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Profits drive cost of health care; hospitals hit back
Hospital operators in the state are sharply critical of a state consultant's report highlighting profit margins at large private hospitals as a factor in driving up costs of medical care in the state.
The report, by Seattle-based Milliman Inc., a respected health care actuarial firm, also said physician's fees in Alaska are significantly higher than in other states, 60 percent above the average in a group of comparison states, mainly because of lack of competition. For commercial, meaning non-government, health care payers, the difference in physicians' fees is 69 percent, Milliman said.
The comparison was for physicians in private practice, not salaried physicians employed by institutions.
Data from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Hawaii were used in the study. Milliman also made comparisons to national averages.
The Seattle-based firm was retained last year by the Alaska Health Care Commission, a state advisory task force that includes health care providers, to do a study comparing Alaska medical care costs with those in other states.
Milliman found that hospital fees in Alaska in 2010, on average, were 38 percent higher than the comparison states, and that commercial hospital reimbursement, or payments by non-government employers, averaged 38 percent higher than the comparison states.
However, Karen Perdue, director of the Alaska Hospital and Nursing Home Association, a trade group, said these comparisons must be looked at in the context that Alaska costs are on average 30 percent higher than costs in other states.
Alaska Regional Hospital, a privately owned hospital in Anchorage, as well as the hospital and nursing home association were critical of Milliman's methodology in parts of its study, particularly the comparison of hospital profits.
They acknowledged that Milliman is a respected firm in the field, however.
"Milliman is an excellent firm. We just have questions on their methodology," said Perdue.
On a statewide basis, Milliman said hospital margins, or profits, were 13.4 percent on average in 2010 compared to 5.7 percent in a group of comparison states. Margins for hospitals in urban areas were 16.2 percent on average, while margins of hospital in rural areas were similar to the comparison state average of 5.7 percent, the report said.
The urban hospital average is mainly driven up by higher margins at two for-profit hospitals, Alaska Regional Hospital and Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, Milliman said in its report.
Alaska Regional's 2010 margin averaged 29.5 percent and the 2010 margin for Mat-Su Regional averages 25.8 percent, Milliman said. The average margins of nonprofit hospitals in urban areas for 2010 was lower, in comparison.
Providence Alaska Medical Center's margin was 13.7 percent; Fairbanks Memorial Hospital was 5 percent and Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau was 7.3 percent and Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna was 2.7 percent, according to the Milliman study.
Annie Holt, CEO of Alaska Regional, said Milliman's comparison of margins of the two large private hospitals with nonprofit hospitals was incomplete because it did not account for the fact that the private hospitals pay taxes and that there are differences in the way private and nonprofit hospitals allocate costs and do other accounting.
"It's not an accurate portrayal. Milliman presented this as an apples-to-apples comparison, but there are important differences," Holt said in an interview.
When the accounting differences are adjusted for and local and state taxes are included, so that a more complete comparison can be made, Alaska Regional's margin for 2010 would be 12.5 percent, Holt said. Alaska Regional paid $3 million in state and local taxes in 2011, she said.
In written comments made to the health care commission by the hospital and nursing home association said the consulting firm "did not take into account taxes paid by taxpaying entities. According to financial experts at HCA (Alaska Regional's owner) the absence of this consideration overstates Alaska Regional's reported margin by 58 percent."
There are other problems in the comparisons, some resulting from Milliman's reliance on data required to be reported to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid by hospitals: "Alaska Regional is more fully depreciated, which makes a difference in the profit statement. Losses on certain items cannot be deducted as they can for nonprofits. Shares-service platforms such as information technology support, supply chain and accounts receivable are not necessarily in the Alaska (Medicare) cost report and therefore comparisons may not be fully vetted by the Milliman approach," in relying on data reported to Medicare, the association said in its comments.
Although it is a nonprofit organization, Providence said it does pays taxes to the city of Anchorage.
"We do not pay property taxes for our hospital facility, however, we pay taxes on all of the property in which we rent space to tenants. In 2010, Providence paid the city of Anchorage approximately $2.7 million in property taxes," Bruce Lamoureux, chief executive for Providence Health and Services Alaska, said in written comments. "Additionally, our margin – the amount of money left over after we pay our bills – is substantially less than the average attributed to Alaska's metropolitan hospitals in the Alaska Health Care Pricing Analysis (Milliman) report.
"All of our excess revenue after expenses supports local facilities, technologies, community benefit and programs that aim to improve access and keep health care close to home," he added. "We offer services available nowhere else in the state – often at a loss – to keep Alaskans close to home for care."
An example is Providence's new Senior Care Center that provides primary care to elders on Medicare, which operates at a loss, he said.
Deborah Erickson, executive director of the health care commission, said the Milliman study was not intended to be a financial analysis of the hospitals or of other providers, but only a broad look at many factors that affect medical costs in Alaska including health care utilitization rates, professional compensation and providers' staffing ratios.
However, "if the hospitals are challenging Milliman's data we ask them to bring their own information to us," Erickson said. "So far they haven't done that."
Milliman's study was focused on a range of factors that affect the cost of health care and health insurance. The hospital data did not include facilities operated by the military or the large tribal health associations, but some of the other data sets, such as for professional compensation, did include government health care workers. However, physicians in private practice were excluded in the professional compensation comparison and were compared separately.
Edward Jhu, health care actuarial at Milliman who co-authored the study for the health care commission said his team focused on data reported to Medicare as well as other sources of information Milliman has access to, some of which are proprietary.
Jhu said he wouldn't comment on the criticisms of the hospitals or of using data filed with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, but said that hospitals are required to report data on operating margins for all patients including senior citizens on Medicare as well as care provided to other patients.
"Alaska is not really unique in suffering high health care costs," Jhu said in an interview. "But Alaska has geographic factors and a small population, which means costs will be higher than in other states."
Erickson said another key conclusion of the Milliman report was that hospital utilization rates in urban areas were about on par with hospitals in the comparison states. However, low volumes in rural hospitals contribute to high costs in those facilities, she said.
Perdue, of the hospital association, said her group has questions about other parts of the Milliman study, particularly a conclusion that compensation for health care professional workers is about on par with the comparison states.
"That doesn't square with our members' experience, or with data we see from other sources," Perdue said. For example, the Milliman study leaves out benefits for health care workers, which are higher in Alaska than the other states, she said.
There are also questions about the utilitization rates, which Milliman said were about on par with the comparison states. Perdue said relying on Medicare data for this category can be misleading since many senior citizens go out of state for more complex medical procedures.
"The subset of utilitization for Medicare-eligible may be on par, but that may not be the case for the population at large," she said.


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Superstore Season 4
The employees of Cloud 9 rush to rebuild the store in time for its grand re-opening.
