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I worked with BASIC, C++, Java, 8086 assembly, architecture, Yacc/Lex, Concurrent Pascal, COBOL (shudder), and VB6 before i really starting using Perl. I was very slow at grokking Perl, but now that i have fairly good knowledge of the language, i feel that other languages (except Lisp and Scheme) are a piece of cake. Programming itself is still hard though. :)
I have always believed that Perl is just not a good first language to start with, but that really depends on the person learning. Some people just have a better understanding of problem solving than others. For example, when i worked at the unnamed Microsoft shop coding VB, one of my peers (who was older, but very green) asked me to come up with a small project for him while he studied for his certification. I suggested a calculator program with a GUI - after all, VB makes GUI's a breeze. I was not surprised to see that his code did not make use of an array for the buttons. Instead he had assigned each button to variables like Button1, Button2, etc.
What i was surprised to see, was his cubicle-mate, who was studying to be a project manager. This guy had no real programming experience either, but had decided that he was tired of studying manager-type material and wanted to have a go at a calculator. He had used an array - instinctively. Two years later maverick and myself visited the office just to say hello. I was again surprised to see the second co-worker reading a Perl book. :)
I guess the best way to introduce someone to programming is to give them a tour of the different languages and let them decided which one(s) they want to program in. If they don't like any of them, they probably don't like programming. If they choose Lisp, leave 'em alone! ;)
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It is common for elementary school teachers to read books to their classes. They read textbooks aloud and will often have a time set aside each day to read a non-curriculum book to the class as well. Students love this and it teaches them a variety of skills including the proper way to read, how to pronounce new words, and how inflection should be used. Once students enter junior high, reading aloud often becomes nothing but a distant memory. [continue reading…]
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NETWORK STATEMENT: "The NBFSN can not control the wrath Universal Divine Racial Karma is unleashing against the white man due to his unrestituted for generational racial atrocities he has committed & commits against the earth's people of color. Their atrocities are solely responsible for Her wrath & not a jot or tittle of what he has done to others multiplied by seventy shall he escape until it is retuned unto him the universe says" says Counter Terrorism Minister Malachi Louis, interpreted by translator Hallowed Yclept
"The white man has broken each of the Universe's Divine Laws, grossly violated the human rights of all the non-white citizens of the earth and without regard plundered the earth herself in selfish exploitation of her resources. As such, we must welcome this: the emergence of the universal age of the white man's karmic retribution," says NBFSN Divine Karma interpreter Hallowed Yclept. "We know now that when any atrocity befalls anywhite person at the hands of any person of color it is in accordance with the edict and bounty the universe has issued against them for their Universal Law violations, failure to make restitution for their racial crimes and crimes against the planet." (Source)
"We live in the time of judgment. So we can expect an infultration of the long-awaited "spirits" of karma and the universal laws to swing into full effect." – UPJ NETWORK CONTRIBUTOR, TRUTHREVEALED reciting Sirach 39:28-31 28 says: "There be spirits creat-ed for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them. 29 Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance; 30 Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction. 31 They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not transgress his word."


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Some teachers in North Carolina will get a raise next year. That seems like a foregone conclusion.
The questions now are how big the raise will be and which teachers will get it, how will Governor Pat McCrory and state lawmakers pay for it, and will they try to convince voters that increasing teacher pay by a few hundred dollars will make up for the deep cuts to education in the last several years?
McCrory talked about the teacher pay raise at his rambling news conference last week laying out his agenda for 2014. McCrory didn't offer many details, other than to say he wanted to increase pay for starting teachers and come up with a way to pay the best teachers more, though he does not appear to have a plan in mind to evaluate teachers for prospective pay hikes.
The announcement comes as former Governor Jim Hunt is leading an effort to raise teacher pay to the national average, which seems like a good start.
North Carolina now ranks near the bottom of the 50 states and Virginia is openly recruiting North Carolina teachers to come across the border and earn more.
McCrory, despite his new found realization that teachers are underpaid, for some reason refused to endorse Hunt's idea. Then later in the week Rep. Paul Stam issued a press release saying teachers could receive a raise this year if local school districts took advantage of flexibility lawmakers gave them and shifted money from other priorities—like helping at-risk kids—to pay teachers more.
McCrory hasn't responded to Stam's idea but it is a useful one, not as a public policy—it is a horrible plan—but as another reminder about what's behind all this bluster about teacher pay from McCrory and his Republican colleagues currently running the General Assembly.
It is the same crowd that has slashed education funding across the board, from reducing the number of slots for NC Pre-K for at risk four-year-old to increasing class sizes and laying off teacher assistants to slashing funding for textbooks to obscenely low levels.
Textbooks cost from $35 to $85 per book, hard copy or digital. The budget passed by Stam and his fellow state lawmakers and signed by Governor McCrory provides a total of $15 per student for textbooks, less than half the cost of one book.
Classroom support for teachers has been cut too and so has funding for supplies. In 2011, state lawmakers created a state tax credit for teachers who were forced to buy supplies themselves, a remarkable admission that the state is not adequately funding public school classrooms.
The tax credit was repealed in the regressive tax shift passed last year, a signal that while they admit classrooms are underfunded, they would rather slash taxes on the wealthy and out of state corporations than do something about it.
Despite the talking points from the Right claiming otherwise, Governor McCrory and state lawmakers overall spent $100 million less this year on education than was needed to keep schools funded at the same level as last year.
Funding for public schools is down more than $500 million since 2007-2008 when adjusted for inflation. Classes are bigger, many teacher assistants are gone, support for teachers and students has been reduced.
Then there is the ill-advised end to career status for teachers and the insulting plan to give $500 bonuses to the top 25 percent of teachers in a school, a proposal that several school districts are rejecting because the damage from dividing a school far outweighs giving a little more money to a handful of teachers.
And to top it off, Stam and his colleagues also created a sketchy voucher scheme last year to divert money from public schools to almost completely unaccountable private and religious academies, many of which openly discriminate against gay students and teach bizarre fundamentalist theories about history and the age of the earth.
Add it all up and it's hard not to get the feeling that the folks currently in charge in Raleigh are more worried about the public outrage about teacher salaries than actually helping the public school teachers who deserve to make more money.
Otherwise, state leaders would stop their crusade to dismantle public education and drop ridiculous ideas like raising teacher pay on the backs of at-risk kids.
Teachers need and deserve a raise—and a sizable one. Reaching the national average ought to be the floor not the ceiling.
But teachers and students also need and deserve state leaders dedicated to making sure public schools have the resources they need to do their jobs. They need real investments, not cynical political gestures.


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- What is "best practice"
- What is the standard way to document the interactions available & required
- How do we add new MIME types
Back in the day Miko created the "SOA Blueprint" work around Web Services, an attempt to define a concrete definition of "good", unfortunately it died in OASIS (mainly due to lack of vendor engagement) but I think the principles would be well applied here.
The other piece that is good (IMO) is the SOA Reference Model, Roy Fielding's paper pretty much defines that reference model but what it doesn't have is a reference architecture. Saying "The internet is the reference architecture" doesn't really help much as that is like saying that a mountain is a reference architecture for a pyramid.
