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If you're thinking of air conditioning installation then you're most likely contemplating buying a brand new central air conditioner for your house or company and are probably somewhat enthusiastic. Managing a faulty Air conditioner system, or none at all, can completely bring a would-be good environment right down to a merely "tolerable" level. Even so, as excited as you may be to get the system fitted, there are actually things you ought to know so that you can have the job finished right. Knowing this information is very important simply because, as anyone who has been in your shoes know, if the installation goes badly you'll regret it everyday. If it's successful, however, you'll thank yourself equally as often.
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APThe Los Angeles Kings won their first Stanley Cup since the franchise was founded in 1967, eliminating the New Jersey Devils in Game 6, 6-1, on Monday night.
Goalie Jonathan Quick was given the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
Dustin Brown had a 3-point night, and Jeff Carter and Trevor Lewis each had two goals in the Kings' victory, the crowning achievement for one of the most improbable postseason journeys in NHL history.
They're the first No. 8 seed to ever win the Stanley Cup. They tied an NHL record for road wins, going 10-1 away from home before winning the Cup on Staples Center ice. Overall, the Kings were 16-4 in the playoffs -- one of the best records in decades for a Stanley Cup champion.
In the regular season, they fired coach Terry Murray 29 games into the season in favor of Darryl Sutter, who won his first Cup. They made a gutsy, blockbuster trade for Jeff Carter of the Columbus Blue Jackets during near the deadline, and he scored twice in the Cup-clinching game.
The Devils, meanwhile, fell short in their attempt to become the first time since 1942 to rally from an 0-3 deficit to win the Stanley Cup.
It was a game that turned on a brutal boarding penalty ? both in timing and result ? by Devils forward Steve Bernier on Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi, bloodying the Los Angeles veteran with a hit from behind at the end boards at 10:10 of the first period.
The hit ? arriving moments after a non-call on Kings forward Jarret Stoll for a hit from behind on the Devils' Steven Gionta near the benches ? resulted in a 5-minute power play for the Kings.
The Kings entered the game with the third-worst power play in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (10.6 percent).
They struck three times on that major penalty power play, burying the Devils early in the game.
At 11:03, captain Dustin Brown struck, as Mike Richards deftly moved the puck to Drew Doughty, who found Brown for a perfect deflection through the pads of Devils goalie Marty Brodeur. The team that scored the first goal won each game of the Stanley Cup Final.
At 12:45, it was Jeff Carter of the Kings to make it 2-0, tipping home a Brown shot from in front of Brodeur.
At 15:01, with nine seconds remaining on the power play, Trevor Lewis scored the third goal with a backhand at point blank range against Brodeur:
The Kings would take a 4-0 lead in the second period on another Carter goal, on a strange play that included linesman Pierre Racicot accidentally setting a pick on a Devils defenseman. The Devils cut it to 4-1 with a late second-period goal by Adam Henrique.
Lewis added an empty net goal, and Matt Greene scored another late in the third period to complete the 6-1 rout.
The Devils were undisciplined from the opening whistle, looking disorganized as the Kings peppered Brodeur with 13 shots in the first period. New Jersey entered the game with the third-fewest penalty minutes per game in the playoffs with 8.7; they had 47 PIMs to the Kings' 6.
That allowed the Kings to carry play like they hadn't in consecutive losses tot he Devils. The New Jersey did get their chances, Quick was there, making 15 saves.
Quick was one of the players that helped the Kings dominate on the road. But in Game 6, it was a party in LA for the Kings and their fans -- the famous ones like David Beckham and Matthew Perry, and the long-suffering ones that had waited decades to see this team do what Wayne Gretzky couldn't do in the Kings' only other trip to the Final in 1993: Bring hockey's Holy Grail to Hollywood for the first time in 45 years.
Texas Instruments this afternoon narrowed its financial guidance for the second quarter.
The chip maker now sees revenue of $3.28 billion to $3.42 billion, narrowing the range from a previously forecast $3.22 billion to $3.48 billion. The company now sees profits for the quarter of 32-36 cents a share, tightening the previous range of 30-38 cents a share.
Street consensus had been $3.36 billion and 34 cents.
TXN, which had slipped 87 cents, or 3.1%, to $27.65 in the regular session, in after hours trading has bounced 30 cents, or 1.1%, to $27.95.
