Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in fidel4's InsaneJournal:

Thursday, July 28th, 2011
2:02 pm	Race The Thugs With COP -The Pursuit With car games becoming an obsession for online players, gamers are searhing for racing games that define the adrenaline rush at a much higher standard. The COP-The Pursuit is a typical car rushing game with a twist. The players act as a police officer who was a former criminal in a spree just to save the New York City from the Bomb zombies. Instructions: Instructions of Cop - The Pursuit is a piece of cake and like just about any other car games. To get the special speed boost, utilize the space bar. Police sirens improve the boost meter of your truck. You can begin using them on the way in order to keep your vehicle boosted. The terrorists are armed, so you better be aware. Theme: New York is threatened by the terrorists that portent to wipe out the city. You are going to embark on a venture to overtake and ram the bomb zombies away from their commission. The players play the role of Dan Miles who's a former criminal and now, turned C.O.P. As the gamers embark on the mission to get rid of the terrorists, they are permitted to take very keen actions to have the job done. The short verbal’s of the director and Dan pops up in the panel with teasers from the rouge vehicle driver. On failing of the mission, Dan’s car explodes itself on colliding with the road blocks. Controls: Access the WASD keys or the arrow keys on the keyboard to manage the course of the auto. The game is absolutely devoid of mouse functions. Sound can be turned on and off relating to the comfort of the car owner. The car is really not difficult to deal with and responds too well to the keys. Even a novice gamer will not have a tough time running these motor vehicles. Placed in the city, the walkways are also extremely delicate and tiny that aid control. (Comment on this)
Monday, March 14th, 2011
6:54 pm	Preventing premature death Is it possible to extend the human life span beyond early twenty-first century practical limits and achieve an increase in the duration of healthy life among the older population? Answers to these questions may be found in work under way in molecular biology. Based on a current understanding of the process of senescence, extending the human life span would require slowing down the aging rate itself. There is no definitive evidence at this time to indicate that the life span of humans can be modified by any means. However, there is suggestive evidence to indicate that dietary restriction could postpone many of the physiological decrements associated with aging—including those associated with both fatal and nonfatal diseases of aging (Weindruch and Walford). Although it is not practical to expect that human experiments will be conducted on the longevity benefits associated with dietary restriction, or that enough people will actually restrict their diets to influence national statistics, research in this area may eventually reveal the underlying physiological mechanisms that link dietary restriction to increased longevity. In this way it may eventually become possible to imitate the effects of dietary restriction without actually altering diet. Scientists debate these issues on scientific grounds, but there are important moral issues close to the surface in the discussions. For example, we know that a lower life expectancy observed among subgroups of the population is linked to poverty and minority status. If we are interested in preventing premature death, then social conditions may be a more direct target than efforts to manipulate the basic rate of aging. Also, the definition of “premature death” is no longer obvious, and raises questions about the value of length of life compared with quality of life when extreme longevity is also associated with the expression of frailty and disability. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
2:57 pm	Some restrictions on abortions However, just as Roe v. Wade allowed for some restrictions on abortions after fetal viability, so the medical profession has shown a reluctance to perform abortions later in pregnancy, even early in the second trimester. In addition to new ethical dilemmas over fetal and maternal rights, many medical professionals remain ambivalent about the morality of abortion, a conflict that is heightened both by increased technological sophistication in the field of perinatology and genetics and the current political climate. Depending on the technology available to a physician and the condition of the individual fetus (gestational age and any developmental deformity), it is often possible, depending on the availability of neonatal intensive support, to save the lives of premature babies born at twenty-seven weeks gestation. Babies born at twenty-four to twenty-six weeks and earlier have survived with intensive neonatal intervention and support, though often with some degree of functional impairment. With abortions occasionally performed up to twenty-four weeks gestation, one can see the conflict within medicine: Fetuses that might be aborted by one group of physicians are aggressively supported as patients by another group. casino club (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
11:51 am	“Green” Vegetarians Green political parties in Europe (i.e., those parties committed to programs that give priority to ecological sustainability) increasingly advocate a vegetarian diet or, at least, reduced meat consumption for environmental reasons. For example, the policy of the Green Party of the United Kingdom “encourage[s] a reduction in consumption of animal produce and promote[s] the development and use of foods. which are more healthy and humane” (Green Party, p. 15). They offer two arguments. The first is that if enough Westerners become vegetarians, worldwide food distribution will become more equitable. It is calculated that “if we all had a vegetarian diet and shared our food equally, the biosphere could support around six billion people; if 15 percent of our calories came from animal products (and again food were shared equally), the figure would come down to four billion people; if 25 percent of our calories came from animal products, then it would fall to three billion; and if 35 percent of our calories came from animal products, as in North America today, then it would fall to 2.5 billion” (Myers, discussed in Ticknell, p. 67). The second argument is that the present system of intensive farming, while cost-efficient, will prove inefficient in the long run in terms of energy and environmental costs (Porritt). Nowadays Hoodia diet pills are claimed to be the best weight loss pills. Hence, Greens argue that the “expanding livestock industry contributes to … the destruction and pollution of the planet” by being “energy intensive rather than labour intensive” and contributes to “world starvation” (Green Party, p. 15). (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
