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Disallow puppy farms in the UK in which beagles are bred for animal testing
Submitted by Kirsty Robertson on Tuesday 21st July 2015
Published on Wednesday 22nd July 2015
Current status: Closed
Closed: Friday 22nd January 2016
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A puppy farm in Yorkshire has recently been given the go ahead by the british government, in which innocent beagles are bred purely for them to be tested on. This will be the second establishment like this in the UK, with the first being in Cambridgeshire.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/controversial-puppy-breeding-farm-gets-go-ahead-113002
http://news.sky.com/story/1519982/controversial-puppy-breeding-farm-gets-go-ahead
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The Government responded to this petition on Monday 21st September 2015
The use of animals, including dogs, in research is a vital tool for the development of new medicines and technologies. In order to ensure animals are protected, we have a rigorous regulatory system.
Planning ministers assessed the application's planning merits and granted it permission on those grounds. The decision letter fully explains the reasons for this decision. The letter and related Inspector's report can be viewed at: https://www.gov.uk/planning-applications-called-in-decisions-and-recovered-appeals.
Home Office regulatory safeguards
The use of animals in scientific research remains a vital tool in improving our understanding of how biological systems work both in health and disease which is crucial for the development of new medicines and cutting edge medical technologies for both humans and animals, and for the protection of our environment.
The Government has a strong commitment to maintaining a rigorous regulatory system under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (the Act). Guidance can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/291350/Guidance_on_the_Operation_of_ASPA.pdf.
The regulatory system ensures that animal research and testing is carried out only where no practicable alternative exists, and that suffering is kept to a minimum. This is achieved through applying the principles of the 3Rs which require that, in every research proposal, animals are replaced with non-animal alternatives wherever possible; that the number of animals used is reduced to the minimum needed to achieve the results sought; and that, for those animals which must be used, procedures are refined as much as possible to minimise their suffering.
All applications for research to be conducted are assessed by Home Office Inspectors. The harm benefit assessment conducted provides advice to the Home Secretary that the likely harms are justified by the expected benefits. Only after completion of this process will the Home Secretary consider granting a licence for the proposed work to go ahead. All Inspectors hold either veterinary or medical qualifications and are specially trained. Proposals must also have been considered by the research establishment's Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body.
Once a licence is granted, establishments are regularly inspected for compliance with their licence and the legislation.
The breeding and use of dogs in the UK
On occasion this research requires the use of dogs, mainly purpose-bred beagles. Dogs are accorded special protection under the Act and licences are only granted where justified where the specific results sought can only be achieved by using a dog.
All animals, including dogs, must be housed in accordance with the Code of Practice published by the Home Office: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388895/COPAnimalsFullPrint.pdf. This sets standards for the housing, environmental enrichment, socialisation and exercise required for dogs in UK facilities. These standards are also regularly checked and monitored by Inspectors during often unannounced inspections.
Where it is essential to use dogs in research, it is better for their welfare that they should have been bred in facilities which meet the UK's high standards and which are located close to the place where the dogs will subsequently be used. This minimises the potential stress of lengthy transport.
Currently less than 0.1% of animals used in research in the UK are dogs. Of these, more than 80% of the dogs that underwent procedures in 2013 were used in applied studies for human medicine or dentistry. Dogs are also used extensively in veterinary research to better understand naturally occurring diseases and to develop treatments and preventatives such as vaccines. Around 2% are used in fundamental biological research.
Following a Government ban in 1998, no animals have been used in testing cosmetics in the UK. The use of any species is also not permitted for the development or testing of alcohol or tobacco products as well as offensive weapons. During 2015, the Government is also implementing a ban on the testing of household products on animals.
Many people are understandably concerned what happens to animals, particularly dogs, at the end of scientific procedures and we are keen to encourage re-homing where appropriate. In deciding whether a dog should be re-homed, consideration of its welfare must be the first priority. It must be free from suffering and the likelihood of future suffering and it must have been adequately prepared to adapt to the new home environment. The types of studies that dogs are currently used for mean that the majority cannot be re-homed as it is often necessary to collect essential post mortem data at the end of a study. Such data is critical to achieving the scientific outcome for which the licence has been granted to enable the benefit of the research to be realised. Further information can be found on the Animals in Science Regulation Unit's website: https://www.gov.uk/research-and-testing-using-animals.
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[UPDATED] Alternate Cut of Cats has Characters with Visible Buttholes
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[UPDATE] A person who has worked on VFX for Cats has come out to clarify that the editing done on the film was to remove accidental fur sims that looked like genitals. There was no actual intention to put cat buttholes in the movie.
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Cats was no doubt a box office flop, and the internet basically poked fun at it for being the worst movie ever made. What's hilarious is, there's actually a more terrible version of the film; one where all the characters have visible buttholes.
As per @jackwaz on Twitter, the Cats movie had hired VFX specialists to rework over 400 shots from the film that featured CGI buttholes. Here's the post:
Naturally, everyone has found this new bit of information hilarious. The movie had already been panned for its terrible look for the characters, but the characters with buttholes? That's just a whole new story.
Now there is an ongoing Twitter movement called #ReleaseTheButtholeCut, and though it's still unclear whether this cut does exist, the tweet is too specific that it has to be true.
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Why I Am a Vegetarian is an 1895 pamphlet based on an address delivered by J. Howard Moore before the Chicago Vegetarian Society. It was reprinted several times by the society and other publishers.

