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By HomeBrewz
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Ever had problems deciding where to party with your friends when everyone's offering equally awesome suggestions?
Ever felt like you'd rather keep your opinion and let group leaders decide for you?
Ever had trouble deciding whether it was going to be green socks today, or pink?
Ever wanted to get a consensus on what everyone thought?
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Secret Ballot : Hearts & Spades is a simple balloting app that lets people cast their choice in complete secrecy! Once everyone has balloted, the app will display the majority vote! If either choice is equally great, then make the decision the democratic way!
Secret Ballot even features a randomiser, which will make the decision for you, should there be a tie, or not enough people to make a majority!
Secret Ballot can also be used to play games with your friends! Explore your creativity, ask fun questions like, "Who's prettier?", "Which is cooler?", "What do you like more?", and find out what your friends think!
Download Secret Ballot: Hearts & Spades now, and try it with your friends and loved ones! Let your imagination go wild, come up with your own use for it! Everyone's opinion matters!
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- Free
- Category: Games
- Released: 03 February 2012
- Version: 1.00
- Size: 29.8 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: Kwek Shie Sien
- © 2012 HomeBrewz
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation), and iPod touch (6th generation).


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Most mamas and mamas-to-be know that obesity and pregnancy don't mix well. Prior to getting pregnant, I made sure that I was a healthy weight, because I knew that weighing too much not only hurt by chances of conceiving but also put me and my unborn baby at risk for significant health problems. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I also carefully watched my weight so I didn't gain too much. Unfortunately, too many obese women are getting pregnant without first losing the extra weight, putting themselves and their babies at risk.
A review of obesity studies in the journal Practice Nurse outlines the dangers of being overweight during pregnancy: it increases a woman's risk of almost all pregnancy complications, including gestational diabetes, hypertension, and preeclampsia. Gestational diabetes, in turn, increases a baby's risk of developing diabetes later in life. It also puts baby at greater odds of macrosomia (excessive growth); overly-large babies are at a greater risk for complications during delivery. What's more, women who are overweight are more likely to have a complicated birth — that is, a cesarean section, miscarriage, or stillbirth.
Babies of overweight moms are additionally more likely to suffer congenital abnormalities, including neural tube defects, spina bifida, cardiovascular anomalies, cleft lip and palate, and hydrocephalus.
Overweight or obese women who want children, however, need not despair. Eating a well-balanced diet of nutritionally-dense but lower-calorie fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, along with daily exercise, can go a long way in the effort to lose weight. Women should talk to their health care providers prior to getting pregnant in order to formulate a plain to lose any excess pounds. Once a woman is pregnant, she should be extra-careful to eat healthy and exercise. Remember: A mom-to-be needs to eat only about 300 extra calories a day to support her growing baby (that's an extra snack!) — eating for two does not mean doubling the calories.
Being overweight is not healthy; with the many increased risks to both mother and baby, obesity and pregnancy are not a good combination. Women should strive to be a healthy weight prior to getting pregnant if at all possible and remember the importance of working to maintain a healthy weight during pregnancy.
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Engineer Eugenius Birch is most famous for his seaside pier constructions. During his life he was responsible for no fewer than 14 of them including some of the best known such as Brighton West and Blackpool North. Born in Gloucester Terrace, Shoreditch, Eugenius was the son of a corn dealer, John Birch and his wife Susanne. His older brother, John Brannis Birch, worked closely with Eugenius on his engineering projects.
His early education took place in Brighton but he developed his taste forengineering while watching the cutting of the Regent's Canal near his home in London. While he was a young boy he submitted an idea to the Greenwich Railway Company that, at the time, was novel and innovative. He suggested a method to put wheelsunder a railway carriage, rather than at the sides.
Pier - Mid Wales.
The original pier was designed by Eugenius Birch and built in 1865. In this photo only a very small part of Birch's original work can be seen. A long section at the seaward end was washed away in a storm less than a year after the pier opened and it was replaced with a narrower part, several years later, by a different engineer. Only the section under the pavilion (the yellow building) is Birch's work.
At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a works in Limehouse, London. Within three years he was achieving success with medals for his drawings of working engines and machinery.As well as piers Birch was responsible for other, more conventional, structures such as bridges and he was involved in building the Calcutta to Delhi railway in India where he learned some of the oriental design that he later incorporated into his seaside structures. His first pier was built at Margate in 1853 but altogether he was responsible for 14 around England and Wales: Aberystwyth,Blackpool North, Bournemouth, Brighton West, Deal, Eastbourne, Hastings, Hornsea, Lytham, Margate, New Brighton, Plymouth, Scarborough and Weston-Super-Mare Birnbeck.
