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By Staff Writer | April 1, 2006
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Calling MD Supply Chain a Shambles, New Owner Vows to Rebuild
Whatever Lynn Tilton invested to get control of MD Helicopters--and the sum could be growing by the month--she certainly got more than she bargained for.
After she bought MD in July 2005, the head of the New York distressed-debt investment firm Patriarch Partners said she figured the Mesa, Ariz. helicopter maker would start showing signs of a turnaround in six months at the outside. By December, she had taken back day-to-day control of MD, having concluded that her top managers were "paralyzed by the prospect" of fixing the company's problems.
Tilton readily acknowledges that, given a portfolio of 67 owned companies around the world whose financial health hinges in large part on her reputation for success, her only way out of the quagmire that is MD is to turn it around.
"I thought it would be an easy journey," the MD chairman said at her first Heli-Expo in late February in Dallas. "I thought it was a matter of capital and building efficiency. Boy, was I wrong."
One of her biggest surprises, she said, was that MD suppliers gave her no credit for paying off the company's past debt. The previous management had strung out customers on parts deliveries and done the same to suppliers on payments, to the point that Kaman Aerospace wrote off $20 million MD owed it. When she took over, Tilton paid Kaman and other suppliers. She said she expected to be embraced for doing so. "Not only wasn't I embraced, I was held accountable for the sins of the past," she said, with some suppliers asking price increases of 40 percent to continue working with the company. That helped lead her to the conclusion that the helicopter industry's entire supply chain is "indelibly flawed."
"Right now I'm telling someone--which is more embarrassing than anything--that I don't have a flex beam to deliver to get their aircraft in the air. And you know what? My supplier is not going to do anything about it. They say they cannot. But I don't ever want to be in that position again."
Tilton argued that much of the supply chain flaws stem from the extensive outsourcing of recent years. While outsourcing works in many industries, including those in which she owns other companies, in aviation "it breeds mediocrity," she said. "And truthfully, late deliveries and mediocrity have become something that is accepted by the operators." Customer service "is just a matter of who does it better than the other, instead of truly understanding that each one of our customers makes his or her living in that helicopter."
To fix the situation, Tilton said she is identifying suppliers she can count on--she signed deals at the show with Pratt & Whitney Canada, Rolls-Royce, Kamatics Corp. and Triumph Gear for engines and drive-train components. In addition, she said, she is buying or building supply capability in areas where she can't find dependable partners.
She said MD's single-engine fuselages, starting in the fourth quarter, would be built at Patriarch-owned Global Automotive Systems in Monterrey, Mexico. She also had Patriarch buy the Grand Prairie, Texas completions shop Heritage Aviation and told its managers they could take over manufacture of any component on MD's production line that wasn't already spoken for.
"It is our vision to continue to bring the supply chain in house everywhere we can not find that supplier who will work shoulder to shoulder with us to meet our needs.
Tilton remains confident MD can win and fulfill the U.S. Army's contract to supply 322 Light Utility Helicopters. To convince Army officials, MD is forgoing commercial orders for 2006 to preserve delivery slots for LUH aircraft. "We have ensured that we will have parts for 2006 and 2007 deliveries, she said.
Robinson Breaks Sales Record in 2005, Pushes R44 Over R22 as Trainer
Robinson Helicopters set major records in 2005, selling 806 aircraft, delivering its 4000th helicopter and continuing an unbroken, 20-year string of selling more helicopters than any other manufacturer. At Heli-Expo 2006, the company's founder, CEO and president, Frank Robinson, reported the sale of three more helicopters--an R44 Raven 2, an R44 Raven I and an R22.
At the annual show, Robinson pitched his four-seat R44 Raven I as an ideal aircraft for the training market, saying its greater power would increase the safety of flight schools that rely on the two-seat R22. Robinson said insurance companies have indicated the R44's lower accident rate that stems in part from its greater power would warrant lower premiums.
He also said the company is working to narrow the cost between the R22 and Raven I to make the latter a more attractive to trainer. The R44 burns 3-4 gal. an hour more than in the R22, which at today's prices could be a significant cost increase, he said.
The R44 now is offered only as a VFR trainer. However, Chelton is marketing an autopilot/stability augmentation system called HeliSAS for the R44 and expects to gain an STC for retrofit in the first quarter of next year. Robinson said he intends to fly the system soon to determine whether or not it should go on new aircraft. He said he is still trying to revitalize rooftop helipads as a means of increasing the use of small helicopters. "One of the things holding back the use of the helicopter is a lack of places to land them," he said.
Piggybacking on ARH Win, Bell Launches The 417, Eyes a New Medium Twin
In a spectacular ceremony at a new and expanded exhibit stand, Bell Helicopter unveiled the 417 civil counterpart to the aircraft that last year won the U.S. Army's Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter contract. Three Cirque du Soleil acrobats--a paired man and woman and a solo man--flew on silken strands near the shrouded display for several minutes as drums pounded and a crowd gathered. Then the acrobats vanished into the ceiling and Bell CEO Mike Redenbaugh took the stage.
"What do acrobats have to do with helicopters?" he asked. "Cirque's aerial display is symbolic of what this business is all about: strength, power and agility," unveiling the mockup of the long-awaited follow-on to the Bell 407 that is the basis of the ARH aircraft. By early March, Bell said, it had booked orders for 117 of the aircraft.
The new aircraft will use versions of the Honeywell turboshaft HTS900--the 925-shp HTS900-1 developed for ARH and the 970-shp HTS900-2 that Honeywell is targeting for both aircraft. The engines are designed to be interchangeable in the airframe and will have a full-authority digital electronic controller with dual electronic control units.
Bell's executive director of commercial programs, John Ricciardelli, said the 417 is designed for a gross weight of 5,500 lb. and a useful load of 2,500 lb., with provisions for a 6,000-lb. gross weight with an external load. Ricciardelli said it would be capable of lifting to a 6,000-ft. hover out of ground effect. The five-seat aircraft will have a "bubble cockpit" with greater headroom and an integrated Chelton avionics package. He said Bell plans to fly a 417 prototype this month and achieve certification and first deliveries in early 2008.
At Heli-Expo, Redenbaugh also said Bell is beginning the study phase of an effort to determine what a 21st-century new medium twin would look like. The company plans to start holding focus groups and gathering input to see "what the critical-to-quality characteristics for that type of an aircraft look like and how our portfolio of technologies can bring those ideas forward," Redenbaugh said.
Heli-Expo Shows Strength in Numbers
While it may not be astrologically correct, 2006 may become known as "The Year of the Tiger" for the helicopter industry. Between orders announced at Asian Aerospace in Singapore and Heli-Expo in Dallas, both held in February, airframe and engine manufacturers are holding some of the strongest order books in their histories.
Heli-Expo also broke all attendance records, with 520 exhibitors and more than 16,630 visitors, plus 48 helicopters on display. Other records included 617 attendees registering for the professional education series held during the show and 853 job seekers talking to 30 potential employers during the Helicopter Assn. International Job Fair. HAI President Matt Zuccaro said the educational courses will be expanded next year, as well as being taken on the road during the year to get them out to the industry. A prime goal of the show was to "push the initiative relating to safety, the economic viability and the networking capability within the industry," he said. "From all views, everything was achieved and we're going to be expanding that in Orlando" at Heli-Expo 2007.
Of particular interest were the educational courses on safety and economics, he said. "We had some workshops that went very well, dealing with the economics of operating helicopters to try to assist some of the operators in trying to better identify their operating costs and the advantageous decisions that could assist them. The interesting part is that the safety aspect is a tie-in to economic viability. People are finally grasping the concept that even though it costs you in outlay putting the safety initiatives in place, in the long term it is going to produce economic advantages to you."
