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Asia's low-cost carriers continue to grow rapidly, both in scope and model, but it is still the region's network carriers which are posting the biggest profits in absolute terms.
The Airline Business/Flightglobal World Airline Rankings show the big Japanese and Chinese network carriers among the most profitable in the region. This despite the negative impact year-on-year in US Dollar terms from currency changes over the last 12 months.
Japan Airlines was the most profitable airline by both operating and net profits, while All Nippon Airways was the third most profitable at an operating level. Air China was the most profitable of the Chinese operators. Profits at all three though were down on the previous year.
The profit and loss data for over 30 Asia-Pacific operators featuring in the top 150 airlines by revenue in 2013 though shows profits for the region's carriers down on the previous year. Collective operating profits of $4.3 billion last year is roughly half the $8 billion the same carriers achieved in the previous year.
Net profits were also down. The region's carriers generated a net return of $1.3 billion for 2013. This though is short of the $4.6 billion collective net profit for the previous year.
Alongside currency issues and weaker demand in some regions, Asia-Pacific carriers have also been more exposed to the struggling air cargo market.
Cathay Pacific and Qantas were among the carriers in the region to post the biggest improvements in their last full financial year. Cathay Pacific posted a healthy $485 million operating profit, while Qantas swung back to an operating profit of $208 million for the year ending June 2013. But Qantas barely broke even at a net level and its challenges remain evident after dropping back into the red at the halfway stage of its current financial year.
It remains a challenging period for Indian carriers. Figures for both Jet Airways and Air India remained in the red, though fresh data from the Indian civil aviation ministry shows the airline managed to at least narrow its operating loss to INR2.1 billion ($361 million) in its 2013-14 fiscal year.
Both carrier also have been given lifts by recent developments; Jet securing a new investor in the shape of Etihad and Air India's stalled Star Alliance membership finally coming to fruitition in July.
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text: Hello once again fellow Korn fans! How are all of you today? Well I read your comments on my previous blog and I've been doing some thinking. Idk if I could actually leave my boyfriend. We've been together for so long. And I don't really want to just throw it all away because of one argument. Later on in the evening we had a good talk after we got back from the ER. I think we'll work through it all. I'm so thankful for all of your comments you've left on my previous blog though. But it just shows me that I'm not the only one with problems. And I'd like to thank the ones that did leave a comment. That was greatly appreciated. I read them all but haven't gotten around to replying to all of them. Got busy with work and my aunt and my cousins have been here all weekend. My aunt got me quite a few things. I love her so much. I call her mom every now and then. Her husband passes away this past September. So life's been pretty hard on her lately. It feels so great to spend time with them. It's helped me realize how precious life is and how easily it can be taken away. And also to enjoy life as best as you possibly can because you never really know what could happen. Another thing too is to appreciate your friends and family that you do have around in your life. I would love to have a great KoRn fan friend though. It be so much easier to have one in my life lol We could talk about Korn all the time and understand eachother's obsession with Korn. I'm just rambling on and I'm not even thinking about what I type. lmao I'm just going but when I'm not so tired I'll probably update my blog and reply to everything. I'm feeling way better since I've had family around me for the past two days. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!! Anyone reading this whoever needs help or anything you can leave me a comment or inbox me a message. I enjoy meeting other people out there. I'm an outgoing person. But yeah goodnight. I need to try get some sleep. Thanks for reading and stay tuned. rofl


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A quick daily look at what's happening around Steelers Nation. And consider this your open thread for discussing the days events and, well, anything else that comes to mind about the Black and Gold.
– Just in case you missed it: by thumping the Browns, the Steelers win the AFC North, get a first-round bye, and don't play again until Saturday, January 15.
