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The state's efforts to make the most of its three deepwater ports got a boost Feb. 14. Eimskip, of Iceland, announced it will be moving its existing hub from Norfolk, Virginia to Portland, Maine. The company says it will move at least 5,000 containers through the city's International Marine Terminal every year. Maine Port Authority Executive Director John Henshaw tells MPBN Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz that the number of containers passing through Portland could easily grow.
MPBN Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz talks with Maine Port Authority Executive Director John Henshaw (left, speaking with a reporter) about the issues facing Maine's major deep water ports, and the impact of new container shipping service in Portland.
Photo of John Henshaw at the International Marine Terminal in Portland by Irwin Gratz.


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Month of October 2013 — Kids & Families
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May 5, 2016 10:30 AM - 11:00 PM
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May 6, 2016
State highway crews pre-treated major highways here in Eastern Carolina, ahead of a winter storm Tuesday.
The D.O.T. began spreading a salt brine mix over roads over several counties Monday morning.
In Craven County they are trying to get two coats of brine down on the major routes before the storm arrives. They have a crew of 40 people working 12 hour shifts for the duration.
Lenoir County DOT Maintenance Supervisor Brian Harper says they have 500 tons of salt on hand for the storm. He says they will add a fifth brine spreader this afternoon and can lay down 20,000 gallons of the mixture an hour.
Harper says their plan worked so well for the last storm that they are not making any changes in Lenoir County.
In Pitt County, they have 200 tons of salt left to treat state highways. DOT crews started this morning putting down the brine on major routes.
Greenville says it has 130 tons of salt on hand for the storm. The city says its crews will begin spreading brine down later this afternoon.
Onslow County D.O.T. workers actually began spreading the brine mixture on Sunday, using 65 tons of salt. They have 11 trucks and plows ready once the snow or ice begin.
Some counties could see snow flurries late Monday into Monday night, with a dusting possible over some yards.
The main threat will come late Tuesday morning into early Tuesday evening. Snow and sleet is expected to affect our southern counties.
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Rebuilding Afghanistan's Health System
Among Afghan women of childbearing age who die each year, almost half die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Nearly 90 percent of these deaths are preventable. More
Programmes designed to reach vulnerable groups
Strategies for financial self-sufficiency
Where Aga Khan Health Services works
AKHS programmatic information 2007
With community health programmes in large geographical areas in Central
and South Asia, as well as East Africa, and over 200 health facilities including
nine hospitals, the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is
one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems
in the developing world. Building on the Ismaili Community's health care
efforts in the first half of the 20th century, AKHS now provides primary
health care and curative medical care in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Pakistan,
and Tanzania, and provides technical assistance to government in health
service delivery in Kenya, Syria and Tajikistan.
Among Afghan women of childbearing age who die each year, almost half die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Nearly 90 percent of these deaths are preventable. More
News Archives
Aga Khan University to Build New Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda
Foundation Laying Ceremony for the New Bamyan Provincial Hospital
Update on FOCUS and AKDN response to Pakistan Floods
AKHS is one of three agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that support activities in the field of health, the others being the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), and the Aga Khan University (AKU). It works closely with both of these agencies on planning, training, and resource development and with the Aga Khan Education Services and the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) on the integration of health issues into specific projects.
AKHS is organised into national service companies in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The Social Welfare Department (SWD) located within the Secretariat of the Aga Khan in France, co-ordinates the activities of the service companies through five-year plans, ten-year projections, annual budget submissions, and the provision of technical assistance. They are also linked internationally through network-wide strategies in human resource development, hospital management, nursing development, and primary health care. While strengthening its institutions and the links between them, each health service company also joins government health services and other providers in building effective national health systems.
AKHS's community health programmes are designed to reach vulnerable groups in society, especially child-bearing women and young children, with low-cost, proven medical technologies: immunisation, systematic prenatal care, aseptic deliveries, and oral rehydration therapy for diarrhoeal disease. Experience with Public Health Centres within the Aga Khan Development Network has confirmed both the efficacy of primary health care in improving health status, and its cost-effectiveness.
In AKHS's approach to health services, primary health care and prevention are considered as steps towards improved health status that must be linked to the availability of high quality medical care. To complement its work in primary health care, AKHS offers curative services in institutions ranging from dispensaries through health centres to full-service hospitals. At each level of care, the AKHS focus is on providing services that are needed and wanted by the community and on building linkages within the system. It also aims to ensure a quality of care that significantly raises local standards. Quality control in laboratory diagnosis, appropriate documentation in medical records, regular supply of pharmaceuticals and continuing education of nurses and doctors are some of the practices that AKHS emphasises in its approach to institutional development.
AKHS's overall major initiatives currently include:
In each country of operation, AKHS registers a National Service Company as a not-for-profit, non-governmental agency. Each company has a Board of Directors, Chairman and directors some or all of whom are appointed by the sponsoring company, Aga Khan Health Services S.A., a not-for-profit organisation registered in Switzerland. Governing bodies and regional, community, and institutional committees are established to facilitate planning, operations, and funding activities of the national service companies. All directors serve as volunteers on an unremunerated basis. Typically, the board of each national service company is made up of eleven directors, of which nine are nationals, including the chairman. Each company board appoints a CEO who is responsible for the planning and management of all of the national service company's operations. The services, facilities, and programmes of the companies are funded through local fees charged for services, community support, international donors, as well as through contributions from His Highness. The Aga Khan Foundation assists the national service companies to seek funding and technical assistance from international and local donor agencies for appropriate development or service delivery initiatives.
Every company has a significant, on-going investment programme to develop both its management systems and the quality of its managerial and support staff. Network-wide, there is a strong emphasis on continuous quality improvement as a core organisational development strategy. This encompasses quality assurance, and preparation for accreditation either with a US-based hospital accreditation programme or the UK-based King's Fund/National Health Service accreditation process. The total quality management methodology was introduced to AKHS in 1992 and remains an important activity. There is significant investment in human resource development at every level of each national service company.
All companies also have a significant, continuous investment programme in computer-based management information systems and electronic communications. They also have a strong internal audit function. Each board has an active audit committee and every company undergoes an annual external audit.
While taking care not to compromise its social mission, AKHS encourages an entrepreneurial approach by national service companies in all of their operations. All AKHS community health programmes and services have strategies to achieve financial self-sufficiency. For poorer communities, this may require a timeframe of 15 years or more, but a strategy is developed for each programme to achieve financial self-sufficiency as soon as the economic status of the community served is likely to permit this.
