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Suggs once mentioned "the pretty boy from up north," and earlier this month, he commented about "the nephew of God," a nod to a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit where Jesus confronts Tebow about having to bail him out in games. In the skit, Jesus reveals that Brady is God's nephew.
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For the past three seasons, Suggs and Brady have had one of the NFL's most unlikely individual rivalries, with the rugged, loud-mouthed linebacker often instigating the NFL's poster boy from afar. In the past, Suggs used trash talk to fuel his engine and this rivalry. Brady has responded verbally or physically at times, and he has often gotten the final word in on the scoreboard.
But with a spot in the Super Bowl at stake at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, their chatter has been muted this week, besides Suggs publicly fawning over Brady's handsome looks and the two Pro Bowl players exchanging words of mutual respect at buttoned-up podium sessions.
"There's no beef," Suggs insists. "I respect him. Like I said before … when it is all said and done, they are going to speak about three quarterbacks: Johnny [Unitas], Peyton [Manning] and him."
Suggs said the genesis of his angst towards Brady was when the Patriots beat the Ravens, 27-21, in the 2009 regular season. On one play, Suggs grazed Brady's leg as the quarterback threw a pass. Brady gestured to an official to throw a flag then fist-pumped when the man in stripes obliged.
After the game, linebacker Ray Lewis called the roughing-the-passer penalty "embarrassing." Former Patriots safety Rodney Harrison, an NBC analyst, later told Brady to take off his skirt.
Three months later, in the AFC wild-card round, Suggs hammered Brady with a flag-free sack, popping the ball out of the quarterback's hands. The Ravens recovered the fumble and scored a touchdown on the ensuing drive to take an early 14-0 lead. They went on to stun the Patriots, 33-14, at Gillette Stadium.
Both teams have downplayed the mental and emotional significance of that Ravens win as they prepare for Sunday's showdown in Foxborough, Mass. But Troy Brown, a former teammate of Brady, believes that "embarrassing" playoff loss lurks somewhere in the back of Brady's mind.
Brown caught passes from Brady (while also occasionally moonlighting at cornerback) for eight seasons, three of which ended with confetti showers at the Super Bowl. He said Brady rarely is the one to initiate trash talk, but engaging in it has usually motivated him to elevate his game.
"Here's the thing about Tom: He may lead that whole GQ model life, man, but he doesn't back down from anybody," Brown said Thursday. "You give it to him, he'll give it right back to you."
That's what happened when the teams met during the 2010 regular season. At one point in the Patriots' 23-20 overtime victory, Suggs and Brady barked at each other facemask-to-facemask.
"[Brady] was trying to tell me how to bag a Hollywood actress. He said, 'If you want to get a Hollywood actress, take my seminar on Saturday,'" Suggs told reporters after the game. "He was going over the Dow and the economy and politics. He doesn't really talk football that much."
Suggs also relayed this message through the media: "He just better hope he don't see us again."
In an interview with a Boston radio station the following day, Brady fired back at Suggs.
"They talk a lot for only beating us once in nine years," said Brady, who is 4-1 against the Ravens.
Later in the 2010 season, Suggs claimed he didn't vote Brady, who was the league MVP in 2010, for the Pro Bowl. He initially said he voted for Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick instead, but he later backtracked. He also called Brady's three championships "questionable" because of the "Tuck Rule" game during the 2001 playoffs and the "Spygate" videotaping scandal in 2007.
At the time, the "questionable" comment irked Brown, now an analyst for WEEI Radio in Boston and Comcast SportsNet. But Brown, who fired back at Suggs, said Suggs has earned his respect.
"For the most part, it was never anything personal," said Brown, who likes the way Suggs plays. "That's just how he gets himself up to play. He builds up that hype. I don't really see a whole lot wrong with him talking smack. He's not bringing up people's mommas or anything like that. For the most part, he's always been Terrell Suggs and you come to expect that from him."
But this week, Suggs has zipped it. He says he has matured. And after making it clear in recent weeks that his only focus is the Lombardi Trophy, he wants his play Sunday to speak for itself.
"You grow and mature," Suggs said. "As you all can clearly see, I am not the same guy I was back in '09. I am definitely 20 pounds lighter, too. … I am pretty much over it. I respect him."
Brady has shown the Ravens respect, too. On Monday, he told WEEI that the Ravens are the best team the Patriots have faced this season. He said the Ravens have "some of the best players in the history of the NFL at their positions, in Suggs and Ray Lewis and Ed Reed and Haloti Ngata." And Wednesday, he shot down a question from a Patriots reporter about his rivalry with Suggs.
"The comments that guys make really has no bearing or impact on this game nor will it," said Brady, who threw six touchdown passes in New England's divisional round win against Denver.
But Suggs getting to Brady will. In Baltimore's four losses this season, Suggs has one total sack. And in the team's past four games, including the 20-13 win over Houston, he has just one sack.
Brady, a spokesman for designer UGG boots, joked Monday that he would send Suggs a few pairs to soften him up before the game. Asked about that Wednesday, Suggs refused to bite on the bait.
"What's that mean? He wears UGG boots?" he said. "I heard they are really comfortable. Maybe he can get me some. I'll take some. I'll send him some Ball So Hard gear, Ball So Hard T-shirts."