Zuccaro also said HAI will be expanding the relationship with its international affiliates under the affiliate membership initiative, as well as with the International Federation of Helicopters Assns. "We are definitely making a concerted effort to become more responsive to our international membership," he said.
International Team Sets Ambitious Goals for Safety
The international effort to slash the helicopter accident rate by 80 percent in 10 years is taking on an even more ambitious challenge: developing separate sets of safety initiatives that apply specifically to all the individual ways that helicopters are used.
Leaders of the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), which is orchestrating those efforts, met several times during Heli-Expo, first to further organize their efforts and then to brief attendees of the annual event and enlist their support in the effort.
Based on analyses by Bell Helicopter, Shell Aircraft and others that showed several improvements in aircraft equipment and design and flight crew training could produce dramatic reductions in helicopter accidents, a gathering of international industry leaders agreed in Montreal last September that an 80-percent reduction was achievable. They formed the IHST to achieve it. The team is co-chaired by HAI President Matt Zuccaro and Dave Downey, manager of the FAA's Rotorcraft Directorate. Its organization is based on the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, a highly successful effort in the late 1990s to reduce airline accidents. But the challenges faced by it were simple in comparison to those facing the IHST. Most significant, it dealt with a homogenous group--airlines--whose organizations and operations were largely similar regardless of where they flew.
By contrast, the IHST must figure out how to improve the safety of operations that range from law enforcement and long-line work to firefighting, agricultural, corporate, offshore and sightseeing, to name just a few. To meet that challenge, team members have decided to conduct their accident analyses and make recommendations based on the specific types of operations in lieu of generic studies and fixes.
Forecasts See Helicopter Markets Remaining Strong for Decade
Worldwide helicopter markets should grow steadily for at least a decade, analyses by Rolls-Royce, Honeywell and Forecast International agree.
Rolls-Royce, working with the Teal Group, forecasts 10,915 turbine rotorcraft valued at $95 billion will be delivered worldwide through 2015. Of those aircraft, which would have an installed engine value of $8.9 billion, slightly more units will be military than civil (5,724 vs. 5,191 helicopters, or 52.4 vs. 47.6 percent), Rolls said. But the military units will make up 85 percent of the dollar value of delivered aircraft, indicative of the larger size of the military helicopters.
Honeywell's civil forecast, based on a survey of pilots and operators, indicated deliveries in excess of 2,600 helicopters over the next five years. The 10-year value of civil helicopters is placed at $13.9 billion in airframes and $1.9 billion in engines.
Forecast International projects 6,253 military helicopters worth $96 billion will be produced over the next decade, with Sikorsky leading in both unit production and dollar value. The total production figure includes "significant or extensive modifications of existing rotorcraft," accounting for some 1,370 units worth about $18 billion.
Big Manufacturers Log Healthy Orders at Show
Bell officials thought the biggest splash of Heli-Expo was going to be the 417's introduction. But the bigger splash came when they reported 202 sales in February. Heli-Expo alone accounted for 100, triple the number sold at the last Heli-Expo.
Eurocopter reported strong sales at the show, adding to a banner year in 2005. American Eurocopter reported 32 sales worth $207 million at the show. Era Helicopter ordered two EC225s and took options for two, becoming the first North American offshore operator to pick the aircraft, the latest version of the Super Puma family. Other orders included 15 EC135s from Air Methods, 10 EC135s from CJ Systems, three AS350B2s from Omniflight, one AS350B2 from Air Kauai and an AS350B2 from Temple Aviation in Las Vegas. American Eurocopter CEO Marc Paganini noted the increasing activity within American Eurocopter's new Columbus, Miss. facility, which will soon take responsibility for assembling the entire AS350 AStar line plus building tailbooms for the EC145. Paganini said if Eurocopter wins the LUH award with its UH145, the first six aircraft can be delivered by the end of this year, followed by up to 26 a year thereafter.
AgustaWestland's team arrived at Heli-Expo having bagged an order for 12 of its rebranded AW139 (with Bell having withdrawn from the program) from Mitsui Bussan Aerospace of Japan. The company valued the contract at about $100 million. Deliveries are to begin next year.
AgustaWestland CEO Giuseppe Orsi said the company's Italian and British branches are continuing to grew closer together and the company is consolidating its position in the United States.
Rolls-Royce, Lycoming Tout Technology
Engine manufacturers, both turbine and piston, are looking toward new technology to improve their fortunes. Rolls-Royce has certified an enhanced, dual-channel full-authority digital engine controller (FADEC) or its Model 250-C47B on the Bell 407, of which there are 650 in service, according to Scott Crislip, president of Rolls-Royce's helicopter and small gas turbine engines division. The Model 250 already has a FADEC system available, the EMC-35A, although it uses a single electronic channel, whereas the new dual-channel EMC-35R FADEC system adds a reversionary governor channel as a back-up control to allow continued flight in an automatic governed mode in the event of failure of the primary channel. The new FADEC is also being certified for the 250-C47M engine that powers the MD600N.
Rolls-Royce also expects to achieve FAA certification of new, improved compressor wheels for the Model 250-C20R. These compressor wheels, which can be retrofitted into current engines, will extend the life of the engine while reducing operating costs, he said.
The coming year is expected to be a good one, with sales growing from 321 in 2005 to a projected 360 this year, Crislip said. Part of that will come from helicopter manufacturers in the former Soviet Bloc looking for western engines to make their helicopters more acceptable to Western operators, he said.
Crislip also noted that the demise of the U.S. Army's Comanche program did not mean that the T-800 engine was going to go away. The T-800 would be an excellent candidate for Bell's proposed new medium twin developed under Bell's modular affordable product line (MAPL), he said.
Lycoming Engines has created a new Advanced Technology Center in Williamsport, Pa. to allow Lycoming engineers to focus on cutting edge technology, R&D and "advancements in engine designs, parts and materials" for its next-generation engine programs, according to Ian Walsh, Lycoming vice president and general manager.
Schweizer Enjoys Sikorsky Teaming; Enstrom Pushes Quick Deliveries
The manufacturers of smaller airframes reported increasing sales in 2005 and during Heli-Expo 2006.
Schweizer, now a subsidiary of Sikorsky, signed contracts for 37 helicopters, the most ever by the company at the trade show. They include both the 300 piston and 333 turbine, and represent sales in seven countries. President Paul Schweizer said much of the credit goes to more than 60 reps around the world who attended workshops on the company's plans for increasing output and product improvements.
Enstrom President Jerry Mullins said they had 29 deliveries last year--14 turbines and 15 pistons. For 2006, he expects that to increase to 18 turbines and 14 pistons. A new facility is being considered. The current capacity is 50-60 helicopters a year, although at 50 they would expand their facility, he said. Enstrom can produce a helicopter in 60-90 days and can capitalize on slow delivery rates of other manufacturers. "When customers order a helicopter, they tend to want it now," he said.
Sikorsky Names Pino President; Finger Moves Up
Sikorsky Aircraft on March 8 named Jeff Pino to succeed Steve Finger as president of the Stratford, Conn. helicopter maker effective immediately.
Pino's promotion followed Finger's move to the post of president of Pratt & Whitney. Finger replaced Louis Chenevert, who had been promoted from the president's post at P&W to president and chief operating officer of United Technologies Corp., the parent of all those companies. Chenevert also was named to UTC's board of directors.
Pino joined Sikorsky in 2002, rising from his original position of senior vice president of marketing and commercial programs. He most recently has served as Sikorsky's senior vice president for corporate strategy, marketing, and commercial programs. In that post, he oversaw what Sikorsky called an unprecedented growth in its commercial aircraft unit, from six aircraft deliveries in 2002 to 49 in 2005.
