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Amplifier Power Specifications
Amplifier Specifications
An amplifier increases the power of the signal being fed to it by taking energy from its power supply and matching the signal but increasing its amplitude. Amplifiers use many different methods for converting these electrical signals and have been categorized into classes.
Class A/B: Greater than 50% of the input signal is amplified while the other percentage is "off". These amplifiers have a small amount of current flowing through the output transistors all the time which almost eliminates crossover distortion. Class A/B has great sound quality but is not as efficient as class D. These amps are most commonly used to drive speakers.
Class D: Also known as switching amplifiers, class D amps have output transistors that are completely turned "on" or "off". This means that when the transistors are on, there is almost no voltage across them but when they are off there is significant voltage but no current flowing through it which makes these amplifiers very efficient at the cost of sound quality. These amps are most commonly used to drive subwoofers.Other Classes: You may see classes such as GH, bD, X, FD, etc. by some manufactures. These amplifiers tend to be either class A/B, D or a hybrid of the two but with improvements to their designs that can make them more efficient or offer better sound quality.
RMS power is the amount of continuous power, measured in watts, that an amplifier produces is called RMS power. The higher the RMS figure, the louder and cleaner your music sounds.
The RMS output figure is much more accurate than the peak rating when comparing products.
A crossover is a type of filtering system that permits only certain frequencies to play. A Low-Pass (LP) crossover allows only frequencies below its setting to get through which is good in the case of some subwoofers. A High-Pass(HP) filter allows frequencies above its setting to pass through, this is normally used on speakers.
When a crossover is set to FULL it means no filtering is added and the full frequency spectrum is allowed through the amplifier. Filtering is important because feeding a speaker frequencies it cannot reproduce effectively creates distortion.
The steepness of the roll-off slope is measured in dB/octave and refers to the rate of attenuation (lowering of volume) outside their pass bands.
- RMS Power
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio
This rating applies to both external car amplifiers, as well as the amplifiers inside of in-dash stereos.
Subwoofer Specifications
Efficiency (1w/1m) is not an accurate indicator of a subwoofer's output capability and should not be used as a comparison to other speakers or subwoofers to determine which one is "louder".
Round/Circle: This is the typical and common subwoofer design. They have a round cone and are a circle in design.
Square: These woofers are able to achieve a greater cone area in a smaller space. Because of the greater surface area, some square subwoofers will be louder than a round subwoofer of the same size.
Enclosure Specifications
Sealed - Sealed boxes are those that have no holes or vents in it. The only hole in a sealed box is where the subwoofer is installed. Smaller sealed boxes require more power than a larger sealed box. They provide a tight, accurate bass, while the larger sealed enclosures provide a "boomier" and louder bass.
Ported / Vented - Ported/Vented Enclosures provide an even boomier, louder bass, but less accurate then a small, sealed box. Ported enclosures typically require more airspace per sub and also less power output from an amplifier to perform correctly.
Bandpass - Bandpass enclosures make subwoofers perform efficiently, but loose. The bass is not as "boomy" as a ported enclosure nor as punchy as a sealed enclosure. Bandpass enclosures work well with lower to mid-level subwoofers.
Binding post terminals are a sturdier, more versatile type of speaker terminal. Because binding post terminals are are threaded, you can tighten them down against the wire or connector for a tight, clean connection. The most popular style of binding post terminals is known as a "5-way binding post". This type can accept bare wire, or any of the common speaker wire connectors. Binding posts with the option to be used with banana clips are even more versatile
Spring posts are a hybrid of the two. Instead of using a thread and "screwing" them tight, they use a spring to allow the wire to fit and tighten against the terminal.
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LOVING the intensity of those golden eyes - so perfect!
LOVE IT! Let the Photoshopping commence :)
Thanks Edward and Bella
- Lorabell
She looks so pretty!!
and Rob *sigh* as handsome as ever
make up is soo much better!
<3 only 110 days left...yay
the pics are so pretty!
especially the 2nd one!
I love Edward's eyes!
his lips are a lovely shade of mauve...instead of the pinky mcpinkster they were in Twilight :oPReplyDelete
ah...for some reason...i like these posters better than the Twilight ones.ReplyDelete
haha.. kristen looks much better than in twilight ;) she's so beautiful :)ReplyDelete
Isn't Bella suppose to look average? That's the point of the description of her in Twilight right?? They sexed up Kristen too much. They should have save that for Breaking Dawn when she turns to beautiful vampire.ReplyDelete
@Anon: I think she still looks just pretty enough - she can easily be schmexed up for BD - did you SEE her at the VMAs?! ;)
- Lorabell
Kristen will be sooo beautiful when she's vamped up in Breaking Dawn.ReplyDelete
Kristen is absolutely gorgeous! Her facial features are so petite and perfect. Love Rob but he looks so much older than he did in Twilight. Very manly! lolReplyDelete
Kristen looks so pretty compared to pics from Twilight more expressive esp. her eyes. Rob looks a bit older and has more formal clothing.ReplyDelete
Both Kristen and Rob look so gorgeous and handsome in these pics. Kristen's eyes look so expressive.ReplyDelete
damn Bella looks hot! lol.ReplyDelete
*blink* They both look gorgeous. Wow.ReplyDelete
I love the change in all of the vampires eyes Gold and Red alike the change is so dramatic and intense in a GOOD WAY! so awesome!ReplyDelete
Although Bella looks alot better in these, I dont think its taking anything away from Breaking Dawn. She still looks natural, and thats the whole point through the Saga; she has natural beauty that she doesnt realize.
They both look so much better though. Vamp makeup has DEFINATELY improved. Even though it wasnt horrible in Twilight, they make it look more vampural here.
They both look so sexy:))ReplyDelete
for those of you saying that Bella looks too pretty here, I think she was too plain in Twilight. Now, the books are from her POV, and she thinks that she looks ordinary and plain. But I think in reality she was actually meant to be naturally beautiful, and not dull and plain like most people think. Just because she doesn't see her beauty, doesn't mean she doesn't have it. I mean, why would all the guys be attracted to her if she was super homely?? Yeah, so I definitely think this is how Bella was meant to look.ReplyDelete
I agree with Hannah. (the pics are FABULOUS!)ReplyDelete
I don't think Rob/Edward looks older, but more mature probably becuz he's in a suit. Suits tend to make you not look your age....... Anywayz, I could care less, HE'S STILL HOT AS EVER AS EDWARD & SOOOOOOO DAZZLING w/ those eyes!ReplyDelete
Kstew is one fucking hot bitch!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
also loving Bella without the headband. What was with that headband anyway? srsly.ReplyDelete
Why is her mouth open in all the pictures?ReplyDelete
Yeah Kristen is supposed to be average, but not plain. Stephenie explained it quite clearly I think. Bella is in all actuality, pretty, but not outstandingly beautiful. I think Kristen looks very pretty, just as Bella is described. Besides, she has grown physically in a years time, since Edwards departure. I love it.