Now one of the elements here is that there appears to be some parts of the REST community that feel that Enterprise computing must all "jump" to REST and the internet or are in fact therefore irrelevant to REST. This isn't very constructive as the vast majority of people employed in IT are employed in just those areas. B2B and M2M communications with a decent dose of integration are the standard problems for most people, not how to integrate with Yahoo & Amazon or build an internet facing website.
For the enterprise we have to sacrifice a few cows that hopesfully aren't sacred but I've heard bandied around
- You can't just say "its discoverable" - if I'm relying on you to ship $500m of products for me then I don't want you messing around with the interface without telling me
- You can't just say "late validation" - I don't want you making a "best guess" at what I meant and me doing the same, I want to know that you are shipping the right thing to the right place
- You can't just say "its in the documentation" - I need something to test that you are keeping to your side of the bargin, I don't want just English words telling me stuff I want formal definitions... contracts.
- You can't just say "look at this URI" - we are embarking on a 5 month project to build something new, you haven't done your stuff yet, you don't have a URI yet and I need to Mock up your side and you need to Mock mine while we develop towards the release date. Iterative is good but we still need to have a formal clue as to what we are doing
- You can't say 'that isn't REST' if you don't have something objective to measure it against
In other words
- REST Reference Model - Roy's paper - Done
- REST Reference Architecture - TBD and not HTTP centric
- REST Blueprints - Building the RA into a concrete example with agreed documentation approaches (including project specific MIME types)
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We taped Episode 15 of the Hinderaker-Ward Experience last night. The podcast features a very fun interview with author C.J. Box ("Chuck" to his friends). We talked about his Joe Pickett books and his latest bestseller, Back of Beyond. We also discussed how one gets to be a successful author, and learned that Box is a long-time Power Line fan. I really do recommend Back of Beyond. It is a good place to start if you are new to Box's work.
We also talked about Libya; the latest vicissitudes in the presidential race, with Tim Pawlenty out and Rick Perry in; and commiserated over Barack Obama's fall from grace.
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text: David Alan Ericsson, Sr., 69, Wabash, died Feb. 5, at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. He was born Dec. 24, 1943 in Spokane, Wash., to Earl Eugene Ericsson and Rose (Rotter) Ericcson. David was a 1961 graduate of Lemmon High School, Lemmon, S.D. He married Elizabeth Ann Marie "Betty" Wolf in Indianapolis, on Dec. 23, 1965. He retired from the Navistar International's Indianapolis Plant. He attended Calvary Baptist Church in Wabash, as was a former member of the Clayton Library Board in Clayton, Ind. David served in the Indiana National Guard from 1965-1972. He is survived by his wife, Betty Ericsson, Wabash; two sons, Eric (Danielle) Ericsson, Danville, Ind., and David Ericsson, Jr., Wabash; a grandson, Ashton Ericsson, Danville; two sisters, Vickie (Tucker) Kane, Thunder Hawk, S.D., and VeRene (Robert) Potter, Lemmon; several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, on Thursday, Feb. 14, at 3 p.m. with Pastor Matt Haynes officiating. Family will receive friends from 1-3 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Preferred memorials are Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Calvary Baptist Church, or the Honeywell House in care of the funeral home. The memorial guest book for David may be signed at http://www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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10 Adorable Dogs Wearing Shoes
There are two things we know for sure about puppies: they're unpredictably hilarious and sometimes have adorably strange antics. Remember our favorite dogs going to town on peanut butter? That's the kind of silly stuff we love.
Well canine fans of all ages, we've discovered dogs have yet another highly underrated quirk, and it comes in the form of shoes.
Who knew Shih Tzus and Dobermans and every breed in between were so anti-footwear? Truthfully, we're sure glad they are!
Animal in sneakers are hysterical as is, but combine that with a pup who completely looses any sense of normal walking skills once the shoes are slipped on, and we have ourselves YouTube gold.
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Cyclocross Magazine has been an ardent supporter of superpro racing before we were even pro, let alone superpro. We'd like to take this chance to thank them for helping make us what we are today.
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I just found out that lionden.com just passed the MILLION VIEWER mark:
Over a million folks have tuned in to the Lion Den since 2006, when the count was started.
However, I started Lion Den eight years before that, in 1998, so perhaps there really have been BILLIONS of viewers, eh?
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The Bush administration announced last week that it officially considers the Iranian Revolutionary Guards of being a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, and the "elite" Quds Force within the Guards of being a sponsor of terrorism. This is the first time a military force of a foreign country has been designated as a terrorist organization; nation-states usually adhere to the pleasant fiction that government military organizations are legitimate users of deadly force, not terrorists.
These official designations will bring on new sanctions, but whether they will have any real effect on Iran's behavior, especially an effect that would be beneficial to the United States, is dubious at best. Actions like these are something of a mirror of the juvenile behavior of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, like fifth-graders taunting one another in a schoolyard.
There is little doubt that Iran has supplied missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which is the justification for calling the Revolutionary Guards a proliferator of weapons. And there is little doubt that Iran has subsidized and probably provided training for Hezbollah, Hamas and others. But does declaring Iran's military a terrorist organization do any good?
Robert Hunter, a senior adviser at the Rand Corporation who was the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1993 through 1998, told us that this action is most "likely to strengthen those people in Iran who argue that they need nuclear weapons." He believes it will increase support for Ahmadinejad, who has been losing support in Iran lately, and have a negative impact on the potentially powerful but still vulnerable democracy movement within Iran.
What could possibly have motivated such a childish move? Combined with recent harsh statements about Iran from both President Bush and Vice President Cheney, it is not out of the question to imagine they are paving the way for some kind of military action against Iran before this administration leaves office. An alternative explanation might be that they are designed to make sure the next president does not have sufficient flexibility to negotiate seriously with Iran.
As for the economic sanctions that will accompany this declaration, if such sanctions worked Castro would have been kicked out of Cuba 45 years ago. Sanctions generally strengthen rather than weaken dictatorial regimes and add to the misery of the people the dictators misrule.
These latest actions suggest that the administration would rather sound tough and puff out its collective chest than do the hard diplomatic slogging required to deter Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.


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This study explores problems with official Chinese economic data that are often ignored or overlooked in existing academic studies, including structural breaks in employment statistics, implausibly high labor productivity figures related to "nonmaterial" services, and serious inconsistencies between output measures in industrial statistics versus those in national accounts, as well as between volume movements and changes in real values. Alternative adjustments for these problems are the basis for the construction of a new set of data for the aggregate economy and its five major sectors in 1949–2012.
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The art of learning is to learn a little bit at a time, and the structure of the school is set up in this way. Each student should start at the beginning and slowly work, his/her way through the course so that over time the rules and methods stay embedded within the student.
It is recommend that you start with the "Home Study Course" and spend a few years perfecting this before moving on to the "Mastering Markets Workshop". The reason for this is that the human mind can't retain information in a short period of time. The "Home Study Course" will also determine who is cut out to be a trader and whether the W.D.Gann methodologies are the best mastery in which to pursue this career.