– AFC North Champions. Steelers 41, Browns 9. [Three Rivers Burgh Blog]
– "After allowing the Cleveland Browns to rush for 43 yards on 17 carries in Sunday's 41-9 victory, the Steelers set a franchise record for allowing the fewest yards rushing in a season (1,004) and fewest yards per game (62.8)." [Post-Gazette]
– The teams the Steelers will face in 2011 are now set: On the road: San Francisco, Arizona, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Houston and the three AFC North opponents. At home: Tennessee, Seattle, St. Louis, Jacksonville, New England and their three division opponents. [Post-Gazette]
– ESPN's AFC North dude, James Walker, writes that the Steelers "Are well positioned for a Super Bowl run." [ESPN]
– We went on for more than an hour with our final regular season podcast. [Steelers Lounge]
– RT @dj_85: On the bus on the way back to Pittsburgh, check out my roommate @ired33 rocking the gearhttp://plixi.com/p/67510928 [David Johnson, Twitter]
– RT @OFTOT: Colt McCoy's day summarized in one picture -http://twitpic.com/3mg96a [One for the Other Thumb, Twitter]
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Zimbabweans have been urged to preserve the country's natural resources as the country's future hinges on the development of a green economy. Speaking at a tree planting ceremony at the Air Force headquarters in Harare yesterday, Airforce of Zimbabwe commander Air Marshal Perence Shiri said the country's future was largely dependent on its natural resources.
"The Air Force of Zimbabwe will play its part in planting a portion of the Government's overall target of 20 million trees by end of 2013. This is aimed at reversing the negative effects of global warming which if left unchecked will leave an uninhabitable environment," said Air Marshal Shiri.
Air Marshal Shiri said while they were charged with safeguarding Zimbabwe's airspace, they would not fold their arms while Zimbabwe's flora and fauna were destroyed by human activities. This gesture is aimed at mitigating the impact of climate change and realisation that the salvation from these environmental effects lie in the conservation of natural resources. The Air Force's mandate is to make sure they do not defend an airspace overlying barren land," he said. Air Marshal Shiri also said the commercial value of this year's tree the Red Mahogany, if efficiently harnessed can go a long way to alleviate poverty. The Red Mahogany tree can be used for various purposes such as roofing, fence construction and furniture thereby dovetailing Government's thrust for a thriving agro forestry sector.


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53rd Grammy: Beyonce Silence Is Loud!
Beyonce skipped the red carpet, and was chilling in the audience with gal pal Gwyneth Paltrow, and even still her presence is all over the internet today. You know you're bad, when you get the same media coverage the next day as the live performers. Not even a Lady GaGa Egg can match Beyonce all black: simple, elegant and sexy.
Beyonce silence was louder than all those costumes! More pics when you continue…
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@mrsgrapevine I see you stanning. LOL!!
man i promise beyonce wanna be a dang white chick! n im not hating on her but i swear its like every pic i c of her she look more caucasian.
I mean look at the second picture of the side view of her and Gwyneth, they look almost the same. The hair style, the nose structure, she looks like a tanned up version of Gwyneth. Does Beyonce think that whitening up her skin will make her appeal to more white audience members?


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Not a big fan of Seth MacFarlane? Tough shit. He's all over this trailer for his latest film. He directed, produced, co-wrote, and stars in the film, bso you best get over yourself and learn to love the man.
Or you can just decide that he doesn't play to your sense of humor and go on your way.
But before making your decision, factor in the roles of Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Sarah Silverman, Giovanni Ribisi, and Neil Patrick Harris. Gets tougher, no?
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In a season filled with high expectations, George Campbell exceeded all of them.
The highly-touted senior led the Eagles to the their seventh Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A conference title and first undefeated season. Campbell finished with 23 goals and had 15 assists and as the main cog in McDonogh's attack.


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THE next generation of spacecraft propulsion systems could be dead in the water before they are even launched. A physicist is claiming that solar sailing - the idea of using sunlight to blow spacecraft across the solar system - is at odds with the laws of thermal physics.
Both NASA and the European Space Agency are developing solar sails and, although never tested, the concept is quite simple. A solar sail is essentially a giant mirror that reflects photons of sunlight back in the direction they came from. Although photons do not have mass, they are considered to have momentum, so according to the law of conservation of momentum, the photon loses some of its energy to the sail as it bounces off, giving the sail a shove in the opposite direction.
