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Royal Thunder is:
Mlny Parsonz on bass/vocals
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Evan Diprima on drums
I first heard Royal Thunder when they opened for The Sword a couple of years back, and they performed very, very well. The band played a strong mix of blues and southern influenced hard rock, but I was most impressed with Mlny's raspy, howling, emotive voice which reminded me of Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge and Joan Jett.
Within a few days of the show I bought CROOKED DOORS and CVI, and while I do like both albums, and the highs are high ("Ears on the Fool" and "Time Machine," for example), the biggest issue overall is consistency. The first two albums showed a great degree of potential, so I came into this album interested in seeing how they grew as a band.
WICK starts with a song called "Burning Tree" that has a middle-eastern melody hypnotically running throughout. I am not a fan of the warbling vocal effects used in a couple parts of the song, but I do appreciate how the band is experimenting in their songwriting and feel the band was deliberate with the placement of this song in order to let the listener know that he or she is in for a different experience than the previous albums.
The following song, "April Showers," is the strongest on the album (a link to the video is provided below). Strong, sultry, and bluesy with a brooding buildup that grows from contemplative to explosive. This song best exemplifies the strengths of the band.
The next few songs are also strong, and shows the talent of the band in its songwriting diversity. The best being "We Slipped" an up-tempo rocker, "The Sinking Chair" the heaviest, fastest, and most furious on the album, "Plans" dials back the heaviness, but remains weighty with emotion that you can feel in Mlny's voice, and "Anchor" a mid-tempo song that has a catchy melody throughout showcasing the talents of every member in the band.
Then the last 40% of the album loses some steam. I rather do like parts of "Push," "Turnaround," and "The Well," but their feel is too similar to earlier songs and they do not end up being particularly memorable. "WICK" and "We Never Fell Asleep" are the two songs I do not care for as they sound like the band is trying to jam too many ideas into each and they lose coherency as a result.
With this album it is apparent the band is trying new things, and while not all of them succeeded, the effort is appreciated and applauded. Far too many bands fall into a formula and grow dull on subsequent albums. Royal Thunder have leveled up and I am looking forward to the next step in their progression.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law exempting moral objectors from mandatory birth control coverage because it conflicts with an insurance requirement under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig cites a provision in the U.S. Constitution declaring that federal laws take precedence over contradictory state laws. But Fleissig emphasized that she was taking no position on the merits of the Obama administration policy, which requires insurers to cover contraception at no additional cost to women.
It was not immediately clear Monday whether the Missouri attorney general would appeal the ruling, which was dated Thursday but not publicized.
The Missouri law requires insurers to issue policies without contraception coverage if individuals or employers assert that the use of birth control violates their "moral, ethical or religious beliefs." The state's Republican-led Legislature overrode the veto of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon last September to enact the law, which appeared to be the first in the nation to directly rebut the Obama administration's contraception policy.
Fleissig had issued a temporary restraining order against Missouri's law last December. The law had been challenged by insurance providers, who feared they could be caught in legal quagmire by the differing federal and state requirements.
In her ruling, Fleissig wrote that the state law "is in conflict with, and pre-empted by, existing federal law" and "could force health insurers to risk fines and penalties by choosing between compliance with state or federal law."
The judge noted that the federal law includes penalties of $100 per day per employee and an annual tax surcharge of $2,000 per employee for violations of its provisions. The state insurance department already issued orders seeking civil penalties against two insurers for not offering plans excluding contraception coverage as required by the Missouri law.
The ruling "clears up what law they have to write the policies under, and that's all we were asking," said Brent Butler, the government affairs director for the Missouri Insurance Coalition, an industry trade group that was one of the plaintiffs.
Although she struck it down, Fleissig did not issue a permanent injunction against Missouri's law because she said the state insurance department had agreed not to enforce it and to withdraw its administrative complaints against the health insurers.
Among those supporting the Missouri law was Our Lady's Inn, a St. Louis area nonprofit that provides homes and counseling for pregnant women. The organization had filed a court document saying it wanted to use the Missouri law to opt out of contraception coverage for its employees' insurance policies.
"The point of the law was to tell health insurance companies that they're supposed to honor the wishes — pro or con — of people who have religious or ethical objections to what's in the policy," said Timothy Belz, a St. Louis attorney who represented Our Lady's Inn.
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I know I let you down yesterday.
I've been blogging for 3 years and two of those I have given you April Fools (one of which somehow continues to be one of my most popular posts).
I tried, but my wonderful idea required graphic talent well beyond my ability to press "Prt-Scr". I did try to engage some wonderful artists, but as the idea came to me so late it is understandable they couldn't come through. Of course I probably could have reached out to my Number #1 fan as well… but that thought also came to me way too late. So after 4 hours of bashing my head against the WoW Model Viewer I gave up, hardest boss-mob I have ever fought.