Most were constructed in cast iron because he believed that wrought iron piers would be a hazard if they were hit by boats. He argued that wrought iron would bend and buckle, and would take a great deal of repairing. Cast iron, however, would shatter, reducing the damage area and hence cutting repair costs. Neglect and old age have put paid to most of Birch's piers, however, and little now remains of his original work.


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Risk and return in convertible arbitrage: Evidence from the convertible bond market
In this paper, we identify and document the empirical characteristics of the key drivers of convertible arbitrage as a strategy and how they impact the performance of convertible arbitrage hedge funds. We show that the returns of a buy-and-hedge strategy involving taking a long position in convertible bonds ('CBs') while hedging the equity risk alone explains a substantial amount of these funds' return dynamics. In addition, we highlight the importance of non-price variables such as extreme market-wide events and the supply of CBs on performance. Out-of-sample tests provide corroborative evidence on our model's predictions. At a more micro level, larger funds appear to be less dependent on directional exposure to CBs and more active in shorting stocks to hedge their exposure than smaller funds. They are also more vulnerable to supply shocks in the CB market. These findings are consistent with economies of scale that large funds enjoy in accessing the stock loan market. However, the friction involved in adjusting the stock of risk capital managed by a large fund can negatively impact performance when the supply of CBs declines. Taken together, our findings are consistent with convertible arbitrageurs collectively being rewarded for playing an intermediation role of funding CB issuers whilst distributing part of the equity risk of CBs to the equity market.
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11/22/11 - OCR Issues Sullivan Lake Permit -- OCR issued a record of examination (ROE) for a "secondary use" permit for the Sullivan Lake Water Supply Project today. The permit will allow water to be released from the lake to support streamflows and will allow OCR to begin issuing individual water rights in late 2012.
Press Release Secondary Use Permit ROE
Permitting Water from the Sullivan Lake Project
The Project
The Pend Oreille County Public Utility District will release 14,000 acre-feet of water each summer, when the water is needed most. The Office of Columbia River will issue water rights from ~9,400 of the 14,000 ac-ft of water supply OCR developed at Sullivan Lake. The 9,400 acre-feet will be split in half with 4,700 ac-ft going to new municipal/industrial and domestic water rights and 4,700 ac-feet allocated for all other types of water rights (i.e. irrigation, stockwater, etc).
The remainder will be used to enhance instream flows to benefit fish.
Under state law (RCW 90.90.110), water developed from the Sullivan Lake Project may only be allocated to applicants in six northeastern Washington counties: Douglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, and Stevens.
Please see "Permitting Water from the Sullivan Lake Project" for information about obtaining a water right via the Sullivan Lake Water Supply Project.
Potential water supply opportunities are scarce in northeast Washington. This project will help cities meet present and future demands.
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What Lies Beneath the Sweat
After an intense workout session, it's human nature to toss our damp, sweaty clothes into a gym bag and eventually take care of them when it's time to do a load of laundry. However, the one vital step that most people don't take care of is the bag that carries all the germs. Health magazine recently published an article that examined the perfect environment we are creating for bacteria to thrive in. Although we are doing a great thing for our bodies by being active, if we don't properly take care of our workout gear, we may set back our workout regiment due to bacterial induced illnesses.
One major culprit of germy conditions is the gym bag. Personally, my gym bag carries my sneakers, pre and post workout clothes, headphones, and a water bottle. However, I rarely consider ever washing my bag. What really makes me cringe is that all of these things touch my body at some point during my workout. Whether it be my sweaty sneakers or to the absolute extreme of placing something in my ears or mouth, they both can lead to illnesses such as an irritating cold or a serious staph infection. Health Magazine recommends washing any sort of sport bag in very hot water or wiping it down with an anti-bacterial cloth every week. Also, in order to avoid placing sweaty workout clothes next to the nozzle of a water bottle or on top of our sneakers, try remembering to bring an extra bag to keep things separate.
Another serious piece to take care of is our water bottle. Anything with a nozzle that causes our hands to be placed onto it, is a recipe for disaster. Our hands inevitably get loaded with germs at the gym and by touching the mouth piece of our water bottle, we are transferring these germs right into our mouth. Health Magazine suggests pulling up on the nozzle with your teeth and washing the bottle in hot, soapy water after each use.
