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Campus Course, Laboratory, and Miscellaneous Fee Approval Form
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Campus Fee Approval Process Flowchart
University of Nebraska institutions are funded through multiple revenue sources including state appropriations, tuition, student fees (mandatory, non-mandatory and other miscellaneous fees), grants and donations.
Annual state appropriation levels are determined by the Legislature's Appropriations Committee, while each campus establishes its own tuition rates, which are approved by the Board of Regents. Each campus is also authorized to establish mandatory, non-mandatory and other miscellaneous student fees at its discretion at rates associated with their unique needs. Review and approval of student fees is provided either by the student body, the Board of Regents or University of Nebraska Kearney administration, depending on the fee type.
Mandatory Student Fees - Mandatory student fees are defined as amounts which are directly assessed to all enrolled, graduate and undergraduate students, are required to be paid with tuition, and are generally dedicated to specific purposes. Mandatory student fees include the following:
University Program and Facilities Fees (UPFF)
Fund A – fees designated for student activities which are managed by student organizations
Fund B – fees designated for university programs and facilities, i.e., payment of debt service, ongoing repair and maintenance of facilities, student service agencies
Other Mandatory Miscellaneous Fees (non-UPFF)
Fee revenues generally dedicated to specific purposes including the student ID card, enhancement of technology, library support, student records, academic success, distance education, cultural enrichment and student research opportunities.
Some student fees are assessed for specific activities or programs that exist because of the support provided by fee revenues. Other fees are intended to purchase something, provide services or other benefit to the student. Student Union fees and Facility fees are used to help repay revenue bonds which finance student facilities and to pay for their repair and maintenance.
Miscellaneous and Fund B fees can be charged to generate revenue for the following reasons:
If your department is not a recognized auxiliary operation, you cannot charge fees to support the general expenses of your department or division. Generally mandatory fees are assessed to all enrolled students. The following exceptions may apply:
University of Nebraska at Kearney Mandatory Student Fee Definitions
|Student Activity Fee
|Revenue from this fee is used to support student activity programming and student government.
|Student Events Ticket Fee
|This fee provides free admission to UNK sponsored events such as theater productions and athletic events. This fee also supports the intramural program and the Student Talent Development Program, enabling students to participate in opportunities that develop student leadership skill or that provide venues for students to display intellectual talent and other exceptional accomplishment.
|Student Union Fee
|Revenue from this fee supports the Nebraskan Student Union.
|Health & Counseling Fee
Revenue from this fee is used to support Counseling and Heath Care.
|Facility Fee
|Revenue from this fee supports ongoing maintenance, repair and operation of student facilities.
|College Readership Fee
|Revenue from this fee allows students free access to two local and two national daily newspapers during the academic year.
|ID Card Fee
|Provides the student with a validated ID card. Revenue from this fee is used to support the ID card office.
|Technology Fee
|Revenue from this fee is used to enhance and increase the instructional and informational technology literacy and access for students.
|Library Fee
|Revenue from this fee supplements library book collections, research materials and serial journal collections.
|Student Records Fee
|This fee provides for lifetime copies of student transcripts.
|Academic Success Fee
|Revenue from this fee provides services for all students through the Student Support Services, Learning Strategies, Services for Students with Disabilities, First Year Experience, Academic and Career Services, Writing Center and Academic Success offices by means of mentors, tutors and programming. These offices seek to provide services that enhance student academic performance, retention and graduation.
|Multi-cultural Fee
|Revenue from this fee is used to administer programs and services that foster and develop a supportive environment for students of American ethnic heritage, promotes a multicultural climate conducive to the educational achievement of all students and encourages a global perspective of learning for the campus. This fee also supports new programs focused on bringing culturally rich educational events and activities to campus.
|Undergrad Research Fellowship Fee
|Revenue from this fee will provide students the opportunity to participate in scholarly activity during their college career.
|Wellness Center Fee
|Revenue from this fee is cost recovery for construction of the facility and then for ongoing maintenance.
|Distance Education Fee
|Revenue from this fee is used to provide direct services and support to distance education programs.
Mandatory student fees generate a significant amount of revenue to support a variety of programs. Departments may retain unexpended revenues for these programs from year to year. As a result, programs funded with mandatory student fees can accumulate fund balances which are available to be carried over for use in future years.
Limits and Controls on Mandatory Fees
It should be noted that the University of Nebraska possesses two central governing authorities, Central Administration and the Board of Regents, to provide oversight and guidance with regard to student fees. http://www.nebraska.edu/docs/board/RegentPolicies.pdf
Procedures for the establishment and approval of UPFF Fund A and B fees are governed by the Board of Regents, while procedures for Miscellaneous Fees are campus governed.
University of Nebraska Central Administration guidelines prohibit fee increases greater than 5%. These informal guidelines also stipulate that fees cannot be increased to cover budget reduction packages.
UPFF Fund A - New fees or increases to existing fees are voted on annually by the student body. Changes to these fees are reported to Central Administration.
UPFF Fund B - All fees are reviewed and approved annually by the Board of Regents. Approval of Fund B fees is documented in the Board of Regents April meeting minutes.
Miscellaneous Fees - Changes to existing fees are reviewed by the Chancellor's Cabinet. These changes are documented in the Board of Regents meeting minutes.
Establishing a New Student Fee or Increasing an Existing Fee
The University of Nebraska Kearney has a structured process in place to establish new student fees or to request an increase to an existing fee. The campus fee processes in effect were amended effective January 2012 and are outlined in the attached flowcharts according to whether the proposed fee is a UPFF Fund A, Fund B or a Miscellaneous Fee.
Annually, October 1st, an announcement is distributed to Administrative Council and their direct reports by Business and Finance requesting the submission of proposals for student fees to be assessed for the following academic year. This announcement outlines the fee approval process, includes the fee proposal form and specifies the date, October 31st, when the proposals are due to the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance.
A Business and Finance Review Panel consisting of the Vice Chancellor for Business & Finance, Director of Finance, the Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance, and the Manager of Student Accounts was created to provide an initial review of fee proposals for reasonableness and compliance with Central Administration guidelines. This panel reviews fee proposals in November.
A summary of accepted fee proposals is created by the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance and is simultaneously sent to the Chancellor and to the Academic Administrative Review group in early November for a vote on advancement (except Fund A fees which are voted on by students). This group consists of the Dean for Student Affairs, President or Vice President of Student Government, the four academic deans or their designees, the Graduate Dean and a Faculty Senate representative. Fee proposals that are approved at this level are advanced to the Chancellor and the Chancellor's Cabinet for review. If a proposed fee is advanced through all approval levels, it will be included in the annual fee request and review package that is forwarded to the Central Administration in January. The approved fees are reported to the Board of Regents at their spring meeting.
Subsequent to Board of Regents review and/or approval of student fees for an academic term, the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance notifies the Manager of Student Accounts of the fees which have been approved for the upcoming term. The Manager of Student Accounts places the new fee rate into SAP production for the new term.
Authority to Request a New Fee or a Change to an Existing Fee
The Department Chair has the authority to request a new fee or a change to an existing fee with approval of the appropriate Dean or Vice Chancellor.
On the Administrative side, a Dean or Director has the authority to request a new feel or a change to an existing fee with approval of their appropriate Vice Chancellor.
