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An Author and a Cat About Town—and a Giveaway! | Buried Under Books
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35 thoughts on “An Author and a Cat About Town—and a Giveaway!”
kittypride says:	 September 15, 2015 at 12:35 am
This story sounds so very fun and intriguing quite the checkered past!
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 8:19 am
It’s six a.m. and Midnight Louie III has just walked over my keyboard to see what I’m doing. Yesterday he turned on my printer and out came a page from the Midnight Louie newsletter, which you can subscribe to at http://www.carolenelsondouglas.com/newsletter. Yes, kitty pride, Midnight Louie, PI, has a very interesting past! In Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit, he channels the jazz-swing era of the 1950s, when Vegas was just getting going and the mob was mean. There’s a death in the past that is replicated in the present.
bettylouise31 says:	 September 15, 2015 at 1:01 am
I just finished reading CAT IN A BLUE MONDAY. MIDNIGHT LOUIE is one of my favorite cat series
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 8:20 am
Thanks, bettylouise31. That cat show background in Cat on a Blue Monday was fun to write about.
bettylouise31 says:	 September 15, 2015 at 9:10 am
I like the fact Louie won best of his class
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 10:07 am
LOL Louie was investigating some shenanigans at the purebred cat show, but he accidentally got himself into a cage for the “Best Household Cat” category. He won, but he loudly objected to the judges’ poking and prodding. Sam Spade would never have put up with it, but Louie couldn’t blow his “cover.”
bettylouise31 says:	 September 15, 2015 at 2:18 pm
My review is now on my blog and Google+, fFor some reason Tumblr link didn’t work not sure about the LinkedIn one.
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 4:20 pm
Thank you for the great review page on your blog for Cat on a Blue Monday. I’m glad you sent it to so many sites. 🙂
bettylouise31 says:	 September 15, 2015 at 7:44 pm
I like Louie’s adventures that I found
Y other 2 reviews a.d posted themagain. I have read others but before I started review them.
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 11:05 pm
Thanks, Bettylouise, for posting your reviews. I’m sure Louie AND Midnight Louise would like that. 🙂
Lisa Brown says:	 September 15, 2015 at 5:44 am
Oh, it looks great, I hope I get a chance to read it 🙂
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 8:21 am
Sheila K. says:	 September 15, 2015 at 6:42 am
I love mysteries and kitties, and I would love to read this book—thanks for the chance to win a copy!
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 8:23 am
Midnight Louie has a whole cat family. Some of them make up the Las Vegas Cat Pack, including the Black Ninja Brigade. Black cat always go “undercover.”
Robin L. Coxon says:	 September 15, 2015 at 8:49 am
I was lucky to have been able to pick up a bag full of books by Carol Nelson Douglas at our local library sale. They have proven to be a delightful read. Thanks for posting further information about Midnight Louie and Carol Nelson Douglas and a chance to win a copy of her latest book. robeader53@yahoo.com
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 10:13 am
I’m glad you found the books at the library. Libraries have carried them for a long time, and then they get a second life at the library sales. Thanks, and good luck!
elainehroberson says:	 September 15, 2015 at 10:22 am
Been reading Midnight Louie since the beginning and have met the author at book events. Would love to win the latest copy signed. Have also read her other books as well.
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 10:59 am
Following Louie from the beginning is a long time for both of us! I’m doing few book events now, so I’m glad we met earlier. I’d like to get back to writing some of my earlier genres, but Mr. Midnight comes first. Good luck!
Anne says:	 September 15, 2015 at 3:14 pm
Thanks for this captivating and delightful giveaway which interests me greatly.
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 4:12 pm
Hi, Anne, I’m glad you are in the running for the book!
Judy D. says:	 September 15, 2015 at 5:46 pm
I find your Sherlock and Irene books my fave Holmes volumes. As for pet cozies, ML has my vote. You certainly picked the right setting for him. I like the fact you and Doyle. are on the dame shelves. All the best with “Z”.
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 6:06 pm
Hi, Judy! Thanks for telling me the Holmes/Adler books are your favorites. I have several Adler stories to get out in eBook and print. I went to Vegas for the first time in 1985 to research for the ML Quartet. The airport was tiny and the Strip was a shadow of its current incarnation. You’re right. Louie can handle Sin City small and gigantic. 🙂
Karen McCullough says:	 September 15, 2015 at 7:05 pm
I picked up Catnapped off a shelf many, many years ago and got hooked. I’ve followed him and his human buddies and their exploits ever since. I’m very glad you’ve been able to continue the series!
cndwriter says:	 September 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm
Yes, it’s very unusual for an author to keep a series going for 28 novels without some change of publisher or other disruption. Louie is my lucky charm! And, as an author, I really want to finish what I start for the readers. Not always possible given office politics at publishing houses. 🙂
Carol M says:	 September 16, 2015 at 7:11 pm
I’d love to start reading this series! I know I would enjoy it. Thank you!
cndwriter says:	 September 16, 2015 at 7:19 pm
Great! Sign up for my newsletter with info on http://www.carolenelsondouglas.com/newsletter.
kayekillgore says:	 September 17, 2015 at 1:55 am
I have always loved this series. Midnight Louie is a super guy
Carole Nelson Douglas says:	 September 17, 2015 at 10:51 am
Glad to hear this, Kaye! Midnight Louie has been so much fun to write!
skyecaitlin says:	 September 17, 2015 at 3:47 pm
I am so interested: count me in, please
Carole Nelson Douglas says:	 September 17, 2015 at 4:54 pm
I’m glad you’re so interested! Good luck!
skyecaitlin says:	 September 17, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Thanks so much~ I joined your site for your newsletter.
Judy D. says:	 September 19, 2015 at 10:56 am
There is no one better to capture the spirit of a cozy mystery.
skyecaitlin says:	 September 19, 2015 at 11:06 am
Carole Nelson Douglas says:	 September 19, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Thank you, Judy D.!
Margo Sue says:	 June 27, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Love Midnight Louie! Thanks for sharing his adventures.

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CDF for a random variable with random upper bound?
I am trying to calculate a CDF of a random variable $x$ which has an upper bound $z$, which is itself a random variable with distribution $G(z)$ on some interval $[z1,z2]$. E.g. $x \sim U[0,z]$ and $z \sim U[1,2]$. probability share|improve this question edited Oct 3 '12 at 17:04
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Welcome to MSE. Is this homework? If so, tag it as such.
Hint: When you write x ~ U[0,z] you actually mean that, for a given value of $z$, $x$ is uniform in $[0,z]$. Which is to say that the conditional probability of $x$ is known.
$f(x,z)=f(x|z)f(z)$. Integrate out $z$ and get marginal pdf of $x$. Then integrate to get CDF for $x$.
What this means, if it is to make any sense, is that the CONDITIONAL distibution of $x$ given $z$ is uniform on $[0,z]$. It's easy to neglect to say that, but it's worthwhile to be precise about it. People also often forget to mention independence where it's assumed.
@TAK Yes, you are right that $f(x,z)=\frac{1}{z}$ but be careful about their supports. Since $0<x<z$ and $1<z<2$, the actual joint density is $f(x, z)=\frac{1}{z}\mathbb{I}[0<x<z]\mathbb{I}[1<z<2]$.