Pino also led the company's strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, advanced program development, worldwide sales, and corporate communications and marketing departments. As such, he's played a key role in the acquisitions of Schweizer Aircraft in 2004 and Keystone Helicopter and Composite Technology, Inc. last year, as well as the launch of Sikorsky's X-2 technology development program.
Pino came to Sikorsky from Bell Helicopter Textron, where he had been senior vice president of commercial and international sales.
He takes the post at a challenging time. Sikorsky is spooling up for production of more than 1,200 new versions of its H-60 aircraft for the U.S. military, ramping up production of the S-92 and its military variants and just beginning development of the CH-53K follow-on to the U.S. Marine Corps' CH-53E. It also is competing for the U.S. Air Force's Combat Search and Rescue X contract.
Pino also took the presidency as 3,600 production workers at Sikorsky factories in Connecticut and Florida were striking over a company proposal to increase the contributions they must make to the company's health plans. At press time, the strike, which began Feb. 20, was entering its fourth week and workers had rejected a revised offer.
Carson Upgrades S-61 Cockpit
Carson Helicopters has signed a cooperative effort with Sagem Avionics, Inc. to put a glass cockpit into Carson's eight S-61s.
This is the second step in a general modernization of the helicopters that began with development of new composite rotor blades.
"We started trying to get certification of the rotor blade back in 1990," said Franklin Carson, founder and head of Carson Helicopters. "It used an airfoil developed by NASA and it took us 13 years to get the FAA to certify it."
The Sagem cockpit displays, PA155 automatic flight control system and F201 attitude heading reference systems going into the S-61s are similar to the glass cockpit developed for the Erickson Aircrane's S-64s purchased by the Italian forestry service, "so we don't see any problem getting an STC," said Jacques Paccard, president of Sagem Avionics, Inc. (pictured above, right) They are starting with the engineering program Sagem used to retrofit the Italian aircraft, he said. "We're using the same core of the system on the S-64, so there are no new developments on this program."
The new integrated glass cockpit includes five Sagem ICDS-10 active-matrix, liquid-crystal displays. Each will include two primary flight displays and three multi-function displays to provide the crews with flight, navigation and engine system information. The aircrafts' older spinning-mass vertical gyros and directional gyros, along with their sensors, will be replaced by the dual digital, solid-state F201 attitude/heading reference systems. The PA155 AFCS is a three-axis system with duplex architecture consisting of two AFCS computers and two attitude/heading reference systems. It is the same system certified for the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma, Paccard said.
Carson said that Vancouver Helicopters is also very interested in the program for its seven S-61s.
CH-53Es Lost in Mid-Air; U.S. Naval Aviation Stands Down
U.S. Navy aviation forces that were not deployed conducted a week-long standdown in early March follow a string of serious mishaps that included three involving rotorcraft.
The most serious of the rotorcraft incidents came Feb. 17, when two U.S. Marine Corps CH-53Es assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa were reported to have collided in midair during night-time training and crashed into the Gulf of Aden near the coastal town of Ras Siyyan, Djibouti. A total of 10 crewmembers were killed. The aircraft were assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Sqdn. 464 (HMH-464) at MCAS New River, N.C.
The commander of U.S. Naval Air Forces, Adm. Jim Zortman, ordered the navy-wide aviation safety standdown March 3-10 for all non-deployed air squadrons to allow units to "thoroughly review our procedures and the risks of the environment in which we operate," he said. Zortman cited 14 Class A mishaps since the beginning of Fiscal 2006. A Class A mishap involves the loss of an aircraft, damage greater than $1 million or a loss of life. Since Oct. 1, 2005 there have been 14.
The other helicopter incidents involved an SH-60B that hit the water on takeoff, killing three people on board, and an air crewman who fell out of a CH-53.
Honeywell, Soloy team on AStar STC
Honeywell Aerospace and Soloy LLC have partnered to obtained a supplemental type certificate to install Honeywell's latest version of the LTS101 turboshaft engine on the Eurocopter AS350B2 AStar, and have delivered the first two converted helicopters.
The STC followed an 18-month development program. The partners said the LTS101-700D2 engine upgrade will give the modified AStar, designated the AS350SD2, a 14-percent increase in sea-level standard-day takeoff power (with an 18 percent gain in hot-and-high conditions) compared with Soloy's previous conversion, which installed a LTS101-600A-3A in the AS350B2.
Honeywell officials said the LTS101-700D2 is designed to the same power level as the AStar's original Turbomeca Arriel 1D1, but with improved specific fuel consumption and reliability. In the AS350SD2 application, the -700D is derated to the AStar's maximum transmission power limit of 641 shp. Honeywell officials said the engine's gains come from the use of a new, cooled gas producer turbine that ups gas producer disk life from 6,500 to 15,000 cycles, and an updated reduction gear that has proved its performance in other LTS101 models. The engine changes collectively pare power turbine cycles by 35 percent and increase torque limits by 6 percent, Honeywell said.
Soloy has completed the installation of the new engine at its Olympia, Wash. facility and had accepted 18 orders before Heli-Expo 2006. Soloy said it booked six more orders on the show's first day. "We anticipate producing more than 30 conversion kits this year," predicted Soloy CEO Dave Stauffer.
Before Heli-Expo, Grand Canyon Helicopters Chairman Elling Halvorson had taken delivery of the first AStar converted under the STC. On Feb. 26, Ross Scott, of Sunshine Helicopters on Maui, Hawaii, took delivery of the second.
Soloy is working with Aerospace Filtration Systems to develop an inlet barrier filter available specifically designed for the re-engined helicopter.
Bell Putting BLR Strakes on 412
Bell Helicopter has signed an agreement with BLR Aerospace of Everett, Wash. to develop tailboom strakes and the "Fast Fin" vertical stabilizer for the Bell 412. BLR will conduct structural and flight testing for the two devices to show fatigue loading. "If the flight tests show the performance we expect, we will start flight analysis to validate the performance," said David Marone, BLR director of sales and marketing. "Then we'll solve any engineering challenges to ensure it's configured properly for the 412." BLR has already put strakes on the UH-1 Huey, "and the 412 is not significantly different from the Huey, but the Huey is a restricted-category aircraft versus the 412 being a commercial aircraft, so we have to prove it to different standards," Marone said. The company has already received STCs for tail boom strakes on the 412, 212, 204, 205 and the UH-1. What needs to be STC'd is the Fast Fin, a newly designed vertical stabilizer. The Fast Fin replaces a major section of the aft section of the stabilizer with a smaller, carbon-fiber composite fairing. "This removes about a third of the surface area, removing the restriction of the air flow in and out of the tail rotor, increasing efficiency," Marone said. It also has a rounded edge compared to the sharp edge of the standard tail fin. This pulls the air around it, preventing turbulent air from entering the tail rotor when the tail is into the wind. The combination of the strakes and Fast Fin provide a significant increase in yaw stability, "allowing greater stability with up to 40 kt. tailwinds, Marone said.
The combination of the strakes and Fast Fin currently is only on the UH-1. Completion of the testing on the 412 is expected around the middle of the year, with FAA certification anticipated by September, he said.
ARH--The U.S. Army's armed reconnaissance helicopter has officially been designated the YRH-70A. The developmental "Y" designator should be dropped once the aircraft enters service.
AW139--AgustaWestland has rebranded the aircraft the AW139 following its buyout of Bell Helicopter's 25 percent in the AB139 program. AgustaWestland has also announced the launch of a military version, designated the AW149.
