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Back To School Prep: For Elementary, Middle & High School Students
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March 22, 2011
Acclaimed Organist Marko Petričić to Close 2010-11 Van Looy Organ Series
3/22/2011 Award-winning organist Marko Petričić will close the Wilson College 2010-11 Van Looy Organ Series with a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in Thomson Hall's Alumnae Chapel.More
March 18, 2011
Wilson College Drama Club Presents Classic Greek Tragedy, Antigone
3/18/2011 The Wilson College drama club, Kittochtinny Players, will present two performances of "The Antigone of Sophocles" on Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9. Both performances will begin at 8 p.m. in Laird Hall on the Wilson campus.More
March 17, 2011
Speaker to Address Struggle for Women's Rights
3/17/2011 In recognition of Women's History Month, the Wilson College Women's Studies Program and the Hankey Center are co-sponsoring "Left Out of the Club: The Ongoing Struggle for Equal Rights for Women" on Monday, March 28.More
March 16, 2011
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet to Perform at Wilson on April 2
3/16/2011 The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet will close Wilson's 2010-11 Performing Arts Series with a performance to be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 2, in Laird Hall.More
March 16, 2011
Wilson 2011 Orr Forum Explores Legacy of Muhammad
3/16/2011 Dr. Kecia Ali, an author, educator and expert in Islamic studies who has done groundbreaking work in Islam and gender, will deliver three presentations as part of this year's Orr Forum on Religion at Wilson College: Representing Muhammad: Competing Visions of Islam's Prophet.More
March 9, 2011
Wilson Writers Series to Feature Poetry Reading by Former President Gwendolyn Jensen
3/9/2011 Former Wilson College President Gwendolyn Jensen will read from her new poetry collection at noon on Friday, April 1, in Sarah's Coffeehouse on the Wilson campus.More
March 8, 2011
Wilson College Professor Honored by Dog Writers Association of America
3/8/2011 Wilson College Adjunct Assistant Professor in English Diane Morgan received a Maxwell Award from the Dog Writers Association of America for her article, "Taking the Lead," about training Siberian Huskies. The Maxwell Awards are presented every year in conjunction with the Westminster Dog Show in New York.More
March 4, 2011
Wilson College Film and Dinner Series Examines 'Soul of India' on March 24
3/4/2011 India, one of the most colorful and fascinating nations on earth, is the subject of the final offering in the season's Wilson College World Travel Film and Ethnic Dinner Series, to be held Thursday, March 24. The evening includes a buffet dinner of dishes representative of India at 6 p.m. in Laird Hall, followed by the film, "Soul of India," and a lecture by documentary filmmaker Rick Ray at 7 p.m. in Thomson Hall's Alumnae Chapel.More
February 25, 2011
Wilson College Ecology Class Returns from J-Term Trip to Belize
2/25/2011 A group of Wilson College students, alumnae and instructors recently returned from a trip to Belize, where they studied the ecology and biodiversity of typical Belizean ecosystems as part of a study-abroad class called Tropical Ecology of Belize.More
February 18, 2011
Wilson College Muhibbah Club to Host International Dinner on March 5
2/18/2011 Wilson College's international organization, the Muhibbah Club, will host a spring dinner featuring entrees from around the world, on Saturday, March 5, in the Jensen Dining Hall in Lenfest Commons. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m.More

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They may not be on the same team any longer, but that doesn't stop or hinder the friendship and bond shared between Kendrick Perkins and Rajon Rondo. Perkins spoke to the media Tuesday afternoon, and when asked about his fellow teammate Rondo's injury he had the following to say: Via Boston.com "When you hear stuff like that, especially with a close friend, it's always disturbing," said Perkins. "So I just wanted to call and make sure that he was all right as far as mentally and just getting ready. Because it takes focus to go through that process of surgery and the recovery of it." "Mentally, he has a hard time with just sitting out and probably not being able to walk for a minute and not being able to run," Perkins said. "And just the whole rehab part of it. Mentally, he struggles with things like that." Although Rondo was voted the starting point guard of the Eastern Conference, he will not be attending All Star Weekend. Instead it appears he will have the comfort and support of one of his best buddies. "We talk every day, so it wasn't nothing unusual. But when I heard about it, we played that night and then I called him right after the game." "So I'm going to go down there [to Rondo's home in Kentucky] for a day or two and just go hang out with him," said Perkins. "Because he probably might have the surgery before then. So just go down there and give him a little comfort" Perkins, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament during game 6 of the 2010 NBA Finals, knows what it will take to rehab and come back from such an injury. Nice to see him lend a helping hand. Funny how locker room chemistry can go a long way.