A new study in the journal Circulation packs a powerful one-two punch in the fight against heart failure. The leading blow: Identification of a unique alliance of proteins that plays a major role in the development of the disease. The second but equally powerful hit: Drugs that interfere with this axis already exist. Though still in its infancy, the combination is just the type of research the scientific community is looking for in its efforts to speed up the development of the next generation of treatments for the nation's biggest killers, of which heart disease is the long-reigning champ...
Did Grandma?s house smell funny? Chances are it did, and researchers may have discovered why: Old people have a different body odour from younger people, and young people are good at detecting it.
Researchers had 41 healthy people in three age groups ? young (ages 20 to 30), middle-aged (45 to 55) and old (75 to 95) ? put absorbent pads in their armpits for five nights to collect odours. Then the scientists asked people in their 20s to smell the pads. The results appeared online last week in the journal PLoS One.
The smellers were asked to distinguish old from young in various ways ? by making a choice between two pads, by sorting pads into age groups and by guessing the age as the pads were presented randomly. They were also asked to rate the pleasantness and intensity of the odours.
Analysis showed that smellers were able to discriminate between age groups and place the old-age pads together at rates significantly greater than chance. For most of the young people, the smell of old people was not particularly intense or unpleasant.
?We definitely have an old people odour,? said the senior author, Johan N. Lundstrom, an assistant professor at the Monell Center in Philadelphia and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The smell seems to be unoffensive, he added, when sniffed in the absence of any particular person.
Fever in pregnancy linked?to autism spectrum disorders
Running a fever during pregnancy is associated with a risk of autism spectrum disorders and developmental delays in the offspring, a new study reports.
Previous research has suggested a connection between autism and various infections during pregnancy, including measles, mumps, rubella and influenza.
In the new analysis, researchers studied 701 children with autism spectrum disorders or developmental delays and 421 normal controls. After adjusting for age and other health and socioeconomic variables, they found that women who reported having had a fever during pregnancy were more than twice as likely as those who did not to have a child with a developmental disorder.
Among women whose fever had been treated with drugs like Tylenol or Advil, the risk was indistinguishable from that of mothers who reported no fever.
?Fever is an acute inflammatory response,? said the senior author, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, a professor of environmental epidemiology at the Mind Institute of the University of California, Davis. ?So there is a suggestion that inflammation of some sort may play some role in autism causation. Untreated fever seems to be the place where the risk is.?
The scientists were unable to determine whether a fever at a specific time during pregnancy might alter the risk. They acknowledge that their data depend on self-reports, which are not always accurate.
The study was published online May 5 in The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Better odds in long-acting reversible contraceptives
Intrauterine devices, under-the-skin implants and Depo-Provera injections ? the long-acting reversible contraceptives ? are much more effective in preventing pregnancy than the transdermal patch, the vaginal ring or the birth control pill, a new study reports.
Researchers provided 7,486 volunteers with the contraceptive of their choice, then followed them for up to three years. (Women using condoms, diaphragms and natural family planning were not included in the analysis.) There were 334 unintended pregnancies.
Failure rates for pills, patches and rings were more than nine per cent by the end of the study, compared with less than one per cent for the long-acting reversible methods. The study appeared in the May 24 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
There was no difference by age in unintended pregnancies among women using long-acting contraceptives, but young women who used the pill, patch or ring were much more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than older women using those methods.
?When women say to me that they want to use the pill, I say, ?That?s fine, but it?s 20 times less effective than an IUD,? ? said one of the co-authors, Dr. Jeffrey F. Peipert, of Washington University in St. Louis. ?Clinicians have been reluctant to prescribe IUDs, but if we want to get a handle on unintended pregnancy in our country, we have to first offer the most effective methods.?
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We're still taking in the list of features to be found in iOS 6 but one major one announced at WWDC 2012 will surely please a lot of folks out there who use Facetime. Yes, Facetime over cellular is coming enabled in iOS 6 and that's not all.
LONDON (AP) ? The 2012 London Olympics will open with a glimpse of the British countryside, past and present ? from cows and sheep to meadow and mosh pit. Danny Boyle, the artistic director for the games' July 27 opening ceremony, on Tuesday unveiled a model of the set, which will transform the Olympic Stadium in gritty, urban east London into a rural idyll.
COWS AND SHEEP
The Olympic set will include grass and fields, sheep, cows and horses, a cricket match, picnicking families and a hill modeled on Glastonbury Tor, a landmark in southwest England.
Below the hill spectators will fill a mosh pit, evoking the raucous Glastonbury rock festival and other rural music events that are a major summer motif in Britain. At the other end of the stadium is a more genteel standing-room-only area ? one wag dubbed it the "posh pit" ? that is meant to evoke the annual classical music fixture the Last Night of the Proms.
