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Pre-game notes courtesy of the NYR:
NEW YORK RANGERS at PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
Tuesday, Mar. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA
Rangers: 15-13-3 (33 pts)
Flyers: 13-16-2 (28 pts)
The Rangers will face-off against the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center (7:30 p.m. — TV: MSG Network; Radio: Bloomberg Radio), to begin a three-game road trip. The Blueshirts currently rank third in the Atlantic Division standings, and rank eighth in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 15-13-3 (33 pts). The Rangers enter the contest having been defeated by the Washington Capitals, 3-2, in the shootout on Sunday at Madison Square Garden. New York has now registered a point in five of their last seven home games (4-2-1). The Flyers enter the contest with a 13-16-2 (28 pts) record to rank 13th in the Eastern Conference, and have lost three of their last four games. Following tonight's contest, the Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday, Mar. 28, at Scotiabank Place (7:30 p.m.), as they continue their three-game road trip.
RANGERS vs. FLYERS:
– All-Time: 118-108-37-7 overall (62-47-23-4 at home; 56-61-14-3 on the road)
– 2013: Tonight is the fourth of five meetings this season, and the second of three meetings at Wells Fargo Center. The Rangers are 2-1-0 (2-0-0 at home; 0-1-0 on the road), following a 4-2 win on Mar. 5 at MSG. Each contest has been decided by two or fewer goals, including two games seperated by one goal. The Rangers' power play is 3-10 (30.0%) in the season series. Ryan Callahan leads all skaters with three goals, and has registered a team-high, four points in three games. Henrik Lundqvist is 2-1-0 with a 1.68 GAA and .941 Sv%.
– Last Season: New York was 6-0-0 overall (3-0-0 mark at home; 3-0-0 mark on the road). New York out-scored Philadephia, 24-11, including a 7-1 advantage in the first period and a 10-4 advantage in the third period. The Rangers tallied the game's first goal in five of the six contests. The Blueshirts' power play was 8-25 (32.0%), while the penalty kill was 23-26 (88.5%) in the season series. The Rangers had 18 different players tally a point against the Flyers last season, including 12 different goal-scorers. Marian Gaborik led all skaters in scoring with nine points (four goals, five assists), while Ryan Callahan notched a series-high, five goals, and Brad Richards tallied series-high, six assists. Henrik Lundqvist was 6-0-0 with a 1.83 GAA, .942 Sv% and one shutout.
– The Rangers have won 10 of their last 11 games against the Flyers, dating back to a 7-0 win at MSG on Mar. 6, 2011. The Blueshirts have out-scored the Flyers, 41-18, over the span.
– The Blueshirts have won four of their last five games at Philadelphia, out-scoring the Flyers, 17-11, over the span
– New York ranks 22nd in the NHL with a 5-7-1 (11 pts) record on the road; Philadelphia ranks 17th in the NHL with a 9-4-1 (19 pts) mark at home
– The Rangers are 5-5-1 vs. the Atlantic Division this season; the Flyers are 4-7-1 vs. the Atlantic Division this season
– New York lists four former Flyers on their roster: Arron Asham (2008-09 – 2009-10); Martin Biron (2006-07 – 2008-09); Steve Eminger (2008-09); Darroll Powe (2008-09 – 2010-11)
– Philadelphia lists three former Rangers on their roster: Ruslan Fedotenko (2010-11 – 2011-12); Mike Knuble (1998-99 – 1999-00); Jody Shelley (2009-10)
INDIVIDUAL CAREER LEADERS vs. FLYERS:
– Henrik Lundqvist — 40 GP, 24-11-3, 2.52 GAA, 4 SO
– Martin Biron — 18 GP, 9-7-2-0, 2.18 GAA
– Brad Richards — 39 GP, 9-29-38
– Ryan Callahan — 30 GP, 15-9-24
– Derek Stepan — 15 GP, 4-9-13
– Dan Girardi — 39 GP, 0-22-22
The Rangers' power play is 10-52 (19.2%) in the last 19 games, while the Blueshirts' penalty kill is 55-65 (84.6%) in the last 22 games. New York has posted a record of 9-4-1 when not allowing a power play goal.
– Power Play: The Rangers tallied a goal in two power play attempts (2:25) on Sunday vs. Washington. New York ranks 25th overall (14-96, 14.6%) and 28th on the road (4-37, 10.8%). The Rangers are 3-9 (7:53) in five-on-three situations (last – 3/24 vs. WSH), and 1-1 (0:21) when four-on-three (last – 3/7 at NYI). Shorthanded goals allowed (4): 2/19 vs. MTL (Diaz, EN); 2/21 at OTT (Silfverberg); 3/3 vs. BUF (Gerbe); 3/21 vs. FLA (Kopecky, EN).
– Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts surrendered one goal to the Capitals in three power play attempts (2:29) on Sunday at MSG. New York ranks 12th overall (87-106, 82.1%) and 14th on the road (34-42, 81.0%). The Rangers are 6-6 (7:34) in three-on-five situations (last – 3/24 vs. WSH), and 4-4 (4:24) when three-on-four (last – 3/18 vs. CAR). Shorthanded goals for (3): 1/20 vs. PIT (Nash); 3/12 at BUF (Stepan); 3/19 at NJD (Del Zotto).
– Four-on-Four: New York did not tally/yield a goal in two four-on-four situations (7:00) on Sunday vs. Washington, and are now minus-1 in 22 four-on-four situations (46:13) this season. Four-on-four goals for (1): 1/23 vs. BOS (Gaborik). Four-on-four goals allowed (2): 1/20 vs. PIT (Letang); 1/23 vs. BOS (Horton).
The Rangers swept the season series against the Flyers last season, posting a 6-0-0 record overall with a 3-0-0 mark at home and a 3-0-0 at Philadelphia. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it is only the second time the Blueshirts swept the Flyers, having also done so in 1971-72 (6-0-0). The last time the Rangers swept the home series against the Flyers was during the 1991-92 season (4-0-0), and the last time they swept the road series in Philadelphia was in 2006-07 (4-0-0).
Rick Nash currently leads the team with 10 goals, having tallied his first eight goals of the season in the third period. Nash is the second player in NHL history whose first eight goals of a season were tallied in the third player, while fellow Ranger Arron Asham is the other to have accomplished the feat, in 2003-04, as a member of the New York Islanders.
Marian Gaborik has been among the league's goal scoring leaders since joining the Rangers in 2009-10. Last season, Gaborik became the fifth player in Rangers history to record 100 goals in his first three seasons with the club, and became the third Ranger in franchise history to register multiple 40-goal seasons with the team. Entering this season, his 105 goals from 2009-10 to 2011-12 ranked seventh in the NHL, while his .48 goals per game average ranked third (behind Steven Stamkos and Alex Ovechkin) over that time period. Including games played this season, Gaborik currently ranks seventh in the league with 113 goals scored since the beginning of the 2009-10 season.
The Rangers rank fourth in the NHL in hits (942) this season. Brian Boyle leads the Rangers and is tied for eighth in the NHL with 107 hits, while Rangers' captain Ryan Callahan ranks second on the team and 11th in the league with 106 hits.
