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Postman says Ayers' parents put 'foreign student' Obama through school
Paul Joseph Watson
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Barack Obama chided so-called 'birthers' with a sardonic remark yesterday, but the smile could soon be wiped off his face if a developing news story concerning how domestic terrorist Bill Ayers' parents paid for "foreign student" Obama's education is able to get traction.
While receiving a formal certificate of Irish heritage at a St. Patrick's Day celebration yesterday, Obama joked that the certificate would "have a special place of honor alongside my birth certificate," a jab at the 'birther' movement which asserts that a deluge of evidence suggests Obama was not born in the United States.
However, one of the leading figures of that movement, Jerome Corsi, has dropped another bombshell story which threatens to become 2012's version of the 'Swift Boat' controversy that sunk John Kerry's presidential aspirations in 2004.
According to retired Illinois postman Allen Hulton, who used to deliver mail to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers' parents house in a Chicago suburb in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tom and Mary Ayers bragged about how they were paying for a "foreign student" to be put through school.
"He says that Mary Ayers told him the student's name, but that it was a "strange name" that he could not remember, even though at the time it sounded African to him," writes Corsi.
"I was taken aback by how enthusiastic she was about him," Hulton says. "And I believe she said he was from either Kenya or Indonesia, and I favor Indonesia in my recollection."
Given Bill Ayers' documented close relationship with Barack Obama, that "foreign student" could only have been the future President himself.
Indeed, Hulton later met the "foreign student" outside the Ayers house, a well-dressed young black man who assured him with complete confidence that he was going to be "President of the United States."
"There was a little bit of a grin on his face when he said it – he sounded sure of himself, but not arrogant. I know how people will say things because they have an ambition, but it did not come across that way," Hulton says. "It came across as if this young black male was telling me he was going to be president, almost as if it were the statement of a scientific fact that had already been determined, as if his being president had been already pre-arranged," said Hulton.
"The facial and physical characteristics, as well as candidate Obama's voice, matched that of the young black male I met in front of the Ayers' home," Hulton says in the affidavit he signed Nov. 12, 2011, for Sheriff Arpaio's Cold Case Posse investigation.
The only major media platform to pick up the story was the Drudge Report, pushing it into the top five of the most read news stories for that day. The rest of the corporate media have completely ignored the issue besides the usual smattering of Soros-backed leftist blogs like Media Matters who attacked Corsi and Drudge for daring to run it.
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According to World Net Daily editor Joseph Farah, the media was tipped off in advance but "deliberately spiked" the issue, while a major talk show host also refused to bite.
As we previously documented, Bill Ayers was instrumental in launching the political career of Barack Obama.
"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn," reported Politico's Ben Smith.
Just as they are burying Corsi's latest story, the corporate media attempted to downplay this controversy when it first appeared in 2008, framing it as a baseless Republican smear.
Former FBI agent Larry Grathwohl, who was assigned to infiltrate Ayers' Weather Underground, asserted that the Weathermen's goal was to impose a communist dictatorship inside America and, with the aid of Russian and Chinese troops, kill millions of Americans who would resist. Ayers and his group were responsible for bombing government buildings, police stations and the Pentagon in a wave of attacks in 1969 and 1970.
The contention that the man behind this plan was instrumental in setting Obama on the path to become President, a fact admitted by Maria Warren, an Obama-supporting liberal who attended the Chicago meeting, barely made a splash back in 2008.
"When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him–introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread," wrote Warren.
Imagine if someone like Rand Paul had launched his political career in the living room of a Ku Klux Klan leader who had bombed government buildings. He'd be shot down in an instant by the press. And yet Barack Obama's political career was launched with the help of domestic terrorist and, according to Larry Grathwohl, would-be mass murderer Bill Ayers, in addition to Ayers' parents funding his education, and the mainstream media couldn't care less.
The depth of Ayers' relationship with Obama is revealed by the startling and voluminous indications that suggest Bill Ayers wrote the majority of Obama's acclaimed 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father." Writer Jack Cashill has summarized a barrage of evidence that shows the writing style of the book mimics almost entirely that of Ayers. Indeed, author Christopher Andersen subsequently published another book that came to the same conclusion as the argument advanced by Cashill – that the terrorist Ayers significantly contributed to the memoir, dispelling Obama's claim that he and Ayers merely shared the same neighborhood.
In reality, the implications of Obama's ties with Ayers, bearing in mind what measures Ayers advocated as part of a violent communist overthrow of the U.S. government, are truly frightening and go beyond the scope of this article. The fact that Ayers has been one of the most frequent visitors to the White House since Obama took residency in the Oval Office only adds to the alarming scope of this story.
Now that Obama's past is coming under increasing scrutiny in the aftermath of Andrew Breitbart's death, who threatened to release video of Obama palling around with Ayers and Dohrn, footage that has yet to come to light, expect the birther issue, along with Obama's colorful political history, to receive far more attention this time around than it did four years ago.
Watch excerpts of the interview with retired Illinois postman Allen Hulton below.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Mike Brown fired by Lakers after 1-4 start
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Lakers fired coach Mike Brown on Friday after a 1-4 start to his second season in charge.
Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak announced the surprising move several hours before they hosted Golden State.
Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will coach the Lakers against the Warriors while the club's top brass searches for Brown's replacement after just 18 months in charge.
"The bottom line is that the team is not winning at the pace we expected this team to win, and we didn't see improvement," Kupchak said at the Lakers' training complex in El Segundo.
Los Angeles began the season with championship expectations after trading for center Dwight Howard and point guard Steve Nash, adding two superstars alongside Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. But the Lakers went 0-8 during the preseason last month for the first time in franchise history before stumbling into the regular season with an 0-3 start, losing to Dallas, Portland and the Clippers.
After finally beating Detroit last Sunday for their first win, the Lakers looked listless again in a loss at Utah on Wednesday, dropping to last place in the Western Conference. Los Angeles' defense has been largely poor, and the players still haven't figured out the new offense installed by Brown during training camp.
Combined with their aging core of talent and a massive payroll, Kupchak and owners Jim and Jerry Buss decided they couldn't wait another game to start winning. Brown was dismissed in a morning meeting.
