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Bridge of the Roger Burlingame, by Paul Adams for Starhunt
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Antebellum Miscellaneous Casting 2/?
Before i continue i feel like it needs to be said that i actually dont know what any of these peoples acting styles are like, so this is 90% vibes 7% faceclaim and 3% concentration of will, so:
Matthew Daddario as Alexander Hamilton Jr.
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Rebecca Hall as Sarah Polk
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Emily Blunt as Lucretia Clay
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Evan Rachel Wood as Margaret Eaton
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Natalie Dormer as Floride Calhoun
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Ben Barnes as Galusha Grow
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Adam Driver as Roger B. Taney
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Tom Cruise as John J. Crittenden
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Luke Evans as Lawrence Keitts
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Jefferson Davis
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Sophie Nelisse as Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Jennifer Lawrence as Varina Davis
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Chris Pratt as Horace Greeley
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Jared Padalecki as Anson Burlingame
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Mitt Romney as Franklin Pierce
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Thunderbolts #53 (2001)
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Off-brand Enterprises:
1) The Starstreak from the movie "The Shape Of Things To Come";
2) Peter Elson's cover to The Star Trek Quiz Book;
3) The NSEA Protector from Galaxy Quest;
4) The lovely, lovely Orville
5) The Interpretaris/Vega 4/Pheonix Five from Australia's Pheonix Five;
6) The USS Roger Burlingame, designed by Andy Probert for the unproduced movie Starhunt;
7) The Legion Cruiser from DC's Legion Of Superheroes comics;
8) John Byrne's Shi'ar Cruiser from X-Men ( a favourite of mine)
9) The Liberator from the BBC's Blake's 7 (bit of a stretch but, hey, it has nacelles);
10) and Marvel Comics's Seeker 3000.
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wineandhargreeves · 7 years
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Characters of Come From Away (A Work in Progress)
All of the names given are taken from the cast recording, a lyric video on Youtube of the cast recording, a bootleg that can be found online of the OBC (link may or may not be found on reddit), and facts from the actual events. Besides that, I’ve done my best to compile all the people I could.
There are spoilers below, so beware.
Roles | Tracks (Main roles are in bold)
·       Claude Noel (Mayor of Gander) | Mayor of Louisbourg | Mayor of Gambo | Derm | Eddie | Brenda’s brother | Passengers [Originated by Joel Hatch]
·       Annette | Captain Beverly Bass | Passengers [Originated by Jenn Collela]
·       Bob | Captain Bristol | Muhumuza | Newfoundlander | Robin | Passengers [Originated by Rodney Hicks]
·       Beulah Davis | Delores | Passengers [Originated by Astrid van Wieren]
·       Constable Oz Fudge | Mr. Michaels | The Rabbi | Joey | Manny | CTV Reporter | Passengers [Originated by Geno Carr]
·       Janice Mosher | American Airlines Flight Attendant | Hindu Woman | Passengers [Originated by Kendra Kassebaum]
·       Kevin Tuerff | Garth | President George W. Bush | CBC Reporter | Passengers [Originated by Chad Kimball]
·       Hannah O’Rourke | Muslim Woman | Bus Driver | Muhuzuma’s Wife | Margie | Passengers [Originated by Q. Smith]
·       Kevin Jung | Ali | Dwight | BBC Reporter | Passengers [Originated by Caesar Samayoa]
·       Diane Grey | Crystal | Brenda | Passengers [Originated by Sharon Wheatley]
·       Nick Marson | Doug Harris | Barbecue Man | Passengers [Originated by Lee MacDougall]
·       Bonnie Harris | Hindu Woman | Al Jazeera Reporter | Passengers [Originated by Petrina Bromley]
Main Characters
·       Claude Noel: The mayor of Gander, he’s an amicable and jovial fellow. However, he often butts heads with Garth over the school bus driver strike. It is his idea to turn the hockey rink into the world’s largest walk-in refrigerator to help preserve all the food.
·       Annette: A teacher at Gander Academy, she often fantasizes about men both local and international. She and Beulah work to prepare the school for the seven hundred passengers sent there.
·       Bob: A young man from New York, he is slow to trust his new surroundings. He comes to adjust when he’s sent to live with the Mayor of Appleton.
·       Beulah Davis: A teacher at Gander Academy, she comes to befriend both Ali and Hannah O’Rourke over the course of their five days in Newfoundland.
·       Constable Oz Fudge: One of the two members of the police department, he’s a friendly face and source of stories.
·       Janice Mosher: A reporter from Rogers TV from Channel-Port aux Basques who’s new to Gander. She is quickly thrust onto the front lines of the action as she coordinates the news for the town.
·       Kevin Tuerff: The head of a California environmental energy company, his relationship with Kevin Jung is strained by the events of their five days in Gander.
·       Hannah O’Rourke: A mother from Queens, New York, she spends much of her time trying to reach Kevin, her son who is a firefighter back home.
·       Kevin Jung: Kevin Tuerff’s self-proclaimed “sexy-tary,” he worries about his family in Brooklyn, New York. His relationship with Kevin Tuerff is strained by the events of their five days in town.
·       Diane Grey: A woman from Texas, she is worried about her son David, who was also flying on September 11. She bonds and falls in love with Nick Marson.
·       Nick Marson: An English oil company worker, he was flying to the United States for a conference when the plane is diverted to Gander. He bonds and falls in love with Diane Grey.
