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At Laughing Stock Farm in Freeport, farmers Ralph and Lisa Turner (right) purchase health insurance on the individual market. Currently, they pay about $7,000 a year in premiums and a $15,000 per-person deductible.
So when Lisa Turner first checked out plans on the new online marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, she was thrilled. "Especially if you get subsidies, it's wonderful," she says. "And the deductibles are lower, and it looked wonderful."
But as she continued shopping, her enthusiasm turned sour. It started when she called Anthem - one of the insurance companies that provides plans on the new marketplace. Turner says when she asked what kind of coverage they offered if she saw a doctor outside of their network - which excludes six Maine hospitals - the answer was "nothing." No out-of-network coverage.
"Which is, like, no one does that," Turner says. "I've had insurance for a long time, and I've never heard anyone say, 'There's no coverage out of plan.'"
So, Turner asked what would happen if she was out of state and needed medical attention.
"They said, 'Well, if it's an emergency, it's covered.' And the next obvious question is, well what about all the people that all of us know with cancer that end up going to Boston? Not covered," Turner says. "I mean, how many people do you know that have had cancer that didn't end up going out of state? And the whole point of the insurance is catastrophic coverage. It's to not lose your house if something horrible happens. And they've got nothing."
According to an email from Anthem spokesman Chris Dugan, the company does not provide out-of-network coverage for its southern Maine plans, but they do for northern Maine plans. Dugan said he would need to verify the differences.
But the Maine Bureau of Insurance offered more information. In an email, a spokesperson says Anthem's out-of-network coverage for plans in northern Maine only extend to the state's borders.
Limiting coverage, says Mitchell Stein of Consumers for Affordable Health Care, is a circumstance that predates the Affordable Care Act, and it's a reflection of how the insurance system works.
"In a perfect world, you would be able to access the appropriate providers and they would be part of a network," Stein says. "But there are trade-offs. If you look at plans that have no, or less, out-of-network benefits, it's an attempt to keep the premium cost down."
Stein says even if a marketplace insurance plan only includes Maine providers, it still provides care - and at an affordable cost. Seeking care out of network, he says, is a choice.
"The idea behind insurance is to provide you with protection," he says. "It's not necessarily to provide you with everything you could possibly want."
But the other insurance provider offering products on the state marketplace - Maine Community Health Options - has a network that includes all Maine hospitals, as well as providers across all 50 states.
CEO Kevin Lewis opens the company's Web site on his laptop, and searches under "Find a Provider Outside of Maine."
"And there, a person can enter in either a zip code, or a state or a facility itself," he says. "So Dana Farber might be a good example."
Up pops a list of providers from Dana Farber, a cancer treatment center in Boston. Lewis says Maine Community Health Options is constantly expanding its list of in-network providers. They do offer out-of-network coverage on all plans, but "there is a higher deductible and co-insurance for out of network providers," he says.
There is a cap on how much a patient will will have to shell out on their own - about $13,000 for an individual and $25,000 for a family. But that's separate from the cap on in-network providers, which is about $6,000 for an individual and $13,000 for a family. So, there's still the potential to wrack up tens of thousands of dollars in health care costs.
The Maine Bureau of Insurance urges those purchasing plans on the marketplace to shop around, noting that there are additional plans sold off the marketplace. The bureau also suggests getting assistance from a trusted source, and to contact the bureau for more information.
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Ken Jennings's Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is an intriguing (dare I say, captivating?) look into the realm of maps, geography, and cartophiles. Jennings writes remarkably well, infusing his engrossing subject with a surprising amount of both wit and humor. Each chapter of Maphead offers insight into a different aspect of map lore, from the historical to the hypermodern. Collectors, cartographers, geocachers, fantasy authors, explorers, and geography professors are but some of the many map-connected characters Jennings sought out to include in the book. His own lifelong love affair with all things map-related obviously informed his subject a great deal, and the enthusiasm with which he conveys the book's many anecdotes is quite nearly contagious. With sometimes unbelievable facts and trivia aplenty, it is evident Maphead was well-researched and logically laid out. If you were the type of child who pored over the pages of an atlas, or drew maps of make-believe fantasy islands, or was in any way inclined to geographical pursuits, you'll revel in the liveliness of Ken Jennings's fun and informative book.
There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.
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Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" (The Atlantic) now available in paperback.
It may come as no surprise that as a kid, Ken Jennings slept with a Hammond World Atlas under his pillow. Now, with Maphead, he delivers "a delightful mix of lore and reportage that illuminates the longing to know where we are." (Publishers Weekly)
Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geo-geeks from the London Map Fair to the librarians in the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the pre-pubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. In each chapter, Jennings delves into a different aspect of maps, culture, and history, including the maps of fiction and fantasy and hobbies like highpointing and geocaching. Maphead also explores the way cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.
"Whether you're a casual cartography ogler or a hardcore geography geek, Maphead will whisk you away into a wonderland that exists where two of the greatest horizons of the human condition, humor and curiosity, converge." (The Atlantic)
'I admit,— I'm a geographic klutz, constantly turned around the wrong way. But I never felt lost for a moment inside Maphead. Forget new worlds: Jennings's charming, witty account reveals a whole other universe."; Sam Kean, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Disappearing Spoon
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Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal estate" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. Jennings also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.
From the "Here be dragons" parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade school to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled with intriguing details, engaging anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. If you're an inveterate map lover yourself—or even if you're among the cartographically clueless who can get lost in a supermarket—let Ken Jennings be your guide to the strange world of mapheads.
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ADAMS As the operators of the Hearthstone Ministries Thrift Store prepare to fight their eviction in court today, they remain hopeful they will find a way to remain in their current location.
We want to purchase the building, said William A. Sampson, who runs the store with his wife, the Rev. Susan M. Sampson. We want to stay here to help people.
Mr. Sampson said Monday afternoon that he had just been informed by his attorney of a pair of options presented by the attorney for the buildings owner: Pay $180,000 for the space at 11 E. Church St., or give a time that they will vacate.