Reporters from Baltimore to Boston and beyond, hoping for another round of juicy sound bites from Suggs, surely sighed after hearing his response. But you have to figure that after Sunday's game, Suggs is going to have something noteworthy to say about that pretty boy from up north.


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In an effort to keep BID members informed that are interested in obtaining building permits, when applicable, below is the information from Miami Dade's County website regarding Sewer Capacity Certifications, please click on link below for all pertaining information.
Form: sewer-allocation form 2012
Sewer Capacity Certification (Allocation Letter)
Federal regulations require certain permit applicants to obtain a Sewer Capacity Certification letter before being issued a building permit. This letter certifies that the sewer system can handle the demands that your permit will require. Due to an overloaded sewer system, there might not be enough capacity to handle your request. But you can apply for and obtain certification before you submit building plans, saving you time and money.
Any construction or change of use that will cause an increase in wastewater discharge to a sewer will need a certification letter. This includes such things as changing a single-family house to a duplex, adding extra seats to a restaurant, adding a new doctor to a practice, or building a new house. If you are unsure, call the Environmental Resources Management Wastewater Section at 305-372-6899.
How to Apply
The Sewer Capacity Certification Letter is part of the Plan Review Process and is issued if an increase of sanitary sewer flow is determined at the time of review. Prior to starting work, verification from the utilities serving the property and the proper building permit from Miami-Dade county is required.
Upon submitting your application, you will be asked to sign a Sewer Service Connection Affidavit stating that you are aware of and agree to the current building permit regulations. Please read this information carefully, as it affects the amount of time you can hold on to your allocation, both before and during the permitting process. Approval of your application will take approximately three to five days.
Warning: You will have 90 days from the time the allocation is awarded to submit your building plans to the appropriate building and zoning office. If you do not meet this deadline, your allocation will be reabsorbed by the system and you will have to apply again and a fee will be applied.
The initial sewer certification fee is a flat fee and is active for 90 days or until the plans are submitted to the Miami-Dade County. Once the sewer certification expires, a recertification fee will be required to proceed with the proposed project. The recertification fee is based on the calculated flow of the project per day. Please see the Fee Schedule .
- Amounts in excess of $20 must be paid by check or money order. In most cases, fees for the C.U. are based on the square footage of the area to be occupied plus a $40 fee and a 6% concurrency fee.
- The base fee is assessed at a rate of three cents per square foot. There is a minimum of $108 and a maximum of $600.
- The 6% concurrency fee is not applicable for transfers of C.U.s to new business owners or for C.U.s issued based on a building permit.
- A $30 fee is charged for each inspection required, except fire inspections.
The Sewer Capacity Certification letter is valid for 90 days. This means the applicant has 90 days to present this letter to the Building Department. If the letter expires, a re-certification letter will be required and a fee of $35 for every 350 gpd (one dwelling unit) will be applied or the letter will be null and void. The letter will active as long as the building permit is active.
If your project was issued a Sanitary Sewer Capacity Certification and your construction permit is allowed to expire, the Sanitary Sewer Allocation for the project will also expire at the same time. For additional information, call Environmental Resources Management's Water & Wastewater Section at 786-315-2800 or email email@example.com
For more information
Please call Oscar Aguirre at 786-315-2800 or Frank Lezcano at 305-372-6502.
Department presentation
The Department on October 12, 2012, conducted a presentation for design professionals on Sanitary Sewer System Capacity Certification. For more information, call 786-315-2800.
Link below to Miami Dade Website

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ENID — Enid Public Schools officials believe they have a winning plan to make some much-needed improvements to school facilities.
The success of their plan to build two new elementary schools, do renovation work in all the other buildings and to renovate D. Bruce Selby Stadium hinges on three key selling points, officials say
First is the confirmed growth of the district and the predicted growth of the district. Enid Public Schools gained 300 new students just this year and has gained 600 students in the last four years, school officials report.
"Enid Public Schools is growing," Superintendent Shawn Hime said. "We have to, as a community, realize we're going to be a growing community with a growing population."
The second selling point, Hime said, is that more than 30 community members were pulled together to help develop the facilities improvement plan. This group looked at the facilities for more than a year and came up with the needed improvements, Hime said.
"It is a well thought-out plan," said Martie Oyler, a parent and member of the facilities group. "We spent 12 months. We reviewed the sites and discussed improvements to the sites, and we came up with what we feel is a wonderful plan."
The third and possibly the most crucial key, officials say, is the plan to complete construction of all the facilities in about a three-year time frame.
"One exciting thing that's different than what you've seen in Enid in the past is this allows for the plan to be completed in 24 to 36 months," Hime said.
Hime said a new financing option allows the district to get the work done quickly instead of five to 10 years down the road as the debt is retired.
"Its feasible that students in the kindergarten will actually be attending school in a brand new school by the time they are in second grade," Hime said. "That's exciting to think about."
Enid is a growing school district
When Hime was hired as superintendent of Enid Public Schools, he said he realized right away schools were over capacity.
In his first year, the district realigned its schools, sending sixth-graders to the three junior high buildings, which became middle schools, and moving ninth-grade students to the high school.