See what else the article has to offer by learning how to disinfect our yoga mats, shower shoes, and workout clothes. I guarantee you will be very surprised to see what intruders are living below the surface!
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'Jupiter Ascending' Starts Filming and We Finally Know What It's About
'Jupiter Ascending,' the Wachowski's follow-up to 'Cloud Atlas,' has begun filming with Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum in the lead roles. While we've been keeping track of the project through casting reports, we still had no official word on what it was actually about. Now Warner Bros. has released its first plot synopsis for us, along with the confirmed casting roster.


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It seems we got one right last week.
Everyone who emailed agreed with our list of the 10 best cornerbacks, all of whom played in the NFL.
It's much the same this week with the 10 best safeties.
And, yes, all 10 played in the NFL.
That makes no fewer than 20 deep defenders from San Diego high schools who played in the NFL.
And we bumped a couple of really good players to our list of versatile performers called "athletes."
There were some interesting choices among the safeties, especially when you consider our criteria of "body of work."
Ron Cortell, who starred at Sweetwater and played 43 games at Colorado State with 13 interceptions, received...


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Create-a-Caption: Chuck Liddell starts his 'Dancing with the Stars' training: one, two, cha-cha-cha
Chuck Liddell preps for his stint on "Dancing With the Stars" with Anna Trebunskaya. I was already stoked for Liddell to dance the night away clad in sequins and chiffon, but these pictures have me downright giddy. Check out the rest of the pictures here, and take your shot at a caption in the comments. Read on for winners from our last C-a-C.
First place: I'm so good I fear my reflection might knock me out. -- Allen
Second place: Random business travelers in sport coats and ties carrying laptops and talking on cell phones about acquisitions and mergers walk into the DFW airport bathroom and see........ This guy. -- Jason P
Third place: "That paper towel dispenser ain't got nuthin on me!" -- Cubs Win! Cubs Win!
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Jurassic Tour: High school students explore paleontology at OSU-CHS
Skiatook High School students helped clean dinosaur and turtle bones excavated from a paleontological site in Oklahoma during a visit to OSU-CHS on March 5.
A group of 29 forensic and anatomy students made reports on the bones and matched them to a skeletal drawing while touring the vertebrate paleontology lab.
Faculty from the Anatomy and Vertebrate Paleontology department met with the students, who also toured the School of Forensic Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences and College of Osteopathic Medicine.


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This is a momentous moment, really. Obsidian Entertainment senior designer Chris Avellone is about to show, for the first time, Fallout: New Vegas running live. Let us not forget, Fallout 3, the game New Vegas spins off from, was one of the greatest - some say the greatest - games of this generation. And yet there is a palpable sense of scepticism from the audience. Perhaps even disappointment.
In this business, first impressions can be as damaging as they are potent. But they're often misleading. So it is with Fallout: New Vegas. Our first impression is that it looks just like Fallout 3, a game that'll be two years old this Christmas. Our first impression is that if Bethesda released New Vegas as a expansion, no-one would bat an eyelid.
Perhaps our first impressions have been unduly influenced. Obsidian is not Bethesda, and for some Fallout 3 fans the fact that the game is being built on an ageing game engine by a developer whose track record depresses as many as it impresses fills them with the fear.
How ironic. Fallout 3 fans cringe at the thought of New Vegas being farmed out to a developer that knows nothing of the cult series, so the theory goes. How many Fallout 1 and 2 fans who idolise old Black Isle Studios legends Tim Cain and Feargus Urquhart felt the same when they discovered that Bethesda was developing Fallout 3? And now the merry-go-round comes full circle as Avellone and other ex-Black Isle Studio developers find themselves returning to the world of Fallout. So, all you Bethesda-haters should be pleased, right?
It's not until Chris' presentation comes to an end that I realise just how misleading first impressions can be. Don't get me wrong: Fallout: New Vegas's visuals could be better than they are. But the game's strengths lie elsewhere. Wonky animations and ugly textures aren't the point; the point is that the quests and dialogue are so memorable and the game's post-apocalyptic Nevada setting is so atmospheric that all of New Vegas' imperfections melt away like the skin of a Ghoul.