And, as usual, my heart thudded over the fantastic Edward photos. Gorgeous, beautiful, breathtaking man!
Edward's eyes -- piercing as ever, displaying that Edward-esque ethereal beauty.
And Kristen? Hawt! Um Bella, why must you intoxicate us with your come-hiter stare? LOL! e.g.(pic 1)
ahhh, rob is exquisite :))
these pictures just continue to get better and better and i have to admit that the make up looks better you can see that the contrast between the colours. so much better!ReplyDelete
Aaahhh Edward ... Yup, total VILF!!!ReplyDelete
Why is there so much vampire stuff for New Moon?
I thought the calendar would be more wolfy
that really ticks me off. they made kristen waaay too sexy, thats not supposed to happen until breakingdawn, when bella becomes a vampire. she's supposed to be average looking. and she's supposed to have a horrible sense of style. just. GEEEZ.ReplyDelete
rob looks GEORGEOUS! like always!
&& kristen looks beautiful!
defiantley a HUGE improvement from Twilight. LOVE the new makeup!
and i dont think they made her too sexy. i think she still looks natural.she doesnt have tonsssss of make up on.looks like she doesnt has any eye liner. just shadow. and these are just the pics.she could look a lil diff in the movie.and they will def make her look sexy and more beautful in BD.like she did in her vanityfair photoshoot..gorgeous
and bella doesnt have horrible sense of style in the books. she just has average looking clothes. plus dont forget Alice buys her clothes an stuff. so she could be wearing Alices expensive style.
im so excited! this movie is gonna be AMAZING!!!
thank god for good make-up finally he does not look like a really bad drag queenReplyDelete
Kristen looks pretty and gorgeous as usual, and thank god there is make up on Rob or else he would look horrible. Wish there were some sexii pics of Taylor in here too:)ReplyDelete
Kristen looks so gorgeous and Rob lips look so much better plus both of there eyes r so passionate.ReplyDelete
omg!! can't wait till NM... and yeah rob looks older than the previous movie...at least 5 more years!i loved his look so much better in twilight:( but of course he's still HOT!;)ReplyDelete
both of them are stunning. love the make-up improvements. the ones in twilight were great but they truly upgraded. rob looks a little older though, not seventeen. and they plucked is eyebrows differently, kristen too, they actually gave her eyebrows lol both of them are very cool. love the saga and stoked for new moonReplyDelete
i wish they would just change her when she becomes a vampire i don't think she can pull off be graceful and beautiful!!ReplyDelete
ok see why can't kristen just look like those pics, she looks terrible doing this whole jone jett look. but cool photoshop pictures! :)ReplyDelete
I actually think their characters look better in Twilight, more how I pictured in the book. But they do look gorgeous in New Moon also. Kristen looks so much older, too. I think Rob looks better with darker eyes than blue. Rob looked hotter in Twilight. I don't like his wardrobe in New Moon.ReplyDelete
I like kris very much!!! she's always pretty 'n' nice!! i love edward!!!ReplyDelete
ahha i already started to try to photoshop what their little girl will look like ..
ooppss spolierrr! ;)
w.e i read all the books 6months b4 anyone even heard of twilight so its all guud :)
kristen looks stunning, she definitely looked to plain in twilight and this is definitely more like how I imagined Bella to look. And Robert?? well what can i say apart from .... hot!!!! Love him <3ReplyDelete

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Syrian refugee crisis: The true value of water
What do you know about water?
Before I went to Lebanon, I knew that it is life-saving and that clean water is key to preventing diseases. But I never realized how much its value extends beyond that. I never understood the dignity and comfort that it can offer people in hard times -- until this past month.
In May and June, I was in Lebanon, helping with World Vision's response to the Syrian refugee crisis, providing information about our work for supporters, coordinating media visits, and communicating the needs that our staff identify in the communities and settlements where they work.
The places where Syrian refugees are living in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are not like the refugee camps that I've seen on TV. Tents are often in small groups, constructed from pieces of wood, bits of tin or plywood, tarpaulins from advertising billboards -- whatever people can find. The more established shelters may have been here for as long as two years. Others were constructed this week. Instead of being organized in large open fields, these shelters are set up wherever people can find a bit of land. They sit alongside houses, farms, and businesses.
When I first visited one of these settlements, I spoke with Ramiah, a mother who had arrived with her husband and children in Lebanon 15 days before, fleeing the violence in Syria. She told me that her number-one priority was getting clean water for her children, two of whom bear scars from shrapnel and burns. Ramiah added that her little girl, Usra, wakes up screaming at night.
With all they've been through, water doesn't seem like enough. It's so basic. I want them to have their homes, their country, their old lives back. But I can't give them those things.
Water is something the international community can provide. And the impact of World Vision's water, sanitation, and hygiene programs runs deeper than I understood before arriving in Lebanon. I knew that water is crucial to life, especially during the Lebanese summer. I knew that diarrhea and skin diseases are likely to spring up in the absence of clean water. And I knew that the spread of disease increases with a lack of functioning toilets.
But I didn't understand the comfort and dignity that this basic element can provide. In a situation where so much is beyond your control, the dignity of privacy and the comfort of being able to wash yourself and your children are small, treasured comforts.
When I returned to the settlement where Ramiah and her family live a few weeks after my first visit, I found that World Vision had installed water tanks and cylindrical white buildings (latrines) between tents. The families were proud to show me the new tanks they had helped to install. They explained how the water they used for washing was kept in a tank and reused to flush the latrines.
In the midst of a crisis that seems so enormous, so complex, and so overwhelming, I'm heartened to see that the support of our donors is giving families the comfort and dignity of clean water and toilets.
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Joy Toose is the social media manager for World Vision Australia.
Make a one-time donation to help World Vision provide emergency assistance for Syrian refugees who have fled the escalating violence in their country. Your gift will help us bring interventions like food vouchers, cooking supplies, water and sanitation initiatives, and more. Many families have lost everything as conflict has taken their homes and livelihoods.
Please join us in prayer for all World Vision staff members working around the world, particularly in this region of conflict.


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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Drug Abuse as a Predictor of Rearrest or Failure to Appear in Court in New York City, 1984 (ICPSR 9979)
Principal Investigator(s): Wish, Eric D.
This data collection was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of drug use/drug use trends among booked arrestees in New York City and to analyze the relationship between drug use and crime. The data, which were collected over a six-month period, were generated from volunteer interviews with male arrestees, the analyses of their urine specimens, police and court records of prior criminal behavior and experience with the criminal justice system, and records of each arrestee's current case, including court warrants, rearrests, failures to appear, and court dispositions. Demographic variables include age, education, vocational training, marital status, residence, and employment. Items relating to prior and current drug use and drug dependency are provided, along with results from urinalysis tests for opiates, cocaine, PCP, and methadone. The collection also contains arrest data for index crimes and subsequent court records pertaining to those arrests (number of court warrants issued, number of pretrial rearrests, types of rearrests, failure to appear in court, and court dispositions), and prior criminal records (number of times arrested and convicted for certain offenses).
