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Difference between RN and LPN

Starwin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:11:28 +0000

The main differences between a Registered Nurse (RN) and the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), are seen in their duties and practices.

A Registered Nurse is a degree holder in B.Sc. with a four year nursing course, or is an associate degree holder with two years nursing program.
A licensed practical nurse is a graduate in one year practical nursing program.
To become a registered nurse, one has to pass NCLEX-RN and for LPN one has to pass the NCLEX-PN.
For becoming a registered nurse, one has to study in four years/ two years graduation course. But for becoming a LPN, one needs to go through a one year program only. Thus a RN has to put in more learning in comparison to a LPN. As such a RN has more knowledge in physiology, pharmacology, delivery systems, clinical practice, research utilization, resource management and team working.
Moreover the RN takes more responsibilities, and they supervise the LPNs also.
RNs can go for taking independent decisions while the LPNs can’t.
The LPNs are always under the supervision of either a doctor or the RNs.
A registered nurse handles many issues than the LPNs.
Collecting samples, feeding patients, preparing and giving injections, inserting catheters, observing patients, aiding patients in bathing, dressing and looking after their comfort, assessment of patients, giving drugs and medications and working as nursing assistant, are some of the functions of LPNs. However the LPNs are not permitted to give restricted medicines and intravenous narcotics.
The RNs can provide medicines, help physicians in treatments and in examination of patients, and manage nursing plans. They shoulder the responsibilities of taking independent decisions and always stand above the level of LPNs.

Piermario Morosini Dead – Heart Attack on Football Pitch

Starwin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:32:06 +0000

Livorno’s Piermario Morosini has died due to cardiac arrest collapsing on the football pitch during an Italian second division game at at Pescara on Saturday. The soccer federation has decided to postpone the professional games this weekend.

“We have done everything possible to save him but he never regained consciousness,” doctor Leonardo Paloscia stated to the media. The medical team at the Pescara hospital said he was dead on arrival at hospital.

Morosini fell to the ground with no one around him in the 31st minute. He got up looking befuddled and then collapsed again after which an ambulance and medics came to the place. In fact, a similar incident happened a few weeks ago when Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered the same problem in an English FA Cup match but he survived and is playing for the team. The Serie B game is abandoned with Livorno leading 2-0.

The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI confirmed Morosini died due to cardiac arrest, and gave an official statement that all other sporting events this weekend would being with a one minute silence.

Piermario Morosini collapses and dies video

Whitney Houston – Death Cause, Songs, Awards

Starwin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:44:49 +0000

One of the most prolific singers of our times, Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, California. She was announced dead at 3.55 pm. The police state that the hotel officials tried their best to resuscitate her but to no avail. A CPR was done 20 minutes before declaring the singer dead.Preliminary investigations do not show any cause of Whitney Houston’s death. Her demise has left the world in shock, especially her fans and music lovers. She was just 48. There were reports that state that Whitney Houston was behaving erratically for couple of days prior to her death.

Whitney Houston was rated as 3^rd in the list of MTV’s 22 Greatest Voices. Rolling Stone has cited Whitney Houston as the 34^th of the 100 greatest singers ever on Planet Earth. They noted, “Her voice is a mammoth, coruscating cry: Few vocalists could get away with opening a song with 45 unaccompanied seconds of singing, but Houston’s powerhouse version of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” is a tour de force.”

Whitney Houston was a pioneer for black female artistes, a trend that was followed by others. With Michael Jackson breaking the color barrier for men, Houston did the same for black female entertainers and singers. After her, emerged the popularity of black female artistes Janet Jackson and Anita Baker.

With Michael Jackson breaking down the color barrier for black male artists, Houston did the same for black female artists. She became one of the few black female artists to receive heavy rotation on the network following the success of the “How Will I Know” video

Whitney Houston awards

Whitney Houston was the most awarded female artiste of all time, according to Guinness Book of World Records. Her awards included 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. She also won the status of the highest all-time record of the most American Music Awards of any single artist and shared the record with Michael Jackson for the most AMAs ever won in a single year with eight wins in 1994. With more than 200 million albums and singles sold throughout the world, Whitney Houston was one of the world’s best selling music artistes. She was recipient of the Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Grambling State University, Louisiana. Her total kitty of awards is an astonishing and flattering 400.

