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By The Rotor & Wing Editorial Team | May 1, 2004
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Attendees of HAI's Heli-Expo reported burgeoning order books, valuable contacts on the show floor and a general feeling that good times may be returning to the helicopter industry.
HAI's Heli-Expo 2004 highlighted what exhibitors and attendees said is a turning point for the helicopter industry. Against the background of depressed gatherings at the annual event since the 2001 terrorist attacks, this year's trade show and exhibition was a veritable celebration of optimism and vigorous business.
"It was very energetic," said Peter Wright Jr., vice chairman of Keystone Helicopter Corp., agreeing with the assessment of others that this year's event topped all other trade shows-including NBAA, EBACE and the Airborne Law Enforcement Assn. annual-in the last five years.
Almost without exception, that echoed the sentiments of Heli-Expo exhibitors, visitors and industry wags encountered in Las Vegas by Rotor & Wing's editorial team-Editor-in-Chief James T. McKenna, Managing Editor Douglas W. Nelms, and Defense and Homeland Security Editor John R. Guardiano.
Several undercurrents buoyed those sentiments.
One was what Heli-Expo participants described as general optimism that the recovery of the U.S. economy is picking up steam, although that was tempered by lingering caution against spending and investments.
Another was what they said are increasingly solid indications that corporate and emergency medical service operators-two mainstays of aircraft sales, completions and modifications-are ready to invest in new and upgraded helicopters. A third was a perception that the U.S. Army's cancellation of its $14-billion Comanche program has freed up funding that will spur new and innovative aircraft development programs.
"There's a feeding frenzy going on," said Joseph H. Lubenstein, president of Kaman Aerospace Corp., with industry executives dusting off old ideas or proposing new ones for aircraft and systems that can meet U.S. military requirements with Comanche now dead. Even if the Army keeps only 75-80 percent of Comanche's $14 billion in its aviation programs, "in the end it's going to spark a lot of creativity."
Lubenstein said Kaman has discussed with Pentagon officials the contributions it could make in meeting the Army's newly defined requirements. These include possible application to Army needs of its K-Max helicopter version being developed for the U.S. Marine Corps' Broad-area Unmanned Responsive Resupply Operations concept.
Separately at Heli-Expo, Kaman signed on to the Lockheed Martin-led US101 bid to supply the next U.S. presidential helicopter. Kaman will supply structures and engineering work to the AgustaWestlandBell joint venture set up to provide the EH101 for that bid.
The show opened in the tradition of recent years, with engine makers giving their near- and long-term projections for future helicopter business. Honeywell, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney Canada reported expectations that sales should improve steadily over the next several years, driven by demand from corporate, emergency medical and law-enforcement/public agency operators. Most of that demand will continue to come from North America.
The projections of Honeywell and Rolls were tempered; each said their forecast of new aircraft sales was slightly lower than those offered last year. Pratt, on the other hand, foresees deliveries of PW200 and PT6 turboshaft engines rising 30 percent this year, boosted by its selection by many operators of light-twin helicopters last year.
"The PW200 continues to increase its share of the light-twin market," said Alain M. Bellemare, Pratt & Whitney Canada's president, noting that it recently has been selected for 47 new light-twins. In the last few years, he claimed, the PW200 has powered about 70 percent of new light-twin deliveries.
The PT6B, C and T also had significant wins last year, selected in orders for the Agusta A119 Koala, Bell Agusta AB139 and Bell 412.
Honeywell excluded military demand for civil helicopters in its forecast for the first time, producing what it said is a "pure" civil number. The forecast is based on the engine maker's queries of 949 chief pilots and flight department managers of companies operating nearly 3,047 helicopters worldwide. It surveyed the types of aircraft they operate and their specific plans to replace or add to their fleets with new aircraft.
For the five years through 2008, Honeywell projects that 2,350 new, turbine-powered civil-use helicopters will be delivered. That would put sales 6.8 percent higher than for the five-year period that ended in 2003.