Rangers' Head Coach John Tortorella is one win shy of earning his 400th career win as a National Hockey League head coach. He will be the 30th coach in league history to reach the mark. Tortorella's 160 wins with the Blueshirts are four shy of Tom Renney for fourth on the Rangers' all-time coaching wins list.
The Rangers rank among the Eastern Conference leaders in several statistical categories…
– 3rd (5th in NHL) in GAA — 2.36
– 3rd (8th in NHL) in FO% — 51.3%
– 1st (2nd in NHL) in Fewest PIM/G — 10.1
– 3rd (4th in NHL) in Hits — 942
– T-2nd (T-5th in NHL) in OT wins — 2
– The Rangers did not surrender a power play opportunity against on Mar. 7 at Long Island, marking the first time the Blueshirts did not have a shorthanded situation in a game since Jan. 10, 2012, in a 2-1 shootout win vs. PHX. The last time the Rangers did not allow a power play attempt against the Islanders was Jan. 7, 1989, in a 5-1 win at Long Island.
– The Blueshirts have had 13 players make their regular season debut with the team this season
– The Rangers' power play is 10-52 (19.2%) in the last 19 games
– The Blueshirts' penalty kill is 55-65 (84.6%) in the last 22 games
– New York has registered a point in nine of 11 games when scoring the first goal this season (8-2-1), and are 7-11-2 when allowing the game's first goal
– The Blueshirts have posted a 6-0-1 mark when leading after the first period, and are 8-0-0 when leading after the second period
– Henrik Lundqvist — has held opponents to three goals or fewer in each of his last 12 games (6-5-1, 1.98 GAA, .928 Sv% over the span)
– Rick Nash — 18 points (eight goals, 10 assists) in the last 17 games
– Derek Stepan — has tallied a point in 10 of the last 13 games (six goals, six assists over the span)
– Ryan Callahan — eight points (four goals, four assists) in the last 11 games
– Carl Hagelin — 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) in the last 21 games
– Michael Del Zotto — three points (one goal, two assists) in the last three games
– Ryan Callahan — 1 assist from 100th NHL career
– Steve Eminger — 3 points from 100th NHL career
– Rick Nash — 1 goal from 300th NHL career
– Brad Richards — 2 points from 800th NHL career
– Marc Staal — 3 points from 100th NHL career
– Anton Stralman — 3 points from 100th NHL career
– John Tortorella — 1 win from 400th NHL career
– Michael Del Zotto — 100th career NHL point (3/19 at NJD)
– Rick Nash — 700th career NHL game (3/21 vs. FLA)
– Michael Sauer (concussion, 12/5/11) — 31
– Marc Staal (injured, 3/5) — 10
– J.T. Miller (injured, 3/21) — 1
Total Man-Games Lost: 80
– Mar. 20 — Recalled forward Chris Kreider from Connecticut (AHL)
– Mar. 20 — Assigned forward Micheal Haley to Connecticut (AHL)
– Mar. 23 — Recalled forward Kris Newbury from Connecticut (AHL)
– Mar. 23 — Montreal claimed forward Jeff Halpern off waivers
– Mar. 24 — Assigned defenseman Stu Bickel to Connecticut (AHL)


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There's nothing better than the feeling you get from a good old fashioned kick-in-the-pants, early morning workout! Your body feels amazing, your mind is fresh and ready to take on the day and frankly, it's just nice to get it out of the way!
The Total Body Boot Camp and Nostalgic Catering took group fitness a step (a lunge and a push-up) further with the 1st Annual Total Body Pumpkin Bootcamp on October 18th at OZ Park in Chicago, IL. Ten challengers were asked to bring one pumpkin weighing between 3 and 10 lbs. to assist them during the morning workout and were put through an hour of intense cardio, strength and core excercises.
Wait.. What is this, a fitness blog? Show me the Sharpie!
Ah ha, well my Sharpie loving friends, here is the cherry on top of the non-fat, zero cal. sundae! Sharpie markers were provided to all the participants to uncap their Fall festive mark onto their pumpkins. The bootcamp not only pushed physically but also creatively, encouraging the challengers to write down favorite excercises and give each pumpkin a personality of it's own!
Not only were creative minds at work making Sharpie Pumpkin art, but after the workout Nostalgic Catering provided Homemade Chili and Fresh Apple Pie, putting those taste buds to work as well! (OMG,where can I sign up?) Now this is what I call a total body workout! :)
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♦ In Qatar, the emir, voluntarily resigned in favour of his 33-year-old son, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, as he spoke of the need for younger blood in government. This move is a sign that some monarchies are still more open to change than those in neighbouring countries like Saudi Arabia that have "hardened arteries." Qataris debate whether Sheikh Tamim will follow in his father's footsteps or take a more conservative, religious, or nationalistic stance, the FT reports.
♦ In Syria, the government and the rebels fight for control of the oil fields, and one gas and electricity plant is representative of the strife. Foreign Policy reports that Obama's current strategy in Syria is contradictory, taking separate military and diplomatic courses that clash.
♦ If Edward Snowden were Chinese, Americans would respect him as a "brave dissident."
♦ The European Commission raided the London offices of oil companies – BP, Shell and Norway's Statoil – as well as Platts, the price reporting agency, for colluding to manipulate prices of oil on the international markets, the BBC reports.
♦ The US Supreme Court amended parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – a measure that required mostly southern states to obtain Washington's approval to change election practices because of discrimination against black voters – but some legislators now see it as an intrusion on state's rights and no longer relevant – the Wall Street Journal and New York Times report. The Times sees this amendment as a usurpation of Congress and denial that discrimination still exists in the South on the part of the Supreme Court. For the New Yorker, it is all apart of the Republican's systematic undermining of Democratic influence.
♦ In Foreign Affairs, the military historian Rick Atkinson gives a colourful depiction of London on the eve of D-Day. Read more
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Has anyone bought a bag of Duraflame Hardwood Briquets recently? I picked one up a few weeks back and it seems like the briquettes themselves are larger and more crumbly during and after a cook. In fact, I took a couple of cold, partially burned ones and was able to crumble them in my hand.
Has anyone else noticed this?


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A Month in to Healthcare.gov, Real-Life Winners and Losers
Today marks one month since the disastrous start of Healthcare.gov, and we take a look at whose winning and losing in real life because of it.
Today marks one month since the disastrous start of Healthcare.gov, the seriously impaired federal health insurance marketplace.
And what a month it's been. For the first 16 days, a federal government shutdown largely deflected attention from the website's problems. But since then, three congressional hearings have been held — and more are planned. Political pundits are anointing winners and losers (mostly losers) and trying to predict how the fallout could affect congressional elections next year.
I'm more interested in real-life winners and losers, people whose lives will be changed for better or worse because of the Affordable Care Act.
Clearly, if the website problems persist for much longer and people are unable to sign up for coverage, the list of losers will grow longer by the week. Consumers will lose because they won't be able to enroll in health plans. Insurers will lose because they will have far fewer customers than anticipated. Hospitals will lose because the law cuts back their reimbursement for care they give to the uninsured. And on and on.
But for the moment, let's assume some — or most — of those problems will be fixed by the Nov. 30 date promised by the Obama administration.