Whitney Houston Greatest Hits

Whitney Houston’s greatest hit is the original sound track of The Bodyguard (1992) which went on to win many awards for her including the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Its lead single “I Will Always Love You,” became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. With this album, Whitney Houston became the first singer to sell more than a million copies of an album in just a week’s time. The album also made it to the best selling albums of all time.

Houston acted movies and sung in their movie tracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher’s Wife (1996). The Preacher’s Wife soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history. The other albums ‘My Love is your Love’ (1998), Just Whitney (2002), One Wish- The Holiday Album and her last I Look to You (2009) did well, though it couldn’t match the record of earlier work.

Cause of Whitney Houston’s death

Drug abuse specifically crack addiction, is cited as the most probable reason for Whitney Houston’s death. She confessed to crack cocaine addiction, marijuana and taking pills. Her once regl voice had become rapsy and she found it difficult to hit the high notes that she reveled in her prime. Her bizarre public appearances seemed like a precursor of things to come.

Greatest songs of Whitney Houston

Hold Me with Teddy Pendergrass (1984)
Saving All My Love For You (1985)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) (1987)
Didn’t We Almost Have It All (1987)
Where Do Broken Hearts Go (1988)
I’m Your Baby Tonight (1990)
All the Man That I Need (1990)
I Will Always Love You (1992)
Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (1995)
Heartbreak Hotel with Faith Evans and Kelly Price (1998)
It’s Not Right but It’s Okay (1998)

Google Plus Ownage Review, Scam or No ?

Starwin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:28:58 +0000

Google Plus is not only one of the most popular social networking sites, it has the muscle power and brand Google backing it. In the very near future, Google has big plans to squash competition and emerge winner on the social media front. No one can predict the future but if someone can change it, Google definitely has a high probability.

A lot of people are focused on Facebook and Twitter while they do not take Google Plus seriously. The people who have created the modules for the study are Peng Joon and Dylan Loh, long -time Internet entrepreneurs who have studied Google Plus with immense depth. They have pooled in resources, time, money and team to come up with the modules. Both Peng Joon and Dylan Loh are known for their digital contributions like Farmville Secrets, CB Niche Blueprint and G Headshot. But both believe that GPlus Ownage is the real deal with an avalanche of marketing and monetization possibilities. For those who think that GPlus Ownage may be a scam, one can always return the product if dissatisfied in a matter of 60 days and get the money back. Find out about exciting possibilities ofmaking money through Google Plus.

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Miss Winsconsin is Miss America 2012

Starwin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:17:50 +0000

This it is. Wisconsin born Laura Kaeppeler is Miss America 2012. “In that moment I didn’t know what to think,” Kaeppeler says. “It was all kind of a blur.”

Apart from the enviable crown,Kaeppeler, 23, wins a $50,000 scholarship and represent the Miss America pageant for the next year. This was the 91st anniversary of the pageant

Question and Answers round are always tricky and this time too, it was a googly. The question was whether Miss America should make her political party publicly known. Claiming politicians need to be the representative of the the masses, she replied, “Miss America needs to represent all.”

The gorgeous Laura Kaeppeler performed operatic vocals as her talent, and looked striking in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown during the competition at Las Vegas’s Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. Miss America 2012 Laura Kaeppeler is the second woman from Wisconsin to grace the title. She said that her onus is now to finish her education, complete her law school and wants to guide children of imprisoned adults.

Miss America Laura Kaeppeler pictures

Miss America 2012 Laura Kaeppeler video

Facebook IPO

Starwin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:49:31 +0000

Facebook is going to be the first social media site to list its own IPO. The second most popular website after Google, with it strong-hold of 800 million users, is considering a flotation in New York that would raise $10bn (£6.5bn) and value the company at $100bn. This will make Facebook IPO, steamroll the largest initial public offering (IPO) by an internet company in history

The question is if Facebook “do a Google” – largely shunning the Wall Street banking group and create a retail offer via an auction? If the numbers reach their target, Mark Zuckerberg will be one of the world’s richest men and Facebook’s 3000 people will command immense wealth.

Cynics however think that though the valuation is impressive, an IPO may pose serious risks for Facebook that has helped more than a billion people communicate with their friends, family and acquaintances.

“Facebook cannot succeed at becoming the world’s main communication platform and produce the short-term results that Wall Street wants,” says David Kirkpatrick, the author of a history of the company called The Facebook Effect.