There are even real clouds that Boyle says can produce real rain ? in case the British weather fails to comply.
The meadow is surrounded by a circular parade ground for the 10,500 athletes taking part in the games. Boyle has nicknamed it the M25, after the often-clogged commuter highway that rings London.
BACK TO CHILDHOOD IDEALS
Boyle, the filmmaker behind "Trainspotting" and the Academy Award-winning "Slumdog Millionaire," said the set for the opening ceremony will evoke the "green and pleasant land" of William Blake's poem "Jerusalem," an emblem of Englishness.
He said the opening ceremony would be a "reflection of part of our heritage," but would also depict Britain's present and look to the future. The set is designed to evoke the site where the stadium stands: once countryside, then industrial land, bombed during World War II and now being regenerated as a park.
Boyle unveiled the model to reporters at 3 Mills Studios, near the Olympic Park, where craftspeople are working to create almost 3,000 props and 23,000 costumes for the Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies.
Boyle said even though most Britons now live in cities, "it's in our brains as part of ourselves, this ideal. It's like a childhood ideal, in a way."
RING THE BELL
The opening ceremony will begin with the tolling of a 27-ton bell forged at London's 442-year-old Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which made London's Big Ben and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell.
The bell is inscribed with a line from William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" ? one of Boyle's main inspirations for the ceremony ? in which Caliban says: "Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises."
"It's a wonderful thing that we'll be able to open our games with a symbol of peace, the ringing of a bell," Boyle said. "You will feel different when you're in there and you hear it ringing."
A FEW PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING
Some 10,000 volunteers have begun rehearsing for the opening ceremony, which will be held in front of 60,000 spectators inside the stadium and a television audience estimated at 1 billion.
Boyle acknowledged the challenges of staging a large-scale show for live TV ? not least capturing the British sense of humor.
"You can't do a show about Britain, really, if you don't try to reflect our sense of humor," he said. "That's hard to do in stadium shows. They are the enemy of humor."
But he said he hoped to create "a sense of inclusiveness" ? and keep the running time to three hours. The ceremony starts at 9 p.m., and the International Olympic Committee says it must be over by midnight so athletes can get to bed on time.
CEREMONY SECRETS THAT HAVE ALREADY SPILLED
Boyle hopes to keep many details of the ceremony secret, although some have already trickled out. Former Beatle Paul McCartney has revealed he will be the closing act and Boyle has said there will be a sequence celebrating the country's National Health Service.
A pre-recorded segment has been filmed inside Buckingham Palace, reportedly involving Queen Elizabeth II ? who as British head of state will officially open the games ? and Daniel Craig's James Bond.
Boyle said the ceremony's creators had an impossible task: To offer a vision of Britain with something for everyone.
"We're bound to fail," he said. "But we're going to try very hard not to."
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Some progress was made in fighting Colorado's biggest wildfire, officials said Tuesday, but crews are expecting more hot, windy weather in the forested area where 118 homes and other structures were destroyed or damaged.
Some 5 percent of the High Park Fire has been contained, incident commander Bill Hahnenberg told reporters Tuesday morning, but warned that parts of the fire could burn "possibly until fall."
Hundreds of evacuees nervously awaited word on whether they were among the unlucky ones. One person has died in the blaze -- one of 20 large fires across the West being fanned by dry winds.
After doubling the day before, the 43,433-acre wildfire 15 miles west of Fort Collins only grew by a few thousand acres on Monday and officials said part of its eastern flank had been contained.
The remains of a 62-year-old woman were found in the ashes of her cabin on Monday. She had received two notification calls to evacuate but, like many of the 2,600 people alerted, decided to say, NBC affiliate KUSA-TV reported.
Flames from the fire have reached 300 feet and the fire has spread as fast as 40 feet a minute, NBC's Miguel Almaguer reported from the incident command center in Bellvue, Colo.
Most of the destroyed and damaged homes were in the Rist Canyon area.
"It's pretty tough, people have lost their homes and everything they owned," Gov. John Hickenlooper said while visiting the area for a briefing. "Their world is very different than it was a day ago."
A dozen or so evacuees stayed at the local Red Cross shelter Monday but most are with friends, family or local motels.
The lightning-sparked wildfire is the largest Colorado has seen in 25 years. By Thursday, up to 300 more firefighters are expected to join the 500 already at the scene.
