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> Quoting Henry House (firstname.lastname@example.com):
> [Special considerations for "New world" Macs:]
> > - the bootloader; I believe this situation is greatly improved since my
> > experience
> These days, there's one that goes into its own partition/slice: yaboot.
Yaboot did not work reliably on my machine due to firmware bugs; I trust
that this situation has improved.
> > - the mouse: it only has one button so you need to emulate the other two for
> > X apps that expect three buttons
> This is something I had to hand-hack into one of the init scripts at the
> time I disabled Ubuntu's gnome-session startup, installed Windows Maker,
> and set that as the default window manager: There's a utility you
> invoke to assign the 2nd and 3rd mouse button functions to F11 and F12,
> respectively.
Nice. I used a kernel argument to to this, but it only worked on ADB
keyboards, not USB.
> The other thing is that software suspend didn't work, out of the box.
> (I haven't fix this, yet.)
Do you mean sleep mode? I never got that to work properly, either.
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From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man's search for a missing young woman with history's most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and unforgettable, here is a spellbinding mix of the mysteries that inhabit our everyday lives–and a mind-bending exploration of what happens when someone vanishes without a trace.Ever since his father disappeared when he was nine years old, Ian Kennedy has had a penchant for stories about missing people–and a knack for finding them. Now he's a private investigator with an impressive track record. But when a woman enters his London office and asks him to find her lost daughter, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot solve–and one he knows he must.Laura Lensky's stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two years–a lifetime, under the circumstances. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic myth–and to the haunting case that launched his career, an early success he's never fully been able to explain. Though Ian suspects Peri may have chosen to vanish, his curiosity leads him to take on the search. Soon he finds himself drawing not only from the mysteries that have preoccupied his adulthood, but from the fables and folklore that pervaded his youth. What follows is a journey that takes Ian and those who care for Peri into the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and present merge in the case–and in their lives. Rich in pathos and steeped in secrets, The Mysteries opens a thought-provoking door from one world into the heart of another, where some of our most perplexing enigmas–and their answers–are startlingly alive.From the Hardcover edition.
"Superlative dark fantasy…. Tuttle has total command of setting, style and her folklore sources."—Publishers Weekly, starred review.
Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Houston, Texas, won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, and now lives with her husband and daughter on the west coast of Scotland. Her first novel, Windhaven, was… More about Lisa Tuttle
Writing The Mysteries By Lisa TuttleWhere did The Mysteries come from? Well, let's see…Along the ragged, rugged west coast of Scotland are many narrow winding roads, largely deserted although they pass through magnificent scenery. I was walking along one beside Loch Sween, when I caught sight of what appeared to be a huge stone doorway set into the hillside. It could have been the entrance to a castle or a fortress, but it went nowhere, and was half overgrown with weeds, bracken, and purple-blooming heather. I couldn't find it on any map, and most guidebooks don't mention it because, unlike the Iron Age fortress called Dun a'Chaisteal or the medieval Castle Sween in the immediate area, the "doorway" wasn't built by man. It's a natural rock formation that used to have a reputation locally as an entrance into the Otherworld, for which it was called Cachaileith na Sith or "the Fairy Door." I felt, when I saw it, that unmistakable quiver of interest that meant I had to write about it. I wondered if it could be connected with another story that had haunted me for years, "The Wooing of Etain."I'm not sure when or where I first read it, but by the early 1980s, when I was living in London, I'd become obsessed by this ancient, Irish story, which is wonderfully romantic but also truly, deeply weird, full of bizarre little details and powerful emotions. The oldest written source is a twelfth century manuscript, but the story itself may date back to the Iron Age. I did some research into what's known about early Irish culture, trying to get a handle on what it really meant, but I knew I was going to have to write my own version of it, translated into the modern world, before it would make sense to me. After a few false starts I put it aside for later.When I first saw Scotland I thought it was the most beautiful place I'd ever seen. I've always found the Scottish landscape magical and creatively stimulating. But it wasn't until I came to live here that I learned that this particular part of the country was claimed many centuries ago by the Irish, who called it the kingdom of Dalriada. Only a few traces remain now, in ancient stones, place names, and folklore, but they're compelling: less than a mile from my house is a cairn that's said to be the grave of the legendary Irish hero Diarmid; and the gigantic boar he hunted gave its name to my village (Torinturk = hill of the boar). Walking in the woods around here, it's easy to feel the Celtic Otherworld is close at hand.But long before I came to Scotland, back when I was a kid growing up in Texas, I was fascinated by true stories of people who had disappeared. Like Ian Kennedy, the narrator of The Mysteries, I had a favorite book full of great unsolved mysteries of the past. Over and over again I read about the Marie Celeste and the three lighthouse keepers of Eilean Mor, about Owen Parfitt, Benjamin Bathurst, Ambrose Bierce, and others. Where did they go? Despite the passage of time, these mysteries haven't been solved. There may be perfectly rational explanations, of course, and yet–prosaic solutions can be a bit of a let down. I think the reason such unsolved mysteries appeal to our imagination is because of what they suggest: that there may be other dimensions out there, other realities besides the one we occupy. It's that feeling I wanted to explore in The Mysteries.From the Hardcover edition.
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Google's PR have sent me out a Nexus 7 to review, and since there are SO many bland, copycat reviews already on YouTube, I thought I'd ask you folks if you want to know anything specific... anything obscure about the device which you want to know about, or maybe you own one but don't know the answer to something that's bugging you? Something in-depth... like rooting, OTG hacks or whatnot. I'll do my utmost to answer them, shooting them in HD as I go, if possible.
Please do ask - the video will come shortly after the device arrives, as soon as I've done some decent pre-planning and setup etc. I know I'm a few months "behind"(?) with the review - what can I say? Meh, so what
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Southwest Symphony was founded in 1983 to fulfill a need created by the suspension of the Community Concert Series in Hobbs, NM. From its' inception the Symphony has strived to bring a variety of music and dance programs to the citizens of Southeastern New Mexico. Each season Southwest Symphony presents seven concerts that include three classical, semi-classical, and pop music performed by our Southwest Symphony Orchestra. Additionally the Symphony acts as a presenter to bring four performers that includes a variety of music and dance genres.
