What generally helps is to keep the donor on life support as long as possible. This is why clinical death is often declared long after an MRI, etc., indicates brain death.
Ischemic time (the time a lung can survive outside the body) is about four hours. Lungs are also delicate.
I'll also add: the survival rate for lung transplants is atrocious. Not only are they risky at transplant time, but people tend to survive about five years post-, which is about as bad as it gets in transplantation.
Disclaimers:
1) My son is a heart transplant recipient.
2) My brother-in-law was a failed lung transplant recipient.
3) I serve in a policy-making role for OPTN, which coordinates all solid organ transplants in the U.S.
PBS stations have always paid fees, representing substantial portions their budgets, for which they have to go panhandle to the public and companies.
Now HBO picks up the tab. CTW makes 2x as many episodes, and PBS stations get that same content nine months later *for free.* I doubt children (mine included) will mind the 9 months of reruns during the initial delay.
I'm not a Boston Children's constituent. But perhaps you should consider that in a given metro area, there is usually only one choice for top-tier pediatric care. Who says the parents in this case are right, and why are people blindly trusting them? Just like with Sarah Murnaghan -- Anonymous got involved there too, and didn't fully comprehend the issues at stake here. Many parents in the transplant community fell on both sides of that issue, but Anonymous bought the media story, lock, stock, and barrel and began threatening medical organizations with little comprehension of the issues.
That's nice. I don't think any of us know the full side of the story. That part doesn't matter. Anonymous is now potentially interfering with the health of other children. This is not a bank.
Also, as I have already mentioned, my child is a frequent flier at a children's hospital, so let me say, fuck you very much.
My son is a child with fragile health, and we associate with many other, similar families as a support mechanism. While I am not in the Boston area, we do know families that are there, and who frequent Boston Children's. One of them that we associate with let everyone in one of these support groups know that the patient scheduling system had been affected by the Anonymous operation, and so she was unable to schedule her son's surgery.
Boston Children's needs to keep their clinical systems more protected, but the bottom line is that Anonymous is filled with grade-A assholes.
If you're suggesting that a single assassination was the reason for starting it, you may wish to go read some more about it. The major players had been itching for a fight for decades. It was essentially an attempt to resolve differences left from the Prussian wars of the 1860s-1870s, which set the stage for 120 years of a crapsack continent.
Why not? Lasseter (who DID the technical work) credited him with making Pixar what it was. Without Jobs, they'd still be doing contract work and/or shorts. In fact, Jobs was the one who said it was OK to produce shorts. More than likely, they would have been out of business.
Boeing is now the owner of North American. Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged to form Lockheed Martin. Morton Thiokol is now part of Alliant Techsystems (ATK.) The players are the same, but the head offices and business cards are different.
1. Mulally is a competent CEO. The jury is still out on Apotheker.
2. Mulally actually knows how to design and build planes. He led the project to build the Boeing 777, which is a high-margin product that kept cash coming in during Boeing's last decade, which has been rough for other reasons.
To be sure, both examples you cited have long-since jettisoned their automotive divisions. "Rolls-Royce" is really BMW (Rolls-Royce wound up with BMW's aircraft engine division) and Volvo is in the hands of Geely, one of the ruthless photocopying Chinese firms.
I guess those Jeopardy-playing robots don't count as research? That's just an example, but you know and I know that IBM has a strong research arm (including important basic research) that HP lacks. Indeed, IBM's research arm is world-class.
Here is an interview with Bill Warren on The Roe & Roeper radio show on Chicago's WLS-AM station.
http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=2213142&spid=37724
If you want to skip past the B.S., just listen to to the last four minutes where a professional salvage operator completely shows him up.
Well, there are other projects that were "canceled" and then resurrected as black projects. The Dark Star UAV is one example. Canceled about a decade ago and it has reportedly been seen in combat since then.
It should be noted that Scaled Composites has been a unit of Northrop Grumman for a couple of years now. With Burt Rutan retiring, it will become more under NGC control. However, NGC does not have a regular rocket launch unit as Boeing and Lockheed does, so there's no reason that NGC will not continue allowing Scaled Composites to prosper.
I believe the intention is that, in time, everyone will use DisplayPort and it will be moot. Certainly, Apple is not the first manufacturer to head in this direction. The transition has to start somewhere.
Do you understand that DisplayPort is capable of more than DVI? I believe it surpasses HDMI as well. Furthermore,/.-ers should be overjoyed at a connector that is royalty/license-free.
I guarantee you that studios will pick up a Mac if it means developing for the platform. You're thinking from the standpoint of a closed-minded PC bigot. Developers spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on gaming console development platforms. This one just happens to be a Mac.
That's some good crack you've got there, buddy. What exactly is Apple's incentive to run Android? You want it, but they don't (and neither do most people.)
The other facet to this is Verizon Wireless themselves are bailing from CDMA and going with GSM-based technologies. Why develop a CDMA version when the bulk of your market will be GSM-based in a couple of years?
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What generally helps is to keep the donor on life support as long as possible. This is why clinical death is often declared long after an MRI, etc., indicates brain death.