Colorado's congressional delegation said the need for more firefighting aircraft was "dire" and urged President Barack Obama to sign legislation passed by Congress last week that would allow the U.S. Forest Service to contract at least seven large air tankers to add to its fleet of 13 ? which includes two on loan from Canada.
Haze from the fire stretched from the Wyoming border to Denver, the Associated Press reported.
Story: West can expect more fires due to warming, researchers say
In New Mexico, crews also made progress against a lightning-sparked fire five miles from Ruidoso. Still, it burned through a few more thousand acres and is now up to 36,000 acres.
"The fire is still active and there is strong potential for extreme fire behavior," the incident command reported.
Hundreds of residents have had to flee and an estimated 35 structures were damaged or destroyed. That number's expected to grow once damage assessments are done.
Elsewhere in New Mexico, the largest wildfire in state history was 37 percent contained after burning through 278,000 acres.
Wildfires are also burning in other parts of Colorado and New Mexico as well as in Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.
Related: Summer forecast: hot and dry -- with western wildfires
Group B streptococcal meningitis has long-term effects on children's developmental outcomesPublic release date: 12-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebeka Cohan rebeka@umich.edu 734-764-2220 University of Michigan Health System
Nearly one-half of infants with GBS meningitis experience developmental delays
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Parents of infants who survive bacterial meningitis caused by group B Streptococcus might have to live with the effects of the disease on their children long after they're discharged from the hospital.
A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that even though mortality rates of children infected with GBS meningitis have decreased in the past 25 years, just under half of children who survive the disease will suffer impairment as a result of the disease.
"These bacteria can quickly cause significant damage to the developing infant brain very quickly despite the infant's having received excellent medical care," says Morven S. Edwards, M.D., professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and a co-author on the paper. "This is a potentially devastating illness and we still have a large percentage of infants who have poor outcomes after the infection."
According to the CDC, 25 percent of pregnant women carry GBS. It is routine for these women to receive antibiotics during labor to protect the baby from infection occurring in the first days of life. There is no way to prevent late-onset GBS infections in infants.
"We haven't had recent data on the outcomes of GBS meningitis in over 25 years and the quality of medical care has changed," says Prachi Shah, M.D., a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, and a senior author on the paper. "We wanted to know, in this era of using antibiotics during birth, whether outcomes have changed for infants who do acquire GBS meningitis. Our study counsels families to be very vigilant about their child if they've had GBS."
The current study shows that, although modern day medicine has improved survival rates, children can still suffer adverse long-term outcomes.
"Despite the fact that mortality has decreased in the last 25 years, survivors of GBS meningitis continue to have substantial long-term morbidity," says Romina Libster, M.D., a physician in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University and first author on the paper.
The overall impact of invasive GBS infection in infants is just over 2,000 cases per year in the United States. Among those with bloodstream infection, 10 to 20 percent can also develop meningitis.
The relative importance of GBS as a cause of meningitis has grown in recent years. "GBS is responsible for over 85 percent of bacterial meningitis in children under two months of age," says Edwards. "Vaccination with the newer pneumococcal vaccines has led to tremendous reductions in meningitis from those bacteria."
Using three different and distinctly defined levels to measure functionality, researchers find that 56 percent of children who survived GBS meningitis went on to have age-appropriate (or normal) development, 25 percent had mild-to-moderate impairment and 19 percent had severe impairment.
Signs of mild-to-moderate impairment include continual and significant academic underachievement as well as evidence of mild neurological or functional impairment. Indications of severe impairment include blindness, hearing loss, cerebral palsy, and significantly delayed development.
According to lab data and cranial images at the time of discharge, there are a number of factors that can help predict the likelihood of long-term severe impairment in GBS meningitis survivors, including a failed hearing screening, an abnormal neurologic exam, and abnormal imaging of the head. However, data and imaging cannot as accurately predict children who will have mild impairments, according to the study.
"The more subtle developmental delays suggest that any child who has had GBS meningitis should have ongoing developmental evaluation," says Edwards, "so that problems can be identified early and addressed even before the child actually starts school so that the child has the best chance to fulfill their potential."
The study examined 43 survivors of GBS meningitis between the ages of three and 12 years. Patients were examined physically, neurologically, with hearing and vision screening, and were also assessed using standardized developmental assessments.
