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Chevron Corp. said Tuesday that it hopes to power up its quest to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the White House signaled it would lift a drilling ban at 16 sites in deep Gulf waters.
San Ramon-based Chevron and other drillers could benefit from a decision by the Obama administration to ease new environmental rules for some oil and natural gas projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House imposed the restrictions in the wake of last year's BP oil spill disaster.
"This is a step in the right direction," said Kurt Glaubitz, a Chevron spokesman. Still, it isn't completely certain when drilling could resume at the sites involved in the White House decision. "We still need to have clarity around the regulations and the issuance of new permits," Glaubitz said. An array of groups and politicians have criticized President Barack Obama for bringing Gulf oil drilling to a halt because of the new rules. The easing of the environmental rules affects two sites where Chevron had been drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
At the company's Moccasin site, Chevron had almost finished drilling an exploratory well. Chevron had not drilled in that area of the Gulf previously. The second field involved in the easing of the drilling curbs is Chevron's Buckskin field. The oil giant had discovered energy supplies at that location in The company was drilling an appraisal well at Buckskin to determine the potential oil and natural gas yield of the field. "It looks like there is a sizable volume at Buckskin," Glaubitz said. A total of 13 companies will now be allowed to drill at the 16 sites. However, analysts cautioned that it isn't fully clear that drilling can resume right away. "There is still confusion about just what this announcement means," said Dan Kish, a vice president with the Institute for Energy Research. "I hope things are moving forward. But there could be a number of pitfalls involved in this process still." What's more, some drillers in the Gulf of Mexico may have curbed their appetite for drilling in the deep waters due to the uncertainty unleashed by the White House moratorium on drilling.
The Obama administration's drilling ban has erased -- at least temporarily -- about 10,000 jobs in the Gulf region. "This is hopeful for drillers like Chevron," said Robbert Van Batenburg, head of equity research for Louis Capital Markets. "But I'm not so sure how enthusiastic some of the drillers are about resuming work in the Gulf." One big reason: the high-stakes nature of exploration and drilling for oil in the ocean. The prospect of ongoing burdensome regulations issued by the White House may have made some drillers queasy. "Oil companies tend to be very risk averse," Van Batenburg said. Chevron, for example, disclosed in November that it would buy Atlas Energy Inc. in a $4.3 billion deal. That transaction would give Chevron access to nontraditional sources of energy in a Pennsylvania region that's rich in natural gas. "Domestically, Chevron is seeking to diversify," Van Batenburg said. "The natural shale gas fields Chevron would get are interesting and potentially lucrative."
Chevron has retained the oil rigs that it had been using in the Gulf at the time the moratorium was imposed, Glaubitz said. The company is undertaking maintenance on the rigs while they are idled. "The rigs are on contract with us," he said. "We are awaiting the permits to move those rigs back and finish the work that we began early in 2010 on those two wells."
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This is an Episode 2-themed thread, so
Anyway, as I mentioned in my SSG news post, Marz Distribution has listed all the previously-rumored Ep 2 Lego sets as coming in April 2002, except they didn't have the Jedi Starfighter listed last night when I wrote the article. Today, I am told they listed the Starfighter, I go to the link, and lo-and-behold, there is the listing for it with a different presell date - February 2002! My guess is that this is a preview set that will ship alone and will not come with pics of the upcoming Ep 2 sets in the standard literature. I can't wait to see it!


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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
....aaaaannd let's feature a character to represent the entire season of the show who was only featured in the last two episodes (more as stunt casting than anything). Does no one at LFL ever visit a store and see the glut of SW merch from this year still sagging on pegs and kicking around shelves with Maul's over-exposed mug on it? He's a striking visage to be sure, but one that says to the average consumer, "been there, bought that"...it's time to give Maul a rest.
Very disappointed that it wasn't Kenobi or Rex on the package, especially considering both of them had significant parts to play over the course of the season.
Interesting point. At the very least, could have been his brother who had more airtime and more of a role. Or Ventress, her saga somehow ended up weaving through the entire thing. Pre Viszla maybe. There's a ton of better ideas than boring old Maul. I can understand not using another Jedi after the Anakin cover last season, but Rex in phase 2 attire was viable (Cody in phase 1 was season 1's cover, I believe).
I don't understand any of the covers. Cody was barely in Season One, at least not compared to Rex or many other characters; Yoda didn't use his lightsaber in Season Two other than to distract the Zillo Beast for a minute; Anakin on Season Three is fine, I guess; Maul is only here because he's the big twist at the end, but that makes as much sense as putting Chewie on Season Three would. The second half of the season was quite big for Obi-Wan, and Rex would have been good too, even if his stories were mostly confined to the Umbara arc.
I think it's just about using recognizable characters while remaining entirely different from the previous covers so they don't mistake one for another in the store. To be honest, the Yoda cover looks SO different from the Cody and Anakin ones that I had to double-check to make sure I was looking at the right thing; this one just doesn't look all that Clone Wars at all, the colorscheme plus the character doesn't say Clone Wars.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Maybe they put Maul on there as a way of saying that's the season to avoid for everyone who thinks bringing him back was a bad idea?
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"Maniac Eyeball is the third, final and most comprehensive volume of autobiography written by the late Salvador Dali. "Maniac Eyeball contains the frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador Dali, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, surrealist and eventually the most famous-and possibly richest-artist of modern times. These inspired tracts, covering art, love, sex, money, death, fame, science, his famous friends and enemies, and his extraordinary creative genius, reveal the intricate workings of Dali's mind to create not only an unparalleled autobiography, but also one of the key surrealist texts yet published.
