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Ben Walters

Boy exhausted after mammoth CS session - News - play.tm - 0 views

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Games Addiction Entertainment Romania Counter Strike Exhausted Nine

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  • the dangers of prolonged gaming sessions after a boy was taken to hospital after playing Counter-Strike solidly for nine days and nights
  • The fourteen year old from Romania was playing over the net via a local internet café, and doctors at the hospital said he was both mentally and physically exhausted.
  • The boy's mother said he had lost weight, stopped washing, skipped classes at school, and even stolen from his own home to fund the addiction.
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  • The boy's mother is to press for rules which exclude those of school age from such establishment's after 10pm.
Anjan Narain

Before I Die: Opinions - 0 views

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  • The two most common reasons that lead people to think about or to commit suicide, whether they are terminally ill or not, are untreated pain or depression
  • should be a lawful medical procedure for competent, terminally ill adults, because it is a compassionate response to relieve the suffering of dying patients.
  • physicians are not trained to offer adequate treatment for pain or depression
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  • But good medical care can give patients relief from pain and control over their medical destiny without creating the severe risks posed by assisted suicide.
  • In a workable system, the option of physician-assisted suicide would arise only after all treatment options are exhausted, the best of hospice and palliative care has failed to relieve unbearable suffering
  • Legalizing assisted suicide would be profoundly dangerous. The risks would extend to all who are ill, but would be greatest for patients who lack access to high quality medical care.
  • Then, with outside opinion concurring, a physician would be permitted to prescribe medication that the patient could use to hasten death at a time of the patient's choice.
  • who are not ill-intentioned but hurried or insensitive;
  • Patient and family anxiety about future suffering and death would be reduced; care and comfort at the end of life would be improved.
  • A request for suicide is often a plea for help. How many doctors know their patients well enough to hear that plea
  • we must commit ourselves to caring better for patients at life's end.
  • A more rational law than the current ban on assisting a terminally ill patient who requests help in dying will extend the length of lives of those who are dying by preventing the suicide of those who will benefit from relieved suffering.
golan elzur

BBC - Ethics - Animal ethics: Experimenting on animals - 1 views

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shared by golan elzur on 11 Nov 10 - Cached
  • eriments are widely used to develop new medicines
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • Two positions on animal experiments In favour of animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is acceptable if (and only if): suffering is minimised in all experiments human benefits are gained which could not be obtained by using other methods
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  • Against animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is always unacceptable because: it causes suffering to animals the benefits to human beings are not proven any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other ways
  • Are animal experiments useful? Animal experiments only benefit human beings if their results are valid and can be applied to human beings. Not all scientists are convinced that these tests are valid and useful.
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • In November 2008 the European Union put forward proposals to revise the directive for the protection of animals used in scientific experiments
  • The proposals have three aims: to considerably improve the welfare of animals used in scientific procedures
  • to ensure fair competition for industry to boost research activities in the European Union
  • The main changes proposed are:
  • to make it compulsory to carry out ethical reviews and require that experiments where animals are used be subject to authorisation to widen the scope of the directive to include specific invertebrate species and foetuses in their last trimester of development and also larvae and other animals used in basic research, education and training to set minimum housing and care requirements to require that only animals of second or older generations be used, subject to transitional periods, to avoid taking animals from the wild and exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of animals used in projects be reduced to a minimum to require member states to improve the breeding, accommodation and care measures and methods used in procedures so as to eliminate or reduce to a minimum any possible pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm caused to animals
Dominick Wong

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  • -powered supersonic passenger airliner
  • Anglo-French government treaty
  • ntered service in 1976
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  • ommercial flights for 27 year
  • 20 aircraft
  • represented a substantial economic los
  • ubsidised by their governments
  • ype’s only
  • crash on 25 July 200
  • n the late 1950s, the United Kingdom, France, United States and Soviet Unio
  • upersonic transport.
  • Bristol Aeroplane Company
  • Sud Aviation
  • Type 223 a
  • Super-Caravelle
  • ncreased radiation exposure
  • high altitude
  • Concorde
  • passengers received almost twice the flux of extraterrestrial ionising radiation as those travelling on a conventional long-haul fligh
  • pposition to Concorde’s noise,
  • Concorde produced nitrogen oxides in its exhaust,
  • o produce a net degradation to the ozone layer at the stratospheric altitudes it cruised
  • service was discontinued after three return flights because of noise complaints from the Malaysian government;
  • r transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles
  • sonic boom, takeoff-noise and pollution
  • but with a history of tyre explosions 60 times higher than subsonic jets.
  • Safety improvements
  • specially-developed burst-resistant tyres.
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