CH-53K--A systems development and demonstration contract is expected to be signed with Sikorsky by May. This will formalize the agreement with the U.S. Marine Corps for development and production of the Marine Corps' next generation medium lift helicopter.
H-1--As one AH-1Z and three UH-1Ys begin operational evaluation, technicians are working to resolve the problem of hyperstereopsis with the Thales TopOwl helmet mounted display, which is causing blurriness for pilots at night during low-level, or nap-of-the-earth, flight. Until the problem is resolved, pilots are using ITT Industries AN/AVS-9 night-vision goggles.
Poland--The Polish government expects to put out a working document this month specifying the number and technical parameter guidelines for a future military helicopter procurement. The document is planned as the starting point for the review and decision process for the procurement. Poland indicated last year the need for up to 50 attack helicopters, with the contenders being the AH-1Z, AH-64, Tiger and A129.
V-22--The first operational U.S. Marine Corps Osprey squadron, Marine Medium Tilt-Rotor Sqdn. 263 (VMM-263) stood up at MCAS New River, N.C. on March 3. Lt. Gen John Castellaw, deputy Marine commandant for aviation, said the unit will make its first combat deployment within a year. The U.S. Air Force took delivery March 2 of its first combat-configured CV-22 at Bell's Amarillo, Texas plant.
Bell 429--The new light twin's high-performance Aflex main rotor system first flew on Feb. 28 on a 427 airframe at Bell Canada's Mirabel facility. Flight testing was to continue through the end of this month in various Canadian locations to demonstrate stable operation at altitudes to 20,000 ft and temperatures down to -40C. Bell and Korea Aerospace Industries, Ltd signed an MoA under which KAI will produce what is projected to be all 429 airframes for the next 10 years.
EC135--Eurocopter expects to deliver the first upgraded EC135 in third quarter 2006. The new EC135 T2i or P2i (depending on whether the aircraft has twin Turbomeca or Pratt & Whitney engines) has a new takeoff weight of 6,415 lb., increased from 6,250 lb. A reduction in empty weight to 3,207 lb. will increase useful load by 176 lb.
US139 Newest Kid On The Block
AgustaWestland claims its US139 entry has a significant advantage in the U.S. Army's Light Utility Helicopter competition in that it is starting out at the point that its competitors have had to grow to. AgustaWestland North America's CEO, Stephen C. Moss, said the AB139 (redesignated the AW139 after the withdrawal of Bell Helicopter from the program late last year) was designed from the start to replace the UH-1 Huey--the very requirement driving the Light Utility Helicopter acquisition. AgustaWestland unit Agusta SpA. in Italy built Hueys for the U.S. Army in the 1960s when Bell wasn't able to do so fast enough to meet the requirements for Vietnam. Agusta has had a relationship with Bell for more than 50 years. Having entered service in 2004, the aircraft on which the US139 would be based "is right at the beginning of its life with new technology, not old technology," and can grow to meet the demands of the future, Moss said.
While AgustaWestland has sold its A109 to the military in Malaysia, South Africa and Sweden as a light utility helicopter, Moss said, that aircraft did not have the size to meet the U.S. Army's requirements. A major role of the U.S. LUH will be medevac, with the requirement for a cabin that permits easy loading and unloading of two NATO standard litters and carriage of them, patients, a medical attendant with equipment and an additional passenger. "You need to be able to work on the patient in flight," Moss said. "So we determined it would be in the best interest of the patient to have space for full body access." Hence, the 139 entrant.
Ease of maintenance was also a critical factor for the AW139. "It was all well thought out, with everything easy to get to," Moss said. "It's easy to maintain with very little learning curve required." Maintenance man-hours to flight-hours is less than one-to-one, he claimed.
DRS Technologies has received a $33-million contract to support the mast mounted sights on the U.S. Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warriors. DRS will provide depot repair, spares and field service support.
Helicopter Support Inc. (HSI) in New Haven, Conn. has contracted with American Eurocopter to become a service center for Eurocopter models, including the BO105, EC120, AS350 and the AS355. HSI is a subsidiary of Sikorsky.
M. A. Mortenson Company, Minneapolis, Minn., is being awarded a $11-million multiple award construction contract for the design and construction of a Helicopter Trainer Facility at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The contract provides for the design and construction of a two-story building that requires both secured and unsecured areas for operational requirements to include training simulators.
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $10.8-million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for technical and engineering services in support of missionization efforts for the VH-71 Presidential helicopter.
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded a $25.3-million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for contractor logistics support for the Apache AH-64D Attack Helicopter.
The Boeing Co., Ridley Park, Pa., was awarded a $24.4-million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for CH-47F new build aircraft. The company was also awarded a delivery order amount of $14.5 million as part of a $43.9-million firm-fixed-price contract for overhaul of the CH-47 forward and aft rotor heads. Boeing is also being awarded a $14.3-million firm-fixed-price requirements performance based logistics contract for support of 13 dynamic components for the H-46 aircraft. This contract contains one 24-month option period, which, if exercised, brings the total estimated amount of the contract to $21.2 million.
Thommen Expands in North America
Revue Thommen, a Waldenburg, Switzerland-based manufacturer of aircraft instruments and air data systems, has opened a sales and marketing office in Addison, Texas, to promote increased operations in North America. It also contracted with Instrument Technology in Addison to serve as its sole authorized U.S. service center. The strategic decision to develop an increased presence in North America includes a major emphasis on the rotary-wing market, according to Rudolf Iten, director of marketing.
The U.S. and Canadian market operations will be headed by Kenneth Paul, business development manager, based in Addison. Thommen's primary competence is pressure measurement aircraft instrumentation, with its products making up a complete line of electromechanical altimeters, airspeed indicators and vertical speed indicators. Many of these products have been discontinued by American manufacturers, but they serve as the primary and/or standby instruments in a variety of turbine aircraft, including helicopters. Thommen also builds a complete line of electronic instruments and air data computers for today's digital and NVIS cockpits. Iten said that Thommen will bring to the North American market a uniquely "Swiss" commitment to quality and reliability, with the term `Swiss made' embodying a "concept of quality that has been forged over centuries." To this day Thommen electromechanical instruments are hand crafted by graduate Swiss watchmakers, he said.
U.S. Coast Guard to Get Five New HH-65s for National Capital Region
The U.S. Coast Guard should receive funds next year to purchase five new Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin helicopters to increase security around the Washington, D.C. national capital region. The decision to provide the Coast Guard with the aircraft followed the proposed transfer of the air defense mission from Customs and Border Protection to the Coast Guard. Once approved, the Coast Guard will officially take over the new duties as soon as it has HH-65s available from the current re-engining process. The Coast Guard's HH-65s are having their original Honeywell LTS101-850 engines replaced with more powerful Turbomeca Arriel 2C2 engines. Capt. Jim Watson, chief of the Coast Guard budget office, said that the new air defense mission requires airspeed requirements that the aircraft can only get from the new Turbomeca engines. These re-engined aircraft will be used for defense of the national capital region until new HH-65s are purchased and outfitted, he said. (From Helicopter News)
The Helicopter Assn. International's members elected new officers and members to its board of directors during Heli-Expo 2006 in Dallas. Ed Newton of Honeywell Aviation was elected chairman. Michael Suldo of Air Logistics was elected vice chairman, Patrick Corr of Helicopter Adventures, Inc. was elected treasurer and Mark Gibson of Timberland Logging was elected assistant treasurer. David Chevalier of Blue Hawaiian Helicopters and Mark Gibson were elected to represent the regular commercial category of membership and George Pisa of American International Group to represent the corporate-private regular membership.
