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Making Prenatal Choices
by Amy Laura Hall
Amy Laura Hall is assistant professor of theological ethics at Duke University Divinity School. This article appeared in The Christian Century, June 28, 2003, pp. 32-36. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck. Berkley, 328 pp., paperback.
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus, by Rayna Rapp. Routledge, 361 pp., paperback.
The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society, by Hans S. Reinders. University of Notre Dame Press, 280 pp.
Choosing Naia, by Mitchell Zuckoff. Beacon, 301 pp.
We woke one morning last November to a spectacular display of bright white ice. While my first grader did a naked dance to celebrate the day off, we watched heavily encrusted tree limbs crash to the ground around Dukes campus. The radio reported that others in Durham, away from the universitys private generators, were huddling under blankets, and we called friends and students to offer them our heated space. Soon our campus apartment was bustling with people. As I served up hot chocolate and flipped flapjacks, I was quite pleased with my role. Here, away from the brittle cold, a lovely chaos ensued, with happy children, full bellies, warm feet and a gracious host -- me.
But what had been a cheerful bustle became, after 24 hours of proximity, a noisy swarm. The rainbow coalition of children playing on our floor grew both cranky -- pulling hair during toy-turf battles -- and dirty, as they took advantage of the mayhem to dodge baths. Ideological differences became less provocative than annoying as the adults wrangled over the class dynamics of Mary Poppins. And as time went by I attempted, through strained smiles and passive-aggressive hints, to keep my space mannered, orderly, hospitable. Over the course of our five days together I came to suspect again that true hospitality is messy and frustrating. To be truly hospitable is, to some extent, to lose control of ones space and time -- to be open to the disarray and interruption of embodied life. Perhaps hospitality is most nearly proleptic when it bears the unruly wounds of the risen Christ.
Most North Americans seem ill prepared for real interruption. Most of us prefer the unexpected to occur only on screen, at predictably scheduled intervals. Our neighborhood associations, pharmaceuticals, appliances and methodical committees help us to rule out the unpredictable and to encourage efficiency. But the overt dependence brought on by an ice storm or a vomiting child rudely awakens us to need. So awakened, we often find ourselves embarrassingly out of sync with others, who continue in their guarded routines and order. Christians may read this as a sign of our societys diminishing capacity for incarnate hospitality.
Parents who care for children with disabilities are searingly aware of this decline in hospitality. Negotiating the systematic problem of underpaid and overworked teachers, as well as the inadvertantly unwelcome comments of grocery shoppers, parents of children with noticeable needs exist at the outer boundaries of inhospitable normalcy. The birth of a child who may never move out of a state of conspicuous dependence places its parents in the unseemly realm of the accidental.
Every child is truly an interruption, but the patient and expensive work of helping a child with disabilities requires a willingness to mark time differently. The challenges facing the parents are acute in a culture eager for efficient, calculable results. Perhaps, then, it should come as no surprise that nine out of every ten women who discover that their fetus has Down syndrome choose to abort.
Rayna Rapps book on "the social impact of amniocentesis in America" has won prizes in gender studies, ethnography and anthropology. A professor at the New School for Social Research, Rapp came to the project of mapping the "construction and routinization of this technology after she herself went through prenatal testing, a diagnosis of Down syndrome and a selective abortion. Realizing that through these procedures women are becoming "moral pioneers," Rapp set out to document and analyze the contours of the "brave new world" created by obstetric screening and technology. Her book is arguably the definitive work on prenatal testing in the U.S.
What Rapp discovers bears the weight of the decision that gave rise to her research: "This technology turns every user into a moral philosopher, as she concludes her fears and fantasies of the limits of mothering a fetus with a disability." Her thesis is that individual women are courageously negotiating the new moral choices brought by technology, and she argues that the only overriding ethical consideration regarding that technology is that there be equal, economically feasible access to the available tests and procedures. Noting that white women typically talk about their decision differently than either African-American or Latina women, Rapp tackles head-on a question that would necessitate a reevaluation of her thesis.
In this section, titled "Are White Women Selfish?" Rapp analyzes and decodes the language of "selfishness" in the self-descriptions of Anglo women. One woman, who is characteristic of these interviewees, explains, "I just couldnt do it, couldnt be that kind of mother who accepts everything, loves her kid no matter what . . . Maybe its selfish, I dont know. But I just didnt want all those problems in my life." Rather than considering the possibility that such narrations reflect genuine conflict over the question of selective abortion, Rapp suggests that these women are unwitting victims of both pro-life propaganda and an atavistic ambivalence about the entry of women into the workplace.
Not surprisingly, the most conflicted and complicated chapter in the book is the one in which Rapp attempts to read the cultural terrain of what she calls the "alienated kinship" of children with Down syndrome. Although Rapp states in her introduction that "the intersection of disability rights and reproductive rights [are] paradoxically linked feminist issues," the potentially prophetic witness of the mothers who care for children with disabilities remains sequestered in this, the penultimate chapter.
Accentuating what one scholar has called a "kinship of affliction," she draws variously on the shared difficulties of caring for these children, as well as on the notion that children with Down syndrome physically "resemble one another more than they resemble their families of origin," to place a kind of boundary around the lives described. The testimonies of women (and it is almost always mothers) who care for children with disabilities remain separate, in a distinct category of "affliction," rather than seeping into the broader analysis of the individual decisions to terminate pregnancies.
Rapps anthropological study is thus also, in a way, a telling autobiography, her testimony to the broadening gap between the one woman who chooses to give birth and the nine who do not. The book opens with a dedication, "To the memory of XYLO and the futures of Mira and Teo, all already and always children of a brave new world," and it concludes with a chapter titled "Endings Are Really Beginnings." She explains there that XYLO is the name she and her partner gave to the fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome. His ending, she implies, was the beginning of her research. "If the work accomplished in this book helps others to think about these evolving issues, his short life will have been a great gift," she states. XYLOs life and termination will be justified, Rapp concludes, if her interpretive lens helps other women negotiate the brave new world of reproductive choice.
Some mothers and fathers face the unimaginable pain of discovering that their baby will inevitably die soon after birth. Most seasoned pastors have prayed for and with a family facing this incomprehensible suffering and the decision of what to do next. But these tragic cases cannot preclude a conversation about the case of parents who are choosing to terminate pregnancies after diagnoses that are not terminal -- diagnoses including Down syndrome, cleft palate, club foot, visual impairments and Klinefelters syndrome (which involves ambiguous gender).
People of faith are already interpreting such choices theologically, and their language begs for engagement. Carefully distinguishing the termination of a planned pregnancy from the abortions of "other" women, Christians are seeking theological justification for their decisions to terminate disabled fetuses. One woman explains that her pregnancy "interruption" was providential, another that God was testing her to see if she would be willing to return his angel to heaven. In a desperate attempt to bridge choice and faith, many who choose to "interrupt" their pregnancies (the common phrase in these cases) embrace the idea of the transmigration of souls, expecting that the terminated fetus will return in a subsequent pregnancy, wearing a new, improved body.
There are Web sites like "A Heartbreaking Choice" for women "who choose to interrupt their pregnancies after poor prenatal diagnosis." As the hosts of the site explain, here is "a safe haven of encouragement and validation" regardless of the reason for the decision. Indeed, the decision itself becomes encrypted in language about "the babies who left us too soon." One entry is characteristic:
"Even though hes gone and youre no longer a mother to be / Just remember it was your love that helped to set him free."
