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John 13:1-20
1 Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot's son, to betray Him. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God. 4 So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself. 5 Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, "Lord, are You going to wash my feet?" 7 Jesus answered him, "What I'm doing you don't understand now, but afterward you will know." 8 "You will never wash my feet—ever!" Peter said. Jesus replied, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with Me." 9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."10 "One who has bathed," Jesus told him, "doesn't need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you." 11 For He knew who would betray Him. This is why He said, "You are not all clean." 12 When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His robe, He reclined again and said to them, "Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.16 "I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. 18 I'm not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.19 "I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He. 20 I assure you: Whoever receives anyone I send receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Holman CSB®, and HCSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.
Today's Reflection
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Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.
—John 13: 3
So, What Do You Know?
Ever been in on a secret? Maybe it was a surprise party or a special recognition that you happened to know about, but the individual being celebrated had no idea. When you have the inside scoop on something, you can be more patient with folks that don't know what you know with the full confidence that when it all comes to light, everyone will understand why you were acting the way you did because of what you have known all along.
My 25th wedding anniversary was such an occasion.
For over a year, I had been planning a special renewal of my vows to Teresa and lots of people were in on it including her father—a retired pastor who had performed our wedding 25 years before. So, on that Friday, August 8, 2006, we drove to her parent's home in Horn Lake, Mississippi for what she thought was a routine visit with her folks. I told her to pack one nice outfit because we might go into Memphis sometime over the weekend for a special dinner celebrating our anniversary. What she didn't know was that about 50 people—friends, family, and people from our wedding—were all headed to her home church, Twin Lakes Baptist Church, that very night. Her dad was in on it all along and had prepared a special message for the ceremony. I had worked with a jeweler to make the ring she had deserved all along but that I could not afford when we got married and now I had that ring in my pocket.
I also had the plane tickets for a special trip to San Francisco that would leave Saturday morning and our kids would stay at her parents while we were gone. It was a beautiful plan—and it was going off like clockwork - until I asked her to change into that nice outfit.
She began to argue—"No, let's not go tonight. Let's go our tomorrow night. We just got here." I insisted and she resisted. Finally I said, "Look, you are going to get dressed and we are going tonight. So just get dressed and quit arguing about it." It wasn't until we pulled into the church parking lot and a bunch of cars were there that she began to ask, "Hey, what is going on here—what have you done?" It turned out to be a glorious night and one that we will never forget. The work had been worth it.
When Jesus gathered with his disciples for what proved to be their last meal together, he knew something that none of them could imagine. When Peter began to argue with Jesus over the Lord's desire to wash his feet it was painfully obvious that Peter didn't know the whole story. Verse three of this passage tells us that what Jesus knew would make the next three days faceable. Because Jesus knew exactly how this whole thing was gong to turn out. And because of that, He could move forward through the tender moments of a final meal, the agony of the garden, the torture of the trials, the anguish of the cross, and the darkness of the tomb.
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I can trust Him with the here-and-now because of what He knows. And that's what I know too.
Reflection Questions
- Make a list of the spiritual realities that you know. Reflect on how they should inform your attitudes as you move through the challenges of life.
- Can you think of a time when your actions did not reflect what you knew to be true? Or a time when your actions did reflect the spiritual realities you already know?
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Kaiser Health News staff writer Jenny Gold, working in collaboration with NPR, reports: "Just as Latinos were crucial to President Barack Obama's re-election success in 2012, they are now key to the success of his health law. And the administration is doing everything it can to make sure that Latinos, like the Velandias, enroll. The administration announced this week that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be making the rounds on Spanish-language media outlets to discuss the health law and the newly revamped CuidadoDeSalud.gov, the Spanish version of HealthCare.gov" (Gold, 6/25). Read the story.
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Also on the blog, Jay Hancock reports on the response by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to KHN's coverage of hospital CEO bonuses: "Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime member of the Senate Finance Committee and frequent critic of nonprofit hospitals, wants to know whose idea it was to pay hospital CEOs annual bonuses surpassing a million dollars in some cases" (Hancock, 6/25). Check out what else is on the blog.
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Can't Chute Straight?" by Lisa Benson.
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Both populations are key to the success of new online health insurance marketplaces, which will begin enrolling people on Oct. 1 for coverage that takes effect Jan. 1.
Kaiser Health News: Latino Enrollment Key To Success Of Health Law Marketplaces
Just as Latinos were crucial to President Barack Obama's re-election success in 2012, they are now key to the success of his health law. And the administration is doing everything it can to make sure that Latinos, like the Velandias, enroll. The administration announced this week that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be making the rounds on Spanish-language media outlets to discuss the health law and unveiled the newly revamped CuidadoDeSalud.gov, the Spanish version of HealthCare.gov (Gold, 6/25).
The Hill: Seeking To Woo Youths, White House Attempts To Make ObamaCare Cool
Administration officials have a daunting task in the weeks ahead: making ObamaCare "cool." Marketing experts say a hip branding effort is what's needed to draw people into the new health insurance exchanges ... (Viebeck, 6/26).
Meanwhile, officials are attempting to apply some of the lessons learned from the 2006 rollout of Medicare Part D --
Politico: Medicare Part D Offers Lessons For Obamacare
Three months before Obamacare goes prime time, health care vets are looking for lessons from another once politically volatile expansion of coverage: the Medicare prescription drug program. Just as Obama administration officials have warned about "glitches" and "hiccups" in the rollout of the health care law, similar bumps emerged around the 2006 launch of the now-popular Part D program, those in charge of its implementation say (Millman, 6/26).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Marilyn Tavenner discussed health exchanges, among other things, with Georgia Health News. Other news outlets detailed the exchange developments in Minnesota and Colorado.
Georgia Health News: Answers About Expansion And Exchanges, From The Head Of CMS
Tavenner came to Atlanta on Wednesday and spoke to a conference sponsored by the Georgia Chamber. She also met with GHN for an exclusive interview, ... Q: Will the exchanges provide a competitive market for insurance? A: Here's my honest opinion about that. Today, Atlanta is a classic example – Atlanta will remain competitive. We will have good premiums, and we will have the additional protections of the Affordable Care Act – no pre-existing conditions [that can bar coverage], no lifetime limits. It will have a better product at a competitive price. There are some marketplaces that are not competitive. In my opinion, this project may take two, three, four years to change a non-competitive market into a competitive market (Miller, 6/19).
MinnPost: Minnesota Health Exchange, As Expected, Encounters A Few 'Hiccups'
State lawmakers and officials have already run into "hiccups" this summer implementing MNsure, the health insurance exchange crafted by the Legislature this year. While such bumps in the road have been numerous — and even expected — since the exchange's tumultuous beginnings, those working on the ambitious project say they are excited to move forward with the biggest health insurance reform in Minnesota in decades (Nord, 6/25).