Still, with that transition completed, seven of 10 Enid elementary schools remained over capacity. Even with the removal of sixth-graders, only Adams, Coolidge and Monroe buildings are at or under capacity. Garfield Elem-entary School — the district's oldest and most decayed building — has 395 students in it, and the capacity is only supposed to be about 316 students.
When officials started projecting enrollment growth from 2008-09, they believed they would gain about 50 students. Instead, they gained 300, topping their projected enrollment for 2012-13. They anticipate another 500 students through 2018, unless they see another big spike in enrollment in the next few years.
With these numbers in mind, district officials have been contemplating how to plan for the future.
They already knew something still had to be done about Garfield Elementary School. In 2007, voters barely failed to pass a bond measure that would have replaced that school with a new building.
This current bond issue includes building a new Garfield, and it also includes building a new elementary school on the west side of Enid.
School officials already have tentatively identified potential sites for both new schools. The old armory site at Elm and 6th is big enough to accommodate a new school building, and it's located two blocks from the current Gar-field. The National Guard will move to a new Armed Forces Reserve Center being built at Vance Air Force Base, and the time frame allows for that site to be available to build a new Garfield.
On the west side, there are several acreages around Garland that could accommodate a new 74,000-square-foot school.
All the other school buildings would receive renovations and updates, with additional classrooms added at Waller Middle School, new corridors at Hoover Elementary School and a new cafeteria at Adams Elementary School, which is the only elementary school other than Garfield not to have its own cafeteria.
Community involvement
In trying to determine how best to develop a plan to upgrade facilities for the students, Hime started by talking to teachers in the district.
"In August 2008 we started with a form from the teachers about what they think needed to be done in their buildings," Hime said.
Sherri Hendrie, a teacher at McKinley and also president of Enid Education Association, also was tasked with being on the facilities committee.
"The teachers have kind of been involved in the process from the beginning," she said. "Mr. Hime came out and spoke to all of the staff. The teachers have been able to have some input and share some of their thoughts and ideas. I think they are very excited."
The task force comprised of community members also received input from the Facility Program Management group, an architectural firm specializing in school facility projects.
The community members went on tours of all the schools, visited with the staffs and developed their own ideas about how to improve all the school buildings.
"As we went through the process with the facility committee, we put together several options," Hime said. "What would it cost for two new schools versus adding classrooms at existing schools, for example."
Stan Brownlee, a community member who has served as a mentor at McKinley, also was on the committee. For him, the bond issue isn't just about good facilities for the students, it's about creating good facilities for the community.
"Our schools are our selling point for the community," he said. "Even if they are good on the inside, they don't look good from the curb. We need to look better."
Brownlee said he also had some insight about what students need since he is in the schools on a regular basis.
"I think it's well thought out," he said. "It shows some vision and it allows for growth."
Abbey Stallings, a former Enid school board candidate, also served on the facilities planning committee.
"Enid is growing, and growth is a good thing," she said. "A group of people from a cross-section of the community really put a lot of time into researching what the town needs. Our community is growing ... we need to keep up with that growth."
Since Enid Board of Education approved calling for the bond issue, these same community members have been helping spread the word about the bond issue. They've helped set up meetings with civic groups, parent-teacher organizations, churches and community groups to give the bond presentation.
"I think we have a really good thing going here," Hendrie said. "It's always positive feedback (from the teachers). I think they are very excited."
She said she expects members of Enid Education Association to vote in favor of the plan.
"The EEA is always going to support things that support education," she said.
Getting the projects done on time and under
In 2003 voters approved a $25 million bond issue and sales tax question earmarked to renovate every site in the Enid Public Schools district. Other Garfield County school districts shared $2 million of the city sales tax proceeds. Hime said he's serious about the school district's accountability in doing what has been promised in a bond issue.
That's why he asked the Facility Program Management firm to help with developing the estimates for the plan, and it's also a reason the school board hired the Carter Program Management of Atlanta to oversee construction. The firm would be paid 2.5 percent of the overall construction costs, and its task will be to make sure all construction is done as efficiently as possible.
"The worst thing we can do is bid projects out, and they come in significantly over budget and we have to start cutting back," Hime said.
He turned to both Facility and Carter for help since they had experience with large-scale projects, such as MAPS for Kids in Oklahoma City.
The district also is using a new financial tool called Build America Bonds for this bond program. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 created the Build America Bond program, which authorizes state and local governments to issue Build America Bonds as taxable bonds in 2009 and 2010 to finance any capital expenditures for which they otherwise could issue tax-exempt governmental bonds. State and local governments receive a direct federal subsidy payment for a portion of their borrowing costs on Build America Bonds equal to 35 percent of the total coupon interest paid to investors.
The financial aspects of the bond issue have caused some concern among local residents. Ken Fischer, who said he owns 16 rental properties, has been a vocal critic of the district's plan and the cost estimates.
"If there's one thing I'm pretty confident of is when you talk issues of a lot of money, there's more opportunity for waste and cost overruns and things like that," Fischer said.
Fischer said one of his issues is "getting what we paid for. In 2003, we didn't get what we paid for."
In the 2003 bond issue, the district's renovation and construction plan was carried out over a number of years. During that time, construction costs increased dramatically due to natural disasters and materials shortages.