·       Bonnie Harris: An SPCA worker, her main concern is the well-being of the eight dogs, nine cats (one of whom is epileptic), and two rare Bonobo chimpanzees on the planes.
·       Captain Beverly Bass: The first female American Airlines captain in history, she does her best to keep her passengers and crew calm and informed.
·       American Airlines Flight Attendant: One of Captain Bass’ crew, she tries to handle the passengers as well, but her personal fears get in the way.
·       Ali: An Egyptian Muslim passenger and head chef for an international hotel chain, he experiences discrimination from the passengers, crew, and even some Newfoundlanders.
·       Doug Harris: An air traffic controller, he looks out for Bonnie as well as the planes on the tarmac.
·       Dwight: An employee of Gander International Airport, he reports to Bonnie and Doug that per FAA instructions, American planes are being treated as bomb threats.
Minor Characters
·       Derm: The mayor of Appleton. A well-meaning man, he and his wife welcome Bob into their home with open arms.
·       Brenda’s Brother: A bar patron who reveals that his and Brenda’s 68-year-old uncle just came out as bisexual.
·       Eddie: A Jewish Newfoundlander from Poland, he reclaims his faith with the Rabbi’s help.
·       Captain Bristol: A Virgin Atlantic pilot who converses with Annette.
·       Muhumuza: An African passenger who doesn’t understand English, he is protective of his wife and daughter.
·       Robin: Kevin Tuerff’s new secretary at the tenth anniversary event.
·       Delores: A paranoid passenger who can belt a mean rendition of “My Heart Will Go On.”
·       Mr. Michaels: The gym teacher at Gander Academy, he can speak Spanish and can translate for some of the passengers.
·       The Rabbi: An Orthodox Jewish rabbi, he creates a kosher kitchen for other Jewish passengers, some Hindu women, a Muslim, and a couple of vegetarians. He also learns the story of Eddie, a Jewish Newfoundlander.
·       Joey: A man who is frustrated due to being on his plane for so long.
·       Hindu Women: Two women who pray in the library of Gander Academy.
·       George W. Bush: The President of the United States, he gives a speech that is broadcasted into Bob’s plane.
·       Muhumuza’s Wife: An African passenger, it is when Garth uses her Bible as a means of communication that she and her family come to trust their new hosts.
·       Margie: A Newfoundlander who answers Bonnie’s phone calls to Claude’s office.
·       Crystal: A Tim Horton’s employee.
·       Brenda: A bar employee, she tells the Kevins that her sister is gay and that her neighbour ran off with their best friend.
·       Manny: The owner of a bar, he reveals that his and Brenda’s daughter is gay.
·       Barbecue Man: A Newfoundlander whom Bob helps steal his own barbecue grill. His wife also prepares a cup of tea for Bob.
·       Walmart Greeter: A Walmart employee who thanks Nick for shopping there and invites him to her place for a shower.
·       Mayors of Louisbourg and Gambo: Two briefly seen characters, likely just as reference to Bob talking about the size of towns in Newfoundland. They look the exact same as Claude, except for the former’s glasses and the latter’s moustache.
·       Cardiologists: The top six cardiologists from all over the world who were on their way to a conference. They help clean the bathrooms at Gander Academy.
·       Flight Attendants: Members of Captain Bass’ all female crew.
·       Reporters: These men and women interview both Newfoundlanders and Come From Aways at the tenth anniversary event.
·       Lyle: An epileptic cat that Bonnie finds in the hold of a plane.
·       Unga: A rare Bonobo chimpanzee who is also pregnant. She suffers a miscarriage in Gander, but later gives birth at the Columbus Zoo to a healthy baby.
·       Ralph: A cocker spaniel who was well-loved by the airport night security crew.
Unseen/Referenced Characters
·       Kevin O’Rourke: Hannah’s son who works as a firefighter in New York. She reaches out for him, but learns after coming home that he had died.
·       Beulah’s Son: A Gander firefighter, Beulah talks about him as a way to connect with Hannah.
·       David Grey: Diane’s son, she is relieved to learn that his flight was safe.
·       Gander: Unga’s son, born after the events of September 11. She had reconceived after her miscarriage in Newfoundland.
·       Tom Brokaw: A prolific NBC anchor, he enlists Janice Mosher for her reporting on the events in Gander. She respectfully declines his offer, but is thankful nonetheless.
·       Captain Charles Burlingame: The captain of American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon. Captain Bass is horrified to learn about his fate.
·       Tom Bass: Captain Bass’ husband, they talk over the phone multiple times. He greets her at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport when she finally comes home.
·       Bob’s Father: Bob calls him to reassure him that he is alright.
·       Celena Jung: Kevin Jung’s younger sister, she lives in Brooklyn.
·       Kevin Jung’s Mother: She lives in Brooklyn and is cared for by Selena.
·       Miss Newman: A French teacher at Gander Academy, she knows some Russian.
·       The Wish Kids: 90 children who were being flown by the Children’s Wish Foundation to Walt Disney World. Even though they were diverted to Gander, the kids still had a grand old time.
·       Doctor O’Brien: A pharmacist in Gander who offers to fill the prescriptions of the passengers.
·       The Shoppers Manager: The manager of a Shoppers Drug Mart, they allow Oz (and eventually, Beulah) to take whatever they need from the shelves.
·       Michah and Lauren: Two other people who are phoned by passengers from the phones by the Newtel building.