Background

John Howard Moore, born in Missouri in 1862, was an American writer, zoologist, and science teacher, and a prominent member in the Chicago Vegetarian Society.

Around 1886, Moore became a vegetarian for ethical reasons. He advocated for the ethical treatment of animals and authored several books, essays and pamphlets on the subject, as well as on the subjects of vegetarianism, evolutionary history, and humanitarianism.

Carrica Le Favre, a well-known health lecturer, dress reformer, child-rearing expert, and physical culture advocate, founded the Chicago Vegetarian Society around 1890, which Moore joined shortly thereafter, while in attendance of Chicago University. Moore earned a baccalaureate degree from Chicago University in zoology. While at the university, Moore was one of the founders of the Vegetarian Eating Club, which he eventually became the lead and front of.

Moore later wrote several well-regarded books, such as the 1906 work The Universal Kinship, the 1907 work The New Ethics, and the 1916 work Savage Survivals, among many other publications.

Addresses

Moore wrote the paper "Why I Am a Vegetarian" around the early part of 1895, which was primarily on the benefits of living on a vegetable diet, along with his opinions on the advances in the animal rights advocacy movement. He delivered an address with this paper, before the Chicago Vegetarian Society at the newly constructed Great Northern Hotel, on the northeast corner of Dearborn Street and Jackson Boulevard in Chicago, on March 3, 1895. Moore was persuaded to publish the paper, and it was printed shortly afterwards. The Chicago Vegetarian Society published the pamphlet Why I Am a Vegetarian, based on his speech, later that year. The preface is dated May 3, 1895. This publication was the first of Moore's.

Another address, after the printing of the pamphlet, was delivered by Moore around June 1896, at the Philosophic Club, in Englewood, Chicago. The lecture was reported, in the monthly Food, Home and Garden newsletter, as being well received by those in attendance, with a discussion that followed afterwards. On the reading, Dr. Viola H. Ludden wrote that "the paper was broad and most excellent; full of scientific suggestion and humane thought."

Moore continued to give addresses on the subject of vegetarianism and animal rights with the Chicago Vegetarian Society for the following two decades, until his death in 1916.

Publication

The brochure Why I Am a Vegetarian, subtitled An Address Delivered before the Chicago Vegetarian Society, was published by the Purdy Publishing Company, in Chicago, Illinois, in 1895. At 5.5 x 18 centimeters, the 44-page pamphlet is described as "explaining that vegetable food is far better for humanity in a truly healthful sense, [with] the plea [...] for the human practice of the Golden Rule towards the animals which we [...] kill for food," in an advertisement in the April 15, 1902 edition of The Vegetarian Magazine.  It was also published in the same year as a 42-page pamphlet, by The Ward Waugh Publishing Company, at 5496 Ellis avenue, as well as in the periodical Good Health. It also appeared in the September 1897 issue of Chicago Vegetarian.

An early edition of the publication was available for 10 cents. A 48-page third edition, printed in 1898, was sold for a cost of 25 cents per issue, or 5 copies for $1.00. It was advertised as having a fancy green cover, which was fastened with a silk cord, and as being "suitable for gifts." The publisher was the Eastman Kodak Company. By 1899, the publication had made its seventh thousandth print and was being sold in crepe paper, still for a cost of 25 cents. Why I Am a Vegetarian is held at university and public libraries in the United States.

A response to Moore's pamphlet, entitled Why I Am Not a Vegetarian: Why He is Wrong, was written by Danish-born American lawyer, lecturer, and political activist Laurence Gronlund. Moore later replied to Gronlund's writing, saying that for the carnivore, "every meal is a murder," and that to "tell why one is 'not a vegetarian' is to give justification, or to attempt to give justification, for being a predatory animal."

Content

The Journal of the American Medicine Association notes that the "booklet is of interest," by an author who is a "zoöphilist vegetarian [who] uses no scientific arguments in favor of his thesis."

The preface for Why I Am a Vegetarian begins with an analogy of mankind's succeeding generations, in that "the human race is like a snake—it sheds. Ever and anon, as the ages bloom, old forms of thought are superseded by intellectual bran-news." The following page, opposite the opening, are excerpts from several works, including the Irish novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith's The Hermit, as well as an anonymous poem "What more advance can mortals make in sin?..." It also contains quotes from the British surgeon and polymath Sir Henry Thompson, the Scottish born geologist and natural scientist Richard Owen, and the Greek biographer and essayist Plutarch.

He opens with writing, earnestly, that he "hope[s] in half a hundred minutes to rinse from your brains sand bars that have been ages in depositing," in regards to a meat-eating diet. Moore then confounds that "human beings preach as the cardinal of morality that they should act upon others as they would be pleased to have others act upon them, and then take the most sensitive and beautiful beings all palpitating with life, and chop them into fragments with a composure that would do honor to the managers of an inferno." Moore asserts that the meat-eating habits of English and American peoples exist because their forefathers were cannibals.

Moore says that he is a vegetarian because he believes "that present-day ethics is founded on that puerile, pre-Darwinian delusion that all other kinds of creatures and all worlds were created explicitly for the hominine species. Vegetarianism is the ethical corollary of evolution [and] has taught us the kinship of all creatures." His concluding paragraph begins with "Enjoy and let others enjoy. Live and let live. Do more. Live and help live. [...] Pity the grub and the ladybug, and have mercy on the mole. Poor, defenceless, undeveloped, untaught creatures. They are our fellow mortals."

