Pa. transplant recipient still on breathing tube

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl recovering after a double lung transplant says doctors tried to remove her breathing tube but were forced to reinsert it.

Janet Murnaghan (MUR'-nuh-han) says in a statement provided by a spokeswoman that her daughter, Sarah, "could not handle the reduced support" after the tube was removed Wednesday. She called the day "excruciating" and said it was "impossibly painful" watching her daughter struggle to breathe, so the girl was ultimately sedated and re-intubated.

Janet Murnaghan says doctors have assured the family that the day's events don't change Sarah's long-term prospects but just mean "she needs more time to regain her strength."

Sarah, who lives in Newtown Square, a Philadelphia suburb, suffers from severe cystic fibrosis. She underwent the transplant after a national debate over the organ allocation process.

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Dominion Finance Directors Plead Guilty | Stuff.co.nz

The last of the Dominion Finance directors facing court action pleaded guilty in the High Court in Auckland today to charges laid against them by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).

They had been due to go to trial in a few days.

Vance Arkinstall and Richard "Rick" Bettle pleaded guilty to five FMA charges each. Paul Forsyth pleaded guilty to seven of the Securities Act charges brought before Justice Sarah Katz.

The men had originally pleaded not guilty and were have gone on trial next week.

The charges of misleading investors were laid by the FMA against all directors of Dominion Finance after it collapsed into receivership in 2008 owing more than 5900 public debenture investors $176.9 million.

North South Finance, a subsidiary company that operated under the same directors, was placed in receivership in 2010 owing $31m to 3900 investors.

The summary of facts, which both parties agreed to, said while all three men acted honestly, they failed to perform their duties as directors.

This included failing to disclose related-party transactions and the deterioration of Dominion's overall financial position.

Arkinstall and Bettle originally faced all seven charges, however, the FMA reduced the number of charges to five as the time periods involved in a couple of cases were arguable.

Bettle stepped down as chairman and director of lines company Powerco yesterday, and resigned from the board of NZX-listed software company Diligent last week.

Arkinstall stepped down as chief executive of the Investment Savings and Insurance Association in 2010 after charges were laid against him.

Earlier in the month former Dominion bosses Ann Butler and Robert Barry Whale were sentenced to home detention for their part in the company's collapse. Butler's husband, Terry, was due to face the same charges but died of cancer this year.

Terry Butler also faced charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office before his death, on which Dominion Finance chief executive Paul Cropp was found guilty of in April.

Justice Graham Lang found Cropp guilty of knowingly breaching the trust deed of Dominion Finance and its subsidiary North South Finance. The deed said the company was not able to make loans to related parties.

Last month Cropp was sentenced to two years and seven months jail on the four Crimes Act charges of theft. The maximum possible sentence was five years' jail or a fine of up to $300,000 on each charge, but finance company directors in similar circumstances have been sentenced to home detention.

Bettle, Forsyth and Arkinstall are due to be sentenced on August 16.

- ? Fairfax NZ News

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8843019/Dominion-Finance-directors-plead-guilty

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Older males make better fathers says new research on beetles

June 19, 2013 ? Researchers at the University of Exeter found that older male burying beetles make better fathers than their younger counterparts.

The study found that mature males, who had little chance of reproducing again, invested more effort in both mating and in parental care than younger males.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London -- B, considered how the likelihood of paternity influenced the way that males cared for young. Older males were good fathers and looked after the young even when they were unsure whether the offspring were theirs. Younger males, who had a higher chance of reproducing again, tended to care less for offspring, particularly when they were uncertain of their paternity.

The survival and performance of the offspring remained the same regardless of the level of care provided by the males. This is because when the father stopped pulling his weight, the mother took up the slack and provided the additional care necessary to produce successful offspring.

Dr Megan Head from Biosciences at the University of Exeter said: "Our research shows that age has a direct impact on the level of parental care given by male burying beetles. If their chances of reproducing again were high, we found that males had to make a trade-off between the likelihood of paternity and the level of paternal care they would give. We found that younger males who were uncertain of their paternity were likely to make the worst fathers."

Male perception of paternity was manipulated in the study by allowing the odours of competitor males to linger in the mating chamber. Males mating in an environment filled with the odours of other males had lower assurance of paternity than males that mated with females in an environment that did not smell of other males.