Salvador Dali (1904-"1989) entered the ranks of the Surrealists in 1929 with a series of iconoclastic paintings which fused technical virtuosity with Freudian infantilism, leading to his invention of the "paranoiac-critical" method. Later expelled from the surrealist group, he was christened "Avida Dollars" by Andre Breton while acquiring the reputation of master showman and scandalist. His art and writings remain among the most unique and important bodies of work of the 20th century.
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HOW TO CONQUER PARIS I was dreaming not of love but of glory, and I knew that the road to success led through Paris. But in 1927 Paris was far from Figueras, far away, mysterious, and big. I landed there one morning with my sister and aunt, to judge its distance and size, as a boxer does during a round of studying his opponent. First I discovered Versailles (and continued to like the Escorial better) and the musty Musee Gravin waxworks. My self-confidence increased daily, but nothing essential had been accomplished. What I needed was the accolade of the only Parisian who mattered in my eyes: Pablo Picasso. I had carefully prepared my way to him. I knew that Picasso had seen one of my paintings in Barcelona, Muchacha de Espaldes (Rear View Of A Girl; known in English as Girl's Shoulder or Girl's Back), and had liked it: he had mentioned it to his dealer, Paul Rosenberg, who had written me out of the blue to ask for some photographs of my work. I had asked a friend of Lorca's, the Cuban painter Manuel Angel Ortiz, to take me to Picasso's studio. As soon as I got to 23 Rue La Botie, I knew those two jet-black button eyes of his had recognized me. I was "the other one" - the only one able to stand up to him. (In truth, now I know the world was a little too small for the two of us. Fortunately, I was still young!) I respectfully tendered a gift to him, another Figueras muchacha such as the one he had appreciated, and it took me quite a while to extricate it from its mummy's wrappings; but it was a real live painting that came out of the diapers and it seemed to me that as he looked at it, it took on a sudden new life. Picasso spent a long while, scrutinizing it minutely, and it had never looked finer to me. From that minute on, he was at great pains to dazzle me. My opening agitation was now replaced by assurance, as he took me into his studio on the floor above and for two hours kept displaying his paintings for me, the largest as well as the smallest, which he put on his easel. He went to and fro, choosing, weighing, setting up, silent and quick, stepping back, carefully inspecting his own genius but dancing his courtship dance for me alone and looking at me with long looks of complicity. We each knew who we were. Our mutual silence was charged with an electricity of the highest potential...
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Posted February 26, 2004; 11:41 a.m.
Princeton English department faculty members will share insights on their favorite authors each Wednesday during March. The "Great Authors on Great Authors" lecture series, sponsored by the Alumni Council , is scheduled for 7 p.m. in 106 McCormick.
Discussing their favorite authors and the influence they have had on their lives, writing and teaching styles will be:
- March 3 -- John Fleming on Geoffrey Chaucer.
- March 10 -- Anne Margaret Daniel on F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- March 17 -- Lawrence Danson on William Shakespeare.
- March 24 -- Vance Smith on Umberto Eco.
- March 31 -- Maria DiBattista on James Joyce.
The lectures are expected to last an hour and will be followed by refreshments. The cost to attend is $10 for each session or $40 for all five sessions.
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Brad Gushue may be the province's most recognizable athlete in history. And for good reason.
Gushue spearheaded a curling team that made provincial history at the highest possible level by skipping Canada's rink to a gold medal at the 2006 Olympics in Italy.
It's been one heck of a roller coaster ride since then, and although Gushue is quick to point out he couldn't have had the success without his three teammates, the skip's unmatched success over his still-flourishing career has earned him the No. 2 spot of The Telegram's list of Newfoundland and Labrador's Top 10 athletes.
Brad Gushue may be the province's most recognizable athlete in history. And for good reason.
Gushue spearheaded a curling team that made provincial history at the highest possible level by skipping Canada's rink to a gold medal at the 2006 Olympics in Italy.
It's been one heck of a roller coaster ride since then, and although Gushue is quick to point out he couldn't have had the success without his three teammates, the skip's unmatched success over his still-flourishing career has earned him the No. 2 spot of The Telegram's list of Newfoundland and Labrador's Top 10 athletes.
As skip, Gushue calls his team's game and tosses the rocks that are usually the difference-makers in a sport predicated on making the big shot in the pressure situations. His attitude and cool demeanour under pressure in a local, national or world event has raised the bar for provincial athletes.
Gushue doesn't believe Newfoundland athletes are inferior to the ir mainland counterparts. To him, it's a matter of hard work and preparation.
The 2001 Canadian and world junior champion, Gushue holds Canadian junior men's records for most wins and most appearances as a skip. Still, he paid his dues along the way to Briers and Olympic glory.
A three-time provincial junior men's golf champion and the 1999 Newfoundland amateur champ at 19, Gushue gave up a promising career on the links to devote full-time to the roaring game. It's something he has never regretted.
The St. John's skip has been through controversy and has been the target of much criticism following changes to his rink after the Olympics. However, through it all, his focus has never wavered.
In 2002, Gushue was beginning to play against some of the best curlers in the world, including the likes of Kerry Burtnyk, Wayne Middaugh and Guy Hemmings. He was going up against the big boys and giving some of them a pretty good game.
"It's only a matter of time. I don't think it's too far away either," he said with confidence at the time.
At the Nokia Brier in Saskatoon in 2004 where he finished 8-4, Gushue told The Canadian Press when it was over: "I hate losing. You know I'm bordering on a sore loser. I handle it pretty well around other people, but when I get by myself I'm pretty hard on myself. I'd rather be on the winning side of it."
Defeat has never rested easy on his shoulders.