Hime said Fischer's concerns are one reason he likes the Build America Bonds program because it allows the district to lock in current construction costs and complete the new facilities in three years instead of having a long-term construction plan.
"Being able to do this up front saves about $71 million in construction costs rather than having to build it in 15 to 20 years," Hime said. "We want to get this on the street and bid out while the construction costs are held down by the current recession."
Fischer also has expressed concern about some of the estimates in the plan. He has criticized what he calls "inflated" prices for certain items, like doors and water fountains.
Danny Jardine, who is with the Carter group but put together the program's estimates when he was with the Facility group, said the figures are reasonable.
"We've gone back and double checked," Jardine said. "(The estimates) are based on thousands of projects we've done and kept in our database."
Jardine said people need to understand high-quality and commercial-quality materials have to be used in school buildings, which get a lot of public use and are expected to last for a number of years.
"We don't use cheap doors because kids will destroy them," he said. "We use doors that last a lifetime. There is a tremendous difference in the level of materials for residential and for schools."
Hiring Carter also will help keep costs and change orders down, Hime said. He said the firm will have representatives in Enid over the 24 to 36 months overseeing all the projects.
Don Rose, who was on the facilities planning committee, also has double-checked the estimates for the projects.
"These projects will be competitively bid," Rose said. "What we will see will be the most competitively bid structured price. Competition brings the price down."
"These kids deserve 2010 school facilities," Jardine said. "There have been a lot of changes in schools. What we're trying to accomplish for the students of Enid is to provide them good facilities that will allow them to compete nationally and globally when they go out to compete for colleges and jobs."
Education reporter Bridget Nash contributed to this story.


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About this series: The individual insurance market
Obtaining insurance is often costly and difficult for people who have to buy their own health plans. Those with high blood pressure, diabetes or other common health issues are routinely rejected for coverage. That will change Oct.1, when the new Health Insurance Marketplace opens. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers may no longer turn down people or charge them extra because their health record isn't perfect. Depending on their income, consumers using the exchange may qualify for a tax credit from the government if they can't get coverage from an employer. Consumers who qualify for help paying for plans, as well as those with pre-existing conditions, are expected to benefit the most.
Robert Shlora
Age: 61
City: Alpharetta
The situation: Health insurance for his family costs Robert Shlora $2,545 every single month — more than $30,000 a year. For years, Shlora has been unable to shop around for coverage because of pre-existing health issues. Shlora spent years selling insurance. Today, he's not working and dips into savings to pay for his plan. It covers Shlora, his wife and a 23-year-old son.
Impact of ACA: Shlora is almost certain to find cheaper coverage through the ACA. A high-deductible plan approved for the exchange could cost Shlora as little as $1,100 a month for him and his family. Since he is living on investments and his taxable income is relatively low, Shlora may also qualify for a tax credit that would pay part of the premium.
Shlora's view: This is certainly more than I ever expected to pay for health insurance. $2,500 a month is ridiculous. That's more than most people's house payment. It's certainly not something I brag about to my golfing buddies – "Oh, gee, guess how much I pay for health insurance!" As a self-employed individual, I probably got hurt more than anyone. People who work for big companies have no clue what it's like to try and get insurance on your own. It would be a great relief to me to have a set cost and large pool where future rate increases would likely be minimal. I'm 61 years old and I don't go on Medicare for another four years and frankly it's no picnic paying the premium, as it is, at $30,000 a year. It's strictly coming out of savings.
Having spent 38 years since graduating from college being paid to give people advice on health insurance, I find it incredibly ironic and self-deflating to not be able to solve my own personal issue, which has arisen in part because so many insurance companies have decided to pull out of the health insurance market. Because there is limited competition, the underwriting standards are so strict a person can be unacceptable as an underwriting risk for the flimsiest of reasons.
You need to prove that you don't need the insurance in order for them to accept you! They can charge what they want and cherry-pick the risk. They treat people with six DUIs in the high risk auto pool better than they do people with minor health conditions.
I am perfectly willing to accept a high-deductible plan where I would cover the first $20,000 or even $50,000. God forbid, if my son were to have an aneurysm I do not want the doctor to come in and say, "You do not have insurance, this might cost $500,000 and do you just want us to pull the plug?" Obviously, I would never consider that as an option. All I'm trying to do is basically like you do with your home. Lightning is not going to strike, but you certainly have homeowners insurance.
I know friends of mine who don't have insurance and I consider them reckless gamblers. I don't know how you can sleep at night. I'm not looking for people to have a benefit for me! I want to pay my own way. It's the responsible thing to do.
Politically, I would say I'm an independent with a right-ish bent. I have no bumper stickers. The Affordable Care Act is wonderful in concept but it's going to be an onerous task to get it implemented. Everybody should be covered by insurance right now. People are just going for free into the emergency room and we're paying for it ultimately anyway. Certainly, that can't continue.
Brian Mayfield
Age: 44
Resides: Canton
The situation: Mayfield owns TechQuidation Inc., a small business based in Woodstock that sells bar-code scanners and consults on supply-chain management and IT maintenance. Mayfield pays $605 a month for a plan that covers him, his wife and their two children with a $1,000 deductible per person. His company employs about a dozen workers and does not offer them a health plan.
