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The SEAM Administration Tool (SEAM Tool) is an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) that enables you to maintain Kerberos principals and policies. This tool provides much the same capabilities as the kadmin command. However, this tool does not support the management of keytab files. You must use the kadmin command to administer keytab files, which is described in Administering Keytab Files.
Similar to the kadmin command, the SEAM Tool uses Kerberos authentication and encrypted RPC to operate securely from anywhere on the network. The SEAM Tool enables you to do the following:
Create new principals that are based on default values or existing principals.
Create new policies that are based on existing policies.
Add comments for principals.
Set up default values for creating new principals.
Log in as another principal without exiting the tool.
Print or save principal lists and policy lists.
View and search principal lists and policy lists.
The SEAM Tool also provides context-sensitive help and general online help.
The following task maps provide pointers to the various tasks that you can do with the SEAM Tool:
Also, go to SEAM Tool Panel Descriptions for descriptions of all the principal attributes and policy attributes that you can either specify or view in the SEAM Tool.
This section lists the kadmin commands that provide the same capabilities as the SEAM Tool. These commands can be used without running an X Window system. Even though most procedures in this chapter use the SEAM Tool, many procedures also provide corresponding examples that use the command-line equivalents.Table 25–1 Command-Line Equivalents of the SEAM Tool
SEAM Tool Procedure
Equivalent kadmin Command
View the list of principals.
list_principals or get_principals
View a principal's attributes.
Create a new principal.
Duplicate a principal.
No command-line equivalent
Modify a principal.
modify_principal or change_password
Delete a principal.
Set up defaults for creating new principals.
No command-line equivalent
View the list of policies.
list_policies or get_policies
View a policy's attributes.
Create a new policy.
Duplicate a policy.
No command-line equivalent
Modify a policy.
Delete a policy.
The only file that the SEAM Tool modifies is the $HOME/.gkadmin file. This file contains the default values for creating new principals. You can update this file by choosing Properties from the Edit menu.
The SEAM Tool provides both print features and online help features. From the Print menu, you can send the following to a printer or a file:
List of available principals on the specified master KDC
List of available policies on the specified master KDC
The currently selected principal or the loaded principal
From the Help menu, you can access context-sensitive help and general help. When you choose Context-Sensitive Help from the Help menu, the Context-Sensitive Help window is displayed and the tool is switched to help mode. In help mode, when you click on any fields, labels, or buttons on the window, help on that item is displayed in the Help window. To switch back to the tool's normal mode, click Dismiss in the Help window.
You can also choose Help Contents, which opens an HTML browser that provides pointers to the general overview and task information that is provided in this chapter.
As your site starts to accumulate a large number of principals and policies, the time it takes the SEAM Tool to load and display the principal and policy lists will become increasingly longer. Thus, your productivity with the tool will decrease. There are several ways to work around this problem.
First, you can completely eliminate the time to load the lists by not having the SEAM Tool load the lists. You can set this option by choosing Properties from the Edit menu, and unchecking the Show Lists field. Of course, when the tool doesn't load the lists, it can't display the lists, and you can no longer use the list panels to select principals or policies. Instead, you must type a principal or policy name in the new Name field that is provided, then select the operation that you want to perform on it. In effect, typing a name is equivalent to selecting an item from the list.
Another way to work with large lists is to cache them. In fact, caching the lists for a limited time is set as the default behavior for the SEAM Tool. The SEAM Tool must still initially load the lists into the cache. But after that, the tool can use the cache rather than retrieve the lists again. This option eliminates the need to keep loading the lists from the server, which is what takes so long.
You can set list caching by choosing Properties from the Edit menu. There are two cache settings. You can choose to cache the list forever, or you can specify a time limit when the tool must reload the lists from the server into the cache.
Caching the lists still enables you to use the list panels to select principals and policies, so it doesn't affect how you use the SEAM Tool as the first option does. Also, even though caching doesn't enable you to see the changes of other users, you can still see the latest list information based on your changes, because your changes update the lists both on the server and in the cache. And, if you want to update the cache to see other changes and get the lastest copy of the lists, you can use the Refresh menu whenever you want to refresh the cache from the server.
Start the SEAM Tool by using the gkadmin command.
$ /usr/sbin/gkadmin
If you don't want to use the default values, specify new default values.
The window automatically fills in with default values. The default principal name is determined by taking your current identity from the USER environment variable and appending /admin to it (username/admin). The default Realm and Master KDC fields are selected from the /etc/krb5/krb5.conf file. If you ever want to retrieve the default values, click Start Over.
The administration operations that each Principal Name can perform are dictated by the Kerberos ACL file, /etc/krb5/kadm5.acl. For information about limited privileges, see Using the SEAM Tool With Limited Kerberos Administration Privileges.
Type a password for the specified principal name.
Click OK.
A window showing all of the principals is displayed.


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Birth Island
|Birth Island
たんじょうのしま Birth Island
|Information about Birth Island
|Sevii Islands
|Connecting locations:
|↓ South - Fortune Island
→ East - Quest Island
|Needed HM:
|Sevii Islands.
Birth Island (たんじょうのしま Birth Island) is one of the Sevii Islands and is the home to the Legendary Pokémon, Deoxys in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon Emerald.
Overview[edit | edit source]
To get to Birth Island, the player needs the Aurora Ticket event item. This item is sometimes called Nine Island because it is the ninth in the chain of islands which make up the Sevii Islands. The player can go here via the Seagallop Ferry dock in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and the S.S Tidal in Pokémon Emerald. Once the player arrives on Birth Island, he/she has to rotate a stone triangle positioned in the center until it glows bright red. However, if the Trainer stops moving the triangle, it will immediately reset and the Trainer will have to begin again. When it glows red, Deoxys will appear before the Trainer (Attack Forme in Pokémon FireRed, Speed Forme in Pokémon Emerald and Defense Forme in Pokémon LeafGreen).
Pokémon[edit | edit source]
|This article is missing an image. Please help the Azurilland Wiki by adding one.
Attack (Pokémon FireRed)
|Level 30
|One (Via Aurora Ticket event)
Speed Forme (Pokémon Emerald)
|Level 30
|One (Via Aurora Ticket event)
Defense Forme (Pokémon LeafGreen)
|Level 30
|One (Via Aurora Ticket event)
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- This is one of the few islands not viewed via the Town Map.

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BISC 219/F10: Assignment Series3 Materials and Methods
Converting Lab Protocols to Materials and Methods
Please write up all the procedures done in lab so far in Series 3 in the format of a research report's Materials and Methods section. This assignment is worth 10 points.