Quick links
Stone Laying Ceremony of Phase II of the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam
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Where the Aga Khan
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Kichler 6079AP
Antique Pewter Olympia 1 Light 12" High Wall Sconce
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- Dome Shaped Satin Etched White Glass Shade
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Need a compact storage for your items when you're out on the go? The Loksak Splashsak Dipper FP Splash Caddy Waist Bag is the solution. It keeps your items safe within durable nylon casing. It comes with a zipper closure so you can store or access you items with ease. It also includes an adjustable waist strap with a quick-release buckle to secure the bag around your waist. Along with the Splashsak Dipper FP are two 7 in. x 6 in. aLocksak bags made of waterproof Polyethylene plastic. They are both strong and flexible, able to endure 6,250 psi of stretching and pulling, while keeping your things in good condition from various elements even when submerged 200 ft. underwater. These bags with their leakproof/airtight hermetic seal ensure no water, air, dust, or humidity can penetrate them. Plus, they are non-toxic and easy to clean. With the Loksak Splashsak Dipper FP Splash Caddy Waist Bag, your items will surely be safe no matter the weather condition.
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NSBA lobbyists are hard at work explaining to Congress the many challenges facing local school boards—and how federal policy should be shaped to help local officials do their jobs better.
But members of Congress also care what their constituents have to say, so it's vitally important that individual school board members make their voices heard by communicating personally with their elected representatives.
That was the message of NSBA's advocacy team, which offered a briefing on federal education policymaking during Wednesday's National Affiliate webinar, "The Power of One: What You Can Do to Change What is Happening on Capitol Hill."
"We can't do it alone," moderator Kathleen Branch, NSBA's director of national advocacy service programs, told participants early in the webinar. "We need you to join us … to become a resource for your members of Congress."
To prepare school board members for that task, members of NSBA's advocacy team offered a summary of legislative and regulatory efforts in the nation's capital—and how those efforts could impact local school districts.
One of the most important legislative efforts under way today is the long-overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, said Reginald Felton, assistant executive director for congressional relations.
In the U.S. House of Representatives, lawmakers are tackling the reauthorization through a series of bills, and one promising proposal would give local school officials more flexibility and authority over the use of federal education funding, Felton reported.
Less promising was the recent passage of the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which NSBA argued was approved without sufficient review and raises concerns about how much accountability will be demanded of charter schools.
Lawmakers also are talking about consolidating several federal education programs, which is not necessarily a bad thing, Felt said. But there also is a move to expand competitive block grants, at the expense of categorical programs.
That concerns NSBA because many school systems do not have the resources to compete with larger or more affluent districts in writing grant proposals.
It's important that NSBA and local school boards continue their efforts to influence Congress and shape policy that's in the best interest of local schoolchildren, Felton said. "We continue to lobby members of Congress, but we're pleased when you come to Washington and help that dialogue—or you meet with members of Congress when they're home in your communities. We need to keep the pressure on."
Later, Deborah Rigsby, NSBA's director of federal legislation, briefed webinar participants about the debate on Capitol Hill over the federal budget—and the need to urge Congress to protect funding for education.
"For 2011, K-12 programs were cut by $849 million," she said. "But they were already underfunded, so we don't want to go [through another round] of addition cuts for fiscal 2012."
Finally, Lucy Gettman, director of federal programs, talked about the potential impact of the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids—last year's reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act—and new regulations for school meal programs that could force local school districts to raise meal prices.
At least one school system already is looking to raise the price of school milk by as much as 25 cents, she says. "What we're very concerned about at NSBA is the impact on children and families who can ill afford a price increase [in school meals] but, conversely, about the impact on school districts … if districts are required to supplement or offset a price increase with their own state and local funds."
Concluding the webinar, Branch yet again encouraged listeners to become more involved in lobbying federal policymakers, and she shared a number of resources that NSBA makes available for board members who are new to education advocacy work. And she encouraged board members to participate in the National Affiliate Advocacy Network.
Finally, she said, if board members aren't certain what to say about today's complex policy issues, they can just call her. "That is what NSBA is here for."


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Harry Potter for Kinect is a video game, developed by Eurocom and published by Warner Bros. Interactive.[1] It is slated for release on 9 October, 2012[2]. It is for the Xbox 360 system, requiring the use of the Kinect accessory.[3]
Harry Potter for Kinect will include content based on all eight titles in the Harry Potter film series. The game will include multiplayer features. The use of the Kinect accessory will allow players to use spells via physical gestures and call spell names out loud. There is also an option for players to scan their faces, allowing them to create their own unique wizard or witch to navigate through the game.[3]
- For the first time, create a witch or wizard character in your likeness that will become part of the gameplay through Kinect's scanning technology.
- Experience unforgettable moments from all eight films - from having your wand choose you at Ollivanders and being Sorted as a first-year student at Hogwarts, to battling You-Know-Who in a climactic wizard battle.
- Cast spells at your opponents by performing the proper casting maneuvers and calling out spell names utilizing Kinect's controller-free and voice recognition capabilities.
- Hone your casting, brewing and duelling skills (among others) in class to unlock even more lessons and challenges.
- Challenge a friend in competitive mini-games, or join forces against a mutual opponent in co-op games.
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PARIS (AP) " The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local:
PARIS (AP) " Iraq's foreign minister says the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris marked a new stage in a world war of international terrorism " one that no country can hope to escape.
WASHINGTON (AP) " In the rapidly gentrifying nation's capital, real estate investors aren't the only ones flipping houses for profit. The city's public housing authority is getting in on the action " moving aging tenants out of homes where they've...
NEW FLORENCE, Pa. (AP) " A man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer who was responding to a domestic dispute was in custody at a hospital on Sunday after a six-hour manhunt, police said.
GHENT, Belgium (AP) " Andy Murray gave Britain its first Davis Cup title in 79 years when he beat Belgium's David Goffin 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 in the first of reverse singles Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) " President Barack Obama is hoping to marshal strong global action against climate change at the historic conference in Paris and reassure the world that the U.S. can deliver on its own commitments.
PARIS (AP) " Government and business leaders plan to spend tens of billions of dollars in the next five years to develop clean energy technology in efforts to fight global warming, an official and a former official have told The Associated Press.