Gushue fought back tears when he fell short in his bid to reach the semifinals in 2004. He was the first-team all-star skip that year, but put the blame for the failure to advance squarely on himself.
"It sucks that I miscalled that last one and that's what really hurts the most. I let the guys down on that one and it's pretty disappointing," he said at the time.
Adversity proved a spur. Gushue would learn and he would get better ... and so would his team.
Although a world-class skip whose skill in unmatched in provincial curling circles, Gushue continues to have his ups and downs on the ice. It comes with the territory.
Tough loss
The Olympic gold medal victory was followed the following year by a tough 10-6 loss to Glenn Howard in the 2007 Brier after Gushue had taken a 5-3 lead.
Gushue had an opportunity with his last rock in the seventh to take a single point but opted instead for a double takeout that could potentially have scored three points. He failed to get past Ontario's guard to allow Howard to steal two. It was the first Ontario lead since the first end.
There were no apologizes for his decision making.
"I don't mind taking risks," Gushue told CBC Sports after the game. "I'd rather lose trying to win than lose trying to keep it close.
"We tried to win. We made an effort to win. It was in our hands to win and unfortunately the rock didn't react the way it should have."
No one doubts he'll be back.
At 28, Gushue is in the prime of his curling career and no one knows what the future holds for the country's best curler.
It's fair to say, he's an athlete who isn't limited by perceived insurmountable boundaries.
Brad Gushue's curling record at Brier:
2003: 6-5
2004: 8-4
2005: 6-5
2006: (Did not compete)
2007: 8-3 (lost in final)
2008: 7-4 (lost tie-breaker)
Junior level
Canadian and world junior champion; six time provincial junior champion, five times as skip
Three-time national junior all-star
Gushue notable notes
"I've basically chalked it up to ignorance. They don't know me. They don't know what I'm like. They don't know what happened within our team. It's just pure aesthetics (that) they're judging me on. It's just people being ignorant and I'm not going to worry about those people." - On public criticism following the controversial decision to drop lead Jamie Korab.
"Everybody kind of made a little sacrifice. There were no egos and I think that's why it did work. After winning Olympic gold.
"This is pretty cool. I never thought I would have a street named after me." On honor of St. John's streets named after each member of the Olympic gold medal rink Jamie Korab, Mark Nichols and Mike Adam.
The object: To select the 10 best athletes Newfoundland and Labrador has produced. Seven prominent individuals with an impressive sports background, together with Robin Short, Brendan McCarthy and John Browne of The Telegram's sports department, were chosen to make the selections.
The criteria: Athletes must have been born in Newfoundland and Labrador and spent a large part of their development years within the province. The field was open to amateur and professional, and male and female athletes.
The selection panel
John McGrath: A former Newfoundland soccer president, McGrath is chairman of the board of governors for the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame.
Brian Brocklehurst: A two-sport star in St. John's during the late 1960s and '70s, Brocklehurst was the 1969 St. John's athlete of the year.
Don Johnson: A former president of both the Canadian and Newfoundland amateur hockey associations, Johnson was also head of the St. John's Senior Men's Softball League and Royal St. John's Regatta Committee. He has served on the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and Canada Games Council.
Roger Grimes: Otherwise known as a former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, those in sports know him as an erstwhile Grand Falls Cataracts senior hockey player and Grand Falls Beothuks senior baseball player.
Terry Hart: Another Grand Falls-Windsor native, Hart has broadcasted local sports for over 30 years. He continues in radio today at VOCM.
Glenn Stanford: He's known most recently as the man who ran the St. John's Maple Leafs for 14 seasons. But before that, Stanford was a two-sport star - basketball and soccer - with Holy Cross and Memorial.
Alan (Tex) Seaborn: Seaborn has had a long-standing involvement with the Corner Brook and Newfoundland baseball associations. He served as vice-chairman and vice-president of sport for the 1999 Canada Winter Games in Corner Brook.
1. TBA -Aug. 23, 2008
2. Brad Gushue
3. Alex Faulkner
4. Rod Snow
5. Carl English
6. Daniel Cleary
7. Frank Humber
8. Paul McCloy
9. Colin Abbott
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It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see...where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later...where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops - the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded - waits and watches...where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.
Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair - against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him - and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that's killing Americans by the thousand.
Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.
©2008 Lee Child; (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
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"Least favorite of all the Reacher novels"
I've listened to all 11 Reacher novels prior to this one and I think author Lee Child lost some of his magic with Nothing to Lose. After a typical strong beginning, Child has his listeners wandering aimlessly between Hope and Despair along with his protagonist. The sub-plot centering on the plight of other visitors to Despair did little more than give Child an opportunity to turn Reacher into someone who more convincingly resembled Jeanine Garofalo than he did Superman. Officer Vaughn was not a believable character, even for a Reacher novel. And the reception that Vaughn and Reacher received during one of their visits to Despair ruptured credulity. My biggest question during the listen was whether Child was going to let Reacher and the Giant finally get it on before the book ended. Luckily Child didn't disappoint me here. Even with its weaknesses, Nothing to Lose will keep Reacher fans entertained. I'm taking a Lee Child break before moving on to Gone Tomorrow. I remain hopeful that the Man of Steel returns for the 13th installment.
"Jack Reacher's Evil Twin?"
The Jack Reacher books are pretty predictable: 1) Reacher beats the snot out of some bad people. 2) Reacher gets the girl. 3) Reacher figures everything out before anyone else. All of this is done while regularly consulting the atomic clock in his brain. I enjoy listening to the books, and enjoyed this one to a certain extent, though it seemed that instead of wandering into trouble like he usually does, Jack was looking for trouble. This book also seemed quite preachy to me, on both political and religious issues.