Students commonly have trouble with the methods section, primarily because it is mistakenly considered to be the place to describe exactly what you did in lab, step by step. Instead, think of this section as the place to present the progress of the experiment through a detailed but brief description of the methods used to collect and to analyze your data. Present enough information so that the reader can evaluate what you did, see how you achieved your experimental goals, and could, possibly, replicate your work. Where possible, use references to previous published descriptions of common protocols rather than describing the methods yourself (such as the Inoue method of making cells competent). To see how this is done properly, look at Materials and Methods sections from published papers, particularly those research reports using a similar experimental design to your study. There are good model papers found in the References folder on the lab conference. Do not clutter your paper with trivial or non-essential information. This section should not be a transcription of the lab manual or a chronological description of your lab experience. It should be as succinct as possible. It is perfectly acceptible to use references (with complete citation information) to refer reader to where methods are described rather than explaining them fully in M&M; however, if you refer your reader to another published source, you must have first made sure that that source did the protocol essential as you did or you must explain the exceptions.
Divide the Methods section into subheadings with titles that give the goal as well as the main tool used to achieve the goal of each part of the experiment, e.g, DNA fragmentation and separation of ___________ by restriction enzyme digestion and agarose gel electrophoresis is a better subheading than the tool, Gel Electrophoresis, or a vague future goal, Identifying the Gene.
The first sub-section should be a brief narrative describing general culture methods and strain information. The strain information is generally in the form of a table that includes the name, source (or citation to investigator who first described that strain) and relevant genotype information. All the bacterial strains, the worm strains, and the plasmid vector used should be included. Look at the M&M section of published papers to see examples of how this is done. One simple model is the Ch'ng et al. paper that we read earlier. (An annotated version is found in the References folder on the lab conference.) The worm strains were supplied by the Dolan DNA Center, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Methods are always presented in the past tense because the experiments are complete. Third person is preferred, even if it requires passive voice, because avoiding first person helps you focus on the progress of the experiment rather than on your lab day (DNA was precipitated in 70% ethanol is preferred over, We added 1ml of 95% ethanol to a tube containing…).
Never use the word tube (or similar words such as plates). Instead of stressing the container, describe what you are really interested in that's in it, using specific terms that increase understanding. Example: you didn't analyze a plate (just plastic) for phenotype; you observed worms cultured in a particular way on a solid medium. Your reader doesn't want to know all about your lab day (eg. did this then did that), but she is struggling to understand how you reached your goal from the starting materials. Do NOT use ambiguous or meaningless terms such as Solution I,II, or III. The reader needs to know how to make those stock solutions by being told the ingredients and concentration. However, in most of a protocol description, rather than giving recipes (e.g. mixed this vol. of this with this vol. of that), wherever possible, give effective concentrations of reagents when you describe crucial points in the experiment.
Example: Product formation after 10 minutes was halted with the addition of 0.1M Na2CO3 to each enzyme/substrate reaction, is preferred over 1ml of 1M 0.1M Na2CO3 was added to each tube in 30 sec. intervals.
Sample partial Methods section:
Restriction Enzyme Digestion and Separation of Plasmid Fragments by Electrophoresis
Isolated plasmid pBI121 (from Plasmid DNA Isolation described in Materials and Methods previously) was digested with a restriction enzyme by combining 20% plasmid DNA with 0.4% HindIII (stock diluted according to supplier, SigmalAdrich, at www.sigmaaldrich.com) in High Salt Buffer (0.1M NaCl, 50 mM Tris pH 7.5, 10mM MgCl2, and 1mM DTT) for 20 min at 37C. The DNA fragments from the digest were separated by agarose gel electrophoresis by applying 20μl of the digested DNA to a 1.5% agarose gel in TGE (0.25M Tris, 1.9M Glycine, 13mM EDTA) with 0.5% SYBR safe DNA stain from Invitrogen (www.invitrogen.com). DNA fragments were subjected to electrophoresis at 100V for one hour. Stained and separated DNA fragments were visualized and photographed under UV light.
Note, that it is not assumed that your reader knows from where the starting materials come. You must explain that the plasmid DNA that you are digesting was prepared from a protocol previously described and where you purchased anything else that you don't describe how to make.
Note, also, that in the example above it was not possible to give the preferred effective concentrations of either the plasmid DNA or the restriction enzyme because we don't know the DNA concentration in this plasmid isolate and the supplier of the commercially purchased restriction enzyme, HindIII, did not give the concentration, but did supply working dilution recommendations. Therefore, volume ratios are about the best we can do. Note that it would be possible to figure out the effective concentration of the ingredients in the buffer, but that is not necessary since the buffer is the diluent. The reader only needs to know how to make the stock buffer and how using it reduces the concentration of the important things, like the plasmid.
How to calculate effective concentration:
You should include ingredients and concentrations of all reagents at first mention, if you can. The ingredients and concentration of all stock solutions, suspensions, and reagents (or where to buy proprietary reagents) are found in the lab protocols or in a separate appendix. Give reagent "recipes" or supplier information in parenthesis after you first mention anything that will have to be made or bought. Many reagents are proprietary; therefore, showing your reader where to buy them is the best you can do if you can't give enough information for your reader to be able to make them.
Examples: Cells were cultured at 37C overnight in Luria broth (1% tryptone, 0.5% yeast extract,1% NaCl ).
DNA was extracted from leaf disks using a Hot Start® DNA extraction kit available from Invitrogen, Inc.
To avoid ambiguity, most scientific papers provide the effective concentration of reagents at the time of the reaction rather than giving volumes of various stock solutions as they are added together. Remember that you do not usually have to provide the effective concentrations of diluents.
1. The effective concentration of ampicillin in broth during cell growth is calculated by multiplying the stock concentration (100 mg/ml) by the dilution created when 10 μl of the stock ampicillin was added to 10 ml (10,000 μl) of broth. In this case, the effective concentration of ampicillin in the culture is 0.1 mg/ml AMP because there is 10 μl of stock ampicillin in 10,000 μl (10 ml). This constitutes a 1/1000 dilution of the 100 mg/ml stock. Note that the concentrations of the components of the broth are not significantly changed by the addition of this small amount (10 μl) of ampicillin to 10,000 μl of LB, so the concentrations of the ingredients used to make the broth can be given as stock concentrations without adjustment.
2. If 100 μl of a solution containing 50 mM glucose, 10 mM EDTA and 25 mM Tris buffer was used to resuspend a bacterial cell pellet, the concentrations in the stock solution are not altered because the pelleted cells do not represent a measurable fluid volume.