The conditional pdf of $X$ given $Z$ is $f(x|z)=\frac{1}{z}\mathbb{I}[0<x<z]$. The marginal pdf of $Z$ is $f(z)=\mathbb{I}[1<z<2]$. So the joint pdf of $X$ and $Z$ is
$$f(x,z)=f(x|z)f(z)=\frac{1}{z}\mathbb{I}[0<x<z]\mathbb{I}[1<z<2]$$
Then we can integrate over $z$ and get
$$f(x)=\int_{\max(x,1)}^{2} f(x,z)dz=\int_{\max(x,1)}^{2}\frac{dz}{z}=\log2-\log(\max(x,1))$$
You can proceed by integrating it to get the CDF of $X$. You need to consider two different conditions when $x > 1$ and $x < 1$. share|improve this answer answered Oct 3 '12 at 19:53
Patrick, fantastic, thank you so much, you helped me a lot :):):)
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@TAK Glad to help. Could you accept my answer if you think it's helpful?
Patrick, sorry for the delay. I would be more than happy to accept your answer. But I am new, could you help me to find a way to do so? Do I understand it correctly I need to earn more reputation points first? Many thanks in advance
@TAK The accepting answer option should be somewhere on this page. If you can't find it, that's fine with me. Glad to help. I learn something from this as well.
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What Looks Like Crazy on An Ordinary Day: Signs
Your Pandas are going to be great!
And you sound so much better today :) Keep your head above water...the waves will still come, but if you can just tread through it, you'll be fine! Hugs!
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Hi Rachel. I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. Prayers for you and all who knew her.
I'd call the flowers flowering a sign too.
I'm glad you have decided not to rush your pandas. A Jill Rensel mat would be perfect on that piece.
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Maybe Someone is trying to tell you that in the midst of all the "brown stuff" there's hope.
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It’s that time of year – A Brave Mess
It sounds silly to say, but I realized today…I am actually afraid of this time of year and what it will bring.
You see, this it the time of year where stuff starts.
It doesn’t usually peak…but it leads into what are typically the hardest months out of the year for me.
I hate the cold. I am meant to lay on a beach, eyes closed, listening to the sounds of the world as it should be.
The beach is my happy place–my safe–place.
Yet, I am extraordinarily landlocked, stuck on the great plains, approaching what will inevitably be another cold, dark winter.
How do I avoid the seasonal depression?
Christmas will temporarily perk me up, but that is quickly followed by my least favorite months out of the year–January and February. Those are the months where I hold my breath and close my eyes, waiting and wishing for the end of March when the world starts to come alive again and I discover the very first, resilient crocus of the spring.
My self care starts to go down this time of year. I am so tired and it is hard to work out in the dark. Weight usually starts to creep on and I start to beat myself up.
I start to question, and worry, and consider making huge decisions that I know I will never really make, but think I will in the moment because I am going stir crazy.
It is a time of year that feels haunted.
And, to be truthful…I am kind of scared to make it through another one.
It’s not that I think I won’t. I know I will. I am, overall, “okay” right now.
It is just that I know the heavy feelings that so frequently haunt ME during the upcoming months. Sadness. Loneliness. Despair. Worry. Anxiety. Unworthiness.
Logically, I know that these feelings don’t HAVE to come along with the months that I hate. But…what if they come anyway?
I will deal with them. But I am tired of dealing with them.
I am tired of feeling haunted by the past. By the things that happened. By who I was and who I am. I am tired of identifying as that trauma-surviving girl who turned out alright…but who secretly aches at night.
I want to move on. (Preferably on a beach.)
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Bunker Talk: Yellow Submarine
The Beatles Yellow Submarine by Hot Wheels.
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It has rollers on the bottoms. So I consider it not unlike those Soviet submersibles that used to proble Swedish national waters back in the days of the Cold War.
So while it could float along, it usually would drive along the bottom, making it harder to find on sonar.
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I'm headed out to catch my flight to Cincinnati... I will be attending the NAACP National Convention and I will be blogging live from the event. We are expecting between and 10 thousand participants this year. Check back often to get information and insights from the conference. I am also taking my video camera and will attempt to video the presentations from Senators Obama and McCain and from the Youth Act-So competitions. If I am able to pull it off, I will post the videos here in the coming days...
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Angela Beach Silverthorne: A Scare That Almost Scarred Me!
A Scare That Almost Scarred Me!
“It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous being, which exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of a clown in order to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel is told through narratives alternating between two time periods, and is largely told in the third-person omniscient mode. It deals with themes that eventually became King staples: the power of memory, childhood trauma, and the ugliness lurking behind a façade of traditional small-town values. Publishers Weekly listed It as the best-selling book in the United States in 1986.” (Wikipedia)
The film was released in 1990. I saw the film. I wish I hadn’t.
Does anyone still feel the chill and fear that movie provoked? I do.
Over this past summer my granddaughters and I were going through old movies and in the very back of the cabinet was the movie It. I literally shivered.
“Let’s watch it!” One of my granddaughters squealed.
“No!” Cried another one.
I ended the discussion quickly. There would be no viewing of It.
In 1990 when I saw that film I was well into adulthood with children 18, 15, and 10 years old. Why did that film bother me so badly?
As a child I loved circuses. My grandparents often took me to Calloway Gardens in Georgia to see the jugglers, flying trapeze artists, and the clowns. I remember seeing old black and white movies depicting the traveling circuses like Barnum and Bailey or Ringling Brothers. It was magic, courage, and exhilaration. But King distorted that for me.
I had none of those euphoric feelings when I saw the movie It. I was fearful.
It was one of my worst nightmares. Instead of snippets of dream-remembered horror, the movie slashed with its full-blown color!
Reflecting back on my horror of the movie, I tied to remember what was going on in my life or past that could have stimulated such anxiety. Stephen King achieved exactly what he had set out to do – dredge up all the fears and phobias of the audience and his readers. And 25 years after the film’s release, it still had its clutch on me.
To top it off, 3 weeks ago we were traveling to a funeral up in PA and got behind this truck. When I saw the image, I shivered. Another reminder.
Am I scarred from the gruesome image of that clown? I immediately felt a chill cross my shoulders. Twenty-five years ago it might have taken me into a tailspin, dredging up other things in my life that weren’t going well. Today, I shiver. Then, I name my demon, whether it’s fear, apprehension, anxiety, anger, hurt, etc., and I do not let it take hold of me.
Conquering these types of conflict is imperative. We have to stave them off instantly. The best ways to do this is to:
1. Name the fear. Call out the demon. Ask yourself what happened to dredge up the feelings? How does it make me feel? Name the emotion.
2. Take it to God. God loves you. You are His precious child. Find a scripture to hang onto and repeat it like a mantra until you get control of your feelings. Mine is 2 Chronicles 20:12 “. . . Nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.” Keep your eyes focused on Jesus. He cast all fear aside and suffered on the cross for us. How can I not keep my eyes on Him ? He who has been through it all will understand.
3. Reject the fear. It can consume you. “Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it fear.” Ask family and friends to pray over you. Prayer is powerful. Standing up to fear is also powerful and liberating. It’s not easy; it has to be intentional. “But now, this is what the Lord says – He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name: you are mine”.
