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I became an Oddworld fan when I first played Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 1997 and joined the Oddworld Forums in 2000. I started Oddworld Library in 2003 but it wasn't officially launched until 2006. In 2010 I started doing work for Just Add Water, and joined the company the following year.
More than a year after it was originally conducted, Oddworld Forums administrator Nathan's second interview with Lorne Lanning has finally been published by OddBlog. After much delay, the answers to many fan questions are finally answered by the creator of Oddworld.
In this lengthy interview, Lorne explains the rationale behind his Xmobb project, the reason for the change in the Mudokon Pops logo, why Munch's Oddysee was so cartoony compared to the earlier Abe titles, how his vision of Oddworld has changed over time, the history of the Mudokon people, and reveals the true nature of Khanzumerz, Gloktigi, Stranger's bounty can, and the planet Oddworld itself.
The boat has really passed on that one. We're winding up development on Stranger's Wrath HD and Munch's Oddysee HD. Blame Microsoft for not letting us publish on Xbox 360.
The boat has really passed on Microsoft publishing it. We're talking to third party publishers about publishing Stranger's Wrath HD on Xbox 360.
Just Add Water will be present at GameCity6 in Nottingham, UK, next week to demonstrate and talk about the work they've put in to Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD. Members of the public will also be able to play the remastered game for the very first time. At 10pm BST on Thursday 27 October, Stewart Gilray will talk to and answer questions from an audience at Antenna, Beck Street. The following day, from 10am to 5pm, members of the public will be able to play Stranger's Wrath HD on Old Market Square. Participation in both events is free. GameCity has a long history of cooperation with Oddworld. Lorne Lanning delivered the keynote speech at the inaugural GameCity in 2006, which included his announcing Citizen Siege, and designed the label for GameCity 3's limited edition brew, Fine Ale Fantasy. Stewart more recently spoke to the audience at GameCityNights Season 2 Episode 4, while Lorne was interviewed by Iain Simons via Skype from Oddworld HQ in Berkeley, CA.
The PlayStation Blog has released the debut trailer of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD for the PS3, with the video hosted by the official Oddworld Inhabitants YouTube channel. The trailer reuses Michael Bross's 'Attract' music from the game's original trailer and attract mode video, and emulates several original elements in high definition, but is a minute longer in length. The video has been posted on the walls of the Oddworld Inhabitants, Just Add Water and PlayStation Facebook Pages, and has been shared almost a hundred times in an hour and a half. Stranger's Wrath HD as well as Munch's Oddysee HD will be available on PlayStation 3 later this year via PlayStation Network to complete the Oddboxx on PSN, and will later be released on PC and PlayStation Vita. Oddworld Inhabitants are still talking with Microsoft but have not confirmed an Xbox 360 release.
Just Add Water has announced that three Oddworld titles will be released on the PlayStation Vita, the successor to the PlayStation Portable formerly known as the Next Generation Portable (or NGP). Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath will be released on the PSVita this holiday season. The developer tweeted and posted on Facebook immediately after Sony's press conference at E3, which demonstrated the PSVita and its ability to synchronize save games between it and the PS3, allowing players to continue their progress on either device. This feature will be enabled for both Oddworld titles.
The developer also confirmed that Abe HD will appear on Vita in the future. What's more, since Vita is backward compatible with downloadable PSP games, it will also play Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus . Discuss this story on the Oddworld Forums. Update: Speaking to Eurogamer, Stewart Gilray added that these ports will make use of Vita's touchscreen.
"In a way that allows the player to play the same game as a full console title or as a handheld title. It's also allowed us to improve on the design in terms of being able to affect things directly." Elaborating on this, he added as an example: "Abe can pickup a fellow Mudokon by simply tapping the screen, and other gesture-based input".
A recent update to Oddworld.com's list of online stockists has revealed that Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath are now available to purchase on both the Stardock and Amazon digital distribution services. Amazon Game Downloads (which is available only to those in the US) currently does not list The Oddboxx bundle, and still has the old prices (twice as much as the current prices on other services).


Peter Lamont is an award-winning magician, pseudo-psychic, historian, parapsychologist, and Arts and Humanities Research Board research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
A former president of the Edinburgh Magic Circle, Dr Lamont's doctoral thesis, Magic and Miracles in Victorian Britain, a study of Victorian views about séance in relation to contemporary views about similar feats, such as conjuring tricks, Biblical miracles, and Indian juggling, won him the Jeremy Dalziel prize in British history.
His second book, The Rise and Fall of the Indian Rope Trick, unravels the mystery of the legendary Indian illusion. In shattering some of the strongly believed myths associated with it, Dr Lamont says the legend owes its origin not to a performance, not to India, not to a magician, not even to a rope... but to a hoax article published by the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1895!
Much of your research seems to be centred on magic and psychic phenomena. Does this interest come from being a magician?
Yes. I started looking at it as a magician, as you have an insight into basic psychology, and into how psychic phenomena can be faked. And I would like to acknowledge that it is very difficult to affect evidence. Even in history, if you read the old accounts of psychic phenomena, you need to know how magicians performed tricks at that time.
To know that psychics might be able to fake psychic phenomena at that time, it requires knowledge of the secrets of magicians and the secrets of psychics over a long period of time.
Can you tell us something about your current project? Is that also related to magic?
Yes. My current work deals with the relationship between performance magic and concepts of real magic, real psychic phenomena: how can you perform an effect, which is actually a trick, but looks psychic? How can you convince people that it is really psychic? How can you identify the various influences, which affect how people encounter something that they cannot explain?
I began as a magician, then I became a historian, and then I began to work in parapsychology. I did research into the psychology of magic, psychic phenomena, and psychic frauds: how you can fake psychic phenomena? My work is primarily history and psychology of magic and the paranormal.
Basically there's no difference between a magic trick and psychic phenomena. They are both physical events for which the audience has no explanation. But some people will see an effect they can't explain as a magic trick; some people will think that as paranormal.
I am interested in why it is that people interpret these in different ways. As a performer you can affect how people interpret what you do. Over a long period of time, what has changed to what it is now; why is it different culturally? Why is it different in India, from that of Britain? In particular, why is it that people in the West may view inexplicable mysteries in the East in a different way than they would respond to the same thing at home? With the notion of the mystic East that West has, the people in the West may find an inexplicable mystery in India somehow more impressive, more mysterious, more mystical than a similar mystery at home, because India has this air of mystery to people from the West.
What were your initial projects like? Were they always related to magic?
No. First I had nothing to do with magic. First it was economic and social history, primarily social history and its influence on notions of national identity. A fascinating area: how people construct notions of themselves in relation to the nation. Of course in India, this is a huge issue. But not just India, everywhere.
In Scotland, where I come from, the people's notion of being Scottish comes from their knowledge of history, and most people's notion of national identity comes [from history]. It is something that matters to me. It matters to every country in the world. In Scotland, it is more political than perhaps in India... Perhaps parts of the Middle East and African states. But I think the same rules apply, that you believe you are Scottish or Indian in relation to what you are not. For example, if you are Scottish you are not English. That's the first thing you come across.
But magic became a main subject, because I feel I know more about the aspects of magic, and other people don't. And there's nobody else looking at it. They perhaps didn't have the ideas, the knowledge you get from being a magician. It is a very interesting subject area, as it deals with notions of facts, notions of vulgarity, notions of superstitions, rationality, scientificity and its relation to India, the notions of Orientalism, and how the Orient is viewed by the West.
How do you see yourself? As a magician, historian, or parapsychologist?
I would say I am a historian who has interest in certain types of psychology. And I was a magician, and I now use that knowledge to incorporate into academic areas.
From studying notions of ideology, how did you start studying the history of magic?
It depends on the history that interests me. I have liked certain bits of history like political history and socio-cultural history, but have liked all of psychological history: how people think, how people view the world, how people's thoughts are used to view the world. Not the physical and vertical world, but their ideas of what is possible, what they might be.
And magic is a way of getting at how people imagine their own world, and part of the world that's not their own. In a sense, getting into the mindsets of people of the past is a way of understanding how they think today. For example, the idea that as you became more modern, you became more scientific and rational; and the idea of magic and miracles defying the normal explanation.
But I think if you look at history, every period, every culture, believes in some sort of magic, some sort of miraculous events. But they see it in different forms. These used to be magic, then mesmeric, then it was psychic, then it was paranormal.
So miraculous events are always being reported, are always being believed in, but they are called different things, and in different numbers by people in the past.


