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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for Dec. 3. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the "Crime" tab.
Michael Giles, 43 — simple possession of marijuana, shoplifting first offense, possession of drug paraphernalia
Tiheem Khiry Pollard, 21— giving false information, driving under suspension
Jason Ouffre, 34 — criminal domestic violence
Kimberly Jean Markwalter, 41 — possession of 28 grams or less of marijuana
Evalyn Lyndal Rice, 34 — hold for general sessions court
Devon Cordell Davis, 21 — possession with intent to distribute cocaine first offense commitment, possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1/2 mile of a school or playground
Cameron Gene Clark, 22 — hold per general sessions court
Leonard Antwain Hinton, 49 — driving under suspension
Janice Bledsoe Belger, 56 —possession of methamphetamine
Jan Russell Thompson, 76 — governor's warrant for Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, Texas
Gary West, 34 — driving under the influence, driving under suspension, unlawful carrying of a pistol
Sean Demitrus Howell, 32 — failure to appear and pay fine in court
Timothy Lavester Carter, 45 — hold for North Augusta Department of Public Safety
William Thomas Proctor, 38 — contempt of court failure to comply with a court order, grand larceny, open container of beer, littering
Lakeidra Janea Thomas, 19 — shoplifting less than $2,000 second offense
Brandy Patricia Wilson, 30 — driving under suspension, driving under the influence
Andrew Jon Powell, 30 — driving without a license
Lee Romulus Hollis, 36 — hold for Marion County Sheriff's Office
Willie Robert Martin, 57 — hold for North Augusta Department of Public Safety
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Verizon iPhone didn't meet initial sales expectations?
BGR is reporting that, according to one of their Apple sources, the first week of sales for the new Verizon iPhone were purportedly smaller than Apple and Verizon expected. The figures were drawn from five Apple retails stores covering the first five days of availability, including two "very, very prominent" locations and show a dwindling margin between AT&T and Verizon sales after the first 48 hours of availability:
- Thursday: Verizon = 909, AT&T = 539
- Friday: Verizon = 916, AT&T = 680
- Saturday: Verizon = 660, AT&T = 471
- Sunday: Verizon = 796, AT&T = 701
- Monday: Verizon = 711, AT&T = 618
The difference between Verizon and AT&T sales were as low as 12% by day four, although the Verizon iPhone still managed to out-sell that of AT&T. We're not exactly sure what Apple's expectations were, but regardless it looks like the Verizon iPhone has still been out-selling the AT&T iPhone since day one.
They were also told that online pre-orders between Verizon and Apple amounted to around 550,000 units after selling out within the first 18 hours. The majority of Verizon iPhone buyers were Android switchers at 30% followed by sales to ex-Blackberry users at 25%. Only 14% of Verizon iPhone sales were to former AT&T iPhone users.
There are probably a fair amount of people still locked into contracts, on family plans, or corporate accounts who may have to wait to switch. That could be a gradual process to say the least. Still, given all the hype do you think store sales numbers should have been higher out of the gate? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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Verizon iPhone didn't meet initial sales expectations?
Can anyone else read? Look at the numbers. Verizon blew AT&T out of the water each day. Thurs - 169%, Fri- 135%, Sat - 140%, Sun - 114%, Mon - 115%. And that's after it's been out for over 6 months and after selling 550,000 online, which AT&T didn't. That looks like a complete blow out to me.
Can you also understand that maybe more people bought the iPhone 4 on Verizon vs AT&T, cause they never had a chance to buy the iphone/iphone3G/iPhone3Gs the last 4 years ? ;)
Chill out guys. They both are still doing very well. It's about apple and the amount of money they are making and it's amazing.
Before you correct someone's math make sure you know what you're talking about, which you clearly don't. 701 is 88% of 796. The article incorrectly stated that, 796 is 12% more than 701 but it is 14% more, or as OMG correctly calculated, 796 is 114% of 701.
So congratulations, you, Alex, and the author all fail at math - OMG passes.
All of you guys would be great at marketing because you all know how to make the numbers say what you want them too. What it comes down to is on that 1 day VZW sold 14% 95 more iPhones than AT&T at that sampling of Apple Stores. Not very impressive when you think about the fact that the phone has been on AT&T for 4 years and there is a saturation point with AT&T customers already.
The real question should be what is the abandonment rate of AT&T to VZW? Better yet how many people were so mad at AT&T that they were willing to pay the ETF to go to VZW? What it all comes down to is that Apple sold 796 iPhones in that store that they probably would not have sold if the iPhone was still exclusively on AT&T.
To say "it looks like the Verizon iPhone has still been out-selling the AT&T iPhone since day one" is just non-sensical. Day one being the first day iPhone was available on Verizon? Well of course! People who wanted the AT&T version had six months already to shop. How do Verizon's first week numbers compare to iPhone 4's first week numbers last June? That's what matters.
Or rather what IPhone 5's numbers will be on each carrier if launched the same day (if Verizon doesn't again lag 6 months behind).
To me, if iPhone 4's are selling equally well on AT&T this late in the product cycle as they now are on Verizon, that seems like a big failure on Verizon's part to me. But I'm willing to without judgement to iP5.
Very true...AT&T is the seasoned iPhone carrier and is still going strong. As long as they release iPhone 5 on the same day that will be the true test
yah, but whos to say apple doesnt take the cash from att and give iphone 5 exclusive to them for 6 months.. as i see it apple will play att and verizon against each other and give exclusive first 6 months to the higest bidder... i bet iphone 5 will not be avail at same time on both networks..
Yeah the wording needs to be precise or your numbers will be misinterpreted. OMG's numbers are valid calculations, but they represent Verizon's numbers as a percentage of AT&T's. In your own statement you also can't say a 15% difference - a difference is an absolute - it can't be a percentage. So Verizon sold 15% more, than AT&T on Monday, but AT&T only sold 13% less than Verizon.
ROFL. Thats's what Apple and Verizon get.
- People are waiting because they are wondering about iPhone 5
- Verizon is a tyrant with contracts. If they had an easier/more liberal upgrade policy they may have had more takers
- It is only a month an a 1/2 after xmas. Lots of people already got phones and Verizon was not friendly with their policy where that was concerned.
- Really? I can't talk and surf @ the same time. NO DEAL
- You are offering Unlimited data but you will throttle me if I use too much? RUFKM? And you say your network can handle it. Riiiiiiiight NO DEAL.
Personally I wish all the AT&T dropped call complainers would go ahead already and GTFO so the network will open up. I'm not necessarily an AT&T Fan anymore but I love my iPhone and I like to be able to talk and surf. So I stay.
Plus, blots and news articles everywhere were telling people to wait. When someone worries about "the next best thing" they will wait. Funny thing is people were all impatient about this phone but when it finally came, they decided to wait until the next version.
WHen iPhone 5 comes out we'll see 2x the hype of last year, then we can all sing more Apple praises... until then its a great choice for those entering the smartphone world and those getting out of contract. Slowly but surely.
Nobody will beat Android for bulk, but bulk is not the war Apple is fighting.
Lets wait & see when the ifone 5 appears who would sell more att or verizon
Unless someone either owns stock or is employed by either carrier, why would anyone care who sold more? I would still be with AT&T if there was decent service where I live, work and spend most of my time, but AT&T doesn't and Verizon does (compared where I used to live, AT&T had decent service and Verizon didn't).
