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|Kiev Airport announces new Air Serbia flights
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 09:03
They are also resuming their seasonal flight to Larnaca at the end of the month. :)ReplyDelete
As far as Aegean goes, they are not really launching Kiev flights, they are just changing airports.Replies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:01
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:08
Good choice. My only question is where they will find the spare aircraft?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:19
The plan is to lease CRJ-900 including crew for only 4 months.Delete
It will be operated by Adria's jet.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:29
bilo bi krajnje uputno da uvedu taj tip u flotu i postepeno gase atr eskadrilu !Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:37
@9:29 ..kad profitabilnost ne bi bila bitna ;)Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:42
What happens after four months, are they going to dispatch the Atr or the A319?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:50
Too far for an ATR.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:06
It is a summer season flight only :(Delete
No, it's year round.Delete
After 4 months Warsaw will be suspended and frees up the aircraft.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:12
Makes sense, WAW was only kept because LO temporarily suspended the route. They can't compete with them once the summer is gone. In KBP there is almost no risk of losing the monopoly.Delete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 10:25
Personally i won't regret it although flights were always full. IEV would be a better choice than KBP so i guess an interline or codeshare agreement with PS should be in works, that would explain why they went for Borispol.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:55
Why the hell you prefer IEV over KBP?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:56
IEV is closer to the city.Delete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 15:10
IEV is to central Kiev what is Crveni Krst to Kalemegdan whilst KBP is more like Nova Pazova. The airport is new and well connected to the public transportation, offers free Wi-Fi, it's organised etc. Aegean until recently used to fly there, so does Air Baltic.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:13
This makes no sence. UIA has daily flights to JFKReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:14
It has nothing to do with JFK. Their entire network does not depend on JFK. They wanted to launch Kiev long before US flights.Delete
They can always try to offer cheaper tickets than UIA. That would mean really low ticket prices...Delete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 10:18
UIA has been offering flights to Athens in March for as low as 35$.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:25
UIA is the definition of dumping.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:42
I hope to see UIA in the region. They offer very good prices...Delete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 15:14
The majority of transit pax LO and SU used to transport from the Ukraine were towards Western Europe i.e destinations served by Air Serbia.Delete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 15:39
LOT today opened the line from Kharkov to Warsaw using an E175 with 44 pax incoming and 56 outgoing on the inaugural flight.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:17
This will be a very intersting year.ReplyDelete
Air Serbia are counting on transfer passengers between Ukraine and Russia. In the same time Siberian Airlines (S7) are in advanced talks over acquiring a Bulgarian company in order to bypass the Ukraininan\Russian restrictions. Bulgaria Air have just created a new company called BUL Air which is the subject of those talks.
Furthermore, Dniprovia announced that the seasonal line to SOF from KBP will be converted to year-round from late March with 3x weekly flights.Replies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:49
I heard about a cypriot company? Why they moved to a Bulgarian one?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:22
Also lets not forget that there are a plenty of Bessarabian Bulgarians in Ukraine so it´s quite logic to have this route.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:38
The interesting thing will be if S7 buys a Bulgarian company...Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:56
S7 boss announced that they are setting up a Cypriot airline called Charlie and initially it will get two A319s from S7.Delete
Can Air Serbia move any pax between Kiev and Moscw? I think Belavia is in a perfect position to profit big because of their perfect position.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:22
With the right price I'm sure they can.Delete
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 09:29
My guess is that airBaltic is the main one when it comes to moving passengers between Russia and Ukraine. Belavia's connections are not as smooth especially because of an inadequate infrastructure at Minsk airport.Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 04:33
Lol. I connected in Minsk several times, it was just perfect.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:25
Pfff.. MAD/BCN flights were much more promising then Kiev. Sometimes I dont really understand on bases of what they are introducing the new services.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:28
Have you ever thought that there might be a reason why flights between BEG and MAD/BCN never really operated on year round basis and why Vueling flies only seasonally? The reason is extreme high seasonality and few business links.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:46
Forget BEG. Those are important for OTP/SOF/VAR routes, if they think they can compete on routes to Spain.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:47
*with LCCDelete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:48
I don't think they can compete on these routes from Romania nor Bulgaria. Both countries have a lot of connections to Spain and in addition to TAROM and Bulgaria Air they have LCC - Wizz, Blue Air and Ryan.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:58
@ Anonymous March 3, 2016 at 9:28 AMDelete
Don´t you tell me Skoplje has better business links to BCN then Belgrade please. I mean even seasonaly Madrid or Barcelona would really be good choice, cos I perosnally know many ppl flying from Budapest on those routes.
SKP-BCN is a subsidised route, that´s another story..I think BEG-BCN deserves to be all year around such as SOF and SKP.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:29
So funny labeling things as subsidized and jumping to conclusions without any figures involved. Actual support is immaterial compared to the cost of the route. It takes some guts and a good financial sheet to go for something more exciting like BCN.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:35
I don't think that BEG can be compared with SOF in matters the connections to Spain. There is huge Bulgarian diaspora in Spain. SOF-BCN is operated currently by 2 companies on year-round basis and 1 on seasonal basis. By the end of the year also Ryan will be operating this route which makes in total 3+1 companies... Same goes for Madrid. SOF actually have connections to MAD/BCN/VLC/ALC/AGP/PMIDelete
So, I don't think that you can compare...
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 11:00
Bravo SKP and SOF!Delete
Shame on you BEG.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 11:15
So, in addition to 'Bravo!' chants we now have the 'Shame!' chant as well... Lovely.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 12:00
BEG airport management should be ashamed of calling themselves managers.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 12:07
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 12:08
hahaha for anon 11:15 AM :)Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 13:50
Anon 10:29,Delete
That same Wizz Air - with its guts and a good financial sheet - can open BEG-BCN literally overnight if they wish. But they don't do it. Which means they did their math and concluded that BEG catchment area does not create enough demand for a year-round service to BCN.
Now, it could be that the SKP catchment area is very rich compared to that of BEG and they can easily afford city breaks in Barcelona throughout the year.
Or it could be that Wizz's math in SKP has some variables their math in BEG does not have. And thanks to these variables they can keep BCN year-round.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 14:52
Anonymous 1:50 PMDelete
It has to do with SKP airport management being capable and BEG airport management being incapable more than anything else.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:06
It's really sad to hear about BEG management if this is really the main reason. BCN has connections to almost all European capitals on a year round basis...even cities like KIV, KBP, MSQ! JU used to once do GRO (almost 90km away from BCN) but sadly, the route stopped.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:12
Vec se leti za PMI a imate leti VY , za ASL ima toliko precih destinacija preko cele godine tako da ne znam sto se to u opste navodi.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:38
Anons 2:52 and 3:06,Delete
What exactly is the role of the BEG management there? If Wizz think BEG-BCN would work for them, all they have to do is apply and they will get it.
If they don't apply and don't see the route would work for them, what is it that BEG management can do? Invite them to a meeting and show them some presentation that promotes the route? I am afraid Wizz are able to do their homework and cannot be persuaded just like that.
That leaves cash (because money talks) as the only 'capable' thing BEG management can do. Direct cash subsidies or special prices in BEG. However, Serbian government chose to fund its own carrier rather than LCCs, therefore BEG management cannot offer any incentives to Wizz. Wizz can only open BEG-BCN if there is enough demand among passengers for it.
BEG management are a bunch of incompetent fools, but I would really like to read your suggestions on what is exactly that they can do to make any carrier open BEG-BCN?
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:18
I agree with Anon @ 3:38. Another point though - Wizz is not looking to opening any risky routes in BEG as long as the current support scheme is in place allowing the domestic carrier to come on top and dump fares without paying taxes. FKB is an exception that confirms the rule.Delete
As for SKP having BCN due to airport management being capable.. don't even get me started. Just take TAV out of the equation altogether.