I am pleased to welcome you to our 31st year. SWS would like to take this opportunity to thank our patrons and our community for taking advantage of this wonderful 2014-2015 season of concerts, featuring three performances by our own Southwest Symphony under the direction of our home town conductor, Dr. Mark Jelinek.
I applaud the governing and artistic committee members, and everyone involved in bringing these great concerts to our area each year by supporting the Southwest Symphony though your volunteer efforts. We are blessed to have so many talented and dedicated members!
In our 31st season, we are proud to present this seasons roster to you. We know that the artistry of each performance will delight and entertain you! Great communities are created when all aspects of the performing arts are seen as priceless and a key component in the overall quality of life in the region. We live in a wonderful community that has taken this to literally to heart. Each season has been fabulous, but I believe this season will be the best yet!
Finally, our Youth Series proudly partners with Lea County Schools introducing our young minds to the wonderful world of the performing arts. Again, this year in addition to our community concerts, several of the performances will visit and perform in Hobbs, Lovington and Tatum, NM schools. A special round of thanks goes out to our community and individuals who support our Youth Series Outreach Program through our schools. For, without your support many youth in our community would not have this opportunity to expand their minds through Art and Music.
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This season marks his 20th season as Artistic Director of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Arts degree from Eastern New Mexico University, where he studied cello and conducting under Arthur M. Welker. Dr. Jelinek received his Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University, where he studied cello with Takayori Atsumi and conducting with Eugene Lombardi, Frank Spinosa and Richard Strange.
Dr. Jelinek served as orchestra conductor at Cooper High School in Abilene, Texas, at Alamogordo High School in Alamogordo, New Mexico and at Marcos di Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Jelinek is a professor of music at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is starting his twenty-sixth year as conductor of the Bloomsburg University Community Orchestra and nineteenth year as conductor of the Bloomsburg University Chamber Orchestra.
He has performed in cello sections of orchestras in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Pennsylvania. Notable guest artists who have performed with Southwest Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Jelinek's direction include Michael Martin Murphey, B.J. Thomas and Riders in the Sky as well as revival bands performing the music of the Beatles and ABBA.
Dr. Jelinek grew up in Hobbs and is the son of Mrs. Gladys Jelinek and the late Robert M. Jelinek of Hobbs.
Genevieve S. Cavanaugh has been working with the Southwest Symphony since fall of 2006. She is also a freelance photographer and writer for various businesses and publications including New Mexico Magazine, Guestlife New Mexico and Guestlife El Paso. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from NMSU in 1990 and is married with two children. She is an ex-officio member of the Symphony's Board of Directors, the Governing Committee and the Artistic Committee.
Cindy Walker has been the Orchestra Manager since 1995. She has a B.M. in Piano Performance and a M.M. in Music Theory & Composition from Texas Tech University and an Associate degree in Mortuary Science from Amarillo College. Ms. Walker is the manager at Griffin Funeral Home and is organist at First United Methodist Church. She is an ex-officio member of the Symphony's Board of Directors, the Governing Committee and the Artistic Committee.
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Poetry Out Loud, initiated in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation, is a nation-wide poetry recitation competition that encourages high school students (grades 9-12) to learn about great works of classic and contemporary poetry through memorization and recitation. Poetry Out Loud is administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Now in its eighth year, over 365,000 students nation-wide participated in 2011. (National Program Website)
Playwrights Theatre has partnered with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA) to facilitate the program in New Jersey. (NJSCA State POL Website)
Students grades 9-12 in any school in New Jersey are eligible to participate in the 2012 New Jersey Poetry Out Loud program. All schools follow the same "poetry bee-style" contest structure which begins at the classroom level. Classroom winners advance to a school-wide competition, then to a regional competition, followed by the NJPOL State Finals at The Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University on March 15, 2013. The NJPOL State Champion will compete in the National Finals in Washington, D.C., April 29-30, 2013.
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While sitcom actress Jennifer Aniston continues to shuck bottled Smart Water to the masses, celebrity actors and activists are spoofing America's obsession with fancy bottled waters in a bid to help provide access to safe, clean drinking water for nearly 900 million children and adults across the globe.
UNICEF's The Tap Project, held each year in conjunction with World Water Week (March 20th-26th), features a slew of celebrity ambassadors participating in the tongue and cheek Celebrity Tap Pack fundraising sweepstakes.
Tap water from the celebrity faucets of Adrian Grenier, Dwight Howard, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Robin Williams, has been packaged in limited edition designer bottles with the celebrities portraits etched into the glass.
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Opponents of Proposition 8 will appear before the state Supreme Court today to request that Proposition 8 be overturned. Watch it live at http://www.calchannel.com/ or at one of the viewing parties in San Francisco, LA and West Hollywood.
It's my hope that the court will agree with the arguments made for why Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, though I don't expect the challenges to stop until it has gone all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
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AboutâYour absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its colour.' W. S. Merwin, 'Separation' âAnd I Thought You Were Beautiful' explores a poignant connection to the Kent coast. A childlike fascination with collection transforms in to layered video, installation and collage, to create ambiguous narratives that explore the ephemeral nature of the sea and the artist's longing in her absence from the landscape. The motif of the glass jar in particular becomes a poetic metaphor of an attempt to preserve time and memory; it also suggests the unexpected sensation of claustrophobia, felt on moving to a landlocked town after 16 years living alongside the sea. A community artist and recent Fine Art graduate of Loughborough University, Lisa brings her first solo show back home to the landscape that continues to permeate her artistic practice.
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Lee, M; (2008) The Governance of Coexistence Between GMOS and Other Forms of Agriculture: A Purely Economic Issue? J ENVIRON LAW , 20 (2) 193 - 212. 10.1093/jel/eqn012.