Parents were also questioned on perceptions of their child's development. Parents of children who either had normal or severely impaired functionality are able to accurately identify their children as such. However, according to the report, parents of children with mild-to-moderate impairments are less likely to accurately label their child's developmental delay. Because of this, Shah suggests the importance of follow-up evaluations. "Parent self-report is not always an accurate identifier of children who have mild impairment," she says, "which is why survivors of GBS meningitis should receive long-term development surveillance."
According to Edwards, there are two important steps to be taken moving forward. The first is the development of a vaccine for mothers so that the disease can be prevented altogether. "The other," Edwards says, "is just to enhance awareness of the consequences of the infection and of the need for its prevention."
Currently, clinical testing is already underway for a GBS vaccine developed by Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics.
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Additional Authors: Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Fatma Levent, M.D., Texas Tech University Health Science Center; Marcia A. Rench, R.N., Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital; Luis A. Castagnini, M.D, Blank Children's Hospital; Timothy Cooper, Psy.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Robert C. Sparks, L.P.N./E.M.T.P, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Carol J. Baker, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine.
Funding: The Max It Out Foundation for Pediatric Research; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Group B Strep Association, Chapel Hill, NC
Disclosure: Dr. M. Edwards is a consultant to and receives consultancy fees and research funding from Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics.
Reference: Libster et al, "Long Term Outcomes of Group B Streptococcal Meningitis," Pediatrics; originally published online June 11, 2012; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3453
Patients interested in learning more about group B streptococcal meningitis care for pregnant women, newborns and children at the U-M Health System should call 877-475-6688.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more information on GBS in pregnancy at http://www.cdc.gov/groupbstrep/index.html
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Group B streptococcal meningitis has long-term effects on children's developmental outcomesPublic release date: 12-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebeka Cohan rebeka@umich.edu 734-764-2220 University of Michigan Health System
Nearly one-half of infants with GBS meningitis experience developmental delays
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Parents of infants who survive bacterial meningitis caused by group B Streptococcus might have to live with the effects of the disease on their children long after they're discharged from the hospital.
A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that even though mortality rates of children infected with GBS meningitis have decreased in the past 25 years, just under half of children who survive the disease will suffer impairment as a result of the disease.
"These bacteria can quickly cause significant damage to the developing infant brain very quickly despite the infant's having received excellent medical care," says Morven S. Edwards, M.D., professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and a co-author on the paper. "This is a potentially devastating illness and we still have a large percentage of infants who have poor outcomes after the infection."
According to the CDC, 25 percent of pregnant women carry GBS. It is routine for these women to receive antibiotics during labor to protect the baby from infection occurring in the first days of life. There is no way to prevent late-onset GBS infections in infants.
"We haven't had recent data on the outcomes of GBS meningitis in over 25 years and the quality of medical care has changed," says Prachi Shah, M.D., a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, and a senior author on the paper. "We wanted to know, in this era of using antibiotics during birth, whether outcomes have changed for infants who do acquire GBS meningitis. Our study counsels families to be very vigilant about their child if they've had GBS."
The current study shows that, although modern day medicine has improved survival rates, children can still suffer adverse long-term outcomes.
"Despite the fact that mortality has decreased in the last 25 years, survivors of GBS meningitis continue to have substantial long-term morbidity," says Romina Libster, M.D., a physician in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University and first author on the paper.
The overall impact of invasive GBS infection in infants is just over 2,000 cases per year in the United States. Among those with bloodstream infection, 10 to 20 percent can also develop meningitis.
The relative importance of GBS as a cause of meningitis has grown in recent years. "GBS is responsible for over 85 percent of bacterial meningitis in children under two months of age," says Edwards. "Vaccination with the newer pneumococcal vaccines has led to tremendous reductions in meningitis from those bacteria."
Using three different and distinctly defined levels to measure functionality, researchers find that 56 percent of children who survived GBS meningitis went on to have age-appropriate (or normal) development, 25 percent had mild-to-moderate impairment and 19 percent had severe impairment.
Signs of mild-to-moderate impairment include continual and significant academic underachievement as well as evidence of mild neurological or functional impairment. Indications of severe impairment include blindness, hearing loss, cerebral palsy, and significantly delayed development.
According to lab data and cranial images at the time of discharge, there are a number of factors that can help predict the likelihood of long-term severe impairment in GBS meningitis survivors, including a failed hearing screening, an abnormal neurologic exam, and abnormal imaging of the head. However, data and imaging cannot as accurately predict children who will have mild impairments, according to the study.
"The more subtle developmental delays suggest that any child who has had GBS meningitis should have ongoing developmental evaluation," says Edwards, "so that problems can be identified early and addressed even before the child actually starts school so that the child has the best chance to fulfill their potential."