The store is owned by Peggy A. Brouty through her P.A.B. Enterprises.
Despite the Sampsons enthusiasm, the funding drive the store has taken up since it received an eviction notice in late April has had a relatively small impact in reaching its goal. Mr. Sampson said the store had raised $3,000 since that time, but its fund had dropped to about $1,000 because of expenses the store had incurred.
Though individual contributions and offers to volunteer have been flowing in, Mr. Sampson said, he has had no success in getting the areas businesses to make contributions that would help the thrift shop begin to make payments for the building, even though it had set up an account at Northern Federal Credit Union to help facilitate tax-deductible donations.
Mr. Sampson said he was also hoping to negotiate the building price back down to about $105,000 that he said was offered near the start of this year. The store also will hold another fundraiser in its parking lot from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 17.
Were trying to do whatever we can, Mr. Sampson said.
Mr. Sampson said he and his wife are remaining optimistic, regardless of the success of their court challenge and fundraising drive.
We know Gods got it all under control, Mr. Sampson said. Were not worrying. I know we should, but we really arent. Its already been taken care of.
The eviction case will be heard at 4 p.m. today in Adams Village Court at the village office, 3 S. Main St.
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Ok. I run my own email server (using Qmail - its awesome) but have recently discovered that I occasionally get spammed by some annoying locations, such as mrktmail.com. I figure - hey, lets block them at the iptables firewall level, so they can't connect via smtp.
I check the header of one of the spam mails and discover that they are on the 22.214.171.124 subnet. So I block that subnet in iptables.
I do an iptables -l and among the rules is:
DROP all -- 22.214.171.124/24 anywhere
So far so good.
But I'm STILL getting the spam mail.
What am I doing wrong here? ???
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My internal network is on eth0. My internet connection is on eth1. I have another internal network on eth2.
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -j ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
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iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3128 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1024 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 111 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -s 22.214.171.124/24 -j DROP
Thier mail servers are not on the network you suspect. Run an nslookup and then do a `set type=mx` and check out their domain information. They are round robbin load balancing four mail servers. The hostname mrktmail.com really an alias to one of the following.
bounce1.mrkmail.com = 220.127.116.11
bounce2.mrkmail.com = 184.108.40.206
bounce3.mrkmail.com = 188.8.131.52
bounce4.mrkmail.com = 22.214.171.124
Try blocking all those ips.
Is there anything in Qmail that would let you reject mail from specified domains?
iptables isn't really the right tool for the job of conquering spam. This is more of a mail server issue. Your firewall should either accept or reject traffic to your port 25. That's as far as that should really go. Maybe you add a rule to accept port 25 incoming traffic from ONLY host in network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or something, but you don't want to make your script a 'blacklist', because it'll slow down the rest of your network. Let the mail server do this - or Spamassassin.
You need to do a little RTFM'ing and see how qmail handles 'relaying' mail. In sendmail, there are options that allow you to say something like this:
"Allow mail *from* inside my network *to* anywhere;
Allow mail *from* outside my network *to* inside my network ONLY (this keeps you from becoming a spam relay and sending, say, ME spam).
Allow mail *from* 188.8.131.52 *to* anywhere (a possible backdoor to allow you to send mail from your workstation at work or school through your home mail server)."
You should see how qmail handles this. I believe O'Reilly has a qmail book that's supposed to be good. Check it out.
If you're just having issues with getting spam in your mail *client*, then there are a couple of things you can do:
You can use Spamassassin. This is probably the absolute most effective method of keeping spam out of your INBOX. There's a lab on how to set up Spamassassin on my site. click here to see the lab
The other thing you can do is set up procmail and start adding url's, patterns and all kinds of rules to defend yourself. Since they're both free, I recommend spamassassin, 'cos it's easier. If you wanna go the procmail route (there are a million other things you can use procmail for), I highly recommend 'The Procmail Compainon'. Check Amazon or something for it.
Tolstoy and njcajun,
Thanks for the help. I know that spammers can be tricky with ip addresses and its perhaps my own stupid fault that I trust what's in the email header when it says it receives email from ip address xx.xx.xx.xx. Next time I'll "dig" a little deeper - or use nslookup.
I blocked those ip addresses so we'll see if that stops them this time.
As for relay, as far as I understand I need to have smtp open to receive email, but I do have relay turned off so that only my internal networks can use smtp to send email. (And I use pop to read my email, as opposed to imap).
Some of my users have complained that they're getting a bit too much spam from a few groups. Oh, sure, its easy to use your client to just throw email into the trash based on what the subject is, but then I have to depend on my users doing that and the spam does sit on the server until its picked up. If I can block some of the major spam sites that they're complaining about (especially the ones that change their header information around to prevent header-matching from working) I'll be one step ahead of the game.


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OGDENSBURG The mentally ill soon could reap again therapeutic benefit from the seeds they sow.
Ogdensburgs Step-By-Step Inc. is looking to re-establish a greenhouse program to engage clients in a therapeutic activity that also will get them job skills. The organizations mission is to support the communitys mentally ill by helping them gain employment, safe housing and social skills to become self-sufficient.
Executive Director David A. Bayne said Wednesday that the agency needs to raise $14,000 to purchase and construct a greenhouse.
The fear of the hospital (St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center) closing, the lack of programs and all the stuff thats going along with it makes this the time to start looking at what we can do to help folks, to give them some meaning to their lives, Mr. Bayne said.
He said the program aims to take the place of a greenhouse program that was cut from the psychiatric centers programming a decade ago.
It was something that helped folks. They got a sense of accomplishment. They got to nurture something. That helps with self-sufficiency, he said.
The state Office of Mental Health has proposed moving inpatient services from the psychiatric center to hospitals in Syracuse and Utica in a move that relies more heavily on community support to help the mentally ill live productive lives.
A regional team of mental health professionals and advocates will determine what outpatient services will be available in the north country, but Mr. Bayne said his organization is not going to wait.