PARIS (AP) " U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says governments' pledges to cut global warming emissions aren't enough and should be reviewed before 2020.
BRUSSELS (AP) " The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local:
BERGEN, Norway (AP) " The pale, zombie-like addicts staggering through concrete underpasses make an unlikely scene in wealthy Norway's picturesque second city. As a gateway to the fjords which zigzag the oil-rich nation's long coastline, Bergen is...
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The meaning of Huian is "kind peace".
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Full names are used to address someone informally, and a salutation along with the family name is used to address someone formally. For example, Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets would be addressed as Yao Ming informally and Mr. Yao formally.
Some Chinese people who emigrate to or do business in Western nations, reverse the order of their names as a way of Westernizing their names. For example the cellist and composer Yo-Yo Ma, whose family name is Ma.


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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness
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|September 13, 2007
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'''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time''' (Japanese: ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 時の探検隊 Pokémon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai) and '''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness''' (Japanese: ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 闇の探検隊 Pokémon Fushigi no Danjon Yami no Tankentai) is the second set of games in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.
The basic controls have little variance from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. You can set moves and items to certain hot-keys, and you may link moves at Electrivire's Link Shop just before heading out on your exploration. There are new items in the game such as Geo-pebbles, a downgrade from the Gravel-rocks (items that you throw at enemies.) Another difference is that Heal Seeds and some Orbs become available as early as the first dungeon, unlike in Red/Blue Rescue Team. In the Type quiz that begins the game, there is a feature where you press your fingure (or Stylus) against the touch screen so it can detect your "Aura" (this has no effect on which pokemon you'll play as, but will determine what special item you receive. This feature determines your "aura" by the color you set your DS, DSlite, or DSi's menu for) Also, your Partner Pokemon cannot be of the same Type or Generation as the "Leader"; for example, if you are to be Torchic, you may choose between Generation I Starters, Generation II Starters, Generation IV Starters, and Fire-type choices will not appear. As well as these changes:The feature of Genders among Pokemon is added, along with Eggs, which can be cared for by Chansey at its Daycare Center.
The game begins with an image of a stormy sea, in which two characters are shouting to one another. Whether these are human, or Pokémon, however, is unknown. The scene will then move to a beach, where the main character lies unconscious on its shore. Meanwhile, whichever pokemon you choose for your partner is attempting to enter the Wigglytuff Guild, However, He/She becomes frightened by the sentry system and flees before the door could be opened. A Zubat and Koffing appear hiding behind a rock near the door, and decide to mess with your partner. Your Partner then finds you passed out on the beach, with only a memory of being human, and your name. At first, your partner thinks you are lying about once being human, but then asks you your name (this is where you put your name in.) Then, Zubat and Koffing come along, steal your partner's Relic Fragment, and the twosome run into Beach Cave. You decide to help your partner out, and you and your partner dash into the cave. At the deepest part, you see Koffing and Zubat, looking at the fragment. They battle you, and when you defeat them, they drop the Relic Fragment and run away. When you arrive back on the beach, your partner asks to form an Exploration Team with you. You accept, and then he/she explains about becoming a Exploration Team at Wigglytuff's Guild. With the help of Your presence, your Partner finds the courage to enter the Guild.In the Guild there are many other Pokémon, Wigglytuff is the Guildmaster, Chatot his right hand Pokémon, Diglett the Guild sentry, Loudred who helps Diglett with the Sentry Duty and wakes you up in the morning. Sunflora, Corphish, Chimecho and Bidoof are the other guild members.
Once you join the Guild, your days training as an Exploration Team could involve completing jobs on the Jobs Board or the Outlaw Board, going on explorations with the rest of the guild, performing story line jobs or completing sentry duty when Diglett has other jobs to do.You and your partner then face many challenges through the game and face Outlaw Pokemon including Froslass, Drowzee and Luxray. These would be similar to the "punish Bad mankey!" mission from Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team And Blue Rescue Team Rescue Team. Eventually you will have to face Primal Dialga then later, Palkia.
Along the way, you find out how you came to be a Pokémon and the purpose you had to serve to save the world from paralysis. The game can be played further to recruit all pokemon, complete the conquest of all dungeons in the game.
The Plot is extremely similar to the Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team And Blue Rescue Team games. The Expedition in Explorers is similar to the Exile term in Rescue. The Grovyle in Explorers would be similar to Gengar in Rescue, in the sense that Grovyle is causing a "unthinkable event"; Gengar caused the Meteor to fall in Rescue while Grovyle is stealing Time Gears in Explorers which would stop the flow of time completely.
List of Available Starters
- Bulbasaur
- Charmander
- Squirtle
- Pikachu
- Meowth
- Chikorita
- Totodile
- Cyndaquil
- Treecko
- Torchic
- Mudkip
- Skitty
- Turtwig
- Chimchar
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Unaffected by thick and heavy clothing, including denim and leather. Patented FTX bullet delivers superior controlled expansion and large, deep wound cavities over a wide range of velocities. Clean burning and stable propellants reduce recoil in lightweight handguns, and perform consistently in all temperatures. Minimal muzzle flash protects night vision. Feeds reliably in all pistols. Shiny silver nickel plating prevents corrosion, and is easily visible in low light situations. Bullets are cannelured and crimped to avoid bullet setback. Bullets are custom designed for individual loads. The most effective, consistent, and reliable self-defense ammunition available today!
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Black Diamond Stopper
The Black Diamond Stopper is an essential climbing tool for every trad rack. Stoppers are time-tested passive pro that are developed from original chocks that started the clean climbing revolution. The Black Diamond Stopper is equipped with superb features that make it an ideal choice for everything from granite walls to quartzite cragging. Its aluminum heads and steel cables are extremely durable. And it is also designed with transverse taper that allows sideways placements in flares and shallow seam. It easily fits parallel constrictions and parallel sided tracks, further enhancing the stopper s flexibility. Furthermore, it is anodized by size, which makes the stopper easy to identify; stoppers come with color coded heads to help distinguish between sizes. Plus, it comes with rounded edges that make for easy removal and cleaning. Boasting with versatility and durability, the Black Diamond Stopper is definitely one of the most reliable tools for trad climbers.
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Each vessel subject to inspection under this part shall undergo an initial inspection for certification before being put into service. After being put into service—
(1) each passenger vessel, nautical school vessel, and small passenger vessel allowed to carry more than 12 passengers on a foreign voyage shall be inspected at least once a year; and
Source(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 514; Pub. L. 104–324, title VI, § 605(a),Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3931.)