PBS NewsHour: Colorado Struggles To Educate, Enroll Residents In New Health Insurance Exchange
Colorado is in the midst of preparing to roll out a new way for residents to get health coverage using an insurance exchange. ... The new insurance marketplace, called Connect for Health Colorado, starts enrolling individuals and small businesses on Oct. 1. ... State internal polling found only 10 percent of Coloradans know about the new marketplace. National surveys mirror similar findings. So health officials all across the country are scrambling for private and federal grants to help get people educated and enrolled (Bowser, 6/25).
Also, news outlets examine the idea that the expansion's new enrollees will likely be healthier than current beneficiaries but this will probably not relieve the expansion's pressure on the health care workforce.
The Associated Press: Answer On Ind. Medicaid Plan Could Take Some Time
The head of the state Family and Social Services Administration said Tuesday the federal government is expected to approve an extension of the Healthy Indiana Plan, but a request to use the plan for an Indiana Medicaid expansion could take much longer (LoBianco, 6/25).
The Associated Press: Arkansas Releases Draft Of 'Private Option' Request
Arkansas' proposal to use federal Medicaid dollars to purchase private insurance for thousands of low-income residents will benefit everyone in the state by cutting health care costs and improving access, the state said Monday in a draft of its application to the federal government (6/25).
In related Medicaid news --
Modern Healthcare: Providers Likely To Feel Pressure As Medicaid Gets New Enrollees
New Medicaid enrollees may be healthier than the program's current beneficiaries, but that is unlikely to relieve much of the pressure on providers as millions of newly covered patients seek care next year. Researchers -- including some from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- looked at national health data collected through detailed surveys of uninsured adults and concluded that new enrollees are less likely than current beneficiaries to have chronic diseases -- 30 percent compared with 39 percent. However, among the newly covered enrollees who do suffer from chronic conditions, their conditions are more likely to be undiagnosed and untreated (Daly, 6/25).
The Associated Press: Newly Insured To Deepen Primary Care Doctor Gap
Getting face time with the family doctor could soon become even harder. A shortage of primary care physicians in some parts of the country is expected to worsen as millions of newly insured Americans gain coverage under the federal health care law next year. Doctors could face a backlog, and patients could find it difficult to get quick appointments (Sanner, 6/25).
The Fiscal Times reports on tools to help consumers understand changes that will occur as a result of the health law while HealthyCal reports that legislators in California are attempting to create a mechanism to provide health insurance for those who fall through the overhaul's cracks.
The Fiscal Times: Best Online Tools For The Toughest Health Questions
The health care landscape will change in 2014 when the most significant portions of the Affordable Care Act kick in. The new law will require all Americans to have health insurance (or pay a penalty) by January, and will require insurers to cover many folks who previously couldn't get coverage (Nance-Nash, 6/25).
HealthyCal: Covering The Uninsured Left Behind The ACA
Millions of Californians will remain uninsured after the signature reforms of the Affordable Care Act roll out in 2014. Legislators are proposing an employer-funded trust to insure many of those who will likely fall through the cracks of the Affordable Care Act. Assemblyman Manuel Perez introduced Assembly Bill 175, which would establish a trust fund, paid for by employers, private donors and philanthropic organizations, to provide comprehensive health insurance coverage, including primary care, dental and mental health benefits, to workers who are not covered by the ACA or the proposed expansion of Medi-Cal (Graebner, 6/26).
Meanwhile, nerves continue from within the restaurant industry --
Georgia Health News: Restaurant Industry Nervously Eyes ACA's Changes In Insurance Rules
Simon is co-founder of Fifth Group Restaurants, which operates seven restaurants and other businesses in the Atlanta area, employing more than 500 people. Currently, Fifth Group offers health insurance to its managers only. But under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, when it is fully implemented next January, a business with 50 or more full-time workers must offer all employees working at least 30 hours a week a health plan that's considered "affordable."' If it doesn't, the business must pay a penalty. This "employer mandate" represents a great unknown for Fifth Group, Simon says. The impact on the business could range from $50,000 to $400,000, he says. Indeed, much of the restaurant industry, with its many low-wage workers and its generally low rates of offering insurance, may face a financial jolt from the law (Miller, 6/24).
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, criticizes the pending immigration bill and health law while Medicare observation care and audits are hot topics during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Also in the news, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, talks about hospital CEO pay. In addition, he and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., push to open the Medicare claims payment database.
The Hill: Cruz: Immigration Bill, ObamaCare Create 'Enormous Incentive' To Hire Immigrants
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) argued Tuesday that because the comprehensive immigration reform bill prohibits immigrant workers from getting ObamaCare benefits, employers will fire U.S. workers and replace them with immigrants. Cruz said he wanted to offer an amendment to address the "most egregious aspect" of the immigration bill (Cox, 6/25).
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: Hospital Officials Complain About Medicare Efforts On Observation Care
Recovery Audit Contractors – or RACs – uncover and collect improper payments made to hospitals, physicians, clinics and other providers. In 2011 the audits resulted in the return of nearly a half a billion dollars to the Medicare Trust Fund. "We need to build on this success, but we can't overburden legitimate providers who play by the rules,' Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Tuesday. "We need balance" (Carey, 6/26).
CQ HealthBeat: Senators Sympathetic To Complaints That Medicare Audits Are Too Burdensome
Senate Finance Committee members from both sides of the aisle expressed concern Tuesday that a Medicare program that audits provider reimbursement claims creates unreasonable administrative burdens on hospitals. But Chairman Max Baucus stopped short of saying after the hearing that he'll push legislation to address problems with the Recovery Audit Contractor program (Reichard, 6/25).
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: Grassley: Who Approved These Hospital CEO Bonuses?
Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime member of the Senate Finance Committee and frequent critic of nonprofit hospitals, wants to know whose idea it was to pay hospital CEOs annual bonuses surpassing a million dollars in some cases (Hancock, 6/25).
CQ HealthBeat: Wyden Says Opening Up Medicare Data Will Unleash Market Force
Opening up Medicare's claims payment database would have a "transformative" effect on the U.S. health care economy, Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden told a Washington, D.C., forum Tuesday. Wyden and Republican Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa introduced a bill (S 1180) on June 18 that would require the Health and Human Services secretary to make available a searchable Medicare payment database that the public could access at no cost (Reichard, 6/25).
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The Wall Street Journal: WellPoint Helps Cut Employers' Health Cost
As companies seek ways to curb health-care spending, insurer WellPoint Inc. is rolling out a program that lets employers pay only a set amount for a medical service, asking workers who select costlier care to pay the difference. The idea has been tested for years by a limited number of large employers. But the new option from the second-biggest U.S. insurer, which will be available for coverage that kicks off next January, will be offered broadly to any client with at least 100 employees (Mathews, 6/25).