"We're not looking five or 10 years down the road," Kupchak said. "This team was built to contend this year. There's no guarantee that this team can win a championship, but we feel that it can be deeply in the hunt. We're also aware that our players ... are getting older, so our feeling is that we can contend at this level for another couple of years."
Brown was hired in May 2011 to replace 11-time NBA champion Phil Jackson, signing a four-year deal worth roughly $18 million in May 2011. Kupchak said the eight-figure payout they'll have to make on Brown's contract wasn't a factor in their decision.
"It's a pretty direct message to all of us," Gasol said while leaving the Lakers' shootaround Friday morning in El Segundo.
"There's no messing around. It's time for all of us to step it up."
In a brief news conference, Kupchak did nothing to squelch speculation that Jackson could return for a third tenure with the Lakers. The 67-year-old Jackson walked away from the club in 2011 with few apparent hard feelings, and his health has markedly improved during his time away from the NBA.
Kupchak said he hasn't reached out to any candidates for the job, but thinks it's likely the Lakers will hire an experienced coach who isn't currently working. Kupchak said he hasn't talked to Jackson, but Jim Buss' sister, Lakers executive Jeanie Buss, is Jackson's longtime girlfriend.
"When there's a coach like Phil Jackson, one of the all-time greats, and he's not coaching, I think you would be negligent not to know that he's out there," Kupchak said.
While Lakers fans had reacted with their usual panic whenever the 16-time NBA champions lose a few games in a row, Kupchak and Buss publicly appeared to stand firmly behind Brown, the longtime Cleveland Cavaliers coach. Brown had pleaded for patience with his integration of several new players into his lineup while everybody learned the new offense.
"I have great respect for the Buss family and the Lakers' storied tradition, and I thank them for the opportunity they afforded me," Brown said in a statement issued by the Lakers. "I have a deep appreciation for the coaches and players that I worked with this past year, and I wish the organization nothing but success as they move forward."
Brown's players all were fully behind him in public, with Bryant vocally suggesting critics of the Lakers' new offense should give them time to get it working. Bryant missed a significant portion of training camp while dealing with minor injuries, and Nash has a small fracture in his leg that has kept him out of the lineup since the Lakers' second game. Nash could be sidelined into December.
Yet the Lakers had given no indication they might pull one of the earliest coaching changes in NBA history until Kupchak gathered the players Friday morning to inform them of the decision.
"He told us the decision was made," Gasol said. "We didn't have a good start, and this is a team that was built to win. That's what we're all here to do."
Along with the usual urgency accompanying any Lakers season, Howard is under contract for just one more season before the six-time All-Star center can become a free agent. The Lakers' core players around Howard are all over 30, and the 38-year-old Nash barely made his debut before getting sidelined.
Los Angeles went 41-25 and reached the second round of the playoffs last season in Brown's debut, losing to Oklahoma City. Brown received criticism even for that largely successful season, with Magic Johnson predicting Brown would be fired if the Lakers lost to Denver in the first round.
Brown implemented a new offensive scheme this fall that didn't appear to suit his players' talents, yet the Lakers also played spotty defense, Brown's specialty. The Princeton-based offense received ridicule, but Bryant and his teammates largely defended the motion scheme, saying they needed time to implement it.
"I don't think we lost faith at any moment," Gasol said. "I think we all believed in what we were trying to do. We also understood it was going to take a little bit of time to do things the way they should have been done. As far as our game, it wasn't happening as fast as we all wanted it to."
Brown is a protégé of San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich. He led Cleveland to the 2007 NBA finals and went 272-138 with the Cavaliers, becoming the most successful coach in franchise history while compiling the league's best regular-season record in each of his last two seasons.
The 68-year-old Bickerstaff joined Brown's coaching staff in September. He was a head coach in Charlotte, Seattle, Denver and Washington, going 415-517.
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Wow is what we live by, here at iContact. It is ingrained in our culture, defined by our values and visible in our actions. We internally operate under 5 WOWME key principles and expect those to radiate through everything we do; every customer, coworker and community interaction.
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You should expect a WOWME moment each time you contact us.
October 4 – 8, 2010 is Customer Service Week. We hope our team members realize their importance and value to the organization each day, but we use this week to really make certain of it. We provide catered breakfast, potluck lunches, contests, games, and several cross-departmental activities.
We will end the week by closing early on Friday, October 8, 2010, so our entire Customer Support department can get together and celebrate. This is an opportunity we don't often get, so we hope you'll excuse us for being unavailable for a few hours. If you want to take part in our celebration, please find more information here. We will be certain to share photos from all the activities!
It's proven that happy employees create happy customers, and happy customers make our team happier. This celebration is one way we can keep the great customer experience cycle going.
We aspire each day for low email response time, quick speed of answer on phone and chat, first contact resolution, and most importantly, high CSAT scores. The better we do, the better your entire iContact experience will be.
You will soon hear us talk about "Striving for Fives." This important concept directly integrates our WOWME values with your customer experience. We will roll this out during Customer Service Week through our shorter, and more concise, CSAT survey. Our WOW is your WOW.
So please keep the feedback coming. We want to hear the awesome, as well as the areas for improvement. Keep responding to our surveys. Keep telling the agents how they are doing and keep us accountable for WOW!
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Hunters register more than 243,000 deer this fall
Nearly 29,000 new hunters bought deer licenses this year
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin hunters registered more than 243,000 deer during the state's nine-day gun season this year, a 7.7 percent increase over 2011.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released its report on the 2012 deer season Tuesday, which also said the preliminary tally shows that hunters harvested close to 115,000 bucks for a 12 percent increase over last year. The final tallies are expected to rise once all tags are counted.
The report said more than 633,000 hunters from every state and several foreign countries bought deer licenses this year, including nearly 29,000 new hunters. It said some hunters reported seeing more deer than in past years.
In a separate report, the DNR said seven people were shot, including one fatality. Wardens also reported 994 citations and arrests, down 15 from last year.


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Samsung Device Maintenance is a default app installed on Samsung devices that manages power saving features. In order to reduce battery drain, this Samsung app puts to sleep other apps that run in the background. However, Avast Mobile Security needs to run in the background all the time to ensure the complete and continuous real-time protection and to check every file you open on your device at any moment. Other Avast apps need to run in the background to run security features to provide your mobile device with the maximum protection.