·       Rich: Another airport employee mentioned by Dwight.
·       Don Burton and his Wife: A couple that won the Super 7, earning them $4.6 million dollars.
Notes
·       All women except Captain Bass play flight attendants during “Me and the Sky.”
·       All men play the cardiologists.
·       The orchestra appears as musicians at the Legion and during the finale.
·       Everyone plays air traffic controllers.
·       “Newfoundlanders” is used when the Newfoundlander is unnamed in the book and/or lyrics.
·       “Passengers” applies to the Come From Aways who are unnamed by the book and/or lyrics.
 Overall, if anyone has any corrections they know of, please let me know!
P.S Thank you to comefanaway from naming the Mayor of Appleton!
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Abortion-Rights Supporters Fear Loss Of Access If Adventist Saves Hospital
For more than two years, physician assistant Dawn Hofberg fought to bring access to abortions back to California’s Mendocino Coast, a picturesque stretch of shoreline about three hours north of San Francisco and 90 minutes from the nearest facility offering abortions.
Hofberg enlisted help from local health care providers and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sent letters to the Mendocino Coast Health Care District that operates the hospital in Fort Bragg and other medical services. The letters noted that the state constitution requires public hospitals to offer abortions if they offer other pregnancy-related care.
Late last year, district CEO Wayne Allen granted a doctor at its North Coast Family Health Center permission to start providing medication abortions, which involve two drugs that can end a pregnancy.
But Hofberg and others worry that the community’s newly won abortion access could be in peril. With a net loss of $1.2 million in the 2018 fiscal year alone, the district says its only shot at survival is to lease its operations to Adventist Health, a Roseville, California-based system affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which opposes most abortions.
Dawn Hofberg, a physician assistant in Fort Bragg, California, turned to other local health care providers and the American Civil Liberties Union to help persuade the local hospital to make abortions available to some patients in her community. (Courtesy of Dawn Hofberg)
Voters will decide whether to approve the 30-year lease agreement on March 3.
Adventist officials said that despite their religious teachings that abortions should be limited to cases of life- or health-threatening pregnancies, rape, incest or severe fetal anomalies, they will not restrict the use of medication abortions at the clinic.
“We don’t control our physician practices in the way some others do and we don’t put constraints around what they can and can’t prescribe,” said Bob Beehler, an Adventist Health mergers and acquisitions executive.
Beehler said the introduction of abortion-inducing pills had changed the system’s approach to abortions. “Our historical position has been based on the way they used to be done, in a hospital.”
But abortion-rights supporters still fear what could be coming.
“Obviously, we do have a lot of concerns about Adventist’s position with respect to restricting abortion access in its facilities, and so we’re going to keep a close eye on the situation,” said Phyllida Burlingame, director of reproductive justice and gender equity for the ACLU of Northern California.
Burlingame said the deal also raises broader concerns about the spread of religious health systems that restrict care. “Not only are they taking over the private marketplace, but now they’re even spreading into these public spheres,” Burlingame said.
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Similar objections from the ACLU and staff at the University of California-San Francisco last year scuttled a proposed affiliation between UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health, a Catholic-affiliated system that restricts reproductive and transition-related care for transgender patients.
The expansion of religious systems can leave leaders of struggling hospitals with few choices when they seek to affiliate. Of the five systems to which the Mendocino hospital district issued its request for proposals last year, three were faith-based. Two responded, and Adventist was the only one that met the community’s needs, according to the district board’s treasurer, John Redding.
Nationwide, four of the largest 10 health systems and 1 in 6 acute care hospital beds are Catholic-owned or -affiliated. Seventh-day Adventists are Protestant Christian, and Adventist-affiliated systems run 87 hospitals and more than 300 other facilities in the United States, according to the Adventist Health Policy Association.
As these systems have grown, rural health care districts across California are struggling with waning patient volume and a lack of leverage to negotiate with insurers, said Sherreta Lane, senior vice president of finance policy at the District Hospital Leadership Forum, a trade association that represents all the state’s district and municipal hospitals. Many of these hospitals have closed or affiliated with private systems.
When the forum launched a decade ago, 45 districts or municipalities ran hospitals; now 35 do, Lane said.
While Catholic-affiliated systems like Dignity have received greater scrutiny for policies that restrict access to abortion, contraception, sterilization and end-of-life care, the impact of Adventist teachings on church-affiliated health systems is less known. In October, the Seventh-day Adventist Church raised concerns among reproductive health care advocates when it approved a statement saying it “considers abortion out of harmony with God’s plan for human life.”
Officials said at the time that they would develop updated protocols for church-affiliated health care institutions, where, they emphasized, few abortions are performed.
Adventist Health spokesperson Jill Kinney said in an emailed statement that the hospital system’s usual practice “is not to provide elective abortions, but we respect that patients may wish to have them.” If that’s the case, she added, “clinicians help coordinate referral and transfer to capable facilities without prejudice.”
In a response to detailed questions from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra before his office approved the system’s takeover of Delano Regional Medical Center in November, Adventist Health said it bans “elective abortions” but allows the procedure “for fetal distress and other medical reasons.” It added: “Medical abortions are performed in Adventist Health facilities,” without providing details.