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This article examines coexistence between GM, organic and conventional farming in the EU. The approach to coexistence is a major part of the post-authorisation regulatory framework for GMOs, and the allocation of authority for this aspect of regulation is heavily disputed between the Commission and certain Member States. Where authority lies is far from transparent, but the Commission's efforts seem to be directed at limiting national restrictions on the cultivation of GMOs. The article argues, in particular, that the conceptualisation of coexistence as a purely economic issue by the Commission is significantly restrictive of national autonomy, and involves a mistakenly narrow view of what is at stake in the regulation of GMOs.
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We're a gloomy lot, with many of us insisting that there's nothing we can do personally about global warming, or that the human race is over-running the planet like a plague.
But according to leading ecologists speaking this week in Albuquerque at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, few of us realise that the main cause of the current environmental crisis is human nature.
More specifically, all we're doing is what all other creatures have ever done to survive, expanding into whatever territory is available and using up whatever resources are available, just like a bacterial culture growing in a Petri dish till all the nutrients are used up. What happens then, of course, is that the bugs then die in a sea of their own waste.
One speaker in Albuquerque, epidemiologist Warren Hern of the University of Colorado at Boulder, even likened the expansion of human cities to the growth and spread of cancer, predicting "death" of the Earth in about 2025. He points out that like the accelerated growth of a cancer, the human population has quadrupled in the past 100 years, and at this rate will reach a size in 2025 that leads to global collapse and catastrophe.
But there's worse. Not only are we simply doing what all creatures do: we're doing it better. In recent times we're doing it even faster because of changes in society that encourage and celebrate conspicuous and excessive consumption.
"Biologists have shown that it's a natural tendency of living creatures to fill up all available habitat and use up all available resources," says William Rees of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. "That's what underlies Darwinian evolution, and species that do it best are the ones that survive, but we do it better than any other species," he told me prior to the conference.
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Although we like to think of ourselves as civilised thinkers, we're subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion. This is an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.
The problem with that, according to Rees and Hern, is that it fails to recognise that the physical resources to fuel this growth are finite. "We're still driven by growing and expanding, so we will use up all the oil, we will use up all the coal, and we will keep going till we fill the Petri dish and pollute ourselves out of existence," he says.
But there's another, more recent factor that's making things even worse, and it's an invention of human culture rather than an evolved trait. According to Rees, the change took place after the second world war in the US, when factories previously producing weapons lay idle, and soldiers were returning with no jobs to go to.
American economists and the government of the day decided to revive economic activity by creating a culture in which people were encouraged to accumulate and show off material wealth, to the point where it defined their status in society and their self-image.
Rees quotes economist Victor Lebow as saying in 1955: "Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our ego satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing rate".
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In today's world, such rhetoric seems beyond belief. Yet the consumer spree carries on regardless, and few of us are aware that we're still willing slaves to a completely artificial injunction to consume, and to define ourselves by what we consume.
"Lebow and his cronies got together to 'create' the modern advertising industry, which plays to primitive beliefs," says Rees. "It makes you feel insecure, because the advertising industry turned our sense of self-worth into a symbolic presentation of the possessions we have," he told me. "We've turned consumption into a necessity, and how we define ourselves."
The result is a world in which rampant consumption in rich countries is rapidly outstripping the resources in the world needed to satisfy demand.
For evidence, Rees developed in 1992 a process called ecological footprint analysis (EFA). Produced by combining national consumption statistics with calculations of the resources needed to meet reported consumption patterns, EFA generates figures that conveniently demonstrate where consumption is least sustainable, and how fast finite material resources are being used up (calculate your own here).
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Rees cited latest figures, taken from the WWF's study Living Planet Report 2008, showing that, globally, we're already in "overshoot", consuming 30 per cent more material than is sustainable from the world's resources. At present, 85 countries exceed their domestic "bio-capacities", compensating for their lack of local material by depleting stocks elsewhere, in countries that have "surpluses" because they're not consuming as much.
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1000/15 (a close range direct hit will always be a kill until round 23, from mid-long range zombies will only be stunned momentarily with 15 damage)
|Cost (Zombies)
|Maximum Ammunition
3+40 (6+60 upgraded)
|Range (explanation)
|Fire Mode
Fully automatic (Chargeable when upgraded)
|Used by
Original Characters (young)
The Staff of Wind is one of four buildable elemental staffs in the Apocalypse DLC map Origins.
The Staff of Wind shoots blasts of wind when fired, (similar to the Thundergun), and will instantly kill zombies at point blank range until round 23 and knock back any zombies further away. However, the range is not as far as the Thundergun, so you will have to be a bit closer to kill zombies with it.
Once upgraded to the Boreas' Fury, it functions the same as its previous version, however its blast of wind has more range and a wider area of effect. The player can also hold down the firing button in order to charge it up, at the cost of more ammo per charged shot. When charged and released, it fires an initial blast of wind, then expands rapidly to form a twister, attracting any zombies fairly close to it and dragging them to the center, instantly killing them.
Furthermore, the Boreas' Fury has a melee attack that involves swiping with the spikes on the head of the staff. This attack is a one hit kill until round 16. If the One Inch Punch is equipped, its melee attack overrides the staff melee attack.
After upgrading, it gains a secondary "attachment" called Sekhmet's Vigor which when activated by pressing left on the D-Pad, will cause the player to flip the staff and use the bottom end. This can be used to revive a downed player by "shooting" them directly. The "vigor" is a slow-moving ball, which will travel in a straight line. It is recommended to make your shots count, because it is very easy to miss with this weapon.
How to ObtainEdit
There are four parts of the staff that the player must get, Including an elemental gem needed in order to craft the staff.
In order to obtain the parts necessary to craft the staff, the player must go into each of the three Giant Robot's and retrieve the part inside. In order to access the inside, the player must shoot the glowing foot of a robot, then be stepped on by the foot that has now been opened.