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The continued exodus of charity shops from the Government's workfare schemes leaves the Mandatory Work Activity scheme looking perilously close to collapse.
Oxfam, Marie Curie and Shelter, who all refused workfare in their stores, have now been joined by others. Scope say they are ending mandatory work schemes as have Age UK (though not necessarily in their independent stores). Cancer Research UK have said they are pulling out of mandatory work activity placements. Meanwhile British Heart Foundation have said they are 'moving away' from mandated work, though have continued to take placements in their stores.
It now seems that the largest providers of mandated workfare are likely to be conservation and environmental charities such as The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), a misnamed charity who have been quietly building an army of unpaid workers.
TCV (formally known as BTCV) , have previously boasted of employing 20,000 unpaid workers on various government schemes since the 1980s. They currently hold lucrative contracts with the DWP to deliver Mandatory Work Activity. The so-called charity have forced 589 people into unpaid work, often for private companies on this scheme alone.
This is on top of the countless people who have been forced to work without pay on their conservation projects.
Sue Pearson, a spokesperson for the charity, even boasts of how they have attempted to get round DWP rules which state placements must have a 'community benefit'. Speaking to the Guardian, Pearson explains how claimants forced to work in a food preparation factory had been required to "gather up recycling materials" in order to meet DWP criteria.
TCV are the worst kind of workfare exploiters. As well as bullying people into working for no pay, they also put jobs and working conditions at risk by sending claimants to work for free in profit making companies.
With such an eager attitude towards exploiting benefit claimants, it seems likely that TVC will be quite happy to make use of new rules which mean that sick and disabled claimants can now be forced into unpaid work. A statement concerning the organisation's use of workfare was updated on December 3rd, the day that workfare for sick and disabled claimants began.
It suggests they are already salivating at the thought of thousands more people to exploit, stating that they will merely undertake a health assessment of those they intend to force to work. Everybody on out of work sickness or disability benefits has been signed off as unfit to work by their own GP.
As part of the Week of Action Against Workfare Charities contact TCV this Friday 14th December and help expose the charity's dirty little workfare secrets to anyone who thought they might be an ethical organisation.
TCV are on twitter @tcvtweets.
Find them on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/TheConservationVolunteers
You can contact them directly to tell them what you think on 01302 388 883 or email: email@example.com
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In "Discover: ELS/San Francisco-Downtown," students and staff discuss ELS/San Francisco-Downtown, highlighting the benefits of living in Downtown San Francisco.
Students can visit museums and popular sightseeing spots in a "city that loves international students and international people."
In the video, students discuss relationships with staff and teachers, and how what they learn at ELS helps prepare them for university matriculation and college classrooms. In additional to learning English, students learn skills to help them during life at university, and are assisted by the staff and a student advisor when looking for the right college or university.
In "Discover: ELS/San Francisco," staff from the ELS/San Francisco-Downtown Center speak about the Center's location in the central downtown section of San Francisco, just five minutes from public transportation. The hotel where students reside is just a fifteen-minute walk from the Center in a safe, welcoming area.
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Always make sure you install the latest software updates for all your Apple products. Many software releases have important security updates and may include improvements that help control pop-ups.
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Make sure Safari security settings are turned on, particularly Block Pop-ups and Fraudulent Website Warning.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > Safari and turn on Block Pop-ups and Fraudulent Website Warning.
On your Mac you can find these same options in the Security tab of Safari preferences. You can also click the Extensions tab in Safari preferences to check if you have any extensions installed that you prefer to turn off.
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If you see pop-ups on your Mac that just won't go away, you might have inadvertently downloaded and installed adware (advertising-supported software) or other unwanted software. Certain third-party download sites might include programs that you don't want with the software that you install.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. senators revived a push on Tuesday to ratify a treaty to protect people with disabilities from discrimination, almost a year after Republican lawmakers blocked approval of the international pact.
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called a hearing to address concerns about the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, during which some Republican lawmakers made strong appeals for more support from members of their party.
The U.N. pact was modeled on the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act, which is designed to ensure that people with disabilities have equal opportunities in employment as well as state and local government services.
"I don't know anyone who doesn't believe that the passage of that act is ... an unqualified success," said Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a strong supporter of the treaty and one of only eight Republicans who joined Senate Democrats in voting for it last year.
A Senate attempt to approve ratification in December 2012 failed by a vote of 61-38, five votes short of the 66 needed for ratification.
The Foreign Relations Committee is holding a second hearing on the treaty next week. The panel will then vote on the treaty at a separate business meeting before sending it to the full Senate for a vote.
Senator Jeff Flake, Arizona's other senator and a Foreign Relations Committee member, and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the party's leader on the Foreign Relations panel, are among Republicans who analysts say could vote for the treaty this year.
Some religious conservatives in particular have raised objections to the treaty, saying it could expand abortion rights, threaten U.S. parental rights such the ability to teach children at home rather than send them to school, and impinge on local sovereignty.
The treaty's backers dismissed many of those concerns as overblown. "Ratifying this treaty will not mean bureaucrats in Europe will determine how many parking spots are in your church's parking lot as some have claimed," Menendez said.
The pact was defeated last year despite a passionate plea by Republican former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who was severely wounded during World War Two and watched the vote from a wheelchair.
Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire read another appeal from Dole at Tuesday's hearing.
Editing by Mohammad Zargham


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Web services are Web based applications that use open, XML-based standards and transport protocols to exchange data with clients. Web services are developed using Java Technology APIs and tools provided by an integrated Web Services Stack called Metro. The Metro stack consisting of JAX-WS, JAXB, and WSIT, enable you to create and deploy secure, reliable, transactional, interoperable Web services and clients. The Metro stack is part of Project Metro and as part of GlassFish, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), and partially in Java PlatForm, Standard Edition (Java SE). GlassFish and Java EE also support the legacy JAX-RPC APIs.
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The Metro Web Services stack delivers secure, reliable, transactional interoperability between Java EE and .Net 3.0 to help you build, deploy, and maintain Composite Applications for your Service Oriented Architecture. Metro provides ease-of-development features, support for W3C and WS-I standards such as SOAP and WSDL, asynchronous client and server, and databinding through JAXB 2.0.