Genres: Comedy
Actor: Olivia Colman, Julian Barratt, Daniel Rigby, Sophia Di Martino, Leila Hoffman, Will Sharpe, Colin Hurley, Hammed Animashaun, Alistair Green, Desiree Akhavan, Zita Sattar, Rico Canadinhas, Georgina Campbell, Angus Wright
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NEWS- Going once: Area foreclosures up-- but it could be worse
On the day that the Prang home was sold at auction, Chris Prang posted credit scoring tips on his mortgage blog.
"How big is too big?" That was the question posed by the Hook two years ago on this Earlysville house, whose owners owe over $570,000.
A small crowd gathered in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse April 17 to watch two houses go on the auction block. With the number of foreclosures rising all over the country, such scenes are daily occurrences in many cities. What was unusual about these?
For starters, the owners of the houses were into lenders for at least half a million each, and one of them belongs– uh, belonged– to a mortgage broker.
"The first six years I was doing this, it was rare to have one over $200,000," recalls auctioneer Phyllis White. "I had one in Farmington, one in Glenmore. Then the money became easier."
White has been handling foreclosure auctions for eight years for Samuel I. White, the Virginia Beach-based law firm her father started in 1950. Back then, she says, he did real estate closings and wills with the help of two or three people. She says business "mushroomed" after the firm took on a few foreclosures.
"Now it's our main business," she says. "Now it's a firm of over 200 people."
The April 17 auction was pretty typical for White, an Albemarle resident who travels around the western region for the firm. "Often, no one shows up," she says. She has regulars who do, but they weren't among the seven who came to Court Square for these two sales.
First up was a house at 524 Allen Road in Earlysville. It's been on the market for two years, and in fact was the subject of a Hook "On the Block" feature in 2006 when it was listed for $739,500. By last summer, the price had dropped to $685,900. Today the 4,100-square-foot house on nearly four acres is assessed at $595,400.
Bargain-hunters who frequent courthouse sales have learned that they can be iffy propositions. For a variety of reasons, an auction can be canceled at the last minute.
"The owner has up to that moment to pay off with a cashier's check or declare bankruptcy," explains White. "They call to get the reinstatement figure. That happens regularly."
But not this time. As the clock struck 11:30, White, in an ankle-length dress, quietly called the small crowd to attention and asked for an opening bid of $574,281.
"That's a lot higher than the list price," noted a hat-wearing man. The foreclosure notice had indicated the borrower owed $547,500.
Statewide, White has seen a rise in the number of foreclosures. "I think last year we had double the previous year," she says.
As for the Charlottesville area, "I've seen a couple more here, but generally it's very minimal," White says, especially compared to places like Culpeper or Prince William County. Real estate blogger Jim Duncan agrees that the number of Charlottesville foreclosures is not "catastrophic" like other areas, but they're having an impact on prices of nearby houses. If a house is foreclosed for a $250,000 debt, he says, it's going to be hard to list one for $350,000 in the same neighborhood.
Back in Court Square, Phyllis White asks again, "Is there anyone going to bid?"
No response. The bank takes the house.
Next up is 5015 Meadowlark Court in the Foxwood Forest neighborhood in northern Albemarle County. Here, the owner owes $500,000 on the first deed of trust. But this time there are two additional liens on the property– $150,000 on a second deed of trust and $75,000 on a third note, a credit line, according to Albemarle County records.
"If they're not there to defend it, they lose it," says White of such lien holders.
Lenders have allowed the owner to pile more than $725,000 in debt on a property assessed by the county at only $691,200. But the real shocker is the owner's vocation: he's Chris Prang, a mortgage broker.
"It was really bad timing for us," says Prang. "We had bought a house a Wintergreen and dumped a lot money in it. Then there was the news about mortgages–" news that affected Prang's own business.
Prang works out of his house for Carteret Mortgage; he says his mortgage consulting is geared toward the Christian community and home schoolers, which is what his wife does with their three children.
"I try to do things above-board," says Prang.
Their original loan was with American Home Mortgage, the once high-flying firm that flamed out last August with a sudden bankruptcy and put about 7,000 Americans out of work. Then things went bad for the Prangs after they used their equity– or what they thought was their equity– to finance another business venture: buying houses and fixing them up.
"I had another foreclosure," Prang admits. "I had perfect credit until recently."
He advises homeowners in over their heads to avoid late payments, but he admits that's easier said than done. He suggests that people unable to keep up with their payments try something called a "deed in lieu of foreclosure," in which, with approval, they simply give the house back to the bank.
"It's not as harmful to your credit as a foreclosure," he says, but concedes, "I'm in the business, and I didn't know about it."
Another option is a listing forbearance, what Prang describes as asking the bank, "Can you give me a break while I try to sell it?"
He also recommends staying in touch with the bank, and he points out that the Piedmont Housing Alliance offers services to people in trouble. PHA, a HUD-approved housing counseling agency, has seen a 174 percent increase in calls for help since 2007, according to PHA's Shelley Murphy. If the back payments are curable, she'll negotiate with lenders and provide advice on making changes in the budget– for free.
"They're sitting there and know they can't make that payment," she says. "They need to make that call. Virginia is one of the fastest states in the country to foreclose. They can do it within 45 days. That's serious."
Prang is mortgage savvy, and yet he says, "There was nothing else I could have done."
He and his wife bought their house for $650,000 in 2005 and converted the garage to boost it to 5,000 square feet, the biggest house in the neighborhood. They listed it a year ago for $800,000, then $775,000, and finally, $699,000 a few weeks ago, less than what they owe on the three mortgages.
"I could have come current," confesses Prang. "I have the money. But that meant dumping a lot of money in a house losing value."
And he says if he had sufficient funds, he wouldn't pour them into buying a house now. "Why take the chance to buy something that a year from now could be worth a lot less?"
Prang isn't in favor of current plans for the government to bail people out of bad investments. He personally didn't want government help in avoiding foreclosure.
"In the long run, I'm going to be okay," he says. "I know my credit has been dinged, but I know how to repair it."
In front of the Courthouse, White is on the phone, and she tells the small crowd that the reserve on the Prangs' first mortgage is $516,135. That higher number can include missed payments and the auctioneer's fee, she explains.
As with the day's first auction, there are no bids. Mortgage broker Chris Prang and his wife Andrea have just lost their home. The holder of the first mortgage gets the house, while the two other note-holders get nothing.
"This is not fun for anyone to go through," says Prang. "We're Christians, and we feel God has a plan, and it's all going to work out."
He promises they'll leave the house in good condition. And next for the family?
"When I get off the phone with you," he tells a reporter, "I'm going to the packing store and get some boxes."


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If you're looking for a gift for someone you love that's unique and special, why not get creative and make something?