In order to reach the elemental gem in The Crazy Place, one must first find the yellow record and the Gramophone. The yellow record can be found near Generator 5, appearing next to the Stamin-Up machine, leaning on stacked boxes in the Giant Robot's footprint or just inside the lightning path to The Crazy Place The Gramophone is always located inside the Excavation Zone, on the floor. Once both are obtained, the player must go into the wind tunnel, located to the right of Generator 4, facing the Excavation Zone, and hold the action button on the table at the end of the tunnel to open the gateway to The Crazy Place. Once there, the player must go to the Wind "pedestal" and hold the action button to receive the wind elemental gem.
Once all the items are gathered, the player must go down the ramp into the excavation zone and place the gramophone on the table when having the black record, which can be found around the outside of the excavation zone, with one location being right next to the excavation zone sign. After a few seconds, the floor around the center pillar will collapse into a staircase, which will lead you to the bottom. At the very bottom, the player must go to the statue that corresponds with the element and craft the staff there, after which any player can pick up the staff via the action button.
How to Upgrade to Boreas' FuryEdit
Once the player has picked up the Staff of Wind, they must return to The Crazy Place, and solve the riddle located on the Wind part of the map, where the gateway back is located. Above the floor of the Wind part are four concentric rings with four symbols spread evenly on them. The player has to match up the symbols on the rings above with the symbol on the pillar that the symbols are pointing to by shooting each ring with the Staff of Wind in order to rotate it. The symbols are base four representations of numbers, with the number of lines in each shape being the value for each power of four (i.e. if there is only one shape in the symbol, the value is simply the number of lines present in the shape. If there are two shapes, the value is the number of lines in the first shape times four, plus the number of lines in the last shape. If there are three shapes, the number is the number of lines in the first shape times 16, plus the number of lines in the second shape times four, plus the number of lines in the last shape). The symbols on the pillars represent the total to which each row of symbols in the rings must add up. An image with the correct placement is below.
Once the riddle in The Crazy Place has been completed, the player must return to the original realm and solve the riddle there. There are three stone balls located across the map, that release smoke from the top of it in a single direction. The player must now use the Staff of Wind on the stone balls to direct the smoke towards the Excavation Zone. In no particular order, the locations of the stone balls are:
The player now has to return to the bottom of the Excavation Zone, where there is now a Wind orb. After aligning the rings above the orb via the four switches in the lower section so that all the gems are yellow, the player with the Staff of Wind must shoot the orb, which will cause the orb to fly into the air and return to The Crazy Place. Once done, the player must now go back to The Crazy Place, where the staff can be placed onto the Wind pedestal. The player must kill zombies in The Crazy Place, so that the zombie "souls" get attracted to the staff and power it up. After killing a fair amount of zombies, an audio cue by Samantha will indicate to the player that the staff is powered up and upgraded to Boreas' Fury. The staff can now be picked up by any player.
- The name of the Staff of Wind when upgraded is named after Boreas, the Greek God of the North Wind
- The Staff of Wind is Dempsey's favorite staff.


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Marines turn the tide in the 'Fallujah of Afghanistan'
3rd Battalion, 5th Marines battle for Sangin
"It sucks, but the situation that we're in, you don't have a lot of time to sit there and think about it. You just have to keep pressing on," he said.
As waves of combat replacements deployed to Sangin, many seriously injured Marines hid their wounds to avoid being sent home. At least two who were shot and ordered back to Camp Pendleton to recover returned months later to Sangin to finish the tour.
At a memorial service in January for three of his Marines killed in action, Lt. Col. Jason Morris, the 3/5 Battalion commander, asked: "Where do we get men such as these, men who look death in the face and continue to move forward?"
The losses were painful, but they steeled the resolve of the Marines to punish the enemy, Johnson said. "It was like throwing gasoline on a fire that was already burning."
During a shura meeting in January, an Afghan man approached the regimental commander in charge of northern Helmand at the time, Col. Paul Kennedy, and smashed him in the face with a rock, breaking his nose. A Marine in his security detail shot the Afghan dead.
That month, a squad reinforced with snipers and machine gunners battled the Taliban in a six-hour firefight, killing at least two dozen of them. The Marines were running low on ammunition for the second time that day, night was falling and they had chased the insurgents into another unit's area of operations before the company commander ordered them back.
The Taliban had built a mystique of being magical warriors who appeared and disappeared like ghosts. But Sgt. Philip McCulloch, Jr., the 22-year-old squad leader, said: "There were motorcycles and dead Taliban all over the battlefield. It was something you don't see every day out here."
The closure of about half the British bases, including checkpoints lining the main route through town, had handed terrain secured at great cost back to the insurgents.
The decision was based on manpower and a more flexible patrolling strategy. By the time the Camp Pendleton 3/5 Marines arrived, the main road was full of bombs. To resupply its northern Sangin bases, the 20-minute drive required an all-day detour through the desert, where each convoy invariably hit a bomb.
In December, the Marines secured Route 611 during a two-week operation to clear the explosives. The operation was possible in part because of a mini surge of troops and other resources sent to the greater Sangin valley that helped the Marines fortify their positions and build new ones.
A company of Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment that had been operating in Marjah took over one corner of the battalion's area of operations, while reconnaissance Marines moved into another. Reservists from the 3/25 Battalion pitched in standing post and other duties in Sangin, and a company of tankers plus a battalion landing team of about 1,000 Marines reinforced their southern flank in Gereshk.
The influx was coupled with the infusion of extra Afghan paramilitary police forces early this year and the appointment of about a dozen district government officials, as a logjam of Afghan resources that had been particularly felt in Sangin began to break free across Helmand province, British and American civilian representatives said.


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N. A place that fearful people stumble towards in the false hope that they will be safe.
I'd like to help but I'm done gone to McCain.
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Some dude who lost the 2008 Presidential Election.