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GlassFish is an open source, production-quality and Java EE5 compatible application server. GlassFish focuses on ease-of-development with enhanced web services via Metro. Constructing web applications is made easier with JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology and the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Java EE 5 supports rich thin-client technologies such as AJAX, technologies that are crucial for building applications for Web 2.0.
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Past Washington Program Interns
Ben Forster '11 participated in the Washington Program during the spring of his junior year. During this semester, he interned at the Pentagon in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, International Security Affairs, and the Middle East. The following summer, he received a stipend through the European Union Center of California at Scripps College to work at the U.S. Mission to NATO before returning to CMC for his final year. Most recently, Forster worked as a consultant with LMI for the Pentagon, working with the Department of Defense advisor program. He is now a master's candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. For Ben, taking part in the Washington Program led directly to future opportunities such as the internship at NATO. Through the contacts he made in D.C., Ben was able to secure a job after graduation.
Andy Barr '07 used his experience as an intern at The Hill to land his first job in Washington. Since graduation, Andy has worked as a Staff Writer at POLITICO and The Hill and has served as the Communications Director for the Arizona Democratic Party. His most recent position was Communications Director for the Carmona for Arizona campaign. For Andy, the greatest advantage of the Washington Program was the preparation for life after and outside of the CMC bubble. He says, "The D.C. Program gave me a huge advantage when it came time to get a job...It's tough. But if you want to work in Washington, and especially in politics, it's a great place to start."
Kale Fein '11 worked at Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates during the spring of his sophomore year and graduated as a Robert Day Scholar. One important lesson Kale learned during his time on the Washington Program was that he did not want to begin his career working in the government. Instead, Kale is working at JMP Securities as an Investment Banking Analyst. By helping fine-tune his interests, the Washington Program aided Kale to find his direction for a career after college. Of the program Kale says, "It is truly a special program and is perfect for those students interested in politics or government or who want significant exposure to a business environment."
Alan Martinson '04 was introduced to his future home during the Washington Program. "D.C. is a unique place to live and work. Getting that first bit of experience in the city will help open your eyes to the professional opportunities that are only available here," he says. Alan interned at the Brookings Institution in the Governance Studies Program. After graduation, Alan earned his J.D. at the University of Michigan and is now working as a Counsel at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In Alan's view, the Washington Program helped him make the transition from school life to work life and exposed him to the plethora of opportunities to do work connected to government and political issues.
Craig McPherson '06 interned at the White House in the Office of Political Affairs during his time on the Washington Program. Now an elected member of the Kansas State House of Representatives, Craig credits the Washington Program for helping him grow personally and professionally and gain confidence in his abilities as an employee. For Craig, the program was invaluable for many reasons: it allows students to gain a deeper understanding of how government functions, it fosters "leaders in the making," and it creates a network of amazing individuals. Today, Craig says that the most important part of the program was the bond he made with his classmates: "although we are now scattered around the country, most of us have remained good friends."
Kenneth P. Miller (POM) interning in Representative David Dreier's office was a formative experience for one of CMC's popular government professors, Ken Miller. After his time in D.C., Miller went to Harvard Law School, worked as a staffer in the California legislature, and co-founded the Sacramento office of Morrison & Foerster, LLP. His interest in politics led him to earn a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He administered the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship Program and taught at the University of San Francisco before joining the CMC faculty in 2003.
Misty Thomas '02 is currently an Attorney at The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. As a participant on the Washington Program in the spring of 2001, Misty interned at the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. After graduation, she continued her education and received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. The Washington Program was a "great catalyst for [her] career in public interest law." During the program, Misty developed long-term career mentors who continue to serve as sources of inspiration. Her internship during the program led directly to another internship and then to a job after graduation. One of the greatest lessons she learned was that "being focused, enthusiastic and professional (even as an entry-level member) pays dividend." She sees the Washington Program as an invaluable experience: a chance to explore an incredible city and to work on some of the most important issues of the day with the leaders of our nation.


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I can't believe I haven't mentioned it here before this. I named my Editorial Page:
"The Garden Wall"
As you know it took quite a lot of consideration and thought: Perhaps people might think it is about gardening or construction, but I don't think so and a person can misinterpret anything. I know I sometimes do so for a joke at times just to lighten the mood — at parties or other appropriate or necessary times.
Now I just have to populate my Garden wall with stories. I have to plaster my wall with postings so-to-speak. I have a few more ideas for stories already but haven't had time to get them written. They shall come!


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We all knew that Intel had a bunch of new products coming, but by the time all the working parts got there we had little time to get the benchmarking done let alone anything else. We usually have a good 3-4 week advance on a new processor entering the market. This time around we ended up with less than three days thanks to shipping problems, dead/missing parts, and thunderstorms causing power outages. Due to having less than 72 hours to get everything running before the NDA expired we will focus on what is new and jump right into our testing. We skip the fluff and show you the current Prescott CPU's on the Intel 875P and 925X chipsets. This will allow you to see if this platform is worth upgrading to or not from your current platform.
Today Intel has launched the
LGA775, or Socket
T platform for the masses. Along with the new socket design Intel is also coming out with two new chipsets (alderwood/grantsdale), six new processors, PCI Express for both graphics and sundry peripherals, Intel's High Definition Audio, the new SATA controller on the all-new ICH6/R southbridge, DDR-II memory, new power supply requirements, and many more small features! As you can tell each of these new areas could have an article/review dedicated to them, but we can't start to even ponder that due to our time constraints.
The model numbers for the migrated processors and the new 3.6GHz Prescott are as follows with pricing for
1,000-Unit Quantities are shown below.
— $637
— $417
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All five chips will use an 800MHz front-side bus, contain
a single megabyte of L2 cache memory with a 256-bit (32-byte) internal bus, 16KB L1 data cache (64-byte cache lines), 12Kµop trace cache, SSE3 instruction support,
and use the HyperThreading protocols of the current Pentium 4. A sixth chip, the 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, will be redesigned for the 775-pin socket and has the same features as a socket 478 EE processor, but this time with a price tag of $999.
Below are some shots of our Intel 560 proscessor running on our test bed.