When you're trying to save money and budget, shopping for your loved ones can be difficult. But you don't have to spend a fortune. A personalised or homemade gift will really show you care much more than an expensive but thoughtless present.
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Get Creative with Clothing
Customised clothing is a great idea for a present with a difference. A printed T-shirt is a thoughtful gift for someone special.
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Whether you choose to put their name on a shirt or a memorable photo or design, you can create a lovely, personal gift that the owner will cherish.
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Why not make a personalised photo book for that special someone? This present is ideal for a traveller, a budding photographer or someone sentimental who cherishes photos of the people they love.
Fill an album with photographs from special occasions and happy times. Photo books are a great way to showcase all of those great photographs that get forgotten about.
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If your special someone loves to eat, why not bake them a gift? A home baked present is a real treat for any occasion.
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Finish your home baked present off with a gift box wrapped with a bow. Your special someone will love the effort that you have put in and may even share the gift with you!
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SACRAMENTO –Stockton's bankruptcy trial began its second day Tuesday with the city's interim chief financial officer testifying about his role helping prepare Stockton to file Chapter 9 protection.
SACRAMENTO –Stockton's bankruptcy trial began its second day Tuesday with the city's interim chief financial officer testifying about his role helping prepare Stockton to file Chapter 9 protection.
David Millican, who oversaw the city's financial books as Stockton filed for bankruptcy last year, said that the city is on course to emerge from Chapter 9 with a $100 million gap over 10 years.
That figure is a "hypothetical" deficit projection, Millican said, which officials will have to use as a guide for future budgeting and a potential tax increase. The city will have to come to grips with that projected gap and avert it, he said.
That projection is spelled out in the city's massive 790-page "ask" document, which Stockton provided to creditors at the start of pre-bankruptcy mediation, Millican said.
No tax initiatives were considered leading into June 28 bankruptcy filing because the city's cash was quickly running out. There would be no time to launch a tax campaign to convince voters to pass a tax hike, Millican said.
A tax campaign takes from two to 10 years, he said.
Stockton is in trial to persuade U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein to allow the city to enter Chapter 9 protection.
If he grants that, Stockton next has the challenge of getting the judge to confirm a plan of adjustment, which could force some of the city's creditors to take losses on their investments into the city.
Assured Guaranty Corp. and National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. are the two leading firms opposing Stockton's eligibility. The two firms insured millions of dollars worth of Stockton bonds.
The trial originally expected to last four days may end early.
Attorneys said today that Councilwoman Kathy Miller is expected to be called to testify Wednesday morning, followed by attorneys' closing arguments. Judge Klein has said he will issue an oral ruling from the bench at the trial's close.
Read Wednesday's Record for more of this story by Staff Writer Scott Smith.


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About 500 children in Arkansas live in foster homes under state care. Come to the exhibit and see for yourself. You can ignore statistics…but you cannot ignore faces.


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/ Monday, July 26, 2010 / 5 Comments / Seafood , Thai
Mussels With Roasted Chili Paste
This is Thai style Mussels With Roasted Chili Paste. If you like mussels, you will love this recipe. The fresh mussels were just deliciously infused with all the flavors of Thailand, namely from the roasted chili paste, lemongrass, basil leaves, garlic, lime juice, and the spiciness of the bird's eye chilies. I used bottled roasted chili paste (or Nam Prik Phoa) which are imported from Thailand and is easily available at most Thai grocers over here in Vancouver. This is a really simple and super quick dish to make, best of all, goes so well with just some steamed rice. Try it!
Mussels With Roasted Chili Paste
(Printable Recipe)
2 ½ lbs Mussels
3 Cloves Garlic, chopped
5 to 6 Thai Bird's Eye Chilies, chopped
40 g Thai Basil Leaves
4 Tbsp Roasted Chili Paste (Nam Prik Phao)
2 Stalk Lemongrass, sliced
½ Lime, juiced
1 Tbsp Peanut Oil
Sea Salt to taste
Heat the peanut oil in a large wok or pan over moderate heat; cook the garlic and lemongrass until fragrant. Turn the heat on high and toss in chilies, and roasted chili pasted (nam prik phao) and give it a quick stir.
Mix in the mussels, stir and closed with a lid. Cook until all the mussels are open. Add the basil leaves, lime juice, and season with sea salt, if necessary. Serve immediately.
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what an explosion of flavors, great recipe.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2010 at 6:10 AM
interesting blog. keep it up!ReplyDelete
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I love mussels. Now I'm craving for some right now.ReplyDelete
That looks fantastic. I love mussels but I rarely do anything with them other than steam them with garlic, onions and a splash of white wine.ReplyDelete
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Order and argument in prayer
'Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.' Job 23:3–4
Suggested Further Reading: Daniel 9:1–19
The true spiritual order of prayer seems to me to consist of something more than mere arrangement. It is most fitting for us first to feel that we are now doing something that is real; that we are about to address ourselves to God, whom we cannot see, but who is really present; whom we can neither touch nor hear, nor by our own senses can apprehend, but who, nevertheless, is as truly with us as though we are speaking to a friend of flesh and blood like ourselves. Feeling the reality of God's presence, "our mind will be led by divine grace into a humble state"; we shall feel like Abraham, when he said, 'I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes.' Consequently we shall not deliver ourselves of our prayer as boys repeating their lessons, as a mere matter of rote, much less shall we speak as if we were rabbis instructing our pupils, or as I have heard some do, with the coarseness of a highwayman stopping a person on the road and demanding his purse of him; but we shall be humble yet bold petitioners, humbly importuning mercy through the Saviour's blood. We shall not have the reserve of a slave but the loving reverence of a child, yet not an impudent, impertinent child, but a teachable obedient child, honouring his Father, and therefore asking earnestly, but with deferential submission to his Father's will. When I feel that I am in the presence of God, and take my rightful position in that presence, the next thing I shall want to recognise will be that I have no right to what I am seeking, and cannot expect to obtain it except as a gift of grace, and I must recollect that God limits the channel through which he will give me mercy—he will give it to me through his dear Son. Let me put myself then under the patronage of the great Redeemer.
For meditation: In emergencies believers can pray to God on the spur of the moment (Nehemiah 2:4). At other times it is only right and proper to take both care and time (Nehemiah 1:4; Matthew 6:5–7).
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Raheem Appleby scored 17 points, Alex Hamilton added 15 off the bench and Louisiana Tech coasted to a 76-54 victory over San Jose State on Thursday night.
Appleby made three 3-pointers, while Hamilton had eight assists, six rebounds and four steals. Brandon Gibson chipped in 13 points for the Bulldogs (17-3, 8-0 Western Athletic), who won their ninth consecutive game.
Aalim Moor had 14 points and D.J. Brown 11 for the Spartans (9-10, 3-5), who were without leading scorer James Kinney due to a suspension. Kinney's average of 20.6 points per game ranks 11th in Division I.