I never really took much interest in mosaic art work until we saw amazing work in Italy. Slowly, I've not only begun learning and enjoying it more, but I've begun doing some stained glass mosaic on my own. None of these are my works, but they inspire me.
Theres a mosaic stained glass artist in nearby Taos, across the street from The Taos Inn, very very near the Plaza. You've gotta go. I enjoy her work. She's great about letting me watch her and learn on Saturday mornings.
Obviously she makes it look easier than it is. But the first step is just that, a first step. One begins by trying.
Look at this: it's not glass, rather, an acrylic, titled Taos Valley as seen right across the street from my glass mosaic friend's studio. Wouldn't this be an amazing glass mosaic? Wow.
And what about that very top piece in this post? Albuquerque Botanical Garden, the Children's Garden. It's massive, an outdoor wall mural. That light colored grout works well with it, huh? Check out a bench near by the mural. Yup, mosaic. Tiles, not glass. But still, pretty cool, huh?
And then there's ceiling dome piece I saw recently at the St. Louis Botanical Garden.
Its not mosiac, but rather a dome paining of a real, larger mosaic dome in the one time world-power Ottoman Empire. Can you imagine the real thing, done in tiny tile pieces?
I saw some amazing pieces on a recent visit to St. Louis.
Me too, at the Gardens. Where else was there? Crud, I missed them.


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'Catfish'? Lindsay Lohan's mum to marry stranger after five-year phone 'relationship'
Lindsay Lohan, left, and her mum Dina Lohan. Photo / Getty Images
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host Nev Schulman has offered up his services to Lindsay Lohan's mum Dina, after she revealed she's planning to marry a man she has never met.
56-year-old Dina is confident she will wed her "special someone", who lives in San Francisco and takes care of his mother, after speaking to him "every day" for five years, but she has never chatted to him on FaceTime because he doesn't use the video calling app.
Speaking to Kandi Burruss, Tamar Braxton, and Natalie Eva Marie on the US version of 'Celebrity Big Brother', she said: "I can't wait to tell you about this guy. I've been talking to him for five years. Like, every day. A lot. I feel like I know him.
"You know when you talk to someone on the phone, like you feel like you know them? It's personal. He's real. I swear, it's crazy. But I'm going to marry him. It's really, really true. I talk to his ma."
And while Dina's CBB housemates Kandi, Tamar and Natalie are concerned she is being catfished - which sees someone create a fictional online persona to lure another person into a relationship - she insists her man just doesn't have a phone suitable for video calling.
She added: "It's real. Some guys don't just use iPhones."
Schulman's TV series Catfish tracks down online daters and brings them face to face to expose their fake personas.
So after seeing the news online, Schulman - whose TV series specialises in investigating catfishing cases - posted the story on Twitter with the caption: "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. Let's do this!"
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. Let's do this! https://t.co/USrGmMf4qO
— Nev Schulman (@NevSchulman) February 8, 2019
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In September, Dina - who was married to Lindsay's dad Michael Lohan from 1985 until 2007, when their divorce was settled - reportedly filed for bankruptcy and was said to be more than $1.5 million in debt, with more than $1 million owed to PennyMac Loan Services.
-Bang! Showbiz

