NBC research undercuts assumptions over tape delay

NEW YORK (AP) ? NBC's researchers are finding that people who know the results of London Olympics events before they are shown on tape delay are more ? not less ? likely to watch them.

The preliminary research unveiled Thursday undercuts an assumption that has guided production of Olympic broadcasts from locales outside of U.S. time zones for decades. NBC has been criticized for not televising live some of the London Games' marquee events like swimming and gymnastics so they can be aired later in prime time.

Two-thirds of people questioned in a survey Sunday said they watch the prime-time Olympics telecast even if they know the results ahead of time. People who watched the events live earlier in the day via computer screen watched the tape-delayed broadcast 50 percent longer than those who hadn't, said Alan Wurtzel, NBC's chief researcher.

NBC has been getting far better ratings for the London Games than it ever expected, outpacing the 2008 Games in Beijing. A month ago, NBC had predicted it would lose some $200 million on the games, but network executives said Wednesday the company would break even. NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus said Thursday the company could even make money if the good ratings continued.

The network is airing all of the competition live via video stream. But the network's decision to hold back big events because no live competition takes place during U.S. prime time has led to widespread complaints on social media. The longtime theory was that fewer people would watch in prime time if they could see them live earlier.

Lazarus held back when asked whether this would mean tape delay will become a thing of the past after the London Games.

"We will continue to innovate our coverage," he said on a conference call Thursday. "I won't make a proclamation here about what we are going to do, but be sure we are analyzing everything."

The company Usamp questioned 1,000 adults who said they had watched Olympics competition. The survey found that 43 percent of the people who watched the prime-time telecasts said they knew the results before tuning in.

Wurtzel said that the Olympics are encouraging consumers to try new things. Some 75 percent of people who said they had tried streaming Olympics coverage on tablets said they had never streamed video before on the devices.

Olympics viewership was up 28 percent among teenagers over Beijing, even more sharply among teenage girls.

"Why is this important? Wurtzel said. "Because we're cultivating the next Olympics generation."

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5280Automation ? Blog Archive ? Air Conditioning Do's and Don'ts ...

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Proper air conditioning installation procedures can add years of life to new A/C Equipment and A/C Systems as well as to help save energy and money. A poorly installed or selected A/C system can cause many problems for the end user.

Environmental Protection Studies A Wealth of Modern HVAC Installation Improvements

In a constant effort to protect the global environment, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sometimes sets the focus on home and business air conditioning methods. Greater energy efficiency marks the primary purpose behind EPA studies, yet the accumulated information often provides extended guidelines for quality installation of HVAC equipment.

This American Cooling and Heating report focuses on the quality installation of central air-conditioners and heat pumps as a source for superior home energy efficiency.

Preliminary A/C Installation Concerns

Before jumping into the aspects of proper A/C installation, pause to consider the energy-consumption complications that can accompany inefficient air conditioning planning. Along with the possibility of complete system failure, incorrect equipment sizing or improper system installation can reduce an air-conditioner?s performance by thirty percent or more. For example:

Improper refrigerant charging often results in reduced system efficiency
Improper refrigerant charging can also result in frequent system freeze-ups
Improper unit sizing includes over-sizing, which results in insufficient system run-time, which in turn hinders the dehumidification process.
A current EPA study suggests that installation issues hinder the efficiency of more than half of all installed home air-conditioners. The problem must be solved. Technicians and homeowners need to be aware of proper air conditioning installation procedures.

Heating and Cooling Benefits to Homeowners The Advantage of Proper System Selection and Air Conditioning Installation Procedures

Reliable energy-efficiency air conditioning selection and installation services assure better system performance. The average homeowner can expect to save around twenty percent on home cooling costs. Accurate product sizing and HVAC installation also delivers a more even air flow throughout the whole home. The dehumidification systems works better, the air stays cooler and the overall comfort to the entire family increases.

HVAC Installation Damage Complications Due to Improper A/C Installation

Proper air conditioning installation results in proper air conditioning functionality which in turn helps prevent system damage. A central air conditioning compressor should be located in a shaded outside area. It helps keep the unit cool and reduces the workload. Obstructed or reduced air flow over the coils also creates inefficiency and excessive system labor. All of these create increased energy costs, but the greatest effect of poor system installation will show up as a long-term repair expense.

HVAC Installation Safety Factors Affected by Improper A/C Installation

Many air conditioning sales and service companies tend to oversize the mechanical systems in residential construction. The practice increases the unit price and the unit installation cost. It wastes customer energy resources. It reduces moisture control and comfort.

For some homeowners, poor moisture control can become a serious health problem. Excess moisture tends to breed bacteria and mold.

Electrical wiring also requires proper installation. Poor connections can result in erratic system performance or even a deadly electrical fire.

HVAC Installation Local and National Air-Condition Installation Codes

Adopted and enforced to keep people safe, building codes ensure quality construction of parts and installation services. Expect your Air Conditioning service center to be up-to-date on current local and national installation codes concerning all of the following applications:

Electrical supply circuits
Correct ductwork layout and installation
Structural considerations as they relate to the air conditioning installation code
Any other specific A/C installation parameters necessitated by local or national building codes.
Your American Cooling and Heating technician is more than willing to help you better understand the application of local and national A/C installation codes.