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Section 3307 requires each vessel subject to inspection to undergo an initial inspection prior to being placed in service. This is normally started during the construction or reconstruction phase and is a continuing process until final certification for operation in a particular trade. Subsequent periodic inspections are also required for various types of vessels. It is to be noted that a freight vessel of less than 100 gross tons shall be inspected at 3 year intervals while the larger freight vessel has a 2 year inspection period. This is being done to retain the existing procedure of issuing 3 year certificates of inspection to smaller vessels, however, this does not prevent periodic inspections or examinations at intervening periods.
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NewsEnd of LifeTue Apr 12, 2011 - 2:00 pm EST
Doctors pushed paralyzed Irish man to refuse ventilator and die
DUBLIN, April 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a powerful op-ed in today's Irish Times, an Irish man with degenerative motor neurone disease (MND) has revealed how he was heavily pressured by the medical community to refuse the ventilator that is keeping him alive.
After having been admitted to intensive care for pneumonia, a common complication for paralyzed patients, Simon Fitzmaurice began receiving assisted breathing and a feeding tube. Shortly after being admitted, Fitzmaurice said, a doctor came in and told him it was rare and expensive for patients to have a ventilator at home.
According to Fitzmaurice the doctor told him, with his wife and mother present, "That it is time for me to make the hard choice. He tells me that there have only been two cases of invasive home ventilation, but in both cases the people were extremely wealthy."
"He looks at me. 'This is it now for you. It is time for you to make the hard choice, Simon.' My mother and my wife are now holding each other, sobbing."
But Fitzmaurice's instinctive reaction was for life: "While he is looking at me, my life force, my soul, the part of me that feels like every part, is unequivocal. I want to live. It infuses my whole body to such an extent that I feel no fear in the face of this man."
Two days after this encounter, he wrote, he and his family were informed that the home ventilator he needed was covered by Ireland's national health insurer, the Health Services Executive (HSE), and that the home care package needed to run the machine could be covered by the HSE and his family.
Fitzmaurice recounts that was later asked by a neurologist why he wanted to live, even though he had a degenerative disease that would eventually kill him. His answer: "Love for my wife. Love for my children. My friends, my family. Love for life in general. My love is undimmed, unbowed, unbroken. I want to live. Is that wrong?"
"Motor neurone disease is a killer. But so is life," continued Fitzmaurice. "Everybody dies. But just because you die, just because you will die at some point in the future, does that mean you should kill yourself now? For me, they were asking me to take my own life. Or to endorse euthanasia. I refused."
Experts say that Fitzmaurice's experience is not uncommon and that incidents like these are becoming a trend in medical practice – a trend that has become nearly universal in developed countries, especially those with nationalized, government funded health care.
"Sadly, his story is all too common," said Alex Schadenberg, head of Canada's Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
Schadenberg said that philosophical trends away from traditional medical ethics, combined with massive tax-funded health care systems, have given rise to a new utilitarian-based ethical paradigm in treatment decision making.
Under this paradigm, called bioethics, Schadenberg said, "value judgments and negative attitudes toward people with degenerative conditions have led to imposing death on people who are vulnerable."
Hospital bioethics committees now routinely decide to withdraw treatment that could save lives, based on the principle of "patient autonomy" that holds it is in the patient's "best interests" to be "allowed to die," often by the withholding of food and water.
These decisions are increasingly being taken without the consent, and sometimes actively against the will, of the patient and his family. In some countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, the new ethical system has led to legalized euthanasia and widespread abuse of the legal "safeguards" surrounding it.
Recent studies out of Belgium have shown that 32 percent of all legal euthanasia deaths are committed without request or consent by patients or families and only 47.2 percent of all euthanasia deaths are reported. In the Netherlands, the number is 550 deaths without request or consent each year and at least 20 per cent of all euthanasia deaths unreported.
Schadenberg said, "Everyone needs to be aware, society is already imposing death on vulnerable people and if euthanasia or assisted suicide becomes legal then it will simply be done in a quicker and quiet manner."
As for Fitzmaurice, he writes: "I do not speak for all people with motor neurone disease. I only speak for myself. Perhaps others would question whether or not to ventilate. But I believe in being given the choice, not encouraged to follow the status quo."
"I am not a tragedy," he said. "I neither want nor need pity. I am full of hope. The word hope and MND do not go together in this country. Hope is not about looking for a cure to a disease. Hope is a way of living. We often think we are entitled to a long and fruitful Coca-Cola life. But life is a privilege, not a right. I feel privileged to be alive. That's hope."
BlogsCatholic Church, Family Wed Apr 27, 2016 - 8:06 pm EST
Pope Francis seems out of touch with the reality of modern Catholicism
April 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, his final word on the two Synods on the Family, shows a remarkable depth of knowledge about the struggles of families, their joys, and sorrows, their struggles and their triumphs. Much of the 250+ page document can be read with interest by couples discerning marriage to see what they are in for and garner a good amount of sage advice, especially psychological advice on how to have a happy and lasting union.
That same keen insight however seems lacking when Pope Francis assesses the modern Church. The exhortation gives evidence that the Pope is misinformed about the interior life of parishes. While getting very detailed information on the realities of family life, the Pope proffered what seems like pure fantasy as he suggested that when presenting marriage, pastors often do so with "an almost exclusive insistence on the duty of procreation," overshadowing love, mutual assistance and unity.
As the countless Catholic couples in Catholic marriage prep classes over the last 40 years will attest, the opposite is true. The duty of procreation is given a nod if mentioned at all. You'd never guess that procreation is the primary end of marriage as the Church actually teaches.
It is almost as if the Pope seems to be envisioning the Church today as if it were the liberal perception of 1950s Catholicism. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat mentioned in a conference speech the other day: "The idea that there is this glorious future church waiting to be born as long as we get rid of the dead hand of 1950s Catholicism that the pope seems to perceive everywhere he looks, is nuts! It's just nuts. That's not where Catholicism in the West is right now."
In another example from the exhortation, Pope Francis claims the Church has failed to encourage an openness to grace and is simply "stressing doctrinal, bioethical and moral issues," as if that would be "providing sufficient support to families, strengthening the marriage bond and giving meaning to marital life." Once again, the couples in marriage prep and those in most parishes would wonder how they totally missed this supposed stress on doctrinal, bioethical, or moral issues.
