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Rick Ungar, Contributor
I write from the left on politics and policy.
During the White House meeting this week between President Obama and the Republican leadership, Rep. Paul Ryan took the President to task for demagoguing Ryan's proposed Medicare changes.
According to the Congressman, the insistence on the part of the President- and his brother and sister Democrats – that the program is a voucher system rather than the 'premium support' program Ryan steadfastly claims the idea to be, is grossly misleading Americans, all for the purpose of political gain.
While Ryan's confrontation with Obama brought cheers from the GOP freshman class who fill the corridors of Congress these days, the question that needs to be asked is, "Who is demagoguing who?"
In truth, the concepts behind premium support and voucher programs are fairly close, each with a similar objective – the government helping out the beneficiary by paying a portion of a benefit, in this case an insurance premium.
Rep. Ryan likes to point out that his proposed Medicare program is the same as that employed by the Federal Employees Benefits Program and the Medicare Part D benefit that helps seniors pay for their prescription drugs. Both these programs operate using government premium support, whereby the government contributes towards the payment of the premiums charged by the private insurance carrier to the beneficiary, but makes the government's share of the premium payment directly to the insurance company issuing the policy.
This direct payment is what is often considered the point of distinction between a voucher and premium support. In a voucher program the government gives the financial support directly to the beneficiaries who are then on their own to do what they will with the money, so long as they don't look to the government to do anything else for them.
Using this standard alone, Rep. Ryan would have a point.
Indeed, his plan proposes seniors going to private insurers for their health care coverage with the government contributing a share of the premium charges and making the payment directly to the insurance company. This is just as the federal government does in the cases of federal employee benefits and Medicare Part D.
Wow nice spin. Just like "you can find out what's in the bill after you pass it." Just like the exceptions and "so called waivers" unions other special companies get. It is not equal for all. The bill Obama has passed takes money away from medicare so the coverage that seniors will get is not gong to be the same. Also, the doctor pool is going to be smaller so it will be harder for senior to find doctors or get appts. This sounds terrible. The Obamacare does not solve the problem it creates different problems and more heart ache for seniors. At least, people will have 10 years to get their situation in order so they can ease into a better system that won't be bankrupt like the current system will be. The Obama healthcare program does not provide a permanent fix and creates a Bureaucracy. I don't want the government deciding what's good for me. Also, doctors don't want that red tape around their necks when they are trying to treat their patients.(it is already bad as it is and it will be worse once the government is involved)
Wow nice spin. Just like "you can find out what's in the bill after you pass it." Just like the exceptions and "so called waivers" unions and other special companies get. It is not equal for all. The bill Obama has passed takes money away from medicare so the coverage that seniors will get is not gong to be the same. Also, the doctor pool is going to be smaller so it will be harder for seniors to find doctors or get appts. This sounds terrible. The Obamacare does not solve the problem it creates different problems and more heart ache for seniors. At least in Ryans's plan, people will have 10 years to get their situation in order so they can ease into a better system that won't be bankrupt like the current system will be. The Obama healthcare program does not provide a permanent fix and creates a Bureaucracy. I don't want the government deciding what's good for me. Also, doctors don't want that red tape around their necks when they are trying to treat their patients.(it is already bad and it will be worse once the government is involved)
I think zzman has demonstrated, quite clearly and unequivocally, how hard core the demagoguery has been on the right. The misconceptions are limitless. I'll just stick to this topic though. I think we should just call it RyanCare. Then people can just believe whatever they want about it, just like Obamacare, facts be damned.
What does a mangled quote ostensibly one made by Pelosi have to do with the classification of Ryan's Medicare provision?
Or for that matter what does inaccurate statements about the PPACA have to do with the classification of Ryan's Medicare provision?
OK, when will Democrats step and wrest the debate. This one should be really easy to do.
Yours is a nice analysis, supported with boring details, Rick. So I can understand if the Democrats cannot take the time to present this.
But they can surely use Paul Krugman's synopsis, which is essentially a summary of yours:
Then I remember that these are the Democrats.
Apply, lather, rinse, repeat.
Let's remember two things about the Medicare system, both of which absolutely crystal clear why the Republicans are out to abolish it by any means necessary.
First, Medicare is a national, single-payer health care system, much like Canada's. It has private doctors, public and private hospitals (both non-profit and for-profit), private specialists, and is doctor/patient centric. It is wildly popular with its users, who view any attempt at its elimination or restriction as tantamount to treason.
Thus, if one really wants to stop the inevitable national, single-payer system for the rest of us, the first step would be to eliminate the existing one that the users find so popular. That is why the Medicare for all option was such an anathema. God forbid even more people find out how much better single-payer care is to the crappy system we have now.
Second, Medicare represents about 90% of the so-called "failed" Great Society programs, by expenditure. The other 4% was Head Start. Only in Republican speak is a program with a 94% success rate labeled a failure.
The fact is, large, government-sponsored projects have a rather good track record in this country. From the TVA to the Space Race, from the WPA to TARP, the Federal government has done a reasonably good job of directing money and capital to large, expensive projects that have been of enormous benefit to this nation. Medicare provides better benefits, better coverage, and far less paperwork for the end user than almost any private insurance company save, maybe, Kaiser Permenente, and does so for an age group that most private companies wouldn't touch.
Again, the Republicans want to spread the lie that smaller government is better and low-taxes generate economic growth. Both statements are factually false. This country had stronger growth and growth that went to the middle class before the Reagan Revolution (or, as I call it, the Reagan Screw the Middle Class Misdirection). The big government of the 1940s, '50s, and 60s, did vastly better overall job creating wealth and delivering it the middle class than the government of the '80s, '90s (which did comparatively well to the rest of these three decades), and the Naughts.
Right now, the Federal government should be spending like a drunken sailor on leave back from a one-year stint at sea. Damn the deficit, full spending ahead. Instead, we are arguing over the bloody debt ceiling, likely adding 1/2 point or so to our interest rate (at least that is what happened when we default on our debt the last time — yes, the US government has defaulted on its debt, despite what you hear, it happened on April 26, 1979, please see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2727575/posts). We should have a large, emergency program to create full employment and another to help homeowners with their mortgages.
But we don't and we can't because the Republican party and its yahoo adherents think their historically low taxes are too high.
1) I think your assertions that the government's support "does not increase…as premiums rise" and that the "premium support is fixed" are at least misleading. Ryan's proposal provides for (I believe) an annual increase in the size of the payment that matches the rate of inflation (CPI). We can debate whether that's a high enough rate of increase–I happen to think (uninformed as I am on these things) that it isn't, and that it should increase at something like GDP+1, a la Simpson-Bowles and Ryan-Rivlin (or was it Rivlin-Domenici, or the Ryan Roadmap? Too many plans to keep track of). But while the premium support is fixed in any given year, it's not accurate to say it's fixed, period.
2) I think your argument is based on the assumption that it is intrinsic to a "voucher" plan that its support remains fixed, or at least that its size does not increase with the rate of growth of the price of the commodity for which the voucher pays. I don't understand this assumption, because I can imagine a voucher whose size DID increase in this manner. I think the crucial difference is the identity of the final payor: under a premium support system, it's the government; under a voucher system, it's the consumer.
3) The whole motivation behind limiting the rate of growth of government-supported health care funding (as every virtually approach to this issue – be it Ryan's, Obama's, Simpson-Bowles's, etc. – does) is that we simply can't afford to continue to increase support for such care at the rate of health care inflation. It's fair to criticize Ryan for setting an unreasonably low rate of growth for premium support at CPI – I wish he'd stuck with GDP+1, but I suppose that might have required some revenue increases that the GOP wouldn't have liked. But it's not, it seems to me, fair to criticize him for not setting a rate of growth equal to health care inflation. Doing so is just not realistic anymore. At least, you should argue why this "conventional wisdom" is wrong.