San Jose State kept the game close for most of the first half, but Louisiana Tech's late run gave the Bulldogs a 28-23 halftime lead. They came alive in the second half, pulling away with a 16-3 run capped by Hamilton's fast-break layup that made it 66-43 with 4:39 to play.


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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
9 comments:
- Marion SOA said...
Trop bien j'attends avec impatience la nouvelle saison :D merci à toute l'équipe pour cette super série !
- Jun 30, 2009, 12:58:00 PM
- brit said...
Can't wait just heard Mitch IS coming back so hope it's true
- Jun 30, 2009, 2:43:00 PM
- East Coast said...
keep it real man,. or at least pop into N. Carolina and spill some Whiskey with Me n the boys out in New Hill.
Ride Free.
Support your Local Outlaw Biker
- Jun 30, 2009, 4:42:00 PM
- jengod said...
Can't wait. Thank you for fighting for the show, which is really fighting for us fans!
- Jun 30, 2009, 8:16:00 PM
- g said...
Hang on, you're doing a good job!
Can help you writing anytime :)
As an Israeli and a single mom can give you tips of surviving and filmmaking on very very low budget.
Good luck!
- Jun 30, 2009, 9:32:00 PM
- Kaz_NEETS said...
I hope the dvd sales will prove to the studio how popular this show is, so they can lay off your back as far as budget.
Thanks for everything you and your cast/crew do Kurt. SoA is the only show I make time for every week.
- Jul 1, 2009, 10:39:00 AM
- Unknown said...
I love your show!! Thanks for the updates. I understand taking a cut in pay, I have had to do it myself after being laid off for almost a year. Glad you didn't have to cut expenses more than you already had to deal with. Good luck with season 2.
- Jul 1, 2009, 5:19:00 PM
- Justin said...
I like that you keep the production lean - minimalist. Even in S1 it was clear that less was more.
- Jul 7, 2009, 12:41:00 PM
- Monty said...
I love SoA.We're still watching series 1 here in the UK but the trailer for series 2 looks awesome.
- Jul 26, 2009, 2:39:00 AM


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Kathleen Sebelius tells a somewhat skeptical group of local leaders that enrollment in Affordable Care Act is up to 9 million.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted the current healthcare.gov website as much-improved from the balky site that millions struggled to navigate in October, during a discussion with a gathering of mayors in Washington on Wednesday.
Asked by Green Bay, Wis., Mayor James Schmitt for comment on the botched website rollout, Sebelius said, "The first several weeks were rocky, to say the least, but we committed to a vastly different user experience by Nov. 30, and we were able to do that." Now the site doesn't crash, and the average enrollee can sign up in 20 minutes from start to finish, she said.
Parts of the website that are not "consumer-facing," she added, such as the paper-dependent process in which an applicant's declaration of income is cross-checked with the Internal Revenue Service and elsewhere, are still in the process of being completed. In some cases, it's the states that are not ready for the linkup, Sebelius said.
HHS has re-contacted users who tried unsuccessfully in October to use the website and urged them to try again, she said, noting that her department has 2,000 "trained helpers" standing by. "We never thought all people would use the website."
Addressing a sometimes-skeptical audience at a breakout session of the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual winter meeting, the former Kansas governor praised mayors for being "pragmatic CEOs at the forefront" of tackling the country's health care problems, in particular on issues such as substance abuse, obesity and in providing a strong voice in the state legislatures for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
She spoke just as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported that between October and December more than 6.3 million individuals were eligible to enroll in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program through state agencies and through the state-based marketplaces. That brings the total enrolled under the umbrella of the healthcare law to 9 million, the secretary said, including 2.1 million in private plans through the exchanges.
Two new polls, Sebelius said, show that many uninsured remain unaware of Obamacare's benefits or that they might qualify for subsidies, which gives her hope that many will come around before the March 31 deadline for open enrollment. "Six in 10 people can get covered for $100 a month or less, which is often cheaper than a cellphone bill, but also provides peace of mind," Sebelius said. She was equally encouraged by the $151 million in grants for health care community health centers announced in November, which could help enroll 1.25 million additional patients. Sebelius pointed out that mayors pay much of the $326 billion in uncompensated emergency room care that hospitals have racked up since 2000.
The 2010 health law's offer of funding for states that choose to expand Medicaid (23 states, run largely by Republicans, have rejected it) is "the most generous federal-state partnership I've seen," Sebelius said, declaring that the money is already budgeted, and that states that accept it will not pay more than 10 percent of the cost for a decade.
Mark Lauretti, the mayor of Shelton, Conn., expressed frustration during Wednesday's discussion that he has not gotten a straight answer on whether small employers with many part-time workers in their 20s are required to provide health coverage. Sebelius said she couldn't provide policy details on the spot, but would later, reiterating the law's provisions that people up to age 26 can stay on their parents' health plan, that companies with fewer than 50 employees are not required to provide coverage, and that seasonal jobs, such as those at ski resorts, are not considered full-time when calculating the 50-worker cutoff.
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Almirola claimed his second career pole Saturday when rain washed out qualifying for Sunday's's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, forcing the field to be set based on practice speeds.
TALLADEGA — Aric Almirola has a fast car.
Turns out, he's a pretty good weather forecaster, too.
Almirola claimed his second career pole Saturday when rain washed out qualifying for Sunday's's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, forcing the field to be set based on practice speeds.
Almirola and his teammate at Richard Petty Motorsports, Marcos Ambrose, both went out for Friday's first practice thinking there was a decent chance of rain the following day.
So they hooked up in the draft with the idea of putting up a fast time. The strategy worked to perfection — Almirola posted a blistering lap of exactly 202 mph, Ambrose was third at 201.876, and the rain came on Saturday.
Jeff Burton will start from the outside of the front row based on a speed of 201.987.
"We knew there was a small chance for rain," Almirola said. "We thought it would be a good idea to put up a good lap, just in case it did rain. We had a plan, we stuck to it and it worked out. Anytime you can start up front under any circumstances, that's a good thing."
Almirola's only previous pole was for the 600-miler at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May 2012.
He wound up finishing 16th.
NASCAR sent out its high-powered dryer in an attempt to get qualifying in, but the rain didn't let up in time. A truck race was scheduled for the afternoon and there are no lights at the massive 2.66-mile trioval. Qualifying for the spring race at Talladega also was rained out.
Chase leader Matt Kenseth will start from the 12th spot. His closest challenger, Jimmie Johnson, got the 11th position. Sam Hornish Jr. was the only entry eliminated from the 43-car field.
Even though Almirola lucked into this pole position to some extent, it was still a bittersweet moment for a team still reeling from the loss of crew chief Todd Parrott. He was indefinitely suspended this week by NASCAR for violation of its substance-abuse policy.