The last page of the pamphlet contains an advertisement for twenty publications by Frances L. Dusenberry, at the McVicker's Building, in Chicago.

Reception
The journal Boston Ideas writes that the brochure is "one of the most eloquent treatises on the subject that we have read," calling his language "vitally expressive [with] convincing sincerity." It concludes with writing that "vegetarianism is the coming practice for the intelligent and sincere, and its inroads are already more rapid than is generally realized." In their review of Why I Am a Vegetarian, the periodical The Public writes that it is "doubtless [to] question in some form [what] many persons who nevertheless go on eating what they do not hesitate to describe as 'corpses,'" noting that "we do kill men as well as animals; and, both having been killed, what difference is there between making food of one of the other?"

It is described by The Vegetarian as being "worth the savings of a lifetime to every human being who desires to be honest [and] it should be got out in cheaper form, printed by the million, and [have] a copy placed in the hands of every human being who can read English and translated for the benefit of those who cannot." The Pacific Health Journal writes that J. Howard Moore "portrays very vividly the relation which we as rational beings sustain to the whole animal creation, if we viewed it in a sensitive light, such as we would if we had never been educated to live upon flesh meats." A review in Good Health says that it is a "little booklet which every meat eater ought to read [and] it is difficult to see how any person possessed of a really human soul can look a cow or a sheep in the face without blushing, after reading this book."

A quote from Moore's brochure, that "vegetarianism is the ethical corollary of evolution [and] is simply the expansion of ethics to suit the biological revelations of Charles Darwin" appears in Adam D. Shprintzen's 2013 work, The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement 1817-1921, at the beginning of the sixth chapter. In addition to several other citations, the pamphlet has also been made available in eBook format by several digital publishing companies.

Criticism
[[File:WhyIAmAVegetarian-JAMA.jpg|thumb|right|Review in the left column, in the Journal of the American Medical Association]]
In a mixed review from the Journal of the American Medical Association, the reviewer writes that, as indicated in the pamphlet, vegetarianism is "being taken up with more vigor; its propaganda is more active than for some time past." However, on Moore's intolerance to meat-eating, they note the terms "Christian cannibals" and "ghoulish clowns of science" as examples of his utterances towards "those who disagree with his dietetic opinions."

The New Church Life newsletter describes Moore's writings as "vigorous, [yet] his argument is not convincing to a Newchurchman, although [it] contains statements which, in the minds of some, awaken scruples as to eating things slain."

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External linksWhy I Am a Vegetarian'' at Internet Archive

1895 non-fiction books
Books about animal rights
Books about vegetarianism
Books by J. Howard Moore
English non-fiction books
Ethics books
Pamphlets
Vegetarian-related mass media


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Swf meets Ajax for beautiful uploads. The release of the long awaited MooTools upload widget thats allows queued multiple-file upload including progress bars.
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Brilliant! I want to have a go at making this a WordPress plugin for image uploads in posts.
Considering that (repeat with me) having diversity is a Good Thing and that we have at least 3 or 5 most-used JS libraries with pretty much equal share… Has anyone advanced the idea that porting good ideas between them would be a good thing? Ext has done it and it's been fantastic. I think it would be a nice thing if we pushed that things were made in the top three or five libraries so users can choose if they want a drag and drop solution and we can also compare implementations and speed results.
Right now, on addons alone, Prototype probably wins hands down. I don't think most of them can't be ported to use Moo or jQuery.
ps: it's so good, it almost brought tears to my eyes. great job Mootools.
Brilliant work, really nice polished feel to it! Thanks Harald!
What kind of license is this being released under? Can it be used in commercial projects?
Eduo – I agree, the mootools fx transitions always seem to be smoother than those in scriptaculous, but the as-standard combined feature sets of prototype/scriptaculous leave moo in the dust, which is a shame because it's syntactically more pleasant (imo), and has some really neat tricks.
From Eric's comments it sounds like MooTools is building up quite a cult following. I'm starting to regret my choice of jQuery as my standard library.
Ben: Yeah. I tried not to imply preference for any. I just feel it's a loss to have people in the dust because, as Jordan did, they had to chose one library for their projects.
I think it would be a good exercise if new routines like this one came out in versions for the different libraries (or linked to them) so users of other libraries can take advantage of the functionality, even if it's not the preferred or best environment.
I think it can only help. I don't see how it could be a negative thing (I included "link to them" because I understand a developer may not want to bother with other libraries, but others may be inspired by him).
The innovation and smoothness of MooTools and its plugins march on!
FINALLY! Good job digitarald! Gonna go blog this now.
@Eduo, I think this wish (that plugins be released in numerous frameworks) is a nice dream, but it would mean that the developers of these plugins would need to get expertise for each framework. Digitarald (and myself and others) do a lot of research and then choose a framework that we like the most. We're contributors to Mootools (and, fyi, previous hard-core users of Prototype) and we've chosen Mootools because we believe it's best suited for our work. We'd rather spend time supporting that community and building more plugins and tools (and contributing to the framework) than rewriting our work 5 times for others who have chosen a different path. It's not about competition or selfishness as much as that it's just impractical.
I'd rather see us (all of us as a community of ajaxians or whatever) create a sorceforge-esque repository for these plugins. The most used plugins would likely get ported based on demand and those contributing to the forge would each contribute in the framework they prefer. So if you use prototype and Digitarald releases a fancy upload script you wish you could use, then you could refactor it for Prototype and upload it. Now users get two download options.
God bless you! What a beautiful tool!!! I really can't wait to ajax up my software with all these cool things. wow. thank you thank you.
But the code somehow breaks in Linux. I tried to figure out the cause and I guess its because the Flash Player in Linux doesn't respond to HTTP 302 in the same way as it does for Windows or Mac.
this is really cool, many thanks!
I don't really like needing flash for uploading a file. I hope this is still usable for users who are not using flash ?
Skateinmars: The reason for flash is not because of the flashiness (hah!). It's because it allows for bidireccional communication while uploading and grouping of files before upload (someone correct me here).
If I remember correctly using Flash was actually a workaround to the limitations of normal HTML+JS alternatives.
Not as glamorous, but still extremely impressive, that history manager the article linked to is a much needed feature. I hope that gets integrated into mootools mainline code.
@Skateinmars: Of course its also possible with iframe, but a process bar is only possible with a server backend that can read the status of an onoging upload (e.g. Merb) or Flash. IFrames can make an hidden upload and even queued uploads (like in FancyUpload), it would be a real simple script (I did it some time ago with plain JS without framework).
Wow, after using mootools for 9 months, and converting to jQuery I will NEVER GO BACK.
Seems like some child has real attitude problems. Want to say sorry that this is in the comments for my script.
Does this not work on Flash 9? I've tried it on a mac in FF2 and Safari as well as an XP machine in both FF and IE, no flash. ??
I was wondering if there are any tutorials online regarding on how to implement this? Also I want to use it with Django web framework.
can you send me an email please if you know any tutorials.
just replace FancyUpload.js with this one.