Guidelines or Restrictions on the Expenditure of Fee Revenues
Generally, fees should be expended only for the intended purpose for which the fees were collected. Appropriate use of fees generated, explicit restrictions, limitations, or conditions should be included on the Fee Proposal Request Form.
University of Nebraska Central Administration guidelines require that permanent salary and benefits should not be supported with fee revenue and/or "soft" money generated on each campus. This policy excludes salaries and benefits of permanent employees paid by certain recognized Auxiliary Fund cost centers.


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Plans announced Tuesday for a $7 billion toll road and rail corridor running 300 miles from Orange Beach to the Tennessee state line, met with skepticism from state and local officials, some who said they learned of the project only that day.
Toll-road experts said the plan was the most ambitious currently pending in the United States. Baldwin County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey, citing a lack of contact with local officials, called the project "far-fetched."
Ameri-Metro of York, Pa., said it had agreed to build the project for Alabama Toll Facilities Inc., a Cullman company whose business is "charitable purposes/bridge and highway facilities" according to records of the Alabama Secretary of State.
State transportation officials said they were contacted by Ameri-Metro only after the Press-Register published a story online midday Tuesday.
"There's a level of detail that needs to be worked out between the state and local governments that might be involved in a project of this nature that hasn't happened yet," said Tony Harris, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Transportation.
Shah Mathias, the Pennsylvania real estate developer who heads Ameri-Metro, said he did talk to transportation officials during the Bob Riley administration.
Mathias said he also met with officials trying to promote economic development in the Black Belt, including Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey and state Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma.
Mathias said the corridor would roughly parallel U.S. 43 through the west side of the state. Highway improvements along that general route had previously been touted as a way to jump-start the economy of depressed rural counties.
Ameri-Metro said it would start work next year and complete the route within five years.
Mathias said the key to the strategy is a giant airport and inland port that will build enough traffic to pay for the road. The company would fund the project by selling bonds, then operate the route until the bonds were paid off and hand it over to the state, he said.
"We are not asking for the federal government, the state or anybody else to give us any money," Mathias said.
He said the toll levels would be set later.
Robert Ingram of the Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance said his group had some contact with Ameri-Metro some time ago, referred them to the Alabama Development Office and never heard more.
He took a dim view of the project's chances.
"It is a perfect example of someone making a life out of traveling the country making proposals that are long shots to the millionth degree," he said.
The corridor would stretch to a point on the Tennessee state line east of Florence.
Ameri-Metro said the inland port would be 4,000 acres, larger than the ThyssenKrupp AG site, and include 19 million square feet of warehouse space.
Mathias would only say he was eyeing a location around Birmingham or Montgomery for the port, which would also include an airport with four runways, each 18,000 feet long. That's nearly twice as long as the main runway at Mobile's Brookley Field, which is 9,600 feet.
The inland port is also supposed to include a 60,000 square-foot "Grand Central Station of the South" that would include shops and a hotel, plus a 100,000-square-foot evacuation center.
In an interview, Mathias said he had been involved with the project for a number of years and said Alabama Toll Facilities had signed over all the rights to Ameri-Metro. He said Ameri-Metro planned to sell most of its $7 billion in taxable bonds through a private offering. Among Ameri-Metro's directors is Michael Lasky, a Baltimore man who once controlled the Psychic Friends Network.
Neil Gray, government affairs director at the International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association, a toll road trade group in Washington, D.C., said the plan is ambitious.
"Most of the proposals we've been seeing in the past five years or so have been small and modest," Gray said.
The only recent plan that exceeded its scope was the Trans-Texas corridor, a toll road-and-rail network proposed for the Lone Star State. The proposal was scrapped amid intense political opposition, although private developers are building some sectors around Austin and San Antonio.
"Wow," Baldwin County Engineer Cal Markert said when informed of the project. Markert noted that Ameri-Metro would have to get permission to cross county roads, among environmental and other required permits.
Private toll-road builders in Alabama could have trouble securing right-of-way without government help. Private toll facilities that exist in Alabama today, including the Foley Beach Express, benefit from connecting public roads.
Alabama Toll Facilities, which was incorporated in Cullman in 1993, secured a nonbinding state legislative resolution supporting the project in 2007.
Mathias said the 2007 legislative resolution gave Alabama Toll Facilities the power to condemn land, but the state DOT's Harris said the resolution does not appear to grant that power.
Mathias said the group hoped to avoid condemnation procedures. "I'm pretty sure we're not going to use it if someone is willing to sell."
Acquiring land and permits would be among the key steps to actually building the road, Gray said. He said that Ameri-Metro would have to control the land and demonstrate that the project would pay for itself before anyone would buy bonds.
Staff Reporter Connie Baggett contributed to this report.

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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is ruling out western military intervention to force Russia to pull its troops out of Ukraine.
But he's not ruling out further sanctions, including expelling Russia's ambassador to Canada.
"I don't think there's anyone talking about western military intervention, none of our friends or allies," Baird told Global's West Block.
"What we are doing is working together to say in no uncertain terms that this is completely unacceptable and to condemn (it) in the strongest language possible."
Baird's own language was harsh. He called the invasion of Russian troops "old Soviet-style" aggression and dismissed Russian arguments that it needs to protect its Black Sea naval fleet, which is based in Sevastopol on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, and the Russian-speaking population in that region.
"There is absolutely no justification whatsoever," Baird said.
"The claims that President (Vladimir) Putin puts forward are absurd and ridiculous. He has no right to invade another country, a neighbouring country that's struggling for freedom and democracy.
"The excuses and the rhetoric that's coming out of Moscow are unacceptable. No one is buying them in the western world and they make President Putin look ridiculous."
On Saturday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada is withdrawing its ambassador from Russia and will boycott preparatory meetings of ministers and officials for the G8 summit, which is supposed to be held in June in Sochi, where the Winter Olympic games just ended.
"Next month there's a G8 foreign ministers' meeting and if (Putin) continues with this provocative action, there's certainly no way I or Canada would want to have anything to do with Russian world leadership,'' Baird said.
Whether the G8 leaders' summit itself goes ahead, will be up to Putin, he added, stressing that Russia must be made to realize that its actions "will have a major effect on Russia's relationship, not just with Canada but the entire free and democratic world."
Baird was returning Saturday from Kyiv, where he led a Canadian government delegation to show support for Ukraine's new pro-western government.
In his absence, he said his deputy minister called in Russia's ambassador to Canada, Georgiy Mamedov, and reamed him out "in the strongest terms certainly in my time at Foreign Affairs."
He did not rule out expelling the ambassador.
"We'll obviously be revisiting this on an hour by hour basis," he said, adding that Canada wants to act "in unison" with its allies.
On Saturday, Harper spoke with U.S. President Barack Obama and the two agreed to "co-ordinate closely" their response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Harper has also spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
As well, Harper spoke Saturday with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.
Harper said Canada supports the United Nations sending international monitors to Ukraine and is involved in multilateral talks to put together a financial aid package for Ukraine, which is on the brink of defaulting on its sovereign debt.
Despite the sanctions, Canada does not intend to withdraw its athletes from the Paralympics, set for March 7-16 in Sochi.
"We don't want the athletes to pay the price for this," Baird said.
However, he said no government representative will attend the games "to somehow glorify Russia's time in the spotlight."
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These flashcards will help prepare you for Dr. Esterson's EKG exam on the internal medicine clerkship.