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- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:03
wow impressive. Well done ZagrebReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:05
How is Emirates doing?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:07
Really good ... after 1 month of flying, they announced they would cut 2 services per week over the winter. With Qatar announcing double daily flights, my bet is that they will further reduce their winter services - too much capacity without the convenience of frequencyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:15
EK does ok in terms of loads, yields not so much. They should fly seasonally as there aren't enough passengers during the slow winter months.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:47
My aunt decided to fly from Australia with Singapore Airlines to Zagreb. Both Qatar and Emirates were way to expensive (2400$). It probably means that the loads are quite high.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:20
Tickets in Western markets are always,higher than here in.ex YU so it's nothing strange.Delete
Also I think it has more to.do.with good performance of their SYD flights
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:01
I think they are doing much better than expected in first and business class.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:55
^ yes! And that is where it counts.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 12:40
Counts what exactly? Again, if performmance is better than expected, why decrease ops vs original plan? I am not nasty towards EK; couldn't care less, but come on guys, pure logic...Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 16:33
"@Anon 9:07 AMDelete
Really good ... after 1 month of flying, they announced they would cut 2 services per week over the winter. With Qatar announcing double daily flights, my bet is that they will further reduce their winter services - too much capacity without the convenience of frequency"
Good, it is good nobody cares what you think.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 21:45
if you don't care, then why comment ? You have undermined your own argument ! Aren't you a smart one ....Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 23:21
Anon 9:07 simply applies logic. Whether you like that or not.Delete
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 14:58
@AnonymousJuly 28, 2017 at 11:21 PMDelete
He is applying nothing but his stupidity, the guy is a nationalist troll and everyone can read between the lines.
He is jealous emirates is flying to Zagreb and want's to Emirates fail in Zagreb. Well it won't, they're doing a fantastic job, Winter was always expected to be reduced, they do that on most destinations across their network, Zagreb isn't exception.
Emirates projected 80-85000 pax on the route this year, 160-175 000 pax in 2018 for entire year, it seems now, they'll have 85000 by the end of September and 200 000 pax in 2018. Massive increase on their projections.
Zagreb is developing just nicely. new Legacy Carriers are coming in first, just like in major West European airports, and LCCs are picking the destinations now covered by legacy carriers.
No need to rush things in Zagreb, get a stable and solid growth based on legacy carriers and service, build a proper airport.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:08
Good to see Croatia Airlines extending Lisbon and Barcelona. Do they have to lease an additional plane over winter?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:10
I think they have an A319 stored during the winter so they can use that one.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 13:31
Oslo and Stockholm are selling really well, so that is also likely to be extended in to winter months. No idea how Helsinki is doing, last thing I heard, it was doing rather well for OU.Delete
OU's load factor overall is around 72%, if they can push it to 75% would be really nice.
- Danijel28 July 2017 at 14:54
I read somewhwre that Heksinki doing verry good, and that tickets for Helsinki are quite expensive. So Scandinavia is really good move for them. But how is Buckhurest doing?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:09
I still can't believe OU will be reducing LHR this winter, they were the most convenient option with the best service.ReplyDelete
Also DUS is such a,missed opportunity for the carrier. They could have run daily flights with the Q400Replies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:12
They are reducing LHR because they sold the slots.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:14
I know but it's still a shame, LON is a massive market with lots of potentialDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:14
I agree with the first anon completely. While it is good to see Eurowings launching winter flights, I think Croatia Airlines really missed an opportunity at serving more German cities. There is definitely potential and a market there.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:27
Does OU fly to TXL and STR?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:30
^No. They did to both once upon a time.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:36
Will they keep PRN this winter or are they continuing to operate it seasonally only?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:40
How on earth did they manage to fail in Berlin?!?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:42
@9.36. No, it is seasonal since last year.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:43
@9.40 I don't know but it was a very long time ago.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:44
JP also failed in Berlin so I guess the market is not that big.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:27
And Eurowings failed on Berlin-Sarajevo flights too.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:38
So only Air Serbia flies to Berlin in ex-yu?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:54
There is also easyjet flight from Berlin to Pristina.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 12:10
And Ryan to NišDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 12:45
Eurowings flies Berlin-Zagreb all year long.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 16:59
@Anon 9:11 AMDelete
They're not reducing London, they're reducing LHR, LGW is still on for extra flights.
