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Uh oh–did something fall off Santa's hat? Nope, this fuzzy koosh ball is a tawny frogmouth, a nocturnal bird native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. Born on June 9, "Nangkita" (an aboriginal word that means "land of little frogs") can be found at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, one of only four zoos in the nation that has successfully bred tawny frogmouths in the past six years.
Zoo curator Mark Myers, who is also the population management plan coordinator for the frogmouth species across all accredited zoos, tells PEOPLE Pets that breeding has been so rare, in part, because much of its North American population is aged, post-reproductive and often only used for exhibition purposes in zoos. Here at Woodland, however, special steps have been taken to bring little Nangkita into the world, including importing its parents, 4-year-old life-mating tawny frogmouths from Sydney's Taronga Zoo. They also used artificial incubation for 25 days.
Since its hatching, Mom and Dad have acted remarkably like a nuclear human family–both parents pitch in, protecting and plumping up this little ball of fur regularly. "The adults are very protective of the chick. They have done an outstanding job," says Myers. But the proud parents aren't putting an "It's a Girl" or "It's a Boy" sign up just yet: male and female frogmouths look the same at this stage, so a genetic test will reveal the chick's sex sometime later.
While Nangkita is not available for public viewing, it has no shortage of attention as it snuggles in its craft-store, grapevine-wreath nest. Adds Myers: "There has been great excitement here at the zoo about this chick's hatching and seeing it grow and develop. Keepers are working hard to weigh the bird daily and also giving supplemental feedings to ensure acceptable weight gain. We're all very invested in this hatchling!"
See more unusual animals on PEOPLE Pets:
Anteaters Who Raid the Fridge
Baby Sloth Born at Costa Rican 'Slothspital'
Rare Fuzzy-Wuzzy Frogmouth Born at Seattle Zoo

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OKANOGAN Okanogan County School Retirees Association is seeking applicants for its $1,000 scholarship.
The applicant must be of at least a college junior standing from Okanogan County and committed to a career in an educational field.
Applications must be postmarked by May 1. Forms are available online here or by emailing Jennie Hedington.


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As Pomegranate's resident Social Media expert, it was high time I got my hands on a smart phone. I had been contemplating the iPhone for some time, with little motivation to move forward. Born and raised on a PC, I never really jumped on the Apple train, having been quite loyal to my Microsoft-based products for a good portion of my natural-born life. Some would see this as a curse. I might have to agree.
As a loyal Verizon customer since 1999, I began the search for a new phone. I owned an LG Voyager for about a year but wasn't feeling satisfied with its performance; it was time to break-up and move on. I started casually dating the LG EnV touch, but that relationship was short lived, leaving me with a bitter taste in my mouth and a jaded outlook towards media-based phones. I was determined to put myself back out there and meet the love of life; a phone that was, by definition, perfectly seamless for all my social networking and data management needs. Blackberry? Droid? Eris by HTC? As a supporter of Google services for years, I decided it was time for an Android-based phone with Google integration. It was safe to say I was fully in love with Google and was desperately wanting to take our relationship to the next level.
What is it about a Google phone that makes it stand apart from the rest, you ask? Most importantly, Android is an open-source, Apache-licensed operating system that Google makes available free of charge to device manufacturers who can add their own application genius for download in the marketplace. Basically, there's no single, unified Android platform like there is for the iPhone which means you get a much greater amount of diversity, hardware and software, than the iPhone. You get Android 2.0 with Google's proprietary push Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Voice, YouTube, and Google Maps Navigation with live street view rolled in. And because of the nature of open source software, the Apps Marketplace is a veritable smorgasbord of delicious and (very often) free applications that are sure to enhance your mobile experience. If you're heavily invested in Google and all its glory, then you'll have absolutely no problem making the switch.
Is it safe for me to say that the Droid is, hands down, the best smart phone currently out there? Considering I have little to no experience with the iPhone or Blackberry, I'll leave the full-blown comparisons to the true smart phone aficionados. My focus here is simply on the Motorola Droid. Maybe I'm biased, but I can assure you my bias comes from a very special place, having already logged hundreds of Droid usage hours since the phones inception into my busy social life.
Now for the fun part! First, I'll feature the specs of the Droid, then I'm going to feature some of my favorite applications, including apps for data/time management and apps socializing your life. Keep in mind, all applications listed are FREE, and generally speaking, there really isn't a need to pay for great apps on the Droid. Thus is the beauty of open-source software!
The Specs
• Platform/Processor: Android™ 2.0 with CDMA 1X 800/1900, EVDO rev. A, Arm® Cortex™ A8 processor 550 mHz, 802.11 b,g WiFi access
• Playable Formats: AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA, OGG, eAAC+, AMR WB, AMR NB, AAC+, MIDI
• Video Capture Rate: DVD quality (720×480 resolution) up to 24 fps capture; up to 30 fps playback
• Email: Corporate (Exchange 2003 and 2007), Gmail™, IMAP, POP3, attachment and browser document viewer (Microsoft Office® and pdf)
• Camera: Image stabilization, real-time color effects, scene modes, location tagging; 5 MP; 4x Digital Zoom with Flash and automatic focus; image edit tools include cropping, rotating and geo-tagging.