It is reminiscent of the first year of his papacy when Pope Francis suggested that Catholic clergy were over-focused on "abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods," causing many to wonder, as did Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa, where exactly those preachers obsessed on those issues might be hiding. Vasa suggested rather that the "vast majority" never talk about those matters. Francis' suggestion was a marked contrast to Pope St. John Paul II's admonition to propose those same truths "constantly and courageously" (Evangelium Vitae 82).
"We also find it hard to make room for the consciences of the faithful," says the Pope in Amoris Laetitiae, "who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations." In the exhortation the Pope also repeats his stern warning from his 2013 Gospel of Joy, that priests are not to treat the confessional as "a torture chamber" or reserve Holy Communion as "a prize for the perfect."
If such a form of Catholicism ever existed among the majority of priests, it is long dead. I'm sure there are some such priests alive today, but they are the tiniest minority. The pendulum has swung so far to the opposite extreme, that in the vast majority priests say hardly anything about the duty of procreation in marriage, and we've had virtual silence from most pulpits on abortion, contraception, and homosexuality.
When is the last time you saw any priest anywhere denying someone Holy Communion for not being perfect? If you have heard something of it, it was so rare as to make the national news. For crying out loud, what part of 1950s Catholicism can remain alive if Catholic abortion-pushers like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are not denied Communion but rather invited to give talks at the Vatican!?
NewsAbortion, Politics - U.S. Wed Apr 27, 2016 - 4:43 pm EST
Planned Parenthood's definitely not happy Ted Cruz picked a pro-life woman as running mate
Updated at 5:15 p.m. EDT to include remarks from Carly Fiorina.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Sen. Ted Cruz has named former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate, if he wins the Republican presidential nomination in July.
"After a great deal of time and thought, after a great deal of consideration and prayer," Sen. Cruz said at a rally in Indianapolis, he decided that "I will run on a ticket with my vice presidential nominee, Carly Fiorina."
Cruz hailed Fiorina as "brilliant and capable," saying she was a strong female leader who had "shattered glass ceilings."
Sen. Cruz said he and his family had "come to adore Carly."
He said Fiorina has the knowledge, judgment, and character to assume the presidency, if need be.
"This is an individual who I trust," he said. "This is an individual you can trust to lead this country, no matter what might happen."
Sen. Cruz said the American people deserve "a choice and not an echo," a reference to the 1964 book of the same title written by Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of Eagle Forum. Schlafly has endorsed Donald Trump.
In her remarks, which she glanced at only intermittently, Carly Fiorina saluted Cruz as a "principled" leader who had fought for religious liberty and would not waver in his defense of the Constitution.
At one point, Fiorina broke into a snippet of a four-verse song she wrote for Cruz's two daughters, Caroline and Catherine.
Becoming more serious, she invoked her mother's Sunday School lesson that the life you forge "is your gift to God." That taught her that "everyone deserves the right to use his God-given gifts to live up to his potential," and the American genius was reckognizing that this right had been endowed by the Creator.
To allow maximum human flourishing, she said, Sen. Cruz would return as much power as possible to the states and to the people, a view that jibes with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, as well as the principle of subsidiarity.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump dismissed the Cruz-Fiorina announcement as "a pure waste of time."
"Cruz has no path to victory," he said. "He is only trying to stay relevant."
In his speech this afternoon, Cruz responded that "nobody is getting to 1,237 delegates" before the convention.
Pro-abortion groups called the ticket out-of-touch with the feminist movement.
Planned Parenthood tweeted that the pairing was "loathsome":
Meet the most loathsome pair of anti-abortion extremists in America. https://t.co/nAGLu3BVfF #NotMyCandidate pic.twitter.com/nZ0NCbIE0B— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 27, 2016
"If Ted Cruz thinks he will fix his problem with women voters with Carly Fiorina, he's making a huge mistake," agreed EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock on MSNBC this afternoon. "They want to dismantle Planned Parenthood. This is not a team that women voters are going to be taking a serious look at."
Carly Fiorina, she said, would offer an "incredible contrast" with Hillary Clinton.
But Cruz's decision was hailed by pro-life leaders.
"Carly Fiorina would have been a great presidential candidate. Barring that, she is the ideal choice for a Vice Presidential candidate. She will take Hillary Clinton head on," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List. "Carly is ideally suited to challenge Hillary Clinton's entire platform, especially issues related to women."
"Hillary has claimed the 'women's advocate' mantle, without offering any compelling fresh perspective," Dannenfelser continued. "Carly, on the other hand, has challenged and bested the entrenched feminist politicos, who purport to advance women's rights even as they advance the usurpation of the rights of children."
The last time a presidential candidate named a running mate who had no legislative experience was 1972, when George McGovern tapped Sargent Shriver, the last pro-life Democrat to appear on a presidential ticket.
Indiana will hold its primary next Tuesday, May 3. Polls show Donald Trump leading handily, but they were taken before Gov. John Kasich of neighboring Ohio agreed not to contest the state, leaving the anti-Trump vote to Sen. Cruz.
NewsAbortion, Catholic Church Wed Apr 27, 2016 - 2:40 pm EST
Catholic expert dismantles dissident theologians' campaign against Polish abortion ban
April 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Joseph Shaw, a research fellow at Oxford's St. Benet Hall and chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, has written a strong critique of a campaign spearheaded by dissident British theologian Tina Beattie urging the Polish bishops not to support the current proposed abortion ban.
In his essay, presented below, Dr. Shaw writes that the "Beattie Petition" selectively and misleadingly quotes the Second Vatican Council; fails to acknowledge the benefits of criminalizing abortion; and illogically suggests that an increase in contraception will reduce abortion in cases of rape, fetal disability, and threats to the mother's life. Furthermore, Shaw writes that the petition is incompatible with Catholic doctrine because it is written with the presumption that abortion is not always an act of injustice toward the pre-born child.
Polish law currently allows abortion in cases of rape, when the baby has a disability, or when the mother's life is in danger, and the proposed ban would eliminate these exceptions.
Shaw skewers the petition signers' appeals to compassion and mercy in their argument for abortion. "It is difficult to see 'mercy, forgiveness, and compassion' at work in the decision to abort a disabled or sick child," he writes.