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 18:02
Yeah but by ignoring BEG they are making themselves vulnerable to an eventual 'attack' by Ryanair which has been expanding all over the region. However, this setup we have in BEG is not benefiting anyone really; everyone is at a loss, the passengers, Wizz Air, Air Serbia... and in case Ryanair was to enter the market the whole system would fall like a house of cards. The aviation business model in Serbia is not sustainable in the long-run.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 18:36
What Nemjee described is very bad news for Air Serbia.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:17
@ Anon March 3, 2016 at 6:36 PMDelete
What Nemjee have described is the pure reality.
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 00:25
Pure reality is bad for Air Serbia.Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 00:28
Hahahah that last comment made me laugh! :DDelete
(in a good way, of course)
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 09:37
One word: наконец!ReplyDelete
Greetings from Ukraine.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 12:09
Tako je!:) pozdrav iz beogradaDelete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:09
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:19
Konacno opet komentarisete :).Delete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 15:30
Thank you INN, your first post was nice as well ;)Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:35
Izbrisano samo radi drugi da se ne ljute opetDelete
- Aэrologic3 March 2016 at 17:07
Here is a short analysis of this move. This is Air Serbia's first expansion to the East in two years which is more than welcome and follows a logical trend of every transfer airline to align and balance its network geographically, whereas a great disbalance could have been noticed as of now with roughly 70% of the traffic ex-BEG headed to Western Europe [O&D-shaped network] albeit without the necessary feed. As earlier forecasted, New York has proved to be the catalyst to fuel such a move and the much (if not urgently) needed growth in order to dispel any illusions of stagnation or that the airline has lost its direction. Albeit a small move, it sends a strong message to both the investors and to the competition. Although, as symbolically important as it is, Kiev won't be enough and a further expansion to LED, Ukraine (through codeshare with PS), ESB and CAI would be more than welcome in the foreseeable future. In the region, too much of an emphasis has been put onto the highly seasonal Croatian market while a much larger year-round one Romania has been downplayed if not ignored. Great move although more should come.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 22:34
Sta mislite o IKA posto ovde mnogi pisu da ne treba ASL da otvori tu destinaciju.Delete
IKA is a must however i tend to assume that there are currently no aircraft for it and operating it with a leased material is a no-go for Air Serbia's financial sheets at the moment. Another possibility is the use of Adria's fleet for those flights, if their cooperation goes beyond the summer flights to Kiev. Third factor to be taken into consideration is the blessing of Etihad over such a move which would indirectly compete with their own flights, however i consider that as a minor obstacle to those faced within the very Air Serbia's establishment, making todays Kiev the very Tehran.Delete
Another option would be for Air Serbia to fly to places not served by the Etihad group which is Shiraz, Tabriz, Esfahan...all that pending government approvals and ratification of a new ASA.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:37
But still no official word from AS, why?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:42
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:43
Ex-Yu, are you informed about the slots?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:48
And what about LED? Not confirmed yet.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:52
What about Croatia launches, why they were ignored?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 09:56
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:00
How were they ignored when they were announced here way before anywhere else?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:15
Belgrade will be the only city in the region connected with Kiev.Delete
@ Anon March 3, 2016 at 10:15 AMDelete
Sofia as well with 3x weekly operated by Dniprovia.
And Banja Luka!Delete
And Athens too plus Budapest has also links to Kiev.Delete
- Purger3 March 2016 at 14:20
Flightst from Kiev to:Delete
Dubrovnik - Ukraine international
Pula - Ukraine international and Windrose
Split - Ukraine international and Windrose
Tivat - Avatrans, Ukraine international and Windrose
To Tivat you have flights from other Ukraine airports:
Avatrans: Kiev-Zhulyany, Lviv, Odessa
Ukraine international: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa, Zaporizhia
Windrose: Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 14:26
These are seasonal flights?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 14:50
Anonymous at 10:15 AMDelete
EPIC fail!
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:40
Still less epic compared to the fail of Anon at 9:52 AM.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:20
Do Ukranians need visas to enter Serbia? If not, then as expected they will no longer need visas to EU Schengen states as of mid 2016 and thus more people are expected to travel and of course emmigrate. Good move ASL!ReplyDeleteReplies
I think the visa regime was suspended a few years ago.Delete
Ukrainians don't need visas to enter SerbiaDelete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 10:41
In June or July the visas for the Schengen for Ukranians will be dropped.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 11:25
Not so sure about Ukraine: http://www.rferl.org/content/eu-georgia-ukraine-visa-free-travel/27575694.htmlDelete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 14:52
Ukrainians don't need visa for enter Serbia and Montenegro (they love the sea of Montenegro). Last year I traveled extensively in most of Ukraine I must admit that Ukrainians LOVE Serbians and people of Montenegro too.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 14:55
The vast majority if Ukrainians (Russian and Ukrainian ethnicity both) love Serbia, Montenegro (this last the most!).Delete
A delay is probable for the EU visa free policy for Ukraine passport holders :(
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 11:23
Air Serbia's new destination (Kiev) rumor is on the main page but Croatia Airlines' introduction of 4 new routes is not. Very good ex-yu aviation, very good. Keep up the good work!ReplyDeleteReplies
Not true. As I'm sure you are aware, Croatia Airlines' new route launches have been published on individual main page articles over the past month. Please refer to the following:Delete
- "Croatia Airlines to launch Milan service"
published February 4
- "Croatia Airlines to launch Prague service"
published February 19
- "Croatia Airlines plans St. Petersburg service"
published February 25
- "Croatia Airlines to launch Lisbon flights in May"
published March 1
When these routes were simply scheduled, the news was published in the news flash section, with full schedules available on the right hand side in the new route launches section since yesterday.
Concerning today's news, it was confirmed by an airport spokesperson, making it a bit more than a "rumour" as you suggest. Once it is scheduled, it will be published in the news flash section, as it has already been announced.
If you have any further quires in regards to the editorial policy, don't hesitate to contact email@example.com
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 12:17
seems anon 11.23 AM got his knickers all in a twist for nothing! I would even say admin's answer is uneccessary for all people of good will and sane mind that follow this site. We know that the site is 'impartial' and politically super-correct, precisely not to provoke the idiots. What a waste of time and energy..Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:09
Stupid nationalist.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 14:39
Neko je ranije vec rekao da ce ASL leteti za MUC,CAI,KBP,LED and PRN od juna i da ce se sve objaviti u apriluReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 17:36
ASL may fly to KBP this summer, but surely not to LED. Confirmed.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 17:39
No aircraft for that.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:08
Da nabave 2 A319 i naprave veci ekspanziju pred JFK letove . Da pocnu letovi za HEL , IKA ,AMM,TBS, ESB i naravno LED bice zanimljivo ko ce od 2 EX YU igraca da pobedi na kraju .ReplyDelete
G Purger sta mislite ko ce odneti pobedu u LED , ja mislim ASL ako bude imala vise od 3-4 pw leta.
Da li si realan?AMM ruta iz Frankfurta leti sa A319.Dal si svjestan da nema ni para ni putnika za tu rutu.A ostale rute su realne.Delete
Da dodam svoje misljene kada ASL otvori rutu za LED Croatia ce je ukinut i pre pocetka.