The conflict between the mothers who choose not to abort a Down syndrome child and these who do is salient at the Web site "The Ragged Edge," where the mother of such a child expresses her disgust with "A Heartbreaking Choice": "In other words, their fetuses had no value as imperfect living beings. Their only value is in celestial perfection. When they were potentially alive, they were worthless because of their disability. Now they are perfected, and mourned. . . [The mothers] have whitewashed these abortions with sentimental words and lovely pictures of angels and clouds. These pages are a paean to eugenics." By calling the site "a paean to eugenics," Mary Wilt sharply rejects the supposedly personal nature of the decision to abort. To choose against this form of life is implicitly to choose against the intrinsic value of each child with Down syndrome. When nine out often women choose not to bring a disabled child into the world it is both a sign and a reinforcement of the cultures inhospitality toward those who live a conspicuously dependent life.
Hans Reinders carefully argues this point in The Future of the Disabled in a Liberal Society. The Willem van den Bergh Professor of Ethics and Mental Disability at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Reinders was asked in 1996 to write on genetics and disability for the Dutch Association of Bioethics. His book is an extended moral reflection on the subject, and it directly counters Rapps argument that the overriding ethical concern attending prenatal testing is that of distributive justice. Indeed, Reinders suggests, the ever widening distribution of such technologies may in fact weaken the already tenuous commitment of liberal nations to funding disability services:
Assuming that disabled people will always be among us, that the proliferation of genetic testing will strengthen the perception that the prevention of disability is a matter of responsible reproductive behavior, and that society is therefore entitled to hold people personally responsible for having a disabled child, it is not unlikely that political support for the provision of their special needs will erode.
The question of civic and social hospitality is key, but political liberalism is not ultimately capable of engendering and fostering hospitality toward people with overt, recalcitrant needs. The norms encircling the liberal axis of individual autonomy cannot easily accommodate lives dedicated to the care of perpetually dependent individuals, or admit the intrinsic value of these individuals.
Meticulously considering the policy implications of this tension, Reinders concludes that it is neither within the liberal purview nor within the limits of the practical to address it through legal restrictions on procreative technology and abortion. The predicament facing liberal society, then, is "cultural," not "political." "The benefits bestowed by love and friendship are consequential rather than conditional, which explains why human life that is constituted by these relationships is appropriately experienced as a gift. A society that accepts responsibility for dependent others such as the mentally disabled will do so because there are sufficient people who accept [this] account as true."
The second half of Reinderss book presents a philosophical and theological case for the complicated and gratuitous blessing of living in the midst of disability. He attempts to render the gratuity of complex dependency, to give voice to a practical, embodied knowledge and to persuade those who do not have such knowledge to consider heretofore unseen possibilities. Reinderss Lutheran sensibilities emerge as he describes "the meaning of life as essentially a by-product, a freely received and gladly accepted gift." He does not promise the reader that if she merely "tries harder" to accept dependent life she will find therein "personal fulfillment." Rather, a feeling of fulfillment and meaning is a fragile gift.
The collective will for accommodating the disabled depends on the subtly public witness of those who care for them. This is a fragile thread on which to hang the future of wheelchair accessibility, special education and other public expenditures, but Reinders argues persuasively that it is the only plausible way. If he is right that "the democratic state will be able to sustain adequate support for the disabled and their families to the extent that its citizens are the kind of people who are prepared to share their lives with them," Christians committed to hospitality are faced with a task of the imagination.
Toward this end, I recommend Expecting Adam and Choosing Naia. Though these two books are quite different in tone and style, both navigate the intricate frustrations and blessings of couples who chose to take the much less traveled route. The popularity of both (Expecting Adam is a bestseller) suggests that people may suspect something is awry with our present patterns of choice. Perhaps it also suggests that these stories are not only about receiving disabled life but about receiving life itself, in all its interdependence.
I read Martha Becks memoir "of birth, rebirth, and everyday magic" on a long flight to Los Angeles and could not control outbursts of both laughter and copious tears. Several people seated nearby asked me what in the world I was reading. Beck was a graduate student at Harvard when she discovered that her second pregnancy would result in a child with Down syndrome. She called on a retinue of "puppeteers" to pull and prod her into the reality of accepting Adam. These angels and archangels have their work cut out for them, given the obscene inhospitality that marks Ivy League graduate school. During one scene, Beck goes to the bookstore to look for sustenance for her journey:
Four or five long bookshelves were occupied by instructional variations on a single subject: how to turn a human infant into a genius in the shortest time possible. The object, apparently, was to have every child -- no, Im sorry, make that "your child" -- contributing important innovations to science and letters before it achieved bowel control . . . I have seen many of these same books in other bookstores at other times, but only the Harvard Coop had all of them: Teach Your Baby to Read; Born to Win; Pre-Law for Preschooler; Toddling Through Calculus . . .
And this was only the material manifestation of the embodiment-phobia apparent in character after character with whom she and her husband had to deal. In the midst of this, Beck came increasingly to realize that "I was not looking for information to transform my child into a prize every parent would envy. I needed to transform myself into a parent who could accept her child."
This is not a theologically correct book. Beck sometimes depicts Adam as an otherworldly savior rather than a flesh-and-blood kid, and her syncretistic Mormon/New Age theology is eccentric, to say the least. But Beck vibrantly describes the joyful interruption and the graced recalibration of time that is receiving Adam. The supernatural and merely human gifts she receives along the way are sufficient for her task, and those who seek a theologically astute way to engender hospitality will do well to take careful (and, I suspect, joyful) note.
Choosing Naia originally appeared as a series in the Boston Globe, and its author, Mitchell Zuckoff, remains very close to the ground. In contrast to Becks stratospheric narration, Zuckoff reports the daily, prosaic work of Greg and Tierney Fairchild as they gather copious medical information, discern vocation and then live with the delicate reality of raising an interracial child with Down syndrome. With three weeks to decide whether to abort the pregnancy, the Fairchilds shift painfully back and forth, forth and back, reading about the challenges that their child will face and listening to loved ones who conclude that "this was a misbegotten pregnancy," and that they should "try again." Their awareness of the discrimination that will confront the child tips the balance one way, then the other. But finally they decide not to terminate, fully realizing in what Tierney describes as their "leap of faith" that they are about to become "pioneers."
Whereas mischievous angels swirl through Becks narrative, Zuckoff relates the crucial impact of the Fairchilds extended family, friends and even church life on their capacity to choose giving birth to their daughter. A critical turning point comes when they discover that there is a woman who orchestrates the adoption of infants and children with Down syndrome. This discovery makes them realize that if they choose Naia, they will not inevitably be alone in caring for her. They have an "out" precisely because there are others willing to take on what might become for the Fairchilds an impossible task. This invisible cadre of caretakers extends the flesh and blood support given to them by Greg parents and Tierneys mother.
Zuckoffs story widens the focus to take in not only the couple who make the decision, the couple whose picture graces the books cover, but also those who help with grocery shopping, laundry, babysitting and dog walking. While the Fairchilds conversations with a genetic counselor provide them with many details regarding the life they may choose to receive, the daily material help given them by their own parents and siblings renders this choice for very complicated parenthood logistically imaginable. So does the tangible support given by Connecticuts Birth-to-Three system, a state-funded program that provides early intervention for children with disabilities.
After they have made their choice for Naia, Greg hears the statistic that nine out of ten women choose to abort a fetus with Down syndrome and wonders what impact this will have on Naias future: "Theres safety in numbers," he says. "When there are other children in the school system who are different, when Naia isnt the only one, it makes it easier in terms of advocacy." The picture on the cover of Rayna Rapps book, the image of a lone womb, epitomizes the crux of this problem. It suggests Rapps concept of the individual pregnant woman as a "moral pioneer." But the hospitality called for in the brave new world of reproductive technology requires a critical mass of resistance, a resilient band of pioneers in Tierneys sense of the term.