In 2014, Adventist Health purchased a clinic in Fort Bragg where Dr. Eric Gutnick and his colleagues had provided reproductive health services since the 1970s. Under a contract with Adventist, Gutnick continued to see abortion patients for preoperative care in the clinic and performed surgical abortions at the Mendocino Coast District Hospital, until he retired later that year.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s teachings can influence other issues, too. It has opposed what it calls “transgenderism,” stating that gender identity “is determined by our biological sex at birth,” and has called homosexuality “a manifestation of the disturbance and brokenness in human inclinations and relations caused by the entrance of sin into the world.”
Arneta Rogers, an attorney for the ACLU of Northern California, voiced concern about these beliefs. “It’s not about shutting down religious entities; we just don’t want people to be discriminated against,” Rogers said in an interview.
Jason Wells, president of the Adventist Health hospitals in Ukiah and Willits, said the system cherishes diversity and its LGBTQ employees. In its statement to the attorney general, Adventist said some of its physicians provide hormones for transgender patients but none of its facilities offer “gender reconstruction surgery.”
In a statement provided by Kinney, Adventist Health said that it “strives to be free from biases related to gender identity” but that its hospitals “are not currently equipped to offer the complex, comprehensive programmatic approach necessary to provide gender reassignment treatments and surgeries.”
For many in the Mendocino community, uncertainty over the hospital’s finances has overshadowed concerns about Adventist Health’s religious affiliation as residents prepare for the vote next month. “If the affiliation doesn’t go through, I don’t know how we’ll stay in business,” said Karen Arnold, secretary of the district board.
Redding said lease payments from Adventist would allow the district to afford the estimated $24 million needed to finance upgrades required by the state to protect against catastrophic earthquake damage to its facilities.
“I wasn’t sure how we were going to do this, and now I feel that we’ve secured the future of a hospital here on the coast,” Redding said.
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
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Abortion-Rights Supporters Fear Loss Of Access If Adventist Saves Hospital
For more than two years, physician assistant Dawn Hofberg fought to bring access to abortions back to California’s Mendocino Coast, a picturesque stretch of shoreline about three hours north of San Francisco and 90 minutes from the nearest facility offering abortions.
Hofberg enlisted help from local health care providers and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sent letters to the Mendocino Coast Health Care District that operates the hospital in Fort Bragg and other medical services. The letters noted that the state constitution requires public hospitals to offer abortions if they offer other pregnancy-related care.
Late last year, district CEO Wayne Allen granted a doctor at its North Coast Family Health Center permission to start providing medication abortions, which involve two drugs that can end a pregnancy.
But Hofberg and others worry that the community’s newly won abortion access could be in peril. With a net loss of $1.2 million in the 2018 fiscal year alone, the district says its only shot at survival is to lease its operations to Adventist Health, a Roseville, California-based system affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which opposes most abortions.
Dawn Hofberg, a physician assistant in Fort Bragg, California, turned to other local health care providers and the American Civil Liberties Union to help persuade the local hospital to make abortions available to some patients in her community. (Courtesy of Dawn Hofberg)
Voters will decide whether to approve the 30-year lease agreement on March 3.
Adventist officials said that despite their religious teachings that abortions should be limited to cases of life- or health-threatening pregnancies, rape, incest or severe fetal anomalies, they will not restrict the use of medication abortions at the clinic.
“We don’t control our physician practices in the way some others do and we don’t put constraints around what they can and can’t prescribe,” said Bob Beehler, an Adventist Health mergers and acquisitions executive.
Beehler said the introduction of abortion-inducing pills had changed the system’s approach to abortions. “Our historical position has been based on the way they used to be done, in a hospital.”
But abortion-rights supporters still fear what could be coming.
“Obviously, we do have a lot of concerns about Adventist’s position with respect to restricting abortion access in its facilities, and so we’re going to keep a close eye on the situation,�� said Phyllida Burlingame, director of reproductive justice and gender equity for the ACLU of Northern California.
Burlingame said the deal also raises broader concerns about the spread of religious health systems that restrict care. “Not only are they taking over the private marketplace, but now they’re even spreading into these public spheres,” Burlingame said.
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Similar objections from the ACLU and staff at the University of California-San Francisco last year scuttled a proposed affiliation between UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health, a Catholic-affiliated system that restricts reproductive and transition-related care for transgender patients.
The expansion of religious systems can leave leaders of struggling hospitals with few choices when they seek to affiliate. Of the five systems to which the Mendocino hospital district issued its request for proposals last year, three were faith-based. Two responded, and Adventist was the only one that met the community’s needs, according to the district board’s treasurer, John Redding.
Nationwide, four of the largest 10 health systems and 1 in 6 acute care hospital beds are Catholic-owned or -affiliated. Seventh-day Adventists are Protestant Christian, and Adventist-affiliated systems run 87 hospitals and more than 300 other facilities in the United States, according to the Adventist Health Policy Association.
As these systems have grown, rural health care districts across California are struggling with waning patient volume and a lack of leverage to negotiate with insurers, said Sherreta Lane, senior vice president of finance policy at the District Hospital Leadership Forum, a trade association that represents all the state’s district and municipal hospitals. Many of these hospitals have closed or affiliated with private systems.
When the forum launched a decade ago, 45 districts or municipalities ran hospitals; now 35 do, Lane said.
While Catholic-affiliated systems like Dignity have received greater scrutiny for policies that restrict access to abortion, contraception, sterilization and end-of-life care, the impact of Adventist teachings on church-affiliated health systems is less known. In October, the Seventh-day Adventist Church raised concerns among reproductive health care advocates when it approved a statement saying it “considers abortion out of harmony with God’s plan for human life.”