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Keystone Helicopter has named Patty Ryan chief financial officer. Ryan previously worked at Sikorsky, parent of Keystone, as manager of the integration team for Sikorsky at Keystone.
Jon Kettles (right in photo below) has become the third, and newest, member of the Kettles family to be inducted into the Twirly Birds, an international organization of pioneering helicopter pilots. Jon is the son of Joe Kettles (center in photo), who became a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in 1958, and the brother of Jim Kettles, (left in photo) ho was an Army helicopter pilot and is the Gulf Coast regional marketing manager for American Eurocopter. Jon is also a former Army helicopter pilot who flew in Desert Storm. He heads the Kettles law firm in Dallas. Joe Kettles' father flew a Sopwith Camel in World War I for the Royal Canadian Air Force and was a pilot for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Joe Kettles is the first Twirly Bird to have two sons inducted into the organization.
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Col. Thomas E. Schuurmans is the new Nebraska Army National Guard chief of staff, replacing retiring Col. William Rein. Schuurmans joined the South Dakota National Guard as a private in 1979, earned his commission in July 1981 at the South Dakota Military Academy, and transferred to the Nebraska National Guard in 1983. A master aviator, he served with the Nebraska National Guard's 24th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) in Operation Desert Storm and commanded the 1st Infantry Brigade and the Regional Corps Advisory Group of the 203rd Corps in Afghanistan.
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Grad student to address 'Untamed skies: Where science meets humanity'University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa graduate student Owen Shieh is presenting a talk at the TEDxHonolulu event, "Untamed skies: Where science meets humanity," on Saturday, November 16, 2013, at the Hawaii Theatre in Downtown Honolulu.
"Centuries of scientific and technological advancements have allowed us to survive the harshest of conditions, but weather remains an untamed force of nature," said Shieh, a graduate student in the UH Mānoa Department of Meteorology.
"For TEDxHonolulu, my 'idea worth sharing' is that we can cultivate a stronger community by understanding the nature of hazardous weather events and paying attention to their impacts on humanity," said Shieh. "We can appreciate the scientific and technological advancements that allow us to better prepare and cope with the challenges posed by weather."
At UH Mānoa, Shieh is investigating the factors that drive rapid intensification of tropical storms and typhoons in the western North Pacific, with an emphasis on upper-tropospheric influences. The research includes collaboration with U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Pearl Harbor.
One of Shieh's recent research projects has been focused on Typhoon Vicente (2012), the most powerful storm to strike near Hong Kong in recent years.
"I discovered that variations in upper-tropospheric winds may have had important implications to the storm's rapid intensification," Shieh said. "A somewhat subtle feature—an 'inverted' trough in the upper-troposphere—that passed through the north side of the storm seemed to have caught forecasters off guard." The enhanced divergence associated with the passage of this trough in the air above the storm is what Shieh believes contributed to the storm's intensification and destructive force. As Vicente ramped up, its maximum sustained winds increased from 50 knots (58 mph) to 115 knots (132 mph) within 15 hours, far exceeding established thresholds for the "rapid intensification" of a tropical cyclone.
The UH Mānoa Department of Meteorology is mainly focused on weather and climate of the tropical Pacific and Asia-Pacific regions. In addition to research on global climate variability, much of its research is directly related to improving short-term weather forecasts for the Hawaiian Islands, and includes developing high-resolution experimental forecasts for the entire State of Hawaiʻi and specialized forecasts for the use of astronomers operating the world renowned observatories on Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai'i. The National Weather Service's Honolulu Forecast Office is located on the UH Mānoa campus.
Shieh's personal fascination with weather and storms began at an early age in Florida, where he frequently experienced the wrath of tropical storms and severe weather. He studied atmospheric science at Cornell University and earned his MS in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. Shieh moved to Hawaiʻi in 2010 to pursue his PhD.
While he is finishing his doctoral research, Shieh is working full-time as the Weather and Climate Program Coordinator at the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC), which is part of UH Mānoa's College of Social Sciences. At NDPTC, Shieh oversees the development of FEMA-certified hazardous weather training courses that will be deployed across the United States.
Shieh says that his personal vision is to build national resilience to natural hazards by enhancing a "whole community" discourse that combines scientific research, operational forecasting, emergency management training, public policy and public awareness.
Learn more about TEDxHonolulu at http://tedxhonolulu.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/tedxhonolulu. The event will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $85.
About the Meteorology Department (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/MET)
Meteorology has been an academic discipline at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa for over 50 years. The department has built an enviable national and international reputation for research and education, offering both undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) degree programs. Since 1965 the University has been a member of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. The meteorology department is part of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
About the College of Social Sciences (http://www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu)
The College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa is engaged in a broad range of research endeavors that address fundamental questions about human behavior and the workings of local, national and international political, social, economic and cultural institutions. Its vibrant student-centered academic climate supports outstanding scholarship through internships, and active and service learning approaches to teaching that prepare students for the life-long pursuit of knowledge.
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The ways I am an obnoxious dog owner
Found perusing the Bold Italic back stories: Furry Logic, an article on dog owner and non-owner etiquette. Needless to say, I'm more than a little obsessed with my dog, Mary Cherry (note: I accidentally typed "god" instead of "dog" just now, which I think is poetic). Here are the dog owner etiquette rules I feel comfortable breaking.
I dote on her in public. At six pounds and 12-years-old, Mary frequently gets exhausted on long walks. I will pick her up to carry her, which brings her very close to my face, and when she sticks her nose on my cheek, it reminds me of how she is such a sweet little pita pocket stuffed with sunshine! I absolutely have to kiss her fuzzy ears a million times and tell her how special she is or my heart will explode!!! People who don't have extraordinarily precious dogs don't understand this, but it is possible to become physically ill if you don't smoosh your dog's face into your face constantly.
I let her go crazy at the park. Because she's so small, I really don't see the harm in her running over a picnic blanket. She doesn't bark unless you step on her, she doesn't intimidate or even really excite other dogs, and she's missing most her teeth so even if she did bite, it would probably feel like a tickle. Not to mention, literally everyone coos and smiles affectionately at her (see above: pita pocket). She's basically every San Franciscan's ideal apartment pet – she cuddles like a cat, but she loves you like a dog. Also, she's as low-maintenance as a hamster.
I don't always pick up her poop, but hear me out: The freeway runs over my block, which creates an outdoor ceiling ideal for hobo camping. Some of them smoke a lot of crack, and crack does weird things to your bowels that I don't like. I can't even begin to count the number of times one of them has leveraged themselves with my car to take a huge, grayish crack poo all over the sidewalk in front of my building's stairs. It really bums me out. So sometimes when I'm in a super bad mood about it, I won't pick up Mary's poops on their part of the sidewalk. Take that, disenfranchised homeless community!


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I bet it is very hard to love all of every body in the world. There are only 4 people in our family and I could never do it."
– Nan
"Dear God,
Thank you for my baby brother but what I prayed for was a puppy."
- Joyce
"Dear God,
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you got now?"
- Jane
She was a 38 year-old mother of two kids with a warm personality and delightful smile. She had been plagued much her life with asthma but she had otherwise been fairly healthy. Her heart, she disclosed to her internist, had this nasty propensity to race when she became upset, exercised, or used her inhaler often. She complained about this to her doctor who ordered an exercise stress test and this is what it showed after 5 minutes of exercise:
For those not used to seeing an EKG, this one's not normal. It demonstrates a rapid, wide-complex ventricular tachycardia (rapid heart rhythm arising in the lower chambers of the heart). The left bundle branch, inferior axis morphology suggested the ventricular tachycardia arose from the right ventricular outflow tract, just beneath the pulmonary valve. Although the cardiologist performing the exercise stress test usually gets a bit nervous when this rhythm starts during a treadmill test, the nice thing about this heart rhythm disturbance is it usually occurs in people with structurally normal hearts and is curable with catheter ablation (cauterizing the focus from where the arrhythmia arises). Alternative therapy with beta-blockers was not attempted because of the patient's history of asthma.