On a very obvious level, winners include young adults who can now remain on their parents health plans until age 26.
They include consumers with medical ailments who have been denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
They include residents of states that opted to expand their Medicaid programs for the poor to cover those with incomes of up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($15,856 for an individual and $32,499 for a family of four).
By contrast, losers include those with lower incomes who live in states that decided not to expand their Medicaid programs. The Daily Briefing run by the consulting firm The Advisory Board Co. had a smart look this summer at which states will have the most uninsured residents in 2016. Being uninsured means you're losing out.
Also sure losers are undocumented immigrants, who are ineligible for benefits or subsidies under the act.
And for now, at least, small businesses lose out because of the Obama administration's ongoing delays launching a health insurance marketplace for small businesses. (Healthcare.gov, by contrast, is an insurance marketplace for individual consumers.)
Too Soon to Say
Another group that many commentators count as losers are the hundreds of thousands of consumers who have received cancellation notices from their individual health insurance companies because their policies don't meet criteria set forth in the Affordable Care Act.
I hesitate to call all of them losers because some of them will be eligible for subsidies from the federal government to offset the cost of their new health insurance, and others will pay less in the new marketplace for better coverage. To be sure, some people clearly will lose out because they will pay more for their coverage — and their benefits won't be all that much better to offset it.
What Others Say
The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza had an interesting piece this week in which he spoke to economist Jon Gruber, who broke down winners and losers this way:
About eighty per cent of Americans are more or less left alone by the health-care act—largely people who have health insurance through their employers. About fourteen per cent of Americans are clear winners: they are currently uninsured and will have access to an affordable insurance policy under the A.C.A.
But much of the current controversy involves the six per cent of Americans who buy their own health care on the individual market, which the A.C.A. has dramatically reformed. Gruber argued that half of these people (three per cent of all Americans) will have little change to their polices. "They have to buy new plans, but they will be pretty similar to what they had before," he said. "It will essentially be relabeling."
The other half, however, also three per cent of the population, will have to buy a new product that complies with the A.C.A.'s more stringent requirements for individual plans. A significant portion of these roughly nine million Americans will be forced to buy a new insurance policy with higher premiums than they currently pay.
Economist Justin Wolfers tweeted the previous few paragraphs as a chart:
With a huge assist from Jon Gruber & @RyanLizza I made a graph to help you understand winners & losers from Obamacare pic.twitter.com/0LoYNNrXGr— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 31, 2013
I posed this question to several smart folks I know — journalists, scholars, think-tank folks — and this what they said.
Boston University health economist Austin Frakt, who blogs at The Incidental Economist (a must-read), said he breaks down winners and losers into short-term, mid-term and long term.
"Short term there are no winners," Frakt wrote, mostly because of the problems with the rollout. Even if the website issues are fixed by the end of this month, as promised, it will still be hard to get consumers signed up by Dec. 15 for coverage that begins on the first of the new year.
Looking ahead, Frakt wrote:
Medium term (next year, more or less): Providers and would-be Medicaid beneficiaries in non-expansion states are losers. Winners are those who finally get coverage (let's assume the exchanges function by or soon after the new year). Entities that had to scramble and make sub-optimal decisions due to late-functioning exchanges lose. Same for people who were impatient and jumped at bad deals.
Still, this will be an uncertain, transition period. There may be insurers that opt not to re-enter the market next year. There may be exchanges that look unstable. I would expect some will be near failure, if not fail. All the obvious entities in those states will be losers, unless something can be done.
Big winners are researchers and those who might consume their work. We will learn a lot about exchanges. This is good for the future of health policy.
Long term (well beyond next year): I expect more states to expand Medicaid, bringing the obvious winners. I expect most exchanges to function, and that's a big win for residents of those states. I expect Congress to continue to not be able to sensibly deal with failing exchanges and other glitches in the law, so there will be losers.
On the whole, I think the law will prove to be successful, and I consider that a win for America. If only we could make sensible mid-course corrections we'd all be winners.
Cost control will remain an issue. If we don't make progress there, we'll all be losers in the very long term. But we may have a decade before that really binds.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA official, suggested many of the same winners and losers as I identified above.
Other winners include older, sicker patients who do not have employer-provided health insurance, as well as lower-income younger families who earn between $40,000 and $60,000 a year, because they will qualify for subsidies that will lower their costs.
Among the losers: Those who are young and healthy, who will pay more for coverage than they did before. Families who earn more than $60,000 face high premiums even with subsidies. "Also upper income healthy people lose big. They're forced to buy a pricier policy than they probably want or need with no benefit of subsidies."
The biggest losers (I agree) are those who earn less than the federal poverty level and who live in states that did not expand their Medicaid programs. When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, Congress envisioned that every state would expand Medicaid and it did not set aside money to provide premium subsidies for those patients in the health insurance exchanges. So they will neither receive Medicaid nor help paying their premiums.
Ironically, in the same states, federal subsidies are available for those who earn more than the poverty level. "Instead of getting Medicaid, they now get Obamacare with full subsidy. If they are young, a bronze plan could be very cheap," Gottlieb wrote. Although their out-of-pocket costs will be higher than under Medicaid, "they'll get a better policy with a real network that while skinny, will surely beat Medicaid."
Dan Diamond, managing editor of the Advisory Board's Daily Briefing, told me he thought it was too early to pick winners and losers based on the current website problems. But if they hold he said:
Insurers MAY lose — they may get fewer new customers in year one than expected, despite making investments in IT systems, acceding to market reforms, and other perceived sacrifices.
Hospitals and doctors MAY lose, if more folks stay uninsured and they have to carry more bad debt.
On the flip side, debt-collection agencies MIGHT win!
But would that be a win for America?
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"On a very obvious level, winners include young adults who can now remain on their parents health plans until age 26."
This was already the case, my son turned 26 recently, up until then he had received coverage under my name.
You say that some will pay less in the new marketplace for better coverage. That is a big "SOME." The truth is many more will pay a lot more. These plans have zero information regarding hospitals and doctors participating. You are going in blind. And daily you read about hospitals that won't participate including doctors that are opting out.
The country, American people and those of us who pay taxes will be the biggest losers as this cost of this legislation will have a detrimental effect on our economy. But then isn't that the goal. The employer mandate was extended for a year to limit the public from observing how many people will be dumped when that happens around election time. Imagine the fraud that will take place as a result.
The end game is government control over our lives making many dependent on the government ceding much power. Combine that with the systematic forced retirement of generals (don't agree w/Obama) we will be helpless. This is called the fundamental change of American delivered as promised.
Coverage for the uninsured could have been accomplished in a much different way and at a much lower cost.
"The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza had an interesting piece this week in which he spoke to economist Jon Gruber, who broke down winners and losers this way: About eighty per cent of Americans are more or less left alone by the health-care act—largely people who have health insurance through their employers."
WRONG. Husband's "retiree insurance" through his company that he worked for, for over 30 years, is now going to cost us $150 more a month! And they dropped vision for wife.
Company said it is because of "new health care laws enacted".
