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Tony Delamothe: The Ethics of Assisted Dying – Lord Harries's lecture
Because the House of Commons won't touch end of life issues with a bargepole the House of Lords is the place to watch.
So I went to hear the inaugural Elson Ethics Lecture, given by Lord Richard Harries of Pentregarth, on the ethics of assisted dying.(Held at Windsor Castle, we entered via the Henry VIII gate – now there's a man who made a few end of life decisions in his time.)
As a life peer since he retired as Bishop of Oxford in 2006, Harries has had a ring side seat as the Lords have debated a range of options to loosen the strictures against assisted dying – none of them going anywhere.
His lecture was short on emphatically stated beliefs and long on description of the issues. By the end, I wondered whether he was still making up his mind on where he stood.
He started by seeking to dispel some misconceptions about the Christian position on several end of life questions. His church accepts the principle of "double effect" – ie it's legitimate to give patients large doses of morphine to relieve their suffering, even if this hastens their death. (Intentions, not outcome, are apparently crucial here.) And the church has no problems with legally binding advance directives.
Next, Lord Harries gave four reasons why the House of Lords has rejected any change of legislation. Firstly, they were anxious that the old and vulnerable might feel under pressure to request euthanasia if they felt burdensome to others. Secondly, a change in the law might subtly change the relationship between patient and doctor. Thirdly, if assisted dying became legal it might reduce the resources available for palliative care and research. (Harries thought it telling that he has not met a single palliative care doctor who has been in favour of changing the law.) And lastly was the ever present danger of "the slippery slope" – however a law was framed who knew how it might end up?
Later on he denied that it was a cabal of bishops, rabbis, and imams (in Guardian columnist's Polly Toynbee's words) who had thwarted any change to the legislation: the opposition was led by palliative care doctors
Moving on to the ethics of the act itself – he believed there were circumstances where it was acceptable to take your own or another's life. He cited the example of a driver trapped in a burning tanker who asked to be shot. To spare him the agony of being burnt alive Harris thought it was right to accede to his request. But Harries was uncomfortable about legislating for what he saw as these extreme exceptions: "From a Christian point of view, I have hesitations."
He understood the claims for individual autonomy, he said – after all, the freedom to take responsibility for our lives and decisions is one of the things that makes us human. But autonomy doesn't trump everything else – we live in a web of mutual dependence: "we are people only through our relationships with others." Human beings have worth and dignity at all times – it doesn't depend on our ability to take control of our own lives.
Couldn't acceding to a request to end someone's life be construed as compassion? Not necessarily, thought Harries. Acceding to a request is not always the most loving thing to do – think of the suicidal teenager. And from a Christian point of view he thought that there were no situations from which some good could not emerge.
"These four quite specific Christian considerations" made him "very cautious in asking for a change in law for oneself." But then he said that he really didn't know how he would behave (were he to become terminally ill.) And perhaps oddly for a man appointed to a legislative body he said nothing about changing the law for those who may not share his specific considerations.
The experience in the US state of Oregon has loomed large in discussions about assisted dying, and Harries then detailed what has happened there over the past decade. In summary, Oregon's experience provided no support for two of the four objections that swayed the House of Lords. It wasn't the old and the vulnerable who availed themselves of lethal prescriptions in Oregon: it was largely white, well educated people (average age 72). It seemed that only a small minority of prescriptions were ever acted on – people wanted the reassurance of a way out, were they ever to need it. The Oregon Hospice Association, initially totally opposed to the new law, had found that demand for hospice places had risen appreciably.
Harries provided the caveats that this was the experience "of just one isolated state" and that it has been "alleged that the system of reporting abuses is not thorough" – without saying who had alleged this and what their evidence was.
Citing the unpredicted outcome of the Abortion Act 1967 (where many more abortions have been performed than were envisaged), he remained seriously concerned about the possibility of the slippery slope. He recognised two forms. The first was the expansion of conditions that qualified for assisted dying (in Belgium apparently anyone over 18 can request it, regardless of underlying condition). And secondly was the drift from voluntary euthanasia (where the patient requests it) to involuntary euthanasia (where doctors and families decide). There had been a "huge debate on what has happened in the Netherlands," with people arguing that the movement from voluntary to involuntary euthanasia occurred there because voluntary euthanasia was legal.
As for Britain, he wondered whether society would be content to know the factors that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) would take into account when faced by a case of assisted suicide. Or would they still want a change in law? Harries looked like he hoped for the former.