Sales will be spurred by increased demand for light single and intermediate twin-engine models offering newer technology, according to Lynn Brubaker, vice president of Honeywell Commercial Aerospace, who presented the forecast results. Other factors spurring near-term sales will be the "bonus depreciation" tax provision in the United States as well as a strong economy there, he said, and booming economic conditions in Asia.
Although helicopter sales in 2003 were flat compared to 2002, Brubaker said they are likely to increase about 8 percent this year compared to last. Corporate, EMS and law-enforcement helicopters collectively will account for almost two thirds of new civil sales through 2008, the forecast indicates.
In the longer term, Honeywell sees turbine aircraft sales inching up 2 percent a year through 2014.
Brubaker said Honeywell found little expectation among respondents to its survey that they would trade up. Rather, they indicated that more than 80 percent of new purchases will be to replace older aircraft in the same size/capability and price class. About 7 percent of operators said they plan to trade down to less expensive machines.
New helicopters remain in greatest demand in North America, which Honeywell's data shows accounting for almost 46 percent of expected future purchases. (That is off slightly from last year, a drop the company attributed to reduced expectations for law enforcement aircraft to support homeland defense and border patrol missions. More than 60 percent of future new aircraft purchases in North America are expected to be light singles.
About 23 percent of new turbine-powered helicopter sales are expected to occur in Europe. Honeywell said evolving regulations on what can be flown over populated areas would result in two-thirds of future new turbine helicopter sales in Europe being twin-engine aircraft.
Based on the percentage of fleets to be replaced or expanded, Honeywell said, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and Middle rank highest. Operators in those regions expect to purchase helicopters equal to almost 22 percent of current fleets in the next five years. That compares to 18.7 percent for Europe, 16.2 percent for North America and 14 percent for Latin America.
"Over the next five years," Brubaker said, "we estimate that nearly 23 percent of total world new helicopter sales will be to customers" in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and the Middle East."About 60 percent of that demand will be for multi-engine craft, he said, with two-thirds of that percent focused on acquisitions of intermediate aircraft. Nearly 32 percent of expected purchases in those regions will be for offshore oil applications, much higher than for any other regions, he said.
Honeywell sees Latin America accounting for only about 9 percent of demand for new helicopters, with more than 80 percent of that for single-engine aircraft.
Rolls-Royce teamed with The Teal Group of Fairfax, Virginia, an industry-forecasting specialist, to develop its annual 10-year forecast of worldwide turbine helicopter deliveries. Presented by Stuart Mullan, Rolls-Royce's president-Helicopters, the forecast includes turbine-powered civil and military aircraft as well as rotary-wing unmanned air vehicles in all size classes.
Through 2013, the forecast partners project deliveries of 10,724 of those aircraft worldwide. They expect substantial growth in the military helicopter market and slight softening of the civil helicopter market in the near term due to what they called "the prolonging of the current economic downturn."
Record Attendance
The Rolls projection said civil helicopter deliveries will total 5,165 over the next 10 years, a forecast relatively unchanged from last year.
They expect single-engine aircraft (at 57 percent of deliveries) and light twins (at 22 percent) to dominate the market, with intermediate-class helicopters to make up 17 percent. Mullan said deliveries are expected to grow slowly, from a low of 480 units this year to a peak of 531 in 2013.
In the 10 years, they expect 5,559 military helicopter deliveries, a 6-percent increase over last year's forecast. Military sales should benefit from substantial re-equipment in that time, the forecasters said, and the eventual entry into service of rotary-wing UAVs. Those trends should be offset by cutbacks in big-ticket programs like the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche. Approximately 46 percent of all unit deliveries will be multi-engine medium rotorcraft (primarily troop transports and maritime patrol helicopters), Rolls and Teal project, with 25 percent being intermediate twins (such as light-attack and tactical/utility helicopters).
