ECMO pumps blood out of the body, oxygenates it and returns it to the body

ECMO pumps blood out of the body, oxygenates it and returns it to the body

ECMO, the most aggressive form of life support available, pumps blood out of the body, oxygenates it and returns it to the body, keeping a person alive for days, weeks or months, even when their heart or lungs don’t work. In one recent case, a teaching hospital charged $4.2 million for a 60-day ECMO stay for a 19-year-old man with acute respiratory distress syndrome who was comatose the entire time and did not survive, according to Dr. Merrit Quarum, CEO and founder of WellRithms, a cost-containment company. Warraich and other experts say they are now concerned that new organ-donation rules may inadvertently spur hospitals to place more patients on ECMO: Under guidelines approved by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network last October, patients on ECMO jump to the front of the heart transplant waiting list.

Source: khn.org

Tokyo’s suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old

Tokyo’s suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old

They also knew he moved into the Atago apartment blocks, a huge housing complex in the suburbs of Tokyo, in 1971, the year after they were built, with his wife and two sons. Toshio Matsumoto, 70, an officer of the Atago housing committee, says it isn’t just death that dampens the mood at Atago: “The people who come after the deceased are also grey, and the elderly will not be rosy in the future unless they get young people into the complex.” While the Tokyo government does not disclose information on individual cases of solitary death, figures show that 501 people died alone in public housing blocks like Atago last year – more than one a day – and 2,344 over the last five years.

Source: www.theguardian.com

Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017)

Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017)

If you use the most recent Ramroot version, the installed RAM size should be at least 500MB more than the size of root filesystem. If the size of the root filesystem is less than the installed memory, the latest Ramroot version won’t load the Root filesystem in your RAM. Finally, remove Ramroot from your Arch Linux system using commands:

If you have installed Ramroot from AUR, remove it using commands:

For more details, refer Ramroot help section:

Ramroot might be helpful for those who wants to do some testing on their Arch Linux box.

Source: www.ostechnix.com

Google will no longer make its own tablet devices

Google will no longer make its own tablet devices

According to a Google spokesperson, the company has halted the production of two unreleased tablet devices and will not come out with a successor to the Pixelbook Slate. News of Google foregoing its tablet production comes three months after Business Insider reported that “roadmap cutbacks” had forced dozens on the company’s “create” team — which is responsible for its laptop and tablet products — to find new positions. Read more: Google has told dozens of employees in its laptop and tablet division to find new jobs at the company, raising questions about its hardware plans
On Thursday, Google confirmed that two of those future products were tablets smaller than the 12.3-inch Pixelbook Slate it had released in October.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

A Hundred Unchildlike Lullabies

A Hundred Unchildlike Lullabies

Last Witnesses was the second book by Svetlana Alexievich, originally published in 1985, the same year as her first, The Unwomanly Face of War. Because the book was composed in the early ’80s, it of course collects the memories of older people who were children during the war, but those recollections are so deeply etched that they appear uncorrupted by passing time; in them their protagonists are forever children. They are matter-of-fact in their accounts of terrible things—a nine-year-old girl remembers how after two families of partisans were hanged in the depths of winter, their frozen bodies “tinkled” as they swung in the wind; a twelve-year-old boy remembers using frozen German corpses as sleds.

Source: www.bookforum.com

Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency

Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency

Gryphon is an application suite and software library for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency markets. Up until now, Gryphon was the proprietary stack of Tinker, one of the earliest professional market making companies in the cryptocurrency world. Using Gryphon, Tinker traded over $8 billion worth of cryptocurrency over 3 years, representing as high as 30% of daily volume on regulated exchanges.

Source: www.gryphonframework.org

Civic honesty around the globe

Civic honesty around the globe

Although there is robust experimental literature on the conditions that give rise to honest behavior (6–11), little is known about how material incentives impact civic honesty, particularly in field settings. Citizens displayed greater civic honesty when the wallets contained money, but perhaps this is because the amount was not large enough to be financially meaningful. To examine this possibility we also ran a “BigMoney” condition in three countries (US, UK, and Poland) that increased the money inside the wallet to US $94.15, or seven times the amount in our original Money condition.

Source: science.sciencemag.org

BonziBuddy

BonziBuddy

[11] In 2002 an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users. Originally brought against Bonzi Software on 4 December 2002, the suit accused Bonzi of using its banner advertisements to deceptively imitate Windows computer alerts, alerting the user that their IP address is being broadcast. [17][18]

On 18 February 2004, the Federal Trade Commission released a statement indicating that Bonzi Software, Inc. was ordered to pay $75,000 in fees, among other aspects, for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 with BonziBuddy.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

World War II, Through Children’s Eyes

World War II, Through Children’s Eyes

Last Witnesses was the second book by Svetlana Alexievich, originally published in 1985, the same year as her first, The Unwomanly Face of War. Because the book was composed in the early ’80s, it of course collects the memories of older people who were children during the war, but those recollections are so deeply etched that they appear uncorrupted by passing time; in them their protagonists are forever children. They are matter-of-fact in their accounts of terrible things—a nine-year-old girl remembers how after two families of partisans were hanged in the depths of winter, their frozen bodies “tinkled” as they swung in the wind; a twelve-year-old boy remembers using frozen German corpses as sleds.

Source: www.bookforum.com

Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall

Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall

(Wilde’s friend Frank Harris considered that the “first hundred pages’ of The Picture of Dorian Gray” – recording the bantering chat of Lord Henry, Basil Hallward and Dorian – “held the results of months and months of Oscar’s talk.) Human voices
It is important to keep always in mind that Wilde had been born into a world of talk. Talk was the great currency of Wilde’s early Irish life.

Source: www.irishtimes.com