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Reproductive Rights Assaulted
Dianne Feeley
THREE YEARS AGO Tamesha Means was rushed to Mercy Health Partners Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan after her water broke 18 weeks into her pregnancy. The hospital diagnosed a premature rupture of membranes but sent her home, saying there was nothing to be done at that stage.
The next day she returned with painful contractions, bleeding and elevated temperature. She was given two Tylenols and, after her temperature went down, sent home.
Later that night, in excruciating pain, she returned for the third time. Once again she was told nothing could be done.
As staff prepared the papers for her discharge, she began to deliver. Only then did they deal with her miscarriage. She gave birth to a premature son, who died shortly afterward. Her medical records show that once her water broke the previous day, infection had sent in.
As a Catholic hospital, Mercy Health Partners adheres to the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services." Under that U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's directive, "Abortion…is never permitted. Every procedure whose sole immediate effect is the termination of pregnancy before viability is an abortion."
Means was never informed of any option: "They didn't tell me what was happening to my body. Whatever was going on with me, they discussed it amongst themselves. I was just left to wonder, 'What's going to happen to me?'"
Yet this is a teaching hospital, the second largest health care organization in western Michigan, and the only hospital in the county. How can religious directives dictate medical care?
One out of every nine U.S. hospital beds is in a Catholic hospital, governed by a document that guides various medical practices, including reproductive health issues. Some of its dictates contravene standard practice. For example, although the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 88% of all women of reproductive age use some form of contraception, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's 43-page guide requires hospital personnel to remain silent regarding contraception information.
Tamesha Means survived to initiate a suit with the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union in federal court against the U.S. Conference of Bishops for a policy directive that denied her emergency medical care. But Means is certainly not the only woman in America kept in the dark about the need to terminate her pregnancy.
Given that between 10-20% of all diagnosed pregnancies end in miscarriages, the unwillingness of Catholic hospitals to take appropriate and immediate steps to end a pregnancy endangers women's lives. Women may face loss of blood, infection, the end to fertility or even death.
Of the seven million U.S. women who become pregnant each year, one million will have an abortion. About 70% will pay for their abortion out of pocket. The procedure costs somewhere between $300-$1700, depending on how early it is performed. (Throughout the country there are formal and informal networks of women who contribute to funding poor women's abortions.)
How do the number of abortions today compare to the past? Before abortion was legalized in 1973, it was estimated that there were between 200,000 and 1.2 million procedures each year. Abortions peaked in 1996 at 1.6 million and have declined ever since. The percentage of pregnancies that end in abortion has also dropped, from a high of 30% in 1979-86 to half that today.
Yet more than 40 years after abortion in the United States became legal, both federal and state legislation limit women's access. And women with the fewest resources have the least access. Certainly the 1976 passage of the federal Hyde Amendment, which denies women on Medicaid abortion except in cases in rape, incest or a life-threatening condition, made that clear.
This article focuses on the continuing assault on reproductive justice in 2013, particularly at the hands of state legislators. Twenty-two states passed 70 new restrictions, adding to the more than 135 passed in 2011 and 2012. (See "Reproductive Justice Needed!" ATC 163, March/April 2013, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3814.) Dominant were restrictions on providers, bans on abortion after 20-22 weeks of pregnancy and outlawing contraception or abortion coverage in various insurance plans.
Fights Under "Obamacare"
One positive regulation which emerged over the last few years is the federal Affordable Care Act's mandate that private health insurers provide contraceptive coverage at no out-of-pocket expense.
Religious nonprofits had objected to this provision and were granted an exception. Nonetheless The Little Sisters of the Poor, Catholic nuns, requested an emergency stay of its implementation; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a temporary stay at the end of 2013. In fact the nuns would only have to request an exemption, but they object to doing even that.
Additionally several employers demanded the same exception, citing personal objections. By the fall of 2013 eighteen for-profit companies had filed petitions for waivers in federal court, including Domino Farms, whose CEO, the ultraconservative Catholic ideologue Tom Monaghan, has described all contraceptives as "gravely immoral."
At the end of November the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases: Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius. Both claim they are willing to offer insurance plans that cover some types of contraceptives, but not what they consider "abortifacients." Conestoga objects to offering emergency contraceptives, while Hobby Lobby also objects to the use of intrauterine devices.
Despite this one regulation, and more talk of funding day care, the assault on women's access to a range of reproductive rights continues. Twenty-three states have banned insurance coverage for most abortion services under an opt-out provision of the ACA. They claim this is needed since the basic health plans sold on the health care exchanges will be subsidized by taxes.
In December 2013 the Michigan legislature went further, passing an initiative submitted by Right to Life of Michigan that requires women who want abortion coverage under their insurance policy to purchase it as a rider to their regular policy. The Michigan law contains no exceptions and will go into effect in March 2014.
The National Women's Law Center, which advocates for women, researched how many people bought riders in those states where the law was already in effect, and came up empty handed. "There are no statistics because they don't exist," reported Gretchen Borchelt, the center's state reproductive health policies director. Even North Dakota, which has had such a law since 1979, could not point to any abortion rider.
New Restrictive Legislation
Twenty-seven states have at least four different restrictions on abortion. These govern the majority of all U.S. women.
Historically hospitals have been reluctant to provide abortion facilities, so clinics have taken up that task. However the current assault against women saddles them with unnecessary regulations.
Fewer than 0.3% of all abortions require hospitalization, so the idea that clinics should meet the same standards isn't logical. Yet 13 states now demand that clinics have hospital-sized rooms and corridors.
Virginia's law prescribes the number of covered entrances and parking lots. Fourteen require affiliation with a local hospital, although Ohio, which previously had that law, reversed itself and now forbids such a relationship. Eight states, including Alabama, Indiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin passed clinic regulations in 2013.
While ultrasounds are not medically necessary for first-trimester abortions, several states have passed legislation requiring the procedure for all abortions. Early in the woman's pregnancy the ultrasound probe must be administered vaginally — a procedure that meets the legal definition of rape. Such an unncessary and humiliating requirement is an attempt to sway the woman into continuing her pregnancy. Last year Indiana and Wisconsin passed this law, bringing the number of states requiring ultrasounds to 10.
Since the 1980s some states and the Veterans' Administration have used long-distance medical conferencing in rural areas. Five years ago Planned Parenthood began using this method for the "morning after" pill, which has a 92-95% success rate if taken as directed within the first two months of pregnancy.
A woman seeking an early abortion could come to a clinic where a nurse would take her information, which would be passed on to a doctor. With the nurse present, the doctor would teleconference with the patient. At the end of the process the doctor would press a button to open a drawer where there were two medications. The woman would then take the first and use the second two days later, as directed.
Returning to the clinic two weeks later, she would have a follow-up appointment. In case of a problem, she was to report directly to a hospital.
Although telemedicine had never before been challenged by a state legislature, the idea that rural women would have access to abortion rubbed legislators the wrong way. In 2012 Michigan outlawed teleconferencing for abortions — a serious attack in a state where 22 out of 83 counties have no practicing OB/GYN.
Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin banned teleconferencing for this procedure the following year.
Unsuccessful at stripping Planned Parenthood of funding at the federal level, the right has also been successful in getting 10 states to restrict or ban clinics that offer abortion counseling or abortions.
Along with passing these restrictions, the right wing is now directly challenging the flawed Roe v. Wade decision. The January 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned laws outlawing abortion and established a trimester approach. During the first trimester, the court ruled, a woman and her doctor were in the driver's seat. But during the second and third stage the state assumed more control, particularly so after fetal viability in the final trimester.
However, even in the third trimester, laws were to function to preserve the life and health of the woman and empower her physician to make medical decisions without other physicians having to confirm them.
Much subsequent legislation simply disregards these criteria. In fact, that decision has already been weakened by the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where "undue" restrictions were permitted. These included parental consent, 24-hour waiting periods between consultation and the procedure, and mandating counseling. Twenty-six states have enacted a waiting period, 39 have parental consent laws and 17 mandate counseling that functions to scare women by providing misinformation: five states require that the woman be told abortion leads to elevated rates of breast cancer, eight maintain there may be mental consequences, 12 insist that, if aborted, the fetus suffers pain.
All these restrictions fall more heavily on poorer women. They also perpetuate violence: women are ordered to follow rules about what they can and cannot do. They reinforce the power a partner might be able to exert over the woman, forcing her to stop taking the contraceptives she needs to control her fertility, forcing her to bear children she can't nurture, forcing her to remain in a relationship that destroys her self-confidence.
Those who oppose abortion understand that most people believe that women must have a degree of autonomy over our own bodies. There is majority support for contraception and abortion being legal and available.
Instead of a frontal assault against all abortion, the right wing attempts to carve out space where people are invited to judge the pregnant woman, and decide whether her reason is "good enough."
Through this method they seek to roll back a medical procedure by a thousand cuts. The right has been most successful in three areas: reducing abortion and contraceptive access to women on Medicaid, limiting access to young women through the passage of parental consent laws, and failing women who do not live in urban centers.
The most rabid rightwingers now dare to question whether women who have been raped were really raped. In the summer of 2012 Todd Akin, then Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri, answering a question in a TV interview about allowing abortions in the case of rape, stated that "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
A firestorm broke out over this ridiculous remark. But the remark represents the far side of what the right is attempting to do in their demand that laws judge women who dare to seek abortion.
Over the course of the years since the Roe v. Wade decision, state legislatures have proved helpful to the right, and have seen themselves amply rewarded. Especially since the rise of the Tea Party, many politicians have followed their instinct for self-preservation by escalating the attack on reproductive rights.
The right has also been successful in setting up a network of "alternative" clinics, usually called Crisis Pregnancy Centers. These are usually situated near to clinics that offer a range of reproductive services — but their alternative is to scare and dissuade a woman from seeking an abortion.
They have been most successful limiting late-term abortions. One might think, "Well that's not so bad, after all 91% of all women obtaining abortion do so within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, 99% before 21 weeks. Maybe if you are pregnant that long, you should just complete the pregnancy."
Of course, that erases the problems of incomplete miscarriages and fetal abnormalities — the reasons for most late abortions!
Fetal testing for major birth defects is performed around 18 weeks folowing the woman's last menstruation. That's when testing can reveal hydrocephalus (water on the brain), anencephaly (severe brain malformations), major heart defects, missing organs and limbs, etc. This represents about 2% of all pregnancies, with another half a percent having a chromosomal defect, such as an extra or missing DNA segment. These raise emotional and health issues women would want to examine.
Yet in these complicated situations, legislators dare to consider themselves better equipped to make decisions than the woman herself. This is codified in federal legislation the right has termed "partial birth abortion." A law signed by president George W. Bush in 2003 outlaws certain medical procedures — maintaining that they are outside the law even when they might be the best option for the woman to end a late pregnancy. Nineteen states have similar laws.
In 2013 Arkansas, North Dakota and Texas joined Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Carolina and Oklahoma in banning most abortion after 20-22 weeks. While the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows some restrictions on second trimester abortion, clearly these are direct challenges to Roe.
Last year Colorado repealed its pre-Roe law in believing the time is right to challenge Roe v. Wade. Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota legislatures have announced that if Roe v. Wade were overturned, they would move to ban abortion outright. Eight others promise to restrict abortion to the maximum extent of the law.
Additionally 12 states have pre-Roe bans that remain on the books for resurrection (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin) while only seven permit abortion before viability.
In 1994 Congress passed and president Clinton signed into law the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE), which prohibits property damage, physical obstruction or threat of force against clinics.
This was passed after the firebombing and blockades of clinics and the murders of several physicians who performed abortions. (Dr. David Gunn had been killed just the previous year in front of a Florida clinic.) The law specifically exempts picketing, chanting and passing out leaflets in an attempt to draw a line between protest and harassment.
A few states subsequently passed legislation against blocking entrances or threatening and intimidating staff and patients. Half a dozen have "bubble zones" of a specific distance in order to protect patients from protestors. I expect the right will launch suits against these laws in the coming year (a Massachusetts law is now in the courts under a "free speech" challenge.)
After the passage of state laws that are clearly thumbing their noses at both the Affordable Care Act and Roe v. Wade, these will wind their way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Does this mean that the political elites have joined the right wing to drive women back into their homes, leaving us pregnant and barefoot?
I don't believe that's possible. It fits neither what late capitalism needs, nor what women will tolerate. But how far can the two cooperate? How much can the right to reproductive justice be gutted in practice?
From the point of view of women, the large majority of whom are working class, and our allies, the fight for reproductive rights seems more integral to the other political, economic and environmental issues than ever before.
Indeed, every mobilization in defense of reproductive justice is large and diverse. Despite decades of right-wing propaganda, the majority of people consistently support contraception, abortion and the right of women to make the decisions regarding our bodies. Whenever women tell our stories, the complexity of our lives and our struggle for justice is overwhelming.
However, the organizations that represent women, whether unions or nonprofits, remain in a defensive mode. They celebrate the defeat of each horrendous law — such as Albuquerque voters' 2013 rejection of a referendum that would ban abortions after 20 weeks — but do not call for national mobilizations. If we compare the women's rights campaigns with those of the LGBT community, we see how much further ahead the LGBT struggle has moved.
Capital needs to continue to repress working people, but doesn't want to face a social explosion. I don't predict the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but without a sustained counter offensive, there will be a continued assault that narrows the ground for reproductive justice.
The reality is that the women's movement that fought for abortion rights did not demand a trimester approach, but an integrated view of our reproductive rights. It called for free, 24-hour quality childcare, for free abortion when needed, for an end to sterilization abuse and for the development of safe contraceptives.
Today that program needs refashioning to include a reduction in the work day, so that we can all participate in the raising of the next generation and caring for the older one — and to call for meaningful and environmentally appropriate work at a living wage.
Resources: Detroit News, Guttmacher Institute (http://www.guttmacher.org/), National Women's Law Center (http://www.nwlc.org/our-issues/health-care-%2526-reproductive-rights), SisterSong (http://www.sistersong.net/). For information about Catholic hospitals, see The National Women's Law Center, in their 2011 study, "Below the Radar: Health Care Providers' Religious Refusals Can Endanger Pregnant Women's Lives and Health," documents this problem: http://www.nwlc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/nwlcbelowtheradar2011.pdf and "Miscarriage of Medicine: The Growth of Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Reproductive Health Care," by Lois Uttley & Sheila Reynertson of the MergerWatch Project and Lorraine Kenny & Louise Melling of the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/growth-of-catholic-hospitals-2013.pdf.)
March/April 2014, ATC 169