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This last week on September 7, 2012, television host Bill Maher and Christian conservative Christine O'Donnell appeared to bury the broomstick, so to speak. The two were peacefully reunited on the episode of the HBO program Real Time with Bill Maher.
From where most pagans sat in American, even here in little old Phoenix, Arizona, It was nothing new. In fact, it sounded like the same song and dance routine. Paganism bad, Christianity good, and the media soaks the whole thing in. My what a monster the ratings charts must have looked like on that day.
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Called "DEFENESTRATION" the abandoned four-story tenement building sitting at the corner of 6th st. and howard st. in San Fransiscio, California has been a sculptural mural since 1997. This multi-disciplinary sculptural mural involves seemingly animated furniture : tables, chairs, lamps, grandfather clocks, a refrigerator, and couches, their bodies bent like centipedes, fastened to the walls and window-sills, their insect-like legs seeming to grasp the surfaces.
Against society's expectations, these everyday objects flood out of windows like escapees, out onto available ledges, up and down the walls, onto the fire escapes and off the roof."DEFENESTRATION" was created with the help of over 100 volunteers. The concept of "DEFENESTRATION", a word literally meaning "to throw out of a window," is embodied by the both the site and staging of this installation. Finally I can say that if you have some time and you don't know what to do and a few pieces of old furniture you can also create a project similar with this, and get some attention.
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this is great! hopefully someone will rennovate the place and use
use it's sculptural charm to attract new tenants. i hate to see
these things go to waste
what a riot! now i have a name for what i can do with the old furniture on my back porch although i dont think my neighbors will be too happy with it. great post and what a cool cool building!
The chairs hanging from the walls and windows are just crazy cool!
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That is so cool – I just can't believe there is a property not rented out in san fran
I'd be so nervous if I walked near that property thinking something will clunk me on the head.
The concept is indeed a cool one, but somehow that is not enough
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I do love the individual pieces of furniture and how they are
animated … its the whole thats leaving me cold.
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Carving of a Recumbent Mythical Quadruped
Jade animal figurines have been prominent in Chinese art since Neolithic times and are treasured for the association of jade with immortality. During the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911), economic development and increased jade supply led to the wide use of jade for luxury objects like these, which depict a lion-like mythical beast that first appeared in stone tomb sculpture of the Han dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) to safeguard the spirit of the dead. Although the figures were no longer expected to provide protection, they still had auspicious meaning. One of the beasts (78.85.7) holds in its mouth a lingzhi, a type of fungus also associated with immortality.
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- Medium: Nephrite
- Dates: late 18th century
- Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
- Period: Qing Dynasty
- Dimensions: 1 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (4.4 x 11.4 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Asian Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 78.85.1
- Credit Line: Gift of Stanley Herzman
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Carving of a Recumbent Mythical Quadruped, late 18th century. Nephrite, 1 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (4.4 x 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Stanley Herzman, 78.85.1. Creative Commons-BY
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To publish this post, I must first discredit myself. I'm 42, and while I love what I do for a living, Michael Dell is 47 and his company was already doing $1 million a day in business by the time he was 31. I look at guys like that and think: "What the h*** have I been doing with my time?!?" Nevertheless, Dell is a company I've followed more closely than any other but Apple since the mid-2000s, and in the past two years I've had the opportunity to meet with several Dell executives and employees – from Montpellier, France to Austin, Texas.
Because I cover both PC hardware as well as client virtualization here at Forrester, it puts me in regular contact with Dell customers who will inevitably ask what we as a firm think about Dell's latest announcements to go private, just as they have for HP these past several quarters since the circus started over there with Mr. Apotheker. Hopefully what follows here is information and analysis that you as an I&O leader can rely on to develop your own perspective on Dell with more clarity.