In a society bent on efficiency, those who wish truly to support disability rights may be called to lobby for and work within the woefully underfunded and underresearched area of special education. We may put ourselves on a list to adopt children with disabilities in order to provide a backup for someone who is struggling with the decision, Churches tempted to aim for yuppie-friendly perfection in their church pageants and Sunday school instead may need to reconfigure the expectations of the parents they seek to attract. It is surely unfaithful to ask the lone woman on the cover of Rapps book to make her choice differently without such changes.
Of course, this hospitality will be neither easy nor seamless, obviously beautiful nor efficient. It may turn churches on edge, teetering between Christian community and chaos, but such a life is more truly incarnate than the strength and independence our society seeks. After all, those who live with disability mark conspicuously what is true for all daughters and sons of Eve. We cannot exist without the gratuitous care of others and the prodigal love of God. Living into this truth, we may testify faithfully to a world that is currently, overwhelmingly, rejecting Adam.


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Demi Lovato Gives Details on Her 'Neon Lights' Tour
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By Sierra Marquina
Demi Lovato is kicking off her Neon Lights Tour on Sunday and she's been rehearsing non-stop.
In fact, the "Give Your Heart a Break" singer has been working on giving her fans an unforgettable night.
Demi tells On Air with Ryan Seacrest: "I want my fans to experience a show that really showcases off all of the instruments that I can play."
She adds that there will also be a video component that she filmed that she's excited to reveal. "It's kind of like what Beyoncé did with the music video for each song, but it'll be playing on the background of the scenes during my show."
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If you came to the late nite theology discussion, Tony Myles has a great recap here.
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glad to see you are alive! do you get any time off before nashvegas or will you be traveling more inbetween! tell lilly, tanner, aidan and julie hey from me! btw…i like the book too! and especially all those free copies you sent me! : )
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I wish I was there. Though I agree with you on some points and disagree on others.It is interesting as I was reading this and thinking about our denominations current focus on dialogue on certain ethical issues. The two things (emergent and denomination) just seem to have a convergence in focus at this point.


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Wizard of Odds: Live Odds, Form and Alerts for all Racing
David Payne has confirmed his dual group 1 winner Criterion is likely to contest the Hong Kong Cup in December after the Hong Kong Jockey Club lured owner Sir Owen Glenn to its international meeting. Criterion came through his Cox Plate run unscathed and holds an entry in the $1 million Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.
"Nothing is set in concrete but he's been vaccinated in preparation to go there," Payne said. "The owner is very keen to go."
Penzance still short of a start
Darren Weir faces an uphill battle to qualify Prince Of Penzance for the Melbourne Cup despite chief handicapper Greg Carpenter issuing a 2kg penalty to the Moonee Valley Cup winner. Prince Of Penzance remains stalled at No.30 on the order of entry and has not been entered for the Lexus Stakes on Saturday, the cup's version of the last chance saloon.
Weir has entered Signoff for the Lexus and booked Hong Kong-based Brazilian rider Joao Moreira in a bid to seal a cup spot.
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Bring Me The Maid has had what would be considered a holiday in the middle of the spring since her fourth in the Thousand Guineas. Peter Moody (right) gave the filly a couple of days off but she will be at Saturday's star-studded Coolmore Stud Stakes. "She's been to the farm and the beach, it's like a holiday," he said.
"We just needed to freshen her up for the Coolmore. She will back at Caulfield in the morning [on Tuesday] for a little blow-out to remind her she is a racehorse." Moody will have a couple of Melbourne Cup runners in Brambles and Lidari and said he hopes the big money stays in Australia.
Cohen mulls Melbourne decision
Rosehill trainer Lionel Cohen will decide whether Aeronautical will travel to Melbourne after a testing gallop on Tuesday. Aeronautical is entered for the group 2 down the straight 1200 metres, a course he was placed on in a Newmarket Handicap a couple of years ago, and the group 3 1400m. "I'm leaning towards the 1400m because I don't want to have to ride too hard early," Cohen said.
"I'm interested what might be in the field and, if Deep Field is in the straight race, I will definitely go to the 1400m." Aeronautical was well beaten in the Lightning Stakes at Randwick behind the unbeaten Deep Field last start.
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Retailers who charge "exorbitant'' fees for payment by credit cards will be targeted by the federal government after ongoing complaints of merchants profiteering from overly high surcharges.
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"Consumers are outraged at the exorbitant fees and charges some companies make them pay when buying goods and services with their credit cards," Mr Bradbury said in a statement on Wednesday.
"I want consumers to point out the worst surcharge offenders," he said. "The government will await the findings of the review, but we do not rule out taking regulatory action to crack down on this fee-gouging practice."
The Reserve Bank of Australia has already reviewed credit card surcharging after complaints from consumer groups including consumer advocacy group Choice and the card companies.
It ruled in March credit card surcharges are supposed to be limited to the cost of the card transactions, and not used to generate profits.
Not aware of alternative
A Choice online survey in May found almost half of Australians who reported paying a credit card surcharge in the previous three months said they were not made aware of an alternative, surcharge-free payment method. It found airline surcharges ranging from 4.2 per cent to 17 per cent. Its data estimated the average merchant service fee for MasterCard and Visa was about 0.86 per cent.
"With the growth in online commerce and the use of credit cards, some companies appear to view transaction fees as a way to profiteer," Mr Bradbury said.
Qantas has maintained its surcharges do not recover more than it costs the airline to offer credit card payments, with a spokesman saying claims surcharges were used to profiteer as "simply wrong''.
But Choice said continuing high costs flouted the new RBA rules.
"The worst excessive surcharging offenders,
Visa says it has been working with banks and auditors since March to assess what it costs merchants to use credit card facilities. Merchants who appear to be profiteering are given a warning and time to comply with the RBA ruling. More than 50 complaints have been made by the public, against merchants.
"While this program is only in its early days, it is clear that public enforcement options will support a reduction in excessive surcharging," Visa country manager
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Vienna, Austria (AFP) Sept 27, 2013
Following a diplomatic frenzy in New York, Iran on Friday went into talks with the UN atomic agency, their 11th such meeting but the first since President Hassan Rouhani's election.
Iran's new envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency immediately downplayed the chances of an imminent breakthrough, however, saying an agreement would take time.
"This is the first meeting so nobody I guess should expect that in just one day meeting we can solve our problems," Reza Najafi told reporters.
The IAEA regularly inspects Iran's nuclear activities and every quarter its reports outline a continued expansion in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
Western countries want the IAEA to keep a closer eye on Iran to better detect any attempt to "break out" and produce highly-enriched uranium for an atomic bomb.
But the main focus of Friday's talks was the IAEA's wish for Iran to address allegations that before 2003, and possibly since, it conducted research work into making an actual nuclear weapon.
The agency has failed in 10 meetings since early 2012 to press Iran to grant it access to personnel, sites and documents related to these activities, set out in a major November 2011 report by the IAEA.
The allegations were based in large part on information provided to the IAEA from spy agencies like the CIA and Israel's Mossad, intelligence which Iran rubbishes and complains it has not even been allowed to see.
The sites include the Parchin military base where the IAEA wants to probe claims that scientists conducted explosives tests that would be "strong indicators of possible nuclear weapon development".
Western countries have accused Iran of literally bulldozing evidence at Parchin, and IAEA head Yukiya Amano said in June that heavy construction work spotted by satellites means "it may no longer be possible to find anything even if we have access".
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Providing some hope that the negotiators might be 11th time lucky is that under Rouhani, Iran has been sounding considerably more conciliatory than under his more hardline predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
It will also be the first such gathering involving Najafi, who arrived in Vienna earlier this month professing a "strong political will" to engage.