What formula can be used to calculate heart rate given the R-R interval? (assume regular rhythm)
300 / # large boxes in R-R interval
1500 / # small boxes in R-R interval
If there are 3 large boxes in the R-R interval, the heart rate = __ . (assume regular rhythm)
100 bpm
How do you determine HR given an irregular rhythm?
Measure out 6 seconds (6 second rule). Count the # of complexes in 6 sec and multiply by 10.
List 3 criteria for normal sinus rhythm.
1) Rate between 60-100
2) Every normal P wave followed by QRS
3) P wave upright in leads I and II, inverted in aVR.
Transition Zone: There is a progression of precordial R waves. Before V2, they should be (+/-) and (+/-) by V5.
Negative before V2
Positive at V5
What does the EKG show in the injury/acute period in the few hours following an MI?
ST elevation with tall T (tombstone)
In the later stages following an MI, an EKG will show what changes?
Pathological Q waves. T returns upright and ST becomes normal.
Describe the common case of early repolarization
A usually healthy male>female, athlete, with no symptoms
What is the difference between an ST elevation in MI and pericarditis?
STEMIs are more regional whereas pericarditis is seen in all leads except aVR and isoelectric leads
Describe the criteria for RBBB
- QRS elongation, >.12s
- R' in right precordial leads (V1)... R' is wider and taller than R wave
- Wide S in lateral leads
- Secondary ST-T changes (opposite direction)
Describe the criteria for LBBB
- QRS elongation, >.12s
- absent Q waves in lateral leads (I, V5-6)
- broad R wave (I, V5-6)
- Secondary ST-T changes (opposite direction)
- LAD common
Describe the criteria for LVH
- !!Increased QRS voltage
- ST-T "strain" changes in left sided leads
- Slight QRS elongation
- Abnormal Left axis deviation
What EKG findings are associated with HYPERKALEMIA?
- peaked T waves
- QRS prolongation (widenen T)
- P waves with long duration, low amplitude
- Increased PR interval
- P wave disappears
- QRS sine wave
What is characteristic about the A fib EKG?
- No definite P shape can be determined
- Irregularly irregular P waves at 400-700 bpm
- Normal QRS at 100-180 bpm
What is characteristic about PVCs: Premature Ventricular Complexes?
- Wider and different from sinus QRS
- Not preceded by premature P wave
- Significance depends on the clinical setting
Define Ventricular tachycardia
- 3 or more PVCs
- abrupt onset and termination
- rate 140 - 200
- not preceded by P waves
Describe Type I Second Degree AV Block
- Progressively lengthening PR interval, then a non-conducted P
Describe Type II Second Degree AV Block
- PR interval is constant, followed by a non-conducted P
- bi/trifascicular block
Describe Third Degree AV Block
- Regular PP and RR intervals, VARIABLE PR INTERVAL!
- Atrial rate > ventricular rate
"25 y.o. senior medical student presents to the ER the night before Match Day, complaining of sharp chest pain and tenderness."
Normal EKG
"45 y.o supervisor with chest tightness and arm heaviness after foot surgery."
Subendocardial ischemia / ischemic ST depression
"75 y.o. Miami physician retired to N Dakota. He presents with chest pain while shoveling snow."
Ischemic T wave
"35 y.o. man presents with indigestion and chest fullness brought on by chili peppers and relieved by antacids."
Early repol - more common in young
"24 year old student, recently recovered from upper respiratory infection, presents w fever and chest pain."
"85 year old female undergoing preop evaluation prior to hip surgery. Anesthiologist is asking if a pacemaker is needed."
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Hamilton Palace is a new mansion house being constructed on a private 100 acre estate in the Sussex countryside. It is the largest private house to be built in Britain in the last 100 years.
The building and works to the Estate, which were expected to take 20 years to complete, were for Mr Nicholas van Hoogstraten - an international financier frequently featured in the media. The planning permission was granted in 1987 and the final planning legal agreement was signed in 1994. Part of the house was due to be ready for occupation by 2000, but work ceased after disputes arose between the Client and the contractors 6 months after we had finished work on the project.
Unfortunately, the house may never be finished as in July 2000 the Client was convincted of manslaughter of a business associate and was sentenced to 10 years in prision. An appeal is pending. The case received international media attention.
The new house was designed by Anthony Browne and will have a façade longer than Buckingham Palace. The house replaces a derelict mansion that stood on the same site but was damaged by fire in 1983. A J Browne Co. acted as Project Managers and Architects on the construction of the house.
As well as the main house, a Boathouse 'Folly' was built which follows the same design principles as the Main House.


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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
For Cancer Patients, the Star Trek "Tricorder" Still a Dream
By Heather Millar
A couple weeks ago, my tween daughter came running out of the bathroom with a copy of the super-serious British news magazine, The Economist. Can you tell she lives with a couple of geeky-journalist parents?
"Mom!" she cried. "There's a story in here that says they're trying to invent a real tricorder! Isn't that cool?!" For those among you who are not Star Trek-initiated, a "tricorder" is a sci-fi device that "Starfleet" medical officers use to diagnose everything from broken limbs to infections from alien viruses. The Economist piece outlined some pretty neat devices that may be life-changing in areas of the developing world where doctors are few and the needs are great.
Smartphone apps mobile devices already exist that can monitor your blood pressure, your blood glucose levels, even take ultrasound images or do retinal scans. Global sales of mobile health apps is predicted to rise from 8 million in 2011 to .3 billion this year, according to The Economist story.
So I wondered if there might be any apps that could help cancer patients. Might there be an app that integrates all the different diet advice for the survivors of various cancers? Maybe someone had created an app to help lung cancer patients quit smoking?
It won't surprise you that I was completely overwhelmed by the number of health apps at the iTunes store. There were so many that it would take me weeks to analyze them all.
But as I clicked around, I discovered a couple of things: First, the FDA only has draft guidance on which mobile apps require review. So there's not yet organized oversight of healthcare apps.
Second, I found this study from the Journal of Cancer Education. The researchers found 77 apps relevant to cancer. Seventy-seven! See what I mean about the ferment out there?
Those 77 apps were aimed at different audiences: healthcare agencies, healthcare workers, and patients. But here's the takeaway: Only about 56 percent of these apps were backed by scientific data. And the apps aimed at consumers seemed to have less scientific backing than those aimed at medical professionals.
I've no doubt that in my lifetime something akin to a tricorder will become common. The "Tricorder X Prize" contest, announced last year, will no doubt help move that along. The Qualcomm Foundation, the charity arm of the technology company, is offering a million prize to the first team that can bring quality healthcare to the palm of your hand.
But it's not here yet. So, for now, be careful of what apps you use to help monitor your health, and stay tuned!


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Bullet hits Carlisle home
Published 11:05 AM EDT Jun 17, 2013
Carlisle police said a bullet hit a home when someone fired a gun Sunday night in the 400 block of North Pitt Street.
Officers searched the scene and also found a .9mm casing under a vehicle, police said.
No one was hurt.
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Is city going to be ready if a hurricane hits?