After his speech he answered a series of questions from Martin Stanford, presenter at Sky Television. The first was triggered by the DPP's list of factors for and against prosecution. Instead of this, "Wouldn't it be better to have a law that people didn't have to break?" asked Stanford. Lord Harries was concerned by the message that this would send out to society: "The current law has a positive impact. It says that everybody's life remains of worth and value."
He wasn't impressed that such a high proportion of the public wanted a change in law. Probably a majority are still in favour of capital punishment – but legislators wisely don't act on this, he said. And does the public really understand what palliative care can offer? Do they know that it's legitimate for doctors to give them large doses of morphine to relieve their suffering, and that perhaps a third of (?cancer) deaths are hastened in this way?
What did he think of Dignity in Dying's call for a royal commission on the subject? He thought that the Health Select Committee of the House of Lords had issued a very good report under Lord James Mackay and that there were more pressing subjects for royal commissions at the moment – for example, one on London.
Stanford pushed him on his claim that no situation was devoid of hope. Harries then reflected on the plight of his mother, who had suffered a stroke that blighted the last years of her life. He thought some good had come from it – in terms of how her family had co-operated over her care. He quoted Edwin Muir's: "Strange blessings never in Paradise Fall from these beclouded skies."
But Stanford didn't follow up with the tough question for the lecturer who was so comfortable with the principle of double effect. If the intention of assisted suicide had been to reduce his mother's suffering, wouldn't its benefits to her far outweigh the benefits experienced by her family? And while Harries asked who could not fail to be moved by the plight of the quadriplegic rugby player, he didn't say what he thought was preferable to his parents taking him to Switzerland to die. He thoroughly disapproved of Dignitas, but didn't say what's better.
Does Lord Harries have a position on the prohibition of assisted dying? Twice he said words to the effect of "But I don't know how I'd respond if I were in that situation." To people who are in "that situation" – like Debbie Purdy – or people who can manage the necessary imaginative leap, Lord Harries didn't have a great deal to say.
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Shah Rukh and Akshay were last seen together in 1997 blockbuster Dil To Pagal Hai though they hardly had any scenes together.
Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar are the two biggest superstars of the country. Records are bound to be broken if these two superstars come together for a movie. Akshay and Shah Rukh together in a movie is big news for their fans.
Their fans are super excited to see them together and this may happen sooner than expected. As per reports, the makers of Malayalam super hit movie Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel are planning to rope in Shah Rukh and Akshay for its Hindi remake.
The original movie starring Dileep, Mamta Mohandas and Priya Anand in the lead roles was released a few days back. It received a good response from the audience and also went on to become a hit at the box office. Now, the makers are considering remaking it in Hindi.
Talking about the same, the director of Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel, Unnikrishnan said, "Viacom (the production company) is considering remaking the movie and discussions are in the initial stages. We are talking to both Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan for starring in the movie."
SRK and Akshay were seen together in 1997 super hit movie Dil To Pagal Hai. Then they shared the screen space in the song Mast Kalandar from movie Heyy Babyy released in 2007. Akshay had a cameo appearance in Shah Rukh Khan's Om Shanti Om released in 2007.
When Shah Rukh was earlier asked about working with Akshay, he had quoted, "It will be fun to work with Akshay. Dono set pe hi nahin milenge. Woh jaa raha hoga aur main aa raha hounga (laughs) (He'll be leaving the set and I'll be coming in). I would like to work like Akshay and with him, but our timings won't match."
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We all know the daily pain. Email boxes filled with spam, messages from others they deem as important but which we view as spam, and emails we actually need but accidentally delete in our zeal to rid ourselves of spam. And I haven't even got to the important emails which are re-routed to our junk folders by mistake. The computer thinks they're spam but they are not.
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With almost four million users and one million frequently active, BitBounce has seen strong growth through word-of-mouth, Mr. Jacob said. Together, those users have received more than one billion emails.
Nor surprise, but BitBounce's user base mirrors cryptocurrency's, Mr. Jacob said. Under 35, more male than female, those interested in being the first to adopt new technologies.
"Now we want to expand that and grow the base out," Mr. Jacob said.
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Mr. Jacob said BitBounce has also been well-received by businesses looking to target specific customers in a reliable manner, businesses turned off by fake clicks and other online manipulation that skews the accuracy of traditional online ad spend data. Advertisers can choose plans where they pay different sums when people receive, open and peruse an email. BitBounce also offers an ad solution which allows companies to create and manage email campaigns.
If it appears BitBounce has thought ahead, that is because they have. Mr. Jacob was a product manager for a people search product that generated more than $100 million in revenue and it is clear in speaking with him that he clearly knows the market and his customers, who are clearly enjoying a product that has come out of the hatch with a strong user experience.
