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Quitman, Miss. It's the first in the state of Mississippi and its home is Quitman Upper Elementary School. From fiber optics to now innovative reading, Quitman is leading the way when it comes to education. The school and members of the community welcomed the new addition of a Ben Carson Reading Room in a grand opening ceremony that was attended by countless individuals and thanks to the book "Gifted Hands", the room is a reality.
" I was actually reading Ben Carson's book Gifted Hands and I saw the idea that he had for the reading rooms," Quitman Schools Finance Coordinator Elisa Mayo said. "I knew right away that that was something that God wanted us to have for the children here. It was the best thing we could provide for them, so I immediately came back and went to the Phil Hardin Foundation and the QSD Imagination Library with the idea and both of them sponsored the Ben Carson Reading Room for us."
The room is described as a place designed to encourage young people to discover the joy of independent reading in a warm, inviting atmosphere and to THINK BIG.
"What I hope that our children get from that is that they need to think outside the box and they need to think that there is nothing they can't achieve and that reading is the way to get them where they would like to be and the dreams they might have for themselves," Quitman Schools Superintendent Suzanne Hawley said.
While the room provides an atmosphere that encourages reading, Principal James Kelley says it's meant to be a way to get kids to enjoy a book.
"There is no expectations," Kelley said. "Just come in and read, bring your parents in and let them read to you. It's a fun time, nothing required."
Kelley says each teacher is allotted two thirty minute blocks to bring their students into the reading room. He says the only rule is to read for enjoyment.
The first Ben Carson Reading Room was founded in 2000 in Aberdeen, Maryland. It opened at Hall's Cross Roads Elementary school. To date, there are over 110 locations spreading 14 states, with this being the first one in Mississippi.
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The prevalence of preterm birth -- the birth of an infant prior to 37 weeks of pregnancy -- is a significant health problem that has increased over the past two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preterm birth affects nearly 500,000 babies each year, or one of every eight born in the U.S. While medical care has improved survival rates for preterm infants, questions remain about ways to positively impact the neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants.
Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician-in-chief and chief of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh -- William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, entitled "Single Family Room Care Improves Neurobehavioral and Medical Outcomes in Preterm Infants," is published in the October issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The researchers found that a single-family room environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.
As medical care has improved the survival rates for preterm infants, especially those born weighing less than 1,000 grams, nearly half of these infants still suffer long-term neurodevelopmental impairment and/or serious health consequences. Drs. Lester and Padbury led a research team that performed a prospective, longitudinal study to examine associations between the open bay vs. single family room NICU and medical and neurobehavioral outcomes at hospital discharge. They also examined, for the first time, factors that could help explain, or mediate, potential differences in NICUs.
"There are few studies that have compared the individual single family room neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the traditional 'open bay' model of care. In particular, two critical issues have not been systematically addressed," explained Dr. Padbury. "First is the effect of the single family room NICU on neurodevelopmental outcome. The second is how and why positive or negative effects of the single family room NICU occur."
In September 2009, Women & Infants Hospital, a U.S.News 2014-15 Best Children's Hospital in Neonatology, opened what was at the time the largest single family room NICU in the country. Prior to that, approximately 1,400 babies each year were cared for in the hospital's open bay NICU. The single family room model also offered an opportunity to more comprehensively implement a family centered model of care, where families are now more actively involved in their baby's care and care team.
Dr. Lester explained, "We hypothesized that infants cared for in the single family room NICU would have better medical and neurobehavioral outcomes than infants cared for in the open baby NICU, as well as that medical and neurobehavioral differences between NICUs could be explained, in part, by developmental support, parenting factors and the adoption of family centered care."
Approximately 400 infants born weighing less than 1,500 grams were enrolled at Women & Infants Hospital -- 151 were cared for in an open bay NICU and 252 were cared for in the single family room NICU. The open bay data were collected consecutively over 18 months in 2008 and 2009 prior to the opening of the hospital's new NICU. After a three-month hiatus (no new patients were enrolled during the first three months in the new single family room NICU, and no patients were enrolled who were cared for in both settings), data were again collected consecutively over 31 months from 2010 to 2012 in the single family room NICU.
The results showed that the infants cared for in the single family room weighed more at discharge, had a greater rate of weight gain, required fewer medical procedures, and had a lower gestational age at full enteral feed and less sepsis. In addition, these infants showed better attention, less physiological stress, less hypertonicity, less lethargy, and less pain.