HVAC Installation Knowing the Manufacturers Guidelines and Specifications

A successful and proper air conditioning installation involves many factors. Some come from state requirements. Others come as a result of government research. Some pertain to safety and some to energy efficiency.

Knowing the product is the only way that any company can bring it all together. American Cooling and Heating sells, installs and services every major brand of heating and cooling equipment. Our technicians are fully licensed and trained in every aspect of manufacturer guidelines and unit specifications.

Give us a call.

To save money, be safe and conserve energy, you need professional air conditioning technicians. American Cooling and Heating services the entire Phoenix area, including Paradise Valley AZ, Gilbert AZ, Mesa AZ, and Scottsdale AZ.

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SPECIAL PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR PARKINSONIANS

Around 1990 Doctors Lorraine Ramig and Cynthia Fox pioneered the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, an innovative and clinically-proven method for improving voice and speech in individuals with Parkinson disease.

Twenty years later principles of LSVT LOUD were applied to limb movement in people with Parkinson?s as LSVT BIG and have been documented to be effective. The BIG program is used to improve major motor skills to improve things like walking, limb movement and balance. This is based on the assumption that exercise may slow, halt or reverse the progression of Parkinson?s. It is felt that intensity matters and continuous exercise is necessary to regain function.

The program consists of 50-60 minute sessions, four times per week for four weeks. This combined with doing a home exercise program one to two times a day; helps clients with Parkinson?s improve their skills. The goal is for clients to use their ?bigger? movements automatically in everyday living and for long-term carryover of increased amplitude.

This program requires a significant time commitment and an intensity level that may not be appropriate for all clients; however, the exercises and movements can be used in parts of regular physical therapy sessions as well.

Many times a person with Parkinson?s develops difficulty with balance. As a result, they begin not trusting their mobility. To avoid falling, they take smaller steps, shuffle their feet, and confine the movement of their arms, keeping them in close proximity to their body.

Physical therapy consisting of BIG exercises and movements is designed to encourage the person with Parkinson?s to use all of their muscles in an exaggerated fashion to contradict Parkinson?s tendency to diminish range of movement. The therapist shows how to take big steps, to really stretch the arms in all directions, bend, and make deep bows, walk, reach, step and twist.

Start exercising NOW?as soon as possible. Physicians rarely refer their patients to health and fitness programs at diagnosis because medications are very effective early on alleviating most of the symptoms and patients experience little change in function. Yet, according to recent surveys, it is at the time of diagnosis that patients often begin to consider lifestyle changes and seek education about conventional and complementary/alternative treatment options. Thus referrals to exercise, wellness programs as well as physical/occupational therapy would be best initiated at diagnosis, when it may have the most impact on quality of life.

Parkinson?s Resource Organization (PRO), through its WELLNESS VILLAGE (ParkinsonsResource.org/wellness-village) has just begun its campaign to populate the PHYSICAL THERAPY/BIG category with certified clinicians in your area. If you refer a physical therapist that has helped you improve your mobility issues we will thank you with a sheet of 20 Parkinson?s Resource Organization 45? postage stamps.

Welcome Stacy Hennis, PT, C/NDT, and New Beginning Physical Therapy, Inc. to the WELLNESS VILLAGE. If you live in or visit the Palm Desert area, Stacy (by appointment) will come to you.

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Cancer debate: Are tumors fueled by stem cells?

NEW YORK (AP) ? How can a cancer come back after it's apparently been eradicated? Three new studies are bolstering a long-debated idea: that tumors contain their own pool of stem cells that can multiply and keep fueling the cancer, seeding regrowth.

If that's true, scientists will need to find a way to kill those cells, apart from how they attack the rest of the tumor.

Stem cells in healthy tissues are known for their ability to produce any kind of cell. The new research deals with a different kind, cancer stem cells. Some researchers, but not all, believe they lurk as a persisting feature in tumors.

Over the past decade, studies have found evidence for them in tumors like breast and colon cancers. But this research has largely depended on transplanting human cancer cells into mice that don't have immune systems, an artificial environment that raises questions about the relevance of the results.

Now, three studies reported online Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science present evidence for cancer stem cells within the original tumors. Again, the research relies on mice. That and other factors mean the new findings still won't convince everyone that cancer stem cells are key to finding more powerful treatments.

But researcher Luis Parada, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, believes his team is onto something. He says that for the type of brain tumor his team studied, "we've identified the true enemy."

If his finding applies to other cancers, he said, then even if chemotherapy drastically shrinks a tumor but doesn't affect its supply of cancer stem cells, "very little progress has actually been made."

The three studies used labeling techniques to trace the ancestry of cells within mouse tumors.

Collectively, they give "very strong support" to the cancer stem cell theory, said Jeffrey M. Rosen, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He did not participate in the work but supports the theory, which he said is widely accepted.

Another scientist who's skeptical about the theory, and said he has plenty of company, said the new papers did not change his mind.

