such a pretty walk, but it only took us half an hour, so we went back to the cottage and tried our luck with the car again. Fortunately it worked after leaving the bonnet open for a while and we took a little drive down to Cromer coast It was a very pebbly beach and it was a bit too cold to go for a paddle but I thought the rocks and seaweed was so lovely I had to take a snap! We had a walk along the pier... Watched some people trying to catch crabs (not in the rude way!!) Watched some surfers :) Had a bag of chips in one of the pier shelters, the other one had a guy drinking special brew in it :P We walked past the kiddy park and wished we weren't too big to go on! We had ice cream :) And saw an angry crab! And then took a walk through the beach side gardens before heading back to the cottage :) After we got back we went for a dip in the outdoor hot tub and then had another amazing meal. I think i've bored you with enough pictures now so I will leave it be, but I will say again that we had such an amazing time and I would recommend a stay at felbrigg to anyone! I hope you enjoyed reading all of this as much as I enjoyed rabbiting on about it :D Muchos love to you all! xxx Ness xxx
Budapest in a weekend!
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Monday, August 16, 2010
On the Way to Knoxville
Our driving instructions were simple for this first day. Take Route 66 to 81. Take Route 81 to Exit 80 at Fort Chiswell/Max Meadows. Hotel is there.
We drove through a torrential downpour from Staunton to Christiansburg and later passed a tractor-trailer that had flipped over about 200 degrees (upside down and tilting against the hillside).
At Lexington we stopped to walk around a bit. We stopped at a bookstore, bought a book about wooden houses, and petted the bookstore cat (whose picture I unfortunately forgot to take). Here are some pictures we took at Washington and Lee University.
Lee-Jackson House
Morris House
Newcomb Hall
Lee Chapel
Washington Hall
5 comments:
Oh, have a grand time. I have trip envy, all those grand houses. SIGHHHH. AND, a genie gathering! WAHOOOOO!ReplyDelete
Oh lucky you. Have a great time. The area where you are staying is right near where my vacation house was, Wytheville, VA, so I am envious. Can't wait to read all about your venture.ReplyDelete
Thank you, Carol - yeah, the south can really do grand houses well. And I'm already spotting genies all over the place.ReplyDelete
Barbara - Thanks, we are having a blast. I am envious that you had a vacation house in Wytheville. Such beautiful countryside out here.
so so jealous! I hope you're having a fantastic time! What a great opportunity!ReplyDelete
Cindy - We had a great time. I hope we'll have a big convention soon in a convenient area for you - it's such a blast!ReplyDelete