I have been using and studying the methods of W.D.Gann since 1983 and it took me over 10 years full time to work out what Gann was doing, so I know what it takes to become competent in his methods.
A lot of people market Gann, and have large marketing companies to promote his methods. Most of these people have never traded and have never put much time in studying Gann the way I have.
The SCHOOL is not set up to market Ganns methods as you can tell by the time restrictions and the limited number of people that can attend workshops.
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AsphodelElysium wrote:Absolutely! My favorite song from that particular album is "Rise." It just gives me chills. I don't know what my overall favorite would be...there are just so many good ones. I am partial to "Wild Hearted Son" and "Rain", but then there is "Love Removal Machine," "Firewoman," and "Sweet Soul Sister"...I don't know if I could pick just one.
I think you are right, we are a great deal alike. You aren't a Scorpio by any chance are you?
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Unfortunately I'm Sagittarius. Are they compatible?
You're right, there's tons of great Cult songs. "Rise" is awesome, but I prefer "War" from that album. Other songs of theirs I adore and are my 'go-to' songs are "Spiritwalker", "Rain", "Revolution", "Firewoman", "Lil' Devil", plus who could forget "In The Clouds" and "Wild Flower".
dks wrote:Now. now. I, too, like the 'pseudo-astral bullshit.' I've studied it since I was a kid. It was a science, after all...a beautiful, mystically empyrean science. The day to day projection is mostly commercial ballyhoo, but the study of human tendencies, personality (inner and outer natures and whatnot) via the position of planets and stars at one's birth is poetically fascinating indeed...
I'm a Sag, too, by the way...
Saturn wrote:I'm a libran.
Aren't libran's supposed to be more balanced individuals?
I couldn't be less balanced. My moods are like a see-saw, not a set of scales
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Earlier this week, Chestnut Hill Academy and members of the Nathan family honored the first six recipients of the Cyrus H. Nathan '30 Distinguished Faculty Chair Awards at a dinner hosted by board trustee John McNiff and his wife, Evie, of Plymouth Meeting.
The endowed chairs were established in 2010 with a $2.2 million bequest from CHA alumnus Cyrus H. Nathan `30, who wanted to establish a lasting legacy that celebrated his experience at CHA and the faculty who taught him.
The awards, given to deserving faculty at both CHA and Springside School, are intended "to promote and celebrate inspiring teachers – those educational leaders who are effective in the classroom, respected by their peers, highly motivated to stay current, and who drive innovation and best educational practices within their fields."
Distinguished Faculty Chairs are expected to use the funds they receive to pursue professional development and to share their learning with colleagues.
The first recipients, representing Lower, Middle, and Upper School divisions at CHA, Sheri Melcher,Music and Arts; Laura Nagle, Languages; Jeanne Hillinck, Science; Philip Stevens, English; Andrew Wolf, Mathematics, and Tiffany Upshaw, History.
Two of the recipients, Chestnut Hill residents Laura Nagle and Tiffany Upshaw, acknowledged the extraordinary opportunity presented by this award.
"It will allow me to stay on the forefront of best practices in education and continue to learn and grow as an educator so that our students are receiving the best education possible," Upshaw said.
"I'm grateful to the Nathans for establishing a program that not only honors teachers, but offers us generous resources to pursue professional development opportunities and develop new programs that will benefit our students and colleagues," Nagle said.
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More Winter On The Way
Happy Saturday and welcome to the last weekend of February. We will be enjoying some decent weather over the next couple of days as high pressure takes control. That will change in a big way early next week as Old Man Winter flexes some late season muscle.
Temps today will run in the 40s for highs with a mix of sun and clouds. A storm system will continue to skirt to our south and east and may deliver a light shower across the far southeastern part of the commonwealth.
Sunday looks good with readings warming into the high 40s to near 50 with mostly sunny skies.
That brings us to Monday and the development of a strong storm system just to our west. This will be a potent system that will send us a blast of mild air and gusty winds Monday. Showers and thunderstorms will then work in by the afternoon and evening and continue into Monday night.
That's when MUCH colder air surges in here for Tuesday. That means a mix of rain and snow will be likely as colder winds really crank up. Take a look at how quickly temps crash on the NAM…
That could make things a little interesting around here on Tuesday as rain changes to snow. Winds are going to howl during this time.
This system will develop into a massive cutoff area of low pressure that deepens as we go through the middle and end of next week. If you want to see the definition of an anomalous trough, check this out…
That is one heck of a deep trough across the eastern part of the country with a MASSIVE block to the north of it. That keeps the trough in place with a deepening upper level low spinning in place…
That funnels very cold air in here and all the way into the deep south and could lead to frost and freezing conditions into Florida. That's also a pattern to produce rounds of snow and snow showers and very gusty winds around here. I will be super surprised if most of the state doesn't have snow on the ground at some point next week into next weekend.
Such an anomalous pattern often produces something big, so keep that in mind as we go through the next few weeks.
I may have another update later today. Have a great Saturday and take care.


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Waugh Revisited
A Little Learning
English novelists seldom produce first-rate autobiographies, and even when they do the results tend to be pretty unrevealing. Perhaps they feel that they have already given away more than enough in their fiction. At any rate, the first volume of Evelyn Waugh's memoirs keeps well within the reticent tradition of Trollope in his Autobiography or Kipling in Something of Myself. Waugh's manner has always been that of a man ready to set the dogs on trespassers; and if the mood of A Little Learning is surprisingly mellow, at no point can it be said to take us very far into the author's confidence. It is a book which lives down to its title: for the most part it deals with Waugh's schooldays and his undergraduate years at Oxford, but it contains little about education, either literary or sentimental, while the "brief history of my religious opinions" is brief indeed (three pages). The tone throughout is relaxed and bantering. Some memorable characters wander across the stage, but they are invariably seen through the wrong end of the telescope; while it is all of a piece that the darkest moment in the book should quickly be turned into farce. While teaching at a prep school in North Wales, the young Waugh fell prey to suicidal gloom. One night he could bear it no more; he went down to the beach and started swimming out to sea, leaving behind his clothes and a scrap of paper on which he had copied a line from Euripides (in Greek) about the ocean washing away all human sorrows. After a few yards, however, he was forced to turn back. He had been stung by a jelly-fish.
Waugh punctuates A Little Learning with some splendid tomfoolery, along the lines of Vice Versa and The Diary of a Nobody, two of his father's favorite books which were read aloud to him as a child. He displays a positively Pooterish readiness to record his own discomfitures, particularly while school-mastering:
One of my major defeats was when I cried wrathfully to a moonfaced, vacuous creature: "Are you deaf, boy?" to which all his fellows replied: "Yes, sir, he is." And he was.