"It was not something we expected by any means. It's definitely something that caught us all off guard," Almirola said. "Todd Parrott is a good person, a good crew chief and a good friend of mine. A lot of people are rallying around him to get through this difficult time. But we still have a job to do. We've got to go out and race and do the best we can."
Burton is also looking for a strong performance in his farewell season at Richard Childress Racing.
He won't return to the No. 31 car next year.
"I'm disappointed we couldn't have more success," Burton said. "(Childress) wants to win. I want to win. The next five races are about that. It's not really very complicated. There are only a few chances left. We're putting the same amount of effort into it and trying really hard to finish up strong."
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Lap length: 2.66 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, Owner Points.
2. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
3. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, Owner Points.
4. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, Owner Points.
5. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, Owner Points.
6. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, Owner Points.
7. (34) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.
8. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, Owner Points.
9. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
10. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, Owner Points.
11. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
12. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, Owner Points.
13. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, Owner Points.
14. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, Owner Points.
15. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, Owner Points.
16. (14) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
17. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
18. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, Owner Points.
19. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
20. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, Owner Points.
21. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, Owner Points.
22. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, Owner Points.
23. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
24. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.
25. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner Points.
26. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, Attempts.
27. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Owner Points.
28. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
29. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, Owner Points.
30. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
31. (30) Cole Whitt, Toyota, Owner Points.
32. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
33. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
34. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
35. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
36. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, Attempts.
37. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
38. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, Owner Points.
39. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
40. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, Past Champion.
41. (40) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, Attempts.
42. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Attempts.
43. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Attempts.
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44. (12) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford.


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Hinrich Krechting was a leader in the Münsterite "kingdom." He was born at Schöppingen, Westphalia, Germany, and was a priest at Gildehaus. In 1533 Krechting was appointed administrator of the territory of Sandwelle near Ahaus by the Bishop of Münster. In this capacity he received an order to arrest Arnd Belholt, who was a supporter of Bernhard Rothmann at Münster. When Jan van Leyden came to Schoppingen in 1533 he stayed in Krechting's home. Krechting resigned from his office because he refused to comply with the bishop's orders to execute Johann van der Wiek, a Lutheran minister. Summoned by the Bishop, he fled to Münster, arriving there on 15 February 1534. His brother Bernd Krechting was already there. Both became outstanding leaders in the religious and political development of the city. Hinrich became the chancellor of the Münsterite kingdom and the supreme chancellor of "King" Jan van Leyden. The other relatives and friends he had brought with him from Schöppingen also received special positions.
When the decisive battle between the forces of Jan van Leyden and the Bishop took place, Hinrich Krechting received the opportunity through Johann von Raesfeld, an acquaintance of his, to escape with a small remnant. For a while he remained at Lingen, Westphalia, then fled to Oldenburg, where he continued to promote the cause of the Anabaptists as a follower of David Joris. In May 1538 he took part (opposite side) in the debate with David Joris in Oldenburg, emphasizing the significance of the Bible against Joris's visionary views. Because of the insecurity of his position Krechting left Oldenburg after 1538 and settled in Godens, Friesland, on the land of the Count Hero von Oldersum. Under the influence of John a Lasco he became Reformed, and in 1545 became the Vorsteher of the Reformed Church at Dykhausen, where he died 28 June 1580. He was probably the only leader who survived the Münster catastrophe. The Münsterites were sometimes called the "Crechtingsvolk" after the Krechting brothers.
Buhr, Gerhard de. "Der Wiedertäufer Hinrich Krechting und seine Sippe." Manuscript in Mennonite Library and Archives, Bethel College (North Newton, KS)
Cornelius, C. A. Bericht der Augenzeugen über das Münsterische Wiedertäuferreich. Münster, 1853: 379 ff., 405 ff.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967; II, 558.
Mellink, Albert F. De Wederdopers in de noordelijke Nederlanden 1531-1544. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1954:see Index.
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For the last quarter-century or so, Republican activists have been fairly aggressive in pushing policymakers at every level of government to name things after Ronald Reagan By "things," I mean just about any kind of public landmark or institution: airports, highways, schools, etc.
Once in a while, though, this push to honor the man the RNC once seriously labeled Ronaldus Magnus gets a little silly.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is floating legislation that would name most U.S. coastal waters after former President Ronald Reagan.
Issa reintroduced his bill Wednesday to rename the country's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which generally extends from three miles to 200 miles offshore, as the Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone…. Under the proposal, references to the EEZ in U.S. laws, regulations, maps and other documents would carry Reagan's name.
Airports, highways, and schools apparently aren't enough – our water has to honor Reagan, too.
What's more, it's not just Issa. Mitt Romney's published agenda promises to create a "Reagan Economic Zone" in east Asia, as part of some superficial gimmick intended to pressure China. As Romney's website explains it, Asian countries that join the Reagan Economic Zone will get all kinds of goodies from the United States. "Although China is unlikely to accede to the Reagan Economic Zone given its current approach to trade," the Romney campaign noted, "offering Beijing the possibility of participation will give China significant incentives to end its abusive commercial practices."
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While the styles of the music Ms. Taylor features vary, from blues, rock & roll, jazz, soul to R&B, each genre reinforces the strength of black culture and black identity and positively portrays those significant influences on America culture. Nothin' But the Blues entertains us with 20 blues songs, some written for the production, others oldies but goodies that thrill our nostalgic sensibilities. The very first chords and beats invite the audience to sway, pop our fingers and rock. Raw vocals, salty phrases, teasingly seductive lyrics provoke a peek into the, to quote Jackie Taylor:"the joys, sorrows, and surprises that can only be lived through the blues."
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Yes, you're right - the list of games on Steam enlarges quickly. I have checked Steam a couple of minutes ago and at present it has 1577 Games on Linux...
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Please note:I posted that Steam OS would be released early next year(my mistake) What I meant to post was Steam Box, Also GOG has over 100 Linux games on their web site in addition to all of the Steam games.
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Hundreds march to protest 'stand your ground'
Mothers of Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin address legislative committee
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The families of Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander joined the Rev. Al Sharpton and several hundred others in a protest outside the state Capitol on Monday. After speaking on the steps outside, family members were set to testify before a Senate criminal justice committee.
"To have laws that tell people that they can shoot first and then ask questions later is a violation of our civil rights. I believe that law is inherently wrong," Sharpton told the crowd of more than 1,000 just before the march began. "The law in effect says based on your imagination -- if you imagine I'm a threat -- you have the right to kill me."
