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Spicy weekend deals on XCOM 2, Doom, and Bayonetta 2
After last month's lull, it's weekend for games. New titles are launching left and right, like XCOM 2, which seems to be fairing well with critics and regular folks alike. If you're looking to pick it up, the best deal is a 23 percent ...
2K Marin's 22-minute demonstration of XCOM
2K Marin has been heavily criticized by fans of X-COM over its reboot for a number of reasons, many of which revolve around the game not being perceived as faithful to the original titles. The studio has since tweaked the game after a siza...
2K: XCOM changed because strategy games aren't modern
There have been mixed feelings concerning 2K Games' upcoming take on the XCOM franchise, and the fact that it bears little resemblance to the original series. According to 2K's president, the reason for this is simple -- strategy games just...
E3: XCOM is looking good, feels a little like Pokemon
When I saw XCOM at last E3, I thought it felt way too BioShock-ish and wasn't all that interested. Developer 2K Marin shared the sentiment on how the game was feeling like BioShock so they went into hiding after the initial showing to make...
E3: XCOM looks way better than it did last year
The team at 2K Marin started working on the XCOM reboot shortly after finishing BioShock 2, so it's understandable that they were still working in that mindset. Nonetheless, many fans of the dormant strategy franchise were disappointed tha...
E3: Max gives us an overview of XCOM
You can't take a beloved series and make it modern without knowing some of the old fans are going to get riled up. There's been a lot of anger -- and even some confusion -- when it comes to XCOM. From what I hear, what's being shown at E3 ...
XCOM reboot invades consoles and PC on March 6, 2012
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European Art: Part II
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865-1953)
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signed 'L. Lévy Dhurmer' (lower left)
Acquired by the present owner in Lyon circa 1980.
Though primarily a solitary artist, Lévy-Dhurmer found commonality with the artists, writers, and musicians of the Symbolist movement, which formed to provide an intellectual alternative to the purely visual painting of the Impressionists. The Symbolists chose subject matter which would suggest complex emotional and spiritual ideas rather than compositions that could be immediately understood. After about 1900, Lévy-Dhurmer's art begins to blur the lines between painting, music and poetry, and seeks to find ways to express the complex emotional and lyrical essence of these arts in his paintings. The result was a group of paintings and pastels in which the artist layered nuances of color and texture create a hazy, melodic atmosphere rather than concrete form or composition. The present work is part of a series of works in oil and pastel that the artist undertook around this time in which he sought to embody the auditory impressions created by the music of Beethoven, Fauré and Debussy through the female anatomy. Works like La Marche Funèbre, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest and The Appassionata, at the Petit-Palais, Paris, are some of the best known of the other works in this series.
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Many tourists visit Mexico for the deep-sea sport fishing.
Guests at the Capella Ixtapa Resort in Ixtapa, Mexico, cannot only enjoy world-class deep-sea fishing but can also experience a luxury romantic vacation, according to the Capella website. An experienced crew takes guests out on a deep-sea fishing adventure to catch big game like marlin, sailfish, dorado and tuna on board a yacht, small or medium boat, or panga. Back at the resort, the culinary staff will prepare and serve whatever fish guests catch. The resort itself sits on a secluded sea cliff, and guests can enjoy romantic amenities like a full-service spa, ocean-front suite accommodations and 24-hour room service. Other activities include water sports, swimming with dolphins and hiking.
Known around the world for high-quality sport fishing, Mazatlan is also home to the Pueblo Bonita Emerald Bay resort. As the Pueblo Bonita website states, the resort partners with Anglers Inn Fishing Club to provide guests with a deep-sea or fresh-water fishing experience. Guests can fish for large-mouth bass in Mexico's Lake El Salto, or catch roosterfish, grouper, snapper, marlin and sailfish in Emerald Bay. The all-suite resort includes junior and master suites with balconies or patios, six restaurants and bars, spa, beauty salon, fitness center and daily activities. Other resort activities include water sports, shopping excursions and eco tours.
Another popular destination for fishing in Mexico, The Tides Zihuatanejo combines fishing with romance in a Mexican vacation. Choose from half-day in-shore trips or full-day deep-water excursions where guests can catch everything from sailfish to marlin to tuna, according to The Tides website. The Tides resort concierges arrange fishing charters for resort guests, provide transportation to and from the marinas, and the resort chefs will even prepare any of the fish guests catch. With only 70 guestrooms and suites, The Tides creates an intimate and romantic atmosphere for vacationers. Resort amenities and activities include a private beach, gardens all throughout the grounds, ocean and jungle views, spa, fitness center and water and land sports.
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Keynote Speech by Hong Kong Secretary for Justice at ICC Commercial Mediation Workshop November 12, 2010 3 Feb 2011 12:00 am
This article is reproduced from www.mediate.com
by Wong Yan Lung, SC
Thank you very much for inviting me to address you at your workshop on mediating commercial disputes this afternoon.
I have to say time really flies. It has been two years since the ICC extended its arbitration arm to Asia and established its branch Secretariat in Hong Kong. I am very pleased to know that things are working well with you, and I also notice from your letterhead that you have established yourself as ICC V Hong Kong, China, which signifies the establishment of your strategic presence here.
I note from the title of your workshop that ADR means Amicable Dispute Resolution. It points more to mediation which is the subject of todays workshop. But as many of you know, ADR also stands for Alternative Dispute Resolution, traditionally represented by arbitration.
And talking about Arbitration, I hope you have been informed that just two days ago, the new Arbitration Ordinance was passed in the Legislative Council. This is truly a landmark in the development of ADR in Hong Kong.
The Ordinance introduces a unitary regime for all types of arbitration on the basis of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. It will make our arbitration law more user-friendly to the international business community.In line with the Model Law, the Ordinance will accord a greater degree of autonomy to the parties in the conduct of arbitral proceedings and limits the extent to which the court can intervene in the arbitration to the circumstances as expressly provided for in the Ordinance.
References to Mediation in the new Arbitration Ordinance
Fresh from the legislative oven, this new Arbitration Ordinance touches on mediation as well. If you dont know about that, can I just provide you with a quick snapshot:
Division 2 of Part 4 of the new Ordinance is devoted to Mediators.Section 32 therein covers the appointment of mediator in an arbitration agreement. It also provides that no objection can be made against an arbitrator solely on the basis that the same person had acted previously as a mediator in the dispute.
Section 33 provides that an arbitrator may act as a mediator after the arbitration has commenced provided all parties consent in writing.It further provides if an arbitrator acts as a mediator, the arbitral proceedings must be stayed to facilitate the conduct of the mediation.It also deals with the disclosure obligation where the arbitrator obtains information from a party during the mediation proceedings conducted by the arbitrator as a mediator.
I believe, later on, you have a session on Med-Arb which will deal with the benefits and pitfalls of a composite mechanism enabling one to switch from arbitration to mediation, and vice versa. No doubt I think the new Ordinance will have some bearing on the topic.