Shipments of military rotorcraft are forecast to rise substantially over the next five years, Mullan said, then level off for the next five.
With projections for slow but steady growth as a background, a record number of more than15,000 visited Heli-Expo 2004's exhibits. Some came to pick up aircraft; others came to buy.
One highlight of the show was Sikorsky's delivery on March 15 of the first S-92 to Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. That company plans to place two of the aircraft into service this year supporting energy drilling and production in the Gulf of Mexico.
PHI President and CEO Lance Bospflug said the company picked the S-92 for its safety features; the operating costs to which Sikorsky has committed; and its payload, speed and range performance that give the aircraft "its ability to go deepwater." Energy companies increasingly are pushing operations further out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Sikorsky's senior vice president for marketing and commercial programs, Jeff Pino, said the company now has orders for 22 S-92s.
Sikorsky also booked an order for a third S-70 Firehawk from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The acquisition of the advanced technology firefighting and paramedic aircraft followed a busy wildfire season in Southern California last year.
The Stratford, Connecticut helicopter maker also displayed the mockup of the VVIP interior for the S-92, which it displayed at the Dubai Air Show in December.
Eurocopter reported racking up 39 orders at Heli-Expo, including some that company officials said were walk-up orders taken on the exhibit floor. Air Methods ordered 10 EC135s, and CJ Systems Group ordered six. Helinet placed six orders for AS350B2s and took six options, which could be exercised for those aircraft or EC130s. Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee ordered three EC145, the aircraft Eurocopter introduced to the U.S. market at the show, and Taylor Energy ordered three EC130s. The manufacturer also received individual orders for EC120s from Pacer Communications and a corporate customer, Bob Russell, and single orders for AS350s from Creekside LLC and Heli-Express (which will take B3s) and Sundance Helicopters (which will take a B2).
The president of American Eurocopter, Marc Paganini, said his company captured a 49-percent share of the U.S. civil and para-public market in 2003. He said the company's goal now is to become a full-service supporter of Eurocopter customers, offering maintenance, completions and training services as well as aircraft sales.
"We don't have a good share of the market for supporting our own aircraft," he said.
Bell Helicopter made its own news-some intentionally, some perhaps not. The company booked signed sales orders and purchase agreements for more than 45 new aircraft, including 10 orders for 412 from Aeroservicios Especializados S.A. ASESA will use the aircraft, some of which already had been delivered at the time, for offshore oil and gas support in Mexico.
Responding to Customers
Bell also reported orders for 11 of the upgraded IFR-certificated 427 and one for the 210 re-manufacturing upgrade of UH-1s. Bell CEO Mike Redenbaugh announced plans for those upgrades at Heli-Expo.
"We've spent time talking to hundreds of customers," Redenbaugh said. "We've redirected our efforts to specifically respond to the needs of our customers today."
One thing customers want, he said, was an IFR-capable 427. He said Bell is in final negotiations with potential partners on development of such an aircraft, which he said should be certificated in the fourth quarter of 2006. The aircraft will include a 14-in. stretch of the cabin, dual hydraulic and electrical systems, an upgraded transmission and an upgraded rotor.
The current competition to supply new utility aircraft for South Korea's military has been a driver of the 427IFR, he acknowledged. But customers in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia also expressed the need for such an aircraft.
"Bell needs a good, solid IFR-capable light twin, he said. VFR 427 sales have been picking up, he added, noting Bell has sold six in the last several months. "In conversations with customers, they tell us that, yes, they want VFR- and IFR-capable 427s."
The IFR equipment would include an integrated avionics system, a fully-coupled three-axis autopilot and a redesigned instrument panel.
Redenbaugh said the 210 builds on Bell's Huey 2 concept. Its goals include an 11-percent increase in internal maximum gross weight over the UH-1H, an 18-percent boost in external max gross weight and a 40-percent decrease in directing operating costs, which he said would mean a drop from $880 per hour to $530. Other goals for the 210 are a 20-percent speed increase and a doubling or tripling of inspection intervals, including a 5,000-hr. time between overhaul for its engines.