Once 3rd Runway @LHR is finished they'll get new slots @LHR this is if the UK remains in the EU. Dublin should be priority for OU, 20 000 Croats live in Ireland. 80 000 Irish visit Croatia, good enough reason for direct service to Zagreb.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:34
Third runway at Heathrow won't be finished until at least 2025 (best case scenario).Delete
Great news ZAG. I think 3.1 million passengers will be achieved this year.ReplyDeleteReplies
Even 3.2 is very possible.Delete
Still no Wizz or Ryan ....ReplyDelete
ZAG needs more LCCsReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:20
It will get Transavia and Volotea next year.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:21
Easyjet is also rumored to be coming back next year.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:22
Are Transavia and Volotea confirmed or is it yet another baseless rumour?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:25
It is confirmed that they are negotiating.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:26
Negotiating, key word. I'll believe it when I see it. Withthis growth I doubt ZAG is too willing to lower it's chargesDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:40
If the demand is there and money can be made, airlines will overlook the charges. Look at Wizz at BEG. They complain about fees and BEG being most expensive in their network but they keep growing out of there.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:53
+1 last anonDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 16:35
Anon 9:26 AMDelete
This blog reported it, few months ago, and EasyJet coming too as well.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:15
Still wondering why DUB is not connected to ZAG?ReplyDelete
Otherwise, Gulf carriers will probably reduce the prices dramatically in winter. Having 2 daily DOH and 1 to DXB is madness.Replies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:16
Don't forget TK that's after the same market.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:17
EK won't be daily during the winter, it goes to 5 p/w.Delete
Agree about DUB. Maybe they can try to get Aer Lingus to fly this route.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:18
EK's big aircraft is almost the same (capacity wise) as 3 small airbus aircraft... so you will in effect almost have the equivalent of 5 small airbus flying the route.Delete
Yes, madness - but great for us consumers !! Bring on the price war
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:38
EK has to develop the cargo market. It's the only carrier/aircraft in this ex-yu market. Cargo can generate good revenues.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:40
What do you mean only aircraft in ex-Yu market? Air Serbia's A330 carries a lot of cargo.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 16:40
@Anon 10:38 AMDelete
Zagreb is on EK and QRs cargo run, there's currently weekly cargo flights by Qatar and Cargo with EK starts in August with daily flights, EK projects 1600 Tons of air cargo between Zagreb and Dubai. Qatar has similar projections.
EK is doing fine on Zagreb route, 80% LF rate atm.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:07
How is 80% LF good at the very peak of the summer season?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:25
Regarding competition, how is it not good?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:18
@Anon @ 5:07 PMDelete
85% lf to Zagreb, 75% LF to Dubai, that is excellent result only after 50 days of flying to Zagreb.
Zagreb is year round destination, summer season or not. December is just as busy as July or August when it comes to tourist. Even first two weeks of January are very busy cause of ski-slalom and giant slalom world cup races held in Zagreb each year. A
I am not worried for EK at all, they're doing fine, with cargo they'll start to fly from August 1st and first and business class selling 50-70%, EK is making a killing on the route. EK's own estimates for first 7 moths of operations to Zagreb were 85000.
In first June and July will see around 37000 pax on the route. At this rate, if they keep up lf till the end of September, they'll hit their target, 3 months ahead of what they projected.
In 2018, EK route Dubai - Zagreb - Dubai - is poised to hit 200 000 pax. EK projections for 2018 are 175000. This means they're projecting they'll make good profit with 175 000 or 85000 pax this year.
You should relax, EK knows what they're doing, they're big airline, with good reputation for a reason.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:22
Nice to see. I think winter will be very strong.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:20
Winter is coming !!!Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:26
I hope Croatia Airlines crew don't go on strike, but people are saying it will happen in the next week or two, It could impact Zagreb's numbers :/ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:52
Hopefully they wetlease some planes to minimize cancellations.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:34
@Adria can jump inDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:59
Hope they won't go on strike!Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:32
Very good news, it seems that ZAG is on the right track. All it needs is a low cost airline to open a base.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:39
Why?so that it can finish off what's left of OU?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:56
ZAG management won't make any moves that could hurt OU. Besides, if you read between the lines, the CEOs statement in the last paragraph pretty much says that.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:06
If ZAG attracted an LCC to open a base numbers would boom straight away.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:56
Agree. We need more LCC at Zagreb but the airport is going in a good direction.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 16:45
@Anon at 10:56 AMDelete
Indeed, no need to rush things, Voltea, Tranavia and EasyJet are coming next year, Norwegian will most likely expand their operations next year too and I think Vueling and Air Europa might start more regular service to Zagreb as well. Monarch is connecting Zagreb with Manchester and London and might add Birmingham and Edinburgh next year.
I think when it comes to LCCs, that is it, no need for Wizz or Ryan. Concentrate on getting good coverage with Legacy carriers and great seasonal service by other carriers.
Zagreb will do fine.
BTW Sofia will hit 7 million this year. Mostly cause of LCCs.
