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Grant Gallicho February 7, 2013 - 6:55pm
Today, Cardinal Timothy Dolan released a statement outlining the USCCB's objections to the Obama administration's revision of the revision of the contraception mandate. The new rule scotches the previous iteration's much-maligned four-part definition of "religious employer," and proposes arrangements to make sure religious employers -- including colleges, hospitals, and charities -- won't have to pay for or refer for contraception coverage in their employee health plans. In other words, the Department of Health and Human Services listened to its critics and attempted to allay their concerns.
As the editors ofCommonweal put it, "This will do." The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops disagrees.
First, a word of praise for the tone of Cardinal Dolan's statement. It avoids the hyperbolic rhetoric that has characterized this debate for far too long. The cardinal states that the bishops are open to further discussion. He acknowledges that the Obama administration "has heard some previously expressed concerns and that it is open to dialogue," and promises "additional, careful study." He notes that the new proposal does away with the "exceedingly narrow" definition of "religious employer," which, the bishops claimed, "created a 'second class' of citizenship within our religious community" -- subordinating Catholic charities to Catholic parishes. But apparently that's not enough for the bishops.
"The administration's proposal maintains its inaccurate distinction among religious ministries. It appears to offer second-class status to our first-class institutions in Catholic health care, Catholic education, and Catholic Charities." Yet Dolan fails to mention what replaced the four-part definition. The USCCB had called that definition "unprecedented" in federal law. So HHS lifted the revised definition from something with plenty of precedent: the federal tax code. According to the new rule, any religiously affiliated employer that has nonprofit status simply has to self-certify with HHS in order to opt out of the contraception mandate. If the employer pays an insurance company for employee health coverage, it has to notify the insurer that it doesn't want contraception included in the plan, and the insurer in turn automatically enrolls employees in a separate plan at no cost to them or to their employer. If the objecting employer is self-insured, it just has to inform its plan administrator, which will arrange for free contraception coverage for employees.
(This is where it gets complicated. "Self-insurance" is a misnomer. Rather than pay an insurance company premiums, some employers prefer to pay directly for their employees' health care. This requires a lot of cash. Such companies typically pay an insurance company to handle administrative tasks. The administrator generates "insurance cards" for the employees, and every time a worker incurs a medical expense, the administrator handles the paperwork and bills the employer for the service, according to an agreed-upon fee schedule. Administration fees are much lower than insurance premiums, so requiring administrators to cover the upfront costs of contraception would be unfair. They'd be paying for savings that accrue only to the "self-insured" company -- covering people who don't want babies is cheaper than covering those who do. That's the financial incentive for insurers to give away contraception to people they already cover. In order to make it worthwhile for administrators of "self-insured" plans, HHS proposes to reduce fees insurance companies will have to pay in order to sell their plans on the new health-care exchanges. Either way, the idea is that no religiously affiliated employer will have to contract for, pay for, or refer for contraception coverage.)
So why does Cardinal Dolan say, "there remains the possibility that ministries may yet be forced to fund and facilitate such morally illicit activities"? No arrangement proposed by HHS would oblige a Catholic institution to fund contraception coverage. But what about "facilitate"? This is the next line of defense. A bishop might argue: Sure, HHS may say that religiously affiliated employers won't have topay for contraception, but there's no getting around the fact that our employees wouldn't receive that coverage if they didn't have the insurance policy we provide. But the Affordable Care Act mandates that everyone have a health-insurance plan -- regardless of employment status. So even if a scrupulous Catholic employer canceled its employee health-care benefit (likely replacing it with cash payments), its workers would still need to buy health insurance -- insurance that would certainly include contraception coverage. The facilitation argument doesn't withstand scrutiny. What's to keep employees from using their salaries to engage in morally illicit acts? Think of all the illicit acts made possible by gainful employment. This is the slipperiest of slopes.
The Catholic tradition developed categories of "cooperation with evil" to help us think through this kind of problem. Without intending the employee to use contraception, without securing or paying for contraception coverage for its employees, a Catholic institution is not involved in a morally illicit act. If an employee wants to use free contraception provided by a third party, that's on her. There's no way to wall off an employee's moral agency. Yet Cardinal Dolan protests that the new proposed rule "would require all employees in our 'accommodated' ministries to have the illicit coverage -- they may not opt out, nor even opt out for their children -- under a separate policy." Cardinal Dolan seems to say that contraception coverage is itself illicit, but the Catholic moral tradition doesn't hold that things in themselves are licit or illicit. Acts are. So Catholic teaching would say that forcing a bishop to provide contraception coverage may be morally illicit. Just as it would say that using contraception is illicit. But the coverage itself has no moral character. It's like saying a drug store shouldn't be selling contraception in a Catholic neighborhood. The availability isn't the problem. An employee may or may not use the free contraception coverage. Until she does, nothing illicit has happened. And if she does, it's not the employer's fault.Cardinal Dolan also expresses his displeasure with the fact that the revised rule does not address the complaints of for-profit employers who have religious objections to the mandate. They "have no conscience protections at all," Dolan writes. Matt Boudway covered this question earlier this week. Should any employer be able to opt out of federally established basic health-insurance benefits because of religious objections? Matt writes:"It would logically lead to a situation they couldn't possibly wish for. Should an overzealous Jehovahs Witness be able to get a group plan that excludes coverage for emergency blood transfusions, even if none of his employees are coreligionists?" The bishops tend to treat conscience claims as though they outweigh everything. In fact, conscience claims must be balanced against state interests (whether the contraception mandate advances a legitimate state interest is another question).
"Throughout the past year," Cardinal Dolan writes in the concluding paragraph, "we have been assured by the administration that we will not have to refer, pay for, or negotiate for the mandated coverage. We remain eager for the Administration to fulfill that pledge." As the bishops continue to study HHS's new proposals, I hope they come to realize that the Obama administration has done just that.
Follow up: Matthew Franck has responded to this post with something shy of full understanding of health insurance. Here's my reply.
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"Raber and I are speculating about how his Amish relatives will handle Obamacare."If you are thinking of the individual mandate, as I undertand it, they are exempt. The exemption applies to people who already qualify not to pay Social Secuity taxes because their religion opposes participating in insurance programs. There is also an exemption for members of religious groups that provide free health care for theirI haven't looked into how this applies to Amih employers. Existing law draws a distinction between Amish employers who employee only Amish workers and those who employee non-Amish okers
Bunch of typos there. Add "members" at the end of the second paragraph. In the last paragraph, fix "Amish", lose four "e"s in the last line, and change the last word to "workers"
Jim McRae is right == this whole kerfufle is the greatest advertisement ever for a single payer system.As I see it, there is an inherent contradiction in the legal system. On the one hand, parents have the general responsibility for their minor (immature) children and therefore may and must make moral decisions for them. BUT on the other hand, because of the recession, parents are also responsible (or may assume responsibility) for their post-adolescent children, BUT those post-adolescent children are ALSO responsible for themselves.Thus some parents are both responsible and not-responsible for their post-adolescent kids.