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Dog Dies After Being Treated With Gabapentin, Exposing Flaws In the Divide Between Human and Animal Drugs
When Ronda Archangelo's dog Mimi died after being treated with a gabapentin solution that contained xylitol, she wondered how such a tragic mistake could have happened. When she asked her veterinarian for answers, it became clear that her veterinarian was unaware that the gabapentin solution she prescribed for Mimi's seizure disorder had xylitol in it. And the more seizures Mimi had, the more gabapentin was she was told to give her. It wasn't until later that she discovered that one of the symptoms of xylitol toxicity in dogs is seizures.
Still, Ms. Archangelo wondered how a prescription with xylitol could have been filled when the pharmacists knew the prescription was ordered by a veterinarian, and the drug was for a dog. She asked Walgreens, the pharmacy that filled the fatal prescription if there was some kind of retail prescription software alert system to prevent these kinds of errors from happening. They told her there wasn't. Then she asked if their pharmacists had access to a veterinary drug reference or a veterinary drug formulary, one which would have provided their pharmacists with the information that human gabapentin products can contain xylitol. They told her they didn't have one.
And then they told her they did.
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy's Model Pharmacy Act/Rules states that "each pharmacy shall have ready access to references, to include at least one current reference […] such as Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook." But not every state requires that a pharmacy must have a veterinary drug reference on hand.
The American Veterinary Medical Association said the Act/Rule "is a model for the states, and ultimately, it is up to each state to determine the requirements for resident pharmacists." So, depending on which state you live in, your pharmacist may or may not be using a veterinary drug reference.
And if they are, it's just possible that they're using the wrong one.
WALGREENS & THE WRONG VETERINARY MANUAL
When Ms. Archangelo contacted her local Walgreens, they told her they didn't have a veterinary drug reference manual on hand to verify if they were dispensing a human medication with dangerous side effects on animals.
However, when Walgreens corporate offices spoke to her, they reassured her that all their pharmacists have access to Merck's Veterinary Manual online. Truthfully, anyone can have access to the Manual online. But, unfortunately, what Walgreen's corporate didn't realize is that had Ms. Archangelo's pharmacist referenced the Manual, it wouldn't have saved Mimi's life because there is a mistake in it. A big one.
THE MISTAKE(S) IN THE MERCK VETERINARY MANUAL
The Manual wouldn't have helped Walgreens' pharmacists, because there is no warning that liquid solutions of gabapentin contain xylitol. The information regarding gabapentin in the Manual reads:
This synthetic analogue of the inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-amino butyric acid (GABA) inhibits seizure activity via multiple mechanisms, […] Higher dosages (30–60 mg/kg, PO, tid-qid) may be necessary but can produce sedation and ataxia. If excessive sedation occurs, a lower dose should be used initially and gradually increased. Therapeutic monitoring is not usually necessary with this drug. No drug interactions have been reported.*
(*The FDA has warned of serious respiratory problems with the use of gabapentin. "Animal studies have shown that gabapentinoids can cause respiratory depression alone and in combination with opioids," a message the Manual failed to include.)
In a table from the Manual for gabapentin's use in dogs, there should be a warning of the risk of hepatic injury and/or failure and death with liquid solutions that contain xylitol, but there isn't.
Drug Dosage/Frequency Half-life Time to Steady State Therapeutic Level Adverse Effects/Comments
Gabapentin Dogs: 10 mg/kg, PO, tid; up to 30–60 mg/kg, tid 3–4 hr <24> 4–16 mg/La (70–120 μmol/L) Sedation, dizziness, ataxia, fatigue, diarrhea, reduce dose with renal dysfunction.
Yet, the Merck Veterinary Manual warns, explicitly, about the dangers of xylitol, that the ingestion of xylitol can result in the development of hepatic injury and/or failure, and that "dogs with signs of liver injury died or were euthanized despite aggressive veterinary intervention." Despite this, the editors of the Manual categorize xylitol only as a potential Food Hazard without realizing that it would be useful to list it as a Toxicity from Human Drugs as well.
However, after hearing of the story, Micheal Moses, the Executive Editor of Merck's Veterinary Manual, wrote and said, "We will be adjusting our content soon to address this issue." When the topic is updated, it will be listed on their home page and their various social media channels.
A PHARMACISTS BURDEN
While it's possible for a pharmacist to have an encyclopedic knowledge of every pharmaceutical drug known to man, it is unlikely. And yet, pharmacists who fill prescriptions for animal patients, are expected to do just that if their pharmacy does not have a veterinary drug reference on hand.
Or worse, the only drug reference they have on hand is the Merck Veterinary Manual.
And as more and more pet parents get their pet's medication at places other than their veterinarian's offices, they rely on pharmacists who, because of overwork and increased pressure to perform, are making mistakes – and a lot more often than anyone ever knew. An explosive investigation by the New York Times about pharmacies describes an industry in chaos.
A DRUG MAKERS PROMISE
Yet, amid the chaos and heartache, Acella Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the gabapentin solution product that was given to Mimi, is pledging to work with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the company to revise the labeling of its gabapentin solution. After hearing about Mimi's death, Harold Deas, Jr., the Chief Executive Officer of Acella, wrote to Ms. Archangelo expressing his deep sorrow that her dog died as a result of a drug his company manufactured. Mr. Deas explained that their label is approved by the FDA for use in humans only. But, he's made a promise to try to change that.
"We are not permitted by the FDA to unilaterally change our label without their permission. However, as dog lovers ourselves, we at Acella do not want to see anther dog be given our liquid Gabapentin product due to a mistake by a veterinarian or pharmacist. While we cannot be sure that the FDA will allow the change, we will ask the FDA to permit us to add a warning to our product label to note that our product contains xylitol and should not be administered to dogs. This process will take time, but if it will help prevent these types of mistakes in the future, it is certainly worth the effort on our end."
If the FDA approves of Acella's request to include a warning that a drug intended for humans might pose a risk to dogs because it contains xylitol is a move that could pave the way for other pharmaceutical companies to have a warning on a human drug label that their product contains xylitol and should not be administered to dogs.
HUMAN DRUGS v. ANIMAL DRUGS
One of the main reasons why fewer drugs exist in veterinary medicine is that FDA's new drug approval process is very costly and time consuming for pharmaceutical companies, with little return on investment for animal drug products when compared to the return on investment associated with human drug products, creating a relative disincentive for companies to put resources toward creating new veterinary drugs.
It is for this reason that veterinarians often dip into the vast pool of drugs developed and approved for use in humans. Under the extralabel drug use provisions, veterinarians are allowed – under certain circumstances – to treat animal disease with FDA-approved drugs intended for humans. Unfortunately, in Mimi's case, her veterinarian was not aware that the liquid solution of gabapentin she prescribed for her was sweetened with xylitol.
THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK
A search in the U. S. National Library of Medicine's drug database, it found 427 gabapentin drugs, but not one of them is approved for use in animals, and of them, only six are in a liquid form. And of those, only one of them does not contain xylitol. They are, as listed:
Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC gabapentin oral solution contains xylitol as an inactive ingredient (Updated November 6, 2019);
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC gabapentin oral solution does not contain xylitol (updated December 27, 2019);
Atlantic Biologicals Corp. gabapentin oral solution contains xylitol as an inactive ingredient (updated February 20, 2020);
Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. gabapentin oral solution contains xylitol as an inactive ingredient (updated March 9, 2018);
Lohxa gabapentin oral solution contains xylitol as an inactive ingredient (updated December 19, 2019);
Parke-Davis Div of Pfizer Inc. gabapentin oral solution contains xylitol as an inactive ingredient (updated January 16, 2020).
THE REGULATORY QUAGMIRE
One of the most alarming problems is that when something goes wrong is sometimes reports aren't made. And when they are drugmakers are not required to report an adverse event if it involves a human drug that was used to treat an animal. And veterinarians are not required to report adverse events with animal or human drugs to the drugmaker or the FDA.
Yet, should a drug maker receive a report from a healthcare professional or consumer about an adverse event involving a human patient that was administered a human drug, the company is required to send the report to the FDA as specified by regulations 21 CFR 314.80.
Likewise, if manufacturers of FDA-approved animal drugs receive adverse event reports from a veterinarian or a pet parent, the manufacturer is required to comply with the regulations in 21 CFR 514.80 for reporting of all serious, unexpected adverse experiences to the FDA/CVM.
But, if veterinarians are reluctant to come forward and pet parents aren't aware that they should tell drugmakers and the FDA if their pet has suffered because of a drug a veterinarian prescribed, then it leaves a gap, a divide where terrible things happen, and nobody knows about it. Where deaths, like Mimi's, slip under the radar.
Considering this incomprehensible regulatory quagmire, it explains why a spokeswoman for the CVM said Ms. Archangelo's report about Mimi's death was the only report the agency has ever received regarding gabapentin and xylitol toxicity. "That said, we believe that adverse events are underreported as a whole, in both food and drugs."
LIFE ALTERING CHANGES
Yet, with just one report to the FDA, the one Ms. Archangelo made regarding Mimi's death, the agency has promised to update their webpage, Paws Off Xylitol; It's Dangerous for Dogs, and their video, Xylitol and Dogs, A Deadly Combination, to include the risk of xylitol in human medications. And Acella Pharmaceuticals is going to ask the FDA to permit them to add a warning to their product label to note that their product contains xylitol and should not be administered to dogs. And the Executive Editor of the Merck Veterinary Manual has promised to update their publication and their online content to include the danger that liquid gabapentin could pose if formulated using xylitol.
These are enormous steps, changes that will affect the lives of dogs and pet parents for years to come. But, sadly, it took the death of a precious and beloved dog named Mimi to affect these changes and bring nationwide attention to a devastating problem within the government, the veterinary, and the pharmaceutical industries.
CRITICAL INFORMATION LACKING
The FDA/CVM encourages animal owners to voluntarily report adverse drug experiences and product defects associated with – including human – drugs administered to animals. The reason is obvious: Voluntary reporting can help FDA identify unknown risks for approved medical products. Reported adverse drug experiences to the FDA/CVM is the primary means by which they obtain information regarding potential problems with the safety and efficacy of drugs as well as potential product/manufacturing problems. And without reports from veterinarians and pet parents, the agency can do little to protect pets.
HOW TO MAKE A REPORT TO THE FDA
Therefore, if you have a problem with an animal drug or a human drug that was prescribed by your vet, you should submit FORM FDA 1932a, "Veterinary Adverse Experience, Lack of Effectiveness or Product Defect Report." You can use this form to report adverse drug experiences for any animal drug (approved or not approved by the FDA) or animal device. Unapproved animal drugs include compounded drug products and human drugs prescribed by veterinarians.
Or reporting can be done through the FDA's online reporting portal. (Note that submissions for animal drug products through MedWatch will be accepted and directed to the correct center or office.) For directions and advice on how to report an animal drug side effects and product, problems are available on the FDA website, where you can find out more about reporting adverse drug experiences for animal drugs, including human drugs (approved or not approved by the FDA). Unapproved animal drugs include compounded drug products and human drugs. And if you have any questions about adverse drug event reporting, you can write to the CVM by email at AskCVM@fda.hhs.gov, or by calling them at 1-888-FDA-VETS (1-888-332-8387).
How a Lethal Ingredient in Human Medicine Prescribed by Vets Is Poisoning and Killing Dogs (Poisoned Pets)
How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk (NYT)
Pharmacists Make Mistakes. You Can Protect Yourself. (NYT)
Paws Off Xylitol; It's Dangerous for Dogs (FDA)
Xylitol and Dogs, A Deadly Combination (FDA)
How to Report Animal Drug Side Effects and Product Problems (FDA)
Veterinary Adverse Event Reporting for Manufacturers (FDA)
