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Yesterday in Parliament – Thursday, September 22, 2016 (The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2016
(Source ... House of Commons ... Ms ... Mr ... Over the summer many groups stated their support for the bill, including the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Nurses Association, the Pallium foundation, the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, the Kidney Foundation, the Mental Health Commission of Canada, ARPA, and 38 hospices and related organizations across the country....

Palio di Asti: Take a trip back in time with Italy's medieval horse race

Edit CNN 22 Sep 2016
(CNN)The oldest recorded bareback horse race in Italy has been run since the 13th century -- and it's still going strong ... Follow @cnnsport. The Palio takes its name from the Latin word pallium, which means a piece of cloth worn as cloak -- one of these was used to mark the finishing line in the earliest Asti races. Read. The magical race where life's a beach. Read More. Photos. Racing on the streets of Siena. Photos ... Hide Caption. 1 of 8 ... Read....

Activists seek amendment in bill

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
Thrissur ... Pallium India director and founder of the palliative care movement in the country, Dr M R Rajagopal who was here to attend a seminar on the proposed bill said the rights of the individuals to have a dignified death must be upheld ... Dr Rajagopal said the decisions on withdrawal of life support systems should be taken after consultation with at least two specialists about the possibility of recovery....

Draft Bill should be clear about euthanasia: experts

Edit The Hindu 27 Aug 2016
Euthanasia, active or passive, would be killing ... Rajagopal, chairman of Pallium India, has said. Speaking at a discussion on “Life with dignity to the End,” in the context of the proposed draft Bill on Passive Euthanasia organised by Pallium India here on Friday, Dr ... Intentional ending ... The draft Bill should distinguish between the terminology “withholding” and “withdrawing” life support, he said ... B ... ....

Discussion on passive euthanasia bill

Edit The Times of India 25 Aug 2016
Minister for education C Raveendranath will inaugurate a discussion on the draft bill on passive euthanasia organized by Pallium India at Priyadarshini Planetarium, PMG Junction, at 4pm on Friday ... Journalist M G Radhakrishnan and Pallium India ......

After a pause, life goes on

Edit The Hindu 15 Aug 2016
Have you ever thought how life would be afterwards for those people who survive these accidents with grievous injuries, who might have been crippled or bed-ridden for life?,” asks Ashla, a paraplegic and a volunteer with Pallium India ... Her resilience and spirit and the helping hand of Pallium India’s chairman, M.R ... Pallium India decided ......

Fear closes, prayer opens believers to God's surprises, pope says (Diocese of Allentown)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
(Source. Diocese of Allentown). June 29, 2016 at 2.12 PM ... Peter and Paul ... Hebda of St ... Like last year, the pope did not confer the pallium on new archbishops during the liturgy, but rather, blessed the palliums after they were brought up from the crypt above the tomb of St ... The pallium is a woolen band that symbolizes an archbishop's unity with the pope and his authority and responsibility to care for the flock the pope entrusted to him....

Pope Francis mourns victims of 'heinous' attack on Istanbul airport (Catholic Diocese of Buffalo)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016
(Source. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo) ... Pope Francis then noted how he had blessed the pallium of the new metropolitan archbishops appointed in the course of the previous year, and offered special greetings and prayers for them and their families. 'I encourage them to continue with joy their mission and service to the Gospel, in communion with the entire Church and especially with the See of Peter, as the sign of the pallium expresses.'....

Saying good-bye with dignity

Edit The Hindu 05 Jul 2016
“In India, the poor die in agony in neglect, the middle-class die in agony in ignorance, and the rich die in agony on a ventilator,” says Dr ... The Government of Kerala, acting also on the basis of a proposal submitted by the non-governmental organisation Pallium India in 2005, declared a palliative care policy three years later, making it the first government in a developing country to do so ... Keywords....

Archbishop-elect receives his symbol

Edit Topix 04 Jul 2016
File Archbishop-elect Kenneth Richards seen here without his pallium, the woolen vestment, marked with six black crosses, which is worn only by the Pope and Archbishops The mood within the local Roman Catholic Church community was euphoric last Wednesday as many watched, via television, Jamaican Archbishop-elect Kenneth Richards receive his pallium from the Holy Father, Pope Francis....

Breakaway Catholic group accuses pope of spreading errors

Edit Atlanta Journal 29 Jun 2016
The statement, issued after a meeting of the society's superiors, said its members weren't primarily looking for a legal resolution to their schismatic status but eager to return Catholic tradition to a church where "great and painful confusion" currently reigns.Pope Francis celebrates a Mass where he bestowed the Pallium, a woolen shawl symbolizing the bond to the pope, to 25 new Archbishops in St....

Birds pack more cells into their brains than mammals

Edit The Guardian 15 Jun 2016
Overall, they found that bird brains contain significantly more nerve cells compared to mammalian and monkey brains of a similar size, and that these “extra” neurons are located mainly in a structure called the pallium, which is the avian equivalent of the forebrain ... and could have driven the expansion of the pallium during the course of evolution....

Bird-brained and proud: densely packed neurons give birds intellectual edge

Edit The Guardian 14 Jun 2016
Researchers find songbirds and parrots can have as many, sometimes more, neurons packed into their brains than mammals - even monkeys and apes. @iansample ... Now an answer may finally be at hand ... Andreas Nieder, a neurobiologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, said that the so-called endbrain, which includes the neocortex in mammals, and a structure called the pallium in birds, is considered a key site for intelligent behaviour....
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