He said two town of Oswegatchie farmers who wish to remain anonymous have donated land on Hutchinson Road to house the greenhouse and equipment to get the grounds ready to accommodate it. He said he hopes to have the greenhouse built by late fall to grow cold-weather crops and to have a garden planted in the spring.
It would be nice in the next few years to try to grow some things we could take to the farmers market or donate to the Ogdensburg Neighborhood Center, Mr. Bayne said. We could join our community with the bigger community.
Barbara B. Ward, a member of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center board of visitors and an employee of Northern New York Newspapers, said she remembers the psychiatric centers greenhouse program well. Her mentally ill son, Brian, benefited greatly from it until it closed in 2002, she said.
I still hear from people who are surprised that it closed because it did so much good, she said.
She said working at the greenhouse gave her son a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
My son was up every day at 7, packed his lunch and bounded down the steps to go to the greenhouse. It was just a serene, beautiful setting that eased his mind. He felt like he was contributing, Ms. Ward said.
Mr. Bayne said the long-term goal of Step-By-Steps greenhouse program is to become a client-owned cooperative.
We are looking at the opportunity for them to be stakeholders and to buy into a business they can call their own, he said.
Step-By-Step is a certified nonprofit organization, and donations are tax-deductible.
Donations can be mailed to 103 Ford St., Suite 2 A-B, Ogdensburg, N.Y., 13669.
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For more information about the project, call Mr. Bayne at 394-0597.
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It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.
In 1985, at a heated auction by Christies of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. Why wouldnt Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did his reticence conceal an even darker secret?
It would take more than two decades for those questions to be answered and involve a gallery of intriguing players—among them Michael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women and staked his reputation on the record-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbents elegant archrival, whose palate is covered by a hefty insurance policy; and Bill Koch, the extravagant Florida tycoon bent on exposing the truth about Rodenstock.
Pursuing the story from Monticello to London to Zurich to Munich and beyond, Benjamin Wallace also offers a mesmerizing history of wine, complete with vivid accounts of subterranean European laboratories where old vintages are dated and of Jeffersons colorful, wine-soaked days in France, where he literally drank up the culture.
Suspenseful, witty, and thrillingly strange, The Billionaires Vinegar is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. It is also the debut of an exceptionally powerful new voice in narrative non-fiction.
"The titular bottle, from a cache of allegedly fine, allegedly French wine, allegedly owned by Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s, set a record price when auctioned in 1985. The subsequent brouhaha over the cache's authenticity takes wine journalist Wallace on a piquant journey into the mirage-like world of rare wines. At its center are Hardy Rodenstock, an enigmatic German collector with a suspicious knack for unearthing implausibly old and drinkable wines, and Michael Broadbent, a Christie's wine expert, who auctioned Rodenstock's lucrative finds. The argument over the Jefferson bottles and other rarities aged for decades, flummoxed a wine establishment desperate to keep the cork in a controversy that might deflate the market for antique vintages. (In the author's telling, a 2006 lawsuit almost settles the issue.) Wallace sips the story slowly, taking leisurely digressions into techniques for faking wine and detecting same with everything from Monticello scholarship to nuclear physics. He paints a colorful backdrop of eccentric oenophiles, decadent tastings and overripe flavor rhetoric (Broadbent describes one wine as redolent of chocolate and 'schoolgirls' uniforms'). Investigating wines so old and rare they could taste like anything, he playfully questions the very foundations of connoisseurship." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"It is the fine details — the bouquet, the body, the notes, the finish — that make this book such a lasting pleasure, to be savored and remembered long after the last page is turned. Ben Wallace has told a splendid story just wonderfully, his touch light and deft, his instinct pitch-perfect. Of all the marvelous legends of the wine trade, this curiously unforgettable saga most amply deserves the appellation: a classic." Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and A Crack in the Edge of the World
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Suspenseful, witty, and thrillingly strange, this work delivers the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries.
Two investigative reporters for the Los Angelesand#160;Times explore the looted antiquities scandal at the Getty Museum.
In recent years, several of Americaand#8217;s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity?and#160;
The answer lies at the Getty, one of the worldand#8217;s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Gettyand#8217;s dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. The outlandish characters and bad behavior could come straight from the pages of a thrillerand#8212;the wealthy recluse founder, the cagey Italian art investigator, the playboy curator, the narcissist CEOand#8212;but their chilling effects on the rest of the art world have been all too real, as the authors show in novelistic detail.and#160;
Fast-paced and compelling, Chasing Aphrodite exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished faand#231;ade of the museum business.
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42 U.S. Code § 18031 - Affordable choices of health benefit plans
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(a) Assistance to States to establish American Health Benefit Exchanges
(1) Planning and establishment grants
There shall be appropriated to the Secretary, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount necessary to enable the Secretary to make awards, not later than 1 year after March 23, 2010, to States in the amount specified in paragraph (2) for the uses described in paragraph (3).
(2) Amount specified
For each fiscal year, the Secretary shall determine the total amount that the Secretary will make available to each State for grants under this subsection.
(3) Use of funds
A State shall use amounts awarded under this subsection for activities (including planning activities) related to establishing an American Health Benefit Exchange, as described in subsection (b).
(4) Renewability of grant
(A) In general
Subject to subsection (d)(4), the Secretary may renew a grant awarded under paragraph (1) if the State recipient of such grant—
(i) is making progress, as determined by the Secretary, toward—
(b) American Health Benefit Exchanges
(1) In general
Each State shall, not later than January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange (referred to in this title [1] as an "Exchange") for the State that—
(B) provides for the establishment of a Small Business Health Options Program (in this title [1] referred to as a "SHOP Exchange") that is designed to assist qualified employers in the State who are small employers in facilitating the enrollment of their employees in qualified health plans offered in the small group market in the State; and
(2) Merger of individual and SHOP Exchanges
A State may elect to provide only one Exchange in the State for providing both Exchange and SHOP Exchange services to both qualified individuals and qualified small employers, but only if the Exchange has adequate resources to assist such individuals and employers.