"political statement"
I have read all Reacher novels and have liked all of them to date. I wait for a new novel to be published every year and could not wait until this one was available.
This book started off ok but jumped the shark when reacher threw his hand into the political arena. I feel Lee Child wrote this novel to take a shot at the military and administration. Seems like a lot of setup for a lackluster and frustrating ending.
"Big Lee Child Fan Disappointed"
Lee Child is my favorite writer. But in this one, you feel like you are the one trudging back and forth from Hope to Despair, the two towns in the novel. Many parts are not believable but mostly it is just boring.
"What a shame"
This was my first Jack Reacher, the man with Dan Rather's mind in Chuck Norris' body. I don't see how an internally conflicted person with no money, no job, and no unifying principles has survived as many novels as he has--only to hitchhike off into the sunset. If you listen to this you're going to have to endure lectures against military leadership, Christians, and care of veterans, lectures in favor of desertion by thinking soldiers issued by a wooden military policeman who should know better. If you're like me, when Child springs his trap on you 5/8s of the way through the book, you won't want to admit the last 10 hours have been a waste and you'll persevere to completion. With all these popular books by Child, I feel like I chose the booby prize with my first pick on Let's Make a Deal.
"Well, at least the title was pretty accurate"
This Jack Reacher, had nothing to lose. Actually, this Jack Reacher was a stranger to me. After reading all the other reviews about this book, it is very clear that we, the readers know Jack Reacher better than the author who created him. Lee Child was intellectually dishonest and unfair to his readers by giving Jack Reacher a personality transplant after 11 previous books. I have listened to every previous Reacher book in order, and I know Jack Reacher, and I tell you, this was no Jack Reacher.
So, to Lee Child I would say, you wasted my time, and caused me to waste my money on this poor excuse for a book. Do us all a favor and kill Jack Reacher off, rather than put him through this kind of humiliation again. The Jack Reacher your readers know would prefer that, I'm sure. It's painfully obvious, that you no longer know who Jack Reacher is.
"So much for this character"
Very disappointing, to my mind Jack Reacher would never promote desertion and he would never dis the military. It was a slap in the face the men and woman serving. I really liked the character up until now. Time to drop this author.
"Reacher has reached the end"
Our boy, Jack, wishes he had been brave enough to be a deserter?
Sorry, Lee. I'm done.
"Nothing to lose is nothing worth reading."
Until listening to "Nothing to Lose" I was a loyal fan of Jack Reacher. He was a patriot and a man with a moral compass who believed in always doing the right thing. Suddenly he has morphed into a christian-hating, anti-war, cardboard superhero. Hollywood should love this one!
When did Lee Child decide this was the lecture that his (previously) loyal readers needed to hear?
Jack Reacher really does have "nothing to lose". He has already lost his soul.
"Time for a new character"
After reading all of Lee Child's books you feel like you know the lead character. In this book, Jack Reacher is not the same person. I do not feel he would support a wartime deserter or even be sympathetic towards them.
The plot is overly complex and borders on boring.
Lee Child has become too smart for his own good. I am not a fan of an author placing their political views in a fiction book, especially when it would contradict the main character's psyche.
It may be time to bury Reacher and work on a new character.
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Description ADULT MALE Has mainly pinkish buff plumage, palest on belly. Has a crest, black throat, and black mask through eye. Rump is gray, undertail is chestnut, and dark tail has a broad yellow terminal band. Primaries have white and yellow margins; wings also show red, waxlike projections and white bar at base of primary coverts. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but has narrower yellow tip to tail, shorter waxy wing projections, and narrower dark throat. JUVENILE Gray-buff, streaked, and blotchy-looking overall; first-winter is similar to adult, but white margins to primaries are absent, as are red, waxlike projections.
Dimensions Length: 7 1/2 -8 1/2" (19-22 cm)
Habitat Summer breeding range lies mainly outside area covered by this book and present there mainly Apr-Sep; favors boreal coniferous forests. Present year-round further south and moves still further south and east in winter (into range covered by this book), with flocks roving after berry-laden bushes. Precise winter range is unpredictable, but in some years small flocks reach Atlantic coasts.
Observation Tips Easiest to see in winter, but finding a flock is a matter of luck. Wood-warblers can often daunt the novice birder, with many species exhibiting striking plumage differences between the sexes, and at different times of year. Becoming familiar with their songs and calls can be a great aid. In the field, concentrate on features such as the presence or absence of wingbars, and throat and rump color. Behavior and habitat preference are also important identification pointers.
Range Rocky Mountains, Texas, Eastern Canada, Plains, Alaska, Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, Western Canada, New England, California, Great Lakes
Voice Utters a trilling call and does not sing.
Discussion Plump-bodied bird with an obvious crest; confusion is possibly only with more widespread (in east) Cedar Waxwing. Winter flocks are often tame, giving superb views. In flight, silhouette is rather similar to a Starling. Sexes are separable with care.


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WW~Notes: Usually, I listen to late night talk radio to go to sleep, but this morning at around 4:30 a.m. the information coming from the morning Wall Street Journal program woke me from a dead sleep right on time it seems. Though this news is from 2013, I was not aware of this penalty, but no doubt, should have expected it.
Q&A: What the Health Law Means for You
The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a huge law that confuses most Americans. Here are answers to the most common questions about the law:
Q: What does the health law require me to do?
A: Starting Jan. 1, 2014, most Americans will be required to carry a set level of health-insurance coverage or pay a penalty.
Q: Who doesn't have to pay the fee?
A: There are a handful of groups that don't have to have coverage, including people who are incarcerated, in the United States illegally or belong to a religious group that objects to insurance coverage. And people with very low incomes won't have to pay the penalty. Nor will people who can show that coverage in their area costs significantly more than they can afford on their earnings, or people who are only uninsured for three months or less.