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92 students who have passed the DELF / DALF French Language examination in May-June 2012 with Alliance Francaise in Banjul yesterday evening received their certificates at a ceremony held at Alliance Francaise on Kairaba Avenue.
The Director of Alliance Francaise in Banjul Didier Martin said 135 students took part in the course and 92 of them passed a percentage of 72 per cent.
According to him the reason why they record such success is that the French teachers who have to teach for them have to be accredited by the French Ministry and it is done every three years. He said the duration of the course is from 9 months to three years.
The UNICEF Representative Madam Aichatou Diawara Flambert who was the guest speaker of the occasion in a brief remark described the investment in French as worthy underscoring the importance of communicating in different languages. She explained that UNICEF and other Institutions for their staff for they believe that to know a second language is important. Madam Flambert expressed her satisfaction over the interest of more people learning French in the country.
Speaking earlier, The Vice President of Alliance Francaise Committee ,who is also the General Manager of City Limits Radio, Baboucarr Cham said the DELF/ DALF certificates are delivered by the French Ministry for Education which is recognised world wide. This he described as valuable asset when looking for a job. He said they are proud to offer its students the opportunity to get an internationally recognised certificate while studying in the Gambia.
Mr Cham stated that the different certificates cover a range of levels in the French language from Basic to Proficient user. He described the results of this examination session as encouraging as 70 per cent of the 135 candidates passed. This year, he said they have witnessed an increased in 10 percent of in the number candidates compared to last year.
Mr Cham gave a brief history of Alliance Francaise. He said it was established in 1948 . The one in Banjul he explained is a Gambian association affiliated to the foundation in Paris is part of the international network of over 1000 Alliance Francaises that annually welcome over 450,000 students to their language classes and over 6 million people to cultural events. He further explained that the objectives of the Alliance are to teach the French language and to promote cross cultural exchanges amongst others.


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BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 37-year old Harlingen man was sentenced here Monday to more than five years in federal prison without parole for using his computer to receive child pornography. This sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Don DeGabrielle, Southern District of Texas; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted the investigation.
Samuel Jason Diaz, of Harlingen, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to 63 months in federal prison, without parole, to be followed by lifetime of supervised release for receiving child pornography. Diaz pleaded guilty to the offense in February 2008.
ICE agents proved Diaz was purchasing and downloading videos and images containing child pornography from various websites. A forensic examination of Diaz' computers revealed he had 662 videos and more than 2,272 images of sexually explicit child pornography purchased and downloaded from Internet websites.
Diaz has been permitted to remain on bond pending an order to surrender himself to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service to begin serving his sentence on Sept. 4.
The court also ordered Diaz to attend sex offender treatment and to submit to a mental health evaluation while incarcerated. As conditions of his lifetime supervised release, Diaz will also be required to register as a sex offender and attend sex offender counseling (including polygraph testing). In addition, he cannot use Internet-capable computer devices, and cannot be within 100 feet of parks, schools and other places children congregate, among other conditions.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Terra Bay and Joseph Leonard, Southern District of Texas, prosecuted this case.
This investigation was part of Operation Predator, a nationwide ICE initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders, and child sex traffickers. Since Operation Predator was launched in July 2003, ICE agents have arrested more than 11,000 individuals nationwide.
ICE encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-DHS-2ICE. This hotline is staffed around the clock by investigators.
Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, at 1-800-843-5678 or www.cybertipline.com.


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Linux Mint 11 LXDE review
Linux Mint is a desktop-centric distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and Linux Mint LXDE is the edition that uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). The latest release, Linux Mint 11 LXDE, was released August 16, 2011. This article presents a review, the first for an LXDE-based Linux Mint edition on this website.
The installation image is a Live CD, and installation may only be started from the Live environment. Shown below is the boot menu.
