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However, the shift to a new set of standards may be a challenge for the district.
The new standards —
Although CCSS is not new curriculum or instruction, teachers will be tasked with raising academic standards in classrooms and, ultimately, expected to develop ways to help students make those academic leaps to reach new standards.
Lisa Churchwell, coordinator of professional development at the school district, said the new standards will have a definite impact on schools and students. And the success of the implementation will rely heavily on the district's ability to structurally raise the bar.
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"We will be aligning our curriculum to the Common Core,"
A centralized focus on literacy appears to be the major thrust of CCSS. Literacy standards will be implemented in the areas of social studies, history, science and technical subjects. English-language arts and mathematics are also included as subjects affected by CCSS.
"Students will be required to write from sources and cite and use evidence,"
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Last week, Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett sought approval of a new rule that would limit school grades from dropping more than one letter at a time. He took that action in response to an earlier outcry by state school district superintendents, which led the state to develop a task force that would assess and review the impact of the FCAT 2.0 and end-of-course assessment results prior to school grades being calculated.
The motion was passed 4-3 at a State Board of Education meeting held Tuesday, AP reported. The action will save more than 100 schools from receiving an F when school grades are calculated.
Prior to Bennett's special request, superintendents across the state, including Bay District Schools Superintendent Bill Husfelt, had concerns about the notable dip in passing scores when the state raised FCAT standards for the 2011-2012 academic year.
"There is a lot of fear and anxiety out there that the school grades are not going to be good because of the new cut scores that were implemented a few years ago," Husfelt said at a June 25 school board meeting.
And, although, most of the district's 2012-2013 state exam scores were on par with state averages, scores also showed all grade levels only met the threshold of a majority of passing students — that is — in the lower 60-percentile range, at best.
Along with adopting the newer standards,
"Hopefully we won't have huge drops in proficiency, but it is a possibility. It is a more rigorous exam,"
For the district, kindergarten and first grade have already fully implemented CCSS; second grade will do so in the upcoming year. Full implementation for K-12 is set for the 2014-2015 academic year.
"I think the move to the Common Core State Standards is a good thing because it's only going to mean our students are being prepared for what goes on in the real world," she added.
However, she stressed the importance of teachers and administrative staff understanding the new make-up of the classroom.
"Every teacher is required to come (to the training) no matter what grade level or content area. This is going to build and increase their knowledge in the Common Core Standards, their structure and content. And also very important, is that they walk away with the knowledge of the structural shift that has to occur in the classroom for effective implementation."

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The current yelling match about guns is distinguished by two truths disconcerting to each side. As loony as the argument sounds after a history of 224 years, the faction that opposes any oversight or management of gun rights is correct about one thing. The Second Amendment doesn't exist to protect people's right to hunt. It doesn't exist to protect people's right to shoot a thief or intruder. Derived from a similar stipulation in the English Bill of Rights of the 1600s, the Second Amendment exists for the same reason as the rest of the Bill of Rights—to further define the relationship between individual freedom and state power, and in this case to prohibit the state from unilaterally disarming the citizenry. It's an important principle of human freedom, however fueled it may be in this day and age by the paranoia and derangement of a social fringe. The left focuses obsessively on the Second Amendment's language about maintaining a militia because the Second Amendment is the one instance in which progressives—after interpreting the other amendments so broadly as to extrapolate from the fourth a constitutional right to an abortion—suddenly become strict constructionists, in the same way that the Second Amendment is the one instance when those on the right suddenly become passionate about civil liberties. The people who wrote the Bill of Rights didn't elevate the individual's freedom to arm oneself over all other liberties except those enumerated in the First Amendment in order simply to run a militia. I write this, I should add, as someone who doesn't own a gun and finds the romance of guns unfathomable, and as a father who, on a purely personal level for the sake of his two children, would just as soon every damned gun vanished from the face of the earth.
On the other hand, the disconcerting truth that gun-freedom absolutists must confront, assuming they can recognize let alone acknowledge it, has to do with themselves, or at least those arguing their cause. Let us descend from the lofty pinnacle of dispassion long enough to point out what any reasonable person can discern, which is that Wayne LaPierre is a bad dude. "Evil" is a word too epic for him, so let's just say that the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association means no good for our country and couldn't care less about it. He is spokesman for a thriving firearms industry that pays him in blood money, profiting from both the siege mentality of people too unstable to know better as well as from some irresistible human impulse to cause as much damage to something or someone in as little time as possible. While we're careful not to assume guilt on the basis of association, at some point a cause becomes characterized by, and then interchangeable with, those who advance it, and it's fair to correlate the merits and faults of an argument with the merits and faults of those who make it.
In their reading of the Second Amendment, gun-safety advocates would be better advised to note the phrase that precedes that word militia: "well regulated." The framers of the Bill of Rights were not absolutists about gun freedom or, in fact, any specific freedom, particularly as it might apply two and a quarter centuries later. In the same way that the Second Amendment speaks to an overarching principle, the First does as well, advocating freedom of expression broad enough to include, for example—in the view of those freedom-of-expression absolutists among us, anyway—the right of consenting adults to make and distribute pornography to other consenting adults. Even a free-expression absolutist, however, has to take leave of all moral sense to believe such a principle protects pornography that involves children, since at that point pornography no longer is about expression but molestation. An AR-15 in the hands of children or the mentally disturbed (or both) is the child-pornography of the Second Amendment, and Wayne LaPierre is its purveyor, the gun lobby's equivalent of the pedophile who flourishes by the desecration of the innocent. Regulating well that exquisite balance between freedom and order, between what can't be given up easily in the name of safety and what the bloody massacre of eight-year-olds demands of us as a civilized people, is the task that the first Americans left to those of us here now who still care what being American means.
Wed, 2013-04-03 11:32
NRA represents the 4.5+ million gun owners that care about gun safety. NRA is the leading organization for providing gun training and safety standards. Your rant on the NRA and its leadership is just unfounded.
As a parent, you should be concerned about gun ownership. Your children should be exposed to proper gun handling and usage. This is absolutely necessary for the children to understand safe usage. Otherwise, you get really silly comments like our VP recently stated (e.g. Shoot in the air or shoot thru the door) being considered OK.
You should also be active in getting "armed citizens" in your children's school. I would personally prefer the school administration and teachers, but police in the schools would be an acceptable alternative. "Gun Free Zones" are just prime killing zones for the mass killers.