So after carefully discussing the various therapy options with the patient, she chose catheter ablation.
"I'll pray for you, Dr. Fisher."
I didn't know what to say initially, but thanked her and told her I'd see her on her surgical date.
Two weeks later, she arrived in our pre-op holding area with her hospital gown, IV, and surgical cap in place. Her friends and family surrounded her. She smiled contently as we prepped her for the procedure.
"Are you ready?"
"Yes I am."
"Any last questions before we take you in the room?"
"No. You went over it pretty well during our visit."
"Great, then we'll get started…"
"Oh, Dr. Fisher?"
"I had a dream last night. You see I prayed that your hands were guided to the exact spot of my fast heart beats. You're going to do fine, you know."
"Uh, sure, Ms. C. Thank you. I'll see you in the room."
I went to change into my scrubs and surgical attire. I entered the room and the staff were ready. I chose a simple approach using two catheters at first to make sure I could initiate the rhythm while she was sedated on our lab table. The catheters (wires) went in fine and I positioned one in the right ventricular apex and the other steerable ablation wire in the right atrium while we tried to start her rhythm in the lab.
At first we were not successful, but with the addition of a bit of Isuprel (an adrenaline-like medication we use to increase the heart rate), her tachycardia became easy to induce and was stable enough the permit careful mapping. I reached to the ablation catheter in the right atrium and placed it in the right ventricular outflow tract. The very first place I laid it appeared to be an excellent site for ablation. I couldn't believe it. I asked my technician to pace from the ablation catheter tip. The paced EKG identically matched the spontaneous arrhythmia in all leads, even to the finest detail. The signal recorded from the ablation catheter tip preceded the surface electrocardiogram onset by 40 milliseconds (usually 30 milliseconds or so would suffice). Could it be? I dared not move the catheter.
I told my technician to prepare to perform the ablation. Once the energy settings and temperature adjustments were to my satisfaction, we applied radiofrequency energy to the tip of the ablation catheter. Her arrhythmia stopped three seconds after we started the lesion. Energy was continued for 47 seconds, then discontinued.
We tried and tried to re-initiate her heart rhythm disturbance and were no longer capable of re-starting the arrhythmia, even when she was given the Isuprel. We waited and kept trying to re-start the arrhythmia. Nothing happened. She was cured.
Total procedure time: 22 minutes.
Was it divine intervention? I have no idea. Frankly, it felt like pure blind luck. But to this day I have never had such a short, uncomplicated ablation procedure and I think back to her prediction and faith and I wonder...
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I have a gray Hauppauge remote control that I have mostly working with MythTV (Mythbuntu 11.10). The only remaining problem is that if I press the Up, Down, Left, or Right buttons on the remote, the selection in MythTV is moved two places in that direction. I've tried playing around with the
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With Argo, Ben Affleck the director has fully ensconced himself inside Hollywood filmmaking. While he's never been the most daring of filmmakers, he's never been afraid to be a bit dark. There's a moral complexity to Gone Baby Gone (2007) that you rarely see in major motion pictures, while The Town (2010) is a well-drawn, sometimes violent crime picture that never forgets to entertain. This time around, Affleck has widened his scope into a "based on a true story" historical drama and shifted into full-on crowd-pleaser mode. And while Argo is expertly crafted, written and acted, there's something lost in its predestined need to be neat, tidy and ultimately gratifying. While I hesitate to trot out the phrase "Oscar bait," there's definitely a whiff of it here, and Argo suffers because of it.
Taking place during the Iran hostage crisis which began in 1979, Argo tells of a recently declassified CIA mission to extricate a handful of U.S. diplomats who are hiding in the Canadian ambassador's (Victor Garber) home. With Iran in the throes of revolution — and with the diplomats constantly in danger of being discovered and murdered — seemingly disgraced CIA agent Tony Mendez (Affleck in a truly awkward beard-and-haircut combo) comes up with a seemingly harebrained, eccentric scheme. By posing the diplomats as Canadian filmmakers scouting locations for a bogus science fiction film called Argo, Mendez thinks he can sneak the Americans through Iranian security and onto a plane back to the States.
The film spends the bulk of its setup resembling something like a heist flick, as Mendez — with the help of a schlocky special effects maven (John Goodman) and a Hollywood producer (an occasionally outstanding Alan Arkin) — creates the lie which is Argo. Some of this creeps too much into Hollywood-insider type of humor, but there's a nice affection for the movies on display here, plus the film's strongest bits of comedic levity. Once the film shifts primarily to Iran, the picture turns into a political thriller, and while often crisp and fast-paced, Argo very nearly veers off the rails.
The climax, which consists of a compacting series of near misses and close calls, attempts to stack suspense on top of suspense. Unfortunately, things get a bit out of hand, and while it's never too silly, Affleck manages to strain credulity almost to its breaking point. All of the tension Argo is intent on supplying doesn't quite work, since the film is a bit too predictable. When I caught the film in Toronto, there was a big kerfuffle over the film soft-pedaling Canada's involvement in the whole affair, with eventual admissions that the bulk of the movie was made up. This was none too surprising since the film makes it apparent early on that nothing awful or horrendous will happen to any of the characters. Because of this, there's a constant sense that the film is working toward something undeserved, unrealistic and pat. None of this keeps Argo from its sole purpose — to exist as a well-made piece of satisfying filmmaking. Within those aims, Affleck's film is a success (and, I suspect, will be popular), but if you're looking for anything greater, you'll likely be disappointed. Rated R for language and some violent images.
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02 June 2010
Kids' Responsibility Checklists
We started with small baking sheets I found at the thrift store for $1.00 each...score! I let each kiddo help with spray painting the pans. Even little boy got a turn.
Next, everyone helped to make the magnets. We raided my button hoard and everyone got a turn at each station:
cutting up the magnet strip
removing the paper strip from the magnets
and hot gluing the magnets to the buttons. Don't worry, it's a low temp gun.
Our results thus far:
When the pans were dry and set, I printed out strips of paper with the responsibilities for my big kids, cut them out with some fun scrapbook scissors and decoupaged the paper to the pans. I purposely put the chores in past tense, to stress that they are to place the button when the task is complete.
The one bummer is that the ink bled a little bit as the paint dried. I'm still new to decoupage...live and learn.
I got this far, and realized I didn't know how I was going to hang them. Enter the lovely E 6000 glue from the cake stand! I used wire cutters to cut paper clips, and made hangers. I marked each side down 2" from the top. I hot glued a dot to hold the clip in place, and then used the E 6000 glue for a permanent hold.
When the glue was dry, I threaded through grosgrain ribbon to make the hanger. I had wanted to do a cool peg hanger, but I settled for what I had on hand.
Linking to: Super Stinky Boys, Blue Cricket Design, Someday Crafts, Women Who Do It All, and Delicious Ambiguity, Just a Girl, House of Hepworths, Somewhat Simple, Night Owl Crafting and Simpsonized Crafts, and A Few of My Favorite Things.
Featured on Someday Crafts, Blue Cricket Design, and Picked Fresh Daily, and Donna Moderna.
My project was picked by Jen!
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- Bonnie @ House of Grace said...
what a great idea (and super cute!) Thanks for sharing and good luck!!! Let us know how it goes!!!
- 02 June, 2010 06:40
- The Johnsons said...
Just wanted to say thanks for all your sweet comments on my SYTYC projects.