4. Distract your focus. Keep your focus off your fear, and on the One who will ease the discomfort of your situation. Isaiah 41:10 states, “Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Fear comes from external sources. Even a clown. The art of mastering it requires self-control, one of the Fruits of the Spirit. It is purposeful and intentional.
Trust me, fear cannot survive in the presence of the Almighty God. Call it out! Rebuke Satan!
Give it all to Him. Blessings to you always!
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Browneyedgirlie September 19, 2015 at 10:58 AM
The bookcover alone is enough to give one nightmares! It's sad to me that he took a cute character that's supposed to bring laughter & fun to young & old and turn it into people's nitemares! I have drawn/watercolored hundreds of children's names in my "Klowns by Kathy" to bring smiles on their faces. And fm time to time I do hear, "my child is terrified of clowns." Sadly people make big $$ terrifying young & old 😞! The good news is JESUS is so much bigger than all that and He will crush & destroy our fears, but only IF we let Him!
Rebecca Brockway October 27, 2015 at 12:06 PM
I'm currently reading Elizabeth Gilbert's (Eat, Pray, Love) "Big Magic." She has an interesting way of viewing the fear that creeps into her creativity and other areas of her life. Elizabeth reminds her readers that fear is a necessary primal response designed to keep us alive. We need fear for basic survival: "Don't go in there, it's not safe," or "That person is unkind. I should stay away," or "I shouldn't eat that food. It looks spoiled and I could get sick." She pictures fear as a passenger in the car that transports her through life. Fear is allowed to come along--for life-saving purposes only. It's not allowed to look at the map or plan the route. Fear is not welcome to ride shotgun, or even touch the radio. Fear is to remain in the backseat. Elizabeth's illustration offered a fresh perspective. (P.S. I've ALWAYS thought circus clowns creepy! ;-)


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Flexibility Part 2
So, following on from last weeks blog post on the wider elements of flexibility – I wanted to touch on a couple of more specific points that cover a range of topics within the roles that we do….starting with;
Always an interesting one, and especially within the market at the moment where the client is even more king than they have been in the past. I have mentioned it on countless occasions, the balance between how lucky we are that our clients want to hold an event with us, and the flexibility we show to recognize this, is key and will set up all sort of precedence for the remainder of the event. There is no doubt that we need to ensure that we are valuing our product correctly, able to stand up to our * rating, and more – and exceed all expectation where possible. We still though, need to find the balance, benchmark our competitors to see what they are doing, and whilst not selling ourselves short – realise that it is value for money that our clients want to strive for.
Any Event organiser we are working with has someone they are accountable to. Either it is “Daddy”, or a boss, their boss and so on. Having previously mentioned it too – listening is always the best starting point
Post Contract negotiation
A real howler at the moment and something I had never previously experienced. There seems to be a tendency to negotiate after a contract has ben sent, and from a personal standpoint I have a bit of an issue with this. On the one hand I will preach flexibility, but I draw the line – in an instance where we have honestly met all budget and on site commitments, to be then held to ransom in the search for an even better deal once others may have been turned away from the space you now have (this is of course also true when you have, as an individual, committed to a set price or such like, for a wedding you may be prospecting for). It is indicative of the horrible process of guzumping in the housing market – and whilst I can get as frustrated with this as I want, I just dont think this is going away any time soon. I would expect a team of mine to ask the right questions before quoting – It isn’t really fair (for want of a better word) when in reverse the same courtesy is not paid.
Expecting the earth
Even when things are signed and sealed, we have to be flexible when it comes to the expectations of our clients. This includes, but is not exclusive to, “Time” – the balance of you becoming an on call concierge. The idea of – “I am paying you a lot of money, surely you can just throw this in” and an all time classic, what I call the million dollar classic – “Do you know who is coming to this event?, if you do this for me, you are guaranteed more business”…….
I think the main points surrounding flexibility are this – and for anyone in a similar position none of this will be new news. We have to assess each point at which we are being asked to bend or stretch a little more. I believe that if a client genuinely believes that you have considered all options for them – with them, that you will then find that a more balanced understanding and respect will exist and create solid foundations for a good working relationship. If you believe in your product, your ability and the vision you have to exceed expectation, clients will still meet your premium – knowing that to go elsewhere will just mean some kind of dissapointment later down the line.
Be honest, stand firm, but always consider the entire picture.
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Big Fat Ego: April 2008
Okay this is mildly weird... the last time I wrote something was February 25th 2008 (and believe me, I had a damn good reason to write then)... and this time, am not sure where this is coming from.Anyway... here goes nothing:Standing at the summitLooking over all I've gainedContemplating what will be lostAs I fall over the precipiceFall I willSooner or laterThere's no escapeA sense of elationAt having reached so highA sense of fearOver the height of the fallI take my first stepInching closer to the edgeLook over and shudderI don't want to jumpI don't want to fallI want to stayListen! A noise!I turn around in fearBut it's too lateFate pushes me overWith a violent laughAnd keeps going aShe watches me fallI was not enoughAnd now I'm gone.
I was bored... so I picked up Prometheus's latest tag :)T'was fun to do!!!"You are about to have your own band's CD cover. Follow these directions to the letter. My tagee list is at the bottom of this post. It's fun and requires no thought at all. Go to......1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first article title on the page is the name of your band.2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result.Well. I'm from the band "Grainville-sur-Ry, and my album is called "Where the car is" ... :DApparently the name of my band is the name of some place in France (and I like things French, so yay), and the album name has something to do with a car (and I adore my car, so yay again)... and the picture is nice... so yay for me!!!Hahaha... it looks like I'm from a country band ... hahaha ...
Like apples and gravity
Alright. I'm old.Now you wonder what suddenly made me say that??? Okay, I'm 21 years old...and it is MOST disconcerting to see people getting married left, right and centre. And I'm talking about the girls here, who are my age. It's FREAKY!!!It started off 3 years ago when one apple, er, I mean girl got married. Then a year ago another one fell to the ground, that is to say, got married. Another one got married a month back. Yet another, I just found out, got married a few months ago. One is getting married this week. Two more are on the calendar for this year. Another 3-5 more are engaged I think. And all these girls fall in the age range of 20-22 years (some were 18-odd when they got married though).You know you're getting old...when many of your age-mates tie the knot... :|


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Node Hierarchy: Display Children of top most parent in views - Drupal Answers
Node Hierarchy lets you assign parent/child relationships to nodes, which can be displayed in Views.
In Views, you can display the parent of a node, the ancestor of a node and the child of a node. (Instructions below*).
Is there are any way to combine this to display the immediate children of the top level parent node?
If not, are there any other modules that would allow this. (I have tried both relationship and entity references, but they don't seem capable).
*Instructions on how to display Node Hierarchy relationships in Views.
How to display Parent Node: In Views, Go to relationships and enable the Node Hierarchy Parent relationship. Then go to contextual filters, and selected Node ID as a filter. Under "When the filter value is available" set the Validator to content.
Create a block display and place it on your node.
How to display Ancestor Nodes: Exactly the same as Parent Node, but the Node Hierarchy Ancestor Relationship is used.
How to display Child Nodes: This requires a different approach from the above two, as a relationship is not used. The "Node Hierarchy: Parent Node ID" is used as a contextual filter in place of Node ID, however, the settings are the same.
asked Aug 11 '12 at 18:56
You could try adding parent node as a relationship in views, then add a filter and set it to "is empty (NULL)" as a requirement of the field with relationship parent. This will only display nodes that have no parent node set.