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Wish, Eric D. Drug Abuse as a Predictor of Rearrest or Failure to Appear in Court in New York City, 1984 . ICPSR09979-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09979.v1
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Subject Terms: arrest records, court cases, criminal histories, disposition (legal), drug abuse, drug related crimes, drug testing, drug use, police records, recidivism prediction, urinalysis
Geographic Coverage: New York (state), New York City, United States
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Universe: Male arrestees booked at Manhattan Central Booking from April to October 1984.
Sample: Nonrandom data collection from 6,406 arrestees. Priority was given to those persons charged with nondrug felony offenses. Drug offenses accounted for 20 percent of the sample, and 76 percent were felony offenses.
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We have all heard the stigmatized phrase, They are off their meds. For many people suffering from a mental health issue, medicine is a key part in their road to recovery. There are some people who choose not to use medication as part of their recovery support system; for others, medicine helps battle the symptoms of their illness. However, as with most medicines, there are side effects to be considered with these medicines.
Medicine, for me. helps take away enough symptoms so that I can live a fulfilling life with my diagnosis. I am on a combination of two second-generation medicines. This combination of medicines has its side effects. Both cause weight gain, and one of the medicines I am on makes me hungry all the time and no matter how full I am, I will continue to eat. After I was put on this combination of medicine I gained 70 pounds in just over three months. I have to get blood work done annually because of the risk of high cholesterol and diabetes that are associated with these medicines. I have been and should be exercising more to counter the weight gain associated with these medicines.
Another side effect of one of the medicines I take is that it causes drowsiness; it must be taken at night. When I take this medicine. I have about 30-45 minutes until I need to lie down and go to sleep. I have to be careful in that if I take this medicine late at night, it will cause me to sleep later into the morning the next day. I have to be disciplined in taking this medicine at or around the same time every night so that I can wake up at the appropriate time in the morning. When I first went on this medicine, I slept through the days continually for many months. It has taken time to adjust and learn to fight past the fatigue that this medicine brings on.
When I was first diagnosed, it took a year and a half to find the right combination of medicines that worked for me. The doctor would gradually taper me up on a medicine. If the medicine didnt work. I would be gradually tapered off of that medicine and onto a new medicine that would then be tried. After a year and a half of this, I ended up on the combination that has been effectively working for the past five-plus years. I had only a small speed bump in my coverage when one of the medicines I am on went generic. Although they are supposed to be the same medicine, I started to have symptoms come back and eventually I was put back on the brand-name medicine.
Second-generation anti-psychotic medicines are newer medicines that have been recently developed. While first-generation anti-psychotic medicines can produce a higher risk for tardive dyskinesia, which can cause restlessness, tremors and stiffness, the side effects of second generation medicines are weight gain, high blood sugar and high cholesterol.
Although it only took me a year and a half to find the right combination of medicine, could you imagine what someone who is newly diagnosed goes through with the news of their diagnosis and then the roller-coaster effect of trying to find the right medicine or combination of medicines that effectively eliminate symptoms? How frustrating to be battling the illness, then the side effects of medicine, and then the wondering if the medicine will work and help you get back to the life you want to live. After all of that, there is the stigma that is out there about medicine. Medicine is not a crutch to hang onto but more of a boost up to make it where you can live a fulfilling life.
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of the Xbox 360 DVD-ROM firmware hack to
allow the play of
backup games and bootleg copies. Those with hacked firmware had the ability
to play copied games, mostly burned onto dual-layer DVD recordable discs, even
online Xbox Live.
For a while, it seemed that such firmware modifications were
undetectable by Microsoft – but that appears to have all changed with the
latest Xbox 360 system software released last week.
Word came from the Xbox 360 hacking community that the
Spring Update may have the ability to detect those who were playing copied
games. More specifically, the system software would be able to determine the
legitimacy of the disc in the DVD drive, not necessarily targeting any specific
method of modification.
As a pre-emptive measure, hackers released updated disc
drive firmware introducing various features, such as disc jitter, in an effort
to further the exploit. Such efforts, however, appear to be all for naught, as
report on Xbox-Scene
indicates that Microsoft is now banning from Xbox Live users with modified
DVD-ROM drives, regardless of firmware version.
The banning measures appear to have started alongside the release
of the Halo 3 beta, perhaps in what is best described as a crackdown on Crackdown bootlegged copies that
contained Halo 3 beta access. Just as it did during the original Xbox days,
Microsoft is permanently banning modified consoles from connecting to Xbox
Live, but not the user account.
Microsoft acknowledges its new initiative with an entry in
its Gamerscore
Blog: "As part of our commitment to our members, we do not allow people
that we have detected to have modified their console to connect to Live. This
is an important part of our efforts to try and maintain a fair gaming
environment for the large majority of gamers that play by the rules. This topic
is more important than ever given the recent release of the Halo 3 beta."
The blog continues, "As a result, some consumers that try to login
to Live who we detect have illegally modified their console will get an error
code (Status Code: Z: 8015 - 190D) when trying to connect to the service. These
users will not have their account automatically banned from LIVE, but they will
no longer be able to access the service from the console they modified. We have
stated in the past that customers can only enjoy access to the Xbox LIVE
community through the use of a genuine, unmodified, Xbox console and we will
continue to enforce this rule to ensure the integrity of our service, the
protection of our partners and the benefits of our users."


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Boots on the ground in Haiti: Meet our disaster response expert
After the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010, World Vision's Jeff Wright, operations director for humanitarian and emergency affairs, was among our first responders.
Why World Vision? In today's Q&A, Jeff describes what it's like to deploy to a disaster zone and how World Vision's disaster response makes a difference -- both then and now.
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1. Let's go back to January 2010, when the earthquake struck Haiti. As the humanitarian and emergency affairs operations director, what's the first thing you do when you receive the call about this disaster?
I'm always multi-tasking when a disaster hits, but first, I clarify within my team about who will do what. We're all go-getters, so it's important for us to set up roles and responsibilities. I'll also make sure that our media relations and fundraising teams are aware of the disaster.
It's also important to determine how large our response will be. Sometimes, the World Vision national office can manage a smaller disaster. Other times, especially with the more catastrophic disasters like Haiti, our response will be quite large.
2. When you find out that you will be responding personally and flying out to the disaster zone, what's the first thing you do?
First, I clarify my role with the field team. My background in disaster response prepares me to play several roles. One priority for us is to gather information: In any disaster, there will be pockets of greater and lesser need. We'll work to figure out the nature of that need. In Haiti, water, sanitation, food, and shelter were all urgently critical. Another priority is for us to start getting out the supplies we already have pre-positioned.
3. Can you talk a little more about that? What are some of the ways by which World Vision prepares itself in advance for disasters?
Working in almost 100 countries, World Vision has staff and resources positioned all over the world. We also have warehouses that stock supplies -- food, building materials, etc. -- so when a disaster hits, our teams are ready to pack up a truck or plane and get those supplies moving.