The basic problem with the escalating healthcare costs is that they rise at a higher rate than the CPI. Much higher.
The fact that something is adjusted for inflation does not stop qualifying it as a voucher. Just like vouchers for education. They too, in every proposed form, or in the form they are actually used in Town Tuitioning programs in Vermont and Maine, have increases for inflation and then some.
They are still called vouchers
"does not increase…as premiums rise" is correct, as long you understand that the increase is not remotely proportional or sufficient. It is the gradual elimination of Medicare.
Sir, with all due respect, you haven't understood my argument:
1) I wasn't arguing that the fact that Ryan increases the growth of premium support at CPI is that in virtue of which his plan isn't a voucher plan. I was saying that that consideration isn't relevant to whether it's a voucher plan. You've conflated my first two points. You can have a voucher plan that grows at CPI, at GDP+1, at the rate of health care inflation, are at 0. The crucial differentiator is the identity of the final payor: is it the government, or is it the consumer? Is this clear now?
2) If premium support under RyanCare (I'm fine with this name) had grown at GDP+0.5, as it seems to under the President's new framework; see http://crfb.org/sites/default/files/Analyzing_the_Presidents_New_Budget_Framework.pdf at page 8, would you have called it the "gradual elimination of Medicare"? GDP+0.5 is still likely going to be below the rate of health care inflation (assuming GDP growth of 3%, a difference of 3.5%, assuming health care inflation of 7%?). I agree that CPI is probably too low, and Ryan himself has said there's room to negotiate on this. (As I suggested, I think Ryan went for CPI with the Path to Prosperity because that didn't require revenue-positive tax reform, and so got the GOP on board. I think this is an unfortunate thing about the GOP, but I think Ryan may have been hoping (naively, perhaps) that the negotiations would produce a higher growth rate.). But it's not as if Obama isn't also intending to slow the growth rate of Medicare.
3) You didn't address my final point, which is that keeping the growth of Medicare at the rate of health care inflation, as we are now, is unrealistic, and that most parties to this debate — Obama, Ryan, Simpson-Bowles, Rivlin-Domenici, etc. — accept this. The pertinent questions are: what is the rate at which we're going to allow government support for health care to continue, and what is the most efficient means for delivering that care (i.e., single-payer with a board such as IPAB, premium support + public option with IPAB, premium support alone, etc.).
Ryan has actually had REAL JOBS.
OweBama? ATTACKED companies, his entire life. Never did anything, on his own. Mr. Affirmative Action.
Who's the "demagogue?" Who's actually had to actually work?
No one with a brain believes a word that JOB-KILLER OweBama says.
Rick, this was actually my (ny20′s) comment, directed at shripathikamath, not at you. Thanks very much for your thoughtful reply to my original comment, and your kind words at the end. Would love to reply more, but not enough time now (too late on the East Coast, must sleep). Even though we continue to disagree on some things (which is not to say I'm sure I'm right in disagreeing with you; I'm not), I'm glad to have had a civil discussion, and to have even gotten you to edit your article!
The original proposal by Aaron and Reischauer,
Medicare would pay a defined sum toward the purchase of an insurance policy that provided a defined set of services. As with private insurance for the working population, plans could reimburse any provider the patient chooses on a fee-for-service basis (the current method Medicare uses for most beneficiaries), contract with a PPO, or operate through an HMO. Plans could manage care in any of the ways now in use or that might arise in the future. All Medicare beneficiaries ultimately would receive a predetermined amount to be applied to the purchase of a health plan providing defined services.
Ah gee, poor Aaron has is confused about his own definition of premium support.
It is typical liberal speak, lets change the definition of premium support and vouchers and call premium support vouchers.
This is the sum total of this blogs silly contribution.
Alright, let me just add one reply, since it's running through my head.
This "voucher" vs. "premium support" question is really just semantics. Of course, it's powerful semantics politically, since people seem not to like the name "voucher," at least in the health care context. In any event, let me see if I can make a point for my side of this question.
Let's say I got to a state fair, and I win some game that entitles me to a $1 voucher for a hot dog. I take that voucher over to the fair's hot dog stand, and lo and behold, turns out the hot dog costs $10! I think what's going to run through my mind is something like, "Boy, this voucher really stinks." I'm not going to say, "Shoulda known it wouldn't cover the whole price; after all, it's just a voucher."
Now let's say that, instead of giving me the voucher, the person running the game tells me that he's awarding me $1 in "hot dog support" (bear with me for the sake of this example), and that he's already made arrangements to give that $1 to the hot dog vendor. All I need to do is go over to the vendor and pick up the dog. When I get there, it turns out the hot dog costs $10, and I still owe $9 if I want to buy it. I don't think what runs through my head at that moment is, "Man, this 'hot dog support' is really just a voucher in disguise!" I think what I think is "Man, this 'hot dog support' stinks."
I assume that there's nothing special about the health care context that makes the meaning of "voucher" something different than it is in the (entirely normal) state fair context. If that's so, I think this shows that the identifying characteristic of a "voucher" is that it's basically an instrument entitling its holder to some particular good or service. The extent to which the instrument actually meets the price of the good or service isn't relevant to whether it is or isn't a voucher (unless the voucher is worthless, in which case it's just a piece of paper), but only to how good of one it is.
If we want to define "premium support" as 100% coverage for an insurer's premium (and it's reasonable to allow the originators of the idea to have some sort of ownership over what "premium support" means), then fine, RyanCare doesn't count as "premium support." But that doesn't mean it's a voucher plan as a consequence. This is not an either/or choice.
A final point for the night:
Why is the following (words slightly changed from your recently edited text) not true?:
Obama's proposal, that would add to Medicare a board of 15 health care experts dedicated to keeping the program's expenses within a defined annual budget, limits increases in that budget to the rate of GDP growth plus 0.5 – an amount wholly insufficient to cover the extra costs as we know that rising costs of health care always exceed the growth rate of the economy by several percentage points. Thus, if health care costs increase at a rate greater than GDP+0.5 (and of course they will) the costs of these increases will be shifted to our senior citizens who, in most instances, would not appear to have the ability to take on these increased costs on their fixed retirement budgets.
I think I know your answer to my question: you believe that the government will do a better job at providing seniors with quality health care at the same or less cost (and certainly less than we are paying right now, since the necessity of that is a given) than the public-private partnership envisioned by premium support. In other words, the government alone will do the job more efficiently than will be done by the government subsidizing payments to private insurance companies.
This is fine, but it's part of the reason why your article should have been about two things – (1) the fact that the proposed CPI rate of growth in RyanCare is insufficient, and should at least be as high as Obama's GDP+0.5 or GDP+1 (as envisioned by the Roadmap); and (more importantly) (2) government will do a better job at efficient, affordable Medicare than government teaming up with the private sector for this purpose.
This semantic issue of voucher vs. premium support – over which I continue to disagree with you – is really just a sideshow to the main event.
Point 3 is not a concern for me wrt the vouchers. The topic was about whether Ryan's a voucher system with a lower than COI payment to the user. It is. There is nothing that will save Medicare under that scheme. Unless it is tied to increase in healthcare costs specifically. Ever seem Ryan or anyone suggest that? No. Because that would be little different than Medicare today.
The ACA, is a little different: you get govt. subsidies above a max payment from the user. Now, funding those govt. subsidies will require additional revenues (taxes, cuts in other things, single payer efficiencies, etc.) The point is that the ACA does not end Medicare because of its payment scheme.
RyanCare does. It ends it because it permanently and continually shrinks the amount of healthcare the voucher buys you. By NOT tying it to the cost increases in healthcare.
Birthers, now voucher freaks, show me your voucher.