Bell will continue to sell the Huey 2 upgrade to operators of UH-1s built outside the U.S. for whom receipt of the 210's FAA certificate might be difficult, company officials said. Re-manufacturing to the 210 configuration would require 3-5 months, Redenbaugh said.
Other Bell sales included 11 407s for international customers, four 427VFRs, a 430, 412s and 206Bs.
Redenbaugh also vowed to proceed with development of Bell's long-discussed Modular Affordable Product Line, or MAPL. The goal of that effort is to generate a family of new small helicopters by the end of the decade, including a light single, an intermediate single and a light twin based on the same platform.
Slip of the Lip
The Bell CEO may have let some news slip at Heli-Expo when he said that the US101 would be built at its Amarillo, Texas plant if its venture with AgustaWestland and partner Lockheed Martin wins the competition to provide the next U.S. presidential aircraft.
Officials had previously revealed that the Bell Agusta Aerospace AB139 will be built in Amarillo, which promises to become a major manufacturing site. Bell assembles the U.S. Marine Corps' V-22 there, and it is the future site of Marine UH-1W and AH-1Z upgrade work. But revelation of the US101's possible future in Amarillo caught program officials by surprise.
Bell Agusta officials for their part appeared to be thrilled to show off their aircraft.
The No. 6 AB139, which has been undergoing avionics and systems integration work at Honeywell's facilities in Arizona, performed flight demonstrations for current and prospective customers during Heli-Expo. Most of those who spoke with R&W said they are impressed with the AB139's airspeed and performance.
Bell Agusta booked orders for the AB139 at Heli-Expo.
Honeywell, which is providing the Primus EPIC integrated flight deck avionics for the aircraft, ordered one.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department also placed an order for the aircraft, which will be fitted with an Air Methods medevac interior, a Breeze Eastern hoist and other equipment to let it perform firefighting and medevac missions.


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Graham v. Florida
Today Justice Kennedy extended his Eighth Amendment legacy as the author of the majority opinion in Graham v. Florida. The Court invalidated sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes. His opinion was joined by Justices Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.
Justice Roberts added his vote to the majority's judgment that Graham's sentence should be overturned, but refused to follow the majority's broad determination that all sentences like Graham's facially violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Justice Thomas, in a dissent joined by Justices Scalia and partially by Alito, wrote that the Court has rejected "the judgments of…legislatures, judges, and juries regarding what the Court describes as the 'moral' question of whether this sentence can ever be 'proportionat[e]' when applied to the category of offenders at issue here."
In addition, Thomas struck at the return of Justice Kennedy's famous citations to foreign law at the close of the majority opinion. Unwilling to dignify such references with a rebuttal in the body of the dissent, Thomas "confine[d] to a footnote the Court's discussion of foreign laws and sentencing practices because past opinions explain at length why such factors are irrelevant to the meaning of our Constitution or the Court's discernment of any longstanding tradition in this Nation."
Justice Alito, writing for himself, added a short dissent noting that courts could still sentence juveniles to very long sentences without parole, as long as the sentences were not for life.
In two-paragraph concurring opinion, retiring Justice Stevens, joined by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, attacked Justice Thomas's dissent as too "rigid" an interpretation of the "evolving standards of decency" doctrine that has guided the Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence since 1910. Stevens wrote:
Society changes. Knowledge accumulates. We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes. Punishments that did not seem cruel and unusual at one time may, in the light of reason and experience, be found cruel and unusual at a later time; unless we are to abandon the moral commit- ment embodied in the Eighth Amendment, proportionality review must never become effectively obsolete.
While JUSTICE THOMAS would apparently not rule out a death sentence for a $50 theft by a 7-year-old, the Court wisely rejects his static approach to the law. Standards of decency have evolved since 1980. They will never stop doing so.