A response to the Beattie Petition, by Dr. Joseph Shaw
Executive summary
The 'Open Letter from Concerned Catholics' (the 'Beattie Petition') directed to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Poland attempts to discourage the Polish Bishops in their support for the full criminalisation of abortion in their country. It claims that, since in particular hard cases women are faced with 'agonizing decisions' about abortion, its criminalisation is contrary to a 'woman's freedom of conscience'. It is a principle of Catholic teaching, and of common sense, however, that freedom of conscience does not imply a freedom to inflict injustice on others, and that the State is obliged to protect the innocent. The Beattie Petition attempts to confuse matters by the selective quotation of Vatican II's Dignitatis humanae, ignoring this limitation on freedom of conscience, and ignoring the condemnation of abortion by Vatican II in Gaudium et spes, not only as a sin on the conscience of the individual, but as a crime to be 'guarded against'. Finally, the Beattie Petition fails to acknowledge the good consequences of the criminalisation, even if the law is only imperfectly enforced, notably in reducing the number of abortions, and freeing the medical profession from official involvement in a procedure contrary to the very nature of the medical vocation.
An 'Open Letter' or petition has been publicised calling on the Catholic Bishops of Poland to withdraw their support for a legislative initiative to criminalise all abortion. The signatures are arranged in alphabetical order, but the second name, Tina Beattie, Professor of Catholic Studies at Roehampton, is one of the very few which will be widely recognised, and it will be convenient to refer to the document as 'the Beattie Petition'. The text, purporting to come from signatories who 'respect the Church's moral stance against abortion', is a disgraceful, but wholly unsuccessful, attempt to justify a failure to protect the unborn. It's central contention, that abortion is not always an act of injustice towards innocent life deserving of legal protection, cannot overcome, and only ignore, Pope St John Paul II's powerful declaration the Church's infallible teaching on abortion, in his 1995 Encyclical Evanglium vitae §57:
Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his Successors, and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being is always gravely immoral. This doctrine, based upon that unwritten law which man, in the light of reason, finds in his own heart (cf. Rom 2:14-15), is reaffirmed by Sacred Scripture, transmitted by the Tradition of the Church and taught by the ordinary and universal Magisterium.
Before analysing the Petition, it is well to consider what legislation can hope to achieve on the subject of abortion. The answer is simple: the criminalisation of abortion will reliably suppress the openly practiced, legal abortion industry.
Abortion's proponents, including the Beattie Petition, invariably argue that 'driving abortion underground' is of no benefit, but this is far from being the case. Most obviously, in times and places where abortion has been illegal, but where the availability of illegal abortion has been widely known, and efforts to stamp out illegal abortion far from vigorous, the number of abortions actually carried out has been very small compared with the number performed when abortion has been decriminalised, even under apparently restrictive legal regimes.
There are in addition three other important benefits of criminalisation.
First, the abortion industry's legal existence creates permanent pressure for the easing of restrictions on abortion, by its support for political campaigning in favour of abortion; similarly, its existence acts as an advertisement of its services, even if some forms of open advertisement are not permitted.
Second, the abortion industry, as countless examples from around the world have demonstrated in recent years, has scant regard for the legal limitations under which it is supposed to operate, or for the safety of its clients. Indeed, it is also a fallacy, exposed in the most painful manner by recent criminal convictions in the United States that, unsafe and even illegal abortions, with poorly trained abortionists and in unsanitary conditions, necessarily disappear when abortion is legalised.
Third, the existence of legal abortion is corrosive to the ethos of the medical profession, whose training and practice is obliged to take account of abortion as a supposedly legitimate procedure. In practice, where abortion is legal and hospitals carry it out, administrators will put pressure on practioners to perform this unpopular procedure, and will ensure that it is included in medical training. A section, at least, of the medical profession will, often against their will, necessarily become involved in abortion, and its putative legitimacy will have to be taken into account in any discussion of medical ethics, undermining a proper understanding of the role of the doctor in relation to his or her patients, in the tradition of the Hippocratic Oath and of Catholic teaching on the Natural Law.
The central contention of the Beattie petition bears on another benefit of criminalisation, which is the most important of all: its effect on women in crisis pregnancies. The Petition claims:
We appreciate the complex ethical challenges involved in any intentionally abortive act. However, we also believe that our Catholic faith calls us to be attentive to suffering in all its forms, and to respond with trust in the mercy, forgiveness and compassion of God when faced with with [sic] profound moral dilemmas that offer no clear solution. In situations where abortion is deemed necessary – such as those currently permitted under Polish law – we believe that access to early, safe and legal abortion is essential.
The cases currently permitted by Polish law are those where a pregnancy is the result of rape; where the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy; and where the unborn child is severely disabled or terminally ill. It is these cases alone which will be affected by a complete ban, and which are addressed by the Beattie Petition.
It is difficult to see 'mercy, forgiveness, and compassion' at work in the decision to abort a disabled or sick child, particularly when the serious psychological and physical dangers abortion, compared with childbirth, has for mothers. Abortion is the preferred answer, rather, of a medical and social system which would rather not be burdened by the task of supporting mothers and their children in these difficult circumstances.
When a child is conceived in rape, the motivation of the rape victim and her friends and family in seeking abortion is easy to understand. It is equally clear, however, that it can never be a healing choice for a mother to consent to the destruction of her own child. The testimony of many women to the psychological trauma caused by abortion does not encourage the view that abortion is an easy way out for victims of rape.
The Petition focuses, instead, on the case of mothers whose health in endangered by continuing a pregnancy. In this case, the question arises of whether, in the context of modern medicine, such cases actually occur. The 2012 Dublin Declaration on Maternal Health states:
As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of the unborn child – is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.
This has been signed by more than a thousand medical practioners. The Declaration clearly distinguishes, as the Catholic moral tradition does, and as laws restricting abortion typically do, between abortion, as a procedure aiming at the death of an unborn child, and the medical treatment of a pregnant mother which may endanger the child's life. In the Catholic tradition, as in the law, the latter can often be legitimate, taking account of the seriousness of the threat to the mother, the possibility of alternative treatments, and so on.