World Vision also maintains a reserve fund for disaster response. Many organizations arrive, make an assessment, and then raise funds, which can take weeks. But when World Vision's response team arrives on site, that money is available to get us started immediately, until further funding can be raised.
4. What's it like to get on a plane here in Seattle, then step off into a disaster zone, like Haiti?
Wow, it's…just in general, it seems that my life is spent between different worlds. I'm always bouncing between them. Seattle is the tech capital of the world; stepping off a plane onto the cracked tarmac of Port-au-Prince is a shock to the system. I've been doing this for years, and I've gotten to feeling that it's normal; hopefully I'm not too calloused.
I find that it's easier going into the disaster than it is coming back, but some people find the opposite true. Once I get there, I always find that the things we worry about here on a daily basis don't matter so much. It's strange to come back after that.
5. Once you're on-site, after you've gathered information, what happens next?
I can play two different roles. The first is a programs role, which focuses on the details of shelter, water and sanitation, food, and child protection. Those were the focus in Haiti: how many camps we work in; how many beneficiaries we serve; how many latrines and shelters to build, including where, what kind, and whether they're working correctly.
In my second deployment to Haiti, I took an operations role, which is more mobilization and day-to-day logistics. I supervise several functional things: tech teams, grants, resources, budgets. I also have to be aware of donor expectations. For example, if we say we'll do 1,000 of something, did we do it? And I reorder supplies for our warehouses.
6. What's one thing you'd say World Vision did really well in Haiti?
We got in fast. Our prepositioned supplies got there fast. Lives were saved. By the time I arrived, a World Vision team was already up and running. We took a massive amount of food from the World Food Program and around the clock got it on trucks and got the community prepped.
7. And what might be an example of a challenge?
Our response in Haiti certainly had its challenges. Water, sanitation, and hygiene programs were tough. Shelter and child protection were, too; disaster zones are dangerous.
The response to the Haiti quake was complex. There were significant land issues, some of which still aren't resolved. Most of the homes that were lost were either undocumented or built without land rights, so rebuilding on-site became complicated. World Vision prefers to build shelters on a structure's original site, but that wasn't an option. It's also been a massive effort to move away rubble. It's still being cleaned up today.
8. What does reconstruction in Haiti look like, and what's World Vision's role in that process?
It often takes longer than you might think for a disaster zone to return to "normal." If you look back at some recent major disasters -- the 2004 Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina -- you can see that years afterward there's still obvious evidence of the disaster. The recovery continues long after. Haiti is exactly in this place now. Reconstruction continues, and probably will for a few years more.
World Vision is still there, working on different aspects of economic development and job creation -- helping to strengthen the base on which people can rebuild their livelihoods and better lives for their children.
9. How does our Christian faith motivate our work in disaster response?
To me, it's extremely basic: Christ's earthly ministry -- at least in terms of the day-to-day activity -- was about helping those in need, meeting the physical needs of the sick or poor. If we take seriously the directive to follow Christ's example, then humanitarian work, including disaster response, is a natural and obvious outcome. In many ways, to do humanitarian work is to very directly follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
In the wake of a crisis, children suffer most. World Vision is often one of the first organizations to begin relief work after a disaster, and we remain on the ground for the long haul, rebuilding communities and restoring hope.
Consider making a one-time donation to our Disaster Response Fund. Your gift will help us rush emergency supplies like life-saving food, clean water, medical supplies, and shelter to survivors of sudden-onset emergencies, like the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.


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A new study recently found that
women tend to be more
hardcore gamers than men are, but they also tend to lie about how
much time they spend playing games. More and more people are also
playing games that are closely tied to social networks like MySpace
and Facebook.
These gamers often report that they play the
games not so much for the game itself, but to interact with friends
and family. The virtual economy that was created to cater to the
goods that many of these social games sell is booming. BBC News
reports that the virtual economy in the U.S. is set
to make billions selling goods that don't really exist. The
sale of virtual goods is one of the hottest trends in technology and
is showing no signs of letting up.
Venture Capitalist Jeremy
Liew said, "This [virtual goods] is just an exploding part of
the gaming business right now. It is the most exciting area in
Liew's company Lightspeed Venture Partners has
invested about $10 million in virtual goods so far. He said, "We
have seen companies go from nothing in the last 18-24 months to tens
and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue."
goods like fertilizer and seeds in farming games are big sellers and
there are a myriad of other games that sell virtual goods to players
seeking to get ahead. Social gaming firm Playfish says that virtual
goods are key to its success.
Playfish's Tom Sarris told BBC
News, "Virtual items within the Playfish games are the
centre point of the way in which Playfish derives its revenue."
He continued saying, "We have two different revenue models. The
primary is the sale of virtual goods and the second is in-game
advertising, but that is a very minor aspect at this stage."
says that making the lion's share of revenue from digital goods is
very common for social gaming companies. He says that virtual goods
often make up 90-95% of the revenue for the game developers. Virtual
goods and the games that sell them are attracting women in increasing
numbers and the players don't consider themselves to be average
Social gamer Emma Cox told BBC News she only
plays to keep in contact with friends and family. She said, "I
am not a traditional gamer. I don't buy console games or go out and
spend $40 on a game for my PlayStation." She continued saying,
"I am playing online games for a different reason and it's
instant gratification, playing with friends, showing off to others
and have them see all the virtual goods you have bought for yourself
and even for them."
Cox and other players like her buy
things like digital birthday cards, bottles of digital champagne,
seeds and fertilizer, and other items for virtual games. Gamers and
the game firms behind the popular titles liken the buying of digital
goods to renting movies. Cox said, "The way we look at it is
it's no different from paying money to go and see a movie or rent a
DVD. What you are paying for is the experience and that notion of


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Vantiv Meets EMV Deadline for MasterCard
Vantiv, the former First Third Processing Solutions, announced that it has passed the testing requirements for processing EMV transactions on the MasterCard platforms and claims to be the first card processor to do so.
The Cincinnati-based processor said it drives 13,000 ATMs for financial institutions and has more than 650 credit union clients.
Vantiv said it will deploy the first of its EMV processing technology at a New York City-area bank in late April.
"The liability shift program gives all parties a stake in applying the highest level of security to each transaction," said Mike Weitzman, group executive, U.S. Markets, at MasterCard.
"This milestone demonstrates Vantiv's commitment to ensuring their clients have a seamless experience as the industry goes through this transition. We will continue to work with Vantiv in preparing the groundwork to support smarter transactions today and drive future innovations," Weitzman said.
Vantiv said that most of its financial institution clients deploy ATM fleets made of mixed types of machines from different manufacturers.
"We are proud to be the first U.S. acquirer to meet MasterCard's EMV requirements for these two key processing channels," said Carlos Lima, chief operating officer at Vantiv. "These efforts are a testament to our strengths in quickly implementing new payment technologies and compliance standards for our clients, which helps them stay ahead of the curve during industry transitions such as the EMV migration."