Thu, 2013-04-04 12:53
The NRA used to represent gun owners. Now it primarily represents gun dealers, and couldn't care less about gun owners except as gun BUYERS. I used to be a member. Then I realized I was being played - that my dues were going to support a powerful special-interest lobby rather than anything I really casred about. So I quit.
Wed, 2013-04-03 16:14
I would not call the writer's presentation a "rant." It seems well-reasoned and well-evidenced, at least to those who read the scholarly research literature on the topic, to me. I'm a hand and long-gun owner who doesn't hunt at all. I happen to agree with the writer in all of his points. Your arguement about "guns in schools" is not very well-thought out and illogical. After all, gunmen don't kill people just in schools. If I follow your (and Mr. LaPierre's) logic to its conclusion, we must have police or armed individuals in every public place to protect people. If Mr. LaPierre had his way, everyone would carry a gun of some sort. That, I needn't add, is a receipe for further killing.
Wed, 2013-04-03 20:59
While I appreciate your even handedness in your approach in this article, I have to take issue with your comparison. While I do agree that our rights are not unlimited (my right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins, et al). When we find people distributing child pornography we don't ban cameras and the internet. We punish the wrongdoers for the evil they've done, not the tools the committed the evil with.
You also equate firearms in youthful hands automatically means bad ends. I shot trap and hunted when I was young as ten. My father taught me responsibility, care, and respect around firearms and I grew to have a healthy, sane relationship with them. This is not to say that everyone will, but to indicate that it is impossible for youth to handle firearms responsibly is rather ignorant.
Thu, 2013-04-04 00:01
Mitchness, your analysis of the analogy between gun misuse and child pornography has a glaring weakness. You said we punish the wrongdoers, "not the tools" with which they committed the evil. It is not an either/or situation, and nobody wants to abolish guns. It is possible both to punish child pornographers, for example, AND to prevent them, after their release, from having contact with children (at least to try to do so), and we COULD, if we wish, also restrict THESE PEOPLE from access to cameras and the internet, as well as children.
So the point of gun safety legislation is to make it difficult for a KNOWN CRIMINAL or someone who is dangerously mentally disturbed to buy a gun through legal channels; adding background checks to private or gun show sales, so that anyone currently allowed to buy a gun, who sells it without making a background check, would be TRAFFICKING, thus breaking the law. Yes, some criminals will still get guns, and some unlicensed drivers will still find a way to get control of a car (or truck or bus or ... tank). But if FEWER criminals or unstable people can get guns and ammo, FEWER "personal apocalypse" massacres will happen.
The part about firearms in youthful hands was not meant to refer to ten year old kids being taught firearm safety; it was meant to refer to four year old kids finding Daddy's unlocked gun, playing with it out of curiosity, and killing or injuring themselves or other kids. But even the trained ten year old might be tempted to do something irresponsible if Daddy lets him take the gun out of sight of adult supervision.
In the interest of disclosure, I am in my sixties, I had a BB gun as a child, which I tired of using after shooting a few "safe" targets; I played cowboys and Native Americans with a cap gun, and I KNEW there was a difference between cap guns and REAL guns; I saw a real gun once in my uncle's nightstand drawer and left it alone; I had the basic pistol familiarization for one day in ROTC summer camp as a college student; I was fortunate enough not to get drafted, and so have never had occasion to want a gun or use one since. But I recognize the Second Amendment, and understand it as both a right and a responsibility.
Too many of the public voices promoting it as a right sound, to my ears, like "poster children" for denying gun access to the mentally unstable (some of them must know already they would not pass a background check). We have a right to transportation, but not a right to drive an unregistered and uninspected car without a license to drive. The right to self defense with a gun likewise calls for REASONABLE regulation of access, to save lives.
Thu, 2013-04-04 00:52
"It is possible both to punish child pornographers, for example, AND to prevent them, after their release, from having contact with children (at least to try to do so), and we COULD, if we wish, also restrict THESE PEOPLE from access to cameras and the internet, as well as children."
The only way to restrict their access to a commodity would be through... background checks. Seeing as you don't need one to buy a camera it would need to be implemented solely for those who have done wrong with them. If we now have set the standard that everyone needs to be checked for purchase of any object that may be used in a crime we will effectively be under fascism.
"You said we punish the wrongdoers, "not the tools" with which they committed the evil. It is not an either/or situation, and nobody wants to abolish guns."
Have you even read any of the proposed legislation, or heard any testimonies from the backers of said legislation? The Congress/President aren't just imposing UBCs, they want bans on weapons and accessories as well from law-abiding citizens. We go back to the analogy that if child pornographers commit their crime we now ban/regulate cameras and their accessories to the rest of the public as well. True they aren't abolishing ALL guns, but they are abolishing some guns. This effectively bars arms from our future generations which effectively "takes" their guns. Crafting a law that denies future generations a right guaranteed them is far worse than physical confiscation. That is not a decision our incredibly uneducated representatives are even close to being capable, nor authorized, to make.
Fri, 2013-04-05 18:23
I know that some of the proposals call for banning some types of guns. You can make a case that total abolition of those guns MAY not be necessary, but do you believe that ANY guns should be banned for the general public? How about Tommy guns, aka Chicago typewriters, the icons of the gangs of the 1920's? How about bazookas (now called RPG launchers? Flame throwers? Explosives? Nuclear weapons (we don't even want some COUNTRIES to have those)? Where do you draw the line?
Then again, some people should not even have Derringer pistols, because they can be used to kill anyone at close range, even a President. Why is it so abhorrent that guns should be for the sane and law-abiding? Do you really think there is a conspiracy for government to confiscate all guns? We have had all motor vehicles registered for over a hundred years, and I have not heard of any conspiracy to seize all the cars!
As to the point you made about denying future generations those guns that cause massacres, you are aware that they would still be manufactured for MILITARY use, right? So manufacturers will still be making them! And any FUTURE Congress that decides "well, they aren't so bad after all" could always lift the ban if the PEOPLE want them to. This Congress, although bought by the NRA, has to deal with a 90 percent voter majority that wants background checks, and a slight majority that want to ban assault rifles.
