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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Apple VP of iWork Roger Rosner rumored to head up digital textbook development
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple?s iWork VP Roger Rosner has been charged to lead Apple’s entry into the digital textbook arena.
NJ disabled girl's parents narrow criticism
In this undated photo provided by Joseph Rivera, 3-year-old Amelia Rivera is shown. Amelia?s parents, who claim that she is being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, will meet with hospital officials next week, amid a growing online furor that has experts warning the situation may be much more complex than many realize. (AP Photo/Rivera Family Photo)
In this undated photo provided by Joseph Rivera, 3-year-old Amelia Rivera is shown. Amelia?s parents, who claim that she is being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, will meet with hospital officials next week, amid a growing online furor that has experts warning the situation may be much more complex than many realize. (AP Photo/Rivera Family Photo)
In this undated photo provided by Joseph Rivera, 3-year-old Amelia Rivera is shown. Amelia?s parents, who claim that she is being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, will meet with hospital officials next week, amid a growing online furor that has experts warning the situation may be much more complex than many realize. (AP Photo/Rivera Family Photo)
In this undated photo provided by Joseph Rivera, 3-year-old Amelia Rivera is shown. Amelia?s parents, who claim that she is being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, will meet with hospital officials next week, amid a growing online furor that has experts warning the situation may be much more complex than many realize. (AP Photo/Rivera Family Photo)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The parents of a 3-year-old New Jersey girl who claim she's being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities said their problems may be with one doctor, and not The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"It's one doctor who's never seen us who is making this call," Joe Rivera told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We've had a great experience with CHOP. We're not against CHOP, but maybe something needs to be changed. One guy tarnished their reputation."
Rivera, 39, and his wife Chrissy plan to meet with hospital officials next week, amid a growing online furor that has experts warning the situation may be much more complex than many realize. The hospital has not commented on the child's case, citing patient confidentiality laws, but acknowledged the online discussion and said on its Facebook page that "we hear your concerns."
Chrissy Rivera posted a blog entry last week that described an encounter she claimed happened at The Children's Hospital. She and her husband were there to discuss treatment for her daughter, Amelia, who was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a rare genetic defect that can cause physical and mental disabilities. Amelia will need a transplant in six months to a year.
Chrissy Rivera, 36, wrote that a doctor, whom she did not name, told her and her husband that Amelia wouldn't be eligible for a transplant because of her quality of life and her mental condition.
"I put my hand up. 'Stop talking for a minute. Did you just say that Amelia shouldn't have the transplant done because she is mentally retarded. I am confused. Did you really just say that?'" she wrote. "I begin to shake. My whole body trembles and he begins to tell me how she will never be able to get on the waiting list because she is mentally retarded."
Joe Rivera said he was left thunderstruck.
"It just felt like that you were punched in the gut," he told the AP. "It was mind blowing how people think these days."
But he said that the experience was not necessarily indicative of the treatment they've gotten from the hospital.
Afterward, Chrissy Rivera, who teaches high school senior English, detailed the exchange on the blog.
Her story was seen by Sunday Stilwell, the mother of two severely autistic boys, and she began an online petition Friday, demanding that the hospital give a transplant to the girl. By Wednesday afternoon, 26,520 people had signed it.
"I read Chrissy's original blog post, and I just cried. I couldn't believe it," said Stilwell, whose boys are 6 and 9. "I shared it on Twitter with all my followers and on Facebook."
Children's Hospital said in a statement that it "does not disqualify potential transplant candidates on the basis of intellectual abilities."
"We have transplanted many children with a wide range of disabilities, including physical and intellectual disabilities," it said, adding that it is "deeply committed" to providing the best possible medical care for all children, including those with disabilities.
It noted the debate on its Facebook page. "We're listening. We hear your concerns and take seriously your posts, emails and phone calls," it wrote, adding, "Please know that you have been heard and that your feedback is appreciated."
Stilwell has been in contact with the Riveras daily over the events.
"There's a lot of camaraderie" between parents of special-needs kids, Stilwell said. "Almost all of us, across the board, have experienced some discrimination. I've certainly had some bad run-ins with some certainly ignorant doctors, but nothing like this. That's part of the reason I did it. I couldn't actually believe this was happening."
The issue the Riveras face is not simple, said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. For example, the blog notes that Chrissy Rivera told the hospital that "we plan on donating" the kidney because they come from a large family.
"Most adults can't donate an organ because it won't fit" a child, Caplan said. "You're starting to say you're going to use another child as a living donor, and that's ethically really trouble."
The supply of organs for child transplants is "extremely limited," Caplan added. "So you have hard choices to make," he said. "Dialysis may be a better option."
However, in recent years some hospitals have pioneered ways to use an adult's kidney in a child.
According to the National Institutes of Health, 87,820 people were awaiting kidney transplants as of last February. The National Kidney Foundation, which seeks to enhance the lives of people affected by kidney disease, said 4,573 patients died in 2008 while waiting for kidney transplants.
A 2006 study from Ohio State University on kidney transplants for patients with mental disabilities found that the one- and three-year survival rates for 34 people were 100 percent and 90 percent, respectively.
"The studies reported good compliance with post-transplant medications due to consistent support from family members or caregivers," the paper noted.
The researchers added that previous controversies over mental disabilities and transplants led the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to express concern that many people with disabilities are "denied evaluation and referral for transplantation."
Whatever the medical details of Amelia's situation, her mother's blog captured the anger of parents with disabled children who don't want outsiders to decide life and death issues.
"Do not talk about her quality of life," Rivera wrote of her exchange with the doctor last week. "You have no idea what she is like. We have crossed many, many road blocks with Amelia and this is just one more. So, you don't agree she should have it done? Fine. But tell me who I talk to next."