But far more than the clowning it is the style which smacks of the past: resolutely old-fashioned, full of elaborate mock-courtesy and resounding clichés. Commenting on a similar vein of long-winded levity in Saki (another of Waugh's masters), V. S. Pritchett once said that "the cinema, if nothing else, has burned this educated shrubbery out of our comic prose." But it is still possible for Waugh, with tongue only just In cheek, to reveal that "I was promiscuous in my choice of familiars," or to record that "it was a beautiful night of a gibbous moon." He is dangerously fond of words like "plethora" and "corpulent"; and he must be the last surviving English author able to talk about a "Hindoo," as though he were being employed (like his forebears) by the East India Company.
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Wyoming Cowgirls Host WNIT First Round Game Thursday
The Wyoming Cowgirls are back in the post-season in 2013. For the seventh time in school history, UW received an invitation to the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) on Monday evening. Wyoming will host the Northern Colorado Bears, on Thursday, March 21, in a WNIT First Round Game at 7 p.m. This is the fifth time in the last eight years Wyoming has made an appearance in the WNIT.
This year's WNIT appearance by the Cowgirls marks the sixth postseason tournament berth in head coach Joe Legerski's ten seasons at Wyoming. UW will be playing in the WNIT for the fifth time during Legerski's tenure, advancing to the Second Round in 2006, winning the 2007 WNIT title and moving in to the Third Round in 2010 and 2011. Wyoming also earned the schools' first-ever bid to the NCAA Women's Tournament in 2008.
"We are excited to have the opportunity to play at this time of the season," said Cowgirl head coach Joe Legerski. "This now makes six years that the Wyoming program has played in postseason in my time here. We look forward to the challenges ahead. The ability to host a game reflects the commitment by our administration and our great fan support."
The Cowgirls have an 11-7 all-time record in the WNIT. Their best finish came in 2007, when UW had their amazing run and finished as WNIT Champions.
Wyoming Cowgirl basketball in the WNIT can be heard on KOWB. Coverage will start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Tickets to Thursday's game are on sale online now at www.gowyo.com and at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning through the University of Wyoming Athletics Ticket Office. Ticket prices are $13 for adults, $7 for children (3-18) and $5 for UW students.
Cowgirl Basketball season-ticket holders who wish to reserve their regular-season seats must either call the UW Athletics Ticket Office or drop by the ticket office prior to noon on the day of the game. Season-ticket holders will not be able to reserve their regular-season seats online through www.gowyo.com. The UW Athletics Ticket Office phone numbers are: (877) 996-3261 or (307) 766-4850.
The WNIT committee selects 64 teams for its 2013 Postseason WNIT. The field will consist of 31 automatic berths and 33 at-large teams. First Round games will be played over a three-day period Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 20-22. The entire schedule for this year's WNIT is as follows:
Round 1: Wed.-Fri., March 20-22
Round 2: Sat.-Mon., March 23-25
Round 3: Wed.-Fri., March 27-29
Quarterfinals: Sat.-Mon., March 30-April 1
Semifinals: Wed.-Thurs., April 3-4
Championship: Sat., April 6


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Sen. Dick Durbin and Gov. Pat Quinn join The Daily Rundown to talk about the 2012 Democratic platform language concerning faith, Jerusalem, and God verse the language used on these topics in years past.
NBC News has learned that the Democratic Party will reinstate the language recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Republicans -- including the Romney campaign -- criticized President Obama and the Democrats after it was discovered this language had been omitted in the Democratic Party's platform
This will all be changed on the floor today, NBC has learned, and it will probably mean just simply reinstating the 2008 language.


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Transit officials approved an increase in subway and bus fares for the same reason that Jesse James once visited banks: they needed the money. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority expects the fare increase to generate over $350 million a year, helping to close a billion dollar budget shortfall.
Prior to the fare increase, the MTA faced sharp criticism from newspaper editorial boards, transit advocates and even the city and state comptrollers for not fully disclosing its finances and demonstrating the need for the fare increase. But there was no broad public uprising against the fare increase, which upped the cost of a single ride by 33 percent, from $1.50 to $2.00. The new fare takes effect on May 1.
One reason for the relative public quiescence is a widespread view that avoiding cuts in transit services is more important than avoiding a fare increase. Riders would rather have their pocketbooks squeezed than be any more squeezed while riding subways and buses. This preference partly reflects how crowded the transit system has become with rapid ridership growth over the past half-dozen years. It also reflects memories of cutbacks three decades ago that led to a downward spiral in both service and ridership. In fact, the public complained far more extensively about the proposed closing of 177 token booths and cutbacks in their staffing, and the authority backed off of that proposal; it now plans to close just 62 token booths instead, the biggest change from the MTA's initial proposals.
Another factor in the public receptivity to a fare increase is the MetroCard fare incentives. Riders have saved millions of dollars as a result of the various fare discounts implemented in the mid to late-90s. The MTA points out that even with this fare increase, the average fare will still be lower than it was after the last fare increase -- $1.30 per ride after this increase compared with $1.38 in 1995.
A third factor is the passage of time. With almost eight years since the last fare increase, many riders figured that their time has come.
Since this was the first fare increase since the fare discounts were put in place, transit officials faced important decisions about the structure of the new fare. They chose to make incremental extensions to the fare innovations begun in the mid-1990s. Most notably, the 30-day unlimited ride pass will be more attractive. At a price of $70, the 30-day pass will be 42 times the cost of a bonus per-ride MetroCard, down from 46 times under current fares. Riders will save money with the 30-day pass if they use transit in order to commute and an occasional additional trip.
The new fare also increases the discount for bonus MetroCards. Currently, riders get 11 trips for the price of 10, making the effective cost per trip $1.36 instead of $1.50. The new fare introduces a 6-for-5 bonus (or 12 for 10), making the per-trip cost $1.66 instead of $2.00. The threshold for getting the bonus is also reduced from $15 to $10.
The one area where transit officials backed away from MetroCard discounts came with the one-day pass. This so-called "Fun Pass" is becoming a more expensive lark, rising from $4 to $7. Some officials considered the $4 Fun Pass to be underpriced when it was first introduced. It is also used fraudulently by enterprising folks who buy several passes and re-sell trips to people at subway turnstiles. The new $7 price makes that fraud a little less profitable.
The new fare also incrementally addresses issues raised by transit advocates who sought to make the MetroCard discounts more accessible to a wider range of riders. Reducing the threshold for getting the bonus to $10 is one step in this area. Another step is the MTA's plan to begin offering this fall to replace lost or stolen 30-day passes for an unspecified "insurance" fee.
Another innovative step is a pilot "City fare" on the commuter railroads for off-peak travel in the city. Riders will be able to travel within the five boroughs on the railroads for $2.50, thus opening additional opportunities for rail travel.
Even with these steps forward, the effects of the new fare are likely to be regressive across income groups. Low-income riders are the group most likely to pay the base fare, which will cost 33 percent more. High-income riders are the group most likely to buy the 30-day pass, the cost of which increases by only 11 percent.
The overall fare increase for transit riders is 25 percent, the same as for the commuter railroads. Drivers will be less affected by the MTA actions since bridge and tunnel tolls are increasing by only 15 percent.