Parental care was measured by the amount of time males spent with offspring. Burying beetles have surprisingly complex parental care, which is similar in form to that provided by birds, such as robins or blackbirds; offspring beg to be fed by touching parents, who respond by regurgitating partially digested food.

The results of the study support the hypothesis that in species with paternal care, fathers are expected to balance investment in future reproduction with care for current offspring to maximise their lifetime reproductive success. The results suggest females should prefer to mate with older males as they work harder and care less about infidelity.

This research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_environment/~3/hvwCf4gGDPU/130619101612.htm

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Enterprise apps landing on Google Glass by 2014

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Google Glass and the enterprise may not be an ideal match ? I've personally met it with a good hearty dose of skepticism?after my try-out with the technology ??but that's not to say there aren't people out there giving it a go anyway.

One Manassas, Virginia-based technology company aims to have a series of enterprise apps for Google Glass available by early 2014, and recommends that other businesses should at least jump on the internal testing bandwagon sooner rather than later.

In a video interview with the IDG News Service,?Dan McNelis, co-founder of Dito, which specializes in providing services for Google applications, said his company is in the?"early stages with customers on identifying the specific requirements and use cases where they're going to want to develop applications for Glass."

Dito is also developing "Glassware," the sort of apps that plug directly into the Glass API and function like any other Glass app.?

Currently, McNelis' firm is working with an unnamed construction company that is interested in building business information modeling applications.?A finished app could offer a first-person point-of-view that allows a construction worker to move around a site in a virtual three-dimensions simulator, he described. In such a scenario, because Google Glass is modular, it could be integrated with hard safety?hats for those working on industrial sites.

McNelis said for others who are considering developing apps for the new wearable technology, "be wary of the fact that especially if you're building enterprise applications, it's smart to start thinking about it"?

"But I wouldn't recommend an organization pushes all in and makes it a core part of their business around apps. It's still early days for that."

Once things become more mature in terms of ecosystem and the technology becomes more developed, McNelis said, it would be an ideal time to begin "dogfooding" their own apps within their enterprise setting?for their own internal testing, to determine the benefits or drawbacks of the gadget.

(via PC World)

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Good Reads: From teens and Facebook to the culinary tastes of ?Dear Leader? to a new 5G cellphone

This week's round-up of Good Reads includes Facebook losing favor among teens, the first menial jobs of the rich and famous, reminiscences by Kim Jong-il's sushi chef, new campuses for the headquarters of tech giants, and the world's fastest cellphone.

By Chris Gaylord,?Staff writer / June 11, 2013

Most teenagers have a Facebook account they check every day.

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Fading enthusiasm for Facebook

Teenagers hate Facebook, according to a new study by the Pew?Internet & American Life Project. They also can?t get enough of it.?The report found that 94 percent of American teens are on?Facebook, more than on any other social network. But many of the young respondents have lost enthusiasm for the site, complaining about ?the increasing adult presence, people sharing excessively, and stressful ?drama.?? Despite these frustrations, teens say they keep using Facebook because it has become a key part of socializing.

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?I think Facebook can be fun, but also it?s drama central,? one girl told a Pew researcher. Another said: ?Honestly, I?m on it constantly but I hate it so much.??

While these findings might seem troubling, they also sound a lot like young people?s feelings about high school in general. The big difference is how the social network follows teens home. Pew found a significant rise in the kind of material that students share on Facebook compared with what was shared in 2006: 92 percent now reveal their real names, 91 percent post personal photos, 24 percent upload videos of themselves, 20 percent publish their phone numbers.?

What was your first job?

Does your first job define you? Kate Rockwood, writing for Fast Company, asked several major names in business and entertainment about where they began. The consensus: You can start from anywhere.?

Among our favorite first jobs in the illustrated slide show: Doug McMillon, chief executive officer of Wal-Mart International, started off unloading boxes in a Wal-Mart warehouse. Before directing the highest-grossing movie of all time (and then breaking his own record), James Cameron was a truck driver. Martha Stewart began as a $50-an-hour model for Chanel and others. Actress and writer Tina Fey kicked off her professional life answering phones at a suburban YMCA. And Liu Chuanzhi, cofounder of computer giant Lenovo, was a laborer in the rice fields during Mao?s Cultural Revolution.?