By Kenneth Fine
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Today, someone accused me of stuffing my bra when some tissue fell out. I was too embarrassed to tell them I wasn't stuffing, the tissue was used to sop up my boob sweat. FML
by sunkissedevil / 03/30/2016 at 10:52pm / United States (Minnesota) / Health
Today, my family and I were laying on my parents' bed watching a movie. My dad wrapped his arm around me and began rubbing my shoulder. That would have been fine, if it actually had been my shoulder and not my boob. Needless to say, we were both mortified. FML
by ScarredDaughter / 03/29/2016 at 1:01am / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, I realized that I know, all too well, what it feels like to have my over-middle-age boss's boob on my shoulder. FML
by WeightonmyShoulders / 12/11/2015 at 4:10pm / United States (New York) / Work
Today, my boyfriend started to suck on my boob, which I quite enjoy, until he said he was breastfeeding and called me "Mummy". I don't think I can ever let his mouth near my boobs ever again. FML
by notyourmummy / 11/12/2015 at 4:09am / United Kingdom (Isle of Wight) / Intimacy
Today, I finally found a bug I had been trying to get rid of. When I removed my bra, I noticed what looked like a piece of bug on it. Apparently, the bug was flattened and suffocated by my boob the entire day. FML
by Kurda / 05/22/2015 at 10:26pm / United States (North Carolina) / Miscellaneous
Today, I burned my right boob. I got it by eating a hot pocket and accidentally spilling the extremely hot filling. I never thought I'd get laid before. This has just confirmed it. FML
by Nikia818 / 02/06/2014 at 1:23pm / United States (Virginia) / Health
Today, I saw a woman in the neighbouring apartment taking a shower without pulling the blinds of her bathroom window. As a good Samaritan, I waved my arms to attract her attention that she forgot the blinds. She noticed me, opened the window, did a weird boob dance and middle fingered me. FML
by Magicali / 04/21/2013 at 10:56pm / Australia (New South Wales) / Miscellaneous
Today, my husband asked me to show him my boob. I began to pull the side of my shirt down when he said, "No, not that one, the big one." FML
by sarah6786 / 01/21/2013 at 9:27pm / United States (New York) / Intimacy
Today, my mother came back from her trip to Vegas. Her breasts were obviously 2 letter sizes larger. I asked if she got a boob job and she denied it, saying that it's against her religion. She's an atheist, and a liar. FML
by Brooke / 01/15/2013 at 12:45am / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, I had a proper look at myself in the mirror. I have recently lost 5 lbs. Turns out that it mainly shows on my boob. Not boobs. Boob. Right one only. FML
by Amathiel / 12/29/2012 at 10:23am / Norway (Sogn og Fjordane) / Health
Today, my boyfriend grabbed my boob, shook it savagely, and shouted "Earthquake!" FML
by Ape / 12/17/2012 at 6:12pm / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, I was getting intimate with my boyfriend, when he suddenly grabbed my front. He said, in a sexy voice, "Is that your boob?". He had grabbed a fat roll. FML
by ToughTitties / 12/14/2012 at 8:45am / United Kingdom (Essex) / Intimacy
Today, I told my husband that I'm tired of feeling like his "blow-up doll". His response was to honk my boob and make squeaking noises. FML
by Anonymous / 09/08/2012 at 10:20am / United States (Michigan) / Intimacy
Today, at the water park, my grandmother's boob slipped out. Every time I close my eyes, I see her dangling breast in my mind. FML
by JMG / 08/19/2012 at 1:25am / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, I was stabbed in the chest. Not with a knife though, the under-wire from my bra escaped and stabbed me in the boob. FML
by J.O.S / 03/21/2012 at 5:06pm / United States (Pennsylvania) / Miscellaneous


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I dealt with blemishes on my skin as a teenager and well into my twenties. I have sensitive skin and it didn't take much to irritate it, until I found Proactive. I've been using Proactive Skin Care for years… well that is… up until about 8 months ago. 8 months ago I woke up one morning and noticed that the coloured pillow case I had put on the night before had changed colour, it was as if someone poured bleach on it. The only thing that touched the pillow was may face and the only thing on my face was Proactive. And then it hit me…. Proactive's main ingredient is benzyl peroxide. Peroxide is the same chemical used to strip the colour off your hair when you colour your hair. So naturally, I came to the conclusion that if it could discolour synthetic fabric then what was it doing to my skin! (As a disclaimer this was just my experience, I can't say that this is true in all cases.) So I decided to go cold turkey, I went natural with my hair so why not my skin regimen.
So here's what happened… when I stopped using Proactive I started breaking out, and it made my skin worse. I learned that benzyl peroxide dries out your skin so when you stop using it your skin goes into overdrive producing more and more sebum which can lead to more breakouts.
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Do you ever visit anywhere that the land is flat? Looks like a lot of uphill walking...or driving.
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We were very impressed, once again, with the beauty of Chile. Being one of the oldest cities in Chile, the Colonial Architecture has been preserved and the nice wide streets and parks were lined with large, old trees. The people are so kind - we felt very welcome - first by our taxi driver, Hugo and then by all of the people that we encountered in the markets. The most common question was whether we liked Chile - the people take a lot of pride in their country and it shows.
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Blues Send Elliott To AHL For Conditioning Stint
The St. Louis Blues? three?s company goaltending routine is getting cut down, at least for a weekend. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that struggling former All-Star Brian Elliott has been sent to the team?s AHL affiliate for conditioning purposes.
Blues GM Doug Armstrong explains why it will be a short but potentially useful stint.
?We don?t play this weekend and he wasn?t going to play tonight,? Armstrong said. ?It gives him an opportunity to play two games in two nights. The feeling was he needed to get some games.?
The trip didn?t just happen because Elliott, 27, will be able to squeeze in contests on Friday and Saturday with the Peoria Rivermen. It?s likely that the team kept him around a little longer so that the Matt D?Agostini trade could go through.
Naturally, some might wonder if the Blues are trying to keep Elliott in shape for trade deadline reasons.
They?re carrying three goalies (Elliott, Jake Allen and Jaroslav Halak) on their NHL roster, which is not exactly ideal. It?s also interesting that Elliott and Halak have contracts through 2013-14 while Allen is a restricted free agent this summer.
One might see that as a formula for a trade, yet Elliott?s value is low and Armstrong shot down Halak rumors.
Either way, the Blues? netminding situation looks set to be an interesting scenario to watch, especially in the next week.
For more on this story visit: James O'Brien, NBC Sports Pro Hockey Talk


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Repligen is buying Novozymes' Biopharma Sweden business for €17 million (about $22.7 million) in cash, plus future potential milestones totaling another €4 million (roughly $5.6 million). Novozymes Biopharma specializes in the manufacture and supply of growth factors used in mammalian cell culture and Protein A affinity ligands used in monoclonal antibody production. Its products are sold primarily under long-term supply agreements with the major life science companies.
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Repligen already supplies four different forms of recombinant Protein A, and the Novozymes acquisition will expand its portfolio to include "native" Protein A. As part of the acquisition of the Novozymes' business, Repligen has extended the terms of an existing supply agreement for recombinant Protien A, from 2014 to 2021. The Novozymes takeover will in addition provide Repligen with four cell culture supplements or growth factors, including Long®R3 IGF-I, Long®-EGF, Long® TGFα, and recombinant transferrin.
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Some days in the Penny Press are more frustrating than others, of course, and sometimes those weeks offer clear signals of their intent to get my knickers in a twist. This happened just yesterday, in fact, when I took my first clear look at Barry Blitt's imbecilic cover to the 26 January New Yorker, which is titled "The Dream of Reconciliation" and shows Martin Luther King marching arm-in-arm with a quartet of people who have only one thing in common: their complete indifference to any cause King ever marched for or cared about (at least two of the four people pictured marching with King, if they'd seen this cover, wouldn't have been able to identify him). The false equivalence on display there – the fat, contented, Upper West Side substitute for thinking, the idea that if you die by police-related violence, you must have died in some noble struggle – well, it grated, at least to the extent that New Yorker covers ever can.