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'Apple One' Initiative Seeks to Bundle Services like Apple Music and Apple TV+
By Daniel Frankel
Apple is looking to further accelerate the growth of its $50-a-year services business by offering discounts to customers who bundle offerings like Apple TV+ and Apple Music.
The initiative, reported by Bloomberg quoting inside sources, is called Apple One. According to the report, the service would be tiered, with more expensive iterations adding services like Apple Arcade, Apple News+ and iCloud storage to the base package of Apple Music and Apple TV+.
Apple One would offer savings in the range of $2 - $5 a month, the report said.
Apple One is reportedly set to launch later this year and is being spearheaded by Peter Stern, a top lieutenant of Apple services chief Eddie Cue. Notably, Apple is set to debut its latest iPhone in October, along with the newest iteration of its mobile device software, iOS 14.
Also read: Apple TV+: 'Greyhound' a 'Summer Blockbuster,' But SVOD Still Struggling with Production Shutdown
Since it launched Nov. 1, 2019, Apple TV+ has been a middling contender in the so-called streaming wars. Apple hasn't released signup numbers for the SVOD service, but it's believed that most of its users have come from a promotion that offers a year free of Apple TV+ (aka Apple TV Plus) to those who purchase new Apple devices such as iPhones.
However, in totality, the Apple services business is growing quickly, with the company touting a doubling of revenue for the business segment from 2016.
In pursuing Apple One, the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant is purportedly seeking to mimic the success of Amazon Prime, which has achieved a bedrock of steady subscription revenue for Amazon by bundling a variety of music, video streaming and other services to a core of free shipping of retail goods.
Daniel Frankel
Daniel Frankel is the managing editor of Next TV, an internet publishing vertical focused on the business of video streaming. A Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered the media and technology industries for more than two decades, Daniel has worked on staff for publications including E! Online, Electronic Media, Mediaweek, Variety, paidContent and GigaOm. You can start living a healthier life with greater wealth and prosperity by following Daniel on Twitter today!
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Maria Maio has always been a leader in both ensuring that there are homes that people can afford as well as the development of supportive housing.
Hopefully, next year St. Aedan's will be filled to overflowing with voices singing not only to celebrate the holiday season but also to prepare us for the day of jubilation when no one is homeless.
On Wednesday, December 18, Hudson County's 2013 Longest Night Campaign is holding a concert to raise awareness around homelessness in the County.
In recognition of all her contributions to New Jersey, the Housing and Community Network will be honoring Diane Johnson with the inaugural Community Development Champion Award.