- Purger3 March 2016 at 21:03
Nema tu OU što radit ako ASL krene na LED.Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 01:19
Ali zato TK leti 2x dnevno za AMM, i to je najmanje jedan od tih letova sa A330. A3 povećava frekvencije, OS je redovan, mislim da ruta ima ozbiljan potencijal.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 15:51
Aerodrom Nikola TeslaReplyDelete
Februar 2016
Broj avio operacija: 3.924 - 3.898 -1%
Broj putnika: 264.813 - 266.260 +1%
Roba: 795.090 1.246.689kg +57%Replies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:14
Which equates to a fall of 3% y-o-y. Hint: February has 29 days this year vs 28 days last year.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:23
Cargo +57% OMGDelete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:23
@4:14 Samo mi objasni po kojoj formuli si izracuno da je jedan dan vise u ovoj godini +4%??Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:24
Neko pre neki dan rece putnici -7%... los dan za botove ;)Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:27
2015 (28 days): 264.813 = 9457,60/dayDelete
29 days = 29 * 9457,60 = 274.271
2016 (29 days): 266.260
difference 2016/2015 (29 days) = 8.011 pax
Negative 8.011 pax = 3% decline
Simple as that.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:40
Btw, it's called offsetting data to compensate for seasonal variations.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:50
Bez obzira na dan vise, pozitivan trend za BEG raduje ;)Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 19:51
Ok hejteri, ako je već bitno što prošli februar nije imao 29 dana, onda napravite poredjenje sa poslednjim koji je imao, 2012. pa da vidimo rezultate...Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 19:55
Feb 2012 there was a 7% growth.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 19:58
lol wutDelete
im not asking for then-growth, im asking for absolute numbers of FEb 2012 and their relation to Feb 2016 numbers. #pravimoseludi
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 20:01
actually, back in 2012 we had JU in its absolute worse state when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. So with a national carrier in that state for teh airport to record a 7% growth is really good. To have an airline backed by EY and with foreign management to fail to record any growth is pathetic.
Funny how nobody commented on the fact that JU is looking into secondary Romanian destination, Orodea specifically. What are your thoughts? Would it not be better to start Cluj, Sibiu or Iasi?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:02
My guess is this Oradea is offering big subsidies that's why they are talking with the,.Delete
Oradea is a great idea, especially if the municipality or county is offering incentives.Delete
OT: Qatar starts with SJJ September, SKP October 2016. SKP-DOH 3x per week. SJJ-DOH 2 or 3x.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:22
Ja mislim da bi zbog ovoga EY trebao da salje wide-body kao odgovor na ovu ekspanziju.Delete
- Mali Mako L.3 March 2016 at 16:35
Jel wide-body se šalju ne radi profitabilnosti nego radi "odgovora". Ne misliš li da bi bolji odgovor EY bio slanje manjih aviona za ZAG, SJJ, SKP nego povečanje aviona za BEG?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 16:35
EY does not care about this market since they did not launch anything in the region plus they have a lack of aircraft all the timeDelete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 17:08
Ne ako hocete da ponuditi dosta jeftiniju cenu saljete veci avion ali ne razumete o cemu pricam.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 17:19
INN is right.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 17:31
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 17:52
This expansion is not aimed at EY or JU but at FZ. EY only flies to BEG because of JU, otherwise there would be no trace of them here.Delete
Didn't someone mention that FZ was performing rather badly in SKP?
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 18:57
Regarding QR, seems that BEG will soon go to daily and ZAG to double daily, probably sometime during summer, year round. If that happens along with SJJ and SKP launch, that would mean QR really taking full lead in ex Yu region (noting that majority of TK demand is tied to Turkey so we cannot fully compare them).Delete
Not sure how FZ performs in ZAG/BEG with QR increase and how and if will QR new SYD and ADL affect them considering superior QR frequencies?
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 19:03
They are also increasing OTP to double daily so it seems that the wider region is important to them.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 19:06
True, forgot to mention OTP, but was thinking more in ex YU termsDelete
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 19:19
Oh yes, of course. Yesterday I was reading a very interesting analysis regarding Iran and their civil aviation sector and how their officials said that the aircraft they ordered will not only go to IR but will be distributed to other airlines as well. They also mentioned that they want to develop a hub system at IKA but they know that it will take between 5 and 10 years any of for their airlines become remotely relevant.Delete
This could also be one of the reasons why QR is rushing to position itself in all of these markets. They know that it will be a difficult war fighting both Turkish Airlines and whatever Iranian airline emerges as the dominant player (my money is on Mahan).
On top of all that, there are also airlines such as Pegasus and Atlasjet which are slowly becoming important regional players. One can only imagine what will happen once the new airport in Istanbul becomes fully functional!
With Saudia consolidating and the emergence of Iran, one can wonder what will happen with Etihad which is currently the weakest airline among the MEB3.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 20:02
It is pretty likely that QR is overcapacitating ex YU market for now to fully cements itself and probably keep off some other players entering as they will need to invest much more than few weekly frequencies in case of BEG or ZAG.Delete
Am very curious to see how QR develops further in ex YU in a year or two! Major advantage over EK is having narrow body in this case.
As for EY, I think they are slowly lagging behind, at least in size. Time will tell if their 'alliance based on investments' strategy will hold and yield results and give them overall netwrok advantage over QR.
Seems that QR will announce 12 new routes during ITB next week - they are in full swing at the moment.
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 20:14
Definitely but I think when you look at it long-term they will do well because they are efficiently run, they've built a brand and they've become a reliable carrier with a good product.Delete
There is a new entrant on the market and it's Oman Air. It will be interesting to see how far they will go in mirroring what others have done. I fear that soon there might be too many seats/airlines in this particular region and someone will have to lose. I don't think anyone will go bankrupt but it's not easy when you have two ego-maniac airlines in the region chronically competing at who will operate the longest flight or whatever first they can get. Not to mention that Emirates with all of their A380s will become a monster.
Before Iran opens up, Etihad must build an efficient hub and they must grow because later on might become a bit too late. Just look at what TK has been doing to them.
As far as ex-YU goes, we might end up profiting the most from this ego-war. Flydubai might clash with Qatar resulting in dirt cheap fares.
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 20:15
Just to add, I wouldn't be surprised if QR ends up having at least 10 weekly at BEG, ZAG, LJU, SKP, SJJ and who knows... maybe even PRN.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 20:18
The biggest potential danger for FZ is them moving to DWC before EK does.Delete
I wish I knew how does FZ in BEG and ZAG do when we remove DXB bound traffic!
I think that MEB3 went too far already for WY and the likes, but they can definitely grow more over geo position and copy/paste strategy.
- Mali Marko L.3 March 2016 at 21:18
A posebno je isplativo poslat wide-body ako nemaš putnika za njega. Što misliš Marko, jel lakša napuniti dva dnevna A330 za BEG ili dva A320 za BEG i jedan A320 za ZAG?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:27
QR are planning as well VAR service from next year.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 22:27
You guys CERTAINLY forgot about our beloved Turkish neighbours and about TK! In a couple of years, IST will be the world´s largest airport and they will be grand. TK might not need 150 A380´s like EK but they will fly to even more destinations worldwide and the competition will just be fiercer.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 22:37
Ja ne znam da li ste culi za Hub sistem , ne puni TK 77W gradjanima Istanbula nego iz celog sveta tako bi i EY punio A330 sa ljudima iz Ex yu .Delete
A za ASL najbolje bi bilo da ima Flotu samo od A321 i A330 kao sto je jednom G Stojanovic napisao ali to ne razumeju ljudi koji ne znaju .
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 23:12
Actually, 'only' 28% of TK's passengers are connecting from an international flight onto another international flight. The rest is all coming from IST and the domestic market. So I would say that the local market is still the main source of TK's growth.Delete
The reason why I didn't mention TK in my previous comments is because I put them in the same category as the Iranian ones while the discussion was mostly on the MEB3 and their future.
Pegasus is adding another 5 B738 to their fleet and they have already built a nice hub at SAW. It will be interesting to see how things develop in that region, ATH included. What will be especially interesting to see is what Pegasus and Atlasjet do once the new airport is built. Will they move some of their operations there and how aggressively will they expand. Onur Air is another carrier that has shown interest at establishing a true hub system but it was extremely difficult because of space restrictions at IST.