• Phone Book: Unified contact list (Gmail™, Exchange, Facebook™)
• Google Services: Gmail™, GOOGLE Calendar™, GOOGLE contact sync™, GOOGLE latitude™, GOOGLE maps street view, GOOGLE maps™, GOOGLE maps™ navigation beta, GOOGLE quick search box™, GOOGLE talk™, GOOGLE™ search by voice, YouTube™
• Web Browser: Webkit HTML5 with geo location and multiple windows, Adobe with Flash Player 10.1
Simplify Your Life – 5 Must-Have Time/Data Management Apps for Droid
• Advanced Task Killer Free — This app allows you to stop running background processes or apps in memory. The Android operating system can run multiple programs and apps at once, which is a wonderful feature yet if not carefully monitored, can drain your battery faster than you can say iPhone killer.
• Astro File Manager — A data management must-have! This app allows you to manage files on your phone without the need for a computer, including access to the SD card and the ability to backup Android Apps to the SD card as well. Operations you can perform: copy, paste, move, delete, open with other apps, create and manager folders, etc. You can select multiple files to perform actions and search for files.
• Dolphin Browser — Kind of like Firefox for Android, this browser gives you a better Mobile Internet experience. Features: gesture, sync Google bookmarks, download YouTube videos, Multi touch, save cache to your SD card, tab view, and theme pack support. You can also set your own gesture drawings for web navigation functions (stop, forward, backward, refresh, bookmark, etc)… nifty!
• gTasks — For the busy consultant or business owner on-the-go, this app conveniently allows you to sync your task/to do lists from your Android phone to your Google Tasks from either Gmail or Google Apps email accounts. gTasks offers a solution to an issue surprisingly not solved by Google in their Gmail client. More beautiful, you don't have to login nor grant permission to the app as it just works with your Gmail/Google Apps account(s)!
• Remote VNC Lite — This app is recommended for network-savvy individuals only (or those who are smart enough to know someone who is network savvy). Remote VNC Lite is an extremely convenient VNC client that allows you to control your computer from anywhere directly on your Droid phone!! You can share same smart UI with Remote RDP (another app, only UI shared, no RDP support), connect to any Windows, Linux, Mac with VNC server installed, RealVNC recommended for better performance (unless you are running Windows Vista, which RealVNC isn't compatible with – alternative recommendation is Ultra VNC which runs on most operating systems).
Get Social & Have Some Fun — 5 Must-Have Social Apps for Droid
• Foursquare — If you're like me and you work from home, then you know how important it is to get out of the house and resurface in society from time to time. When a friend turned me on to the Foursquare app for Droid, I was hooked! Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates gaming elements and a point system. Users share their location with friends by making a "check in"; you connect with others and can see where they've been and vice versa. You can even link it up to your favorite social networks (Facebook, Twitter) and have your location updated automatically whenever you check in. Pointlessly social yet highly addictive! Add me on Foursquare!
• eBuddy — Need a place to harness all your chat buddies? eBuddy's free instant messaging application supports multiple chats instantaneously for AIM, Facebook, ICQ, Google Talk, Yahoo, and MSN Messenger. You can sort by network or by screen name, with network icons identifying which network your buddy is on. Some other features Droid users should love include optional audio notifications for new messages, status updates, emoticons for every IM service, and automatic reconnect if their internet connection is lost. If this app doesn't satisfy the social butterfly in you, nothing will.
• ALOQA – Their tagline: Always be a local. This app is perfect for people who, when out, want everything local at their fingertips with the simple touch of a button. This truly is instant gratification at its finest. This GPS based location app brings "channels" to wherever you are. Find the nearest Starbucks, gas stations, theaters, bars & night clubs, shopping centers, WiFi hotspots, restaurants, hotels and even personals! They partnered with great resources like match.com, yelp, last.fm and hotpads.com. Never again will you be at a loss for anything. Ever.
• Qik — This app is for video and film junkies, and although I don't consider myself one, I was was lured into the ease and awesomeness of this app very quickly. Simply register an account online and once this is done you can right down to business by plastering your embarrassing videos on the internet. In fact, recording a clip and uploading it to your personal space at Qik is so easy you might not even be aware you've done it. With one touch of the big green button, you can be recording "live" in an instant. It automatically triggers the upload procedure. While you're recording your video, Qik uploads the completed portion onto the Qik servers. It's incredibly slick and astonishingly fast (especially if you're on a WiFi connection). Once your videos are uploaded, you can share them with friends by directing them to your own personal Qik page or linking them to your favorite social networking sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. I have mine set to update to all three, automatically. In the instance you are filming something that you don't want to "go live", you can always pre-set the video setting to private before recording. Afterall, there are just some things your mother shouldn't see.