Facebook has to disclose its financial results by the end of April to abide by the US regulation necessitating any company with more than 500 shareholders to do so. The flotation contains a hope among people that the company is able to start the IPO without any glitches.

Facebook isn’t yet known to have chosen advices, and David Ebersman, the chief financial officer is said to have drafted the S-1 registration form, a critical document usually released by banks, that also works as a disclosure form for regulators and a marketing catalog for the company selling shares.

Lise Buyer, who helped Google organize its IPO and who now gives advice to companies going public on their equation with banks, says, “There’s a tendency in the aggregate for Silicon Valley to be sceptical and cynical about Wall Street. A banker’s seal of approval can help persuade an investor but if you’re Facebook you don’t need that.”

Facebook’s forte is its users and the revenues that may reach $4 billion this year. It is believed that Facebook may sell share by auction as did Google in 2004.

Partly, the concept is to open the sale up to retail investors and sell the shares at a price that is equivalent to true demand, rather than initiating a first day surge for those investors – or who are clients of the bank – who can buy the shares at the IPO. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, may well be meeting the Wall Street bankers at the end of the month at her tirp to the World Economic Forum.

Facebook IPO, analyst say, should take lessons from how Zynga, who are known for their games Farmville and Cityville that are played on Facebook, did their flotation. They ended their first day below 5pc and are yet to reach the $10 mark they sold for. Some experts think that Zynga actually sold too many shares, it sold 15pc of its stock, at twice the amount offered by Linked- In in May 2011. Linked-In stocks are now at 40pc more than the $45 they were first sold for.

If the share price of Facebook lags months down the line, it is going to be tough to have a follow-offering, when people sell some shares. To avoid a repeat of Zyngna fiasco, it is expected an IPO to value Facebook at closer to $85bn.

“Hype is a big issue around the internet and social media companies,” said Dan Hanson, a managing director at BlackRock. “My starting premise is that the numbers should tell the story. I’m more sceptical on IPOs, because there’s not much history with the companies.”

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Office says, “We need to be around and thriving when Mark is old. Look at consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble a company that has existed for decades, this is the role-model that Facebook should emulate.”

Kirkpatrick believes that Facebook will be valued at $200bn by the stock market within a couple of years, but is wary about people trying to look at it as the next Google and avoid the next Yahoo! in the rapidly changing internet age.”Would I gamble that Facebook is going to be around in 100 years?” asks Kirkpatrick. “It’s not the sort of company you can make projections about for more than five years out.”

In 2012, Facebook awakens to a new challenge – to balance the demands of new owners (shareholders) along with its strong base of 800m users.

New Year’s Eve Ball Drop

Starwin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:40:04 +0000

A million strong reveler crowd cheered amidst a confetti filled celebration in New York Times Square to welcome 2012, there were glittering display of fireworks and star-studded celebrations as the new year ushered in.

In New York, thousands of people gathered at the crossroads to witness the famous ‘ball drop’ with more than 30,0000 light descending at midnight. Lady Gaga, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the iconic Dick Clark led the crowd in the final-minute countdown of the popular crystal-paneled ball drop. The crystal ball on top of Times Square weighs The 11,875-pound (5,386 kg), 12-foot (3.7 m).

December 31, 2011 was the 40^th anniversary of Dick Clark’s New Year Rockin’ Eve. Even though the ‘youngest teenager in the US’ was marred by a stroke that has affected his speech and mobility, the 82 year old is ever enthusiastic. Regis Philbin took over the hosting in the beginning but Ryan Seacrest who is known to the heir apparent with the title : Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

Mayan Calendar 2012 Predictions – End of the World ?

Starwin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:18:53 +0000

Many people believe that December 21, 2012 is the end of the world as we know, thanks to the Mayan Calendar prediction. Warnings and apocalypse claims are found in websites, tourist promotions, bookstore shelves and what have you! There is now a new term floating around called 2012ology.

We have walked the lane before, last year too. In 2011,we had religious preacher Harold Camping taking May and October as doomsday months but nothing happened. However 2012 has a special doomsday ring to it, the reference here are the Mayans , a breed of extinct intelligent civilization that once thrived in the tropical forests of Central America. The disaster flick 2012 had a tag-line First, the Mayan calendar predicted it. . . . Now, science has confirmed it.” Though there was nothing close to the Mayans in the movie.

The thing to note is that the ancient Mayans never predicted the end of the world in 2012, not has it been confirmed by science.