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Q: JBoss Fuse and Fuse ESB, whats the difference? It seems that Fuse ESB has been bought out by Red Hat and will now be provided as JBoss Fuse.
Is it correct to presume they are essentially the same technology, plus or minus a few improvements?
I see that both are open source and built on the same technology stack, so I am hopeful that this is just a name change without any significant impact to existing projects.

A: Yes its a name change as part of the acquisition. JBoss Fuse is the new name the product is using now, from its new owner Red Hat.
There will be no new releases of the old product (Fuse ESB) from FuseSource.

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Costco has a discount of 30% on Atom Tickets eGift Cards. If you're into movies, then this should come in handy.
You need a membership in order to get the discount. With their more expensive Gold Star Executive membership, you also earn 2% cashback. There's a discounted membership offer right now, if you don't have one. You can also net some extra savings by using Discover it and Chase Freedom cards which are offering 5X at Wholesale Clubs this quarter. Limits usually reset every 48 hours.


BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences is offering five STEM classes this summer specifically designed for the needs of K-12 teachers. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; improving STEM education at all levels has been named a priority by President Barack Obama.
"The importance of keeping up to date in the different scientific fields has never been more urgent for teachers," said Catherine Pilachowski, professor of astronomy and associate dean for graduate education.
Trudy McConnell, coordinator for undergraduate science research programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, chats with Rob Spencer at the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Inc. (HASTI) convention in Indianapolis on Feb. 4. Spencer, who holds a degree in physics from IU, teaches at West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School.
The courses in the group offered by the College of Arts and Sciences this summer carry graduate credit that can be used as Certification Renewal Units towards licensure renewal, applied toward certification for IU's Advanced College Project (ACP) or applied toward the completion of a Master of Arts for Teachers degree at IU.
Courses primarily are offered on the Bloomington campus or at the Geology Field Station, but the Number Theory course is also available through an interactive synchronous distance learning option at the nine Education Service Centers located throughout Indiana, and through a personal computer. Course schedules have been arranged to accommodate teachers' summer schedules.
The Summer STEM for Teachers initiative joins the recently established joint degree programs in mathematics and chemistry in the College's growing area of opportunities for current and future math and science teachers.
Teachers who are in-state residents may register for courses at the graduate rate of $291.97 per credit hour, plus fees. Nonresident rates are higher. The fee schedule is available through the Bursar's Office.
Costs are higher for Field Geology because the class is held on-site at the Judson Mead Geologic Field Station in Montana. However, in-state and out-of-state students pay the same rate for this class.


Playtech casinos offer a lot of impressive features. In addition, for the simple fact that they are over ninety games to choose from, have a variety of game types, too. Not only have all the classic card and board games, we also have many slot machines, video games and progressive games, among others. They offer a unique variant of blackjack called Blackjack Switch, which is a must for any blackjack game fan.One its most attractive features is its live game.
Online casinos are one of the largest industries on the internet today. Many people like to play slots, dice games or card games, but just do not have the time to actually go to a casino. For these people, online casinos offer a good alternative. You can play not only from the comfort of your home, most casinos now offer rewards programs and incentives. These programs can also bonuses, deposit bonuses or promotional items, also free.
One of the most important parts of online casinos is the software that runs the games. While there are several software developers casino is the largest listed company Playtech. The casinos that use this software players from the United States but in the rest of the world, the company is one of the giants of online casino software. He traded on the London Stock Exchange since 2006.


With just one day before the start of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2014, Guyana Times Sport chatted with four local members of the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad prior to their departure from the Grand Coastal hotel on Tuesday for Grenada. The local franchise will play the Antigua Hawksbills on Friday at 14:00h, their first of nine preliminary games before returning home for three games.
Opener Trevon Griffith, who played one game in the first edition of the tournament last year, said he feels very excited and honoured to play in the Limacol CPL once again and is focused on playing a major role for his team in this year's competition.
Meanwhile, 25 year-old debutant Robin Bacchus said he plans to capitalise on the opportunity.
"I'm very excited and looking forward to be among some of the best cricketers in the world and eager to learn from them, while I will also use the opportunity to make a name for myself," he said.
Fast bowler Ronsford Beaton, who was ruled out from the inaugural tournament due to a stress fracture weeks before the start, said he is fully fit and ready to make an impact.
Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul expressed how pleased he was to be a part of the prestigious tournament for a second time.
"I am happy to be back in the Warriors line-up and hopefully it will be another successful year for me," the Albion spinner revealed.
The 24-year-old Permaul ended last year's tournament with 10 wickets from nine games at an average of 19 with best figures of 3-32 against Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel at the Guyana National Stadium. It was a complete turnaround for the left-armer, who earlier in that year in the Caribbean T20 competition, was thrashed to all parts of the park, picking up just a solitary wicket.
He pointed out that one of the high points for him from the inaugural tournament was being able to rub shoulders with international stars like Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan, New Zealand's Martin Guptill and James Franklin, and the Sri Lanka duo of Tillekaratne Dilshan and Lasith Malinga.
"It was a pleasure to be around those international players because of the experience they have and what they were able to share with us. I think it is a good thing [having international players in the Limacol CPL] because as a player you can learn so much from them, playing in different conditions and different situations," Premaul, who represented the West Indies in four Test matches, pointed out.