• Twidroid – If you're a Twitterholic like me (the first step is admitting you have a problem) then you need to get your hands on Twidroid, a full-featured Twitter client that includes direct messaging, photo posting, replies and background notifications for Android. Good news! You can do virtually every Twitter function from the Android App that you could from the web, including: direct messages and @reply to your friends, post pics, paste a URL and set your location with the new Geo feature pulling your location from the GPS. Also, you can Search Tweets and can set background notifications too! Follow me on Twitter!


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A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and translating tags to annotate and categorize content;[1][2] this practice is also known as collaborative tagging,[3] social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Folksonomy, a term coined by Thomas Vander Wal, is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. Vander Wal explains some of the characteristics of folksonomies by identifying two types: broad and narrow. A broad folksonomy is the one in which multiple users tag particular content with a variety of terms from a variety of vocabularies, thus creating a greater amount of metadata for that content. A narrow folksonomy, on the other hand, occurs when a few users, primarily the content creator, tag an object with a limited number of terms. While both broad and narrow folksonomies enable the searchability of content by adding textual description - or access points - to an object, a narrow folksonomy does not have the same benefits as a broad folksonomy, which allows for the tracking of emerging trends in tag usage and developing vocabularies. [4] Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004[5] as part of social software applications such as social bookmarking and photograph annotation. Tagging, which is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 services, allows users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy.[6] However, tag clouds visualize only the vocabulary but not the structure of folksonomies, as do tag graphs.[7]
An empirical analysis of the complex dynamics of tagging systems, published in 2007,[8] has shown that consensus around stable distributions and shared vocabularies does emerge, even in the absence of a central controlled vocabulary. For content to be searchable, it should be categorized and grouped. While this was believed to require commonly agreed on sets of content describing tags (much like keywords of a journal article), recent research has found that, in large folksonomies, common structures also emerge on the level of categorizations.[9] Accordingly, it is possible to devise mathematical models of collaborative tagging that allow for translating from personal tag vocabularies (personomies) to the vocabulary shared by most users.[10]
The term folksonomy is generally attributed to Thomas Vander Wal.[11][12] It is a portmanteau of the words folk (or folks) and taxonomy that specifically refers to subject indexing systems created within Internet communities. Folksonomy has little to do with taxonomy — the latter refers to an ontological, hierarchical way of categorizing, while folksonomy establishes categories (each tag is a category) that are theoretically "equal" to each other (i.e. there is no hierarchy, or parent-child relation between different tags).
Folksonomy is a type of collaborative tagging system in which the classification of data is done by users. Folksonomies consist of three basic entities: users, tags, and resource. Users create tags to mark resources such as: web pages, photos, videos, and podcasts. These tags are used to manage, categorize and summarize online content. This collaborative tagging system also uses these tags as a way to index information, facilitate searches and navigate resources. Folksonomy also includes a set of URLs that are used to identify resources that have been referred by users of different websites. These systems also include category schemes that have the ability to organize tags at different levels of granularity. [13]
There are two different groups of folksonomies. There are broad folksonomies which have many users contributing to the creation of tags and narrow folksonomies where only a few users are tagging particular items. A broad folksonomy allows many people to tag the same resources and any user can tag a resource using their own vocabulary. In a narrow folksonomy, only a few people are able to create tags and these tags are used by other users to locate resources. Unlike broad folksonomies, narrow folksonomies are not very common. An example of a broad folksonomy is del.icio.us, this is a website where users can tag any online resource they find relevant with their own personal tags. An example of a narrow folksonomies can be found in systems used by large businesses; these types of folksonomy are mainly used for research and associates working together in collaborative groups.
Early attempts and experiments include the World Wide Web Consortium's Annotea project with user-generated tags in 2002.[14] According to Vander Wal, a folksonomy is "tagging that works"[citation needed].
Folksonomy is unrelated to folk taxonomy, a cultural practice that has been widely documented in anthropological and folkloristic work. Folk taxonomies are culturally supplied, intergenerationally transmitted, and relatively stable classification systems that people in a given culture use to make sense of the entire world around them (not just the Internet).[15]
Semantic Web[edit]
Folksonomy may hold the key to developing a Semantic Web, in which every Web page contains machine-readable metadata that describes its content.[16] Such metadata would dramatically improve the precision (the percentage of relevant documents) in search engine retrieval lists.[17] However, it is difficult to see how the large and varied community of Web page authors could be persuaded to add metadata to their pages in a consistent, reliable way; web authors who wish to do so experience high entry costs because metadata systems are time-consuming to learn and use.[18] For this reason, few Web authors make use of the simple Dublin Core metadata standard, even though the use of Dublin Core meta-tags could increase their pages' prominence in search engine retrieval lists.[19] In contrast to more formalized, top-down classifications using controlled vocabularies, folksonomy is a distributed classification system with low entry costs.[20] The Insemtives project is investigating methods of motivating users to contribute semantic content.