3. When 200 μl of a stock solution, containing 0.2 M NaOH and 1% SDS, are added to 100 μl of suspended cells, the total volume is now 300 μl. The diluted solution contains effective concentrations of 0.132 M NaOH and 0.66% SDS. These effective concentrations were calculated by multiplying the stock concentrations by the fraction of the volume of the NaOH/SDS solution to the total reaction volume: 200 μl/300 μl = 2/3 or 0.66.
Grading Rubric
Grading Rubric for Materials & Methods – 10 points
|At or Above Standard
|Below Standard
|Points Earned
Section Titles
|1 pts. Started with strain information that was complete and accurate. Protocols divided appropriately and titled by experimental goal rather than tool or method
|0-0.5pts. Omitted strain information. Protocols not divided into appropriate sections and/or not titled by goal
|3.5-4 pts. Explained and identified clearly, completely and succinctly how a new investigator could obtain or make the starting materials and progress from those materials to the end goal. Did not include trivial detail; did not use "tube talk" or "protocol speak". Did not use informal language (such as "miniprep")
|0-3 pts. Did not correctly identify or explain how all materials were made or obtained. Did not explain clearly or succinctly how the starting materials were converted (in a stepwise, defined progression) to intermediate stages and eventually to the final product. Used "tube talk" or "protocol speak" rather than explaining the experiment progression. Used colloquial language. Focused on lab tools or chronology of lab experience ("did this; then did that" approach).
|Accuracy of information/
Appropriateness of information
|3.5-5 pts. Accurately described the protocols, giving effective concentration where indicated. Included conc. and ingredient information for all stock reagents or enough information to locate source of proprietary reagents. Started and ended at appropriate point for each protocol.
|0-3 pts. Did not accurately describe one or both protocols. Did not calculate effective concentration, didn't calculate it correctly, didn't use it where appropriate, or calculated it correctly but didn't write about conc. in language that made it clear the reference was to effective rather than stock concentration. Did not include conc. and ingredient information to make stock reagents or give the source and enough information to buy proprietary reagents. Did not start or end protocol at appropriate step.


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BOYS GOLF: Torrington has eye on NVL title
Nobody's spring season hangs with the weather more than golf's.
Other sports can get out and run between snow drifts if necessary, shovel off parking lots or practice in the gym.
As of Thursday, Torrington area golf courses still weren't open.
"We practiced a couple of days hitting into nets," said Torrington High School coach Joe Minutillo, who's entering his 30th year with the team.
"I have 10 guys I haven't seen before," he says of the 16 who are out to fill 12 spots on the team.
Nevertheless, a veteran like Minutillo can tell a lot from watching kids hit into nets.
"Those 10 sophomores and freshmen were really into it," he said. "I like keeping the younger players."
The formula has worked well all those years.
In 30 years, Minutillo's teams have won 18 NVL Tournament titles, 14 NVL regular-season titles and finished in the top five at state tournaments 12 times.
For the past 20 years, the Torrington Country Club has been the Red Raiders' home course.
"It's one of the reasons Torrington golf has been one of the best programs in the state," says Minutillo, who can't say enough good things about golf pro Glenn Carlson in Carlson's regard for Torrington kids.
The club's course isn't open yet, but Minutillo and Carlson arranged a "Meet-the-Pro Day" last week. It's a chance to go over the rules of golf etiquette and Torrington Country Club's rules before the season debuts on April 8.
Those who make the team play matches and practice with the team for free.
Those who can afford it can opt for a year-round deal on student memberships -- a two-for-one special on the annual $680 fee.
At a time of budget crunches, the Torrington Country Club makes the Red Raider golf team a budget-item jewel. The only cost is transportation to the course.
Meanwhile, the quality of the course and its openness to the kids is a huge competitive advantage.
Nick Tedesco, last year's No. 1, was the NVL Tournament's medalist at the Watertown Golf Club. Aaron Nedorostek, the No. 2, was All-Copper Division. Ben McKenna and Seth Thompson, at three and four, were also All-Copper.
McKenna and Thompson are back as seniors, ready to fill Tedesco's and Nedorostek's shoes at one and two. Junior Nick LaMothe, with lots of experience as last year's No. 5, also returns, along with Griffen Pelkey.
Everyone else is an enthusiastic newcomer waiting for the courses to open.
Watertown brings all their starters back as the league favorites.
Count on it.
Torrington will be right there in the chase, quite possibly leading it.
"I enjoy doing this," said Coach Minutillo, who retired from teaching last year. "I enjoy the kids. It's still fun."
Torrington golf, Quick Hits:
Head Coach: Joe Minutillo
Years with team: 30th season
Last Year's Record: 14-2
Losses: No. 1 Nick Tedesco, All-NVL; No. 2 Aaron Nedorostek, All-Copper Division.
Key Returners: Ben McKenna, senior, All-Copper Division; Seth Thompson, senior, All-Copper Division; Nick LaMothe, junior; Griffin Pelkey, junior.
Newcomers: 12 freshmen and sophomores
Outlook: THS once again has a very bright outlook for 2013 and will be in the mix to finish near the top once again. Adding to Ben McKenna, who will be our No. 1 golfer and Seth Thompson at the No. 2 spot, we have some key returning players in Nick LaMothe and Griffin Pelkey. In league play, Watertown, with all their returning players, looks like the team to beat in the league.


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- Anonymous10:05
Or they could get Emirates to introduce a second flight and continue on to the US ;)Delete
- Anonymous20:27
I think OU will be forced to start service to NYC if no new carrier comes along and starts the service themselves. No idea if Air Canada Rouge flies to NYC and if there can be some sort of a deal between OU and Air Canada, to cover that destination, as they're the only airline that I know off that still uses B767.Delete
If no deal comes along, OU might be forced to convert 2 A320 Neo in to A321 LR Neo, and start direct service to North america via Dublin.
The thing is, first class on A321 is unheard off, to make this route viable, at least 20 business class seats @150cm pitch will be needed, reducing the economy seating down to 168 or 174 seats @82cm pitch.
With 194 pax, A321 LR NEO has range of 8000km, so Zagreb - NYC is also a possibility, without stop over in Dublin.
However daily service to NYC will be difficult to maintain in winter months.