We are also seeing a move towards critical mass in regards to diet and health. Plant-based eating is fast approaching the mainstream in regards to the culinary and health fields. It is not just a trend but is becoming entrenched in mind and practice. The growth in numbers of the vegan lifestyle is contributing like few other things to helping our environment. The use of animals for consumption is one of the leading contributors to the pollution of our planet and robbing it of its natural resources.
All the rocket scientists and the like out there know that "critical mass" is the amount of fissile material needed to sustain nuclear fission. I am sure that is certainly important to some, but realistically, it has not proven to change the world. It seems like we are actually having some problems with all of that nuclear stuff from what I seem to recall. But critical mass is also used in terms of thinking of something similar to a "tipping point." It is not necessarily when the position of something becomes greater in mass, numbers or something similar, but at the point anywhere along the line where that idea or action takes hold and begins to influence the setting or society in a particular way and perhaps signal a shift or development of a new paradigm.
It seems like almost every day, if not week, we are seeing victories take place in regards to animal rights and welfare, not only in this country, but around the world. They may not seem large to some, but they are all significant because they all are contributing toward what I believe is going to be critical mass in regards to conscious eating and living and animal rights and freedom.
One such victory this past week was in New York City, where mayor-elect Bill De Blasio vowed to abolish the horse-drawn carriages in the city. "We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period. It's over." This is significant for the over 200 horses working 9 hour days pulling hundreds of pounds on hard pavement and breathing exhaust from cars, buses and taxis all day. There have been many accidents over the past few years and has created animal safety, human safety and sanitation issues. The horses also live in cramped quarters where they can barely move and when they are done with them they are sold off to Mexico or Canada for slaughter. This is very important for these animals to be freed from these archaic practices.
So what does this have to do with the big picture? Well it is significant for New York City and the animals there. It also sets precedent for other activists to use towards reform in other cities where these practices are still used. We have seen things like this spread from city to city, as has been the case of the ban on local pet stores from using animals from puppy mills but instead finding homes for animals from shelters and rescue organizations. It makes it somewhat easier for these changes to take place when it is part of a movement taking place and there has been precedent set. This can hold true for so many different areas in regards to animals. All of it is making the news and raising awareness.
The movie "Blackfish" has been making a significant difference in raising the awareness to the plight of marine animals in captivity everywhere, not just at SeaWorld. I believe the scope goes even beyond that. It is making a difference and contributing to where I believe we, standing and speaking as the voice for the animals, want things to go. I am truly for the rights of animals and want to see the abolishment of anything that keeps them confined or used as a product for consumption. Period. Yet I also realize these things are not going to happen overnight and we are battling against systems, cultures and thought processes that have been in place for centuries. Anything that we see happen that moves us away from the cruelty and towards compassion should be embraced. We can, and I believe we will, change everything in this generation we are in.
We are also seeing a move towards critical mass in regards to diet and health. Plant-based eating is fast approaching the mainstream in regards to the culinary and health fields. It is not just a trend but is becoming entrenched in mind and practice. The growth in numbers of the vegan lifestyle is contributing like few other things to helping our environment. The use of animals for consumption is one of the leading contributors to the pollution of our planet and robbing it of its natural resources. We are moving away in growing numbers from consumption and it is having an impact on production and the pollution and devastation it creates. We are also beginning to experience a spiritual awakening of sorts as pockets of spiritual communities from various faiths are beginning to wake up and take up the cause of animals for the spiritual as well as health, ethical and environmental reasons.
All of these things are moving us towards a time of critical mass where the plight and rights of animals will be at the forefront of things. That is where sweeping change and reform can take place. All of this is contributing and leading to that. We somehow need to build a bridge together and work towards animal liberation, which is not only the hope for the animals, but also one for mankind and the planet as well.


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Look inside 'chocolate box' thatched cottage just 10 minutes from Derby city centre
It's got great views too
George AllenJournalist
A thatched cottage, built in 1989, has gone on the market in Smalley Drive, Oakwood, for £500,000. (Image: Fine & Country/Zoopla)
A thatched cottage has gone on the market just ten minutes from Derby city centre.
The unique three-bedroom property was built in Oakwood in 1989 and has an asking price of £500,000 on Zoopla.
It boasts a large garden, a double garage and enough space on the drive for ten cars.
The current owner, who gave his name only as Alan, bought the Smalley Drive house in 2008 and stripped it back to its bare bones.
He said: "Walls were taken down to make the layout in the main living areas much more open-plan, the whole house had to be replastered and redecorated, the kitchen and bathroom were updated, and I also put a lovely big conservatory on the back.
"From the outside the house looks like it should be on the front of a chocolate box, it's very traditional, but inside i've gone for a much more modern look and feel, which creates a really nice contrast."
Thatched House, as it has been named, sits on an elevated spot with impressive views over rolling fields and the Derby County Football Academy.
Inside the 1,700 square foot home there are three spacious rooms on the ground floor, including a large dining room and a kitchen.
The modern kitchen is fitted with granite work surfaces, a range cooker and underfloor heating. It leads through to the conservatory, also fitted with underfloor heating, and bi-fold doors opening onto a patio.
Look inside 'chocolate box' thatched cottage just 10 minutes from Derby city centre
A wooden staircase takes you up to the master suite and two other bedrooms. The master suite boasts a balcony which looks out into the garden. However, it would be possible to split the large bedroom into two.
Alan said of the garden: "It was literally like a jungle and it wasn't until I cleared it that I discovered how large it was.
"The conservatory opens onto a very nice patio area and then the rest of the space is laid to lawn and edged with hedging and a couple of mature trees.
"It's a very nice-looking garden and very neat and tidy - it's not in the slightest bit overlooked so I enjoy total and utter privacy."
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According to a lecturer of FGC Entertainment, modern games are designed not just for playing purpose but also help young people become smarter.
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I am now back in Germany for a week. I've now managed to get through all these nice "gifts" that were waiting for me while I was in Florida. Today, I think, I'll be able to resume work on rsyslog. First on my todo list will be solving a problem with ommysql (or, better said, providing some instrumentation to get hold of it) as well as integrating a very interesting patch sent over from the red hat folks. So … stay tuned and expect updates to this blog to happen once again.


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Q: How to wait for radio button to get selected in lost focus event I have a Swing program that does a search based on the contents of some text fields and settings of a pair of radio buttons (in a button group).  The program will automatically search when certain of the text fields lose focus.  The problem comes in when the lose focus event is triggered by a click on one of the radio buttons.  The lost focus event on the text field is getting processed before the radio button isSelected() values have changed, so the search is done with the "wrong" (i.e. old) parameters, instead of the parameters based on the new setting of the radio buttons.
I tried invoking the search using my own invokeWhenIdle method (shown below) to run the search after the event queue had settled down, but it still is using the old setting of the radio buttons.
My only working solution is to delay for 250 milliseconds in the lost focus event before running the search, so that the radio buttons have time to change.  This works, but it makes the UI seem sluggish.
Any better ideas?
public static void invokeWhenIdle(final int a_max_retry, final Runnable a_runnable) {
  if (a_max_retry <= 0) {
    throw new IllegalStateException("invokeWhenIdle: Could not run " + a_runnable);
  }

  // get the next event on the queue
  EventQueue l_queue = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemEventQueue();
  AWTEvent l_evt = l_queue.peekEvent();
  if (l_evt == null) {
    // nothing left on the queue (but us), we can do it
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(a_runnable);
  } else {
    // still something in the queue, try again
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        invokeWhenIdle(a_max_retry - 1, a_runnable);
      }
    });
  }
}

A: Not an answer, but an explanation about what is happening. Maybe it will spark an idea...
The problem is that a mousePressed arms the button model and the mouseReleased actually changes the selected value of the model.
When you execute the FocusListener code the radio button the model is in an undefined state. Even if you add the FocusListener code to the end of the EDT by using invokeLater the code will still execute before the mouseReleased event is generated.
The following shows how you might code the listener to handle this. It assumes the state of the button is about to change:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class FocusSSCCE extends JPanel
{
    public FocusSSCCE()
    {
        final JRadioButton radio = new JRadioButton("Radio");
        add( radio );
        radio.setMnemonic('R');

        JTextField textField = new JTextField(10);
        add( textField );

        JButton button = new JButton("Button");
        add( button );

        textField.addFocusListener( new FocusAdapter()
        {
            public void focusLost(FocusEvent e)
            {
                boolean isSelected = radio.isSelected();

                //  Assumes selected state will change

                if (radio.getModel().isArmed())
                    isSelected = !isSelected;

                System.out.println( isSelected );
            }
        });
    }

    private static void createAndShowUI()
    {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("FocusSSCCE");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.add( new FocusSSCCE() );
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo( null );
        frame.setVisible( true );
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                createAndShowUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

However, even this approach can't be guaranteed to work. If for some reason the user generates the mousePressed event on the radio button and them moves the mouse away from the radio button before releasing the mouse, then the selected state of the radio button is not changed.
Similiarly, even your original implementation to sleep for 250ms can not be guaranteed to work because the user could theoretically hold down the mouse for more than 250ms which would also generate the wrong value.