Library Catalogs[edit]
Some libraries are adding tagging features into their online public access catalog, or OPACs, in addition to use of standardized subject headings, in order to encourage a more social, participatory, or Web 2.0 nature to the catalog.[21] While this empowers users to contribute to an otherwise closed cataloging system, it can only supplement and not completely replace traditional cataloging.[22]
The study of the structuring or classification of folksonomy is termed folksontology.[23] This branch of ontology deals with the intersection between highly structured taxonomies or hierarchies and loosely structured folksonomy, asking what best features can be taken by both for a system of classification. The strength of flat-tagging schemes is their ability to relate one item to others like it. Folksonomy allows large disparate groups of users to collaboratively label massive, dynamic information systems. The strength of taxonomies are their browsability: users can easily start from more generalized knowledge and target their queries towards more specific and detailed knowledge.[24] Folksonomy looks to categorize tags and thus create browsable spaces of information that are easy to maintain and expand.
See also[edit]
- ^ Peters, Isabella (2009). "Folksonomies. Indexing and Retrieval in Web 2.0.". Berlin: De Gruyter Saur.
- ^ Pink, Daniel H. (December 11, 2005). "Folksonomy". New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
- ^ Lambiotte, R, and M Ausloos. 2005. Collaborative tagging as a tripartite network. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DS/0512090.
- ^ Vander Wal, Thomas. "Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies". Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- ^ Vander Wal, Thomas. "Folksonomy Coinage and Definition". Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ^ Lamere, Paul (June 2008). "Social Tagging And Music Information Retrieval". Journal of New Music Research 37 (2): 101–114. doi:10.1080/09298210802479284.
- ^ Lohmann, S., Diáz, P.: Representing and Visualizing Folksonomies as Graphs - A Reference Model, Proc. International International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM Press, 2012.
- ^ Harry Halpin, Valentin Robu, Hana Shepherd The Complex Dynamics of Collaborative Tagging, Proc. International Conference on World Wide Web, ACM Press, 2007.
- ^ V. Robu, H. Halpin, H. Shepherd Emergence of consensus and shared vocabularies in collaborative tagging systems, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Vol. 3(4), art. 14, 2009.
- ^ Robert Wetzker, Carsten Zimmermann, Christian Bauckhage, and Sahin Albayrak I tag, you tag: translating tags for advanced user models, Proc. International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, ACM Press, 2010.
- ^ Vander Wal, T. (2005). "Off the Top: Folksonomy Entries." Visited November 5, 2005. See also: Smith, Gene. "Atomiq: Folksonomy: social classification." Aug 3, 2004. Retrieved January 1, 2007.
- ^ http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html Origin of the term
- ^ Berlin, B. (1992). Ethnobiological Classification. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- ^ M. Koivunen, Annotea and Semantic Web Supported Annotation.
- ^ Berlin, B. (1992). Ethnobiological Classification. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- ^ Fields, Kenneth (2007) "Ontologies, categories, folksonomies: an organised language of sound." Cambridge.
- ^ Mohamed, Khaled A.F. (2006) "The impact of metadata in web resources discovering"
- ^ Marchiori, Massimo (1998) "The limits of Web metadata, and beyond"
- ^ Jin Zhang and Alexandra Dimitroff (2004). "JIS: Internet search engines' response to metadata Dublin Core implementation"
- ^ Corey A. Harper and Barbara B. Tillett, Library of Congress controlled vocabularies and their application to the Semantic Web
- ^ Steele, T. (2009). The new cooperative cataloging. Library Hi Tech, 27 (1), 68-77
- ^ McFadden, S., Venker Weldenbenner, J. (2009). Collaborative Tagging: Traditional Cataloging Meets the "Wisdom of Crowds". The Serials Librarian 58 (1-4), 55-60.
- ^ Van Damme, Céline et al. "FolksOntology: An Integrated Approach for Turning Folksonomies into Ontologies" (PDF). Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ Trattner, C., Körner, C., Helic, D.: Enhancing the Navigability of Social Tagging Systems with Tag Taxonomies. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2011
Additional references[edit]
- "Folksonomy", The New York Times, 2005-12-11
- "Folksonomies Tap People Power", Wired News, 2005-02-01
- "Folksonomy and science communication" (PDF). Information Services & Use (27): 97–103. 2007. – Folksonomies as a tool for professional scientific databases
External links[edit]
- SocialTagging.org provides short definitions of key terms related to tagging and folksonomies
- Vanderwal's definition of folksonomy
- Vanderwal's take on Wikipedia's definition of folksonomy


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if your sweet lips could sing like honeydew for my soul what a miracle it would be
if an audition could be won for a vacation cruise with you what a miracle it would be
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Shaheen Air
|Commenced operations
|25 October 1994
|Jinnah International Airport (Karachi)
|Secondary hubs
|Fleet size
|21(+ 4 on order)
|Terminal 1 Rd,Jinnah International Airport
Karachi, Pakistan
|Key people
|Kashif Sehbai(Chairman)
Shaheen Air International operating as Shaheen Air is a private Pakistani airline with its head office on the grounds of Jinnah International Airport in Karachi.[1] Shaheen Air, which provides passenger, cargo and charter services, serves the major cities of Pakistan and the Persian Gulf. It was founded in December 1993 and was established on 25 October 1994. The airline focuses much of its routes on cities in Northern Pakistan, rather than Karachi. The airline's primary hub is Jinnah International Airport (KHI), Karachi, with secondary hubs at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (ISB), Islamabad and at Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE), Lahore.