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After 3 phenomenal sold out tours of New Zealand, one of this countries favourite R&B groups.
Boyz II Men are coming back Down Under to bless us with their amazing voices, and to perform all their legendary hits that have made them one of this generation's most popular groups.
With an astounding 60 million albums sold, the trio hold the distinction of being the best-selling R&B group of all time. Their 4 date December run sees them performing in Wellington, Napier, Auckland, and Hamilton.
The legendary group traces its humble beginnings back to Philadelphia's School of the Creative and Performing Arts in the late 1980s. They released their first record in 1991 entitled 'Cooleyhighharmony' which redefined popular Rhythm & Blues.
Having recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, the band, consisting of Nate Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, have penned and performed some of the most renowned classics of the past two decades including 'End Of The Road', 'I'll Make Love To You', 'One Sweet Day', and 'Motownphilly'. The group's 4 Grammy Awards top an impressive list of honours including 9 American Music Awards, 9 Soul Train Awards, 3 MTV Awards, and 3 Billboard Awards.
Most recently, Boyz II Men marked their 20th anniversary by releasing an album fittingly titled 'Twenty'. The album contains the group's first original material in nearly a decade, as well as a dozen remastered classic, career-defining hits. Another unforgettable moment marking the group's 20 years in the business, Boyz II Men received the first star of 2012 on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
For an amazing night of R&B hits and incredible vocal harmonies, don't miss Boyz II Men on their 2012 New Zealand Tour!


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Syrian rebels allied with al-Qaeda have seized government oil fields, control the power plant in Aleppo, the nation's largest city, and run courts that apply Sharia law, according to the New York Times. The leading military force among the rebel units fighting for the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime is the al-Nusra Front, whose leader, Abu Mohammad al-Goliani, boasts of having fought alongside al-Qaeda in Iraq and who recently announced the union of Nusra with al-Qaeda in "the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant." While foreign jihadists have joined with Nusra, a prominent Syrian group, Ahrar al-Sham, is said to be ideologically aligned with them. Though the oft-stated policy of the Obama administration has been to provide assistance to "moderate" secular forces within the coalition of rebel groups, the Times reported: "Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of."
While the United States has arranged for shipments of light arms like rifles and grenades to Syria from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, much of the weaponry has ended up in the hands of jihadists. Direct U.S. military aid has been in the form of "non-lethal" assistance such as armored vehicles, body armor, night-vision goggles, and communications equipment. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and other Senate Republicans have renewed calls for a stronger U.S. role following White House confirmation last week of intelligence reports, "with varying degrees of confidence," of the use of a chemical weapon by the Assad regime against rebel units. The small amounts of sarin found in soil and blood samples were likely loosed by Assad's forces, a White House official said, but the "chain of custody" has not been established. President Obama has said he wants further confirmation, while critics of his Syria policy have been urging him to act now on his previous warnings that use of chemical weapons by Assad would cross a "red line" and bring serious consequences.
McCain called on the president to "take the measures that a lot of us have been arguing for all along," including the establishment of a no-fly zone to prevent aerial assaults by the Syrian government, the creation of a "safe zone" for the rebel forces and civilians and providing offensive weapons to the "right people" in the two-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 70,000.
Given the heavy presence of al-Qaeda allies and other extremist elements in the rebel coalition, finding the "right people" to arm is by no means a certainty. At least some of the U.S- approved shipments of arms from Qatar to Libyan rebels two years ago went to jihadists now entrenched among the anti-Assad forces in Syria. And the United States has been fighting for more than a decade in Afghanistan against Taliban forces who were the "right people" to arm when they were fighting the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
Establishing a no-fly zone with unmanned bombers, as McCain recommends, would pit U.S. drones against Assad's world-class air force, described by U.S. military and intelligence officials as "one of the most advanced and concentrated barriers on the planet," according to the Wall Street Journal. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has advised the Obama administration that mobile missile launchers, located in population centers, would be difficult to find and destroy, and the effort would likely result in civilian casualties.