Complexity is Dell's enemy
The complexity of Dell as an organization right now is enormous. They have been on a "Quest" to re-invent themselves and go from PC and server vendor, to an end-to-end solutions vendor with the hope that their chief differentiator could be unique software to drive more repeatable solutions delivery, and in turn lower solutions cost. I say the word 'hope' deliberately because to do that means focusing most of their efforts around a handful of solutions that no other vendor could provide. It's a massive undertaking because as a public company, they have to do this while keeping cash-flow going in their lines of business from each acquisition and growing those while they develop the focused solutions. So far, they haven't.
Merging big companies while keeping focus is extremely difficult
It's a recipe for organizational malaise because the people they brought in through their acquisitions will want to naturally charge ahead with their strategic plans as they would have before the acquisition – they're human and it's what they know best to survive. Meanwhile, the people charged with building the differentiated end-to-end solutions have to walk a tightrope between getting enough expertise and budget to execute by begging, borrowing and stealing whatever they can from other teams. It's a scenario I've lived through many times myself, and it's painful. It's far too much change to take on, and even Michael Dell can't force his will through the organization or he'll lose the very talent he needs to execute, or just as bad – see product line revenues fall and angry customers mount.
The current organization is stretched to capacity
What I often see in organizations struggling with changes are 3 things: 1/ When I ask five different people what the aim of the company is and what their role is in getting there, I'll get five completely different answers. 2/ People are so inundated with meetings and e-mails that they can't get enough clear work time to get meaningful brain-work done, and 3/ Everyone is so focused inside the organization that they can't see the freight train of competition coming before they get run over – let alone prepare. Strategy is incredibly hard even when people have time to think. When they don't, or their goals don't align directly with the aims of the organization, or they don't have enough experience in a given domain and there's no time to learn, bad things happen.
More freedom from regulations will be a good thing
As if all of that wasn't enough, the regulatory overhead in a public company the size of Dell is suffocating – particularly after Sarbanes-Oxley. Product managers and strategists need to spend the majority of their time outside the firewall and in the market to know what's changing, get good ideas, and bring it all back to build great products. Instead, after the regulations went into effect in the mid-2000s, they find themselves in endless pricing and packaging meetings trying to re-align SKUs and product suites to keep from triggering the ire of the auditors. The net result is that the whole organization slows down and suffers yet another blow to its ability to stay on top of critical changes in the market.
What it means:
Most of all, I think what private equity means for Dell is that they can get out from under the regulatory burden and Michael Dell can make the kinds of changes he needs to redirect the company focus. The departure of their Chief Strategy Officer, David Johnson (my namesake, apparently) a few weeks ago signals that a major strategy shift is in the works.
My bets:
Michael Dell knows how to find what customers value, get a unique angle on it, and focus on shortening the time to value. It was this know-how and singular purpose that that built the Dell empire to begin with. I would argue that it doesn't matter whether it's PCs, software or cloud infrastructure – the principles are still the same: Identify, simplify, focus, empower, execute, improve.
The opportunity:
IT has only grown more complex. Very few companies are in the business of simplifying it in dramatic ways. Apple is one. Most others are just applying band-aids to a bursting piñata. Dell's opportunity is to double-down on simple and astoundingly innovative solutions to complex problems with a level of quality, excellence and speed that their still-hobbled public competitors can't match.
The Microsoft potential:
Should Microsoft decide to invest in an equity transaction, I think it would do a few things:
- Microsoft needs more supply chain expertise and capacity for PC hardware, and needs more dedicated focus from an OEM like Dell to execute on a strategy of better integration between the operating system and hardware – both on the desktop and in the datacenter.
- Microsoft also needs an enterprise channel for hardware sales and support for in-house hardware – the Microsoft Store concept will not build buyer momentum fast enough, and this is not a trivial exercise.
- Thirdly, converged infrastructures for cloud could get a boost through tighter integration between the hardware and OS, thanks to performance optimizations, better resource automation, and fault management throughout the stack.
- Finally, as my colleague JP Garbani pointed out to me today, hardware + core systems + management + packaged apps + services will belong to large companies with a lot of leverage in all the categories: IBM, HP and Oracle are getting there. To be competitive Dell has to be there too and so does Microsoft.
What does it mean for you as a Dell customer?