Officials said at the time that they would develop updated protocols for church-affiliated health care institutions, where, they emphasized, few abortions are performed.
Adventist Health spokesperson Jill Kinney said in an emailed statement that the hospital system’s usual practice “is not to provide elective abortions, but we respect that patients may wish to have them.” If that’s the case, she added, “clinicians help coordinate referral and transfer to capable facilities without prejudice.”
In a response to detailed questions from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra before his office approved the system’s takeover of Delano Regional Medical Center in November, Adventist Health said it bans “elective abortions” but allows the procedure “for fetal distress and other medical reasons.” It added: “Medical abortions are performed in Adventist Health facilities,” without providing details.
In 2014, Adventist Health purchased a clinic in Fort Bragg where Dr. Eric Gutnick and his colleagues had provided reproductive health services since the 1970s. Under a contract with Adventist, Gutnick continued to see abortion patients for preoperative care in the clinic and performed surgical abortions at the Mendocino Coast District Hospital, until he retired later that year.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s teachings can influence other issues, too. It has opposed what it calls “transgenderism,” stating that gender identity “is determined by our biological sex at birth,” and has called homosexuality “a manifestation of the disturbance and brokenness in human inclinations and relations caused by the entrance of sin into the world.”
Arneta Rogers, an attorney for the ACLU of Northern California, voiced concern about these beliefs. “It’s not about shutting down religious entities; we just don’t want people to be discriminated against,” Rogers said in an interview.
Jason Wells, president of the Adventist Health hospitals in Ukiah and Willits, said the system cherishes diversity and its LGBTQ employees. In its statement to the attorney general, Adventist said some of its physicians provide hormones for transgender patients but none of its facilities offer “gender reconstruction surgery.”
In a statement provided by Kinney, Adventist Health said that it “strives to be free from biases related to gender identity” but that its hospitals “are not currently equipped to offer the complex, comprehensive programmatic approach necessary to provide gender reassignment treatments and surgeries.”
For many in the Mendocino community, uncertainty over the hospital’s finances has overshadowed concerns about Adventist Health’s religious affiliation as residents prepare for the vote next month. “If the affiliation doesn’t go through, I don’t know how we’ll stay in business,” said Karen Arnold, secretary of the district board.
Redding said lease payments from Adventist would allow the district to afford the estimated $24 million needed to finance upgrades required by the state to protect against catastrophic earthquake damage to its facilities.
“I wasn’t sure how we were going to do this, and now I feel that we’ve secured the future of a hospital here on the coast,” Redding said.
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
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Abortion-Rights Supporters Fear Loss Of Access If Adventist Saves Hospital
For more than two years, physician assistant Dawn Hofberg fought to bring access to abortions back to California’s Mendocino Coast, a picturesque stretch of shoreline about three hours north of San Francisco and 90 minutes from the nearest facility offering abortions.
Hofberg enlisted help from local health care providers and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sent letters to the Mendocino Coast Health Care District that operates the hospital in Fort Bragg and other medical services. The letters noted that the state constitution requires public hospitals to offer abortions if they offer other pregnancy-related care.
Late last year, district CEO Wayne Allen granted a doctor at its North Coast Family Health Center permission to start providing medication abortions, which involve two drugs that can end a pregnancy.
But Hofberg and others worry that the community’s newly won abortion access could be in peril. With a net loss of $1.2 million in the 2018 fiscal year alone, the district says its only shot at survival is to lease its operations to Adventist Health, a Roseville, California-based system affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which opposes most abortions.
Dawn Hofberg, a physician assistant in Fort Bragg, California, turned to other local health care providers and the American Civil Liberties Union to help persuade the local hospital to make abortions available to some patients in her community. (Courtesy of Dawn Hofberg)
Voters will decide whether to approve the 30-year lease agreement on March 3.
Adventist officials said that despite their religious teachings that abortions should be limited to cases of life- or health-threatening pregnancies, rape, incest or severe fetal anomalies, they will not restrict the use of medication abortions at the clinic.
“We don’t control our physician practices in the way some others do and we don’t put constraints around what they can and can’t prescribe,” said Bob Beehler, an Adventist Health mergers and acquisitions executive.
Beehler said the introduction of abortion-inducing pills had changed the system’s approach to abortions. “Our historical position has been based on the way they used to be done, in a hospital.”
But abortion-rights supporters still fear what could be coming.
“Obviously, we do have a lot of concerns about Adventist’s position with respect to restricting abortion access in its facilities, and so we’re going to keep a close eye on the situation,” said Phyllida Burlingame, director of reproductive justice and gender equity for the ACLU of Northern California.
Burlingame said the deal also raises broader concerns about the spread of religious health systems that restrict care. “Not only are they taking over the private marketplace, but now they’re even spreading into these public spheres,” Burlingame said.
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Similar objections from the ACLU and staff at the University of California-San Francisco last year scuttled a proposed affiliation between UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health, a Catholic-affiliated system that restricts reproductive and transition-related care for transgender patients.
The expansion of religious systems can leave leaders of struggling hospitals with few choices when they seek to affiliate. Of the five systems to which the Mendocino hospital district issued its request for proposals last year, three were faith-based. Two responded, and Adventist was the only one that met the community’s needs, according to the district board’s treasurer, John Redding.