My workaround for this was to make the radio buttons non focusable

I can't think of any better approach.
Edit:
I just thought of a wild solution.
textField.addFocusListener( new FocusAdapter()
{
    public void focusLost(FocusEvent e)
    {
        if (e.getOppositeComponent() instanceof JRadioButton)
        {
            final JRadioButton radio = (JRadioButton)e.getOppositeComponent();

            MouseListener ml = new MouseAdapter()
            {
                public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)
                {
                    System.out.println( radio.isSelected() );
                    radio.removeMouseListener(this);
                }
            };

            radio.addMouseListener( ml );
        }

        else
            System.out.println( radio.isSelected() );
    }
});

Basically your processing code won't execute until the mouse has been released when you click on the radio button.


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62 F. 3d 1259 - Quinto Depaoli, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
62 F.3d
62 F3d 1259 Quinto Depaoli, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
62 F.3d 1259
76 A.F.T.R.2d 95-5881, 95-2 USTC P 60,205
Quinto DePAOLI, Jr., Estate of Quinto DePaoli, Deceased,
Soila DePaoli and Rachel Craig, Personal
Representatives, Petitioners-Appellants,
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.
Tenth Circuit.
Towner Leeper, El Paso, TX, for petitioners-appellants.
William J. Patton (Loretta C. Argrett and Richard Farber with him, on the brief) of the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington DC, for respondent-appellee.
Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge, and JENKINS, Senior District Judge.*
JENKINS, Senior District Judge.
This case arises out of the taxpayers' efforts to escape estate taxes by disclaiming a testamentary transfer of property. The Tax Court held the purported disclaimer invalid for estate tax purposes, subjecting the taxpayers to liability not only for estate taxes but also for a gift tax and an addition to tax under section 6651(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See 66 T.C.M. (CCH) 1493, 1993 WL 500190 (1993). The taxpayers appeal. We have jurisdiction under I.R.C. Sec. 7482(a)(1) and reverse.
Quinto DePaoli, Sr., a resident of New Mexico, died in 1987. He was survived by his wife, Soila DePaoli, and his only son, Quinto DePaoli, Jr. Quinto Senior's will left his entire estate to Quinto Junior. The will was formally probated on December 30, 1987. On July 21, 1988, shortly before the estate tax return was due, Soila and Quinto Junior moved to have the probated will set aside. They claimed that the original will had been destroyed, that the will admitted to probate was actually a duplicate copy and that Quinto Senior had intended to make a new will leaving Quinto Junior the greatest amount he could receive without any tax liability (namely, $600,000) and leaving the bulk of the estate to Soila but that he had died before he could execute the new will. Quinto Junior acknowledged that he could claim a substantial part of the estate but agreed to receive only $600,000 to settle the will contest. The probate court granted the motion and ordered the estate distributed accordingly.
The federal estate tax return filed for Quinto Senior's estate indicated that the entire estate passed to Soila, less certain expenses and a $600,000 bequest to Quinto Junior. The bequest to Soila was classified as a deductible bequest to a surviving spouse. The return indicated that no property passed to the surviving spouse as a result of a qualified disclaimer under I.R.C. Sec. 2518(b), and no written disclaimer was attached to the return. The return indicated that no tax was due, since the tax on the $600,000 taxable estate was within the unified credit available to the estate.
The Commissioner denied the entire marital deduction on the grounds that Quinto Senior's will, as probated, bequeathed all his property to his son and the agreement between Quinto Junior and Soila was invalid. The Commissioner also determined that the agreement between Quinto Junior and Soila constituted a taxable gift for gift tax purposes and assessed an addition to tax against Quinto Junior under I.R.C. Sec. 6651(a)(1) for failing to file a gift tax return.1
The Tax Court upheld the Commissioner's determinations. The court held that Quinto Junior's agreement to forego all but $600,000 of his father's estate did not entitle the estate to the marital deduction because the portion of the estate passing to Soila passed to her from Quinto Junior and not from Quinto Senior. The court further held that the property passing to Soila constituted a taxable gift from Quinto Junior, making Quinto Junior liable for the federal gift tax. Finally, the court held that Quinto Junior's failure to file a gift tax return was not "due to reasonable cause" and that Quinto Junior was therefore liable for an addition to tax under I.R.C. Sec. 6651(a)(1). The Tax Court concluded that the deficiency in estate tax due was $1,633,250, the deficiency in gift tax due was $1,297,750 and the addition to tax was $324,438. Quinto Junior, the estate, and Quinto Senior's personal representatives (Soila and Rachel Craig) appealed.
The appellants claim that the Tax Court erred by denying the estate a marital deduction. They claim that, as a result of Quinto Junior's disclaimer of his property rights under Quinto Senior's will, Quinto Senior's property passed to his surviving spouse (Soila) as a matter of law and was therefore properly deducted.2 The parties agree that this issue is subject to de novo review.
Estate taxes are imposed on the value of a decedent's taxable estate. I.R.C. Sec. 2001. In determining the value of the taxable estate, the value of property that passes to a surviving spouse is deducted. Id. Sec. 2056(a). If property passes from a decedent to someone other than the surviving spouse and that person makes a "qualified" disclaimer that results in the surviving spouse being entitled to the property, the disclaimed interest is treated as passing directly from the decedent to the surviving spouse and therefore qualifies for the marital deduction. See Treas.Reg. Sec. 20.2056(d)-1(b).
To qualify, a disclaimer must meet certain requirements, chief of which, for purposes of this appeal, is that, as a result of the disclaimer, the interest passes to the surviving spouse "without any direction on the part of the person making the disclaimer." I.R.C. Sec. 2518(b)(4). The Tax Court held that Quinto Junior's agreement to forego all but $600,000 of his father's estate was not a qualified disclaimer because his interest would not have passed to Soila without his direction.3
The requirement that the disclaimed property pass without any direction from the person making the disclaimer means that the disclaimer must result in a valid passing of the disclaimed interest to the surviving spouse by operation of state law. Federal law does not prescribe rules for the passing of disclaimed property interests, so any disclaimed property passing other than by operation of state law must be at the direction of the disclaimant. See Estate of Goree v. Commissioner, 68 T.C.M. (CCH) 123, 125-26, 1994 WL 379246 (1994); Estate of Bennett v. Commissioner, 100 T.C. 42, 67, 72-73, 1993 WL 19583 (1993).
Under New Mexico law, unless the decedent indicates otherwise in his will, any disclaimed property passes as if the disclaimant had predeceased the decedent. See N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-2-801(C) (Michie 1989 Repl.).4 Under New Mexico's antilapse statute, if a devisee who is related to the testator by kinship is treated as if he had predeceased the testator, the devisee's "issue" who survive the testator by 120 hours "take in place of" the devisee. Id. Sec. 45-2-605. Thus, if Quinto Junior had "issue," his disclaimer would not have caused the disclaimed property to pass to his stepmother, Soila, by operation of law and therefore would not have been a qualified disclaimer under I.R.C. Sec. 2518(b) entitling the estate to the marital deduction.
Quinto Junior has never been married but has two illegitimate children--Thomas Derrick DePaoli and Christopher Noel Contreras DePaoli. Derrick was five years old at the time of Quinto Senior's death, and Christopher was four. The Tax Court concluded that the property Quinto Junior disclaimed would not have passed to Soila absent his agreement that Soila take the property but would have passed to Derrick and Christopher. The petitioners claim that Quinto Junior's illegitimate children were not his "issue" within the meaning of the antilapse statute and therefore would not have taken in his place as a result of his disclaimer.
The New Mexico Probate Code in effect at the time of Quinto Senior's death and Quinto Junior's disclaimer defines "issue" as "all of a person's lineal descendants of all generations, with the relationship of parent and child at each generation being determined by the definitions of child and parent contained in the Probate Code." N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-1-201(A)(21). The Probate Code defines "child" as "any individual entitled to take as a child under the Probate Code by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved" and excludes stepchildren, foster children and grandchildren. Id. Sec. 45-1-201(A)(3). For purposes of intestate succession, the Probate Code provides that a child born out of wedlock is considered a "child" of the father if, among other things, "the reputed father has recognized the child in writing by an instrument signed by him, which shows upon its face that it was so signed with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir." Id. Sec. 45-2-109(B)(2).5 The code makes declarations of deceased persons admissible to prove that such an instrument was lost or destroyed, as well as to prove the existence, contents and genuineness of such an instrument. The statute further provides, "Such declarations shall be corroborated by proof of general and notorious recognition of such child by the father." Id. Sec. 45-2-109(B)(2). Finally, the code defines "heirs" as "those persons ... who are entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent." Id. Sec. 45-1-201(A)(17). Under the statutes of intestate succession, the part of the intestate estate not passing to the surviving spouse passes "to the issue of the decedent." Id. Sec. 45-2-103(A).