Frustration got worse inside the issue, although for different reasons. Jill Lepore, the magazine's best writer, certainly doesn't ever frustrate for pulling any substitutes for thinking; she's as smart a writer as they come. No, it's her subject this time around that caused the frustration – the subject of the impermanence of the Internet. The piece is called "The Cobweb," and although it's meant to offer a gleam of hope, it could scarcely be more frutrating for somebody who's helped to build a thing like Open Letters Monthly online.
"The average life of a Web page is about a hundred days," Lepore reports in the process of describing a project designed to archive Internet contents, "It's like trying to stand on quicksand." And the picture doesn't get any rosier when she shifts he emphasis to more scholarly works:
The footnote, a landmark in the history of civilization, took centuries to invent and to spread. It has taken mere nearly to destroy. A footnote used to say, "Here is how I know this and where I found it." A footnote that's a link says, "Here is what I used to know and where I once found it, but chances are it's not there anymore." It doesn't matter whether footnotes are your stock-in-trade. Everybody's in a pinch. Citing a Web page as the source for something you know – using a URL as evidence – is ubiquitous. Many people find themselves doing it three or four times before breakfast and five times more before lunch. What happens when your evidence vanishes by dinnertime?
The piece made me want to have a stock-taking talk with Robert Minto, OLM's newest editor and the only one of us who's as comfortable with code as codicils … to see if there's anything to be done about the quicksand.


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SHE WENT TO NICE TO POLISH HER French and ended up having a leçon de coeur, royal style. It's way too soon for Grace Kelly fantasies, but suffice it to say that Tallahassee, Fla., native Helen Willis enjoyed a swell July with Monaco's heir apparent, Prince Albert. Willis, 19, a junior and a dance major at Manhattan's Marymount College, met the Prince, 33, at a disco in Monaco and the two hit it off immediately. Next came a private dinner, then a day in the sun on his speedboat, the Mozambo, with friends. The 5'10" Willis was Albert's date to Texas socialite Lynn Wyatt's Riviera birthday bash, oozing her southern charm midst the likes of Roger Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber and photographer Helmut Newton. Her parents, Lee Willis II, a lawyer, and Katharine, quickly got the news that Albert is a prince of a guy. "She said he's been just perfect," says Katharine. "She said, 'He reminds me of Daddy'—not his age but his manners. She says he's so polite."
Willis, one of seven Marymount students on a summer study program, grew up in Tallahassee. She attended private school from kindergarten through eighth grade and was a cheerleader for a time in middle school but gave it up to focus on dance. She has taken lessons since she was 3. "She's really well rounded," says her mother. "She's a lot of fun and has a great sense of humor."
One insider cautions against taking the fling too seriously, pointing out that Albert dates around. (Past flames include Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah and American actress Lydia Cornell.) Last week he made a trip to the U.S., and Helen, whose studies abroad ended the week before last, was headed to Spain to visit another college chum before returning to school in mid-September. But as an only daughter (she has an 18-year-old brother, Lee), she was always called Princess by her father. And as Helen told her mom, "Albert is charming."
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We New Yorkers normally don't root for Bostonians, but after yesterday's horrific events at the Boston Marathon, I think it's safe to say that we're all praying for Bean Town right now.
In what could have been another tragedy for the New York Rangers organization, Dylan McIlrath was in Boston to checkout the race…
Wow scary moment. Was walking towards Boston marathon finish line. 10mins away from where bomb went off
— Dylan McIlrath (@dylan_mcilrath) April 15, 2013
McIlrath discussed the eerie scene with Pat Leonard at the Daily News.
…frightening. Crazy to think that if he left 10 minutes earlier his life could have been altered permanently.
…after dealing with the recent deaths of Cherepanov and Boogaard, another tragedy to the Rangers family would have been unfair.
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Actual Share Repurchase and Corporate Liquidity
Edith Ginglinger
Université Paris-Dauphine, DRM
Jacques Hamon
Université Paris Dauphine - CEREG
September 2003
EFMA 2004 Basel Meetings Paper
Research into the impact of open market share repurchases has been hindered by the lack of data available on actual share repurchases in many countries, including the U.S. Using a previously unaccessed database containing detailed information on 36,848 repurchase days concerning 352 French firms, we show that corporate share repurchases have a significantly adverse effect on the liquidity of the trading day concerned, whether measured by bid-ask spread or depth. Our results also indicate that although on average managers have some timing ability, only the smallest firms listed on the least liquid market segments successfully take advantage of it.
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Computer Simulation for Incident Command Exercises
By Dennis McGrath, Research Associate, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Michael R. McCarthy, Chief of Police (Retired), Swanton Village, Vermont
omeland security is hometown security. Police executives have adopted this theme across the United States to stress the need for full community involvement in all-hazards emergency preparedness. The pressing question is how to achieve this level of involvement in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Since 2004, engineers at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College have been working under a homeland security grant to develop a system that delivers Web-based, real-time, real-life, customized National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident Command System (ICS)–compliant training scenarios.
Incident Command in the Age of NIMS
In 2004 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security established the NIMS and its associated ICS as the standard for all emergency response organizations. Emergency responders have been working toward NIMS compliance since then, with many successes along the way.
Widespread compliance and the use of the NIMS/ICS remain a work in progress. NIMS compliance is particularly challenging for small, rural districts that rely heavily on volunteer and part-time resources, where training budgets and time are limited. Furthermore, effective incident command requires greater awareness of the incident command structure. Practice, as they say, makes perfect.
Incident command requires practice in procedures, communication, leadership, and the ability to develop situational awareness from sometimes ambiguous and incomplete information.1 Although many of these skills are used by law enforcement agencies on a daily basis, studies have shown that under the stress of disasters and other major incidents, even experienced professionals become less effective.2 Repeated rehearsal of incident command roles and responsibilities under simulated crisis conditions can mitigate the potential degradation of decision-making skills under stress.
Incident Command Exercises and Training
Exercises are an important part of training at every level of the law enforcement profession, and incident command exercises are particularly critical for disaster readiness. The NIMS requires any organization that could be called on to respond during an incident to "participate in realistic exercises including multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional events and private-sector and nongovernmental organization interaction—to improve integration and interoperability."3 But what makes an incident command exercise "realistic"? Answering this question requires some honest reflection on the shortcomings of typical exercises.
Troubles with Exercises
Emergency response exercises range from simple discussion-based exercises about what would happen if a bus turned over in a small town to national events like the TOPOFF series of exercises. In an ideal world, regular, full-scale exercises would ensure that every emergency management organization was at maximum readiness, but the cost of planning, conducting, and reviewing exercises makes frequent full-scale exercises prohibitive. In fact, even full-scale exercises are often heavily scripted to guide the exercise to a desired outcome.4 Tabletop exercises, due to their lower cost, can be held more frequently than full-scale exercises, although they suffer from multiple shortcomings that limit the amount of "realism."