The Wall Street Journal: Glenview Seeks Board Overhaul At Health Management
Glenview's growing activist role at Health Management—in which the investor has amassed a 14.6% stake, making it the largest shareholder—has fueled Wall Street expectations that Health Management could be sold. Health Management shares were down slightly to $15.31 in midday trading Tuesday, but they have soared nearly 39% since the company adopted a shareholder-rights plan in response to Glenview's share accumulation. New York-based Glenview has said it has no intentions to acquire Health Management, and in a long letter to shareholders Tuesday, said that it didn't know whether it is best to sell the company or "change management and build long-term independent value." But the investor did call a potential acquisition by a larger chain "compelling," and said a new board is needed to review such options (Kamp, 6/25).
Bloomberg: Digital Health Records' Risks Emerge As Deaths Blamed On Systems
When Scot Silverstein's 84-year-old mother, Betty, starting mixing up her words, he worried she was having a stroke. So he rushed her to Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania…Electronic health records are supposed to improve medical care by providing physicians quick and easy access to a patient's history, prescriptions, lab results and other vital data. While the new computerized systems have decreased some kinds of errors, such as those caused by doctors' illegible prescriptions, the shift away from paper has also created new problems, with sometimes dire consequences (Robertson, 6/25).
Democrats in the Texas Senate late Tuesday successfully filibustered abortion legislation that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy and also shutter all but a few abortion clinics in the state.
The Texas Tribune: Led By Davis, Democrats Defeat Abortion Legislation
The nation watched on Tuesday -- and into Wednesday -- as Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis and hundreds of impassioned reproductive rights advocates stalled proceedings and ultimately defeated controversial abortion legislation in a storm of screams and shouts as the clock struck midnight (Aaronson, 6/26).
The Associated Press: Texas Abortion Bill Falls After Challenge
Despite barely beating a midnight deadline, hundreds of jeering protesters helped stop Texas lawmakers from passing one of the toughest abortion measures in the country. As the protesters raised the noise to deafening levels in the Texas Senate chamber late Tuesday, Republicans scrambled to gather their colleagues at the podium for a stroke-of-midnight vote on some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country (Vertuno and Tomlinson, 6/26).
The New York Times: Texas Abortion Bill Fails After Tense Standoff
Hours after claiming that they successfully passed some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country, Republican lawmakers reversed course and said a disputed late-night vote on the bill did not follow legislative procedures, rendering the vote moot and giving Democrats a bitterly fought if short-lived victory (Fernandez and Eckholm, 6/26).
Los Angeles Times: Texas Abortion Bill Fight Ends In Chaos After Marathon Filibuster
When Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis arrived at the Capitol in Austin on Tuesday morning wearing pink sneakers, everyone knew that a daylong, marathon filibuster was about to begin. So was a controversy. Davis, 50, a Democrat from Fort Worth, had been specially chosen by her caucus to mount a last-ditch attempt to block sweeping legislation to ban abortions at 20 weeks and force the state's abortion clinics to upgrade or close. Whether she succeeded was unclear (Hennessy-Fiske, 6/26).
NPR: Texas Lawmaker's 11-Hour Filibuster Ended On A Technicality
By midnight Texas time, it was all over but the parliamentary inquiries. After a nearly 11-hour filibuster attempt by state Sen. Wendy Davis to block sweeping restrictions on abortion, the Republican-dominated Texas Senate successfully shut down the filibuster on points of order. (See update at the bottom of this post.) "This is probably the worst night that I've experienced since I've been in the Senate, maybe since I've been in public life," said state Sen. Kirk Watson, a Democrat from Austin (Hu, 6/26).
USA Today: Texas Abortion Bill Misses Deadline
The bill, known as SB 5, would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and force many clinics that perform the procedure to upgrade their facilities and be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. Also, doctors would be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. If signed into law, the measures would close almost every abortion clinic in Texas, a state 773 miles wide and 790 miles long with 26 million people. A woman living along the Mexico border or in West Texas would have to drive hundreds of miles to obtain an abortion. The law's provision that abortions be performed at surgical centers means only five of Texas' 42 abortion clinics are currently designated to remain in operation (Hjelmgaard, 6/26).
Reuters: Marathon Speech Helps Democrats Block Texas Abortion Bill
Texas state Democrats blocked a drive for new abortion restrictions on Wednesday after a marathon speech in the capitol in Austin caused some Republican backers of the bill to cast votes after a midnight deadline. Democrat Senator Wendy Davis spoke for more than 10 hours in a bid to pull down the voting window on a measure that would place a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy (MacLaggan, 6/26).
Fox News: Texas Abortion Bill Falls After Dispute Over Vote
Texas' lieutenant governor acknowledged early Wednesday that Republicans missed their deadline to pass new abortion restrictions after protesters screamed down lawmakers as the final 15 minutes passed before the special legislative session's deadline. Initially, Republicans insisted they had started voting before the midnight deadline and passed the bill that Democrats spent much of Tuesday filibustering. But after official computer records and printouts of the voting record showed the vote took place on Wednesday, and then were changed to read Tuesday, senators convened for a private meeting (6/26).
CNN: Texas Abortion Bill Dies As Confusion Marks End Of Session
The Texas legislature's special session ended in chaos and confusion early Wednesday, when a marathon filibuster failed -- but so did a Republican effort to pass a bill that would have greatly restricted abortions in the state. The Republican-dominated Senate needed to vote "yea" on the bill by midnight to send it to the governor to sign into law. But at 3 a.m., Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst stepped to the Senate floor to declare the bill dead and the special session over (Payne, 6/26).
In other state-based abortion legislation news --
The New York Times: Lawsuit Challenges North Dakota's Abortion Limits
A women's rights group filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday to block the country's most stringent abortion law, a North Dakota ban on abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy (Eckholm 6/25).
The Associated Press: Panel Adds Abortion Regulations To Ohio Budget
Abortion providers in Ohio would have to inform pregnant women in writing about the presence of a fetal heartbeat before the procedure under a last-minute change slipped into the state budget. The amendment which also requires providers to say, to the best of their knowledge, the statistical probability of bringing the fetus to term was added Tuesday night by a Republican-dominated, six-member legislative committee (Sanner, 6/25).
Des Moines Register: Iowa Group Tries To End 'Telemedicine' Abortions
An Iowa organization opposed to abortions said Tuesday it is asking state medical officials to block a remote-control method of distributing abortion-inducing pills. Iowa Right to Life, based in Des Moines, said in a statement that it has filed petitions that have more than 20,000 signatures with the Iowa Board of Medicine. ... The petitions target a long-distance video system used by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland. The system allows a physician in Des Moines to deliver pills to patients in remote clinics around the state (Petroski, 6/25).
Layoffs, affiliations and big revenue numbers make news at hospitals in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Two Area Health Systems Cut Jobs
Temple University Health System announced the elimination of 11 positions at Fox Chase Cancer Center and 14 at Jeanes Hospital. Officials said efforts were underway to find new jobs in the system for the affected employees, who came from management and nonmanagement ranks but were not involved in patient care. Fox Chase and Jeanes have a combined 3,500 employees (Brubaker, 6/25).