Impact of ACA: If Mayfield shops on the exchange, his costs are likely to increase. A plan with a similar deductible will likely cost about$1,000 a month to cover the family. He could keep premiums similar to what he is paying today if he opts for a high-deductible plan.
Mayfield's view: I have been OK in the individual market. In all honesty, it has not been painful. We have a lot of out-of-pocket expenses, but if I am honest, we chose them, such as chiropractic care or our fitness membership. It's for our health and that's probably the major part that is not covered except for dental.
I wish they would have left the insurance market alone. I am paying less in premiums than the group plans. The only thing in the back of my mind – the pervasive thought was – what happens as we age and what if the rates do go through the roof and what if we end up with a pre-existing condition? How much is this going to handcuff me? There are two sides of the coin. The other side is – as bad as that might be for me, how much is it somebody else's responsibility to take care of me?
I don't expect somebody else to carry my water. When you are saying the word subsidy to me you are saying I am going to be dependent on someone else. After I left home at 18, mom and dad have helped me out when I needed it, but who wants to be 26 years old and still on your parents' insurance? What does that say about you not embracing being an adult? I strongly favor Health Savings Accounts. Insuring for major events and saving for the lower cost, ongoing health maintenance items makes sense to me.
If a company wants to offer a health plan, they should offer it and if the employees want to take it they should and everybody should have the choice to do what they want to do. I do not want somebody in Washington, D.C. who maybe never spent a day in what is the real world to me, of creating jobs and trying to meet payroll – I do not think they have any place trying to dictate to me how we approach that. They do not have any experience to build on. They have got textbook knowledge that has proven to be fairly useless.
Let's not forget that we are in this current mess to a large degree because FDR meddled with the private sector and froze wages in the early 1900's, forcing companies to find other ways to recruit and retain employees. Companies began offering insurance benefits, people became dependent on these benefits, and now we have progressed — or regressed — to our current mess. Oh, the malaise created by meddling and self-serving politicians.
The individual mandate for health insurance – is that really the role of government to tell a private citizen? I think that's just an atrocity that we even accept it. It runs counter to my world view.
Dr. Richard Wagner
Age: 62
Lives: Sandy Springs
The situation: Wagner has been a solo-practice pediatrician in Atlanta for three decades. Since he has always been self-employed, he and his wife have bought their own health plans for years. With their three children grown and his wife now eligible for Medicare, the plan covers just Dr. Wagner. He pays $360 a month for a policy with a $5,000 deductible.
Impact of ACA: Wagner will almost certainly have to pay more under the ACA. The cheapest high-deductible plans approved for the exchange would cost Wagner at least $475 a month for a plan with a slightly higher deductible than he has now. His income is too high for a subsidy. He could shop for a plan outside the exchange but prices are expected to be similar.
Wagner's view: I'm not unhappy with my high-deductible plan. It's what a lot of people had when I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s. You paid your $20 or $10 for a doctor's visit, and then if something happened you had hospital insurance. [Now] people who pay a co-pay have no idea what their doctor is charging or getting paid. They have no earthly idea and because they have no idea they don't really care all that much. I think that has a lot to do with prices going up. It's such a game now.
I got an MRI a couple of years ago. It turned out to be nothing. The short version is I went in and I happened to know the tech and I said, "How much is it going to be?" and she said, "$3,500."
I said, "Oh, God!" She said, "What's the matter?"
I said, "I have a $5,000 deductible and that's straight out of my pocket."
She said, "What did you think it was going to be?"
I said, "I was hoping $1,500," and she said, "OK."
That was the cash price. I didn't know there was such thing. I didn't know to ask for it. Even me. I didn't know there was a cash price.
I think we as a country should be able to do health care better than we're doing it. It's not just that more people should get health care coverage. There has to be a more efficient way to do it.
About every three years, I change insurance companies. We would get double-digit increases every year and after a couple of years we would say let's see if somebody else will give us a better deal. The last time we changed was about three years ago. Unfortunately, in August my new company went up 14 percent in one year. I'm sticking with them for now, but we'll see.
Knock on wood, I do not have diabetes, and I didn't have a heart attack last year – none of those big things. I get rated up about 25 percent related to mild asthma and that's it.
For me, I'm certain it's going to go up this year. Why do I know that? Because it has always gone up! It always goes up. Right? Now, I will tell you that I wouldn't be surprised if it went up substantially more. After all, the whole ACA is about getting more people under the umbrella who don't have any money of their own and somebody has to pay for it.
I'm upper middle class so nobody is going to be giving me a subsidy or a tax credit or anything like that. I will look into the exchange. I would be really shocked if I get a better deal than I am getting now.
My insurance company sent me a letter telling me that congressional committees estimated that premiums in Georgia could go up 100 percent because of the law. The letter was really screwy and scary. I read it fairly clearly – it said we're going to bump your prices no matter what and we're going to blame it on the president. Who knows whether that's true or not. I was very turned off – although not enough to change insurance companies yet. I felt like this was half a threat and half a warning. And I really didn't appreciate it, not just because I'm generally supportive of the ACA but because I thought it was injecting politics into something.
