Archive for March 22, 2011

Nurse Practitioners to Take Over Major Role in Replacing Doctors on the Front Line

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March 22, 2011

STATE OF NURSING TODAY

Is A Nurse Practitioner A “Doctor?”

Nurse practitioners are demanding a wider scope of practice and even to be called “doctor” if they have a doctorate. And 28 states are considering giving them what they want, to which physician societies object.

But it’s not just the dependent practitioners breathing down primary care’s neck. CVS announced it will double its number of retail clinics and expand the range of services from acute, episodic care to screening and even chronic illnesses. Walgreen’s and Wal-Mart are increasing their numbers of clinics, too.
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“Nursing schools are turning away tens of thousands of qualified applicants; 1/2 of nursing-school faculty members will reach retirement age; U.S. is on the verge of losing some 500,000 nurses to retirement.” Source: Read More>>>>

The Future Of Nursing Is Here Health Experts Say
Nurse Practitioners May Be The Thing Of The Future

Salary Statistics

Median Salary $96,093
Low 10% $82,775 to 25% $89,122 to 75% $103,438 to High 90% $110,125

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the growth within this profession should be in line with that of other similar nursing fields. This forecast predicts job growth of around 23% through the year 2016, which presents outstanding opportunity.

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Future: What is Inside Bill Gates Pad? Could it One Day Be Like Your Home?

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March 22, 2011

Maybe Inside Bill Gates Mansion & Other Qualities

Library: Have you thought of a library size as big as 2,100 sq. ft. An ornate library, it has a domed reading room with light well, fireplace, two secret pivoting bookcases, one containing a bar. A fitting home for Leonardo Da Vinci’s 16th-century notebook, the Codex Leicster. Gates brought it home for $ 30.8 million.
Dining Room: Its’ size is 1,000 sq. Ft and at least 24 guests can dine together, enjoying the sweeping view from the third level. To add to this, kitchen is 39 feet by 23 feet.

Exclusively grand staircase: Its’ size is 92 feet long and 63 feet high with 84 steps from the entrance to the ground floor, can anyone imagine! Much of the residence is involved towards the hillside; the windows of the lakefront side provides the views of Seattle to the west.

WALLS OF HD VIDEO SCREENS?

Theater Provision: It is approximately 20 seats with size almost 1,500 ft. It is outfitted with cosy chairs, couches, and not to miss a popcorn machine with HDTV capable screen.

Exercise Room: includes sauna, steam room, separate men’s and women’s lockers with size of 2,500 sq. ft.

Swimming Pool: A size of 17 by 60 foot, it has a superb provision of underwater music system and floor painted in fossil motif. Lovely must say. Swimmers can dive under a glass wall and merge outdoors by a terrace.

Reception Hall: It seems Mr. Gates house is more of a hotel, having a reception hall with capacity more than 150 people at a time, and its size is 2,300 sq. ft.

This a a computer model/tour of the Gates house and some of the technology in it.

[Source >>>> Newsbeats.in ]

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Prediction: Bill Gates to Invest in Geoengineering Transforming Climate Change Claims the Silver Lining Project

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March 22, 2011

CLIMATE IS CHANGE BIG BUSINESS!

Environmentalists have long argued about whether geoengineering (using technology to alter the climate) is a good way to tackle climate change. But the tactic has some heavy hitters on its side, including Bill Gates.

The Microsoft founder recently announced plans to invest $300,000 into research at the University of Calgary for unique solutions and responses to climate change. Part of that research included lab tests on machines that suck up seawater and spray it into the air, seeding white clouds that reflect rays of sunlight away from Earth.

Source: Silver Lining Project

Why care about 4 degrees anyway?

If the world warms by four degrees oceans will rise and glaciers will disappear, cutting off fresh water to billions.

Six Degrees Could Change the World: NG

Tags: bill gates, CLIMATE CHANGE, geoengineering, silver lining

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Prediction: CyberCrime Increasing 100 Fold

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March 22, 2011

CYBER CRIME COSTS $1 TRILLION GLOBALLY
See inside of a Cyber Crime War Center

Data theft and breaches from cybercrime may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing the damage last year, according to a new study from McAfee.

McAfee made the projection based on responses to a survey of more than 800 chief information officers in the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, China, India, Brazil, and Dubai.

The respondents estimated that they lost data worth a total of $4.6 billion and spent about $600 million cleaning up after breaches, McAfee said.

MALWARE CODER EXPLOITERS:
In just one case the FBI has responded to:
Attempted Loss: $220,000,000 Actual Loss: $70,000,000

Market research company StrategyOne was commissioned by Symantec to study Internet users in fourteen different countries, and found that 65% of the 77,000 in the study had been personally victimized by cybercrime.

But what’s the emotional impact of cybercrime? Symantec says its study is the first to pose that question to cybercrime victims, and it found that people are angry (58%), annoyed (51%), and feel cheated (40%), especially since most think their attackers will never be brought to justice. Furthermore, while 41% blame criminals for the attacks, and 14% blame insecure websites, 13% of cybercrime victims blame themselves.
Interestingly, however, only 51% of people said they’d change their behavior if they became a cybercrime victim, and only 44% of actual victims notified police about the crime.

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Tags: cyber, Cybercrime

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Prediction: 10,000 Tested Show 3G / 4G Wireless Network Claims Maybe Marketing Hype and Revenue Producers Not Always Faster

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March 22, 2011

BIG FOUR REVIEWED

“PCMag recently tested six 3G and 4G networks to determine which ones were the fastest (and slowest) in 18 different US cities. They focused on data, not calls, and used their own testing script and methodology, which combined various kinds of uploads and downloads.

Using laptops, more than a dozen people ran more than 10,000 tests; they found AT&T is both the fastest national 3G network, and the least consistent. Sprint’s 3G system was the slowest of the ‘big four’ carriers, but the most consistent.

When the test results were broken down by regions, AT&T led on speed in the Southeast, Central, and West, but T-Mobile took the crown in the Northeast region. Sprint’s 4G network was fast where it was available, but it was surprisingly slower than 3G in some cities. The fastest AT&T download seen, at 5.05 megabits/sec, was right behind Apple’s headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA. The fastest connection in any of the tests was a blazing 9.11 megabits down on Sprint 4G in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, GA. The slowest city, on average, was Raleigh, with average 3G downloads of 880kbits/sec.” Source Read More>>>>

This video review is from Jaroslovsky of Bloomberg.