If you want to show only nodes whose parents have no parent, you'd add a second relationship (called something like "grandparent") and then set your filter to require the grandparent, rather than the parent, to be empty.
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This code, if put in the template file for a view that is set to display at url http://yoursite.com/[some word]/[taxonomy term]. It takes [taxonomy term], finds the TID from the name (so if you have TID in the URL you can skip that part), and creates an array of ancestors called $ancestors_list (in mine they happen to link to a view at http://yoursite.com/[some word]/[new taxonomy term] that takes taxonomy terms as a contextual filter).
if (!empty($args[1])){
$term_name = $args[1];
$terms = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($term_name);
$tid = $term->tid;   //find the TID for the term name
$pedigree = taxonomy_get_parents_all($tid);         //get the tree for the term and create an array of parent terms
$ancestors_list = array();
foreach($pedigree as $ancestor){
$ancestor_name = $ancestor->name;
if ((isset($term_name) && ($ancestor_name !== $term_name)) || ($args[0]=='node')){
$ancestors_list[] = l($ancestor_name, '[some word]/'.$ancestor_name);
I believe this list is created in order from child -> parent -> grandparent, so the top-level term would be the last in the array and the immediate child of the term would be the second to last.
answered Aug 11 '12 at 19:57
Thank you your kindness and generosity. However, I am using Node Hierarchy and not Taxonomy. Is there a way to make that code work with Node Hierarchy? I tried experimenting with it but couldn't get it to work. If you can post a working solution, I will gladly award you with bonus bounty points, as I am touch by your generosity! Node Hierarchy can be found at: drupal.org/project/nodehierarchy – big_smile Aug 11 '12 at 20:57
Ah, I see, my bad. I'll take a look. – beth Aug 11 '12 at 21:06
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Final Result Full Time 90:00+2:53 The match has reached full-time. 90:00+1:58 GOAL - Garry O'Connor:Inverness CT 0 - 1 Hibernian Garry O'Connor fires in a goal from deep inside the penalty box to the bottom left corner of the goal. Inverness CT 0-1 Hibernian. 90:00+1:25 A cross is delivered by Richie Foran, clearance by David Stephens. 89:05 The ball is crossed by Aaron Doran. 88:48 Jonathan Hayes takes a outswinging corner. 88:13 Corner taken left-footed by Jonathan Hayes from the left by-line, Effort from inside the penalty area by Greg Tansey hits
the post. 88:01 Aaron Doran delivers the ball, David Stephens makes a clearance. 86:25 Unfair challenge on Aaron Doran by Daniel Galbraith results in a free kick. Jonathan Hayes takes the direct free kick. 84:52 Shane Sutherland has an effort at goal from 25 yards. Save made by Graham Stack. 83:41 Thomas Piermayr concedes a free kick for a foul on Daniel Galbraith. Callum Booth delivers the ball from the free kick right-footed
from left wing, Tom Aldred makes a clearance. 82:35 Substitution David Crawford on for Ivan Sproule. 79:59 Jonathan Hayes sends in a cross, Shot by Tom Aldred from deep inside the penalty area misses to the left of the goal. 79:43 Edwin De Graaf concedes a free kick for a foul on Aaron Doran. Owain Tudur Jones takes the direct free kick. Correction - 76:25 Substitution Edwin De Graaf comes on in place of David Wotherspoon. 76:25 Substitution David Wotherspoon leaves the field to be replaced by Edwin De Graaf. 76:13 The ball is sent over by Richie Foran, clearance made by David Stephens. 75:17 The ball is crossed by Kenny Gillet. 73:57 Effort from outside the penalty box by Shane Sutherland goes wide left of the target. 71:58 Thomas Piermayr crosses the ball. 68:42 Substitution Gregory Tade leaves the field to be replaced by Shane Sutherland. 68:14 Victor Palsson concedes a free kick for a foul on Aaron Doran. Free kick crossed left-footed by Jonathan Hayes, save by Graham
Stack. 68:14 Booking Victor Palsson is cautioned. 67:38 Corner taken by Callum Booth, clearance by Tom Aldred. 67:00 Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Daniel Galbraith by Kenny Gillet. Callum Booth takes the free kick. 66:16 Jonathan Hayes crosses the ball, Effort from the edge of the area by Greg Tansey goes wide of the right-hand post. 65:24 Outswinging corner taken by Ivan Sproule, Owain Tudur Jones manages to make a clearance. 64:37 Shot by Matt Thornhill. Save by Ryan Esson. 64:37 Substitution Lewis Stevenson leaves the field to be replaced by Daniel Galbraith. 63:54 Richie Foran takes a short corner. 63:47 Jonathan Hayes crosses the ball, clearance made by Paul Hanlon. 63:24 Outswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Jonathan Hayes, Garry O'Connor manages to make a clearance. 63:07 Aaron Doran crosses the ball, clearance made by David Stephens. 62:55 The ball is swung over by Gregory Tade, clearance made by David Stephens. 62:00 Ivan Sproule is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Ryan Esson takes the indirect free kick. 61:28 A cross is delivered by David Wotherspoon, Ross Tokely makes a clearance. 57:28 Substitution (Inverness CT) makes a substitution, with Aaron Doran coming on for Nick Ross. 56:33 Foul by Ian Murray on Owain Tudur Jones, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Tom Aldred. 55:39 The ball is sent over by Nick Ross. 54:21 Centre by Jonathan Hayes, David Stephens manages to make a clearance. 53:19 A cross is delivered by Nick Ross. 52:07 Shot from just outside the box by Lewis Stevenson goes over the bar. 51:08 The referee blows for offside against Richie Foran. Indirect free kick taken by Graham Stack. 50:00 Unfair challenge on Greg Tansey by Ian Murray results in a free kick. Kenny Gillet takes the free kick. 47:55 Foul by Paul Hanlon on Ross Tokely, free kick awarded. Free kick crossed left-footed by Jonathan Hayes. 45:01 The second half begins. Half Time 45:00+0:59 The players leave the pitch at half time. 45:00+0:06 Gregory Tade is ruled offside. Graham Stack takes the indirect free kick. 44:42 The ball is sent over by Thomas Piermayr, David Stephens makes a clearance. 43:18 The assistant referee signals for offside against Gregory Tade. Free kick taken by Graham Stack. 43:05 The ball is crossed by Nick Ross. 42:18 Corner from the left by-line taken by Nick Ross, clearance by Callum Booth. 42:05 Nick Ross delivers the ball, blocked by Paul Hanlon. 41:11 Jonathan Hayes delivers the ball, Headed effort from deep inside the area by Gregory Tade misses to the left of the goal. 40:19 The ball is swung over by Victor Palsson. 39:23 Ross Tokely has an effort at goal from outside the area missing to the wide left of the goal. 39:11 The ball is crossed by Kenny Gillet, David Stephens manages to make a clearance. 38:11 Ivan Sproule takes a shot. Tom Aldred gets a block in. 36:34 Richie Foran crosses the ball, David Stephens manages to make a clearance. 34:51 Paul Hanlon concedes a free kick for a foul on Jonathan Hayes. Direct effort from the free kick comes in from Greg Tansey,
Graham Stack makes a save. 32:28 Jonathan Hayes crosses the ball, Shot from deep inside the area by Richie Foran clears the crossbar. 30:26 Corner taken right-footed by David Wotherspoon from the right by-line, clearance made by Tom Aldred. 29:17 Centre by Ivan Sproule, clearance by Ross Tokely. 28:08 Richie Foran is ruled offside. Indirect free kick taken by Graham Stack. 24:53 Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Garry O'Connor by Tom Aldred. The free kick is swung in left-footed by Callum
Booth, Tom Aldred manages to make a clearance. 17:11 The ball is delivered by Matt Thornhill. 13:43 Jonathan Hayes sends in a cross, clearance by David Stephens. 8:53 Inswinging corner taken by Callum Booth from the right by-line, save by Ryan Esson. 8:24 Ivan Sproule takes a shot. Save by Ryan Esson. 7:37 Thomas Piermayr produces a right-footed shot from just outside the penalty box that misses to the left of the goal. 6:31 Jonathan Hayes fouled by David Wotherspoon, the ref awards a free kick. Jonathan Hayes takes the direct free kick. 6:21 Unfair challenge on Richie Foran by Victor Palsson results in a free kick. Greg Tansey takes the free kick. 5:41 Corner taken by Nick Ross from the right by-line, Lewis Stevenson manages to make a clearance. Correction - 4:31 Gregory Tade is ruled offside. Graham Stack takes the free kick. 4:31 The referee blows for offside. Graham Stack takes the indirect free kick. 0:00 The match gets underway. Live text and data provided by The Press Association.