It's not going to be a perfect system. They're going to have to make adjustments. There was a certain "leap" about it and when you leap you still have to get your footing when you land on the other side and maybe get your hands dirty because you stumble a little bit. That is the thing that bugs me the most about the politics of this. Nobody is saying okay, this is the new law, let's see what we can do to work on it. There is so much heel-dragging and obstruction and so many ridiculous predictions.
Mary Webb
Age: 59
Lives: McDonough
The situation: Nearly two decades ago, an insurance broker visited Webb's workplace. The job did not offer coverage, but the business owner wanted to encourage employees to buy their own plans. Webb is glad she did. In the past six years she has been treated for breast cancer, lupus and a broken hip. Since 2008, the cost of Webb's plan has increased from $674 to $976 a month — even though she has repeatedly upped her deductible. She got a notice that it would increase again this fall to $1,215 monthly. She is single and middle income: she works full-time as a 'house mom' in the adult entertainment industry, working backstage managing the performers. Her illnesses have decimated her savings.
Impact of ACA: Webb will almost certainly get a better deal under the ACA. She would be able to buy a plan similar to the one she has now for about half the cost. She could also upgrade to even better coverage and still pay less than she does now. Webb probably makes slightly too much for a tax credit to help pay for her plan. However, if her income dips next year, she could qualify for assistance with her premiums.
Webb's view: I had health insurance when I was married and then when we divorced it was probably between 5 and 10 years before I met my insurance broker. Every time I would check the price for insurance it was so expensive and I was like, 'I can wait a little bit longer.' We had a girl at work that had gotten really, really sick. She was in an accident and it opened our eyes because she was a lot younger and it made me realize every day something can happen. The policy was never less than about $300 or $350 a month. Even back then that was a lot of money.
I have been cancer-free for six years. I was not one of the lucky ones that just skated free after the treatment. Three months after my last chemo treatment I got up one morning and went to stand up and pain shot all the way past my knees — I mean severe pain. It was nerve damage that lasted almost 14 months. It was so devastating. The whole time I had to work. You do have to keep a good attitude. And then, all of the sudden my joints started swelling with severe pain and after six or seven months, that is when I was diagnosed with lupus.
I would have died without my insurance, with everything that has happened. A lot of these doctors and a lot of these specialists will not see you if you do not have insurance. Now starting in October my deductible is going to go higher and my bill is going to be over $1,000. But I have no other option.
Before I got cancer, I had money saved. I had all my bills paid. I owed nothing but my mortgage. Since all this happened my credit cards are maxed, and I do have barely $1,000 in savings. If an emergency happened I do not know what I would do. A lot of people think that where I work is just terrible but when I went out, they did all kinds of fundraisers and they paid my bills. They had buckets at the end of the stages. They did a lot of things for me to make sure I was going to be taken care of. They took a lot of the stress away.
I do not really know what all is going to happen [with the health law]. If I could get a better policy at a lower price that would give me an option that right now I don't have. I'm barely making it.
There are so many people that can't get insurance and are walking around uninsured. If they could at least get it affordable, it might not be exactly everything they want but if they were hurt they could go to a hospital.
The big draw of the insurance exchange:
If you can't obtain affordable health insurance through an employer, you can shop on the insurance exchange. And, depending on your income and family size, there's a chance the federal government will help pay for your coverage. Families whose incomes fall between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty line can qualify. Here's a look, by family size and income ranges, at who is likely to qualify for assistance.
• $11,490 to $45,960 for individuals
• $15,510 to $62,040 for a family of 2
• $19,530 to $78,120 for a family of 3
• $23,550 to $94,200 for a family of 4
• $27,570 to $110,280 for a family of 5
• $31,590 to $126,360 for a family of 6
• $35,610 to $142,440 for a family of 7
• $39,630 to $158,520 for a family of 8
Note: The income figures are based on 2013 numbers and are likely to be slightly higher in 2014.
How much help you can get depends on where your family income falls in the range. Those near the poverty line would be expected to pay just 2 percent of income, while those at the upper limits of the range would have to pay 9.5 percent of their income for the coverage before a subsidy would kick in.
Are you single?: Here's how much a single person will be expected to pay for coverage, at various income levels, before qualifying for a tax credit to cover the rest of the premium:
Income Amount consumer would pay per year
$11,490 $230
$17,000 $660
$22,000 $1,300
$30,000 $2,512
$45,960 $3,664
Got a family?: Here's how much a family of four will be expected to pay for coverage, at various income levels, before qualifying for a tax credit to cover the rest of the premium.
$23,550 $471
$35,000 $1,373
$47,000 $2,952
$70,000 $6,594
$94,200 $8,949
The help paying for premiums comes through an "Advanced Premium Tax Credit." Based on income information, those who qualify can have the credits applied directly to their monthly premiums, so they do not have to wait until tax time to get the savings.
It's important to know that consumers who can get "affordable" coverage through an employer – even if that's a spouse's employer – are not eligible to get a tax credit on the exchange. What's an "affordable" plan? Under the law, that's any plan that costs no more than 9.5 percent of the worker's income. The 9.5 percent threshold applies to the worker only and not to the cost of covering his or her whole family. Put another way: if you earn $50,000 a year, and your insurance costs $4,500, it's considered affordable – even if it costs you another $5,000 to insure the rest of your family.
