OGRA Increase Petrol Price

Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has raised the prices of petroleum products by 9.9 % to be applicable from Monday midnight of March 1st, 2011.

Petrol price has been increased by Rs7.23 per litre to Rs80.19, High Speed Diesel by Rs7.76 to Rs86.09 per litre, Light Speed Deisel made expensive by Rs.6.60, HOBC Rs8.58 to Rs95.25 and Kerosene Oil Rs7 to Rs77.95 per litre, according to OGRA.

The Government of Pakistan had kept the price of petroleum products unchanged for the past two months as a result of pressure from all the mainstream political parties.

Richard Roeper speaks on film

Roeper is a successful columnist for the Chicago Sun Times a job that he has had for nearly 24 years. He is most well-known for co-hosting with Roger Ebert after Gene Siskel's passing, for the TV show "At the Movies."

Roeper has his own website and blog where he critiques pop culture. He makes appearances on radio and television on a regular basis. He was prepared on the stand, with clips from various television productions that he has worked on, including a cameo in the HBO series "Entourage" where he did a lot of his own writing.

He also came equipped with an iPad, with all of his notes and Twitter postings at his convenience. "Now everyone's a writer," Roeper said, saying that anyone can blog, tweet, etc. "It's just finding someone to pay you for it."

For his Oscar picks, Roeper chose the "Facebook-film" as his choice for best picture, but believes the academy will choose "The King's Speech." Overall, he felt that "Inception" should be nominated and should win. It's his top choice.

"The King's Speech" is what the academy loves -- British actors talking about British things," Roeper said.

He said that if it were up to him, "The Social Network" would be the winner.

Dan Allen, a freelance film critic from Deland agrees with Roeper's Oscar choices.

"Him and Roger Ebert inspired me to do this," said Allen. "It's ironic that his movie of the year is also mine."

After he spoke, students were invited to ask questions and it went on for about an hour. A lot of the students asked about what moviemakers might think of what he says.

"I think that he says what he means, it's his job," said UCF alumni Josh Browne.

Roeper said during the presentation that critiquing movies is all based on opinion. To be thoroughly entertained, you don't have to think about the film trifecta -- it just happens. He says what makes him cry isn't a death scene or a funeral; it's when a character makes a gesture that changes the course of the film. He said what makes him laugh is really smart comedy -- not physical.

So how does a moviemaker avoid negative comments from the ultimate film critic?

"What makes a really good movie is the script," Roeper said. "There's no chance for a good movie without one."

He said that a film could have great actors, directors and producers, but if the script is bad, it's just bad.

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Adam Wainwright

It was the Minnesota Twins' Joe Nathan whose season ended before it even got started. This year it's St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright.

Wainwright like Nathan before him, has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow and is expected to undergo reconstructive surgery, commonly referred to as Tommy John surgery, followed by a lengthy rehabilitation.

They (Cardinals and Wainwright) are no doubt devastated by this news, no one can say they were entirely surprised. Wainwright's stellar 2010 season ended in unceremonious fashion when he was shut down in September because of inflammation in his right elbow. He had a history of injuries to the elbow dating to 1998, including a partial tear of the same ligament in 2004, which caused him to miss significant time in the Cardinals' minor league system that year. Nonetheless, preseason examinations had Wainwright confident that his elbow was a non-issue coming into spring training.

To be fair, from an athlete's perspective, that is precisely how Wainwright should have approached this season. The truth is it's not uncommon for pitchers with a history of elbow or shoulder injuries, even with known tissue damage, to still be able to pitch and pitch successfully for years afterward. In Wainwright's case, there were no overt signs of instability; he even told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his ligament was "healthy and strong." No athlete can or should enter a season afraid of what could happen, especially since these injuries can strike anytime young or old, injury history or not. Just ask 22-year-old Stephen Strasburg, who tore his UCL last year as a rookie.

Still, we're reminded just how strenuous the act of pitching is on the human body when a dramatic breakdown, such as a UCL tear, occurs. The expectation in baseball now has become not whether a pitcher will ultimately succumb to a major injury to his throwing arm, but when it will happen. And once there is an injury "event" in a thrower's history, the concern going forward only increases. Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak might have said it best Wednesday when he reflected on how well -- and how long -- Wainwright has pitched since first injuring his elbow in 2004, telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "I guess at some point, it's just a matter of time." There are, however, a few silver linings in this dark cloud.

First of all, this will be the first time in years that Wainwright will have an extended break from throwing. Most pitchers have thrown extensively since their youth, and this forced rest allows the athlete's entire body to "regroup" and retrain during the recovery period. The opportunity to rehab the throwing shoulder while working on leg strength and core muscle strength, and the chance to make any necessary mechanical adjustments, might ultimately extend a starting pitchers' career.

The timing of Wainwright's injury is such that he could be pitching next season. The average recovery time for pitchers following Tommy John surgery is almost 12-15 months, although many throwers will say it takes an additional six months to really "feel" like they're back. Wainwright should be encouraged by the prospect of returning to the mound next season.

In the Last, Wainwright can take comfort in the knowledge that the success rate for returning to play following this type of injury is fairly high. At an annual baseball medicine conference this year, Dr. Lyle Cain (a partner with Dr. James Andrews at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala.) presented recent data showing a return rate of 73 percent of professional baseball pitchers to their prior level of performance following this procedure. As the procedure has become more commonplace, the knowledge as to how to best rehab an athlete has improved as well.

Wainwright need look no further for inspiration than teammate Chris Carpenter, who has traveled the same long and lonely comeback road following UCL reconstruction. After all, Carpenter is proof of not only returning to pitch following Tommy John surgery, but returning to pitch successfully. Wainwright will now look to do the same.

52 hurt in Lincoln Tunnel accident

The accident in the Manhattan-bound center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel earlier this morning. The New York Fire Department, two buses collided with a motorcycle in the tunnel. The motorcyclist was riding between the two buses when the front bus stopped for traffic and the rear bus slammed into the rider from behind. The motorcyclist was severely injured and brought to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a fractured femur and shoulder, an FDNY spokesperson said. The crash victim was intubated at the hospital, the spokesperson added.

A total of 52 people were injured in the incident. Some were treated at the scene, while 13 were taken to Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

Among the buses were a No. 116 bus out of Perth Amboy and a No. 139 bus out of Lakewood.

NJ Transit added seven trains from Secaucus to New York to accommodate customers off diverted buses. North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Co-Director Jeff Welz spoke with Port Authority officials who estimated that the center tube will remain closed for a "good part of the day" as officials investigate the accident.

The Weehawken Volunteer Ambulance Squad were first on the scene after the accident, according to Jersey City Medical Center spokesman Mark Rabson.

Rabson also said that JCMC was one of many that responded to the scene but did not take any patients since it was easier for emergency vehicles to transport those injured into Manhattan from the tunnel.

Rabson also noted that JCMC, Palisades Medical Center, Hoboken University Medical Center, Meadowlands Hospital, the recently sold Bayonne Medical Center, EMS and Port Authority held an emergency drill in November to train the crews to respond to situations in the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.