Still, the issue of innovation hangs over New Vegas' head like a vulture waiting to pounce on a Brahmin corpse. New Vegas is not an expansion or an update. It's a proper sequel, set three years after the events of Fallout 3 and with a map just as big. We're not asking for Obsidian to rewrite the Fallout rulebook, but given that two years will have eventually passed between the two releases, it is only right that the developer improves on what's gone before.
Chris, it appears, agrees. In a lengthy gameplay demo he showcases scores of improvements and tweaks, and they begin with character creation. Fallout 3 began with your birth; New Vegas starts with your death. You're kidnapped by a group of thugs, shot twice in the head and then dumped in a shallow grave outside of a small town called Goodsprings. The only reason you survive is because your body is recovered by a mysterious robot called Victor, who takes you to Goodsprings' kindly healing hand, Doc Mitchell. The character creation process begins as you recuperate with the Doc in his house.
Via the same first-person NPC interaction we saw in Fallout 3, the Doc hands you a Reflectron and you adjust your appearance. All the options that were in Fallout 3 are present and correct, but because you haven't emerged from a Vault, you have a few new sliders to play with. The age slider, for example, lets you pump up your age to fifty or sixty, if you fancy looking like a weathered wasteland veteran. After settling on a name and an appearance, you walk over to a Vit-O-Matic Vigor-Tester - the Old West equivalent to a love tester machine - to spend points on statistics.
You then take a seat on the Doc's couch to "see if your dogs are still barking". He asks you to tell him how much various statements sound like something you'd say. Statements like "I 'aint given to relying on others for support", "I'm always fixin' to being the centre of attention", and "I charge in to deal with my problems head on". Then, a Rorschach test. At the end of the session, the Doc suggests tag skills. In this case, though, we ignore his advice completely and go for barter, explosives and guns. And that's it. Character creation's done, and the Doc shows us out. Compared to Fallout 3's lengthy character creation sequence, New Vegas' is over in a jiffy, as one of its retro-futuristic Fifties throwbacks might have said.
In true open world fashion, once you step out of Doc Mitchell's house you're good to go exploring the wasteland. You could visit Primm, a casino town with a giant rollercoaster overrun by the ominously-named Powder Gang. Or perhaps you'll trot off to Novak, a settlement built around a hotel and the Dinky the Dinosaur road sign, with a pre-war gift shop and an excellent spot for the town's snipers to defend against encroaching Caesar's Legion troops. Or what about the dangerous Black Mountain, home to stealth boy-wearing super mutants? Or, if you're feeling really brave, you could head straight to Helios One, a New California Republic base. The choice is yours.
Before you make it, the Doc hands you a Vault 21 outfit and perhaps Fallout's most iconic gadget, a Pip-Boy. "You ever get hurt out there, you come right back. I'll fix you up," he promises. "But try not to get killed any more."
Everything we've seen up to this point has been familiar. The Doc's house is quintessentially Fallout - a dusty, wheezing building that looks like it may collapse at any moment. Light streams in through a boarded up window. Walking, talking, navigating the Pip-Boy, it's all the same. But then we see something very new, and very interesting: Hardcore mode.
In Hardcore mode ammunition has weight, you need to carry water to stop yourself from dehydrating in the Mojave wasteland desert, and healing occurs over time. So, rather than recover hit points instantly after using a stimpack, as was the case in Fallout 3, it'll take several seconds. Chris suggests this will drastically change combat, and it's hard to argue. In Fallout 3 spamming stimpacks was an almost full-proof way to survive any scrap. Hardcore mode sounds rock hard, and that's sure to please fans. Some complained that Fallout 3 became something of a cakewalk after the halfway point because you simply overpowered the environment. If nothing else, Hardcore mode should prevent that happening in New Vegas.
It is out in the Mojave wasteland that we get our first glimpse of Obsidian's post-apocalyptic Nevada desert. "We wanted to maintain the ruined feel of Fallout, but at the same time the whole setup in Mojave is that the nuclear warheads did not hit this area as much as they hit the Capital Wasteland," Chris explains. So, the sky is blue rather than overcast and caked in ash. Iconic Old West vegetation sprouts up from the blood red ground (vegetation you can use to scavenge with your survival skill for various recipes). Twisters whirl about willy nilly. Big Horners - mutated big horner sheep - amble about much like the Brahmin from Fallout 3. But juxtaposing the Wild West twang is Fallout's retro futuristic Fifties Americana. It's BraveStarr meets The Jetsons.