The Mayans who were present during circa D. 250 to 900, are known for producing impressive amounts of marvelous artworks, amazing works in architecture and hieroglyphic texts. They were not known to be interested in apocalypse. More than preoccupying about foretelling the end of the world, the Mayans were interested in recreation, which was a prominent part of their ritual tales and myths.

The Maya looked at time as a complex set of infinite cycles, not a clock inching toward doomsday. One of these cycles is termed as the Maya Long Count, which consist of 5,000years. In our calendrical system, this begins in August 3114 B.C. and is due to end on Dec. 21, 2012 — or, in Maya numerology, 13.0.0.0.0. However, there is nothing to suggest that this date Is the last day of the world. It is nothing more than the rounding up of a number like it did in the case of Y2K in the year 2000.

Just like that date 13.0.0.0.0, the Mayan civilization also has a carved stone plaque from the Mexican site of Tortuguero, which predicted a gloomy event — the “descent” of a deity linked to the underworld, in the year 1996. This led to a myriad set of interpretations online talking about Maya prophecy till epigraphers, people who study the glyphs , investigated the plaque properly.

The agreement today is that this piece of text is actually about a future memorial of that date, when the local ruler will impersonate or represent that deity. It is definitely not a doomsday prophecy but a bold claim that the seventh-century building once marked by the plaque will still be standing in 2012. Doom-sayers however believe that it means nothing but the world ending in 2012.

People who believe that the world will end in December 21, 2012 also say that there is a cosmic map in the form of a carving made in Izapa, Mexico, 2300 years ago; which shows a macaw, a caiman and a well-dressed man. 2012ologists say this is the chart indicating the future of the galaxy, which shows galactic alignment in 2012. Astronomers however say that this galactic realignment talk holds no ground. Also Izapa was a pre-Maya city, where there is no recorded mention of dates.

If these approaches show that December 21, 2012 is not the end of the world, why are people still talking about it as the time when the world calls it quits ? This is due to our belief in ancient wisdom and mythology that may not be proven. The mysteriousness of a prophecy has an element of conformation to it. This is the reason why ‘Da Vinci Code’ sold like hot cakes, people watch Youtube videos about the end and people like Harold Camping getting second and third chances.

Even in Western Civilization, there are lot of teachings in art-work that talk about the world’s end. Did you know that Joachim of Fiore predicted that the world would end in 1260. Many Europeans had listened, with fear in their hearts as they waited for the end of the world with bated breath. William Miller in Vermont picked 1843 and 1844 as the last years of the world. Harold Camping as we know, was gung-ho about the world’s end in 2011.

There have been herculean leaps in science, technology and outlook in life But science for all its credit, has not been able to replace religion, they actually have a symbiotic relationship. No matter how many answers science gives, there are religious aspects that crop up as a natural stemming out of facts. Global warming dangers spell the end of the world. So do Mayan predictions; actually believing in the end of not is a matter of faith.

Jenny Mccarthy kiss on New Year’s Eve

Starwin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:13:14 +0000

Jenny McGarthy kissed an NYPD officer at the stroke of mid-night on BC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. It is a long-standing tradition for many, particularly in Times Square, to ring in the new year by sealing a kiss with a loved one or significant other or perhaps someone who has charmed her or him throughout the night. Jenny seemed to have found her special mate in the form of an NYPD police officer who stood near her.

Jenny had to do a bit of explaining about the kiss for which she said, : “I just happened to be standing with that hot cop… nice to meet you! “ Meanwhile, the lucky NYPD officer can’t believe his luck and is rating Jenny McGarthy kiss as a perfect 10..or should it be ‘purrfect 10’ ?

Katy Perry to divorce Russell Brand

Starwin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:05:30 +0000

They met at MTV Music Awards in 2009 and then in 2010, Katy Perry and Russell Brand married in India. The marriage lasted 14 months till Russell called off marriage citing irreconcilable differences” in papers filed at a Los Angeles court. “Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage. I’ll always adore her and I know we’ll remain friends,” Brand said in a statement.

“I am married to Katy perpetually. Until death do us part was the pledge. I am still alive, “ was the famous line of Russell in the Ellen Show earlier this month.

However last Christmas, both Katy Perry and Russsell showed up separately and were photgographed without their wedding rings. A friend on the basis of anonymity said that Russell had taken this step because Katy Perry was not keen on starting family and put her career ahead of raising kids.