When the Prescott originally came out as a socket 478 processor, heat was an issue for many right off the bat. We took a look at why the Prescott temperatures were so high back in Feburary and the reasons we found back then are still the case today. This time the Prescott comes with a different heatsink mounting system and therefore it comes with a new heatsink design.
Intel once again teamed up with
Chaun Choung Technology Corp.
(CCI), to help develop a cooling solution to handle the heat and new socket design. They came up with the Intel Radial Curved Bifurcated Fin Heatsink (or RCBFH-3 Reference Design) that is shown above.
Although the heatsink looks a bit cumbersome it is actually very simple to install and remove. To install it align the heatsink mounts to the motherboard holes and push till you hear a click. To remove them you just twist the fastner cap a quarter turn and pull up on the cap. Once you have done this on all four mounts you just remove the heatsink. It is really that simple!
With the system at idle on the test bench we were recording processor temperatures at 40C and load temps just under 60C with the processor fan speed set manually at high. This allowed the fan to run at 2,500RPM's, while if you let the BIOS handle cooling it idles at 500RPM and adjusts to the usage of the processor. We will hit more on cooling the prescott later and will also give some watercooling benchmarks as our waterblock kits for the new socket T processors are being delivered today.
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ammonia, chemical compound, NH3, colorless gas that is about one half as dense as air at ordinary temperatures and pressures. It has a characteristic pungent, penetrating odor. Ammonia forms a minute proportion of the atmosphere; it is found in volcanic gases and as a product of decomposition of animal and vegetable matter. Because ammonia was formerly obtained by destructive distillation of horns and hooves of animals, its water solution was called spirits of hartshorn. Ammonia has also been called alkaline air and volatile alkali.
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Cruelty Exposed at Goldsboro Milling Company Turkey Hatchery
In June and July of 2006, a COK investigator was employed for nearly three weeks at a North Carolina turkey hatchery that now supplies Butterball. While there, he witnessed and documented the misery endured by newly-hatched chicks as they began their short lives in the turkey industry.
As the investigation video shows, from the moment they're hatched, these turkeys are submerged into a world of misery. Dumped out of metal trays and jostled onto conveyor belts after being mechanically separated from cracked egg shells, the newly-hatched turkeys are tossed around like inanimate objects—they are sorted, sexed, de-beaked, de-toed, and in some cases de-snooded. The video further reveals that not all chicks survive this harsh process. Countless chicks become mangled from the machinery, suffocated in plastic bags, or deemed "surplus" and dumped (along with injured chicks) into the same disposal system as the discarded egg shells they were separated from hours earlier. Those who survived the rough handling of the hatchery processing were packed up shipped off to "grow out" confinement facilities where most of them will never set foot outside.
Turkeys are typically slaughtered for food when they are just 4 to 5 months old, meaning that the birds filmed during COK's investigation in June and July were being raised for Thanksgiving dinner tables.


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With more research underway surrounding the endocannabinoid system and cannabinoids such as CBD and THC, many new methods for infusing products with cannabinoids are being developed. One of the most intriguing is in using them within CBD Oil Spray products.
Cannabis CBD Oil Sprays come in the form of lotion, salves, balms, and oils, all of which have been infused with cannabinoids. They absorb into the skin directly upon application. CBD Oil Sprays have only grown in popularity over the years. In fact, THC and CBD has even been utilized in general cosmetic products and even personal lubricants.
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Wooden beam gets CT scan in hope of linking it to Griffin shipwreck
Members of the Great Lakes Exploration Group carry a nearly 400-pound wooden slab into the radiology section of Otsego Memorial Hospital in Gaylord, Mich., Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP / John Flesher)
GAYLORD, Mich. -- Technicians at a northern Michigan hospital used a CT scan machine Saturday to take X-rays of a wooden beam that could be part of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the French explorer La Salle that has been missing for more than three centuries.
The procedure was the latest twist in a decades-old quest by diver and history buff Steve Libert to locate the vessel, which disappeared in 1679 after setting sail from an island near Lake Michigan's Green Bay with a crew of six and a cargo of furs. A dive team retrieved the timber in June after discovering to their disappointment that it wasn't attached to buried wreckage.
They hope the CT scan, which produced images of tree rings inside the beam, will help determine whether it was cut down around the time the Griffin was built. A Cornell University expert in dendrochronology -- a scientific technique that uses ring patterns to date trees -- has agreed to analyze the images, which were recorded on compact discs.
"It's very important," Libert said. "Now this comes down to science."
He said the timber could be the Griffin's bowsprit -- a spur or pole that extends from a vessel's stem. Michigan's state archaeologist, Dean Anderson, has said he isn't convinced the beam is part of a ship and contends it could be a stake from a "pound net," a type of fishing gear used in past centuries.
A small crowd watched, many snapping photos, as crewmen with Libert's Great Lakes Exploration Group unloaded the nearly 20-foot-long timber from a trailer at Otsego Memorial Hospital in Gaylord, about 225 miles northwest of Detroit. The hospital is near the timber's storage spot-- a location Libert is keeping secret to prevent theft or vandalism.
The oak beam has been submerged in water and preservative chemicals. One end is split, and three peg-like pieces of wood protrude from the side. Libert said they are "tree nails" and provide further evidence the beam was fashioned by humans.
For the scan, it was wrapped in a permeable fabric and placed inside a cradle made of PVC pipe. Eight men lowered the slab, which weighs about 400 pounds, onto dollies and wheeled it down a hallway to the hospital's radiology section, manoeuvring carefully around corners and through doorways. Then they donned rubber gloves and hefted it into the room with the scanning machine.
There, it was placed on an examining table usually occupied by patients being X-rayed to detect cancerous tumors, blockages in blood vessels or other internal ailments. The mechanical table eased one end of the timber -- a nearly five-foot-long section -- into the doughnut-shaped scanning machine, where a spinning X-ray camera recorded cross-section images of the interior. Readings were taken about an inch apart for 10 minutes.
The crew then lugged the timber into the hallway, turned it around and took it back for a scan of the other end.
A computer read the images and projected them onto screens in an adjacent room. Tree rings were clearly visible, and radiology director Andy Lanway said technicians counted at least 29. Carol Griggs, the Cornell specialist, has said 50 or more might be needed to determine when the tree was felled by matching ring patterns with those of other trees in the university's archive.