One very big positive with Obamacare is that seniors with medications are paying less. Pre-Obamacare, Medicare Part D only allowed 30-day prescription purchases. Now with the Obamacare changes, seniors are allowed 90-day prescription purchases, which are priced considerably lower per month. Uncle Sam also pays less, too, so taxpayers are seeing a savings. My grandmother is now saving more than $100 per month in her medicines per month, thanks to this improvement brought by Obamacare.
The people who win are those with existing conditions and those who are subsidized one way or another. Those who lose are those who have to pay more in order to pay for that, and the taxpayers who will have to bail the whole thing out in the near future.
Why would the writers of this piece include "journalists" in their group of "smart folks"? Seriously.
Have you been impressed with the "media" coverage of the program? Any more insights from this coverage than you, yourself, might have from watching CSPAN or reading the NYT and WSJ and the BBC website, perhaps?
Most media people turn out not to be journalists, and very few "media" organizations have any.
Those " with lower incomes who live in states that decided not to expand their Medicaid programs" are no worse off than they were before.
Arent Medicare recipients 'losers' because Medicare reimbursements are taking a big clipping to pay for Obamacare?
With the expansion of the risk pool to include those people with preexisting conditions whom can not afford or are denied coverage, it is not unexpected that some costs might go up. Over the years the risk pool has been sliced and diced so that every little sub group can find some policy that will cover what they perceive as necessary for themselves. Of course this perception quickly changes after a heart attack or a biopsy that comes back positive. I have read people complain about having to pay for maternity coverage they don't need. I ask those people to ask their mother or sisters. Recently I saw a comment about a canceled policy that looked very good, only it had no "out of pocket max". Any serious illness such as heart surgery, cancer treatment, organ transplant, major auto accident, birth of child with congenital defects etc. can run into the $100,000's where deductible and co-payments would easily exceed the "max out of pocket" for the year.
One good thing about any sort of insurance is feeling you will not face bankruptcy if some unexpected events happen
The whole USA will win if it gets parallel public and private health systems up and running as we have had in Australia for over 30 years. The two systems compliment each other. The Public does most of the teaching with University links, and the private takes the bulk of the run of the mill stuff out of the always stretched public system plus cosmetic surgery. Those insured get their treatment more quickly and can choose their doctor. But everybody gets excellent treatment eventually. I've worked in this system for 30 years as an anesthesiologist and I haven't met any Australians who don't like it.
That 80% figure will be dropping as employers begin to fire full time employees and re-hire part time workers, to avoid having to provide insurance programs that will become too costly. The savings will be well worth the splitting up of firms into smaller companies, operating under the same roof. Filling all new positions with part time workers in preparation for making future policy changes, and using labor force providers will be typical. Unions will not be able to protect part timers. That equates to savings for the employer.
It has already been predicted by political commentators that a bill will be introduced to close these loop-holes to prevent employers from using these tactics as a means to circumvent Obamacare. It has been typical for small business owners that have a growing company to come to the point where they must decide whether to make a financial commitment to expansion. Now, it will be deciding how they can start another firm to support the first and therefor avoid the 50 employee threshold that will require providing insurance. Legislation will be like trying to cover all the holes in a sieve. Can't be done.
Obamacare is going to hurt society, not help it. It does nothing to solve the high costs of medical care. It will be the cause of on-going expense that will be paid by the very people it was touted to help. We should be wondering why the politicians who support this debacle are doing it. Will they divulge how much money they received from the insurance industry?
I'm just over 136% of povert level. I can't afford the co-pay and the montly drug regimen. Penn. opted out and did not expand medicare. I will pay penalty first year and save up for next year and hope things change
We're all losers. Obamacare, its ameliorative qualities notwithstanding, will not address the primary problems of our so-called health care system: cost, systemic fragmentation, profit-driven payment system. Australia can continue to be happy with their private-public model, we need expanded Medicare for all, or some variant thereof, paid with a progressive taxing scheme on individuals and business. Bottom line: health care is not a business, it's a human right.
Are young, healthy people really "losers" just because they're paying more for coverage? "Young, healthy" people still have accidents, still get infections, still need check-ups, birth control, etcetera.
Losers include all of those whose doctors have discontinued accepting any insurance (as a first-step to avoid having to deal with the ACA mess), have quit practicing and/or have joined 'concierge' practices…which charge patients an annual fee that, in Florida, averages $1,500-2,000 annual to 'join.'
I personally know of seven (count 'em, **7**, as the old marquees over strip joints used to blast out) physicians in the Fort Lauderdale/Boca Raton area who have stopped 'accepting' any insurance as a direct result of the ACA. This is seemingly a quick ad hoc 'safeguard' against having to accept Medicare or Medicaid.
My previous two primary physicians have joined concierge practices. The issue with concierge medicine is that, in addition to the patients' annual fees, all other costs are higher as the physicians are free from 'insurance industry-negotiated' fees.
Medicare patients are especially suffering. I have a friend whose physical therapy (necessary to mitigate a crippling condition) has been slashed by 45% since June as a result of the ACA. The result is that the previous annual allowance for 70 sessions of physical therapy has been slashed to fewer than one per week. Other budget cuts are spinning down the conveyor belt for Medicare recipients. Also, Medicare does not reimburse any out-of-pocket fees paid to physicians who don't participate in the Medicare program.
I lived and worked in London for a bank in The City and none of the management used the lauded U.K. national medical care; they paid for it with taxes but used only private physicians and private hospitals.
If we're LUCKY, the ACA unintended consequences will yield the U.K. bifurcated medical system wherein the affluent (or thrifty and prudent) will have access to top-quality PRIVATE physicians and hospital care. If we're UNLUCKY, we'll lose even that right and will be stuck with only one option…the residue of whatever is left over.
For years I bought only major medical (catastrophic) insurance and self-insured for all the basic things. I was a non-smoker, non-drinker and healthy thus my premiums were titrated as I was deemed, actuarially-speaking, of lower risk for some of the usual medical crises. That is, I was rewarded, financially, for having a perceived (and actual) healthy lifestyle and habits. And I made my own risk/benefit analysis when buying insurance just I made any other risk/benefit financial calculations.
The ACA, which I'm happy to let be nicknamed Obama,- or Pelosi- or Demo-care for the step-parents who shoved this disaster onto American citizens through a fraudulent advertising campaign that didn't even hesitate at outright lies to the American public, but I digress, prevents people from being financially rewarded for healthy personal habits, lifestyle and other risk-related variables. I am a registered Independent who vigorously disagrees with the Federal government's presumption that it knows what I value and need more than I do and with the penalty that I will pay, in increased insurance premiums, for all the people who live more riskily or capriciously than I do or my family do. As an economic participant, my self-interest is sacrificed to the whims of others who have no concomitant legal, or financial, requirement to, at least, attempt to mitigate their own health risks. For the first time in my life, the fact that I do not smoke, will not yield a lower health "insurance" premium, nor will the heavy-smoking, heavy-drinking, malnourished pay a higher premium for their lifestyles or choices. That's just counter to any rational economic system.