In other words, under New Mexico law as it existed in 1987 and 1988, an illegitimate child was considered "issue" of his natural father and therefore entitled to take in place of the natural father under the antilapse statute if the natural father recognized the child by a signed, written instrument that "shows upon its face" that the father signed it "with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir," id. Sec. 45-2-109(B)(2), that is, as someone entitled to succeed to the father's property under the intestate succession statutes, see id. Sec. 45-1-201(A)(17).
The Tax Court concluded that Quinto Junior had recognized his illegitimate children as his heirs when he filed his federal income tax returns for the years 1987 through 1990 listing each of them as his "son" and claiming dependency exemptions for them. The Internal Revenue Code defines "dependent" to include a "son or daughter of the taxpayer" and any other individual who "has as his principal place of abode the home of the taxpayer and is a member of the taxpayer's household" for the tax year. See I.R.C. Sec. 152(a). The Tax Court reasoned that, if Quinto Junior had intended to take an exemption for his children without recognizing them as his heirs, he would have listed them simply as dependents or household members, as he did for the children's mother, Gloria Contreras.6 The court concluded: "Because petitioner chose to identify Thomas and Christopher specifically as his 'sons,' instead of as just members of his household, we are persuaded that these returns, signed by petitioner under penalties of perjury, constitute a written instrument signed with the intent of recognizing the children as heirs." 66 T.C.M. (CCH) at 1497, 1993 WL 500190.7
The problem with the Tax Court's reasoning is that it equates "son" under the Internal Revenue Code with "heir" under the New Mexico Probate Code. The term "son" is ambiguous. See Lalli v. Lalli, 439 U.S. 259, 274 n. 11, 99 S.Ct. 518, 528 n. 11, 58 L.Ed.2d 503 (1978). It may refer to a natural child, an adopted child, a stepchild, a legitimate child or an illegitimate child. The Internal Revenue Code's definition of a child is broader than the Probate Code's. For example, a stepchild can be a "child" within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code and therefore a dependent for purposes of the dependency exemption but is not a "child" and therefore an heir for purposes of intestate succession. Compare I.R.C. Sec. 151(c)(3) (formerly Sec. 151(e)(3)) with N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-1-201(A)(3).
Similarly, an illegitimate child may be a child (and hence a dependent) under the Internal Revenue Code without being a child (and hence an heir) under the Probate Code. A son or daughter need not be legitimate for the father to qualify for a dependency exemption under the Internal Revenue Code. See Dillard v. Commissioner, 47 T.C.M. (CCH) 919, 919-20, 1984 WL 15338 (1984); Rev.Rul. 54-498, 1954-2 C.B. 107. Cf. Radin v. Commissioner, 53 T.C.M. (CCH) 1339, 1341-42, 1987 WL 40400 (1987) (denying a dependency exemption for the taxpayer's illegitimate child, not because she was not his "daughter" within the meaning of section 152(a), but because the taxpayer failed to prove that he provided over half her support); Edge v. Commissioner, 20 T.C.M. (CCH) 421, 424-25, 1961 WL 393 (1961) (same). By listing Derrick and Christopher as his "sons" on his tax returns, Quinto Junior may have recognized them as his children but did not necessarily recognize them as his "heirs."
The Commissioner argues that New Mexico law recognizes no distinction between a child and an heir, that all New Mexico law requires is that the natural father recognize his illegitimate child as his child, since a child is entitled to inherit under New Mexico's intestacy statutes and thus is an "heir." However, not all children are entitled to inherit by intestate succession under New Mexico law. A child must satisfy the statutory definition of "child" to be considered "issue" under the Probate Code. Cf. Coleman v. Offutt (In re Estate of Coleman), 104 N.M. 192, 194, 718 P.2d 702, 704 (Ct.App.1986) (an adopted son who satisfies the statutory definition of "child" is also "issue" of his father). For present purposes, an illegitimate child is not entitled to succeed to his or her fathers' property by intestate succession unless the father (1) "has recognized the child in writing," (2) "by an instrument signed by him," (3) "which shows upon its face that it was so signed with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir." N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-2-109(B)(2). At best, Quinto Junior's tax returns only satisfy the first two requirements. They do not show "upon [their] face" that they were signed "with the intent of recognizing" Derrick and Christopher as Quinto Junior's heirs. The only intent evident from the returns is the intent to claim a dependency exemption, which, the Commissioner concedes, a taxpayer can claim without intending to make the dependent an heir (as Quinto Junior did when he filed his 1987 and 1990 returns claiming an exemption for his mistress).
In construing section 45-2-109(B)(2), we are required to give effect to all its provisions and not to render any part of the statute surplusage. See, e.g., Whitely v. New Mexico State Personnel Bd., 115 N.M. 308, 311, 850 P.2d 1011, 1014 (1993); Roberts v. Southwest Community Health Servs., 114 N.M. 248, 251, 837 P.2d 442, 445 (1992). The Commissioner's argument, which equates "heir" with "child," would read the phrase "which shows upon its face that it was so signed with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir" out of the statute. It would be enough if the father of an illegitimate child "recognized the child in writing by an instrument signed by him." We believe that the next phrase--"which shows upon its face that it was so signed with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir"--requires something different from recognition of parentage, namely, an intent to recognize the child as an heir, that is, as someone entitled to inherit from the father by intestate succession. In other words, we believe that section 45-2-109(B)(2), properly construed, requires both recognition of paternity and evidence of an intent that the child inherit.
For that reason, this case is distinguishable from the cases the Commissioner relies on. In each of those cases state law required only proof of paternity; it did not require evidence of an intent to recognize the child as an heir. The relevant statute in each case provided that an illegitimate child is an heir of "the person who, in writing, signed in the presence of a competent witness, acknowledges himself to be the father" of the child. See In re Estate of Jerrido, 339 So.2d 237, 239 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App.1976), cert. denied, 346 So.2d 1249 (Fla.1977); Glick v. Knoll (In re Estate of Glick), 136 Mont. 176, 346 P.2d 987, 987 (1959); Schalla v. Roberts (In re Estate of Schalla), 2 Wis.2d 38, 86 N.W.2d 5, 8 (1957). Moreover, in each of those cases, the court relied on governing case law to the effect that the form and purpose of the writing acknowledging paternity was immaterial. See Jerrido, 339 So.2d at 240 (relying on Florida case law holding that "the written acknowledgment of parenthood need not assume any particular formality") (citations omitted); Glick, 346 P.2d at 989 (relying on Montana case law holding that a writing acknowledging paternity "is a sufficient compliance with the statute without regard to the purpose for which the instrument was executed") (citation omitted); Schalla, 86 N.W.2d at 9 (under the relevant statute, the written acknowledgment did not have to be made for the express purpose of establishing heirship). By contrast, the New Mexico statute requires that the writing "show[ ] upon its face that it was ... signed with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir." Where a statute prescribes the form a written acknowledgment must take, other courts have held that a tax return that identified the taxpayer's illegitimate child as his son or daughter did not constitute a sufficient written acknowledgment where the return did not strictly comply with all the requirements of the statute. See, e.g., Smith v. Smith, 40 Conn.Supp. 151, 483 A.2d 629, 630-31 (1984); Distefano v. Commonwealth, 201 Va. 23, 109 S.E.2d 497, 500-01 (1959).
The parties have not provided any legislative history for section 45-2-109(B)(2),8 and we have not found any New Mexico cases directly on point. However, we believe our construction of the statute is consistent with New Mexico law. The New Mexico Supreme Court has recognized a distinction between paternity and heirship.9 In Gallup v. Bailey (In re Gossett's Estate), 46 N.M. 344, 129 P.2d 56 (1942), the court held that the so-called bastardy act, which required the putative father of an illegitimate child to support and maintain the child if the father had acknowledged paternity in writing, "has no application to the descent and distribution and inheritance of estates; in which case the writing must be made for the purpose of recognizing the child as an heir, but this is not so as to the Bastardy Act." 46 N.M. at 351-52, 129 P.2d at 61.