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What Are You Searching For? | Deeper Roots
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I was studying at my desk when my husband began searching for something. He looked through cabinets and drawers. He even cleaned out his van trying to find an important tool. As he came back into the house I asked “Did you find it?” “Nope.” He said, followed quickly by “Yep.” The tool he was looking for was sitting on his dresser all along.
It occurred to me that we live in a world that is searching. People are searching for meaning, searching for hope, searching for peace, searching for truth, and searching for love. Just as my husband spent more than an hour looking for a tool that was in plain sight – all the world’s frantic searching can be resolved by looking to God.
God has been speaking to me lately about what I am looking for-and where I am looking.
In Psalm 27:8 we read, “You have said to my heart, ‘Seek My face.’ Your face Lord I will seek.” The prophet Jeremiah records my life-verse, “You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13) While we are running here and there searching for all that makes life worthwhile, God has issued us a beautiful invitation. “Seek Me. I will make Myself available to you.” He promises in Isaiah 45:19 that He is not calling us to seek Him in vain-Jeremiah 29:14 says: “I will be found by you.”
Psalm 34:10 promises, “those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.” God honors those who seek Him. This is not a casual glance in God’s direction, nor is it only done on Sunday mornings. Seeking God is a life-long, daily, determined pursuit. It is making time every day for Bible study, prayer and meditating on Him, His character and His Word. It is allowing nothing to distract us or disrupt our heart’s mission – to know God.
What will we gain when we seek God? So much more than you could ever image.
In our society, the pursuit of “success” consumes so many people. 2 Chronicles 26 tells of Uzziah, king of Judah. Under the ministry of Zechariah, verse 5 says, “As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.” Seek God and look for Him to bless your efforts.
Are you searching for release from fear? David said in Psalm 34:4, “I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.” The one who seeks God is delivered from fear and anxiety.
Psalm 70:4 says, “May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You.” Those who seek the Lord will find joy and gladness. Even in the most trying circumstances, “the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10).
Perhaps today, you are searching for rest – you are weary and worn out. The struggles of life have taken their toll on you. 2 Chronicles 14:7 is your promise today – “We have sought the Lord our God; and He has given us rest.” Rest comes in the presence of God. Psalm 23:1 & 2 tell us “He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.” The weary are refreshed with His living water (John 4:14).
Here is one more beautiful truth about this subject of seeking and I hope it blesses your heart like it blessed mine. God sought you out. God pursued you. Jesus declared in John 19:10 – “The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Imagine that with me – God; the God of heaven, the Creator of all things, the great and holy I AM, sought you and me to be His own. Before He called you to seek Him, He had been on a search for you.
Maybe you have wandered from God, and are lost in a wilderness of your own choices. I’ve been there, and it is a scary place to be. Jesus promises that, as the Good Shepherd, He will go on a “search and rescue” mission to find you and bring you back. John 15:4-7 tells the parable of the lost sheep. Jesus said, “Does [the shepherd] not…go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home” (vs. 4,5). My friend, Jesus is not angry with you for wandering off – in His great love, he is seeking you to restore you and bring you back to Himself. See how he promises to joyfully carry you home on His shoulders? Don’t try to run and hide from Him any longer. Seek Him. Pursue Him. He will find you, and He will rejoice with you all the way home.
What are you looking for today? Peace? Joy? Rest? Where are you searching? In busyness, in addiction, a computer screen, or money? It’s not there. Your search is only fulfilled when you find Jesus Christ. He has made Himself available to you – seek Him and know what life can be when your frantic search is over.
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The two panels of three judges produced five written opinions. The D.C. Circuit panel found the Treasury regulation an invalid interpretation of the statute by a 2-1 vote. Each judge wrote an opinion. The majority opinion was penned by Judge Griffith, with Senior Judge Randolph joining and writing a short concurrence to emphasize his view that the government’s arguments really sucked wind. Senior Judge Edwards wrote an impassioned dissent. The 4th Cir. vote was 3-0, with two opinions. Judge Gregory, joined by Judge Thacker and Senior Judge Davis, penned the opinion for the Court. Senior Judge Davis added a short concurrence to emphasize his view that the plaintiff’s arguments really sucked wind. This post will summarize the arguments and the opinions, then make three brief observations about (1) a non-barking dog, (2) plain language pizza, and (3) what these cases might teach about who---as between courts, Congress, or agencies---ought to be cleaning up statutory messes created by poor drafting. Background
Given the process that produced the ACA, it should come as little surprise that parts of the statute were not well drafted. These two cases involve one particularly embarrassing example, a provision codified at 26 USC §36B, dealing with the calculation of the federal tax subsidies for certain purchasers of a Qualified Health Plan (QHP). Section 36B(a) authorizes a tax credit equal to “the premium assistance credit amount” as determined by §36(b). Section 36(b)(1) then explains that the premium assistance credit amount is calculated by adding together all the “premium assistance amounts” for all “coverage months.” It is in the definition of these two additional terms of art where we find the drafting embarrassment.