Did these psychiatrists really believe I was beyond hope?
Did they say these things to make me angry and determined to prove them wrong?
Being told that bipolar is an incurable genetic disorder (it is not of course) took a lot of hope away. Psychiatric drugs made me sleep more, put on weight and have less ambition. It was difficult to cope. Being addicted to a prescribed mood altering drug is like any addiction. It took many years to gradually and safely taper off these drugs that were wrecking my physical health.
Getting involved with recovery research, I was initially annoyed by people saying that they had 'recovered' from mood disorders. I believed at the time that I would be 'in-recovery' until I died. After reading many interview transcripts it became clear I had been wrong. These people had indeed recovered. They were adding phrases starting with, "Providing I…". They now knew that eating right, sleeping enough and so on were important for good health. These are things that less emotional people know naturally. Some of us have to learn after doing it all wrong.
This is a crazy situation. There is no other disorder like bipolar. The better we feel and the more we achieve and the more the 'experts' say we must be ill and try to force drugs on us to make us less well. Is there any other illness or disorder in the world where sufferers are told not to think about what it would be like to leave it all behind?
It is time for change. Without change the numbers with the diagnosis will continue to grow. Diagnosis with no possibility of 'undiagnosis' cannot be right.
By recovering as fully as anyone can from the trauma of diagnosis, over-medication and maltreatment I was offered a discharge from all mental health support. I was deemed too well to need any kind of support. Yet there was no route for exploring the possibility that I could now be fully fit. No discussion that a lack of symptoms might mean the disorder had gone or perhaps, I did not have an incurable disorder in the first place? This is not about me being fully fit, as everyday I can still struggle with poor health from having taken too many drugs for too long.
Strangely, even people who hate their disorder fight against the idea of full recovery. It is a difficult concept after so many years of indoctrination about the incurable nature of bipolar disorder.
Is it hope, false hope or even a fantasy to believe a bipolar recovery can lead to eventually having no disorder at all or even have our diagnosis taken off our health records? Should those who believe it-cannot-be-done be preaching to those who dream of one day being well again?
Some of us need to dream. Some of us need to act on those dreams.
If this page (created in 2011) still makes sense and http://www.rethinkingbipolar.com is still going then could this suggest bipolar recovery is real and lasting? A 'bipolar person' earning enough money to fund a project that keeps going and growing – whilst not taking any psychiatric drugs – surely that contradicts the 'expert' opinion. If creating web sites and sharing ideas about full recovery is an illness, then it is a strange illness!
Having hope makes a big difference. While we still have hope we can change things for the next generation.
Have you done a Millon's Test yet? It is accurate and used by the NHS (in conjunction with an interview) and tests you for personality disorders including bipolar. If you didn't register as bipolar you would have a strong case for removal of the diagnosis.
I am grateful that you took time to suggest something I have not heard of. Sorry about the long delay in approving and replying to your comment.
I looked the Millon® Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III™) up on the internet.
I am tempted to do another test. It looks like it would be a good one if I was trying to jump from the bipolar 'box' to some other 'box' (or label) to describe my emotional distress or physical health issues. Currently I am struggling. Lack of energy. Blood tests show low calcium and low vitamin D that does not seem to get corrected by diet or supplements. I have paid to see some of my medical notes and looking back I now have the idea that I need to exercise more (not just walking as I already do that whenever I feel up to it). I get the impression that when I used to go swimming I was healthier. The challenge now is to somehow find the energy to get to the swimming pool… right now that seems like a seriously big challenge.
I have a medical next week. Maybe that will shed some light on what is causing my current mostly low energy state.
Hiya – no problem I thought it might be of interest. I had been diagnosed with bipolar and ptsd and kept on an ever-changing multi-mood stabiliser regime which left me like a zombie. I spent 7 years telling NHS I didn't believe the bipolar part was correct; stopping meds and being harangued about need to take, with attendant stopping issues. I finally discovered I was entitled to a second opinion which led to the new doc doing the test without any 'prior' opinion.
Result was I scored very high on PTSD, major and chronic depression, anxiety and self-defeating attitude. The mood swings (which were always deep but short) were caused by borderline personality disorder (which was mostly already resolved by fluke as I'd received psychotherapy for PTSD). My score for bipolar was zero!!
Basically, the results were exactly what I'd believed they should be. And of course that meant I needed NO meds (apart from a anti depressant short term).
It also meant that I now have a framework into which my personality issues fitted – so I can now understand my motives etc. and thus change my behaviours, which is working very well.
If I'd believed the seven psychiatrists in a row I'd still be a zombie with no solution, direction or goals. So yes, it's a messy place mental health.
I strongly believe one needs to focus on building foundation blocks (diet, exercise and meditation) onto which one can then re-build emotional stability etc. I also strongly believe one needs to take personal ownership of the issue and not just believe the docs – their goals are not the same as ours. They want stability and minimal hassles = meds usually.
Anyway, that's my story, hope it is of some use.
It was refreshing to read your article and you are not alone. Several months ago, I had an episode due to sleep deprivation. I was simply doing too much at the time, my body functioned on adrenaline and to a degree I became addicted to it. Eventually I received a surge of natural adrenaline which created my episode. However the doctors were not interested in my view and only want to force me to take drugs. I was detained and trapped in a psychiatric ward for 3 weeks against my will which was very frustrating. I kept my cool because I knew if I challenged in a negative way it would have been deemed as part of a so called condition they believed I had. Unbeknown to the doctors, I kept nearly all my pills. They had expressed I was making good progress and was well. When I confessed to not taking any medication they were flawed. I actually had to protect myself and illegally recorded 3 consults. I would never have imagined that the places of care could actually do more harm. I witnessed many inconsistencies and one in particular was the use of prescribed drugs, everyone was given practically the same pills. With a clear mind, I was horrified to see people being abused by these chemicals. Not once was anyone referred to a psychologist. Ironically I was actually researching psychology when I pushed myself past my limits. I have since documented my experience in an Auto-biography called Crazy Normal, Normal Crazy! It is available through Lulu publishing. I am continuing with my personal research and will be using the book as a springboard to instigate changes that need to be addressed with in the mental health industry. Thanks for sharing your story and I'm sure there are many people who are suffering unnecessarily.
What happened to you is unfortunately happening again and again. It made me think of the time in hospital when I was given the wrong tablets. I told the nurse they were the wrong size and wrong colour and she said, "Take them anyway. They are all pretty much the same." I said I would not take the wrong tablets and it turned out another patient had been given my tablets. In a way, the nurse was not as wrong as I thought she was, as all the tablets being dispensed were sedatives, so maybe it did not make much difference when they were giving out the wrong ones.