Q: What is the penalty?
A: The penalty starts at $95 a year or 1% of a person's taxable income, whichever is greater. It goes up in subsequent years and by 2016 will be $695 for each adult or 2.5% of a person's taxable income. Fines based on a person's income can't be higher than the cost of buying a basic health insurance policy in their area.
Q: When is it paid?
A: You'll have to pay a penalty when you file your taxes in 2015 for the preceding year. Your tax form that year will probably include some sort of question about your insurance coverage details, or give you the opportunity to pay the penalty, although the exact details of this are still being worked out.
Q: Can I buy any policy I want?
A: To satisfy the law's requirement, you have to carry what's called "minimum essential coverage." Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare all count. So do plans from an employer. If you are buying your own policy, or are in a small employer's plan, your policy will have to cover a set proportion of your costs for what the law considers essential health benefits including emergency services, hospitalization, prescription drugs, maternity services and mental health coverage.
Q: I've been paying a lot of money for my own insurance. Will my costs go down?
A: Insurers are predicting that premiums will increase, on average, although it won't be certain by how much until the products go on sale. The impact of that average increase will probably be lumpy across the country. Costs are likely to go up more in some states than others, depending on how tightly regulated the insurance market was before the full law took effect. Women and older people could end up being charged less, while men and younger people could end up being charged more, because of new restrictions on how carriers vary rates based on age and gender.
Q: Do I get any help with paying those premiums?
A: Maybe. People who have incomes of up to four times the federal poverty level — anywhere up to $45,960 for a single person and $94,200 a year for a family of four — are eligible for tax subsidies toward the cost of coverage. The value of those subsidies depends on the cost of insurance in your area, as well as your income. People near the poverty line could see almost all of the cost of their premiums covered, while people at the upper end will probably only get a small discount.
Q: I already have insurance through my employer. Is my plan going to change?
A: If you get your insurance through your employer, the amount that you have to pay is mainly determined by how much the company contributes toward your premiums. The overall cost of your insurance is not expected to change too much because of the law, at least in the first few years.
But there have probably been a few changes to your plan already. Most employers have to allow you to enroll children up to their 26th birthdays, and cover preventive care, such as a colonoscopy or birth control, without out-of-pocket costs to you. No plans will be allowed to have annual or lifetime payout caps from next year.
A small number of employers' plans are likely to be "grandfathered," and don't have to make all of the changes required by the law.
—Louise Radnofsky
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Dr. Adams is an active angel investor and board member for several start-ups with with numerous venture funds--several of which he started--under his belt. He was a software operating executive for two decades before jumping into the venture business. Dr. Adams has been a founder, founding investor, or player in the public offering, merger or acquisition of more than 40 companies. Those companies have launched over 100 products and dealt in transactions worth more than one billion dollars of capital.
Before entering the venture business, Adams was a technology executive. He started his career with Lotus (NYSE: IBM), joining the company shortly after its public offering. He was instrumental in the development and launch of both 1-2-3 for Macintosh and Lotus Notes. He went on to found and become CEO of Business Matters, a venture-backed developer of financial modeling products and was an executive with Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW). He also helped take the company public.
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By Melissa Meador/Monroe Journal
ABERDEEN – Amory made a big statement in the boys' championship game of the Monroe County Tournament on Saturday night, knocking off host and defending champion Aberdeen for the county title.
The Panthers' 50-47 win gives them their first county title since 2005, the last time Aberdeen lost in the tournament championship game.
"It feels great for us to win this one for my seniors. Some of them have been starting since ninth grade," Amory coach Rob Browning said. "Aberdeen's been a thorn in their side. They dug down tonight and played as hard as they could for four quarters."
Aberdeen took an early 5-2 lead in the first quarter, but a 3 from Dario Robinson gave Amory the lead, and they never surrendered it, leading by 10 to open the third quarter.
Aberdeen clawed back near the end of the fourth quarter. Rico Haughton's 3-pointer put the Bulldogs down by 2 with a minute to go, and Aaron McMillian's layup closed the gap to 48-47 before Robinson hit a pair of free throws to secure the win.
"This win feels good. We always get beat in the third quarter," said Robinson, who was named tournament MVP. "We came out with the same intensity we had in the first half tonight."
Robinson led the Panthers with 17 points, while Devin McIntosh scored 11. Aberdeen had three in double figures with Ken McCoy, Jakeese Walker and Marcus Carothers all scoring 10.
"You just have to come ready to play, and I'm not sure we did tonight," Aberdeen coach Roy Hazzle said.
(G) Hamilton 53, Aberdeen 25: Aberdeen tied the game at 10 apiece with a shot from Alexis Walker at the end of the first quarter, but Hamilton went on a 15-3 run in the second to take the lead for good.


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It's a late April evening at Brown University and a crowd has gathered in an auditorium off the Main Green. Some guests have grey beards and hearing aids; most are teens and twentysomethings chatting excitedly.
Tonight's film, Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning, $400 million-grossing seventh feature — needs little introduction, so professor of Africana studies Anthony Bogues offers a different kind of preface.
He introduces himself as the current director of Brown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, which effectively opened its doors in February with free, public events like tonight's screening.
"The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, many of you may not know," he says, "emerged out of a series of discussions that happened on this campus between 2003 and 2006, in which we attempted to study the relationship of the origins of this university to the Atlantic slave trade." He refers to a sheet circulating around the room and encourages everyone — students, faculty, members of the Providence community — to sign up for updates about the center's progress.
"We are not just a scholarly center," he says. "We are a center with a public education mission."