As far as waiting until June for iPhone 5, I didn't want to wait, I really liked the iPhone, iPhone 3 and iPhone 3Gs I had with AT&T. I would have upgraded to the iPhone 4, but I moved while I still had the 3Gs and I had to move off AT&T due to service issues. It's worth it for me to buy the Verizon iPhone 4 now, even if there is an iPhone 5 in June, I'll just sell this one and upgrade and pay the difference, no big deal. Personally I don't think the iPhone 5 will come out in June. All the previous models have been released in that time frame, but I think Apple is going to push the release back closer to the holidays. There's no guarantee that Apple will stick to a June release date and with the Verizon iPhone 4 just released in February, I don't know if they would release a new model that replaces a 4 month old phone (yes, I know the AT&T version would be a year old in June), but I don't think Apple will continue to have different release dates about 1/2 a year apart and June is too early to release the next gen of newly released phone.
the reason they say it did not do as well as expected even though they sold more phones that AT&T is the fact that AT&T iPhone 4 sold out every where pretty much on day one. iPhone 4 on Verizon are still in stock. So they supplied a lot more devices for Verizon thinking they would sell throuh them but did not
I would expect numbers to be higher on Verizon. They're launching the iPhone for the first time, while AT&T customers have had access to it for four years now. Note how small a percentage of people were coming over from AT&T. I'd be curious to know the actual number of them that were already iPhone owners, and how many came from other AT&T smart phones when VZW released their model. The blogs all talked about the VZW release day like to second coming, but those numbers tell me it wasn't even close. Considering I have a handset with both carriers, VZW isn't the wireless savior most rabid fanboys purport it to be. I have yet to be impressed in the two years I've carried one of each.
I feel the same, I have the iPhone 4 on AT&T and Verizon and I do not touch my Verizon one as much as I do my AT&T. I downloaded Facebook on my Verizon iPhone and it took a while, I can normally download an app on my AT&T iPhone and watch it finish, my Verizon I had to put it away as it took longer than I expected. Another thing is my job is almost underground so reception is horrible. But I use my AT&T iPhone non stop and my Verizon one, today people were calling me and they could not hear me, one person hung up on me and another had to decipher what I was saying. I am not waiting on my ThunderBolt to replace it as I was hoping I to carry around both iPhones'
I think it will bs funny when we hear reports later this summer of people going to pick up an AT&T phone but apple only has VZW left.
the reason the sales are not where they suppose to be is because the phone is 7months old. Alot of people are going to wait for the iPhone5 to come out. If ATT and VZW both get the phone on the initial day this is how we will determine if VZW iPhone is a failure or not. It also didnt help the matter that the VZW version didnt include the data and talk package that ATT offers. I think in the long run the #s will be about equal once IP5 comes out but still imo think ATT version will out sale because folks are more accustomed to it on ATT as well as the data and talk abilities. VZW needs to make sure IP5 is able to do both if they want to compete.
Why would anyone want this phone when you really want the Droid X? I wouldn't want the iPhone 4. I want an iPhone 4G! Get on it Apple.
I would love to see the prior numbers, and see if AT&T iPhone sales went down after Verizon iDay
Droid X? Like the one Im selling after moving back to the iPhone on Verizon? Not as polished as iOS, sorry.
I don't it's a coincidence the VZ Iphone 4 launched (only) now.
As indicated in some comments it is after Xmas and before the announcement of the new Iphone. Apple most probably wanted to make sure Q1 revenue went up, for Q2 they have the Ipad2 coming -if they can supply- and for Q3/Q4 the new Iphone.
I don't think we need to look much furthur, VZ did the best they could, Apple (shareholders) are the ones in control here.
Verizon customers must be smart, waiting for the iPhone 5!
Looming threat of the iPhone 5 (as many have said already) make these sales a lot more impressive than what they should really have been.
They would of sold more if they offered it to everyone who wanted it at a two year price instead of full retail. But they only offered it to people who either added a line or to people who were eligible for an upgrade. You were SOL if you weren't upgrade eligible or didn't want to add a line. If they said "Hey, everyone can order this at the two year price regardless of eligibility if you renew your contract." They would of seen a lot more sales.
Percentages aside on those locked in various contracts, can't afford it, or holding out for next iPhone are the factors. So taking that in note Verizon still beat At&t after people spent the the last few months on Black Friday/Christmas. Their impressive numbers. What's there to fight over?(Other than Jimi, seems like an individual whose a bit diluted. Someones not as brilliant as they think). There's better things to ponder over. Not the least brig Apple and Verizon expecting even better sales. Guess they sure love those green bills.(Any company would I guess. Remember their not your friends. Profit is the priority in any good store. Sure give everything away. But then whose ass is gonna be panhandling on the street? Exactly. Not so black an white.)
Since Verizon has more customers (I think its like 90 million vs. 80 million for ATT) they should do more sales.
I'm surprised like everyone else that 14% are switching from ATT. Only I thought the number would be lower not higher.
These numbers don't mean squat. When and if the iphone 5 is on both carriers then compare the numbers. As a stock holder I could careless what people buy from what carrier buy buy. I prefer AT&T and always have cause i have better service with calls and data a cheap bill and travel alot. I had verizon and it was a nightmare. And I highly doubt tmobile and sprint will see the iphone anytime soon. Verizon has about 102-104 million subs and att has 96-98 million subs. One of either carrier has more then double the subs as t mob and sprint. I don't see it as being worth it to Apple.
I tried to switch to an iPhone and I was turned down by Verizon. I purchased an LG Vortex Phone in December and we can't stand the phone. It doesn't do what it's supposed to do half the time. The apps are funky and hard to figure out compared to apps on an Apple.
It seems that I am stuck with a phone that we will seldom use for about 2 years. The best place for my android type phone (Vortex) is the closet drawer where it won't cause continuous frustration.
I'm looking forward to a Verizon iPhone in 2013.....(:-(
I don't think this is a shock at all. How many millions did AT&T activate from July up until this launch? All those people are in contracts and unless they are really really unhappy with AT&T I don't think many are willing to pay the ETF just to switch carriers. This summer or even next summer will be the real test indicator when contracts start to end. Right now these numbers mean nothing.
Folks, it's is completely irrelevant about the side by side comps. This is why tech writers shouldn't stray into business.
While they may sell a few more units based on the new factor, the reality is Verizon's subscriber share going to iPhone is minute compared to AT&T's user base already committed to the platform. A lot of catch up still to be done before Verizon is an iPhone contender. That said, any incremental sales (meaning 86% of them since those were the non AT&T switches) is a win for APPLE! That number does have meaning here.
The only valid comparison is the total sales of the first five days vs the total sales of prior 5 days, irregardless of carrier. Why you may ask?
- The only fact that matters here is how many iPhones Apple sells. So the question what increase in total sales was generated by offering on now two carriers.
- Verizon sales day 1 are against AT&T sales for a product that has been selling several years (phone version here is not relevant due to consumer switching behavior). AT&T is selling to the very limited universe of people who haven't gone iPhone over the past several years.
- Based on #2, if you want to compare carrier to carrier, it would suggest Verizon's iPhone launch is a DUD! They're launch sales barely exceed AT&T's mature market sales. That said, in soter sales are a bad proxy since many probably ordered online or direct from Verizon, so you need aggregate sale numbers across all channel outlets here.

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RALEIGH, N.C. When Army Cpl. George Hemphill returned to North Carolina from fighting in World War II, he tried to put the horrors of life as an infantryman behind him by not talking about what he had seen. That included not asking about the Purple Heart he had received and mailed home for safekeeping.
So imagine his confusion when he learned that a Florida man had purchased his medal in 2000 at an antique store in South Carolina with the hope of one day returning it to its rightful owner. And that a man in Vermont now had his Purple Heart and wanted to return it to him in a ceremony to honor his service.
Im just flabbergasted, said Hemphill, 90, of Union Mills. I dont know what to think. Theyre just going out of their way to give it back to me. Im just grateful to them for all the work theyre doing. And the expense, its just something. I dont know how to describe it.