The first term of art (premium assistance amounts) is defined in §36(b)(2) as being the monthly premiums for a QHP “offered in the individual market within a State...and...enrolled in through an Exchange established by the State under [section] 1311 [of the ACA]...” (emphasis supplied) The second term of art (coverage month) is defined deeper down in §36B(c)(2) as “any month if...as of the first day of such month the taxpayer...is covered by a qualified health plan described in subsection (b)(2)(A) that was enrolled in through an Exchange established by the State under section 1311 [of the ACA]...” (emphasis supplied)
The embarrassing part is the bolded language. Did Congress really mean to deny the federal tax credit to all those taxpayers enrolled in QHPs through exchanges established by the federal government? Or was the statutory language simply badly drafted? These are nontrivial questions: only about 14 states have established Exchanges under ACA §1311. In the other states, the Exchanges have been established by the federal government under ACA §1321. Treas. Reg. 1.36B-2, T.D. 9590, 77 FR 30377-01 (May 23, 2012), addresses this embarrassment by treating the statutory language as poorly drafted. Thus, subsection (a) of the regulation provides that applicable taxpayers are “allowed a premium assistance amount...for any month that [the taxpayer] ....(1) Is enrolled in one or more qualified health plans through an Exchange...” The regulation goes on to say that the term “Exchange” includes State Exchanges, regional Exchanges, subsidiary Exchanges, and Federally-facilitated Exchanges. While the Preamble to the regulation acknowledged that commentators had raised concerns that the statutory language prohibited the regulatory approach, the Preamble dismisses those concerns (with no analysis) by asserting that that the regulatory approach was “consistent with the language, purpose, and structure of section 36B and the Affordable Care Act as a whole.”
Plaintiffs and their Amici: a. Text: The plaintiff’s textual argument is very straightforward: the plain language at issue creates three requirements: the applicable taxpayer must be enrolled in a QHP through (1) an Exchange, (2) established by the State, (3) under ACA 1311. An Exchange set up by the Federal government fails the second requirement. If Congress had meant to include Exchanges other than State exchanges in the tax credit calculation, it would have used the language “an established Exchange” or something like that. b. Statutory Context: Congress elsewhere provided that a U.S. Territory that set up an Exchange “shall be treated as a State.” 42 U.S.C. §18042(a)(1). There is no equivalent language for Exchanges set up by the Federal government. c. Statutory Purpose: Congress wanted to create incentives for states to create exchanges. Providing a tax subsidy only for individual coverage purchased through state-established Exchanges serves that purpose.
Government and its Amici: a. Text: The government’s textual argument starts simple, but quickly becomes convoluted. The plain language at issue creates TWO requirements: the applicable taxpayer must be enrolled in a QHP through (1) an Exchange (2) established by the State under ACA §1311. Federally established exchanges meet both requirements because §1321 says so. While §1311 provides that States “shall” establish an exchange, that seemingly mandatory verb is altered by ACA §1321 which allows States to opt out. If a state opts out, §1321 then requires the federal government to “establish and operate such Exchange within the State.” The term “Exchange” is defined in a part of the ACA that was codified in 42 U.S.C. to be “an American Health Benefit Exchange established under section 18031 of this title.” 42 USC §300gg-91(d)(21) (“section §18031 of this title” was the codification of §1311). So the term “such Exchange within the State” in ACA §1321 means, by substitution of definition, “such American Health Benefit Exchange established under section 1311 within the State.” A plain reading of ACA §1311 shows that Exchanges “established under §1311” are, again by definition, established by a State. See e.g. (b)(1) “Each State shall, not later than January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange (referred to in this title as an “Exchange”) for the State...” Therefore, unless one wants to make the argument that the term “Exchange” itself necessarily excludes federally-created Exchanges, this textual analysis supports the notion that Exchanges set up by the federal government under the command of ACA §1321 are indeed “established by the State under 1311.” b. Statutory Context: Other statutory provisions appear to presume that the tax credit would be available for taxpayers regardless of whether the Exchange was established directly by a State under ACA §1311 or indirectly by the federal government stepping into the shoes of the State as required by ACA §1321. First, IRC §36B(f)(3) subjects all Exchanges to a variety of reporting requirements among which are several that make no sense if the Exchange did not qualify to support a tax credit. Second, ACA §1312 provides that only an individual who “resides in a State that established the Exchange” can purchase a QHP from an Exchange. If federally-established Exchanges were not fully equivalent to State-created Exchanges, §1312 would mean only individuals living in the 14 or so States that have established Exchanges could purchase a QHP.
c. Statutory Purpose: The government makes an “everybody knows” argument that Congress intended the ACA to increase the availability of health insurance and created a “three-legged stool” to implement that goal. The first leg was to mandate coverage, regardless of pre-existing conditions, and create certain other requirements that must be offered by every insurer. The second leg was the Individual Mandate, a stick designed to counter the adverse selection problem (Jordon Barry and I discuss that in our article “Is The Individual Mandate Really Mandatory?” available here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2091556 ) The third leg was the tax credits, also designed to counter the adverse selection problem with a carrot for those taxpayers who would not be affected by the Individual Mandate. d. Chevron. The Supreme Court in Chevron told courts that the first step in reviewing a contested agency interpretation of a statute was to see if Congress had directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If so, the statutory text controlled. If not, the second step was to evaluate the agency’s interpretation of the applicable statutory text for reasonableness. Only if the agency was off the wall, out to lunch, in left field, or whatever other colorful metaphor floats your boat, should a court exercise power to overrule an agency interpretation of ambiguous statutory text. Power is allocated in the federal system so that agencies have more power than courts (if that power is properly invoked and exercised) to interpret ambiguous statutory text. Here the government argued for ambiguity. If it could convince a court of that, then there would be no question that the Treasury Department properly invoked and exercised its regulation-writing powers. Decisions
Here is how each court dealt with the three sets of arguments present.
a. Text: The DC majority agreed with key parts of the plaintiff’s textual argument. That is, the majority interpreted IRC §36B as created three requirements of (1) an Exchange, (2) established by the State, (3) under ACA 1311. The majority agreed with the government on its substitution of definition analysis but believed that analysis met only two of the three requirements: “Thus, §1321 creates equivalence between state and federal Exchanges in two respects: in terms of what they are and the statutory authority under which they are established.” But this was not good enough because of that second requirement “established by the State.” “Of the three elements of that provision....federal Exchanges satisfy only two: they are Exchanges established under section 1311. Nothing in section 1321 deems federally-established Exchanges to be “Exchanges established by the State.” The DC dissent appeared to concede the textual analysis, relying instead on the statutory context and purpose to repeatedly warn that the straight textual reading would “crumble” the ACA by sawing off one of the three legs of the stool.
The 4th Cir. Panel accepted the government’s definitional substitution argument, but cautioned that the government’s position was “only slightly” more convincing than the “common-sense appeal” of the taxpayer position. While the opinion did not articulate exactly why it was convinced, my reading of the way in which the Court set up the parties’ arguments convinces me it was because the Court read §26B as containing only two requirements, not three. That is, the phrase “established by the State under section 1311” was a single requirement and therefore, in the court’s words, “it makes sense to read §132(c)’s directive that HHS establish “such Exchange” to mean that the federal government acts on behalf of the state when it establishes its own Exchange.” I, personally, cannot see any other reason to prefer the government’s textual argument. This idea of two requirements is more clearly expressed in Judge Davis’ concurrence who argues that the phrase “established by the State” is a term of art.
b. Statutory Context: Once the DC majority concluded that pure textual analysis answers the question presented, it considered any other interpretation to be a “juridical rewriting of an act of Congress.” While the majority was willing to do that, it repeatedly required that the government make an “extraordinary showing” that contrary statutory context or statutory purpose trumped the text. Otherwise, the text controlled and the agency would lose under Chevron step 1.
