Plainfield, Ill (PRWEB) June 30, 2014

Summer is officially here, and that means hot weather and beautiful sunshine. And with the recent rains we have been receiving, its also the perfect environment for a mosquito population explosion. Luckily, Spring-Green Lawn Care offers a mosquito control service that will keep those pests away.

With more than 170 species of mosquitoes in the U.S., it can be hard to maintain a mosquito-free yard. And with all of the holidays in the summer, including Fourth of July and Labor Day, a fun evening can quickly turn into an unpleasant swatfest. Some methods of mosquito control, such as using bug sprays and lighting candles, may only last a few hours. Spring-Green's method, however, treats the plant life around the perimeter of a yard to create a long-lasting barrier helping to control mosquitoes and prevent their return for up to a month.

Mosquitoes are a fact of life, said Harold Enger, director of education. Spraying for them is a great way to reduce their populations so that you can enjoy your outdoor environment, even at dusk when mosquitoes are most active. Mosquitoes need standing, still water to breed. Harold offers a few tips to help minimize mosquitoes: Look for spots where water collects like flower pot saucers, watering cans and even rain gutters. Empty the saucers when full and change the water in watering cans every other day.

Rick Hoover, franchise owner in Yorkville, Illinois, believes the mosquito control service is invaluable in any environment where mosquitoes can thrive.

No one should underestimate how harmful mosquitoes can be, Hoover said. This treatment does exactly what its supposed to do and thats keep the bugs away from your family.

Aside from the mosquito control service, Spring-Green also delivers traditional and organic lawn and tree care services nationwide. Its service is centered on the beautification of neighborhoods and communities. Spring-Green serves both residential and commercial customers.

Spring-Green Lawn Care has a history of listening to our customers, said CEO Ted Hofer. Offering mosquito control is just another example of our commitment to meeting our customers expectations for caring for their lawn and landscape.

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### About Spring-Green Lawn Care Founded in 1977, Plainfield, Illinois-based Spring-Green Lawn Care has been delivering lawn and tree care services nationwide for over 37 years. Its service is centered on the beautification of residential and commercial customers in middle-class and affluent neighborhoods and communities. Spring-Green is an attractive opportunity for entrepreneurs and existing green industry business owners who want to align themselves with a franchise opportunity that has proven economic resilience, healthy profit margins, industry leading business and marketing intelligence, recurring revenue and retirement & family planning through business ownership. Spring-Green currently has 127 franchises operating in 25 states. Spring-Green Lawn Care franchise owners gave the franchise opportunity a 96 percent overall quality rating, according to the Franchise Research Institute September 2013 survey. For more information, visit http://www.springgreenfranchise.com or http://www.spring-greenfranchiseblog.com.

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June 30, 2014, 10:30 p.m.

TIM Slater has undergone treatment to make himself more aerodynamic for his Commonwealth Games debut, all in the name of charity.

TIM Slater has undergone treatment to make himself more aerodynamic for his Commonwealth Games debut, all in the name of charity.

Slater is set to leave for the Glasgow Games next week as part of the Australian Paralympic bowls team.

Ballarat Olympian Steve Moneghetti had the honour of shaving Slaters seven-month-old beard and partially clipped ninemonths growth from his head.

Ballarat Olympian Steve Moneghetti shaved Commonwealth Games para-sport athlete Tim Slaters head and beard to raise money for the Cerebral Palsy Association. PICTURE: JEREMY BANNISTER

Slater said he was hoping to raise more than $1000 for Cerebral Palsy Australia.

Competitiveness at the top level is pretty intense. The Commonwealth Games is the pinnacle of lawn bowls. Its breathtaking, he said.

Slater, 22, was born with cerebral palsy and was introduced to lawn bowls in Waubra by his father Paul 10 yearsago.

Ive had to adapt, but there is no right or wrong way of playing, he said.

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Published on June 28, 2014

Published on June 28, 2014

Five-year-old Eleanor Anderson gets a little help from her dad Aaron as she reads during a story mob Saturday. With her is Roseanne Gauthier, childrens librarian at the Confederation Centre Library. Thestory mob was part of the TD Summer Reading Club and it decended on the lawn outside the Coles Building and about 25 young readers read outlood to their heart's content.

Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

Published on June 28, 2014

Vaughan Lloyd was one of the readers during the story mob. With him is Roseanne Gauthier, childrens librarian at the Confederation Centre Library.

Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

Published on June 28, 2014

Some of the members of the story mob await the beginning of the reading event.

Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

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Published on June 28, 2014

Published on June 28, 2014

Five-year-old Eleanor Anderson gets a little help from her dad Aaron as she reads during a story mob Saturday. With her is Roseanne Gauthier, childrens librarian at the Confederation Centre Library. Thestory mob was part of the TD Summer Reading Club and it decended on the lawn outside the Coles Building and about 25 young readers read outlood to their heart's content.

Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

Published on June 28, 2014

Vaughan Lloyd was one of the readers during the story mob. With him is Roseanne Gauthier, childrens librarian at the Confederation Centre Library.

Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

Published on June 28, 2014

Some of the members of the story mob await the beginning of the reading event.

Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

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Friday Night Live: June 27, 2014 Friday Night Live: June 27, 2014

Updated: Friday, June 27 2014 11:02 PM EDT2014-06-28 03:02:34 GMT

This is Fox 5's Friday Night Live, a weekly celebration of the end of the work week. All summer long, the Fox 5 team brings you the latest in entertainment, nightlife, food, and music in our area.In this episode, Lidia Curanaj basically asks Adam Levine if he was afraid of playing a character that is kind of a d-bag.Plus Christal Young shows you why you need to check out the High Line, like, NOW.Then gossip king Perez Hilton talks about the about the crazy dare on Howard Stern's show, his alb...

This is Fox 5's Friday Night Live, a weekly celebration of the end of the work week. All summer long, the Fox 5 team brings you the latest in entertainment, nightlife, food, and music in our area.In this episode, Lidia Curanaj basically asks Adam Levine if he was afraid of playing a character that is kind of a d-bag.Plus Christal Young shows you why you need to check out the High Line, like, NOW.Then gossip king Perez Hilton talks about the about the crazy dare on Howard Stern's show, his alb...

Updated: Friday, June 27 2014 10:49 PM EDT2014-06-28 02:49:19 GMT

A 3-year-old New Jersey boy who apparently went missing while riding the subway in New York with his grandfather as been found safe and sound in Newark, the NYPD said.

A 3-year-old New Jersey boy who apparently went missing while riding the subway in New York with his grandfather as been found safe and sound in Newark, the NYPD said.

Updated: Friday, June 27 2014 10:26 PM EDT2014-06-28 02:26:30 GMT

For the fourth time in a week, a great white shark has been spotted in the New York-New Jersey area. The latest one was seen off the Rockaways. The Jhrnes family was fishing about 4 miles off shore when they reeled in the shark. Three generations of the family have stories to share this weekend: grandfather Bob, son Bobby and his kid Kai, 12, who reeled in the 80-pounder, a baby.

For the fourth time in a week, a great white shark has been spotted in the New York-New Jersey area. The latest one was seen off the Rockaways. The Jhrnes family was fishing about 4 miles off shore when they reeled in the shark. Three generations of the family have stories to share this weekend: grandfather Bob, son Bobby and his kid Kai, 12, who reeled in the 80-pounder, a baby.

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Djokovic says 'nothing damaged' after hard fall

By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer

LONDON (AP) - Novak Djokovic lay crumpled on Centre Court, clutching his upper left arm and grimacing. He felt something pop and feared the worst.

Djokovic had lunged for a shot behind the baseline, tumbled on the grass and rolled over twice, his racket flying from his hand. His new coach, Boris Becker, stood in the player's box and looked on gravely.

Slowly, Djokovic rose from the turf, still holding his arm across his chest and made his way to his chair.

"When I stood up, I felt that click or pop, whatever you call it," he said later. "I feared maybe it might be a dislocated shoulder or something like that."

It wasn't.

After a medical timeout and treatment from a trainer, the top-seeded Djokovic needed just four more games to complete a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win over France's Gilles Simon on Friday, sending him into the fourth round and keeping alive his bid for a second Wimbledon title and seventh Grand Slam championship.

"Luckily there is nothing damaged," Djokovic said. "I just came from the doctor's office, ultrasound. It's all looking good. I'm quite confident that it will not affect my physical state or regimen or daily routine. I think it's going to be fine."

Djokovic will have two days off before an intriguing matchup Monday against another Frenchman, the free-swinging 14th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

"They told me usually in these kind of particular cases you might feel soreness in the next couple of days," Djokovic said. "But I can play around with practices and recovery and see how it goes. But I'm quite confident it's going to be all right for next one."

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Contact: Joel Winston press@lshtm.ac.uk 44-002-792-72802 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Nearly 7 million babies in the first month of life (neonates) required treatment for severe bacterial infection in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America in 2012, according to a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The estimates, which are the first of their kind, indicate the high burden of neonatal bacterial infections, which include sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia. Researchers developed the estimates to help guide health-programme planning for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

The new research follows the recent Lancet Every Newborn Series, and was overseen by Professor Joy Lawn, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Save the Children, and coordinated by Dr Anna Seale, at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya, with the Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, involving 65 investigators from 46 different institutions around the globe.

The researchers looked at data from 22 studies, for 259,944 neonates with 20,196 cases of possible severe bacterial infection. Of the estimated 6.9 million babies in the first month of life who required treatment for possible severe bacterial infection, 3.5 million were in south Asia, 2.6 million in sub-Saharan Africa and 0.8 million in Latin America. These estimates do not include preterm babies under 32 weeks gestation, who are particularly susceptible to infection as a consequence of their prematurity.