While neither the killer of Jordan Davis or Trayvon Martin specifically claimed the stand your ground statute in their self-defense arguments, the statute was included sentencing instructions to both juries. The jury hearing the first-degree murder charge against Michael Dunn deadlocked, although he was convicted of other charges for firing into the SUV with Davis and three friends. George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the death of Martin.
"Right is right and wrong is wrong," said Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother. "Stand your ground is absolutely, positively wrong, and it has to be changed."
"It was a shady law known as stand your ground that robbed his father and I of any hope for justice," added Lucia McBath, Davis' mother.
A task force appointed after Zimmerman's trial to review the law said it should not be overturned and left intact. Last year, bills to repeal or modify Florida's stand your ground law were defeated in the Legislature.
Republican Sen. David Simmons, of Altamonte Springs, is still backing the law but is sponsoring a bill this session that would modify the law that would prevent the use of a stand-your-ground defense by someone who provided a confrontation that led to a shooting.
"It emphasizes that if you are the person that provoked the force, you are not entitled to stand your ground," said Simmons.
Monday's march began at 9:30 a.m. at the Leon County Civic Center and ended about an hour later at the Capitol building. The Rev. Al Sharpton, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and others were addressing the crowd before the families of the victims and other marchers were to go inside and attend afternoon hearings of House and Senate criminal justice committees.
"Stuck on stupid," Brown said of the law.
Protesters waved signs saying "STANDING OUR GROUND" and wore T-shirts that said "We are not a threat."
IMAGES: 1,200 march in Tallahassee
"I just decided I could no longer sit back, as an African-American male," said Michael Taylor, who came down from Morehouse College in Atlanta to attend the rally. "That could have been me walking to the store; that could have been me playing my stereo loud. So I'm just here to stand my ground and do the right thing for the people who follow me."
Last summer, members of the group Dream Defenders held a month-long sit-in at the Capitol to try to get lawmakers to call a special session to address the law, but Gov. Rick Scott and legislative leaders refused to do so.
"Everybody has the right to own a gun, but you have to understand that you're responsible for other people's lives, and if you take somebody else's life, you can't bring it back," political activist Bruce McGee said.
Jordan Davis' father, Ron Davis, couldn't make it to the march in Tallahassee but said he wanted to make sure everyone knew how much he appreciates the support. He said if you'd like to donate to continue his son's legacy, you can go to WalkWithJordan.org.
The biggest surprise of the march Monday came at the end: A call for boycotting two of Florida's largest companies, Disney and Tropicana. That's because the two support the group that pushed stand your ground.
"And the small world is going to start crumblin' down. And Tropicana, you going to feel the squeeze," the Rev. Jamal Bryant said.
Organizers said they've given the companies until the first week of April to help support the repeal or face the consequence.
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Clearing the Clutter From Our Lives
- 2004 31 May
A real estate agent dropped off the flier announcing plans for the annual neighborhood garage sale. "Join us to make this the biggest sale ever!" the flyer read.
We have never participated in this spring ritual and this year would be no exception. I've learned the hard way that for a compulsive shopper it doesn't matter much if it's new or "gently used." The last thing we need are the neighbors' cast-offs clamoring for space in our home.
As I dropped the flyer in the trash while trying to think of a good excuse to get out of town on that particular weekend, I couldn't help but visualize one family down the street. They have so much stuff in their garage they can barely close the door. Forget finding room for a car. Each Spring just in time for the one-day big event, they roll all of it out onto the front lawn for the day. Then as the sun sets they turn into human shoehorns to complete the ritual as they push, cram and squeeze everything back into place where it will remain until the same time next year.
Don Aslett, author of Clutter's Last Stand, says that extraneous stuff robs us of freedom because it requires so much of our time to tend. Our houses, drawers, closets and vehicles are so crowded we can't breathe. But it's more than that. Stuff crowds our minds, our emotions and relationships, too, into dullness and immobility.
As I poured a cup of tea, my mind was stuck in garage sale mode. Wouldn't it be nice, I pondered, if every Spring we could unload everything that clutters our lives -- not just the stuff that clutters our homes.
Worry is not always a bad thing. It can spark action if you worry and recognize that a plan of action is necessary-and you act. But worry can spark your imagination with every manner of fearful possibility complete with all of the damaging chemical and physical changes of an actual trauma.
Experts tell us that most of what we worry about never happens. That means we are better off getting rid of harmful worries as a way to clear our minds and souls, in the same way that getting rid of stuff we never use clears our homes.
In our gotta-have-it-now society, seasons of longing have been replaced by instant gratification. And that's too bad, because yearning builds character. Having to wait makes us strong and resilient. It teaches us patience.
It is good for children to yearn with limitation -- to long and wish for their birthdays or for Christmas to come. But in the extreme yearning can be terribly destructive. It can turn to covetousness and envy.
Focusing on what you do not have or what you want more than anything in the whole world steals contentment. Your heart and mind are stuck in the future always trying to get what you do not have.
So what is it that you are yearning for today? Do you have healthy anticipation or debilitating desire? If you are so consumed by wanting what you do not have that you're sacrificing the joy you should be enjoying in the present, that's a problem. That's clutter you need to remove from your life.
The desire to do well and receive approval from other people is not a bad thing. In fact it can be gratifying and character-building to receive positive recognition for a job well done. But when your life becomes based on the expectations of others and you do things just to be perceived as nice, you've crossed the line. Getting other's approval is messing up your life; it's creating emotional clutter.
I don't know what form clutter takes in your life. But I do know this: It's Spring -- a perfect time to pack it up, haul it out and get rid of it once and for all!
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Local mom worries shooting will stigmatize Asperger's syndrome
Kristen Brown says her son is an example Asperger's sufferers are not violent
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – When news came out that Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza, suffered from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that leads to social awkwardness, the news concerned Jacksonville mom Kristen Brown.
Brown has Asperger's and so does her 10-year-old son Kaleb.
"I worry that it's going to give people with Asperger's a black eye. He didn't do what he did because he has Asperger's," said Brown.
Brown said people who suffer from Asperger's are not violent people.
"Violence is not a characteristic of Asperger's. It's the opposite. Did he also have oppositional defiance disorder that was undiagnosed?" asked Brown.
Brown said she was undiagnosed as a kid and didn't fit in. She was even a victim of child abuse and had to pull her own son out of school. Brown now home school's him because he's been bullied about his disorder, but she points out Asperger's sufferers are not prone to violent behavior.
"My son grows his hair out for locks of love. He says, I can look girly for a good cause. I shaved my head this past summer for locks of love. I said I can look manly for a good cause," said Brown.
Brown even chronicled her experiences with the disorder in a book about growing up, which she titled "What Didn't Kill Me."
Brown said Adam Lanza would have been socially awkward if he had Asperger's.
"That's the base characteristic of it. We don't blend. And the more we try to blend, the less we fit in and we take that to heart, feel no one likes me," said Brown.