I guess you are right about the off topic comments. Sorry. You did not spin. I am still upset about the fact that it was passed when it was so unpopular with most Americans. My opinion about the article really didn't have anything to do with your topic. I think that there is plenty of misinformation about Ryan's plan that is being touted as facts. So, please forgive me for my frustrated post. Thanks
It is, not. It don't matter, it didn't pass. But before we kill it, I do like the idea of giving people a chance to discuss it at meetings, hopefully without getting beat up this time. Until then, we do have Obama Care.
I guess you are right about the off topic comments. I am Sorry. You did not spin. I am still upset about the fact that it was passed when it was so unpopular with most Americans. My opinion about the article really didn't have anything to do with your topic. I think that there is plenty of misinformation about Ryan's plan that is being touted as facts. So, please forgive me for my frustrated post. Thanks
Responses to both your last replies to me (thanks for them, by the way).
1) With respect to the semantic issue, now I'm not sure what you're arguing. In your piece, you claim that Ryan's plan is "by anyone's definition, is a voucher program." But I think I've offered at least one reasonable account of the word "voucher" under which RyanCare isn't a voucher program (see the hot dog example). I don't think you disagree with me (though I suppose I'm not quite sure) that that definition I've offered is at least reasonable. If that's the case, you can no longer be claiming that "by anyone's definition," Ryan's plan "is a voucher program." You might still accuse Ryan of "demagoguery" insofar as the sense of "voucher" that Obama and others are employing to call Ryan's plan a voucher program also isn't unreasonable. If that's the case, then Ryan would be saying something false when he says that Obama and others are demagoguing his plan by calling it a voucher program. They wouldn't be demagoguing it, they'd just be saying something true. (Would Ryan himself be guilty of demagoguery here? Perhaps, but it seems a stretch).
However, I really question the basis of any other definition for "voucher" than the one I've offered. You write that these "words become definitional and describe different things." I'm not entirely sure what this means, but it can't mean that the debate itself has justified calling RyanCare a voucher program. It can't be fair for you (or anyone) to call it a voucher program simply because a whole chorus of people on your side is claiming that is, so that the word has taken on an additional meaning through the debate itself. That would be bootstrapping your argument: you could just say "voucher" about RyanCare enough times and eventually it'd be true! In any case, I really don't think "voucher" means anything but "an instrument that entitles its holder to value towards the purchase of a specific good or service." Do you disagree?
2) With respect to your second reply to me, I don't think (and this is not at all a criticism) that the only interests you have in mind in this debate are those of seniors. Otherwise, I'm not sure why you'd agree (as both Ryan and Obama are proposing) to limit the growth of Medicare to something less than the rate of health care inflation. I imagine the motivation for you (as it is for me) is that the country can no longer afford to subsidize seniors' health care at the rate it has been. (I suppose I say all of this only to note it, not necessarily to disagree with anything you've said).
But, as we both agree, the question in this new age of a more cost-conscious approach to seniors' health care (and to health care in general) is: what's the best means for providing it? I actually do think you're committed to the view that the government alone will do this job more efficiently than a public-private partnership will. To say that the government will do the job more efficiently is just to say that, for every (or at least the average) dollar the government spends on seniors' health care, it will yield a higher quality result than every (or the average) dollar spent in a public/private hybrid will. This is precisely what defenders of a more government-centered approach to health care, such as Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman, are arguing when they point to countries like France who spend less of their GDP on health care than we do but (the argument goes) yield equally as good if not better results. Klein and Krugman are arguing that, yes, we need to be more cost-conscious about health care, but that the best way to do that is if the government takes care of health insurance. This is a reasonable position, to be sure, but it IS about efficiency (which is not as cold and heartless a term as it sounds, since it takes into account both cost AND quality). If, under this account of efficiency, premium support would do a better job for seniors, it's not clear to me why you'd oppose it.
(Rick, I apologize for extending this off-topic thread.)
zzman – You say you're still upset that ACA passed "when it was so unpopular with most Americans."
Where were you when the Rs were demagoguing it to death? (Remember "death panels?" And the "cuts" to Medicare in ACA were to cut out waste, not benefits.)
And I disagree with your initial premise: Poll after poll has found that the elements of ACA enjoy great popular support – again, the Rs obfuscated and spun stories to agitate ordinary citizens into opposing it (though few of them ever actually read the bill).
I've read your post, Rick, and everyone else's comments (even the trolls'). The question of "voucher" vs. "premium support" really only matters in the demagogical sense, the spin either side can make of the particular word or phrase they prefer.
In the end, though, here's the crux of the matter: the Ryan plan does NOTHING about the escalating cost of health care! It continues the broken system we now have, including insurance companies serving as the middleman and raking off their profits – in return for what? Denial of payments for care in order to protect their stock prices, profit margins, and executive compensation? Been there, done that, seen the movie.
(Not satisfied with that "accomplishment," Ryan's plan further exacerbates the country's fiscal problems by throwing in A TRILLION DOLLARS in tax breaks for the wealthy.)
I don't care if it's called a voucher or premium support. I just call it stupid.
I enjoy posting the facts, whether it is pointing our Bartlett's confusion about tax shares/tax rates or IRS bulletins that explain why health insurance is dropped for young adults or corporate tax incidence and why employees pay the corporate tax. And in this case quoting Aaron on his original definition of premium support.
I don't care if you call it premium support, vouchers, coupons, or a super princess lala program. Bottom line, it dismantles medicare and instead makes seniors dependent upon private insurers to provide coverage, subsidized by a program with diminishing returns.
Ryan has actually had REAL JOBS.
Please enlighten me as to what jobs he held before getting into politics.
One thing you may not be aware of: Ryan's father died while he was in high school so he received Social Security benefits and that is how he paid for college. I actually think that was commendable behavior on his part; the part I find fault with is his attitude now about Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as it is quite possible that without those SS benefits when he was in high school he never would have attained the 'position' he has now.
Vouchers BAD. Premium Support GOOD.
And if we continue without changes: Zippo, Nada, Bupkis, Goose-egg, Bankruptcy. Ya, I know. Lets not talk about the fact that our entitlements are trillions unfunded. Lets pretend that the problem doesn't exist and excoriate anyone who disagrees.
All together now: Vouchers BAD. Premium Support GOOD!
Getting someone else to pay your insurance policy is definitely the way to go. Anytime you can let someone else take responsibility for your expenses, you win.
So, a higher tax rate is more likely to create private sector growth than a lower rate. That's like saying your more likely to buy goods if the sales tax is higher.
If your agreeing that high taxation creates more government jobs, then congratulations. You know what everyone else knows, 9% unemployment and fat gov.

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Cat Tracks: No. 7 Wildcats upset by California at McKale Center
Originally published: Feb 10, 2013 - 8:12 pm
Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a basketball game. So, we give you 'Cat Tracks', providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from Arizona's February 10 loss to Cal. California 77 Arizona 69.
The Good:
Mark Lyons had a team-high 16 points and Solomon Hill added 13, including 11 in the first half. Brandon Ashley scored 12 points and added 10 rebounds.
The Wildcats held the lead at the half due in large part to a strong defensive effort that resulted in eight Cal turnovers.
The Bad:
Arizona saw its four-game win streak come to an end in a stunning loss to Cal.
The Wildcats missed nine of their first 10 shots to open the second half and struggled to adapt to Cal's change to zone defense. The Bears used that momentum to put together a 17-2 run against the lackluster Wildcats.
Sean Miller's squad shot just 39.3 percent from the field and struggled with their free throw shooting. Arizona made just 16 of 24 shots from the line. For the season, the Wildcats had shot 45.1 percent from the field before Sunday's contest.
� The Wildcats became the sixth top-10 team to lose this week.
� Arizona suffered its third Pac-12 loss at the hands of the Bears and fell to 8-3 in conference play overall. Arizona is now 20-3 on the season.