If we work to make sure the OTHER amendments of the Bill of Rights are honored by our elected representatives, and stop them from denying voting rights to the "wrong" voters in their minds, we will not have that hypothetical need for the Second Amendment Final Solution. Some of us tried that in 1861, and it didn't work out that well!
Sat, 2013-04-06 19:21
Mitchness, your comparison of cameras and guns is silly, of course, because cameras take pictures, they don't kill; used in the wrong way, these pictures can do great damage, which is why we punish the people who abuse their use. Guns, on the other hand, are designed and manufactured to kill. They are deadly weapons, and those that take large magazines can be used as weapons of mass destruction, to our recurring horror. All civilized societies regulate the ownership and use of deadly weapons; not to do so would be a dereliction of duty to our fellow citizens. No Constitutional amendment is absolute: even the First Amendment right of freedom of speech does not give someone a right to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater, as we all know.
The Supreme Court's "Heller decision" (5-4, led by Antonin Scalia) made abundantly clear that regulation of guns is not only permissible, but prudent. Your argument against background checks and prohibiting some kinds of guns is not supported by the Supreme Court decision.
"'From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose,' wrote Scalia. 'For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues.'
Nothing in the Heller ruling, he said, should be read to cast doubt on 'longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.'
Another 'important limitation,' explained Scalia, was contained in the justices' 1939 decision in Miller v. U.S. 'Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those 'in common use at the time.' We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of 'dangerous and unusual weapons,' " he wrote. Based on Miller, the Second Amendment does not protect weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns, he added."
Thu, 2013-04-04 10:33
Open letter to Oakland mayor Jean Quan:
The only legislation that can realistically end gun violence in Oakland – and Chicago – is a labor law: doubling the minimum wage to $30,000/yr. The Crips and the Bloods could not whip a decent paying Ronald McDonald.
Crackpot? More than doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25/hr to $15/hr ($600/wk) would cause less than 4% direct inflation:
$3.87/hr (half/average raise) X 2080 hours (full work year) = $8,049/yr X 70 million workers (half the workforce -- $15/hr is today's median wage) = $563.4 billion. (3.5 million workers at the minimum wage would get a full $16,020 raise may be left out to simplify eighth-grade math.) Divide $563.4 billion by a $15.8 trillion GDP and we get 3.6% direct inflation (not counting leap frog pushups which may not add up to that much – LBJ's median wage was only 25% higher than his minimum – high minimum wages often approach median level in other economies).
Oakland won't educate its way out of poverty and crime. Catch 22: political scientist Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, from neighboring UC Berkeley -- who spent nine years in five poor New York and Los Angeles neighborhoods (and ten years before that researching street gangs) -- explains in his 2008 book Cracks in the Pavement that ghetto schools don't work mostly because students (and teachers!) don't expect anything decent awaiting for them in the labor market, so think it hopeless to make the effort.
>Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
>Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
(cut and pasted from elsewhere) Bear with me for a tiny thought experiment. Imagine both minimum and median wages were cut in half -- would that help McDonald's or Wal-Mart? If we believe Massachusetts' junior senator -- adjusted for every increasing productivity -- worse has already happened! "Elizabeth Warren: Minimum Wage Would be $22 An Hour If It Had Kept Up With Productivity"
It is curious that to catch up with doubling of productivity gains -- since 1968 when the minimum wage was $10.50/hr ($1.60 nominally) -- today's minimum wage would have to triple from $7.25/hr. In early 2007 the minimum wage would have had to almost quadruple -- from $5.75/hr (nominally $5.15/hr). Looking from that perspective my simple idea that doubling the minimum wage would add only 33% to fast food prices and 10% to retail prices while giving half the work force an average 50% raise -- win, win all around -- doesn't look so dumb.
(cut and pasted from elsewhere) If the federal minimum wage were raised to $15/hr Wal-Mart wages would go up 50%; Wal-Mart prices would go up only 5% (retail wages 10% of costs) -- fast food wages would go up 107%; fast food prices would go up 35% (fast food 33%). 10-33% is pretty much the range of labor costs -- clustering close to 10% I believe.
With half the labor force getting percentage wage increases that are multiples of their employers' percentage price increases their employers should do better than ever.
The only law that is going to stop the day-in-day out gun violence in our nation's (invisible?) inner cities is a labor law.
Fri, 2013-04-05 15:08
Responsible gun owners have nothing to fear from reasonable regulation of guns.
Gun nuts, however, insist they have an absolute right to the unregulated ownership of any number and type of guns and ammunition. They fear the government is out to get them and believe their home arsenal will protect them from. The result is that children die and the U.S. has a rate of gun deaths many times higher than most all other countries outside of the third world.
Gun legislation must not be held hostage to the paranoid fantasies of the gun nuts or NRA that stokes these delusions. The NRA and Wayne LaPierre used to be FOR gun control, now they get a good deal of their money from gun makers and they are against it. Go figure!
Fri, 2013-04-05 17:51
Where did we ever get the idea the 2nd is a 'civil right'? The constitution, as noble a document as it is, had, and has flaws. The 2nd is not a civil right for the simple reason its defenders can't tell us why it is.
While the 2nd IS derived from a similar English law, THAT law gave parliament the right to regulate firearms. There was no individual 'right' to own firearms.
Since the battle of Wabash River, there has never been a time when an 'armed citizenry' could expect to take on the US armed forces and win.
Civil rights are those that humans have merely by being human. The pernicious effect of the 2nd show that it is not a civil right at all.
Fri, 2013-04-05 20:00
The very tone of voice (or typography and phrasing, in written material) used by the gun extremists makes a good case for the suspicion that they, themselves, would be the ones flagged by a background check as mentally unstable. So maybe they are opposed to checks because they are the ones who would be barred from legally owning guns?
As for the paranoid "fight your own government if you think it is tyrannical" argument, the last time that any SMALLER group in this country had weapons and skills comparable to the very government established by the Constitution was in the 1860's, when STATE governments had direct command of most of the soldiers that would have been available to the United States Army, and most of the MILITARY weapons (including cannons, warships, etc) as well. It was not individuals or organizations that had the firepower to go up against the U.S. military, it was the STATES, and they rebelled by votes in the state LEGISLATURES. Does anybody REALLY want to try that again?