1:34 am	Autonomy of Actions In a clinical setting, it is often important to determine whether a patient’s decision regarding treatment , or the decision of a proxy in the case of an incompetent patient, is autonomous. A person who has the capacity for autonomy may, for a variety of reasons, not act autonomously on a particular occasion. Determining whether a particular action or decision is autonomous is a matter of how the three elements of the capacity for autonomy (agency, independence, and rationality) are involved in the process of deciding. The autonomy of actions is a matter of degree because independence and rationality are matters of degree, though agency is not. Ruth Faden and her colleagues describe the three elements of autonomy as intentionality, freedom from controlling influence, and understanding. They point out that controlling influences and understanding can be seen on two independent continua. An action can be performed within the range of full understanding to full ignorance, and within the range of completely uncontrolled to completely controlled. Bruce Miller views the autonomy of actions and decisions on four levels: (1) as free action (agency and independence); (2) as authenticity (the decision is consistent with what is known about the person’s values, preferences, and plans); (3) as effective deliberation (rationality); and (4) as moral reflection (deliberation about one’s values, preferences, and plans). The decision of a patient may be autonomous at one or more, but not all levels. For example, a patient who accepts a recommended treatment without reflecting much about the decision, acted autonomously at the level of free action, and perhaps authenticity, but not at the levels of rationality and moral reflection. The legal concept of competence is closely related to the concept of autonomy. A competent person is one who has the capacity for autonomy, and a competent decision is one that is autonomously made. (Comment on this)
1:33 am	Rights, and Liberty The concept of rights presupposes that right-holders are beings who have the capacity for autonomy, who make choices and can use discretion to exercise a right or not. Basic liberties in a liberal democracy are protected by constitutional and other legal rights. The idea of a right has three elements: the right-holder (the person who has the right); the object of the right (the activity or thing that the rightholder has a right to); and the duty-bearer (the person or institution who must do what the right requires). Negative rights are rights not to be interfered with; for example, everyone has the right not to be given medical treatment without consent, and all healthcare providers must respect this right. Positive rights are rights that a person be provided with something—for example, the right of all senior citizens in the United States to Medicare payment for healthcare, a right that is binding on government agencies and healthcare providers. Recognizing the negative right to autonomy imposes on everyone the obligation not to coerce or otherwise interfere with the action of another. This protection of autonomy is not as costly to social institutions as recognizing positive rights to autonomy. If there is a positive right to X, this means that someone is under an obligation to provide X to the right-holder(s). For example, if every citizen has a fundamental positive right to the best-quality medical care, then the state must provide full access to medical care to allbcitizens. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
2:19 pm	Feral Animals Feral animals are those introduced by humans, not native to landscapes, that have managed to survive on their own. Management of such animals is disputed animals is disputed, especially of mustangs and burros in the western United States. Although not now living in their native ecosystems, such animals may have been living wild for centuries. Management policy is typically to eliminate them, on grounds that they are not authentic wildlife, although the U.S. Congress has mandated preserving mustangs in some localities. Animal-welfare advocates have protested eliminating the mustangs and burros. Other cases involve feral hogs and goats. On San Clemente Island, off the coast of California, nearly thirty thousand goats were eliminated, about half of them shot, the other half captured and relocated with poor survival rates, in order to protect endangered species of plants, as well as to prevent further degradation of the island ecosystem. The goats had been left there by the Spanish in earlier centuries. The argument here is that we have a greater responsibility to native wildlife and plants than to feral species. (Comment on this)
2:16 pm	“Hands-On” versus “Hands-Off” Management Although there is a growing consensus that humans have an urgent responsibility actively to conserve wildlife, many argue that the less wildlife is managed, the better. So far as wild animals are managed, their wildness is compromisedthe paradox of wildlife management. The animals become artifacts, more like pets. This leads to a debate between “hands-on management,” which favors active intervention, habitat enhancement, supplemental feeding, breeding, radiocollared monitoring, and so on, versus “hands-off management,” which favors as little management as possible consistent with animal welfare. From a medical point of view, there is contention whether veterinarians ought to treat wildlife diseases. Like all physicians, veterinarians seek good health. Colorado veterinarians treated a lungworm disease in bighorn sheep successfully. By contrast, when an epidemic of pinkeye ravaged the bighorn sheep of Yellowstone Park, authorities refused to let Wyoming veterinarians treat the disease. The welfare of the sheep, they said, required letting the disease take its course; disease-resistant sheep would survive and the genetic fitness of the herd would improve. Whether the disease is introduced by humans is a factor. The Chlamydia parasite producing pinkeye was not thought to be introduced; some said that the lungworm was introduced from domestic sheep, or at least that the sheep were weakened due to human disruptions, especially of their winter range. Although over half the Yellowstone herd perished by starvation and injury following partial blindness, the herd has recovered, although not yet to its former numbers. (1 Comment |Comment on this)