Veterinary Medication Errors (FDA)
NOTE: This article is a continuation of an earlier story How a Lethal Ingredient in Human Medicine Prescribed by Vets Is Poisoning and Killing Dogs.
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A Code for Patient Safety
Rich Hollander of Pfizer explains how the fairly simple inclusion of barcodes on unit-dose blister packs can reduce medication errors significantly.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently developing an industry standard for the barcoding of pharmaceuticals. However, barcoding of these products has already been initiated in the market. Pfizer is a company that takes a holistic, customer-led approach to this issue and is barcoding its products because it believes that its customers, the hospital dispensaries, will find this increasingly useful.
The company is well ahead of many of the scanning and stock management systems its hospital customers have. A large number of its customers still have to set up the scanning and data management systems to manage the information that can be produced. Most hospital dispensaries still rely, primarily, on the human eye to scan pharmaceutical packs. So, why do the customers want barcodes?
'The most important reason is to help improve patient safety,' says Rich Hollander, senior director of packaging services at Pfizer, 'but there are also secondary, stock control reasons.'
Dispensing errors
Around the year 2000, various factors came together and resulted in an increasing focus on dispensing errors. For example, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report 'To err is human: building a safer health system' was published.
One much-quoted study in the report claims that in the USA, 44,000 deaths a year are caused by medical errors. Another study puts the figure to 98,000 deaths a year. Even using the lower figure means that in the USA, more people die each year from medical errors, than from AIDS, breast cancer or road accidents.
The statistics also show that there has been a three-fold increase in death rates between 1983 and 1993. The expectation is that there will be a ten-fold increase in death rates as the shortage in healthcare professionals starts to bite.
A Harvard study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that almost half the medical errors discovered in the USA each year (48 per cent) were due to surgical errors. The second most common type of medical error (19 per cent) was medication mistakes. This is where barcoding can make a contribution.
Of course, dispensing errors do not always lead to death. The research shows that barcoding should help to prevent 400,000 bad drug reactions – which can range from headaches to death – over the next 20 years. Barcoding should reduce dispensing errors in hospital pharmacies by almost two-thirds (64 per cent).
In the second quarter of 2001, the National Coordinating Council for Medical Error Reporting and Prevention (NCCMERP) issued a white paper on barcoding for single-dose blister packs. It recommended that the barcode be used for the National Drug Code (NDC), the lot number and the expiry date. It is not yet clear whether the FDA will use the recommendations in this form or will modify them, but a ruling from the FDA is imminent.
'What was interesting about the NCCMERP suggestion was that for the first time, lot number and expiry dates were specifically mentioned,' says Hollander. 'Expiry dates are particularly important because hospital pharmacies manage stocks that they issue to wards; often, stock comes back to them, so they need to know its shelf life. Barcoding would help them manage their stocks better.'
By the end of 2001, the FDA and the United States Department of Health and Human Services were suggesting that all three data elements – NDC, lot number and expiry dates – should be used in the barcodes on unit of use and dose packs.
A research project
What Pfizer is doing, essentially, is extending what it has been doing for more than ten years for its products for the retail market. Since 1992, the company has been barcoding all its retail product packages – a move that was driven by wholesalers, rather than retailers. The wholesalers wanted new and better ways to monitor and control their stocks.
'For our pharmaceutical business, we started – again prompted by wholesalers, in the form of the Healthcare Distribution Management Association – to put the NDC in barcode format on shipping containers,' says Hollander. 'We added case quantity, lot number and expiry date. But this was on cases, not on individual doses.'
By 1996, Pfizer had almost completed the programme. But it was only after the publishing of the IOM report in 1999 that the company's CEO, Bill Steere, initiated a research project on the use of barcoding on unit-dose blister packs.
Presentation and production
The Pfizer team had to find out in more detail what hospitals wanted. How should the information be presented – in linear, 2D or some other format? What information do hospitals want to find in the barcode? Do they want the existing NDC, which is used for retail products; a new NDC; or the Global Trade Identification Number (GTIN)?
'The answers we got back towards the end of 2000 indicated that we should produce larger cards to contain the information,' says Hollander. 'But this would have significant cost implications for us, since we would have to retool and reduce our throughput.'
So, apart from contributing to the definition of an industry standard for barcoding, Pfizer also wants to mitigate increases in the production costs by minimising the capital investment and the impact that the changes will have on its throughput. The company is also aware that in 93 per cent of US hospitals, there is a lack of scanning equipment to read the data elements in the barcode.
'Since this information is still monitored by humans,' says Hollander, 'it has to exist both in human-readable format and as machine-readable barcodes. We decided that the barcode would have to be readable by conventional barcode readers and that the print quality of the barcode had to meet the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards of C or better.'
In the third quarter of 2001, Pfizer presented its solutions. It chose a Reduced Space Symbology Composite Component (RSS/CC) designed by the Uniform Code Council. The RSS14 with composite code was chosen, and it was designed to include the GTIN. There are arguments for the use of true 2D codes, which can contain more information, but the hardware required for 2D barcodes would have had a more significant cost impact on hospitals than the use of RSS, which is read by conventional scanners.
At this point, the greatest technological challenge Pfizer faced was to learn the symbology. The company had to develop a new level of printing expertise since the human eye can make allowances for print variances, for example, which machines cannot.
'The print quality standards had to be much higher than those we were used to,' says Hollander. 'Yet, the readability of the information could not be compromised, because so many hospitals still use the human eye to monitor their stocks.'
Other practical questions the company had to ask itself were: Do we use existing technologies or do we take a giant leap forward? What equipment and what tools do we need, and how can we apply this initiative across multiple sites, on different printing equipment, and in printing with different inks and onto different substrates?
After analysing the problems and researching the solutions, it was clear that one crucial issue was the print quality. The aim was to reach ANSI standards of C or better for print quality.
The company started extensive off-line trial work to find the best ink, print material, roller types, inks and symbology. It also carried out more research into the RSS/CC standard, which has many variants.
Moreover, the company decided it would verify the smallest blister footprint on one commercial line. It opted for a stacked (rather than limited) symbology, but specified that this should not affect the human readability. The smallest size tested was 6.7mil, which represents the width of the thinnest bar, but trials with 8 and 10mil were also performed. The trials, conducted at three different plants, established that Pfizer could meet its ANSI readability target on all but the smallest, 6.7mil, width.
After establishing that the targets could be met, Pfizer took another look at what data to include. The company decided to use the GTIN since that enables the existing NDC to be used.
It then mulled over the concept and practice of application identifiers and decided on a 01 prefix for the GTIN, a 10 prefix for the lot number and a 17 prefix for the expiry date. This way, Pfizer could standardise what it manufactures across the whole company. Previously, individual plants had their own systems for the date format, but now YY/MM/DD has been chosen as the standard within the machine-readable information.
'Our first lot produced under the new system was released in December 2002. The first product was a 100mg blister pack of Dilantin, an anti-epileptic drug. As human readability is still a vital element, the product name and the strength of the dosage on each blister of the pack are quite prominent.'
'Initially, people were unable to tell the industry what the barcodes should contain. We recognised the importance of communicating what information our blister packs contain and tried to explain to US hospitals what the implications of this were.'
Inspection and verification
To ensure that its manufacturing systems continue to meet the targets, Pfizer employs inspection and verification. Inspection is the sampling process that checks the barcode by scanning it with a conventional hand-held scanner and reading it. This has various outcomes: the barcode reads properly, multiple scans are required to read the barcodes, it is unreadable or – the worst-case scenario – it delivers the wrong read. This is a critical mistake and may lead to the recall of the erroneously coded products.
Verification is more of a process control operation. It should be built into the printing processes. The barcode is scanned with a verifier, which produces a read-out, giving a quality level according to the ANSI system. It analyses the following nine print characteristics: edge determination, minimum reflectance, minimum edge contract, symbol contrast, modulation, defects, decodability, decode and quiet zone.
The verifier's read-outs fall into five categories for print quality according to the ANSI standards:
In the F category, the quality achieved is represented by a numerical value of 0.5 or less, which means that the print is unlikely to be readable on most scanners.
D scores 0.5-1.5 on the ANSI system and means that the read-out can only be read properly by multiple-path scanners.
The C category, Pfizer's minimum target, is between 1.5 and 2.5. These barcodes are more easily read by multiple-path scanners and may require more scans than the top two categories to be read properly.
The B category, between 2.5 and 3.5, represents good quality, but may mean that the barcode needs a rescan. Single-path scanners can be used.
The top category, between 3.5 and 4, represents the best quality and is appropriate for single-path scanners.
'I must point out that although C is our minimum acceptable level, we know that the overwhelming bulk of our output merits an A or a B on the ANSI ranking. We seldom see the C grade,' says Hollander.
The verifier works by scanning the barcode approximately 250 times. It then randomly selects ten of these scans for analysis.
It analyses the scans to determine the barcode readability and apportions the scan grade according to the poorest grade in any of the scanning parameters (edge determination and minimum reflectance, for example). The overall symbol grade is an average of the ten scan profiles.
Pfizer has learnt the importance of ensuring that only high-quality print materials are used. For its blister packs, the company uses flexographic (flexo) printing, and go from electronic file to film to plate. Codes are verified at each step before the print plate is put into use to ensure the highest quality.
The company has also learnt that it is crucial to keep cleaning the plates so that the image remains sharp; both print materials and rollers must be cleaned frequently. Pfizer has realised that what looks all right to the human eye is not sharp enough for machines.
Future tasks
'We believe that we have done something important,' says Hollander. 'We have supported the FDA and healthcare organisations in their drive towards improving patient safety and have delivered a quality product. We have largely used existing equipment, printing technology and packaging components to deliver the improvement. There has been no significant decrease in throughput, and we could use existing tools and equipment to employ RSS symbology. We have also established standardised package printing systems across the whole company.'
Pfizer is now evaluating the use of alternative print technologies, such as rotary flexo printing using UV curable inks, which afford higher quality printing with less maintenance. The company is also looking at how to be effective in printing these same barcodes on all other products.'US hospitals are scaling up their use of scanning technology,' Hollander says, 'and we know that our efforts are appreciated.'
Like the rest of the industry, Pfizer is waiting for the FDA to lay down the rules for barcoding. As the initiator of this change, the company is confident that it is making a leading contribution to what will become the worldwide standard. It is developing an understanding of the requirements in this area globally and developing plans accordingly.
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     * Run the migrations.
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     * @return void
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    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('setting_journal', function ($table) {
            $table->increments('id');