Grant:What's your position on "Gosford Park"?
Take a look at the National Catholic Reporter editorial on this matter. It distinguishes "traditionalist bishops" such as Dolan from the "culture warrior bishops" (Chaput?) who are given to excessive rhetoric and who ultimtely do the Church not service.http://ncronline.org/news/politics/editorial-hhs-mandate-bishops-fight-t...
John Hayes, thanks for that info about the personal exemption for the Amish.Really, my larger point is that there are religious organizations that get around these problems by simply opting out and doing for themselves. Their communities are very strong, and their adherents are well versed in the faith. I think the Bishops have been so unwilling to accept offered accommodations because they know that most Catholics do not follow Church teaching on contraception. Perhaps they see Obamacare mandates as a "teaching moment," as I noted in an earlier post, to show the faithful that they mean business about these rules. My question--I don't know the answer--is whether their time is well spent debating this issue through press releases and public statements.? Or by trying to build the sense of community some of the more insular denominations (like the Amish or Jehovah's Witnesses) have would set norms and motivate Catholics to follow the rules as a matter of course.If the Seventh Day Adventists can keep their adherents off the cigs, I'm pretty sure Catholics could figure out ways to keep folks off the Pill and out of the condom aisle at the drug store.
Jim Pauwels: what if your daughter were the friend who motivated Sandra Fluke to speak out? Fluke described a friend who was taking a prescription contraceptive to control the growth of an ovarian cyst. When she could no longer get the prescription medication free and could not afford to buy it, the cyst began to grow until her entire ovary had to be removed surgically. If your unmarried daughter were a dependent on your insurance plan, would you be so hardhearted as to forbid her to obtain the Pill for some other purpose than avoiding pregnancy, on the off-chance that she might have sex while taking it?
Re: Culture Warrior ChaputHis family background: father, French Canadian and mother, Native American.Archbishop Chaput is member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe through his mothers Native-American lineage. His Potawatomi name is the wind that rustles the leaves of the tree. His surname, Chaput, a variant of Chapel and a nickname for a habitual wearer of a distinctive cloak or hat.It figures, doesn't It?
Angela Stockton, i think some Catholic institutions say that their healh insurance will pay for contraceptives used to treat medical problems but not if they are used only for birth control. i suppose (but haven't verified) that they could continue to do that. Paying for some uses of contraceptives but not others creates an awkward situation for the employee. Doctors don't write on a prescription why they are prescribing that drug. However, the insurance company would have to know whether to charge the cost to the employer's policy that covers some uses of contraceptives or the separate third-party policy that covers other uses. Sounds as if the employee would have to submit a statement from the doctor as to why the pills were being prescribed.
Some day in the future, bishops will reminisce about Tim Dolan and company and say that they meant well. That they felt they had to protect the church's rights. That they really thought that contraception was wrong. That it was a threat to the infallibility of the church which was held at that time. So apolgies to all those families that they thought they were helping. ..............
Perhaps Cardinal Dolan needs to be reminded that many employees of Catholic hospitals, colleges and social service agencies already are eligible to received government-subsidized contraceptives either through Medicare or Title X of the Public Health Act (1970). Income eligibility for a family of four --in most states-- is $41,319.Doesn't the HHS "mandate" simply remove the salary ceiling on employee eligibility for government subsidized contraceptives? (In the future, the "professional staff" will have access to the same government subsidy that the "housekeeping staff" now has access to.)This raises the question: Aren't Catholic institutions engaged in "material cooperation" by "qualifying" their employees for the "illicit coverage" provided by Medicare and Title X? (The moral solution is simple: pay higher salaries and make their employees ineligible for government-subsidized contraceptives!)
"i think some Catholic institutions say that their health insurance will pay for contraceptives used to treat medical problems but not if they are used only for birth control. i suppose (but havent verified) that they could continue to do that."Would be interesting to know if those who provide "Catholic insurance" have employees with a higher rate of ailments for which b.c. pills are prescribed for "therapeutic" use, say something really vague like "dysmenorrhea." I suppose Catholics providing the insurance would not be complicit in this particular scenario, just as they wouldn't be culpable if women in their 40s take "hormone replacement therapy" for menopausal symptoms (my Lord, how DID our grandmothers deal without hormones!?), which have the effect of preventing an unwanted mid-life pregnancy.Am I wrong to think that all of this smacks of a kind of moral gamesmanship that doesn't fool anybody?
I think it is good to stay aware of what the discussion outside the Catholic bubble is like about Catholic hierarchs and and their anti-feminine contraception campaign.Don't these folks have a point that really the hierarchs are engaged in little more than just "whining"? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/07/1185380/-Catholic-bishops-still...
I wonder if this is good for the HHS mandate. By keeping the media focused on an issue that, in the view of most people, is a non-issue, the Catholic bishops are preventing people from discussing other potential and perhaps more substantial problems.
I think it is good to stay aware of what the discussion outside the Catholic bubble is like about Catholic hierarchs and and their anti-feminine contraception campaign.The answer is for Church organizations to mind their own business and stay out of people's bedrooms.Oh wait -- that's exactly what they are asking to be able to do, to be kept out of people's private sexual affairs. To not be involved and especially to not have to subsidize the sexual activities of people, especially those activities which operate to suppress that which is feminine. ("anti-feminine contraception" -- that is exactly right, it is contraception which is by its nature anti-feminine. To oppose subsidizing contraception is, in fact, anti-anti-feminine)If anyone should be subsidizing women's contraception, it should be the MEN who have sex with the women.
"I wonder if this is good for the HHS mandate. By keeping the media focused on an issue that, in the view of most people, is a non-issue, the Catholic bishops are preventing people from discussing other potential and perhaps more substantial problems."I'm sure it's not good for the HHS mandate, but not sure I follow your point. Problems like what?"To not be involved and especially to not have to subsidize the sexual activities of people, especially those activities which operate to suppress that which is feminine. ('anti-feminine contraception' that is exactly right, it is contraception which is by its nature anti-feminine. To oppose subsidizing contraception is, in fact, anti-anti-feminine)"So if "feminine" = conception, i.e., that which can conceive, carry, and nurse babies, where does that leave celibate women. Do they become anti-feminine if they choose not to use their procreative powers? What about older women past child-bearing years? Do they turn into drones? You poor guys sometimes you shoot yourselves in the foot when you try to explain the "feminine," and that's gotta hurt. At least I hope it does.
John Hayes, according to Sandra Fluke's testimony, Georgetown does make an exception for women who need the pill to treat serious diseases. Unfortunately, she says they are so concerned to prevent people sneaking in contraception that they don't accept a doctor's letter that the pill is a medical necessity. Rather, they open an inquiry to see if the pill is really necessary- and, academic bureaucrats being what they are, the inquiry takes weeks, even months, and in some cases the disease progressed so much that treatment was no longer possible before the Georgetown officials had made up their minds whether to allow the pill or not.It's a major issue for me that if the bishops win this fight they should address this problem- i.e. make a commitment to accept a doctor's letter immediately even at the risk of somebody sneaking some contraception. It's unacceptable to me that a young woman be unnecessarily sterilized and subjected to premature menopause as the price of making double and triple sure that nobody sneaks a contraceptive through the system.