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 08:00
Actually Sofia will hit seven million mostly because of the ongoing feud between FR and W6Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:37
excellent news coming in from Zagreb this year. Any more surprises/new airlines we might see this year?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:39
I think that is it for this year.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:44
Growth in July is apparently around 16%.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:11
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:54
With the new terminal they still have a lot of work to do. Primarily bring down delays and service aircraft probably. Yesterday a vehicle collided with an OU plane.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:04
They are obviously understaffed.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 09:58
I wish Croatia Airlines kept some of the routes it launched this year.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:03
They would need to expand their fleet over the winter for that to happen.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:59
When will OU get a new CEO?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:03
Hopefully soon!Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:03
Wish them good luck! I'm sure it will be more than 3 milion pax this year!ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:17
That is certain.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:10
I think there are a few more European airlines that could start flights to Zagreb. Primarily SAS, Aegean and maybe Alitalia if they are still around.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:15
Iberia should go year roundDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:20
Iberia is cautious. If they perform well this year they will probably go year round from next year.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:43
Today A321 to MAD, so it seems the spanish market is developping very well in ZAG.Delete
(In SPU and DBV is also a good performance to MAD/BCN.)
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:51
Nice :)Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:14
My prediction is about 10% growth this year.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:17
Yep, seems most realistic in my opinion.Delete
Agreed. It's already gone up to 9% in the first 6 months and that's before the peak Summer season ýDelete
Btw...10% increase will mean 3,07 million passengers this year. Which is very realistic. If the airport reaches 3,1 million pax as many are predicting, that would be a growth of around 11%. Very nice compared to 6,7% last year.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:16
I like that they are proactively trying to attract new airlines.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:23
So much for increased fees at the airport having an impact...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:26
Much better than last winter which was a bit of a dud.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:31
In terms of growth, yes.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:30
Hopefully there will finally be direct flights to the US next year.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:43
Dude, those were rumors, just like QR sending its Dreamliner to ZAG.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:49
I understand that but it was reported here a few times too that the management wants a link to New York. From what I gathered this will be a seasonal 1 weekly flight operated by an EU-based airline (probably some leisure carrier).Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:35
@Anonymous 10:43 don't forget EK sending A380 on inaugural flight.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 12:50
No one said so. They will sent A380 after several months in slow months to make "media rape" so to "force" media to write about them.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 13:25
Yes, they most certainly did. They said an A380 would come with all Croatian crew. Your 'prediction' is even more bizzare.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:20
Zagreb airport can't handle an A380.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:23
It actually can.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:54
Imagine boarding around 500 passengers with one jet bridge.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:56
@AnonymousJuly 28, 2017 at 5:20 PMDelete
Zagreb airport is the only airport in the ex-YU region that can. A380 can park on all other major airports in the region, and land if runway is 3000m long, however to connect directly with the passenger terminal, only possible @ Zagreb.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:14
It can connect at Belgrade too, using C gates.Delete
But none of the airports can serve it effectively, because they don't have catering vehicles to reach second deck, also to board second deck via stairs inside is crazy. But anyway I believe that Zagreb will be the first in ex-YU to get an A380 flight.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:27
@Anon at 6:14 PMDelete
Show me, use google earth, point c gate, i am looking at the airport now, can't see how this is possible. Box is too Narrow, max BG can host is A330-300 or B777 200. 60-63m.
A 380 is 73.7m. As to catering, Emirates does catering only in Dubai. Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and London.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:35
Max BEG can handle B777? Are you serious? BEG handles cargo B747 on a regular basis. Last week Chinese officials came in an Air China B747 to Belgrade. Please don't comment on stuff you have no clue on.Delete
It handles large aircraft on its gate C6.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:39
Also worth noting is that BEG handled scheduled B747 Qantas flights from the late 70s until the break up of Yugoslavia.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:45
@Anon at 6:35 PMDelete
That is a platform not a terminal, you can park An-225 there, let alone A380, we're talking connecting the plane to the terminal so passengers can deplane through passenger boarding bridges.
Air China was parked on that platform too.
Look at google earth and measure things for yourself, look at the size of the box.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 18:52
Oh jeez. So you have never been to Belgrade Airport but are presenting yourself as an expert. I can't draw it for you. The very last gate C6 has 2 air bridges which connect onto a plane. You can see the building very well. C6 is used as it gives enough space for heavy aircraft to park and connect to the gates. And no, Air China parked on the very far end of the platform where all aircraft from foreign dignitries are parked. Cargo planes are not parked here. They use the B platform opposite the terminal.Delete
Stop being a smart arse if you don't know what you are talking about.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 19:00
If you look at google earth or google maps, you can se that Air Serbia A330 is parked diagonally, so this way you could park much larger aircraft.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 19:35
Also your statement that Emirates only does catering in those cities is false.Delete
https://www.dus.com/~/media/fdg/dus_com/konzern/presse/medien%20informationen%20englisch/düsseldorf_airport_to_become_airport_for_the_a380.pdf - on the last page you can see that Dusseldorf airport has bought catering vehicles for A380
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PWDMu29V0w&t=90s - video of Emirates A380 turnaround at Manchester airport, you can clearly see catering vehicles
- JATBEGMEL28 July 2017 at 21:00
- ZAG can handle the A380, however under certain restrictions.Delete
-ZAG is still having problems handling the B77W, loading and unloading cargo and as well as servicing the aircraft ie cleaning. The A380 would just increase the problem.