Although the authors highlight the lack of data available for the study, they note that their estimate of 680,000 neonatal deaths associated with these infections is consistent with other estimates based on larger datasets, which supports the accuracy of their findings.

Based on their estimates, both the size of the need-to-treat population and the burden of severe bacterial infection on health-care systems is substantial in the regions they examined, and it reinforces the urgent need for more investment, innovation and action at all levels.

Prof Joy Lawn said: "Newborn deaths due to severe infection could be significantly reduced through highly cost-effective interventions such as prevention, including clean cord care and breastfeeding, innovations such as chlorhexidine cord cleansing as well as through treatment with antibiotics.

"The majority of babies with neonatal infections in sub Saharan Africa and south Asia do not even receive simple antibiotic therapy, although some countries are shifting to using community health workers to increase access to treatment. These measures are some of the crucial actions that countries will need to take in order to meet the target of ten or fewer neonatal deaths per 1000 live births in every country by 2035 as part of the United Nation's Secretary General's Every Newborn Action Plan"

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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

LONDON (AP) - Uncle Toni's reaction said it all.

This one meant a lot to him and to the tennis player he coaches, his No. 1-ranked nephew Rafael Nadal, who was in a tough spot Thursday, one point from trailing two sets to none against the same guy he lost to - in the same stadium, same round - two years ago at Wimbledon.

As the younger Nadal began turning things around, evening the match at a set apiece on his opponent's double-fault, the older Nadal dispensed with any sense of decorum, leaping out his Centre Court seat, punching the air, and shouting "Vamos!"

From there, the ultimate result quickly became apparent. Nadal came back to beat 52nd-ranked Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-4, returning to the third round at the All England Club for the first time since 2011.

"I didn't want to lose another time against a guy like this," Toni Nadal said. "I don't like to lose against a player I find (unprofessional)."

In 2012's second round, Rosol was ranked 100th, and Nadal was on a streak of having reached the final in five consecutive Wimbledon appearances. The big-swinging, 6-foot-5 (1.96-meter) Rosol played an unrepentantly risky style that day, aiming for lines and putting shots where he wanted, pulling off a five-set victory.

Rosol engaged in some gamesmanship then, including moving around while waiting to receive serves and, Toni said Thursday, making noise as Rafael was hitting shots. After the rematch, Rosol complained Nadal took too much time between points and lamented that the chair umpire didn't intervene.

Said Toni about Rosol: "It's normal that we want to win, but it's true that for me, it's worse to lose with him than with another guy."

Rafael, for his part, said he wasn't thinking about two years ago. Still, for nearly two full sets, it was hard not to recall that match because Rosol played similarly, hitting hard, flat strokes that didn't miss. When Rosol broke for a 3-2 lead in the second set with a cross-court backhand, he had a 24-9 edge in winners.

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Nadal rallies against Rosol to avenge 2012 upset

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

LONDON (AP) - Uncle Toni's reaction said it all.

This one meant a lot to him and to the tennis player he coaches, his No. 1-ranked nephew Rafael Nadal, who was in a tough spot Thursday, one point from trailing two sets to none against the same guy he lost to - in the same stadium, same round - two years ago at Wimbledon.

As the younger Nadal began turning things around, evening the match at a set apiece on his opponent's double-fault, the older Nadal dispensed with any sense of decorum, leaping out his Centre Court seat, punching the air, and shouting "Vamos!"

From there, the ultimate result quickly became apparent. Nadal came back to beat 52nd-ranked Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-4, returning to the third round at the All England Club for the first time since 2011.

"I didn't want to lose another time against a guy like this," Toni Nadal said. "I don't like to lose against a player I find (unprofessional)."

In 2012's second round, Rosol was ranked 100th, and Nadal was on a streak of having reached the final in five consecutive Wimbledon appearances. The big-swinging, 6-foot-5 (1.96-meter) Rosol played an unrepentantly risky style that day, aiming for lines and putting shots where he wanted, pulling off a five-set victory.

Rosol engaged in some gamesmanship then, including moving around while waiting to receive serves and, Toni said Thursday, making noise as Rafael was hitting shots. After the rematch, Rosol complained Nadal took too much time between points and lamented that the chair umpire didn't intervene.

Said Toni about Rosol: "It's normal that we want to win, but it's true that for me, it's worse to lose with him than with another guy."

Rafael, for his part, said he wasn't thinking about two years ago. Still, for nearly two full sets, it was hard not to recall that match because Rosol played similarly, hitting hard, flat strokes that didn't miss. When Rosol broke for a 3-2 lead in the second set with a cross-court backhand, he had a 24-9 edge in winners.

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How Did The Project Lawn Look The Second Year?
My project lawn from 2013 was a huge success and many of you have learned from that as I gave you step-by-step lawn treatment instructions along the way. And so I also wanted to show you how...

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