(c) Responsibilities of the Secretary
(1) In general
The Secretary shall, by regulation, establish criteria for the certification of health plans as qualified health plans. Such criteria shall require that, to be certified, a plan shall, at a minimum—
(A) meet marketing requirements, and not employ marketing practices or benefit designs that have the effect of discouraging the enrollment in such plan by individuals with significant health needs;
(B) ensure a sufficient choice of providers (in a manner consistent with applicable network adequacy provisions under section 2702(c) of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300gg–1 (c)]), and provide information to enrollees and prospective enrollees on the availability of in-network and out-of-network providers;
(C) include within health insurance plan networks those essential community providers, where available, that serve predominately low-income, medically-underserved individuals, such as health care providers defined in section 340B(a)(4) of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 256b (a)(4)] and providers described in section 1927(c)(1)(D)(i)(IV) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1396r–8 (c)(1)(D)(i)(IV)] as set forth by section 221 ofPublic Law 111–8, except that nothing in this subparagraph shall be construed to require any health plan to provide coverage for any specific medical procedure;
(i) be accredited with respect to local performance on clinical quality measures such as the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, patient experience ratings on a standardized Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, as well as consumer access, utilization management, quality assurance, provider credentialing, complaints and appeals, network adequacy and access, and patient information programs by any entity recognized by the Secretary for the accreditation of health insurance issuers or plans (so long as any such entity has transparent and rigorous methodological and scoring criteria); or
(F) utilize a uniform enrollment form that qualified individuals and qualified employers may use (either electronically or on paper) in enrolling in qualified health plans offered through such Exchange, and that takes into account criteria that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners develops and submits to the Secretary;
(H) provide information to enrollees and prospective enrollees, and to each Exchange in which the plan is offered, on any quality measures for health plan performance endorsed under section 399JJ of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 280j–2], as applicable; and
(2) Rule of construction
Nothing in paragraph (1)(C) shall be construed to require a qualified health plan to contract with a provider described in such paragraph if such provider refuses to accept the generally applicable payment rates of such plan.
(3) Rating system
The Secretary shall develop a rating system that would rate qualified health plans offered through an Exchange in each benefits level on the basis of the relative quality and price. The Exchange shall include the quality rating in the information provided to individuals and employers through the Internet portal established under paragraph (4).
(4) Enrollee satisfaction system
The Secretary shall develop an enrollee satisfaction survey system that would evaluate the level of enrollee satisfaction with qualified health plans offered through an Exchange, for each such qualified health plan that had more than 500 enrollees in the previous year. The Exchange shall include enrollee satisfaction information in the information provided to individuals and employers through the Internet portal established under paragraph (5) in a manner that allows individuals to easily compare enrollee satisfaction levels between comparable plans.
(5) Internet portals
The Secretary shall—
(A) continue to operate, maintain, and update the Internet portal developed under section 18003 (a) of this title and to assist States in developing and maintaining their own such portal; and
(B) make available for use by Exchanges a model template for an Internet portal that may be used to direct qualified individuals and qualified employers to qualified health plans, to assist such individuals and employers in determining whether they are eligible to participate in an Exchange or eligible for a premium tax credit or cost-sharing reduction, and to present standardized information (including quality ratings) regarding qualified health plans offered through an Exchange to assist consumers in making easy health insurance choices.
(6) Enrollment periods
The Secretary shall require an Exchange to provide for—
(A) an initial open enrollment, as determined by the Secretary (such determination to be made not later than July 1, 2012);
(B) annual open enrollment periods, as determined by the Secretary for calendar years after the initial enrollment period;
(C) special enrollment periods specified in section 9801 of title 26 and other special enrollment periods under circumstances similar to such periods under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395w–101 et seq.]; and
(d) Requirements
(1) In general
An Exchange shall be a governmental agency or nonprofit entity that is established by a State.
(2) Offering of coverage
(A) In general
An Exchange shall make available qualified health plans to qualified individuals and qualified employers.
(B) Limitation
(i) In general An Exchange may not make available any health plan that is not a qualified health plan.
(ii) Offering of stand-alone dental benefits Each Exchange within a State shall allow an issuer of a plan that only provides limited scope dental benefits meeting the requirements of section 9832 (c)(2)(A) of title 26 to offer the plan through the Exchange (either separately or in conjunction with a qualified health plan) if the plan provides pediatric dental benefits meeting the requirements of section 18022 (b)(1)(J) of this title).
(3) Rules relating to additional required benefits
(A) In general
(B) States may require additional benefits
(i) In general Subject to the requirements of clause (ii), a State may require that a qualified health plan offered in such State offer benefits in addition to the essential health benefits specified under section 18022 (b) of this title.
(ii) State must assume cost A State shall make payments—
(II) on behalf of an individual described in subclause (I) directly to the qualified health plan in which such individual is enrolled;to defray the cost of any additional benefits described in clause (i).