Despite the image portrayed by the movie Red Dawn in the 1980's (recently remade), even the best armed "resistance" fighters would have a hard time against a modern military. But in the case of our own elected officials trying to tyrannize us, wouldn't the troops, whose oath is not to a President but to the Constitution, recognize they were being given illegal orders? I expect they would take much LESS persuasion than Soviet troops against Gorbachev's crowds in 1990 to refuse the illegal orders.
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MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA -- I just read an article that says, "Hospital executives rank United Healthcare as the worst insurance company in the United States." (It is available here: www.allbusiness.com/health-care/health-care-facilities). This will come as no surprise to many members and providers alike. Like many others, I want to share my recent experience with United Health Care so that people can decide for themselves whether or not this is the kind of health insurance they feel they want to purchase for their families.
I am a neuropsychologist and was asked to see a UHC member for neuropsychological testing. I filled out all of the appropriate forms required by United Healthcare and received a telephone call authorizing me to test their member. They gave me a cap on the hours (13 hours total) and an authorization number. I provided the services as promised and then sent the appropriate claim to the United Healthcare offices.
When they sent me the check, there was a note on the Explanation of Benefits saying I had agreed to a discounted fee (an approximately 50% discount, mind you) through an organization called MultiPlan (If you haven't heard of them, you're in for a treat. They contract with insurance companies to try to persuade clinicians to agree to a reduced fee and they get paid a percentage of what they "save" the insurance company.) Needless to say, I do not and never will have an agreement with this company, as I do not support business practices such as this.
When I contacted United Healthcare to straighten this out, they told me I had to deal with MultiPlan. Multiplan never answers their phone (I wonder why) so I got nowhere until I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. This got the attention of **, a Consumer Affairs Advocate for UHC (1-800-842-2656). She researched this issue and came up with a fabulous solution!
She decided that United Healthcare had authorized this treatment in error and paid me in error AFTER I HAD RENDERED THE AUTHORIZED TREATMENT to their member. They then "recalculated" the claim form and decided that I actually owe THEM money! They have asked for the entire amount back ($966.68). They have a very fancy way of explaining their "logic" and have added that the original error was with their processor and they have arranged for her "to receive additional training or other intervention as appropriate."
With a second patient, they attempted to get me to accept a reduced fee through MultiPlan for another member and I declined. After that, they refused to pay me AT ALL for the services I provided to the other member while he was in the hospital. United Healthcare also authorized these services and the correct authorization number was submitted with the claims.
In both cases the services were requested by a physician and approved by United Healthcare. The services were rendered as authorized and the appropriate claims were filed. Unfortunately – and this really is the sad part – both of these claims will have to be paid in full by the members. These claims total thousands of dollars.
As I'm sure many of you know, United Healthcare is the focus of a Class Action Lawsuit in New York because of their questionable business practices. When I Googled "United Health Care reviews," I was SHOCKED at the number of complaints against this company. How is it that they are getting away with this kind of behavior?
For as long as both Hubby and I have had full time jobs with benefits, we have almost always elected to use my husband's benefits for medical and dental insurance (mainly because I liked their medical insurance more than mine). We would reevaluate this every November when our respective employers' open enrollment period would begin. It's a system that has worked well for us as the coverage has almost always been comparable between our two workplaces.
Last November, when my job's open enrollment was announced, I asked my husband if he had heard anything from his job about OE. He hadn't so I held off on making any changes until close to the end of my enrollment period when I asked him again about it. He said that they had told him that they wouldn't have any information for a few more weeks but as far as he knew, there hadn't been any talk that year about changing providers (it had been a concern in past years as Blue Cross was trying to jack up the prices as usual).
Assuming that things were going to be status quo, I made no changes to my employee benefits aside from adding ** to my list of dependents for life insurance and vision insurance (I always carried the vision since his job didn't have any at the time). Two weeks after my job's OE period ended, my husband called me at work to tell me that his job was switching both the Medical and Dental benefits to UnitedHealthcare.
Since they had ** footed around and waited until the second week in December to make this announcement, we were SOL. Fortunately all of our physicians were in-network, so that didn't have to change. As far as dental insurance was concerned, I didn't really have any problem with whatever they offered since we had never used the dental benefits no matter who carried them. We just had it as a "just in case."
This spring, we found out that ** has cavities. A lot of them. And they're going to require a lot of work beyond the usual fillings (long story, not going into that). Anyway, we got an estimate from the dentist and I noticed that what was actually listed as the patient's responsibility (about $900 out of the nearly $5K total bill) was much less than what they had told me would be my portion (they told me over the phone that I would be responsible for about $3200 of this bill).
I looked at the benefits sheet for our dental insurance and I saw the line that said "Annual Benefit Maximum" was only $1000. I called UnitedHealthcare (their people are very polite, I'll give them that) and they confirmed that they will only pay about $1000 per year per person. What good is that when you're looking at work like this? It was bad enough that I had to search high and low for a pediatric dentist that was "in network" because the insurance would pay nothing for an out of network dentist, but now the most they'll pay is $1000?
I thought maybe this was par for the course for all dental insurances (they want prevention and early intervention rather than waiting until something like this happens, I'm sure), but then I looked over the benefits that my employer's dental insurance provided (MetLife), their annual max was $3000! There's plenty of blame to go around here. We shouldn't have waited so long to take ** to the dentist. But I blame my husband's job for waiting so long to let their workers know that their benefits would be changing (had we known that they were switching providers, I would have gotten on my insurance even before I knew the specifics).
I blame the HR lady for convincing my husband to take the lower dental insurance that pays nothing for out of network (I wanted the better paying one that would have paid almost same for out of network as in network) even though that wouldn't have helped the benefit max (same for both plans). And I blame UnitedHealthcare for giving us such useless dental insurance for almost the same cost as I would have paid for the better coverage through my employer!
IRVINE, CA, CALIFORNIA -- I CONTACTED OPTUMRX: MY MESSAGE TO THEM WAS THE FOLLOWING. Wondering why it is costing me more money to use mail order for my insulin than it would be if I ordered it from the local pharmacy? Local Pharmacy it cost $30 for one vial of 70/30 and through you folks it costs $41.66 for each vial! It would be cheaper for me to not get it from you folks. Is there anyway we can cancel or send order back?
Their answer was this: Thank you for your inquiry. Your order for Humalog Mix shipped out on 10/24/12 with an order number of **. The UPS tracking number is **. For safety reasons, once a medication leaves our facility we are unable to accept it back or refund any money. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any further questions, please reply to this message by clicking the reply.