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These days nothing from your past can be forgotten. Just ask 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh. Back when Jim was playing for Colts, he did an appearance on Saved By the Bell. He was Screech's cousin and was looking to help teach a kid the importance of playing for the team and not just for yourself. Yesterday the video clip of Harbaugh's Emmy winning performance was plastered everywhere on the internet. Unfortunately the show was not the original Saved By the Bell. It was Saved By the Bell: The New Class that only had Mr. Belding and Screech.
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For 20 years, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health followed 5,000 men and women, looking specifically at their breakfast habits: what they ate and when. The results, presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, found that people who ate breakfast every day were significantly less likely to become obese or develop type 2 diabetes than those who ate breakfast three times a week or less. These findings are significant, if not particularly surprising. Haven't our mothers been telling us to eat our breakfast for years?
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George Lucas has stars in his eyes for his fiancée.
The Star Wars director, 68, finally popped the question. His soon to be bride is DreamWorks animation chairman Mellody Hobson, a rep for Lucasfilm confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Hobson, 43, has hung in there with Lucas since 2006. This will be her first marriage; Lucas was married to film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, whom he divorced in 1983.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes is engaged to her ex-husband, Gregg Leakes, she told Jimmy Fallon. The couple divorced in 2011 after 13 years of marriage. Gregg had said that fame got to her head, according to Us Weekly. They have son, 13.
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The former Burn Notice guest star, 37, and her producer husband Grady Hall welcomed a daughter they named Pepper.
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Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the scheduled euthanasia of two sick circus elephants. The 1960s screen diva says authorities have ignored her "numerous proposals" to save Baby and Nepal, a pair of 42-year-old elephants dying of tuberculosis at a Lyon zoo. In a statement on her foundation's website Bardot says that if the elephants are killed she will request Russian citizenship "to flee this country that is now just a graveyard for animals."
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The family of a makeup artist killed in a plane crash that also claimed the life of singer Jenni Rivera is trying to force the aircraft's manufacturer to identify all those who had owned, operated and repaired the Learjet 25.
Rivera's makeup artist, Jacob Yebale, was among the seven people killed when the aircraft crashed Dec. 9 in northern Mexico.
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Magic Carpet Ride may refer to:
- "Magic Carpet Ride" (Steppenwolf song), a 1968 song by Steppenwolf
- "Magic Carpet Ride" (Gabriella Cilmi song), a song by Gabriella Cilmi
- "Magic Carpet Ride", a dance song by Mighty Dub Katz
- Magic Carpet Ride (film), a 2005 Turkish film
- Magic Carpet Ride, a statue nicknamed the Cardiff Kook, in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California
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Got the plague. Left me with allergies.
February 11, 2010
What turns your tongue black underneath & leaves you with a dozen new allergies afterwards? Assume it's not Pepto Bismol or yeast.
Prior to December I had very normal health; no notably problematic allergies to anything. Then I got sick. I can't remember if I got a cough first, or if it was the fever w/ chills & bone/body ache (no stomach/throat symptoms). Either way, they came one after the other, and since I have a small child who was also sick, I wrote it off as small-child-has-a-cold-itis. About two days after the chills, I attended a group luncheon at work. The day after the lunch, my tongue started aching. I looked in the mirror, and the top looked fine, but the bottom had what looked like huge blood blisters, and the two veinlike things that run up it were *vibrantly* red. Soon the entire tongue was completely black. My whole mouth felt swollen by the end of the day
I probably should have gone to the doctor at that point, but I chalked it up to "something weird in the food, you're not dead and the swelling seems to have stopped; you'll probably live." It lasted for maybe 4 days with some fluctuation in the degree of discoloration and swelling.
I finally went to the doctor about 7 days after that. The tongue had gone back to normal (although the doctor said that he could still see evidence of swelling in my mouth), but the cough was getting worse & worse & worse: Fits where my lungs felt like they were filling up with bubbles. Things had started to squeak & rumble when I breathed, and when I was coughing, I felt like I could bearly stop enough to pull in a breath. But as I told the doctor, the only over-the-counter thing that actually seemed to help was Benadryl, not cough syrups. Plus, the nose would pour out watery stuff instead of snot when the coughing was really bad.
We both concluded "cold," but he took the Benadryl comment into account: I was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics, cough syrup, and a prescription-strength anti-histamine.
It is now 2 months later. The antibiotics brought the whistling under control. The cough syrup was a complete waste of money: Revolting lemon stuff I only took twice and both times I
to my honey that it was making things worse, not better. The anti-histamine has been getting me through the day ever since, but the coughing hasn't stopped.
Empiric observation eventually got me to "allergies." Today I was tested, and the following items were rated as "do not eat" by the allergist: Milk, Soy, Corn, Beef, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Carrots, Rice, Bananas, Apples, Oranges and Tea. Not one of those things has bothered me in the past, but the milk & potatoes & Oranges I'd already figured out. Throw in the Tea, and you've got a great description of how come all my home cold-care methods failed me.