Nationwide, four of the largest 10 health systems and 1 in 6 acute care hospital beds are Catholic-owned or -affiliated. Seventh-day Adventists are Protestant Christian, and Adventist-affiliated systems run 87 hospitals and more than 300 other facilities in the United States, according to the Adventist Health Policy Association.
As these systems have grown, rural health care districts across California are struggling with waning patient volume and a lack of leverage to negotiate with insurers, said Sherreta Lane, senior vice president of finance policy at the District Hospital Leadership Forum, a trade association that represents all the state’s district and municipal hospitals. Many of these hospitals have closed or affiliated with private systems.
When the forum launched a decade ago, 45 districts or municipalities ran hospitals; now 35 do, Lane said.
While Catholic-affiliated systems like Dignity have received greater scrutiny for policies that restrict access to abortion, contraception, sterilization and end-of-life care, the impact of Adventist teachings on church-affiliated health systems is less known. In October, the Seventh-day Adventist Church raised concerns among reproductive health care advocates when it approved a statement saying it “considers abortion out of harmony with God’s plan for human life.”
Officials said at the time that they would develop updated protocols for church-affiliated health care institutions, where, they emphasized, few abortions are performed.
Adventist Health spokesperson Jill Kinney said in an emailed statement that the hospital system’s usual practice “is not to provide elective abortions, but we respect that patients may wish to have them.” If that’s the case, she added, “clinicians help coordinate referral and transfer to capable facilities without prejudice.”
In a response to detailed questions from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra before his office approved the system’s takeover of Delano Regional Medical Center in November, Adventist Health said it bans “elective abortions” but allows the procedure “for fetal distress and other medical reasons.” It added: “Medical abortions are performed in Adventist Health facilities,” without providing details.
In 2014, Adventist Health purchased a clinic in Fort Bragg where Dr. Eric Gutnick and his colleagues had provided reproductive health services since the 1970s. Under a contract with Adventist, Gutnick continued to see abortion patients for preoperative care in the clinic and performed surgical abortions at the Mendocino Coast District Hospital, until he retired later that year.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s teachings can influence other issues, too. It has opposed what it calls “transgenderism,” stating that gender identity “is determined by our biological sex at birth,” and has called homosexuality “a manifestation of the disturbance and brokenness in human inclinations and relations caused by the entrance of sin into the world.”
Arneta Rogers, an attorney for the ACLU of Northern California, voiced concern about these beliefs. “It’s not about shutting down religious entities; we just don’t want people to be discriminated against,” Rogers said in an interview.
Jason Wells, president of the Adventist Health hospitals in Ukiah and Willits, said the system cherishes diversity and its LGBTQ employees. In its statement to the attorney general, Adventist said some of its physicians provide hormones for transgender patients but none of its facilities offer “gender reconstruction surgery.”
In a statement provided by Kinney, Adventist Health said that it “strives to be free from biases related to gender identity” but that its hospitals “are not currently equipped to offer the complex, comprehensive programmatic approach necessary to provide gender reassignment treatments and surgeries.”
For many in the Mendocino community, uncertainty over the hospital’s finances has overshadowed concerns about Adventist Health’s religious affiliation as residents prepare for the vote next month. “If the affiliation doesn’t go through, I don’t know how we’ll stay in business,” said Karen Arnold, secretary of the district board.
Redding said lease payments from Adventist would allow the district to afford the estimated $24 million needed to finance upgrades required by the state to protect against catastrophic earthquake damage to its facilities.
“I wasn’t sure how we were going to do this, and now I feel that we’ve secured the future of a hospital here on the coast,” Redding said.
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/abortion-rights-supporters-fear-loss-of-access-if-adventist-saves-hospital/
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BABSCon Gets Comical with Christina Rice and Heather Breckel
Stay awhile and listen, for BABSCon has not one, but two amazing guests to announce this day!
San Francisco, January 12, 2018: Two of the fierce fillies from the IDW Comics stable, Christina Rice and Heather Breckel, will both be coming to see us—and hopefully all of you—at the end of March.
Since joining IDW’s talented herd, Christina Rice has made a name for herself, giving us Lord Tirek’s origin story in FIENDship is Magic #2, and providing stories for both Friendship is Magic (#s 30-31, 38-39, 55-56, and 59-60) and Friends Forever (#s 9-10, 18-19, 22, 27, 30, 33, and 36). Her talents also extend to Old Hollywood biographies, and with the well-received book, Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel, to her credit.
Meanwhile, Heather Breckel has been working on IDW’s many My Little Pony titles since the beginning, and it would be far easier to list the issues that she hasn’t colored than the ones she has. Without her talented eye, the candy-colored world of Equestria wouldn’t leap off the pages or the pencils of IDW’s artists sing a song so sublime. Heather has also let her skills to issues of several Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles from IDW, stories in Marvel’s Spider-Man and Howard the Duck, Katie Cook’s Gronk, and her own one-woman opus, The Adorable Mini Adventures, among others.
Christina and Heather join BABSCon 2018 Guests of Honor John de Lancie, Kelly Sheridan, Trevor Devall, and Amy Keating Rogers, with several more guest announcements yet to come. You won’t want to miss it March 30-April 1 at the Hyatt Regency SFO in Burlingame, CA. Register now!