"We welcome the recent developments and statements made by Iran about their willingness to engage, to resolve the nuclear issue expeditiously," IAEA chief inspector Herman Nackaerts said as he went into the meeting.
"We are looking forward to discussions on how we can intensify the dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues."
On Thursday new Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with counterparts from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the so-called P5+1) at the UN General Assembly, including US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Kerry said Zarif's presentation was "very different in tone, and very different in the vision that he held out with respect to the possibilities in the future."
Zarif said the talks agreed to "jumpstart" work on a deal and "move towards finalizing it, hopefully, within a year's time."
Kerry shook hands and met briefly one-on-one with a smiling Zarif on the sidelines in one of the foes' highest-level encounters since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The six powers will meet again for talks with Iran on October 15 and 16 in Geneva, the EU's foreign policy chief and P5+1 chief negotiator Catherine Ashton said in New York.
This diplomatic track is separate from that of the IAEA, concentrating more on Iran's current activities, most notably uranium enrichment, with Tehran seeking an easing of painful UN and Western sanctions.
But a deal with the IAEA on probing claims of past weaponisation work is a key part of the jigsaw needed to finally peacefully resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear work after a decade of trying.
"The area where Iran is most willing and able to make concessions is the area of transparency and that means more cooperation with the IAEA," said Mark Fitzpatrick from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"I think that this will be a significant meeting, but it won't necessarily mean that if they strike a deal there (in Vienna) that they will be willing to strike a deal with the P5+1," he told AFP.
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Don't Piss on the Ashes
Filed under: Dr Wong Wee Nam, Singapore Democratic Party
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
20 January 2015
I couldn't resist the headline "Chan Chun Sing rebuffs Huffington Post for running articles by Chee Soon Juan".
The latter had written two articles "Without Freedom There is No Free Trade" and "Free the Singapore Media and Let the People Go" talking basically about income inequality, media freedom creativity and the need for improvement in the system.
There is rarely open political debate in Singapore involving the ruling party, and certainly, a debate even between a powerful ex-Major General turned Minister and what Chan Chun Sing calls a politically-failed nobody must surely deserve some attention.
I started reading the rebuttal with great expectations because I expected a scholar and a touted future Prime Minister to demolish the "failure" with very strong and logical arguments. But I was disappointed. What I read was not a response to the issues raised by Dr Chee but a personal attack on him, raking up his past and labelling him with derisory terms.
History is Bunk
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
Dr Wong Wee Nam
29 December 2014
In 1848, Karl Marx stirred the world when he wrote, "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
"Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?"
This was to become the preamble to the famous publication known as The Communist Manifesto.
The NLB fiasco
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
16 July 2014
The National Library Board (NLB)'s recent announcement to remove 3 children's books from circulation does not surprise me. Such hasty knee-jerk reactions have happened with the authorities in the past. So is the speed with which the authorities take on the role as a guardian of societal moral values when there is no need to.
The decision to remove the books disappoints me. The decision to pulp the books disappoints me even more. All this while I thought only the Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuang would destroy books that he disapproved of. I never expected NLB to be so dramatic.
Is There a Need to Sue?
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
14 June 2014
There is an old Chinese saying which goes like this: "When a leopard dies, it leaves behind the skin, but when a person dies, he or she leaves behind a name."
In Chapter Nine of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, Wang Yun told Lu Bu, "If you, the general, can help the Han Dynasty, you are a loyal minister and will leave a good name in history and to posterity (流芳百世)." To do otherwise (and support the tyrant Dong Zhuo), Wang Yun said, "You bequeath your stench that will last for tens of thousands of years." (遗臭万年)
The bidding "To leave a good name to posterity" is what most people aspire to do, whilst the idiom "To bequeath a stench that will last a thousand years" is what people would not want ascribed to them.
Tyranny or People's Participation?
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
06 June 2014
In the recent Parliamentary debate on the President's Address, Mr Low Thia Khiang, leader of the Worker's Party, chose to focus his speech on constructive politics. He called for a change in the political culture.
Low said, "If the people continue to support a government party that uses high-handed tactics against its political opponents, we are endorsing a bullying political culture.
"If the people support a governing party that uses governmental resources, including civil servants, to serve its partisan goals, we are condoning the abuse of political power as an acceptable culture.
Mind the Cracks
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
On 28th January 2014, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told the students attending the NTU Students' Union Ministerial Forum that Singaporeans need to be united and cohesive, with a common purpose and a common goal to make Singapore better. There is nothing profound in this statement and anyone with a bit of commonsense will not disagree with Mr Lee.
There is no doubt the world will change in the next 50 years in ways that we cannot imagine. His reassurances were: "We need to educate our students better, with knowledge and skills for the future, with values and good character to deal with life's uncertainties."
PAP's Battle Cry
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
20 December 2013
The PAP is in a combative mood. In the party convention held on 8th December 2013, Mr Chan Chun Sing, its organising secretary, set the tone when he declared the PAP must "continuously and strenuously defend the common space for people to speak up, because if it does not, then others will occupy the space and make them irrelevant."
In the style of Winston Churchill's famous World War II speech, he said, "We must not concede the space — physical or cyber. We will have to learn from the 1960's generation of PAP pioneers — to fight to get our message across at every corner — every street corner, every cyberspace corner, be it in the mass media or social media. We will have to do battle everywhere as necessary."
Reflection of that Midnight Call
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
06 July 2013
People don't normally call another person in the middle of the night unless it is something very important. Or, unless you are feeling hungry and want someone to go with for supper. Most of the time, it means bad news. In my case, whenever there is such a call at such an unearthly hour, it means either there is an emergency or someone is in trouble, dying or has died.
I, therefore, find it a little strange that a Law Minister should call up a lawyer/blogger at midnight to discuss the consequence of disseminating an article written by a foreign journalist in a foreign newspaper. Even if he had insomnia over the article, could he not have waited till the next day to discuss it? But then someone told me it is common for lawyers to talk to each other at midnight. I am not sure if he was pulling my leg.
Is the PAP government going back to its old ways?
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
03 June 2013
On the 12th of August 2004, a young man confidently declared that "We will continue to expand the spaces which Singaporeans have to live, to laugh, to grow and to be ourselves. Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas, or simply be different. We should have the confidence to engage in robust debate, so as to understand our problems, conceive fresh solutions, and open up new spaces."
With these words, he was sworn in as Singapore's third Prime Minister. At that time, this speech did not immediately raise the hopes of those Singaporeans who were looking forward to living in a less stifling political atmosphere. Nevertheless these Singaporeans did not dismiss the declaration outright and preferred to wait and see.
Boston of the East?
Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics, Dr Wong Wee Nam
By Dr Wong Wee Nam
24 April 2013
When Mr Lee Hsien Loong watched the news of the recent bombing at the Boston Marathon, he was inspired by the many stories of people behaving selflessly when faced with fear and danger. In his Facebook, he wrote, "If ever Singapore encounters an incident like this, may we have the courage and the humanity to respond with the same grace and unity as the Bostonians."
How the people of a society behave depends on the society they grew up in. The cultural, the political and the social environments all play a part in the moulding of a people's values and their attitudes towards the community.
Boston has generally been socially progressive and politically liberal. It is known for having a passion for politics. There is a great intellectual community and it is a place where progressive ideas are shared. It has a strong, vibrant arts community. There, gays are not frowned upon or criminalised.


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Coming to the end of a bruising, bitter year,
She believes she has survived the worst the opposition (and her own caucus) can muster against her leadership. Her plan is to campaign next year on a positive agenda, promising education reform and the national disability insurance scheme. That there's actually no money for any of this is irrelevant in terms of political rhetoric.