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BitBounce has also cracked the nut of creating a product that will appeal to people without them having to learn new behaviors or technologies.
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When you download BitBounce from the AppStore or GooglePlay and begin accepting emails, you earn Credo, the in-house token that you can save to send your own emails, amass as a value store, or trade on Credo Ex for Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies.
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Society is getting more tech savvy, and the younger generations know their data is being harvested. Not that Facebook and their ilk aren't upsetting us by manipulating us, we just want a piece of the action.
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Dan + Shay brought energy for their 2018 CMA Music Festival performance -- especially when they covered Justin Timberlake's hit "Can't Stop the Feeling!" Readers can press play above to see video of the fun moment.
For their cover, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney harmonized perfectly during the slower parts of the song -- and as the tempo picked up, so did their dance moves. Throughout the performance, the duo nailed Timberlake's signature high notes. Timberlake hit No. 1 on a number of Billboard charts with "Can't Stop the Feeling!" after its release in 2016.
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There seems to be a lot of water in Lake Mead. Relatively speaking.
Posted by jfleck on 17 October 2011, 9:31 pm
With the latest monthly report from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, we now have end-of-water year numbers, and a chance to take stock. It's been a terrific year for water supply on the Colorado River system:
Lake Mead ended the year with a surface elevation of 1,116 feet above sea level, up 32 feet from a year ago when I was out in Nevada crying wolf. In wet water terms, that's an increase of 2.9 million acre feet.
Lake Powell is up 19 feet over last year.
Most importantly, total storage is up 5.2 million acre feet over a year ago. That's real water, and a lot of it.
Here's my total water storage graphic, updated with the latest numbers (data here):
Total water in storage, Mead and Powell, data courtesy USBR
For a clearer picture of the current situation, here's the same data from 1998 to the present:
Mead, Powell storage since 1998
But if you squint and look closely, you can still see wolves in the distance.
There remains a lot of empty, though less than a year ago. You also can see the dramatic drop during the dry years of the early 2000's. Recall we're up 5.2 maf this year. But we've seen drops of 4 maf or more four times in the last decade. Another good year could push things up, but this year's bounty also could be largely wiped out by a single bad year.
But here's the real wolf, and it's actually closer than you think. The total release from Lake Powell this year, the amount sent downstream by the Upper Basin for use in the Lower Basin, was 12.5 million acre feet. The basic requirement under the Colorado River Compact is release of 8.2 maf per year. That's the Lower Basin's guaranteed allotment. I like to think of the 4.3 maf as "bonus water". But remember Mead only went up 2.9 maf. The 1.4 maf difference is the ongoing Lower Basin problem of using more water than it can count on in the long term.
As a refresher on the problem, here's the simple math:
courtesy USBR
1.2 million acre feet, 1.4 million acre feet, whatever. What's a few hundred thousand acre feet of water among friends?
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Drivers should practice extreme caution today as Sunday's rain and today's cold temperatures will make for icy conditions across the region.
The high temperature is not expected to rise above freezing until Wednesday, when the warmer weather is expected to bring with it two days of rain that is likely to last through Thursday.
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CBS All Access subscribers are in for a spooky new series this Halloween. Tell Me A Story is the latest All Access exclusive set to premiere on the company's streaming digital service and offers a dark, modern twist on classic fairy tales The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel And Gretel. Last night the cast of the show along with creator Kevin Williamson and Executive Producer Dana Honor descended upon The Metrograph in New York City for the show's red carpet premiere.
The show is set in the concrete jungle of New York City and the backdrop of the city that never sleeps plays a major role within the story.
As for the show's source material, the question asked is, "What would these classic fairy tales look like set in the modern world?" Bringing these classic stories into the 21st century was a tall task for Williamson and company but according to Dania Ramirez, who plays the role of Gretel as Hannah Porter, the Tell Me A Story crew was more than up to the task.
CBS veteran James Wolk (Zoo) stars in Tell Me A Story as Jordan, a restaurateur whose life is thrown into turmoil resulting in a dark path of vengeance driven by, of all tales, The Three Little Pigs. Wolk shared his feelings on working with CBS again and his hopes for the series premiere later month.
Being that the show is on CBS All Access, this series has a unique opportunity to experiment with a non-traditional format. Tell Me A Story season one will come to a true conclusion at the end of its 10-episode arc, an unorthodox approach that Danielle Campbell believes sets it apart from the rest of the television landscape.
Tell Me A Story comes exclusively to CBS All Access on Wednesday, October 31 with new episodes dropping every Thursday on demand.