Dude, McCain got crushed by Obama.
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An adjective that describes someone or something as egocentric, vainglorious, full of bad judgments, hypocritical, whiney and grumpy. "McCain" combines stubborn with ill-temper. Variants: McCainiacal, McCainiac
My neighbor chewed me out in a rather McCainiacal fashion for letting my grass get too high.
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literally in Gaellic would mean "Son Of Cain"
Iam KatChamber McCain
بواسطة KatChamber اغسطس 5, 2007
a synanym for George Bush, A puppet of the hysterical right
Is that George Bush looking in the mirro? No, Thats George looking at McCain
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Verb. Given all of the choices, the decision that is made is the worst possible one.
I could have had the million dollars, or taken what was in the mystery box. I McCained it and took the mystery box.
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A fossil who is the best thing the Republicans could come up with this year. May have a chance of winning because many American think he will keep us safe, think his vice is hot, and fear that Obama is a closet muslim. As you can see, many Americans are clueless! Put your pride aside and vote for who will make you life better-- Obama!
I ain't voting for that slick-talking Muslim just cause he gonna get us out of Iraq, improve our economy and schools and make almost everybodys lives easier! I'm gonna vote for the old man mccain because he is a former POW and I don't care that he wants us to stay in Iraq for another 100 years and build more air-conditioned ferris wheels there!
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Missouri's race for governor is likely to be one of the hottest this season. Incumbent Bob Holden, a one-term Democrat, was ousted in his party's primary in August when voters chose State Auditor Claire McCaskill to run against Republican Sec. of State Matt Blunt.
McCaskill made electability a key issue in the Democratic primary, insisting she not only stood a better chance of beating Blunt in the general election, but could help Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to victory in this important swing state.
Holden and McCaskill quickly declared a unified front in the race against Blunt, who was elected in 2000. Blunt, who faced little opposition in the Republican primary, is the son of Rep. Roy Blunt, the third-ranking House Republican.
Holden's stunning loss, the first primary defeat of a sitting governor in a decade, capped a term mired in turmoil since his first day in office. He was derisively dubbed "One Term Bob" by opponents. His term began with a lavish, $1 million inaugural ball that he struggled to pay off. He then was forced to make millions of dollars in state budget cuts as the economy _ and state revenues _ plunged downward. Republicans also won control of the Senate for the first time in a half-century during the term, and Holden achieved a rare distinction in 2003 when lawmakers overrode three of his vetoes _ matching what had been the total number of vetoes overridden in Missouri since the Civil War.
Presidential politics will also claim a share of the public's attention. President Bush will try to win Missouri as he did in 2000, when he claimed 50 percent of the vote to Al Gore's 47 percent. Longtime congressman from St. Louis, Rep. Dick Gephardt, sought the Democratic presidential nomination but dropped out during the primaries after failing to gain momentum. He's now focused on helping likely nominee Sen. John Kerry capture the battleground state.
Gephardt has announced his retirement from his seat in the 3rd district, which he has held since 1976. State Rep. Russ Carnahan, son of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan and former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, was chosen amongst a slew of Democrats to take on Republican Bill Federer, a St. Louis County resident defeated by Gephardt in 1998 and 2000. Carnahan's sister, Robin Carnahan, was unopposed in her bid for the Democratic nomination for secretary of state.
Missouri voters also overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional ban on gay marriage, with 71 percent favoring the amendment, a decision that was closely watched by national groups on both sides of the battle. It was the first such vote since the historic ruling in Massachusetts last year that legalized same-sex weddings there.
Republican Sen. Kit Bond faces re-election in 2004 for his seat, which he has held since 1986.
After 10 years in Congress, Democrat Rep. Karen McCarthy will retire in 2004. McCarthy's descent began in March 2003 with a drunken fall on a Capitol Hill escalator. It ended amid allegations that she misused her staff and her campaign for personal gain, such as several trips to the Grammy Awards.
Former Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver defeated political newcomer and former White House fellow Jamie Metzl in the Democratic primary for McCarthy's seat. He will face Republican nominee Jeanne Patterson.
In the 2002 Senate race, Republican Jim Talent, a former congressman, edged incumbent Democrat Jean Carnahan, who had been appointed to the seat won posthumously in 2000 by her husband, Mel Carnahan.
After friendly redistricting, all nine incumbents were re-elected, including Gephardt.
The 2002 elections marked the first time Republicans won control of both houses of the state Legislature since 1948.
--The Associated Press


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By DOTTIE DEWBERRY
For Starkville Daily News
The historic home of the late Jimmy Thomas was the beautiful setting for the November meeting of the Maben Home and Garden Club on Nov. 15 at noon.
The ladies gathered on the front veranda of Gladys HendrixтАЩs home; they chatted happily and awaited there for all those to attend to finally arrive.
Russell Hamilton, nursery manager of the Oktibbeha County Co-op of Starkville, who arrived with Ms. Dottie Dewberry, the afternoon leader, was the guest speaker for the occasion. Hamilton spoke at length about тАЬThings to do to get ready for spring.тАЭ Preceding his address, he handed out several pages pertaining to getting ready for spring, pruning crape myrtles, and a sign-up sheet for the Co-opтАЩs newsletter.
Getting right into his speech, Hamilton emphasized a number of things about pruning: prune only when it is in late winter but prune spring flowering- shrubs immediately after they bloom, use the handout guide for pruning crape myrtles-donтАЩt commit crape murder, and thin out inner growth of Bradford pear trees.
A tip that most of the ladies had never heard was about using pine straw for mulch: if you are using it on small shrubs or trees, the straw needs to sit for 12 weeks before applying it.
It is time to plant or transplant bulbs, trees, and shrubs, mulch existing beds, water before frosts or freezing temperatures, prepare new beds now, prune trees or shrubs, apply pre-emergents, rake leaves, prune roses in January, winterize your irrigation systems, and roll and hang hoses in a dry shady place or they will dry rot.