The DC majority addressed the government’s statutory context arguments and concluded that neither of the two sections were “unworkable” under the majority’s interpretation of §36B. Sure, these provisions might be a bit awkward, but that is a long way from being absurd. “A provision thus may seem odd without being absurd and in such instances it is up to Congress rather than the courts to fix it even if it had been an unintentional drafting gap.” (internal quotes omitted). First, as to the reporting requirements in §36B(f)(3), the majority pointed out that the information that appears to relate to the tax credits also relates to the Individual Mandate, so the information would still serve a purpose, just not as complete a purpose as it would under the government’s interpretation. Second, as to §1312, the majority suggests that the government misreads that section to create the asserted absurdity. Specifially, the majority denies that §1312 acts to limit the population who can purchase QHP (“the obvious flaw...is that the word ‘only’ does not appear in the provision.”) In contrast, the 4th Circuit declared “we remain unpersuaded by either side.” It recites the arguments from both sides, but discounts them both by noting “it is not especially surprising that in a bill of this size...there would be one or more conflicting provisions.” Curiously, it does not mention the idea, found in the DC majority opinion, that the information reporting requirements would be useful for enforcing the Individual Mandate as well as the credits. Considering the significant overlap of attorneys in the two cases (the plaintiffs in each cases were represented by the same law firm and the same two attorneys wrote the briefs in both Courts, and many of the amici in one case also appeared and submitted briefs in the other), this suggests to me that the idea may not have originated from counsel. Or it could be that since the 4th Cir. punted on statutory context, it did not want to take up space describing all the arguments put out by all sides and amici. c. Statutory Purpose: The DC majority found no useful information about the statutory purpose of the ACA. It even-handedly discounted both plaintiff and government versions of the statute’s purpose. wanted to create incentives for states to create exchanges. Providing a tax subsidy only for individual coverage purchased through state-established Exchanges serves that purpose.
The DC dissent played the statutory purpose card, declaring that the purpose of Congress to increase the availability of health insurance, and the execution of that purpose through the “three-legged stool” approach was so clear as to trump the cramped interpretation of the statute. The 4th Cir. concurrence also characterized the plaintiffs’ textual argument as “not literal but cramped.”
The 4th Cir. was likewise unimpressed with either side’s arguments about statutory purpose. d. Chevron
The DC Cir. believed that the statutory text was clear. Accordingly, the contrary Treasury Regulation was invalid. The 4th Cir. believed that the statutory text was unclear. Accordingly, it reviewed the regulation for reasonableness, concluding that in light of “the Act’s ambiguity, the IRS crafted a rule ensuring the credits’ broad availability and furthering the goals of the law. In the face of this permissible construction, we must defer to the IRS rule.”
Note here that while the 4th Cir. was clear that the statutory purpose was not sufficient for it to interpret the statutory text itself in Chevron Step 1, the statutory purpose was sufficient to evaluate the reasonableness of the contested regulation in Chevron Step 2. Observations
1. The Dog That Did Not Bark.
While the six judges differed considerably on the merits of the substantive question---the validity of the Treasury Regulation---they uniformly agreed on the procedural questions of standing and remedy. The government argued that various plaintiffs did not have standing and those that did were not authorized to maintain the suit under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because the APA gave access to courts only when “there is no other adequate remedy in a court” for the plaintiff’s complaint. Not one judge agreed. As to standing, the plaintiffs’ argued that they lived in states with no State-established Exchange. Accordingly, without the tax credits, the financial hit to them to purchase insurance would be so great that they would qualify for the unaffordability exemption from the Individual Mandate of IRC §5000A. Under the Treasury Regulation’s extension of the tax credits to their states, however, they could afford to buy insurance according to the law, and so would be subject to the Individual Mandate penalty if they did not purchase insurance. This is a good argument for standing purposes because courts have long refused to require citizens to willfully violate a regulation or statute in order to test its validity. What is interesting to me is the procedural argument the government did NOT make: the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA), located in IRC 7421. That statute says that “no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the person against whom such tax was assessed.” This was a big procedural issue in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the 2012 Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the ACA. For more on that see my article “Jesus and the Anti-Injunction Act” available here.
But the government did not even try the AIA argument here. Perhaps that is because it keeps losing this argument in many cases, most notably the recent DC Circuit opinion in Cohen v. United State, 650 F.3d 717 (DC Cir. 2011).
For example, while it used to be that tax-exempt organizations who were protesting their treatment by the IRS were routinely denied judicial relief until after the IRS had ruled on their tax exempt status---see e.g. Alexander v. "Americans United" Inc., 416 U.S. 752 (1974)---it now appears that Cohen has opened the courthouse door to such suits and taxpayers can attack any IRS procedure they believe is unfair before the IRS rules on their application. See Z St., Inc. v. Koskinen, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71638 (D.D.C. 2014).
I am not clear on why the government did not argue the AIA. This could be simply my failure to understand that statute but it seems to me that the plaintiffs were here seeking an injunction to prevent the IRS from calculating their taxes under this regulation --- the very kind of lawsuit that the AIA was written to prevent. Did the Supreme Court’s decision on the AIA in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) preclude application of the statute here? I do not see why. To be sure, in NFIB the Supremes held that because Congress called the Individual Mandate penalty a “penalty” and not a “tax” the AIA could not apply to suits to restrain the assessment or collection of the Individual Mandate. However, these suits are to nullify a regulation that connects directly to what Congress has called “taxes.” That is, the whole purpose of the tax credits, as §36B(a) makes clear is to reduce “the tax imposed by this subtitle.” If so, then the AIA should apply. The AIA does not simply restrain suits to prevent the assessment or collection of “larger taxes.” It says “any tax.” Again, since I am writing this hastily and on jet-lag from an overseas trip, I am probably missing something obvious and I invite readers who have made it this far to email me their thoughts or put them in the comments.
2. Plain Language Pizza.
O.k. You KNOW this issue is going to the Supreme Court. It is a vital part of the ACA and we have a circuit split on the question of whether the statutory text is clear enough to invalidate a Treasury regulation. And who is the greatest textualist of them all? Why, Justice Scalia. And so is it only coincidence that Senior Judge Davis invokes pizza, a metaphor Scalia used to great effect in his dissenting opinion in National Cable & Telecommunications Association et al. v. Brand X Internet Services et al., 545 U.S. 967 (2005)?
In Brand X the government agency was interpreting statutory language about whether Internet Service Providers who offered broadband cable modem service were "information service" providers but were not a "telecommunications service" within the meaning of the statute and so were not subject to mandatory Title II common-carrier regulation. The statute provided that telecommunications service was given by those providers who "offered” telecommunications for a fee directly to the public. 47 U.S.C. § 153. The FCC decided that it could not separate out the information content from the transmission capability and so cable companies offering broadband Internet access did not offer the end user simply a telecommunications service, but instead used telecommunications to provide end users with cable modem service.
Scalia was incredulous and went to a pizza analogy to show the fallacy of the FCC’s logic:
If, for example, I call up a pizzeria and ask whether they offer delivery, both common sense and common usage would prevent them from answering: "No, we do not offer delivery--but if you order a pizza from us, we'll bake it for you and then bring it to your house." The logical response to this would be something on the order of, "so, you do offer delivery." But our pizza-man may continue to deny the obvious and explain, paraphrasing the FCC and the Court: "No, even though we bring the pizza to your house, we are not actually 'offering' you delivery, because the delivery that we provide to our end users is 'part and parcel' of our pizzeria-pizza-at-home service and is 'integral to its other capabilities.'" Any reasonable customer would conclude at that point that his interlocutor was either crazy or following some too-clever-by-half legal advice.
