Complications in pregnancy and childbirth are on the rise according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). From 1999 to 2009 (the most recent compiled data from the CDC), heart attack, breathing problems, blood clots and kidney failure during childbirth had risen by 75 percent. Post-partum complications doubled during that same time period. Treatable and manageable pregnancy complications are not rare in the United States, but serious complications that can threaten the life and health of both mom and baby affect about 50,000 expecting mothers each year. When ...

When people go into the hospital, they expect that the staff there will attend to their needs and help them recover. Many people feel safer in hospitals than at home when they are ill, given the availability of health care workers who can respond should a crisis arise and medical technology that can help monitor their conditions. However, a phenomenon known as "alarm fatigue" can set in among health care workers, where they fail to take action when an alarm sounds on a medical device. Alarm fatigue happens because they hear so many alarms during their shifts, ...

The Comfort Inn & Conference Center Northeast, an affordable north Atlanta hotel, offers special rates for guests attending the 2013 NCAA Division 1 Men's Final Four Basketball Championship. Featuring the last four teams remaining in the Men's Division 1 playoff tournament, the single-elimination event will take place in downtown Atlanta at Georgia Dome on April 6 & 8, 2013. For event info and tickets, visit www.ncaa.com/championships/basketball-men/d1. The NCAA Final Four Basketball special at this Comfort Inn Atlanta GA includes: - Rates from $65 per night ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg Hotel (North I-85) offers convenient lodging to offers nearby accommodations to vendors and guests attending the 2013 Spartanburg Gun Show. Hosted by GunRunner Shows of South Carolina, the event will take place at Piedmont Fairgrounds on February 9-10, 2013. Attendees can see hundreds of displays of new and old guns, ammo, gun parts, books, knives, knife sharpening, coins, camouflage, and more. Guests can also bring in their old guns and war relics for identification and appraisal. "Located only 6 miles from Piedmont Fairgrounds and with ...

A New Look is a Great, says Atlanta landscape supply company. Bulks Landscape Supply, a leading Atlanta landscape supply business, would like to tell residents (home and business owners alike) why an outdoor renovation is the perfect way to kick off the New Year. With spring just around the corner, now is the time for residents to start thinking of new ways to make their yards and gardens stand out. If you are planning on selling your home, or just want to make it look better, an outdoor landscaping job may just be what you need. The Atlanta gardening company recommends ...

In this hustle-bustle world, it can sometimes be difficult to spend hours in a physical showroom to find the Atlanta granite countertops of your dreams. Fortunately, Craftmark Solid Surfaces has taken the convenience of busy consumers to heart and created a virtual countertop showroom on its website to make shopping for granite, quartz, or solid surface countertops easy to do from home. Located on Craftmark Solid Surfaces' state-of-the-art website, the virtual showroom displays a wide variety of Atlanta countertops options to help you easily visualize how the material ...

If you want to improve your financial health in the New Year, there are some changes you can make to help kick-start your goal. If you are resolved to get out of debt, Orlando bankruptcy experts, Clark & Washington, offer a few ideas to help keep you focused. Don't Deprive Yourself With a bit of luck, by reducing your spending, you will not feel as though you are depriving yourself. Penny pinching several dollars each month can make a big difference. For example, if you owe $10,000 on your credit card and send in the minimum payment each month, it could literally ...

Atlanta Hardwood Flooring has been in the business of providing superior quality unfinished and prefinished hardwood flooring with impeccable customer service since they were founded in 1997. While they became well-known for their hardwood flooring repairs, installation, and maintenance, Atlanta Hardwood Flooring experts also offer durable, easy-to-clean, and beautiful laminate hardwood flooring options. Laminate hardwood flooring is a great way to attain the authentic, classic look of hardwood without the expense. High quality laminate is virtually indistinguishable ...

supperclub, the world-famous address for exquisite fine dining, artistic entertainment and sensational hospitality from Amsterdam, Holland, is soon to open its first venue in Dubai. A creative restaurant and lounge concept, the Middle East's first supperclub, set in the luxurious Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, is being brought to the region by supperclub Middle East Facilities Management LLC in collaboration with Jumeirah Zabeel Saray. The Dubai outlet follows the footsteps of famed venues in Amsterdam, Istanbul, San Francisco, Los Angeles and London, each rooted in the ...

Atlanta wedding catering and event planning company, A Legendary Event, is comprised of award-winning and nationally recognized experts. One of which is executive pastry chef, Ami Dand, who recently won a prestigious second place in the Food Network's 'Sweet Genius' competition. To sweeten the deal, CEO and founder of A Legendary Event, Tony Conway, graciously awarded the hardworking chef with $10,000. Executive pastry chef, Ami Dand, has an impressive culinary background. She uses this wealth of experience to provide the most unique, splendid and delicious desserts ...

Atlanta Bus Charter Business Recommends a Fitting Name Samson Trailways, a premiere Atlanta bus charter company, wants to advise passengers on the importance of selecting a bus rental business with a suitable name. It may not seem like a big deal to most, but company names do say a lot about how a business operates. The end goal is to be customer service oriented; wise owners will choose a name that their customers can rely on and trust. This is particularly relevant for those working in the transportation industry. When a customer rents a charter bus, they want ...

Rumors have been circulating through the Twitterverse and blogosphere about a comment Atlanta Braves GM Frank Wren said during an interview. Wren responded to a question about the possibility of Michael Bourn returning to the team by expressing that the door was not closed on that possibility. Express Oil Change & Service Center, a Roswell car repair company, believes that the rumors surrounding this comment are reading too much into Wren's remark. Like all general managers, Wren is a smart man who would not outright refuse to take on a talented player like Bourn. ...