Hemphill will get his Purple Heart in a ceremony this afternoon at the Rutherfordton Community Center. Capt. Zachariah Fike of Burlington, Vt., who runs the nonprofit Purple Hearts Reunited, will present the award to Hemphill, along with a Bronze Star that Hemphill never knew the military had granted him.
Fike has returned 20 of the awards since he started Purple Hearts Reunited in 2009, each time either to the family members of the recipient or to a museum if no family members survived. Today will mark the first time hes reunited a Purple Heart with a living recipient.
Returning these medals brings closure to the families. I absolutely love doing it, said Fike, noting donations dont nearly cover his expenses of buying the Purple Hearts and travel to present them. Ive spent quite a bit of money on this project. I would do it 10 times over because its the right thing to do.
Hemphill received his Purple Heart after being hit by shrapnel Sept. 11, 1944, from enemy sniper fire that blinded him for three weeks. While still in a field hospital, he mailed the Purple Heart to his mother and didnt ask about it again.
For decades, he thought it was in a box of medals that his mother kept. He later gave the box to his daughter, Donna Robbins, who didnt know what medals he had won because her father wouldnt discuss the war with his only child.
The Purple Heart, however, never got to Hemphills mother. Its exact whereabouts are unknown until October 2000, when Robert Blum of Pensacola, Fla., paid about $70 for it in an antique store in Columbia. He kept it safe for more than a decade when he couldnt find the owner.
A friend told him about Fike, who tracked down Hemphill. Blum mailed it to Vermont insured and registered to make sure history didnt repeat itself.
The best part of this story is that if I had found him right away, I would have just mailed it to him, said Blum, who planned to attend the ceremony today. It would have been over and done with. By going through Capt. Fike, hes getting all the awards. Now the man is getting everything he really deserves.
Hemphill also only began opening up about his time in combat last year with his daughter. Talking about his experience brings out memories we try to forget, Hemphill said. When youve seen what Ive seen ... Im not the hero. The heroes are still over there the ones that didnt come back. Theyre the real heroes.
He didnt want a ceremony and when he lost that fight, he didnt want anyone to know about it, said Robbins, Hemphills daughter.
He said people will think hes putting on airs, Robbins said. But I told him the Purple Heart means the world to us. I have a son, and he wants to keep the medals forever.
Martha Waggoner can be reached at http://twitter.com/mjwaggonernc
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20 years ago
(Feb. 17 and Feb. 19, 1993)
Floyd County Housing Authority Director Julia May is in stable condition at a Frankfort hospital, recovering from injuries received last week when she was struck by a van. Steve Clark, spokesman for the Frankfort police, said Tuesday that May, 56, was hit at 3:15 p.m., last Wednesday, while she was trying to cross Clinton Street in Frankfort.
Two Floyd County brothers were killed, Saturday, when their house at Little Paint burned to the ground. Ronald Clay Freeman, 52, and Paul Freeman, 46, of East Point, were both pronounced dead at the scene by Floyd County Coroner Roger Nelson. Another brother discovered the fire around noon Saturday. Police suspect the fire was caused by an electric space heater in the living room. Ronald Freeman stayed at home to care for his brother, Paul, who had Down's Syndrome, relatives said Saturday.
In an effort to improve communications between personnel and the community, Floyd County Superintendent Steve Towler hired a former newspaper editor as an administrative assistant for personnel and communications. Terry Spears, 31, of Pike County was hired last week to the new position created in December by the Floyd County Board of Education. Spears, former editor of the Appalachian News-Express in Pike County and The Martin Countian and Mercury in Martin County, assumed his duties Tuesday.
Intense heat, high winds and a store of ammunition contributed to the injuries of five Prestonsburg firefighters, Sunday, when they attempted to extinguish a blaze at the Middle Creek residence of Prestonsburg attorney C.V. Reynolds. Department spokesman Major Mike Wells said, Tuesday, that firemen Tommy Hereford, Mike Mays, James Hager, Kenny Crisp and Adrian Blackburn were taken to the Highlands Regional Medical Center for various injuries and smoke inhalation.
The Longrifles are coming back to Eastern Kentucky! No, it's not the famous Kentucky pioneer weapon of years gone by—it's baseball in the mountains. The Kentucky Longrifles will make the Big Sandy Valley their home, according to an announcement, Monday, by Paintsville City Councilman and former major league player Johnnie LeMaster.
Georgia authorities released Floyd County native Harry Hale on bond, Friday, but they are looking for him again to assist the Floyd County Sheriff's Department. Hale, 46, is charged in Floyd County with possession of stolen property in connection with a search at his home last month which turned up several personal belongings of a Swiss traveler, Christoph Zahn, 21, who was reported missing in Atlanta last year. Hale is also wanted for questioning by the Floyd County Sheriff's Department in the 1990 disappearance of Mitchell Manns.
A removal hearing for Floyd County School Board Chairman Ray "Shag" Campbell will begin at 9 a.m., Monday, February 22, at the state board meeting room in Frankfort. In January, Education Commissioner Thomas Boysen charged Campbell with misconduct in office for signing architect and construction manager contracts without the full school board's approval. Boysen recommended that Campbell be publicly reprimanded for his actions, but the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education ruled last month that enough evidence was presented to conduct a removal hearing. Campbell denies any wrongdoing in the case.
The Kentucky State Police undercover Operation: CUPID netted nearly 500 suspected drug-offenders statewide, Wednesday, including three Floyd County residents. Among the 13 alleged offenders captured were Glen "Nero" Vance of Mud Creek; Teddy B. Tackett of Tinker Fork; and Mike Riley, no address given. Charges included trafficking in marijuana, prescription drugs and cocaine.
There died: Manis E. Gray, Tuesday, February 16, at his home in Lancer; Ronald Clay Freeman, 52, and Paul Freeman, 46, of Little Paint, at East Point, Saturday, as the result of a fire at their residence; Clyde B. Bates, 72, formerly of Buckingham, and more recently of Silver Lake, Indiana, Wednesday; J. David Tufts Sr., 91, of Wayland, Thursday, at the Parkview Manor Nursing Home, Pikeville; Billie B. Little, 71, of Prestonsburg, Thursday, in Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital; Allie Smith Parsons, 83, of Allen, Friday, at Pikeville Methodist Hospital; Joseph Akers, 50, of Galveston, Sunday, at his residence; Clyde Bates, 66, of Melvin, Sunday, at the Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington; Andy Reynolds, 11-month-old infant son of Hugh and Becky Hunderson Reynolds of Beaver, Monday; Raymond Lewis, 54, of Sidney, Wednesday, at his residence; Ethel Ward, 70, of Tomahawk, Tuesday, at the Three Rivers Medical Center at Louisa; Vernon Martin, 71, of Wittensville, formerly of Coal Run, Stone Coal, in Pike County, Thursday; Champ Childers, 60, of Dema, Wednesday, at his residence; Christina Lewis, 45, of Sidney, Wednesday, at her residence; Aaron J. Akers, 77, of Louisville, formerly of Banner, Friday, at the Surburban Humana Hospital, St. Matthews; Richard "Dick" Spurlock, 89, of Prestonsburg, Tuesday, at Mountain Manor Nursing Home; Easter Mae Lowe, 56, of Harold, Tuesday, at the University Hospital, Augusta Georgia; Cedric Jesse Rodebaugh, 65, of Creedmoore, North Carolina, Tuesday, at his home; Ora Pigman Horn, 88, of Prestonsburg, Tuesday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Sadie Shepherd Salyers, 81, of Prestonsburg, Wednesday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Ivan Slone, 73, of Brinkley, Tuesday, at his residence; Oma A. Hackworth, 79, formerly of Prestonsburg, Wednesday, at Meadowview Care Center in Seville, Ohio.