The new fare is likely to affect individual riders in several ways. First, a fare increase always reduces ridership - the MTA estimates by more than 70 million annually for this increase. The subways and buses are likely to be a little less crowded as a result.
Second, riders will be recalculating what they want to purchase. It may make sense to buy a 30-day card instead of a 7-day card. The $70 is a large up-front cost but the savings will be larger. For those not buying a pass, it will make even more sense to take advantage of the bonus, which will be twice as large and available for smaller purchases.
Base fare: $2.00 instead of $1.50
Bonus MetroCards: 6 rides for $10 instead of 11 rides for $15 (or $1.67 per trip instead of $1.36)
7-day pass: $21 instead of $17 (you save money with the 7-day pass compared with the bonus MetroCard if you make 13 trips a week - no change from the current situation)
30-day pass: $70 instead of $63 (you save money with the 30-day pass compared with the bonus MetroCard if you make 43 trips a month, down from 47 trips currently)
One-day pass: $7 instead of $4 (you save money with the one-day pass compared with the bonus MetroCard if you make 5 trips a day, up from 3 trips currently)
Bruce Schaller is Principal of Schaller Consulting, which provides research and analysis to government, business and non-profit groups seeking to identify and meet customer needs in the transportation sector. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University.


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Despite the Ogeechee River fish population making a comeback after a massive fish kill in 2011, some anglers say they're not rushing to eat them just yet.
An estimated 39,000 fish died in 2011 near a King America Finishing outfall pipe that was discharging into the river without a permit. Investigators said pollution was likely among several factors that killed the fish.
The Savannah Morning News reports the Georgia Department of Natural Resources restocked the river with about 275,000 redbreast, 100,000 largemouth and about 150,000 bluegill.
Senior fisheries biologist Joel Fleming says there are about five times as many larger redbreast sunfish in the river as there were last year.
Despite that, some anglers say they're avoiding fishing or swimming in the river because of concerns over lingering pollution.


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Taylor Swift Tops Forbes' 2013 Most Powerful Celebrities List, Toby Keith Covers Issue
Taylor Swift is talented, beautiful, rich and powerful, and beloved by her legion of dedicated fans. All of those qualities came together to help the singer earn a top position on the latest Most Powerful Celebrities List, as published by Forbes. Appointment to the list is based on several factors besides income over the past 12 months.
The listmakers tally how often a celebrity is mentioned in print and on TV, in addition to gauging the strength of their digital and web presence. Also, the powers-that-be look at a person's marketability, their social media stronghold and the American consumer's perception of the said celebrity.
With her mega-selling 'Red' album and accompanying tour -- as well as her partnerships with Diet Coke, Keds, CoverGirl and three perfumes on her fragrance resume -- Swift's sphere of influence is wide and far, and goes beyond her musical career and recorded output. She is a woman of many talents, with increased and vast marketability.
The female-dominated 2013 list was topped by former talk show doyenne Oprah Winfrey, with Swift landing just outside of the Top 5. She's sitting pretty in the No. 6 slot.
Well-loved country superstar Toby Keith also made the list, ranked at No. 43, but more impressively, he represents the genre as the cover art for the magazine's Celebrity 100 issue. The "$500 Million Man" is paraded for having his own liquor, his endorsement deal with Ford, his restaurant chain, his sold out concerts and his vast influence, among other factors. Forbes estimates that the 'I Love This Bar' hitmaker raked in an impressive $65 million over the last 12 months -- far outpacing stars like Beyonce, who earned 'just' $53 million.
Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney follow Keith on the list, coming in at No. 46 and No. 47, respectively.
Forbes' 10 Most Powerful Celebrities in 2013:
1. Oprah Winfrey
2. Lady Gaga
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Beyoncé
5. Madonna
6. Taylor Swift
7. Jon Bon Jovi
8. Roger Federer
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Blue Crab Research at the Institute
The Crustacean Fisheries subsection of the FWC's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) has been working on several different blue crab projects to gather important biological and population data to assess the health of the fishery.
Most recently, crustacean researchers have expanded upon the 2006-07 Blue Crab Health Assessment. The parasitic dinoflagellate Hematodinium sp. causes one of the most common diseases in Florida blue crabs, known as "bitter crab." This parasite has significant effects on blue crabs during stressful environmental events, such as high salinity and high temperature. To understand and manage the fishery properly, it is critical to understand the prevalence and role this disease has on natural mortality and fishery dynamics.
In 2011, researchers began biannual sampling to assess the prevalence of Hematodinium sp. in six regions of Florida: northwest, west coast, southwest, southeast, east coast, and northeast. Working with commercial crabbers, biologists collect approximately 75 blue crabs from each location. FWRI staff use two laboratory techniques to count the parasites present in the hemolymph (a bloodlike fluid) and muscle tissue of the crab. First, a sample of blood is taken from the leg of the crab and fixed to a slide. After the slide is stained, it is viewed under the microscope and parasitic cells are counted. From the same leg, a sample of blood is used for genetic analysis of Hematodinium sp. Researchers compare samples with a known amount of the parasite DNA to the newly collected samples. From those samples, they can determine the prevalence of the parasite within individual blue crabs.
To gain insight into the commercial blue crab industry, the FWRI Crustacean Fisheries group surveyed commercial crabbers who harvested during the 2009 season. The 25 questions focused on individual fishing effort, trap usage and loss, fishing location, and changes in catch. Of the 599 surveys mailed, crabbers completed and returned 233. In addition to quantitative data, crabbers included anecdotal information based on their many years of experience. Data will be compiled into a report available in 2013.
The FWRI Crustacean Fisheries group is developing a more precise method of aging blue crabs. In the future, researchers will use the new method to produce a more accurate stock assessment.Currently, researchers estimate the age of blue crabs based on the width of the shell, or carapace, measured from spine to spine; they identify an older crab by its larger carapace. The complexity of growth in crustaceans makes this method unreliable. Crustaceans shed their shells as they grow in a process called molting. When a crab molts, it loses all hard parts that may have indicated its age.
Blue crabs grow and molt based on environmental conditions, so crabs of the same age can vary in size. With no age markers such as otoliths (bony sensory organs in fish that play a role in hearing), researchers can instead use a pigment in the crab's eyestalk, called lipofuscin, to determine age. Lipofuscin accumulates with age in the nerve tissue of the crab, making a great age marker.
Before researchers can assign an age to a crab, they must compare the amount of lipofuscin with the amount in crabs of a known age. To gather data, researchers collected a cohort of juvenile crabs from Tampa Bay. The crabs are being raised in ponds mimicking the Tampa Bay environment, located at the FWRI Stock Enhancement Research Facility. Every three months, crabs are analyzed for the amount of lipofuscin; these data will be used to make a calibration curve. With this calibration curve, researchers can determine the age of the crabs collected from various locations in Tampa Bay.
With this information, researchers hope to more accurately assess the population of blue crabs in the Tampa Bay area. This includes determining a maximum age, the demographic of blue crab landings, and the age crabs return to the estuary from offshore. Eventually, a similar process could be applied to assess the blue crab stock throughout the state of Florida.