Ann Evans, in my post I thought that even requiring a woman to get a doctor's letter was bad. What you describe is much worse than I imagined.
Ann Evans --That Georgetown story is so outlandish I find it impossible to believe. (Jesuits may be wrong, but they are not usually so stupid.) Has anybody checked out that testimony carefully?
"If anyone should be subsidizing womens contraception, it should be the MEN who have sex with the women."Bender --This time I half-way agree with you. Surely it makes less sense to have some Jesuit pay for a woman's contraceptives than to have her sexual partner pay.On the other hand, the new rules of the new let's-be-fair feminism require that men and women are supposed to split the check when they share a pleasurable meal. It's downright old-fashioned to expect the guy to pay for both dinners. So it would seem to follow, since sex is a shared pleasure, shouldn't the new women split the cost of contraceptives with their partners? (Georgetown really gets nada from their encounters, so of course it shouldn't have to pay at all.) But that would get complicated if she has more than one partner a month -- should the guys each pay one quarter of the cost? This gets to be a complicated as the HHS mandate problems. See what happens when you expect non-participants to pay for somebody else's jollies?
Ann Olivier, I looked p Sandra Fluke' testimony. Heres what she is reported to have said:"When this exception does exist, these exceptions don't accomplish their well-intended goals, because when you let university administrators or other employers, rather than women and their doctors, dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, a woman's health takes a backseat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body. In 65 percent of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20 percent of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verification of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She's gay -- so clearly, polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.After months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn't afford her medication anymore, and she had to stop taking it. I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that, in the middle of the night in her final-exam period, she'd been in the emergency room. She'd been there all night in just terrible, excruciating pain. She wrote to me: "It was so painful I woke up thinking I'd been shot." Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis When this exception does exist, these exceptions don't accomplish their well-intended goals, because when you let university administrators or other employers, rather than women and their doctors, dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, a woman's health takes a backseat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body. In 65 percent of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20 percent of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verification of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She's gay -- so clearly, polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her."http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/mar/06/context-sand...
Sorry, mixed up the copy and paste? Here's the correct second paragraph:"After months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn't afford her medication anymore, and she had to stop taking it. I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that, in the middle of the night in her final-exam period, she'd been in the emergency room. She'd been there all night in just terrible, excruciating pain. She wrote to me: "It was so painful I woke up thinking I'd been shot." Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary as a result. On the morning I was originally scheduled to give this testimony, she was sitting in a doctor's office trying to cope with the consequences of this medical catastrophe."
Thanks, John Hayes, but I was really asking if Ms. Flacke's purported facts and figures had been checked out by others. In other words, has her testimony been verified by other evidence? I just can't believe the Jesuits would have such a stupid policy. But I could be wrong :-)
I just spent less than a minute on Google and a mapping program, and discovered that there is a Planned Parenthood clinic about two miles away from Georgetown's campus. Did her friend pursue that avenue? If, as has been reported here, she had a note from her doctor, I would find it pretty amazing to learn that Planned Parenthood wouldn't have helped her.http://maps.yahoo.com/directions/?q=3700%20O%20St%20NW%20%20Washington%2...
Google turned up this letter from John DiGioia, president of Georgetown, in response to criticisms of her testimony. Doesn't sound like the kind of letter he would have written if she had invented that story.http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2012/03/02/degioia-responds-to-attacks-a...
"a womans health takes a backseat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body."I think is is only half fair: The bureaucracy is focused on policing its determination NOT to collude in contraception."I would find it pretty amazing to learn that Planned Parenthood wouldnt have helped her."I think people need to understand how PP and other family planning clinics work before offering this type of advice.In the first place many such clinics often do not have dispensaries where you can just take a scrip for hormones and have it filled for free. Larger clinics that might offer a dispensary will charge for the pills on a sliding scale. This is unfair if the woman's insurance company covers non-contraceptive hormone therapy treatments.In the second place, PP and similar clinics specialize in contraception and abortions; staff are not very good at diagnosing other gynecological problems, and they generally refer patients elsewhere for treatment for those conditions. In the third place, the patient may have her own moral qualms about PP's mission. Wouldn't a Catholic patient rightfully fear colluding with evil paying for services from such a clinic?The best recourse a woman in this situation has is to pay for her prescription out of pocket ASAP so that her cystic condition doesn't worsen to the point where she needs surgery or, God forbid, a cyst ruptures causing excruciating pain and possibly serious infection. If I were that woman's friend, I would try to help her with the cost of her meds and hope that the employer who is withholding treatment she has paid for and deserves will get sorted out in the Hereafter.
John Hayes --The best DeGioia manages to say about Fluke is tht she is sincere. And neither did he say tht she correctly described Georgetown's policy. Further, given Jim Pawells point about the family planning clinic not far away, I still can't believe that her perception of the whole situation is reliable. if the situation really was so dire for her friend and if she really cared about her friend she would have found a ride for her to that clinic. There are lots of Georgetown students with cars.
Ann, you're ignoring a) that Planned Parenthood or a similar clinic that specializes in contraception is not going to be a fix-it for this, and b) this woman has paid for or earned her insurance benefits and has a bona fide medical condition that could be straightened out with hormone therapy. She does not intend to use the medication to get illicit "jollies." Why should she be denied or jacked around about getting something she has earned? Guess I'll add birth control to my list of things I should stop talking with Catholics about.
Phew! Georgetown was spared the possibility that it might indirectly and unintentionally collude in someone's practice of contraception, and it only cost this woman (and how many others?) significant pain and unnecessary surgery. WAY better that women be cut up than that Georgetown students might get access to contraception on campus, right? After all, if you give women and their doctors control over their medical decisions, well, that can't be good. Women just can't be trusted when it comes to morality, after all. Eve and all that...Does it matter how many women have unnecessary surgery? Or is it enough that this policy led to one woman having unnecessary surgery?The problem here, istm, isn't that the woman could have found a work-around if she'd tried harder. The problem is that she would have had to, while if she'd gone to a secular school she'd likely still have both ovaries. Should the result of choosing Catholic education be mutilation?
OK, my last comment, I promise, then I'm off all pelvic discussions, to the relief of all concerned.But women with polycystic ovarian disease or endometriosis, another condition that hormones are sometimes used to treat, are usually already infertile. So taking hormones that render them sterile is moot. And the spectacle of Catholics on this blog suggesting that women to go to Planned Parenthood for a work-around is truly astounding.