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SpartanNash Offers Double Up Food Bucks Program
SpartanNash is again offering its Double Up Food Bucks program to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) customers at 17 Family Fare locations throughout Western, Southern and Northern Michigan in 2017.
The Double Up produce incentive program is a public-private partnership pioneered by Fair Food Network. Today, Double Up programs are active in more than 20 states with support from federal, state and private sources.
For each dollar of fresh produce SNAP customers purchase using their Bridge Card and SpartanNash’s yes loyalty account, an equivalent amount of dollars will be earned and placed on their yes account. Shoppers can then redeem the Double Up dollars for free fruits and vegetables at participating Family Fare locations, with a maximum dollar-for-dollar match of $20 per day on their yes account.
To increase SNAP customers’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables, SpartanNash and Fair Food Network are expanding the Double Up program this season. SNAP shoppers can now earn or redeem Double Up dollars on any produce at participating Family Fare stores, including Michigan-grown fruits and vegetables. Michigan produces a wider variety of fruits and vegetables than any other state in the country, other than California.
"Sourcing and selling local Michigan produce is a key strategic priority for us,” says Larry Pierce, EVP, merchandising and marketing for SpartanNash. “In fact, we are working to increase the number of Michigan farmers from whom we purchase produce, as well as the total number of Michigan products sold in our stores. We have an extensive reach in our local growing communities, sourcing a wide range of fruits and vegetables from more than 250 Michigan farmers. We strive to offer the best selection of locally grown produce in our retail stores and to our more than 350 independent customers in Michigan. This ‘local’ commitment includes our local growers and producers as well as our local communities through programs such as Double Up Food Bucks.”
This is the fourth year SpartanNash has offered the Double Up program at select Family Fare Supermarkets. This year, the Double Up program is being offered from April 2 to Dec. 31 at the following 17 Family Fare Supermarket locations:
Grand Rapids
· Leonard – 1225 Leonard, NE in Grand Rapids
·Fulton Heights – 1415 E. Fulton St. in Grand Rapids
·Rogers Plaza – 1148 28th St., SW in Wyoming
·Burlingame – 2900 Burlingame Ave., SW in Wyoming
·Breton Meadows – 4325 Breton Road, SE in Grand Rapids
·Kentwood – 6127 Kalamazoo, SE in Kentwood
Southern Michigan
· Hastings – 902 W. State St. in Hastings
· Lakeview – 45 East Columbia in Battle Creek
·  Pennfield – 1603 Capital, NE in Battle Creek
· Urbandale – 1525 W. Michigan Ave. in Urbandale
· Marshall – 15900 W. Michigan Ave. in Marshall
· Albion – 1406 North Eaton in Albion
Holland
· Butternut – 993 Butternut Dr. in Holland
·  S. Washington – 1185 S. Washington in Holland
Northern Michigan
· Rose City – 2626 N. M-33 in Rose City
· West Branch – 2206 S. M-76 in West Branch
· Harrison – 1570 N. Clare Ave. in Harrison
“Double Up Food Bucks is helping low-income families stretch their food dollars while improving their diets and supporting Michigan growers,” says Oran Hesterman, president and CEO of Fair Food Network. “SpartanNash has been an instrumental partner in scaling Double Up in grocery stores. They understood early on the power of this project as means to better serve its customers and the broader community. We are thankful for SpartanNash’s continued commitment to this project, including strong and growing support of Michigan growers. ”
Last year, 80 percent of all Double Up dollars earned at participating Family Fare stores by SNAP customers were redeemed.
In 2014, SpartanNash became the first major grocery retail chain in Michigan to support the Double Up Food Bucks program. Since then, the company has invested more than $100,000 to ensure the success of the program, the majority of which was spent on refining point-of-sale systems to make it easier for SNAP shoppers to earn and redeem Double Up dollars for fresh produce.
To date, SpartanNash has partnered with nearly 100 community organizations, including Grand Rapids Public Schools, Feeding America West Michigan, Spectrum Health Healthier Communities and the Heart of West Michigan United Way to inform communities – in both English and Spanish – about the Double Up program.
from Supermarket Advertising News http://www.groceryheadquarters.com/News/SpartanNash-Offers-Double-Up-Food-Bucks-Program/
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SpartanNash Offers Double Up Food Bucks Program
SpartanNash is again offering its Double Up Food Bucks program to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) customers at 17 Family Fare locations throughout Western, Southern and Northern Michigan in 2017.
The Double Up produce incentive program is a public-private partnership pioneered by Fair Food Network. Today, Double Up programs are active in more than 20 states with support from federal, state and private sources.
For each dollar of fresh produce SNAP customers purchase using their Bridge Card and SpartanNash’s yes loyalty account, an equivalent amount of dollars will be earned and placed on their yes account. Shoppers can then redeem the Double Up dollars for free fruits and vegetables at participating Family Fare locations, with a maximum dollar-for-dollar match of $20 per day on their yes account.
To increase SNAP customers’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables, SpartanNash and Fair Food Network are expanding the Double Up program this season. SNAP shoppers can now earn or redeem Double Up dollars on any produce at participating Family Fare stores, including Michigan-grown fruits and vegetables. Michigan produces a wider variety of fruits and vegetables than any other state in the country, other than California.