And I love this checklist!! I need to get something together like this, or my kids may turn into little couch potatoes.
Thanks! Shilo
- 02 June, 2010 08:35
- Jess@craftiness is not optional said...
- 02 June, 2010 14:11
- Katie said...
That is an awesome idea!!
- 02 June, 2010 18:26
- Ginger said...
Awesome! I have been meaning to do a magnetic activity board forever and have never finished it! Perhaps this will be my inspiration! Thanks for linking up to Mad Skills Monday!
- 02 June, 2010 19:12
- Bananas and Damask Interiors said...
What a wonderful idea. How cute
- 02 June, 2010 20:00
- RootsAndWingsCo said...
LOVE this! Great job. I love keeping the buttons on the side, too! Brilliant!
- 02 June, 2010 21:17
- CamelsNDragons said...
What a great idea! Especially with the magnetic buttons that store on the chart and using pictures for pre-schoolers. I can't wait to make one of these when our child is older. Thanks for visiting my blog and for leaving the comment. Have a great summer creating with your kids-
- 02 June, 2010 21:20
- Magic Brush said...
What a great idea! YOu should sell those... I would buy 3.... one for each of my kids!
- 02 June, 2010 21:24
- Goings on at the Glenn's said...
that is such a fun idea! I need to do something like this! I love the green too! very fun. I am visiting from Srut your stuff Thursday. Come on over and say hi if you'd like.
- 02 June, 2010 21:49
- Jill@Barnes Yard said...
Love this! I've been trying to find a way to use my old cookie sheets. I think my kiddos will totally be into this! Thanks :)
- 03 June, 2010 08:24
- Leslie said...
We were looking for something like this for our 4 year old! Now I just need to score a small pan like you did...
- 03 June, 2010 09:14
- Caroline said...
This is just what I need. Thanks!
- 03 June, 2010 10:46
- Becca said...
I love this idea! I'll be featuring it with links back to your post on Friday the 11th on Blue Cricket Design at 4 p.m.! Thanks!
- 03 June, 2010 12:01
- Kristi said...
Super cute! Love the idea to use buttons for magnets. Where did you find that cute green spray paint? I've kept my eye out for a good green and blue to no avail.
- 03 June, 2010 12:11
- Diana said...
They turned out awesome!! I've got my eyes open for pans of some sort to do my own.
- 03 June, 2010 14:00
- AUDRA said...
SUCH a GREAT idea!!! LOVE IT!!!
Could you please, please link this up to my party over at simpsonizedcraftsandthensome.blogspot.com
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- 03 June, 2010 15:18
This is inspired...LOVE it! Thanks for sharing this idea and for the excellent instructions.
Best wishes,
Natasha, Stacey and Holly.
- 04 June, 2010 01:38
- FoodMuster said...
What a cool idea! My name is courtney and I came across your blog via The Girl Creative blog and her new friend friday post. I will be following and checking our your crafty projects...if you don't mind!!!
- 04 June, 2010 08:09
- Kelley said...
What a great idea! I need something like this to keep some routine in the summertime.
- 04 June, 2010 10:41
- Leslie said...
What a fantastic idea! They turned out so cute! Thanks for linking up to Hoo's got talent!
- 07 June, 2010 01:11
- Jenn @ Delicious Ambiguity said...
Love this idea, especially how they you've personalized them for the different ages of your kids AND that they got to help make them. Thanks for linking up!
- 07 June, 2010 05:49
- michelle@somedaycrafts said...
Great idea! I'm featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com
- 11 June, 2010 06:05
- Laurel @ Ducks in a Row said...
This is great - truly great!
- 11 June, 2010 20:03
- Kay said...
This is a fantastic idea! I really like the token idea. Thanks for sharing!
- 11 June, 2010 21:43
- ShareandRemember said...
It looks really cute! I hope it's a successful plan for your kids.
- 13 June, 2010 17:03
- Rosa B. said...
What a great idea! I love it!
- 17 June, 2010 09:12
- Crystal said...
I love this idea and purchased my pans today! ($1 each at the Dollar Tree...hope they work ok) I know this is a silly question, but will the magnets still stick after the pans are spray painted? Also, where did you find the cool green paint? Thanks a bunch!!
- 23 June, 2010 11:31
- She's The Love of My Life said...
Great Idea!
- 10 August, 2010 13:21
- Lisa at Paint in my Hair said...
Saw this on CSI...what a great idea!
- 10 August, 2010 15:01
- mamaTAVE said...
I think this is a great idea. I have been using pieces of paper with stickers for my four-year-old, but it seems to have lost its luster... I may give this a try!
- 10 August, 2010 20:20
- Bridgette@Picked Fresh Daily said...
Such a great idea! I shared your project with my readers...
Thanks for your creativity!
- 16 August, 2010 08:57
- Unknown said...
great idea! I love that your kids were involved with the process! come on over and link up to MMM :)
- 23 August, 2010 20:31
- Tancy said...
You are so creative! I love you ideas!
- 20 September, 2010 10:18
- Yanet @ 3 Sun Kissed Boys said...
What a super cute and practical idea! Congrats on being Jenn's Pick.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Chang watch: Might the elusive chef be back?
Back in April, chef Peter Chang's "consultant and translator," Gen Lee, told Dish that the famous Chinese chef had found a place of his own near Short Pump that would be open in three or four months. Now Lee reports that the Short Pump deal fell through, and that Chang is within weeks of securing a location in Charlottesville.
We know, we know...
Since Chang wooed us and made us weep, we've lost track of the number of wistful food writers who've reported similar Chang plans, only to watch the quixotic chef slip away. Indeed, while Lee tells us Chang wants a place in Charlottesville, a blogger in Atlanta says he was told the Chang was returning to a restaurant called Tasty China.
But we can hope, can't we?
While Dish won't be convinced that Chang has decided to stay until he sees him in the kitchen of his own place in town, Lee makes a convincing case.
"We want something really bad in Charlottesville," he says, "but there are always delays. But we have the money, everything is ready, we just need to sign the papers."
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@Bill That's what I keep telling everyone! :) :) :) And you're one lucky duck.....
Exciting possibility. Many friends sampled his delicious fare and I regretted my procrastination--this time I'll be first thru the door. Please come back Peter.
Taste of China still has scrumptious food. My untrained palate is quite happy to have Chef Chang's recipes as prepared by those he left behind, although I'll be among the throngs to welcome him back to town if he returns!
Oh no...now The Hook will become The Change Watch and Virginia Quarterly Review Times.
I had dinner just yesterday (9/12) and shook the man's hand myself. Of course this was in Marietta, GA at Tasty China where he has been for a few weeks now. Reports are that he's opening a restaurant here in Atlanta, not in Charlottesville.
Oh, the duck I had at his restaurant was swimming in deep brown tangy sauce, crispy skin, perfectly tender moist meat. If I knew any Chinese I'd have gone in the kitchen and proposed marriage. Maybe U Va should hire him to cook Ted Genoways' goose.
"Chang vs. Baldi Chang, Chang"...
What a slick marketer this guy is, intentionally or not. Create buzz and demand and then leave them
wanting more. Reminds me of my prom date.
Come on everyone, this is really starting to get lame... Really lame.
Here's hoping he lands in my neighborhood, either joining the staff at Yuan Ho or taking over the vacant restaurant site at Arirang.
I have Chang chained in my basement.
Chang has been cooking at Shang Hai on Pantops for years
According to this guy (as of 8/2) Chang's new restaurant is in Marietta, GEORGIA. Dang Chang! http://www.eatitatlanta.com/2010/08/02/tasty-china/
And it looks like he was cooking in ATL at least as recently as last weekend, based on another blog I saw after Googling.