Toronto-born actor RJ Parrish will guest star in an episode of the new HBO show, Transporter: The Series, in an episode called 'City of Love', slated to air February 22 at 9pm on HBO Canada. In the episode, Parrish plays the role of gang leader, Gassam, a 'bad boy' who will stop at nothing to avenge the killing of his brother. Meanwhile, the protagonist, Frank, having realized that the package he is carrying is a bomb intended for use in a terrorist attack on Paris, is rushing to stop Gassam, enlisting the help of Gassam's sister who also wants to prevent her brother ...

Despite recent increases in the U.S. high school graduation rate, 11 percent of American high school students -- more than 500,000 children -- drop out each year. However, recent research has shown that the dropout rate can be dramatically reduced by intervening in children's lives during middle school. Today, one of the nation's premier eLearning companies is doing something about the problem, by offering a free online training course ($50 value) to Middle School students, teachers and counselors. Know Your Talents, a self-paced video training course, can help young ...

FMA Inc. (www.fmasummits.com) is hosting their 1st Progressive Data Center Summit, May 29th to 31st 2013 in Chicago, IL. The Summit program will feature Key Note Speakers representing thought leaders in charge of some of the largest Data Centers, who will provide notable success stories of how they manage efficiency and operational excellence within their facilities. These speakers include: Brian Janous, Data Center Utility Architect - Microsoft David Lopez, Manager Chicago CH2 - Comcast Bob Petrowski, Director, Data Centers & Critical Infrastructure - CME Group Matt ...

Bob Carter Companies LLC (www.BobCarterCo.com), an innovative philanthropic and fundraising consulting service with corporate headquarters in Sarasota, Florida, has opened its first international office in Mexico City. Claudia de la Vega has been engaged to serve as Regional Director for Mexico and Latin America. Experienced in nonprofit fundraising in the United States and Mexico, de la Vega served as director of the fundraising office at Casa de la Amistad para Ninos con Cancer, IAP, and as a development executive at the Fundacion del Empresariado en Mexico, AC (Fundemex). ...

As we get further into the New Year, social media is becoming more and more important to the world as it connects and unites people from all over the globe. Thankfully Cell2Get has become fully aware of this fact and began to formulate a new strategy for heavier convenience yet lighter complications. Dedicated to serve their consumers the right way, professionally, Cell2Get's plan is to promote coupons and promo codes by way of YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and more. Just think, saving money while doing what you love only to buy what you love, who doesn't love that? During ...

On January 26, 2013, an article by Bill Gates headlined "My Plan to Fix the World's Biggest Problems" ran in The Wall Street Journal. Part of that article talked about the need to develop innovative ways to measure many of the social, economic and health problems around the world. Some of the math that can be used to help analyze and improve those kinds of problems is some business math that was developed by Robert Barrows, President of R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising and Public Relations in San Mateo, California. "The business math that I developed ...

Its mission is simple...deliver right out of the oven cookies for personal or employee appreciation or celebration. "Why send flowers when you can send cookies?" says founder, Kim Kalan. The business model we have chosen is one of the most successful models available - carry out and delivery of pizza - but we deliver cookies! We have studied the model, have torn it apart and skinned it with a cool, engaging brand and offered up a business with a cause and a product that is fresh and fun. By choosing this model, we have entered the hyper-disciplined world of ...

Doctor Who's half-century celebrations continue with a screening of 'Tomb of the Cybermen' starring second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, at the British Film Institute on Saturday 9th February. Following January's screening of the first ever episode of Doctor Who starring William Hartnell in the lead role, this is the latest instalment in the BFI's monthly countdown to November's 50th anniversary of the famous BBC science fiction series. Such a landmark does not come in isolation in the capital this year, with cultural heavyweights past and present, dead and alive, taking ...

Transparensee Systems, Inc., a leading enterprise search software company, today announced that their flagship product, the Discovery Search Engine, is the winner of the 2013 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Search Technology Solution. CODiE Winners represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, also announced Transparensee Systems, ...

Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astro-photographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106. Gendler retrieved archival Hubble images of M106 to assemble a mosaic of the center of the galaxy. He then used his own and fellow astro-photographer Jay GaBany's observations of M106 to combine with the Hubble data in areas where there ...

NASA-NOAA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured a night-time image of extra-tropical cyclone Felleng as it was being battered by wind shear in the Southern Indian Ocean. The night-time satellite image was captured by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite on Feb. 3 at 2120 UTC (11:20 p.m. local time, Indian/Antananarivo/1:40 p.m. EST, U.S.) when Felleng was located south of the Mozambique Channel. The VIIRS image was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and showed that ...

Boulder, Colo., USA – GSA Bulletin papers published online 11 Jan. 2013 include contributions from scientists in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, the UK, and New Zealand. Multiple locations in the western U.S. are studied, along with locations in Canada, New Zealand, and Guatemala. Papers cover 1. Holocene record of strong earthquakes in the Lake Tahoe region, USA; 2. Tectonics, salt, and the fossil forests of Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, Canada; 3. Tectonics, sediments, and the Hornbrook Formation of Oregon and California, USA; 4. A case study ...

Owing to the prevalence of multicore processors, more and more programs are written in a multi-threaded style to improve performance. However, associated concurrency errors have become an inconvenient cause of system faults. The research group from State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computers, Wuhan University, focused on finding methods to improve the trustworthiness of concurrent programs. By analyzing shortcomings of existing methods, they developed a more efficient method for detecting concurrency errors in object-oriented programs. Exploiting a ...