Along with meeting MasterCard's EMV processing requirements, Vantiv said it has also been certified to process EMV transactions on the NCR APTRA Edge ATM software platform.


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Tech Firm Consolidations Driven by Due Diligence, Penny Pinching
Big banking tech companies recently have been hungrily gobbling up smaller companies and the question is, Will this consolidation continue? The other question, Is this good, or bad, for credit unions?
Recent acquisitions include Brookfield, Wis.-based Fiserv swallowing Glastonbury, Conn.-based Open Solutions Inc. for around $1 billion, mainly debt assumption; Jacksonville, Fla.-based FIS digested Larkspur, Calif. based-mFoundry for about $120 million; and Naples, Fla.-based ACI Worldwide bought Chantilly, Va.-based Online Resources Corp. for about $263 million.
The common wisdom is to buckle up because there will likely be more such deals.
"We are seeing credit unions and banks limiting their number of vendor relationships," said Christine Barry, a research director at Boston-based Aite Group.
Partly this is fueled by mounting pressures from regulators to do in-depth due diligence on vendors, the fewer there are, the easier to comply. And partly it's an upshot of continuing mindfulness of financial institutions's thin margins, and it sometimes is simpler to negotiate better terms when many services are involved.
"Every financial institution is squeezing every penny because of the interest rate environment," said Matt Herbert, president of the $900 million Northrop Grumman Federal Credit Union in Gardena, Calif. "There will be a streamlining of vendors because it makes your life easier to manage fewer vendors."
Even one of the players involved in acquisition concurred with this thinking.
"Financial institutions want to work with fewer vendors. That is driving consolidation, and this is a trend that won't reverse," said John Kraft, a vice president at ACI Worldwide. "But," he added, "that doesn't mean they want to deal with only one vendor."
As for precisely why ACI Worldwide wanted Online Resources, Kraft indicated it had become the last of the independent bill-pay companies. He elaborated that in the last few years, Fiserv had bought CheckFree; FIS acquired Metavante; and Jack Henry acquired iPay. That, said Kraft, left Online Resources as the only bill-pay company in play. Before the acquisition, ACI Worldwide offered its customers bill pay through third parties. With the acquisition, it owns its bill pay service and that, said Kraft, is win-win for ACI and its customers.
"ACI Worldwide needed a bill pay provider," said Randall Pearson of Tucson, Ariz.-based Pearrari Solutions Inc., a financial tech consulting firm. "ACI will be able to tightly link to ORCC. That should provide a tighter user experience."
Scott Hodgins, a research director for Cornerstone Advisors in Scottsdale, Ariz., added: "ACI has a reputation for being strong on the commercial side but not retail. ORCC brings them more credibility in retail banking." He saw little that troubled him in the acquisition.
The same cannot be said of the Fiserv acquisition of Open Solutions. About that, negative voices are loud. Said David Gibbard, a senior vice president at core company EPL in Birmingham, Ala: "Acumen has never been successfully implemented. It is nothing less than a black mark for Fiserv. DNA solved a problem that was embarrassing for Fiserv, but I am not sure this is in the best interest of the marketplace."
"Fiserv had no choice. They had to do it. But what's good for Fiserv isn't necessarily good for the credit union industry," said Kirk Drake, CEO of Hagerstown, Md.-based Ongoing Operations, a CUSO focused on technology.
Less choice when it comes to core providers is part of the worry of these critics, but there's more. Several experts noted a worry they had about the Fiserv acquisition is that the company may not make it easy for a credit union core customer to integrate non-Fiserv ancillary products (such as online and mobile banking). And that would have a disturbing impact on technology innovation and the ability of credit unions to access best of breed solutions.
Fiserv declined multiple requests to be interviewed for this article.
The FIS acquisition of mFoundry produced a mixed bag of responses. In an instant, FIS has rocketed past Fiserv, with its estimated 1,000 mobile banking customers, into the lead in the fast exploding mobile banking niche. mFoundry brings around 900 financial institutions to this party. FIS itself had an estimated 600 (many of those a light repackaging of the mFoundry tools because FIS had owned a significant minority interest in the company), so between them that is 1,500 financial institution customers for mobile banking. That is a huge lead in a sector that may well be the financial tech battleground over the next couple of years.
Both mFoundry and FIS declined to comment for this article.
"With this deal, FIS significantly ups its mobile offering," said Aite's Barry, who stressed that a motivator for this acquisition is that "nowadays financial institutions are looking for deals," typically from their core providers who are pressured to throw in at a discount or even free of charge services such as mobile banking.
That is putting downward revenue pressure on standalone technology providers, such as mFoundry on its own, and it also may have a negative impact on innovation, said some experts who indicated that free is not a price point that will sustain significant product advancement.
But the FIS purchase of mFoundry had been long expected, as FIS sought to broaden its financial tech offerings and to better position itself to meet financial institution demands for price concessions. "FIS shocked a total of no one with this acquisition," said Hodgins. "Will they nurture mFoundry or suck the life out of it? We don't know yet. But we do know they are very different corporate cultures." And, suggested Hodgins, blending the laidback Marin County style of mFoundry into the more buttoned-down FIS will be a corporate coupling to watch.
"Products get diluted in massive companies," shrugged Robb Gaynor, a co-founder of Austin, Texas-based Malauzai, a much smaller mobile banking apps company that has around 100 financial institutions.
Gaynor elaborated that with a torpid IPO market, "These are the kinds of deals you have to expect when small companies can't go public."
"You need a lot of gas to keep expanding," said Gaynor, meaning cash on hand to fund continuing rounds of the product innovation tech start ups need to wow new customers. He declined to characterize the mFoundry acquisition as good or bad, saying, "These are things that just happen."
Gaynor did think that possibly the FIS purchase will create opportunities for competitors such as Malauzai. "It will take FIS at least a year to digest mFoundry. This will create disruption and that means opportunities for others."
A bottom line that resonates throughout all of these deals, and that will recur as yet more consolidation occurs in banking technology as 2013 plays out, is that while most deals, on their own, may look good, in their aggregate there may be a different, more worrying conclusion. "Consolidation is negative for our clients," said Hodgins. "There are fewer and fewer vendors and that's not good for the industry."


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today officially announced the next devices in its
popular HTC EVO lineup: the EVO 3D smartphone and the EVO View 4G tablet.
We got an early look at both devices from HTC back
in March, and not much has changed since then. The EVO 3D is still being touted
as America's first "glasses-free" 3D smartphone, while the View 4G is
being labeled "the first 4G tablet" on the market.
Both devices are set to launch June 24 exclusively from Sprint. The EVO 3D will
run $199.99 with a qualifying two-year contract, and the View 4G will run
$399.99. They can be pre-ordered at any Sprint store with the purchase of a $50
gift card.
Here's a quick spec recap:
Powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor and runs Android 2.3
Gingerbread with HTC's Sense UI. In addition to the 720p 3D HD video camera, it
includes a 1.3-inch megapixel front-facing camera for video chat, WiMAX
capability, DLNA support, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, stereo Bluetooth, and a 1730 mAh
Lithium-ion battery.