You head towards The Prospectors Saloon to speak with local ranger Sunny Smiles. In the saloon, casino machines beep and woop - the Strip is nearby, of course, and we expect some kind of gambling mini-game will turn up at some point. Sunny is welcoming and helpful. She asks you to help clear out some geckos from a nearby ridge. You agree, and follow her outside.
At the ridge we see some of the improvements that have been made to combat first hand. While VATS works exactly the same as before, some weapons have unique abilities that mean they excel in certain circumstances. The Varmint Rifle, for example, does bonus critical damage and bonus damage against limbs rather than head shots. Chet, Goodsprings' local trader, sells weapon mods. Say you've got a 9mm pistol. An extended magazine gives you more bullets per clip, and a scope modification increases accuracy. The weapon model changes accordingly - in this case the scope results in a texture modification and an extended clip model. Unique weapons, like the All American sniper rifle, have special textures and in some cases brand new models and reload animations. The idea is that when you get a unique weapon it feels and behaves differently than a standard weapon. This, as Fallout 3 fans know, wasn't the case before.
Melee weapons now have special abilities, which you can unlock once you've levelled up your melee skill. Take the Nine Iron golf club, for example. Its special ability, which pops up on the right of the screen when in VATS, is called "Fore!". Fore! gives you added knock down with your attacks, at the cost of extra action points. You smack your unlucky opponent with the Nine Iron, sending them flying back in gruesome slow motion.
If Fallout 3's Capital Wasteland was a sandbox in which carnage happened to reign, New Vegas looks like it's been deliberately designed to make the player feel like combat was always part of the plan. The high level area called the Black Mountain is a case in point. It's one of the central locations in New Vegas. You can see almost everything from it, including the Strip, with the Lucky 38 (the game's version of the real-life Stratosphere Hotel) shooting up into the sky, and McCarran International Airport (home of a New California Republic military base) menacing over yonder. Unlike much of New Vegas, Black Mountain suffered many nuke explosions. As a result, its communications array is almost completely destroyed. But one station, called Black Mountain Radio, remains, broadcasting a warning: super mutants are plentiful, it says, and if you've got any sense you'll stay away.
Chris doesn't of course, and approaches the super mutant camp, taking a route that seems to have been carved into the ground just for stealthy players to enjoy. "We tried to make sure with our level design that we included stealth paths that go into all locations so sneaky characters feel special and can take advantage of the lack of security in some areas," he says.
Oh, Fallout 3's companions. They were annoying, weren't they, often getting lost and stuck in endless pathfinding conundrums? Hopefully, that'll be a thing of the past, because in New Vegas you can control your buddies with a companion wheel interface. It provides all of the options that were present for managing your companions in Fallout 3 without having to go into dialogue. You can have them take stimpacks, change their status from passive to aggressive and switch their loadouts all with only a couple of button presses.
So far, we only know two potential companions: Craig Boone, an ex-New California Republic soldier now defending the town of Novak from Ceaser's Legion troops, and Raul, a Mexican ghoul held captive by the super mutants inside the Black Mountain radio hut. I live in hope that a dog once again tags along for the ride.
While New Vegas' combat looks to have more depth than Fallout 3's, and there are a number of new weapons that look inspired, it's the quests and the locations that most impress. There's a clever one in the Black Mountain. Here, you'll find Nightkin, tough first generation super mutants who were part of the Master's army in Fallout 1. You'll also find a group of second generation super mutants that came from the military base in Fallout 2. Thankfully they're not as strong or as smart as the Nightkin. Tabitha, the Nightkin's disturbed leader, calls them "dumb dumbs".
The quest here involves turning the super mutants against each other by exploiting their paranoia. To do this, you interrupt the warning broadcast, convincing Tabitha that the dumb dumbs are revolting with a unique dialogue option prompted by your high speech skill (New Vegas will have loads of specialised dialogue options, tied into all of your abilities). Then, you sit back and watch the mutants go at it. But, as is often the case, you also get roped into the killing - and the situation calls for some serious firepower. Luckily, Chris has the grenade machine gun. Yes, the grenade machine gun. "It still makes me laugh when I hear about it," Chris says with a smile. "When I heard about it from our project director, he was like, it's a machine gun, but it fires grenades!" A mod increases its rate of fire, which just isn't fair. Poor super mutants.