In connection with the combined use of arbitration and mediation, some of you may be aware that the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau of the Hong Kong Government has proposed the establishment of a Financial Disputes Resolution Centre in Hong Kong. This new centre will handle financial disputes using mediation and arbitration. This proposal was put to public consultation this year and it is expected that there will be an announcement soon on whether or not the Centre will be set up.
The idea of setting up such a centre was triggered by the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and the resulting complaints and claims by the disgruntled investors, numbering an estimated 48,000 between them who had bought HK$20 billion of financial products associated with Lehman Brothers. Incentive to set up such a centre also came from a successful pilot scheme set up by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Hong Kong Mediation Council to assist these Lehman Brothers investors to resolve their disputes with the banks through mediation and arbitration. By August 2010, 88 mediations had been conducted under the umbrella of this HKMA Scheme; 77 of these achieved full settlement, resulting in a settlement rate of around 88 per cent.
How is Mediation relevant to you?
Now, having the potential to obtain favourable results such as these, mediation is indeed increasingly being used and integrated into legal systems around the world.Hong Kong is actively following this global trend.
If you are in business, mediation is highly relevant because if any of your commercial disputes go to court, you are likely to be advised by your in-house counsel and panel lawyers to consider mediation to resolve the dispute and to engage in litigation only as a last resort.
As experienced businessmen, no doubt you will be acutely conscious of your business bottomline and will be managing your risks astutely when it comes to incurring litigation costs.In the court case of iRiver (Hong Kong) v. Thakral (2008) 4 HKLRD 1000, which is a case relating to supply of MP3 players, the dispute arose in 2004 and the appeal was conducted in 2008. The damages awarded in this case were only HK$1 million but costs incurred were HK$4.7 million.It is not surprising that the Court of Appeal expressed regret that the parties had not explored mediation to resolve their dispute.
Current developments in Mediation
Here in Hong Kong, while mediation has established a foothold in areas such as family disputes and construction contract disputes, there is indeed a need for a concerted and focused effort to promote and facilitate the wider use of mediation. The benefits of mediation should be made known to a wider segment and to more diverse elements of the Hong Kong society. It should also cover a broader range of disputes ranging from complex commercial disputes to conflicts among ordinary citizens.
Hong Kong is very unique in that all stakeholders, by that I mean the Judiciary, the Government, the legal professions and of course the mediators themselves, and academia, are all speaking with the same voice in the promotion of mediation.
The Hong Kong Judiciary has taken a leading role in this regard.The Civil Justice Reform, implemented by the Judiciary in 2009, emphasises the facilitation of dispute settlement. The Court has since taken on the duty as part of active case management to encourage the parties to use alternative dispute resolution. Practice Direction 31 on Mediation, commonly known as PD 31, requires the parties to civil litigation to file a Mediation Certificate, a Mediation Notice and Response.
This procedural requirement ensures the parties and their legal advisers will attempt mediation before litigation. It provides a mechanism for the parties to enter into a dialogue through mediation. There are potential cost sanctions for any party who chooses not to attempt mediation. The Court will take into account the conduct of the parties in whether they have unreasonably refused to consider mediation.
As for the Government, a Working Group on Mediation was set up under my chairmanship, which had almost all stakeholders represented. We have worked together to make recommendations as to how to promote and facilitate the wider and sustainable use of mediation in Hong Kong.
The Working Group published a Report, including 48 recommendations, earlier in February this year. A three months public consultation was launched and over 80 written submissions were received. The valuable feedback from mediation stakeholders and the public will help us map the way forward for mediation in Hong Kong
The mediation service providers themselves are also rallying their efforts. In July this year, the Joint Mediation Helpline Office was set up by eight mediation service providers to provide a one-stop mediation referral service for parties in need of mediation services. The Helpline Office is located at the High Court Building and acts as a central referral agency.
This Office and the participating service providers have adopted the Hong Kong Mediation Code, which is a Code of Ethics for mediators promulgated by the Working Group on Mediation. The service providers have also set up robust complaints resolution processes to enforce compliance of the Code.
But mediation cannot take off in the commercial world unless the end users are prepared to give it a try. One of the recommendations of the Working Group on Mediation is to further the promotion of the Mediate First pledge within the business and commercial areas. The Mediate First pledge is a statement of policy by business, companies and trade organisations to use mediation as a preferred method to resolve both internal and external business related disputes. If your companies or trade organisations, or your clients, have not yet signed the pledge, I would encourage you and your clients to do so, and to join the ranks of more than 100 companies and trade organisations in Hong Kong who had already pitched in.
Way Forward for Mediation in Hong Kong
The Working Group on Mediation has now completed its work according to its terms of reference. Going forward, in order to continue with the momentum built up in the development of mediation in Hong Kong by the Working Group, I am in the process of setting up a Mediation Task Force. This new body will advise on and assist in the implementation of the recommendations set out in the Report of the Working Group.
Some of the key issues identified from the public consultation that the Mediation Task Force will be focusing on include:
* Continuing with the public education and promotion of mediation;
* Secondly, accreditation and training of mediators through the establishment of a single accreditation body. There has been some controversy as to the manner in which we arrived at accreditation, but we received quite strong views from the consultation that there should be a single body and that the process should be expedited. So, we will be looking at that very closely with the stakeholders;
* Thirdly, the promulgation of a Mediation Ordinance. My department will be responsible for pursuing that. As you know, for those of you who have read the Report, we in fact have decided that there are certain essential components of the mediation procedures, features like confidentiality and so on, which will be strengthened by the existence of a legislative framework.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Hong Kong aspires to be the leading regional dispute resolution centre. We shall continue to make the most of our unique and strategic position as the most international city and the only common law jurisdiction within the PRC.
About 3 weeks ago on October 25, I signed a Co-operation Arrangement with the Vice Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), which is the overseeing body of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). One of the aims of the Arrangement is to strengthen the cooperation between the arbitration and mediation bodies based in Hong Kong and bodies like CIETAC of the Mainland.
The arrangement is yet another confirmation of the role of Hong Kong in providing legal services for and fostering legal cooperation with the Mainland, as she continues to march into the global economy.
Well, I will stop here. You have an exciting Workshop programme on the practical aspects of mediation ahead of you and I wish you all a successful Workshop.