Ischemic time (the time a lung can survive outside the body) is about four hours. Lungs are also delicate. I'll also add: the survival rate for lung transplants is atrocious. Not only are they risky at transplant time, but people tend to survive about five years post-, which is about as bad as it gets in transplantation. Disclaimers: 1) My son is a heart transplant recipient. 2) My brother-in-law was a failed lung transplant recipient. 3) I serve in a policy-making role for OPTN, which coordinates all solid organ transplants in the U.S.
PBS stations have always paid fees, representing substantial portions their budgets, for which they have to go panhandle to the public and companies. Now HBO picks up the tab. CTW makes 2x as many episodes, and PBS stations get that same content nine months later *for free.* I doubt children (mine included) will mind the 9 months of reruns during the initial delay.
I'm not a Boston Children's constituent. But perhaps you should consider that in a given metro area, there is usually only one choice for top-tier pediatric care. Who says the parents in this case are right, and why are people blindly trusting them? Just like with Sarah Murnaghan -- Anonymous got involved there too, and didn't fully comprehend the issues at stake here. Many parents in the transplant community fell on both sides of that issue, but Anonymous bought the media story, lock, stock, and barrel and began threatening medical organizations with little comprehension of the issues.
That's nice. I don't think any of us know the full side of the story. That part doesn't matter. Anonymous is now potentially interfering with the health of other children. This is not a bank. Also, as I have already mentioned, my child is a frequent flier at a children's hospital, so let me say, fuck you very much.
My son is a child with fragile health, and we associate with many other, similar families as a support mechanism. While I am not in the Boston area, we do know families that are there, and who frequent Boston Children's. One of them that we associate with let everyone in one of these support groups know that the patient scheduling system had been affected by the Anonymous operation, and so she was unable to schedule her son's surgery. Boston Children's needs to keep their clinical systems more protected, but the bottom line is that Anonymous is filled with grade-A assholes.
Obviously not, but from the 1930-to-1955 period had between eighty and 100 million dead. Relatively speaking, things are safer.
If you're suggesting that a single assassination was the reason for starting it, you may wish to go read some more about it. The major players had been itching for a fight for decades. It was essentially an attempt to resolve differences left from the Prussian wars of the 1860s-1870s, which set the stage for 120 years of a crapsack continent.
Why not? Lasseter (who DID the technical work) credited him with making Pixar what it was. Without Jobs, they'd still be doing contract work and/or shorts. In fact, Jobs was the one who said it was OK to produce shorts. More than likely, they would have been out of business.
Boeing is now the owner of North American. Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged to form Lockheed Martin. Morton Thiokol is now part of Alliant Techsystems (ATK.) The players are the same, but the head offices and business cards are different.
1. Mulally is a competent CEO. The jury is still out on Apotheker. 2. Mulally actually knows how to design and build planes. He led the project to build the Boeing 777, which is a high-margin product that kept cash coming in during Boeing's last decade, which has been rough for other reasons.
To be sure, both examples you cited have long-since jettisoned their automotive divisions. "Rolls-Royce" is really BMW (Rolls-Royce wound up with BMW's aircraft engine division) and Volvo is in the hands of Geely, one of the ruthless photocopying Chinese firms.
I guess those Jeopardy-playing robots don't count as research? That's just an example, but you know and I know that IBM has a strong research arm (including important basic research) that HP lacks. Indeed, IBM's research arm is world-class.
Here is an interview with Bill Warren on The Roe & Roeper radio show on Chicago's WLS-AM station. http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=2213142&spid=37724 If you want to skip past the B.S., just listen to to the last four minutes where a professional salvage operator completely shows him up.
Well, there are other projects that were "canceled" and then resurrected as black projects. The Dark Star UAV is one example. Canceled about a decade ago and it has reportedly been seen in combat since then.
It should be noted that Scaled Composites has been a unit of Northrop Grumman for a couple of years now. With Burt Rutan retiring, it will become more under NGC control. However, NGC does not have a regular rocket launch unit as Boeing and Lockheed does, so there's no reason that NGC will not continue allowing Scaled Composites to prosper.
Yes, a Corvette would be hard-pressed to do anything worthwhile once it leaves the pavement. Or were you trying to be insulting?
OLED will be the solution to this problem.
You refer to "standard VGA output" like it's a good thing.
I believe the intention is that, in time, everyone will use DisplayPort and it will be moot. Certainly, Apple is not the first manufacturer to head in this direction. The transition has to start somewhere.
Do you understand that DisplayPort is capable of more than DVI? I believe it surpasses HDMI as well. Furthermore, /.-ers should be overjoyed at a connector that is royalty/license-free.
I guarantee you that studios will pick up a Mac if it means developing for the platform. You're thinking from the standpoint of a closed-minded PC bigot. Developers spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on gaming console development platforms. This one just happens to be a Mac.
That's some good crack you've got there, buddy. What exactly is Apple's incentive to run Android? You want it, but they don't (and neither do most people.)
The other facet to this is Verizon Wireless themselves are bailing from CDMA and going with GSM-based technologies. Why develop a CDMA version when the bulk of your market will be GSM-based in a couple of years?
Did Ti Kan get a stake in Gracenote when they bought CDDB? Hope he made out well on the deal, since he was the genesis for the whole thing.