Other blue crab research by the Crustacean Fisheries group has included the following:
- A study on the effects of a barnacle parasite on blue crabs
- A tagging study to determine the migration patterns of blue crabs along the Florida Gulf coast
- An analysis of the population structure of blue crabs in the eastern United States, using two genetic techniques
- A statewide study of the commercial catch comparing size and weight by area of the state and by season
- An assessment of stock recruitment relationships in Tampa Bay
- A survey of crabbers in 2002 to assess the commercial blue crab industry
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Plenty of publishers are walling off certain game content behind an "online pass," a one-use code that's included free with a retail copy but likely burnt up in that used disc you just bought for a lot less. In most cases, it covers something like online multiplayer. Not Rage.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Tim Willits, the id Software creative director, said that access to the game's underground will be restricted to those who get their copy new at retail. "You've played Rage five times. Have you found any sewer hatches?" Willits asked his interviewer. "If you bought the game new, that would be open for you. "
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You still have to download it, but you don't have to pay for it. Those hatches are all over. Most people never find them. But as soon as you do, you're like, oh. And then you start to look for it. That's our first-time buyer incentive.
Willits figures this is less obnoxious than other Online Pass mechanisms because, in those instances, people know what they're missing. Not with Rage! "Some people will buy Rage, download that, and still never set foot in those things. They just won't. I think that's fair. It's cool," he said.
The sewer-system content is "outside the main path" of the game, so therefore its absence — whether one is entitled to it or not, I suppose — won't diminish the story.
No word if this sewer access will later be made available through a separate DLC unlock.
Tim Willits: Building Rage And Never Selling Out - Interview [Eurogamer]


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There's something special about things with lots of detail. I try to add that to my nail art but in the simplest way possible. I think these ice cream nails are probably one of the easiest manis I've done that looks like it took me hours. Beware though, your going to one to pick off these little beads every second they're still holding on. They're the cutest curse out there.
#1. Base coat - Not shown
#2. Lillac lavender - Sally hanson
#3. White polish or pen polish
#4. Caviar beads
#5. Nail glue
#6. Top coat - Not shown
#7. 30 minutes of your time
Step one: Apply your lavender polish. Then let them dry for 8 minutes or so.
Step two: Apply white dots where you would like the drip effect to end. Then move upward with your Pen polish and connect the dots. Do this step to all the fingers you want to be screaming with cream.
This is what your nails should look like when your done.
Step three: This is the fun part! Mix together the caviar colors you'd like to use for your sprinkles. Once you've gathered the perfect combo, apply nail glue and sprinkle on top.
Step four: Seal the deal with a top coat & done! I added some charms from my sister and I's Etsy. One of them is an ice cream, and the other says "Good".


text: Amritsar Portal - Amritsar Flights, Hotels, Coach Hire and Asian Directory Discussion Welcome, Guest. Please Login. 15. Jul 2020 at 20:21 News: Amritsar Portal, Hotels, Flights & Directory Discussion › General › Flights to Amritsar (Moderator: Admin) ‹ Previous topic | Next topic › Pages: 1 2 3 Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's flights (Read 140199 times) musafir YaBB Newbies Posts: 0 Gender: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's flights 09. May 2005 at 06:28 From three flights to 56, Amritsar ready for take-off Monday May 9 2005 00:00 IST AMRITSAR: "Just a few years ago, it was a one-plane stop. But now, Rajasansi Airport is fast becoming a buzzing hub of international action and getting a new look, too. Singapore Airline, which landed here four months ago, has been going full, three days a week. And with a new terminal likely to open in October, British Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Phuket Airlines, Tajikistan Airlines, Uzbek Airways and Air-India are also lining up a landing here, say officials. With Air-India starting its Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto-Amritsar service on May 15, the number of flights will go up to 56 a week, a big leap from a mere three in 1997. Even cargo flights, such as those of Ariana to Kabul, are planning to double their flights from three to six in a week, while First Flight, a courier service, has evinced interest in starting operations, say officials. With air traffic surging by as much as 41 per cent in the last four years, V.S Mulekar, Director, Airport Authority of India (AAI), says most of these airlines are planning to cash in on Punjabi NRI passengers. That is the main incentive. For, at Rs 1 lakh a flight, the operating rates here are akin to those charged at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport though the facilities here are far inferior,'' says Mulekar. The AAI, he says, is now tackling the Rajasansi challenge on a war footing with a budget of Rs 79 crore, which also explains the haze of dust that hangs over the airport these days. He admits that the airport, so far, hasn't lived up to the international'' status it was accorded in 1999. The tin shed that doubles up as terminal, lack of basic amenities like chairs, trolleys, and booths for customs make for a miserable experience for passengers. We know passengers are facing inconvenience now but once it (the makeover) is completed, it will be a top-notch international airport,'' says Mulekar. At Rajasansi, work is on at full swing, the new terminal is already towering over the complex and the cargo apparatus is preparing to receive over 50 flights per week from the current 25. The AAI is also factoring in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) status granted to Amritsar by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently. Now cargo flights comprise only 10 per cent, but they are likely to double once the SEZ comes through,'' says Molekar. The AAI has also decided to develop 28,000 sq metres of land for core airport operations, instead of the 15,000 sq metres planned earlier. In fact, Molekar promises to throw open the revamped terminal building this October. The runway extension, too, is complete and bigger aircraft would now be able to land here and take off without any hitch, he says, night vision facilities and fog lighting are next on the agenda. It was inevitable,'' says V N Sharma, a city-based international tour operator. The IGI airport receives an average of 16 to 18 million passengers a year, half of whom are Punjabis. They would definitely prefer landing in the Holy City instead of distant Delhi.'' THE MAKEOVER * Rs 79 crore budget * Singapore Airlines, British Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Phuket Airlines, Tajikistan Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways and Air-India in queue * Cargo terminal to handle 50 flights * Runway extension complete; night vision facilities and fog lighting next on agenda * 28,000 sq mt land development for core operations. http://www.newindpress.com/ Back to top IP Logged musafir YaBB Newbies Posts: 0 Gender: Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #1 - 09. May 2005 at 06:33 What are your opinions about this news article? Please write all your comments and suggestions about this article. Thanks. Back to top IP Logged Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal. Guest Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #2 - 09. May 2005 at 07:32 I,ll belive it when it actually happens?. thats if at all happens, sister Delhi is not going to be happy. Back to top IP Logged Hans YaBB Newbies I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 0 Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #3 - 09. May 2005 at 16:35 Dear all, I've been to Amritsar 4 times in total, (even flew with Ariana in 93!) never had any problems... I always fly with Uzbekistan, touchwood no problems.... Haven't been for 2 years, what is like now? Regards, Hans Back to top IP Logged Davinder Singh Guest Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #4 - 09. May 2005 at 19:02 There is confusion on whether work on the airport has stopped or not . Please could somebody responsible for the airport make a satement on when the airport is to be completed. Only last week it was raised by MS Gill MP that work had stopped on the airport Back to top IP Logged Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal. Guest Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #5 - 10. May 2005 at 07:02 ha ha, well that does not suprise me or any one,i.e. work been stop. same old story. Back to top IP Logged musafir YaBB Newbies Posts: 0 Gender: Airport upgrade yet to take off here Reply #6 - 11. May 2005 at 01:52 Airport upgrade yet to take off here DHARMENDRA RATAUL Posted online: Monday, November 29, 2004 at 0219 hours IST RAJASANSI, NOVEMBER 28 2004: An old tractor with three trolleys stringed to it thats the first glimpse for a passenger when a plane taxies down at Rajasansi Airport in Amritsar. And its only a preface to what follows. Travellers from across Europe and North America test out the lack of facilities almost everyday at the only international airport in the country, north of the Capital. Rajasansi, on the global civil aviation map since 1999, receives more than 