In a typical tabletop exercise, participants discuss response to a predetermined scenario while a moderator controls the pace of the event. A skilled moderator can keep control of the exercise, but sidebar discussions often spin out of control and drag down the pace and the effectiveness of the exercise. Resource allocation decisions are often made with unrealistic response times and equipment and personnel availability. The positive and negative evaluations are often left in part to the imagination of the evaluators. After-action reporting depends on the recording ability of the scribe assigned to capture events and conversations during the exercise.
This does not, however, mean that tabletop exercises are without value or that those who run them are unprofessional. The real challenge is determining whether or not technology can overcome their limitations. Technology solutions should begin with a realistic assessment of where improvements can be made to enhance the real-world effectiveness of these exercises.
Computer Simulation and Emergency Response
Law enforcement agencies have increasingly been able to use computer simulations for situational training in such areas as motor vehicle operation and firearms proficiency. Many of these simulations evolved from military simulations, sometimes called "synthetic battlespaces." Military training budgets, however, are in the millions of dollars, far exceeding the reach of most, if not all, emergency response organizations. In recent years, computer game technology has been leveraged to create serious simulations at low cost. The Thayer School has adapted this technology to fit into the NIMS/ICS environment and is developing prototypes of Web-based training scenarios that can be custom designed for any community.
Agencies seeking to incorporate incident command simulation into the toolbox of emergency responders will encounter the following challenges:
Interactive Synthetic Environment for Exercise
In response to these challenges, the Interactive Synthetic Environment for Exercise (ISEE) was developed at Dartmouth College with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. ISEE is a Web-based simulation designed to be an engine for incident command exercises. More specifically, ISEE was designed with the following goals:
ISEE has numerous benefits for those seeking to participate in incident response simulations.
Accessibility: ISEE is readily accessible by anyone with an Internet connection. This has the benefit of allowing exercise participants to engage in the same simulation from different locations if necessary. In other words, participating in the same simulated exercise, an incident commander could log on to the simulation from City Hall, while the operations section chief might log on from the local police station.
Flexibility: Every community is different, not only in terms of population and geography but also in terms of its emergency response capabilities and mutual aid resources. The threat profile for every community differs as well: a hurricane preparedness exercise may be entirely suitable for a jurisdiction on the Gulf Coast, but less so for a community in the Pacific Northwest, where a wildfire scenario would make more sense. ISEE has the flexibility to accommodate many different scenarios.
Roles and Responsibilities: The roles and responsibilities for incident command are defined by the NIMS/ICS. At the top of the chain of command is the incident commander role, which has more responsibility and functionality than any other role. In ISEE, as many or as few roles can be filled as available personnel allow, just as in a real situation. In other words, a user can log in as the logistics section chief or a safety officer or any other ICS position, and the simulation presents options, resources, and functions that are appropriate to that role.
Situational Awareness: During a real disaster, the incident command team builds situational awareness from a combination of sources, including firsthand observation and reports from the scene. In an ISEE exercise, these building blocks of situational awareness are replicated in the form of a master scenario event list, which contains essential scenario events in text, pictures, sound clips, or videos.
ISEE Exercise Preparation
Agencies participating in an ISEE exercise provide their personnel and equipment capacities and availability list to the facilitators in advance of the exercise. These data are entered into the database and will be the only personnel and equipment available for use during the exercise. Incident location, response distances, road conditions, and date-appropriate weather are also made part of the program. Before the ISEE exercise begins, participants are given an initial briefing, an orientation to the background of the event, and a login password to identify each participant.
Real-Life, Real-Time Exercise
As with almost every emergency response, an ISEE exercise begins with a dispatcher receiving information regarding the nature and the location of the incident. The dispatcher then must determine what resources should be sent from which "communities" to the "scene." Since delays are a realistic part of disaster management, response time is an important part of the ISEE exercise dynamic. Simulated resources are not available for use by the incident command team until they "arrive" at the scene after a timed amount of travel equivalent to real-life travel time from their stations. Once assigned to and functioning at a scene, equipment and personnel are tracked by the ISEE system. Personnel become tired; fire equipment pumping 200 gallons of water per minute from a 1,500-gallon tank runs out of water in seven minutes and stops functioning unless replenished. All of this must be monitored and dealt with by the incident command team. Additional resources do not just show up, they must be requested; they, too, have to deal with the measured response and travel time before they can be put into service. Both radio communications and instant messaging on the ISEE system are recorded for after-action review. Incident command forms are an important part of the ICS system. Electronic versions of ICS forms ICS 201 through 218 are on the ISEE system.
Enosburg Exercise
Vermont, New York, and Canadian law enforcement authorities were shown a prototype of the Web-based training in 2006 at an international border intelligence conference held at the Swanton Village Police Department, a small rural agency in the northwest corner of Vermont, near the Canadian border. These intelligence-sharing meetings have been regularly organized by James Leene, the law enforcement coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's office in Vermont. Leene had earlier been apprised of the work being done at the Thayer School of Engineering and approached one of the authors (M.R.M.) to have the training system introduced to the border meeting participants. The advantages of the Web-based delivery system were immediately apparent. Cooperation among public safety agencies on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border has been strong in northern New England for many years, but it has been limited in its capabilities due primarily to differences in two-way radio and telephone systems. A tabletop cross-border training exercise held in 2005 identified this issue and stressed the real need to improve the coordination of responses across and around the international border.
On May 19, 2007, the Northwest Vermont Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) conducted a live exercise using the ISEE incident command simulation in Enosburg, Vermont. The scenario involved a simulated commercial plane crash on a nearby mountain, requiring a response from both U.S. and Canadian law enforcement, fire, rescue, and medical units. Robert White, a retired Vermont State Police major contracting with the LEPC for homeland security training, and Sean Coleman, the LEPC coordinator for the area, developed the scenario and obtained the response and resource lists of the participating agencies and fine-tuned the details with the Dartmouth team for several months prior to the exercise.
Fourteen computers were used in the simulation. For four hours, the incident commander from the Enosburg Fire Department and his staff used everything they had learned in NIMS/ICS training to establish the command post, the treatment area, and the staging area. They also assigned fire, rescue, and police units to their tasks; conducted simulated search and rescue; and transported 21 simulated casualties to local hospitals.