"I'm not sure it's going to be enough," Libert acknowledged. But he added, "There might be more rings. They might be so tight that we couldn't see them with the naked eye."
The rings weren't as clear as those of treated lumber that the hospital scanned earlier as a test, Lanway said. "That may be due to the age, or its being in the water for so long," he said.
Regardless of the outcome, Lanway said the hospital was glad to have taken part in the experiment.
"If this is what they think it is, it's of great historical significance," he said.
Griggs has said it could take up to a year to complete her study and write a report. If it's inconclusive, Libert said the next step might be extracting a core sample for a carbon 14 test, another dating method.
In the meantime, he said he intends to keep searching the floor of northern Lake Michigan near uninhabited Poverty Island for other signs of the Griffin, which he's convinced is nearby. He found the possible bowsprit there during a 2001 dive. But because of a legal dispute with the state over ownership of the timber, it took until this year to get permits to excavate the lakebed.
"Most of us think this is the Griffin," said Tom Gouin, vice-president of operations for Great Lakes Diving and Salvage, the Gaylord company that provided the dive crew. "We're all excited to get back out there and find the rest of it."


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Insert a blank formatted media in the camera. Turn on your FinePix A805 while holding down the [DISP/BACK] button. The number will displayed "CURRENT" showing the camera's current firmware version.
After checking the firmware version, press the [MENU/OK] button and then turn off your camera.
You can download the firmware upgrade using the "Downloading the firmware upgrade" link on this page.
Note: In case of FinePix A805, updating software is divided into 2 types.
For distinguish them, you must confirm the body number (serial number ) which is informed on the sticker on the bottom of the camera body:.
Please check 3rd digit of the body number (serial number)
e.g. 7BA******, 7AQ******, 7BL******, 7AW******, etc
If 3rd digit is "A", "Q", "L" or "W", please download this file.
|Firmware upgrade
|File name
|File size
|5,259,492 bytes
Please check 3rd digit of the body number (serial number)
e.g. 7BB******, 7CR******, 7BM******, 7CX******, etc
If 3rd digit is "B", "R", "M" or "X", please download this file.
|Firmware upgrade
|File name
|File size
|5,259,492 bytes
For copying the firmware update file to the media, at first please download "Firmware update transfer program" and install to your PC.
For copying the firmware update, please prepare the memory card reader for transferring the firmware update file to the media.
|Firmware update transfer program
|File name
|File size
|147,456 bytes
Downloaded files must be put on desk top of your PC.
If the file size does not match the figures given above, download the firmware update file again.
|Firmware upgrade transfer program
|File name
|File size
|2,621,440 bytes
Downloaded files must be put on desk top of your PC.
If the file size does not match the figures given above, download the firmware update file again.
Double-Click "FPUPDATETRF.dmg" to make a new folder that includes "FPUPDATETRF".
Move "FPUPDATETRF" in the new folder onto desk top of your PC.
(The data is copied without generating a folder.)
Before copying the update file, the software provided on the CD-ROM bundled with the camera must be installed on the PC.
Always use the AC adapter when updating the firmware.
*If you do not have it, you can use new 2-AA type alkaline batteries, or fully-charged 2-AA type Ni-MH batteries.
1.Remove all the USB devices connected to the PC except for the mouse.
2.Connect the camera to the PC.
* Refer to the FinePix A805 Owner"s Manual (p.106) for more information on connecting the camera.
As the software "FinePix Viewer" is activated automatically after connecting, this software must be stopped before the next procedure.
3.Double-click the "FPUPDATETRF" file on desk top of your PC.
Click the [OK] button on the window.
4.Click the [Exit] button on the window.
5.Cancel the DSC connection and disconnect the camera from the PC.
6.Turn off the camera
This completes the copying procedure of the firmware update to the media.
This completes the copying of the firmware update to the media.
Copy "FPUPDATE.DAT" from the PC to the media using the media card reader or others.
Load the media containing the copied firmware update into the camera.
*This screen appears regardless of whether the AC adapter is already connected or not.
When this screen appears, press the [OK] button.
Press the [OK] button.
(The screenshot is an example for firmware upgrade from version 1.00 to version 1.01)
The firmware updating has started.
It takes about 20 seconds for completing the firmware update.
By following the above procedure "Firmware version checking procedure", you can see the firmware version.
Cf. The media used for the firmware update should be reformatted before you use it for taking pictures again.


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- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 11:10
Lufthansa will hardly be interested in leasing the jets only in slow season. If EW takes the jets, they will be on a 6 year lease, like they did with the 35 AB jets that went to EW and OS. Eventually they will be absorbed entirely anyway.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 16:46
Don't worry, air Serbia will soon lease entire fleet to cover its losses. At least they had their little hurrah!!!Delete
- JohnnyLee27 July 2017 at 20:56
I approve comment at 4:46Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 22:03
Thx Johnny .. in future, we'll be sure to send all of our comments to you first to ensure they meet with your approval before we post themDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 22:17
Please do. JohnnyLee approves comments he likes, deletes comments he doesn't like.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 11:16
They're on the market, sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll make any money. Winter is a slow season for everyone in Europe so it's hardly like there's a huge demand for extra capacity. So instead they might end up with an a319 sitting idle when it could be doing winter routes.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:31
Indeed, they will need to find someone outside of Europe that's interested.Delete
JU is shrinking by the week. There won't be much left at this rateReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 11:39
Their financial results must be catastrophic, they have to act. Air Serbia has not even published its 2016 financial results, so by the actions you can guess how they are doing.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 11:41
How many times do people have to say that they have submitted their results to the business registry in the lawful time by the end od June. The registry now has to audit those results before it publishes them. It takes them 1-2 months, like last year.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 11:45
You are right, but still you can guess that the results won't be good. If they were that wouldn't match their current actions.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 11:47
I agree Anon 11.39 AM. Something is up. I doubt JUs financials are good and I don't think EY will be hanging around much longer. Imagine when WIZZ ramp up operations from BEG?Delete
Hope hainan comes instead of etihadDelete
It's not like APR is the only company that can publish it, the airline can do.it itselfDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:05
Mnoge ce razocarati izvestaj, AIrSerbia je poslovala pozitivno u 2016.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:17
Svi izvestaji mogu da se isfriziraju i papir trpi sve no fakt je to sto se kompanija srozala i transformisala u LCCDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:24
To "srozavanje" je zapravo vođenje računa o finansijama, da se ne ode u crveno.Delete
Ako imate neku bolju ideju kako da se smanje stravični troškovi sezonalnosti ovdašnjeg tržišta tokom zime, slobodno je iznesite. A, da, otvoriti 10 novih linija i onda ih nekako puniti usred zime kada niko na ovom mučenom tržištu ne želi da leti.