The Beattie Petition appeals to the tragic circumstances implied in each of these cases, with the implication that offering the possibility of abortion is the compassionate thing to do. For a mother in a crisis pregnancy, in some cases traumatised by rape, in other cases seriously ill, or struggling to come to terms with the news that her child is severely disabled, the offer of abortion is not a compassionate intervention. When offered, perhaps with the encouragement of doctors or family members, it will generally present itself as a recommendation. Like all medical recommendations, it will in such circumstances require a special strength of character to resist it, particularly when accompanied by the implied threat: if you don't abort, the baby will remind you of the rape, the baby will be disabled, the baby will kill you: claims which will not necessarily be true. Such recommendations may be accompanied by pressure, of a subtle or not so subtle kind, from partners or family members, who may for a variety of reasons prefer the baby not to exist. The open door to abortion will distract the attention of all involved from the alternative possibilities: of accepting the unique and sacred character of the child's life, and of coming to terms with the problems implied by the pregnancy with the support of doctors, family members, and where appropriate the state. Offering abortion to mothers in these cases can, in practice, be hard to distinguish from dispatching them down a pathway of convenience for others, a pathway in which the complications of a crisis pregnancy are swept aside, and the mother is left to cope with the trauma of abortion instead, a trauma the existence of which the advocates of abortion, like the signatories of the Beattie Petition, do not wish even to acknowledge.
It is precisely in these tragic circumstances, more so than in cases where abortion is motivated by apparently frivolous considerations, that the reality of abortion is apparent, as an injustice not only to the unborn, but to the mother. Legal abortion opens up the most vulnerable women of all to pressure to consent to a crime against their unborn child, and against themselves. The criminalisation of abortion, as proposed today in Poland, is a step towards the protection of women and the unborn alike.
Two other claims of the Beattie Petition should briefly be considered. First is the claim that abortion could be reduced by greater availability of contraception:
Finally, there is a body of evidence to show that the best way to prevent abortion is to respect women's human dignity and freedom of conscience with regard to reproductive decisions, by guaranteeing access to reliable methods of birth control.
Such evidence as is commonly cited is far from decisive, however; what is widely observed and agreed is that the majority of women seeking abortion had been using contraception. The connection between a contraceptive culture and the demand for abortion was set out by Pope St John Paul II in Evangelium vitae (1995) §13. It is strange, in any case, that this claim should be thought to have bearing on the cases of pregnancy resulting from rape, or where abortion is suggested because an unborn child is disabled, or the pregnancy is supposedly a danger to the mother's life. However rare or common such cases may be, reliable contraception is not going to prevent them arising.
The second claim is the alleged relevance of religious freedom, and Dignatatis humanae, the Declaration on Religious Liberty of the Second Vatican Council, §2. This section deals with the freedom to profess religious beliefs. Any understanding of religious freedom must distinguish between the manifestation of beliefs in harmless ways, and the alleged manifestation of religious beliefs in ways which are unjust to others, particularly others who are do not, or cannot, consent to this treatment. What is unjust must, in turn, necessarily be assessed objectively. Dignitatis humanae makes precisely this distinction, in §7, and ignoring this fact is an indication of a lack of intellectual integrity in the Beattie Petition:
The right to religious freedom is exercised in human society: hence its exercise is subject to certain regulatory norms. In the use of all freedoms the moral principle of personal and social responsibility is to be observed. In the exercise of their rights, individual men and social groups are bound by the moral law to have respect both for the rights of others and for their own duties toward others and for the common welfare of all. Men are to deal with their fellows in justice and civility.
As a matter of fact, the Second Vatican Council directly addressed the issue of abortion, in the Dogmatic Constitution Gaudium et spes, §51, which stressed the obligation to guard against what is a crime, and not just a private sin:
For God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life in a manner which is worthy of man. Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.
The Beattie Petition also includes an appeal to 'the call to mercy and compassion mercy' of Pope Francis. The petitioners can find no comfort, however, in the Holy Father's most recent publication, the Post-Synodal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia (2016) §83:
So great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother's womb, that no alleged right to one's own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the "property" of another human being.


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26 U.S. Code § 45F - Employer-provided child care credit
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(a) In general
For purposes of section 38, the employer-provided child care credit determined under this section for the taxable year is an amount equal to the sum of—
of the taxpayer for such taxable year.
(b) Dollar limitation
The credit allowable under subsection (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed $150,000.
(c) Definitions
For purposes of this section—
(1) Qualified child care expenditure
(A) In general
The term "qualified child care expenditure" means any amount paid or incurred—
(i) to acquire, construct, rehabilitate, or expand property—
(II) with respect to which a deduction for depreciation (or amortization in lieu of depreciation) is allowable, and
(III) which does not constitute part of the principal residence (within the meaning of section 121) of the taxpayer or any employee of the taxpayer,
(ii) for the operating costs of a qualified child care facility of the taxpayer, including costs related to the training of employees, to scholarship programs, and to the providing of increased compensation to employees with higher levels of child care training, or
(2) Qualified child care facility
(A) In general
The term "qualified child care facility" means a facility—
(ii) which meets the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations of the State or local government in which it is located, including the licensing of the facility as a child care facility.
Clause (i) shall not apply to a facility which is the principal residence (within the meaning of section 121) of the operator of the facility.
(B) Special rules with respect to a taxpayer
A facility shall not be treated as a qualified child care facility with respect to a taxpayer unless—
(ii) if the facility is the principal trade or business of the taxpayer, at least 30 percent of the enrollees of such facility are dependents of employees of the taxpayer, and
(3) Qualified child care resource and referral expenditure
(A) In general
The term "qualified child care resource and referral expenditure" means any amount paid or incurred under a contract to provide child care resource and referral services to an employee of the taxpayer.
(d) Recapture of acquisition and construction credit
(1) In general
If, as of the close of any taxable year, there is a recapture event with respect to any qualified child care facility of the taxpayer, then the tax of the taxpayer under this chapter for such taxable year shall be increased by an amount equal to the product of—
(B) the aggregate decrease in the credits allowed under section 38 for all prior taxable years which would have resulted if the qualified child care expenditures of the taxpayer described in subsection (c)(1)(A) with respect to such facility had been zero.
(2) Applicable recapture percentage
(A) In general
For purposes of this subsection, the applicable recapture percentage shall be determined from the following table:The applicable If the recapture event recapture occurs in: percentage is: Years 1–3 100 Year 4 85 Year 5 70 Year 6 55 Year 7 40 Year 8 25 Years 9 and 10 10 Years 11 and thereafter 0.
(3) Recapture event defined
For purposes of this subsection, the term "recapture event" means—
(A) Cessation of operation
The cessation of the operation of the facility as a qualified child care facility.