But that makes her even more determined to finish off 2012 with another Houdini-like escape from what was supposed to be her greatest political failure – the carbon tax. And that involves transforming vulnerability into claimed victory. Facts have little to do with it. Witness the Prime Minister's latest attempt to reassign blame for rising power prices and then to take credit for fixing it.
The government certainly knows voters are unhappy about electricity prices. The political trick is to ensure the carbon tax is not regarded as the culprit and that Gillard becomes, miraculously, the consumers' friend against greedy state governments and power companies.
This requires undermining the opposition's success in building community fears against the tax before its introduction on July 1. Partly because
But she clearly needs to do more to persuade the public that she offers the solution rather than the problem. That's why she is grandstanding ahead of the next meeting of the Council of Australian Governments on Friday.
The headline is she is fighting for families to pay $250 less a year than they otherwise would under the current system. The nuanced wording is deliberate. Electricity prices are heading up but obscured by repeating a dollar amount supposedly saved, no matter how theoretical.
Nor does it matter that state and federal energy ministers have spent 18 months negotiating a common position to announce on energy pricing. The real work on the "power of choice'' for consumers was done by the Australian Energy Market Commission in a report released 10 days ago. And any real reform will require co-operation between the states and the Commonwealth.
But it is more politically convenient to go on the attack given the Prime Minister now has a swag of conservative states to target for pushing prices up. So she has renewed her claim Australians are paying too much because of the "gold-plating'' of networks, particularly state owned networks, and over-investment in poles and wires.
The argument over the level of investment is much more complicated. It includes new requirements mostly put in by state Labor governments – approved by a federal regulator – for absolute reliability on the hottest days. This automatically meant all consumers pay more to ensure there can be no risk of blackouts at times of extreme temperature. Installing additional costly fail-safe systems is redundant for almost all of the year.
Add in the need to replace basic network assets now well past their use by date, higher material and labour costs, higher demand at peak periods, higher costs due to various expensive renewable energy schemes and now, yes, the carbon tax.
It's true state governments that still own networks have compounded the problem by also taking out generous dividends. Yet it's not as though federal Labor has officially backed the privatisation and deregulation route adopted by the previous Kennett government in Victoria.
Instead, the more politically palatable option is to proudly announce the establishment of the Consumer Challenge Panel to supposedly give consumer groups greater authority to question price increases. The opposition is dismissing this as the power version of the totally ineffective Grocery Watch and Fuel Watch schemes set up by the Rudd government to appease consumers about cost of living pressures.
But the idea is to create at least the illusion of greater choice for consumers. That is also the case with time-of-use pricing. The concept is for people to pay more or less for power depending on use during peak periods of early morning and late afternoon and early evening.
This sounds logical enough – even if most families don't have much of a choice about when they turn on TVs, computers, washing machines and air conditioners. They will have to be convinced it won't end up costing them more in practice.
But for it to work, it also requires smart meters to accurately measure time of use. Most households and small businesses don't have these smart meters and there's no agreement on who should pay the considerable cost of installing them.
The Victorian government is cautiously proceeding with a trial roll-out for which it has bipartisan support. Measuring "success'' will take time. Gillard is far more interested in quickly announcing a win for consumers – and her government. Details to be advised post-election.
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|2013-05-22, 10:13
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
Or, be specific on if you are on pro or ant tax on this matter.
|2013-05-22, 10:49
|Link #28523
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 31
|2013-05-22, 10:51
|Link #28524
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 28
That is called insurance, right? /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
|2013-05-22, 10:53
|Link #28525
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 33
I am neither pro-or-anti, it's more again of people properly understanding how international corporate structures work. You're absolutely right on your interpretation but the news and how people understand it is basically skewed. That said, I make no claim there are no questionably legal shenanigans going on, but even without creative accounting the "average person" is woefully underinformed about the most basic corporate taxation matters. @ArchmageXin -- I believe you more than get it, I'm basically thinking about the broader population that is opinionated but sadly remains largely ignorant.
Here's an example with GE -- everyone remember the "GE pays zero taxes" news article that was floating around a couple of years back? Here's a "factcheck" on it: http://www.factcheck.org/2012/04/war...pays-no-taxes/
This is where people get confused on multiple levels:
Premise: GE is a U.S. company, if I look at their profit, cash, etc. Why does their tax rate look so low compared to the U.S. corporate tax rate?
Ergo: GE is scamming us! Damn corporate thieves!
1) GE is an international business with both U.S. and international operating subsidiaries and holding companies
2) What the above means is that GE has "U.S.Co" "AsiaCo" "EuropeCo" and many many many more subdivisions. Each of these units generates profits at it's operating corp levels. The U.S. tax rate on profits may be ~20% (nominal 35%, avg. effective ~12%) but what about tax rates in Ireland? Rest of the world? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_by_tax_rates
3) Keep in mind taxation is only on profits. So what about government granted tax deductions? Depreciation of assets? Issuing debt to buy back stock and pay dividends (interest is paid out of pre-tax income, so it reduces profits)?
4) Go read ArchmageXin's post: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...25#post4690725
So, when people think about taxation of international businesses, they need to think about operations divided by jurisdiction and effective local tax rates. Tax treaties only factor in when funds are repatriated (as you mentioned previously) and as long as those funds are never sent back to U.S. "ParentCo" then that doesn't matter.
|2013-05-22, 12:12
|Link #28526
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Stockholm riots challenge image of happy, generous state:
"Hundreds of young people have torched cars and attacked police in three nights
of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that has
dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to defuse youth unemployment
and resentment of asylum seekers.
On Tuesday night, a police station in the Jakobsberg area in northwest Stockholm
was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts centre was set
ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt."
|2013-05-22, 12:26
|Link #28527
Stüldt Håjt!
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: On the corner
Age: 27
These riots are bad, but it's not like attacks against the police are rare: only last year there were 51 attacks against the police. Systematic stone throwing, driving over them, shooting at them and threatening officers.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article16819471.ab Article in Swedish, I translated the parts I posted.
Some pics showing how many suburbs, exactly, are in question:
edit: Oh, one police interviewed in the article I linked (not just an officer, in a chief position [don't know how to translate his title]) suspects that there are criminal groups behind these riots who recruit youths to their ranks, but the officials don't know who they are or how they operate.
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|2013-05-22, 12:56
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
To summarize for various people who don't understand taxes.
Bob Corp has a office in China. It made $100.
Bob Corp has a office in America. It made $10.
Bob get his U.S Tax paid come tax time, 30% of the $10, so he pay $3. His actual profit is $110, so it look like he paid only 2% tax (TAX CHEAT!!!!). But in reality, the $100 is in China.
If Bob ever need the $100 and ask China to pay it back, he would need to pay $30 at that time.
The problem in the end, is Bush opened the floodgates in 2004(?) where he enacted an Tax holiday. Which allow oversea corps to pump a huge ton of dollars into their own coffers (You can debate how good that was for the U.S economy).
So now, like little kids, International Corp is waiting for the next time an U.S President give in to allow International Corps to bring money home to "help the economy"
Guess what is Apple asking?
(Note: This don't explain other weird stuff like maintaining empty offices in Nevada to route their cash needs, but I am not in the Tax prep Industry right now)
|2013-05-22, 13:44
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Except a clever 'Bob Corp' lowers his profit stateside artificially. The US office didn't make $10, it made a $100. Except $90 is exported as a cost for the the use of IP.