The study examined 43 survivors of GBS meningitis between the ages of three and 12 years. Patients were examined physically, neurologically, with hearing and vision screening, and were also assessed using standardized developmental assessments.
Parents were also questioned on perceptions of their child's development. Parents of children who either had normal or severely impaired functionality are able to accurately identify their children as such. However, according to the report, parents of children with mild-to-moderate impairments are less likely to accurately label their child's developmental delay. Because of this, Shah suggests the importance of follow-up evaluations. "Parent self-report is not always an accurate identifier of children who have mild impairment," she says, "which is why survivors of GBS meningitis should receive long-term development surveillance."
According to Edwards, there are two important steps to be taken moving forward. The first is the development of a vaccine for mothers so that the disease can be prevented altogether. "The other," Edwards says, "is just to enhance awareness of the consequences of the infection and of the need for its prevention."
Currently, clinical testing is already underway for a GBS vaccine developed by Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics.
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Additional Authors: Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Fatma Levent, M.D., Texas Tech University Health Science Center; Marcia A. Rench, R.N., Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital; Luis A. Castagnini, M.D, Blank Children's Hospital; Timothy Cooper, Psy.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Robert C. Sparks, L.P.N./E.M.T.P, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Carol J. Baker, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine.
Funding: The Max It Out Foundation for Pediatric Research; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Group B Strep Association, Chapel Hill, NC
Disclosure: Dr. M. Edwards is a consultant to and receives consultancy fees and research funding from Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics.
Reference: Libster et al, "Long Term Outcomes of Group B Streptococcal Meningitis," Pediatrics; originally published online June 11, 2012; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3453
Patients interested in learning more about group B streptococcal meningitis care for pregnant women, newborns and children at the U-M Health System should call 877-475-6688.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more information on GBS in pregnancy at http://www.cdc.gov/groupbstrep/index.html
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May I make a pink, demon wolf with a rat like tail and ram horns?
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Maybe depends what type of wolf you are. HWs are anything really since they hide a lot so maybe you can be them?? You can be pink but not too bright and yes you can be a demon. So basically yes.
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LONDON: You think technology has made life easier, safe and secure. Think again. For US tech giants are using military-grade cameras so powerful that they can see into homes to produce aerial maps which can show up objects just four inches wide.
Google and Apple will use new hi-tech mapping planes that can film through skylights and windows, putting privacy at risk, the Daily mail reported.
The technology is similar to that used by intelligence agencies in identifying terrorist targets in Afghanistan, the report said.
Google has admitted to having sent planes over cities, while Apple has acquired a firm using spy-in-the-sky technology that has been tested on at least 20 locations, including London.
The search engine giant will use its spy planes to help create 3D maps with much more detail than its satellite-derived Google Earth images.
Google expects by the end of the year to have 3D coverage of towns and cities with a combined population of 300 million. It has not revealed any locations so far.
Apple is expected to unveil its new mapping applications for its iPhone and other devices today - along with privacy safeguards. Its 3D maps will reportedly show for the first time the sides of tall buildings, such as the Big Ben clock tower, the report said.
Current 3D mapping technology relies on aerial images taken at a much lower resolution than the technology Apple is thought to be using. This means that when users 'zoom in', details tend to be lost because of the poor image quality.
Spy planes are able to photograph around 40 square miles every hour, suggesting they would be flying too quickly and at too great a height to access domestic wifi networks.
But experts say the technology is a sinister development that brings the surveillance society a step closer.
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, warned that privacy risked being sacrificed in a commercial 'race to the bottom'.
"The next generation of maps is taking us over the garden fence," he said.
"You won't be able to sunbathe in your garden without worrying about an Apple or Google plane buzzing overhead taking pictures," he warned.
Apple has previously used Google for its mapping services but last year it emerged it had bought C3 Technologies, a 3D mapping company that uses technology developed by Saab AB, the aerospace and defence company.
At the time C3 had already mapped 20 cities and it is believed to have added more with Apple's backing. Its photographs have been shot from 1,600ft and one C3 executive described it as 'Google on steroids'.
Jets coach Rex Ryan is continuing to say publicly that he?s confident in quarterback Mark Sanchez, and he?s stressing that just because last season was a disappointment, that doesn?t mean Sanchez is no longer the right man to lead the franchise.