30 years ago
(January 26, 1983)
A bizarre incident at Auxier, last Thursday evening, in which a valuable mare was killed and three others were wounded, is still under investigation by the Kentucky State Police.
Sherman Ray Poston, last of three men accused of abducting and raping an Auxier girl, last May, was convicted in Pike Circuit Court, last Wednesday, and his prison terms could extend over 20 years.
On the strength of principal, spelled out by Councilman Billy Ray Collins, that "everyone living off this city…should pay taxes in this city," Prestonsburg City Council voted to annex a tract on the southern perimeter of the city, and added that it might do the same on the northern and western borders.
There died: Curt Newsome, 63, of Teaberry, last Wednesday, at his home; Fronie Johnson, 79, Saturday, at her home at Hi Hat; Bennie Branham, 58, of Prestonsburg, Saturday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Arah Alice Layne, 96, of Harold, last Tuesday, at Riverview Manor Nursing Home; Ishmael Hall, 63, Monday, at his home at Weeksbury; Elbert Griffith, 78, of Blue River, Saturday, at his home; Neve Conley, 50, of Lackey, last Tuesday, January 18, at her home; Jeff Burchett, 73, Sunday, at his home at Emma; and Lucy Marsillett, 59, of Auxier, Sunday, at her home.
40 years ago
(February 21, 1973)
Floyd Superintendent of Schools Charles Clark expressed surprise and some indignation, this week, that the Floyd school system was mentioned last week, by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as one that had failed to comply with desegration requirements. Clark said, "We were fully integrated…in 1965."
Ten of the 16 children of Mrs. Otela Smiley and the late Vyron Smiley, have achieved college degrees, three others are continuing with college work and another is headed for college next year.
A three-state alert of law enforcement officers followed the holdup, here, early last Sunday evening, of the Kroger Store and the getaway of three men and a woman with an estimated $1,800 in cash.
Paul Patton, president of a major Pike County coal company, in a speech at Eastern Kentucky University, last Thursday, said there is really no energy crisis, such as is claimed by oil and gas company representatives.
Harry James Martin, son of Mrs. Nell Martin Campbell, of Garrett, has been awarded the Gibbons Award, and $100, for the Most Oustanding Surgical Student in Auburn University's Large Animal Clinic, where he is concluding his training in veterinary medicine.
Born: A daughter, Tamatha Kay, their first child, to Mr. and Mrs. Ermon Leo Tackett, on February 1, at the Highlands Regional Medical Center.
There died: Mrs. Nolie Newsom, 71, of Warsaw, Ind., formerly of this county, Sunday, in a hospital there; Mrs. May Dillon Wallen, 82, of Prestonsburg, at her home, Sunday; Donald Gene Hall, 28, of Huntington, Ind., formerly of Halo, Friday, in a car-truck collision in Huntington.
50 years ago
(February 21, 1963)
The 22-man commission, established last week by Governor Combs, to study and help solve the problems facing Kentucky's coal industry, includes two Floyd Countians and two others who are former residents of this county.
Snowfall, again, Tuesday morning, cost the county school system another day of teaching time, and County Superintendent Charles Clark said, later in the day, that the schools may be open for classes Saturday of this week.
The Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources has awarded to May's Garage, at Allen, the contract for supplying 200 car-body shells to be placed in Dewey Lake as cover for fish.
"I think we're going to have a pretty strong flu epidemic in this county in a couple of weeks," Dr. Russell L. Hall, of the Floyd County Health Department, said Wednesday, in a discussion of the spread of Asian flu into this section of the state.
Of the five Prestonsburg men who planned to do a 50-mile Kennedy hike, last Saturday, two didn't start, three did, but of the latter, one dropped out after eight miles, and the other two pushed their legs to the limit. The two best out of five were Estill Lee Carter and Carlos Branham. They were "shooting" for 50, but had to be satisfied with 34 miles.
Phil Coleman sparked Wayland in the fourth quarter at Wayland, Saturday night, to register a 75-66 victory over Maytown.
Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rice, of East Point, a daughter, Susan Darnelle, February 10; to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McNally, of Prestonsburg, a daughter, Charla Dene, February 10, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital.
There died: Luther Hensley Jr., 15, of Melvin, Saturday, at McDowell Memorial Hospital; Mrs. Ruby Scarborough, 55, of Weeksbury, Sunday, at home; Ike M. Conley, 52, Floyd County native, Feb. 2 at Alger, O.; Mrs. Judy Tackett, 70, Saturday, at her home at East McDowell; Ollie Crum, 61, of Ivel, Monday, at the home of a sister.
60 years ago
(February 19, 1953)
U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper told Prestonsburg Mayor Curtis Clark, last week, that new hope has risen for the canalization of the Big Sandy River.
The ailing coal industry of the Big Sandy valley lost a market for approximately 899,000 tons of coal last year as the result of importation of cheap foreign residual oil.
The body of Pfc. Clyde D. Spradlin, 22,. of Spradlin's Branch, who was killed in action in Korea, arrived here this week.
Higher gas rates, which will add $96,000 to fuel bills, are foreseen for residents of eastern Kentucky communities served by United Fuel Gas Company.
Kentucky's biggest experiment with Northern pike began Friday, with the release in Dewey Lake of 500 of that species.
Floyd County's tax assessment, in comparison to market, value is next to the bottom of the list of Kentucky's 120 counties.
L. B. Brashear, of Manton, again will head the Floyd County Red Cross fund drive this year.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hale, a daughter, Mary Ann, February 11, at Maryville, Tenn.; to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lafferty, of Martin, a daughter, Sunday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin.
There died: Ernest Bradley, 51, formerly of Eastern, at Stockdale, O., Tuesday; Henry Reffett, 33, of Blue River, Feb. 11, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital; Mrs. Elsie May Crisp, 49, of Allen, Friday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin; Jack Adkins, 58, of Brush Creek, Monday, at the Stumbo Memorial Hospital, Lackey; Mrs. Opal Moore, 28, of Langley, Feb. 13, at Stumbo Memorial; Adam Allen, 88, formerly of Hueysville, Sunday, at Oldtown, Ky.; Mrs. Cora Music Foley, 37, of Lancer, Wednesday, at the Paintsville Hospital; Mrs. Oma Gibson, 83, of Emma, Tuesday, at the home of a daughter; Mrs. Sarah Ann Keathley, 82, Feb. 17, at home at Amba; Mrs. Jonathon Preston, 82, of Lackey, Feb. 10, at the home of a daughter.
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In two fires here, last week, the first, Monday afternoon, caused an estimated damage of $5,000 to the residence of E. R. Burke, on Second Avenue, and the second, Wednesday morning, destroyed the residence property of A. H. Spradlin on North Second Avenue.
Monday, February 22, was designated, this week, by County Superintendent Town Hall, in a letter to the 19 Floyd County schools yet in session, as the day for school collection of clothes for Russia.
Authority of the State Revenue Department to make a complete reassessment of property in a county, at the expense of the county Tax Commissioner, was upheld by the Court of Appeals this week.
Malone's Service Station, at Allen, was burglarized this week, the thief taking a box, containing a part of the infantile paralysis funds contributed by the community.
The garage building, owned by A. C. Carter, and now occupied by the Valley Chevrolet Sales was purchased a few days ago by J. T. Hughes, owner of the Hughes Motor Company at Allen…D. C. Stephens, Prestonsburg, this week acquired gas properties on John's Creek formerly owned by Lawrence Keathley, Martin, at a reported cost of $27,500.
Funds contributed thus far by Floyd Countians to fight infantile paralysis total $375, Mrs. Lon C. Hill, fund chairman, said this week.
Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Jones Tallent, of Lake Mary, Florida, a son, William Anderson, February 1.