Jean --Why not go to Planned Parenhood to get help if you're desperate? Some of what PP does is quite moral. My purpose in entering this discussion was simply to question whethr the Georgetown studen't's testimony was entirely credible. I didn't find it to be. That does not imply that, had Georgetown given her the run around it would have been right. But on the other hand, franklly Ms. Fluke sounds quite holier-than-thou because she could have gotten her friend to Planned Parenthood or some other agency for the needed help. But obviously she didn't.
Ann Olivier, here is this year's version of the doctor certification form that Georgetown requires if you want their plan to pay for contraceptives for non birth control use:http://studentaffairs.georgetown.edu/insurance/medication-override.pdfAs I understand her testimony, Georgetown makes extensive enquiries before approving the prescription even after reveiving this form. To find this, you have to go here in the student helth plan bookletQ. Are medications to prevent pregnancy or procedures to prevent or terminate pregnancy covered?A. No, medications and procedures for birth control are not covered. The following notice is required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:NOTICE TO PLAN PARTICIPANTS The organization that sponsors your health plan has certified that it qualifies for a temporary enforcement safe harbor with respect to the Federal requirement to cover contraceptive services without cost sharing. During this one-year period, coverage under your health plan will not include coverage of contraceptive services.Q. Are medications to prevent pregnancy covered when prescribed for treatment of a covered sickness?A. Yes, your health care provider can document the medical necessity and a medical override for non-contraceptive reasons may allow for insurance coverage. To purchase such medications with your Pharmacy Card, ask providers outside of the GU Student Health Center (SHC) to complete the Medication Override Form and fax it to Gallagher Koster Insurance Agency, 617-479-0860. Note: The SHC will submit the Medication Override for you.
<My purpose in entering this discussion was simply to question whethr the Georgetown student's testimony was entirely credible. I didnt find it to be. Rush Limbaugh, of course, agrees. (Also about feminists in general and about who should pay for their "jollies.")http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&site=&source=hp&q=limbaugh+on+s...
Ann Olivier said: My purpose in entering this discussion was simply to question whethr the Georgetown student's testimony was entirely credible. I didnt find it to be.Rush Limbaugh, of course, agrees. (Also about feminists in general and about who should pay for their jollies.)http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&site=&source=hp&q=limbaugh+on+s...
Thanks, John Hayes. It looks like not only will Georgetown make such medication available upon he submission of filled out forms, but will pay for them.
Ann Olivier, it looks like that, but what Sandra Fluke testified was:"In 65 percent of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20 percent of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verification of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy"
John Hayes --But that is exactly what I think needs verification. Or did she give some source for the figures?
Ann Olivier. She testified representing. Group called Georgetown Law Students or Reproductive Justice. Seems likely that they did a survey on campus and came up with those figures. In my Googling I didn't find anyone who questioned the figures. Nothing from Georgetown saying "it's just not right that we reject 20% of applications - last year we approved 98% of applications. And we don't imply that you are lying about your symptoms to get free contraceptives."Her presentation is a little unclear to me because she may be mixing together people who submit a letter from an outside doctor and people who never get a letter because they went to an internal Georgetown doctor who didn't agree they have a medical condition.Whatever tne numbers, this kind of conflict seems inherent in a situation in which an employer says "we'll pay for this drug but only if you convince us that it's for a non-sinful use."
Thanks for the input, John. You have a point. DiGioia didn't deny her figures. So who knows. I did see some of her testimony on TV, but didn't watch the whole thing since what I did see didn't impress me, but that was just an impression of her body language.
"In 65 percent of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms."I suppose I'm not the only person to spot the contradiction inherent in this non-testimony.Why would an insurance company "interrogate" a patient about the symptoms for contraceptive medication?After all, we've been told that the entire financial basis of the Obama Administration's accommodation is that birth control saves insurers money. It's always cheaper for the insurer, we're assured, for women to utilize contraception than for them to become pregnant. To carry this notion to its logical conclusion, one would expect that insurance companies would do everything within their legal powers to get their female patients of child-bearing years onto birth control. Insurance companies, one would think, would want women popping them like vitamin supplements with their breakfasts in the morning.
Just one more thought on Fluke and her anecdote. I have no reason to question the essential facts. I can easily believe that bureaucratic mismanagement resulted in this woman becoming much more seriously ill than was necessary. It sounds like a horrible thing, and I hope that she is now healed and did not suffer a financial or an academic-progress setback.I spent a very little time looking for a public statement from DiGioia, the Georgetown President, defending his student heath policy against Fluke's charges. I haven't found one. So it seems possible that Fluke isn't exaggerating to make a point.It strikes me as a solvable problem. I'd like to think that DiGioia, upon learning about this situation, immediately did whatever is in his considerable power to ensure that it never happens again to a member of the Georgetown community. It seems eminently reasonable that a doctor's note should suffice to get a prescription filled on the spot for medication for a serious condition. No additional forms or visits should be necessary. I'd think, given DiGioia's position, he could make that policy change happen. And perhaps he has.Note, though, what isn't necessary to solve this problem. What isn't necessary is a frickin' *federal agency mandate* that binds virtually every employer in the land, misdefines what constitutes a religious organization, creates a firestorm of controversy, requires an "accommodation" that doesn't satisfy the intended recipients, implicates insurance companies and third party administrators, generates lifetime employment for a lot of lawyers, and causses everything else that has come about because of the HHS mandate. A stroke of a college president's pen could solve a local problem. And that could have been the end of it.
She didn't say the "insurance company," she said the "insurance representatives." For information about the university's insurance representatives: http://studentaffairs.georgetown.edu/insurance/index.html(And see the link in John Hayes's 4:17 post above.)
Gerelyn - what does the link you provided illustrate regarding insurers, or insurance representatives?The link that John Hayes provided is to a form belonging to a third party benefits administrator called Gallagher Koster. I'm not sure what that tells us, except that Georgetown uses a third party administrator for certain student health benefits. It may mean that Georgetown is self-insured. Or not.
Jim Pauwels, the booklet Gerelyn linked says:"This Program is underwritten by UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company and serviced by Gallagher Koster."


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What are the "types" of anxiety? I have produced the following list and brief descriptions. Sources include but are not limited to WebMD, Wikipedia, personal interviews with psychiatrists, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-IV) and my personal experience. Thus, while this list is not authoritative, I regard it as reasonably complete and free of any substantive factual errors.