Besides serving major domestic routes i.e. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, D.G.Khan and Peshawar, Shaheen Air has also been operating flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Al Ain, Kuwait, Doha and Muscat from almost all the major international gateways of Pakistan.
History and Modernization[edit]
In 2004, Shaheen Air International (SAI) became Shaheen Air and the airline introduced a new livery and corporate website. The airline was founded by Khalid Mehmood Sehbai (Late) who was the airline's first chairman. At first the airline introduced nationwide flights to countrywide destinations.The airline introduced many different flights mainly from Karachi, Pakistan to Quetta, Pakistan. The Governor of Balochistan said that the improvement of air links were also discussed in the ongoing talks between Pakistan and Iran and he offered the management of Shaheen Air to operate Quetta-Zahidan flights. Initially Shaheen Air International operated eight flights to Karachi-Quetta and Quetta-Lahore. The airline later decided to operate flights from Quetta to Islamabad.
On 22 May 2004, the Civil Aviation Authority stopped all flights of Shaheen Air as it owed millions of rupees in debt to the CAA. On May 25, 2004, Shaheen Air was cleared of charges by the CAA to resume its domestic and international operations. The clearance letter was issued by CAA following receipt of the payment from Shaheen Air International towards payment of the outstanding dues and funds.
Today, Shaheen Air has about twenty aircraft and is one of the fastest growing airlines in Pakistan. It is Pakistan's second national carrier next to the flag carrier, PIA.In its international operations, Shaheen Air also operates between Pakistan and numerous destinations in the Middle East. Shaheen Air has started flight operations to Riyadh with three different routes from Pakistan.[2] Shaheen Air is now operating flights also for Dammam.
Shaheen Air started its own maintenance repair organization (MRO) by the name of Shaheen Engineering and Aircraft Maintenance Services (SEAMS) which aims to provide maintenance services to Shaheen Air as well as other regional and international airlines. Apart from giving engineering maintenance support it also provides Air worthiness Management services with engineers from SEAMS working on behalf of Shaheen Air.
The word "Shaheen" means "Falcon" in Urdu.
In cabin[edit]
Shaheen Air operates a fleet of Boeing 737-400, Airbus A320-200 and Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The Boeing 737s are in an all economy class layout while the A330-300 feature a mixed Business and Economy cabin.
All passengers have the facility to choose Urdu/English newspapers and magazines on all domestic and international flights. Free of charge publications are also often distributed among the passengers, promoting an aspect of reading and understanding Islam. These publications, targeting social events, were written by the group's ex-chairman, Khalid M. Sehbai.
Ground handling[edit]
The airline uses a number of ground handling companies within Pakistan as well at its oversea operations. Shaheen Airport Services (SAPS) took exclusive ground handling operations of the airline in 2009 for all airports the airline operated from within Pakistan. Dnata also signed a contract with the airline to provide any additional services to the airline for all airports outside Pakistan.
Passengers have the ability to pre-book any flight on the airline's website to any domestic route operated by the airline. Passengers can book online and pay at their nearest booking office. The passenger will be given an e-ticket instead of the standard paper booking ticket.[3]
Recently Shaheen Air has planned to Launch their Mobile App for all platform i.e. Windows, Android and IOS.The App will be available to all by the end of March, 2015.This App will have online booking, Payment, PNR retrieving and other options.[4]
Passengers may check-in between 180 to 45 minutes prior to flight departure. This may be done over the counter or at the lounge within the airport. Self-service kiosks are also available at Jinnah International Airport. Passengers will automatically be given a computer generated booking number and assigned baggage tag.[3]
Cargo operations[edit]
Shaheen Air Cargo is a division of Shaheen Air International that was established in 1993, soon after the inception of the airline. Shaheen Air provides special services for sending small consignments which are time sensitive in nature. Other services include: Perishable Cargo, Live Animals, Valuable Cargo, Special Cargo as well as Courier Services.[5]
Shaheen Air operates the following services (as of July 2014):[6]
Incidents and Accidents[edit]
On 30 December 2014, NL-148 flight escaped life-threatening accident when the nose landing gear collapsed due to a bird strike while landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport. All passengers and crew were safe in the incident.[9]
As of May 2015 Shaheen Air fleet consists of the following aircraft - average age 18 years:[10]
|In fleet
|Airbus A320-200
|Airbus A330-300
|Boeing 737-400
|Boeing 767-200
|Leased from Jordan Aviation
- ^ "Contact Us > Domestic." Shaheen Air. Retrieved on 28 July 2010. "Head Office Shaheen Air International Terminal-1 Road, Jinnah International Airport, Karachi-75200, Pakistan"
- ^ "Shaheen Air flights for Riyadh - Anna Aero" Shaheen Air inaugurates operations in Riyadh with three routes from Pakistan
- ^ a b Shaheen Air Services
- ^ Shaheen IT staff
- ^ Shaheen Air Cargo services Accessed 2009-12-31
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Shaheen route map
- ^ Shaheen to Guangzhou schedule
- ^ Shaheen suspend LBA service
- ^ "Pakistan's Shaheen Air jet makes emergency landing, avoids crash". The News Tribe.