I kada neko najzad preduzme korake da se prilagodi svim tim faktorima, to se odmah proglasi za srozavanje. A da nisu to uradili slušali bismo guslanja o pijanim milionerima koji se razbacuju novim linijama i zimi lete poluprazni na račun poreskih obvaznika.
Obrni-okreni, šta god da Air Serbia uradi ili ne uradi dežurna ekipa će uvek naći načina da to predstavi kao kompletnu propast. Bilo da su u pitanju patološki hejteri, politički aktivisti ili objektivni susjedi.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:33
Budite srecni ako se ovi avioni ikada vrate da lete za JUDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 13:32
posebno sa JFK linijom,sjajno je poslovalaDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 15:09
Ukinuto nekoliko linija, catering usluga pala, ukinuta prava biz klaza, ubaceno 1000 dodatnih sedista, 30e Beg checkin, avioni u iznajmljivanje to sve zajedno mora da je sinonim za ogroman uspeh! Sta je onda sinonim za neuspeh? zasto ne probati makar nesto novo poput neke nove linije, agresivnijeg nastupa, boljih cena?Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 17:52
@3:09 Ukinute su ne profitabilne linije, pa neće valjda da generišu gubitke kao Jat nekada?! Kada ista sedista koristi Lufthansa onda to nije srozavanje i LCC. Cekiranje je BESPLATNO on line, postoje i sluzbenici ASL na aerodromu koji pomazu ljudima koji nisu obavesteni na nekom od kioska za samoprijavljivanje na aerodromu. Sezonalnost je problem celog regiona ne samo ASL. Naravno da je bolje uposliti avione nego da zuje poluprazni.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 18:11
@AnonymousJuly 27, 2017 at 3:09 PMDelete
Uveli su novu liniju za Veneciju i to je pravi pogodak. Imaju agresivnije prisustvo ovog leta kad su u pitanju carteri i rad sa "etnickim" turistickim agencijama u Americi. Sva mesta u ekonomskoj klasi prema JFK za ceo avgust su vec prodata. U spicu sezone ne treba da bude boljih cena, bice ih u februaru kao sto je normalno.
"Sta je onda sinonim za neuspeh?"
To su horde trolova koje vec 4 godine ne mogu da se pomire sa cinjenicom da Air Serbia radi prave stvari.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 19:37
They sure are shrinking ... that's why their pax numbers and LF continue to grow. You must have missed their H1 results from 3 days ago.Delete
They are the only airline in ex-yu who are proactively adapting their business in order to streamline it and make it a healthier business.
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 18:24
Ako imate neku bolju ideju kako da se smanje stravični troškovi sezonalnosti ovdašnjeg tržišta tokom zime, slobodno je iznesite. A, da, otvoriti 10 novih linija i onda ih nekako puniti usred zime kada niko na ovom mučenom tržištu ne želi da leti.Delete
Are you for real?
Ne znas ti sto je sezonalost i konkurencija. Imate par LCC kao konkurenciju. Na svih 7 apt u HR slijece LH grupa 20 x dnevno. BA, AF, KL, SK i svi LCC. Tek kad to uzes u obzir shvatiti ces sto je sezonalnost i kakva je konkurencija sa kojom se nosi OU. Drzava je upumpavala vise para u Air Serbia-u od Etihada. Kad toga vise ne bude (a pritisak ce biti sve veci zbog EU), onda mozes pricati o sredjivanju financija i razumnom poslovanju. Protekle 3 god su bile sve samo ne dobro poslovanje.
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 21:16
Nije nas briga za OU. Protekle 3 godine su bile sjajne za Er Srbiju i rezultati bole komsije, njihov problem.Delete
- Anonymous31 July 2017 at 07:53
Onaj tko ima dobre rezultate ne ukida linije i daje avione u wet lease. Ne boli nas nista, niti ikome zelim zlo. Mozemo pricati kada drzava vise nece upumpavati lovu u Air Serbia. Do tada usporedba ove kompanije sa nekim kompanijama iz EU je smijesna.Delete
The Arab fairy-tale and it's sad end...ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:25
The only sad thing around here is your mindset.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:34
Darwin sold, Alitalia lost (they are actually bidding for it again- how crazy can you be?), AB significantly downsized and integrated into EW and OS. Whats up for JU? Prosperity of course (proven by the fact that you lease out jets although you allegedly made money with- as some here claim)Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:49
The New-York affair is killing Air Serbia the same it did with Bulgaria's BH Air. BH Air even without launching these flights is now facing bankruptcy, imagine what they did to ASL for one year. This route was the biggest mistake!Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 14:12
Once Etihad exits Air Serbia JFK will be cancelled.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 14:16
I don't think that JFK will be cancelled. The ego of some people is too big to allow that...Delete
- AirCEO27 July 2017 at 14:39
I have a feeling that Air Serbia will also launch Chicago, and possibly both Chicago and Toronto, quicker than most people think. I am about 87% positive about it.Delete
i am cca 0.3% sure of thatDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 16:31
This time next year.....we will be stečajonaires :)Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 16:51
You will indeed. But not Air Serbia.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 19:40
I don't get these comments about Etihad exiting JU. They have said many times that they are committed to JU and will be extending their mgt agreement.Delete
In this case, telling a lie a 1000 times will never make it a fact - get over it
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:36
Mislim da bi prava stvar bila kada bi Air Serbia letela jednim avionom iz Nisa tj. napraviti bazu u Nisu.Mogli bi da lete do Londona, Pariza, Amsterdama ili nekih drugih destinacija.Naravno tu bi bilo dosta cartera do Grcke ili ne znam ni ja gde.Tako ne bi dosli u situaciju da daju avione na lizing, bar ne 3 kao sada.Stvarno sam amater ali bih voleo da mi neki ekspert kaze da li je to moguce i naravno da li je to isplativo.PozdravReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:38
Da li imas predstavu koliko bi kostalo to?Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:41
Zaista nemam zato i pitam.Mozda bi bilo isplativije nego da stoji celu zimu.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:43
Air Serbia je imala priliku da zauzme Niš od 2013-15 i na volšeban način ju je propustila u svojim lutanjima. Uz Ryanair, Wizz, Swiss i Germaniu, kao i uz moguce letove easyJeta, Eurowingsa i norwegiana ni mrve im ne bi ostale.Delete
pa nije baš bahato propustila u lutanjima, nego je uvek imala čvrst stav da to ne želi.Delete
da JU hoće niš onda bi trebali da tamo unajme ljude za checkin, održavanje, obezbede ketering... teže bi im bilo da održe kvalitet usluge...