Dimensions: 5.0" x 2.6" x .48" (LxWxT)
Weight: 6 ounces
Main display: 4.3-inch 3D QHD capacitive display (960 x 540)
Memory: 4GB Internal memory/1GB RAM; Expandable memory: 8GB microSD card
included; supports up to 32GB.
HTC EVO View 4G
Boasts a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 touchscreen, a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon
processor, a 5-megapixel main camera with HD-video capability, a 1.3-megapixel
front-facing one for video chat, and the latest version of HTC's Sense UI on
top of Android Gingerbread (which will be updated to Honeycomb in the near
future). It also includes 32GB internal memory, 1GB RAM, a microSD slot, Wi-Fi
b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and a 4000 mAh Lithium-ion battery.
For a limited time, customers will receive the HTC Scribe pen (a $79.99 value)
for free with purchase of the View tablet.


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Hyundai is continuing its steady stream
of product updates with two more iterations of the all-new Sonata.
We've already discussed the Sonata on a few
occasions here on
DailyTech, but Hyundai today released official details on
both the new Sonata Hybrid and the Sonata Turbo.
First up is the new Sonata
Hybrid. The new hybrid features revised front and rear bodywork
to make it stand apart from the standard Sonata models. The body
revisions also help the Sonata Hybrid to better slip through the air.
Most importantly, however, is the new
Hyundai "Hybrid Blue Drive" powertrain. A 169 hp, 2.4-liter
four cylinder engine is paired with a 40 hp electric motor and a
lithium-ion battery pack. The Sonata Hybrid eschews the continuously
variable transmission (CVT) that is typically used in hybrid vehicles
and instead uses a more traditional six-speed automatic transmission.
When all is said and done, the
3,457-pound Sonata Hybrid (263 pounds lighter than the Ford Fusion
Hybrid) is able to achieve city fuel economy of 37 mpg and highway
fuel economy of 39 mpg. For comparison, the Ford
Fusion Hybrid achieves figures of 41 mpg and 36 mpg respectively.
The other big news from Hyundai is the
announcement of the Sonata
Turbo. We've previously discussed that Hyundai has done away with
a V6 engine option for the all-new Sonata. Following the announcement
of Sonata Turbo, we can see why. The Sonata Turbo uses a new
2.0-liter four-cylinder engine which develops an impressive 274 hp
and 269 lb-ft of torque (maximum torque is achieved at a low 1,800
rpm) -- all while using regular unleaded gasoline.
Even more embarrassing for its
V6-powered competitors like Toyota Camry, Ford Fusion, and Honda
Accord is the fact that the tiny little turbo four surpasses all of
them in horsepower and torque figures. The Sonata Turbo will also
delivery fuel economy of 22 mpg city and 34 mpg highway -- not far
off from the standard 198 hp Sonata. For comparison, the closest V6
competitor to the Sonata Turbo in fuel economy is the Honda Accord V6
which is rated at 19 mpg city and 29 mpg highway.
With these two announcements, Hyundai
appears to be having no problem at all moving towards the governments
goal of increased
fuel efficiency for passenger vehicles.


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With no Spring Intel Developer Forum in the U.S., Intel is showing
off its newest technologies this week at the annual Integrated Solid State
Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. At the forefront of Intel's announcements is its success in developing the world's first 80-core processor, currently
presented at ISSCC.
Intel's chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, states "Our researchers have achieved a wonderful and key milestone
in terms of being able to drive multi-core and parallel computing performance
forward. It points the way to the near future when Teraflop-capable designs
will be commonplace and will reshape what we can all expect from our computers
and the Internet at home and in the office."
The project until now was previously dubbed Tera-scale at public Intel events. The proper name is now the Intel Teraflops Research Chip -- alluding to the fact the processor can achieve one trillion FLoating-point Operations Per Second. Tera-scale made its first appearance during the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum in September 2006. The ISSCC agenda published last month shed more details on the architecture, but this past weekend Intel pulled out most of the stops.
The Teraflops Research Chip is composed of a total of 80 independent
processing cores, which Intel refers to as tiles. The tiles are
organized in rectangular fashion, with 8 tiles placed across and 10 down,
adding up to a total of 80.
Each individual tile in the chip features a processing
engine (PE) and a 5-port router. The router passes data and
instructions to other tiles, while the processing engine, as the name
indicates, processes data. To save power, each processing engine can power
down independently of its router, meaning that a tile can theoretically only be
used to pass data when its processing engine is not needed. The
processing engine can then be turned on to process additional data on-demand. Intel's guidance claims the processor can achieve one teraflops performance on just 62W of power.
The chip itself uses an LGA package similar to Intel's Core
2 and Pentium 4 processors. A clear difference, however, is that is uses 1248
pins in place of 775. Intel's guidance states that 343 pins are used for signaling, while the rest are used
for power and ground.
The minimum clock speed the chip needs to run at in order to
process one teraflop is 3.16 GHz per core at 0.95V, but Intel's guidance already alludes at frequencies in excess of 5.7 GHz. Performance, at this time, appears linear; a 5.7 GHz Teraflops Research Chip has an output of 1.81 teraflops.
Intel has large plans for its Teraflops Research Chip. The
primary purpose of the chip and project is less to make record
performances, and more to serve as a vessel to test future Intel technologies.
The next major technologies Intel will be implementing in the Tera-scale
research project will be 3-D stacked memory and introducing more general purpose and capable cores.
A major limitation of the current 80-core chip is that it is
not based on the X86 architecture. Instead, it uses a 96-bit Very Long
Instruction Word (VLIW) architecture, another architecture currently used in the Itanium server processors. A major hurdle that Intel hinted at will be moving from VLIW to X86 on its 80-core chip.
Although Intel currently has no plans to commercialize the
80-core chip, technologies used in it will definitely be making their way into
multi-core desktop chips. So how long until the technologies are expected to
finally come to fruition? Intel estimates that it will take 5 – 10 years until
we actually begin seeing the benefits of the Tera-scale research project.


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NCUA Pulls the Plug on $13.8M Lynrocten FCU Amid Criminal Probe
The NCUA on Friday liquidated the $13.8 million Lynrocten FCU of Lynchburg, Va., the day after credit union's annual meeting Thursday night in its legacy sponsor's breakroom.
Earlier in the week, local print and broadcast media reported that local police were investigating allegations from members that money was missing from accounts and loans were made from their accounts without their knowledge.
The Lynchburg Police Department posted a Facebook update about the investigation, which it said it began on April 25 after receiving a report from the credit union itself.
"Detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division of the Lynchburg Police Department are working with the Lynrocten Credit Union to identify where criminal activity has occurred," the posting said, adding that citizens with information on the case were asked to call a Crimestoppers number.
The NCUA said in a release the regulator made the decision to liquidate the 1,068-member credit union and discontinue operations after determining it was insolvent and had no prospect for restoring viable operations.