35 flights a week. Indian Airlines, Uzbekistan Air and Turkmenistan Airlines touch down eight times a week; Air India, Air Slovakia and Ariana fly in twice each; Singapore Airlines, the latest entrant, makes three landings every seven days. Plus, there are cargo flights by Slovak Air. All these land in front of a makeshift terminal essentially a shed with a roof assembled from iron sheets which serves as a passenger lounge, boarding counter, security checkpoint...There isnt much here except the runway and immigration counter to lend it the semblance of an airport. No food counters, phone booths, not even a conveyor belt. A lone minibus with frayed seats ferries passengers to and from the aircraft. Bhai Ranjit Singh, former Akal Takht jathedar and a regular traveller, says the place reminds him of a bus stand. Brij Bedi, convenor of Citizen Forum, rued the airport mirrors the poor infrastructure of rural Punjab. Regional director of Airports Authority of India, S.V.Molekar, however, said upgrade work was on and the new terminal would be completed by October, 2005. Work had been delayed as the contractor was changed midway, he said. www.indianexpress.com Back to top IP Logged gillsing YaBB Newbies I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 0 Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #7 - 11. May 2005 at 19:26 Amritsar may 10, The punjab Tourisim minister Mr Jagmohan kang, yesterday expressed concern about the delay in the upgrading of the raja sansi airport which was sanctioned by the union goverment at an estimated cost Rs 79.27 crore. During a visit to the airport, The minister annouce that he would take up the issueof of the delay with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan singh and urge him to direct the Minister concern to expedite the renovation and Expansion of the airport. Talking to newsperson the Minister pointed out discrepancies in restricted space for passangers arriving in the holding area. Back to top IP Logged Admin YaBB Administrator Amritsar Portal Posts: 0 Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #8 - 11. May 2005 at 20:48 Dear All, If anyone has any pictures of the Airport and its contruction and would be happy to share them, please email them to us and we will put them on this discussion board for everyone to see. Regards Back to top Admin: Gian Dhian Kichh Karam Na Jana, Sar Na Jana Teri. Sabb Tey Vada Satgur Nanak, Jin Kai Rakhi Meri IP Logged gillsing YaBB Newbies I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 0 Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #9 - 12. May 2005 at 16:16 CM to flag off Air-India flight to England, Canada Our Correspondent Amritsar, May 11 The Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, and the Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Praful Patel, will flag off the Air-India flight to England and Canada from Sri Guru Ram Das International Airport on May 15, which is being revived after a gap of 20 years. The station manager, Air-India, Mr Ashwani Arora, told The Tribune here today that all the arrangements for the launch of the national carriers flight had been completed. A team from the Civil Aviation Department, Canada, also visited the airport on a familiarisation tour to get first-hand information about the flight pattern and the passenger profiles here last week. Mr Arora said that there was a tremendous enthusiasm among the large Punjabi NRI community based in the Doaba region and the inaugural flight was fully booked. Air-India was receiving a number of enquiries for this first-ever direct flight connecting the holy city with Birmingham and Toronto. He said that Air-India had designated Boeing 777 for this route. Air-India had been operating Balle Balle Birmingham from Rajasansi airport, but due to militancy the flight was discontinued. The re-launch of the flight to Birmingham and also connecting Punjabi-dominated city of Toronto have once again provided the much-needed relief to the Punjabi community settled in Canada and England. Back to top IP Logged Davinder Singh Guest Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #10 - 12. May 2005 at 18:29 Plea on Amritsar Airport /Flights TNS adds: National Commission for Minorities Chairman Tarlochan Singh, who is also a member of the Civil Aviation Ministrys advisory committee, has demanded that the frequency of the Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flight from May 15 should be made daily instead of the present schedule of thrice a week on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Making several other suggestions at a meeting of the Civil Aviation Ministrys advisory committee here today, the NCM chief emphasised that upgradation of the Amritsar airport, including a provision for handling of cargo, should be undertaken expeditiously. He called for early completion of the Amritsar airport building which had been stopped as a new design was being prepared. The meeting chaired by Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said turning the Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flight into a daily would be taken up after more aircraft were made available. He said work on the building at Amritsar airport would commence soon and the arrival hall completed at the earliest. Orders have been placed for trollies for carrying the luggage. Mr Tarlochan Singh said the Airport Authority of India should revise is rates for international flights from Amritsar airport as those being charged now were too high and not commensurate with the facilities available at present. He pleaded that the Air India Express introduced recently from Kerala to the Gulf should be extended to Amritsar as a large number of Punjabis were also working in that region. Back to top IP Logged Davinder Singh Guest Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #11 - 12. May 2005 at 20:01 Are there any plans to increase the number of flights from the London Airports to Amritsar? Most of the new flights are from Birmingham and there are large numbers of Sikh/Punjabis in and around London who would like to fly on quality airlines to Amritsar. Back to top IP Logged gillsing YaBB Newbies I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 0 Re: Latest news of Amritsar airport and it's fligh Reply #12 - 16. May 2005 at 16:13 Punjab to promote religious tourism Praful, Amarinder flag off A-I flight to Toronto Ashok Sethi Rajasansi (Amritsar), May 15 The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Praful Patel, today brushed aside the resentment over the stalled construction of the terminal of Sri Guru Ramdass International Airport and assured the public that a bigger and modern complex would be built. Addressing a gathering during the flag-off ceremony of the inaugural Air-Indias Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flight here today, Mr Patel said top priority was being given to restart the construction of the ultra-modern airport. He, however, said the project could be delayed by another six months as the Ministry of Civil Aviation, in consultation with the Airport Authority of India (AAI), was preparing a blueprint for the its upgradation. Earlier, the flight was flagged off from New Delhi by Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhury and Mr Patel. He said the Air-India was prepared to make this flight operational on a daily basis instead of thrice a week at present in view of its growing demand. A direct international flight of Air-India Express, an economical flight from Amritsar to Dubai, was also on the anvil. He said the Air-India had recently launched a direct flight from Kerala to Dubai and another direct flight from Kolkata to London was likely to commence shortly. Referring to the setting up of a green field airport at Ladowal between Ludhiana and Jalandhar, Mr Patel said the project had been cleared by the government and was in the advanced stage of implementation. It would come up on the same pattern of green field airports already set up in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Lucknow. He said Chandigarh Airport would also be upgraded to meet the growing need of the people of this area. Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, said the government was set to chalk out a roadmap to boost religious tourism in the state. He said the government was contemplating to develop religious tourism by connecting Sri Anandpur Sahib, Chamkaur Sahib, Fatehgarh Sahib, Takht Sri Damdama Sahib and Sri Harmandir Sahib. Another circuit of Hindu shrines from Naina Devi, Maisarkhana, Durgiana Temple and Vaishno Devi would also be developed in a big way. Later Capt Amarinder Singh along with Mr Patel flagged off the flight. Meanwhile, the General Manager (Architect) of the AAI, Mr Harpal Singh, today made the detail presentation of the new design of the Airport Complex to the Minister of Civil Aviation and visiting dignitaries. The Director Airport, Mr V.S. Mulekar, said the minister showed keen interest in the development of the airport and said the complex would be ready within a year. The minister was accompanied by MPs attached to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Mr Tarlochan Singh, Chairman, National Minorities Commission, among others. Back to top IP Logged musafir YaBB Newbies Posts: 0 Gender: Raja Sansi airport Reply #13 - 17. May 2005 at 19:33 Could anyone tell me that what is the difference in changing the airport's name from "Raja Sansi" airport to "Sri Guru Ram Das International airport". These have appeared in recent news reports about recent Air India flight launches to Toronto. Please reply back ASAP and tell me what is the difference in these names. 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Thursday, March 6, 2014
Opponent: Howard Bison (7-23, 5-10 MEAC)
Site: Burr Gymnasium, Washington, D.C.