Installation Program and Installation Process: It should not come as a surprise that this edition of Linux Mint uses the same installer and follows the same installation routine as other Linux Mint editions based on Ubuntu Desktop. On a test system that I attempted to install it on, on which I was already dual-booting Linux Mint 11, the main edition, and another copy of the same LXDE edition, the installer did not seem to detect that both distributions were Linux Mint.
Even in the advanced partitioning window, you could not tell that two Linux Mint editions were already installed unless you view the entries in the "Device for boot loader installation" dropdown menu.
And on several occasions, attempting to edit a partition caused the partition editing window to freeze. Restarting the system was the only option. My impression of the installer is it is a little bit less stable than the main edition's.
The default file system is ext4, a journaling file system. Other journaling file systems supported are ext3, jfs, xfs, reiserfs and btrfs. LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, RAID and disk encryption, are not supported. The minimum disk space recommended for installation is 3.8 GB, but a new installation takes up less than 2.9 GB. GRUB 2 is the boot loader. The installer does not have an option to password-protect it.
Desktop: LXDE is a low resource-consumption desktop environment. Just like Xfce, it is fast and very responsive. The menu style is the classical type. Linux Mint's mintMenu application is available for installation, but it appears that it is not compatible with LXDE. mintMenu is a menu style similar to Lancelot, a menu application for the K Desktop Environment.
The file manager, PCManFM, has features on par with Thunar and Nautilus, file managers for Xfce and GNOME respectively. But one of its features in not available in Thunar and Nautilus.
And that feature, the ability to browse the menu entries, and launch applications, is the shown in the image below. Access is from Go > Applications. I think it is nice.
A feature of this edition of Linux Mint that it inherited from Ubuntu, is the Ayatana Scrollbar, also know as the overlay scrollbar. It is supposed to "improve the user's ability to focus on content and applications" and to "ensure that scrollbars take up no active screen real-estate" thereby "reducing the waste of space and distracting clutter that a traditional scrollbar entails."
I did not like it the first time I used it, and my opinion has not changed. It is simply not a very useful feature and the developers know it. An entry in the release notes says you may disable it by uninstalling the overlay-scrollbar and liboverlay-scrollbar-0.1-0 packages. However, I found that the overlay-scrollbar package is not even installed. To disable it, you simply need to remove liboverlay-scrollbar, and reboot.
Installed and Available Software: Major applications installed on Linux Mint 11 LXDE are:
- Firefox 5
- Dropbox
- Exaile music player
- VLC media player
- GNOME MPlayer, a GTK2 frontend for MPlayer
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Pidgin IM client
- Transmission Bittorrent client
- Abiword, a standalone word processor
- Gnumeric, a standalone spreadsheet application
After applying updates, Firefox 5 was upgraded to Firefox 6. Multimedia codecs and libraries required to view Flash and Java content, are installed by default. Libdvdcss2, required to play encrypted video DVD movies, is also installed, so VLC plays those movies. There is no full office suite installed, but LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice.org), are available for installation.
As with all Linux Mint editions, there are no games installed, but there are more than 100, including six FPS games, available for installation. All these applications are, of course, besides the usual set of desktop accessories and system utilities.
Package Management: Like all Linux distributions directly or indirectly derived from Debian, Linux Mint LXDE uses APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool, for application management. While apt-get, the most commonly used APT command line utility is very easy to use, there are two graphical applications that are pre-installed to make software management even easier.
One is custom-developed for Linux Mint, and it is called the Software Manager. The main view is shown in the screenshot below. The other, common to Debian-derived distributions, is called the Synaptic Package Manager. While Software Manager has a sleeker interface, Synaptic Package Manager has better features.
Because the Software Manager does not allow true queuing of applications for installation, it is better to use the Synaptic Package Manager when you want to install multiple applications.
This is the Internet category view of Software Manager. Out of the box, the system is configured to check for update once per day, and the Update Manager works.
Shown is the list of updates in the Update Manager. This screenshot was taken today (August 22, 2011), six days after it was released. At the time, there were a total of 22 updates available for installation.