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Eric Zimmerman spoke eloquently on games as the second day keynote at DevLearn. In it, he talked about how systems thinking was important, how games are systems of rules and consequently develop systems thinking. He talked about how our play brings meaning to the rules, and that creating spaces of possible outcomes allow us to explore.
He ended up advocating that we design for possibilities of unexpected outcomes to create meaning for our learners. Cammy Bean has blogged the presentation too.


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Inpeco Recognized by Frost & Sullivan as Company of the Year in the Clinical Laboratory Automation Market
Frost & Sullivan recognizes Inpeco for designing, implementing, and integrating world-class total laboratory automation (TLA) solutions
Inpeco Group has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Global Company of the Year from the Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, in the Clinical Laboratory Automation market sector.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of the Year Award to the organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.
According to Frost & Sullivan, Inpeco has set new standards in diagnostics services and has been a game-changer in automating and controlling the overall sample journey.
"Inpeco is emerging as the only company that has a robust value proposition for the automation and control of the Total Testing Process, from its origination point (the collection) till its end (results delivery)," said Divyaa Ravishankar Industry Principal. "Unlike competing solutions, Inpeco's solutions enable a range of automation modules to perform all routine tasks before, during, and after the analytical phase".
Able to connect with over 50 different analyzers of all major specialties, Inpeco's FlexLabTM has unmatched integration capabilities, uniquely supports complex installations with high workloads (above 10,000 samples per hour), and can be fully customized.
"It is a great honor for the Inpeco Group to receive such a prestigious award in the field of clinical laboratory automation" said Gian Andrea Pedrazzini, president of the Group; "our commitment to build innovative solutions and meet customer needs have certainly led us to achieve this important goal. The uniqueness of our products, the design capacity and the number of patents we have designed are key elements of our growth strategy which, since 1998, has allowed us to achieve a leading position in the market".
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=head1 poparazzi.pl