NOTICE MY QUESTION WAS NOT ANSWERED JUST IGNORED. Many of us cannot just change health INS companies when they control so much! Many of us are on fixed incomes so we are at the mercy of these money grabbers! But one day what goes around will come around I just wish I will be there to see it happen to them!
ACCORDING TO UHC WEBSITE IT STATES THAT USING OPTUMRX IS AND WILL DO THE FOLLOWING: OptumRx is your best choice for a mail order pharmacy because you will be able to receive up to a three-month supply of your prescriptions, convenient home delivery and potential savings. (I ask where is the potential savings?)
I also notice that it states that standard shipping is used: Standard shipping is provided at no charge and there are no additional fees. (According to Optumrx they charge $75 for shipping my insulin. Where is the savings in that?) Please realize I just retired and before had UHC but they used Medco Pharmacy. I was only charged $120 for 5 vials of the same insulin for three months. So you see where I am getting screwed.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- My doctor requested an MRI authorization from United Healthcare. United Healthcare denied the procedure. BUT, they paid the vendor when they submitted their bill. When I called United Healthcare about the authorization and if I could pay for the procedure myself. I was told by 2 customer service reps that I could submit the bill and I would be compensated. NOT!!
After 2 months of discussion with various customer service reps (every time I called, I had to give all the particulars of the situation as they could not find the info in their system). Each call took about 60 minutes. At this point, I was told that United Healthcare did not make payments to members but had to pay the vendor. When I asked to speak to a supervisor on one of the calls, I had to ask 4 times and get nasty before they transferred me to a supervisor. I was told I could file a grievance and claim.
I received a letter from United Healthcare that they would "discuss" my displeasure with their customer service dept. LOTS GOOD THAT DID I AM SURE. I was told that even though United Healthcare paperwork said the grievance and claim process took 60 days. A customer service supervisor said it wasn't 60 days BUT 60 BUSINESS DAYS. Quite a difference. We have just asked United Healthcare how we would be compensated for emergency services out of country. I was told that I could submit a claim to United Healthcare and they would pay me.
REALLY - United Healthcare wouldn't compensate me for a procedure in the United States and I am to believe they would compensate me out of country??????? I would not recommend United Healthcare to anyone and plan to select another medical provider during the current enrollment period.
UHC is ridiculous. Does not stand for United HealthCare... more likely Unbelievable Hypocritical CRAP!!! I am a Breast Cancer survivor and had one type of reconstruction that did not work because of 3rd degree burns from radiation. I am in constant pain, for multiple reasons and there is easily discernible visual deformity... I contacted UHC to locate a DIEP surgeon (this is the only real option if basic expander to implant surgery doesn't work) - someone from their nurse line called me back saying they did not have a specialist after they contacted 15 in-network providers.
Then they told me to file for a Gap Exception for consult - which I did. I located Dr's who do this procedure and gave them all the information as I was instructed to do. They denied the exception for different reasons (let's revisit - same procedure - same need - just different doctors) 1 was denied because they tried to call me 3 times in one day and I did not get back to them that day... (BTW I had told them I would be out of town - and they advised me to call and check the status in 4-5 days) and then one was declined because they said they have in network Dr.'s.
The first name they tried to give me was the doctor that did my original FAILED surgery - so I quickly explained they were wrong he did not do the necessary procedure.. they then sent me a letter with 3 names so I contacted the Dr's they gave me and the staff at each office stated they do not do that type of surgery.
So I sent a letter detailing this to UHC and expressing my concern that whoever is making the decision does not understand the procedure and that not all breast reconstruction after cancer is successful especially when there is damage from radiation. I also sent along a Clinical Gap Exception request (which one of their reps told me is what I needed to do) from my Primary Care Physician.
Still they are ignoring me. I do not understand. I have done everything you have asked. Believe me - I would just have assumed/actually preferred not GETTING Stage 3 Breast Cancer at 43 years of age and needing 2 rounds of Chemotherapy - a double mastectomy - 2 additional surgeries and then daily radiation that caused 3rd degree burns... But it happened. Now it is time for UHC to do what they are supposed to do - provide care.
APPLE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA -- After being told that my mom who has Alzheimer's would have NO premiums (turned out to be a lie as we got a payment book shortly thereafter) and very low co-payments on her meds, etc., and being promised that this company provided much better hospitalization coverage, I agreed to switch my mom from her previous healthcare.
First off, they couldn't get the effective date correct. She signed the paperwork in January 09, and we were told it would be effective March 09. Then the sales representative called me back to say that was a mistake and it would be in effect February 09. Went to get RXs filled in Feb and was told she was still under her old plan, but the co-pays did not match what she had previously been paying. Spent over an hour on the phone with these people, who said her insurance wasn't in effect until March 09. OK, so paid the higher co-pays on her meds.
Waited until March 1 to get an RX filled for her dental appt, and was told it was not covered. Called back to Customer Service on Monday and was told that she was good to go for dentist and RXs (after being switched around the country and talking to at least 6 or 7 reps). My husband called from the dentist's office, livid, because they could not confirm her eligibility.
Oh, and on March 1 we were told that her eligibility was to EXPIRE with NEVERCARE on Feb 29, 09 - THERE WAS NO FEB 29, 09! And why would it expire if it is a new account that had never been in effect yet? My husband tried calling and was told that there were multiple computer screens that had different data in them. Also, they lost the power of attorney that we gave them when we applied for this coverage. Had to send it again - who knows if they have it this time or not.
Then, when I went to get another of her meds refilled, I was told that the co-pay was $122.77 - that for a medicine we had only been paying $3.20 on before. So basically, I am convinced that the sales representative knew absolutely nothing about what she was selling or else was just flat out misrepresenting her product. Either way it is inexcusable to treat seniors with limited incomes like this! I have now switched her to CAREMORE (as fast as I could) and am praying that goes smoother, but still have to live the rest of this month with NEVERCARE and am not sure if they will cover anything at all or not.
I am pretty sure they have NEVER paid a claim on ANYTHING for ANYONE before - that is how it sounds when I am trying to deal with this company. Thought Secure Horizons had a decent reputation, but I guess not this part of the company! Terrible! Terrible! Terrible! Oh, and I can't even e-mail customer service via the web site - no e-mail address is listed! They can rot in you-know-where before I pay any premiums on this garbage! Don't believe their lies!