Panic disorder: The sudden onset of a sense of terror, imminent danger, need to escape, or the notion that one is "going crazy." Symptoms include rapid or uneven pulse and/or the sense of not being able to breath. Sometimes, the onset may seem to occur for no particular reason, and sometimes, panic may be triggered by a certain place or situation or sensory experience such as hearing or smelling. Adaptations include avoidance of trigger places or situations, such as flying or the theater or a certain roadway.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Thoughts or fears and which occur so often that they occupy a great deal of waking experience and obstruct the ability to experience life without on-going concern for addressing the situations that create the thoughts and fears. The "obsession" refers to the thinking process or fear, such as fear of germs or health disorders or overwhelming uncertainty about personal safety or safety of others, or even the need to affirm that objects are properly organized or stored. The adaptation to the thought or fear, which is to say the specific behavior deployed to correct or address the obsession, is the "compulsion." Frequent hand-washing, checking blood pressure often, repeatedly affirming the location of people, and repeated confirmation that doors or locked or the coffee pot is off are all examples. The corrective behaviors frequently take the form of rituals which must be performed in a certain way to be regarded as effective.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Persistent and frightening or disturbing thoughts about past events which resulted in trauma, that is, extraordinary mental or physical stress and/or injury. Examples may include sudden events, such as a natural disaster, or severe experience such as combat, imprisonment or abuse. It is not the nature of the event itself which is controlling on the question of its severity, but rather the reaction to it which qualifies it as traumatic.
Social anxiety disorder (SAD): Overwhelming and/or disabling concern about routine social situations and people encountered in everyday life when the concern is unsupported or not well supported by actual fact. Excessive worry about being judged by others, inappropriate appearance, or the possibility of embarrassing behavior are examples. The disorder is also known as "social phobia."
Specific phobias: An intense and inappropriate fear of a specific object or situation in which results in extraordinary measures to avoid or control exposure to the object or situation. Included among the top phobias are fear of spiders, snakes, blood, flying, confined spaces, heights, vomit, cancer, thunderstorms and death.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) : Excessive worry and tension which cannot be immediately related to a particular external cause or internal thoughts.
PLEASE NOTE WELL: Any one, any combination, or all of the above may be and are present in normal life and experience to some degree at one time or another. Basically, they become disorders when they are so prominent in our thoughts and behavior that they frequently or profoundly interfere with our peace-of-mind and sense of well-being and/or our ability to perform the ordinary and routine tasks of daily living.
Be advised that the above list is simply a classification system which enables people to apply, for diagnostic purposes, a label to sets of conditions and symptoms which are frequently found grouped together in human experience generally. Long story short: the NAME of a disorder is simply a kind of short-hand that refers to a larger body of conditions. In actual fact, people who suffer mainly from one disorder, may also have components of other disorders as well. For example, a fear of snakes may also carry a panic reaction. (In fact, the DSM-IV says that "panic attack" itself is NOT a diagnosis, but rather the reaction to something else).
The practical benefit of the classification of anxiety types is that it may suggest to medical professionals the kinds of treatments and therapies which have been shown to be effective in relieving the disorder. And it may also help us come to grips with the ways in which professionals may be likely to think about the symptoms we present.
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Jimmie E. Matthews Taylor, age 85, was called home by The Lord on May 14, 2013. She was born in Powderly, TX, on October 13, 1927, to Jewel and J.L. Matthews. Her family moved to Miller, when Jimmie was six years old. She attended school at Moyers and graduated as Valedictorian in 1946. The summer after graduating high school, Jimmie attended summer classes at SOSU in Durant, and went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree. Jimmie married the love of her life, Clyde E. Taylor on November 21, 1947. They had one son, Clyde Taylor, Jr. and he was the apple of his mother's eye. Jimmie taught school for 33 years in Atoka, Pittsburg and Pushmataha counties. At the time of her retirement, she had been teaching for 22 years at Antlers Public Schools. In 1975, Jimmie was voted Pushmataha County Teacher of the Year. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Antlers and helped in Bible classes for many years. After retiring, Jimmie spent a great deal of her time volunteering at the Choctaw Nursing Home. She was a Hospital Auxiliary volunteer member, a member of the Oklahoma Retired Educator's Association, and Delta Kappa Gamma, International. Jimmie enjoyed her family, going to church and cooking, especially her well-known Italian Cream Cake. Jimmie is preceded in death by her husband: Clyde Eugene Taylor; son: Clyde Eugene Taylor, Jr.; parents: Jim & Jewell Matthews; brothers: Jack Matthews & Dean Matthews; sister: Dora Jane Coggins. She is survived by one grandchild: Branigan Taylor; great-grandchild: Erica Marie Diggs; her sister: Ann Perrin & husband Billy of Hugo; brother: Steve Matthews & wife JoAnn of Antlers; numerous nieces and nephews; as well as many other relatives and friends. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Antlers Church of Christ and/or some other organization of your choice. Private Family Services will be held at a later date.
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- Background: The interferon-inducible immunity-related GTPases (IRG proteins/p47 GTPases) are a distinctive family of GTPases that function as powerful cell-autonomous resistance factors. The IRG protein, Irga6 (IIGP1), participates in the disruption of the vacuolar membrane surrounding the intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, through which it communicates with its cellular hosts. Some aspects of the protein's behaviour have suggested a dynamin-like molecular mode of action, in that the energy released by GTP hydrolysis is transduced into mechanical work that results in deformation and ultimately rupture of the vacuolar membrane. Results: Irga6 forms GTP-dependent oligomers in vitro and thereby activates hydrolysis of the GTP substrate. In this study we define the catalytic G-domain interface by mutagenesis and present a structural model, of how GTP hydrolysis is activated in Irga6 complexes, based on the substrate-twinning reaction mechanism of the signal recognition particle (SRP) and its receptor (SRalpha). In conformity with this model, we show that the bound nucleotide is part of the catalytic interface and that the 3'hydroxyl of the GTP ribose bound to each subunit is essential for trans-activation of hydrolysis of the GTP bound to the other subunit. We show that both positive and negative regulatory interactions between IRG proteins occur via the catalytic interface. Furthermore, mutations that disrupt the catalytic interface also prevent Irga6 from accumulating on the parasitophorous vacuole membrane of T. gondii, showing that GTP-dependent Irga6 activation is an essential component of the resistance mechanism. Conclusions: The catalytic interface of Irga6 defined in the present experiments can probably be used as a paradigm for the nucleotide-dependent interactions of all members of the large family of IRG GTPases, both activating and regulatory. Understanding the activation mechanism of Irga6 will help to explain the mechanism by which IRG proteins exercise their resistance function. We find no support from sequence or G-domain structure for the idea that IRG proteins and the SRP GTPases have a common phylogenetic origin. It therefore seems probable, if surprising, that the substrate-assisted catalytic mechanism has been independently evolved in the two protein families.
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Editor's note: This concludes a two-part series about Crestview High School Principal Dexter Day's vision for the Bulldog athletic program.
CRESTVIEW — A white football jersey with a red 41 hangs on display in Crestview High School Principal Dexter Day's office.
Forty-one is Day's old number. It's also the number worn by his older brothers, Greg and Gary.
"The greatest memories of playing baseball and football at Crestview High School are the Friday nights and coming in (to Jack Foster Stadium) to the roar of the crowd," he said. "When they play that fight song, it means something to me. It's not another song — because they played it for me and my team."
Day was part of a class that helped turn the football program around, barely missing the playoffs his senior year, at a time when just one team from each district went to the playoffs.
He laughs when he recalls his high school days and admits to spending some time in the principal or assistant principal's office.