=cut

=head1 Synopsis

    This application is a sparse application.

    The program narrative begins in the MAIN block at the bottom of
    the file

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 File History

    1/1/1970  - MOA  - first implementation of the app.

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 Module Dependencies

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Getopt::Long;
    use Switch;
    use POP;

    use Poparazzi;

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# only globals PLEASE!

our $true  = ( 1 == 1 );
our $false = ( 1 == 0 );

# loader section

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use Switch;
use POP;

use Poparazzi;

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head1 Subroutines

    The list of subroutines for this file

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 About POP Sparse Application Subroutines

    This is a sparse application file.  There is a fixed number of subroutines
    in any POP sparse application:

        1 print_usage($;);
        2 parse_commandline_arguments($;);
        3 init_local_data($;);
        4 the MAIN block

    All other subroutines are pulled in from external libraries (module files).

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# POD TRICK:  if there is no space between the subroutine name and '(' the
# translator should print the name in courier new, otherwise it will treat  the
# name  as a normal head3 title. This is the only fancy POD in POP.

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 print_usage($;$)

    This prints the usage message and an optional error message  and exits;

    Example:

        print_usage($args_href, $msg);

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub print_usage ($;$) {

    my $sub = ( caller(0) )[3];

    my $args_href  = shift;
    my $msg        = shift;

    my $usage_str;

    if ( ! $args_href->{'help_arg'} ) {

       $usage_str = "

    usage: poparazzi [options] COMMAND

        ";

        $usage_str .= $msg if defined $msg;

        print "$usage_str\n\n";
        exit $false;
    }

}

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 parse_commandline_arguments($;)

    This routine parses the arguments to the application from the commandline.
    It should be the first subroutine called from MAIN.

    Usage:

        $args_href = parse_commandline_arguments ($args_href);

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub parse_commandline_arguments ($;) {

    my $sub = ( caller(0) )[3];
    trace_enter($sub);

    my $args_href = shift;

    my $arg_cnt = @ARGV;
    $args_href->{'arg_cnt'} = $arg_cnt;

    Getopt::Long::Configure("bundling");

    # parameter processing

 # Getopt tutorial:
 # "x|xls=s"  - will take a flag -x or --xls followed by a string ( -x string ).
 #            - and assign the sring to the variable (below)
 # "h|help"   - will take -h or --help as a flag  ( --help ).
 #            - and assign $true to a variable.

    my $result = GetOptions(

        "h|help"    => \$args_href->{'help_arg'},
        "t|trace"   => \$args_href->{'trace_arg'},
        "v|version" => \$args_href->{'version_arg'},

        # add more...
    );

    my $msg;
    # check for Getopt errors - $result is 1 on success
    if ( $result != 1 ) {
        $msg = "Unknown options argument";
        print_usage($args_href, $msg);
    }

    if ( $args_href->{'version_arg'} ) {
        return $args_href;
    }

    # set the valid command list here and add to args_href
    my @cmds_array =
      ( 'new.file.set', 'add.pkgs', 'add.subs', 'move.to.lib', 'check.pod' );
    $args_href->{'cmdlist_aref'} = \@cmds_array;

    # get the command.  Last element from the commandline
    my $cmd = $ARGV[$#ARGV];

    if ( !$cmd and $arg_cnt == 0 ) {
        $msg = "You need to supply a COMMAND";
        print_usage($args_href, $msg);
    }

    # check the cmd against the list of commands
    if ( $cmd and !grep( /^$cmd$/, @cmds_array ) ) {
        $msg = "Invalid COMMAND";
    }
    $args_href->{'cmd'} = lc $cmd;

    # trace argument
    $ENV{POP_TRACE} = $true if $args_href->{'trace_arg'};

    # help argument handled in get_local_data()

    # all options have been handled, but still need a cmd to proceed
    $msg = "You need to supply a COMMAND";
    print_usage($args_href, $msg) if ! $cmd;

    # always the only return value
    return $args_href;

}

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 init_local_data($;)

    This routine initializes values in the $args_href which are
    specific to this application and this invocation.