Houston Chronicle: Texas, Nation's Non-Profit Hospitals Grossing Huge Amounts
Five Houston hospitals are among the nation's 100 top-grossing hospitals, two something of a surprise, but the greatest puzzler is one of the two Dallas hospitals on the list. Parkland Hospital, Dallas' equivalent of Ben Taub General Hospital, ranked 57th on the list, released Tuesday by Becker's Hospital Review (6/25).
Boston Globe: Winchester Hospital, Lahey Health Plan To Link
Winchester Hospital's board has signed a letter of intent to affiliate with Lahey Health, the parent organization of Lahey Clinic in Burlington, in the latest example of a community hospital seeking to join a larger health care network as the medical market consolidates. In a joint statement released late Tuesday afternoon, the two parties said they were teaming up to better coordinate care for the patients in communities stretching from Northeastern Massachusetts into Southern New Hampshire. The presidents of Lahey and Winchester both declined requests to discuss their affiliation plans (Weisman, 6/25).
Regulators said the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan delayed treatment -- sometimes for more than 14 days -- for patients who needed mental health care, which is a violation of the law.
Modern Healthcare: California Fines Kaiser $4M For Violating Mental Health Laws
The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan was fined $4 million by the state of California for failing to correct violations of mental health laws, including publishing materials that wrongly said the organization could deny long-term mental health care services to some plan enrollees. The health plan, which is part of the giant, not-for-profit Kaiser Permanente integrated delivery system, also was accused of violating state law by making some patients wait more than 14 days for an initial mental-health appointment (Carlson, 6/25).
Sacramento Bee: Kaiser Mental Health Care Lacking, State Says; HMO Hit With $4 Million Fine
Imposing the second-largest fine in its history, the California Department of Managed Health Care on Tuesday slapped Kaiser health plans with a $4 million penalty for failing to provide mental health treatment in a timely manner. The department also issued a cease and desist order to Kaiser, forbidding the health plan from continuing practices in violation of state law, which ensures equal care for mental and physical health (Craft, 6/26).
A selection of health policy stories from Oregon, California, Minnesota, Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina.
Lund Report: Oregon To Pioneer Electronic Credentialing System To Cut Waste
The Oregon House passed a bill with unanimous support Monday that supporters say could save the economy $150 million in administrative waste by crafting a single credentialing process that all insurers, hospitals and coordinated care organizations can share for thousands of health care providers. If Gov. Kitzhaber signs Senate Bill 604 into law, Oregon will also be the first state to have a uniform, electronic credentialing database where each provider can be quickly accessed. SB 604 passed the Senate unanimously last week. Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford, told The Lund Report that with his medical practice he has to be credentialed each year by up to 40 different insurance companies as well as two different hospitals (Gray, 6/25).
CQ HealthBeat: California Experiment With Managed Care Offers Lessons
When California managed care plans took on the challenge in 2011 of caring for seniors and people with disabilities, the insurers initially didn't know which providers had been caring for the beneficiaries or even how to contact the new enrollees, according to panelists at a Kaiser Family Foundation forum on Tuesday. The session examined lessons from the transition that could apply to other states now shifting patients to such plans (Adams, 6/25).
The New York Times: Poll Finds Rural Voters Are Divided On Federal Role
With the economy rebounding slowly in some areas, 59 percent said the federal government had at least some responsibility to help the "working poor advance economically." At least 8 in 10 supported job training, Medicaid for health care, and tax refunds for low-income Americans (Yaccino, 6/25).
MPR News: The Fight For Rural Health Care Funding In Washington
It's harder to find allies for rural health care in a polarized Congress in Washington, a rural health policy official told attendees of the Minnesota Rural Health Conference here this morning. "We have lost a lot of the moderates," said Maggie Elehwany, policy vice president of the Kansas-based National Rural Health Association. "We've always found our greatest champions to be moderates in both parties." That's because those on the far left tend to be more urban and those on the far right might be primarily concerned with reducing budgets. She did say that Minnesota's rural hospitals and clinics are better represented than those in many states, by Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar. "You don't have to do a lot of selling," she said (Vogel, 6/25).
The Associated Press: Report: La. Has Too Few Dentists For Its Residents
Louisiana has one of the worst dentist shortages in the country, according to a new national report released Tuesday, only days before the state will slash its Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental care. The analysis, released by the nonpartisan Pew Charitable Trusts, says more than 24 percent of Louisiana's population is underserved by dentists and living in an area with a shortage of dentists, second only to Mississippi and tied with Alabama (Deslatte, 6/25).
Georgia Health News: Blue Cross Incentive Plan Focuses On Primary Care
Primary care doctors could earn as much as 30 percent more in a medical quality incentive plan that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia will launch July 1. The president of Blue Cross of Georgia, Morgan Kendrick, said the incentive pay program will begin in Athens, Rome, Columbus and Savannah, with more than 250 physicians serving 58,000 patients. The company will roll out the program in the Atlanta market and elsewhere in the state over the rest of the year, Kendrick said. Blue Cross is the leading health insurer in Georgia, with more than 2 million members (Miller, 6/25).
North Carolina Health News: NC Legislators Wade Into Debate Over Breast Cancer Screening
Legislators are poised this week to require physicians to talk to their mammogram patients about dense breasts. But the policy may not be keeping pace with the science (Hoban, 6/25).
California Healthline: Transparency Sought For Health Care Department
The Senate Committee on Appropriations yesterday unanimously approved a bill aimed at creating greater transparency and accountability at the state's Department of Health Care Services. "This bill is inspired by information we gathered at an oversight hearing last October and by seeing the way the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board conducts its business," said Assembly member Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), author of AB 209. The oversight hearing last fall dealt with the transition of children from the Healthy Families program (which had been overseen by MRMIB) to Medi-Cal managed care plans (which are administered by DHCS). The contrast in transparency between the two state agencies was the impetus for the bill, Pan said (Gorn, 6/25).
Politico: Facing The Truth About Entitlements
As currently structured, entitlement programs can't keep up with longer life expectancies and changing demographics. Soon, one-third of Americans will be retired and will spend one-third of their lives in retirement. Meanwhile, the ratio of workers to retirees has dropped precipitously. During this decade and the next, the number of Americans 65 or older will jump 75 percent, while those of working age will nudge up by just 7 percent. Within a decade, the total price for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will reach $3 trillion a year, but we'll have fewer workers paying into the system and supporting those growing costs (R. Bruce Josten, 6/25).
USA Today: What Americans Need To Know On Health Care
This fall, just four months from now, tens of millions of Americans who don't have health insurance will be able to get a quality plan tailored to their specific needs and budget. It's a major attribute of the nation's new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, and we need to make sure that Americans who are eligible gain access as quickly as possible. ... In the absence of facts, too many Americans know too little about the law that will have an immediate impact on the health of their families -- and that means they won't be able to take advantage of the benefits. To put it simply: whether you support the Affordable Care Act or not -- and I happen to be a strong supporter -- everyone should support making sure that all Americans have the basic information about their legal rights so that they can make the best decisions for their families (Donna Shalala, 6/25).