The Future
Concepts central to the NIMS vision, such as interoperable communications, a common operational picture, and a unified incident command, are organizational and technological challenges that will require considerable effort on the part of all emergency responders. The integration of simulation technology into the toolbox of emergency responders will take time as the technology evolves. This evolution can happen only with the close cooperation of both the developers and the users of this technology. Prototype exercises like the Enosburg plane crash give both technologists and emergency responders a better understanding of what is needed to reach the full capabilities of the NIMS vision. Michael Chertoff, secretary of the DHS, is "strongly committed to maintaining our funding and training and exercising across the entire spectrum of homeland security."5 Incident command simulations such as the ISEE system can be a functional part of that commitment. ■
1See Gregory Bigley and Karlene Roberts, "The Incident Command System: High-Reliability Organizing for Complex and Volatile Task Environments," Academy of Management Journal 44, no. 66 (December 2001): 1281–1299.2See James E. Driskell and Eduardo Salas, "Group Decision Making under Stress," Journal of Applied Psychology 76, no. 3 (June 1991): 473–478.3U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Incident Management System, March 1, 2004, 37, http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/NIMS-90-web.pdf (accessed September 13, 2008).4Thomas Inglesby, Rita Grossman, and Tara O'Toole, "A Plague on Your City: Observations from TOPOFF," Clinical Infectious Diseases 32 (2001): 436–445.5Quoted in Lois Pilant Grossman, "The Future of Homeland Security: An Interview with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff," The Police Chief 74, no. 2 (February 2007): 15.Virtual Terrorism Response Academy CourseISEE is not the only computer simulation training available to first responders. Offered by the Virtual Terrorism Response Academy (VTRA), Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat is an interactive course for fire, emergency medical services, and law enforcement personnel offering 16 hours of practical, engaging training about chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats.Ops-Plus features multiple video game–style simulations that put participants in tactical terrorism response scenarios. (The introductory level ensures that participants do not need previous video game experience.) The program also includes the Hazmat Learning Lab with extensive training at the operations level of the latest National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 472 standard on hazmat and weapons of mass destruction. Participants can demonstrate their vital knowledge of personal protective equipment, instruments, rescue, triage, casualty care, and risk management in real-world, life-and-death scenarios.The VTRA's Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat course can be taken individually or led by an instructor, and it is designed to run on the older computers found in today's firehouses and police stations.This project was supported by a cooperative agreement awarded to the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College and administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.http://iml.dartmouth.edu/education/pcpt/vtra/Top
ISEE is not the only computer simulation training available to first responders. Offered by the Virtual Terrorism Response Academy (VTRA), Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat is an interactive course for fire, emergency medical services, and law enforcement personnel offering 16 hours of practical, engaging training about chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats.
Ops-Plus features multiple video game–style simulations that put participants in tactical terrorism response scenarios. (The introductory level ensures that participants do not need previous video game experience.) The program also includes the Hazmat Learning Lab with extensive training at the operations level of the latest National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 472 standard on hazmat and weapons of mass destruction. Participants can demonstrate their vital knowledge of personal protective equipment, instruments, rescue, triage, casualty care, and risk management in real-world, life-and-death scenarios.
The VTRA's Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat course can be taken individually or led by an instructor, and it is designed to run on the older computers found in today's firehouses and police stations.
This project was supported by a cooperative agreement awarded to the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College and administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Contractual prize-money agreements with racecourses and a fairer deal with bookmakers are required, says ROA President more »
ROA President Rachel Hood used the association's annual general meeting in London to outline the need to continue to work to raise prize-money levels, with £120m the target for next year.
An increase in prize-money in 2013 to an expected amount of at least £110 million raised the return to owners by just three per cent to 24%.
In her address to ROA members and industry figures, Hood outlined three objectives to be achieved for owners in the coming months:
"The reality remains that the betting market has evolved and British racing continues to be short-changed by a piece of outdated legislation introduced in the early 1960s," said Hood.
"I would urge the Minister [for Sport and Tourism, Hugh Robertson] to remove this issue from his 'too difficult tray' and display some desire and commitment to facilitate a fair, sustainable and enforceable mechanism that would enable racing to receive a reasonable return from all betting on British racing, not just the diminishing portion that takes place with bookmakers based in the UK."
The ROA President added that contractual prize-money agreements were required to ensure an acceptable commitment from media rights income to prize funds in the future and applauded those racecourses that "put a reasonable share of media revenues into prize-money".
She said: "The commitment from the RCA and its members to introduce contractual agreements with the Horsemen's Group under Philip Freedman's leadership, and BHA, is welcomed.
"Any racecourse that isn't prepared to act appropriately must be left in absolutely no doubt that horsemen will, quite rightly, choose to race their horses elsewhere.
"Progress on issues relating to betting and racecourses is essential if we are going to achieve a step change for members that would see prize-money of at least £120 million, a realistic target I believe the sport should set for 2014."
Hood also welcomed the appointment of Steve Harman as the incoming BHA chairman, who takes up his post from July 1, 2013.
She said: "Whilst he has been involved in racehorse ownership under both codes for many years in Britain, Steve also has enjoyed a very successful corporate career and brings an international perspective to the numerous challenges the sport faces."
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Viz Cinema Presents "Artist Series"
Viz Cinema in San Francisco is hosting the Artist Series, a 4-day film festival featuring 6 prominent Japanese artists. The festival starts on March 6th and goes until the 9th. Below you can find the complete schedule of all of the films. Each one runs for about 2 hours. Special festival passes are available for $30. This pass will allow you to access any screening at any time during the entire four days. General admission for individual films are $10 each, and Seniors (62+) and Children (under 12) are $8. More details and trailers for each film can be found at www.vizcinema.com. For those of you in the bay area, I really recommend going and seeing Yayoi Kusama's film if nothing else. Saturday, March 6th: Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai Nouveau 1:00 pm Makoto Aida: Cynic in the Playground 3:00 pm Katsura Funakoshi: Whispering Gaze 5:00 pm Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog ofRead more →
Sony Acquires Media Molecule
Sony liked LittleBigPlanet so much, they put a ring on it. Well, the company that made LBP, anyway. Sony has acquired game developer Media Molecule, who will join as part of SCE's global development operation, SCE Worldwide Studios. Looks like their exclusive relationship has gotten permanently exclusive-r. Media Molecule, based in Surrey, England, develops games that introduce gamers to the unique ethos of Play, Create and Share, which has revolutionized gaming longevity. Media Molecule brings a wealth of experience and a highly talented staff into the SCE WWS family that will further strengthen the PlayStation first party studio. FollowRead more →By Tiffany Nevin in News No comments yet
VFS Offers Women in Games Scholarship for the Second Year in a Row
Vancouver Film School is pleased to present the first-of-its-kind $30,000 Women in Games Scholarship for the second straight year. This scholarship covers the full tuition for a female aspiring game designer to attend VFS's one-year Game Design program, and was established as a concerted efford by Vancouver Film School to encourage more females to pursue Game Design as a career. Last year's scholarship winner, Shannon Lee of Toronto, is still very enthusiastic about the program midway through. (Then again, I guess the homework's pretty fun.) "The Game Design program at VFS has been a very rewarding and enjoyable experience thus far," Lee says. "Applying for the scholarship was the best decision I've ever made and I'm sure that the next recipient will feel the same," she said. VFS has quite a few distinguished alumnae, including Tara Mustapha and Charmie Kim of Microsoft Game Studios, Pamela Livara of Vancouver's Slant Six,Read more →By Tiffany Nevin in News 1 Comment »
Shaun White Announces New Skateboarding Title
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World's First Rock Climbing Game in Development for Wii
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Random House turning to video games for new books
Many of us are very familiar with video game book adaptations, and I'm sure many of us read them to delve into the universe more. So it's no surprise that Random House recently announced that they had set up a small unit to create books related to new and current video games that are out on the market. Book profits haven't been what they used to be and Random House has already been working on increasing profits with books for e-readers like the Nook and Kindle. Random House has said that they are currently working on two ideas, but have only hinted that one is an "adventure" and the other is a "horror" genre. They also have a partnership with Stardock to write stories about their game Elemental: War of Magic which is due out this fall. Now hedging their bets on books based on video games can be aRead more →
Catch Tron trailer in 3D this weekend
Alice in Wonderland opens this weekend, but as if that wasn't cool enough, Disney has announced that one of the trailers will be for Tron: Legacy and it will be in 3D and Imax 3D starting March 5th. That is going to be awesome. If you are excited, check out the Tron Facebook page for their trailer countdown which will feature new images each day. Tron: Legacy will be in theaters on December 17, 2010. FollowRead more →By GamingAngel in Movies No comments yet
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Global Agenda Patch 1.1 Released Today, Global Agenda Dev Chat Tomorrow
Global Agenda is getting its first major patch tomorrow, 1.1. Several additions are afoot, but it's going to take some downtime to get it all done – servers are expected to be down from 11:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern) today. In addition, all conquest zones will be closed so that everyone can get the new patch. How to do that, you ask? Close Steam completely, wait a minute, and then relaunch. The download should be in your My Games tab. Hi-Rez Studios is also hosting another Global Agenda dev chat using Vivox Voice for Facebook. This event will take place on Wednesday, March 3 at 9pm US Eastern, 6PM US Pacific (02:00 GMT on Thursday, March 4). Hi-Rez will be giving a "State of the Game" address, talk about eventual additions, and respond to questions. They urge everyone to enter the room early, submit questions on the Global AgendaRead more →By Tiffany Nevin in News No comments yet
Skooba Launches New Organization and Protection Products
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Pineapple diet can be effective – you need only a special approach. Pineapples contain enzymes that are actively fighting the fat accumulation and improve the functioning of the stomach. They also have a beneficial impact on the work of the intestinal system, and pancreas. Pineapples are low in calories – about 50 calories and contain large amounts of potassium, which deduces excess liquid from the body. This fruit contains valuable substance – bromelain, which is an excellent fat burner.