    This should be the last init routine called from the MAIN block .

    Usage:

        $args_href = init_local_data($args_href);

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub init_local_data ($;) {

    my $sub = ( caller(0) )[3];
    trace_enter($sub);

    my $args_href = shift;

    # some local data
    my $app_name = $args_href->{'short_app_name'};
    my $version  = "1.0";

    $args_href->{'version'}  = $version;
    $args_href->{'app_name'} = $app_name;

    if ( $args_href->{'version_arg'} ) {

        # print version information
        my $msg = "

             $app_name

             Version ($version)
             Copyright Man of Action 2014

        ";
        print "$msg\n";

        trace_exit($sub);
        exit 0;
    }

    if ( $args_href->{'help_arg'} ) {

        my $usage_str = $args_href->{'poparazzi_help_msg'};

        print "$usage_str\n";
    }

    trace_exit($sub);
    return $args_href;
}

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head3 MAIN()

    The main entry point to the application.

    This is where the Developer starts the POP program narrative for
    the Reader.

=cut

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

{    # MAIN main Main block

    my $sub =
      "MAIN";    # here, $sub is a literal string, since 'MAIN' is just a block
    trace_enter($sub);

    my $args_href;

    # initialize the shared data for the application

    $args_href = parse_commandline_arguments($args_href);    # parse arguments
    $args_href = poparazzi_init_common_data($args_href);     # module level init
    $args_href = init_local_data($args_href);                # app level init

    my $cmd = $args_href->{'cmd'};
    if ( !$cmd ) {
        print "ERROR:  Made it to MAIN with an empty cmd\n";
        exit;
    }

    #
    #   Start of the Narrative for the Reader
    #
    #

    # reusable local variables
    my ( $aref, $href, @array, $str );

    #
    # get the cmd_index of the command
    # cmds are ('new.file.set', 'add.pkgs', 'add.subs', 'movetolib','checkpod')
    #
    my $cmd_index = 0;
    $aref = $args_href->{'cmdlist_aref'};
    foreach my $cmd_str (@$aref) {
        last if ( $cmd_str eq $cmd );
        $cmd_index++;
    }

    #
    #   This is the main driver switch for handling commands
    #   from the commandline
    #

    switch ($cmd_index) {

        # new command
        case 0 { poparazzi_create_new_project($args_href) }

        # add.pkgs
        case 1 {
            my $code_href = poparazzi_add_pkgs_to_module_file($args_href);
            ref_dump($code_href);
        }

        # add.subs
        case 2 { poparazzi_add_subs_to_module_file($args_href) }

        # movetolib
        case 3 { poparazzi_move_subs_to_lib($args_href) }

        # checkpod
        case 4 { poparazzi_check_pod_headers($args_href) }

        # default
        else { print "Could not resolve command '$cmd'\n"; exit $false }

    }

    my $status = 0;

   #my $status = poparazzi_subroutine($args_href);    # call a Module subroutine

    if ( $status == 0 ) {

        # zero or empty string is equates to failure

        print "BACK to APP\n";
    }

    trace_exit($sub);
    exit $status;