There died: Mrs. Martha Tackett, 49, at Marion, Virginia, last week; William P. Jones, Floyd native, at Baltimore, Maryland; William Burchell, 68, at his home on John's Creek, Tuesday.


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Grant Gallicho February 15, 2013 - 5:58pm
Last week, in a tour de force of intellectual humility, Matthew J. Franck treated First Things readers to a catalogue of my confusions. He didn't take kindly to my analysis of Cardinal Timothy Dolan's response to HHS's new proposals for the contraception mandate. First, Franck claims that I am "confused...about what the government actually announced." Second, he says that my analysis of the moral culpability of religious employers is unreliable because I am "confused about the economic reality of insurance." This confusion, Franck informed me via Twitter, is profound: He sees "no sign from you either of an argument, an ability to read, or an understanding of arithmetic." Given those impairments, I may not be able to formulate a successful response to Franck's confident critique, but I beg your indulgence as I give it a shot.
Let's start with the Franck's first complaint. Do I have the foggiest idea of what HHS actually announced? Here's how I summarized the latest proposals: "The new rule scotches the previous iterations much-maligned four-part definition of 'religious employer,' and proposes arrangements to make sure religious employers including colleges, hospitals, and charities wont have to pay for or refer for contraception coverage in their employee health plans." Later in the post, I wrote that "any religiously affiliated employer that has nonprofit status simply has to self-certify with HHS in order to opt out of the contraception mandate."
Franck alleges that I conflated the categories of religious employers proposed by HHS: "Gallicho fails to understand that the new, tax code-derived definition of 'religious employer' is perfectly irrelevant when it comes to the new second category, and insists, quite wrongly, that 'any religiously affiliated employer that has nonprofit status simply has to self-certify with HHS in order to opt out of the contraception mandate.'" But that isn't my only error, according to Franck. No, I've made "several mistakes at once":
First, the tax codes borrowed language does not apply to "any religiously affiliated employer that has nonprofit status,' but to a much tighter category of churches and their 'integrated auxiliaries." Second, the employers in the new second category who are nonprofits that 'hold themselves out as religious' do not get to 'opt out' at all, if by that is meant that their employees are not covered by the mandate; they get the new (essentially fake) "accommodation."
What is he talking about? When HHS floated its initial proposal for the contraception mandate, it counted as "exempt" only those employers that had religious inculcation as their purpose, that employed and served "primarily" co-religionists, and that operated as a nonprofit. I joined the bishops and many others in criticizing that definition of "religious employer."
A few weeks later, the Obama administration announced a new proposed rule that would "accommodate" religiously affiliated employers that failed to qualify for the narrowly defined exemption by allowing them not to include contraception coverage in employee health plans. Instead, the insurance company would offer employees of such institutions separate contraception coverage at no cost. (At the same time, the administration floated a series of complex arrangements that might address the situation of "self-insured" companies that pay directly for employees' medical care; those have been distilled in the latest HHS proposals.)
So, on the one hand there were "exempt" employers (dioceses, parishes, parish schools) -- their employees would not be eligible for the proposed free contraception coverage. And on the other hand there were "accommodated" institutions (hospitals, colleges, charities) -- they wouldn't have to contract for, pay for, or refer for contraception coverage, but their employees would be able to receive it at no cost from a third party. That difference is preserved -- but clarified in such a way that could expand the range of exempt employers -- in the most recent proposed rule, and that's what upsets Franck. He believes that there is a significant moral difference between a religious employer whose employees will not receive contraception coverage at all and a religious employer whose employees will receive contraception coverage from a third party. He thinks the only true "opt out" is available to fully exempt employers, whereas I see a moral significance in an "accommodated" employer's ability to choose not to contract for contraception coverage. I could have been clearer about this in my post, but in the final analysis, it makes little difference to the moral calculus because neither exempt nor accommodated institutions will have to include contraception coverage in their employee health plans. I agree with Bishop Robert Lynch that this arrangement amounts to "a distinction without difference." More on that in a moment.
Back to Franck: "When the Obama administration claims that employers will not 'fund' the contraceptive coverage provided by insurers," he alleges, "it speaks falsely." He continues:
When it [the Obama administration] claims that the free contraceptive coverage can be afforded by the insurer because cost-savings will result from improvements in womens health and fewer childbirths, the administration is admitting that the contraception is already being paid for by the employer, if its policy covers childbirth and womens health in general. The insurer is not being told to lower its premiums because of the cost-savings on procedures and ailments already covered; it is being told that it can put the cost-savings toward the expense of providing contraception. The existing premiums, paid by the employer, will be the funding source.
Leave aside, for the moment, the fact that actuarial studies have already shown that adding contraception coverage doesn't end up costing insurers extra -- it's not relevant to the moral question. What matters is who pays for it and why. Franck says that "the existing premiums, paid by the employer, will be the funding source." Unfortunately for his argument, that's not how health insurance works.
When a group like, say, EWTN pays monthly premiums to its insurance provider, the insurer does not take the money, deposit it in an account used only for the TV network's premiums, and then pay EWTN employees' medical bills out of that account. Rather, the insurer pools EWTN's payments with those from other customers. So when an EWTN employee gets an X-ray, the money that pays the bill may or may not come from EWTN. It may come from a company whose insurance coverage includes abortion. The insurer's risk assessment of its policyholders determines whose monies fill the pools. If the same insurer covers EWTN and NARAL, the two organization's monies will be mingled. Indeed, it's the pooling of premiums that provides the incentive for insurers to offer contraception at no cost to their customers. (In 2002, the Kaiser Family Foundation published a useful primer on health insurance [.pdf]. If you have trouble getting your head around our strange health-insurance system, it's well worth reading.)
So, pace Franck, when it comes to determining who's really funding contraception for employees of accommodated organizations, "the existing premiums, paid by the employer" will not "be the funding source." It may be one of the funding sources. It may not. The point is, there's really no way to know, because insurance companies are in the business of spreading risk. It would be like trying to determine whether any of Matthew Franck's federal tax dollars ended up paying for an abortion for a rape victim. Once he's paid taxes, that money is no longer his. It's collected with other people's money and dispensed by someone else. He's not on the hook for what's done with that money unless he's willed something evil. That is, of course, the point of money. Did the change I got from Starbucks this afternoon come from a drug dealer? I don't know. Was the banana I had this morning picked by a child? I hope not, but did I try hard enough to find out? Did the money I saved by not buying organic cover life-saving medical treatment for a loved one? An electric bill? An iPad mini? The Catholic tradition accounts for the complexity of moral agency in a fallen world. We are never disentangled from sin. So the tradition helps us think through these difficult questions: What did I intend? What was the effect? Could it have happened without me?
Franck doesn't give those questions their due. He seems to suggest that every time someone pays an insurance company he has illicitly cooperated with evil, regardless of intent. After all, major insurers cover abortion for at least some of their customers. (Would he also say "self-insured" religious employers that engage the services of an insurance company to administer their health plans are morally culpable [most do]?) Franck says the latest contraception-mandate proposals are no good because they still involve religious employers in morally illicit arrangements. But everything the Obama administration has proposed is designed to distance the religious employer from the coverage it objects to. It frees religious employers from having to say, "Yes, I want to include contraception coverage in my employee health plan." It allows "self-insured" religious employers to say, "No, we won't pay for contraception out of the monies we've saved to cover our employees' medical care." It transfers responsibility to a third party. If an employee of an "accommodated" religious institution avails herself of the contraception provided by a third party, her employer is no more responsible than it would be were she to use her wages to purchase condoms. In the United States, benefits are considered part of an employee's compensation.