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Certain gui panel apps like "CPU scaling monitor" and "System Monitor" I find extremely useful in gnome; though which seem dysfunctional in lxde. Will these things ever improve? Are there any other option? Also, I had great difficulty moving panel apps to specific locations on the panel. I found this aesthetically bothersome.
Aside from that, I was very impressed with my trial of lxde, and would love to use it full time – but for a few minor flaws.
There is one thing I miss in all your reviews I read up to now: Is it possible to use 2 monitors in extended desktop mode?
This works fine on multiple monitors (up to 5). The grandr application is very helpful for that.
Having hopped through at least 10 distros — I have found this one (Linux Mint LXDE) to have an excellent balance of lightness, stability, and adequate included features.
Debian LXDE was extremely disappointing – packed with out-of-date software, and no GUIs for managing either network connections or Asian languages.


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James "Whitey" Bulger, whose racketeering trial continues to be the best show in town, finally flashed a smile from his seat at the defense table Friday, although it was unclear from the context whether Bulger found one of his accusers amusing or was simply recalling better times.
The witness was Richard "Dickie" O'Brien, an understated, south shore bookmaker, now 84 and retired to Florida. With his blue blazer, buttoned-down collar and striped tie, O'Brien looked as if he might have arrived in federal court from the yacht club.
The government called him to testify about events in the early 1970s, which was when news reached Bulger's Winter Hill Gang that O'Brien was running his Quincy office independently, meaning that he had been freed by a series of arrests from paying protection, or rent, to Boston's Italian mob, sometimes referred to as The North End.
"Mr. Bulger wanted to talk to me," O'Brien said. "He said, in so many words, 'You are by yourself now.' And he said, 'I think you should be with us.' I said, 'Well, I was with The North End.' He said, 'Forget The North End. If you want to be in business, you are with us.' That was put down as law."
O'Brien said he knew he was not being presented with a choice. He began paying Bulger's gang what would become $2,000 — and in many cases substantially more — every month, until O'Brien himself was arrested in the late 1990s.
"Of course, I had heard about them because their reputation had always preceded them, that they were very capable," O'Brien said.
"What do you mean by capable?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachery Hafer asked.
"They had a gang war in South Boston and people were shot," O'Brien said, "And Mr. Bulger ended up on top. You can draw your own conclusions."
"Why did you agree to pay rent?" O'Brien was asked.
"I valued my own life," he said, "as well as those with me."
O'Brien was no newcomer to the gambling racket. He inherited the business from his father and passed it on to a daughter when he retired. Once, when summoned to a meeting with a Bulger associate, O'Brien said he ordered his daughter to call the FBI's Miami office if he was not back in 12 hours. He said he had became suspicious of agents in the Boston office after learning that Bulger was providing sliding glass doors for a home owned by a Boston agent.
But despite O'Brien's apparent distaste for Bulger's violence, he benefited, more than once.
He said he once dragged a business associate who owed him thousands of dollars to a meeting with Bulger. After some sharp words from Bulger, the associate agreed to a prompt repayment. But the associate wanted to leave the meeting with some dignity. He told Bulger that after the debt was paid, he would run his own business, however he chose to run it.
"You are going to go your own way?" O'Brien recalled Bulger saying. "You know, we have a business besides bookmaking. And (the associate) said, 'What's that?' And Mr. Bulger said, 'Killing a..holes like you.'"
Over the opening three days of his trial, Bulger's expression, when visible to the public, has been something between bored and distracted. O'Brien's crack made him laugh, although it was not clear why.
O'Brien and another retired bookmaker, James J. Katz, gave hours of testimony that supported the government's contention that Bulger was part of a racketeering conspiracy that used threats and violence to extort millions of dollars of rent payments from dozens of bookmakers for more than three decades, beginning in the 1970s.
He is accused in the indictment against him of collecting millions more by extorting payments from drug dealers. He is accused of laundering the money in real estate or using it to bribe law enforcement officers. He is charged additionally with participating in 19 murders, four of which were part of the gang's attempt at a hostile takeover of the parimutuel business World Jai Alai in the early 1980s.