"They should make sure that [the rebels are] not attacked from the air — and provide them with the weapons [and] training that they need, and the ability of their revolutionary council to organize and to govern — the same way that the Libyan consulate did in Benghazi," McCain said in an interview on Newsmax TV "That way, they can prevent these weapons from falling into the wrong hands."
Yet a number of the rebels and civilians the United States had protected from the forces unleashed by Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi became the mob that attacked and destroyed that very consulate in Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador and three members of his staff. It seems a strange example for McCain to cite in support of a similar intervention in Syria.
Under no circumstances should we put boots on the ground," said the Arizona Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee. Patriot missiles could protect the "safe zone," while cruise missiles could destroy much of Assad's air defenses. "We could just establish a zone along the border where they can organize, operate, govern, and train and equip and that would be enough to tip the scales."
With or without "boots on the ground," dropping bombs and firing missiles into a sovereign nation to "tip the scales" in favor of rebels trying to overthrow the government constitute acts of war. Obama did that in Libya two years ago without authorization from the Congress of the United States. McCain is now urging him to do the same in Syria, despite the fact that any threat, real or imagined, that the Assad regime might pose to the United States appears small compared to what might come from al-Qaeda's allies in power in Damascus.
If the president may, on his own initiative, invade with bombs and planes a nation that has neither attacked nor threatened the United States, then the power of Congress to declare wars has become a nullity and the president has become a law unto himself. Obama demonstrated that in Libya. McCain wants an encore in Syria.
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She said she had a boyfriend but he didn't come to Artscape.
"Well then, I was wondering, can I be your boyfriend for the next five or six minutes," asked the multi-platinum R&B singer Brian McKnight to the fan he plucked from the crowd. As she sat on a stool in the middle of the Wells Fargo stage in mid-town Belvedere Friday night, her smile beamed on the big screen.
To the surprise of no one (except perhaps that boyfriend), she agreed. McKnight, in the middle of his 75-minute headlining set, began serenading her with "Another You," from his 2009 album "Evolution of a Man."
Toward the end of the song, the new couple stood up and McKnight embraced her in a tender hug, to envious screams. Then he took it a step further, moving the fan's hands down to his backside.
"There you go!" yelled a female fan like a proud coach.
It was McKnight in charming loverman mode, a comfortable territory for a professional singer with more than a dozen albums and even more Grammy nominations.
Throughout his workman-like Artscape set, McKnight was there to prove he was still capable of stealing girlfriends (check) and that his talents extend beyond the formulaic R&B ballad (check). He wasn't just there to sing, but to play keyboards and show off his slightly above-average guitar playing.
Leading up to Artscape, a minor controversy arose at the possibility of McKnight performing his newer explicit material (he did not, nor did he mention them). Standing in the semi-full crowd (which emanated a familial vibe of a drama-free backyard barbecue), the concern made more sense.
The crowd's ages ranged from children to grandparents, and they were all there to enjoy a name-brand act's hits, not to see if he dared to sing his recent headline-grabbing "experiments." (It also became clear why rapper Wale might not excel in this terrain.) But McKnight kept his entire performance professional and PG-rated.
He remains a believer in showmanship and an entertainer's duty to engage a crowd. Throughout his set — which included "Shoulda Been Loving You," "Gimmie Yo Love," "6, 8, 12" and more — McKnight used old tricks (choreographed bows, held poses at the end of songs) that felt stale to me, but not to smiling audience members on the lawn.
The generational and taste gaps between R&B fans seemed more obvious in this setting. During our interview weeks before Artscape, McKnight said he wrote "If Ur Ready to Learn," his eyebrow-raising song about the female reproductive system, as a parody of the current R&B staples on the radio. Whereas those artists are willing to talk about sex in ways that leave little to the imagination, McKnight works within the more traditional parameters of the genre. Action is implied but rarely underlined. To these ears, some of those well-worn lyrical tropes get dangerously close to bad poetry, such as when McKnight sings, "It's possible that I've finally found me dream come true / there could never be another you."