(4) Functions
An Exchange shall, at a minimum—
(A) implement procedures for the certification, recertification, and decertification, consistent with guidelines developed by the Secretary under subsection (c), of health plans as qualified health plans;
(B) provide for the operation of a toll-free telephone hotline to respond to requests for assistance;
(C) maintain an Internet website through which enrollees and prospective enrollees of qualified health plans may obtain standardized comparative information on such plans;
(D) assign a rating to each qualified health plan offered through such Exchange in accordance with the criteria developed by the Secretary under subsection (c)(3);
(E) utilize a standardized format for presenting health benefits plan options in the Exchange, including the use of the uniform outline of coverage established under section 2715 of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300gg–15];
(F) in accordance with section 18083 of this title, inform individuals of eligibility requirements for the medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.], the CHIP program under title XXI of such Act [42 U.S.C. 1397aa et seq.], or any applicable State or local public program and if through screening of the application by the Exchange, the Exchange determines that such individuals are eligible for any such program, enroll such individuals in such program;
(G) establish and make available by electronic means a calculator to determine the actual cost of coverage after the application of any premium tax credit under section 36B of title 26 and any cost-sharing reduction under section 18071 of this title;
(H) subject to section 18081 of this title, grant a certification attesting that, for purposes of the individual responsibility penalty under section 5000A of title 26, an individual is exempt from the individual requirement or from the penalty imposed by such section because—
(i) there is no affordable qualified health plan available through the Exchange, or the individual's employer, covering the individual; or
(I) transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury—
(i) a list of the individuals who are issued a certification under subparagraph (H), including the name and taxpayer identification number of each individual;
(ii) the name and taxpayer identification number of each individual who was an employee of an employer but who was determined to be eligible for the premium tax credit under section 36B of title 26 because—
(iii) the name and taxpayer identification number of each individual who notifies the Exchange under section 18081 (b)(4) of this title that they have changed employers and of each individual who ceases coverage under a qualified health plan during a plan year (and the effective date of such cessation);
(J) provide to each employer the name of each employee of the employer described in subparagraph (I)(ii) who ceases coverage under a qualified health plan during a plan year (and the effective date of such cessation); and
(5) Funding limitations
(A) No Federal funds for continued operations
In establishing an Exchange under this section, the State shall ensure that such Exchange is self-sustaining beginning on January 1, 2015, including allowing the Exchange to charge assessments or user fees to participating health insurance issuers, or to otherwise generate funding, to support its operations.
(B) Prohibiting wasteful use of funds
In carrying out activities under this subsection, an Exchange shall not utilize any funds intended for the administrative and operational expenses of the Exchange for staff retreats, promotional giveaways, excessive executive compensation, or promotion of Federal or State legislative and regulatory modifications.
(6) Consultation
An Exchange shall consult with stakeholders relevant to carrying out the activities under this section, including—
(7) Publication of costs
An Exchange shall publish the average costs of licensing, regulatory fees, and any other payments required by the Exchange, and the administrative costs of such Exchange, on an Internet website to educate consumers on such costs. Such information shall also include monies lost to waste, fraud, and abuse.
(e) Certification
(1) In general
An Exchange may certify a health plan as a qualified health plan if—
(A) such health plan meets the requirements for certification as promulgated by the Secretary under subsection (c)(1); and
(B) the Exchange determines that making available such health plan through such Exchange is in the interests of qualified individuals and qualified employers in the State or States in which such Exchange operates, except that the Exchange may not exclude a health plan—
(2) Premium considerations
The Exchange shall require health plans seeking certification as qualified health plans to submit a justification for any premium increase prior to implementation of the increase. Such plans shall prominently post such information on their websites. The Exchange shall take this information, and the information and the recommendations provided to the Exchange by the State under section 2794(b)(1) [1] of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300gg–94 (b)(1)] (relating to patterns or practices of excessive or unjustified premium increases), into consideration when determining whether to make such health plan available through the Exchange. The Exchange shall take into account any excess of premium growth outside the Exchange as compared to the rate of such growth inside the Exchange, including information reported by the States.
(3) Transparency in coverage
(A) In general
The Exchange shall require health plans seeking certification as qualified health plans to submit to the Exchange, the Secretary, the State insurance commissioner, and make available to the public, accurate and timely disclosure of the following information:
(viii) Information on enrollee and participant rights under this title. [1]
(B) Use of plain language
The information required to be submitted under subparagraph (A) shall be provided in plain language. The term "plain language" means language that the intended audience, including individuals with limited English proficiency, can readily understand and use because that language is concise, well-organized, and follows other best practices of plain language writing. The Secretary and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly develop and issue guidance on best practices of plain language writing.
(C) Cost sharing transparency
The Exchange shall require health plans seeking certification as qualified health plans to permit individuals to learn the amount of cost-sharing (including deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance) under the individual's plan or coverage that the individual would be responsible for paying with respect to the furnishing of a specific item or service by a participating provider in a timely manner upon the request of the individual. At a minimum, such information shall be made available to such individual through an Internet website and such other means for individuals without access to the Internet.
(D) Group health plans
The Secretary of Labor shall update and harmonize the Secretary's rules concerning the accurate and timely disclosure to participants by group health plans of plan disclosure, plan terms and conditions, and periodic financial disclosure with the standards established by the Secretary under subparagraph (A).
(f) Flexibility
(1) Regional or other interstate exchanges
An Exchange may operate in more than one State if—
(2) Subsidiary Exchanges
A State may establish one or more subsidiary Exchanges if—
(3) Authority to contract
(A) In general
A State may elect to authorize an Exchange established by the State under this section to enter into an agreement with an eligible entity to carry out 1 or more responsibilities of the Exchange.
(B) Eligible entity
In this paragraph, the term "eligible entity" means—
(i) a person—
(II) that has demonstrated experience on a State or regional basis in the individual and small group health insurance markets and in benefits coverage; and
(g) Rewarding quality through market-based incentives
(1) Strategy described
A strategy described in this paragraph is a payment structure that provides increased reimbursement or other incentives for—
(A) improving health outcomes through the implementation of activities that shall include quality reporting, effective case management, care coordination, chronic disease management, medication and care compliance initiatives, including through the use of the medical home model, for treatment or services under the plan or coverage;
(B) the implementation of activities to prevent hospital readmissions through a comprehensive program for hospital discharge that includes patient-centered education and counseling, comprehensive discharge planning, and post discharge reinforcement by an appropriate health care professional;
(C) the implementation of activities to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors through the appropriate use of best clinical practices, evidence based medicine, and health information technology under the plan or coverage;
(2) Guidelines
The Secretary, in consultation with experts in health care quality and stakeholders, shall develop guidelines concerning the matters described in paragraph (1).
(h) Quality improvement
(1) Enhancing patient safety
Beginning on January 1, 2015, a qualified health plan may contract with—
(A) a hospital with greater than 50 beds only if such hospital—
(i) utilizes a patient safety evaluation system as described in part C of title IX of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 299b–21 et seq.]; and
(2) Exceptions
The Secretary may establish reasonable exceptions to the requirements described in paragraph (1).