Franck is hung up on whether the HHS proposals will actually work, whether insurers will recoup the upfront costs of providing contraception, even to people who aren't in their risk pools. But who cares? For "self-insured" companies, not a dime from their health-care kitties will pay for contraception. For companies that pay insurance premiums, they won't have to contract or refer for contraception coverage. Might their premiums end up paying for services to which they have religious objections? Yes. But they already are. That they don't intend to fund such services is what frees them from moral culpability.
And that's precisely why I believe the latest proposals for the contraception mandate pass moral muster. If Franck wants to counter my moral argument, he'll have to acquire a clearer understanding of how insurance works.
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The CHA (Catholic Health Association) has issued a pretty favorable statement about the HHS proposals. Thy say "CHA is also aware that the issues that we have as a ministry are narrower than the broader concerns of the Bishops' Conference."http://www.chausa.org/CHA_Seeks_Members_Input_On_HHS_Proposed_Rule_for_C...
Who is Matthew FrancK? I googled and found a lawyer. Is that him? Does he have any expertise in insurance?
The First Things/USCCB position, as it evolves, is a disgrace to serious moral reasoning. It is a result of the same pathology that afflicts the political right, a commitment to a contrary worldview so all-encompassing that every intrusive fact, any inconvenient complexity must avidly be ignored. I could laugh if it weren't so damn sad.
There are some further misunderstandings detailed in the Public Discourse piece Franck links to. Same very certain tone, though.
Well, Grant, I think you've more than adequately answered the first two deficiencies he charged you with. But you didn't directly address the claim that you lack an understanding of arithmetic. So let's see, shall we?2 + 5 = ?8 - 6 = ?4 x 4 = ?9 3 = ?Then we should be able to move on.
Is this guy associated with The Becket Fund - my guess is that by the time a few of these cases wind up at SCOTUS, the Becket Fund will lose. (know that is different from a moral question but he seems to have failed high school morality class in double effect and the various levels of cooperation. But, it is par for First Things these days.
To repeat a part of a Krugman quote from an earlier thread: "One side believes, at least in principle, in letting its policy views be shaped by facts; the other believes in suppressing the facts if they contradict its fixed beliefs.
OK, lets try it this way:I cant say Im an expert on actuarial studies, but I would bet such studies do not incorporate the costs of there being fewer children in our society, even considering only the mere economic value they add.I do indeed think it is a moral question whether we want to support a government program the encourages Americans to be barren and divide, just so insurance companies can amass greater profit.
I'm not persuaded the mention of fewer children is germane. The regulation of births, itself, is permitted. The moral question pertains to method. For whatever reason there are fewer children, to account for the difference between those absent by licit versus illicit means is so difficult, so remote a question I cannot imagine how it would bear on a meaningful analysis of these problems. Better to keep the focus on health effects and more measurable costs.
StevenI see the issue is much larger than mere method. Consider a hypothetical 1% couple that religiously practices NFP and has no children, so that the husband can, say, take an annual vacation golfing in Florida and the wife can, say, take an annual vacation in skiing in Colorado. Do you think there is no question of morality here, in a Catholic sense? Doesnt it contravene the first commandment in the Bible?
Weak as I am on this topic, it seems to me mathematics is a grand, remarkably lucid adventure until one runs into that darn infinity thing. At which point, it seems to me even the best of us can only say "well, seems likely".
Mark --Your argument doesn't hold. If the insurance companies encourage people not to have children, then there will be no money from those children to pay the old-age insurance bills of their parents. it is to the advantage of the ins. cos. to at least have a stable population.
The first commandment in the Bible? Be fruitful and multiply? That was a commandment? Now you tell me! I thought it was a blessing, a counsel, an exhortation, or maybe a wish, like "have a nice day."But I think, Mark, that you've hit on an insuperable argument against a celibate clergy. So there's that.
AnnI cant tell if your comment was tongue in cheek or not. Do you really think most insurance companies, most any kind of companies, think as long term as that? Not more interested in the quarterly numbers?John--It was in the imperative mood, no? Doesn't that make it a command? Though I can accept blessing/counsel/exhortation. But never, ever, could I liken it to "have a nice day."Live long and prosper.
Wouldn't say it encourages Americans to be barren and divide. When I was on the pill, it wasn't in order to never have children, it was just so I could time my family so I could be in a position to care for those children and support them financially.To be honest, there is something very, very skewed about our views on birth control being driven by a group of elderly male virgins. I don't mean that disrespectfully, but I just think birth control is an issue completely outside the expertise of our church leadership.
"Is this guy associated with The Becket Fund my guess is that by the time a few of these cases wind up at SCOTUS, the Becket Fund will lose."Weren't a bunch of these suits just dismissed in the lower courts?
I'm not really interested in getting sidetracked by a contraception argument. Grant's treatment of the First Things/USCCB line is more interesting. I would say though that HV says that the regulation of births is permitted and that nowhere does the Theology of the Body worry about a hypothetical like Mark's. So long as his hypothetical couple is 'open to life' while practicing NFP faithfully there is no moral problem. So far as that couple's INTENT is no different from a couple practicing artificial contraception, it seems to me we've found the problem with HV's, JPII's, and Christopher West's argument, and I don't begrudge Mark's worrying about that. But as long as we're here discussing the complex intricacies of intent, we ought to notice Grant's good point. Even when my insurer pays for someone else's contraception or abortifacient, I don't intend that outcome when I simply pay a premium. If we can handle the complexity of worrying about that hypotheical couple's intent, we ought not to worry too much about the HHS mandate.
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones on the claim that insurance carriers would be required to provide contraceptive riders at no cost:"And, let's be honest, it is a kludge. There's no such thing as 'no cost.' If an insurance carrier covers contraceptives, that's a cost they're going to make up somewhere else. And that somewhere else is in the premiums for the main policy. There's really no way around that."In other words, money is fungible, a subject that liberals and conservatives alike treat with abandon depending on whether they happen to like the consequences. In this case, liberals are willing to accept the fiction that the money for contraceptive coverage is somehow 'segregated,' and conservatives aren't. When bailed-out bankers pay themselves big bonuses and swear that not one dime is coming from bailout funds, the roles are reversed. All good fun."http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/money-fungible-contracepti... also examines the alleged cost savings from free contraception. Coming from a leftist his skepticism cannot be dismissed as an anti-Obama rant.http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/contraceptive-coverage-pro...
...nowhere does the Theology of the Body worry about a hypothetical like Marks. So long as his hypothetical couple is open to life while practicing NFP faithfully there is no moral problem.StevenIm certainly no expert on the TotB, but Im quite certain you are incorrect that it does not address, and head-on, the contraceptive mentality. It is a constrained view of the TotB to think its focus is on method, and to think what we do with our bodies does not influence, for good or bad, our intent. JPII wrote quite eloquently on the inseparability of the body and the spirit, and how they are inextricably linked. My understanding is that one of the reasons NFP is considered by the Church to be morally superior to artificial contraception is that it is much better at helping couples avoid the trap of the contraceptive mentality, though of course no method is foolproof.I understand that Grants thread is focused only on the narrow issues of who pays for it, but I think the Churchs view is that we all will pay for it.Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing...
Grant - when you wrote this: The new rule scotches the previous iterations much-maligned four-part definition of religious employer, and proposes arrangements to make sure religious employers including colleges, hospitals, and charities wont have to pay for or refer for contraception coverage in their employee health plans - you were doing some pretty condensed summarizing: everything before the "and" refers to exempt organizations, and everything after the "and" refers to accommodated organizations. I think Franck honestly misread your meaning in this sentence, and thought that the entire sentence referred only to exempt organizations. (To be really tedious about it: I believe the antecedent of "proposes arrangements" is "new rule", but Franck interpreted the antecedent to be "four-part definition". If this combox allowed one to put diagrams in it, and if I knew how to diagram a sentence, I'd illustrate it.)He then used that misunderstanding as a club to try to beat your credibility to a pulp, and I don't blame you for being sore about it.