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 * @package Joostina
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	var $_mainframe = null;

	function modules_html($mainframe){
		$this->_mainframe = $mainframe;
	}

	/**
	 * Вывод пользовательских модулей
	 * @param  $module
	 * @param  $params
	 * @return void
	 * @modification 19.02.2012 GoDr
	 */
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	 * @modification 19.02.2012 GoDr
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		$rsscache = $params->get('rsscache', 3600);

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	 * @param     $module
	 * @param     $params
	 * @param     $moduleclass_sfx
	 * @param int $type
	 * @return void
	 * @modification 19.02.2012 GoDr
	 */
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		$database = database::getInstance();

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			$row->text = $module->content;
			$results = $_PLUGINS->trigger('onBeforeDisplayContent', array(&$row, &$params, 0));
			echo trim(implode("\n", $results));
			$module->content = $row->text;
		}
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		if($params->get('user_template', '') && $module->set_template_custom($params->get('user_template', ''))){
			require($module->template);
		} else{
			echo $module->content;
		}

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			$results = $_PLUGINS->trigger('onAfterDisplayContent', array(&$row, &$params, 0));
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Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-0 to go back top.
Watford v Arsenal tomorrow night.
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Apollonius of perga
West of Parha were the "Lukka Lands". Perge returns to history as a Pamphylian Greek city, and with Pamphylia came under successive rule by Persians, Athenians, and Persians again.
For example, Euclid in Book III shows how to draw a circle so as to pass through three given points or to be tangent to… As a youth, Apollonius studied in Alexandria under the pupils of Euclid, according to Pappus and subsequently taught at the university there.
He visited both Ephesus and Pergamumthe latter being the capital of a Hellenistic kingdom in western Anatoliawhere a university and library similar to the Library of Alexandria had recently been built. In Alexandria he wrote the first edition of Conics, his classic treatise concerning the curves—circle, ellipseparabolaand hyperbola—that can be generated by intersecting a plane with a cone; see figure.
Conic sectionsThe conic sections result from intersecting a plane with a double cone, as shown in the figure. There are three distinct families of conic sections: Whereas his predecessors had used finite right circular cones, Apollonius considered arbitrary oblique double cones that extend indefinitely in both directions, as can be seen in the figure.
The first four books of the Conics survive in the original Greek, the next three only from a 9th-century Arabic translation, and an eighth book is now lost. Books I—IV contain a systematic account of the essential principles of conics and introduce the terms ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, by which they became known.
His genius is most evident in Book V, in which he considers the shortest and the longest straight lines that can be drawn from a given point to points on the curve. Such considerations, with the introduction of a coordinate systemlead immediately to a complete characterization of the curvature properties of the conics.
Many of the lost works were known to medieval Islamic mathematicians, however, and it is possible to obtain a further idea of their contents through citations found in the medieval Arabic mathematical literature.
Sometimes known as the problem of Apollonius, the most difficult case arises when the three given things are circles. Apollonius demonstrated that parallel light rays striking the interior surface of a spherical mirror would not be reflected to the centre of sphericity, as was previously believed; he also discussed the focal properties of parabolic mirrors.
According to the mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria c. According to the mathematician Eutocius of Ascalon c. Of particular interest was his determination of the points where, under general epicyclic motion, a planet appears stationary.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:The work of Apollonius of Perga has had such a great impact on the development of mathematics, that he is known as "The Great Geometer". In fact, in his book Conics he introduces terms, such as parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola that are still used today.
Apollonius biography
Apollonius of Perga (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος; Latin: Apollonius Pergaeus; late 3rd – early 2nd centuries BC) was a Greek geometer and astronomer known for his theories on the topic of conic sections.
Beginning from the theories of Euclid and Archimedes on the topic, he brought them to the state they were in just before the invention of analytic geometry.