Game Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
MSU Coach: Todd Bozeman (140-115 – 8th yr)
BALTIMORE, Md. — The Morgan State Bears (12-15, 10-5 MEAC) will look to sweep its season series with Howard (7-23, 5-10 MEAC) on Thursday when it takes on the Bison in an 8 p.m. game at Burr Gymnasium in Washington, D.C. The Bears will attempt to bounce back from a 78-73 home loss to Florida A&M. The game will mark the regular season finale for both teams.
The Bison welcomed back four veterans, including one starter, from a squad that posted a 6-24 overall record and went 4-12 in the MEAC. James Daniel leads the Bison by averaging 22.0 ppg and is shooting 41 percent (87-209) from beyond the arc. Prince Okoroh is the only other Bison who's scoring in double-figures (14.3 ppg) and he also leads the team in rebounding (5.4 rpg). Oliver Ellison has chipped in 4.6 rpg and leads the Bison with 30 blocked shots thru 30 games. Kevin Nickleberry (Virginia Wesleyan '86) enters his third season as Howard's head men's basketball coach where he currently holds a 14-47 record and is 113-150 overall.
Coppin State used a three-point barrage to shoot down Howard, 86-69 on Monday night in Baltimore. The Eagles set the tone early as Andre Armstrong led the way with 14 points that included four of eight from the three-point line. Michael Murray complemented Armstrong with 11 points on medium-range shots as Coppin led 36-28 at the half. The Bison got 10 points Prince Okoroh in the first 20 minutes, but they missed the presence of leading scorer James Daniel, who was forced to sit 11 minutes after picking up his second foul. With Daniel on the bench, the Bison turned the ball over 13 times and Coppin State accepted the gifts by converting them into 13 points.
BALTIMORE (December 7, 2013) – Justin Black scored 17 points and led five teammates in double-figures as Morgan State won its conference home opener against Howard University 87-58 on Saturday at Hill Field House. Howard (2-9, 0-1) and Morgan State opened Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play and also celebrated their 101st meeting.
WE MEET AGAIN: The Morgan State Bears will square off against the Bison for the 102nd meeting between the two. The Bears hold a 60-49 record against Howard since the series began in 1950-51. Todd Bozeman holds a 10-1 record against the Bison since becoming MSU's head coach in 2006 … his one loss was on Feb. 6, 2012 when Howard left Hill Field House with a 54-46 victory.
Thru 27 games last season, three Bears averaged more than 10 points a game. Justin Black leads with by averaging 18.5 ppg (No. 3 in MEAC), Ian Chiles averages 15.5 points per game (No. 9 in MEAC), while Anthony Hubbard is averaging 10.7 points and leads the squad averaging 6.6 rpg (No. 8).
Senior guard Justin Black eclipsed the 1,000 point mark for his career as a result of his 24-point outing against Cal State Northridge (12/27) … Black recently moved in front of Jason McCoy (1,292 pts – 1987-91) as the school's No. 13 leading scorer and currently has 1,301 career points.
MSU is eager to get the ball inside this season, even more so than normal. Through 15 conference games, MSU ranks No. 2 in the MEAC averaging 74.2 points per game, including 15 points in the paint. This includes a dominating 50-22 edge in the paint at Hampton (1/20), 42-20 advantage at Coppin State (2/10), and 48-30 versus Bethune-Cookman (3/1).
Two Bears are averaging better than 1.0 steals per game – Justin Black (2.0 – ranks No. 2 in MEAC), and Donte Pretlow (1.3 – No. 8). Morgan State is also No. 5 in the MEAC by averaging 6.5 steals per game.??
Morgan State senior guard Justin Black was recently featured in SLAM ONLINE (www.slamonline.com) in an article entitled "Game Plan."
Ian Chiles and Thair Heath are shooting better than .500 from the field this year. Thru the first 27 games Chiles is shooting 55.9 pct (ranks No. 4 in MEAC). Heath is shooting 57.7 pct., while frontcourt teammate The Bears are among the top teams in the MEAC ranked No. 3 in field goal percentage (.429).
Ian Chiles has been making the most of his 7-foot-2 frame. The senior recorded a career-high 9 blocked shots against Norfolk State on Feb. 8. He's currently ranked No. 3 in the MEAC averaging 2.9 rejections per contest (80) and now has 179 career blocks.
Despite the loss against Norfolk State (Feb. 8), Ian Chiles had a strong effort and came close to finishing with the oh so rare — triple-double. "Big Slew" completed the night with 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting, grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds and notched a career-high nine blocked shots … one rejection short a triple-double.
Cedric Blossom leads the Bears with 71 offensive rebounds thru the first 27 games. The sophomore has started in 26 of 27 games and is averaging 7.0 ppg, 5.3 rebounds in 23.3 minutes. He had a sensational game at UMES (Feb. 17) where he posted a career-high 20 points and 11 rebounds — he has recorded three double-doubles during his career.
In the first 15 conference matchups this season Justin Black, Ian Chiles and Anthony Hubbard have scored 627 points, while the rest of the squad has produced 477 points. In the blowout of Howard, the trio combined to score 39 points with Black scored a team-high 17 points. Against Coppin State, the trio accounted for 61 of the Bears' 82 points with Black and Chiles leading the way with 23 apiece. The trio has totaled 1,206 of the team's 1,925 points, 63 percent of the team's scoring load.


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