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Various versions of Android-powered televisions have tried to carve out a niche for themselves independent of the Google TV scene and had a rough time of it. A new line of HDTVs from HCI suggests that maybe the other products just weren?t tapping the right market.
In an announcement posted on the company?s website, HCI outlined plans to deliver its Android-powered Roommate III televisions to hospital rooms and healthcare facilities. The wall-mounted LCD HDTVs will offer patients and facility staff a host of Android apps, as well as web-browsing functions, a whiteboard application, and a long list of other features.
The Roommate III TVs operate on an unspecified version of Android, and will feature 22- to 42-inch screens.
?We have scored another ?first in the world,?? said HCI CEO Rick Pratt in the company?s announcement. ?Android connectivity will provide hospital patients, visitors and staff with a built-in browser, Education and Movies on demand, Apps of all varieties, not to mention unparalleled reliability. This is truly the most advanced, most complete, Hospital grade television on the planet.?
There???s no indication of which hospitals will be the first to offer the TVs.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) ? The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor requested an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister on Friday as part of its investigation into atrocities in the Darfur conflict.
The ICC has already issued arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of orchestrating genocide in Darfur, as well as for a former minister of state for the interior and a militia leader, all of whom remain at large and in the case of Bashir, free to travel widely.
Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein is one of several senior officials Human Rights Watch had asked the Hague-based war crimes court to investigate over a conflict during which hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been killed and millions displaced.
Khartoum has given much lower casualty estimates.
Hussein is one of Bashir's closest allies and is leading the campaign against rebels in the southern border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Hussein was wanted for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur from August 2003 to March 2004. At the time, he was interior minister and the president's special representative in Darfur.
The prosecutor said that the crimes took place during attacks following "a common pattern" on several towns and villages in West Darfur.
"The government of the Sudan forces surrounded the villages, the air force dropped bombs indiscriminately and foot soldiers, including militia/Janjaweed, killed, raped and looted the entire village, forcing the displacement of 4 million inhabitants," he said in a statement.
The ICC has been frustrated in its efforts to secure Bashir's arrest, in part because it does not have its own police force and has to rely on member states to enforce warrants.
Bashir denies the charges and refuses to recognize the international court. He has continued to travel freely to nearby Middle Eastern and African allies, and as far afield as China.
He visited the southern African state of Malawi in October for a regional trade summit, prompting the ICC to demand an explanation from Malawi, given that it is an ICC member state and therefore obliged to co-operate with the court.
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RICHMOND, Va. ? Two formerly conjoined toddlers from the Dominican Republic have left a Richmond hospital after recovering from separation surgery, and doctors predict they'll be ready to go home by Christmas.
Maria and Teresa Tapia left Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University on Friday. At a news conference before their departure, the girls clapped and waved and one kissed the lead doctor on their surgical team, Dr. David Lanning.
"I thank God and everyone who made this possible," the girls' mother, Lisandra Sanatis, said through a translator.
The 20-month-old twins were attached at the lower chest and underwent complicated, nearly daylong surgery on Nov. 7. In a series of procedures, the surgical team divided the twins' liver, pancreas and other shared organ systems and reconstructed their abdominal walls.
While they're getting accustomed to exploring their surroundings separately, they still stay near each other and hold hands when they walk.
Lanning said Friday that both children have been recovering well, and doctors don't expect them to require any long-term medical treatment, except possible minor surgery to construct belly buttons.
"Overall, I don't think we could have asked for a better outcome," he said at Friday's news conference.
They'll lead healthy, long lives, with the ability to "be together but make independent decisions."
Maria, the smaller of the two, weighs about 19 pounds, and Teresa weighs about 26 pounds. Lanning expects the disparity in their weight, caused by the configuration of their small intestines and blood flow from the liver, to gradually even out.
Maria's pancreas is slow to produce digestive enzymes, but she is taking replacement enzymes, and doctors are monitoring her colon function. Teresa is undergoing treatment on the incision where the girls were separated, Lanning said.
Doctors, nurses, volunteers and others who cared for them gave the girls and their mother and aunt a warm send-off from the hospital Friday afternoon. Lanning pushed a new double stroller to the van that took the family to a nearby residence for patients and their families.
The girls will stay in Richmond for follow-up medical visits and outpatient therapy to continue working on walking and other motor skills now that they're no longer attached. Lanning said they're on track to return to their native country by Christmas.