Lynrocten, a three-person shop headed by Manager Linda S. Newcomb, reported 17.54% net worth in the first quarter of 2012 according to NCUA financial reports posted online. Loan losses weren't reported as problematic, with only 0.04% delinquencies reported in the first quarter. Charge offs actually returned some income to the balance sheet, at -0.08% in the first quarter.
However, asset liability numbers varied considerably from peer averages. The credit union's loan to share ratio was 121.10% in the first quarter, and has been above 100% since March 2003, the NCUA's earliest archived financial report period.
Net long term assets to total assets were just 0.79% in the first quarter, and regular shares to total shares and borrowings was just 11.41%, both far lower than the 19.66% and 52.96% reported respectively as peer averages as of Dec. 31. 2012.
There were 92.4 borrowers for every 100 members in the first quarter, far higher than the 42.26% reported by peers. And yet, average loan balance per member was $11,756, not much higher than the $9,243 reported by peers.
Chartered in 1936, Lynrocten FCU served the employees of Rock-Tenn Company, a paperboard, packaging and marketing products manufacturer, and their immediate family members, as well as some additional select employee groups.
According to the credit union's website, the cooperative's annual meeting was Thursday night in the plant's break room, which was located next to the credit union office. It had been conducting a scholarship competition that would have awarded four $500 scholarships in August.
Member deposits were federally insured, and the NCUA said its Asset Management and Assistance Center will contact members holding verified share accounts within one week.
The action marked the NCUA's sixth liquidation of 2013.


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All is not well in iPhone 3G land, however. The folks over
at Engadget
noticed that a number of people are noticing stress
fractures/cracks in their iPhone 3G casings. The cracks seem to mostly
affect owners of white 16GB iPhone 3G models, but owners of black iPhone 3Gs
have reported problems as well (but to a lesser degree).
The majority of the cracks are showing up around the edges
of the phone and near the headphone jack. Some people have reported seeing
cracks as soon as a day after receiving the phone, while others saw cracks
within the first one to two weeks of ownership.
Thankfully for most users, Apple's retail stores are
replacing the defective units free of charge on the spot.
Many saw Apple's move to a plastic back for the iPhone 3G
instead of aluminum (as seen on the original iPhone) as twofold -- the plastic
backing allowed Apple to reduce
production costs while at the same time increase reception for the greater number of radios within the chassis.
The news of the cracked iPhone 3Gs comes just a day after the
phone was likened
to Windows Vista in USA Today.
The USA Today article pointed to
supply problems, a cumbersome activation process, overloaded
activation servers during launch day, and issues with the 2.0 firmware.
"Clearly, Apple is having manufacturing and software
problems," said independent analyst Rob Enderle. "A star product like
the iPhone does a lot of great things for Apple, but when things go wrong, it
can bring down the entire image of a company."
"Vista wasn't finished, and that's what the iPhone
feels like," Enderle continued. "It's been rushed onto market, even
though it wasn't ready."
Apple 8GB iPhone 3G is available for $199 with a two-year
contract with AT&T. The 16GB iPhone 3G rings in at $299 with a two-year


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After nearly
30 years of space travel, NASA's space
shuttle Discovery will make its final flight today from Cape Canaveral,
was first launched in 1984, and is one of NASA's three operational orbiters in
the Space Shuttle fleet. It has spent 352 days in orbit and circled the Earth
5,628 times. It has also carried 246 crewmembers, which is more than any other
space vehicle has before. After years of International Space Station assembly
missions and research missions, Discovery is now the oldest orbiter in service,
and will be retiring after today's launch.
Today's launch, which will be Discovery's 39th
journey, was originally set for November 5 of last year, but the launch was
delayed due to vital repairs to the external tank's support beams. NASA
released the new launch date, February 24, just a few weeks ago.
has been a really remarkable vehicle for us and the program," said Jeff
Spaulding, NASA test director. "She still has a few more miles to go
before she sleeps, though."
final flight will carry a six-member crew for an 11-day mission. The mission
objective is to deliver a science rig, a storage module, and spare parts to the
international Space Station. In addition, Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot assistant, will be
traveling on the Discovery to embark on a permanent stay at the International
Space Station.
The six
crew members aboard the Discovery's final flight will be commander and veteran NASA
astronaut Steven Lindsey, NASA pilot Eric Boe, and mission specialists Alvin
Drew, Michael Barratt, Steven Bowen and Nicole Stott. Originally, astronaut Tim
Kopra was supposed to be apart of the six-member crew, but endured a bicycle
accident last month that has prevented him from joining the others. Bowen was a
last-minute substitute for Kopra.
At 7:25
a.m. EST (1225 GMT), NASA technicians began filling the Discovery's 15-story,
550,000 gallon tank, which is a three-hour process that consists of pumping
liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the tank. The launch is set to take
place at 4:50 p.m. EST (2150 GMT).
are really looking forward to a very action-packed, successful mission,"
said Mike Moses, NASA's shuttle integration manager.
addition to the Discovery's final launch, space shuttle Endeavour, which is
also one of the three operational orbiters at NASA, is set to embark on its
final launch as well on April 19.


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South African Airways (SAA) has added flights and increased its capacity on the route between Johannesburg and Mumbai, India.
This comes as a result of an increase in demand for seats from spectators of the Indian Premium League (IPL) cricket championship currently being held in South Africa.
In addition to its normal schedule, which includes four flights per week on the route, an additional flight will be added on Friday, 22 May and Sunday, 25 May.
In addition to its normal schedule, which includes four flights per week on the route, an additional flight will be added on
Friday, 22 May and Sunday, 25 May.
These flights will be operated with SAA's Airbus A340-200.
SAA will increase capacity on several existing flights by using a larger aircraft on these routes, namely an A340-600. These are SA284 on Thursday, 21 May and Monday, 26 May and their respective return flights, SA285 the following day (22 and 27 May).
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Group B streptococcus (GBS) can cause serious illness or death in a newborn. You might not have heard of this disease. But if you are pregnant or thinking of getting pregnant, find out how a simple screening test and antibiotic treatment can protect you and your baby.
What Is GBS?
Group B strep is a bacterium that is commonly found in vaginal and/or rectal areas. GBS can sometimes cause illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, elderly adults, and adults with chronic medical conditions like diabetes, liver disease, and cancer.
This infection is generally easy to treat in adults. But, for newborn babies, it can lead to life-threatening infections, such as sepsis (blood infection) and rarely, meningitis (infection of the fluid and lining surrounding the brain). Babies who have had meningitis can develop long-term problems, such as hearing and/or vision loss or learning disabilities, and they can even die if the infection is left untreated.
Newborn babies become infected with GBS in 3 ways:
- Before birth—Bacteria in the vagina can spread up the birth canal into the uterus and infect the amniotic fluid surrounding the baby. The baby becomes infected by inhaling the infected fluid into the lungs.
- During birth—The baby can come in contact with the bacteria in the birth canal.
- After birth—The baby can come in contact with the bacteria through close physical contact with the mother.