Create a company in Ireland with a few lawyers/accountants as employees. Assign ownership of all patents for a product to the subsidiary. The subsidiary will charge back the parent company for all of the patents and copyrights used in the product. The parent company makes zero profit and the subsidiary makes all of the profit for the company. Pay no tax on your profit because.. hey.. I am paying my fair share of tax on money earned abroad.
|2013-05-22, 14:27
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
Because what this does is putting a billion dollar in Ireland. Gratz. How will you get it back to your shareholders then?
You still have to repatriate it. It is not Tax Free yet. Unless Obama or the next president decide to have a tax holiday.
|2013-05-22, 14:28
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
Petraeus's role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
|2013-05-22, 14:52
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Monarch Programmer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Liverpool
Age: 35
Islamist provoked murder of British soldier in broad daylight...
Madness!. I am from the UK (Liverpool). I have two young children and i am honestly scared for their future.
The repercussions of this will carry throughout the country.
I can foresee a civil war coming which will be completely mindless as normal Muslims will be forced to protect themselves from angry gangs blaming them for what has happened.
Extremist religion will be the ruin of us all.
I have no answer to this problem which really scary.
|2013-05-22, 15:22
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
As you said they can wait till a tax holiday occurs to bring it back at little cost. So basically they store profits made in the US abroad as reserves. The shareholders will receive less dividends but are compensated by capital gains as the profits are not paid out.
|2013-05-22, 15:23
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Haters. Gonna. Hate
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 26
|2013-05-22, 16:08
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Monarch Programmer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Liverpool
Age: 35
And to a British soldier. Do you not think people are not going to react to this? I hope i am over analysing this trust. But i don't think i am...
|2013-05-22, 20:15
|Link #28536
Absolutely sickening.
|2013-05-22, 21:31
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Ava courtesy of patchy
Join Date: Jan 2009
Basically, what they'll have is a big company with a large profit and capital, yet they receive no real profit(cash for example) out of it at all, and a risk that the capital(and the owner's unrealized gain) might be eroded by operational loss before they manage to cash in the profit. Remember, we're not talking about small piece shareholder who trade their share in the stock market here, we're talkinh about major owner. They might do such trick with part of their company profit, but I'm pretty sure they're not as willing to do that down to the last penny of their profit.
|2013-05-22, 22:49
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have children...
or at least, not allowed to parent them
|2013-05-23, 00:58
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Deutschland
Age: 33
|2013-05-23, 02:22
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 36
Terrorism is like that; it isn't about hurting your enemies, it is about getting your enemies mad and fall down to your own level. And once they are just as bad as you, you win.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Simona de Silvestro will not practice Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but her team still hopes she will be able to qualify this weekend.
The 22-year-old Swiss has not yet been cleared to drive by medical officials after burning her hands in a crash Thursday. De Silvestro lost control of her car and it flipped several times, burst into flames and slid down the track upside down.
She has second degree burns on the back of her right hand and superficial burns on the back of her left hand and nose.
HVM Racing spokeswoman Monica Hilton says the team is not yet seeking a replacement driver because de Silvestro could be cleared to drive later Friday or early Saturday.
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While on the program, students live in the ORT Braude residence halls. An inexpensive cafeteria, sports facilities, extracurricular activities, and many social functions are available on campus. Each Rochester student has a local student mentor. Students have the opportunity to learn Hebrew on the program, and to take Introduction to the History and Archaeology of the Galilee as well. Students may also choose to stay in Israel for the summer on the 8-credit summer archaeological dig in the Galilee, a University of Rochester summer study abroad program.
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Phplist Documentation » List and User functions »
Users: List all UsersThis is the documentation page for Users
The Users page allows you to view all the users in the database. You can choose the order in which the users are listed. If you are not a SuperAdmin, you will only have access to all the users who have subscribed to at least one list which you own. For more, see ownership.
The Users page also allows you to search for users by using one of the attributes you have created in your database (by default: by email).
From this page, you can also export users to a CSV file (see exporting users).
This page also allows you to delete and add users.
For more on user files, see user file.
# Users found
Indicates the total number (#) of users in the database. If you are not a SuperAdmin, this will show the total number of users on any of the lists which you own.
Users marked red are unconfirmed (#)
Indicates the number (#) of users who are unconfirmed. When a user subscribes to one of your lists, a confirmation email is automatically sent to the email provided in the subscribe page. The user must click on the personal CONFIRMATIONURL contained in the email to confirm his/her subscription. An admin can confirm a user manually by modifying the User's file. Unconfirmed users do not receive any messages sent to lists. create link to documentation page on this
Show only unconfirmed users: [checkbox]
Self-explanatory. Click on the [checkbox] and click on Go (below) to list the unconfirmed users. For more on what 'unconfirmed' means, see remarks above.
Sorting users
Sort by: [pulldown MENU] D: [radiobutton] A: [radiobutton] [Go]
The [pulldown MENU] contains the following elements:
default email bouncecount entered modified foreignkey
This will sort the users by the condition used, for the chosen option in the pulldown.
D and A
Descending and Ascending order, respectively. You have to click on Go to confirm the change.
Show only blacklisted users: [checkbox]
This will do the search but will only list blacklisted users.
Searching users
Find a user: [empty text field] [pulldown menu] Go [reset]
Allows you to search for user(s) by using only one search criterion. Procedure:
- Type in the search text in the [empty text field].
Note: you can input part of a word to find a match. For example: typing 'ohn' will find 'John', as well as 'Johnny' or 'Gohn'. No wildcard characters such as "*" are allowed. (verify? ?)
- Choose your search criterion in the [pulldown menu].
Note: the [pulldown menu] contains the list of attributes you have created. By default, [email] is shown. You can find users only by these attributes: Foreign Key, Select, Textline and Hidden.
- Click Go.
Note: If the total number of users is above 3 digits (above 999 users), you'll need to enter a % or @ in the search field to to display all users.
[download all users as csv file] [add a user]
Allows you to export all the users. For more, see Exporting users.
Allows you to add a user. For more, see user file.
Allows you to add a user. For more, see user file.
List of users
Note: If there are many users, the first 50 users will be listed. You can then browse the following/previous pages to view the rest of the users:
Listing user 1 to 50 << < > >>
Clicking on the double << or >> will display the first or last page of users on the list.
Clicking on the single < or > will display the next page of users on the list.
Clicking on the single < or > will display the next page of users on the list.
The list of users is displayed in several columns:
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Lists the emails of the users (firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com in this example). You can choose the order in which the users appear by using the Sort by option, see above: Sorting users.
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Subject: Re: [htdig] indexing mySQL table
From: Geoff Hutchison (email@example.com)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 06:45:00 PST
At 7:23 PM +0800 12/14/00, Zon Hisham Bin Zainal Abidin wrote:
>1)htdig will index: http://domain/result.php?cat=AUT&subcat=AUT-CAR
> http://domain/result.php?cat=AUT&subcat=AUT-BIKE
> etc etc
>2)result.php looks inside my content table AND then refer to (lookup) to
>table category and subcategory for the appropriate codes (eg AUT stands
>for automobiles, AUT-CAR stands for car).
>Now, visitors will NOT be able to search for 'Automobile' or 'Bicycle'
>bcos these words were not indexed ! They can however (I think), search
>for AUT-CAR, which is NOT what we want.
I don't think you want what ht://Dig provides (full text site-wide
search). I think you'd be better served by a custom program (say
search.php) that would perform your SQL lookups directly from a list
of "synonyms,"
Automobile -> AUT
Car -> AUT & AUT-CAR
This would take less time (since it could do the SQL lookups
directly) to perform the search and less space. It doesn't sound like
you really want to index the pages themselves, just the category
scheme. So running htdig over the site would be overkill.
-- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/
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Shell Stitch Preemie Hat (Archived) by Paula Amnott Lamm
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Shell Stitch Preemie Hat (Archived)
This pattern is available for free.
ERRATA: Row 4 should state "6 shells" made, not 8. Thanks to Stacey for finding this for me. :)
Because this hat is worked up in soft worsted-weight yarn with a G, H, or I hook, you will be able to quickly make a batch for your local hospital's maternity ward.
Gauge for 1st 3 rows - approximately 3.25 inches diameter / 10 inches circumference.
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That's awesome. I look forward to building you one. We have been getting picked up by a lot of shops and I will be down your way in the spring to deliver to a few shops and maybe we can go for a surf as well.
That's the stoke I look for so I would love to put my boards in his shop. I am building boards to stock a bunch of shops for spring 2014 while fulfilling custom orders as well. We will have to talk more in detail about what your buddy is looking for and I will make sure he gets it.


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Monday, 12 August, 2002, 15:49 GMT 16:49 UK
Iraqi minister rejects inspectors
A senior Iraqi official has rejected calls for United Nations weapons inspectors to return to Iraq, saying they finished their work there four years ago.
Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said it was a "lie" that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction and that US policy towards Baghdad was "confused".
US President George W Bush has repeatedly said he wants a "regime change" in Iraq, and is looking at a range of options to ensure Iraq cannot use weapons of mass destruction.
But Mr Bush, who stresses that no decision has yet been taken over Iraq, faces growing opposition at home to the prospect of military action against the country.
Conflicting signals
Mr al-Sahhaf told Arab al-Jazeera TV that the US administration was using weapons inspections as a way of aggravating the crisis.
The minister's remarks appeared to contradict a statement by a British MP, Labour member George Galloway, who met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad last Thursday.
The MP said Saddam Hussein told him he was willing to comply with the outstanding UN Security Council resolutions in Iraq, which would allow arms inspectors unfettered access, although Mr Galloway conceded the Iraqi President did not use the word "unfettered".
The UK Foreign Office dismissed the offer, saying Saddam had to comply with the UN resolutions.
'He's a survivalist'
Some senior US politicians have meanwhile been voicing their concerns over the prospect of a US strike against Iraq.
Carl Levin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that containment of Saddam Hussein was working.
"It's almost certain that if we did attack Saddam that he then would use the weapons of mass destruction because he'd have nothing to lose in response to that kind of an attack," the Michigan senator said.
Senator Levin, who is familiar with the thinking of America's top generals, said it was unlikely that Saddam Hussein would strike first.
"He would not, in my judgment, initiate an attack with a weapon of mass destruction, because it would lead to his own destruction. ... He's a survivalist. He is not a suicide bomber," he told NBC television's Meet the Press.
He is not the first senior lawmaker to speak out against attacking Iraq.
Last week, Republican Dick Armey, the majority leader in the House of Representatives, caused a stir when he broke ranks and said the Iraqi leader should be left to rant and rave on his own, warning against taking action without "proper provocation".
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No more bit parts for former Australian underwear model Travis Fimmel. His new job's not so brief - he's got the lead in a new TV series of Tarzan.
And he says he didn't at first want it.
"My first thought was, 'I don't want to be Tarzan.' I didn't want to do TV," the former Calvin Klein underwear model said.
But Fimmel, who growing up in Australia was himself called Tarzan by his friends because he was "dirty, grubby and never wore shoes," eventually changed his mind to do the WB television network's Tarzan in the US.
"This will make me a better actor," he told The Boston Globe.
The lead role in the Tarzan TV series is the 23-year-old Australian's first acting role, and the show's debut drew 5.5 million viewers. His lines mostly consist of such phrases as "What are you called?" and "Are you hurt?"
"It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words," Fimmel said.
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New Roch. substation planned for Epic, Mayo Clinic growth
Mayo Clinic's partnership with Epic Systems, the largest electronic medical records firm in the United States, is driving the construction of a new $6.1 million Rochester Public Utilities substation.
Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems has been negotiating with RPU since June about the project. Epic says it needs more power capacity in the area to support future growth of the Mayo Clinic Data Center at 4710 West Circle Drive. The new Douglas Trail substation is slated to be built by the data center on land currently owned by Mayo Clinic.
The RPU board approved a "memorandum of understanding" about the project with Epic at its Tuesday night meeting. An escrow account already has been set up to fund project.
The memorandum states, "Due to the planned transfer of selected Mayo Data Center assets to Epic, Epic requests incremental electrical capability and capacity, needed to accommodate projected business growth in forward years…"
Epic has agreed to pay for the majority of the $6.1 million project, with RPU contributing $1.016 million for additional features that Epic doesn't need. The agreement also allows for Epic to apply for up to $2.03 million in rebates over 10 years. The goal is to have the new substation up and running at least by April 1, 2017.
Rochester attorney Mark Utz spoke to the board as a representative of Epic. He said the deal "Provides capacity not just for Epic, but a tremendous opportunity for the city of Rochester … to have a third substation in an incredible quadrant for Rochester. This is a win/win for the community, for RPU and for Epic."
Bruce Richards, Epic's director of facilities and engineering, assured the board his company is serious about coming to Rochester.
"This is a long-term situation for us. We're bringing in quite a few people to town," he said. "We'll start out with 80 to 90 people to the data center to work with Mayo Clinic."
Richards told the RPU board the additional capacity is needed for the potential that the current data center could grow to three times its current size.
Mayo Clinic built the $33.7 million, 60,000-square-foot computer support center in 2012. The data center was built to support all three of Mayo Clinic's campuses — Rochester, Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Epic is expected to take title of the property nominally in December 2015, with site grading to begin in spring 2016, according to the RPU/Epic agreement. The agreement also states that, "It is contemplated that the City of Rochester, for the benefit of RPU, will acquire from Epic the title of the real estate where the substation and related infrastructure will be located.
Richards did not elaborate on what Epic plans to do at Mayo Data Center, though remote hosting medical records is a possibility. In recent years, Epic built a massive data center in Verona, Wis. to offer remote medical record hosting for its clients.
Epic and Mayo Clinic began working together early this year, when Mayo chose Epic to handle Mayo Clinic's electronic medical records. The relationship is developing into a close collaboration. Mayo's Chief Administration Officer Jeff Bolton has said that Epic has shown "a strong interest" in being part of the planned Discovery Square development in downtown Rochester. Discovery Square is part of Mayo Clinic's Destination Medical Center initiative.
Epic has about 8,000 employees and had $1.8 billion in revenues in 2014. Epic's software already is used by about 350 health-care organizations that care for 54 percent of U.S. patients.
Mayo Clinic is not Epic's only major partner in northwest Rochester. In May, IBM Watson Health, the health care unit of IBM, announced it has begun working with Epic as well as Mayo Clinic to add the Watson' super computer's cognitive capabilities to electronic health records. It's not clear if IBM is involved in the West Circle Drive data center project.


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The end of the 2012 election has raised questions about media's impact on results. As candidates and their campaigns celebrate wins or mourn defeats, observers in the media argue that Fox News' political activism has damaged the Republican Party in light of its losses.
Over the past four years, Fox News employees have aggressively campaigned for Republican candidates. A Media Matters report found that leading up to the 2012 presidential election, over 32 Fox hosts and contributors campaigned for GOP candidates in more than 300 instances, nationally and in more than 40 states. Among them was Fox contributor Karl Rove, whose American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS promised to spend $300 million on ads for conservative candidates.
The same report revealed that five Fox figures advised Mitt Romney's campaign, and nine -- including John Bolton and Mike Huckabee -- "played key roles" at Romney events.