The New York Times: Economix: The Perils Of Significant Misunderstandings In Evaluating Medicaid
Whether you like or dislike the Affordable Care Act, it helps to understand the distinction between statistical significance and practical importance. Taxpayers want to know whether the government programs they pay for actually make a difference, so measurement is a critical part of policy evaluation. ... Statistical significance has little to do with "significance" as understood by laymen, who think of practical importance when they read that term. ... The commentators on both sides of the Medicaid debate made exactly this error (Casey B. Mulligan, 6/26).
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Expand Medicaid?
As state leaders and members of the public ponder the merits of expanding Medicaid, they might pause to ask what advocates of expansion hope to achieve. If the aim simply is to provide more health care to the poor and near-poor, expansion would do that. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found Medicaid expansion in Oregon "did increase the use of health services." But that is different from actually making people healthier. Medicaid expansion has not been shown to do that (6/24).
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Medicaid Reform Must Come First
Medicaid is a broken program that needs serious reform. Until the federal government gives Virginia the flexibility to make these reforms – and until we can be absolutely certain Virginia taxpayers will not get stuck with a massive bill – Virginia cannot begin to consider expansion (James M. O'Bannon and R. Steven Landes, 6/23).
San Antonio Express: Opposition To Medicaid Expansion Misguided
Gov. Rick Perry's comment that Medicaid is a failed federal program is just plain wrong. Medicaid, overall, has been a success since it began in 1965. The Medicaid expansion will save lives and reduce poverty; have little to no cost and save money; boost local economies and save jobs; build a stronger health care system for all Texans; and provide roughly 1.5 million uninsured Texans with health coverage (Juan Flores, 6/21).
Philadelphia Inquirer: Expanding Medicaid Is The Smart Thing To Do
From New York to New Mexico, and Oregon to Alabama, state officials with diverse political outlooks are reaching the same conclusion: Expanding Medicaid under Obamacare is simply too good an idea to pass up. Not only that, it's a smart, compassionate public-health policy. But a still-reluctant Gov. Corbett and the Republican-controlled General Assembly continue to stall on Pennsylvania's adding more of its working poor to the health-insurance program. Unless they make a decision before the state budget process concludes this month, Corbett and company likely will stand by as Gov. Christie and other GOP governors start to reap billions in new federal aid for their states next year (6/24).
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: HHS Mandate Puts Our Religious And Personal Liberties At Stake
The legality and the right to purchase contraceptives — or an abortion for that matter — are not at stake here. Please take note of two words: "force" and "pay." Without getting into the merits of Catholic teaching and how men and women cooperate with our Creator to bring life into the world and the profound responsibility that goes along with human sexuality, it must be asked: If government can force Catholics to pay for something we find morally wrong, why can't it force you to participate in something you object to? (Archbishop Robert Carlson, 6/26).
The Washington Post: On Abortion, Republicans Treat Women Like Children
Last week, the House passed the most restrictive abortion bill to come to a vote in Congress in the past decade. Despite the efforts of Democrats and a few moderate Republicans who spoke out against the unconstitutional bill, which bans almost all abortions after 20 weeks, it passed 228 to 196. This is only the latest blow in the GOP's all-out assault on women's reproductive rights (Katrina vanden Heuvel, 6/25).
MedPage Today: Recipe For Population Health
It strikes me that, in order to answer the Affordable Care Act's call for us to aggressively pursue population health, we must first understand what the recipe calls for. ... for those of us who practice medicine, positive change will come when we are able to reconcile population-wide, evidence-based recommendations with individualized care that is guided by each patient's unique genetic makeup (Dr. David Nash, 6/25).
Lund Report: Rationing Care Is The Wrong Way To Cut Oregon's Medicaid Costs
Imagine walking into your doctor's office and seeing someone else standing there, telling you they get to make the final decision about your healthcare. Instead of doctors and patients making important health decisions, they make the final call. For those in Oregon's social safety net, that day is coming. The Health Evidence Review Commission, or HERC, is designed specifically to cut healthcare costs by overriding decisions made by doctors and their patients (Debbie McCabe and Lorren Sandt, 6/26).
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- ItalianNana Mar 9, 2013 04:41 PM
...the first time you had caviar?
Swoon with pleasure after your first taste of foie gras? Did your eyes roll back in your head the first time you had sushi?
How about sauerkraut? Anchovy? Buttermilk?
Some people who love them say these foods "are an acquired taste." Did you have to learn to like goat's cheese? Maybe black coffee, kimchi or capers, menudo or pickled beets?
And if you did "acquire a taste," how? Did you revisit some food from time to time and find your acceptance growing? Did someone prepare the offensive food in a new, tasty way? Did you find it more enjoyable with candlelight, white linen and a glass or two of wine? Or have you given up and made peace with the fact you're never gonna like sweetbreads?
I'd to hear your experiences. As a terribly picky child, forced to sit at the table for hours trying to choke down cold liver, I know that method is not conducive to broadening one's food repertoire.
Sushi, goat cheese, sweetbreads, I loved right away (okay, sweetbreads I liked, not loved). Deeply flavored fish I had to get over myself and the family bias against "fishy-flavored fish" first, but I've done it and I love it. Ditto caviar. Sauerkraut I grew up with, so it's a given in a German-rich culinary history. I've loved capers forever. et cetera. I think I was Mexican in a previous life, so I love that tartness added to almost anything.
I can't stand liver in any form except sometimes I really love some braunschweiger on crackers. And i"ve had liver not knowing i was eating liver and hated it, so I think I came by it honestly.
I really love gizzards, the only other organ meat I seek out (gave up on sweetbreads a long time ago, they were okay, but not memorable). A local fast-food place makes awesome fried gizzards, and everything else they do (luckywishbone.com).
re: EWSflash
I can identify with the fishy-fish thing. Lots of people in my generation started with fish sticks dunked in catsup and tuna sandwiches on white bread slathered with mayo and graduated to fish and chips, then a mild broiled halibut and on to salmon and even sardines and anchovies. Too bad there wasn't a starter for cilantro. :-)
re: ItalianNana
Nana, i took to cilantro like a duck to water. And once visited a friend on the Kenai peninsula, we caught a halibut and somebody dropped a few salmons off at my friend's house for smoking, so I cut off a couple of steaks and I have never been so seriously satisfied before or since, culinarily speaking. We also ate a lot of king crab, before it had been totally fished out of the area. Man, oh man, those were the days.
re: ItalianNana
I hope that someday in cool weather you grow some cilantro of your own and find out how wonderful it is when homegrown, it's a cool weather plant, BTW
Instantly loved chicken livers.