Finally, I don't think it would be a good thing for JU to go after European passengers who would be connecting at BEG and AUH on their way to Asia. These would be extremely low-yielding and that is one group of travelers JU could do without.
- Mali Marko L.3 March 2016 at 23:20
Naravno INN jel zato Etihad ima samo A321, i čista je laž da ima 23 A320 i 2 A319 (što je 21% njihove flote).Delete
Hub susav je odlična stvar, ali kakve to veze ima sa Etihadom koji feeda SVOJ hub u ABU DHABIU?
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 23:28
Talking of Greece, it was announced that in 2015 around 3.000 Iranian tourists visited the country while this year more than 20.000 are expected. It was mentioned that Aegean is considering increasing IKA to daily while Mahan is evaluating direct flights to the Greek islands. Iran Air is currently looking at ATH as well. IR has announced more flights to FRA, AMS, LHR, CGN...Delete
It was also announced that there will be more links to Iran by Ukrainian airlines:
KBP-IKA-KBP 2x from end of March, Dniproavia
DNK-IKA-DNK, 1x weekly by Dniproavia
Kiev-Shiraz-Kiev, 3x weekly by UIA
Mind you, UIA already increased IKA to daily and has replaced the E95 with a B737. If I am not mistaken they are the second European airline to launch a secondary Iranian city after Austrian Airlines announced Esfahan.
Really interesting developments.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 23:38
Ko prica o EY hub sistemu samo vi ne razumete o cemu ja pricam i nigde nisam spomenuo da EY treba da menja svoju flotu prvo naucite da citate.Delete
Svako uvodi IKA trebalo bi i ASL dok ne osvoje drugi previse to trziste.
I sta mislis Nemjee sto uporno nece da uvedu taj let neverujem da je mnogo zbog EY.
UIA is introducing Venice from the start of the summer season, one of the top ATR destinations for ASL that we often forget to talk about.Delete
An extract from the article mentionning PS plans for Shiraz:
"Shiraz, which only sees flights from international carriers like Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines will benefit huge from the new route to Kiev. The most used gateway from Europe to Shiraz is via the one daily flight offered by Turkish Airlines. Turkish Airlines has expressed its interest in increasing flights to Shiraz. However, with UIA having the same key destinations as Turkish Airline, example such as London, Paris, Frankfurt and Stockholm, the airline can be a threath to the monopolized Turkish Airlines route to Shiraz. UIA currently offers daily flights from the mentioned European capitals to Tehran with competitive prices, reasonable transit times and on board products. UIA could, and is going by high chance to apply the same concept on the 3 weekly flights to Shiraz, and gain a bit of the market share from Turkish Airlines. UIA will of course compete with Qatar Airways too, however, the competition UIA is entering is more in the field where Turkish Airlines currently enjoys the profits. It is worth mentioning that UIA recently increased its flights to Tehran."
- Mali Marko L.4 March 2016 at 08:49
Dete da te podsetim da je rasprava krenula oko toga da bi EY trebao da krene sa A330. To si ti rekao, a ja ti kažem da za to treba da imaš putnika (i ova frekvencija od 2x A320 je mnogo) i da bi za Etihadov sistem huba bolje bilo da otvara linije po exYU ko i Qatar i Turkish nego da povečava BEG.Delete
Isto tako sam ti reko da je A321 all fleet glupost jer to nema niko, čak ni LCC, a još manje AF, BA, LH, TK... čak ni Etihad koji je tebi sve nema samo A321 nego mu 21% flote čine A320 i A319. Air Serbia bi bila valjda jedina kompanija u svetu da leti samo sa A321.
Tako da ne izokrečeš stvari Marko.
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 19:08
OT: Adria's pilots announced strike for 18th March.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 19:17
Something related to the new owner?Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:24
T6 OBJAVIO NOVO OTKAZIVANJE PORUDZBINE SSJ100. PO SVEMU SUDECI TO JE UVOD U SKORI KRAJ PROJEKTA.Replies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:35
What's that airline? Sounding by the name it won't mean much for the SSJ project and with the MS-21 there's more to come.Delete
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 23:00
If they are referring to VLM then it's nothing surprising, that airline is about to go belly up.Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:52
Can somebody please tell me where you can find seat maps for Air Serbia's jfk flights? I cannot find them anywhere... thank you.Replies
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:56
Click on seat map under A330Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 22:00
No, I'm talking about "popunjenost" for certain days. Checking for each days seeing how many seats are booked on each schedule flight.. ??Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 22:52
By the way, they didn't count the seat-number right on their B737. It's 144 and not 134 :)Delete
- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 23:49
Use ExpertFlyer to check loads, the monthly subscription is 5$.Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 08:53
And that is how we have 71% LF. Easy way...Delete
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- Anonymous3 March 2016 at 21:57
Isn't it easier like thisDelete
- Nemjee3 March 2016 at 23:36
Here are some more info on the DBV-IKA flights. There will be a total of 8 flights over a three week period to be operated by Limitless Airways. First flight will take place on 18.03.2016.ReplyDelete
From what I could see, flights will operate on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Most flights will depart IKA at 09.00 and arrive to DBV at 17.10.Replies
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 00:22
Thanks nemjee for the info! :)Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 04:09
OT: Hungary offers 5th freedom to ME3 carriers:ReplyDelete
Without checking the details, I would suggest Etihad should entertain the offer, with condition that flights could be operated by Etihad Partner metal with 5th freedom granted to country of that Etihad Partner.
Then get Air Serbia to fly BEG-BUD-MIA or BEG-BUD-LAX etc, with JFK, ORD and YYZ being flown direct from BEG. I know that one stop flights are not the most efficient, but seems worth it to get Air Serbia long haul bigger than LO and possibly OS in no time.Replies
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 07:26
And you think that Etihad will simply give it to JU? You think JU is their only concern? How about AB?Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 13:09
Hungary looks at Belgrade getting New York flight while they are stuck with no-widebody Wizz. If Hungarians could fly JU from BUD to USA, why not Montenegrings with JU from TIV, or Slovenes with JU from LJU to USA etc?Delete
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 13:51
@ Anon March 4, 2016 at 1:09 PMDelete
Comparing BEG to BUD is ridiculous...
- Anonymous4 March 2016 at 16:50
Nothing to do with 'mine is bigger'. JU could fly to more destinations in the USA through BUD and Hungary has a need Wizz can't deliver.Delete
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Beethoven's Diabelli Variations: the Finest Hour of Piano Music in the World
"This will fix it!" Kimber Kable's Ray Kimber placed some acoustic baffles around the table on which sat my Apple TiBook. We were recording Robert Silverman performing one of Beethoven's masterworks for piano, the Diabelli Variations, Op.120, and I had been bothered by a faint whistle underlying the music. It turned out to be the sound of my laptop's fan, an unforeseen drawback of my decision to dispense with tape and record straight to hard drive for the August 2004 sessions. We had already had a problem with a slight slapback echo from the balcony of the Austad Auditorium at Weber State University in Utah, which Ray had fixed with drapes, and a problem with low-frequency rumble from airplanes overflying the college campus during one session had been solved by Ray phoning the air traffic control tower. However, even Ray couldn't deal with thunder, so that was the one session we decided to finish early.
When I recorded Bob performing all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas in Santa Monica in 2000 (footnote 1), we had discussed a follow-up recording of the Diabellis, but, with one thing and another, the idea had slid back and back—until I gave a listen to some of Ray Kimber's IsoMike recordings at the 2003 Home Entertainment Show in San Francisco. The image specificity, the lack of coloration, the low-frequency extension, the sense of being there were all first-rate, and when I talked with Ray about his technique, he invited me to use IsoMike for a Stereophile recording. I didn't need to be asked twice!