Parada's team worked with mice genetically primed to develop a certain type of brain tumor. The scientists genetically labeled particular cells in the tumor and then attacked the cancer with the same drug given to human patients. It kills growing tumor cells and temporarily stops the cancer's growth.

After treatment, when the tumor started growing again in the mice, the researchers showed that the vast majority, if not all, of its new cells had descended from the labeled cells. Apparently these were the tumor's cancer stem cells, they concluded.

Parada said his team is now trying to isolate cancer stem cells from mouse brain cancers to study them and perhaps get some leads for developing therapies to eradicate them.

He also said that preliminary study of human brain tumors is producing results consistent with what his team found in the mice.

Parada's study appears in Nature. In a second Nature report, British and Belgian researchers found evidence for cancer stem cells in early stage skin tumors in mice. And in the journal Science, a Dutch group found such evidence in mouse intestinal polyps, which are precursors to colon cancer.

Scott Kern of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is skeptical about whether tumors contain cancer stem cells. He said that since the new studies didn't involve human tumors, it's not clear how relevant they are to people.

The two European studies focused largely on lesions that can lead to tumors, he said. And as for Parada's brain cancer study, he said he believed the results could be explained without relying on the cancer stem cell theory.

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Online:

Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature

Science: http://sciencemag.org

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cancer-debate-tumors-fueled-stem-cells-172157763.html

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Generation X & Purpose in the Workplace ... - Clutch Consulting

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Business consultant,?leadership development coach, and author?Nathan R Mitchell, is giving members of Generation X the opportunity to share their personal story in an upcoming book titled ?Turn That Frown Upside Down: Discover Meaning and Fulfillment in the Workplace.?

?I?m extremely excited about having the opportunity to introduce my readers to a number of business owners, career professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders, and executives who have battled through the tough times of transition and struggles in the workplace to ultimately find purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in what they do,? says Mitchell.

Mitchell, who has also created a proprietary, leadership development process that helps men and women find purpose in the work they are already doing, hopes the book will inspire readers to learn as much as they possibly can in their current roles.

?The average worker entering the workforce today will have fourteen to sixteen different jobs over the course of their working career,? says Mitchell. ?Are there that many bad jobs out there, or is it a much deeper issue? I?ve discovered it?s the latter!?

Through his research and his own personal experience in the corporate sector, Mitchell discovered that men and women in their twenties have more answers than they do in their thirties and forties. This ?Period of Answers? tends to be quite effective in the short-term as men and women pursue the dangling carrot; something Mitchell has termed ?The Carrot Factor.?

?The problem lies not in trying to be the best we can be in the workplace, but in pursuing advancement at the expense of finding purpose and meaning in our work, and, as we grow older, at the expense of our relationships and our family. At some point in our lives, our careers often stop producing fulfillment, and we start looking for answers,? says Mitchell. ?Unfortunately, since 2008, things have become more complicated.?

When you consider workers today, specifically members of Generation X, studies show they are the most disengaged members of the workforce, and attrition rates in this demographic are less than optimal.

And perhaps that?s why Mitchell?s leadership development process is getting so much attention. Not only is he giving members of Generation X who have found happiness and fulfillment in the workplace the opportunity to share their story, but he is working with businesses and organizations of all sizes. He is helping them improve employee engagement levels, decrease turnover, and ultimately improve their bottom lines, which is something a lot of organizations today are looking for.

Individuals who are interested in being a contributor to the book, as well as businesses and organizations who would like more information on Mitchell?s consulting process, may reach out to him via his website at?http://www.clutchconsulting.net/contact

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Meditation Methods for Healthy Living ?

More than 100 years in the past, meditation methods were chosen by Buddhist monks. Those that analyzed this kind of background could have assumed which it has been mostly accomplished for their type of prayer. Although definitely true, they do heighten his or her knowing but also enjoyed a great interior peace from your favorite solitude as well as oneness.
Many non secular groups today continue the practice of meditation processes to gain a selected awareness. The thought is always to target a certain object as well as seem and also obstruct away another potential distractions or even trouble. There are several variants to do this concentrated consciousness.
That they spend some time to remain in this kind of particular awareness since they begin to see the profit. If you are merely beginning your trip, you will probably have considered trying the couch meditation very first. It is an easy and quick approach to profit anywhere you may go. You will have carefully guided phone speaker to speak you through consequently there is absolutely no problem for the purpose to perform next. This can be carried out from numerous events however, you can find your personal unique phone speaker and employ their recording or even Compact disc by yourself inside privateness of your family property.
Every one of the meditation methods are usually directed at your own leisure along with internal serenity. The process could entail a new guided discuss suggesting any visualization, it may be simply songs or perhaps a mixture of equally. One specific type referred to as Mindfulness Primarily based Stress Reduction can be directed particularly for people that have condition and other health or perhaps psychological troubles. They ensure that you?re going to feel less anxiety, use a smaller amount medications regarding soreness along with really feel a general advancement in your life-style. They are able to try this concerning are actually several scientific studies implemented to prove it can be powerful. Within a meditation, the brain can be stimulated along with changes happen in hypertension.
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