- EK caters from almost all destinations except for the shorter flights, a couple African destinations and ZAG due to a lack of a proper catering facility. Nothing to do with aircraft type, rather the facilities, or lack of facilities and quality of catering. Same as with QR who doesnt cater in ZAG but DOH. FZ doesnt cater in BEG rather from DXB, with return catering loaded in the cargo and JU Catering just swaps the carts around during ground time. QR wasnt taking on catering previously in BEG either, being catered in SOF for the SOF-BEG-SOF sector and again for the SOF-DOH sector.
- A380's are boarded at some airports via remote stand on a regular basis.
- BEG can take on all types (i think just not the A380). However, difference in ZAG is that in ZAG the gates are not closed as is the case in BEG.
@ anonymous 6,27pm
you obviously havnt seen the amount of catering that gets uplifted to an aircraft before. You will be surprised.
@ anonymous 6,52pm
widebodies in BEG use just one bridge not 2, which is connected at L2. I thought the same before but its not the case, and there are a few pictures around that show this.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 21:06
@JATBEGMEL, while it is true that Air Serbia's A330 uses only one airbridge (because boarding can easily be done with 1), 2 can be used if needed. On several occasions, including inaugural flight, 2 gates were used to board the A330.Delete
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 07:58
The C gates are designed in such a way that two gates can be used when a widebody lands. People seem to have forgotten that this was the scenario when QR and TK sent their A330s.Delete
The only reason they don't do it for JFK is because it departs during the busy period when they need all the gates they can get.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:35
Amazing ZAG. Great for the Croatian economy too. Bravo HrvatskaReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:47
OT: today was an UPS 767 service CGN-LJU (Star Air 767-200 OY-SRH).ReplyDelete
Is this just one-time service?Replies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 12:52
They regularly use 757, so that is not so big upgradeDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 13:09
DHL uses B757, TNT B737, UPS Atr...so, todays' upgrade is quite big.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:53
It's going to be quite a year in Zagreb.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 10:56
Bravo Hrvatska!ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:00
You are a bit late. I was worried.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:04
Great about El Al. I think they cohld fly 1 flight per week all winter.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:30
I thought they are going year round but like the article says it's only an extension until the end of November. Pitty.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:12
Napredak ZAG u ovoj godini svakako jeste za pohvalu. Deluje da će biti i jaka zima. Čestitke.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:16
Good results for ZAG. I'm a bit surprised that aircraft movements are still down compared to last year. How?ReplyDeleteReplies
Airlines sending bigger capacity planes?Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:33
It actually means that the overall result is even better for ZAG because passenger numbers are up.Delete
After a strong summer comes a strong winter ;)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 11:50
More direct lines are needed to attract people from long distance destinations.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 14:13
Great developments for Zagreb since the French cameReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 15:41
Zagreb is doing good but I am worried about some serious issues: recent redirection of flight to Rome, guy running out onto tarmac to catch his flight, delays on busy days because of lack of staff and incident from few days ago when car hit into plane. This is all the fault of concessionaire. Can the government do sonething about it?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:10
@Anon at 3:41 PMDelete
What exactly should government do for minor infractions ? They've fined the airport, and individual in question already passed passport control, the security control, he was bit late that is all, no laws broken other than stupidity. Hardly a crime these days, if it was a crime, Trump would serve a life in prison.
Hitting planes isn't unusual, happens a lot on all airports. Ground crew was careless. Airport normally covers the costs of such damage through insurance.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:13
He was a bit late? Are you serious?!? On what planet do you live when you think a passenger can casually walk onto the apron to look for his flight? This is a strech even for you as the eternal Zagreb Airport policeman on here.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:15
Next time you are at any other airport in the world and you are a bit late, try to take a stroll on the tarmac to search for your plane and see what happens. Crazy.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:39
@Anon at 5:15Delete
Yes fella was bit stupid, indeed should face a fine or something, shit happens. He passed security screen, his baggage was on the plane already, he was giving a lift by airport staff as he was too late for the airport neoplan bus, airplane was informed and they waited for him. He was only 2-3 min late and they let him board. Moving on.
Also don't always believe shit you read on index or tportal !!!
He didn't brake any laws other than force airline to wait for him 2-3 min. Police didn't charge him, arrest him or question him, why??? Cause airport handled stuff the right way, allowed poor fella to board the plane he was late.
Story of him running across tarmac is nonsense, he didn't do such thing.
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:41
* Was given a lift by airport staff.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:51
Purger wrote an article about this, you should read it.Delete
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 07:51
Wait, his luggage was on the plane but he wasn't? That's another security breach and that's actually illegal.Delete
- Alen Šćuric Purger29 July 2017 at 08:04
He was lateDelete
Gate was closed, no one was on gate any more. No one inform captain that he will be late on flight - that is not true.