            $table->string('group');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->text('description');

            $table->integer('coa_id')->unsigned()->index()->nullable();
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                ->references('id')->on('coa')
                ->onUpdate('restrict')
                ->onDelete('restrict');
            ;
        });
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     * @return void
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    public function down()
    {
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Series creator Kenya Barris and its star, Yara Shahidi, discuss the inspiration behind and aspirations for the Black-ish spin-off debuting on Disney's Freeform channel.
Kenya Barris and Yara Shahidi attend the premiere of ABC's Grown-ish after party in Hollywood.By Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images.
Kenya Barris, the creator of ABC's hit sitcom Black-ish, has proven with the four seasons of his Emmy-nominated series that you can create relevant, challenging, and funny television in a 22-minute network broadcast format. The family comedy centers on Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) Johnson and their struggles to hold onto their African-American identity while raising their children in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Now the 43-year-old Barris is about to launch his latest endeavor: the Black-ish spin-off Grown-ish, an ambitious, binge-able, 13-episode series centered on the exploits of the eldest Johnson child as she begins college. Set to bow January 3 on Disney's sleepy millennial cable channel, Freeform, Grown-ish stars 17-year-old actress, activist, and social-media sensation Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson, the confident, surefooted teenager who, upon stepping onto the campus of fictional California University, discovers that her identity isn't as fully formed as she thought it was. She must grapple with the usual college pressures—drugs, self-discipline, personal boundaries—while also confronting the unique challenges being thrown at this generation of young adults. Like its forebear, Grown-ish is part Barris biography, part vehicle to create conversation, in this case the questions he has for the generation coming of age in Donald Trump's America.
Barris's ambitious plans for Grown-ish included peppering it with a diverse cast and arming Zoey with the ability to do voice-over narration and break the fourth wall, which challenged Shahidi in ways she hadn't been on Black-ish. Should the show succeed—and early reviews have been very kind—Barris hopes it has the same kind of impact as A Different World, the 80s-era Cosby Show spin-off to which Grown-ish has often been compared.
Shahidi signed on to the starring role knowing it would delay her own launch into college life. (She deferred her admission to Harvard this fall to complete Season 1 of the show.) For now, the fresh-faced actress—who speaks with a certitude that belies her age—is willing to play-act freshman life while her peers are experiencing it for real. Still living at home with her tight-knit family, Shahidi doesn't seem to be chafing from the lack of independence. In fact, she has been surprised by the unforeseen benefits Grown-ish has offered.
Shahidi's real life might be frat party-free, but it's still pretty expansive for a teenager. The bi-racial actress uses her vast social-media empire (1.5 million Instagram followers; 200,000 Twitter followers) to advocate for diversity in Hollywood, as well as girls' education everywhere. She's worked on Michelle Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative, and recently interviewed Hillary Clinton on stage at the Teen Vogue Summit. Yet she's clear that she wants her personal advocacy to be separate from her TV character.
On the new show, Shahidi is surrounded by an ensemble rarely seen on TV. Zoey's crew of friends includes the characters Vivek Shah (Summer of '84's Jordan Buhat), a first-generation Indian-American who resists his parents' desire for academic success; Nomi Segal (The Good Place's Emily Arlook), a sexually liberated Jewish girl; Ana Torres (The Secret Life of the American Teenager's Francia Raisa), a Republican-voting, Catholic Latina who carries a secret torch for Barack Obama; Luca Hall (model Luka Sabbat), a creatively dressed free spirit; Aaron Jackson (American Crime's Trevor Jackson), the earnest African-American activist with a ducktail; and twin track stars (played by YouTube sensations Chloe and Halle Bailey) who frequently finish each other's sentences.
Shahidi's anticipation for the show's debut is tempered slightly by Barris's anxiety. The show-runner, who is actively toggling between a slew of creative movie and TV projects, feels a lot is riding on its success.
While Black-ish launched Barris's solo TV career, it was based on a known TV genre: the family comedy. Grown-ish, with its unique cast, complex narratives, and various storytelling forms, doesn't fit as neatly into what audiences are used to seeing on television.
Almost as frightening as freshman year.