At Mass, in the bulletin literature, and at parish missions, I'm told NFP is "just as effective." That's why we should trust it! TotB does address the contraceptive mentality. Thus the emphasis on 'openness to life' even while practicing natural contraception. The NFP argument is trapped in HV's provision for the legitimate reasons to regulate births. And here comes the real point.There are no flowers here. They haven't gone anywhere. They never were here. This is public policy--prose, not poetry. This is about feeding and caring for a family you can manage. This is about the affordability of basic, life-saving (life-affirming) healthcare. A poetic understanding of the lillies of the field quickly becomes an extravagance amid preventable suffering, deprivation, and death. That's why we institute governments to deal in the dirty, prosaic business of solving problems that the idealized thinking of some theology and philosophy cannot handle. It is why, for all its compromising and compromisedness, the Tradition has taught that government is an honorable, noble, holy thing. That's why we sanction double-effects. That is the strength of Grant's argument.
While I agree talking about the merits of contraception sidetracks the discussion of "who pays for it", aren't we missing the forest for the trees? We only care about who pays for it, because we're ducking the issue of whether its essentially a good thing that it be paid for. The institutional Church is wasting all kinds of time, money, credibility and political capital opposing something most of us actually support. And this time and treasure could be better spent on much more critical issues. Or at least on issues American Catholics support.
For the political scientist, there may be no flowers, but at the root of politics is culture, and at the root of culture is cult...religion, or poetry, as one might call it. I actually agree with Irene on this...to a point.
Mark ==You're changing the subject. The subject is not whether the ins. cos. are most interested in profits, the subject is whether or not it is to there advantage to have fewer people in following generations. Obviously it is to there disadvantage because that would reduce their possible profits per capita.As Krugman has notably put it, you are ignoring evidence to fit your ideology.
There is a place for the poetry, and more than you know I depend on the cultural argument. The question is of priority when we address a particular question, the very problem with TotB and much of the USCCB political engagement. Flowers aren't food for a child. Our beautiful arguments cannot be permitted to become the enemy of the good because they are perfect. Or, to paraphrase Justice Jackson, the Magisterium was never intended to be a suicide pact.
AnneI do not see how your 10:31 am comment responds to mine of 7:06 am. Your comment assumes that insurance companies always act in their long term best interests. I disagree. Disagreement is not changing the subject. As they say in certain circles, the first person who resorts to citing Krugman loses the argument.StevenWell, if you are saying the Churchs argument is perfect, lets stand on that. ;-) Seriously, though, I sense your comments are motivated by the immediate concern of feeding hungry mouths. A more than legitimate concern, but in a fallen world it is impossible to avoid contingency, or the need for faith.
BIG Ooops -- Should be: Obviously it is NOT to their disadvantage because that would reduce their possible profits per capita.
Mark --Merely disagreeing does not address the subject. Further you have made an assumption -- that insurance companies don't think 30 years ahead. but that does not describe what I've seen of ins. cos. Smart companies think 50 years ahead at least.And I didn't say the ins. co. *always* act in their own interest. Wht I said is tht they think at least a generation ahead in order to make profits.Where is ungidon when we need him :)
I'm motivated by a concern that the political order be an order of prudence. I reject all perverse outcomes most especially when they follow perfectly realized, ideal philosophical or theological arguments.
StevenBy perverse, I assume you mean parents having more children than they can afford to raise? Do you have any support for your conclusion that those who currently strive to follow Church teaching are more prone to that than the rest of us?
A short piece in our local, not terribly reliable, newspaper reported that Archbishop Lori has written to Congress urging that an exemption for the "Taco Bell" owners of this world be made part of the deliberations concerning the debt ceiling issue. Does anyone know more about this? If this report is accurate, then Archbishop Lori's attempt to clutter this very important, and very contentious matter with this fundamentally extraneous "contraception" issue is outrageous. Either he is hopelessly naive about our political situation, which I doubt, or he is playing a cynical game.
Mark, this back-and-forth already has gone far past any hope of illumination. I'm no more interested in being drawn into a debate on the merits of contraception than I was this morning. I'm trying to maintain a discussion of what makes good public policy--policy that is as moral and effective as is possible. But let me thrash the straw man. Perversity here is an argument about contraception thwarting the extension of healthcare. I would be the first to agree that a single-payer system would be the best solution, far better than the ACA and its suite of weird compromises. Unfortunately, political leaders who also happen largely to be identified as "pro-life," leaders whom my bishops tell me I should support, have rejected the single-payer option as the unacceptable path toward socialism. In this political climate. the ACA is what we can get. And despite the suite of weird compromises that are packaged together under its aegis, it still just might reduce the cost of healthcare and make its advantages more widely available. I would prefer the perfect solution. I will accept the good one. What I won't do is sit idly by and watch the same bishops who support those political leaders who keep us from a single-payer system now peel apart the ACA based on concerns about contraception and abortion that grow increasingly remote from our actions and intentions. I see no good in it at all.
Regarding insurance premiums of accommodated religious institutions, and whether they are really paying for the insurer-direct-to-customer contraception policies: Franck's argument, in whatever tone it is presented, is logical. On the other hand, I agree with Grant that insurance premiums go into a general "bucket" of money that the insurer uses to pay claims, run the business, etc. But on the third hand, insurers do (or should do) account-by-account profit and loss analysis to determine whether a client institution is profitable (or maximally profitable) and we can be sure that these analyses are used in pricing policies. That suggests that the "one giant bucket of money" concept has limits; for certain of the insurer's purposes, the premiums coming in from a specific account are expected to "match up" with the claims and other expenses going out to that account.I agree, too, with Grant's consistent point that, even if Franck's argument is valid, it constitutes remote material cooperation. Finally, I continue to agree with a point I've made in the past in these discussions: employers should be free to make their own determination as to whether or not this arrangement constitutes remote material cooperation or something more culpable, and the HHS mandate puts substantial burdens on that freedom.
SteveYes, I sense some exasperation. But, for the record, its not me youd be agreeing with that a single payer system would be the best solution. Until your last post, I did not realize how important to you more government control of healthcare in America is, and why youre taking such a negative view of attempts to resist that.Thanks for exchange, I regret it was more illuminating for me than it was for you.
Glad to oblige.
Jim Pauwels says: "[E]mployers should be free to make their won determination as to whether or not this arrangement constitutes remote material cooperation or something more culpable, and the HHS mandate puts substantial burdens on that freedom."I ask: Does every claim that some law 'burdens" my freedom have to be a legally accepted claim? If not, then what is so special about this particular "burden" that necessitates its legal acceptance?
"Where is ungidon when we need him :)"Ditto Peter Nixon who works for one of THE most successful health agencies, Kaiser Permanente (my insurer).
"I ask: Does every claim that some law burdens my freedom have to be a legally accepted claim?"No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?
Jim, I ask because of your remark about the the "substantial burdens" that the HHS mandate supposedly puts on the employers freedom. Is this burden morally, or legally, defensible? Perhaps I misunderstand what you are saying about this burden.