"What we found was that the single family room provides more opportunities to do things that improve outcomes, such as increased maternal involvement and increased developmental support," said Dr. Lester. "If you build a single-family room unit and do not change how you care for the babies, it would be unrealistic to expect to see any significant improvement."
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The prevalence of preterm birth the birth of an infant prior to 37 weeks of pregnancy is a significant health problem that has increased over the past two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preterm birth affects nearly 500,000 babies each year, or one of every eight born in the U.S. While medical care has improved survival rates for preterm infants, questions remain about ways to positively impact the neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants.
Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician-in-chief and chief of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh - William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, entitled "Single Family Room Care Improves Neurobehavioral and Medical Outcomes in Preterm Infants," is published in the October issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The researchers found that a single-family room environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.
As medical care has improved the survival rates for preterm infants, especially those born weighing less than 1,000 grams, nearly half of these infants still suffer long-term neurodevelopmental impairment and/or serious health consequences. Drs. Lester and Padbury led a research team that performed a prospective, longitudinal study to examine associations between the open bay vs. single family room NICU and medical and neurobehavioral outcomes at hospital discharge. They also examined, for the first time, factors that could help explain, or mediate, potential differences in NICUs.
"There are few studies that have compared the individual single family room neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the traditional 'open bay' model of care. In particular, two critical issues have not been systematically addressed," explained Dr. Padbury. "First is the effect of the single family room NICU on neurodevelopmental outcome. The second is how and why positive or negative effects of the single family room NICU occur."
In September 2009, Women & Infants Hospital, a U.S.News 2014-15 Best Children's Hospital in Neonatology, opened what was at the time the largest single family room NICU in the country. Prior to that, approximately 1,400 babies each year were cared for in the hospital's open bay NICU. The single family room model also offered an opportunity to more comprehensively implement a family centered model of care, where families are now more actively involved in their baby's care and care team.
Dr. Lester explained, "We hypothesized that infants cared for in the single family room NICU would have better medical and neurobehavioral outcomes than infants cared for in the open baby NICU, as well as that medical and neurobehavioral differences between NICUs could be explained, in part, by developmental support, parenting factors and the adoption of family centered care."
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COLORADO SPRINGS A week after 168 union firefighters and emergency-service personnel are honored Saturday in Colorado Springs, the landmark memorial where the annual service takes place will be rebuilt to make room for thousands of additional names.
Nearly $4 million from the International Association of Fire Fighters' 300,000 members will pay for a redesigned and expanded memorial that will allow the addition of 3,469 names of firefighters who died in the line of duty from 1918 to 1975, IAFF Local 5 president Jeremy Kroto said.
The new memorial should have enough room on the walls for names to be added for 30 years.
"It is unfortunate to say that we've lost so many firefighters from line-of-duty risks and diseases that we need more room, but that's the case," Kroto said. "With the addition of all the names, we'll be looking at nearly 6,000 firefighters and emergency-service personnel memorialized. Sadly, we'll always need room for the memorial to grow."
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This is one part of a two-part interview with Matt Lambert, Executive Chef and Co-Owner of The Musket Room about earning a Michelin Star and introducing New Zealands cuisine to NYC. Read the second part, where he curates NYCs top 6 restaurants.
Oceanic cuisine is unmistakably trending in New York City right now. In the last year, the media has shone a flattering spotlight on the multitude of cleanly designed, produce-led restaurants and cafes that are beginning to inhabit many of the citys streets. And The Musket Room, arguably New York Citys first foray into the finer side of modern New Zealand Cuisine has been lapping up its fair share of attention after having acquired a Michelin Star within only 4 months of opening.
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Matt Lambert, a proud New Zealander and executive chef of The Musket Room, started his restaurant career as a 14 year old dishwasher before finding his passion at Merediths, one of New Zealands most critically acclaimed restaurants. A move to NYC to perfect his art at some of NYCs highly lauded eateries including Saxon + Parole and Public was his biggest step towards a lifetime goal of earning a Michelin Star. Then, it took a passion for his countrymans cuisine, a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds for The Musket Room and an aligning of the Michelin stars to make his restaurant dream the reality it is today.
Up ahead is a conversation with Matt where he sheds some light on NZ cuisine and The Musket Rooms sophisticated take on it. He also shares his point of view on what the quintessential elements of NZ food are; how it felt the moment he garnered that coveted Michelin Star and his top 6 NYC restaurants.
Matt Lambert Executive Chef and Co-Owner of The Musket Room NYC
JENNY NGUYEN-BARRON: How would you describe modern NZ cuisine?