Still won't eat fishy-fish, caviar, sauerkraut/kimchi, horseradish, bleu cheese.
Took a while for goat cheese and cilantro, but love them both now.
Started with white zinfandel and now love a deep cabernet.
EDIT: NEVER sushi. It's a lot of white rice, I don't like wasabi, raw fish is a major no-go for a former colitis sufferer. Actually, I think that where sushi is concerned, the Emperor Has No Clothes.
re: sandylc
Haha, started with white zin too. Now love Pinot Noir or a full bodied Cab. Don't like wasabi or seaweed and prefer my rice hot. I'm still trying with new tastes but suspect that the sushi-guru is buck naked. Maybe I'm just jealous that so many people seem to enjoy a lean, cool food.
re: ItalianNana
Yikes, forgot about that fishy salty seaWEED crap that people eat in sushi!!!! Yes, I, too, am sometimes jealous that I don't enjoy sushi; but then I just decide no one else is enjoying it, either - they're just pretending so they can be cool. My way is cheaper and more pleasant.
re: sandylc
OMG- no, no! I love seaweed in so many forms! Nori is somehing I'll eat like potato chips. I crave it, in fact.
Loving sushi has nothing to do with being cool, for me at least, so kindly don't pigeonhole all of us, plus millions of Japanese people, as poseurs or dilettantes. I';m trying to be nice here, but frankly, my back is up, and wonder how awful your sushi experiences have been to have you drum up that snotty opinion of people that enjoy sushi.
re: EWSflash
hear hear! for me, loving sushi is about enjoying the freshness of the seafood, the artistry of the chef, not about being cool.
re: EWSflash
My opinion is honest, not snotty. Rotten fish is not a good taste, no matter which way you package it.
re: sandylc
If it's rotten then it's not sushi. I've had some tired sushi and sashimi, mostly at some low-end places in Nashville, and a Japanese friend would not even go in the door: "It isn't SUSHI!" she said. Sorry you don't like it; my first trial of it was one of those experiences where you realize this is and always has been your favorite food - you just didn't know that until you finally got some.
re: Will Owen
My remark about rotten fish refers to seaweed.
re: sandylc
but just as some of us taste cilantro as soap, not all of us taste seaweed as rotten fish.
Some of us find the taste very agreeable, and having not even a hint of rotten fish.
There are also *plenty* of forms of sushi that haven't even been near a sheet of nori, particularly if you widen the definition to include sashimi.
Not yucking someone else's yum, etc., etc., etc.
re: sunshine842
Not yumming someone else's yuck., etc., etc.
re: sandylc
I don't like sushi either. I wish I did as it's both my best friend and SO's favorite thing to eat out. I've been to countless sushi places with well-meaning friends that say "well you haven't had it at THIS place". I just don't like it, no matter how good of sushi it is. I did have good sashimi once, at the aforementioned dinner at Tru that was pretty good, but that was of the highest quality and not something you find often.
re: Bacardi1
Not writing a book, but would happily read your "chapters." As Sinicle notes below, the reasons for loving or hating a food or dish are very complicated, often very emotional and probably frequently not consciously known to us. That is evident on threads about "poor people food you still crave" or the ones about weird things we ate and loved as kids and still consider a guilty pleasure. It's fascinating. I know that nearly all my favorite foods are cold weather things and I am much happier in the fall than the spring. Don't know why. I would love to hear more. :-)
I was a very limited eater as a child. Never pressure from parents but I grew up in the fifties when my parents thought anything new and different was a plus. Now I eat almost anything and never needed to "acquire a taste." My wife worked very hard to be able to eat sashimi, which she now loves....but steak must be well done.
Food preferences, IMO, are an extremely complex subject encompassing both genetics and multiple psychological issues. It's always interesting to listen to others' take on it, but difficult to draw any valid conclusions.
There's no such thing as 'acquired taste' per se. If I don't like something why would I keep eating it and hope that, eventually, I'll like it?
OTOH, there were things I didn't like as a child and wouldn't eat but, tastes change and, as an adult, I've found that I do like some of the foods I once turned down.
re: mucho gordo
Oh I do think many foods/dishes are an acquired taste. I would love to enjoy all flavors! It would make eating in all restaurants a pleasure. It would make world travel a fuller experience and eating a wide variety of healthy foods much easier. I have "learned" to like and ultimately really enjoy many things. Oh, I'm not going to expend any effort acquiring a taste for clavier or foie gras, but I work at appreciating all fruits (inc mango) and vegetables (inc beets and kale). And I really wish I shared my husband's pleasure in a medium rare lamb chop or steamed mussels.
Does that make sense?
re: mucho gordo
I've acquired tastes for some things I despised well into adulthood, as chronicled elsewhere on this thread. One taste I was conscious of acquiring in the course of a single meal was for cilantro. Our House-O-Hippies did a Mexican Night, and my girlfriend's contribution was chicken enchiladas Suizas. They included an herb I'd thought was parsley, while also wondering what that odd smell was, and then I tasted it. Ack, SOAP! But the rest of it was good, so I tried another bite. Two bites later I was hooked; it still tasted kinda like soap, but I loved it anyway. It still does, I still do.
re: mucho gordo
Yes there is- I hated avocados as a kid, I don't know why, until my folks were having an "adult" party once and there was some guacamole in the fridge, 1960s style, with bacon in it, and I loved the heck out of it, and have loved avocados ever since.
Today the only thing I don't like is gelatinous meats . I just cannot. do. it.
Chopped liver, liver with onions are foods I maybe crave once a year and I grew up around Russians who ate liver often. And herring, and loved fatty meats and deli.
The Ethiopian side of my family was always such a mystery when my Great Aunt would cook the whole house was rich in spices. The vegetable dishes were fine to my young tongue but the meats took me quite some time to truly appreciate. I didn't eat meat of any kind until I was probably 23. The breads that were baked in my home and my grandparents bakery were what I craved and grew up filling up on. Bread remains my favorite food group. Old-fashioned bakers have my heart.
The only food that took me a long time to LOVE is mushrooms. I'm not sure why. But a college pal turned me onto mushrooms by taking me to a farm that grew all sorts and that just changed my mind about 'shrooms forever.
As for your subject title, lick the spoon-my deep deep devotion to all things pudding includes getting to lick the spoon. Never met a pudding spoon I didn't like and I've fought my siblings for the spoon many times! Even if the meal was meh, the pudding was always outstanding.
If I have to learn to like something, I'm just not inclined to eat/drink it, especially at my age!
I grew up with sauerkraut and buttermilk. Did not like liver as a kid, and rarely order it unless recommended. I went searching for a tripe recipe for over 10 years and found a wonderful rendition in Strassbourg, France.
My parents love to travel and travel to eat. My sister and I are the same way. My first sushi in Tokyo was fish bait. But I had a patient teacher and knew how to appreciate and enjoy it for itself by the end of the evening.