Brown's curious about what else Lanza may have suffered from.
"What happened with this kid? Did he get attention at school, needed at home? Or was he like me, I'm a survivor of child abuse. No one knew I had Asperger's. I got picked on, beat up, but I didn't go around shooting people," said Brown.
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This is the second part of our interview with Wesley Hill, author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality. (Click here for Part 1). His book is a theological memoir about his decision as a gay Christian to embrace what is often called "Side B"—the choice of a celibate lifestyle. Wes just finished his PhD in New Testament Studies at Durham University and will assume a post later this summer at Trinity School for Ministry, an Anglican theological seminary in Pittsburgh.
Hopeful Realism: In reading your book, I was rather astonished to find that three of the most helpful factors in your struggle with sexual orientation are three factors often deemed threatening for many other gays—ecclesiology (the church), eschatology (the return of Christ… which includes some form of a final reckoning), and Scripture (with all those harsh statements about homosexual sin). For many gay Christians, the church has been found inhospitable; and eschatology, with its associations with divine judgment, is used in many circles as a tool for bludgeoning the sexually immoral. As for Scripture, straight Christians inhabiting the pews of those accepting churches are often well acquainted and all too keen to cite the biblical texts that decry homosexuality as sinful. Yet for you, the church, the end of this age, and the Bible are emblematic of hope and beauty. Can you explain this a bit?
Wesley Hill: Although I am well aware of the church's failures, particularly when it comes to loving gay people, I'm also aware that celibacy is impossible to maintain, at least as the Christian tradition conceives it, without the loving commitment of a community of fellow believers. And that leads me to seek out that kind of community in church, despite the ways the church can wound people like me, often without even realizing they're doing it (for instance, by gearing all their programming to families with kids). I recognize that if I'm going to be able to love and be loved as a celibate gay Christian, I have to have friends, and God has given the local church as the place to nurture Christian friendship. Yes, it often fails miserably at this task. But I keep going back, expecting to find grace with all my other sinful spiritual siblings, as we together, straight or gay, look to Jesus for the hope we need to keep going. It's the ideal of what I once heard an Orthodox priest call "parish celibacy." As for eschatology, trusting in the promise of a new creation and the resurrection of the body is the only way I know to persevere while experiencing the sufferings and difficulties that come with celibacy. When Paul wanted to encourage believers to endure their various trials and weaknesses, he pointed forward to the eternal weight of glory that would make any temporal suffering pale by comparison (see 2 Corinthians 4 and Romans 8). I find that hope in Scripture — that every tear will be wiped away, that "everything sad will come untrue" (Tolkien) — and that is my encouragement as I seek to live a Christian life on a daily basis.
HR: Let's talk about the church's public discourse on homosexuality. The recent vote on Amendment 1 in North Carolina ignited a great deal of controversy among Christians, some of whom passionately and vocally supported the bill with others denouncing it as a faulty means of public engagement. Should the church fight social issues through government legislation? Do you have any recommendations for how the church's public discourse on homosexuality should change?
WH: Although many of us are agreed on the goal – that we ought to continue to uphold the traditional definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman – I think Christians will legitimately arrive at different conclusions about how best to work towards that outcome as citizens of the U.S. Some of us will seek to argue persuasively against gay marriage in the public square without appealing explicitly to the Bible or Christian tradition. Others of us may conclude that the best way to advocate for traditional marriage is not by throwing all our energy into the legislative arena but rather by, as Paul Griffiths has memorably put it, "burnish[ing] the practice of marriage… until its radiance dazzles the pagan eye." In other words, we may decide a better strategy is embodying "a more excellent way" rather than seeking at all costs to keep gay marriage from being legalized. Certainly, I think, the primary focus of our efforts should be on "preserving traditional marriage" in the church – and repenting for the ways that heterosexual believers have undermined it far more than gay people have. At the very least, I would like to see the church cease to scapegoat gays and lesbians for the breakdown of "the traditional family" and acknowledge its own failures in this regard. As my friend Ron Belgau has put it, "If Christians want to make any serious effort to promote Christian teaching about sexuality in contemporary Western culture, they will need to begin by recognizing that the sexual revolution is not just a problem out there, caused by secularists, hedonists, tax collectors, and sinners. It is caused, at least in part, by us. We have to remove the log from our own eye before we can help others."
HR: Back to the issue of the Bible and homosexuality. Many gay Christians are reading the passages on homosexuality differently from you. When it comes to homosexuality, are the Scripture texts muddled? Is there hermeneutical space for differing interpretations?
WH: Those of us who maintain the "traditional" viewpoint on this — that the church ought not to bless same-sex marriages — need to help people see that the historic Christian opposition to same-sex sexual partnerships does not simply rest on a few isolated prooftexts, like Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 6 (as vitally important as those texts are!). It is, rather, part of the larger fabric of Scriptural teaching on marriage, procreation, child-rearing, celibacy, friendship, etc. So Genesis 1-2, Matthew 19, and Ephesians 5 are just as crucial, or even more crucial, for forming Christian sexual ethics than Romans 1 is. Chris Roberts, in his excellent book Creation and Covenant, has shown how all the major strands of the Christian tradition have upheld the significance of sexual difference (our creation as male and female) for the moral theology of marriage, and that that has been the basis of their opposition to same-sex partnerships. If we could help people see this more holistic vision, then perhaps the church's continued opposition to gay marriage wouldn't seem to rest on such an arbitrary, flimsy basis. It isn't just about picking and choosing a few random verses and building a sexual ethic out of such fragments. It's rather about a coherent vision — a kind of seamless garment — of Christian teaching about our creation in God's image and the vocations that flow from our creation and redemption.
HR: Finally, an eschatological question. Jesus once told his questioners that in the resurrection of the dead, there will be no marriage. Why is this, do you think? And what are the implications here for those who struggle with homosexuality and have embraced celibacy, as well as for those of us, gay or straight, who are married?
WH: I don't think I have a good answer for why Jesus said this, but I do think one of the outcomes is that it opens up a way to understand celibacy as a symbol of life in the kingdom of God. If there will be no marriage in God's future, then singleness can serve as a signpost of our present anticipation of that future. Rodney Clapp has written, "The single Christian ultimately must trust in the resurrection. The married, after all, can fall back on the passage of the name to children, and on being remembered by children. But singles mount the high wire of faith without the net of children and their memory. If singles live on, it will be because there is a resurrection. And if they are remembered, they will be remembered by the family called church." In other words, when Jesus pictured the coming kingdom as a reality without marriage as we know it, he thereby sanctified the vocation of celibacy — and he showed us how to practice it by pointing us to the hope of the resurrection.
To keep up with what Wes is reading and thinking, check out his blog, "Writing in the Dust."