Throughout much of the period covered by the indictment, federal prosecutors said that Bulger and his longtime partner, Stephen Flemmi, were FBI informants, providing information about their rivals in the Mafia. A state law enforcement witness has testified that the local FBI office regularly protected the two by sabotaging investigations by other agencies.
Bulger denies being an informant and specifically denied involvement in half a dozen of the murders — those of two women and four victims of the jai alai takeover. But his defense team started speculation about strategy when it conceded to the jury in its opening statement that Bulger sold drugs, extorted millions in payments and was involved in illegal gambling.
Katz and O'Brien became reluctant witnesses after they were arrested under a plan developed in the early 1990s by the Massachusetts State Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.


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Genoa- A soldier from DeKalb was reportedly killed while searching for Bergdahl
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We have really great information to share with you. News reports from Japanese government sources revealed that Japan has decided to cut short their annual whaling season in the Southern Ocean and bring their fleet back to port.
My colleague at Greenpeace Japan, Junichi Sato, has informed me that the most likely scenario for the early closure is because Japan is already burdened with excess stocks of whale meat. As of August 2010, there were over 5,700 tons of whale meat in frozen storage, over a year's supply.
There is a real lack of whale meat consumption in Japan. Each year, Japan kills more whales, while the Japanese people back home are consuming less and less each year. This year, the whalers sent out a smaller fleet than in past years, and stayed out for less time.
It is getting harder every year for the whaling industry to maintain enough domestic support to keep getting the government subsidies they need to operate. We will keep up the pressure both in Japan and around the world until the whaling fleet stays home for good.
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The Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) requires closer examination and provincial consent prior to ratification. This is not just a trade or economic issue, but also, fundamentally, a constitutional issue.
It also threatens Canada's sovereignty, giving unprecedented coercive tools to a world power that has a radically different governing system from ours.
The Canada-China FIPA may adversely change Canadian governance at all levels. It has the potential to change the face of Canada in its ownership of natural resources and public services. It has the potential to coerce and interfere with the evolution of our laws.
The public and its elected representatives deserve to have time to understand the extraordinary ramifications of the treaty and openly debate them in the House of Commons, with full and timely disclosure of information.
Twenty-one days, without parliamentary debate or an informative press release, is unacceptable for a treaty of this magnitude. Knowledge is essential, while our elected representatives, and media, have not been given the required time or information to respond to the FIPA treaty.
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Will San Diego's tourism funds decline?
San Diego's tourism marketing operation is facing the prospect of leaner times in the coming fiscal year, but it's not because far fewer visitors will be coming here.
Litigation challenging the legality of a hotel room surcharge that funds tourism promotion means the city may not be able to release all of the nearly $30 million it's expecting to collect during the 2013-2014 fiscal year. In order to protect San Diego's general fund in the event the room levy is overturned, the city is asking hotel owners to sign waivers to cover future litigation costs and potential refund requests.
Trouble is, major hotel corporations are balking at signing the legal documents, forcing the tourism agency to prepare a worst-case scenario spending plan that would rely on just 60 percent of the funding it normally gets from the city's hotelier-run Tourism Marketing District via the room surcharge. The looming problem is unrelated to the earlier freeze in marketing dollars that stemmed from an on-again, off-again feud between hoteliers and Mayor Bob Filner over operation of the district.
To date, the city has received just 15 of the 226 waivers it needs to reach full funding, said Lorin Stewart, executive director of the marketing district. Its budget, the majority of which is allocated for the city's Tourism Authority, will go before the City Council on Monday.
"In the short term, we've made decisions to eliminate a lot of our expenses," said Tourism Authority CEO Joe Terzi. "We've reduced travel, going to events, bringing people to San Diego. We've talked to our staff. They know there are challenges with our funding next year and by the time we get through August, we'll have a better idea of how much money we'll have."
Should funding come in much lower, there would have to be significant staff cuts, Terzi acknowledged. However, the Tourism Authority would still be able to devote $6.7 million for promoting San Diego as a tourist destination throughout the entire fiscal year.