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Q: Read file .txt and save it to struct in c I want to ask about file processing and struct in C language, I get an assignment from my lecture, and am so really confused about string manipulation in C programming. Here is the task.

*

*get data from mhs.txt

*store in struct

*sort by name ascending

Here is the mhs.txt
1701289436#ANDI#1982
1701317124#WILSON#1972
1701331734#CHRISTOPHER STANLEY#1963
1701331652#SHINVANNI THEODORE#1962
1701331141#MUHAMMAD IMDAAD ZAKARIA#1953
1701331564#MARCELLO GENESIS DRIET J.#1942
1701322282#ANANDA AULIA#1972
1701329175#LORIS TUJIBA SOEJONOPOETRO#1983
1701301422#DEWI JULITA#1993
1701332610#HARRY HUTALIANG#1982

first before # is NIM,
after first # is name
and the last after #, is year
and here is what i've done
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
struct student{
    char nim[11];
    char name[50];
    int year;
}s[10];
int main(){
    FILE *fp;
    int c,i,n;

    printf("Read mhs.txt...");
    getchar();

    fp  = fopen("mhs.txt", "r");
    c   = getc(fp);
    i   = 0;
    while(c!=EOF){
        printf("%c", c);
        c           = getc(fp);
        i++;
    }
    fclose(fp);
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

First thing, I could save data on struct, but in here I very confused to separate a string.
That's all I know about struct and file processing, is there anyone who can help me? I have traveled around the internet and could not find the correct results.
Sorry if there are duplicate questions, and sorry if my english is too bad.