Other posts at Hopeful Realism on Younger Evangelicals & the Culture Wars:
At War with the Culture Wars: When it comes to high-profile moral issues, younger evangelicals seem more at odds with older evangelicals than with secular culture.
"Not Your Aunt Gertrude's Church": Are younger believers too hip to worship with "Aunt Gertrude"? (What about in heaven?).
Preview and Review of "Younger Evangelicals & the Culture Wars: What the younger generations' reactions to older generations' approaches to society/culture may be doing to our ecclesiology. Plus, what is ahead…
Sex in the City on a Hill: The most fundamental means of promoting an alternative sexual ethic is to practice one. So how are evangelicals doing when it comes to the issues of abstinence, celibacy, and sexual purity? How are Christians doing with the sacred model of heterosexual marriage?
Interview with Wesley Hill (Part 1): the first part of the interview above.


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The more unexplainable something is, the more we try to explain it.
There was a three-year period where the Consumer Products Safety Commission recorded 50 deaths of small children who drowned in 5-gallon buckets.
Can you imagine the grief and trauma a parent would experience to have a child die so senselessly? So randomly. So seemingly innocuously.
But unexplainable tragedy happens all around us.
A man is stung by a bee in his car, reflexively reaches down to slap the insect, and swerves into another car, killing someone else.
A lightning bolt travels many miles from a cloud after a storm has clearly passed and strikes someone just working in their yard.
Someone just trips and falls, but through a bizarre sequence of stumbles and misfortune, lands in a fatally awkward way.
Our society seems to strive for an explanation for everything. Sometimes it reaches disturbing levels. People can�t accept the horror of 9-11, so they manufacture grand conspiracies about the government�s involvement.
An even more disgusting conspiracy movement maintains the Sandy Hook tragedy was all made up by gun control advocates and that those children didn�t really die.
And then people use tragedies to advance an agenda or to reinforce a previously held hatred for someone, some group or some idea.
The everyday tragedies we spoke of earlier (as if any tragedy is an everyday event for those involved) carry with them searches for answers. Yet, while these are certainly understandable, they are not always constructive, even as a part of the grieving process.
The incident at Ken and Mary�s is an excellent example.
The family of the man who died there in November is understandably distraught and angry and upset.
Their loved one went into a restaurant to order lunch and a few minutes later was dead.
Does it get any more tragic than that? Whether someone in that situation dies from a heart attack, a lightning bolt or whatever, to be engaged in a pedestrian activity and lose your life is the type of event where the answer to �why� is so very elusive.
But the death wasn�t from a �common� cause like a heart attack. It ensued after a series of events with few witnesses.
According to police: Daniel Fowler entered Ken and Mary�s shortly before 2 p.m. � closing time � and wanted lunch. He was informed by the restaurant co-owners that the grills had been turned off and no more lunch would be served. Fowler became unruly and used profanity. Another worker, concerned about the safety of the co-owner, joined the discussion and they walked Fowler outside. It appeared Fowler would leave, but moments later, according to what the two restaurant employees told police, he came back and said he �had something for them.� Police and the Cleveland County district attorney ruled the restaurant employee used self defense when he punched the man. Then, a bad situation turned tragic. By chance, Fowler fell awkwardly and hit his head very hard. He was rushed to the hospital and later died.
The event has taken on a social media life of its own as family and friends of Fowler � as well as complete strangers � have sought to mobilize support for their fallen loved one. Surely anyone with a heart feels compassion for this family and prays for their healing.
And no one should begrudge anyone for honestly seeking a full understanding of why something like this happened.
But asking questions is one thing.
Here are some statements on social media regarding this event:
�Since when does cussing at someone entitle someone else to take that person�s life?�
�They were asking for a fight. That was (their) intention.�
�This incident would�ve never happened if they would have just honored their operational hours and served this man.�
We�re not going to enter the fray by attempting to rebut, or support, these statements.
We will say this � there is a legal system to deal with matters such as these.
It�s a system that is imperfect. It�s a system that should be held accountable. It�s a system that should face questions and scrutiny.
But there is a line between seeking a full explanation and demonizing people who, for now, have not been implicated in any crime.
The �if, then� game is the most dangerous to play in the wake of tragedy.
�If we had just not been a rush to leave the party, we wouldn�t have been in the intersection when that truck ran a red light.�
�If we had just remembered to tell our uncle not to leave a five-gallon bucket lying around �.�
�If we had just gone to a different restaurant.�
�If they had just turned the grills back on.�
�If he had just left without arguing.�
�If they had just not followed him outside.�
Now, reality: If life wasn�t so fragile, we would never have to deal with awful, painful, unexplainable, awkward, avoidable, yet unavoidable, tragedies such as these.
Rather than dig for blame and explanation, fault and vengeance, we urge all parties � on both sides � to seek peace, of mind and soul.
We live in world of great joy and hope that is every once in a while invaded by cruel tragedy, borne of seemingly innocuous actions that conspire to hurt, or injure or even result in a loss of life.
Sometimes the toughest part of grieving these losses is facing the reality that they will never be explained.


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Murre Restoration Project:
On March 3, 2007, our two remote-controlled video cameras were re-installed on Devil's Slide Rock. Both video cameras were installed on the top ridge of the rock, with one viewing the west side and one the east side of the rock. Each camera also has an external microphone for listening to the colony. The pan, tilt, and zoom features of the cameras enable us to get amazingly close views of the birds and eventually of their eggs and chicks, too. The main function of the cameras is to provide better viewing for researchers monitoring the colony, but we are happy to provide public access via the web for viewing, enjoyment, and education. For higher quality images and views of Devil's Slide Rock, the live-streaming video can also be seen and heard at the Point Montara Lighthouse Hostel between 7:30AM and sunset
The National Audubon Society (NAS), a cooperator on the Common Murre Restoration Project, is hosting a live murre cam! Now anyone with internet connection can view live footage of the birds on Devil's Slide Rock.
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Common Murres are not the only birds you will see on the video. The California Coast is a very productive and healthy habitat, and therefore a very attractive breeding area for a large range of bird species. Some of the most commonly seen birds on DSR are: Brandt's cormorants, Western gulls, Heerman's gulls, Brown Pelicans, Black turnstones.
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How it All Works
A computer at the hostel is connected to the internet. Specialized software can relay commands and data from other remote controls on the internet to the motherboard on the rock. The controls also stream the video onto the internet, thus allowing multiple points of monitoring and control, as well as public access all via the internet.
Visitors at the hostel can enjoy watching the murres on a 17" LCD TV as well as an interpretive displays. The TV is hardwired right to the video receiver for high quality picture. . The Point Montara Lighthouse Hostel is open to the public from 7:30-10:00 A.M. and 4:30-10:00 P.M. Or, visit their website for directions and more information.