We would spend five days in Utah during the 2004 summer break. Bob suggested that, as well as the Diabellis, we record Beethoven's little-performed 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor, WoO 80; Ray suggested that, as well as recording the piano in conventional PCM for CD release, we record it in DSD and surround for a possible SACD release. The game was afoot.
One of the perennial problems for the live recordist is that the microphone array that best captures the image of the performers—coincident or near-coincident directional mikes—falls down when it comes to correctly capturing tonal colors, while the mike array that best preserves tonal color and produces a satisfying sense of bloom—spaced omnis—produces an amorphous, unstable blob of sound rather than a true stereo image. For Stereophile's own recordings and for the CDs I engineer for Minneapolis choral group Cantus, I have attempted to get the best of both worlds by using both coincident and spaced microphone pairs, time-aligning the outputs for sound sources in the center of the stage and adjusting the relative levels of each pair in the mixdown, a sometimes time-consuming process.
But what Ray Kimber has achieved with his IsoMike is to get both tonal accuracy and a stable, accurate image from a single pair of spaced omnis. Following the complexity of my June 2004 Cantus sessions, reported on in the November 2005 issue, in which I had added third and fourth pairs of mikes, the idea of using just two microphones was very appealing. And, as I said earlier, I could simplify the process even further by dispensing with tape and using my laptop as a recorder.
So what is IsoMike?
Ray's invention is described on the IsoMike website. A fairly large, vertical, heart-shaped baffle is placed between two omni mikes spaced about 48" apart. Down to a frequency related to the size of the baffle, the IsoMike will isolate the left and right microphones from "seeing" each other. Compared with a conventional spaced-omni recording, the sound-pressure level of sound sources on the left of the stage will be reduced in the right-hand microphone and vice versa, resulting in a stereo image defined by differing amplitudes in the stereo channels. As the brain detects sound-source directions in the treble by the differences in amplitude in the soundwaves reaching the ears, the IsoMike captures the appropriate imaging information in the upper midrange and treble. At low frequencies, where the sonic wavelengths begin to exceed the dimensions of the IsoMike, the brain detects sound-source directions by the differences in timing in the soundwaves reaching the ears—ie, a sound on the left reaches the left ear before the right—and the IsoMike array preserves that timing information, albeit in an exaggerated manner, given that the mike spacing is wider than the 7" or so that separates the human ears. For stereo playback, that exaggeration adds to the sense of "bloom," I have found.
The heart shape of the IsoMike baffle prevents reflections of sound from reaching the microphones in a focused manner and widens the transition region between where it provides effective baffling and where it doesn't. Its construction is complex. From the IsoMike website: "There is a complex mechanical design under the fabric shell of the baffles, which takes well over 100 hours to construct. The baffle construction is designed to absorb sound from a medium to high pitch or frequency. Below that medium pitch, sound energy is not so easy to absorb, that is where the shape of the baffle becomes effective. As those lower frequencies flow around the heart shape, there is a multiplicity of path lengths that scatters the energy as a function of time, which is as effective as absorbing energy."
For stereo operation, the IsoMike sometimes also has two smaller egg-shaped baffles positioned behind and below the main baffle that control the amount of energy reaching the microphones from the back of the auditorium. But as you can see from the photograph, Ray extended the IsoMike concept for the Silverman sessions with additional baffling to allow four microphones to be used, for surround purposes.
I had brought along my pair of high-voltage DPA 4003s, as I knew Ray also had a pair of these transparent-sounding omnis. However, Ray had recently acquired a matched quintet of Neumann M150s. This is a remake of the German manufacturer's classic tubed M50 that had been used for some "Golden Age" classical recordings by Decca and RCA, and he proposed we use four of these instead. We compared the front channels captured by the DPAs against the Neumanns; both captured the low-frequency weight of the Steinway in full measure, but while the ½"-capsule DPAs had the edge, I thought, in top-octave air, the M150s produced a midrange that was positively creamy. Those would be what we would use.
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My rig, from which I would produce the CD, was simplicity itself. I fed the front-channel outputs of the eight-channel Millennia Media HV-3D mike preamp we were using to a dCS 904 A/D converter running at 88.2kHz with 24-bit resolution. The dCS offers a choice of anti-aliasing filters. I used Filter 4, which trades off better time-domain performance against a slower rate of rollout above half the sample rate. Because of the relative lack of energy in a piano's spectrum above 15kHz or so, I felt this was acceptable.
The converter's AES/EBU digital output was taken to the digital input of a Metric Halo MIO 2882 FireWire interface, which in turn was connected to my Apple PowerBook. I captured the two channels as AIF files to the laptop's internal hard drive using the Bias Peak 4.0 program, copying these to an external drive during breaks. Because I am paranoid about hard drives going bad, I also copied the entire five days' worth of 24/88.2 files to my iPod before flying home, using it as a conventional external drive.
Footnote 1: The making of Robert Silverman's set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas is described here. The set is available from our secure e-commerce page.


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Forum Post: Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration
Posted 7 years ago on Nov. 8, 2012, 1:14 p.m. EST by LeoYo
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Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration
Wednesday, 07 November 2012 00:00 By Danny Weil, Truthout | News Analysis
Henry Alford was accused of murder and faced the death penalty. The prosecution said there was enough evidence that could possibly have been sufficient to cause a jury to convict him. Alford was offered and took a plea bargain, despite his pronouncement of innocence.
As Alford's public defender, Tracie Olson, stated: "The evidence was strong but Henry said he was innocent. Henry, however, pled guilty to a charge of 2nd degree murder in order to avoid the death penalty ."
Olson also told reporters that even though she had no idea as to the guilt or innocence of Alford when she took his plea, "I've been a criminal defense attorney in Yolo County since 1998, and I truly believe that innocent people have taken pleas because they felt they were in a situation like Henry's."
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Long Beach High School football star Brian Banks offers yet another example of how a person wrongfully imprisoned (in this case for rape) based upon his own "'voluntary' act" of writing a guilty confession, took a plea agreement in defiance of the facts and against his own best interests.
In May of this year, thanks to the California Innocence Project, Mr. Banks was exonerated by a court after serving five years for the rape he did not commit but pleaded guilty to.
American's founding fathers understood that one of the greatest forms of tyranny the government could engage in was bringing criminal charges against its subjects, or citizens. A large number of amendments were added to the US Constitution in an attempt to assure the rights of those charged with criminal offenses. These include the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Rights of an accused criminal include the right to the presumption of innocence, the right to due process, the right to be informed of charges against them and the right of a defendant to confront their accusers in a court of law. The constitution also provides defendants the right to an impartial, fair and speedy jury trial with the assistance of counsel, and defendants have the right to cross-examine witnesses used against them. It is the government that has the burden of proving the guilt of those charged with a grave crime and beyond reasonable doubt, but even a cursory look at the judicial landscape illustrates this is more theory than fact.
Pleading for Bargains as Opposed to Arguing for Justice
A criminal plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case where the defendant pleads guilty to a crime, usually to a lesser crime than the original charge, and as a result, waives his or her right to a jury trial. Unbelievably, in the modern criminal system, more than 90 percent of all criminal charges are resolved through plea bargains. It is a system based not on the presumption of innocence, but on the contrary - on the presumption of guilt. Arm-twisting defendants, many of them poor and people of color, into plea bargains means that the government does not have to shoulder its burden of proving the guilt of those they charge with crimes and can simply shirk the constitution for expediency.
Plea bargaining has become historically ubiquitous as the principal, if not primary, method of criminal case disposition in the United States and a historical canker sore on the judicial system. Even as early as 1920, it was thought that 88 percent of convictions in New York were via guilty pleas, up from 22 percent just over 80 years earlier.