I have been to Sardinia, but had no desire to eat cheese that had passed through a maggot. The same with a duck foetus. But I am game to try a thousand year old egg.
The foods that immediately sprang to my mind are oddly enough scotch and a dry martini. They took some time.
I was not picky. As an infant, the only time I was known to refuse food was when we were snowbound at a roadside hotel in Maine, and the only baby food they had was strained green beans. And of course that was when I decided I did not like strained green beans.
We were all required to eat what was being served, at least a few bites. That evolved over several years from the earlier, stricter policy of eating all you were served, period, which saw me spend an entire afternoon in front of a plate of stewed tomatoes. Our family's recipe for that included torn-up pieces of stale bread, which to my taste totally contaminated the dish and rendered it dreadful. My mother finally understood that and removed the bread, and told me to eat at least two bites of the remaining tomato, thus saving the situation for both of us.
Up into adulthood, soppy bread and sweet custard were the only things I couldn't stand, at least until a girlbuddy insisted I try her favorite goat cheese, that brown Gjetost. That gave me a third, and almost kept me from trying chevre. I got over my soppy-bread thing as soon as I got into real bread, and have recently begun to enjoy some sweet custards. But for the most part, the effect on me of being required to eat everything as a child produced an adult who is almost obsessed with doing exactly that.
As a kid...hated: mushrooms, tomatoes, peanut butter & jelly, pizza, Chinese, macaroni & cheese, pecan pie (and probably a zillion others, but those are the ones that instantly come to mind)
As a late-teen...hated: beer, wine
Now...like: tomatoes, beer, champagne
Now...still don't like: mushrooms, peanut butter & jelly, pecan pie (although I probably don't "hate" it), wine (but like champagne)
Loved caviar -- and love roe on all kinds of sushi, although I'm not a big fan of uni -- go figure. Foie gras was an instant love.
Sauerkraut wasn't a favorite until I got to Germany and tried it made with wine -- LOVE that, and really, really like the Alsatian version with beer. Anchovies draped over roasted red peppers.
Our French friend did his best to find a cheese I wouldn't eat, buying progressively stinkier and more-aggressive cheese. He gave up after a few years. (but still won't admit I won... :) )
Still can't drink buttermilk straight, have tried French andouille from award-winning producers and still can't figure out why someone who would put something that smells like THAT in your mouth, and won't eat beets unless I risk a major social gaffe by avoiding them.
We were allowed one food as kids that we didn't have to eat -- mine was beets, and my sister's was mushrooms. She'll eat mushrooms now, but I still won't eat beets if I can get out of it.
But I was pretty adventurous as a kid, and would try something just because it looked different.
For me it was most vegetables. Like, I thought I hated green beans. But, the only kind I ever had growing up was canned. Then, in my 20's, I had some fresh sauteed green beans at a steakhouse, and from then on I was hooked. They're now one of my favorites. Same for many other vegetables. Once I had them fresh and cooked properly, I really enjoyed them.
Funny story about caviar though. About 5 years ago, I was in my mid 20s, during the real estate boom in Chicago, making a lot of money, and a friend of mine, who had recently graduated from Northwestern law school and was working his first "big firm" job in CA was back in town visiting. We decided to go eat at Tru since we thought we were kind of a big deal....even though all our previous meals together were at comfort food or burger joints. We got all dressed up and went there, ordered the 12 course chef's tasting menu. The first item out (the amuse bouche) had caviar on it. We both tasted it, and both tried our hardest not to spit it out... since we were being so fancy and all. We both managed to get it down, but after that my friend told the waiter to not bring us anything else with caviar on it. The rest of the meal was great by the way. The only other thing I didn't eat was the squid ink pasta, but we traded plates (we each got different things each course) and he ate it happily.
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Same story for me with the veggies. As soon as I tasted lovely, nicely cooked fresh ones, there was no looking back.
I agree about caviar. Disgustingly old-fishy. What are people thinking?
I was never really a picky eater, but it took me into adulthood to like sushi. Same for brussel sprouts and mushrooms.
Things I've never liked and never will are liver, mustard and coffee.
I have tried all sorts of mustard from French's yellow to the fancy schmancy stuff, and I just can't make myself be ok with it. If it's in a recipe, I'll sub something or leave it out. It just has a yuck factor that I can't describe.
Loved sushi, sauerkraut, buttermilk, kimchi, brined (not salted) capers, beets prepared any way, seaweed, & goat cheese from day one.
Chicken livers too, but my first exposure was in the form of Jewish deli chopped liver so that helped :)
High-end caviar is wonderful, but the over-salted cheap stuff makes me gag. My first experience with it was NOT pleasant, but once I discovered *good* caviar I changed my stance on it.
Re: wine, I chugged white zinfandel in college because it was cheap, not because it tasted good. Developed my wine palate in my 20's, actually drank reds exclusively for several years, and eventually expanded my tastes to include a true appreciation for most whites as well (though not that white zin).
I've never had menudo or sweetbreads, though I would like to try both. But you can keep the foie - that's one thing I have no desire to sample.
I've always appreciated black coffee, but I prefer it with cream & a little sweetener.
Ginger and cilantro both tasted like soap to me when I was younger, but strangely enough something changed around age 25 and they're now two of my favorite flavors.
I absolutely *hated* anything coconut until a few years ago, now I adore it.
Tongue does NOT sit well with me, I just can't get past the texture.
Other non-mainstream things I've loved since my first taste - pickled herring, uni & escargots.


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Football, by nature, is a violent sport. In the Pro Bowl, players are hesitant to actually hit each other, and the resulting exhibition is just not that exciting. The offenses roll over apathetic defenses, and the competitive aspect of the game is completely gone.
The NFL realizes this, and understands that no one really cares about the Pro Bowl, so they're trying to mix it up a bit to garner a little more excitement.
Starting this year, the teams will no longer be AFC vs NFC. The two leading vote-getters will select their teams of 43 players out of the pool of selected players, with the assistance of Jerry Rice, Deion Sanders, and a couple NFL.com fantasy football champions.
Theoretically, we could see Von Miller trying to sack teammate Peyton Manning, or Colin Kaepernick trying to evade teammates Patrick Willis, Aldon Smith, and others.
Another change is that they will no longer feature kick returns due to safety concerns. This angered Josh Cribbs, one of the best returners in the league.
So our traditional pro bowl, that represents the best players of the year, has been officially tainted. Smh #fail #intramuralfootball #flagfootball— Josh Cribbs (@JoshCribbs16) July 31, 2013
Other changes, via ESPN:
• A two-minute warning will be added to the first and third quarters in addition to the traditional rule in the second and fourth quarters. Possession also will change hands after each quarter.
• Defenses will be allowed to play Cover 2 and press coverage. In the past, only man coverage had been allowed, except for goal-line situations.