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- ^ http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/search.php?manufacturer=Airbus&type=A320&fleet=3300&fleetStatus=4
- ^ http://www.shaheenair.com/sai-web/fleet.php
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shaheen Air.
- Shaheen Air (official site)
- Shaheen Air aircraft at airliners.net
- Shaheen Air Fare and Schedule Details


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Mayban Fortis Holdings Berhad was formed in 2001 as a collaboration between Malaysia's largest local bank, Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) and Fortis International NV, one of the largest providers of integrated financial services in Europe. With a stake of 70% by Maybank and 30% by Fortis, the partnership saw the grouping of all Maybank's insurance companies under Mayban Fortis Holdings Berhad.
In 2005, Mayban Fortis grew significantly with the acquisition of Malaysia National Insurance Berhad, Malaysia's largest national insurer and its subsidiary, Takaful Nasional Sdn Bhd, Malaysia's premier Takaful provider. Financially, the merger catapulted Mayban Fortis to the position of second largest insurer in Malaysia.
At the end of 2007, the merger effort with Malaysia National Insurance and Takaful Nasional culminated in the rebranding of the entire Insurance and Takaful group to the new brand name – Etiqa. Etiqa will be the single master brand for all conventional and Takaful businesses under Mayban Fortis. An ongoing corporate streamlining exercise will see the eventual grouping of five operating entities under two
anchor subsidiaries for Conventional and Takaful respectively: Malaysia National Insurance Berhad, now known as Etiqa Insurance Berhad, and Takaful Nasional Sdn Bhd, renamed as Etiqa Takaful Berhad.
For the financial year 2006/2007, the gross premium written by Etiqa stood at RM 4 billion (USD 1.186 billion) while Takaful premium was recorded at RM 900 million (USD 266.78 million), placing it as the second largest overall insurer in Malaysia and the no 1 Takaful player in the country, with a profit before tax of RM 313.5 million (USD 92.93 million).
Today, Etiqa is a true multi-channel distributor of Insurance and Takaful products via its agency force, Insurance and Takaful branches, Maybank branches, ATMs and other third-party banks, providing full accessibility and total convenience to customers, unmatched by any other. Etiqa was also the first company to receive a license from central bank of Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia, to set up an International Currency Business Unit.
At the core of the Etiqa brand is the essence of humanising Insurance and Takaful. In an industry where agreements are typified by triplicate and fine print, Etiqa seeks to humanise the process by breaking down boundaries through clarity, strength and good conscience. With rock solid foundation, Etiqa is able to provide a unique ability to work hand-in-hand with customers enabling them to live richer lives.
Backed by Malaysia's largest bank, Etiqa's rock solid financial standing puts it in good stead to become the No.1 insurer in Malaysia by the financial year 2009. Etiqa is already in pole position for the Takaful businesses with a market share of 54 percent in 2006. It is also ranked second and third in the life and general insurance businesses respectively.
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One day in New York a few years ago, I had a few hours to spare waiting to board Cunard's Queen Mary 2 to sail for Southampton. So I decided to check out the Bay Ridge address near the Verrazano Bridge where my father grew up that I had heard so much about during my childhood. I took a limo over to Brooklyn and knocked on the front door. I told the owner about my family history with the property, but I could see from the expression on his face that he didn't believe a single word.
Then I told him about the relatives moving into the basement during the Great Depression. He immediately let me in and gave me a tour of the house. He told me that he had just purchased the home and had extensively refurbished it. When they tore out the walls in the basement he discovered that the insulation was composed of crumpled up newspapers from the 1930's, so he knew I was telling the truth. I told him that grandpa would be glad that the house was still in Italian hands. Could I enquire what he had paid for the house that sold in 1923 for $3,000? He said he bought it as a broken down fixer upper for a mere $775,000.
As I passed under the Verrazano Bridge on the Queen Mary II later that day, I contemplated how much smarter grandpa became the older I got. I hope the same is true with my kids.