His luggage was taking out of plane because he was not on it
He push emergency button, walk on apron and try to find plane, but he did not know which one was it
Than he recognize his luggage on trolley, and stop driver and ask him to drive him and his luggage to plane.
Driver did so.
Captain and agent allow him to board plane.
They clearly are understaffed, like many people on here have noticed. Delays have become a norm, even before the summer season had kicked off and now it's even worse, when that never used to be a problem at the old, much smaller terminal. There still is no proper offer in terms of restaurants, caffes, shops and similar facilities, the hotel hasn't been built yet. Anyhow...there's still much to do before they start bringing up the apron extension. Even though there should be more than just 12 gates. I imagine the situation on Mondays and Wednesdays, when there's two wide body aircraft at the airport at the same time, must be rather chaotic.Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 16:22
Building looks beautiful on that shot.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 17:29
You just wait when they expand the airport to full size.Delete
I think I saw google earth rendering of what the terminal will look like, but forgot where, not if it was this blog, or some aviation forum. I am sure if you google it you'll find it.
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Morenci school finance director Erica Metcalf has delivered gloomy economic forecasts to board members for several years running as revenue continues to fall.
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This appears to be a rather cheaply produced little figure and it has a defect (small chip off left shoulder), but I know that it is at least 65 years old and may have been produced in Occupied Japan just after WW II. My father-in-law purchased it from someone at Camp Gruber in Oklahoma back in the mid-1940s.
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To come in here and do what they did is quite a task, and it's going against all odds and they found a way to get it done.
Q. Did the lead feel safe after the grand slam?
BRUCE BOCHY: You like a 6 nothing lead, especially with Matt Cain out there, you hit the first batter and Phillips, who had a great series, he got 'em on the board there and momentum starts to change and you're trying to get it back and we couldn't add on.
You're guys were making pitches when they had to. Affeldt, Romo, Kontos, all of 'em did a great job the whole series. We had our guy out there, Romo, actually got a bad break. Affeldt took a ball off his thumb; he was going back out there to face the first hitter and we had to take him out, and Lopez had to go in or else he might have been in there in the 9th inning.
Q. What have you learned about Hunter off the field in the past few days?
BRUCE BOCHY: I knew it, but you learn more about a player when you see him day in, day out. He's full throttle.
He really got the guys charged up the whole series, just a great job of getting all the fellas fired up every day. We weren't ready to go home and that message kept going across and Hunter every day he was talking to them, before the game you saw him in the dugout and these guys played inspiring baseball, for three games to do what we did, I guess it's history, it's never been done in Giants history.
Q. You got a good game from Crawford from both sides, was it Crawford the whole way or -
BRUCE BOCHY: Actually that's a good question. I slept on it and I decided to go with Crawford and he got us going with that base hit, he's our best defensive shortstop and we had Matt Cain out there and I said I'm going with what we have went with all year, and he had a huge hit and played great ball and I'm glad I stuck with him.
Q. Can you describe what Buster means in this series, twice in this series he throws out guys at third base and I'm sure part of his importance is how he deals with the situations like the 9th inning and making sure that the relievers can control their emotions.
BRUCE BOCHY: He's a leader on this club. He leads by example, he's a calming influence and you saw him go out to the mound just to slow guys down and the strikeout and throwing the guy out at third, that's a turning point in the ballgame and Matt Cain made a great pitch, he was facing a great hitter, he was coming out after that, but he made a great pitch to get the strikeout and Posey got 'em at third and that turned things around.


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Been playing the 0.56 update for a while now and noticed a few problems.
Double Click to increase item build priority - I seem to have a very short double click time in this game in the order of 0.5s or maybe lower. Half the time I double click, I end up in the move item/build mode which is annoying. Can this time be set as an option or is it something on a fixed time?
Messages - Whenever a message comes in, you now get a series of beeps. However I have found that if I'm clicking something when those beeps start, the message opens and I have to close the message and then start what I was doing again.
Colonists dying of starvation - My colonists must be the dumbest ones out there. I have them dying of starvation when there are food or rations available but they don't go and eat. When there is no food available but rations are a high priority build item, they just don't build the ration boxes, even with a Hydroponics room full of planter boxes and grown food and/or a room full of chickens. I've also noticed that some colonists will build a ration box or deliver raw food to the food prep station and then access the result two or three times at 6000 units a time. Other times a colonist will just access the food prep or rations box two or three times without delivering food or building a ration box.
IMP robots moving minerals - This problem has been around for a while. I extend the storeroom and add some items in the clear empty space. The IMP robots come in and dump minerals/fossils/body bags in the area and sometimes it prevents the items from being built (build icon turns red). This is a particular concern when you are trying to build ration boxes to prevent starvation.
I have also noticed in this build that the IMP robots don't seem to fill the material hopper anymore, they just dump it all on the floor.