NEW YORK -- Essentially, United Health Care is a fraud, starting with the bogus name they use on your membership card, "AARP Medicare Complete." They're not Medicare at all!! They are just "affiliated" with them so they can legally use their name, just as they do with AARP. It's all about marketing, NOT giving you great service. Their sales representative promised me that I would be able to use all my own physicians, which was a [bold face] LIE. You can only use those on their private list, and that's for only simple, cheap "health" procedures.
When I went to use them to cover a recent minor surgery, I was shocked to learn from my doctor that I had been turned down!! Why? Because when I had asked all of my current doctors if they would accept Medicare, they all agreed. One catch... none of them accepted United Health Care!!! Get it? they have nothing at all to do with "real" Medicare, only the right to use their name!!!
Here's how United Health Care rips you off.* One month before you turn 65, they FLOOD you with their advertising materials, all of which look "official." Then there fast talking phone reps make you believe that you're getting a "good deal." You THINK that you're being covered by Medicare, but you AREN'T. The additional fact that they also use the "AARP" logo in their ads gives you even more reason to believe that they're a "good deal," when the only thing they're good for are basic, cheap office visits.
Should you need even minor surgery like I did, if you doc isn't on their extremely limited list, your shit out of luck. The fact of the matter is, the phone representative totally lied to me when I asked him if I could use my own doctor. You can't. Thankfully, however, in two more months I'll be able to cancel my membership with this clip joint and sign-up with the only one I should have in the first place... original Medicare.
My prescription required pre authorization for the new year. My doctor's office was very quick to react with appropriate documentation. Unfortunately United Healthcare was very incompetent. Making multiple calls (more than 4) and being put on hold for an average of at least 12 minutes per call I finally asked the person ** to pull up the pre-authorization approval and verify that it was correctly submitted. It was then determined that United Healthcare had completely messed it up. They had corrected the verbiage of the message but had "forgot" to change the unit of measure.
I was then told to call back in 2 hours because the department that handled pre-authorizations was not open. It was I, as a consumer, asked that they open the pre-authorization to verify that it it was correctly filled out before one of the 5 representatives I talked to finally opened the document and discovered that my script had not been filled in 4 days due to their own incompetence.
My career has been in analysis and problem resolution and the most basic, first step process is to review the document that is causing the problem. Yet, none of the representatives even though about doing this until I, the customer, recommended that they do this. Even after they finally see what they messed up it will take 3 hours for them to correct it. Sadly, before I made the request for them to open the pre-authorization form all of the representatives were submitting a request for review which would have taken anywhere from 2 to 7 days.
I have already been without the prescribed medication for 4 days. I was looking at potentially another 7 days without medication. It is fortunate that this was not a life threatening medication and in need of quick resolution by such an inept company. I am appalled at such ineptness and disgusted with this service. I now have to drive in an ice storm to pick up a script that is 4 days late due to the incompetence of this company.
MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN -- I retired in December 2011. After retiring, I had to pick up my own insurance for my wife, son, and myself. Our premium was $560 per month with a high deductible of $2500. This insurance did not cover anything. I had hand surgery. The doc schedules me for trigger finger surgery.
Two weeks later, I have surgery. I then need therapy on the hand. The therapy was $3000. 3 months after hand surgery, I get a bill from the hospital saying United not covering surgery. I get a $2000 bill. A simple hand surgery cost me $5000 out of pocket plus my premium. I blame the hospital also for getting authorization for surgery, but not checking to see how much the insurance was covering. Only $500 was covered.
My son had a shoulder injury. United covered the MRI, but I got stuck with another $3000 in therapy for my son. My wife had a bunch of women's testing. We get a bill showing United is covering $9.00, yep, $9.00 out of a $150 charge for a test. I figured I spent about $6000 in premiums, and about another $10,000 in out of pocket money for things not covered. From what I guess, only about 5% of everything was covered.
I am getting a new insurance plan. This plan really sucks. You could do better putting your premiums in the bank and paying cash for medical cost. Thank God nothing serious happened to any body in my family while we had this insurance. Golden Rule should be called Golden Shower. I plan on researching to the penny what I paid and what United Health Care did not pay. It is amazing. Do not use United Health Care Golden Rule. **
TRUMBULL, CONNECTICUT -- One star is way more than they deserve. I pay a fortune for the worst health insurance I've ever had. In order to avoid a $1,000 deductible, I have to get my x-rays and lab work done at facilities other than a hospital. I called United Healthcare to find out where I could get blood work and an x-ray done without incurring the deductible. Turns out there ARE no places where I can get both done, which is an outrage in itself.
So, I went to 2 different places, 20 minutes apart. A couple of weeks later I got a bill for the X-ray! They told me where to go, then they charged me for it. It was in-network, on their list of approved facilities, and they sent me there, but I still had to pay for it. Great work, United Healthcare!! You're really on the ball there.


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Garcia's hopes fade as openings on Padres staff narrow
PEORIA, Ariz. Freddy Garcia has been around long enough to read the resin bags.
"Saturday could be really important for me," the veteran right-handed starter said earlier this week. "I need to pitch good, and sometimes that is hard to do in spring training.
"This is a different spot for me. I am fighting for a job. And everyone else is pitching good."
With nine exhibition games to go in spring training, the Padres are pretty much set on four-fifths of their starting rotation — Clayton Richard, Edinson Volquez, Jason Marquis and Eric Stults.
With General Manager Josh Byrnes on Thursday dismissing reports of a possible deal to land Tigers starter Rick Porcello, the leading contenders for the last spot are Tyson Ross and Andrew Cashner.
Garcia seems to be losing ground on the rotation front and behind Anthony Bass when it comes to being the long man in the bullpen. After five spring training starts, Garcia has a 9.77 earned run average — allowing 17 runs on 21 hits in 15 2/3 innings.
Thus far, he hasn't shown much of a fastball, using his off-speed pitches and veteran's guile and finesse to get outs.
"Everyone knows what I can do," Garcia said. "They know how I will be pitching later in the summer. But this is a hard situation because I have to win a spot. I have to be better than everyone else."
And right now, he's not.