In Haskew v. Haskew (In re Haskew's Estate), 56 N.M. 506, 245 P.2d 841 (1952), the court considered whether the putative father of an illegitimate child had sufficiently recognized the child so as to make the child his heir. The statute in effect at the time provided that, absent written recognition, the father must have recognized the child as his child and "such recognition must have been general and notorious." There was no written recognition in that case. The court held that there was sufficient evidence that the father had recognized the child as his own, but there was not sufficient evidence that the recognition was general and notorious. See 56 N.M. at 507, 245 P.2d at 841. Thus, the illegitimate child was not entitled to inherit from his father, even though paternity had been established.
Quinto Junior's tax returns do not show on their face that he intended his illegitimate children to be his heirs, that is, to inherit from him under New Mexico's intestate succession statutes. Consequently, they were not his "issue" within the meaning of the antilapse statute and would not have succeeded to any disclaimed property under section 45-2-605.10 Therefore, when Quinto Junior disclaimed an interest in his father's estate, that interest passed to his stepmother, Soila, by operation of law, making the disclaimer a "qualified disclaimer" within the meaning of I.R.C. Sec. 2518(b). Because the property passing to Soila, the surviving spouse, passed as a result of a qualified disclaimer, the estate properly claimed the marital deduction. Moreover, because the property is deemed to have passed directly from Quinto Senior to Soila, the disclaimer did not make Quinto Junior liable for the federal gift tax. Finally, because Quinto Junior was not required to file a gift tax return as a result of the disclaimer, he is not liable for the addition to tax under I.R.C. Sec. 6651(a)(1) for failing to file a gift tax return.11
We recognize that the parties' settlement, which provided the basis for their disclaimer argument, may be nothing more than a blatant attempt to avoid paying estate taxes. However, neither the probate court nor the Tax Court found anything wrong with the disclaimer other than its purported direction that the estate pass to Soila. The validity of the disclaimer is not properly before us. We have concluded that the effect of the disclaimer under the unique New Mexico probate statutes in effect at the time was to cause the estate to pass to Soila regardless of any direction on the part of Quinto Junior, thus making the estate eligible for the marital deduction under federal law. There is nothing wrong with trying to escape tax liability if the law allows a taxpayer to do so. See, e.g., Rothschild v. United States, 407 F.2d 404, 413 (Ct.Cl.1969); Prentis v. United States, 273 F.Supp. 449, 457 (S.D.N.Y.1964), aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 364 F.2d 525 (2d Cir.1966). Cf. Re Weston's Settlements, [1968] 3 All E.R. 338, 342 (C.A.1968) (per Lord Denning) ("no-one has ever suggested that [tax avoidance] is undesirable or contrary to public policy"; but although the avoidance of tax "may be lawful, ... it is not yet a virtue"). We believe in this case the law allowed the estate to claim the marital deduction. That does not mean that the petitioners can successfully escape taxation altogether. It simply means that the Commissioner may have to wait until Soila dies to collect taxes on the estate.
REVERSED.
The Honorable Bruce S. Jenkins, Senior District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah, sitting by designation
Section 6651(a)(1) imposes an addition to tax for failure to file a gift tax return "unless it is shown that such failure is due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect." I.R.C. Sec. 6651(a)(1). The penalty ranges from 5 to 25 percent of the gift tax due, depending on how delinquent the taxpayer is. Id
Before the Tax Court, the petitioners also argued that they had properly claimed the marital deduction under former section 20.2056(e)-2(d) of the estate tax regulations because the decedent's property had passed to Soila in settlement of a will contest. The Tax Court rejected this argument, and the petitioners have not challenged that ruling on appeal
The Commissioner does not claim and the Tax Court did not hold that the disclaimer failed to meet the requirements for a valid disclaimer under New Mexico law, contained in N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-2-801 (Michie Repl.1989). The Tax Court doubted whether Quinto Junior intended to make a qualified disclaimer under federal law when he entered into the settlement agreement with Soila, since the estate tax return did not indicate that any property passed to Soila as a result of a qualified disclaimer. The court called the argument "patently an afterthought with weak factual support." See 66 T.C.M. (CCH) at 1495, 1993 WL 500190. However, the Commissioner concedes that the Tax Court did not reject the taxpayers' claim on that ground. It held only that the disclaimer was not a qualified disclaimer under I.R.C. Sec. 2518(b)(4) because it directed that the disclaimed property pass to Soila. See Br. for Appellee at 22-23 n. 6. It is only that issue that we need address
Article II of the Uniform Probate Code (dealing with intestate succession) and section 1-201 (the general definitional section) were revised in 1990. In accordance with this revision, New Mexico substantially revised its probate code in 1993. Unless otherwise indicated, citations to the New Mexico Probate Code, N.M.Stat.Ann. ch. 45, are to the code in effect at the time of the events giving rise to this action
Under the Probate Code as it existed before 1993, an illegitimate child could also be considered a child of his natural father for purposes of intestate succession if the child's natural parents participated in a marriage ceremony or if paternity was established by an adjudication. See N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-2-109(B)(1) & (3). Neither of those conditions has been met here
Quinto Junior claimed an exemption for Ms. Contreras on his 1987 and 1990 income tax returns, identifying her as "Girlfriend" and "Fam[ily] Mem[ber]," respectively
The Tax Court further held that Quinto Junior had not met his burden of proving that he had any contrary intention. In fact, the only direct evidence on this issue was Quinto Junior's own testimony. He testified that he had never acknowledged in writing the intent to recognize a child as an heir. Tr. at 6
The phrase "which shows upon its face that it was so signed with the intent of recognizing the child as an heir" is of obscure (though not illegitimate) parentage. The language dates back to at least 1915, see 1915 N.M.Laws ch. 69, Sec. 1, and was carried over into subsequent revisions of the New Mexico Probate Code until the latest revision, in 1993. Although New Mexico borrowed its probate statutes from Kansas, which in turn adopted Iowa statutes, see State v. Chavez, 42 N.M. 569, 572-74, 82 P.2d 900, 903 (1938), the quoted language appears to be unique to New Mexico. The corresponding Iowa and Kansas statutes only required that the putative father recognize his illegitimate children as his children by "general and notorious" recognition "or else in writing." See McKellar v. Harkins, 183 Iowa 1030, 166 N.W. 1061, 1063 (1918) (quoting Iowa Code Sec. 3385 (1897)); Estate of McKay v. Davis, 208 Kan. 282, 491 P.2d 932, 933 (1971) (quoting Kan.G.S. Sec. 3845 (1915)). Under New Mexico law, proof of general and notorious recognition was required to corroborate a declaration of a deceased person regarding a written recognition, but alone it was not sufficient to make an illegitimate child an heir. See N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-2-109(B)(2)
New Mexico is not alone in recognizing the distinction. See, e.g., Wong v. Wong Hing Young, 80 Cal.App.2d 391, 181 P.2d 741, 743 (1947) (an admission of paternity sufficient under the probate code was not sufficient to impose a support obligation on the putative father under the civil code); In re Flemm, 85 Misc.2d 855, 381 N.Y.S.2d 573, 577 (Sur.Ct.1975) (recognizing that under prior New York law an order of filiation establishing paternity entitled an illegitimate child to the support of the putative father but did not entitle the child to inherit from the putative father)
Our holding that Derrick and Christopher could not have inherited from their father at the time of Quinto Senior's death does not necessarily mean that the children will be denied an inheritance. The New Mexico Legislature repealed section 45-2-109 when it revised the Probate Code in 1993. The current statute provides that, for purposes of intestate succession, a person is "the child of his natural parents, regardless of their marital status," provided the natural parent "has openly treated the child as his and has not refused to support the child." N.M.Stat.Ann. Sec. 45-2-114(A) & (C) (Michie Repl.1993). Quinto Junior's tax returns may well be evidence that he has "openly treated" the children as his and "not refused" to support them. However, that issue is not before us, and we express no opinion on it
Our conclusion that the Tax Court erred in holding that the disclaimer did not meet the requirement of I.R.C. Sec. 2518(b)(4) that the property pass "without any direction on the part of the person making the disclaimer" makes it unnecessary to reach the other issues the petitioners raise