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Captains picks announce arrival of playoffs
Loss in Buffalo should result in greater resolve
Mike from Rockford, MI
How does your office at Lambeau compare to your offices in Jacksonville and Pittsburgh? How special is it getting to work at Lambeau Field?
Rank the offices? Well, of course, my office at Lambeau Field is the best. I didn't have an office at Three Rivers Stadium because I worked for a newspaper back then, so I just worked in the media room. My office in Jacksonville was in the locker rooms hallway just outside the tunnel to the field. On those wonderfully humid days in Jacksonville, my office would fill with the scent of field turf. It always reminded me that I work for a football team. At Lambeau Field, my office is on the third floor, but there's a nearby door through which I can quickly access the Lambeau seating area. It's where we shoot a lot of our stand-up videos. On nice days, I like to take a coffee out there, sit and relax.
Ross from Hudson, WI
Playoff captains? Is that presumptive, chortling or purely motivational?
It's a way of announcing the playoffs have arrived.
Timmy from Chicago, IL
Can't you make the argument that Rodgers is a new-age quarterback ahead of his time? Of course, he is a passer first, but he can run as well as anyone.
No, there's a big difference between Aaron Rodgers and a new-age quarterback. Rodgers runs to buy time and avoid a sack. New-age quarterbacks run by design.
Steven from Edmonds, WA
I saw Drew Brees speak of handling success. Could the loss to Buffalo be somewhat attributed to the team believing their press clippings prior to the game?
No, you're looking for an excuse. It hurts to know you've been outplayed, but that's exactly what happened and accepting that fact should result in greater resolve to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Les from Las Vegas, NV
So the Buccaneers have nothing to lose; that can be dangerous. What should we look for from them?
Look for a team of young players trying to put their best efforts on tape so their coach might evaluate them in the offseason and include them in the team's future. Job insecurity is a great motivator.
Ross from Ankeny, IA
Vic, I recently read Coach McCarthy had the players vote for the playoff captains. Last time I checked, the playoffs haven't even started. Reminds me of the night before Super Bowl XLV, when coach had the players fitted for their championship rings. That's a bold message. I love it.
Coach McCarthy is very creative with these little diversionary tactics. It's not just about motivation, it's also about clearing the air and focusing a team on the task at hand. This team needed to move away from that loss in Buffalo as quickly as possible.
Cody from Rice Lake, WI
What happened to R-E-L-A-X? All of a sudden, we are stressing out about where and who we have to play in the playoffs. I would take Rodgers and the Packers over any team anywhere.
I think we've moved out of the R-E-L-A-X stage of the season. It served the Packers well, but now it's time to move into the P-L-A-Y-O-F-F-S time of the season.
Rich from Pompano Beach, FL
I have no idea why everyone thinks Arizona can't beat Seattle on Sunday. I have no idea why people assume Seattle will be the No. 1 seed. You know what happens when you assume, yes?
Yeah, but count me among those that thinks Arizona won't beat Seattle.
Randy from Billings, MT
Vic, I really like this team and think they have quality players, but when are they going to quit saying everything is in front of us? Please, they are all beginning to sound like an echo.
That's the coach's message. Again, it's his way of focusing his team on what's in front of them, not behind them.
Richard from Farmington Hills, MI
I agree Buffalo has a fine defense and I've read all the comments about how we lost the one-on-ones, should have run more, etc., but even with all of that, we probably win the game if we don't drop the ball, literally. After averaging one drop a game all season, the team dropped seven or eight. Can anyone remember the last time Jordy dropped a home run ball?
You're making an excuse for losing. The Bills dropped passes, too. They had a huge drop in the middle of the field on a critical third down. The receiver was going to run with that ball had he caught it. If you're going to use drops as an excuse for one team, you have to use drops as an excuse for the other team, too.
Scott from Martinez, GA
So, if it hadn't happened already, it most certainly just did on Wednesday. Coach McCarthy handed the team over to the players.
In a way, he did. He increased their accountability. He gave them ownership.
Randy from Des Moines, IA
Are the Bills just a Russell Wilson away from being as good as Seattle?
Andy from Maqokita, IA
Vic, I was looking at the finalists for the Hall of Fame, and I noticed kicker Morten Andersen made the list. Now, I don't want to know if you think he should make the list, as I already know your thoughts on specialists making it to the Hall, but do you think he will get voted in as the best kicker?
No, I don't, however, he's in my Hall of Fame for having provided me with one of the great moments and great runs in my sports writing career. Andersen missed a chip-shot field goal attempt in the final seconds of a Falcons-Jaguars game on the final day of the 1996 season. The miss sent the second-year Jaguars to the playoffs, where they scored the greatest upset in playoff history, in Denver, and nearly went to the Super Bowl. The play will forever be known in Jaguars lore as "Morten's Miss."