It's beginning to appear that Garcia's outing Saturday night against the Colorado Rockies at Salt River Fields might be an audition for another team seeking pitching rather than a shot at making the Padres' staff.
Garcia, who was not happy about being in the Yankees' bullpen last season, says he would go to the bullpen for the Padres. But he says he will not accept an assignment to Triple-A Tucson the way another veteran, Jeff Suppan, did last year.
"The bullpen, why not?" Garcia said. "But I'll go home at the end of spring training rather than go to Triple-A. I want to pitch. But I'm not going to Triple-A."
The 36-year-old Venezuelan was 7-6 last season with a 5.20 ERA in 30 appearances (17 starts) for the Yankees. He actually pitched better out of the bullpen with a 2.42 ERA over 22 1/3 innings in 13 games. He was 5-6 with a 5.93 ERA as a starter.
Garcia is seven years removed from the end of his great run with the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox. But he was 24-14 with a 4.15 ERA with the White Sox and Yankees over the 2010-2011 seasons.
Meanwhile, Ross will take a streak of 11 1/3 straight scoreless innings into his start tonight against the Mariners in Peoria. Padres manager Bud Black calls Ross, who has a 2.78 ERA over 16 1/3 innings "one of the pleasant surprises" of spring training.
Cashner threw 58 pitches in his last start and might be up to 80 pitches by the end of spring training, although that might not be far enough along to be ready to start when the No. 5 starter is needed April 6 in Colorado.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Cedar Rapids street crews have finished pushing large chunks of ice off of Ellis Blvd N.W. and the entire roadway, closed due to high water and ice jams since Monday, has finally reopened.
The water retreated enough on Thursday to allow crews to begin the reopening process. Road graders, street sweepers and other equipment worked to both scrape the remaining ice from the road and clear off the mud before traffic was allowed along the entire length in front of Ellis Park and the harbor.
Mike Duffy, Cedar Rapids Streets Operations Supervisor, said there was minimal damage to the roadway itself.
"We don't anticipate pavement problems. If we did, we'd make sure those were taken care of with pothole patching before we opened the road," Duffy said.
Duffy said it was possible ice could have pushed over some street signs. That was also checked before the road opened. Otis Road S.E. was the last road closed by water or ice to reopen. Traffic returned there Friday afternoon.
While Ellis Blvd itself needed only a cleaning to reopen, the same isn't true at the Ellis Boat Harbor. The ice there did some minor damage to at least a few of the dozens of boat houses permanently anchored. The blocks of ice also knocked over some electrical service poles which will need replacing. A portion of the access road to the boat houses also lost some asphalt.
Unlike 2008, none of the boat houses anchored at Ellis broke loose and floated downstream. One owner, Larry Hunt, said most of the damage was caused because the ice was unexpected and pushing from a direction that anchoring systems couldn't accommodate. He figured the kind of damage to his boat house could be repaired for under $70, although some owners might have larger bills.
Hunt also said he was less worried about any exterior damage and more concerned about water getting inside.
"I was afraid it would get so high it would drag it under and the carpet would get wet along with the floor and drywall. That's what I was worried about. It stopped soon enough so it didn't happen," Hunt said.
Boat house owners said the flood of 2008, that destroyed dozens of boat houses in the harbor, did teach owners lessons about keeping the floating structures secured to shore. Those lessons were applied with the ice jam flooding this week.
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A firefighter sprays water on a brush fire in Florence on Sunday afternoon.PITTSFORD High winds and dry conditions created a tinderbox for wildfires around the state Sunday.
The largest fire consumed 22 acres around the Fire Hill area of Florence, a village of Pittsford. Around 12:45 p.m., members of Pittsford Fire Department responded to an outdoor fire at a residence at 242 Old Hubbardton Road. Upon arrival, it became clear the fire had climbed the hill behind the house and threatened homes along nearby Denaro Lane, said Pittsford Fire Chief Tom Hooker.
We got a call for a brush fire, Hooker said. When we arrived, we immediately called in mutual aid because we knew it was beyond us.
High winds drove the fire right to the edge of the driveway of 352 Denaro Lane, home of Karen Herrick and Todd Wheeler.
Its a troubling area for forest fires, said Herrick, who has lived on Fire Hill for 14 years and seen numerous fires.
Three minor injuries were reported. Two firefighters were overcome by smoke, Hooker said, while Wheeler who is not a firefighter was struck by a falling tree and received some scratches and bruises, according to Herrick.
Hooker said he would not need to contact the state Division of Fire Safety to determine the cause of the fire.
I dont need an investigator to know where it started, Hooker said, indicating the fire started outside an Old Hubbardton Road residence. I believe this fire was started by burning rubbish, and theres a ban on burning today.
Hooker said the person who started the fire could face criminal charges.
The Pittsford Fire Department received aid from firefighters from Rutland Town, Brandon, West Rutland, Chittenden, Clarendon and Proctor. No buildings were damaged during the fire.
In Chester, a stray ember from the chimney of a sugarhouse ignited a brush fire along the Green Mountain Turnpike. The fire call went out at 2:37 p.m. and by 3:45 p.m. the one-acre blaze was extinguished, said Matthew Wilson, chief of the Chester Fire Department.
Chester received aid from Rockingham, Springfield, Ludlow, Proctorsville and Charlestown, N.H. There were no injuries and no property damage, Wilson said.
Rubbish burning caused a fire near the Danby Four Corners around 3:30 p.m., said Kenneth Abbott Sr., chief of the Danby-Mount Tabor Volunteer Fire Department.
It wasnt anything major, just a burn that got a little out of control, Abbot said. But when you have winds like this, you dont want to take any chances.
There were no injuries or property damage reported.
The wind turned what had been minor fires into causes for concern.
Under normal conditions, we would have had that fire out in 15 or 20 minutes, but the winds were whipping and they kept shifting on us, Hooker said of the Pittsford fire.
The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for the Champlain Valley, said John Goff, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Burlington.
We didnt issue one for Rutland County, but it was close, Goff said, noting his office had received reports of gusts as strong as 38 mph from Benson and Bomoseen. Between the winds and the humidity, today wasnt a good day to be burning.
Making matters even more difficult, many fire departments were short-handed Sunday as firefighters from around the region were attending a class at Mill River Union High School in North Clarendon.