Alternative Tourism Authority budgets for 2014 fiscal year
100 percent budget, including TMD funding and outside revenues
Total: $30.8 million
Advertising: $12 million
Salaries and wages (not including benefits): $7.6 million
60 percent budget
Total: $20.5 million
Advertising: $6.7 million
Salaries and wages: $5.4 million
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This year, the tourism agency spent just $3.8 million on promotion for the spring and summer season, compared with the $5.7 million it had anticipated spending. That's because it canceled much of its planned advertising when Filner refused to released funding due to concerns he had over how the Tourism Marketing District planned to allocate the hotel room revenues. Once the feud between Filner and the hoteliers was resolved, it was too late to reinstate some of that advertising.
Tourism leaders believe San Diego is losing business to rival destinations because those cities were on television when San Diego was not.
Meanwhile, the marketing district has been working hard to persuade major hotel corporations to sign the indemnification agreements. Attorney Michael Colantuono, who represents the district, has been talking to hotel owners' lawyers in hopes of easing their minds about signing a legal document that is rarely required of a hotel when dealing with municipalities.


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Phil Lesh & Friends at Terrapin Crossroads (A Gallery)
May 23, 2014
Phil Lesh & Friends took the stage as the band continued their run at Lesh's Terrapin Crossroads. The second of four shows saw the likes of Lesh, John Scofield, John Kadlecik, John Medeski, Grahame Lesh and Joe Russo tearing through yet another high energy two-set show. Stuart Levine shared some images from the show.
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"Its a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win"
"Its a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win"
Springsteen was the first to come to mind for me too. From "Brilliant Disguise":
Tonight our bed is cold
I'm lost in the darkness of our love
God have mercy on the man
Who doubts what he's sure of
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
"And in the end, the love you get, is equal to the love you give"
Teach tolerance.
Or a babies arm holding an apple.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Teach tolerance.
It's all a game,
'Cos inside I'm just the same,
My fried egg makes me sick
First thing in the morning.
Get your nunchucks and the keys to your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun
I've got blisters on my fingers
Boy shrugged walked away
The man stood and watched as he was leaving
The man stood there twisting
God never listens to what I say
And you don't get a refund
If you overpray
Girl, your eyes have the mist from the smoke of a distant fire.
I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose free will.
Begging mercy for their si-i-i-ns, satan laughing spreads his wi-i-i-ngs.
This was never one of my favorite songs, but...
"The record shows I took the blows, and did it my way!"
And GAC will probably like this one...
"Now I need a place to hide away, oh, I believe in yesterday."
...and one from Garth...
"So tell that someone that you love just what you're thinking of, if tomorrow never comes"
Some of mine:
"Nothing really matters...nothing really matters to me"
"And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death"
"Think of me when you close your eyes
But don't look back when you break your ties
Yeah think of me when you're coming down
But don't look back when leaving town today"
"If the real thing dont do the trick
No, you better make up something quick
You gonna burn burn burn burn it to the wick
Ooooooohhhh, barra barracuda."
"cause Im hung up on dreams Ill never see,
Yeah babe, oh help me babe,
Or this will surely be the end of me, yeah."
"At night, when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am."
"Ghosts appear and fade away"
"Did you stand by me
No, not at all
Did you stand by me
No way"
And last but not least:
"So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!!!
It was long ago and it was far away
and it was so much better than it is today
It never felt so good
It never felt so right
And we were glowing like
A metal on the edge of a knife"
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Energy professionals interested in energy-efficient retrofitting of single- and multifamily buildings, including (but not limited to) low-income weatherization program professionals.
Client information, geographic location, general site details, at least one year's worth of complete heating fuel bills, lighting, walls, windows, infiltration, heating system, appliances, doors, roof, basement, and control and distribution. A number of adjustable parameters (combustion efficiency, interior day/night temperature, domestic hot water use, domestic hot water temperature, etc.) for which data to be entered can be measured, through the on-site inspection of the dwelling, often only approximately, are important to the energy analysis of the dwelling.