• Changes will be made to the game clock during the two-minute warning, with the clock stopping if the offense doesn't gain at least 1 yard, in order to encourage offenses to try to gain yardage at the end of each quarter.
• In addition, the clock will start after an incomplete pass on the signal of the game referee except during the two-minute warnings and the final five minutes of the game.
• The game will use a 35-second/25-second play clock instead of the traditional 40-second/25-second clock.
• Also, the game clock will not stop on sacks of the quarterback, outside of the game's final two minutes.
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Here's something rare: Let's talk about Nevis. Well, first I wanted to thank Richard in British Columbia for asking his local bookstore to stock a few A Sail of Two Idiots copies so other sailors in the area could get easy access to them. Cheers back at you, my Canadian friend. What do Nevis and Richard have to do with each other? Well, Richard is a Nevis part timer. He and his wife, Liz, have been working with the Nevis Yacht Club to entice more kids to learn to sail (read more here). It's a good cause, so if you want to participate you can contact the Club. Nevis gets short thrift on my blog because we rarely make it over there, but I am aware that some of you might like to visit. Richard has informed me that the Nevis Forum is back online, so be sure to hop on there if you have any questions or comments about that island. The Nevis Tourism Authority has a nice website too and you can request a weekly email that lists upcoming events on Nevis so you don't miss anything. I highly recommend it, especially if you live there. I receive that email but haven't figured out how to share it without muddying up my calendar currently full of St. Kitts activities.
Speaking of St. Kitts...Like anywhere, historic places and things tend to get underfunded and are under-appreciated until they're gone. Then everyone wonders whatever happened to.... Independence Square (formerly called Pall Mall Square) in downtown Basseterre used to be a place to auction slaves. Not exactly wanting to be reminded of that every day for perpetuity, the plaza was converted into a park and a fountain was placed in the center giving locals and visitors a pretty place to dally (and eat some iQueen ice cream). The fountain is looking rather tired (and crooked) these days (last restoration project was in 2008). If anyone is interested in helping out with the restoration of the fountain in downtown's Independence Square, please contact Liz Pereira of Pereira Tours or:
Randolph Hamilton
Manager - Special Projects
St. Kitts Tourism Authority
Pelican Mall, Bay Road
(869) 465 4040 (Ext. 136)
It's a shame it's gotten to this stage, but if enough people contribute funds and muscle to the chore, it can once again be a place you want to spend some time. Liz has already done quite a bit of legwork on this and discovered the following: The total material cost is EC$921.81…However, Public Works Dept reports that tins of paint left over from the last painting of the fountain still remain in a store room at the National Trust/Museum. Liz has obtained the Water Dept's commitment to ensure that all will done to ensure the supply of water and maintenance of the fountain.
Public Works will grab the paint from the museum and will provide workers. A 50lb bucket of granulated chlorine costs EC$1000. Liz is checking with St. Kitts Industrial Supplies regarding donating chlorine. She's working now to see what it would take to keep it running in the future. Way to hustle Liz! Now give her some money!
Ever wonder what it was like to live on island? Interested in what's happening on St. Kitts and Nevis? Sick of not finding out about things until they're over? Tired of outdated links and information? Then this website is for you. It's both a personal blog and guide to events on both islands. Come and visit - either literally or virtually! Note the below map is interactive, so zoom in if you want more detail.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Fountain and Some rare Nevis Info
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On another note… Our first newsletter will be coming out soon! Those of you who are ACB fans, but have not signed up for the newsletter and would like to receive it, should just put your email in the box in the upper right corner of the page.
As you may have noticed, we have been very busy adding content to the website and you can now find the Amish hardwood furniture collections here. You can choose from a wide selection of dining furniture including tables, chairs, hutches, cupboards and bedroom furniture including bed frames and headboards, night stands, dressers, and other bedroom furniture. Next up is living room furniture and children's furniture including cribs and changing tables.
We are still working on making the site shop-able, but figuring out shipping details is proving to be a challenge.
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It's been a couple of weeks since we have written a new post. That's because we have been very busy getting the website ready to go shopable. We have added lots of new items, descriptions, color chips and photos. We have checked pricing, furniture dimensions and are working on shipping costs now. The website itself has changed a bit and will continue to grow and evolve as time goes on. Our main concern is making sure that you have a a pleasant and problem free transaction when you purchase from the website. Your satisfaction is, of course, very important to us so where it may appear that we are taking a while to get things done, just know that we are "taking our time"!
Best wishes from the crew at The Amish Country Barn
Check out the new category: Outdoor Furniture, more on this subject soon!
Northeast Lantern and The Copper House
For those of you that watch New Hampshire Chronicle, you may have seen the piece that aired on February 16 about Northeast Lantern.
(If you didn't see it, you can watch it HERE.)
Northeast Lantern has been in business since 1987 making the finest brass and copper lighting. Each light is handcrafted in their Exeter facility here in NH with such care and attention to detail that they carry a lifetime guarantee.
We bring this company up to showcase a great product made here in NH by NH craftsmen and craftswomen by an environmentally friendly company. In short, we love Northeast Lantern and we love their lighting.
We do carry a few of their lights but for a very good selection, please visit our friends at The Copper House on Dover Road in Epsom NH or see their website at TheCopperHouse.com
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The original price on these was $52 but you can adopt one today for $26! They are framed in solid wood and held together very solidly with pocket screws. A few of them have some minor blemishes, but, hey… they're 1/2 off!
There are a limited number of these available at this price so claim yours now.
You'll find them HERE There is a picture of each color available.
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I like unique things. I really like unique things that are beautiful… now add enviromentally friendly, repurposed, hierloom quality and VERY reasonably priced and I'm super interested!!
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Progression on the new Amish Country Barn website.
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Mostly furniture this time around but I'm sure there is another trip coming up very soon that will have a little bit of everything. Here a re a few pieces that just came off of the truck.
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There goes the neighborhood
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3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Sleeps 6 With Lake Frontage and Private Docks
Gorgeous views of North Lake Leelanau greet you from every room in this bright and inviting vacation home. 'North Manitou' feels like home with a cozy living room and lake view from every window. Each bedroom has it's own sliding door out to a private balcony or deck area with seating.
Enjoy the sunrise and your morning coffee from the house deck or stroll down the hillside steps and across the street to 200 feet on the lake. Dock your boat - or rent one! - for 18 miles of Lake Leelanau water sport fun! 'North Manitou' has a large lawn for family fun and games. The fire pit area is great for s'mores & sunset watching. Meals are easy in the full kitchen, on the grill - or in the village!
Do you have a larger group? Contact us for details on also renting the attached 1000 square foot one king bedroom/full kitchen & living/one bath apartment that is available for rental with the house or separately to accommodate two more people. The apartment - the 'South Manitou' - Listing #508885 can be opened up to the house or locked off for privacy. It has a private entrance, parking, patio, balcony & dock.
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Rebecca purchased this house in 2013