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Continuing a celebrated tradition, provost and vice president Mary B. Marcy offered remarks and impressions of each of the nearly 50 theses completed during the 2009–2010 academic year to an audience of graduates, staff, and faculty in May. As she does most years, Marcy crafted categories by which to distinctly organize collections of theses. This year, the theses were presented under the tent of six categories: "Building a Different World: Allegories, Folk Tales, and Design;" "Can You Hear Me Now: Identity, Communication, and Creation;" "Play or State of the Play;" "Little Things and Big Things;" "An Alternative Gag to Simon's Rock;" and "Culture Clash, Where the West Begins." Over the next six months, the Newsroom will feature theses as presented by provost Marcy within their assigned categories. This month, theses featured are collected under "Play or State of the Play."
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Ok, so far I have been degreasing and lubing the bike every week.
Last week I applied the lube very sparingly and noticed that my cassette remained much cleaner.
I have heard the less lube the better,
Does that mean I can get away with not lubing?
Am I using wrong products- Got the degreaser from Bunnings a cheap $2.00 huge can.
Was given this dry lube can from the person I bought the bike.
I like to see my bike nice and clean but cannot take the risk of destroying any parts, what should I do ?
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Search for chain lube. A number of threads on the topic that include cleaning routines and how to.
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"Less lube the better" does not mean "Yipee, no lube!". It just means applying it conservatively in an effective manner ensuring it get to where it's needed ie. inside the chain pins and linkages. Excess lube on the outside of the chain is mainly there to to get on your legs and clothes.
+1 to using the search feature to find a technique for lubing that suits you. The topic has really been done to death umpteen times before just on these forums. It's a personal choice..... just read around and get some ideas and see what works for you.
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Decreasing and lubing really put me off riding the bike...... don't bother with the whole routine now..........
Wipe every ten rides ( 3-5 in wet weather ) with a rag, add a bit of lube, wipe again........ best maintenance routine for commuters....... for those who compete I can understand having a meticulous drivetrain. For the rest of us it's overkill IMO.
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Degreaser has no business anywhere near a bike, any bits that you fail to wash off will corrode the heck out of any alloy parts on your bike.
Get some Rock n Roll lube and you'll just about never have to wash your chain again as this cleans and lubes at the sametime.
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The degrease will run into the derailer sprocket bearings and what not washing the grease out. To clean a chain properly you need to take it off the bike to soak it in degrease (I use kero as evaproates quickly from the chain), vibrate/shake etc, changing the bath several times until it's clean. That is the only way to get the grit out from under the rollers. Then hang to dry (24hrs) making sure the degrease has gone from under the rollers of it will pollute the new lube. Then to guarantee the pins are lubricated properly, it needs to be soaked again. I have taken chains of bikes that have been just cleaned and done this showing the owner they were far from clean. Another good test is to twist the chain and you will hear the grit grinding between the side plates. A little lube often, esp with a dry lube (eg Clean ride) means less dirt gets stuck to the chain. The cassett needs to come off the rim to be cleaned for the same reason. The crank sprockets can be done with a rag so as to keep the degrease under control.
Doing this will get you significant milage out of a chain but some say the effort is not worth it for a $30 chain. You decide.
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Quite right - Rock'N'Roll Gold, read the instructions and apply it liberally as directed. Allow a minute or two for it to loosen any dirt, then wipe off the excess. Once a week should be enough, more in wet weather.
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+heaps for rock n roll lube. So easy, quick and from my experience effective, even on super muddy runs on the MTB. Is only a bike chain, it's meant to get a bit dirty and eventually wear out. The most important thing for me is that it doesn't sound terrible. Lube reduces the noise.
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It really is good stuff, you waste a bit of it as you apply it liberally then wipe off as much as you can but its like $20 for a great big bottle.
I swear my chains are lasting longer with it and the drive train stays clean enough that personally I would never clean the chain between bike washes anymore.
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I used Rock & roll Gold on a chain that did 10K & was still working perfectly.
I know use R & R Red as its supposed to be better, I never degrease, if the chain gets dirty I just apply & wipe up to 3 x times.
The bike remains cleaner.
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what degreaser do you use when cleaning your chain and cass
I use Squirt athe the moment and don't clean my chain just apply more lube.
All those threads mention Purple Extreme Lube
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+1 for Rock n Roll. But use the "road" version which is red/pink. The gold is better for mountain biking, I found it accumulates too much and is a little messy on the road bike. Chain never needs de-greasing and i'd take jacks advice with degreaser and bikes.
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Finish Line white ceramic lube or Eureka Pro for me
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I use Pro Link Gold (because that is the bike shop choice), but lube's are a personal choice thing.
As long as you use any of the better quality lube's then you won't go far wrong.
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thanks All, such a good outcome
Happy with all recommendation, I think I will give the Rock & Roll a try, probably the road version as the gold is for MTB?
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Not quite - Gold is for either MTBs or road bikes, and is a better lube that the dry. Using the dry the chain stays very clean, but I've found that I have to re-apply it more often than Gold.
From the Rock'N'Roll web site.
It's worth noting the tips for use on the site.
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*sigh* once again...
I tried weekly ultrasonic cleaning in kero followed by detergent then water then Prolink.
It gave roughly the same chain life as a wipe over with a cloth lightly sprayed with WD40 to get the grease off for the first few thousand k's and after that the occasional lube if the chain sounded dry.
The latter takes up significantly less of my time than the former, and chain life was pretty much the same despite uncontrolled variables such as dust, rain etc. Fitting a full-length front mudguard makes more difference to chain life than how/when you lube the chain.
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You are aware that rock and roll is 95% degreaser. Bike shops love this stuff as it really only has about 5 applications in the bottle.
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chain care...
- Kym
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Let it go, Jim ... you'll feel ever so much better!
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Admit it. It made you smile just a bit ?
It's ok I won't let on
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Ah, the nuances of "degreaser". "Emulsifiers" are usually alkaline and corrode the metals and ruin the paint, "Solvents" ala R&R, kero & WD40 dissolve the grease before evaporating off.
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Codec.exe is the trojan. Extract setup.exe, and then delete the original. The setup.exe inside the container is actually the real install EXE, and I have verified it is clean, and that there are no other infected files on the disk. Then put the real setup.exe into the root of the folder, and build a bootable ISO with vLite.
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