During the 2010 election cycle, more than 30 Fox hosts and contributors endorsed, fundraised, or campaigned for Republican candidates. According to a Media Matters report, those candidates often highlighted the support they had received from Fox.
Romney, the largest beneficiary of Fox News campaigning, was often advised by Fox's on-air personalities about what he should do. For instance, Bill O'Reilly said that Romney should "keep pounding" the message that Obama "doesn't like this capitalistic system." Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson said that Romney could create a "pretty compelling campaign ad" by juxtaposing Obama saying he had three years to fix the economy with him saying he needs another four years.
Fox also aggressively counseled elected Republicans not to cooperate with Democrats. Sean Hannity, for example, told Congressman Paul Ryan in April 2011 not to vote to raise the debt ceiling, and the co-hosts of Fox & Friends urged House Republicans to repeal light bulb efficiency standards.
In light of the Republican Party's 2012 election losses, many in the media have argued that this political activism by Fox has hurt rather than helped the GOP.
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Celebrate Washington Wine Month on March 14 with a four-course dinner accompanied by five Northwest wines and live music at the Firelight Bistro in Stanwood.
Cost is $35, with reservations required by Sunday.
The evening begins at 6. Dishes will feature familiar favorites with creative twists. Wines range from a dry red to sweet.
Firelight Bistro is at 10007 270th St. NW., Stanwood; www.firelight-bistro.com.
For details, call 360-629-7575 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Barrel tasting: Chateau Ste. Michelle will have a barrel tasting from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 16 and 17.
Twenty dollars buys into the annual event, which will include tastings from several wines that are still barrel-aging.
Tasters also get a glass of a finished wine and the opportunity to talk with a winemaker at the Woodinville winery, 14111 NE 145th St.
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Decision makers
- Sen. Brian Kelsey
- Sen. Steven Dickerson
- Sen. Joey Hensley
- Sen. Todd Gardenhire
- Sen. Rusty Crowe
- Sen. Reginald Tate
- Sen. Dolores Gresham
- Sen. Charlotte Burks
- Sen. Stacey Campfield
Senate Education Committee: Vote NO on SB 514
Sen. Joey Hensley has introduced a bill that prohibits public institutions of higher education from disciplining or discriminating against a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief of the student, if the student refers the client to a counselor who will provide the counseling or services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
Basically this bill would allow students in certain programs to claim a religious exemption from helping certain people. The cases from other states that are cited in support of the bill typically involve clients from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. The law would allow students who are going into counseling professions to discriminate against such clients on the basis of religion.
The bill would have an impact on people who need counseling or assistance and it would harm the accreditation of the programs at our public universities.
- Sen. Brian Kelsey
- Sen. Steven Dickerson
- Sen. Joey Hensley
- Sen. Todd Gardenhire
- Sen. Rusty Crowe
- Sen. Reginald Tate
- Sen. Dolores Gresham
- Sen. Charlotte Burks
- Sen. Stacey Campfield
- State Senator
Dolores Gresham
Vote NO on SB 514
I am writing to ask you to vote NO on SB514, which would allow students in counseling, psychology, or social work programs in our public universities to opt out of serving people if they claim a religious objection.
I am concerned about the impact this would have on people being served. If clients became aware that the student had chosen not to serve them because of a religious objection, that would increase the stigma of whatever difficulty they might be going through.
Allowing students to opt out of serving a whole group of people because of a personal objection is not a lesson we should teach students going into counseling, psychology, or social work. If anything, their faith should be a motivation to help people, not decide who is deserving of help.
I am concerned about the impact this law might have on the accreditation of the programs at our universities. This issue should be carefully assessed before any action is taken on the bill. We certainly don't want to decrease the value of the degrees that we award in these fields. The bill seems to be an usual effort at micromanaging the curriculum of a program. We have channels in our universities through their governance structures for addressing these issues if they arise in Tennessee.
Thank you for considering my views as you weigh your position on this bill.
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The Benefits of Saving Images in PNG Format, Transparent Background
Saving images in transparent background makes you graphic design tasks fates and easier, especially when you are working on product photos in which removing the background hassles you, every time you need incorporate the product image into your project.
The fastest way to remove photo background is by using Photoshop because doing it in CorelDraw will take a lot of your time. On the others hand, you can also save graphics which you have created in Photoshop, CorelDraw or Illustrator in transparent background.
Basically, you can maintain the transparent background of an image you cut in Photoshop by saving it in a PSD (.psd) format or CDR format if you have done it in CorelDraw, but those raw format will occupy bigger space in your hard drive and it will also take time to open depending on the file size.
To avoid that problem, you can save your image into PNG (Portable Network Graphics) or GIF ( Graphics Interchange Format) formats, but I recommend PNG because this format is safe especially when you use the files for print design.
Aside from that, a PNG file with transparent background is also useful in web design and blog posts because it can easily blend in with the background of the website.
Now, how to save photo or images in transparent background?
After you have removed the background of the photo in Photoshop, click File on the menu bar then Save As (Ctrl + Shift + S) then write the file name. Below the box where you can write the File Name is the Format, where you can select the file format by clicking the dropdown button. Click the drop-down button then select PNG (*.PNG; *PNS). Click Save.
NOTE: Make sure that your image has RGB color mode (Photoshop Menu > Image > Mode > RGB Color) because in CMYK, the PNG (*.PNG; *PNS) format is not available.
When the PNG Options window pop-ups, select None/Fast under Compression and None under Interlace.
In CorelDraw and Illustrator, you need to export the file then select PNG format.
Free Downloadable Graphics With Transparent Background
On this blog, free graphics in PNG format (as well as GIF format) with transparent background are available to download.


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From the World Heritage inscription for the Historic Center of Cordoba:
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendors of Constantinople, Damascus, and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcázar de Los Reyes Cristianos and the Torre Fortaleza de la Calahorra, were erected.
The Historic Centre of Cordoba now comprises the streets surrounding the monument and all the parcels of land opening on to these, together with all the blocks of houses around the mosque-cathedral. To the south this area extends to the further bank of the River GuadaIquivir (to include the Roman bridge and the Calahorra), to the east to the Calle San Fernando, to the north to the boundary of the commercial centre, and to the west to incorporate the AIcázar des Los Reyes Cristianos and the San Basilio quarter. The city, by virtue of its extent and plan, its historical significance as a living expression of the different cultures that have existed there, and its relationship with the river, is a historical ensemble of extraordinary value.
Of all the UNESCO sites I have visited in Andalusia, I enjoyed my short time in Cordoba most of all. I found the old town to be quaint, peaceful and relaxing. The center of the city is the mosque/cathedral. As far as I know, it is unique in the world as it is both a former mosque and the current cathedral for Cordova. After the Reconquista, the Catholic Church took over the central mosque and built a Christian church right in the middle of the building. It makes for a fantastic architectural clash.
Cordova is easy to get to by high-speed train from Seville or Madrid and is definitely worth the trip. It is one of the places in Spain I would love to return to, to stay for an extended period of time.
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View the list of all of the UNESCO World Heritage sites I have visited on my travels.
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The 2017 Downtown 300i is the perfect ride for the urban warrior insomuch as it combines the open road performance of a maxi-scooter with the agility of a sport bike. This mid-range displacement cruiser is powered by a 298cc, 4-valve, fuel-injected engine mated to a lightweight dual-cradle steel chassis and a smooth-shifting CVT automatic transmission. Dual-beam quartz Halogen lights illuminate city streets and the lighted under seat storage is perfect for storing helmets or backpacks. Top it all off with a 5-in-1 ignition key lock and gas cap system and you're ready to go downtown in style.
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