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I cook a whole lot of noodles in my kitchen, but the dishes I prepare are almost exclusively Italian. The Mediterranean flavor profile is just more familiar to me, so it's what a gravitate towards. But the moment I stumbled on this recipe at Gourmet.com, I knew I had to cook it. It promised a harmonious blend of curry powder and fish sauce, a spicy and pungent combination that would gloriously coat the noodles and ground pork. I stashed it in the to-cook pile and waited patiently for the grocery store to stock cilantro (it's not very common in this part of the world).
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- 7 to 8 ounces dried thin rice noodles
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
- 1 pound ground pork
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 small fresh chili, deseeded and minced
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 large red bell pepper, cut into strips
- 2 tablespoons Madras or other curry powder
- 3 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
- 3/4 cup coarsely chopped cilantro
- 3/4 cup coarsely chopped basil
Cover the rice noodles in boiling water and soak until soft but not mushy, 7 to 10 minutes. Reserve 1/4 cup of the soaking water, drain, and transfer to a bowl.
In the meantime, cook the pork, garlic, and chili in 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium-high heat in a wok or large skillet, breaking up any chunks, until just cooked through (a little pink is okay as it will cook through later). Remove with a slotted spoon to a small bowl.
Add the remaining oil in the skillet or wok over medium-high heat and add the pepper strips. Cook for 1 minute, then add the onion. Continue cooking until the pepper is almost tender but with a little crunch and the onion is golden, an additional 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the reserved pork along with the curry powder. Cook, stirring often, for 1 minute then stir in the reserve noodle-soaking water. Add the drained noodles along with the fish sauce and herbs. Toss well to combine and serve with more fish sauce, if desired.
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2) You're might see a lot of porn/disturbing thing thumbnails even thought you don't want to, it's just that so much of the images in the search engine is porn, is bound to happen. Use at your own risk and don't come after me with pitchforks when you get scarred for life, please.
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I mostly use iqdb if I need a larger image of a thumbnail or something. It does sometimes yield the artist name and website though. It depends on whether the person tags it or not.
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Nick Stern: Photographing Banksy
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Street artist Banksy has gained immense popularity for his graffiti art work which combines humor and political commentary. His stencils blend in perfectly with their surroundings, sometimes incorporating their surrounding environment. Banky's interesting subjects has inspired many artists to recreate his works in real life, with Nick Stern photographing Banky's recreations almost perfectly in his series, "You Are Not Banksy".
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Natan Dvir: Coming Soon, A Huge Fashion Ad Near You
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Fashion and commercial photography has exploded over the last few decades, saturating the urban landscape with giant, colorful, dynamic and static ads. Nowhere is this scene played out more than in New York City. Here, buildings and billboards are covered with huge ads with sexy models and exotic products. Most New Yorkers have become desensitized to this phenomenon, but to outsiders, the blaring product placements are hard to miss. Natan Dvir documents this craze for huge fashion ads in his project, "Coming Soon".
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Barbour's Path Won't Lead to the White House
What helps the Mississippi governor in the South hurts him elsewhere.
Haley Barbour's new year and his nascent presidential campaign are off to an inglorious start.
The Mississippi governor's bumbling attempt to steer clear of Southern race politics suggests he faces an uphill campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination for 2012.
The popular seven-year governor and former chairman of the Republican National Party benefits from long roots in the party apparatus, executive experience and a demonstrated ability to raise boatloads of money for Republican candidates and causes.
He'd win -- or come close -- in a string of Southern Republican nomination primaries, especially if, as we expect, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin bows out of the race and if ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee opts out or fares poorly early next year in Iowa and New Hampshire. With unquestioned conservative credentials, Barbour would draw some support away from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and others.
But what gives him an edge in the South, where his good-ol'-boy image is welcome and familiar, would doom him in other regions. He has shown no ability to free himself from the often toxic Southern politics of race, and if he doesn't figure out how to do that quickly, there is no way he can win the GOP nomination. Republicans need a candidate who can confront President Obama on the issues, not one whose comments and actions keep race on the table and take some of the focus away from the incumbent and his record.
Any Southern Republican carries some baggage in a national race, as unfair as that may be in some cases. But Barbour has hurt himself with comments and actions that will dog him for months if he runs.
When he commuted the sentences of two black women convicted of armed robbery, he conditioned the release on one of the women donating a kidney to the other, who requires dialysis. Some critics saw political designs in his decision. Others suggested he would not have placed similar conditions on two white inmates.
But he did the most damage to his presidential ambitions in an interview with the conservative-leaning Weekly Standard, suggesting that the violence and ugliness of racial confrontations in the 1960s largely bypassed Yazoo City, Miss., his hometown. "I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour is quoted as saying.
In the article, Barbour also discusses Mississippi's Citizens' Councils, which opposed integration. He remembers the councils as a positive force and "an organization of town leaders" that didn't tolerate the racist attitudes of the Ku Klux Klan. After the article caused a small political firestorm, Barbour backpedaled, quickly noting the town leaders were not saints and that segregationist Citizens' Councils were indefensible.
Since Barbour has been in politics for many years, opposition research teams from other GOP candidates will be able to dig up other touchy race comments if he runs. And you can bet they'll share what they find with cable TV and talk radio folks.
Even without those comments, though, Barbour would have trouble. He is not well-known outside the South. His conservative-friendly platform of tax cuts, spending cuts, cleaning up Washington and shrinking the size and reach of the federal government won't mean much if he can't break through the crush of similarly positioned candidates in the Iowa caucuses. And there is absolutely no reason to expect he would appeal to independents and moderates, who will be important in the general election.
There's an old line in politics about how every time a governor looks in the bathroom mirror at the start of the day, he greets himself by saying, "Good morning, Mr. President."
Given his self-inflicted wounds and early election math, Barbour might be better off saying, "Hello again, Governor," and leaving it at that.


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A rural United States Postal Service carrier who refused to get out of his car to deliver a package is creating quite a stir on the Internet.
In a video filmed Monday and uploaded Tuesday by YouTube user "eDude76," a USPS worker pulls into the user's driveway in a minivan, rolls down the window, and tosses a box at the garage door. Inside the package was a hard drive, and naturally the recipient was a little upset.
"Hey USPS employees, is this an accepted delivery method?" he posted on Reddit under a different alias. "Tired of damaged equipment and dents in my garage door."
The video sparked a discussion on Reddit about awful delivery experiences by USPS as well as FedEx and UPS.
"In this specific instance, I don't think there was any damage caused by this drop (having trouble with the drive, but hopefully not related), but it wouldn't be the first time something got damaged," the video's description reads. "If you watch carefully, you can see the door being pushed in."
The clip apparently was filmed in the Syracuse, N.Y., area, because the user wrote in the "About" section of his YouTube channel: "If any cops in the Syracuse area are checking out this video, I would love to see the ability to report drivers via an online interface."
The YouTube clip already has been viewed more than 700,000 times.
"Yes, I understand boxes can go through rough(er) handling while in transit, but that's not the point, not to mention being dropped on top of another box or conveyer belt is not the same thing," the person said in response to comments left on YouTube. "I have been contacted by the USPS, so hopefully things will calm down now."
But things did not calm down. In a case of poor timing, USPS launched an online campaign Tuesday featuring Spiderman and the hashtag "#AmazingUSPS." Twitter users instead used the tag to re-post the video of the rural delivery gone awry. While USPS has not issued an official response, the most recent tweet from its account on Wednesday afternoon read, "Our employees are committed to delivering your mail far and wide, and we thank those that value their hard work."