I peer thru smoke of crypto-logic magicians heralding current solutions of yard sale scrap. They've picked for us to drink a wine of rotten fruit; we taste their inbred designed failure. A bitter tithe for which they came, an iron hand in which to grab all they want and all they can. I hear the vacuous tube from which they feed; a slurping all consuming sonic boom, like the thumping of rusted hearts. Their bald tires slowly leaking shame fan the fires they ignite. They thru prostitutes throw cash upon flame to hear more flaming rock to throw. Reason trampled under boot, but fruit must die before seed takes root…. -amyq
How does anyone know what physicians and hospitals will accept certain insurance plans ? How will they know if their medications are covered and if they are how much it will be out of pocket ? What will visits to the doctor's office cost out of pocket in copays ?
I would add to the Losers Column those who are already unable to avail themselves of the protected employer-sponsored group health plans because, well, uh, they are among the double-digit unemployed.
So the "Obamacare" bait-and-switch game will FIRST hurt those who are likely least able to absorb the premium sticker shock because they aren't employed or eligible for what economists and policy-wonks have long considered among the best of "employee benefits"—participation in group health insurance that is, even better, subsidized by the employer.
To put the heaviest burden on those who already pay a stunningly higher premium because they aren't members of insurance pools is, to me, the cruelest of Macchiavellian moves. This administration has cut 'deals' for all kinds of groups with deep-pocket lobbyists and unions on their behalf and 'leans' the heaviest on the group that is LEAST able to buy access to Obama or any representation on their behalf.
The only 'good news' is that this group will be hugely augmented as more and more employers stop offering any health care group plans so, at least, over time, the numbers of ACA-injured will grow and, just maybe, will perform due diligence before they vote again.
As Obama has taught us, any president can float off infinite numbers of Executive Orders so possibly the next president will undo the unjustice of the "Obamacare" coup.
Very surprised no one has mentioned the fact that the data used for this "pie chart" was obtained from Mitt Romney's former statistical adviser. No other statistical resources were used. Disappointed U of M was not scientifically ethical with the release of this data, but their one-source figures utilized to comprise their pie chart certainly defies the meaning of ethical research. Hope grant money was not utilized for this so-called "research."
I am switching to a concierge practice at the beginning of the year and dropping all insurance. My current plan had more than doubled since 0-blamercare passed in the middle of the night in March 2010. The policy is more than my house payment now. The IRS can only collect fines from your tax refund. I own my own business and never get a refund so I won't be paying any fines either. I have checked it out and this is one time the IRS can't come after you. Read the law.
I voted for Obama twice, for the record. I've never been enthusiastic about the ACA. It did nothing to address the artificial and capricious costs of medical care in the US, and it's an attempt to fix a patchwork system that can't really be fixed. A person with a $5,000 deductible plan doesn't really have ongoing, proactive care. That person chose that plan to get the lowest premiums, and likely is unable to put $500 aside to cover deductibles, much less $5,000. Most "non-profit" hospitals that once would carry a balance for one year, allowing the patient to pay the balance down, now refers struggling patients to private finance companies.
I agree, Alex. The ACA did/does nothing to improve medical care in this country. Worse, all large interested parties (e.g., unions) have negotiated exemptions and, let's be honest, favorable treatment.
Obama wants a Canadian system. I have friends in Canada who come to the U.S. for 'anything serious' because it's nearly impossible to see a specialist there in any timely manner, there being a severe shortage. Worse, there are no private doctors, or hospitals, in Canada so, unlike the wealthy in the U.K. who can pay more for 'better' treatment, the Canadians don't have that option.
But what most horrifies me about "Obamacare" is that it's an experiment being perpetrated on those LEAST able to protect themselves; those who aren't part of employer-subsidized health care, those who cannot benefit from 'group plan' economies of scale. That is the people who are ALREADY paying the highest insurance premiums, for ANY given level of benefits, are being 'cancelled' by their insurers and forced to pay significantly more! That is so outrageously unconscionable that I cannot understand how the elected representatives who voted for the act…'unread' no less, though these reps are usually attorneys who would never a client to sign a contract unread…should all be voted out of office for breach of promise and implied breach of contract with their constituents.
Obama, in flat out lying about the consequences of "Obamacare" must have decided, a la Jack Nicholson in Top Gun, that we the citizens of this country "cannot handle the truth" and that it's acceptable to lie at the cost of millions of Americans. I can afford medical care, I can even afford to travel abroad for good care if that becomes an intelligent option, so I don't a personal dog in this race. But I remain stunned at the cynicism of the Obama administration and its unhesitating decision to just lie…to just shove a bill through, unread, no matter how much damage it does to huge numbers of innocent people. The backlash will be interesting; maybe people will take their country back and reserve, for the themselves, the right to make their own economic decisions.
Good point Lisa! Problem is there are so many uninformed and brainwashed voters who blindly follow their party's pied piper. And trying to find the actual facts and truth is becoming harder and harder. For all the info that I can find, it looks like, the start up of the Obamacare health site has, so far, cost taxpayers 13 million dollars for EVERY uninsured American. If this is true, does this make sense? .
I went to my cardiologist recently and there were signs posted everywhere that United Healthcare Medicare supplemental plans have significantly reduced their doctor network and that they were no longer on it. With fewer doctors in networks, the wait for appointments and care will be longer.
I am lucky to have continued my employer insurance into retirement (premiums taken out of pension) but I'm afraid of the changes and the increased costs that may happen under Obamacare, especially if the employer dumps our retiree health plans into the exchanges.
Only having seen a doctor 3 times this year, I could have paid the "inflated" charges billed to insurance myself and it would have been less than what my insurance premiums, co pays, and deductibles are. Some doctors and clinics no longer accept insurance but are charging less for services.
I would like to think positive, but I just don't see a good outcome for a lot of us in the middle class.
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LOS ANGELES -- In the Washington Post, religion and sexuality scholar Donna Freitas tells college students it's "time to stop hooking up." The hookup "culture" -- "a lifestyle of unemotional, unattached sex" -- is so pervasive and obligatory on college campuses, Freitas says, that it's become the new "conformity."
So she's urging young people to engage in a more radical sexual experiment: Ask each other on real dates, or else abstain from sex altogether.
"Today, sexual experimentation might be getting to know someone before having sex, holding out for dates and courtship focused on romance rather than sex," Freitas writes. Barring that, "taking a step back from being sexually active for even a weekend -- or as long as a semester, as one of my students did -- can be extraordinarily empowering."
If only young people's problems could be solved by getting a significant other (or, presumably, a masturbatory aid). First of all, students on college campuses aren't actually hooking up that much.
Lisa Wade, of Sociological Images, who has researched hookup culture extensively, has found that "between two thirds and three quarters of students hookup at some point during college."
Since the term "hookup" can include everything from just kissing (where around 32 per cent of college hookups end) to intercourse (40 per cent of hookups), that means only that college students are engaging in as little as one makeout every four years.
One study found that among students who did hook up in college, 40 per cent did it three or fewer times total (less than one hookup a year); 40 per cent did it between four and nine times (one to two hookups a year); and 20 per cent did it 10 or more times.
Less than 15 percent of college students are engaging in some form of physical contact more than twice a year. It's unlikely the solution is for students to have even less casual sex.
Freitas isn't the only one who falsely believes casual sex is "obligatory" in college. Students themselves routinely overestimate the number of hookups their peers are having.