After being in Richmond for several months now, Sanatis said she and her daughters have grown fond of everyone they've met. But they're more than ready to go home and reunite with the twins' father and three other siblings.
The twins have become celebrities in the Dominican Republic, with supporters including the country's first lady, Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez, who visited Richmond on the day of the surgery.
The World Pediatric Project, a nonprofit surgical-care provider for children in Central America and the Caribbean, sponsored the toddlers' medical care, along with the family's stay in the United States. Lanning has been a surgical volunteer with the group for several years.
About a half-dozen separation surgeries are done in the U.S. annually, and maybe double that number worldwide.
Conjoined twins account for between 1 in 50,000 and 1 in 100,000 live births worldwide. The condition is three times more likely to occur among females than males. A third of conjoined twins are attached at the lower chest, as in the case of the Tapia twins.
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Online:
Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU: http://www.childrenshosp-richmond.org/CMS/index.php
World Pediatric Project: http://www.worldpediatricproject.org/
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ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT?? The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday strongly rejected accusations from Pakistan that NATO deliberately killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last weekend.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Reuters that he was trying to discuss the incident with Pakistan behind closed doors.
"Candidly we don't want to try to resolve this issue through the media. No offense," he said in a wide-ranging interview, which also touched on Iran and Israel, as he flew back to Washington after a trip to London.
"The one thing I will say publicly and categorically is that this was not a deliberate attack."
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In comments widely published in Pakistani media on Wednesday, Pakistan's director general of military operations, Major General Ishfaq Nadeem, described the NATO cross-border attack as a deliberate, blatant act of aggression.
U.S.-Pakistan relations, a new 'all-time low'?Nadeem said NATO forces were alerted they were attacking Pakistani posts but helicopters kept firing.
"It was impossible that they did not know these to be our posts," The News quoted Nadeem as saying at an editors' briefing held at army headquarters on Tuesday.
Dempsey declined to discuss details of the U.S. military's review into the incident, but questioned Nadeem's logic.
"What in the world would we gain by attacking a Pakistan border post?" Dempsey asked.
Nadeem said the NATO helicopters appeared near the post around 15 to 20 minutes past midnight, opened fire, then left about 45 minutes later. They reappeared at 0115 local time and attacked again for another hour.
Dempsey said the military was poring over its own data from the incident.
"We're in the process of reviewing radio traffic, gun tapes, all of the things that an investigation has to consider before I can really make any statement about the duration," Dempsey said.
"But I can say, categorically, it was not a deliberate attack."
Ties strained
The incident has plunged U.S.-Pakistan ties into crisis and threatens to set back peace efforts in neighboring Afghanistan, where the United States is gradually withdrawing troops after a decade of war.
Pakistan has pulled out of an international conference in Germany next week on Afghanistan's future. It has also blocked ground supply routes through Pakistan to U.S. forces in Afghanistan and ordered the United States to vacate a remote air base in Pakistan used for drone flights.
Without acknowledging the use of drones at the Shamsi Air Base, Dempsey confirmed a report by Reuters on Tuesday that preparations were already underway to leave the facility.
Pakistan releases 1st pics of attacked border posts"We've been told to leave so we have to prepare to leave. And you know, we're doing the calculations on what the airlift (will need to be) to take the equipment out of there," he said.
Dempsey played down the operational impact of the moves during his trip to London this week, saying the U.S. military had tactical alternatives.
"What I'm really concerned about is the deterioration of the relationship with Pakistan long-term, not its immediate effect on any tactical actions," Dempsey said.
Perspectives differ on Iran
Demspey, addressing Iran's nuclear program, said he did not know whether Israel would alert the United States ahead of time if it decided to take military action against Iran.
He also acknowledged differences in perspective between the United States and Israel over the best way to handle Iran and its nuclear program.
He said the United States was convinced that sanctions and diplomatic pressure was the right path to take on Iran, along with "the stated intent not to take any options off the table" - language that leaves open the possibility of future military action.
"I'm not sure the Israelis share our assessment of that. And because they don't and because to them this is an existential threat, I think probably that it's fair to say that our expectations are different right now," Dempsey said in an interview as he flew to Washington from London.
Asked whether he was talking about the differences between Israeli and U.S. expectations over sanctions, or differences in perspective about the future course of events, Dempsey said: "All of the above." He did not elaborate.
He also did not disclose whether he believed Israel was prepared to strike Iran.
Iran is facing new sanctions after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported earlier in November that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing a bomb and may still be conducting secret research to that end.
Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful.
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