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Yesterday marked the first day of my (one and only) most favoritist sports season of the year: Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament.
I didn't have any brothers or male cousins my age. Dad just sat around watching football by himself while Mom, Sarah and I would make up ridiculously complex family stories with our Barbies or set up a My Little Pony castle or sometimes let the sun touch our precious skin whilst drawing stuff on the sidewalk with chalk (we didn't get out much). Sports weren't in our vocabulary.
Fast forward 13 or so years when I was dating my college ex who was obsessed — LITERALLY OBSESSED — with bowling. Guys, he had, like, 11 balls. I'm not even exaggerating about that. And he had a robo-brace to keep his arm in place when he bowled, a little powder bean bag to keep his hands dry and a bag for all those balls (I said balls twice!!!!) Also? On the college bowling team. And we dated for three years, by the way. (Fail.)
Anyway, as nobody really considers that a real sport and I didn't learn much about sports from him, let's fast forward another five years to my third month dating my husband. We were in the thick of March Madness and I'd seen some extra-excitable behavior, but nothing compared to when Kentucky lost to Michigan State in the Final Four and he sulked into another room and came out in Cincinnati Reds gear. Basketball season, he said, was OVER.
I've got a bunch of dooseys from our game watching together (how about the time he accidentally busted a bag of tortilla chips while stomping around during a game? That was awesome.) I love him and like to support him and it's only fair considering how many hours he spends watching trash like the Bachelor and American Idol with me.
In the past 6 years, I've realized I am much more invested in sports if there is:
- a good story associated with it (a player who donated a kidney to a sick kid, for instance)
- drama involved (coaching or recruitment scandals) or
- a super-hyped match-up.
The above reasons are why I love the NCAA Tournament. AND I love making my predictions, which has been a tradition with Hubby and I. I usually beat him because the less you know, amazingly, the better you fare. Actually the only time I didn't beat him was the year I decided to get all fancy and do a little "research". He's shared a few little tips that have helped me tremendously with my predictions, and bloggy friends, I'm passing them on to you (and a few of these are my own recipes for success):
- At least one 13 will beat a 4.
- At least one 12 will beat a 5.
- At least one 10 will beat a 7.
- At least one 11 will beat a 6.
- For closer match-ups, look at the overall regular season record.
- Also, consider how close they are playing to their home court.
- If neither of these make it any clearer, choose based on some arbitrary thing: Which of the two teams is wearing your preferred color? Are they from a location you've visited before? Or want to visit? Do you remember one of their players from a news story you read? Do you like the way their name sounds (I will always choose Gonzaga)?
- If you are playing with a significant other or male friend, make sure you make their team lose the second round unless they are really good. It won't help you win but it's super fun to watch the color drain out of their face when you announce your prediction.
- Don't make really dramatic upset predictions because usually it's a crap shoot and then it will screw up your whole bracket.
There you have it; an almost fool-proof way to probably beat everybody else in their bracket. If I missed anything or you want to share your secrets (it's just between us and also the entire internet!), leave 'em in the comments! Go print off your own bracket and pretend like you care about basketball for a couple of weeks.
Tune in tomorrow when I'll explain how I make prediction based on mascots, with my first guest blogger!
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RUFF RYDERSTuesday, 04 December 2012 14:50 Published in Ruff Ryders
Ruff Ryders' founders were initially famous for managing rappers DMX, Ma$e, Jay-Z and The Lox who became multi-platinum stars for Def Jam Recordings and Bad Boy Entertainment in the late-1990s. After DMX's success, the management company started its own label imprint through Interscope Records, and had success with releases from female rapper Eve, former Bad Boy Records group The L.O.X. and its main rapper Jadakiss, Drag-On, and newcomer Jin, winner of BET's 106 & Park freestyle MC battle competition. The Deans' nephew Swizz Beatz is the main producer for most of the acts on the roster. In 2001, Cassidy was signed to the label through Swizz Beatz along with Full Surface labelmate Yung Wun.
As the first Reunion Project since their 2005 Album The Redemption, Vol. 4 Jadakiss and Swizz Beatz invited Drag-On, Eve, Styles P, Sheek Louch and DMX, who had just been released from jail, for the Remix of "Who's Real". A Ruff Ryders Reunion Album was announced by Swizz Beatz and was originally set to release in 2008 but it got pushed back.
In 2010, founders Joaquin and Darin Dean decided to revamp the brand through a new venture known as Ruff Ryders Indy, as a Fontana/Universal affiliated distribution company. This marked the end of Ruff Ryders Entertainment.
POWERHOUSETuesday, 10 May 2011 22:48 Published in RR COMPANIES
Powerhouse Studios is home to the Ruff Ryders family of artists and a place where many legends in the music industry began their careers. Producers from Swizz Beatz to new producers like Q honed their craft in our Studio A and Studio B. The music industry measures success in the number of records sold. Powerhouse Studios has produced music that has sold more than 800 million records and continues our legacy with new independent artists, labels and producers.