A sushi chef?s memory of the ?Dear Leader??

The world knows little about North Korea. As Adam Johnson writes in GQ magazine, ?We didn?t even know the age of the current leader, Kim Jong-un, until Kenji Fujimoto revealed his birth date. (January 8, 1983.)?

Who is Kenji Fujimoto? For 11 years, he was personal chef, confidant, and court jester to the supreme leader?s father, Kim Jong-il, and at times played nanny to a young Kim Jong-un. Now, after escaping North Korea and taking on an alias, Mr. Fujimoto is the ?Japanese intelligence community?s single greatest asset on the Kim family.?

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This Tiny Wooden Speaker Turns Your Glasses Into Equalizers

Chances are you've used an equalizer before, and chances are there was a lot of blindly turning dials and hoping something good happened. The Timbre Speaker embraces exactly that kind of blind experimentation by using nothing but two glasses for its sound control.

Designed by industrial design student Casey Lin, the speaker appears to be just a wooden box with a volume knob on the front, and power and input in the back. But on the inside, surface transducers turn vibrate the box's wooden shell. The glasses?or whatever else you want to put on top?can morph and change the timbre of that sound, acting as physical equalizer.

From a practical perspective, it's pretty ridiculous; this is a pretty bad way to try to control the nuance of your sound. But it's less about getting the job done right, and more about getting it done in an interesting way. And it doesn't hurt that it also looks damn fine. It's only a concept, but it's a fun one, as long as you're not an audio control freak. [designbycl via Core77]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-tiny-wooden-speaker-turns-your-glasses-into-equali-517473433

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Looking for a small group role play that will last

Just as the title says, I am looking to create a role play with a few members that are able to add to a story plot that will hopefully last more than a page or two _-_ I prefer others who can post more than a paragraph at a time and are interested in a mature themed role play within the rules of Gateway, but before I get into details about who I'm looking for, let's first lay my ideas on the table.

- Plot one: Vampires had long ago come out of hiding and taken over. It wasn't long after that before humans were hunted to near extinction. Only a few small colonies of surviving humans were left to build a life for themselves, allowed to go on simply for the usage of their rulers, and were forced to "donate" their blood monthly at the Center (a hospital run by vampires to ensure all humans remained healthy and clean).

Not all were compliant.Living in a world trying to adjust to being someone's meal is one thing, but being forced to give yourself willingly? That's cruel. Then the virus happened. It was rumored to solely feed on vampires and rot them from the inside out, but in order to infect their targets host were needed. Chosen members of the colonies were injected with the virus weeks before visiting the Center and as their body adapted to the virus, their blood became the colonies beacon of hope...a weapon...a weapon that would soon bond those involved in ways never imagined.

Although the virus did not kill its intended victim, it did seem to have an effect. The children of those that has been injected by the virus were different. They were stronger, faster, and less immune to illness than those of their kind...but most importantly they were able to breed with vampires and create offspring. The Center, it seemed, had planned the whole thing and even planted the rumors about the virus.

From then on all pregnant woman were injected with the virus. Once the infants were born they were submitted for testing. If traces of the virus were found within their DNA they were "claimed" and would be expected to serve their vampire.

From there on things get more sticky. Vampires born of claimed humans seem to have a dependency on the virus and can not feed on any other. It is then the blood bonds will be made and this is where the role play will take off. Children of the virus are "blood bonded" with vampires born of claimed humans. They become their blood slaves more or less, and once they hit maturity are sent to reside with their mater/mistress to produces a heir.

- Plot two: We all know what the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues are, and we all know we have the ability to go either way, but what if outside forces attempted to tamper with things? What if the virtues were made into living beings; incarnated into humans and thrust into the lives if those living in sin? Can they be saved? Are they humans at all? Maybe the sinful humans aren't really human at all but demons in disguise.

This role play will not be a good conquer evil, love conquers all fairy tale. It will be dark and twisted, and full of lies,death, betrayal, choices, and forbidden feelings. The virtues will have no idea who or what they are, while the sins are out to destroy them. Romance is expected, but once again this isn't a fairy tale.

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