Rouge focuses on tourist destination. So, their US destinations are all in California, and Florida. I think they also fly to Phoenix and Honolulu as well.Delete
There are still a lot of B767 operators arround
- Anonymous09:04
US airlines have poor coverage in Europe so I am not counting on any of them. European airline is most probable. I just don't want it to be some no name leisure airline because it limits connection opportunities.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous09:55
Ne lupetaj lete sa svakog aerodroma na obali do svakog malo veceg grada u zapadnoj Evropi. Zagreb jednostavno nema putnika.Delete
Micek@ 9:55 - Zagreb je itekako pun turista i ZAG ima putnika. A posebna čar je u tome što ti putnici plaćaju premium cijene i premium uslugu NPTa, za razliku od ostalih u Ex Yu...Zagreb itekako ima putnika i lijepo raste, a eksplodirat će u trenutku kad se upravitelj na to odluči (LCC), a to mu sada nije u interesu, jer postoje prioriteti (OU + ostali legacy carrieri koji će izgraditi održivu mrežu letova). Koncesionaru je u interesu osigurati stabilnost (prihodovnu) poslovanja dovodeći i podržavajući razvoj legacya, jer su oni puno "zahtjevniji", ali dugoročno unosniji. LCC se brzo "zapale" za destinaciju i brzo "ohlade", lako za njih.Delete
Ako ste takve baje - dovedite vi KLM, British, Brusseles, Korean, Monarch, Air Transat, Emirates, Iberiju itd.
Kada se pojača udio LCC (sada su ispod 10%) na barem 20% (i dalje ispod prosjeka E.U.), promet će narasti i još više...
Btw - Zagreb - Best European Destination 2017., +21% noćenja u 05 mjesecu
Btw - Zagreb kao destinacija - najviše turista u ExYu (broj dolazaka, ne noćenja da se razumijemo)
Skinite se više s pljuvanjem Zagreba.
- Anonymous16:36
Hahaha po vasim pricama ispada da Zagreb ima vise turista od Rima samo to niko nevidi...masta cini svastaDelete
Mašta stvarno čini svašta. Tako je mašta anonimusa od 4:36PM otišla u neke naše tobožnje uspredbe sa Rimom.Delete
Međutim činjenica je da u usporrdbi sa svim gradovima u ex Yu, Zagreb ima najviše ppsjetilaca (dolazaka turista). To uključuje i gradove poput Splita i Dubrovnika, koji su sami po sebi daleko ispred svih ostalih ex yu destinacija, a i šire.
Zaggrebači advent je proglašen najboljim u Europi treću godinu u Europi, u Siječnju svake godine se održava utrka svjetskog skijaškog kupa, a Lonely Planet je proglasio Zagreb destinacijom No.1 u Europi.
Pa se pojedite ako već morate, a vaši ljubomorni ispadi ispod svakog članka o Zagrebu i Hrvatskoj, kao i ispod svih ostalih članaka koji nisu o Bsogradu, zasigurno ne govore o vašoj sigurnosti u sebe.
- Anonymous09:07
They have been delaying these flights from Zagreb each year. Hope it finally happens in 2018.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous09:09
If Croatia Airlines was smart they would have leased 1 or two long haul planes years ago and started flying to the US and Asia. They could have used those planed during the winter as well.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous09:48
Surely you meant to write if OU was stupid because JU showed us what a financial disaster that strategy isDelete
- Anonymous09:56
You have no insight into Air Serbia's financial performance on any route so you are far from competent to comment on that.Delete
- Anonymous11:50
But what is visible even for outsiders - and an indicator reg. JUs finances - is the schedule, meaning the cuts in ops, the ticket pricing in combination with LG, meaning that almost everybody can figure out that the JFK flights are everything but for sure boy profitable, and it is evident that all the recent changes are a result of poor financial performance. And it is also evident that all this trouble started after JU introduced JFK. So - no. A politically imposed route is never good. And same goes for ZAG JFK. And if a minister and am embassy have to search for carriers this only means there is no real (profitable) market. As simple as that.Delete
- Anonymous13:38
Anon 9.56am Correct. No insights into JUs actual financial performance. JU did however boast a few weeks ago about strong LF, ASKs, freight performance etc but still nothing on profitably. Ironic don't you think?Delete
- Anonymous18:58
What's the point ? if they report a profit, you will say it is B.S. If they report a loss, you will say that what they are doing is B.S.Delete
So, no point - the crowd here are much like the crowds in the Coliseum during Roman times, just waiting to see the blood of those thrown to the lions !
- Anonymous21:11
Air Serbia HAS suffered financial breakdown...They are fired 50 per cent of their cabin crew in last six months and claim they will fire a huge number of remaining cabin crew in autumn...Delete
- Anonymous09:09
United's response is interesting. They are not actually denying that they would start flights.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous09:46
United would be absolutely the best choice. They could codeshare with Croatia Airlines from Zagreb to the rest of country plus Skopje, Pristina, Sarajevo, Bucharest... It could be a major success.Delete
- Anonymous09:57
There are rumors it will be Delta (seasonal to ZAG), talks are being held at MZLZDelete
- Anonymous09:59
Delta is the most interested in flying to secondary European airports out of the US airlines.Delete
- Anonymous10:15
Delta? They gave the most extensive response in the article that they are not interested. In January people were saying how United is coming 100% and that they are in talks with ZAG.Delete
- Alen Šćuric Purger11:39
No, but A321LR (Norwegian, Wow, Aer Lingus, TAP, JetBlue...) to ZAG can. To DBV can not.Delete
- Anonymous19:39
Purger: seems you are really not capable to understand all the explanations that A321LR will NOT be able to make it regularly between HR and ZAG, judging by official Airbus performance forecast considering an airplane never flies close to the shortest gc route. It has been said and discussed on here many, many times. Now please don't bring this up every one or two weeks - it gets annoying.Delete
- Anonymous09:12
Would be interesting to see how much these flights would bring in new tourists.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous09:14
I think charters from Dubrovnik to the US would be a great success straight away.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous09:16
I would be more happy if they tried to attract a LCC to base an aircraft. Having flights to New York is nice but the benefits of having an established LCC serving several cities out of ZAG outweigh a few flights per season to New York.ReplyDelete
Zagreb Airport offers quite good support for new routes so it is worth a try at least seasonally for the beginning.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous11:02
In 2010, Tonci Peovic ex-ZAG CEO offered the following to airlines to start Zagreb-New YorkDelete
- Airport will purchase a certain number of seats on each flight in order entice the airline to initiate the flights.
-The airline will be exempt from paying landing and handling fees in the first year, with the fees progressively introduced within the next five years.