� The Bears shot 58.8 percent from the field, which was the largest percentage the Wildcats have allowed this year.
Coming Up Next:
The Wildcats will face Colorado on Thursday, February 14. The game is scheduled to tip-off at 8:00 p.m. MST.
Daria Del Colliano, Web Content Editor - ArizonaSports.com
- Former UA Wildcat Nick Johnson �happy' to land with Houston Rockets
- Former Wildcat Aaron Gordon signs endorsement deal with Nike
- Arizona's Sean Miller among the best recruiters in the country
- Former Wildcat Aaron Gordon records monster block in NBA Summer League debut
- Former Wildcat Johnson impresses in Summer League debut, finishes vicious dunk
- Bucky Brooks, NFL Network draft analyst - Friday May 2Bucky Brooks discusses what the Cardinals should do with the 20th overall pick.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Tuesday April 15Adam and Jarrett talk about UA's early departures.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Thursday April 3Adam and Jarrett recap a tough loss as well as the season itself.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Friday March 28Adam and Jarrett talk about Arizona's run to the Elite 8.
- Bickley Blast - Friday March 28Arizonans can all rally around this University of Arizona basketball team.


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There are scary creatures all over the place! AMC's, The Walking Dead is filming it's second season in the Atlanta area and Scary Movie 5 has been filming practically in my backyard.
A friend of mine enjoys working as an extra on movie sets. She is an extra, one of those folks in the crowd in the background of movie scenes. She recently worked on a horror movie as a zombie. She showed me the pictures of herself in various stages of makeup. The photos made her look awful. Her "brain" was exposed. Parts of her arms and legs looked like they were rotted. She had oozy kinds of sores. Here was a beautiful woman who was made up to look terrible.
The photographs made it look very real. But it wasn't. It was just the only picture the camera had when it snapped while she had all the makeup on. To get a real view, my friend would have to take off her makeup and the videographer would have to shoot her without the makeup.
Well, aren't people looking for a real view - a more natural and complete picture - when it comes to their health care? Aren't they looking for a view of health that looks for wellness rather than one that only looks for sickness and then treats it?
It's a desired, and needed, shift in our approach to health care, according to Dr. Lawrence Rosemund in a recent piece that outlines the problems of the current disease-focused health care system. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-rosen-md/children-health_b_2007430.html
And, more people are beginning to seek out a different view of health and possible preventative measures and treatment for when they are sick. One way to do this is to educate themselves. Hundreds of apps and millions of websites feed the public's hunger for information. With all this information, comes an awareness of the need to focus on wellness and prevention as well as of a greater range of methods for treating sickness and maintaining health. In the past this has brought improvements to our health care system. For instance, when Dr. Eizabeth Kubler-Ross first introduced her ideas for the care of the terminally ill, they weren't readily accepted. But today hospice care is widely available.
Amid the call for shifting to a health-focused system and the explosion of health apps is an additional trend – seeking alternative or complementary approaches to care, including spiritual care. The effect of spiritual care has been researched in a variety of studies over the past 50 years. Across these studies there are some consistent outcomes that indicate clear benefits, including:
-Shorter hospital stays
-Improved pain management
-Improved experience of a patient's stay
-Improved motivation to complete the tasks of healing
-Improved sense of well-being
-Improved physical health
For many decades, the focus of health care and health maintenance has been to look for sickness and then alleviate or treat the symptoms. Often, prayer is a method of last resort. Yet, including prayer as a daily practice has been shown to have many beneficial effects. Perhaps this is because prayer often begins with looking for, and acknowledging, wellness as a natural state of being. It's a bit like taking off the makeup and getting the right picture.
Over the course of my life I have seen first hand the effectiveness of prayer. My half-sister was diagnosed with and treated for cancer. When it was determined that nothing more could be done for her and medical treatment was at an end, she decided to use prayer. Turning to her Bible, she found great comfort and inspiration from Jesus' healings. She began to pray as he taught his disciples.Through prayer her strength, soundness and health returned. Found to be cancer free, she returned to her normal life and activities.
At the end of the day on her movie shoot my friend, the actress, had all of the makeup removed. She was back looking like her normal self. She had the right information and, more important, the right view.
Zombies are only Skin Deep
The makeup comes off at the end of the day.
There are scary creatures all over the place! AMC's, The Walking Dead is filming it's second season in the Atlanta area and Scary Movie 5 has been filming practically in my backyard.
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Farnborough Paintball Site's Listing
Paintball UK -Paintballing in Sidcup
The closest Paintball site to Farnborough is Sidcup
17 minute drive from Farnborough
Paintball Guide Sidcup will leave an indelible memory on you and your friends as it truly is one of the best paintballing sites on the market! With a range of Game Zones that are sure to leave you overloaded with adrenaline! The zones on offer include 'A D' where you and your team mates have a landrover to blow up with line rockets and bazookas , 'VIP', where your mission will be to protect the VIP from being captured and held hostage by your opposing team! And many more! Watering at the mouth yet? Book your place now.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Gravesend
20 minute drive from Farnborough
At our brilliant Gravesend site the action unfolds in a spectacular 30 acres of paintball battleground. You'll go head to head with your mates in exciting team games like Bunker Hill, Prisoner of War, Tank and the The General Game.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Redhill, Surrey
21 minute drive from Farnborough
A 250 acre woodland warzone, featuring areas of dense forest and open playing fields. Compete in classic paintball battles like capture the flag, and defend the fortress. Our picturesque rural setting and luxury converted barns make us the perfect setting for a large group celebration or corporate hospitality event.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Croydon
22 minute drive from Farnborough
This enormous facility boasts 50 acres of themed outdoor Paintball excitement - with five unreal game maps to dominate. Only a 25 minute train journey from central London and 5 minutes from M25 Jct 6. Be prepared to storm our epic Afghan fort, infiltrate village compounds, rescue VIP's and deathmatch over remaining resources in our fallout 'wasteland'. These are just some of the thrilling scenarios on our playlist. You'll be armed with the best gear, supervised by experts and targeted by mates. Time to clock in to the battlefield. And if that wasn't enough to tempt you how is this for an added bonus, Full day players will get a Hot Papa Johns Pizza for lunch included free of charge.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Basildon, Essex
31 minute drive from Farnborough
The games are intense and, with the adrenaline pumping, your decisions can be crucial. Each game lasts around 25 minutes and, if you are an unlucky casualty, you make your way back for a hot drink. If, on the other hand, you are a trigger happy hero who takes all risks, then grab the oppostion's flag and return to become an immediate celebrity of your team.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Tunbridge Wells
33 minute drive from Farnborough
A pulse pounding adventure awaits you within a 100 acre woodland warzone. Here the epic and challenging natural terrain joins forces with a series of of brilliant purpose built forts and barricades to create an exciting and enjoyable cambat themed thrill ride.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Sittingbourne
36 minute drive from Farnborough
A spectacular and adrenaline soaked paintballing skirmish is sure to unfold at our awesome Paintball Guide Sittingbourne site! Paintballs flying in from every angle and enemies littering the breathtaking battleground, it doesn't get much better than the exhilarating action on offer at our stunning venue! We have some of the most frenetic and unforgettable paintballing action out there....make sure that you don't miss out on this one!10
Paintball UK -Paintballing in Gatwick - Crawley
36 minute drive from Farnborough
A great paintball arena with some amazing natural terrain to tackle. Compete in team games within our varied game zones, including all your paintball favourites like attack and defend, speedball and capture the flag.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Maidstone, Kent
37 minute drive from Farnborough
Our massive Maidstone venue, covers acres of dense woodland and features 6 exciting game zones. Up to 80 players can take part in action-packed games like Attack Defend, Forest Warfare and Speedball. All of our environments offer different terrain and man-made obstacles along with different mission objectives.