Then the film rolls, in all of its cartoonish, bloody, pulpy, quasi-historical Tarantino-ness. It is a film that, among other things, purports to depict slavery in the antebellum American South. Over the course of the story, a slave named Broomhilda is branded on her face with a hot iron; bound and whipped while she shrieks in agony; locked naked in an underground metal cell called the Hot Box, then roused from the cell and carted away naked in a wheelbarrow. Other slaves are marched at gunpoint while wearing metal muzzles and shackles that cut their ankles raw. During one particularly gruesome scene, two shirtless slaves fight for the amusement of a plantation owner named Calvin Candie (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) who yells, "Keep fighting, niggers!" before one man kills the other by crushing his skull with a hammer.
The film's ending is vaguely analogous to that of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, in which Jews orchestrate the explosion of a movie theater holding Adolf Hitler and hundreds of Nazi officers. In Django, it is a white-pillared Mississippi plantation house called Candyland that detonates while the title character — played by Jamie Foxx — rides away with Broomhilda. A spattering of confused applause fills the auditorium as the lights flicker on.
The following night, many attendees return to a lounge in the Brown Campus Center for a panel discussion of the film with a Yale film scholar and two faculty members from Brown's Africana Studies department. During the conversation, Tarantino is compared to a P.T. Barnum-esque "carnival barker" and participants pick apart the veracity of Django's use of phrenology.
"This [film] isn't about African Americans," professor Corey Walker, chair of Brown Africana Studies, says at one point. "This is about the white imagination."
Bogues, the moderator of the discussion, ends with an anecdote about how he once tried to sell a screenplay about the life of Marcus Garvey, only to be told by producers: "Where is the white woman? . . . This movie will not sell if there is no white woman in it."
Though no one mentions it, the panel takes place on a notable anniversary. April 30, 2013 is exactly 10 years after Ruth Simmons — Brown's first female president and the first African American president in Ivy League history — addressed a letter to Brown faculty members and students inviting them to serve on a committee "that I hope will help the campus and the nation come to a better understanding of the complicated, controversial questions surrounding the issue of reparations for slavery."
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Hello Everyone,
I was given a 29 gallon Bio Cube. It was previously used as a saltwater tank but I'm planning to use it as a artificially planted freshwater tank, similar to my current set up. (pic below)
It did not come with a manual so I have no idea how to set it up. I have a pump, power head, 2 used somewhat clean sponges, and some other type of porous media. I've rinsed and wiped down the tank with warm water to get clean it and get rid of the salt build up.
What is the correct way to set this tank up as far a media and placement of the media. Can I re-use the media I have?
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Filter media can be reused after a very very good cleaning. Most viruses and other nasty stuff typically will not be transferable between marine and freshwater environments.
Could you let us know the make and model of the bio cube that you have ?If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Although personally i don't like artificial plants i'm sure it can turn out pretty nice, i'm more a natural look kind of guy so i don't mind if my plants have algae or colourations on them.
Will keep an eye on this because i started to like nano tanks and i'm curious how the end result wil look.15 Gallon Tarantula tank - Completed. - 1x Lasiodora parahybana
55 Gallon South-America tank - Neverending. - 10x Nannostomus trifasciatus, 4x Corydoras aeneus, 2x Megalechis thoracata, 2x Acarichthys heckelii
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Pie
Servings/Yield8 servings One 9-inch pie
- 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell
- 2 cups diced rhubarb
- 2 cups diced strawberries
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- ⅓ cup flour
- dash salt
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- Crumb Topping
- ¾ cup flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons cold butter
MethodPreheat oven to 400*F. Roll pie crust into pan and up the sides; flute edges. In large bowl, combine rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, flour, salt, and eggs. Pour into prepared pie crust. To make crumb topping, combine flour and brown sugar. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter or two knives until crumbly. Sprinkle topping over pie. Bake in preheated oven 50-55 minutes until golden brown and bubbly.
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Found the MM Batman figure at WM earlier in the week. I don't really care for the new movie's costume, but this is a decent figure of it. The Mattel QC on it wasn't so great though, I had to be picky about eye paint, and I got a defective hip on mine (at first I thought the peg was stuck and breaking, but it turned out it's just too loose). I don't really like the cape that much, but it fits with the DC Superheroes line - still, I don't see how it's worth $12, Hasbro Rewards check for my other purchases helped offset that at least. They should REALLY have included some batarangs with this figure, it screams for accessories.
I also picked up the Secret Attack Car or whatever it's called. It comes with 2 figures, Bruce and Bats, they're 4" figures and Mattel's got a good start but these are somewhat behind the times - especially the ultra-straight plain arms on Bruce. The vehicle is horribly overpriced at $26, I like the gimmick where it slides the wheels and fenders and bumpers out, but this is a $15 toy at most, it's small. There's 2 variations of it, one with dark gray metallic color and one silver, I went with the darker as it just seemed more bats. The cheap gold plastic inside doesn't look great but it's got a fun transformation and the cheesy slide-away Bruce figure. I don't like the goofy lighting-bolt headlights though, but the rest carries well. Oh, and there's one really weird choice, when the door sides fold down, there's a molded sculpt of Bats driving the car, it lines up with his head even but it's dumb, now he's less armored.
WTF is with this movie packaging? That's got to be the ugliest, most non-descript piece of design ever! What were they thinking with this theme, it seems so incomplete!


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Rays are more than 500 species of flattened fish that are closely related to sharks. Rays and sharks have skeletons made of cartilage (like in your nose and ears) instead of bone and breathe through five or six gill slits.
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I just taught a Waterfowl ID class for my club. This was the largest class that I have taught. I had 26 people. BTW, students included two DEC biologists and a bay constable.