- Anonymous09:23
It makes you wonder how big the market was if Pan Am used to fly 4 p/w with A310s.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous09:43
There was a lot of demand. Also there were all those JU flights from ZAG to 3 destinations in the US.Delete
BTW this was the Pan American schedule
JFK-ZAG PA036 A310 nonstop -23-56- 1830 0755* (next day)
ZAG-JFK PA037 A310 nonstop --34-67 1015 1440
- Anonymous09:59
The OD market is definitely there. Today however there are much more 1 stop opportunities that at those times. When PA used to fly direct, LH had barely 2 daily flights to NY from FRA. Nowadays you can go from ZAG via MUC,FRA,LHR,CDG,MAD,WAW,AMS, ZRH,IST,CPH,VIE and others at fares starting from 350€ return. This of course makes any direct flight less economic unless you can get the premium for a direct service, which is often difficult.Delete
I think the Pan Am service to Dubrovnik was from their Frankfurt base so not trans Atlantic.Delete
- Anonymous21:14
Yes, Pan Am was flying to ZAG, DBV and BEG from FRA. When A310 direct was introduced all this was discontinued, and the only flight was to ZAG with JP used as connection from ZAG to DBV and BEG. They had PA flt nr. By the end of summer 1991, PA had a few JFK-ZAG-DBV-JFK flights, and all finished, as far as I remember, 1st of September. I was PA staff @ZAG at the time.Delete
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- Anonymous09:28
Very good for Zagreb but I do wish they find an airline that would serve all year round.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous09:32
Great news. This minister seems to be doing a lot to attract various airlines to Croatia.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous09:54
OU CEO once said that Croatia doesn't need direct flights to NY because they already have so many options to NY and elsewhere in the US with 1-stop connections over Europe...ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13:23
Well, what else was he supposed to say when JU started flying to JFK ?? He hasn't shown himself to be the most collegiate sort of guy - especially when it comes to JU.Delete
Anyways, 12 mths is a long time and they all now seem to be suffering from either amnesia or Alzheimer's .... Everyone seems to now think that it's a must have !
- Anonymous10:01
With so many new pan European long haul airlines like Level and Boost anything is possible.ReplyDelete
- Alen Šćuric Purger10:05
In 2016 there was:ReplyDelete
110.997 tourists from Canada
120.000 Croatian diaspora in Canada
= 2 flights pw by Air Transat with A330-300
337.464 tourists from USA
1.200.000 Croatian diaspora in USA
= no flights????
Out of this 53.541 tourist from USA were in Zagreb.
For sure direct route will make this number much better.
So risk for that routes is much lower than to CanadaReplies
- Anonymous10:14
Tvoje tumacenje statistike je prosto smesno. Niko od zaposlenika aviokompanija se ne bi ni trgnuo na ovako jadne cifre. Vidis valjda sta se desava sa ASLom.Delete
- Anonymous10:26
What these numbers also do not say is the real potenital of air traffic; you cannot easily count on what comes into Croatia via sea or part of European tours. Direct services would increase demand for sure, but you need to realize that these numbers are far from automated passengers on future flights (also noting that if you don't have daily service, it would shatter to 1 stop options as well etc....). Thta being said, I truly hope we get flights to the US, but as anon above says, it is far from given + JU lesson is there...nobody wants to bleed money unless financed by somebody else or some higher interest.Delete
- Alen Šćuric Purger11:50
Jesus, I thought that this is air blog where we don't have to go throw basics as in low profile public blogs. Participants here should be educated enough that we don't have to explain simple facts.Delete
Of course, my god, that most of those tourists are on tours that goes to several destinations and countries. I wrote about that just 2 days ago on Tango 6. But, still more than enough would use that route. That is why I put here comparison with similar market (Canada), not with Korea which has same amount of tourist into Croatia.
So, if on 111.000 tourist from Canada we can have capacity of 33.000 seats on 2 week flights (A330-300), than for sure on 338.000 tourist we can have at least same number of flights (2 pw).
Of course on top of tourist there is diaspora, business travelers, politicians, NATO...
- Anonymous12:20
Do you think that it can be sustained year round? I think that demand is very much concentrated during summer. One ailing problem would also probably be very lightly booked business cabin..Delete
- Alen Šćuric Purger12:43
of course it is seasonal option now, and can be all year just if tourist managers would do much more to deal with seasonality.Delete
Only option to make it all year is that companies made 1stop option from Zagreb like
- United (USA-MUC-ZAG)
- Emirates (DXB-ZAG-USA)
- Air India (DEL-ZAG-USA)
- Turkish (IST-ZAG-USA)
or some other carrier of option
- Alen Šćuric Purger12:46
or LCC long-haul like 2.3 pw Norwegian JFK-ZAG-JFK if they open base in Zagreb and with connections via ZAG to wider regionDelete
- Anonymous13:03
Yes, Croatia market is probably better cut for some LCC option...ideally with visa waivers in place and low fares, it could possibly survive year round service with probable extra revenue during summer and hopefully break even/minimal loss durign winter periods. Now, we will see if there are carriers willing to invest!Delete
- Anonymous16:25
Alen, although you had excellent articles, reports regarding the aviation in the region, I found your message above (as well the way you present figures) quite amateur. I even don't want to comment on your risk assessment (which seems to be the opposite according to professional analysts in the airlines), please try to study the case more carefully (hint: check the city pairs instead of across the country figures) and it's always better to use the same source for comparison (don't pick the lowest available figure for one and the highest available for another - diaspora figures).Delete
- Anonymous10:19
ZAG-NYC route will be more succesfull than Venice or Belgrade one. It is sad that OU can't operate route like that beacuse of their financial situtation.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:05
Earlier this year, I had a meetings with Delta in DTW. I was interested in their expansion plans and whether they would have any interest in flying to Ex-Yu. At first it seemed as none of them even heard for Croatia or Slovenia but then when I presented them with more information about the region such as tourism travel, relatively large Diaspora travel, geographic position, airline alliances...they became very interested and promised they would do some more market research about feasibility of non-stop flights to ZAG or LJU. Delta is famous for exploring and testing new markets in Europe and Africa. They serve numerous small and mid-size destinations in Europe such as Nice, Stuttgart, Venice and have had pretty big success.ReplyDelete
I really hope we soon see NYC-ZAG come to realization.Replies
- Anonymous11:09
Stuttgart small? In terms of business it is an economic powerhouse with the likes of Bosch, daimler etc. Delta flights out of STR are always full in Biz with people paying full fare.Delete
- Anonymous11:23
If you were the one that put Croatia on the map for them without them having any idea of it, then they absolutely 100% will not even consider that. Not sure what kind of a meeting was that, but you also need to note that business meetings always end up in very cordial 'we are interested' tone...unless you are minister of transportation, tourism or some REALLY influental person, and you talked to some very senior DL manager, I don't put absolutely any weight to your meeting. If it ever happened.Delete
+1 last Anon.Delete
That YOU had to point on the map Croatia and Slovenia and that they've never heard of them before, then either this story is fake or these "gentlemen" from Delta should be fired ASAP. If you work for one of the biggest airlines in the world, you can't happen to know about pretty much any country in the world.