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Paintball UK -Paintballing in Docklands, Greater London
38 minute drive from Farnborough
A state of the art indoor paintball facility on the site of a decommissioned cold war nuclear shelter. This sci-fi themed war zone features hundreds of feet of playing area and all of it is stunningly realised to transport you from reality into a world of futuristic combat with the fate of the planet at stake.12
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Creator of Hank D and the Bee. Environmental cartoons found in/on: Yes! magazine, PBS's Urban Conversion, Center for Media and Democracy, Greenpeace, Planetsave, NaturalPapa, Elephant Journal and more…
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This cartoon was inspired by the Washington Post article, "Energy industry shapes lessons in public schools" Big Coal may be molding our youth with pro-coal propaganda, but worry not, Big … Continue reading
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Houston Texans tight end Owen Daniels had a quiet day against the Cleveland Browns. Houston clobbered the Browns, but did most of the work on the ground on their way to a 30-12 win. Daniels finished the game with three catches for 32 yards, the highest yardage total of any Houston receiver.
Daniels had 415 receiving yard on the season with 3 receiving touchdowns entering Week 9. Daniels was averaging 52 yards receiving per game. Daniels' receiving yards per game were up nearly 10 yards per game from last season.
Daniels was ranked as the 7th ranked tight end according to Yahoo! heading into his match up with the Cleveland Browns who rank 2nd against the pass, giving up 172 passing yards per game.
For more on the Houston Texans and Owen Daniels, visit SB Nation's Texans blog Battle Red Blog. For more on fantasy football, check out Fake Teams. Follow @sbnationfantasy on Twitter.


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Residnence on the Avenue. A Spacious Vintage condo in a stunning 1928 Art Deco building on a tree lined avenue. We are a fully licensed vacation rental #2087704 and 1 of only 73 licensed vacation condos in Chicago! A very quiet and secure 4 unit building with front lobby entrance. Property manager on site to answer any questions and to make sure that your stay at Residence on the Avenue is a wonderful experience. Open floor plan with spacious gourmet kitchen/dining area over looking the living room with fire place. Custom cabinets, granite counter tops and Jenn Aire Stainless Steel appliances. Great for entertaining. This spacious condo has 9 ft. ceilings. All hard wood floors. Private garden with its own seating area. Free inter net & long distance phone service included. Also see our 3 bedroom 2nd floor unit #290256.
Large bathrooms. One with whirlpool/shower,the other with large walk in shower. Italian tile heated floors. The bedrooms and main bath are located down a seperate hallway. Bedroom one has a French four poster queen size bed. Bedroom two has a Victorian antique full sized bed and walk in closet. All linens are 400 thread count or greater to insure a comfortabele sleep. Our condos are maintained at the highest level to insure a healthy environment. We are a Green building with high effeciency systems.
On the Evanston Border, only 1 mile from the quaint downtown, home to great shops, restaurants and of course Northwestern University. Loyola University is also really close to Residence on the Avenue. This would make a perfect place to call home for all Northwestern & Loyala games and events. Also while visiting your child who are attending one of these great schools.
Walking distance to the Red Line as well as bus service. Quick access to Wrigley Field, Lincoln Park Zoo and the Magnificent Mile. You can reach the city center with in 20 minute. This is truly a great place to call home while exploring all the wonderful things that Chicago and Evanston have to offer.
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The location is perfect. I wanted to be close to the lake, airport and Evanston. I am a fanatic for wonderful architechture and Rogers Park is known for the late 20's grand style. Only 10 miles from O'Hare Field. Midway Airport is 22 miles away. Just a 15 minute ride on the Union Pacific train to the heart of the city. This train stop is only 6 blocks from Residence on the Avenue. Ravinia Park, the out door concert venue can be reached in 20 minutes by this same train.The Red line will take you to Wrigley Field, Lincoln Park Zoo & to down town.
I love the location. All that the city has to offer is so reachable. Lake Shore Drive is so close and can take me to the Magnificient mile (Michigan Avenue)Or head the other direction where LSD becomes Sheridan Road & view the beautiful mansions along the way to the Chicago Botanical Garden..........All alon the the lake front. I enjoy as well the peacefulness ofthe beautiful North Shore towns of Evanston, Willmette, Winnetka & Glencoe Having the lake front so close is also a benefit.
North Shore. Near Northwestern University. Loyola University. 20 minutes to Downtown Chicago. 5 minutes to down town Evanston. Walking distance to the Red Line as well as bus service so you can reach the city center with in 20 minute. This is truly a great place to call home while exploring all the wonderful things that Chicago and Evanston have to offer.
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The Vietnam War occurred in present-day Vietnam, Southeast Asia. It represented a successful attempt on the part of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam, DRV) and the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (Viet Cong) to unite and impose a communist system over the entire nation. Opposing the DRV was the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam, RVN), backed by the United States. The war in Vietnam occurred during the Cold War, and is generally viewed as an indirect conflict between the United States and Soviet Union, with each nation and its allies supporting one side.
Vietnam War - Causes of the Conflict
The Vietnam War first began in 1959, five years after the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. Vietnam had been split into two, with a communist government in the north under Ho Chi Minh and a democratic government in the south under Ngo Dinh Diem. Ho launched a guerilla campaign in South Vietnam, led by Viet Cong units, with the goal of uniting the country under communist rule. The United States, seeking to stop the spread of communism, trained the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and provided military advisors to help combat the guerillas.
Vietnam War - Americanization of the War
In August 1964, a US warship was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Following this attack, Congress passed the Southeast Asia Resolution which allowed President Lyndon Johnson to conduct military operations in the region without a declaration of war. On March 2, 1965, US aircraft began bombing targets in Vietnam and the first troops arrived. Commanded by General William Westmoreland, US troops won victories over Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces around Chu Lai and in the Ia Drang Valley that year.
Vietnam War - The Tet Offensive
Following these defeats, the North Vietnamese avoided fighting conventional battles and focused on engaging US troops in small unit actions in the sweltering jungles of South Vietnam. In January 1968, the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong launched the massive Tet Offensive. Beginning with an assault on US Marines at Khe Sanh, the offensive included attacks by the Viet Cong on cities throughout South Vietnam. Though the North Vietnamese were beaten back with heavy casualties, Tet shook the confidence of the American people and media who had thought the war was going well.
Vietnam War - Vietnamization
As a result of Tet, President Lyndon Johnson opted not to run for reelection and was succeeded by Richard Nixon. Nixon's plan for ending US involvement was to build up the ARVN so that they could fight the war themselves. As this process of "Vietnamization" began, US troops started to return home. The mistrust of the government that had begun after Tet worsened with the release of news about US soldiers massacring civilians at My Lai (1969), the invasion of Cambodia (1970), and the leaking of the Pentagon Papers (1971).
Vietnam War - The End of the War & the Fall of Saigon
The withdrawal of US troops continued and more responsibility was passed to the ARVN, which continued to prove ineffective in combat, often relying on American support to stave off defeat. On January 27, 1974, a peace accord was signed in Paris ending the conflict. By March of that year, American combat troops had left the country. After a brief period of peace, North Vietnam recommenced hostilities in late 1974. Pushing through ARVN forces with ease, they captured Saigon on April 30, 1975, forcing South Vietnam's surrender and reuniting the country.


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Blount Today
Angela Puleo is as decorated a high school player as Blount County has ever produced.
All-State, county scoring champion, AAU All-American, theres little the William Blount High senior hasnt done. The sweet-shooting guard was named a finalist for Miss Basketball on Monday. Last fall, the two-time district player of the year signed a national letter of intent with the University of Georgia.
It all served to make slipping out of a Lady Governor uniform for the last time less than a week ago all the more poignant. William Blount was eliminated from the District 4AAA tournament last weekend, ending hopes of a repeat title run.