But it can't be understated how little this crowd cared or how unlikely it was they even considered the thought. From the surrounding smiles and lustful stares, it was clear McKnight had earned his role as the sensitive but dominating alpha male many women desire.
"Would someone out there give me your love?" McKnight asked. (The woman next to me screamed, "You got it, baby!") "We could do it all night, baby." ("Oh yeah, we can!") The exchange proved McKnight is still more than capable of winning over the female portion of his crowds without ever making them feel like they're chatting with their gynecologist.
During our conversation, McKnight kept talking about how funny he was and how his true fans knew his humor. Besides tripping once with a crass joke (about the rain), McKnight kept the crowd laughing by teasing them with songs they wanted to hear. (At one point, he sat at his keyboard, sang the first words to "One Last Cry" and abruptly stood up, smiling, as the crowd demanded he continue.)
But McKnight wasn't there to polish stand-up material. He's a ham and a traditionalist, wanting to win over the women first and foremost. And he can still sing well, cleanly hitting vocal runs with a lean vibrato. By the time his biggest hit, "Back at One," kicked in at the chorus, he had the entire crowd — which didn't leave once he took the stage at 7:35 — doing the correlating hand signals of the hook.
While "Back at One" came toward the end of the set, it surprisingly did not close it. McKnight left that for "Fall 5.0," a track from his 2011 flop, "Just Me." While that album came and went with little notice, "Fall 5.0" felt like a slight triumph at Artscape.
As McKnight sang the impressionable hook, "I just might fall," a noticeable contingent of men joined the women on their feet, dancing with a hop in their two-step. An R&B singer winning over the guys, too? Now that's the mark of a seasoned performer.
She said she had a boyfriend but he didn't come to Artscape.


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Without innovation, it will be very difficult and very costly to achieve the transformation to a greener economy. There is vast amount of scientific and empirical evidence that suggests that reducing global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions will require innovation and large-scale adoption of green technologies throughout the global energy system.
How to foster green technologies and innovation is perhaps the most crucial challenge for a green economy. Recent efforts show that OECD governments as well as emerging economies are giving priority to R&D activities and incentives for specific technologies such as renewal energies and environmental technologies.
The key challenge for policy makers in the area of science, technology and innovation is to identify the specific policies that will be needed to achieve broad technological change. The OECD Innovation Strategy outlines that strengthening innovation requires a policy response on several fronts. Besides market-based measures and regulatory policies such as carbon pricing that work at the end of the innovation cycle, policies that enhance the supply of available knowledge and technologies will also be needed.
Workshop aims
As innovation will be an important driver of the transition to a green economy, the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) organised a workshop with the following objectives:
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Recently, another collector posted images of her new wood 1/6 scale armoire that she ordered from Plaza Mildendo. If I weren't busy packing away my dolls, I'd have one by now. Look at this amazing piece of furniture for only $110. plus shipping.
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This company is located in Mexico and sells furniture in several different scales including 1/6 and 1/4. Their prices are excellent for this quality and style. They are open to customization as well.
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There's very little to_ the debut solo release from Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows; it's just his voice – tender, imperfect in an endearing fashion – and a gently strummed acoustic guitar. A few finger clicks guide 'Boxes' (video), the mini-album's opener, towards its end barely a minute-thirty after it begins, the impression being that Burrows is not one for outstaying a welcome. Indeed, _The Colour Of My Dreams doesn't even run to a quarter of an hour in length.