"Sourcing and selling local Michigan produce is a key strategic priority for us,” says Larry Pierce, EVP, merchandising and marketing for SpartanNash. “In fact, we are working to increase the number of Michigan farmers from whom we purchase produce, as well as the total number of Michigan products sold in our stores. We have an extensive reach in our local growing communities, sourcing a wide range of fruits and vegetables from more than 250 Michigan farmers. We strive to offer the best selection of locally grown produce in our retail stores and to our more than 350 independent customers in Michigan. This ‘local’ commitment includes our local growers and producers as well as our local communities through programs such as Double Up Food Bucks.”
This is the fourth year SpartanNash has offered the Double Up program at select Family Fare Supermarkets. This year, the Double Up program is being offered from April 2 to Dec. 31 at the following 17 Family Fare Supermarket locations:
Grand Rapids
· Leonard – 1225 Leonard, NE in Grand Rapids
·Fulton Heights – 1415 E. Fulton St. in Grand Rapids
·Rogers Plaza – 1148 28th St., SW in Wyoming
·Burlingame – 2900 Burlingame Ave., SW in Wyoming
·Breton Meadows – 4325 Breton Road, SE in Grand Rapids
·Kentwood – 6127 Kalamazoo, SE in Kentwood
Southern Michigan
· Hastings – 902 W. State St. in Hastings
· Lakeview – 45 East Columbia in Battle Creek
·  Pennfield – 1603 Capital, NE in Battle Creek
· Urbandale – 1525 W. Michigan Ave. in Urbandale
· Marshall – 15900 W. Michigan Ave. in Marshall
· Albion – 1406 North Eaton in Albion
Holland
· Butternut – 993 Butternut Dr. in Holland
·  S. Washington – 1185 S. Washington in Holland
Northern Michigan
· Rose City – 2626 N. M-33 in Rose City
· West Branch – 2206 S. M-76 in West Branch
· Harrison – 1570 N. Clare Ave. in Harrison
“Double Up Food Bucks is helping low-income families stretch their food dollars while improving their diets and supporting Michigan growers,” says Oran Hesterman, president and CEO of Fair Food Network. “SpartanNash has been an instrumental partner in scaling Double Up in grocery stores. They understood early on the power of this project as means to better serve its customers and the broader community. We are thankful for SpartanNash’s continued commitment to this project, including strong and growing support of Michigan growers. ”
Last year, 80 percent of all Double Up dollars earned at participating Family Fare stores by SNAP customers were redeemed.
In 2014, SpartanNash became the first major grocery retail chain in Michigan to support the Double Up Food Bucks program. Since then, the company has invested more than $100,000 to ensure the success of the program, the majority of which was spent on refining point-of-sale systems to make it easier for SNAP shoppers to earn and redeem Double Up dollars for fresh produce.
To date, SpartanNash has partnered with nearly 100 community organizations, including Grand Rapids Public Schools, Feeding America West Michigan, Spectrum Health Healthier Communities and the Heart of West Michigan United Way to inform communities – in both English and Spanish – about the Double Up program.
from News And Updates http://www.groceryheadquarters.com/News/SpartanNash-Offers-Double-Up-Food-Bucks-Program/
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Blog Post: Understanding Privilege In UK Internal Investigations
Last year, the English High Court further whittled away the U.K.'s privilege protection in In re The RBS Rights Issue Litigation. U.S. attorneys conducting internal investigations in the U.K. should know that familiar U.S. privilege protections may not apply, say Roger Burlingame and Rachel Goldstein of Kobre & Kim LLP. Blog Post: Understanding Privilege In UK Internal Investigations published first on http://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/workers-compensation/rss.aspx
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For the first time since its inaugural event in 2014, BABSCon is honored to announce the bard of pickle barrels, kumquats, and chimicherrychangas—the one and only Amy Keating Rogers—will be joining us this March!
It’s no stretch to say that Amy is among the most beloved of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’s writers, given that her credits include (among others) “Fall Weather Friends,” “A Dog and Pony Show,” “The Best Night Ever,” “Pinkie Pride,” “Testing Testing 1, 2, 3” and “Canterlot Boutique” before giving the Cutie Mark Crusaders their cutie marks at long last in “Crusaders of the Lost Mark.”
If you’ve ever sung along to Pinkie Pie’s “Smile Song” or any of the “Weird Al” Yancovic-fueled madness in “Pinkie Pride,” you have Amy to thank. (She might even be an evil enchantress!)
Outside of MLP, Amy’s illustrious credits include episodes of The Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Dexter’s Laboratory, Fairly Oddparents, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Danny Phantom. During her recent time at the House of Mouse, she was writing for their Star Darlings franchise.
Amy is known throughout the pony world for her warmth, humor, and mad ukulele skills, and we couldn’t be happier to have her back. She’ll be joining Kelly Sheridan and Trevor Devall among our Guests of Honor.
You don’t want to miss out on your first chance to see Amy at BABSCon in four years, so REGISTER NOW!
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About BABSCon
BABSCon is the Bay Area Brony Spectacular, a convention held in Burlingame, California, for fans and friends of the My Little Pony TV series. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro, owners of the My Little Pony franchise, or any of Hasbro’s affiliates or subsidiaries. The event features various noted voice actors from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon series, as well as guests, artists, and writers from the fan community. The convention hosts various types of events, including a specialized set of events for young children attending with families, as well as events for all ages, and late-night events for adults. BABSCon celebrates not only a wonderful world of pastel ponies, but the friendship and community that inspires us all. BABSCon will be held March 30 – April 1, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. More information is available at www.babscon.com.
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