- Anonymous11:40
lol frishki there is much you have to learn about the US. I don't doubt that they haven't heard about croatia and slovenia.Delete
- Anonymous12:16
Prestani vise da lupetas. Obisao sam i zapadnu (jug) i istocnu obalu i ziveo u centru amerike i upoznao sam toliko ljudi koji su se vucarali po bivsoj sfrj tako da prica o zaposlenicima dl kojima si ti stavio na kartu sl i hr je bas besmislena. zasto moramo citati vase bedaste izmisljotine.Delete
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We're not talking about folks you stop on the street and ask about Croatia and Slovenia. We're talking about high positioned employees of a major American airline.
Hahahaha!!! Yeah, sure! But of course! Employees of one of the largest airlines in the world have never heard of Slovenia and Croatia!Delete
They have definitely not only heard of, but can give you a mini expose about countries that you have never heard of, like Kiribati, Djibouti, Benin, Kirgistan for instance. Your story about them never having heard of two EU member states is such an obvious lie.
- Richard11:18
Interesting, The demand for this route will be quite high, as the people from the Balkans will come to Zagreb to fly to the States and vise verse, Croatia is a nice tourist destination and i think this is a profit-making decision.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:21
I would say that probably 80% of the Bosnian Diaspora from North America uses ZAG as either their final destination and then drive to Bosnia or as a stop-over on their way to SJJ. If the NYC-ZAG flight prove to be true, this will take lots of passangers away from BEG as well.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:29
All this smells as preps for EK's extension to its existing Zagreb service (DXB-ZAG-JFK/EWR-ZAG-DXB) based on alteady existing proven model via ATH and MXP. If no US carrier jumps in, EK would be more than willing to feel the gap. EK gets an additional boost to its existing Zagreb service and bypass on board electronics ban. Watch out for this development....ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:47
It will be Quantas. The route will be Sydney-Singapure-Zagreb-Atlana. Big tourist influx and huge diaspora. Mark my words.ReplyDelete
This time next year we'll be Millionaires!ReplyDelete
Oh, no, no it goes like this...This time next year ZAG will have flight to NYC!
- Anonymous12:33
This route is a political project. If there was enough demand, one of US3 carriers would already start the service. Yield will be low, market is saturated with one stop connections. There is not enough premium demand on the route. There is no demand for year-round operations. If they offer connections within region they will get killed by the competition offering one stop via large EU hubs.ReplyDelete
This is not my opinion on the potential ZAG-JFK route. Above comments were taken from discussions regarding a service to JFK from another regional destinations. As they say in the movies, any similarity is purely coincidental.Replies
- Anonymous15:55
You are absolutely right. Actually, no one would care if there's a direct flight to New York, Toronto, Beijing or not, had this route not been a political project for all countries in the region.Delete
And we all know what happens when politics is directly involved in commerce. Therefore OU acts very clever on transatlantic issue. And I hope somebody warns the minister to calm down, we all see what's happening to JU because of this ambitious but unrealistic move.
The minister is doing his job and if there is a money to be made than I'm sure any interested parties will consider this. I just think that when it comes to Southeast Europe, that extra hour of flight time makes it really difficult to be competitive and profitable.ReplyDelete
I would add that I'm surprised by the number of first class passengers flying to Zagreb with Emirates.... So their could be a decent demand upfront especially during the summer for these flights.
- Anonymous13:28
Here we go - welcome to another vanity project which is going to require financial support, just like the recent EK route launch.ReplyDelete
And once it happens, everyone will simply say that there were no subsidies, no support and no inducements to make it happen.
Just like a rabbit out of a hat, this route will suddenly appear out of nowhere, but for the fact of "strong unmet year round demand" - just like the EK service.
Don't ya just love it ??
- Anonymous13:36
Why are you seeking for a partner? If you consider the route a lucrative one, set it up alone. All the money will be yours.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13:55
Calm down everyone. Its UA - daily flights all year with a mix of 767 and 757s depending on demand and yes OU will be codesharing to Newark and opening up new routes to capture the transfers. Eg. Pristina and Skopje.ReplyDelete
The above has been a work in progress for quite some time. ZAG are good at keeping things quiet until contractually executed.
And yes this is long overdue and yes the route will be successful. Should have happened years ago. Will also make a reliable option for Serbians ex BEG who want a daily option rather than something sporadicReplies
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- Anonymous00:55
I fly PIT-ZAG every year in summer and would still prefer to fly PIT-CDG-ZAG with DL/AF or PIT-FRA-ZAG with Condor/LH. I suspect many travelers who don't fly from USA but not from NYC would rather do one-stop at major EU airport than connecting through JFK (ugh).ReplyDelete
- Anonymous02:14
I know personally Minister of tourism. He knows about flights as much as he knows about space travel.ReplyDelete
All of these stories do not make sense. The only reasonable flight that might make sense is seasonal flight Atlanta - Split. For that purpose Split airport has to be equipped for intercontinental route. It is not just flight, it is service to the airplanes, catering, security screening, fuel supplies, baggage handling and many other things.
ATL airport is the biggest in the World and it's in 2-3 hours flight available to the most of USA passengers. Delta, pretty much has monopoly on ATL. The only option is for Croatia Airlines to cut its relations with Lufthansa and join Delta's alliance and to build hub in Zagreb or Split to become regional hub for Delta. PRICE of the airport services is what attract carriers, not Minister's wet dream.
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If you are lucky enough to own a Logitech Harmony remote including a wireless extender (like the Harmony 890), you can connect it directly to your serial port via a special cable. This has the benefits of being able to control your MythTV box through walls, doors, and cabinets, and doesn't require the intermediate step of transitioning to Infra-Red.
I guess you could find something off the shelf, but I thought it would be cheaper and more fun to build it myself. So, here's what you need:
- An RS-232 DB9 female serial plug. I was able to scrounge one from an old external modem cable.