After all the questions about the dwelling have been properly answered, EA-QUIP estimates monthly and yearly heating and cooling energy consumption, evaluates current electricity use, seasonal infiltration, seasonal solar gain, heating load, and, on request, recommends combinations of energy-saving measures suitable for a range of budgets. Users can also alter the savings calculations by changing the cost, lifetime, and new efficiency or energy rating of retrofits such as boiler, domestic hot water, and window replacements to tailor the software to specific scopes of work. Every combination is chosen to produce the highest energy savings for a given budget. Interest and inflation rates, maintenance costs of the installed measures, and projected period of occupancy are taken into account in the savings analysis.
Computer Platform
Internet connection strictly required. Either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox (other browsers may be acceptable but are not actively tested by EA-QUIP technical support). PDF viewers and Microsoft Excel and Word are also strongly suggested.
Programming Language
Basic (nontechnical)
There is no need to learn a language or remember any commands to use EA-QUIP. EA-QUIP does the work by asking questions; the user simply answers the questions displayed on the screen. The questions are grouped by components such as infiltration, roof, basement, economics and fuel, heating system, walls, and windows. EA-QUIP leads the user automatically through each component. EA-QUIP enables the user to either input or use programmed default values to ensure consistent and reliable results, and maintains a quick and simple program for new and experienced users. The user can always override default values and retrofit costs according to project characteristics. EA-QUIP enables the user to add or remove items in some of the components such as wall, window, roof, and basement where more than one, or no, item may be present. For example, if the dwelling has more than one type of wall and roof, the user can create an additional wall and roof instance to input separate data for each type. EA-QUIP has moved to an entirely online format, so all aspects of users' building models and analytic reports are accessible wherever there is an Internet connection. The user does not need to manually import weather or city data; this is automatically done nightly via the database server.
EA-QUIP has extensive retrofit and cost libraries, all of which are grouped by components, which makes it very easy for the user to modify the costs and lifetimes of potential retrofits. EA-QUIP generates several preformatted reports that provide energy and economic results. The building model report presents the current energy characteristics of the building, others list all the retrofits found to be cost effective, ranked in order of declining cost effectiveness or increasing payback period, which is very helpful for developing prioritized scope of work based on the SIR or decreasing payback. Once an analysis is completed, EA-QUIP enables the user to create a Work scope based on economically desirable and validation requirements for each building. Each of the energy conservation measures found to be cost-effective are listed and asked whether to include it in the Work scope. To further analyze these retrofits, the user can generate additional reports such as energy savings of chosen retrofits, post-install calculated use, and auto-check report (for troubleshooting/truing up the model). Also, EA-QUIP administrators and technical support can, with permission, access building files and help troubleshoot modeling issues.
Some of EA-QUIP's strengths are also its weakness. For example, EA-QUIP has an extensive retrofit library; however, adding new retrofits is not possible without software administrator intervention; external analysis may be necessary. Once a building is entered and analyzed, EA-QUIP automatically creates a building data file, report files, and analytics all stored in an online database; unless a user saves a copy of the reports, data entry, and retrofit costs library, many aspects of the software and user's model are unavailable without Internet access. One of the biggest drawbacks of the EA-QUIP is that it does not allow a building model to use multiple fuel types. In these cases, for a model to reflect the entire building's fuel consumption, the user must convert one fuel type to the other and combine the fuel bills before entering the data. Also, EA-QUIP will not analyze the dwelling's domestic hot water fuel use if the maker's fuel type is different than the primary fuel type (the heating fuel) if the user does not combine the domestic hot water and heating fuel bills.
Association for Energy Affordability, Inc.
105 Bruckner Boulevard
A reduced fee per building model is offered to weatherization agencies nationwide. Fee-based technical assistance is available to all. Training is offered by the Association for Energy Affordability. For all other nongovernmental entities, fully functional software and technical training packages are available. Contact Evan Markel or Nick Dirr at above number for further information.


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