I hope that this signals a renewal in waterfowling interest on Long Island. At one time you had to be in the water well before sunrise and then fight for your spot. Now you have the whole bay to yourself.
If anyone on the forum has noticed a similar renewed interest I would love to hear about it. Maybe there is hope for the sport.


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Family: Alcidae, Auks, Murres, Puffins view all from this family
Description ADULT SUMMER Has mainly blackish plumage with striking white patch on wing, part-dissected by black wedge. ADULT WINTER Has white underparts and mainly white neck with dark streaks down nape. Head is dark-streaked (especially through eye) and has dark-centered gray back feathers and black flight feathers; retains white wing patch. JUVENILE Similar to winter adult, but with more dark streaking on face, neck, and underparts.
Dimensions Length: 12-14" (30-36 cm)
Habitat Locally common year-round on rocky coasts. Range extends south in winter.
Observation Tips Easy to see on suitable coasts, sometimes in harbors.
Range Western Canada, California, Northwest, Alaska
Voice Utters high-pitched whistles at breeding colonies.
Similar Species Black Guillemot C. grylle (L 13-14 in) has white underwings and oval (not squarish), unbroken white wing patch. In west, found only on northern Alaska coast.
Discussion Plump-bodied seabird. Strikingly pied plumage is contrastingly different in summer and winter. Swims well, dives frequently, and flies on whirring wingbeats low over water. All birds have dark under wings, red legs, and red inside of mouth (obvious when bird is calling). Sexes are similar.


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HITH - Metronidazole - What is the dosage rate when treating both food and water?
For hole-in-the-head disease, what is the dosage rate when treating BOTH food and water at the same time? In my search results, different sites are giving different numbers. What is the most reasonable/accurate dosage, to wipe out the pathogen without harming fish or breeding superbugs?
For dosing schedule:
- Add an amount to food that would put "A" mg of metronidazole into each kg of fish in each feeding, for "B" feedings per day, for "C" days
- Add an amount to tank that would put "P" mg of metronidazole into each L of water every "Q" days for a total of "R" doses
Values, source:
A=25, B=(?), C=(?), P=12, Q=2, R=3 http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/disease/hexamita.php
A=25, B=(?), C=1~3, P=6.6~25, Q=1~2, R=3 http://www.wetwebmedia.com/metranidazole.htm
A=50, B=(?), C=5, P=5, Q=2, R=3 http://www.aces.edu/dept/fisheries/e...20Cichlids.pdf
Parameters as last tested:
NO3-: 15ppm (9/9/13) (Usual max is 20ppm just before weekly water change of 50±25%)
pH: 8.0 (9/9/13)
GH: 4d (9/9/13)
KH: 3d (9/9/13)
Temp: 86F (9/10/13)
Other potential targets of the blame game include:
- Bright lights at night (see thread:
- High temperature (temp stays around 86-7F by itself with NO heater), causes include: waste heat from pumps, tank and sump are covered, tank and sump made of acrylic (higher insulator than glass), windows closed most of the time, tropical climate, no air conditioning.
Just took a look at the link for aquaticcommunity and I think you mistyped. It's 25 mg per 2.5 g of food (1%).
I'll try to feed them instead. Did you get any medicated food from AngelPlus? Metro can be costly in water since it has a half life of 6-7 hours, so we'll say 8. So, when treating in the water, sometimes people would retreat in 8 hours interval. Since this isn't such a severe case, I'd say prepare the food for it (25 mg is fine for food preparation). Is it still eating and passing faeces correctly?
Are you running carbon in your filter by any chance?Think with logic and rationality more than emotion. Act with moderation and consideration. Contemplate ideals and realistic goals and weigh out possibilities and options. Temper not with personal delusions or false hope but learn to accept and move on.
Also, what do you feed your fish? We want to make sure the food meet all of its vitamin requirements.Think with logic and rationality more than emotion. Act with moderation and consideration. Contemplate ideals and realistic goals and weigh out possibilities and options. Temper not with personal delusions or false hope but learn to accept and move on.
Oops, assuming the fish eats 1% body weight that would be 100mg/kg. Sorry about that, I was looking at the Wet Web article at the same time.
I plan to take measurements in 3 dimensions in order to estimate her weight from volume. Fish must be same density as water it lives in.
The reason I want to treat the water also is I've read the parasites still in the water can reinfect the fish, so it's best to hit them both inside and out.
Where did 8 hours come from? Most of what I've read said dose 1x/day, and I don't remember where but somebody said that the half life was measured in warm blooded animals???
I didn't get the medicated food because they only have flakes which need to be eaten in 10 seconds else the medication would dissolve into the water.
I feed once a day.
She gets 1 Hikari Algae Wafer. Also TetraMin flakes, though these are meant for the yoyo loach she will usually intercept 2-3 flakes.
Today I observed green poop, breaks up quickly into little chunks. I don't know what is normal.
Yes I run carbon. Tank is downwind of bathroom.
Of course carbon would be removed before medicating water.
Every element have a half-life as all atoms eventually decay. Metro is active for about 6-7 hours so people treat metro for 3 times a day for effectiveness and especially on more resistant strains at a higher dose in water. Green faeces is fine, you don't want to see stringy white or translucent faeces. The reason I don't want you to treat the water yet is because it's still passing normal faeces.
Just keep up with the water changes, nutritious food fortified with vitamins. I also ditch the carbon. IMO, you don't really need carbon at all unless you are removing medicine or other unwanted chemicals.Think with logic and rationality more than emotion. Act with moderation and consideration. Contemplate ideals and realistic goals and weigh out possibilities and options. Temper not with personal delusions or false hope but learn to accept and move on.