A: Since you've tagged this as C++, I'd use C++:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>

struct student {
    std::string nim;
    std::string name;
    int year;

    bool operator<(student const &other) {
        return name < other.name;
    }

    friend std::istream &operator>>(std::istream &is, student &s) {
        std::getline(is, s.nim, '#');
        std::getline(is, s.name, '#');
        return is >> s.year;
    }
};

int main() {
    std::ifstream in("mhs.txt");

    std::vector<student> students{
        std::istream_iterator<student>(in),
        std::istream_iterator<student>()
    };

    std::sort(students.begin(), students.end());
}

If you want to accomplish roughly the same thing in C, it's probably easiest to do the reading with fscanf using a scanset conversion, like:
fscanf(infile, "%10[^#]#%49[^#]#%d", student.nim, student.name, &student.year);

The scanset conversion gives you something like a subset of regular expressions, so the %[^#] converts a string of characters up to (but not including) a #. In this case, I've limited the length of each to one less than the length you gave for the arrays in your struct definition to prevent buffer overruns.
Then you can do the sorting with qsort. You'll need to write a comparison function, and doing that correctly isn't always obvious though:
int cmp(void const *aa, void const *bb) {
    student const *a = aa;
    student const *b = bb;

    return strcmp(a->name, b->name);
}

A: Here are some hints, not the full answer. Hope it could help you.
first you need to read the file line by line, instead of character by character. You need the function of fgets(). you may find the reference from  www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fgets/
second you can use strtok() to seperate strings. here is an example.
char str[] = "now # is the time for all # good men to come to the # aid of their country";
char delims[] = "#";
char *result = NULL;
result = strtok( str, delims );
while( result != NULL ) {
    printf( "result is \"%s\"\n", result );
    result = strtok( NULL, delims );
}

and you may find the reference to strtok() from http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strtok/
third, use qsort() to sort the structure array. you may find the reference of it from http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/qsort/. examples can also be found there.

A: This is pure C code, you should new three import function: strtok & qsort & fsan.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
struct student
{
    char nim[11];
    char name[50];
    int year;
};

#define BUFFER_SIZE 100

struct student saveToStruct (char* str)
{
    struct student res;
    int flag = 0;
    char *token = strtok(str, "#");

    while( token != NULL )
    {
        if (0 == flag)
            strcpy(res.nim, token);
        else if (1 == flag)
            strcpy(res.name, token);
        else
            res.year = atoi(token);

        flag++;
        token = strtok( NULL, "#" );
    }
    return res;
}
void print(struct student* arr, int size)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    {
        printf("%s, %s, %d\n", arr[i].nim, arr[i].name, arr[i].year);
    }
}
int cmp(const void* l, const void* r)
{
    return strcmp(((const student*)l)->name, ((const student*)r)->name);
}
int main()
{
    struct student arr[10];
    FILE* file = fopen("mhs.txt", "r");
    if (!file)
        return -1;

    char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
    int flag = 0;
    while (fgets(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, file))
    {
        arr[flag] = saveToStruct(buffer);
        flag++;
    }
    print(arr, 10);

    qsort(arr, 10, sizeof(struct student), cmp);
    printf("After sort by name!\n");
    print(arr, 10);
    return 0;
}

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sorry I was thinking back and just remembered either way shouldn't of been charged for something we didn't have surely ?
The account in question is in my wife's name though seems a separate account,come to think of it though my wife I think tried to get a gas account with them and couldn't because of credit then they offered to change meter to pre paid but couldn't be fitted but can't be certain because I've been with SSE for along time. Hope that makes sense ?
Please can some one give me some advice. On June 18th my wife had her carers allowance suspended as they wanted information about her wages. They asked for P60s or wage slips for the duration of her employment which is nearly 4 years. My wife sent her P60s straight away. They then wrote back to my wife a month later asking for more proof and informed her that they will be contacting her employer as well for her wage slips. Once again my wife complied to their request and sent her wage slips within the time frame they had asked for. Now today my wife has received another letter asking yet again for more information with regards to her wages however this time they are asking for information on wages she has not yet received. Despite my wife complying with everything they have asked for they still want more information about wages and she doesn't know what more she can give as she has sent them everything apart from information on wages she has not received yet. What is the best way for my wife to deal with this situation.
sorry for the late reply theronstar I've been ill answer is no sorry I've not heard of them?


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HomeBeef'Take an extra bit of time' – sister of farm accident victim...
'Take an extra bit of time' – sister of farm accident victim addresses crowds in mart
"Be careful. An accident is an accident; you do not mean for it to happen," the sister of a Sligo farm accident victim told attendees of a charity auction earlier today (Thursday, December 15th, 2022).
Family and friends of the late Mark Hargadon organised a charity auction at Aurivo Ballymote Mart this afternoon in his memory to raise funds for North West Hospice, Sligo.
Hargadon from Corrigeenmore, Ballymote, Co. Sligo passed away at Sligo University Hospital in September 2021 following a tragic incident involving a tractor and trailer on his farm.
His sister, Marie, addressed crowds ahead of the auction, which saw the mart's resident livestock auctioneers, Pat Burke, and Gerry Campbell, take to the rostrum, following the mart's final general cattle sale of 2022.
Charity auction
Marie said: "Thanks a million for coming out in your forces today. On behalf of our family, I have been asked to thank everybody most sincerely for organising this event."
"Mark's friends kindly got together and thought of this idea, which is a fitting tribute in his memory. We would like to thank everybody on the committee for giving their time and organising this."
"We would like to thank each and every one of the contributors to this auction today, both in donations, your time, cash donations and those who have shared information on social media to bring about awareness of the auction. There are too many people to mention by name."
"The turnout today is absolutely fabulous. We are blown away by the sheer amount of donations that have been submitted for the auction."
She described the public's generosity as "astounding" and added that the family are "just speechless" by the level of support that the event garnered.
Marie continued: "In way of this, we want to highlight farm safety and just share awareness."
"Take an extra bit of time and make sure you are safe in everything that you do."
"What happened to Mark was devastating to the entire family and community. If someone else can be saved as a result of highlighting this, it would be great," she concluded.
In drawing the auction to a close, Pat Burke dubbed the event to be a "resounding success" and confirmed that organisers would reveal the final sum the auction has raised "in the coming days".
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DAFM's €750,000 fund to support farming in Ukraine
Lots top at €2,000 at charity auction in memory of farm accident victim


For one of my on-campus jobs, I attend cultural events and take attendance for the Registrar's Office. I do so because students who want to get cultural events credit must sign in before attending certain events on campus. The best part about this job? I get paid to attend things that I would typically go to anyway. Last night was one of these very instances.
Last night was one of the showings of the play, "Cryptos." This particular play happens to be written by a Hanover College student, (one of my fellow English majors and an all around good guy) James Wylder. So regardless of my work schedule, I would have made it out one day or another to support Jim.
Before attending, I had heard good things about the play, but it was not what I expected. It had all the elements of a great storyline. Mystery, humour, a strange village and multiple references to the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot were all in place.
The play had moments that made me so scared that I thought I might not sleep a wink, and others that made me laugh so much I forgot the scary portions. I loved the character Wendy, I found her to be a great female character, and her job as a Cryptozoology intern just made her even more awesome in my eyes.
Overall, the play was very interesting and I think it is amazing that Jim got the chance to write a play and see it come to life in Parker Auditorium before his graduation.
It is also always nice to see my peers acting on the stage. To see these actors everyday in class and then see them change into these characters on the stage is amazing. All of them are very good at what they do and as many of them are theater majors, they get lots of onstage practice before they leave Hanover and try out for bigger roles.
I love watching all of the plays and skits put on in Parker, and I am glad that as part of our enrollment at Hanover students get to attend the shows for free. This way I get to be a supporter of the arts but I don't have to worry about spending a lot of money to do something I enjoy.