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"Just Turn Off The Television"
By Ed Driscoll 2:05 PM on May 10, 2008
Yet another Hillary supporter uttering quotes that would be right at home at the MRC–in this case, Hillary herself!
ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: An adoring group of more than 1,000 people greeted Sen. Hillary Clinton and her daughter today at a fundraiser in New York City. She thanked them for their support and later told the group that she is going to finish the nominating process.
"I want you to know how grateful I am for your support and how much you have sustained me throughout this campaign," she said. "But it has been a joy. Now I know that may be hard to believe, but if you just take the advice that I give to my own mother, and that is: Just turn off the television."
Hillary and her supporters are complaining that the media is in the tank for the candidate further to the left than she is. But hey, remember six years ago when her husband's former vice president was saying this?
And speaking of vice-presidents, at this rate, how long before Hillary or her supporters start calling the media–which kept their presidency alive in the 1990s–nattering nabobs of negativism?


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You can now pre-order the $599 HP convertible 2-in-1 Chromebook laptop
Computers, Gadgets, Smart Stuff, Tablet
Early in April, HP announced Chromebook x2, a convertible 2-in-1 Chromebook laptop with a detachable screen. Now it looks like the company is all ready to begin shipping the device. A new Best Buy listing for the HP Chromebook has surfaced where you can pre-order the device to have it delivered to you as soon as it's available.
HP Chromebook x2
The Chromebook x2 by HP is only the second tablet to run Chrome OS. The first one was announced by Acer, Acer Chromebook Tab 10, only a few days before HP announced Chromebook x2. Unlike the earlier Chromebook x360 by HP, Chromebook x2 is a laptop that's really a detachable tablet too. It doesn't just flips the keyboard behind the screen, but you can actually leave-out the keyboard as well. The new Chromebook x2 also supports stylus input.
The Chromebook x2 is priced at $599, including the keyboard dock and stylus, which at first sight seems pretty expensive for a Chromebook. But x2 is a seriously nice-looking and powerful machine, with some exclusive benefits, like being one of the very first Chrome OS device with a tablet experience.
The Chromebook x2 is powered by Intel's Kaby Lake 1GHz Core m3 processor, with integrated Intel HD Graphics 615. The processor is backed by 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, expandable via an SD card. The 12.3 inch device featutres an IPS WLED touchscreen display panel of 2400×1600 resolution, and supports multitouch. The x2 also features Bang & Olufsen-branded dual stereo speakers, two USB-C ports, a microSD card slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It has a 5 MP front-facing "Wide Vision" camera and a 13 MP rear camera. For power, the Chromebook x2 houses a 4-cell Lithium-ion battery.
All in all, the HP Chromebook x2 is a decent Chromebook to have. And if you're in the look for a truly convertible 2-in-1 Chromebook laptop, it's probably the one made for you. You can pre-order it from Best Buy now (link below) and pick it from a store on June 7. If you want to have it shipped, Best Buy will ship it on June 7.
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title: Formatting System Cells
page_title: Formatting System Cells - RadVirtualGrid
description: This article describes how one can format the header, filter and new row cells.
slug: winforms/virtualgrid/cells/formatting-system-cells
tags: virtualgrid, cells, system, formatting
published: True
position: 1
---

# Formatting System Cells

The __CellFormatting__ event is used to add formatting to grid systems cells: header cells, filter cells and new row cells. Depending on the __RowIndex__, you can distinguish the system cells:

|RowIndex|VirtualGridRowElement|
|----|----|
|-1|VirtualGridHeaderRowElement|
|-2|VirtualGridNewRowElement|
|-3|VirtualGridFilterRowElement|

For example, the code sample below changes the __ForeColor__, __BackColor__ and __GradientStyle__  for the *ContactTitle* header cell, *CompanyName* new row cell and *City* filter cell:

![virtualgrid-cells-formatting-system-cells001](images/virtualgrid-cells-formatting-system-cells001.png)

{{source=..\SamplesCS\VirtualGrid\Cells\VirtualGridFormattingCells.cs region=SystemCellsFormatting}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\VirtualGrid\Cells\VirtualGridFormattingCells.vb region=SystemCellsFormatting}}

````C#

private void radVirtualGrid_CellFormatting(object sender, VirtualGridCellElementEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CellElement.RowIndex == -1)  //format header row
    {
        if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == 3)
        {
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = true;
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Yellow;
            e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid;
            e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Red;
        }
        else
        {
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.ForeColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
        }
    }
    else if (e.CellElement.RowIndex == -2)//format new row
    {
        if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == 1)
        {
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = true;
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Blue;
            e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid;
            e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Aqua;
        }
        else
        {
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.ForeColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
        }
    }
    else if (e.CellElement.RowIndex == -3)//format filter row
    {
        if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == 5)
        {
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = true;
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Black;
            e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid;
            e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.White;
        }
        else
        {
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.ForeColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local);
        }
    }
}

````
````VB.NET
Private Sub radVirtualGrid_CellFormatting(sender As Object, e As VirtualGridCellElementEventArgs)
    If e.CellElement.RowIndex = -1 Then
        'format header row
        If e.CellElement.ColumnIndex = 3 Then
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = True
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Yellow
            e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid
            e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Red
        Else
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.ForeColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
        End If
    ElseIf e.CellElement.RowIndex = -2 Then
        'format new row
        If e.CellElement.ColumnIndex = 1 Then
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = True
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Blue
            e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid
            e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Aqua
        Else
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.ForeColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
        End If
    ElseIf e.CellElement.RowIndex = -3 Then
        'format filter row
        If e.CellElement.ColumnIndex = 5 Then
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = True
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Black
            e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid
            e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.White
        Else
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.ForeColorProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
        End If
    End If
End Sub

````

{{endregion}}

>caution Due to the UI virtualization in __RadVirtualGrid__, cell elements are created only for currently visible cells and are being reused during operations like scrolling, filtering, sorting and so on. In order to prevent applying the formatting to other columns' cell elements (because of the cell reuse) all customization should be reset for the rest of the cell elements.

# See Also
* [Creating custom cells]({%slug winforms/virtualgrid/cells/creating-custom-cells%})

* [Formatting Data Cells]({%slug winforms/virtualgrid/cells/formatting-data-cells%})

* [ToolTips]({%slug winforms/virtualgrid/cells/tooltips%})


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Q: Add text next to spotify embedded link I'm trying to embed a Spotify playlist link and add text next to it (on the right)
What I can't figure out is, how to make the paragraph of text appear on the right of the link whith some space between them.

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2.different than the heat capacity, aluminum, large specific heat capacity, the specific heat capacity of iron is relatively small.
3.different conductive properties, the conductivity of aluminum is stronger than iron.
4.aluminum thermal conductivity than iron.
5.aluminum melting point lower than iron. Therefore, aluminum flange can not be used in high temperature applications.
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1. What are the advantages of A356 for casting?
Product's 2D drawings with dimensional accuracy requirements, surface quality requirements, casting materials and other technical requirements.
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