While he might not have seen himself one day becoming top Bulldog, he did flirt with a career in education.
"I was in the Future Teachers of America," Day said. "Do you know why I was in there? Because there were all girls in there.
"I was the only guy in there. I knew how to play that card."
Kidding aside, Day draws on past experiences as a student, teacher, coach and administrator when evaluating the Bulldog athletic program.
Making the grade
These days, Day says he likes the direction the Crestview athletic program is headed in.
"I'd say we are a B and we are moving up," he said. "We are getting the quality coaches in here like (football) Coach (Tim) Hatten that are doing an excellent job. We've got the soccer people coming in and doing an excellent job with girls soccer.
"Coach (Tim) Gillis is the rock in baseball. Coach (Greg) Watson and Coach (Kathy) Combest are awesome in basketball. Both (the boys and girls) teams were in the playoffs (in 2014) and we are on the upswing there."
For the most part, Day is pleased with his coaching staff across the board, but he says one team still struggles to find the right coach to provide stability and build a winner.
Softball dilemma
"I'm sitting here pulling the rest of my hair out because nobody wants to step up and take this job and is qualified," Day said. I'm not talking about just any Joe off the street. I'm talking about somebody that knows softball and is committed to a year-round program.
"I'm not just talking about during the season. I'm talking about someone that will work during the summer and getting these girls involved in some kind of travel ball and playing tournaments in the summer. That's going to get them the exposure for college because they are going to come see them."
When Crestview becomes competitive in softball, the school will have a grade A athletic program, Day said.
Softball coach qualifications
The ideal softball coach can teach at Crestview High School as well as coach the team, Day said.
Currently the school has openings for certified teachers in English, math and the culinary arts.
"We want somebody that is committed to the program just like all our other coaches," Day said. "We need someone with a passion for that softball program because it's a sleeping giant. We had a guy bite on it and you know what he listed first?
"All of his football coaching accolades. I don't need a football coach to coach softball. I need a softball coach to coach softball."
Day said he'd take the softball job himself if not restricted by his position as principal.
Title IX
Forty years ago, Congress passed a law requiring equal opportunities for women in college athletics. In recent years, Title IX has filtered down to the high school level.
Day's daughters, Lauren and Hannah, were both athletes at Crestview. Lauren ran track and cross country and Hannah was a standout on the volleyball and softball teams before settling into softball her senior year.
Day says he is committed to opening athletic doors for Crestview's female student-athletes.
"It (Title XI) throws opportunities for students and responsibility for us to make it happen," Day said. "It's not if, it's when it's going to happen because we have to do the same thing for our girls as we have for boys because we have to get our numbers up.
"To do that, we opened up flag football; now we could go to the playoffs in flag football. And we are talking about having beach volleyball now and increasing those numbers. We have to do it because girls want to play and they are great."
A tour of Crestview's athletic facilities indicates administrators, coaches and boosters' efforts for Bulldog athletes.
From tennis courts on the campus' north end to the baseball diamond on the south side, Crestview High School has some of the top resources for the athletes in Okaloosa County.
However, there is one venue that, after more than 40 years, needs expanding.
Crestview's gym is still functional as a playing venue, but with a listed capacity of 570 it is no longer big enough for a school with close to 2,000 students. This past season the boys basketball team was forced to move the region final playoff game to Northwest Florida State College because the Crestview gym didn't meet state seating requirements.
Day doesn't see a solution to the problem in the immediate future.
"I think it is an issue and it has to be addressed because now the fire marshal is coming down here and it's a numbers crunch," Day said. "I'm responsible for this school and when we get to 570-some-odd people we have to close it down because when it comes to this school it all funnels through this office right here.
"I don't see that there is any capital outlay money through the district because it has been cut to nothing almost."
Day said he would like to work with Crestview business leaders to come up with a way to help fund the gym's expansion.
Expectations moving forward
Day understands that most teams won't make the playoffs every year, but he does have standards to which he will hold Crestview coaches.
"I just want my coaches to go out there and coach their players and work them," Day said. "You have to work diligently and get them to do the best they can. And that's all I want them to do.
"If they win, they win. If they lose, we will talk about it. I want them to compete and get the students to do their best."
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin's sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle or call 682-6524.


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By Craig Hlavaty, Harvey Rice, Mike Glenn : October 23, 2013 : Updated: October 23, 2013 11:05pm
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Larry Gregory, president of the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, spoke about pilot Keith Hibbett, whom he considered a close friend. The airplane was a vintage P-51 Mustang.
The Lone Star Flight Museum's P-51 Mustang Galveston Gal and B-17 Flying Fortress over Galveston Bay.
Galveston Gal
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleA P-51 Mustang named Galveston Gal is seen at Ellington Airport Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, in Houston
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Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleA P-51 Mustang named Galveston Gal is seen at Ellington Airport Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, in Houston
Chocolate Bay area, near Galveston. (Google Maps image)
Chocolate Bay area, near Galveston. (Google Maps image)
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Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleA P-51 Mustang aircraft performs during The 28th Annual Wings Over Houston Airshow at Ellington Field on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Houston.
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History/Previous Owners of the Galveston Gal
1951: RCAF 9294, Mar 16 1951 -- Aug 14 1959
1958: Jul 21, N6525D, James Defuria / Intercontinental Airways, Canastota NY
1960: N6347T, James Defuria / Intercontinental Airways, Canastota NY
1963: N554T, Ray Alexander, Memphis TN
1966: W.R. Rodgers, Rolling Fork MS
1969: to El Salvador as FAS 404 #2
Modified during FAS service to a TF-51, rep. crashed
1974: N36FF, Jack Flaherty, wreck
1975: John Herlihy, Half Moon Bay CA
1975: N4151D, Gordon Plaskett, King City CA
1977: rebuilt using 44-74012, first flight Nov 22, "TF-660"
1981: Ben Bradley, Fort Lauderdale FL
1981: Basil Deuschle, Pompano Beach FL
1983: Don Whittington, Fort Lauderdale FL
1987: Robert Waltrip / Air SRV Inc / Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston TX
1988: Doug Arnold / Warbirds of Great Brittan, Biggin Hill UK - stayed in U.S.
1991: William Hane, flies as 44-84660, TF-660
2008: for sale
2009: Dec - N4151D sold to Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston TX
Restoration at Ezell Aviation
rep. to be painted as 359th FG "Galveston Gal"
2010: Mar 25 - Reg to Texas Aviation Hall of Fame
2011: Mar 7 - repainted and flown as "Galveston Gal". Work performed: full IRAN inspection, replacement of lower RH longeron, extended vertical stabilizer, main gear re-bushing, replacement of wing fuel cells and a very nice paint job. First flight by Tommy Gregory.
Source: Lone Star Flight Museum
A vintage fighter plane crashed Wednesday near West Galveston Bay, killing an experienced pilot and a passenger who had paid for the flight, officials said.