"It was really hard," the future Lady Bulldog said, "a lot harder
than I expected it to be. It got further and further out of
reach. With every second that went by, you knew it was coming to an end. It was hard taking the jersey off for the last time in the locker room."
Puleo set school and county records for scoring in the full-court era of girls basketball not soon to be approached. The 5-foot-9 guards single-game and career records 46 and 2,500-plus points, respectively bear witness to the rarest of shooters.
In one of the more memorable postseason runs on record, Puleo uncorked a withering scoring spree to lead William Blount to its first district crown since 1989 last winter. Being named a finalist for Miss Basketball at the conclusion of her final campaign was almost a forgone conclusion.
"It felt good," she said. "It just felt like some of the hard work was paying off.
"Its pretty good for William Blount, too. It gives the girls program some exposure. Coach (Matt) Fowler has done a great job."
There are regrets, Puleo said.
"I wish I had the region game against Karns back," she said "I thought we had a chance to win that game."
Mostly, its the teammates shell leave behind shell miss most, she said.
"Theres nothing like high school basketball," the Miss Basketball candidate said.
Puleos nomination for the states top basketball award is the third for Blount County in four seasons. Current University of Tennessee freshman and former Heritage Lady Mountaineer Cait McMahan was twice named a finalist as a sophomore and junior.
Mr. and Miss Basketball finalist announced
The Mr. and Miss Basketball Awards will be presented to the top girls and boys in four classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association prior to the state championship games for each class, respectively, next month.
The presentation of the Miss Basketball Awards for Division I Classes A, AA, and AAA will be given March 10 at the Murphy Center on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. The presentation of the Mr. Basketball Awards for Division I, Classes A, AA, and AAA will be given during the boys state tournament March 17.
Miss Basketball finalist
Class A Abby Andrews, Collinwood; Kayla Hudson, Gleason; Laken Leonard, Red Boling Springs.
Class AA Gwen Delk, Jackson North Side; Kayci Ferriss, Smith County; Jana Roney, Obion Central.
Class AAA Angela Puleo, William Blount; Tierney Jenkins, Wilson Central, Anne Marie Lanning, Riverdale.
Division II Lauren Avant, Lausanne Collegiate; Victoria Dunlap, Brentwood Academy; Glory Johnson, Webb.
Mr. Basketball finalist
Class A M.J. Brown, Union City; Seth Skogen, Tennessee Temple; DeMario Williams, Culleoka.
Class AA Randy Culpepper, Stratford; Jewaun Long, Liberty; Gerald Robinson, MLK.
Class AAA Maurice Miller, Raleigh Egypt; Terrance Oglesby, Bradley Central; Antwaine Wiggins, Greeneville.
Division II Brandon Brown, Brentwood Academy; Leslie Donald, Briarcrest; Elliot Williams, St. Georges.


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CAPS 25th Anniversary Speaker Series [1]
"New Thinking on the Old Empire: Recent Trends in Qing History"
Presented by: Mark Elliott, the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) 25th Anniversary Speaker Series features prominent scholars of East Asian studies. Lectures will be held through November 2012.
Last year marks a century since the fall of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the first Chinese republic. The passage of time, however, has done little to resolve lingering questions about the nature of Manchu rule in the Qing (166–1911). Questions over the role and fate of the Manchus, the meanings of empire, and the writing of history have surfaced with new intensity in recent years in books, journal articles, academic conferences, and various online discussion forums in China. What is at stake in these controversies? This talk focuses on the so–called "New Qing History" in the US and the state–sponsored "Qing History Project" in the People's Republic of China to provide a glimpse of the connections between history and politics in contemporary China.
Mark Elliott is Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the history of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing. He has published several books on Manchu empire and its connection to modern China.


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Our Members Say
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Guesthouse Nick&George: Georgian hospitality at it's best
Guesthouse Nick&George (named after the children of the hosts) is located in Atskuri village, between Borjomi and Akhaltsikhe. If you want to receive a very warm welcome, be stuffed with delicious food and have your trek organized, this is the place to go!
Unfortunately it was raining the day we were there, but the hosts are incredible.
Rooms are nice and big, there's internet and sauna. They can organize horses and one-day or multi-day treks.
Home-made food. The hosts offered to grill a rabbit for us!
- Tamro
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BP Rooms: Flats to rent in Borjomi
If you're looking for an accommodation in Borjomi, there is a private house within two minutes walking distance from Brojomi Park. The house owners offer flats and affordable/negotiable prices depending on the length and season of your stay. For more info, please visit the web indicated below.
- Location: Central part of the city;
- Flats are private with own kitchens, bathrooms, etc.
- DinkaYa
- Reviews: 33
Park Administration guest house: National's park guest house
The guest house is located in the building next to the Borjomi Karagauli park administration. The rooms are pretty clean as well as the shower, there is a balcony there, the place is quite. Its a bit far away from the city center, but a taxi to everyplace around Borjomi is 2 Lari. On the first floor there is a huge dining room that can contain more than 20 people I believe as well as a fully equipped kitchen and a washing machine. There are 4-5 rooms on the second floor.
The cost was 60 Lari per night per room and you have to cook your own breakfast.
To my understanding the place was renewed and opened recently and doesn't appear on the park's web page, but Natia suggested it when I emailed her, she said that it is better than the one in Marelesi.
- AnnaHermans
- Reviews: 155
Hotel Borjomi: central and clean
It was clean in a nice old wooden house, completely renovated. Central next to the busstop and the museum. With airco and big rooms
The old building and the central location.
- rjaparidze
- Reviews: 148
This complex is the best place to stay in that region, though by western standards this is 2-3 star place.
Despite this the place itself has a historic significance and really deserves a stay there along with a tourist guide.
It was built by russian Emperor Nikolay; it used to be a place of residence for Stalin and later on a number of foreign dignitaries lived there... Ins sum a very interesting place for stay.
historic significance, mineral water, great place for recreation
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Hotel / Conference Centre: Borjomis Kheoba - Borjomi Gorge
It is a very nice place with the Borjomi mineral water and sulphur water spas. Rooms are very comfortable with a satelite TV and private bathroom.
There is a conference room, bar and the restaurant at the hotel. Delicious food and great views from the third floor and from the restaurant.
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Dr. Andy Pate
The Orange Leader
A couple of weeks ago a woman of my acquaintance (age 45) broke her leg. The story she first told her mother (77 and sickly) about how she broke it was quite different from what really happened.
To her mom the woman's initial report was, "I stepped off a curb coming out of the grocery store and crashed hard to the concrete."
"When did that happen?" her mom asked.
"Late yesterday afternoon, just after Six."
But in a few hours a more accurate version of the breaking-of-the-leg unfolded. The woman had been out with friends and was involved in an automobile accident near midnight. She was taken to the hospital emergency room a little before 1:00 a.m.
Why not the truth the first time? Rather obvious, isn't It? The woman thought it best not to upset her mother. That's one reason. Another is, she may have been protecting herself from a severe scolding.
Sigmund Freud might well have called this "twisting" a defense mechanism. We lie for protection, and on occasion, to protect others, so Freud claimed.
We're human. We manipulate in order not to be found out or to prevent the whole truth from becoming known. Perhaps we've used poor judgment? Perhaps we've done something we know was morally wrong or shown our weaknesses? Perhaps the whole truth, were it told, would seriously hurt another person, a person unable, for whatever reason, to face disturbing events much less deal with their consequences.
Before we condemn outright the woman who told the broken-leg untruth to her mother, let us remember that her reporting could have gotten much worse. She could have told the same story to many others so often that, at worst, she might have come to believe it herself or, at best, she might have found herself trapped in her repetitions, unable to break free of them.
We mortals do that. In fact, just look or listen around: It's one of our favorite American pastimes in 2013: to hear something told as true, and to keep on repeating it.