MATT LAMBERT: Modern New Zealand cuisine is really fresh and honest as opposed to years ago. Traditional Kiwi cooking takes after the classic British Isles style that settlers brought when they came to New Zealand, incorporating fresh ingredients available locally. I like to take what New Zealand dishes were and work on making them what they can be.
NGUYEN-BARRON: You received a Michelin Star just 4 months after opening Congratulations that mustve been a wonderful surprise! Can you tell me about the moment you found out?
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Theres a three-car crash on the Williamsburg bridge and emergency medical technicians are immediately deployed to the scene. They get on their radios to prepare emergency room nurses at the nearest hospital for the slew of wounded patients who are about to come in. The problem is, the sound quality is grainy: Should they expect three or four patients? Was that cut to the head or to the neck?
"Think of the static-heavy noisy environments these EMTs are in, says Crystal Law, a former EMT and CEO of Twiage. In addition to being limited to words alone--rather than pictures--half the time, the emergency rooms cant even understand the words that are being said.
Last year, Law decided to tackle this problem head on. At the Disrupting Medicine Hackathon sponsored by Brigham and Womens hospital, Law met Yi Ding Yu, a doctor who had similar frustrations with emergency communication, and John Rodley, a developer eager to use technology to solve medical problems. The outcome: Twiage, a platform that allows first responders to send tweet-like messages and pictures from their smartphones straight to the emergency room. Users live-update Twitter with a news event using videos, pictures, and words, says Yu. Why cant that same story be told for patient care by physicians and first responders? (While Twiage is inspired by Twitter, it is not affiliated with Twitter in any way.)
Twiage has already rolled out in beta at Cape Cod Hospital and it is expanding into five other Massachusetts hospital this year. In these early test cases, it has proven effective in streamlining communication and reducing misunderstandings, according to Yu. This system seems to work best when conveying straightforward, limited information, rather than complex patient dynamics. Paramedics have a standardized way of communicating patient details, says Yu. They explain the vital signs and they ask for what they need. Thats the most important part of a triage. She explains that this platform helps to communicate critical information quickly; first responders can explain more nuanced details in person later.
Twiage is web-based, so hospitals can just log in to see the streams of incoming triage information; EMTs, on their end, take pictures and send messages via the Twiage smartphone app. They are now rolling out a Google Glass version of Twiage smartphone app, with the added benefit of being hands-free. While you are trying to stabilize a patient, your hands are probably not free to operate a smartphone, says Yu. Google Glass allows you to voice-activate taking the pictures and sending messages.
No other triage platforms currently use photos; Rhode Island has a text messaging system and several telemedicine platforms offer video technologies, but Yu says not all cases need to be live-streamed to the emergency room doctor. Twiage allows paramedics to take short videos of relevant details, rather than steaming the entire episode. For instance, stroke victims sometimes have fleeting symptoms that later change; Twiage allows a first responder to capture a short episode so that the attending neurologist can make better decision treatments.
The Twiage team is now exploring other emergency scenarios where this technology could be useful. Twiage was designed to be incredibly lightweight and agile: were completely web and cloud-based, with no significant software installment, says Yu. Were just starting in emergency medicine, but we could expand to any other first responders, like those in fire departments, who could alert home base about how many alarms they should call.
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TORONTO -- Minor hockey players in Ontario are now able to choose a dressing room based on whether they see themselves as male or female following settlement of a human rights complaint against Hockey Canada.
The agreement, which also includes an educational component, is aimed at protecting young transgender players from discrimination and harassment.
Jesse Thompson, 17, of Oshawa, Ont., who filed the complaint in August last year, said he was pleased with the result.
"I just hope that kids can see this and know that they don't have to hide any more," Thompson told The Canadian Press.
"They can come out and play their sport that they love, and they don't have to stop playing it just because of how they are or who they are."
The new policy, which applies to all minor players in Ontario under the auspices of Hockey Canada, also calls for the organization to educate its trainers and coaches on discrimination and harassment as well as on gender identity and expression.
In addition, players are entitled to be addressed by their preferred name, as well as by the pronoun that corresponds to their self-identified gender.
For Thompson, an avid hockey player now in Grade 12, the issue became acute about four or five years ago when he hit puberty.
"I'm just a boy. I'm just like any other kid out there growing up. I'm just a teenager," he said.
"(But) once you get to a certain age, you are forced off into a different room, or basically a closet -- sometimes they didn't even have change rooms for girls."
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