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The NatPROteam brand is synonymous with promotions. It is a naturally evolving company resulting from the progression of decades of experience in Program Management and the promotion and production of music and clothing. In such the co-founders of NatPROteam have combined their respective experiences in Program Management and applied it to Music/Clothing Promotions. This has created a signature, high energy, marketing and promotions processes unrivaled by any in the world today. This collaboration has resulted in a worldwide network of dedicated Project Managers and organized Street Teams across more than 300 key markets worldwide. This worldwide team is built primarily from a ready willing and able social network which functions as a "street team for hire." From this synergy, NatPROteam offers a strategic and thorough plan of action to ensure we are successful in marketing and promoting your brand.
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Ruff Ryders Entertainment stands alone as the only company to license their brand to the general public. RR Lifestyles gives RR Entertainment an avenue to convert fans into family. This conversion has created the largest urban movement on the planet bringing together all woks of live and breaking the boundaries of hip hop. Our members differ in so many ways but continue to be drawn together by one common interest … Ruff Ryder Lifestyles.


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CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. – (DRG News) Today brings a dedication for the South Dakota Veterans Park-located next to the South Dakota Hall of Fame at Chamberlain. The idea to build a park in honor of all veterans came about last year and work started on the park property on May 1. Tom Davis is one of the local veterans who serve on a committee that has been focused on making the Veterans Park a reality:
Veterans Park is a location that honors vets from all military branches, including the National Guard. Davis says the location is for South Dakotans who have served their country and have been honorably discharged-or for those who are currently serving. He says there are a number of 8 ½ inch by 5 ½ inch granite pavers that make up one area in the Memorial part of the park. The pavers (or bricks) have been purchased by vets and list name, rank, military branch and year of service or war of service. Davis says some businesses or families have also bought bricks in honor of those who served or in memory of those missing or killed in action. Near the pavers are tablets that represent various military branches.
Davis says every war is represented at the park, from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan. He also says the park is being created in phases.
Davis says all of the first phase is done, about 90% of Phase Two is complete and Phase 3 is about one-third complete.
Today's dedication and unveiling of the monuments will include comments from Gregory native-Brigadier General Myrna Williamson-who will also be added to the South Dakota Hall of Fame this weekend. In addition, there will be a military fly-over of a B-1 bomber from Ellsworth Air Force Base during the national anthem. The ceremony starts at 2:00 p.m. and is expected to take about 30-40 minutes. For more information on the Veteran's Park, visit the website www.tricountyveterans.org.
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New William H. Gass fellowship and PhD track for international writers
The Ampersand recently featured an article about professor emeritus William H. Gass, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Comparative Literature director Lynne Tatlock spoke about Gass's literary influence, quoting Matthias Göritz, the first reipient of the William H. Gass fellowship who said, "I admire Gass as an essayist, translator, and storyteller; I admire him as a teacher. My colleagues across the globe and I see him as a legend. After reading his work, people are 'infected' and changed. It's simple: we have to read William Gass; otherwise we've missed the best. I'm proud and grateful to be recognized as the first William Gass fellow. And thus not to miss the best."
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LAKEWOOD -- He's well-known in the arts community from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, but those who know 54-year-old Kevin Joseph Kelly never expected this.
He's been applauded for years for his work on stage and with teens as an acting teacher, but now Kevin Joseph Kelly stands accused of rape.
A grand jury indicted Kelly, 54, with three counts of rape and one count each of sexual battery and kidnapping. The alleged victim is now an adult but was 15 at the time he claims he was assaulted.
Kelly's most recent stage credit was playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" the Beck Center in Lakewood.
The center's executive director said Kelly has been employed off and on for years both as an actor and as a teacher for classes that include teens.
The center does conduct background checks on all employees, but with no criminal history, there were no "red flags" that would create concern, she said.
Reached at his apartment in Lakewood, Kelly said he looks forward to going to court to prove his innocence.


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This position is no longer an active posting on HigherEdJobsDuties: The Plant Operations Facilitator provides a wide variety of skilled and semiskilled tasks in expediting the day-to-day operations of campus facilities. Duties include, facilitating the maintenance and repair of physical assets in a safe, timely, cost efficient, and service-oriented manner. The Facilitator assists in preparing bid specifications, the administration of both large and small construction contracts, monitoring and performance of maintenance, repair projects, energy management and utility operations, housekeeping, building and special services, and grounds maintenance operations in order to accomplish department goals and objectives of the College mission. The Plant Operations Facilitator provides administrative support to the Director of Facility Services and coordinates activities with internal and external organizations/agencies.
Minimum Requirement: An Associate's degree from an accredited college or university in building construction, engineering, architecture, business administration or a related field or equivalent. Four years experience in the construction industry and two years administrative experience. Extensive experience directly related to the position duties, well documented in the application packet, may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement.
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