Vic, what have you learned about the Packers this week?
I didn't need to learn it, so I guess you could say I re-learned it: Nobody is above losing.
Inbox: Nobody deserved it more than De'Vondre Campbell
Welcome to the season of excitement
Inbox: This team is as tested as any
The stats themselves indicate the game is drastically different
Inbox: That win was both a statement and a turning point
The Packers' defense is different when both Kenny Clark and De'Vondre Campbell are available
Inbox: That best game is still out there this time
Now they have to stay on that path
Inbox: The urgency is there and so too is the focus
Be who you are and capture the trophy the seed says you're capable of capturing
Inbox: Packers have an interesting call to make
That says it all
Inbox: It's last call before playing for it all
Sunday could be a great opportunity for second-year QB Jordan Love
Inbox: He was the perfect guy at the perfect time in the perfect scheme
The Packers' trio is rock solid
Inbox: Aaron Rodgers deserves to be the NFL MVP…again
Allen Lazard is going to be a critical part of a championship run
Inbox: That doesn't appear to be the case
There's a lot going on out there
Inbox: AJ Dillon is in a league of his own
Every game is meaningful. That's what makes this game beautiful
Inbox: He looks like a keeper
It's so hard to gauge


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NYC College Student Stabbing: Reefer Madness Murder?
College freshman Tessa Majors was brutally stabbed to death last week in a New York City park. The NYPD believes her murderer is a 13-year-old middle school student. Those facts alone are atrocious.
To add insult to injury, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, claims that Majors was buying marijuana in the park and that is what put her in this dangerous scenario. He explains how he believes that recent limits on enforcement of marijuana laws in New York City contributed to this deadly situation.
What I am understanding is that [Majors] was in the park to buy marijuana….We don't enforce marijuana laws anymore. We're basically hands-off on the enforcement of marijuana. I understand the mayor made statements that this is surprising on how this can happen in New York City….I really have to question what world he's living in to think that this is surprising, when we are watching the city slowly erode, with shootings, stabbings, an increase in homicides and, most importantly, a hands-off policing policy.
Majors' family is taking offense to Mullins' comments because, "…they intentionally or unintentionally direct blame onto Tess, a young woman, for her own murder."
Nick Gillespie at Reason sees Mullins' words as yet another reference to the old "reefer madness" hysteria, "…in which devil weed is the source of all forms of evil and criminality, even when it remains illegal."
I can't define what Mullins meant in his comments. I don't read hearts and minds and, honestly, I don't want to. But I did listen to the entirety of his radio interview. It doesn't strike me as blatant victim-blaming. In actuality, he is taking way more swipes at NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio.
Furthermore, his comments are not textbook "refer madness" stuff because he never once says that these young teens went on a murderous rampage because they took a few too many hits of the devil's lettuce. In context, Mullins blames the violence on the city (including Majors' murder) – on somewhat of a lawless society that allows offenders to spin down a more violent hole.
There are many things that Mullins said in the interview that are questionable. Maybe he does hold to disproved parts of "reefer madness" and blames victims for being victims of violent crime, but I didn't get that from this one radio appearance. He could be giving listeners a probable reason that an eighteen-year-old would be alone in a questionably safe park at night. But don't take my word for it, listen to it here.
The problem is that NYC law enforcement might have given up on enforcing laws against marijuana consumption and trade, but it is still not legal to be bought and sold. (There is some liberalization on patients using it for medicinal purposes, but its effects are minimal).
In the same way alcohol prohibition enriched criminals, the marijuana black-market just proliferates and seedy characters take advantage of the fast cash they can make while providing consumers with a product that they demand.
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2021 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C 300 4MATIC Sedan
AMG Silk Beige,
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Rear cargo	-	power close trunk/liftgate
Tailpipe finisher	-	chrome
Drive type	-	rear-wheel
Limited slip differential	-	brake actuated
Corrosion perforation warranty	-	48 months/50,000miles
Interior maximum cargo volume	-	357 L (13 cu.ft.)
Weather band radio
Turn-by-turn navigation directions	-	Mercedes me Concierge (1-year trial included)
Smart device integration	-	Apple CarPlay/Android Auto
Display	-	digital
Blind spot	-	Blind Spot Assist warning
Forward collision	-	Active Brake Assist with Autonomous Emergency Braking mitigation
Tracker system	-	Mercedes me connect
Rear seats	-	bench
Head restraints memory
Remote engine start	-	smart device only
Emergency communication system	-	Mercedes me connect
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