Not one doctor saw my tongue turn black. Three have declined to speculate on what happened to it. One said, "well it must have been a yeast overgrowth." Every description I've seen of yeast overgrowth has said something about "Hairy," which it was definitely not (slimy perhaps, or maybe even just tongue-like, but NOT hairy). Also, this one doctor couldn't explain why it would be the bottom of the tongue: The top looked fine. Maybe a little white, but that's what tongues do when you're sick, no?
So what's up with the tongue? And how can I have developed a dozen or so allergies seemingly overnight? (The environmental allergen test is tomorrow: I already know cologne & dust will come up positive...) Are the two related? Just one of those weird coincidences that will happen? Will this die down in time? The doctor said it was a bit early to get into that last one, but heck, I'd like to know what other people have experienced. Thank you!
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You didn't happen to get a
tick bite
recently, did you?
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Did you take
the night before your tongue turned black?
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Ery: VERY interesting. No tick bites that I know of, but endless cases of chiggers in my outdoor job. And at the luncheon, the person next to me had a crab dish. She gave me her bread, which could have had traces of crab on it. I don't like crab, so it would have to have been indirect, if that were the origin. And yes, I was having a steak. Also, she threw up within 15 minutes of leaving the restaurant. We were apparently alone in having odd symptoms after the meal. I think I'll drag that article in to the allergist's.
Light Fantastic: Thanks, but no Pepto-Bismol intake. Plus, I've had that, so I know what it looks like.
Other thoughts?
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What else did they allergy test you for? Nine of the 12 are high to moderate potassium foods.
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Black hairy tongue
? I don't know anything about it, just that it exists and looks revolting. I think it's associated with smoking and antibiotic use.
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electroboy: No hair on tongue. None whatsoever; just blue-black bruised nasticorledness. And the antibiotics came later.
jwells: I rated "no worries" for glycerin, egg, wheat, yeast, peanut, sugar, pork, chicken, flounder, onion, garlic, lettuce, chocolate, coffee, cola, crab & shrimp. Today I was tested for molds & pollens (very disappointed they didn't test for fragrance type things.) Molds, roaches & dust mites definitely a problem. A couple common allergen weeds & a handful of tree pollens to watch out for. Not nearly as dramatic a reaction as i got from foodstuffs.
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Three months, two powerful antibiotics, a course of prednisone, several nasal rinses, a mountain of cough syrup, a handful of anti-hystamines, and one case of thrush later, we have positively determined that adjusting my diet reduces the coughing drastically. Reduces --not eliminates. (But YAY, I'm no longer wondering if I'm going to die from this.)
A pulmonologist is now on the case. He's having lab work done on the crap from my lungs, while putting me a variety of replacement allergy meds. He was delighted to see my show-and-tell item, which turned out to be "castings" (as in plaster cast) of my airways. Apparently it's packing down to the point where the phlegm or bacteria or whatever it is that's down there is taking the shape of my actual bronchial tubes, which I then get to hack out. Phenomenally itchy process, getting them to come up. On the other hand, I feel like this doctor is taking me seriously, instead of just writing me off as an allergy whiner.
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Never got a diagnosis, but 2 months on a combination of Asthmanex + Singulaire, and my symptoms have gradually faded. I eat normally, cough a little in the mornings, and can go a week or more without medication at a time, with only occasional bad days.
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I've been wanting to write a piece about this for some time, but sometimes you wait a little and you learn a little more. This is such a case. This allowed me to get a different take on my thoughts about this syndrome. Something that really knocks people back when it hits them. It often goes by unnoticed, undetected but so noticeably visible.
What am I talking about? I'm talking about the 'Over Achiever' syndrome. You know who you are. You're the ones that were 'blessed' with a straight A report at school without even trying. You were socially adaptable, so didn't really feel that uncomfortable at break time in the school yard, had friends, girlfriends, boyfriends. You were on most peer elected school bodies, you got into your desired course of study at college or university. You breezed through your degree and appropriately qualified in your chosen fields, and then headed off into the workforce…
Bang! You hit your wall. Life is not a school yard. Friends who you thought were friends screw you over, people steal, you lose direction about what you want, you get dumped! You experience the dreaded FAIL. The thing we get taught at school, there is such a thing as right and wrong, and you are so used to being told you are right, how is it possible to FAIL!? You are now walking dangerously close to the slippery slope. Why? When things come so easily to you, you've never really had to deal with fighting for something, and something else that goes by unnoticed… people who fail at school, don't always mind, as they don't feel motivated by whats being put in front of them. These are the people when you look back who seemed to always get in trouble, yet, always seemed to be having fun. Not that you weren't having fun, it wasn't your fault that you found the material easy, you excelled at it. The environment unfortunately in my opinion is not reflective of the school yard of life, and I would hazard a wager that the kids who experienced more FAIL at school, but where this failure was driven by a lack of motivation and not real failure, are more likely to succeed when the stakes get higher. These types of 'failures' are more likely to 'succeed' as they are unfazed by choice. It's simple for them, they pursue something that motivates them, and are generally not coerced down a further narrow corridor of generality and ultimately endless choice.
Our schooling systems don't dig into the detail of what motivates us. It's a simple pass and fail environment. Is life this simple? We know its not.
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"It's chaos, but its pretty cool, you can see that fun things are gonna happen here," said one onlooker.
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