IMP robot improvement suggestion - An option to set some robots to clear minerals while others dig would be handy. You could have two clearing the minerals and fossils while another one or two dig. This means that new rooms can be built without loosing as much minerals or waiting as long for the minerals to be cleared. Also while clearing minerals, can they be set to pick up all the loose minerals in the storage room and fill the materials hopper if it has the room.
Colonists actions improvement suggestion - Have colonists be able to be given certain tasks or jobs within the base. this wouldn't be used much in the beginning stages but once you got a hydroponics room and an animal room, you could specify two colonists to grow and harvest the food. If the colonists has a specialty to do with plants or animal husbandry, then they could get a bonus amount when harvesting food. Once food is harvested, they then deliver the food to either the food processing stations or a specific area within the store room.
Be able to assign colonists to build something that is high priority would also be a plus.
Additional rooms suggestions - Cool room/Freezer for storing raw food items if/when there is a surplus.
Mechanical Plant room for items like the Flywheel's, Central Air Processing/Circulation plant and other large machinery rather than dumping them in the store room where they don't really belong.
Morgue/graveyard for any dead colonists.
Additional build items suggestions - Dividing walls available for all rooms.
Freezer/fridge, Shower/bath unit (this could also affect the colonists morale), Double beds for the living quarters.
Automatic doctor/surgery pod, Recovery beds for medical.
Central Air Processing/Circulation unit along with ducts for outgoing and return airflows.
Water processing unit to provide water.
Waste processing unit to provide fertilizer/nutrients for the plants/hydroponics.
Walls with windows to look out from the base and to plug any gaps in the rock surrounding the base.
Drilling unit for water wells/gas
Base building suggestions - Give the IMP robots the ability to dig UP or Down. This would allow the base to expand in three dimensions rather than just 2 dimensionally.
Allow the IMP robots to floor over any holes/geothermal vents in the cave floor if hole/vent is set to be built on.
This build did fix a few bugs and introduced more but on the whole, a welcome update.
Regards Brad
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I'm also having problems with colonist starvation. It simply seems to take me too long to get a hydroponics room up and running, and by the time I do, I am out of rations. Colonists will run into the fully built and lit hydroponics room, clutch their bellies, and walk back out. They sit on the floor and cry instead of building a wind turbine. They get confused easily. Rooms warm up extremely slowly in this patch, or is it just me? I have to build 2-3 atmosphere generators or wall heaters to bring the base up to liveable temperature, which requires 2-3 wind turbines, which necessitate a repair robot, by which time my colonists are depressed about not having a bed, so they have trouble concentrating and get confused. I build the bed and they sleep in the bed and get hypothermia because the living area is 9 degrees. On like that.
I have lost almost every base that I have attempted on 0.56 to starvation or hypothermia. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong at this point. I think some balance tweaks are still needed.
I have lost almost every base that I have attempted on 0.56 to starvation or hypothermia. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong at this point. I think some balance tweaks are still needed.
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I'm also having trouble with my colonists dying of starvation even with ration packs in storage. I've also had 4-5 die of dehydration actually inside the storage area where there are three barrels of water.
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It would be easy to call this a moment of irony: the pulsing music, with its inspirational message, in my ears while images of King being mercilessly beaten, Los Angeles aflame and an older King with his family flashed before my eyes. I came to the news later than many, having spent the day before traveling and largely disconnected from television and the Internet. But as I sat in the hotel gym, I felt there was something deeper here than irony. Rodney King, for all his faults, was a man of new beginnings and of tragic flaws exacerbated, if not caused, by the circumstances of his life.
On the television show Celebrity Rehab, he was shown so drunk while working as a day laborer that he nearly fell off the back of a truck that he was helping to load. Later he wrote the book The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption. King, who grew up in Altadena, Calif., died on Father's Day.
His book begins with a moving paean to his own father, which starts with a memory of them going fishing together and his father pulling Rodney out when he panicked after getting stuck in deep mud. "Dad's arm reached around my waist like a steel cable and pulled me out of that muck as easy as a greased pole." Safety in a father's arms.
But not too long later, King was out at a swimming hole with other kids. A rock whizzed by his head, then another. For the first time he heard the words, "Run, nigger!" He didn't even know until then what the word meant, let alone the violence that could go with it.
Violence — and his failed attempt to numb his own fear — would become a theme in King's life. He said that he began drinking in junior high school, and he was intoxicated years later when he was pulled over by the Los Angeles Police Department for speeding in March of 1991.
The video of the brutal beating momentarily changed a complacency about policing and race relations, and it changed the face of South Los Angeles (formerly South Central), but it certainly has not changed the fact that America's incarceration policies favor the constant lockdown of men and women who are more troubled than sociopathically violent or destructive.