To the chagrin or shame of those who had committed crape murder, Hamilton went to great detail about when and how to prune these beauties of the South. First, do not top them now; the time to do pruning is in late winter or early spring. Cut the suckers that come up from the base; cut all side branches growing from the trunk up to 4 feet from the ground; cut out branches growing toward the center; cut all crossing, rubbing, and dead branches, and cut any branches growing at awkward angles.
He explained that if you тАЬtopтАЭ crapes, it increases stem decay; reduces number of blooms, shortens the blooming period; causes new branches to grow too long and are not able to hold up the blooms; increases insect problems; and causes them to produce more basal suckers.
When questioned about how to correct crape murder, the best solution was to cut below the knot of cut-off limbs.┬а Another solution might be to cut them down to the ground and wait for new trunks to grow.
He said that YouTube had a video put out by the MSU Extension Service that showed a step by step guide for pruning crapes.
Hamilton told the group that some of the better products for weed control was no more, but he offered a product for turf and ornamental weed and grass stopper, a product for feeding bulbs, and a product when transplanting plants.
One of his best bits of advice was how to kill stumps: make a fresh cut, drill holes in the middle of the stump, and the fill with Round Up.
Before he ended his most informative talk, he presented little sacks of bulbs to all those present. He then had the ladies┬аdraw for a bowl that the winner could pick up at the Co-op. June Turner was the lucky winner.
After the program, the minutes were read and approved as read. Jackie Christopher reviewed the clubтАЩs financials. The Yard of the Month Committee reported that the sign had been placed in the home of Jonelle Nickles for October and then was placed in the home of Randle Poss for November.
Sandra Bishop reported that Marge Musser sent word that the calendars were ordered, the print would be in red and would be in larger type.
The Sunshine Committee reported that a Memorial tree, a Little Gem Magnolia, had been ordered and would soon be planted at the First Baptist Church for lifelong member Cotton Sanders. A Memorial marker will also be placed there.
Members who had not paid dues were reminded it was time to do so.
The Dec. 13 meeting will be held at the Heritage House in Mathiston with Gail Bullard as quest speaker. Members were urged to bring an ornament for playing Dirty Santa.
The afternoon door prizes were given by Anne Earnest and Sandra Bishop. They were won by Suretha Brooks, Opal Vickers (guest) and June Turner.


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Maintenance & Operation Executive Manager (Electro-Mechanical) - KSA
Confidential Company - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ref. JB1970646
Job Description
-The position calls for the daily management of over all maintenance & operation Electromechanical works contracted buildings (Government, Commercial Residential).
- Leading financial feasibility studies for new projects
- Monitor & control material/spare parts flow for projects.
- Candidate should have quality of leadership to assist staff in functioning as a team by providing leadership in maintaining a productive, cost effective, safe and profitable operation
- Manage company's assets and fleet utilization successfully
- Will be responsible in following up all running projects and coordinating with other departments (Finance and Procurement Dept.)
- Costing, procuring, tendering, executing E/M maintenance projects.
- Manage and support sales team to achieve targets in wining maintenance contracts.
a. Bsc. In Mechanical Engineering.
b. Solid experience in building E/M systems operation and
maintenance (e.g. HVAC, Boilers, Transformers, Low
Automation ..etc)
b. Solid experience in management, out sourcing and
manpower allocation.
c. Solid knowledge in Electromechanical equipment
preventive & corrective maintenance programs.
d. Capable of tracing and follow business opportunities.
e. Capable in Studying and analyzing tender and submit
f. 15 - 20 years relevant experience.
g. Target Oriented.
Bsc. In Mechanical Engineering
Job Details
- Job Location:
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Company Industry:
- Mechanical; Engineering; Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
- Company Type:
- Employer (Private Sector)
- Job Role:
- Management
- Employment Status:
- Full time
- Employment Type:
- Employee
- Monthly Salary Range:
- Unspecified
- Number of Vacancies:
- 1
Preferred Candidate
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- Management
- Years of Experience:
- Min: 15
- Residence Location:
- Bahrain; Jordan; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
- Gender:
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First Two Weeks – June 14-16 & June 21-23
Ch. 5.1 – Fridays at 7 p.m. & Repeats: Sundays at 7 a.m.
Ch. 9.1 – Saturdays at 5 p.m.
Albuquerque, NM – NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS is New Mexico PBS' prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people that are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest.
Over the next few month, beginning June 14 & 21, in addition to covering breaking issues, NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS will begin a new, multi-part series, focusing on "NEW MEXICO's DROUGHT CRISIS." NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS airs Fridays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 7 a.m. on Ch. 5.1; and on Saturdays at 5 p.m. on Ch..9.1
NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS will explore the impact of climate change on the Southwest's water supply, and will then look at questions concerning New Mexico itself – How secure are our water rights? Will water be the defining element economically, politically, and be the ultimate influence on life in New Mexico in the coming decades? Can New Mexico expect to continue basing its economy on growth? Can the historical way of growing crops in this state be sustained? If it comes to a decision as to where water will be distributed – to agricultural users or to municipalities – who will make those decisions, who will receive the water they need, and what will that mean to the culture and citizens of the state?
NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS – June 14 – 16
Guest: William deBuys, Writer and Conservationist
Latest Book: "A GREAT ARIDNESS: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest"
In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River–upon which nearly 30 million people depend–the author narrates the landscape's history–and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide–the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East–will experience in the coming years.
William deBuys is the author of seven books, which range from memoir and biography to environmental history and studies of place. A native of Maryland, he attended the University of North Carolina, where he was graduated with highest honors in 1972. Soon afterwards, the writer and social critic Robert Coles brought him to New Mexico as a research assistant, initiating deBuys's deep relationship with the cultures and landscapes of the Southwest.
NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS – June 21 – 23
Guests: John D' Antonio and Bruce Thomson
(Both men have a long history with New Mexico's water resources – See below)
Topics: Water Management, Growth, and Resources
John D'Antonio is currently Deputy District Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District. During his 9 year tenure as NM State Engineer, D'Antonio was Secretary of the Interstate Stream Commission, Chairman of: the Water Trust Board; Governor's Water Infrastructure Investment Team; and the Governor's Drought Task Force. He also served as the New Mexico Commissioner to the Rio Grande,
Costilla, and Upper Colorado River Compacts. He was formerly Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department in 2002. He served as the Director of the Water Resource Allocation Program for the Office of the State Engineer from 2001 to 2002 and served as the District 1 Supervisor in Albuquerque from 1998 to 2001. D'Antonio previously had worked 15 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a hydraulic design engineer, as the Chief of the Hydrology, Hydraulics, Sedimentation, and Floodplain Management Program.
Dr. Bruce M. Thomson is Director of the UNM Water Resources Program. For decades, he has been heavily involved in water and sustainability issues within New Mexico. He is a Regents Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico.
The Producer of NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS is Matt Grubs. Associate Producer is Kathy Wimmer.
Funding for this program was provided in part by the McCune Foundation.
Involved, informed, in-depth media: watch NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS again online at www.newmexicopbs.org shortly thereafter.
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With his movie-star good looks, powerful physique, and outgoing personality, Hoad became a tennis icon in the 1950s. As Kramer says,
Strength played an important part of Hoad's game, as he often drove for winners rather than rallying and waiting for the right opportunity. Although he assaulted his opponents, he also had the skill to win the French Championships on the slower clay court. According to Kramer, "Hoad had the loosest game of any good kid I ever saw. There was absolutely no pattern to his game.... He was the only player I ever saw who could stand six or seven feet behind the baseline and snap the ball back hard, crosscourt. He'd try for winners off everything, off great serves, off tricky short balls, off low volleys. He hit hard overspin drives, and there was no way you could ever get him to temporize on important points."
Hoad was a member of the Australian team that between 1952 and 1956 won the Davis Cup four times. He is often remembered for his match as a 19-year-old amateur in the 1953 Davis Cup against the great United States champion Tony Trabert. In a titanic struggle, Hoad defeated Trabert by a score of 13-11, 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 7–5 to help his country retain the Cup.
In 1956 he won the first three stages of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments and was heavily favored to win the fourth and then turn professional for a lucrative contract offered by Jack Kramer. In a stunning upset, however, he lost to fellow Australian Ken Rosewall in the United States Championship at Forest Hills. Fresh from his victory over Hoad, it was Ken Rosewall who signed the professional contract and went on to spend the new year as the regular victim of Pancho Gonzales on the pro tour. At a time when only amateur players were allowed to compete in the four national championships, Hoad finally turned professional after winning his second successive Wimbledon singles title in 1957.
His first year as a pro was a series of head-to-head matches with the reigning king of professional tennis, Pancho Gonzales. Hoad won 18 of the first 27 matches, but Gonzales surged back to finally defeat Hoad by 51 matches to 36. Gonzales, whom some consider to be the greatest tennis player of all time, always maintained that Hoad was the toughest, most skillful adversary that he had ever faced. "He was the only guy who, if I was playing my best tennis, could still beat me," said Gonzales in a 1995 New York Times interview. "I think his game was the best game ever. Better than mine. He was capable of making more shots than anybody. His two volleys were great. His overhead was enormous. He had the most natural tennis mind with the most natural tennis physique."
Kramer, however, clearly has mixed feelings about Hoad's ability. In spite of calling him one of the 21 best players of all time, he also writes that "when you sum Hoad up, you have to say that he was overrated. He might have been the best, but day-to-day, week-to-week, he was the most inconsistent of all the top players." When Kramer was thirty-seven, and a part-time player, he played a number of matches against Hoad just after the Australian had turned professional. "I actually beat him thirteen matches to twelve. That was because he just didn't give a damn when he played me.... It was the same thing with Segura, and Lew lost a majority of his matches to Segoo.... He wanted to beat Kenny, and he did. Remember now, Hoad lost 13-12 to me while Rosewall beat me 22-4, but Hoad turned it around and won two-thirds of his matches against Rosewall."
Back problems plagued Hoad throughout his career and forced his retirement from the tennis tour in the mid 1960s. Kramer compares Hoad to another great player, Ellsworth Vines. "Both were very strong guys. Both succeeded at a very young age.... Also, both were very lazy guys. Vines lost interest in tennis (for golf) before he was thirty, and Hoad never appeared to be very interested. Despite their great natural ability, neither put up the outstanding records that they were capable of. Unfortunately, the latter was largely true because both had physical problems."
In retirement, Hoad moved to Fuengirola, Spain, near Málaga, where he and his tennis-playing wife, Jenny Staley, operated a tennis resort for more than thirty years entertaining personal friends such as actors Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas, and Charlton Heston.
Lew Hoad was battling leukemia and waiting for a bone marrow donor when, in his weakened condition, he died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 59. A book co-written with Jack Pollard and titled The Lew Hoad Story was published in 1958. In 2003, Pollard teamed up with his widow, Jenny, to write My Life With Lew.
Hoad was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1980.
|Opponent in Final
|Score in Final
|Australian Championships
|Ken Rosewall
|6–4, 3–6, 6–4, 7–5
|French Championships
|Sven Davidson
|6–4, 8–6, 6–3
|Ken Rosewall
|6–2, 4–6, 7–5, 6–4
|Ashley Cooper
|6–2, 6–1, 6–2
|Opponent in Final
|Score in Final
|U.S. Championships
|Ken Rosewall
|9–7, 6–4, 6–4
|U.S. Championships
|Ken Rosewall
|4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–3
The Game, My 40 Years in Tennis (1979), Jack Kramer with Frank Deford (ISBN 0-399-12336-9)
Adapted from the article Lew Hoad, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.


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Medical ethics shares many principles with other branches of healthcare ethics, such as nursing ethics.