Nothing right now. There will be changes, no question, but customer facing roles usually get shored up during transitions like this to help ease the risk and keep relationships intact. Also, we don't expect Dell to jettison the PC business. It's easy to draw comparisons to IBM and Lenovo, and one could argue that the case for running an OEM hardware business out of the US is sketchy, but IBM had many other very strong businesses to fall back on. PCs still make up a significant piece of the pie for Dell and they'll need the cash-flow to double-down on the areas where they can drive new value and differentiation. Summary: I'm bullish on the potential benefits of a private equity transaction for Dell, and after conferring with my colleagues here at Forrester today, the sentiment appears to be shared.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Their close ties to the military community giving them unusual access to top generals, Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley even visited the White House on separate and apparently unrelated occasions before a sex scandal brought down former CIA Director David Petraeus.
Neither woman met with President Barack Obama during their visits, a White House official said.
Petraeus resigned as CIA director last week after acknowledging an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. In briefings Friday with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the retired four-star general was apologetic and regretful and insisted that his resignation was related only to his personal behavior.
Jill Kelley, the Tampa, Fla., socialite who initiated the investigation that revealed the affair, and her twin sister had two "courtesy" meals at the White House mess as guests of a midlevel White House aide in September and October, the White House official said. Kelley and her family also received a White House tour on the weekend before the Nov. 6 election.
Broadwell, who was writing a book about Petraeus and eventually became his paramour, attended meetings in June 2009 and June 2011 on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is located in the White House complex, the official said.
The White House visits by Broadwell and Kelley illustrate the wide-ranging access both women enjoyed because of their ties with Petraeus, Gen. John Allen and others in the close-knit military community. The White House official discussed their visits on condition of anonymity because the visitors logs being cited have yet to be made public.
The FBI began an investigation after Kelley turned over anonymous emails that had been sent to her and Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Kelley was a friend of both Petraeus and Allen and had become a social liaison between the Tampa civilian community and the military at MacDill Air Force Base.
One anonymous email traced to Broadwell warned Allen to stay away from Kelley. FBI agents ultimately found emails between Petraeus and Broadwell that led them to believe the two were having an affair.
Largely out of public view in the week since his resignation, Petraeus was whisked into private meetings with lawmakers Friday amid the sort of clandestine atmosphere that befits a spymaster. A network of underground hallways was used to smuggle the retired general into a secure room beneath the Capitol to escape a clamorous crowd of photographers and television cameras. Police closed down entire corridors in the Capitol.
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Gareth Malone, star of hit British TV show The Choir, has called rumors that he is gay 'juvenile'.
The married father-of-one bemoaned the ongoing speculation over his sexuality in an interview with Radio Times magazine and compared life in the limelight with going back to school.
He said: 'It was slightly disappointing to find that after leaving school and leaving all that behind me from the age of about 15 to 30, and then coming into television and discovering, "Oh right, everyone is just as juvenile as the kids at school were".
'I am fairly flamboyant and expressive, but I know plenty of gay people who are incredibly repressed and aren't showy and don't like Judy Garland, you know.'
Malone, whose Military Wives choir beat The X Factor to the Christmas number one spot in the UK charts last year, says he wishes he had fought back against bullies at school.
Speaking about his experience of being bullied as a child, he said: 'The key is to give people the tools to deal with it themselves, which is how I ended up getting through it - find your own strength in something, which for me was in music and the arts.
'But it is just ghastly. You have those moments where you don't want to get up and go to school.
'I was always on the edge of exploding into violence, I definitely have a temper, but I never did because I always somehow didn't want to lose my dignity.
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The system can be thought of as two separate groups: the M and N antigens are at one location on the ECM and S, s, and U are on a closely related location. The two groups are very close together on the chromosome and are typically inherited together.
M+ and N+ are common (75% of population) and M+N+ is the most common genotype (50% of population). These were an early discovery and are some of the oldest blood antigens known after the ABO system. They were first described by Landsteiner and Levine in 1927. Anti-M and anti-N antigens are rarely associated with transfusion reactions.
Anti-N is sometimes seen in dialysis patients due to cross-reactions with the residual formaldehyde from sterilizing the equipment. This is usually irrelevant for transfusion since this variant of the antibody does not react at body temperature.
The S antigen is relatively common (~55% of the population) and the s antigen is very common (~89% of the population). Anti-S and anti-s will usually cause transfusion reactions if an incompatible unit is transfused.