As the New York Times reported in an editorial piece on July 16, 2012: "Earlier this year an opinion for the Supreme Court by Justice Anthony Kennedy noted a stunning and often overlooked reality of the American legal process: a vast majority of criminal cases - 97 percent of federal cases, 94 percent of state cases - are resolved by guilty pleas. Criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system, of trials."
This opinion was based on a Supreme Court ruling back in March of 2012, a ruling involving two people who were proven to have ended up with stiffer sentences than they might have received had their lawyers not failed them while plea bargaining. The two defendants took their case all the way to the highest court, each of them asking the Supreme Court to invalidate their sentences under the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective assistance of counsel.
The court, by a close vote of 5-4 in both cases, accepted the defendants' arguments and ruled in their favor, upholding Missouri v. Frye, the legal ruling that provides a constitutional guarantee of a fair trial and judicious plea bargaining. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote on behalf of himself and four of his colleagues, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The plea bargain system is really based upon coercion, a legal form of extortion by the state. Prosecutors coerce defendants into pleading guilty by piling on charge after charge, and judges coerce those charged by making it known that the punishment will be much milder if you plead guilty than if you lose after exercising your supposed constitutional rights and go to trial. Retribution can be as swift. Like the Inquisition, this system of duress too frequently results in innocent individuals entering guilty pleas they never would have if the constitution was really put into play.
The current system of plea bargaining has corrupted criminal defense law as it stampedes the constitution, leaving in its wake intimidation and fear. In practice, a defense lawyer's main job is negotiating guilty pleas and subsequent sentences, not defending the criminally accused, as many would believe. Instead, because over 90 percent of criminal cases are resolved through plea bargains, the economics of defense lawyers depends on pushing paper and maintaining good relationships with prosecutors; therefore, it is not uncommon for defense attorneys to allow a client to "take a fall" rather than accuse a prosecutor of misconduct and risk legal retaliation in future cases. Crony legalism is an essential part of crony capitalism, and nowhere is this better seen than in the halls of justice.
Do Plea Bargains Allow Criminals to Get Off Easy?
Popular culture, disseminated by Hollywood movies and television series, depict plea bargains as a way of allowing those accused of a crime to escape justice and "get off easy." In reality, usually the opposite is true.
Plea bargains allow prosecutors to bring charges against far more people than the legal system could process through a system of judicial trials. Thus, they create the material conditions for their own replication. Because less than 10 percent of criminal cases, federal and state, go to trial, plea bargains in effect allow the state to prosecute ten times more cases than they could handled at trial. Plea bargains are also essential for stocking for-profit prisons with a steady supply of "customers" for their corporate shareholders. Plea bargaining both enlists and perpetuates the principles of mass production, deception and mendacity, which in turn are applied quite readily in the whole of our system of criminal "justice."
Plea bargaining has also become an essential element of both mushrooming prison growth and the racially disparate state of American prison populations, with the gravity of the burden falling on the backs of blacks and Latinos. Without plea bargaining, the explosion in prison populations of color, especially those of for-profit prisons, could never be possible.
In his paper, "The Problem With Plea Bargaining: Differential Subjective Decision Making as an Engine of Racial Stratification in the United States Prison System," attorney and sociologist Douglas Savitsky argues that:
The bargains struck by Black defendants tend to be worse than those struck by similarly situated white defendants. There are several reasons for this. Black defendants are generally poorer, and they are thus less able to afford a competent defense.
Second, Black defendants tend to be in a position of lower power than are white defendants. Additionally, and related, because prison has become such a large part of the life course in parts of the Black community, the costs to prison are perceived as being lower by Blacks than by whites. This perception puts Black defendants in a worse bargaining position.
American Justice: The Cult of Efficiency and Deception
The American judicial system has become one in which constitutional rights and protections are sacrificed through mendacity and deception to appeal to a cult of judicial efficiency and economy. The public has been lied to; plea bargaining does not make society safe or tackle the problem of crime itself. This is simply another necessary illusion that is funneled into the minds of the populace to rationalize the commodification of people for profit. The problem with all of this, as the late thinker Hannah Arendt noted in her New York Review of Books article "Lying in Politics," is that: "the trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods."


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Part of Governor Jerry Brown's idea to balance the state budget is to shed the state of funding responsibilities for several local programs. Ever since the days of Proposition 13, California's watershed property tax slashing measure passed by the voters in 1978, the state has assumed more and more responsibility for funding local programs.
Today, 70 percent of all state dollars go to local governments for services ranging from public education to county hospitals.
But with recession-caused lost revenues, the state no longer as the money or the means to continue funding local programs at historic levels. That's part of the reason the state has a $25 billion budget gap.
Enter realignment. Brown's idea is to return control of state-funded local programs to the cities and counties. That's the easy part. The hard part is creating ways for local governments to fund their programs.
One idea, elimination of local redevelopment agencies, has already been broached. By ending these agencies, local governments would have extra property tax dollars to use for schools, police, fire protection, libraries, public hospitals, and the panoply of local services. That proposal has already generated opposition.
Another idea would be to alter Proposition 13 by lifting the one percent cap on businesses while maintaining the cap for homeowners. You can imagine the reaction in anti-tax quarters, given the sanctity of Proposition 13 to so many people.
A third proposal is to broaden the sales tax to services, with the extra money remaining in the hands of local governments.
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That's likely to be a tough sell as well because it expands the tax base.
A fourth idea is to make it easier for voters to raise their own taxes by lowering the two-thirds vote to a majority vote.
Which, if any, of these proposals will fly remains to be seen. But one fact is clear: Shifting responsibilities for programs to local governments won't work unless they have their own revenue sources.
In an anti-tax environment, any of the proposals cited above will face tremendous opposition. Brown has to convince the legislature and voters alike that by controlling their own destiny, they can decide what programs and services to keep and at what levels of funding. It's a risky proposition for the governor, but then again, unless he cuts out a full thirty percent of the state budget, he won't have much choice.


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Ohisashiburi desu ne. It's been a while, hasn't it? It feels good to be back, though in some sense I'm not really back but rather away. Pieces of this post were written some time ago, but as usual I let them languish in some dusty corner of my computer for weeks. Then in October I left Japan and embarked on a month-long trip through Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, and now, France. (Next: Iceland.) Rest assured, though: I expect to resume a more normal posting schedule once I return to the States at the end of this month. Until then, here are some snapshots and musings from a very memorable meal.