By the 18th and 19th centuries, medical ethics emerged as a more self-conscious discourse. For instance, authors such as the British Doctor Thomas Percival (1740-1804) of Manchester wrote about "medical jurisprudence" and reportedly coined the phrase "medical ethics." Percival's guidelines related to physician consultations have been criticized as being excessively protective of the home physician's reputation. Jeffrey Berlant is one such critic who considers Percival's codes of physician consultations as being an early example of the anti competitive, "guild", like nature of the physician community. In 1847, the American Medical Association adopted its first code of ethics, with this being based in large part upon Percival's work While the secularized field borrowed largely from Catholic medical ethics, in the 20th century a distinctively liberal Protestant approach was articulated by thinkers such as Joseph Fletcher. In the 1960s and 1970's, building upon liberal theory and procedural justice, much of the discourse of medical ethics went through a dramatic shift and largely reconfigured itself into bioethics.
Values such as these do not give answers as to how to handle a particular situation, but provide a useful framework for understanding conflicts.
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In the United Kingdom, General Medical Council provides clear overall modern guidance in the form of its ' Good Medical Practice' statement. Other organisations, such as the Medical Protection Society and a number of university departments, are often consulted by British doctors regarding issues relating to ethics.
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Many health care practitioners are driven by altruistic intentions: wishing to do good to others, or a desire to be helpful. This may be based on personal history, such as being born into a family with medical, psychological or social problems, and thence having learned to cope with this or having thereby become competent in helping others.
Sometimes this can be tainted by- often unconscious - selfish aspects: the "do-good'ers". In the medical profession this is regarded with caution, as it may lead persons to want to help others in cases where help is not really needed, or self-help would produce more benefit in the long term. There often exists a co-dependence relationship between such "do-good'ers" and "health care shoppers" (people who go from one practitioner to another; sometimes in a quest to find real solace, but sometimes also because true help would eliminate their disease or symptoms, and the social benefits the sick person may derive from them).
Beneficence, in health care, invites the more general interest in Preventive Health Care, where not disease, but health is the focus and modus operandi.
Autonomy is a general indicator of health. Many diseaes are characterised by loss of autonomy, in various manners. This makes autonomy an indicator for both personal well-being, and for the well-being of the profession. This has implications for the consideration of medical ethics: "is the aim of health care to do good, and benefit from it?"; or "is the aim of health care to do good to others, and have them, and society, benefit from this?". (Ethics - by definition - tries to find a beneficial balance between the activities of the individual and its effects on a collective.)
By considering Autonomy as a gauge parameter for (self) health care, the medical and ethical perspective both benefit from the implied reference to Health.
In practice, however, many treatments carry some risk of harm. In some circumstances, e.g. in desperate situations where the outcome without treatment will be grave, risky treatments that stand a high chance of harming the patient will be justified, as the risk of not treating is also very likely to do harm. So the principle of non-maleficence is not absolute, and must be balanced against the principle of beneficence (doing good).
American physicians interpret this principle to exclude the practice of euthanasia, though not all concur. Probably the most extreme example in recent history of the violation of the non-maleficence dictum was Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was convicted of second-degree homicide in Michigan in 1998 after demonstrating active euthanasia on the TV news show, 60 Minutes.
In some countries euthanasia is accepted as standard medical practice. Legal regulations assign this to the medical profession. In such nations, the aim is to alleviate the suffering of patients from diseases known to be incurable by the methods known in that culture. In that sense, the "Primum no Nocere" is based on the realisation that the inability of the medical expert to offer help, creates a known great and ongoing suffering in the patient. "Not acting" in those cases is believed to be more damaging than actively relieving the suffering of the patient. Evidently the ability to offer help depends on the limitation of what the practitioner can do. These limitations are characteristic for each different form of healing, and the legal system of the specific culture. The aim to "not do harm" is still the same. It gives the medical practitioner a responsibility to help the patient, in the intentional and active relief of suffering, in those cases where no cure can be offered.
"Non-maleficence" is defined by its cultural context. Every culture has its on cultural collective definitions of 'good' and 'evil'. Their definitions depend on the degree to which the culture sets its cultural values apart from nature. In some cultures the terms "good" and "evil" are absent: for them these words lack meaning as their experience of nature does not set them apart from nature. Other cultures place the humans in interaction with nature, some even place humans in a position of dominance over nature. The religions are the main means of expression of these considerations.
Depending on the cultural consensus conditioning (expressed by its religious, political and legal social system) the legal definition of Non-maleficence differs. Violation of non-maleficence is the subject of medical malpractice litigation. Regulations thereof differ, over time, per nation.
The assignment of philosophers or clergy will reflect the importance attached by the society to the basic values involved. An example from Sweden with Torbjörn Tännsjö on a couple of such committees indicates secular trends gaining influence.
Fee splitting and the payments of commissions to attract referrals of patients is considered unethical and unacceptable in most parts of the world. It is tolerated, though, in some areas of US medical care.
Beauchamp, Tom L., and Childress, James F. 2001. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Brody, Baruch A. 1988. Life and Death Decision Making. New York: Oxford University Press.
Curran, Charles E. "The Catholic Moral Tradition in Bioethics" in Walter and Klein (below).
Fletcher, Joseph F. 1954. Morals and Medicine: The Moral Problems of: The Patient's Right to Know the Truth, Contraception, Artificial Insemination, Sterilization, Euthanasia. Boston: Beacon.
The Hastings Center's Bibliography of Ethics, Biomedicine, and Professional Responsibility.
Kelly, David. The Emergence of Roman Catholic Medical Ethics in North America. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1979. See especially chapter 1, "Historical background to the discipline."
Sherwin, Susan. 1992. No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Veatch, Robert M. 1988. A Theory of Medical Ethics. New York: Basic Books.
Walter, Jennifer and Eran P. Klein eds. The Story of Bioethics: From seminal works to contemporary explorations Georgetown University Press, 2003