- A 3.5mm (a.k.a. 1/8") headphone plug...preferably mono (i.e. just two contacts and wires instead of 3)
- Some 2-conductor, small gauge wire (or you can just use whatever is already attached to the plugs you've scrounged).
- Skills with a soldering iron or splicing wires.
- A serial port on your MythTV box.
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Ultimately, you only need to make two connections:
- Connect the "tip" of the 3.5mm plug to pin 1 (DCD) on your DB9 plug...the pins should be labeled, but pinout diagrams are all over the Internet if you need help figuring out what's what.
- Connect the "base" of the 3.5mm plug to pin 5 (ground). Connect the middle of the 3.5mm plug as well if you're recycling a stereo plug.
Along the way, I'd suggest you test the continuity of your connections to ensure they're hooked up correctly and completely. Also, be sure to check for short circuits.
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Opinion: Why Larry Summers's Fed Bid Failed
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on the former Obama adviser's decision to withdraw from the race for Federal Reserve chairman. Photo credit: Getty Images.
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Citing a need for increased "space superiority" and job creation, over 13,000 people have signed an official petition on WhiteHouse.gov demanding that the United States government secure funds and resources and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
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3 Key Metrics for Evaluating Your Mobile Ecommerce Site
Although the mobile web has become mainstream, not all websites have kept pace with the eager throngs of mobile shoppers.
After all, mobile traffic is projected to surpass desktop traffic by 2015 — the stakes couldn't be higher for optimizing your site for mobile.
When a mobile user reaches your site, what is his or her experience? Is it as smooth as it should be? Are there images that won't load? Text that's too small or too big? Do users have to scroll right, then down, left and back up to find everything?
Never assume your traditional website renders well on mobile displays. A missed opportunity can cause brands to lose out on key opportunities and relationships.
As with any marketing effort, gathering metrics is the best way to determine what needs work when it comes mobile site performance.
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Before you can gather metrics, you need to know what to measure. Let's start with the most popular analytics tracking software: Google Analytics.
Google's digital marketing evangelist Avinash Kaushik organizes metrics into three groups (acquisition, behavior and conversion), which reflect the high-level purchase or conversion process of a web visitor.
By tracking each set of metrics for both mobile and desktop, overall traffic patterns emerge. You'll begin to understand mobile performance in comparison to desktop performance.
1. Acquisition: The following three metrics track user acquisition from various sources. These represent the top end of the conversion funnel. Check all metrics across both mobile and desktop use.
Visits: How many people visit your website from either mobile or desktop?
Unique visitors: How many different people visited your website?
Pageviews: How many times was a page on your website viewed?
When comparing mobile and desktop performance, it's important to realize that desktop is still the most prominent way to view websites. Therefore, people visiting on a desktop will view slightly more pages.
The most interesting tracking you can do is to observe how acquisition metrics change over time. Is mobile traffic growing on your site? Is overall traffic growing on your site? How is the ratio of mobile to desktop traffic changing?
2. Behavior: The next three metrics track user behavior, providing insight into whether a site moves users toward the outcomes it was built to achieve.
Pages per visit: How many pages are viewed during a single visit on mobile vs. desktop?
Time on site: How much time does each visitor spend on your mobile website? On your desktop site?
Bounce rate: How quickly do mobile/desktop users turn away when they hit the site?
When we compare behavior metrics on the desktop site vs. mobile site, we see that visitors on desktop tend to delve slightly deeper than visitors on mobile and, consequently, stay longer on the site. Additionally, visitors on mobile are slightly more likely to bounce off the site (a "bouncer" is a visitor that visits only one page and then leaves).
Google explains how to understand user modes on mobile. The company classifies mobile users into three categories of interaction.
Repetitive now: These people track time-sensitive information on an ongoing basis, like stock quotes or sports scores.
Bored now: These people seek distraction or entertainment while waiting in line at the bank or on public transit, for example.
Urgent now: These people need location-sensitive information about a specific situation, such as the nearest pizza restaurant or the next available movie showtimes.
Understanding your mobile visitor's "user mode" sheds more light on your behavior metrics over time. For example, a "bored now" visitor wants to be entertained; therefore, longer time on site indicates a satisfaction of that need. By contrast, a "repetitive now" visitor can have a high bounce rate, short time on site and low number of pages per visit, but it's still a successful interaction.
3. Conversion: The last two metrics – conversion rate and average order size – track user conversions and the value of each of those conversions. These numbers show how visitors on both desktop and mobile contribute to an ecommerce site's bottom line.
Conversion rate: How many visitors take the next step, whether to purchase, register or request more information?
Average order size: For ecommerce conversions, what's the average dollar amount per order?
Most sites typically find that visitors on the desktop convert at a higher rate than mobile visitors. This is to be expected, as mobile web purchasing is relatively new and habits take time to establish.
Of course, mobile can still play a large role in the purchase process even if the transaction isn't actually made on mobile. A recent Google study found that 79% of shoppers use their mobile device to shop, and 70% of them use mobile in-store.
Additionally, the velocity of purchases is significantly faster when a consumer is aided by a mobile device. Microsoft research found that shoppers who research products on their mobile devices are ready to buy; 70% take action within an hour, but 70% of people on desktop PCs take action within a week.
Impact of the Tablet
Any analysis of mobile performance has to factor in the tablet, which has quickly emerged as the third digital screen in consumers' lives, in between desktops and smartphones. While smartphones are used on the go, at work and throughout the day and evening, the tablet is a lean back device frequently used at night.
What does this mean for your metrics? For starters, don't consider all mobile devices equal. A shopper or searcher on a smartphone has markedly different needs and motivations than their counterpart who uses a tablet.
When you break your mobile metrics down between smartphone and tablet usage, you may notice trends. Perhaps tablet users visit more pages, spend more time on each page, and convert at a higher rate than smartphone users.
How Do Your Numbers Stack Up?
Looking at the ABCs provides a good snapshot of how a mobile website attracts customers, moves them to consider an action, and finally gets them to complete a desired action.
In order to understand mobile commerce, you need to track these metrics on an ongoing basis, whether you use Google Analytics or another analytics solution.
Plan to have someone in your organization spending, at minimum, half an hour per week reviewing summary reports and listening to what your visitors are telling you. Make adjustments to your desktop site, your mobile site and your marketing, and watch for changes. You'll now have data to build and refine a long-term strategy aimed at leading your competitors and serving your customers.
Mobile web adoption has a vast trajectory. Once you start tracking these common metrics, you'll begin to see how that rapid growth is affecting your website and business. And while technologies and devices may change over time, the underlying drivers do not.