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Aug 13, 2019 / by Sappi
Sappi North America has published a book examining how the sense of touch impacts the way brands are perceived.
Of all the five human senses, the one that is perhaps the most fascinating is the sense of touch, the sense which comes into contact with objects the most directly. Sappi North America has devoted an entire book to the study of the sense of touch and its role in the brand experience. 'A Communicator's Guide to the Neuro Science of Touch' provides a deep exploration of the basic neuroscience behind the sense of touch, while remaining entertaining on every page. The book was beautifully produced, to the highest standards, with its authors explaining why touch is an indispensable element of the human experience, how the sense of touch influences emotions and decisions and how brand experiences can be shaped through the sense of touch.
Sappi gets bestselling authors on board
Sappi successfully attracted a highly esteemed author partnership for the publication. Lana Rigsby is the founder and creative director of renowned design agency Rigsby Hull, based in Houston, Texas. Rigsby Hull has developed unique brand experiences for clients including Dell, Exxon, Mercedes Benz and Sappi since 1991. By her side was neuroscientist David Eagleman, from Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Eagleman is not only one of the leading neuroscientists in the United States, but also a well-known author of bestsellers in the popular science field. His non-fiction work 'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain', for instance, could be found on bestseller lists in many countries across Europe.
Positioning brand messages in the brain
'A Communicator's Guide to the Neuro Science of Touch' is split into two parts. The first part is primarily a discussion of the complex interaction between the sense of touch and the human brain, while the second sheds light on the question of how paper and paperboard packaging can be designed to convey to the brain, product and brand messages that are as targeted as possible, using the human sense of touch.
The author team makes an especially impressive illustration of why the fingers in particular, represent a crucial human interface with the outside world. The skin possesses a multitude of sensory cells that pass stimulation through the spinal cord to the brain – and nowhere else on the body, save for the lips, is there such a great density of these sensors than on our fingers. Our fingertips can sense even the tiniest of bumps of just 0.006 millimetres. Using the fingertips, the brain determines whether an object is hot or cold, whether a surface is soft or rough and – perhaps most importantly – it perceives whether touching an object is pleasant or unpleasant, based on that object's characteristics.
Touch influences the mind's expectations
Packaging has a considerable significance in this context, because the haptic qualities of its material helps determine what the brain expects of the packaging's contents. The authors provide a very simple example of this: studies show that wine served in a wine glass is perceived as being of higher quality than the same wine when offered in a plastic cup – irrespective of the wine's actual quality. There is a very similar effect with packaging made of high-grade paper or paperboard. Such packaging can heighten the mind's curiosity, anticipation and expectations of the product contained within and can validate them when being unpacked. 'A Communicator's Guide to the Neuro Science of Touch' also demonstrates three tangible examples that prove how high-grade paperboard can please the sense of touch and, by extension, the brain – with unique prints and collapsible boxes from BMW, Apple and the World Wildlife Fund.
Sappi offers its clients in Europe its Algo Design premium solid bleached board (GZ/SBB) and new Atelier folding box board (GC1/FBB), providing a wide range of solutions to present high-quality products in a way that creates a fantastic sensory experience for the human brain. Each products ultra-white surface makes an outstanding impression with ultimate consistency. In addition, the unique board surfaces enable finishes that can be used to make a lasting sensory impression, when combined with the appropriate target market, enhancing the consumers enjoyment during purchasing and unpacking process.
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While the exterior is inviting, you'll be amazed at the condition of the interior of this home. Nearly the whole inside has gone through a remodel and has been tastefully done. Enter into the large living room with wood floors just off the remodeled kitchen complete with appliances. There are two bedrooms and a remodeled bath downstairs along with a handy utility room on the back of the house. Upstairs is a master suite with full bath. The roof was replaced in 2015 and the windows and AC in 2018. This is truly a gem waiting to be discovered.