Similarly, Senior Judge Davis reaches for the pizza to reject the plaintiff’s textual argument.
Appellants’ reading is not literal; it’s cramped. *** If I ask for pizza from Pizza Hut for lunch but clarify that I would be fine with a pizza from Domino’s, and I then specify that I want ham and pepperoni on my pizza from Pizza Hut, my friend who returns from Domino’s with a ham and pepperoni pizza has still complied with a literal construction of my lunch order. That is this case: Congress specified that exchanges should be established and run by the states, but the contingency provision permits federal officials to act in place of the state when it fails to establish an exchange.
3. Whose Job Is it Anyway.
To side with the plaintiffs here is to place the burden of fixing this problem on Congress. To side with the government places the burden of fixing the problem on the IRS, as supervised by Treasury and, perhaps more loosely (under Chevron) by the courts themselves. Notably, it is the courts that will exercise the power to decide who gets to fix the problem. It’s kind of like an appointment power. This is, of course, familiar to those who study Chevron.
The DC majority frankly acknowledges the problems its ruling would create but insists that, “high as those stake are, the principle of legislative supremacy that guides us is higher still.” It gives no reasoned explanation for why that is so. Similarly, Senior Judge Edwards appears to believe that the problems to be encountered by the majority’s interpretation are so significant as to themselves be a canon of statutory construction: he repeatedly explains the necessity of the government’s interpretation for the ACA to function and declares “it is inconceivable that Congress intended to give states the power to cause the ACA to crumble.” But Judge Edwards also advances no explanation for why, in this case, the agency should get to fix the statutory drafting problem. I mean that as no criticism for I, too, am clueless on just where and why one would draw the line allocating the fix-it power to Congress or to the agency. Both institutions commit error. One possible line of analysis here is to allocate the fix-it power to the institution that has the best capability of...well...fixing problems. Normally, that would be agency personnel because of their expertise and experience with how the words on the page actually play out in practice. The 4th Cir. opinions (both the majority and Judge Davis’ concurrence) appear to me to nudge in that direction in that they emphasize that in such a large and complex statute as the ACA, one can readily expect drafting errors and so the agency (or, here, agencies since implementation of the ACA is split) should get first go at fixing problems. That is, they do not explicitly link the fix-it allocation to the size of the problem, but instead seem to link it to the size of the statute.
Those are my afternoon thoughts on these opinions. As I said above, I welcome any comments, either to me directly at bryan.camp@ttu.edu, or on Paul’s comment section. http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/07/camp-preliminary-thoughts-.html
This is an incredibly helpful analysis, especially for those of us who are interested in the issue as a matter of public policy but are not well versed in the specifics of the two cases. Thank you for sharing it.
Posted by: CBR | Jul 23, 2014 8:47:56 AM
"What made yesterday’s rulings a rare event was that the disagreement arose within a matter of hours and involved a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)." It probably was no coincidence. A commenter at Instapundit raises these legitimate questions.
With regard to the 4th Circuit's ruling in favor of Obamacare that came out only hours after the DC Circuit's ruling, I guarantee you this was not an accident. The 4th Circuit judges had already written their ruling and were waiting for the DC Circuit judges to issue their ruling before the 4th Circuit judges issued theirs. Somebody should ask the 4th Circuit judges about this. Some of the questions to ask them would be a) Did they wait to issue their ruling, b) Did they issue their ruling within hours of the DC Circuit's ruling in order to undercut that ruling, c) Did they talk to anyone at the White House about the timing of issuing their ruling, d) Is there an appearance of impropriety in playing politics with the timing of their ruling? Posted by: Woody | Jul 23, 2014 8:51:05 AM
It is amazing to me that in all of this analysis that no one has bothered to mention the Medicaid “elephant” in the room.
Remember, one of the big “carrots” dangled in front of states for them to establish their own exchanges was that the Federal Government would pay 100% of the additional costs which were expected to be incurred as a result of all of the additional people who would be joining the Medicaid rolls.
Any state which refused to set up its own exchange was told they would not receive any additional Medicaid funding – in fact, there was an implied threat that ALL of their Medicaid funding would be in jeopardy if they did not establish a state healthcare exchange.
It never occurred to the people who drafted the healthcare legislation that any State wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to get more gravy from the government, but many of the States recognized that they are obligated under law to balance their budgets each year, and most of them know from personal experience that the Federal Government is notorious for reneging on their “deals”.
Once the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government could not use coercion to “persuade” a State to do their bidding, many States decided the Fed’s deal was a devil’s bargain of which they wanted no part.
There is a very obvious reason WHY the State exchanges and the Federal exchanges were dealt with separately – the Feds wanted no part of shouldering the cost of Obamacare. That is why the subsidies were only offered to the States which established their own exchanges – it is no mistake, no mere “drafting error”, that the parts of the bill dealing with Federal exchanges don’t mention subsidies; the drafters of the legislation never expected the Federal government would be required to set up any exchanges.
The people who drafted the bill were convinced that every state would happily take the money and run. They never dreamed that the pesky peasants might actually take the time to READ THE BILL.
IANAL, but it seems to me that one of the things that is drilled into Law students from day 1 is that “Words Matter” – there are criminals set free every day on technicalities, and the public at large is told that we have to live with those decisions because Words Matter.
Please don’t try to have it both ways here.
The government screwed up Big Time, and now they are hoping that a bunch of judges will save them from their own scheming machinations. They were in a big hurry to ram this bill through, and they used every trick in the book to get it passed before the American people had a chance to see what it was they were doing behind closed doors.
Don’t let them get away with it. Don’t put words in their mouth. Don’t defend them.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX | Jul 23, 2014 12:51:35 PM
Is it really the end of the world as we know it, if taxpayers in states with exchanges get a federal tax credit that taxpayers in states without exchanges do not?
Or will it cause recalcitrant legislators and governors to accept ACA rather than punish their citizens?
The doomsayer reasoning goes like this: Without the federal subsidy, low-income people won't have to buy health insurance, so universal coverage will not be achieved and insurance companies will have to raise rates. But what evidence is there that poor people in states without exchanges are so much healthier that their removal from the pool will cause the entire system to collapse? If anything, they may be less healthy and more costly to insure. Too bad for them if they want to go uninsured or go back to paying what they did until this year. Let them move from the states that do not care about their health, to states like California and New York that do. When that happens, jobs will be created in the healthcare industry in states with exchanges, and the last healthy person in Mississippi can pay higher taxes to keep the lights burning at the State House.
Posted by: Bob Kamman | Jul 24, 2014 11:20:04 PM
It appears that many still ignore human behavior. Humans have a bad habit of failing to do "what's good for them." unless that activity is enforced by some type of punishment. What the 4th Cir did was to agree that people will not buy health insurance unless someone else pays for it. This is not limited to "poor" people but is universal. So if Treasury doesn't give them a credit the ACA will fail. As it should!
Posted by: russ soule | Jul 25, 2014 9:49:14 AM

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