Ryan said on the Dan Patrick Show that while it?s true Sanchez had too many turnovers last season, Sanchez also showed some signs of improvement as a passer, and it?s a stretch to say Sanchez is the reason the Jets missed the playoffs.
?The touchdowns went up, but the interceptions obviously, the turnovers in general, we fumbled the ball quite a bit, we threw the interceptions, things like that,? Ryan said. ?But it?s a team deal. Sometimes protection contributes to it. Sometimes it?s this or that but it always gets pointed at the quarterback. But it certainly wasn?t all Mark?s fault, that?s for sure.?
It?s obviously true that the problems with the Jets weren?t all Sanchez?s fault, and Ryan makes a fair point when he notes that Sanchez showed some progress as a passer: Sanchez actually had the highest passer rating of his career in 2011, and he also had career highs in completions, completion percentage, passing yards and touchdowns.
However, turnovers are a major concern. In addition to throwing 18 interceptions, Sanchez has always fumbled too much. In his first couple of years in the league, his fumbles were largely overlooked because the Jets recovered most of them: In 2009 he fumbled 10 times but only lost three of them, and in 2010 he fumbled nine times but only lost one of them. It was only in 2011, when he fumbled 10 times and lost eight of them, that people started to notice that his inability to take care of the ball when he?s under pressure is a serious problem.
But Ryan thinks Sanchez generally has a knack for playing well under pressure, and that Sanchez has shown that in the Jets? back-to-back trips to the AFC Championship Game in his first two seasons.
?This young man?s won a lot of games ? won a lot of postseason games on the road. Four playoff games on the road. There?s a lot of guys that haven?t won one playoff game. This guy?s already accomplished quite a bit in his young career,? Ryan said. ?Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl, but ? and I?m not saying Mark Sanchez is Dan Marino ? but I think when you look at it, the big picture of things, this is his fourth season. Never had an offseason. I think every young quarterback took a step back last year, with the exception of maybe the young man, [Matthew] Stafford from Detroit, almost every other young quarterback took a step back. And I think that was a product of not having an offseason. I think Mark is going to take a big step forward.?
The evidence Ryan has for Sanchez taking a big step forward comes mostly from his offseason work, where Ryan says Sanchez is working as hard as anyone.
?This has been a tremendous offseason for him,? Ryan said. ?He looks strong, he?s throwing the ball with accuracy, he?s got a lot of zip on the ball, he looks really comfortable in the pocket, learning a brand new offense he looks comfortable. He?s the guy who knows the offense better than anybody, and he takes a great deal of pride in that. He spends hours and hours in preparation and that?s obvious to his teammates as well. So I think he?s had a tremendous offseason.?
After getting too much credit for the Jets riding their defense and running attack to the AFC Championship Game in his first two years, Sanchez got too much blame for the Jets missing the playoffs last season. But that sounds like excusing Sanchez, and Jets fans don?t want to hear excuses right now. And if the Jets struggle early this season like they struggled late last season, Jets fans are going to be calling for Sanchez to get the hook, even if the problems again aren?t all Sanchez?s fault.
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Many memories linger about special moments spent with dying persons and their families. I remember being a constant presence to a friend whose wife was dying with ovarian cancer. She had a terrible death. I can still remember her breathing stop, then start again until finally she took ?her last breath. I remember the time I spent in ICU with a wife and daughter who could not let their loved one go, although death was imminent. Gently I asked them to give him permission to die, for that was? his?wish. When they did, he died within minutes. I had visited Jack many times as he lay dying on the couch. I knew he was near the end. So I told the senior pastor to be on alert, since I had? to be out of town. It seemed as if Jack had died, so his wife called Steve and he said, ?Jack, it?s your pastor.? Whereupon Jack roused up, and said, ?Good God has it come to that!? And died. A dear lady in this community would not gently into the good night and resisted death, even though there was no hope. Only the kind compassion of Hospice eased her way into the next world.? I have carefully written out my wishes for my dying, the disposition of my body and the memorial service. Some them are included in the Dear Brothers: Letters Facing Death,Five Wishes and other memos for my wife and family. I hope to die at home, with only my wife, my daughter and sons (if possible) present. I do not want a? parade of visitors to say goodbye, unless I request them. I will be cremated and I assure you, there will be no viewing at funeral home, only a reception after the Memorial Service. I have carefully outlined the hymns and readings for my Memorial Service (My only regret is that I won ?t be there!). I have left specific instructions about where my cremains are to buried in this earth, and words for my gravestone. Job said, ?Naked I have come from my mother?s womb, and naked shall I return.? (Job 1:21). All I take with me when I leave this world is the person I became?by ?the grace of God.? AMEN. There is a sense of peace that follows making these plans for one?s dying and death.? Now it is?facing the next act of life, ?always being prepared when the curtain falls and this life ends.