At the heart of the matter, a consumer is looking for something, whether he's using a desktop, smartphone, tablet or yet-to-be-developed device. All the while, that customer is speaking loudly with his clicks and dollars. Are you listening? By monitoring the right metrics, you'll start to hear them and evolve your business practice accordingly.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. and#8212; Truckee Donner Recreation and Parks District announces an exciting class for youths in third grade through high school who love acting and would also like to learn how to make great movies. Participants will first perform in scenes from favorite plays and musicals, and then film them using professional video camera angles. Learn to edit your movie with transitions, music, and sound effects, and apply some cool techniques used in feature films, like green screen. Camcorders and iPOD Touches will be utilized for this part of the workshop. Also, this class will feature and#8220;clay animation,and#8221; an interesting video technique used by Pixar in which clay figures are brought to life by moving them a little at a time, taking a picture, and then running the frames together to make an animated film. Kids enrolled will create an original short video using this technique, which will be submitted to state festivals.
The video made in March by the group took first place in video at the California State Fair. Yours could be next! This class will be taught by drama teacher Courtney Simson, and is offered on Tuesdays from Oct. 9 through Dec. 4 at the Community Recreation Center. There will be a showcase on the last day for families. Middle and high school students may come at 2:30 p.m.; elementary students will join the activities at 3:45 p.m. Each class ends at 5:15 p.m. Fee is $120 for nine classes. Register at the Community Center, 8924 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, or call for more information 530-582-7720.
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Just so you know, you can't program in HTML, since nothing gets executed.. ever HTML is a mark-up language, not a programming or scripting one.
You sure? A browser executes the html and does a bunch of stuff depending on what is contained in the html. You can use html to make a GUI to control a robot if desired similar to below.
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Rumors Rumors Everywhere – Dancing with the Stars Season 11
Well, I have to say, it's hard to tell what's real and what's regurgitation of internet chatter – because let's face it, mainstream "journalism" leaves a LOT to be desired these days. All you have to do is look at the British press around Cheryl Cole and Derek – ridiculous. Speaking of Cheryl Cole – that rumor has come back to life big time since she flew into Los Angeles on Derek's arm. Not for this upcoming season, but for Spring 2011. So far, none of this has hit the US press and the UK press just makes stuff up as they go along – then issue apologies when they are outted as blatantly lying. 🙂 Anyway, I reported on Cheryl the first time around and the same papers are at it again. As usual, that doesn't make it true. However, it would NOT surprise me for the reasons previously stated.
Kurt Warner I mentioned as a possible celeb a week or two ago – and now it's hit the mainstream press. I really, REALLY want this one to be true. 🙂 It's looking pretty good. I got the below from Reality TV World, but they credit the Washington Post, although they don't link to the story.
Kurt Warner will be among Dancing with the Stars' eleventh-season competitors this fall, the Washington Post reported Monday.
While Dancing with the Stars' prior seasons have featured several retired NFL players — Michael Irvin, Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Warren Sapp, and Lawrence Taylor — as well as still-active players — Jason Taylor and Chad Ochocinco — Warner would be the first quarterback to compete on the ABC reality ballroom competition.
In case you hadn't figured it out already, Julianne will not be back for Season 11, due to Footloose. Per Derek at the ABC Press Party, via the Sioux City Journal:
Press Tour: Shaq, Dancing with the Stars and more
Things you learn at an ABC party:
2. The Dancing with the Stars trophy is super heavy. Derek Hough, who now has two of them, says the latest isn't even at his house. It's with his publicist. (But it could be joined by an Emmy. He's nominated for two for choreographing the show.)
6. Julianne Hough will not be on this year's Dancing with the Stars. She's too busy. But, says brother Derek, "none of us knows if we're back. They haven't decided who's going to be on the show."


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What should have been the happiest day of their lives became an unsettling time for Dana and Hugh Clarke, featured in Barbara Delinski's 2007 novel, "Family Tree." The book is the next selection for the discussion group at Stair Public Library.
Hugh Clark is from an old New England family that traces its roots to passengers on the Mayflower. Dana has a clouded past since she never met her father.
Dana gives birth to a beautiful, healthy baby, but the Clarkes can't help but notice the distinctive African-American features of their child.
Much to Dana's shock, Hugh begins to think that people will suspect his wife of having had an affair. He wants a paternity test to clear the air. He wants to track down Dana's father to see if he explains their dilemma.
Dana begins a journey through her past that unearths family secrets rooted in fear and prejudice.
Delinski's novel is described as asking penetrating questions about race, families and the choices people make in times of crisis.
The book discussion is scheduled at 7 p.m. Aug. 18 in the Liz Stella Annex at Stair Public Library. Participants are welcome to attend, either to discuss the book or just to listen to others.
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"The next significantly historical map was in 1507 and says 'America' on it," Easton said. It is believed the Henricus Martellus map greatly influenced the 1507 map, but it was difficult to determine because the earlier map had faded.
"We went to Yale last year to image the map and Chet has been working on it ever since," Easton said. "We took pictures under many colors of lights and you can use different combinations of the images under different lights to try to enhance the visibility of the things that have faded. He found all kinds of surprises," including many words in Latin not visible to the eye.
The project also involved the University of Mississippi, MegaVision of Santa Barbara, Calif., and was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.


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Suspending and resuming VMs with active 3D apps
I use Max occasionally for stock model translation or building Max-compatible versions of my Maya scenes, and it's one of the few high-end 3D apps where the defaults for DirectX and Parallels Desktop 5 always worked really well. I couldn't see much difference in actual performance, but there was one thing that hasn't been improved since version 5: suspension of VMs when OpenGL 3D apps are active.
Parallels doesn't write out the graphics card memory when suspending VMs, and this has a side-effect: resuming VMs that have OpenGL 3D apps or games active would leave the 3D graphics blank, and you'd have to restart the program for the 3D to work correctly. Parallels Desktop 6 works the same way, but it has improved DirectX games, and only apps are affected—Batman: Arkham Asylum (DirectX) suspended and started again with no problems. I found an easy way to test that it was just OpenGL apps that are affected: 3DS Max lets you change the viewport engine to either DirectX or OpenGL. The results:
And Max in OpenGL mode:
I tried Topogun (OpenGL) to be sure, and the result was the same: ?
Ubuntu and Nuke's GL-based 3D viewport suffered the same fate:
In VMWare Fusion 3:
I was really hoping to see this fixed in this version, since all I do is use VMs for 3D apps. But I think that's about to change...