Which is something of a disappointment considering the appealing assortment of songs he's collected together here, on a release aimed at raising funds and awareness for Naomi House, a children's hospice in Hampshire (read more in our interview – Ed). Taking lyrics from poems penned by Peter Dixon, whose work often looks at the world through the eyes of a child, Burrows builds sparse arrangements that will attract comparisons to any number of solo singer-songwriters elsewhere. But despite his vocals slightly echoing a certain late Portland, Oregon icon – you can't say they don't, really – Burrows' borrowing of words ensure he's never fully committed to these tales in the vein of someone who'd seen them through from sodden beer mat to boxed and shipped CDs.
But Burrows' slight distance from the subject matters explored – the taking away of childhood comforts, or how he'd rather have a cuddle than ketchup, chips or beans (sweet) – is forgivable of course: the man's in his late-20s, and although Dixon is a family friend it's unlikely Burrows has spent much of his adult life looking over the poet's writings. The objective seems to have been to explore a side of his career as yet undeveloped, while Razorlight enjoyed some time off, and make a very worthy cause some money as a result. On this level The Colour Of My Dreams achieves all of its goals.
Will Burrows be seen as a serious solo talent as a result of this success? Unlikely, but the seeds are now spread – who knows what branches may yet sprout for this charitable musician's career in the future?
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – April 19, 2005) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that consumers who shopped at two Phoenix area DSW Shoe Warehouse stores between November 2004 and February 2005 may be victims of identity theft. DSW Shoe Warehouse revealed the results from its fraud investigation results yesterday. The company originally announced a much smaller data theft last month.
The two Arizona stores affected are located at 3411 W. Frye Road in Chandler and 21001 N. Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix.
The investigation revealed that transaction information from 1.4 million credit card purchases completed at 108 stores nationally was compromised. In addition, transaction information involving 96,000 checks was also stolen. The thefts occurred between mid-November 2004 and mid-February 2005.
"This type of announcement is becoming all too familiar," Goddard said. "The security lapses by ChoicePoint, Bank of America, LexisNexis and other companies that store consumer's personal data announced over the last three months emphasize the need for more adequate protection."
DSW Shoe Warehouse indicated that information stolen in the credit card or debit card transactions included the card number, name and transaction amount. If a check was involved, the information stolen included the checking account number and driver's license numbers.
DSW Shoe Warehouse is working to contact customers who used checks as payment. So far the company has contact information for about 88 percent of those customers, and they will receive a letter from DSW Shoe Warehouse in the next few days, Goddard said.
"My office supported a bill in the State Legislature this year that would have required companies to notify consumers when a data theft happens," Goddard said. "The legislation failed to receive a hearing and died in committee. Congress is now looking to impose this basic requirement. If the Congress fails to act, we may need to come back to the Legislature."
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heart wrote:With respect, this is a discussion forum. If you don't want to discuss a subject, like what ChNNR said yesterday, there is no point in mentioning it at all. If you want to discuss it, for whatever reason, just spit it out. Once you have done that you have to accept that people might disagree with it your understanding of what ChNNR is saying. This does not mean any disrespect to your Guru.
I give you an example;
"Aside from receiving blessings, gathering the accumulations, and purifying obscurations, no other technique exists for recognizing rigpa." Tulku Urgyen
If you feel shocked and disagree with this statement because your Guru says otherwise are you then disrespectful to Tulku Urgyen? Everyone one here are stuck in the presets of their own Guru as well as the those that the various experiences of their life have given them. Also most people here on the Dzogchen subforum have heard ChNNR teach, we know what he says, but not everyone experience his teachings and statements in the same way. It is just like the Dharma example how different sentient beings experience water. Despite this we try to have a respectful discussion on the subject of Dzogchen here. That means that we try to respect everyone's Gurus and not only our own. Dzogchen can be taught in many different ways and as far as I can see they are all good. I think it might be a good idea to add to the TOS that the argument "you disrespect my teacher" should not be allowed because if everyone used that argument no discussions would be possible at all here. Also unless a Guru him or herself post something on this forum we are never ever directly discussing their teaching but only our own subjective understanding of their teaching. I think it is important to do this distinction to avoid unnecessary turmoil.


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