(B) Change in ownership
(i) In general Except as provided in clause (ii), the disposition of a taxpayer's interest in a qualified child care facility with respect to which the credit described in subsection (a) was allowable.
(ii) Agreement to assume recapture liability Clause (i) shall not apply if the person acquiring such interest in the facility agrees in writing to assume the recapture liability of the person disposing of such interest in effect immediately before such disposition. In the event of such an assumption, the person acquiring the interest in the facility shall be treated as the taxpayer for purposes of assessing any recapture liability (computed as if there had been no change in ownership).
(4) Special rules
(A) Tax benefit rule
The tax for the taxable year shall be increased under paragraph (1) only with respect to credits allowed by reason of this section which were used to reduce tax liability. In the case of credits not so used to reduce tax liability, the carryforwards and carrybacks under section 39 shall be appropriately adjusted.
(B) No credits against tax
Any increase in tax under this subsection shall not be treated as a tax imposed by this chapter for purposes of determining the amount of any credit under this chapter or for purposes of section 55.
(C) No recapture by reason of casualty loss
The increase in tax under this subsection shall not apply to a cessation of operation of the facility as a qualified child care facility by reason of a casualty loss to the extent such loss is restored by reconstruction or replacement within a reasonable period established by the Secretary.
(e) Special rules
For purposes of this section—
(1) Aggregation rules
All persons which are treated as a single employer under subsections (a) and (b) ofsection 52 shall be treated as a single taxpayer.
(2) Pass-thru in the case of estates and trusts
Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, rules similar to the rules of subsection (d) ofsection 52 shall apply.
(f) No double benefit
(1) Reduction in basis
For purposes of this subtitle—
(A) In general
If a credit is determined under this section with respect to any property by reason of expenditures described in subsection (c)(1)(A), the basis of such property shall be reduced by the amount of the credit so determined.
(B) Certain dispositions
If, during any taxable year, there is a recapture amount determined with respect to any property the basis of which was reduced under subparagraph (A), the basis of such property (immediately before the event resulting in such recapture) shall be increased by an amount equal to such recapture amount. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term "recapture amount" means any increase in tax (or adjustment in carrybacks or carryovers) determined under subsection (d).
Source(Added Pub. L. 107–16, title II, § 205(a),June 7, 2001, 115 Stat. 50; amended Pub. L. 107–147, title IV, § 411(d)(1),Mar. 9, 2002, 116 Stat. 46.)
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The Medical Ninja's Student
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|"The Medical Ninja's Student"
|(医療忍者の弟子, Iryō Ninja no Deshi)
|Episode data
|"Sealing Technique: Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals "
|Naruto: Shippūden #11 (Watch Online)
|"The Retired Granny's Determination"
|Kazekage Rescue Arc
|Naruto Chapter #253, Naruto Chapter #254
|April 26, 2007
|December 23, 2009
The Medical Ninja's Student (医療忍者の弟子, Iryō Ninja no Deshi) is episode 11 of Naruto: Shippūden anime.
Chiyo's assault on Kakashi is stopped due to Naruto's quick use of shadow clones. After her brother tells her to look closer, Chiyo realises that Kakashi only bears resemblance to the White Fang of the Konohagakure, Kakashi's father. She plays it off by saying that she pretended to be senile. Meanwhile, Sakura has everyone leave the room as she begins her examination of Kankurō. She discovers that the poison in his body is one that destroyed the cells after infiltrating the muscles. Sakura then has Sekka and Ryōkan gather some materials for her.
Meanwhile, Akatsuki continues their extraction of Shukaku from Gaara's body.
As Sakura begins the procedure, she has the others hold Kankurō down. She sends chakra into his body, draws the poison from the cells, absorbs it into a liquid and pulls it out. After a while, she removes most of the poison from his body to the point where his life is no longer in danger, but she's far from done.
A bird arrives with a message from Tsunade informing them that Guy's team has been sent as reinforcements and will be arriving soon. As Kankurō regains consciousness, he informs the group that he had taken a piece of the enemy's clothing with which they could use to track them. Marvelling at the resilience of Suna ninja, Kakashi summons his pack of ninken, and they begin tracking the enemy after getting a whiff of Sasori's mask.
Sakura administers an antidote that should clear up any residual poison in his body and tells him to rest. Before Team Kakashi sets out, Kankurō pleads Naruto to help his brother, and Naruto accepts.


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So based on this, we should start:
and see less of
Courtney (not seeing much anyway)
Collins (ditto)
Ludwig (please stop starting him)
Also, pardon my ignorance: what does SoS stand for?
ETA: South of South. Got it.
Some of that can be attributed to luck and some of it can be attributed to offensive ability (which is hard to distinguish statistically) whereas the other statistics are primarily off/def ability, hence my suggestion.
But i guess if you subtract it out like you said it normalizes it
I want this to be the best it can. I am thinking of breaking out defensive and offensive rebounds because offensive rebounds lead to more points on average than defensive. I just would have to put in some extra work.
I am also thinking about adding fouls in as a negative variable.
Yeah I'm not a basketball person, but I was just trying to give some positive critiques mathematically.
It seems that having the two coefficients for assists and pts with a wide margin would lower the regression (accuracy) since one is dependent on the other (it's not an assist unless a point is scored, so that person making the basket is pretty important). It's a differential equation, not linear. So taking it out is easier than breaking it down. If the goal is "should be rewarded with more playing time" then the scoreboard doesn't matter and points being scored are included in the fact that an assist happened. Who those points are attributed to is probably attributed more to position than anything else. That's kind of taken care of since there is a finite number of each.
Just trying to formulate something that can at some level explain and compare play without using the eye test.
What about Hockey assists? Are those being counted?
Can we get this guy an award or something?!
What does all this mean? Statistics are a nice tool but do not tell the whole story. I know you realize this but in reading through all your stats it just made me think about the things in a game for which there are no stats kept.
This is a great piece of work! Maybe over time the factors might be tweaked up or down in each of the categories, however it is an excellent start!
One thing missing is free throws. These have a major impact on a game. How many times a guy draws fouls is indicative of a players aggressiveness and his ability to make the opponent foul him. The other factor is ft%. A low % is really bad, especially in a close game. A high % is a major indicator of ability to put away another team.
This definitely should be factored into your formula.
My applause for an excellent, well thought out effort!!!
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