The U antigen is extremely common (>99.9% of the population), and the U was originally short for "Universal." It is not universal, and the U- phenotype is sometimes present in people of African descent with a mutation in red cell surface structure that also makes them S- and s-. This mutation and similar ones that result in lack of common MNS antigens appear to provide some resistance to malaria. Anti-U has been associated with both hemolytic transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of the newborn.
The other 35 identified antigens in the MNS group are either extremely rare, such as He (0.8% of the population) or extremely common, such as ENa (>99.9% of the population).


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Leonardo DiCaprio and Danny Boyle latest star and director rumored for Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs movie
With Christian Bale and David Fincher off the rumor mill for the Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs movie room has opened up for Leonardo DiCaprio and Danny Boyle. Sorkin and Fincher had previously worked together for Social Network and although there doesn't seem to be any Sorkin/Boyle connection, DiCaprio and Boyle previously worked together on The Beach (I don't remember it either). The Hollywood Reporter claims the exclusive:
Sources caution that deals are not done. And DiCaprio has committed to star in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's thriller The Revenant for New Regency starting in September.
This Steve Jobs movie, not to be confused with the Ashton Kutcher version, is backed by Sony and based on Walter Isaacson's official biography. Sorkin is said to be setting it around three scenes, leading up to the introduction of the Mac, iMac, and iPod,
Unless and until anyone is signed, expect drama to continue on the production until it's completed production. Now, um, anyone else having trouble seeing DiCaprio as Jobs?
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Danny Boyle latest star and director rumored for Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs movie
I remember The Beach! It's the one where they smoke a bunch of pot while living on an idyllic beach.
Have you seen the Aviator? Picture it being about Mac and iPod instead of airplanes and movie making. As I remember it, DiCaprio skillfully presented a smart, focused and passionate man in that movie, someone that couldn't let go of his vision, his goal, a man that went for it all the way.
With that in mind I can see DiCaprio portraying Jobs very well.
But that one was directed by Martin Scorcese. Not that Boyle is a bad director; but Scorcese brings the best out of Leo.
But then again - Leo looks nothing like a young or a old Steve. Noah Wyle was brilliant in portraying Steve in "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" .. not sure why he is not being considered again.. he is only 42 now and can still portray Steve in his young and mid years. And that movie has not been seen by the masses.
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I mean this is a guy who didn't go to a briefing on Benghazi last Friday because he claimed to know everything already. It was obviously terrorism right? So what's left to know?
Yet now, the man who knew everything-more even than the man who knew too much-suddenly is surprised in discovering something he did not know. So maybe he should have gone to that briefing rather than preening for the media while complaining about not being briefed on Benghazi.
"Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) released a statement on Tuesday in which he responded to reports that the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) scrubbed references to Al-Qaeda from the unclassified talking points used by United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and others following the September attack in Benghazi."
"McCain said the revelation runs counter to what he was told by intelligence officials during Senate hearings and serves as another reminder of why he and other Republicans are "suspicious" of the Obama administration's response to the attack."
"I am somewhat surprised and frustrated to read reports that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was responsible for removing references to Al-Qaeda from the unclassified talking points about the Benghazi attack that Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used in the early days after September 11, 2012. I participated in hours of hearings in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week regarding the events in Benghazi, where senior intelligence officials were asked this very question, and all of them – including the Director of National Intelligence himself – told us that they did not know who made the changes. Now we have to read the answers to our questions in the media. There are many other questions that remain unanswered. But this latest episode is another reason why many of us are so frustrated with, and suspicious of, the actions of this Administration when it comes to the Benghazi attack."
See how he tries to leave the door open about "other questions" being unanswered. One question not answered is what right does he have to insult Susan Rice's intelligence and accusing her of not being very bright? She actually has a first rate education and is a Rhode scholar. The other day McCain was melodramatically demanding that she go on tv and admit she'd given false information. Will McCain admit that he gave totally false and egregious lies about her record and intelligence as it turns out the intel was right about this.
If this was the statement put out by the DNI it's not clear why there is any reason to be suspicious or frustrated with the Administration as they didn't give us the numbers.
For the record even now it's far from certain that Al Qeada had anything to do with the attack while McCain and company heap scorn on that anti Muslim video it remains. It seems that Rice's overall point-whether or not she mentioned Al Qeada-was that the terrorists used the mayhem with the video to exploit it to enable themselves to come after they had left-may actually be what happened according to both the CIA and Libyan intelligence.