JU je iz beograda već neprofitabilan, zamisli na šta bito tek ličilo iz niša
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 14:45
Petar Celik smesan si.Delete
Elem, Air Serbia vise ne treba Nišu. Bila bi veća šteta nego korist. To Nišu nije potrebno.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:51
More bad news, EY just posted a record 1.87 billion USD loss.Replies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 12:58
I can only imagine how massive Emirates' loss was. Probably about 7-8 billion.Delete
koji su ovo majstori, bogte :lol:Delete
stara fora avionskog računovodstva je da u lošoj godini uradiš reprogram načina na koji obračunavaš amortizaciju letelice. znači smanjiš period amortizacije. onda ti trenutna godina postane još lošija, ali si na dalje ok, jer ti profit ne kolje amortizacija.
od velikih ovo je poslednji uradio quantas pre koju godinu
još jedan članak o qantasu i onome što je etihad upravo sada uradioDelete
irci u avijaciji, you gotta love them!
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 13:11
How log is Etihad contractually obliged to Air Serbia?ReplyDeleteReplies
5y starting from second half of 2013, as i understandDelete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 13:36
so next year the can opt out?Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 13:49
@Anonymous July 27, 2017 at 1:36 PMDelete
Why would they opt out?Delete
ASL is their most successful and profitable investment.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 15:51
no that was actually Darwin!Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 13:20
Why do people think negative towards Airserbia? I don't understand if they want to lease the jet, it doesn't mean they have ban financial situation. It's means that it a slow month and one thing. Why don't we all see you run a airline in the ex-yu countries and let me know how it goes. as a business owner i have bad season and it totally normal no company can have monopoly or success everyday.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 13:54
I don´t think that people think about AirSerbia in a bad way as a product. I think they have a good product.Delete
What people think about however is the way in which the company is run which makes you wonder if that can be financially successful and sustainable. Part of the answer is provided by the company itself. They made up a business model which they are changing so soon after it was launched, implying that they did not understand the market and its challenges to come. And from this point there is a lot to wonder, especially in the light of the constant changes in the business model and the huge political influence the company is exposed to beginning from ownership to route management. Knowing that a major shareholder is engaged in businesses that have no perspective, you just might wonder why it all should work at Air Serbia. Time will tell.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 14:23
Replacing seats is not a change in business model. LH and others did the same. What "constant" changes in business model, as if there were 30 changes since 2013? Business that have no perspective? Serbia is singled out for expected high growth of air traffic, you ignorant ****!Delete
Changes are the sign that something is going on. I would be much more worried to see that the business environment is changing and that the airline is doing absolutely nothing. Their business environment is changing rapidly, and has been for a while now. What may have worked three years ago, could be a killer today.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 17:53
Eight, your comment would fit right here:Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 17:55
what you see here is not regular adaptation of business to market changes.Delete
this is a mix between essentially changing your strategy because you original was dead wrong and rigorous cuts at any cost because you are bleeding money.
i couldn't care less for slashing routes, but i do care about people getting fired because of incompetent management.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 18:20
"i do care about people getting fired because of incompetent management"Delete
Then you are not made for this industry. Or any industry, for that matter:
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 19:32
2 years ago, Qantas let go 5,000 positions.Delete
Etihad and Emirates - 2 "rich airlines" - are in the middle of cost restructuring and eliminating positions.
The airline industry is changing rapidly and cost containment and control is the order of the day. Competition is forcing traditional airlines to think outside the box and to reinvent their businesses in order for them to remain competitive.
What do you expect airline mgt to do - continue to keep their heads in the sand or to react and try to ensure that they still have businesses that survive ?
What a dumb comment....
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 22:58
The difference is that Dane had his head in the sand when he was coming up with the original strategy.Delete
Again, this is not a reaction to the market but to your own lousy, money-bleeding strategy
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 23:57
Where did Wizz CEO had his head at when he approved despised carryon fee? Reversing it now can't be a reaction to the market, market never followed and passengers were always against that monstruous fee.Delete
Anyway, your "opinion" of Air Serbia is in stark contrast to CAPA and other experts. We'll continue to laugh at you.
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 15:15
1 700 000 000ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 16:21
They will aoon turn Air Serbia into a lessor with no own flightsReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 19:43
If it makes money, then good for them !Delete
- Anonymous28 July 2017 at 14:09
As long as taxpayers cover for their expenses, everything is good for themDelete
- Anonymous29 July 2017 at 21:18
Air Serbia is making money without taxpayers money.Delete
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 16:53
I love all the doom and gloom comments, especially when made by people whose national airlines are in a much more precarious position.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 17:32
Three Airbus 319s will be surplus, which means fifteen to twenty crews, including up to 100 stewardesses. They can all spend a nice winter recreation holiday in "JAT apartments" on Mt.Kopaonik.Delete
where do you people come with this nationalistic BS?Delete
reading Informer, wathich Pink, getting paid in sandwiches? what is it?
- Anonymous27 July 2017 at 18:07
to anon at 5.32pmDelete
As far as I can see it says that the plane is being given on an ACMI lease (ACMI lease means that both Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance are in a bundle deal)
Only one of the planes is being leased out without the crew.
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