When - all the while, what we've been told was One Big Lie.
Sadly, the chain of lying works. If something's said that we want to be true, we frequently buy it, as they say, "hook, line and sinker." Like minded others then want to be a link in the chain and they help us perpetuate nonsense that can be, and often is highly destructive.
John informs us in his Gospel that Jesus was quite aware of the tendencies among people in every age group to play loosely with the truth when he said, "You will know the truth and the truth will make your free (John 8:32)" and when he followed that oft-quoted statement with the bold declaration, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:14)."
The Truth that frees us has to be something other than that which we mere mortals represent as such It has to come from a Source more powerful and more insightful and, above all, from a Source that is accurate to the ninth degree.
In faith there is but One Source upon which we depend with certainty - Jesus Christ and his living Holy Spirit.,
The words we read and hear, do they come from Christ? That question alone ought to be at the center of our Christian truth seeking. This I believe.


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High School Graduates Still Struggle With College Readiness
Nearly one in three students was not ready for entry-level college courses in any subject.
Nearly one in three high school graduates who took the ACT tests are not ready for entry-level college courses in English, reading, math or science, according to new data released by the testing organization Wednesday.
Of the 1.8 million high school graduates who took the ACT in 2013, only 26 percent reached the college readiness benchmarks in all four subjects. Another 27 percent met two or three of the benchmarks, and 16 percent met just one.
"Our country's commitment to college readiness for all students is a good one, but we've got a lot of work to do," says Jon Erickson, president of ACT. "There aren't any clear signs we're making great progress there."
[READ: High School Students Have Made No Progress in 40 Years]
Most states as a whole are also largely unprepared. In only two states (Minnesota and Wisconsin) did more than half of the high school graduates meet three or more of the ACT benchmarks, and no state had more than 56 percent of ACT-tested students doing so. And in five states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina), fewer than one-third of students met three or four benchmarks.
In the last five years, students' scores overall – as well as in individual subjects – have remained largely unchanged, and in some cases have decreased. The only subject in which students made gains was science, increasing slightly from 31 percent of graduates meeting the benchmark in 2012 to 36 percent in 2013. Students have consistently scored higher in English than in any other subject; it was the only subject in 2013 in which more than half of students met the benchmark.
"It is concerning that while we keep calling this up and trying to address it, we're not making great progress," Erickson told U.S. News. "We get some small signs that we start to get optimistic and celebrate about, and then it takes a quick slide back a point or two."
Erickson says part of the reason scores have been mostly stable is that the pool of students taking the ACT has become more diverse over the last few years.
[ALSO: Graduation Rates Dropping Among Native American Students]
"The diversity of pools gets larger and larger and start reflecting more of the entire class," Erickson says. "It's a challenge to move everyone to the college readiness level."
Since 2009, the number of minority students taking the ACT has increased, dramatically in some cases. Over the past five years, 126,000 more Hispanic students and 43,000 more African-American students took the test, while the number of multiracial students who took the ACT increased 80 percent.
But those students are also struggling more than their peers. No more than 48 percent of African-American, American Indian and Hispanic ACT-tested students met the English benchmark – the subject in which all groups tested the highest.
"The gaps between minority groups are still too large," Erickson says. "While it's good that it's not getting larger, the bad news is it's not getting smaller."
But Erickson says there were a few bright points in the report. Although some students' career goals are loftier than their scores would indicate, their educational and career aspirations have continued to increase, as have ACT participation rates. In 2013, about 87 percent of all ACT-tested high school graduates said they want to attain at least a two-year college degree.
Additionally, Erickson said he is hopeful that students' scores will improve because many students who missed benchmarks did so by only a few points.
"We're looking at this as a new baseline and where to go from here, rather than comparing it to the past," Erickson says. "Sometimes it just takes a refresher, or one more course, or working with students on some skills that they haven't mastered."
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SPRINGFIELD CENTER — Harry L. Rondeau, 82, of Springfield Center, passed away Nov. 21, 2013, at home.
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ONEONTA — Antoinette Rose Williams, 92, of Oneonta, passed away on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, at A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta.
Antoinette was born on Oct. 23, 1921, in Carbondale, Pa., the daughter of the late Anthony and Rose (Arcuri) Scavo.
She married Harold Douglas Williams on Oct. 23, 1949. He predeceased her on Jan. 10, 1990.
She was a member of St. Mary's Church.
"Nanette," as she was affectionately known, was an unofficial "nanny" to many neighborhood children. During her working career she was employed as a cashier for several local businesses including Bruno's Food Market, which was owned and operated by her brother. Nanette had a special love of baseball, pepperoni, scratch tickets and playing the piano.
She is survived by her nieces and nephews, Gary (Jackie) Scavo, Tony (Cathie) Scavo, Kathy (Rich) Gravelin, Dorothy (David) Bentley, Carol Schimmerling, Jerry (Lori) Osterhoudt, Regina Miller; and many beloved grandnieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her three brothers and three sisters, Bruno Scavo, Angelo Scavo, John Scavo, Kay Scavo, Nancy Osterhoudt, Mary Miller; and her niece, Judy Molinari.
A funeral Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, at St. Mary's Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta, with the Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Emmons. Friends may call from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. prior to the Mass at which time the family will be in attendance.
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NAUGATUCK – It appears the borough's 'top cop' will remain in his position for at least a few more years.
Mayor Bob Mezzo announced last month that the borough and Naugatuck Police Chief Christopher Edson are discussing terms of a new contract and that a deal is close to completion.
"I expect to have a deal and hope to get an agreement in place to keep Chief Edson here for many years at September's meeting," Mezzo said.
Edson, a 29-year law enforcement professional, has been the borough's police chief since June 2007. He was recently awarded a distinguished chief award from the Police Commissioner's Association of Connecticut for his dedication to duty, the Naugatuck Police Department and the citizens of the borough.
In an information pamphlet from the ceremony, the association states: "Edson has distinguished himself as an innovator, a motivator and a community leader. Chief Edson led his department to Tier III State Accreditation, instituted the formation of a state-of-the-art digital forensics laboratory, and is currently overseeing the installation of Naugatuck Dispatch Center to include a major upgrade of the department's radio system. ...Chief Edson has served on various boards and commissions, both professional and community focused."
It also states that Edson holds an MBA from the University of New Haven and is a married father of five.
As chief, Edson earns a salary of about $90,000 a year. It is unclear what he would be paid if a new contract is accepted by the Board of Mayor and Burgesses, or borough board. His contract officially expired on June 30, but the borough board has extended it through the end of September so a new contract can be negotiated.
Edson confirmed to Naugatuck Patch that he and Mezzo had discussed terms of a new contrac. Edson would not discuss those terms as negotiations are ongoing. He said he expects a new contract will be ready for a vote of the borough board at September's meeting.
"I enjoy working for the borough, and I think the department has accomplished much since I've been here," he said. "Hopefully, the borough and I can come to terms of a new contract."


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Before her set last weekend at Coachella, during which she would flail away with sticks at a pair of hand drums, her face painted with warrior stripes, Merrill Garbus, the multi-instrumentalist who performs as Tune-Yards, was ready to make an admission. "Bigger festivals have psyched me out in the past," she confessed backstage to Rolling Stone.
Since releasing her critically-acclaimed sophomore album, w h o k i l l, last year, the Connecticut native has performed at several of the top-tier musical gatherings; she'll play Coachella again this weekend. But only recently did she decide to stop worrying about pleasing everyone in attendance. "I could ride this rollercoaster of 'Do people like me or do people hate me?'" she said. "I'm trying to get over that."
All evidence points to the music community embracing Garbus, and Tune-Yards, in a major way: w h o k i l l appeared on several year-end best lists, topping the Village Voice's prestigious Pazz and Jop poll and coming in at number 13 on Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2011. For Garbus, the past twelve months have felt like a lifetime.