In one survey conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 77 per cent of students reported that their peers are hooking up more than they are. Wade found that student misconceptions about college hookup culture began even before they set foot on campus, thanks to "media portrayals of college life" courtesy of gross-out movies, Girls Gone Wild and journalistic accounts like Freitas'.
And it's not that college students think their sexually-active peers are cooler than they are; half of students look down on people they think hookup too much. Many of the students who are casting a negative view of "hookup culture" aren't actually taking part.
In 2006, Freitas conducted her own study among 1,230 undergrads and found that "45 per cent of participants at Catholic schools and 36 per cent at nonreligious private and public schools said their peers were too casual about sex."
That's a lot of talk about sex, and not very much action. Wade concluded that there "is no hookup epidemic" on college campuses -- the problem is not that students are having "too much" casual sex, but rather that many of them are dissatisfied with the sex they are having (or in the case of peer shaming, the sex other students are having).
In one survey of her own students, Wade found about 11 per cent of them "expressed unequivocal enjoyment of hookup culture," 50 per cent were hooking up "ambivalently or reluctantly," and 38 per cent opted out of the "culture" altogether.
While many men were dissatisfied with the outcome of their hookups -- and some women counted themselves among the 11 per cent -- Wade found women on campus faced particular difficulty in locating pleasure, meaning and empowerment in sex. These women wanted to "explore their sexuality in the context of benevolence," not relationships.
They "wanted sex to be meaningful," but "they didn't mean that they only wanted to have sex in the context of love."
They truly wanted "friends with benefits" -- but it ended up feeling pretty antagonistic.
Unfortunately, Freitas' recommendations won't improve the situation. Students who do couple up don't necessarily fare any better than those who hookup.
And again, women often fare worse. One 2008 study, which tracked the sexual experiences of a group of college women over the course of a year, found that even the women engaged in more traditional relationships were not totally satisfied, or even safe, just because they had found committed partners. Women with boyfriends faced the risk of "stalking and emotional abuse," "anxiety or depression," and months wasted "attempting to repair or end a relationship."
In a culture where "men's sexual pleasure is prioritized over women's," Wade writes, "women's negative experiences with hooking up may be less related to its casual nature than to the fact that it occurs within a system of gender inequality that makes women vulnerable to men generally."
If young women can't find someone they like making out with just once, the solution is not to make out with the same person over and over again.
That leaves college students with one final option: abstinence. Wade cites one study that found that women who delayed "both sex and dating" during their college careers could insulate themselves from the negative effects of both casual and committed relationships, for a time.
Looking at it that way, opting out of sex doesn't sound terribly empowering -- it sounds like a last resort.
The environment described by these studies is not a "hookup culture." It's a culture of negativity around sex and relationships generally. Instead of taking the "radical" step of keeping it in their pants, college students should tackle the problem at the source: Make out, but respect the person you kiss. Ask them out, but respect when they don't want to date you anymore. Or just don't have sex, but respect the people who do.
Amanda Hess is a writer and editor in Los Angeles. She blogs for DoubleX on sex, science, and health.


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I found 2 chips in the paint of my Platinum 22.5 inch Weber grill. I e-mailed them about how to fix it and within 5 days, they had sent me a completely new lid. Wow! That is incredible customer service and yet another reason to only buy Weber. I can't wait to buy a gas grill from them now.
That brings me to 2 questions: The first is now that I have 2 usable lids, I plan on using one to "experiment" with and mount a thermometer in. There are lots of threads on this that I have read so I just wanted to ask if there is any hard earned wisdom out there that could be shared before I start. I know that you are supposed to mount it as close to the cooking surface as possible and use high temp. grill paint to seal metal before mounting thermometer. I am looking online but have been unable to find one that is suitable to my tastes. I have finals through the 11th but I can't wait to get to work on it.
The second question is about the thermoset on my platinum grill. The work surface is made out of this stuff and it has worked great so far except that I have noticed a crack on one side of it which is getting bigger. It is not deep (barely catches the fingernail when running across it) but Is this normal or should I contact Weber about it?


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A DESPERATE search is under way for a beloved cocker spaniel lost from Tolpuddle last week.
Edward, a largely black two-year-old gun dog with a white neck and chest, ran away from owners Callum and Emma Lewis at around 10.30am on Thursday.
At the weekend a possible sighting was made in Sopley, near Bournemouth Airport, leading to speculation he may have been stolen and then dumped.
Scores of people have joined in the search since Mrs Lewis, 25, put an appeal on Facebook. A Twitter hastag #letsfindedward, has also been started.
"We have had him for two years now, he is a pretty lively dog and is half trained as a gun dog," said Mr Lewis, also 25.
"I can take him out when I'm working and when we go out shooting every now and then. My wife called him Edward, I think she just thought he looked like one.
"We last saw him out on the farm, he was acting strangely as if he had been stung by a wasp, then he ran off into the village.
"We chased after him but he was always one step ahead of us."
He said that friends and family were now out searching, and even complete strangers had joined in after spotting the appeal on social media and the entry on doglost.co.uk.
After no sightings for three days, a black cocker spaniel matching Edward's description was spotted in a distressed state on Sopley Common on Sunday at around 5.30pm, some 23 miles from home.
"The lady who saw him said she was almost 100 per cent sure it was him after seeing the pictures," added Mr Lewis.
"We are quite worried as she described him being quite nervous and anxious, so he might be keeping away from people.
"But we are pretty sure he is still out there somewhere."
Edward is microchipped but not wearing a collar.
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NORFOLK, Va. - Junior Alyssa Baron had a game-high 22 points and freshman Keiera Ray had 14 in her collegiate debut, but the University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team was thwarted each time they made a run during the 2012-13 season opener. Norfolk State pulled away in the closing minutes to win 60-51 at Joseph Echols Hall on Friday night.
The season opener for both teams also marked the first-ever meeting between the two schools. Penn (0-1) trailed by three with just 1:45 to play, but, as they did throughout the contest, the Spartans (1-0) would not relinquish the lead. The home team hit some late free throws and sealed the game.
Baron had the first six points of the season for Penn and the Quakers led 6-4 just seven minutes into the opener. But the Red and Blue went nearly six minutes before their next bucket. Ray broke the drought with the first basket of her collegiate career and Penn trailed 13-8.
The teams shared baskets for the next several minutes as Courtney Wilson's jumper had Penn within 22-17 at the 3:20 mark of the opening half. But Norfolk State had the last four points of the half and led 26-17 at the break.
The Spartans quickly jumped out to a 30-19 lead to start the second half. But the Quakers showed some early-season resiliency on the road. Sophomore Meghan McCullough hit a three and Baron dropped in a layup. Ray followed that with a pair of buckets and when Baron drained a three from the wing, it capped a 14-4 run and had the Quakers within 34-33 at the 13:45 mark.
Over the next five minutes, Norfolk State built its lead back to double digits, 46-36. But Penn came back once again.
The Quakers started to chip away at the deficit when Baron hit a jumper and Ray turned a steal into a layup. Sophomore Katy Allen sliced through the defense for a layup and when Baron added another two points, Penn was down just 48-45 with 6:02 to go.