(i) Navigators
(1) In general
An Exchange shall establish a program under which it awards grants to entities described in paragraph (2) to carry out the duties described in paragraph (3).
(2) Eligibility
(A) In general
To be eligible to receive a grant under paragraph (1), an entity shall demonstrate to the Exchange involved that the entity has existing relationships, or could readily establish relationships, with employers and employees, consumers (including uninsured and underinsured consumers), or self-employed individuals likely to be qualified to enroll in a qualified health plan.
(B) Types
Entities described in subparagraph (A) may include trade, industry, and professional associations, commercial fishing industry organizations, ranching and farming organizations, community and consumer-focused nonprofit groups, chambers of commerce, unions, resource partners of the Small Business Administration, other licensed insurance agents and brokers, and other entities that—
(3) Duties
An entity that serves as a navigator under a grant under this subsection shall—
(A) conduct public education activities to raise awareness of the availability of qualified health plans;
(B) distribute fair and impartial information concerning enrollment in qualified health plans, and the availability of premium tax credits under section 36B of title 26 and cost-sharing reductions under section 18071 of this title;
(D) provide referrals to any applicable office of health insurance consumer assistance or health insurance ombudsman established under section 2793 of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300gg–93], or any other appropriate State agency or agencies, for any enrollee with a grievance, complaint, or question regarding their health plan, coverage, or a determination under such plan or coverage; and
(4) Standards
(A) In general
The Secretary shall establish standards for navigators under this subsection, including provisions to ensure that any private or public entity that is selected as a navigator is qualified, and licensed if appropriate, to engage in the navigator activities described in this subsection and to avoid conflicts of interest. Under such standards, a navigator shall not—
(5) Fair and impartial information and services
The Secretary, in collaboration with States, shall develop standards to ensure that information made available by navigators is fair, accurate, and impartial.
(j) Applicability of mental health parity
(k) Conflict
An Exchange may not establish rules that conflict with or prevent the application of regulations promulgated by the Secretary under this subchapter.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1311, title X, §§ 10104(e)–(h), 10203(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 173, 900, 901, 927.)
References in Text
Subtitles A and C, referred to in subsec. (a)(4)(A)(i)(II), are subtitles A (§§ 1001–1004) and C (§§ 1201–1255), respectively, of title I of Pub. L. 111–148, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 130, 154. Subtitle A enacted sections 300gg–11 to 300gg–19, 300gg–93, and 300gg–94 of this title, transferred sections 300gg–4 to 300gg–7 and 300gg–13 of this title to sections 300gg–25 to 300gg–28 and 300gg–9 of this title, respectively, amended sections 300gg–11, 300gg–12, and 300gg–21 to 300gg–23 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 300gg–11 of this title. Subtitle C enacted subchapter II of this chapter and sections 300gg to 300gg–2 and 300gg–4 to 300gg–7 of this title, transferred section 300gg of this title to section 300gg–3 of this title, amended sections 300gg–1 and 300gg–4 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 300gg of this title. For complete classification of subtitles A and C to the Code, see Tables.
This title, referred to in subsecs. (b)(1) and (e)(3)(A)(viii), is title I of Pub. L. 111–148, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 130, which enacted this chapter and enacted, amended, and transferred numerous other sections and notes in the Code. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.
Section 2716 of the Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (c)(5), probably should be section 2715 of the Public Health Service Act, act July 1, 1944, which is classified to section 300gg–15 of this title and requires the Secretary to develop a uniform explanation of coverage documents and standardized definitions. Section 2716 of act July 1, 1944, which is classified to section 300gg–16 of this title, relates to prohibition on discrimination in favor of highly compensated individuals.
The Social Security Act, referred to in subsecs. (c)(6)(C), (d)(4)(F), and (f)(3)(B)(ii), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Part D of title XVIII of the Act is classified generally to part D (§ 1395w–101 et seq.) of subchapter XVIII of chapter 7 of this title. Titles XIX and XXI of the Act are classified generally to subchapters XIX (§ 1396 et seq.) and XXI (§ 1397aa et seq.), respectively, of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of this title and Tables.
Section 2794 of the Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (e)(2), probably means section 2794 of act July 1, 1944, as added by section 1003 ofPub. L. 111–148, which relates to premium increases for consumers and is classified to section 300gg–94 of this title. Another section 2794 of act July 1, 1944, relates to uniform fraud and abuse referral format and is classified to section 300gg–95 of this title.
The Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (h)(1)(A)(i), is act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 58 Stat. 682. Part C of title IX of the Act is classified generally to part C (§ 299b–21 et seq.) of subchapter VII of chapter 6A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables.
This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (k), was in the original "this subtitle", meaning subtitle D of title I of Pub. L. 111–148, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 162, which enacted this subchapter and amended sections 501, 4958, and 6033 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.
2010—Subsec. (c)(1)(I). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10203(a), added subpar. (I).
Subsec. (d)(3)(B)(ii). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(e)(1), added cl. (ii) and struck out former cl. (ii). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "A State shall make payments to or on behalf of an individual eligible for the premium tax credit under section 36B of title 26 and any cost-sharing reduction under section 18071 of this title to defray the cost to the individual of any additional benefits described in clause (i) which are not eligible for such credit or reduction under section 36B (b)(3)(D) of title 26 and section 18071 (c)(4) of this title."
Subsec. (d)(6)(A). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(e)(2), inserted "educated" before "health care".
Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(f)(1), which directed substitution of "shall" for "may" in second sentence, was executed by making the substitution in third sentence before "take" to reflect the probable intent of Congress because the word "shall" already appeared in second sentence.
Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(f)(2), added par. (3).
Subsec. (g)(1)(E). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(g), added subpar. (E).
Subsec. (i)(2)(B). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(h), substituted "resource partners of the Small Business Administration" for "small business development centers".