"I'm living a dream," she said. The singer-songwriter's humility stems from the humble expectations she had for her music career. "I came to music really out of desperation," she said. "I'm so thankful that people have been able to connect to [my music] and find some kind of meaning in it, something to grapple with."
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COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley, who wants the state to reject expanding Medicaid, called a news conference Wednesday to draw attention to her plan for the state to pay 19 rural hospitals more for caring for uninsured patients.
As the Republican governors news conference wrapped up in the Statehouse lobby, state Rep. James Smith, D-Richland, offered the Democratic response from a second podium rolled up nearby just before Haley began.
While most political observers expect the legislature to side with Haley on Medicaid expansion, the dueling news conferences showed that passion runs high on the subject.
The plan to pay the rural hospitals more had been announced Jan. 17. Haleys news conference Thursday provided few new details. It came after Haley and Tony Keck, director of the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services, met with rural hospital executives in her office to discuss the plan. Staff members from the S.C. Hospital Association, among Haleys most outspoken opponents on the issue, werent invited to the meeting.
Administrators and employees from several rural hospitals, who are members of the association, stood behind Haley as she spoke.
Dr. Troy Gamble, chief medical officer at Williamsburg Regional Hospital in Kingstree, said the added state money will help his facility, which lost about $1 million last year, move in the direction we want to move.
Keck said 13 of the 19 rural hospitals have lost money over the past four years. One of the 19, Bamberg County Hospital in Haleys home county, closed last year but is still on the list of those eligible for the money. Keck said state and local leaders havent given up on plans for a Bamberg-area facility.
Dr. John Hicks, a cardiologist at Clarendon Health System, took offense when a reporter asked Haley if she was throwing a bone to the rural hospitals to get them to oppose expanding Medicaid, the joint federal-state medical insurance program for the poor and disabled.
For a rural hospital thats running a deficit, its not throwing a bone; its throwing a life raft, Hicks said.
Leaders of the Hospital Association, which represents rural and urban hospitals, found it odd that Rich DAlberto, president and chief executive of the Laurens County Health Care System, wasnt included in the meeting with the governor. Laurens is one of the rural hospitals eligible for the additional state money.
But DAlberto, chairman of the Hospital Association board, also has spoken out in favor of expanding Medicaid. Keck said DAlbertos absence was inadvertent, and a late invitation had gone out to him.
The program advocated by Haley will pump about $20 million a year in what is called Disproportionate Share Hospital payments to facilities in rural areas. Those payments help reimburse hospitals for service given to uninsured patients.
If we can bring up health care in rural areas, we can bring up health care for all of South Carolina, Haley said.
Keck said the program will be paid for by shifting money within the current pot of $461 million a year in Medicaid funds designated for covering care for the uninsured at hospitals. Most hospitals had been repaid about 57 cents on the dollar for that care. Starting July 1, the 19 rural hospitals will be reimbursed fully.
Keck said giving the rural hospitals more money does not mean that urban hospitals will get less. Changes in the insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act in 2014 will reduce the number of uninsured in the state, which should reduce the need for the disproportionate share funds, he said.
Haley said the Medicaid expansion debate and the need to pump more money into rural hospitals are two totally different conversations.
Others disagree.
Pitting urban vs. rural, governor, is not the way to improve the state of South Carolina, Democrat Smith responded. We need more access to health care in all of South Carolina.
Haley is making petty political theater out of our states health, he said.
Even if the state turns down the proposed federal expansion of Medicaid to cover all adults making less than about $15,000 a year, hundreds of thousands of the uninsured will continue to show up at emergency rooms, where hospitals legally cant refuse them care, advocates of expanding Medicaid say.
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CUMBERLAND — Herbert Francis Dawson, 90, of Cumberland, died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at the Allegany Health, Nursing and Rehab Center.
Born Sept. 18, 1922, in Ridgeley, W.Va., he was the son of the late Daniel McKinley Dawson and Estelle (Umstot) Dawson. Herb moved to Cumberland when he was very young.
He graduated from Allegany High School, and the next day started working for the B & O Railroad. Herb stayed with the railroad for 44 years, until his retirement as chief dispatcher in 1985.
He was Methodist by faith. Herb was a member of Aerie 245, F.O.E., Cumberland, where he served as president. He proudly held the title of Past Worthy President, as he occasionally liked to be called by his kids at home.
When his children were young, Herb was the Dad who did everything with his kids and all the kids in the neighborhood. He loved to play softball, fish, swim, and fly kites—anything the kids wanted to do. Later in life, Herb enjoyed duckpin bowling with friends and he loved to walk. He loved all animals, but had a special fondness for dogs—especially Snoopy and Hector. He loved his family. He was kind and patient and never too busy to spend time with his children and grandchildren—and Pap Pap, was he was affectionately known, enjoyed every minute he spent with them!
Herb was preceded in death by his wife, Iris Eileen (Winebrenner) Dawson; his son, Herbert Francis Dawson Jr.; his sister, Alice Resh; and his two brothers, Arnold Dawson, and wife Clara, and Russell Dawson, and wife Marie.
Survivors include his two daughters, Sandi Hnilica and husband George, and Dee Owens and husband Harry; a daughter-in-law, Nancy Dawson; grandchildren, Dena Couturier, and her children, Harmoni and Noah, Dillard Irvin and girlfriend Kathy, and children Amber and Ashley; Dustin Hnilica and wife Jennifer; Krista Friend and husband Jimmy, and children Curtis and girlfriend Tasha, Madison, and boyfriend John, Joe, and Sarah; Amber Beachy and husband Darren, and children Micah and Jonathon; and Herbert W. Dawson. On Dec. 20, 2011, Herb's first great-great-grandchild, Dawson James Matrey, was born to Curtis and girlfriend Tasha.
At his request, Herb's body will be cremated. There will be no memorial service.
Pap will be deeply missed by many, but we know Mom and Herby were waiting for him and he is taking long walks again, with Snoopy and Hector by his side. We will miss you and always love you deeply Herb . . . Dad . . . Pap.
The Upchurch Funeral Home, P.A., Cumberland, is in charge of arrangements.
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I'm more like the DSCC than DailyKos in this regards, as I do like to get involved in choosing sides within the Democratic primaries. In Florida, MyDD wholeheartedly endorses Betty Castor for the US Senate in Florida. Amongst the candidates in the GOP primary, with the Miami Republicans already jumping Johnnie Byrd's sinking ship, and with McCullum having nowhere but down to go, Mel Martinez is going to win the Republican nomination, and he's going to be a strong candidate in the General. And since 2004 is the year of electability, hands down, Central Florida's Betty Castor beats the south floridian pair of Duetsch and Penelas as the Democrat most likely to beat Martinez.
Here's Joe Jones and Sam Ritzman in the field office, where we chatted about the intricacies of blogging. If the name Joe Jones sounds familiar, you probably visited one-time Presidential candidate Bob Graham's blog, of which Jones was the chief blogger.
Joe's the webmaster for Castor's campaign website BettyNet.com, and along with Sam Ritzman (on the right) from the Research & Policy side of the campaign, blogs for the campaign's BettyBlog.com.
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PALERMO — Four men were killed Sunday in Maine's deadliest crash of the year.
The accident occurred on Route 3 in Palermo, west of Augusta, when an SUV driven by Tyler Manduca, 18, of Bucksport lost control and skidded sideways into the path of the car driven by 64-year-old Dennis Sturges of Palermo.
Also killed were Manduca's 21-year-old brother, Kyle Manduca of Bucksport, and Sturges' 83-year-old father, Roy Lucier of Palermo.
State Police troopers said light snow was falling at the time of the crash, and Manduca was traveling too fast for conditions when he lost control of his vehicle, according to a prepared statement from Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland.
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