Our family gaming group consists of seven people, in three generations. Finding good quality, challenging, and fun games for this group is a challenge in itself.
Before we discovered the current crop of Euro-games, we played Hearts, Nertz, Oh Hell, Mexican Train Dominoes, Yahtzee, Five Thousand, Fill or Bust, Sequence, Inklings, Anybody's Guess, and Scattergories. We had fun, but did not know what we were missing. Then, we found Trumpet and began a journey into the modern age of games.
I've listed in a previous blog entry our favorite family games as of last month. Quite a different list from the above paragraph, isn't it? A good number of those favorites are designed for a maximum of 5 players. We have 5 adults in our group, so that has been one of my criteria for game purchases until now. Our grandchildren are now ages 8 (Joel) and 10 (Natalia). Natalia enjoys only a few of our "group favorites," and she plays them very well. Joel wants to play virtually all the games the adults play, and he plays them very well. As of today, I will only purchase games that can be played by 6 or 7 people, or games designed for 5 that I might be able to modify for play by 6 or 7.
Number of players is probably the most important criterion I use when considering new game purchases, but it is certainly not the only important one. There are many other factors that enter into my considerations.
Although an enormous number of available commercial games are eliminated by the criteria we don't want to see in a game, a significant number of excellent games exist that meet the factors we enjoy (see our list of favorite games, listed in the previously-mentioned blog entry).
Some games designed primarily for 5 or 6 players can be played successfully by more players. Here are some examples.
• Bohnanza is a great game for 6 or 7.
• Boomtown works fine for 6.
• Trumpet is just as good for 7 as for 6.
• Zirkus Flohcati works fine for 6 or 7.
• David & Goliath plays as well with 7 as with 6.
Bohnanza — The rules published with Bohnanza (from Rio Grande Games) include three modifications for 6 or 7 players: (1) remove the Cocoa and Garden Beans; (2) deal different numbers of cards, originally, to different players, based on seating; and (3) draw a different number of cards at the end of a player's turn. NO, NO, NO! Forget those modifications. Play with all the cards and use the same rules as for 4 or 5 players. The modifications are completely unnecessary, except – exhaust the draw deck only two times. This is a great game for 6-7 players and is currently our family favorite.
• Borrow a set of gray meeples from Carcassonne to play Hunters and Gatherers with 6 players. Use the builder and pig meeples (from the Carcassonne Traders and Builders expansion), or other different markers, for the two river huts. It works great.
• We have not tried this, but believe it would work: Remove, randomly, 2 property cards and 2 check cards from For Sale (leaving 28 of each) for a 7-player game.
• I am seriously considering purchasing/making a sixth set of "train" pieces (in a different color), allowing us to play Ticket to Ride with 6 players. We might have to experiment with ending the game when a player is down to 5 or less trains, because the available track routes will fill up quicker. I think playing with 6 would also modify game strategy, making shorter routes more valuable.
• Royal Turf could be easily expanded to 7 players, with the addition of a new color of four betting chits.
• I intend to print two additional "row cards" for Coloretto, so we can play with 6 or 7 players.
• I could print an additional player board for Princes of Florence, but I think it will take a lot of study and experimenting to learn whether the game is actually playable by 6 players. It may be too-tightly designed to allow modification for 6 players. Besides, I suspect it might make the game too long for us.
• I see no way to modify Hacienda, which is a shame, as I believe we would enjoy playing with 6 players.
Now, if I could just influence game designers and publishers to create more great family games for 6 and 7 players, that would be nice. At least, I wish they would include, or make available, expansions to their 4-player or 5-player games for 6 or 7 players (as they did for Settlers of Catan, with the 5-6 player expansion). In the case of Settlers, it required more tiles, more game pieces, and a modification of the rules, and it works beautifully.
So, I find myself reading about new games coming out, and the first thing I look for is the maximum number of players. If a game is designed for no more than 4 or 5 players, I'll ignore it, at least until a 6- or 7-player expansion is issued, unless the game design appears to allow for house modification. I expect to miss out on a large number of excellent games because of this restriction, but we have too much fun playing games with the whole family to buy games we can't all play together (designers and publishers, take note, please).
I am interested in any recommendations for games that meet our criteria and that we do not already own, as well as suggestions for modifying games to meet our needs.
These are all fairly light, but fun games.
Ave Caesar (6p) is a game of chariot racing that is scheduled for a reprint by end of the summer. Keep an eye out for that one.
Diamant (8p) is a push-your-luck game with nice bits.
Scream Machine (6p) is a majorities game about building theme parks.
Dave — Thanks for the great ideas. I already have Diamant on my purchase list; now, I'll research the others you listed. I appreciate all the information.
I'm also waiting for Um Krone und Kragen to come out in English, this summer, I hope.
I tried using the "advanced search" feature at the Geek which lets you input various options. I looked for games published from 2002-2005, for 6-7 players, rated 6 or above; took out the categories dealing with war, religion, party games and a few others and here are the results in order from highest rated. They're mostly light games.
Not a great list of choices but Citadels and Fearsome Floors might be good choices.
Here are some older games that we pull out when we have six players.
Many of them are OOP, but I bet you could find them on BGG Marketplace.
Elfenland – wonderful route-planning game. Don't be put off by the fantasy theme; it could have easily had a different theme.
Expedition – by Wolfgang Kramer. Wish I could find an English edition so I could read the text on the cards about the places I visit. (not necessary to play the game).
Pizarro & Co. – this has a few too many auctions for my tastes.
Gemblo – hard to find but we found it at Boards & Bits. Yes, an abstract but it doesn't require deep thinking. It and Blokus (very similar) have always gone over very well with non-gamers and gamers alike.
Metro – tile-laying game that is a bit chaotic with 6. It does require some "mean" plays.
Dragon Delta – okay game that was popular with us for a while a long time ago.
That's Life – may be too simple for you guys.
I am also a huge fan of Bang! but that obviously fails in with the violence criteria.
Thanks to all of you for the great suggestions. I definitely will follow up on them.