The great thing about the Fallout games is they allow you to complete quests in different ways, often via some gleefully sadistic choices. In New Vegas, however, not only will you have multiple options, but you'll also have to contend with reputation. Back at Goodsprings, you end up deciding the fate of the entire town: After a Powder Ganger called Joe Cobb threatens to burn the place to the ground, you can convince the locals to get together for a last stand, ally with Cobb, or just ignore the whole situation. Help the town, and your reputation with Goodsprings will improve. In an NCR base called Helios One, what was once a solar energy plant built by Poseidon Energy, you can activate an orbital beam weapon, called Archimedes II, and destroy the entire encampment, reducing your reputation with the faction to rubble.
The reputation system is one of New Vegas' most interesting new mechanics. Chris promises that you'll be able to gain and lose reputation with all the major factions in the game, including the two potential "bad guy groups": the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion (the Brotherhood of Steel are in the game, but we don't know why). If you fancy it, you can piss them both off, which should make traversing the Mojave Wasteland particularly dangerous. But just how sophisticated the reputation system is, and how it can affect the story, remains a mystery, as does much of New Vegas' intriguing plot.
So yeah, first impressions can be misleading. After spending an hour with the game, I'm convinced New Vegas will be a brilliant, albeit familiar experience. The doubters will no doubt continue to doubt (though the Strip, yet to be revealed, may help in this regard). The quests we've seen look interesting, complex and fun. The writing strikes a similar tone to Fallout 3's, which will either disappoint if you're a Fallout traditionalist or delight if you're a Fallout 3 enthusiast. The combat looks the same, frankly. And the graphics... well, they do look tired. But digging beneath New Vegas' dusty surface reveals an open world role-playing game of huge promise. Second impressions, here we come.
Fallout: New Vegas is due out on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 this autumn.


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Discussion in 'Cop Talk' started by Hack, Sep 29, 2011.
Well, now that I have taken a nap, I'm up. Ready to eat, ready to go to work. O, it's vacation time.
still thinks about the green card thing... if I could only find a way to get a useful job over there..
What do you consider useful?
Don't get laid off, maybe somehow related to LE, but not necessary
You would give up LE to come here? But you wouldn't be able to be here anymore as a fellow cop! Oh noes!
Perhaps he is thinking of just getting his foot in the door. Once he makes being a citizen, (if that is what he wants), he can always work on being a cop, or even do what I do for a living.
That's what I was thinking about.... probably quite unrealistic and stupid to think about it...
you're caught here FOREVER!
Marry a good american girl.
none here
Use and on-line service, that offers back ground checks, and will help you hitch up for the right reasons with the right one. USA military service gals sometimes are open to this, and you could wind up finding the right one that way. Hitch up for the right reasons.
Well still no american girls here. Its not germany where there is an US base every 50 miles. We have not a single one here. Only american students from time to time, but rarely meet those... also I met another girl, she is from Vienna.. might be something serious, who knows. The good thing is, she has lots of friends in Florida, her english is perfect (couple of camebridge language certificates) and she loves the US
or a bad one
Well, there you go. I still say that if you want a sure ticket for going the the US as a citizen the best way is through serving within our military branches. They have MP/SP in all branches.
Or just make sure she's rich.
For those not on my facebook, picked up a new toy the other day. Sig P226 DAK in .40. Factory refurb, only ran $589.
because of all the leaves on the street you can't see the dog **** laying around.
I stept right into a giant one and didn't noticed until we drove around for about 10 minutes... what a mess!


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Michigan legislators are expected to vote Wednesday to require all girls entering sixth grade to receive the new human papillomavirus vaccination. It would be the first state to make the vaccine mandatory -- and the opening shot in the battle to require it nationwide.
The vaccine against the cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year. Despite the fact it could prevent 70 percent of all cervical cancers, some groups object to requiring vaccination of preteen girls because HPV is acquired through sexual contact.
Experts say by age 50, 80 percent of women have contracted HPV, according to the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
"This vaccination will protect not just from infectious diseases but from cancer ... this is a new era in immunization and preventative medicine," said John Clymer, president of Partnership for Prevention, a non-profit health policy research organization.
It's also a major public-health issue, according to Sen. Beverly Hammerstrom, the Michigan legislator sponsoring the mandatory vaccine bill.
"We're putting the infrastructure in place now to get this on the radar screen, so it can be implemented down the road. We're adding the HPV vaccine to a list of required immunizations, falling in line with federal advisories," Hammerstrom said.