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According to a tweet from Bob McKenzie, the 48 game schedule that the NHL will reveal later this week will be based on this structure:
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RIVERTON/PRICE - Devoted wife and homemaker, beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother and sister, Audrey M. Watson passed away peacefully at her son's home in Riverton on Jan. 10, 2013. She was born on April 22, 1929 in Vivian, W. Va., daughter of Nellie and John R. McPeak. Audrey married Paul E. Watson in 1951 and they raised two sons. Great friends were a large part of her life wherever she lived, including Lynch, Ky., Gary, W. Va., East Carbon and Salt Lake City. Widowed for 23 years, she has now rejoined her best friend, her loving husband.
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Beloit, WI -- Liz Bartley, a 1993 Beloit College graduate who has coached the Buccaneer Women's Soccer program for seven seasons, is stepping down from the position.
Bartley, who also served as the Athletic Department's Senior Women's Administrator and the driving force behind the annual Artletics show each Spring, coached nine All-Midwest Conference players during her tenure as well as 65-plus MWC All-Academic Team honorees. She also teamed with Beloit Volleyball head coach Dawn Red on the College's NCAA CHOICES program for the past two years.
She was a four-year letterwinner for the Buccaneer Women's Soccer squad from 1989 to 1992 and she remains a fixture in the Buccaneer record book. A goalkeeper, she ranks third in career saves with 301, first in career goals-against-average at 1.14, and first in career shutouts with 20.5. In the single-season records, she has the top two goals-against averages with 1.00 in 1991 and 1.10 in 1992, and has the top two individual season shutout marks with 9.5 in 1992 and 7.5 in 1991.
An extensive search has begun for the next head coach.
In addition to Bartley's departure, two other Athletic Department members are saying good-bye as we head into the Summer months.
Tami Magner joined the Buccaneer staff in August of 2011 as one of the recipients of an NCAA Ethnic Minority/Women's Internship Grant. She was an assistant coach for the Buccaneer Softball squad the last two seasons and worked in the Department in marketing and promotions. She was involved in a wide variety of projects, most notably in the design selection for the Beloit Relays this past March and the orginization of the meet.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 at 1 p.m. at the Price 1st Ward LDS Chapel (150 S. 500 E.). A viewing will be held on Friday Dec. 9, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Fausett Mortuary in Price and also Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the church prior to the service. Interment will be in the Cliffview Cemetery. Services are in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Family and friends may sign the guest book and share memories of Mikey at www.fausettmortuary.com.
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The earliest images in the Korean-born artist Jin Soo Kim's memory are scenes of people dealing with the trauma of having lived through a recent war in which four million people were killed or wounded, half of whom were civilians. She came into this world in 1950, the year the North Koreans invaded South Korea and quickly overran her birthplace, Seoul. Kim was too young to remember when her mother returned to what was left of the city, but the sight of coping with the aftermath of post war Korea is imbued in her work.
As a child, Kim also became used to the sound of women screaming in pain, and seeing blood drenched newspapers, sheets covered with an array of bodily fluids and discarded umbilical cords—Kim's mother supported the family by working as a midwife. Those memories show up in her work as well.
Seoul came back to life as Kim grew into adulthood. In 1973, she received a B.S. from Seoul National University in Nursing, which she pursued for the purpose of gaining experience as an independent person. Feeling the limitations Korean society placed on women, Korea was no longer acceptable for Kim. She decided to move to the U.S.A. by herself to pursue art. In Los Angeles, she made her art while working at the hospital as a nurse. In 1975, after living in Los Angeles for 7 months, Kim found a university so isolated that she would concentrate only on her art. Her early experience of reading books about Abraham Lincoln and books written by Mark Twain gave feeling for Illinois to Kim along with her longing and curiosity for the Mississippi River. Finally she reached to Macomb, Illinois, near the Mississippi River, a town of 18,000 residents surrounded by seemingly endless corn and soybean fields.
In 1983, Kim received her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where she has taught since 1990). Two years after receiving her degree, she had her first one person show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her exhibition happened to be running concurrently with the first Chicago retrospective of the work of her favorite painter, Leon Golub.
Kim quickly gained a national reputation and then international reputation. Since 1985, Kim has been commissioned to create more than forty site-specific pieces. Her list of selected exhibitions includes 75 solo and group shows in the United States, China, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Korea. Among them are exhibitions at the Walker Art Center and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, where she took part in the Grand Lobby Project that anticipated the rise of importance given to installations in the 1980's.
In 2003, Kim exhibited a colossal scale 20-year survey at the Chicago Cultural Center. It took two days to move 20 years worth of installation remnants to the cultural center, and two weeks to install. In the gallery next to Kim's cavernous space, another artist was having what turned out to be his last retrospective. Ironically the artist was Leon Golub, who died seven months after their openings.
So what next? Kim's memories of coming to L.A. and then moving to Macomb, four hours away from Chicago, led to a new installation piece involving bare light bulbs attached to braided wiring and incorporating railroad plates and pins, and stark sounds of light bulbs exploding. A second piece on this theme consisted of eight, 10-inch high, eight-foot long steel tunnels with the sounds of ticking clocks, breaking light bulbs and footsteps walking over broken glass echoing through it, called roll-run-hit-run-roll-tick-, which was also shown at Selby Gallery in an exhibition called Constructing Realities in 2004.
Kim has spent years collecting objects from the streets and alleys in Chicago. The waste of the world that became part of stuff, the large installation piece she produced for this exhibition, is arranged in cage-like structures fashioned from metal grids. The things inside the sculpture are the discarded detritus of people's lives. Among the objects are toys, musical instruments, plastic flowers, water skis, mannequins, broken furniture, and a hobbyhorse. The cages also hold giant umbilical-like forms, at times vine-like, which are reminiscent of her earlier installations. The objects she chose are tightly placed inside the cages. They possess a visual poetry of things once used by people, which now have a new context. Order is established over their seeming disorder inside the structures by the mathematical perfection of the grids.
Kim has recently begun to experiment with digital filmmaking. The change in media does not represent a change in her approach to creating art. She is continuing to focus on what is barely noticed or discarded and gathers her images with the sensibilities of a sculptor who works with found objects and found images. Her films are purposefully crude and direct and not meant to be seen as narrative cinema.