Keith Hibbett, 51, of Denton, and passenger John Stephen Busby, 66, of the United Kingdom, were killed in the crash, which was reported about 12:30 p.m. Busby was on vacation and the flight was part of his 41st wedding celebration, said officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
The plane, a P-51 Mustang named Galveston Gal, flew out of the Galveston's Scholes International Airport, said director Hud Hopkins. The plane is part of the Lone Star Flight Museum at the airport.
"The pilot was not in contact with air traffic control at the time of the crash," said Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Federal officials have not determined what caused the crash. The plane crashed in 3 to 5 feet of water in an area between Chocolate Bay and West Galveston Bay, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Lehmenn said.
"It was just a horrific crash site," said Galveston Police Chief Henry Porretto, whose officers retrieved at least one of the bodies. "It's a big field of debris with parts strung everywhere."
A Galveston police boat was at a marina close to the crash site and arrived soon afterward, Porretto said. He said DPS was handling the investigation because the impact area was on the border between Brazoria and Galveston counties.
Larry Gregory, president of Lone Star Flight Museum, said Hibbett was very experienced, former military and a former airline pilot.
"This is one of the most difficult things that I have gone through," Gregory said. "The pilot is like a brother to me."
Gregory said he couldn't begin to guess what might have caused the crash.
"The airplane is meticulously maintained," Gregory said, adding that the plane had just returned from an airshow. "The plane was very special to us."
Gregory said authorities told him one person saw the crash.
$1,995 for a flight
Galveston Gal was among several vintage planes available for rides at the airport, said Hopkins. According to the museum website, a P-51 Flight Experience costs $1,995 for a one-passenger flight.
The plane was scheduled to appear at this weekend's Wings Over Houston Airshow at Ellington Airport.
Bill Roach, director of the show, said the crash was not related to the event and that it will continue.
"While our hearts ache and we grieve, we will continue to share our love of aviation with our fans and move forward with our show," Roach said in a prepared statement. "And we will remember these two people, their families and their friends in our thoughts and prayers now, during our show and in the difficult days ahead."
10 years of rides
Airplane ride programs have been offered at the Wings Over Houston show for about 10 years, said Ralph Royce, a board member of the organization for more than 25 years.
"I would take a ride on just about any of those airplanes that are offering rides with full confidence," Royce said Wednesday night.
The airshow has no direct involvement in rides other than providing space and establishing procedures for the paying passengers to get to the aircraft, Royce said.
Royce, the airboss for this year's show, said the FAA ensures the airworthiness of the airplanes.
"They are maintained by some of the finest organizations in the world. They are maintained to excellent standards," he said.
The Wings Over Houston show does not collect any money from the ride program, Royce said.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama is letting his jobs council expire, cutting off one source of input from business leaders while unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Obama formed the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in January 2011, when unemployment was about 9 percent. It's now 7.8 percent, though more than 12 million people are out of work.
Obama's executive order establishing the council said it would go out of business Jan. 31, 2013. The White House said Thursday that Obama had no plans to renew its charter.
"The work of the jobs council was very valuable," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "While the president didn't agree with all of its recommendations, he agreed with many of them and acted on a number of them."
White House officials said Obama intended for the council to fulfill its mission and then wind down, and that he would seek input about the economy from business leaders in other ways. Among the steps Obama plans to pursue are expedited permits for public works projects, plus programs to boost entrepreneurship and workforce development.
Even before Obama's decision was clear, Republicans seized on the council's likely expiration as evidence the president hadn't spent enough time on trying to create jobs, which is a priority for Americans. The Republican National Committee called it part of "the failed Obama record," while the House Republicans' campaign committee, in an online petition, accused Obama of laying off his own jobs council.
Adding to the concern about the job market's vulnerability, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that the U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 percent from October through December of last year, the first quarterly drop since 2009. The Federal Reserve said the economy appears to have "paused in recent months."
The jobs council was a successor to an economic advisory board Obama created at the onset of his presidency. The panel was chaired by General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and included prominent business leaders and economists. Immelt said Thursday that progress has been made on putting in place 90 percent of the council's recommendations.
Obama met with the council only a few times. During the last meeting, in February 2012, the president and the council highlighted an engineering education initiative alongside school deans.
"The president treated his jobs council as more of a nuisance than a vehicle to spur job creation," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
The council's main product was a report, "Roadmap to Renewal," that was released in January 2012. The council also organized a series of meetings across the country last year with business owners, elected officials and academics; Obama didn't attend those election-year sessions.
Critics have argued that the council's primary purpose was to create the appearance of action at a time when the nation was pining for something to rein in soaring joblessness. The administration acted on many of the council's recommendations, including suggestions to streamline permitting and small business loans, increase tourist visas and boost energy efficiency.
But the White House was at odds with several council members on tax policies, particularly a proposal to exclude overseas corporate earnings from U.S. taxes. That idea divided even the jobs council, whose membership included labor and Obama's political allies.
"It was helpful in terms of putting a spotlight on a variety of issues, but particularly helpful in the area of entrepreneurship," said AOL co-founder Steve Case, a member of the panel, in an interview. "There's still work to be done, but we did make good progress."
The council's dissolution also comes as White House aides are optimistic about the prospects for a second-term detente with business.
During Obama's first term, business leaders bristled at his harsh depiction of "fat-cat bankers" and his efforts to impose regulations, tax policies and spending initiatives they argued were unfriendly to business. Obama aides hope the warming of ties between the president and the business world can benefit the White House in future fiscal debates with Republicans.
White House officials said the president made a fresh effort to reach out to business in the days following his re-election. Between the November election and the end of 2012, in the height of negotiations to avert the "fiscal cliff," more than 400 business leaders, ranging from CEOs of large multinational companies to small business owners, met with Obama or his aides at the White House, officials said.
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Most baseball fans watch the off-season with a curious and interested eye. It's always exciting and sometimes painful to see teams wheel and deal, sending superstars from one city to another. There's nothing like seeing a big name player put on your team's uniform for the very first time. While the winter "swap meet" is exciting for most fans, it was frequently a frustration for our biggest seamhead, Todd McFarlane.
Our baseball lineups are cast in stone approximately seven months before they arrive in stores. This means that the last scheduled MLB series for 2005 was MLB 12, arriving in stores in late June. So as star after star changed teams following New Year's Day, Todd was left with no way to get figures for these relocated stars into collectors' hands.
That's how MLB 13 -- Extended Edition was born. Todd wanted to make figures for four of the game's best players who changed teams in late 2004 and early 2005. Three of the four figures have been sculpted by us before, though Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and Larry Walker all have 100 percent new head sculpts for the MLB 13 line. Moises Alou was originally sculpted for MLB 12, but he took so long to sign with a team that we slid him into the MLB 13 lineup.
To put out a third baseball line (fourth if you include this Spring's Cooperstown Collection Series 2) we're running dangerously close to having it in stores at the same time as our much-anticipated NFL Legends debut series. To help the collectibility of the MLB 13 figures (which do not have chase versions) and to have them arrive and sell through in time to clear space for NFL Legends, these four figures are a short-printed run. MLB 13 is being produced at substantially lower-than-normal production numbers for an MLB line and will hit stores in August.