}    # end of MAIN

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=head1 ^

=cut

# EOF

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An Open Letter to Representative of the World Medical Association opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide from a leading psychiatrist..
This letter was published by the Psychiatric Times on October 3, 2018.
Dr Mark Komrad
I am writing to WMA representatives who may be going to Reykjavik this week. I would like to communicate my concern about the current effort of the Royal Dutch Psychiatric Association to try and influence the WMA to "go neutral" on the issue of medical euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. This is an effort by elements in the WMA that have been normalizing a remarkably slippery slope for over 16 years. It is an attempt to export to the world medical community a uniquely extreme and problematic distortion in the history of medical ethics. The living laboratory of the Netherlands and Belgium demonstrates that a "slippery slope" is not just a theoretical concern. It is a profoundly disturbing reality that has developed after these countries allowed the killing of certain patients on request to be a "treatment plan" in the House of Medicine in 2002. In that year, these countries removed any distinction between terminal/nonterminal conditions and physical/mental suffering, in the criteria for medical euthanasia. That development opened euthanasia to people with psychiatric disorders. Now, well over 100 psychiatric patients are euthanized on request each year in Benelux, supported by the same treating psychiatrists who had previously been trying to prevent their suicides.
* Canadian and Dutch Medical Associations pressure World Medical Association to change their policy opposing euthanasia (Link).
As a clinical psychiatrist and medical ethicist of 35 years I have been quite active, both nationally and internationally, lecturing and speaking against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. I have been especially concerned about and arguing against the extension of these practices to include psychiatric patients in Belgium and the Netherlands. Along with a colleague, I crafted and shepherded through to approval the new Position Statement on Medical Euthanasia of the Non-Terminally Ill by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and its strong ethical stance against psychiatrists participating in bringing death to non-terminally ill patients. [The APA remains, with the AMA, opposed to all physician assisted suicide and medical euthanasia, but we needed a special policy statement regarding the non-terminally ill, in light of what is happening with psychiatric patients in Benelux].
The WMA is keeper of the covenantial Community of Medicine. which has carefully evolved and "professed" a clear ethos since our Hippocratic origins. Our "profession" has a venerable history in its stance against euthanasia and related practices, which has been thoughtfully cultivated throughout the history of countries that have arisen and fallen, some of which now exist as part of the WMA. The WMA's current stance against euthanasia and assisted suicide is a strong protection against contemporary attempts to bend medical ethics to social demands—attempts we have seen before in the era of eugenics, forced sterilization, the Nazi T4 program, and the Holocaust—all which were done with the complicity of medical organizations and the participation of the leading physicians of their time. These examples remind us that medical ethics are indeed vulnerable. It is vital that the WMA preserve its current, principled, and enduring stance against physicians providing death to their patients, not merely getting out of the way of natural death while ministering to patients' suffering. The words of Margaret Meade to a psychiatrist friend are worth remembering:
"The followers of Hippocrates were dedicated completely to life under all circumstances, regardless of rank, age, or intellect—the life of a slave, emperor, foreign man, defective child. . . This is a priceless legacy which we cannot afford to tarnish. But society has repeatedly attempted to make the physician into the killer… It is the duty of society to protect the physician from such requests."
I hope that as representatives to the WMA you would consider that organization's ongoing mission to protect physicians from such requests. Please utilize your presence at the WMA to sustain this 2300-year-old Hippocratic ethos.
I am a psychiatrist on the faculty of Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, as well as the Ethicist-in-Residence for the Sheppard Pratt Health Systems in Maryland (the largest nonprofit provider of psychiatric care in the region). In my travels throughout North America and Europe to address this issue, I speak about the venerable history of medical ethics, and I particularly articulate the fundamental ethos of psychiatry— we prevent suicide, not provide it.
I urge you and other WMA representatives to spend a few minutes listening to the two-part podcast I did for Psychiatric Times on this issue:
Part I: Focus on Belgium and the Netherlands, which reviews what is happening in those countries which rapidly moved beyond euthanasia for the terminally ill to the non-terminal, and are now on the verge of removing any medical criterion— pushing for physicians to be able to voluntarily euthanize those who are "tired of life," or feel they have "completed" life.
Part II: Focus on Canada, which also reviews attempts to thwart physician conscientious objection in Ontario.
I would welcome further correspondence on this matter.
Mark S. Komrad M.D., DFAPA, DACP Faculty of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Author of: "You Need Help: A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling."
www.komradmd.com