Earlier in his life, King had pleaded no contest to battery against his wife and, later, to robbery. King said that he led police on a high-speed chase the night of the beating because "I was scared of going back to prison and I just kind of thought the problem would just go away."
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Named after Sir William Hamilton's investigations of the dodecahedral graph in 1857, the Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCP, for short) is a classical graph theory problem that can be summarised thus:
Given a graph containing N vertices determine whether it contains a simple cycle of length N.
Such a cycle is called a Hamiltonian cycle. The HCP has become a challenge that attracts mathematical minds both in its own right and because of its close relationship to the famous Travelling salesman problem (TSP), that calls for the identification of a Hamiltonian cycle with the lowest cost possible in a graph where every edge has a known cost associated with "travelling" along that edge. An efficient solution of the TSP would have an enormous impact in operations research, optimisation and computer science. However, from a mathematical perspective the underlying difficulty of the TSP is, perhaps, hidden in the Hamiltonian cycle problem. Hence, we focus on the latter.
The FHCP is a team project that aims to exploit novel stochastic and deterministic techniques to (i) explain the underlying theoretical difficulty of the HCP, (ii) characterise classes of graphs that are particularly hard to solve and (iii) produce world-class algorithms that enable the efficient solution of most instance of the problem on graphs not exceeding 5000 vertices.
Based at Flinders University, South Australia, FHCP is led by Jerzy Filar and Vladimir Ejov. The team includes Flinders University students, research fellows and eminent national and international collaborators. FHCP team members have developed numerous approaches to analysing and solving the Hamiltonian cycle problem. A summary of these approaches is given below, with the most recent ideas listed first. For more detail, visit the respective project pages.
Visualisation of a solution to Euler's Knight's Tour Problem.
A graph can be displayed by placing its vertices in some order on a circle. Then, any arcs between adjacent vertices on the circle are rendered as arcs (which we call snakes), while other arcs are rendered as chords (which we call ladders). The snakes and ladders heuristic uses operations, inspired by the Lin–Kernighan heuristic, to reorder the vertices on the circle in order to transform some ladders into snakes. The use of a suitable stopping criterion ensures the heuristic terminates in polynomial time. Although finding a Hamiltonian cycle is not theoretically guaranteed, we have observed that SLH is successful even in cases where such cycles are extremely rare, and the heuristic performs quickly even on very large graphs.
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A key result in 2008 by Ejov et all demonstrates that the Hamiltonian cycle problem may be recast as the maximisation of particular determinant with respect to only linear constraints. This formulation enables an interior point algorithm to take advantage of the considerable sparsity inherent in the more difficult instances of the Hamiltonian cycle problem. Through the use of a sparse LU decomposition, derivatives of the objective function are computed very efficiently.
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In 1994, Filar and Krass described the process of embedding the Hamiltonian cycle problem in a Markov decision process. This embedding allows the natural amalgamation of standard graph theory techniques with those from Markov chain theory. Theoretical results enable the recasting of the Hamiltonian cycle problem as optimisation models with decision variables and objective functions previously unconsidered in graph theory.
The Hamiltonian cycle problem can be recast precisely as a nonlinear feasibility problem. Linear relaxations exist but do not guarantee a meaningful solution, and indeed such solutions are uncommon even in small graphs. However, we are able to construct linear feasibility problems that are feasible for all Hamiltonian graphs, but infeasible for almost all non-Hamiltonian graphs.
Genetic theory of cubic graphs
We propose a partitioning of all cubic graphs into two disjoint categories, namely genes and descendants. Through the use of six breeding operations, every descendant can be obtained from a particular family of genes called that graph's ancestor genes. The ancestor genes for a graph can be identified in polynomial time. A descendant inherits many graph theoretic properties from its ancestor genes.
Fractal-like structure of cubic graphs
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Branch and bound algorithms have been used to solve the Hamiltonian cycle problem since it was first posed, but perform very poorly even for moderate-sized graphs. We propose a non-standard branch-and-fix algorithm, designed for cubic graphs, that incorporates several checks and fathoming routines inspired by the MDP embedding to improve efficiency.
Theoretical results obtained by the MDP embedding enable the construction of two polytopes whose common extreme points all correspond to Hamiltonian cycles. A random walk algorithm that attempts to minimise the Euclidian distance between pairs of extreme points from the two polytopes has displayed surprisingly strong results.
Cross-entropy/optimisation hybrid approach
The process of solving the Hamiltonian cycle problem using the cross-entropy method is well-known, but its eficiency dwindles for moderately large graphs. We use a hybrid algorithm that uses the probabilities gained from cross-entropy to power a linear programming heuristic which proven very fruitful for graphs previously unsolvable by the cross-entropy method.
The Hamiltonian cycle problem is cast as a mixed integer program in which linear sums of decision variables are restricted to very thin wedge-like regions. An implementation in CPLEX succeeds in solving some large instances of the Hamiltonian cycle problem, including an irregular 2000-vertex graph.
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