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text: Perhaps you have some. Here's a selection of "then and now "photos captured over the years, standing where the photographer stood many years ago. I didn't always get it right... rushed pics, different lens, and other excuses, but hey, there was always a bike pausing nearby or idling underneath . They do, or can, cause moments of reflection. The mining community of Apex in the late 1800's, having a 4th of July parade... Apex today, a semi-ghost town about five miles NW of Central City... Bonanza, as in "It's a bonanza boys!" flared when a rich gold vein was discovered nearby. President Ulysses S. Grant visited upon reports Bonanza could be the next Leadville... The gold was mined and fires swept through the close proximity structures (A common fate of many frontier towns... wood heat, wood structures, no 911)... Tracks were laid over the Boreas Pass summit to haul ores from Leadville to Denver... The tracks were pulled up in the 1930's, and in the 1950's a road was placed on the old rail bed. Riding friend Rick cheesily agreed to place himself where the train was... The Cathedral Spires along the North Fork of the South Platte... Two rails then, two wheels today... The pastoral Dedisse Ranch above Evergreen... That pastoral Bear Creek above would turn demonic when its raging waters would crash through towns below after heavy rains. The dam creating Evergreen Lake had me off to the side for the "now" pic... The Bradford Junction community in the late 1800's would gather at this ranch for all things social... dances, celebrations, etc. Perhaps this was a July 4th gathering. Bring your best attire was often the unstated rule... Today, busy U.S. 285 passes by the same place near the town of Conifer. Had the elevated highway not be present, could have gotten lower for a better comparison... Gold Hill is the location of one of Colorado's earliest gold strikes. An image from around 1890... In a way, not a lot has changed. Well, there are more trees... less need to cut down the nearby woods for structures and heat. Colorado's oldest continuously operating school is here. The massive Four Mile wildfire of September 2010 licked the edges of the town off to the left, but a valiant firefighting effort spared the historical buildings. If you have a BBQ sandwich at the general store, a pot bellied stove is a main source of the heat and the bathroom is about the size of your coat closet... A thrilling road just for owners of new fangled cars was built above Golden around 1920... Today the Lookout Mountain road thrills for owners of two wheeled transportation devices. The sun kindly obliged and a rider was caught just in time on the far left... Marshall Pass about 70 years ago... And today... Narrow gauge trains/rails were used 100 years ago because, well, they were narrow and could squeeze between canyon walls and rivers. Denver passengers often took weekend trips into the mountains on these trains. Not far from Buffalo Creek... The aptly named Peterhead Rock today. Could have climbed higher for a more accurate "now" image, but I risked life and limb just getting this high! An 1890's hacked out road just south of Ouray... Today's famed Million Dollar Highway... Cripple Creek and Victor pumped out so much gold, the amount was greater than the California and Alaska gold rushes combined. Back then Victor had a population of 5,000... Today about 100 call Victor home... Looking west towards Westcliffe in 1900, towards the dramatic Sangre de Cristos Range... Well, someone has surely came along since then with some seeds or seedlings!


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There are various types of people on earth. Some people are honest while others are liars. Some people fear Allah and observe His limits while others revolt against Him. Surely the ends of each group will match their attitudes. Out of His infinite mercy, Allah will reward each type of people justly. This absolute promise is proclaimed in the following verse:
Or do those who perpetrate evil deeds suppose that We will make them like those who believe and do right actions, so that their lives and deaths will be the same? How bad their judgement is! Allah created the heavens and earth with truth so that every self might be repaid for what it earned and they will not be wronged. (Surat al-Jathiyah: 21-22)
The hereafter is the place where people will be rewarded justly. This is an OBVIOUS fact. Allah is aware of every incident and knows every deed, good or wicked. So, never plead ignorance about the existence of the Hereafter, the place where Allah's attribute of justice will be fully manifested and each deed will be rewarded justly. Besides, keep in mind that showing indifference to this fact, and simply saying "we shall be reduced to earth when we die", will not hinder the resurrection of man and the fact that he will be judged.
It is probable that a person may well deceive himself in this world. Avoiding grasping the fact of the hereafter, he may endeavour to "make the most of it." He may well silence the voice of his conscience. Yet, this will by no means prevent his death, which is on a predestined day in the presence of Allah, and his rising from the dead, which is also predestined. Whether he grasps it or not, every individual will definitely rise from the dead to stand before Allah; that day Allah will reward every person according to his good or evil deeds. Then, he will be sent to his true abode to receive his rewards. That day, those failing to see this obvious fact as well as those who simply try to be satisfied with this world will be sent to the hell, unless Allah forgives them out of His infinite mercy.
Allah describes the thoughts, words and states of the disbelievers who pretend not to understand the existence of the hereafter, and who deny the rising from the dead in the following verse:
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But as for those He leads astray, you will not find any protectors for them apart from Him. We will gather them on the Day of Rising, flat on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf. Their shelter will be Hell. Whenever the Blaze dies down, We will increase it for them. That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, "What, when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new creation?" (Surat al-Isra: 97-98)
The answer to the question asked in the above verse is OBVIOUS: the universe in which we live abounds with evidences of the glorious creation of Allah. Surely the One Who miraculously creates everything surrounding us has the strength to create their counterparts in the hereafter at any moment. Allah, in the Qur'an, addresses people who pretend not to grasp the fact of hereafter by asking questions which have clear answers:
Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth, has the power to create the like of them, and has appointed fixed terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers still spurn anything but disbelief. (Surat al-Isra: 99)
Never plead ignorance of the fact that man will be judged and accordingly rewarded for all his deeds in the hereafter, the place where Allah's attribute of justice will be fully manifest.
Some of people proclaim that they believe in the hereafter yet they fail to ponder on it deeply. They simply plead ignorance of the fact that there they will face everything they did in this world. They deceive themselves interpreting the hereafter, the Day of Judgement, the paradise and the hell in their own way rather than in the way that Allah introduces them in the Qur'an.
Allah gives a detailed account of the hereafter, the moment of judgement, the ones who deserve to attain the paradise as well as those who will be sent to hell. On the day Day of Judgement, every person will stand alone before Allah and give an account of all the moments he spent in the worldly life. Those who endeavoured to earn the good pleasure of Allah throughout their lives will attain the paradise and remain there for all eternity, surrounded by the bounteous favours of Allah. Those, on the other hand, who lived only for this world without considering the hereafter will face torment, unless Allah pardons them from His mercy.
Those stating "Allah will forgive me under any circumstances", those claiming "I do no harm to others" and hence thinking that they will attain the paradise, those assuming that only observing some particular act of worship will save them from punishment, deceive themselves although they know the facts. Allah, in the Qur'an draws our attention to this reality, the reality that man is aware of the facts despite making excuses:
That Day the only resting place will be your Lord. That Day man will be told what he did and failed to do. In fact, man will be clear proof against himself in spite of any excuses he might offer. (Surat al-Qiyamah: 12-15)
As Allah states in the verse above, man is a witness against himself. Each person is aware of the truth. Therefore, it is nonsensical to plead ignorance of the facts by making excuses. That there are many other ill-mannered people around is not an excuse that will save one on the Day of Judgement. Neither will the fact that one's parents and grandparents are religious people, nor feeding the poor, nor saying "I am a Muslim" yet failing to engage in good deeds to earn the good pleasure of Allah, will save one from the greatest grief, unless it be by the mercy of Allah. No matter what others do, every living soul is responsible for his own deeds. We will all stand alone before Allah and be judged alone. People make many excuses to deceive themselves: that they are very busy people, they have to earn their livelihoods to look after their children, they have professions dedicated to the improvement of mankind or what they do is more important than those other things done to attain the pleasure of Allah. Yet, it is important to remember that all these statements reflect one's own point of view - not the Qur'anic standpoint - and by no means ensure salvation from a disastrous end. Certainly, the Qur'an provides the most accurate information regarding how a man should spend his life to attain the paradise.
Those embracing ways of life other than that which is seen as good by the Qur'an, those who lose time waiting for the latter years of life to worship Allah, those who deceive themselves as well as other people by making excuses, should all keep in mind that their pretexts will not save them in the hereafter. Allah will not accept lies. Moreover, these people will not be allowed to talk on the Day of Judgement. On that day, those people who ignore the facts, abuse the bounties of Allah and do not obey the commands of Allah will express their sincere regret thus:
And that Day Hell is produced, that Day man will remember; but how will the remembrance help him? He will say, "Oh! If only I had prepared in advance for this life of mine!" That Day no one will punish as He punishes and no one will shackle as He shackles. (Surat al-Fajr: 23-26)
The scenes that will take place on that day are the ultimate manifestation of the eternal justice of Allah. On that day, those following the voices of their consciences and those who do not will be distinguished from each other. So, to avoid such regret, prepare for the hereafter and never forget that you will encounter your efforts there. Never plead that you do not grasp these facts. Do not waste your life in vain and meaningless efforts.
This fleeting life is incomparably worthless next to the hereafter. Stately mansions, ostentatious houses surrounded by gardens, powerboats, yachts, brand new cars, night-clubs, luxury hotels, honourable professions, healthy children, beautiful and esteemed spouses…such favours granted man in this life have certainly an allure. A life may be devoted to getting possession of them. Nevertheless, even if one possessed all of them or a few of them, he would still reach the hereafter on that predestined day, leaving behind everything he had been granted.