Pineapple diet for 2 days
You need to take 2 kg of fresh pineapple and 1 liter of pineapple juice without sugar. Pineapple cut into slices and divide into four portions – breakfast, second breakfast, lunch and dinner. During the day, drink a liter of pineapple juice.
In this pineapple diet for two days, you can lose 2 kilos of weight without compromising health.
Pineapple-fiber diet
In addition to unloading days and short diets, you can try pineapple-protein diet, designed for two weeks. At this time, except pineapples you can eat meat, mushrooms, savory vegetables and fruits.
A sample ration for one day:
1. 600-700 grams of pineapple;
2. 200-300 grams of meat or mushrooms;
3. vegetables or fruits.
The meat should be lean.
You must eliminate any fats and to minimize the consumption of carbohydrates. For 2 weeks of this diet, you will get rid 3-5 kg of weight.
Pineapple diet for 5 days
The second method of weight loss with pineapple is designed for 5 days. During the day, you should consume 2 liters of water, mineral water, herb or fruit teas. Nutrition should be a fraction – 4 times a day. Breakfast on all days of pineapple diet the same.
Sample menu for one day
– 100 grams of pineapple, 100 g of fat-free yogurt, oatmeal.
– Eggs, toast of rye bread with butter and salmon, 50 grams of pineapple.
– Potato, cheese, 100 grams of pineapple.
– Shrimp Salad (100 grams) and pineapple (100 grams)
– 100 grams of rice, 100 grams of pineapple.
– Salad with chicken and pineapple (100 grams)
Almost no sensation of hunger. Removal of toxins from the intestines, and kidneys.
The diet is contraindicated for people with diseases gastrointestinal ulcers, acidity of gastric juice. A large amount of acid can harm and quite healthy people, so you should know when to stop. In some people pineapple can cause allergies. At this diet, you cannot sit for long time. After returning to the usual nutrition, the weight often very quickly comes back.


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Former General Electric CEO Jack Welsh waded further into controversy today by claiming that Osama Bin Laden's death was "probably" staged to help U.S. President Barack Obama win reelection.
In an interview with Canadian business news channel BNN, Welsh explained that although he had no evidence to back up his assertion, something just didn't "feel right" about Bin Laden's demise in May 2011.
Welsh was in the studio to discuss his earlier charge that Obama falsified unemployment data to help his political campaign. A report unveiled on Friday showed a major drop in the U.S. unemployment rate from 8.1% to 7.8%. Minutes after the figures were released Welsh tweeted that Obama's 'Chicago Boys" had fudged the numbers.
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Host Tyler Brown offered Welsh an opportunity to back up his comments, but he instead jumped at the chance to delve further into conspiracy:
"So Jack you said these 'Chicago Boys' will do anything to win the election. What else have they done? Do you have any evidence for any dirty tricks at all?"
"I have no evidence for this," Welsh responded, "but it seems to me like killing Osama Bin Laden a year before the election is a pretty big coincidence. Some people think Obama faked the death of Bin Laden just to win votes."
"And...are you one of those people Mr. Welsh?"
"Well... I think he probably faked Bin Laden's death. Something just doesn't feel right about the whole story."
"First off, George Bush spent eight years looking for him. And Bush was one of the most competent, on-the-ball presidents in American history. Are we supposed to believe that Barack Obama did something George Bush couldn't? That's absurd. If you believe that I got an igloo in Hawaii I'd like to sell you."
"And second, I just have a lot of questions. Why did they bury his body at sea? Why did they change their story about what happened during the raid? Why haven't they released the photos? Its all very very suspicious."
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Stunned by the brazen conspiratorial musings of one of America's most respected business-people, Brown tried to offer Welsh a way out:
"So if you were shown the photos, you would believe he is really dead right? You just want transparency?"
"I dunno. Maybe. But how do you know they just didn't find some Pakistani named Ahmed or whatever and put some ketchup on him? You never know what actually happens in the world. How do you know man actually landed on the moon, for example? Were you there?"
"I was only four years old at the time," Brown interjected.
"Well okay were you floating around in your space jammies watching Neil Armstrong land on the moon in 1969? Cuz if you weren't you don't know for sure what really happened."
After steering the conversation away from the moon landings, the besieged host tried one last time to reason with Welch before ending the segment:
"So Mr. Welch are you sure you want to make these outrageous claims on live television with absolutely no evidence at all?
"Tyler the problem with evidence is that sometimes it forces you to believe things you don't want to believe," Welsh responded. "As a proud Republican, that's just not something I'm prepared to do."


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Friess named GNAC Coach of the Month
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Friess, who completed his 23rd season at the helm, led the Seawolves to a sweep of the conference titles in October, before UAA finished runner-up at the NCAA Div. II West Region championships. Two weeks later, he guided UAA's men to a third-place finish – the best ever finish by a GNAC men's team – in the national meet at Joplin, Mo., as Micah Chelimo won the individual title in a time of 28:56.6.
Combined with the women's sixth place finish at the NCAAs, the Seawolves registered four All-America honors including a runner-up performance by Susan Tanui in the women's race.
Friess shares the monthly honor with Simon Fraser's Alan Koch, who led the Clan men's soccer team to the NCAA Div. II national semifinals in SFU's first season of playoff eligibility.


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Jessica Alba's costars Justin Timberlake and Mike Myers in The Love Guru showered the new mom with well-wishes Monday.
"Congratulations Jessica!" said Timberlake at a press day in L.A. for the comedy. "She seems very patient, and I would assume that's what it takes to be a good mother, a good parent for that matter."
Alba, 27, and her husband Cash Warren, 31, welcomed daughter Honor Marie Warren on Saturday in Los Angeles.
"Honor Marie – that's a cool name," Timberlake says. "I'm happy for them. It's beautiful."
"She'll be a great mother," adds Myers. "She's smart, she's talented and she's one of the most down-to-earth people I've ever worked with."
And Guru costar Romany Malco says, "I would see her as being the type of mom who's hip, hot, and at the same time very stern."
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