Mary Beth Happ, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law, said that the issue of severe mental disability and kidney transplants has been a source of contention for nearly two decades.
"Co-existing health problems such as weakened immune system and/or heart disease, which are prevalent in (Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome), are an additional risk that transplant centers and parents must consider," Happ wrote in an email.
But Happ and Caplan noted that it's virtually impossible to have a full discussion of Amelia's case because of medical privacy laws.
"We're seeing this more and more where very private, difficult medical decisions are debated in the media without the full facts," Happ said, adding that while the general discussion can be good, the risks of one side or another inflating the situation is problematic.
Caplan said he has heard of cases in which other transplant programs considered severe mental disability as a factor in transplants.
"With scarcity, social factors do count, with every transplant," he said.
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Begos reported from Pittsburgh.
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Follow Matt Moore at www.twitter.com/mattmooreap
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Online:
Rivera's Blog: http://bit.ly/xAmRaV
CHOP's Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/wkvIW0
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Offensive Line Coach Boudreau Will Not Return for 2012 Season
The Atlanta Falcons today announced that offensive line coach Paul Boudreau will not return for the 2012 season. Boudreau joined the Atlanta Falcons coaching staff as offensive line coach in 2008 and spent four seasons with the team.
?We would like to thank Coach Boudreau for his contributions to our team over the past four seasons, and we wish him well in his future endeavors,? said Falcons head coach Mike Smith.
Source: http://www.atlantafalcons.com/2012/01/offensive-line-coach-boudreau-will-not-return-for-2012-season/
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Google Android's Amazing Adventures in Space (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | Because Google's Android operating system is open-source -- meaning all the programming code is put up on the Internet for people to use for free -- it's used by many hobbyists, and even researchers, for their own purposes.
An example of the former? CyanogenMod, the custom version of Android that people are using to try to bring Ice Cream Sandwich to the Nook Color and Kindle Fire. And an example of the latter involves some neat experiments a few Google engineers tried ... along with a project at NASA.
Yes, that is the curvature of Earth
In the video posted on the Google Mobile Blog, that is. A handful of enterprising friends on the Google campus got together and created a series of high-altitude balloons, which would take sensor payloads (and Android action figures) up to 100,000 feet above the Earth's surface. At this altitude, the horizon began to curve downwards, and the sky appeared black and star-filled.
The then-new Nexus S and its "great set of embedded sensors" were used for the experiments, along with a set of proprietary Google apps like Google Maps and Google Sky Map (to identify constellations). The phones were secured in foam coolers, and the Android miniatures and plush toys were attached in various ways. Each balloon popped once it got to a certain altitude, but fortunately there was no littering: Each payload's descent was tracked by GPS, and they were all recovered afterward.
Real NASA Androids
No, they aren't the robot seen in the 80's movie Space Camp. They're SPHERES, or Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites. These are tiny, spherical robots developed by MIT, about the size and shape of a blocky bowling ball, which let NASA researchers experiment with programming them to fly in zero-gravity and avoid obstacles.
On the Google Nexus YouTube channel, Google interviews the NASA engineers who use the Nexus S smartphone to control modern SPHERES. According to engineer DW Wheeler, "Android is easy to program ... and we needed to make a lot of customizations that are easier to make with Android." The app used by NASA to analyze the phones' sensor data is open-source too, and is have had their hardware modified to use a AA battery instead of the standard lithium-ion pack, plus they had their GSM antenna removed to reduce interference with the space vehicles' systems. The phones still use Wi-Fi, however.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Perry: Marines in video are 'kids,' not criminals
Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaks as he campaigns at the Faith and Freedom Coaltion Prayer Breakfast in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaks as he campaigns at the Faith and Freedom Coaltion Prayer Breakfast in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, and former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, left, laugh as they campaign in Hilton Head, S.C., Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry on Sunday accused the Obama administration of "over-the-top rhetoric" and "disdain for the military" in its condemnation of a video that purportedly shows four Marines urinating on corpses in Afghanistan.
Perry's comments put him at odds with Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who said the images could damage the war effort.
"The Marine Corps prides itself that we don't lower ourselves to the level of the enemy," McCain said when asked about Perry's position. "So it makes me sad more than anything else, because ... I can't tell you how wonderful these people (Marines) are. And it hurts their reputation and their image."
No one has been charged in the case, but officials in the U.S. and abroad have called for swift punishment of the four Marines. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week that he worried the video could be used by the Taliban to undermine peace talks.
A military criminal investigation and an internal Marine Corps review are under way. The Geneva Conventions forbid the desecration of the dead.
Texas Gov. Perry said the Marines involved should be reprimanded but not prosecuted on criminal charges.
"Obviously, 18-, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too often. And that's what's occurred here," Perry told CNN's "State of the Union."
He later added: "What's really disturbing to me is the kind of over-the-top rhetoric from this administration and their disdain for the military."
Later appearing on the same show, McCain said he disagreed.
"We're trying to win the hearts and minds" of the Afghanistan population, he said. "And when something like that comes up, it obviously harms that ability."
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Hands-on redux with the LG Viper on Sprint
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After going hands-on with the LG Viper at CES during the stylish-yet-dark Sprint party, we just had to get our hands back on one of these devices to check it out a second time.
Anyhoo, check it out, and stay tuned for pricing and availability information.
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Louis CK deals with improvising kid (AP)
PASADENA, Calif. ? Beware of improvising 6-year-old actors.
That's a warning from comic Louis C.K., who said Sunday that acting with Ursula Parker is one of the hardest parts of his job. Parker plays one of his two daughters on the FX show "Louie."
C.K. says Parker likes to improvise and even though he tells her not to, she does it because she knows it bugs him.
The comic joked: "I'm burning film trying to raise this kid."
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