Bernard Dauenhauer wrote "A short piece in our local, not terribly reliable, newspaper reported that Archbishop Lori has written to Congress urging that an exemption for the Taco Bell owners of this world be made part of the deliberations concerning the debt ceiling issue. Does anyone know more about this?"Here is Bishop Lori's February 15 letter to members of Congress:"The 112th Congresss inability to enact appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2013 left many tasks unfinished. One of the most vitally important of these tasks is to restore a tradition on rights of conscience in health care that has long enjoyed bipartisan consensus, but is now under greatly increased pressure. I urge Congress to address this problem when it considers proposals for continued funding of the federal government in the weeks to come."He urges Congress to include two provisions that were proposed for a House bill in December.At the end of the letter, he summarizes the USCCB objections to the latest HHS proposal:"What seems to be at issue instead is a new, more grudging attitude in recent years toward citizens whose faith or moral principles are not in accord with the views of the current governing power."it permits no free choice by a female employee to decline such coverage for herself or her minor children, even if it violates her moral and religious convictions.""if a religious organization is not exempt, its insurance company or third-party administrator will impose the full mandate automatically on the organizations employees and their female children, using the personal information that the employer had entrusted to them solely to provide a plan consistent with the organizations faith""individuals and families, nonprofit or for-profit organizations that are not explicitly religious, insurers, third-party administrators will have the mandate imposed on them without any recoursehttp://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-prot...
That's my abridgment of Bishop Lori's three-page letter. I have provided a link to he full letter.
it permits no free choice by a female employee to decline such coverage for herself or her minor children, even if it violates her moral and religious convictions.
Is this true? The insurance company is obliged to extend (er, "impose") the extra coverage at no cost to all employees, but does that mean the employees can't call and opt out of it if they should want to? To keep it from their kids, as Lori suggests? I can't think of any other reason someone would bother to do so, since a Catholic's "moral and religious convictions" would not be "violated" simply by having coverage for services no one is forcing her to take advantage of.
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly. as I recall, the language of the proposed regulations says that if the employer doesn't provide contraceptive coverage in its policy, the insurance company will "automatically" enroll all "employees and dependents" in a separate policy that will cover contraception only.I don't recall ever hearing about this issue from the USCCB before the latest draft regulations were issued. Now that the issue has been raised, it may be that HHS would be willing to let a female employee opt out for herself. Whether or not an employee could reject contraception coverage for dependents may raise more complicated issues.AB Lori has clarified that he is now talking about "minor" children. If that means daughters aged 18 to 26 could accept or reject for themselves, that would reduce the issue to whether a parent could reject contraception coverage for daughters under 18.
Cardinal Dolan's News Release of February 7 didn't have he "minor""Cardinal Dolan highlighted problems with the proposed "accommodation.""It appears that the government would require all employees in our 'accommodated' ministries to have the illicit coveragethey may not opt out, nor even opt out for their childrenunder a separate policy," he said."http://usccb.org/news/2013/13-037.cfm
Here's HHS's explanation of the proposed regulations. Sounds as if each person (employee and dependents/beneficiaries) gets a separate notice. Seems as if this notice could have a section that says "If you don't want his coverage, sign here and mail this notice back to us". The question would be which dependents the parent could sitgn for. "The issuer would automatically enroll plan participants and beneficiaries in a separate individual health insurance policy that covers recommended contraceptive services.""The proposed rules would direct a health insurance issuer providing separate individual health insurance policies for contraceptive coverage at no additional cost to participants and beneficiaries in plans of eligible organizations to provide a written notice to plan participants and beneficiaries regarding the availability of the separate contraceptive coverage. Issuers providing such contraceptive coverage would be responsible for providing the notice of availability of such coverage to participants and beneficiaries in both insured and self-insured group health plans of eligible organizations. The notice would be provided directly to plan participants and beneficiaries by the issuer..."For more details, see https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/02/06/2013-02420/coverage-...
, her employer is no more responsible than it would be were she to use her wages to purchase condoms. In the United States, benefits are considered part of an employees compensation,,This statement is false. The employer is providing and controlling the insurance benefits, once the wages are paid, control and moral responsibility transfers to the employee. The fact that both are compensation is not the deciding factor; their forms are different and that is the crucial factor affecting moral culpability
Mark, I think your observation about encouraging barrenness is the critical point. It is a prescription for the slow death of humanity
BruceThanks. From Father Imbellis thread, the Popes homily warns:[The Tempter] does not spur directly toward evil, but toward an illusory good. He would have us believe that the true realities are power and what satisfies our primary needs. In this way God becomes secondary, a mere means; God no longer counts and thus disappears. In the last analysis, what is at stake in the temptations is faith itself: God is at stake.So while we carefully nuance the double effects regarding the HHS mandate, lets be mindful that the Tempter has his own version of double effect.
I'm sorry. What? Obamacare is a temptation from the devil? Did I connect the dots correctly? Because I try to be a kind person, one who would find it difficult to believe that I have. But the code here seems pretty clear.It seems to me that we ought to return to the point of this thread and the original post, that the contraception debate is a sideshow that grows more and more distantly remote from any substantive debate over the merits of the ACA. That is, despite the increasing volume of those who object. If we want to litigate whether artificial (or, natural) contraception is good or bad, it seems to me that debate belongs elsewhere. Arguably, in 1968.
Did I connect the dots correctly?StevenNo, not exactly, it runs a bit deeper than that. I thank you for trying to be a kind person, but Im afraid I must agree with you now that our exchange has gone beyond the point of illumination.


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Captain Darren Haydar's three-goal performance in Saturday's 6-3 win over Milwaukee marked the Wolves' fifth hat trick in 35 games this season; Chicago set a franchise record with nine regular-season hat tricks during the 1995-96 season.
--- Darren Haydar: Notched his third professional hat trick - and first as a member of the Wolves - on Saturday against his former team, the Milwaukee Admirals ... Recorded 12 assists and 17 points in nine games with Chicago this season, six of which have been multi-point efforts ... Accrued his first NHL points (G, 7A) in 16 games with the Atlanta Thrashers from Oct. 11 to Dec. 8 ... Racked up 139 points (46G, 93A) in 82 career contests with Chicago, 12th on the franchise's all-time scoring list
--- Jason Krog: Collected a point in 12 straight games, the longest current streak in the AHL, recording 28 points during that span (7G, 21A) ... Accrued 22 points
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--- Brett Sterling: Potted two goals and three points in three games last week ... Ranks third in the AHL with a team-leading 21 markers in just 27 contests and shares third on Chicago with 33 points ... Made his NHL debut with the Atlanta Thrashers earlier this season, netting three points (G, 2A) in 10 tilts ... Shares seventh on the franchise's all-time goal scoring list with 76 markers in 104 career outings over two seasons
--- Steve Martins: Matched a season-high with two goals in Saturday's win, his eighth multi-point game of the season and first since Nov. 27 ... Shares third on Chicago with 33 points (13G, 20A) in 34 games ... Netted 13 goals and 39 points in 48 tilts with the Wolves last season
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--- The Wolves' .729 winning percentage is second only to the Toronto Marlies (.771) in the Western Conference and third-best overall in the AHL; Chicago and Toronto meet for the first time this season on Saturday at the Allstate Arena.
--- Chicago has won seven of its last nine games and is tied for second in the AHL with 25 wins in 35 games this season.
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--- The Wolves have bagged a power-play goal in a season-high nine straight games,
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--- Chicago leads the Western Conference and ranks second in the AHL with a .765
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Wolves center and 13-year veteran Steve Martins will visit the Bartlett Public Library, 800 S. Bartlett Road, on Tue., Jan. 8 at 7 p.m., as part of the team's "Read to Succeed" program, sponsored by Borders. Members of the squad are in the process of making more than 30 library visits throughout the Chicago area this season for the program, which has reached more than 400,000 children since its inception in 1995.
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--- Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec stopped 27 of 30 shots
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(at) Rockford 5, Chicago 4
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--- Center Jason Krog potted two of Chicago's four goals while defenseman Nathan Oystrick collected two assists and three points
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Ordered this on a Friday, it shipped on SUNDAY (!) and I received it on Tuesday. But the Fedex driver never rang our doorbell. Good thing I just happened to notice it sitting by the door. And it wasn't packed very well. The bottom of the box was partially open.
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