The Red and Blue had several chances to tie the game over the next few minutes, but Norfolk State never relinquished the lead. Sophomore Kara Bonenberger's layup with 1:45 to go moved momentum into Penn's favor and the deficit to 52-49. On Penn's next possession, Baron appeared to have a chance to tie the game with a basket and a foul, but the call went against the Quakers and Norfolk State held on with several free throws down the stretch.
Baron was 8-of-20 from the floor and had a team-high seven rebounds and two steals in addition to two assists. Ray was 6-of-12 from the field with three rebounds and two steals in 27 minutes off the bench. McCullough added five points and six rebounds, while sophomore Kathleen Roche finished with a team-high three assists. Roche also earned her first career start as the opener marked the first time in 57 games in which a freshman did not start for the Quakers.
Both teams shot under 35 percent for the game as Penn was 20-of-63 (32%) and Norfolk State finished 19-of-56 (34%). Penn was just 2-of-14 (14.3%) from beyond the arc, while the Spartans made 3-of-10 (30%). The Quakers forced 22 turnovers, but had 19 of their own. Penn was outrebounded, 46-35.
Penn returns home to take on Virginia, who is receiving votes in the AP Top 25 poll, in the home opener at The Palestra on Monday. This will be the first-ever trip to The Palestra for the ACC foe. Tip off is set for 7 p.m.
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Next open a bottle of wine, maybe some chilled rosé, and set out some glasses so everyone can help themselves. Finally, put some fresh pita bread and a bowl of salad on the table, composed basically of chopped tomatoes, cucumber, fresh herbs and some olive oil. Commence talking and sipping while enjoying this perfect snack, one I think is about thousand miles away from the usual chips and salsa.


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The winners of this year's pumpkin-carving contest have been chosen -- and they're monstrously spectacular.We'd like to thank everyone who participated this year, and we can't wait to see your mad scientist skills in action again next time around. Congratulations to the top (5) winners of this year's Pumpkin Carving Contest, who will win their very own iPad™ (64 GB).
"Zerg Overlord"
"Overlord and creep tumors helping to make a creep filled Halloween!"
Ian Fisher
San Rafael, CA
"Diablo III"
"Assorted D3 Character Classes D: Male Monk I: Male Wizard A: Male Barbarian B: Female Wizard L: Female Witch Doctor O: Female Monk"
Seth DeHaven
Fort Wayne, IN
Bryan Mitchell
Henderson, Nevada
"Deathwing a la Squash, based on the official concept art in the Blizzard Art Gallery. I couldn't quite find a pumpkin big enough for what I wanted to do, so I cut my losses and stacked one on top of another so I could get some more details in there."
Amy Phillips
Chicago, Illinois
"Night Elf Mohawk"
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Qantas tie-up is bad for tourismTony Webber
Published: November 29 2012 - 2:04PM
The tie-up between Qantas and Emirates may be good for Qantas but it is unambiguously bad for tourism.
Qantas decided to team up with Emirates because it could not achieve its targeted returns on international routes in which it competes head-to-head with Emirates, including London Heathrow, Frankfurt and the Tasman.
This failure to reach targets can be put down to four key forces – excess supply causing low yields, elevated jet fuel prices resulting in higher long haul costs, weak global economy and asset prices hurting travel in premium cabins, and competitor carriers offering a superior product at a lower price.
And it's not my view on Qantas' product vis-a-vis competitors – it's the view of well known airline surveys. I actually believe that Qantas' product is brilliant, but my view is shaped by the fact that I have flown at the front of Qantas planes many times, I have worked for the airline for years and would easily work for them again.
Qantas has no direct control over the seats brought into the market by competitors, the global price of oil, the state of the global economy and asset prices, its geographical hub location and the fact that air rights are negotiated bilaterally between Governments. It can optimally respond to these forces, which is where I think it can do better, but these optimal responses only reduce their impact they don't stop it.
Qantas also has little choice but to charge a higher price than competitors, even though competitors may have a superior product, because its unit costs are higher. If Qantas wants to remain Australian then it is faced with significantly higher labour costs and tax liabilities. No productivity improvements or cost transformation programmes in the world can bridge the unit cost gap.
Faced with excess supply, low yields, high costs and limited ability to compete against top quality opposition, Qantas' international earnings have suffered. This has restricted its ability to pump more money into product improvement which, circularly, has further weakened its ability to compete with class opposition.
The tie-up with Emirates takes out a very intimidating head-to-head competitor and provides Qantas the opportunity to transform an adverse exposure to Emirates unrelenting capacity growth to a favourable exposure.
Geoff Dixon clearly doesn't agree with this. My guess is for the following reasons. The first is that Qantas has been very outspoken in the past about Emirates and the subsidies it allegedly enjoys. By now declaring unconditional love and admiration for Emirates the long term messaging is clearly confusing.
Secondly, it's bad for tourism. The world without the arrangement between Qantas and Emirates will have fewer international seats than the world with it. Fewer seats means fewer passengers, including inbound tourists. While Qantas will divert some capacity from Europe to Asia as a result of the tie-up, the net impact will be fewer seats entering and leaving the Australian market.
Thirdly, the tie-up is risky for a number of reasons. Australians and Europeans have a love affair with stopovers in Asia, with around 50 per cent of passengers travelling between Australia and Europe enjoying a stopover. The Australia to Dubai sector is much longer than to Asia, therefore Dubai is not as effective as breaking up the journey to Europe.
Lastly, the large Jewish community in Australia and Europe may be apprehensive about travel via Dubai. And passengers that book on Qantas but fly on Emirates may sample the superior product for themselves and next time book directly on Emirates.
It's also clear that Dixon and Joyce don't see eye-to-eye on the value associated with selling off or floating key airline operating segments, such as the Frequent Flyer Program, Jetstar and to a lesser extent the freight business. Interestingly, they still appear to see eye-to-eye on the 65 per cent domestic market share strategy – not all of Dixon's strategies are apparently duds.
Much of the impetus for the current agitation by Dixon and his mates boils down to the current price of Qantas stock. Trading at $1.32 this afternoon, the stock looks cheap by historical standards, but is it?
Qantas appears to take the view that its balance sheet and future earnings trajectory should have the stock valued much higher. I agree. But the stock's valuation is not determined objectively on the basis of this information.
It is determined on the basis of how investors and analysts translate this information into a stock price. On the basis of my modelling of the historical performance of the stock over the past seven years, which implicitly includes investor views, the value of the stock is currently worth just $1.45.
Can Dixon and his mates transform the international segment of the business so that it more consistently achieves target returns? The short answer is no – but no one can. I have a significant amount of respect for the CEO of Qantas international, Simon Hickey, but I don't think he can either. The forces that are beyond the control of Qantas are just too great and unpredictable. It is for this very reason that 50 per cent of air capacity into and out of Australia is wholly or partly government owned.
Tony Webber was Qantas Group chief economist between 2004 and 2011. He is now managing director of Webber Quantitative Consulting and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/qantas-tieup-is-bad-for-tourism-20121129-2aht8.html


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French striker Thierry Henry, who played in one of the world's most famous clubs and is still a member of the French national squad, told that he became a Muslim as he was impressed by his teammates Anelka and Ribery, who converted to Islam previously. Thierry Henry also expressed that the more he reads the Qur'an, the more he comprehends Islam.