I understand half life, that's the time it takes for half of something to decay. So if you start with, for example, 20mg/L and the half life is 8 hours, after 8 hours there would be 10mg/L left, then after 16 hours 5mg/L and so on.
What concerns me is, the half-life quoted in the Pharmacokinetic Data for metronidazole (6-7 hours) is meant for humans and similar. It gets metabolized in the liver. So I suspect in aquarium water the half-life could be different (potentially wildly different).
4 years ago, I treated the water with 3 doses of API General Cure (6.6mg/L) timed approximately 48 hours apart, w/c before each dose and apparently it didn't eradicate the parasite.
So it's important to me that it gets done right this time.
I don't watch the poops that much, but I've seen what looks like a clear stringy poop stuck to the filter pad. But I'm not sure where it came from or how long it's been there. According to this
,it may be possible to "have regular looking feces while still having the slimy white feces"
By "nutritious food fortified with vitamins" do you mean I should keep using Hikari or switch to something else? I do keep the main bag in the freezer inside another bag, only taking enough for 2 weeks or so at a time. Letting it come to room temperature before opening the outer and inner bags.
I am running carbon to remove chemicals, such as plasticizers used in airline tubing. Also as mentioned before the tank is downwind of a bathroom.
For dosing food, I'm thinking of mixing up a stock solution (or slurry if it doesn't completely dissolve). Then suck some of it into a needle/syringe and use that to measure out a dose onto the concave side of each algae wafer, let it soak in, then put in freezer. Sound like a good plan?
Finally, I've taken measurements and calculated weight to be 1.3lb or 0.59kg (based on approximating the body as 26 elliptical cylinders and ignoring the fins).
Thanks very much for your help.
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Again, imho, I don't really like to treat the water just yet unless there are very clear signs that the fish has hex. If it is still eating fine and regularly passing dark colored faeces, it is not a problem. Sometimes fishes will pass clear faeces from time to time depending on what you feed them.
I think HITH is another ball game....
Try reading this for a discussion on metro.
Onto the food, what kind of Hikari brand food are you feeding? Are you supplementing it with any kind of vitamins?
In my personal experience with HITH (mild case in a blue tang that was in a friend's tank and he gave it to me), I didn't use metro in the water. For cautionary steps, I followed the regular QT procedures. The food I fed were all enriched with liquid vitamins. After a month of a well balanced diet and excellent water conditions, the wounds cleared up.
If you are dead-set on treating the water however, I'm sure that link I provided also discussed on the water treatment as well. The high temperature will aid you, but do turn off the light during treatment.
Do you thoroughly clean the carbon package before putting it into the filter? Make sure you see no carbon dust floating around.
Mixing the solution into frozen food, letting it soak, and throwing it in the freezer is fine until you need to feed.Think with logic and rationality more than emotion. Act with moderation and consideration. Contemplate ideals and realistic goals and weigh out possibilities and options. Temper not with personal delusions or false hope but learn to accept and move on.
Oh yeah the tilapia's name is Tiger and I'm quite sure she's female. The yoyo loach doesn't have a name and I don't know its sex.
I've read some of that thread, there are indeed some success stories, also failures (along with an overdose which killed somebody's discus).
Also the following are articles that I read and feel are more authoritative:
Basically my takeaway from these is HITH treatment needs to be approached from all angles, just targeting one aspect without addressing the others may produce an improvement but a true cure would only be achieved using a combined approach.
This is the main food, Hikari Algae Wafers:
The other food is TetraMin Tropical Flakes, the amount she gets is tiny compared to the algae wafers. I deliberately feed her first so she's busy chewing the algae wafer.
Carbon: Yes I rinsed the carbon thoroughly. Which reminds me, it's almost time for the first carbon change anyway (6 weeks), might as as well take it out and begin treatment.
But first I still need to do some calculations to obtain the density of the metro powder (for mass to volume conversion - I don't have a milligram scale) and decide on dosages.
Sorry I was too busy last week, didn't have time to calculate and start treatment. Did increase frequency of water changes to 2-3 times a week instead of 1x/week.
Several things I ordered a while ago have arrived, including microscope and scale (0.01 gram precision).
Saturday I was able to examine a fresh fecal sample. To the naked eye it was dark greenish brown, held itself together somewhat (didn't break up like the poop observed on 9.14.13).
Under the microscope, 40x objective, it looked like an angry beehive, there were swarms of little bugs rapidly swimming around. Rapidly swimming bugs = flagellates right?
This is the planned dosage schedule:
In food:
35 mg/kg body weight x 2 feedings/day x 10 days x 0.59 kg = 413 mg
The calculated amount of metronidazole per algae wafer is 21mg/wafer.
Normal feeding is 1 wafer/day, upping to 2 to help clear out the digestive tract. Is this a good idea?
In water:
10 mg/L x 1 dose/day x 10 days x 742 L = 74,200 mg
Tonight I have finally prepared the medicated food, but it looks like way too much. There is a layer of metro powder stuck to the surface.
Should I prepare another batch at a lower dosage, and if so what? (the rest of my algae wafers are double bagged & frozen, need many hours to thaw out before I can open the bags)
One more thing: unfortunately, it seems fin rot has started, Tiger's pectoral fins which normally have pointy tips look like the tips have burnt off. Rounded off black edge.
I'm thinking if this doesn't improve after metronidazole treatment I'll have to start a different antibiotic :(
Same kind of fin rot killed all the fish in my old 20 gallon (all of them died one by one, tore down the tank and never set it up again) several years ago.
More bad news: got important commitments tomorrow, gotta get out by 8am and won't be home til 7-8pm.