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Dr. Richard L. Morgan grew up on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, and earned degrees from Davidson College, Wake Forest University, M.A. in Counseling and three degrees from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. including a Ph.D, in Early Christian History. He served pastorates in West Virginia and North Carolina where he developed a dynamic older adult ministry. While a pastor in Lenoir, NC he was named, "Man of the Year' by the city of Lenoir for his work with older adults, including building a Senior center for the community. He also served as professor of Religion at Peace College, Raleigh, NC and Presbyterian College, SC and taught Psychology at Mitchell Community College, Statesville, NC and was Director of Counseling at Western Piedmont Community College, Morganton, NC. He also served as a pastoral counselor at the Life Enrichment Center, under the auspices of the Baptist Hospital Pastoral Care department, where he did his Certified Pastoral Education work. After his "retirement," Dr. Morgan devoted himself to writing, and since 1991 has written 14 books, including best sellers, No Wrinkles on the Soul and Remembering Your Story.' His next book, No Act of Love is Ever Wasted: Caregiving for People with Dementia, was co-authored with Dr. Jane M. Thibault will be published by Upper Room Books in the Fall of 2009. All of his published works are described on this web site. At present, Dr. Morgan is a resident at Redstone Highlands, a continuing care retirement community near Pittsburgh, PA. He continues his writing and is highly involved with doing Life Bios for independent living residents and worship and pastoral care for persons with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Married to Alice Ann Morgan, a certified Director of Christian Education, they have 4 children and 10 grandchildren. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.
Also, how I love residing in huge metropolitan areas! The big apple, Ohio or even Paris, france are one of the leading areas exactly where I have to rent a property. Unfortunately, this brilliant expertise can be costly, even if were talking about hiring a small house. Whether or not your home is in the The big apple or perhaps in a reduced city, you?ve still got to embellish your current condominium, and I want to believe that the furniture piece which gives the fashion of the home will be the chair.
Ok, why don?t we pick a apartment sofa?for the modest apartment. Get it being a test of the business skills, as there are lots of things you need to consider. The good thing is which a smaller sized couch is often a low-cost couch. Buying furnishings are enjoyable if you do not must discover a comfy sofa that matches your condo doorway. Since this really is your attraction of the family area, as well as perhaps the most common, the pressure of deciding on the best sofa can be high.
Think of the next circumstances: your apartment sofa?ought to be cozy adequate with an mid-day rest or a soccer night time while using friends. Conversely, for those who have kids or perhaps animals, it should be an easy task to clean and maintain. I understand there is a good deal to come up with but we?ll undertake it jointly. Lounger searching ought to stick to some simple steps:
You want a tape measure and a sheet of paper. There?s two sizes you will need for choosing a new couch that fits a reduced residing: the scale (duration) from the chair and the breadth of the doorway(azines). The particular lounger has to suit the location you have chosen, but it also should suit the entrance door. For those who have observed a perfect couch it doesn?t match the threshold, at the very least make sure you?ll find pieces that can be taken apart.
The actual consumption amount is determined by how much the lounger will be really employed. ?Several want to select a apartment sofa?which fits along with the rest of the furnishings while some are more functional and choose the comfortable lounger that suits their life-style (to use simply by youngsters, pals, pertaining to viewing television).
The sort of material can be carefully related to the degree of use.
In case your sofa is utilized on a regular basis, buckskin and also micro materials are usually advised, because of the level of resistance as well as simple routine maintenance. Organic materials and 100 % cotton look fantastic are significantly less proof against the wear and dissect and also areas are more hard to remove.
The structure is an additional essential requirement to consider when buying a new chair.
Pick sofas together with hardwood composition not wood, for instance, that?s a smaller amount resistant in time.
Style frequently would seem the initial criteria for selecting any cozy couch, on the other hand consider it is the previous, not a smaller amount essential. Make an effort to combine style along with functionality; it is the most suitable choice regarding adorning a small apartment. No matter if you ultimately choose a pricey, modern-day sofa or perhaps a cheap sofa with standard layout. Your apartment sofa?conveys your specific type and definately will handle your case for many years. Any idea: make sure to purchase a sofa that integrates together with your existing as well as doesn?t rule the rest of the home furniture.
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