Not everyone agrees that the vaccine should be mandated in the public school system; because of the sexually transmitted nature of HPV, some parents may find themselves struggling to explain the vaccine to their kids, as even proponents acknowledge.
Some conservative groups fear such a requirement may send the wrong message.
"We oppose any use of ... mandates as a way to coerce parents into obtaining a vaccine," said Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council, a conservative non-profit Christian lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C., with an office in Michigan.
"Because this isn't transmitted through casual contact like measles or mumps" -- i.e., in the classroom -- "the choice should rest with the parents," Sprigg said. "School-imposed mandates should protect children from being exposed in the classroom."
"We strongly encourage the healthcare community to clearly communicate the medically accurate fact that only abstaining from sexual contact with infected individuals can fully protect someone from the wide range of sexually transmitted disease," said Moira Gaul, a policy analyst for FRC.
Hammerstrom, for one, disagrees with the sentiment that adolescents shouldn't be getting the vaccine -- or the information.
"This is a vaccine to prevent 70 percent of cervical cancer; it's not birth control. Parents are going to have this conversation with their kids anyway," she said. "How they explain it to their kids is up to the parent, with as much or as little information as they want."
In Washington, D.C., the Partnership to End Cervical Cancer held a news conference last week to spread the word. For members of the panel, it was an occasion to herald a modern medical success and potentially save thousands of lives.
"These diseases do not discriminate, whether you're rich or poor, young or old, black or white. If you're a woman, you're at risk," said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., part of the panel and a cancer survivor.
The American Cancer Society estimates that 274,000 women worldwide die every year from cervical cancer.
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But given this latest outlook, what's the risk to the U.S.? American banks have just gotten on their feet from our own crisis back in 2008. Are they going to get knocked down again? Our New York bureau chief Heidi Moore reports.
Heidi Moore: Among American banks that are big players in foreign markets, Citigroup has the most at stake: $6 of every $10 it makes comes from overseas. So you'd think Citigroup would be at risk from the European debt crisis. Well, not so much.
Europe's most troubled countries are Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. Citigroup has about $14 billion in loans to the governments and companies there.
Got that? $14 billion. Now here's some context: Citigroup's total assets are about $2 trillion.
Fred Cannon: We know that the direct exposure to European countries is fairly limited from the large U.S. banks, and it doesn't exist at the small U.S. financial institutions.
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Cannon: From a big-picture standpoint, it looks like the U.S. banking system and the economy should be somewhat insulated.
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Larry Kantor is the global head of research for Barclays Capital. He says this crisis isn't about banks yet -- it's about governments.
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Kantor said it's hard to predict the full damage until Europe figures out how to handle its problems.
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Safety and Efficacy of ART-123 in Subjects With Sepsis and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
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Last Update Posted: May 18, 2011
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The purpose of this study is to see if ART-123 (recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin) decreases the number of people who die as a result of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) complication of sepsis.
|Sepsis Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
|Drug: ART-123 Drug: placebo
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase-2B Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy Effects of ART-123 on Subjects With Sepsis and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
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|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2010
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|May 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Infection or suspected infection resulting in sepsis and DIC
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to provide informed consent, or lack of consent from an acceptable surrogate
- Subjects < 18 years of age
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- Known conditions that increase the risk of bleeding
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HAMPSHIRE captain Jimmy Adams will fulfil a boyhood dream if he lifts the Clydesdale Bank 40 trophy at Lord's this afternoon.
Adams's side finished their four-day season with a six-wicket defeat as Derbyshire clinched the LV County Championship division two title at Derby yesterday afternoon. But the final day of the domestic season gives them the chance to end on a high against Warwickshire.
Victory at Lord's would be the perfect way for Winchester -born Adams, pictured, to conclude his first full season as Hampshire's captain.
"When you grow up you watch others do it and in recent years there's been a bit of a green-eyed monster when others have done it!" admits Adams, who hit a match-winning 55 in the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy final win against Sussex.
"Now we're actually there I'll have to pinch myself. It will be nerve-wracking and I'm sure I'll be petrified! But I'm looking forward to it."
Hampshire will be without Danny Briggs, but Ian Bell is not in England's WorldTwenty20 squad so is available to Warwickshire.
"It's going to be a tough old challenge but the key is to make the most of what is a fantastic day," added Adams.
Play gets underway at Lord's at 11.30am.
Mark Nicholas's view on Hampshire's big day - see today's Daily Echo