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Milk is not a favorite beverage for the Greeks, whose dairy products of choice are yogurt and cheese. Yogurt, usually made at home, is used as a snack or ingredient in many dishes. Cheeses vary from mild to strong and may be grated for use in cookery or cut into cubes for salads or appetizers. Most popular is Feta, a pungent goat's-milk cheese preserved in brine. Other cheeses used are: mild Kasseri; Mizzithra made from ewe's milk and resembling cottage cheese; and Kefalotiri, which is a salty and hard grating cheese. Manouri and Graviera are used much like Feta; all three lend a pronounced flavor to tyropitas and spanakopitas, a marriage of phyllo pastry with the cheese as filling. Saganaki is an appetizer of deep-fried flour-dusted cheese squares served hot and sprinkled with fresh lemon juice.
As in most Mediterranean countries, Greek fruits are noted for their luscious ripe tastes and are enjoyed fresh or lovingly preserved in thick heavy syrups to be served to guests accompanied with a glass of fresh cold water. Served in this way, fruits are called spoon sweets. Sometimes these are also made from selected tiny vegetables such as tomatoes. Lemons and other citrus fruits are used most widely. In season there is also a choice of grapes, figs, quinces, strawberries, cherries, apricots, plums, peaches, and many varieties of apples. Special autumn favorites are peponi, a Greek melon resembling both a honeydew and a cantaloupe, and karpouzi, a richly flavored type of watermelon.
Vegetables have a special place in the Greek menu and they are used frequently. Carrots, potatoes, and small beets are year round staples, while aubergine (eggplant) and courgette (zucchini) head the list of seasonal favorites. These may be made into pickles, stuffed and baked, or sliced and layered into casseroles with sauce and cheese. Even the zucchini flowers are considered a special treat and served batter dipped and fried. Kolokithokorfades is a zucchini flower specialty where the flowers are gently filled with a cheese mixture before being dipped in batter and fried. Artichokes, okra, broad beans and lima beans, cauliflower, fresh peas, tomatoes and cucumbers as well as many wild greens such as mustard, dandelion, and spinach are collectively known as horta.
Horta is cleaned, chopped and boiled, then served with lemon juice and oil. But other vegetable preparations may be more elaborate, including bechamel sauce and cheeses; layered between phyllo pastry and cheeses; or scooped out and baked with fillings. Dolmadakia are meat and rice stuffed vine (grape) leaves. Vegetables can also be a part of pilafs (with rice), yeast dough, and sometimes breads (zucchini bread) and vegetables can be a light meal when combined with eggs to make omelets or souffles.
A meal (other than breakfast) without fresh or cooked vegetables of some kind is rare. A main course of meat or cheese is accompanied by salata. This term is loosely used to include cooked, chilled vegetables served with oil and lemon and a sprinkling of herbs or the Greek salata, a carefully constructed mountain of fresh greens (sometimes over a mound of potato salad), garnished with black olives, cubed Feta, tomato and cucumber chunks all shimmering with oil and lemon juice and fragrant with fresh oregano.
Olives are of special importance in Greece. Greeks prefer their olives black, but these may be brined, pickled, or even spiced and are a part of almost every meal. Sometimes bread and olives form a simple meal.
MEATS AND ALTERNATES
Goats are plentiful in Greece, but because they are generous with their milk they are seldom used as food. Goat's milk, and the Feta cheese made from it, are important staples in the Greek diet. Some pigs and chickens are available, but the staple Greek meat is lamb. Meat is generally scarce and expensive, so every part of the animal is used and the main cookery methods promote tenderness and "stretch" the flavor. The sweet nutty flavor of lamb blends well with all vegetables, and often a dish is considered different because of the different herbs used: spearmint, rosemary, oregano, and even cinnamon. Lemon juice and/or yogurt flavor as well as tenderize.
Eggs are not plentiful in Greece but are used in pastries, omelets, and the famed avgolemono sauce used to finish soups, glaze fish and meat dishes, top casseroles, and add a golden lemon touch to vegetables.
People living on the islands and near coastal regions enjoy fish and seafood dishes prepared from recipes that date to Greece's Golden Age: grilling with herbs, oil and lemon juice; baking in parchment, and baking fish on a bed of chopped vegetables. Dishes may include eels (a traditional Christmas dish), squid, octopus, shrimps, cod, red mullet and sun-dried petalia. Those who do not live near the sea make every effort to obtain fresh fish and seafood for they are great favorites.
Fish roe is considered a special delicacy and may be made into small cakes and fried in oil (tarama kefthetes) or made into taramosalata, the popular dip used as an appetizer. This creamy mixture is made by pureeing soft white bread, fish roe, onions, olive oil, and lemon juice. It is served either from a bowl garnished with bread chunks and black olives, or as a filling for scooped-out cucumbers and small tomatoes.
Another valuable source of protein is available in the many varieties of nuts: almonds, pine nuts, walnuts, pistachios, and chestnuts. These are used in pastries and confections and often mixed with rice as a stuffing for vegetables or as a pilaf. Sometimes choice nuts will be arranged on a serving platter and honey poured over to be served as spoon sweets for guests.
Thick and hearty lentil soup (faki soupa) and bean soup (fasolada) are favorites in Greek cuisine. They have often satisfied appetites in hard times, and also are the Lenten staples when the consumption of meat is forbidden.
BREADS AND GRAINS