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RANDY JOHNSON 3 -- The 10-time All-Star and five-time Cy Young award winner moved from the Diamondbacks to the Yankees in a blockbuster trade this January. "The Big Unit" surpassed Steve Carlton in 2004 to become Major League Baseball's all-time lefthanded strikeout leader. Now in pinstripes, Johnson will try to lead the Yankees back to the World Series.
LARRY WALKER 2 -- If not for the baseball strike of 1994, Larry Walker likely would have led the Montreal Expos to their first World Series championship. Instead, the Expos faded and relocated to Washington DC, and Walker went on to patrol right field for almost a decade in Denver. Late last season, St. Louis added the multi-talented former MVP to their already-powerful lineup. Walker helped propel the Cardinals to the 2004 World Series and looks to deliver a championship to St. Louis in 2005.
PEDRO MARTINEZ 2 -- The six-time All-Star and three-time Cy Young award winner has another number that's special to him: 86. Pedro Martinez accomplished his goal in Boston -- helping pitch the Red Sox to a World Series Championship that ended an 86-year title drought. Following the season, Boston's adopted son packed his bags and landed at LaGuardia, as the new ace of the re-tooled New York Mets.
MOISES ALOU -- The five-time All-Star joined his sixth team in 2005, leaving the Cubs as a free agent and landing in San Francisco. Playing for a team with your father as manager and Barry Bonds as your insurance sounds like a pretty sweet gig. Bonds' knee injury has complicated matters a bit, but is hasn't mattered at the plate, where Alou has helped spearhead the National League's most potent offense.


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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Cal State Northridge will host its first cross country meet on the CSUN campus in more than 20 years Saturday, Oct. 15 when the Matadors host the 2011 Northridge Invitational.
The women's 6k race is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. followed by the men's 8k at 8:45 a.m.
The course, designed by Matador head coach Avery Anderson, loops around the several grass recreation fields on the CSUN campus and will also travel to the grass perimeter of the Matador Track & Field Complex as well as the asphalt service road that connects those areas.
Competitors and fans are encouraged to park in Lot E6 which is located off Halsted St. Athlete drop off is in the loading zone as soon as you turn left onto Plummer from Lindley Ave.
215 men and women are scheduled to compete with 139 competing in the women's 6k and 75 men in the 8k. In the women's race, teams from Houston, USC, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, UNLV and CSU Bakersfield as well as others are expected to compete. Men's teams from Houston, Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara as well as the Men of Troy are scheduled to run the 8k.
Cal State Northridge last hosted a cross country meet on the University campus in the late 1980's. The Matadors hosted a meet in both 2009 and 2010 and Balboa Park in Tarzana. Results from Satuday's meet will be posted on the official website of Cal State Northridge Athletics, www.GoMatadors.com.


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Before traveling outside the U.S., review the following checklist. If you have any questions or concerns before you leave the U.S., please consult an advisor at Scholar Services. Upon re-entry into the U.S., be prepared to present to an immigration inspector your valid passport with valid J visa, original Form DS-2019 with a travel signature, and financial documentation.
1. Passport: Be sure that your passport is valid at least six months into the future from the day you intend to re-enter the U.S.
2. Visa: Check your visa to make sure it will be unexpired on your intended re-entry date. If you need to travel but your visa has expired, you must apply for a new visa from a U.S. Consulate/Embassy abroad. It is best to apply for a visa in your home country. If you apply in a third country, expect processing delays.
Note: Canadian citizens do not need an entry visa to enter the U.S. from Canada or another country. However, Canadians must show Form DS-2019 approval notice at the port of entry to obtain appropriate status on their I-94 Arrival/Departure Record.
3. Form DS-2019 and Travel Signature: You must have with you your original DS-2019 form. Be sure you have a valid signature dated within the last 12 months from International Scholar Services on the section marked "Travel Validation by Responsible Officer" at the bottom right of your form.
Note: J-2 dependents must each have their own DS-2019 with a valid travel signature dated within the last 12 months.
4. Financial Documentation: You must have with you evidence of your financial documentation, e.g., an NYU appointment letter, an award letter from a funding organization, or personal financial documents.
Most scholars do not need a new U.S. visa to return to the U.S. after visiting an adjacent country due to a process known as Automatic Revalidation. If you travel to Canada, Mexico, and adjacent islands of the Caribbean except Cuba for 30 days or less, you do not need a new visa stamp even if your current one has expired if you:
Note: Citizens of some countries may need a visa to enter Canada, Mexico or the adjacent Caribbean islands. Please check to see if citizens of your home country are required to have a visa stamp (e.g., a Canadian tourist visa) to enter an adjacent country.
When the immigration inspector notes your I-94 information upon re-entry into the U.S., be sure to check at that time that it is noted with the correct immigration status: "J-1 D/S." This is critical to your being able to pursue your program objective. If you are a J-1 professor and the immigration inspector puts another status on your I-94 arrival/departure record, e.g., B-2 you will not be eligible to take up your teaching position at NYU.
You are advised to carry your passport and DS-2019 with you when traveling in the U.S.; they will be required for a flight, but could also be requested on trips where you are traveling by car, train or bus.
For traveling around the NYC area, it's a good idea to carry a copy of your I-94 information, a copy of your DS2019, and a copy of your passport page with your biographic information and photo with you. While it is extremely unlikely you would be questioned, having these documents with you provides immediate proof of your lawful status in the U.S.


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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
A burglary was reported at a home on Wyman Street on Monday. The owner reported cash, electronics, a laundry basket and keys missing.
An additional burglary was reported at a business on York Street on Monday. The owner reported two video game consoles missing.
According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriffs Office:
A 66-year-old Aiken woman reported identity theft on Tuesday after someone tried to open a bank account in her name.
A burglary was reported at a home on Corley Drive in North Augusta on Tuesday. The owner reported electronics and video games missing.
Additional burglaries were reported on Middleton Drive in Windsor, Finley Street in Warrenville and Atomic Road in Beech Island.
Vehicle break-ins were reported Tuesday on Wagener Road in Aiken and Fairfield Court in Aiken.
A vehicle was reported stolen from Celeste Mobile Home Park Circle in North Augusta on Tuesday.
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Fans Can Follow Hawks Online This Week
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HAMBURG, NY - Due to the marvels of modern technology, fans can follow the up-to-the-minute results of Hilbert College athletics this week.
April 3:
Follow this (link) to view the men's lacrosse game live-stats against Keuka College (7pm)
April 4:
Follow this (link) to view the baseball team's live-stats and video of their game at Penn State Behrend (1pm DH).
Follow this (link) to view the women's lacrosse live-stats against Medaille College (3pm).
Follow this (link) to view live the men's home volleyball game against Penn State Behrend (7pm).
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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