Fortunately, most babies who are exposed to the bacteria will not become infected.
How Do I Know If I'm at Risk?
GBS is present in about 25% of all healthy adult women. Not all women with the bacteria will pass it on. Factors that may increase your risk of passing GBS bacteria to your baby include:
- A previous baby with GBS
- GBS bacteria present in urine during any trimester of the current pregnancy
- Positive GBS screening culture in third trimester of current pregnancy
Unknown GBS status and:
- Labor or rupture of the membranes (water breaking) before 37 weeks gestation
- A rupture of the membranes 18 hours or more before delivery
- A fever during labor
What Are the Symptoms of GBS?
Usually, the pregnant woman has no symptoms of GBS. In pregnant women, GBS infections can cause infection of the uterine lining or amniotic fluid and can lead to a miscarriage. Two forms of infection occur in newborns.
Early-onset GBS
This produces illness soon after birth, usually within the first 24-48 hours, but may be up to 7 days. Problems can include sepsis, pneumonia, and meningitis.
Late-onset GBS
This usually occurs one week to three months after birth. Medical problems associated with late-onset disease may include sepsis and meningitis. There is a chance that infants with meningitis will have long-term problems, such as cerebral palsy, hearing loss, and developmental problems.
Newborns with GBS diseases can die if they do not receive treatment.
Symptoms for both early and late onset include:
- Trouble breathing
- Temperature instability (high and/or low)
- Poor feeding
- Irritability
- Lethargy
- Vomiting and diarrhea
If you notice any of these symptoms in your baby (especially if you have tested positive for GBS), call the doctor right away.
Getting Screened
Screening for GBS bacteria is simple. A swab of the of the vagina and rectum will be taken about one month before the baby is due. The sample will be sent to a lab to test for the presence of the bacteria. Test results are usually available in 24–48 hours.
What to Expect If Your Test Comes Back Positive
The most common treatment is to give IV antibiotics during labor, hopefully at least 4 hours prior to delivery. If your baby is diagnosed with GBS, IV antibiotics will also be given. In some cases, your baby may be given antibiotics as a preventive measure.
Using What You Know
The first thing you can do is make sure your doctor screens you for GBS before your delivery date at 35-37 weeks. If you have been identified as a GBS carrier, make sure to tell your doctor of your status when your water breaks or you arrive at the hospital in labor.
By getting screened and treated during labor (if you have GBS), you can reduce the risk of your child developing GBS.
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
- Review Date: 06/2016 -
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Johnson was vice president of state governmental affairs at CUNA from 2006 through 2010 and prior to that was managing associate general counsel for Freddie Mac. He most recently was a consultant with The Collingwood Group in Washington, D.C., working with compliance consulting and mortgage purchase and servicing clients.
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Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS), 2003 (ICPSR 4413)
Principal Investigator(s): Baker, Wayne, University of Michigan; Stockton, Ronald, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Howell, Sally, University of Michigan; Jamal, Amaney, Princeton University; Lin, Ann Chih, University of Michigan; Shryock, Andrew, University of Michigan; Tessler, Mark, University of Michigan
The Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS), 2003, a companion survey to the 2003 Detroit Area Study (DAS), using a representative sample (DAS, n = 500) drawn from the three-county Detroit metropolitan area and an oversample of Arab Americans (DAAS, n = 1000) from the same region, provides a unique dataset on September 11, 2001, and its impacts on Arab Americans living in the Detroit metropolitan area. The data contain respondent information concerning opinions on their experiences since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, social trust, confidence in institutions, intercultural relationships, local social capital, attachments to transnational communities, respondent characteristics, and community needs. Examples of the issues addressed in the data include frequency of religious participation, level of political activism, level of interaction with people outside of their cultural, racial, and ethnic groups, and the quality of the social and political institutions in their area. Background information includes birth country, citizenship status, citizenship status of spouse, education, home ownership status, household income, language spoken in the home (if not English), marital status, number of children (under 18) in the household, parents' countries of birth and citizenship status, political affiliation, total number of people living in the household, voter registration status, whether the respondent ever served in the United States Armed Forces, and year of immigration, if not born in the United States.
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Baker, Wayne, Ronald Stockton, Sally Howell, Amaney Jamal, Ann Chih Lin, Andrew Shryock, and Mark Tessler. Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS), 2003. ICPSR04413-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-10-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04413.v2
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Subject Terms: Arab Americans, Arab Israeli relations, cities, cultural attitudes, cultural perceptions, cultural values, demographic characteristics, employment, Gaza Strip, households, labor force, Middle East, political activism, population characteristics, population estimates, public confidence, public opinion, racial attitudes, September 11 attack, social activism, social attitudes, trust in government, unemployment, values
Geographic Coverage: Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Universe: All adults aged 18 and older living in households in the greater Detroit metropolitan area who self-identified as Arab or Chaldean.
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People are going to be going for Lowry's head for playing "Hero Ball" after this game. Well im going to come to his defense. How many more times are the starters going to put him in that situation? This is like the third straight time that the starters have either blown a lead or just gotten blown out in the third. They than put Lowry in the position where he has to save the day. Calderon comes out and lays a goose egg than Lowry comes in and get us back in the game. He than has to play the rest of the game without a break. It's not fair to Lowry. Can we just knock the BS off and just START HIM! We gave up a lottery pick for a starter! Not a reserve. If he needs to learn to play with the starters than just let him learn. The season is already lost. What else do we have to lose?
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So today I'm FINALLY sharing with you all our paint update in our master bathroom. You may remember the pretty color I used in our laundry room redo, Benjamin Moore's Healing Aloe (see that post here).
Well that same week, I painted this room with that same color as well.
We really wanted a "spa-like", calming vibe in here. Since moving in, we had only added the pretty chandelier.
Before I get ahead of myself, here's a before shot.
On that back wall, Brad added two hooks for our towels, which this room was desperately in need of. For a year now (Can you believe we've been here that long??), we've been throwing our towels over the top of the shower, which wasn't working super well.
The little door below on the right leads into the little "water closet" that houses the toilet. I mean if you've seen one toilet, you've seen them all, so I spared you.
My side has a nice little vanity area where I actually do my makeup a lot of days since the room gets awesome natural light. You can see Brad's big closet through the door in the back. It runs from left to right the entire length of the whole bathroom. We've even got our massive chest of drawers in there on the back left wall with still a ton of room to spare. That closet also shares a wall with my my closet, which we're thinking about connecting in the future so I can get to it even easier.
Next to Brad's sink area is a little linen closet that is really handy.
Here's a shot of the other side of the room.
Here's some extra photos of some little details...
I LOVE the pocket door, but something in the wall when we slide it back leaves black marks all along the back side. So weird. But I took that photo to mainly show how much space that darn tub takes up. It's just all up on you when you walk into the room. So it's just fun to think about and plan for!
But for now, I'm super happy with the color and when we make any changes, I'll still use it!
I feel like the paint change really changed the entire feel of the room! What do you guys think??
As always, thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend!!
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