So almost every Saturday we go and do something enjoyable with our good friends the Westras; We used to play with the Osterles too until Baby Kai popped out, now we don't see them as often, unfortunately. Anyway, we've done everything from going to the beach to body board or snorkel(something we do most often), go to the North Shore to get Matsumoto's shave ice, go the Temple and snorkel with Turtles (until the poor Westra's bag got stolen:( ), go to the Honolulu Zoo, play at Waikiki, Waimanalo, or Makapu'u, or just hang out. This Saturday we tried something new and went to play tennis.
Looks like you guys are livin life to it's fullest. Hawaii I would love to live there for awhile. So HOw long have you been there?? What took you there?? anyway crazy, I am glad you found me, blogging is the best way to keep in touch. Keep me updated and have fun doing flips on the sandy beaches.
Stef, you need to update your blog...only 16 more days!
My brother's farewell is on the 13th.


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Take a look at some of the melanistic cats at Big Cat Rescue and learn why a feline black panther hasn't been confirmed yet.
Live-action camera traps set by conservationists show the seldom-seen social life of cougars.


Freelance journalists gather at a resilience and safety training in Kiev.
Freelance journalists and photographers from all corners of Ukraine came together in April 2018 for a five-day workshop in Kiev.
This was the second workshop in a two-year project to support independent journalism in Ukraine, funded by UNDEF and run by the Rory Peck Trust (RPT) in partnership with Ukraine's Institute of Mass Information (IMI).
Alongside Jana Javakhishvili, Angelina Fusco led the Trauma and Responsible Journalism session -- unique to Ukraine -- on behalf of Dart Centre Europe. Fusco commented afterwards: "As journalists we have a responsibility to look after ourselves, so we can do our jobs well. I feel really privileged to have met the freelancers who attended this workshop, who have worked under some of the most appalling circumstances."
She added: "The world's attention is not on Ukraine anymore but they're still living with the conflict; they've been shelled, shot at, threatened. Anything we've been able to do – even as simple as a breathing exercise – if it can help reduce their stress so they can write their stories better or take photographs better, then that'll be a real achievement. I'm very proud to know them."
As part of this project, the Rory Peck Trust will be launching a comprehensive set of online resources for Ukrainian journalists at a forum in Kiev at the beginning of September 2018.
A version of this piece was originally published by RPT.


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Q: Get the event data in manually bind events in full calender I am using full calendar in that I need to handle both click and dblclick event on eventclick.
For that I did the following code.
Taking data from server and from json data :
   function FormJosn(Data) {
            var Json = [];
            for (var i = 0; i < Data.length; i++) {
                Json.push({
                    "id": Data[i].Appointment_ID,
                    "title": Data[i].F_Name + ' ' + Data[i].L_Name,
                    'start': Data[i].start,
                    'end': Data[i].End,
                    'allDay': false
                });
            }
            Calander(Json);
        }

and render full calender,
function Calander(Data) {
        var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
            header: {
                left: 'prev,next today',
                center: 'title',
                right: 'month,agendaWeek,agendaDay'
            },
            selectable: true,
            selectHelper: true,
            editable: true,
            droppable: true,
            drop: function (date, allDay) { // this function is called when something is dropped

                // retrieve the dropped element's stored Event Object
                var originalEventObject = $(this).data('eventObject');

                // we need to copy it, so that multiple events don't have a reference to the same object
                var copiedEventObject = $.extend({}, originalEventObject);

                // assign it the date that was reported
                copiedEventObject.start = date;
                copiedEventObject.allDay = allDay;

                // render the event on the calendar
                // the last `true` argument determines if the event "sticks" (http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/docs/event_rendering/renderEvent/)
                $('#calendar').fullCalendar('renderEvent', copiedEventObject, true);

                // is the "remove after drop" checkbox checked?
                if ($('#drop-remove').is(':checked')) {
                    // if so, remove the element from the "Draggable Events" list
                    $(this).remove();
                }

            },
            select: function (start, end, allDay) {

                SetAppointmentBookingDateTime(start);
                calendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
            },
            editable: false,
            disableResizing:false,
            events: Data,

            eventRender: function (event, element)
            {
                element.bind('click', function (event, element) {

                    var doubleClickOpportunity = 200, // Adjust this to whatever feels right
                        $elem = $(event.target),
                        clicker = $elem.data('clicker'); // Holder for the doubleclick setTimeout

                    if (clicker) {
                        // If there's a setTimeout stored in clicker, then this is a double click
                        clearTimeout(clicker);
                        $elem.data('clicker', '');
                        $elem.trigger('doubleclick');
                    } else {
                        $elem.data('clicker', setTimeout(function () {
                            $elem.data('clicker', '');
                            $elem.trigger('singleclick');
                        }, doubleClickOpportunity));
                    }

                });

                element.bind('singleclick', function (event, element) {
                    // I'm a single click!
                    window.location = "http://" + window.location.host + "/Hospital/Treatment/AddTreatment/" + event.id;
                });

                element.bind('doubleclick', function () {
                    // I'm a double click!
                    $(".Modify-Appointment").modal("show");
                });

            }
        });
    }

I have bind click and dblclick eventRender which will working fine but I am not getting data of the event as it get it on eventClick function.
I need those data to proceed further.

A: In order to pass data to jQuery's callback, as per the bind documentation, you should use the following signature:
.bind( eventType [, eventData ], handler )

So you must pass an object to the callback, like this:
element.bind('singleclick', { event: event, element: element }, function () {
    // I'm a single click!
    window.location = "http://" + window.location.host + "/Hospital/Treatment/AddTreatment/" + event.id;
});

Also note that as of jQuery 1.7, .on() is the preferred method over .bind()