Bread is on the table for all meals. Kouloura, a crusty white bread baked in a ring shape and sprinkled with sesame seeds, is typical. Some wholegrain breads are used with appetizers (mezedakia) and some specialty dishes, but white breads are preferred. Wheat flour is used for breads and pastries.
Rice and pastas are eaten in small quantities, mostly in soups, in occasional casserole dishes or in pilafs to add variety to the menu. Pilaf is the name given to a rice-based dish of Turkish origin where sauced meat and/or vegetables are served either with molded rice or over a mound of rice.
Phyllo pastry is one of the most versatile. Modern Greek women buy the commercially made paper-thin sheets ("phyllo" means "leaves"). Liberally spread with oil or melted butter, they can be folded, rolled, layered, or twisted into endless sweet or savory delights.
Olive oil is of prime importance in the Greek kitchen. Some fats and margarines are made with olive oil and flavored like butter. Butter is used especially for its taste in baked goods.
SWEETS AND SNACKS
The traditional ending to a Greek meal, and a favorite snack in itself, is fresh fruit. But this is not to say that Greeks don't have a sweet tooth. The offering of sweets is an important symbol of hospitality in the home, and a sweet pastry with Turkish coffee makes a pleasant break any time of day. Special breads and baked goods are made for festive occasions and these are crunchy with nuts and spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Baklava (layered nut-filled phyllo), kataifia (sweetened shredded wheat), and even a simple semolina cake called ravani are all enhanced with a drenching of hot thick syrup right after baking. Other confections include fritters (loukomathes), rich buttery cookies (kourabiedes), beignets (svingi), and sugared nuts and dried fruits.
Sweets are always served with a drink – Turkish coffee, Ouzo, or a simple but welcome glass of cold water.
Homemakers take great pride in preparing treasured recipes for spoon sweets. Choice fruits in season are carefully preserved in thick sugar syrups and enjoyed with guests anytime but especially in winter when fruits are not available. They may be made from citrus peels (lemon, limes, oranges), grapes, fresh figs, cherries, and even eggplant or tiny tomatoes.
Garlic, leeks, and many types of onions are widely available and used in most fish, vegetable, or meat dishes. In fact, the classic stefado (beef stew) owes its rich flavor to slowly simmered onions. Except for skordalia – a potent garlic mayonnaise, forerunner of the French aioli – garlic is used in moderation. A surprise to some tastes is the use of cinnamon, either stick or powdered, in many meat dishes.
Greek cooking has a pleasant freshness that comes from the generous use of fresh lemon and wild herbs. Together with lemon, garlic and onions, parsley and celery leaves, mint, oregano and green dill (not the dill seeds) are most frequently used. Chamomile and sage are used as herbal teas, while both marjoram and basil are used as potted plants rather than seasonings. In fact, most Greek homes have a little pot of basil for good luck and to give as a sign of affection – and to keep away flies and mosquitoes.
Greeks were among the first to use capers pickled in wine vinegar and used in sauces or as a garnish. Baked with bread, sesame seeds are a favorite, and sesame seed oil is used in the confection called halva (there is also a cake called halva made from semolina). Pureed seeds are used in the appetizer called tahini, a popular dip in many Mediterranean countries.
Three other flavors tease the palate: orange flower water, retsina, and mastic. Orange flower water is extracted from the oil of orange blossoms and is used in delicate sweets. Retsina is pine-flavored resin extracted from pine trees and gives its name to the well-known white Greek wine. Mastic is made from a resinous shrub and gives its clean pungent flavor to sweets, breads, and even chewing gum, and is popular in many Balkan countries too. The most widely known use of mastic is in the potent drink Mastika distilled on the Greek island of Chios.
Water, thirst-quencher, refresher, and symbol of hospitality, is the most frequently used beverage in Greece. Natural wellsprings are respected and cherished and many mark the location of monasteries and villages. Water and a sweet will he offered to a stranger even before the individual's name is known; water brings men to the taverns and the zacharoplasteion (pastry shops) where sometimes the classic water may be replaced with Ouzo or Turkish coffee prepared exactly to taste. Water brings women to the wells to fill their jugs and also to socialize.
Ouzo, reputedly the favorite drink of Alexander the Great and believed to be the inspiration for Pastis and Pernod, is prepared by infusing distilled grape spirit with a blend of fennel, aniseed, saponaria, and mastic. The predominant flavor is licorice-like; it can be taken straight or with water when it turns milky.
Turkish coffee is a pleasant relic from the Turkish occupation and is always prepared to individual preference: glikos, very sweet; metrios, half sugar and half coffee; schetos, black. Actually, "to taste" means that there are more than thirty precise levels of flavor and preferred sweetness.
The usual beverage with meals is either cold water or homemade wine; more recently, children have been encouraged to drink milk. Retsina, the white resin-flavored wine considered so typical of Greece, is actually only one of many varieties, both red and white, and not all are treated with resin. Many legends describe the origins of the resin-flavored wine but the most persistent tells of Greeks pouring the resin over their wines during the early part of Turkish domination to prevent their conquerors from taking their wines. Later, when the Greeks tasted the resinous wine, they enjoyed it. Most visitors react like the Turks and drink something else. Fix and Alpha are Greek beers; imported ones are preferred.
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