Maybe you are also one of those who has devoted his life to possessing these favours. However, never plead that you did not understand these favours will not save you in the Hereafter.
At the moment when the angels assigned to take your spirits will meet you, you will depart from this world, leaving behind all your possessions. There will be no turning back and you will have no chance to see them again. Once you are resurrected, you will be judged in a totally different place, in the presence of Allah. Keep in mind that, at that moment, you will not be questioned neither about the quantity of your possessions, nor your children, nor your status, nor your education. On that predestined day, neither the most prominent statesmen, nor queens and kings that have ever lived throughout history will have superiority over other people. No close friend will search for his friend. Furthermore, disbelievers will offer their worldly goods as a ransom for their own salvation:
No good friend will ask about his friend even though they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons, or his wife or his brother, or his family who sheltered him, or everyone else on earth, if that only meant that he could save himself. But no! It is a Raging Blaze, Stripping away the limbs and scalp, which calls for all who drew back and turned away, and amassed and hoarded up. (Surat al-Ma'arij: 10-18)
So, ponder these facts related in the verse and never plead ignorance of the fact that the grief of that day will be great, so great that anyone will try to rescue himself by offering all he has in this world as ransom.
In the following verse, Allah relates that disbelievers would like to give all that is in the world - if they ever had - just to avoid the torment in hell:
If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the same again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save themselves from the evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. What confronts them from Allah will be something they did not reckon with. (Surat az-Zumar: 47)
In fact, just a brief reflection would bring any man with a sound mind to the evident conclusion. Nobody, for instance, would decline a proposal offering an immediate life in paradise provided that they give whatever they possess in this world. Without a moment's hesitation, everybody would leave his possessions, sons, and status behind and would try to attain the paradise. This is, in fact, the sole responsibility of man: offering his possessions and self to Allah, not being seized by unnecessary ambitions in this life, living for the good pleasure of Allah and in return attaining the paradise. Yet something deceives man. The short span of his life in this world is perceived as a long one. That is why some people unwisely prefer this life, which is rather short and temporary, to an eternal paradise.
On one hand, a fleeting life limited to six or seven decades and, on the other, a life that will last for all eternity.
On one hand, an endless, unprecedented and beautiful life where everything desired will be there without any effort at all, on the other hand, a short, temporary life where everything is doomed to be imperfect. No matter how young and beautiful you are, this is a life you are eventually destined to lose in a few decades or tomorrow. A life which is surely an inappropriate arena in which to satisfy any desires.
So, never ignore this fact. While you still have the opportunity to attain the matchless favours of the paradise, never silence the voice of your conscience just to have the imperfect and temporary possessions of this world. Never plead ignorance about what some people lose in eternity for the sake of a short life just because they do not think.
One of the main reasons why some people ignore the existence of the hereafter is the fact that the majority of the people adopt such a standpoint. However this is, no doubt, the secret of the test. This is the way Allah puts people to the test. That is why Allah warns his servants against following the majority:
If you obeyed most of those on earth, they would misguide you from Allah's Way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing. (Surat al-An'am: 116)
That the majority of people do not follow the path of Allah should by no means affect you negatively since everyone is responsible for himself. Such a state is surely not a pretext for conscientious people but a reason to feel more fear of Allah. That is why you must never plead ignorance thinking that, "the majority of people are doing the same." Even if you are left all alone in your efforts, start to prepare for the hereafter, being aware that you are responsible only for yourself.
Allah, in the Qur'an, describes to us the kind of effort one has to undertake for eternal salvation. On the Day of Judgement, people will be judged by their devotion to Allah, their fear of Him and the conduct this fear brings. Only a sincere devotion to Allah will secure the salvation of man in the hereafter. Allah states that neither possessions nor sons are ways to feel closer to Allah and only those who believe and engage in good deeds will attain the paradise:
It is not wealth or your children that will bring you near to Us - only in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such people will have a double recompense for what they did. They will be safe from all harm in the High Halls of Paradise. (Surah Saba: 37)
Allah relates that only taqwa, the "Fear of Allah", is worthy in His presence:
Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The noblest among you in Allah's sight is the one with the most taqwa. Allah is All-Knowing, All-ware. (Surat al-Hujurat: 13)
For this reason, never plead ignorance that what will bring you eternal salvation is taqwa, and that sons, possessions and the lure of this world will be worthless in the presence of Allah. And never forget the following verse:
That abode of the Hereafter - We grant it to those who do not seek to exalt themselves in the earth or to cause corruption in it. The successful outcome is for those who have taqwa. (Surat al-Qasas: 83)


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In among the few non-partisan races on the ballot, the Lee County School Board races provided two close battles, with one not having to worry about the November ballot.
In District 2, incumbent Jeanne S. Dozier took a narrow victory over former school board member Robert "Bob" Chilmonik by a 40.4 percent to 34.1 percent margin, well ahead of third-place vote-getter Paul Schafer (19 percent) and Victor Dotres (6.4 percent).
Dozier, who is running for her fourth term, and Chilmonik, who served on the school board from 2002-10, will do battle in the Nov. 6 general election as the top two vote getters.
In the District 3, Cathleen Morgan edged out Les Cochran 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent to win that seat, since she earned more than 50.1 percent of the vote.
Dozier, who commended Schafer for his strong showing and support, said she will continue to run on her record.
"I appreciate the support the community has given me and am humbled for the opportunity to go to the November election," Dozier said. "I plan to stay on the message and run on my record and accomplishments."
Chilmonik, who ran for a seat on the Lee County Board of Commissioners two years ago and lost, said he was happy to get the amount of votes he got, especially after being out of the public eye for two years.
"We expected Morgan and I would have a run off. I'm happy I exceeded the votes I got in the commissioner's race in 2010," Chilmonik said. "She's the incumbent with 12 years and we both have name recognition. I'm enthusiastic."
Both Chilmonik and Dozier look forward to facing each other in November.
"I'm looking forward to speak about improved transportation, neighborhood schools, our reading problems in Lee County and fiscal accountability and how our money is spent," Chilmonik said.
"I'm going to stay on my record of accomplishments we've made and hope voters continue to support me," Dozier reiterated.


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text: Akron Cub Scout Pack 27 attended a Haunted Weekend at Camp Nicol on October 27th. Those in attendance were Devon Gaines, Xander Burns, Laden Sampson, Hunter Molt, Ethan Goeglein, Ethan Tolle, Evan Pieper, Tyler Stoffels, Parker Davis, Colby Dracon, and Tarik Stohlman. The boys were glad to have their families attend camp along with them. The Scouts had the opportunity to show off their scout skills with BB Gun Shooting, Bow & Arrow, Wrist Rockets, Pumpkin Carving, and a hike to an old gravesite. The day was completed with a walk through the Haunted Castle. The Scouts would like to thank the community for supporting the popcorn sales and giving them the opportunity to attend such exciting events! The next event the Scouts will be able to attend is the Harlem Globetrotters. We will keep you posted on this exciting event supported by your funds! Thank you again for all of your support!


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Tarzan And Jane: Season 2
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan & Jane centers around Tarzan who is found in the jungle as a baby after his parents die in a plane crash and is saved at birth from his airplane injuries by a local medicine man who injected him with various lotions and potions from animal DNA's that we later learn have given him great powers such as the speed of a cheetah and the strength of a rhino. He is raised in the jungle by a gorilla until the age of 15 at which point he is found by an expedition from London paid for by his billionaire grandfather. This is where we meet Jane who is part of the expedition and becomes a very important person in his life and in our story as his equal.
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