Although most of the work chosen for this exhibition is new because of Kim's method of recycling what has been used before, it also represents three phases of Kim's work going back to the 1980s. What she creates is deeply felt yet quietly contemplative. It is the stuff of memories and her lingering feelings of displacement, and must be looked at slowly and in the same contemplative way it was created.


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The body discovered in a sewer manhole south of Price Monday has been identifed as 38-year-old Christopher Robertson of Price, according to Sheriff James Cordova.
Robertson had been reported missing about a month ago and had not been seen since.
The sheriff said the cause of death has not yet been released by the State Medical Examiner.
As to how Robertson's body came to be in the manhole, "That's the million dollar question right now, and it's our job to find out," Cordova said. "Who put him there and why is not known. We are investigating."
Robertson's mother, Emma Robertson, had told the Sun Advocate in an earlier interview that he was extremely depressed after being diagnosed with bone cancer.
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OGDENSBURG The New York and Ogdensburg Railway is on the right track thanks to a rail rehabilitation project that recently halted for the season.
The $2.8 million project is replacing ties, ballast and rail along the 30-mile line between Ogdensburg and Norwood.
The railway is owned by the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority and operated by Vermont Rail System. Jerome M. Hebda, vice president of Vermont Rail System, said the work will continue when the ground thaws.
We had crews up here all summer, they put a lot of ties in and dropped a lot of ballast, they will be finishing the work this spring, he said. We probably only have about 10 percent left to complete of the 2012 project.
Mr. Hebda was hopeful the project would expand the capacity of the line, which serves the Port of Ogdensburg, making it St. Lawrence Countys only intermodal rail link connecting to the Atlantic Ocean.
The track is getting to the point now where it is able to be at full capacity. I dont believe it will be this year, but it is within sight, he said.
The project caps off a successful year, Mr. Hebda said.
Right now were moving significant amounts of agricultural products in theres always new things were working on, he said. We had about 600 revenue carloads, and a lot of the interesting things we did were projects like the locomotives that went for exports.
More than 200 of those cars carried wind turbine components into the port, which were eventually taken by truck to the Marble River Wind Farm in Churbusco. In July, five 200-ton locomotives were shipped to a Quebec mining firm, a project the railway orchestrated.
The New York and Ogdensburg Railway is an essential business partner of the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority and a key mode of transportation into the Port of Ogdensburg, said Wade A. Davis, OBPA executive director. As operator of the authoritys rail line, the NYOG has increased traffic and improved conditions on the line though the joint efforts of the authority and funding from the New York state Department of Transportation.
Mr. Hebda said the railway would continue doing business related to the wind farms sprouting around the north country, even though there are no new projects planned for the Port of Ogdensburg.
If you watched Congress recently, they did reauthorize the windmill tax break, so there may be some new projects coming, he said. We have some other windmill and utility projects that are happening in 2013, like moving transformers for some of the new power-generating facilities in the area.
In the meantime, the railway is partnering with the OBPA to find customers and boost business along the line.
We view the railroad as having great potential, Mr. Hebda said. As a long-term policy, were doing what we can to build up the business, were very positive in the work to find new customers that could benefit both the Port Authority and the railway. Were encouraged by some of the prospects.
Over $6 million of work replacing and improving bridges along the line remains before rail cars filled to capacity can transit the line.
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Three domes donned coin-laden shoes and tap danced away from St. Basils Cathedral, Moscow, on a quest to find their two-toned papier mache tops, stolen by Rasputin.
Of course, the domes were actually Lowville Academy and Central School students acting out a skit at the Region 9 Odyssey of the Mind tournament Saturday at Watertown High School.
Odyssey of the Mind is a creative competition that asks students to prepare a skit for one of five different problems. The more wacky and creative the skit, the higher their chances were of receiving a first-place finish in their division. The Lowville students placed first in Division I of ARTchitecture: the Musical.
All solutions are different. Theres a lot greater focus on the technicality for the older kids; total abandon with creativity with the younger kids, said Catherine M. Pisarski, head judge for the Its How You Look at It portion of the competition.
Ms. Pisarski gestured to a group of children dressed in handmade dinosaur costumes. Chuckling, she said, Look, he has a chair cushion for his rear end.
Roaming the halls, spectators would find a number of props and backdrops created from recycled materials. Children themselves looked as zany as their skits and props. Some wore face paint; others had hair piled as high as Cindy Lou Whos. No one knew what to expect when they turned a corner, and beneath the caked-on makeup, handmade costumes and armloads of props, everyone appeared stress-free.
Odyssey of the Mind stands out as a competition in which students have more fun preparing for their task than they do in winning.
So often society tunnel-visions (children); we want them to think outside the box. We give open-ended questions and they interpret it any way they want, said Tina Groff, head judge for ARTchitecture.
For some pupils, such as those from South Jeffersons Mannsville-Manor Elementary, even the creative process was unorthodox.
We surrounded our story around the backdrop, said Andrew C. Thomas, 10.
The kids worked backwards compared to other groups. They worked on the backdrop and then the script, team coach Avionne L. Huppert said.
Andrew recounted their tale of a leprechaun who becomes a foreign exchange student on an alien planet, and an alien who voyages to leprechaun land. Competing in Its How You Look at It, the teams goal was to demonstrate how seemingly odd behavior is normal to someone else.
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As for judging, it is all based at the level of the students who perform.
Kid humor theres a lot of farts and a lot of falling down. We have to judge them on their level of humor, said June Venton, head judge for The Email Must Go Through.
While it may not always be easy for judges to bring themselves back to that age level, Ms. Venton said, it is always fun.
The winning team from each division will head next to the Odyssey of the Mind state competition March 23 at Binghamton University.
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A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.
Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.
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"The author of The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime has created a rarity--a unique blend of hard science, high drama, and superb storytelling" (Library Journal). A rescue mission races against time to save a pair of children being held captive by a medieval lupine race, and recover the weapon that will keep the universe from being changed forever.
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