On this there's a good deal of confusion in the media. It's like how we were hearing for weeks that Obama never used the word terrorism.
However,, a look at the original talking points memo from the CIA clears it up.


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Music at the Bend Spring Festival begins tonight and runs through Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Mt. Washington and Northwest Crossing drives in Bend.
The event boasts a nice, diverse lineup of both local and regional bands, and it's all free to attend! In today's Spring Fest article in the paper, I highlighted Portland-based eclectic roots band Black Prairie. I'll paste that below the schedule …
(Also worth noting: Popular Bend band Larry and His Flask is saying on Facebook that tonight may be their last local show for a long time, so get some while you can.)
5 p.m. — The Pitchfork Revolution
6:30 p.m. — Necktie Killer
8:30 p.m. — Larry and His Flask
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5 p.m. — State of Jefferson
7 p.m. — Black Prairie (see below for more on this band)
9 p.m. — Mosley Wotta
11 a.m. — Keegan Smith
1 p.m. — Redwood Son
3 p.m. — Tony Smiley
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New York Subway Ride May Cost $2.50 as MTA Boosts Fares
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The base fare on New York City's subway may rise 25 cents to $2.50 and monthly unlimited passes by as much as 20 percent as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority enlists record ridership to combat rising costs.
MTA officials in a Manhattan briefing today revealed four possible fare and toll increases for subways, buses, commuter railroads from Long Island and northern suburbs and river crossings that would take effect in March. The plans are designed to net an annual $450 million in additional revenue to help fill projected budget deficits.
Two options call for base fares to rise to $2.50 and monthly unlimited cards to $109 or $112 from the current $104. The other two would boost the unlimited passes to $125 or $119 while leaving the current $2.25 base fare unchanged. All the plans would tack on a $1 fee for each new MetroCard purchased.
"The reason why we're having fare and toll increases is directly related to the increase in our non-discretionary costs," such as debt service, pensions, energy, and employee and retiree health care, Chairman Joseph Lhota said.
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The monthly unlimited pass price last rose in December 2010 and the base fare in June 2009.
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The final decision requires a December vote by the state agency's board, and hearings on proposed increases begin next month. One opinion was already heard today: Don't stick subway riders, said Gene Russianoff, senior attorney at the Straphangers Campaign, an arm of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
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New York's current $2.25 base subway fare covers a trip anywhere on the 660-mile (1,062-kilometer) system. Washington's Metro charges rail passengers $1.70 to $5.75 per ride, depending on the time of day and length of trip, the system's website says. On the London subway, or Tube, passengers pay from 4.30 pounds ($6.90) for travel within a single zone to 7.50 pounds to make a single journey across all nine zones, though most residents use a prepaid Oyster swipe card, which cuts the costs.
While "no New Yorker likes to be compared to another city," riders must consider what their international counterparts pay, Lhota said.
Boosting the undiscounted base fare would affect the fewest people, including tourists, Lhota said, as full-price rides account for 15 percent of total trips. The price rose to $2.25 from $2 in 2009.
Riders who use monthly unlimited cards have been among the hardest hit by fare boosts. In December 2010, the price rose to $104 from $89. As recently as January 2005, it cost $70.
At the same time, those riders enjoy some of the deepest discounts. About 85 percent of riders receive discounted rates, including 7 percent applicable to MetroCard purchases of $10 of more. With all discounts taken together, the agency receives $1.63 in revenue on average per ride.
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The plans also include price boosts for riders of the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. Most tickets would rise by 8.2 percent to 9.3 percent, officials said.
Even so, fiscal challenges persist. Officials predict budget shortfalls of $248 million in 2014, $14 million the next year and $231 million in 2016. The gaps would widen if the agency can't contain labor costs and force riders to pay more, officials have said. The $13.1 billion budget for next year counts on both the proposed increases and on negotiating union contracts without increased costs. Otherwise, deficits would widen to $2.7 billion by 2016, the agency has said.
The proposals released today also assume the successful appeal of an August state court decision that struck down a payroll tax projected to pump $1.26 billion into the agency's budget. The suit was brought by officials from suburban communities served by the agency.
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