Watch this amazing video from the 700 Club. "A wayward child and a watchful mother both know they are running out of time. See how a mother's prayers are the ultimate weapon against her son's life of crime. Read more about this amazing story and the power of love"
Today as i was driving home I saw this from the corner of my eye in the grass near my home (1/2 block from home). I drove a little further until the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "turn around, pick it up and pray for whoever dropped it. Then dump it out" ... then I thought how my kids walk this same route daily and could easily spot it and be tempted and as crazy as it may sound possibly even drink it.
During a recent mission trip in Hamburg Germany, we put together this amazing video. It is a promotion to my new book Break Out. A book bringing hope to anyone struggling with drug addiction, or criminal activity or just life controlling addictions. It will bless you! It will touch families all across the globe. Through the simplicity and purity of the story itself your heart will be changed forever. Many are being moved by God, to order a copy of Break Out at www.jedsbook.com and share with your friends and family.
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Q: Is using dynamic value on XPATH selenium possible? I want to click some element (date) in date picker popup using selenium python, if I define the text it can be clicked. but, when I change it with formatting it not worked and I don't know why.
I already tried this way with formatting string in python way:
chosen_date = str(day_date-7)
date_choose = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "// div[contains(text(), '{}')]".format(chosen_date))

HTML:

6

but, it never worked and always throw an error and stop the script automatically. I'm quite new in using selenium to automate website, is there any possibilities to overcome this error?
Thank you so much in advance.

A: as I can see is there is a space in // div section of your selector. There should be not any space:
//div[contains(text()

the rest is ok.

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Q: Notation question on empirical p-value computation In calculating an empirical p-value for test statistic $T_{0}$ (in my case the KS test statistic, $D$) using a permutation test
$\tilde{p}_{N}(x)=\frac{N\tilde{G}_N(x)+1}{N+1}$  $\quad$ (3.4)
where
$\tilde{G}_N(x) = 1 - \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}1_{[0,\infty)}(x-T^{(i)})+\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}1_{[0]}(T^{(i)}-x)1_{[0,\infty)}(U_{i}-U_{0})$
taken from Dufour and Farhat's department paper (see (3.4) on pg. 6) I have a couple questions.
First, how do I interpret $1_{[0,\infty)}$ and $1_{[0]}$? For clarification, $U_{i}$ are uniform random variates used to sort statistics $T_{i}$ in case of ties.
My second question is also basic and regards $x$. On page 5, the p-value function is defined as $G(x)=P[T\geq x|H_{0}]$. Is $x$ the originally calculated $T_{0}$? So in (3.4) we find the difference between our calculated test statistic, $T^{(i)}$ and $T_{0}$?
I have the feeling that this isn't that complicated but the notation is throwing me off. I found this post which explains a bit of my first question but I'm missing some key notation to piece it all together. I just want to understand the procedure. Thanks for any help!

A: This was simple, and embarrassingly so. "$1_{A}$" was actually $1_{A}(x)$ which is the function $1_{A}(x)= 1,when~ x\in A~ \text{and}~ =0, x\notin A$. So in this instance the function returns one when $T_{0}$ is greater than the statistic calculated from the permuted sample $(T^{(i)})$. It essentially finds the proportion of times that $T_{0}$ is greater than the statistic $(T^{(i)})$ from the random permuted sample and calculates a p-value from there using (3.4). This clarification was found on page 6 of the cited paper but was confusing with the repeated use of $x$ as a symbol representing different variables in the same line.
Answering my own question here is more embarrassing than asking a friend a question only to answer it yourself right after articulating it. Thanks for the sounding board though!


The Commissioner's giving a keynote speech at an international conference in Dumfries today, as part of this week's Amaze Me LEADER series of events.
At the conference, young people from countries across Europe will share ideas about empowering their rural communities, such as through creating opportunities for the young through tourism and technology.
They'll also discuss key issues affecting rural areas like Dumfries and Galloway— including those around poverty, transport and mental health.
pledges by key decision makers.
"Young people have the right to be involved in decision-making and when they know and understand their human rights they are able to defend their own rights and the rights of others by challenging those in power and demanding change.
"Young people are an essential part of all our communities in Scotland but those from rural and island communities have told me about the different opportunities they have, and the particular challenges they face, including rural poverty, lack of transport links, and issues around mental health such as social isolation and access to services.
Amaze Me LEADER is a programme of events that happened across Dumfries and Galloway this week. Throughout it, young participants have focused on several key issues around life in the region's rural communities, including what might be required for young people to build a life for themselves within them.