"My teammates Anelka, Abidal and Ribery contributed a lot in my conversion to Islam. The more they told me about Islam, the more I felt myself close to Islam. Deep in my heart I did believe in Islam and it became a priority in my life."
After becoming Muslim, Henry told to people;
"I am calling for people of other religious faiths. If they are curious about Islam, they should just look around and observe the world. So, they can understand Islam."


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Update: Troubleshooting "AIR validation failed" message. See below.
Update 2: Using Flex 4.5.1 on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Update 3: RIM has announced BlackBerry Tablet OS 1.0.6 with AIR 2.7. The workaround mentioned below is no longer required.
As you might already know, the BlackBerry PlayBook from RIM will initially be shipping with AIR 2.5, not AIR 2.6 (this is to come later in an update to the device). Flex 4.5 SDK requires AIR 2.6 as the minimum supported runtime – this is because of specific feature support (such as soft keyboard) as well as bug fixes/performance improvements. We know however that a lot of you are eager to develop Flex 4.5 applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS, so I'd like to share an unsupported workaround that you can use in the meantime.
I've created a playbook_overrides.swc that monkey patches the release build of the Flex 4.5 SDK to remove all AIR 2.6 dependencies. This allows you to publish a Flex 4.5 application that targets AIR 2.5. Here are some instructions to get you started. Again, keep in mind that this is an unsupported hack until (1) AIR 2.6 is available on the PlayBook and (2) Flex and Flash Builder update to 4.5.x in June 2011.
- Flash Builder 4.5
- BlackBerry Tablet SDK and Plugin 1.0.1
- playbook_overrides.zip (Contains playbook_overrides.fxpl, playbook_overrides.swc and TwitterTrendsFinal.fxp example project)
- Create a new Flex Mobile project with BlackBerry Tablet OS as a target platform
- Add playbook_overrides to the library path. This SWC patches SDK and Mobile Theme classes to remove soft keyboard dependencies. Download: playbook_overrides.zip
- Open Project Properties > Flex Compiler
- Add "-swf-version=10" in "Additional compiler arguments"
- Open Project Properties > Flex Build Packaging > BlackBerry Tablet OS > Advanced tab.
- Add "-forceAirVersion 2.5"
- Run/Debug to device or emulator
- Crash on launch (application briefly appears in launcher, then closes).
Make sure -swf-version=10 is set in additional compiler arguments.
- Blank or stuck on splash screen on launch
Usually indicates a runtime error. Could indicate an AIR 2.6 dependency VerifyError.
- Error dialog when packaging: "error 102: invalid namespace http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.6.0 Error: AIR validation failed"
Change the namespace in your /project/src/project-app.xml from "2.6.0" to "2.6"
Next Steps
- Refactor your project into 2 projects to target Android with AIR 2.6 support and BlackBerry Tablet OS with AIR 2.5 support simultaneously
- Use the BlackBerry Tablet SDK for native controls in your Flex Mobile project
- Try the TwitterTrendsFinal.fxp in the playbook_overrides.zip. This FXP already links playbook_overrides.swc and is ready to deploy. All it needs is an update to blackberry-tablet.xml to add the <author> and <authorId> of your debug token to deploy to a PlayBook.


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Sailor wrote:(Kind of a strange Topic title from a guy who has spent most of his life at sea I suppose):I believe that I am not using my EP stones efficiently, here is my dilema, and I know you folks will chime in here and further my education, I learn much from you all.The process of sharpening for me involves three steps, knowledge of the steel, knowledge, or a thought process at least of what the knife is being used for and finally the art of actual sharpening the knife. For me, I have only until recently focused on the last process. I can get a knife sharp, have been doing that for a long time but now I realize there is more to it. Please keep in mind that I have a knife sharpening business and 75% of my knives are European, Wusthof, Henckels and many Victorionox, Dexter Russell. The rest are Global, Shun or MAC. Also please note that until recently my sole focus has been to get each of these knives, regardless of their quality or purpose to an extremely sharp, polished edge with a minimum of 5K finish followed by stropping. (If I am applying compound bevels on the knife, I will naturally go much higher in grit on the Relief Angle but the 5k is my normal Micro Bevel finish)Now, I have come to realize that it is not necessary to to put a 5K Shapton Pro edge on a 30 dollar Henckels and in fact it could be detrimental to the user.That was then, this is now:I now finish European knives at 2K or even the 600 EP and I'm finding several advantages to this.*I spend less time sharpening the knife*The edge is still screamin sharp and meets my standards (remember I have to satisfy customers);*Saving wear and tear on my Shapton and Chosera stones by using the EP stones for the heavy lifting and they do a fine job on the knives anyway. ( I save my Shaptons for better knives)* I believe the customer will be happier in the long run because their knife will retain that edge a little longer. I use the 5k now for the VG10 knives - I stop at 5KI do not understand yet why this is working the way it does, i.e. why a 2k finish is better for some knives, and perhaps that is due to my lack of education on steel. I do know that after 900 knives (and not one complaint by the way) that I still love to learn new ways to be smart about the edges and not just blindly sharpen every knife to 5K, test it on telephone book paper and then move to the next knife. I suppose this is what following a passion like this is all about, learning, improving, making mistakes and education, being here is an education process for me.(The next part of my journey is to purchase a Japanese knife from Mark and sharpen that, I look forward to that because one of these days, I'll get one from a customer, I've only had about 5 so far and I'd like my own to be completely comfortable)I don't really have a question but I welcome any comments that would support what I'm doing or even better say "what are you thinking....this is the way you should be doing it" Peter
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Halaelurus boesemani
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Halaelurus boesemani
|Species Authority:
|Springer & D'Aubrey, 1972
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Weigmann, S. 2016. Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology 88(3): 837-1037.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|This species was confused with H. buergeri until Springer and D'Aubrey (1972) found it to be a different species (Compagno 1984). Previously considered to occur in the Philippines, Viet Nam and northwestern Australia but two new species recently described from Indonesia/Philippines and northwestern Australia have resulted in a more restricted range for this species (White et al. 2007). The Vietnam populations need to be examined further as it is unsure which Halaelurus species they are (W. White pers. obs.)
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|White, W.T., Compagno, L.J.V. & Henderson, A.
|Valenti, S.V. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
The Speckled Catshark (Halaelurus boesemani) is a relatively small, poorly known catshark. Previously considered to be much wider ranging, but two new Halaelurus species recently described from Indonesia/Philippines and northwest Australia have reduced its distribution. This species is now known only from nine specimens collected in three localities, relatively close to each other, on the Horn of Africa, Somalia, although the area is relatively poorly sampled. It occurs on continental and insular shelves at depths of 37-91 m, and reaches 48 cm in length. Its restricted known distribution suggests extent of occurrence is less than 20,000 km², although the area is relatively poorly sampled. Very little specific information is currently available on the fisheries operating within its range, but it may be a bycatch of "catch all" opportunistic fisheries and demersal trawls. Habitat destruction and pollution may also be a threat to this species' inshore range. At present it is not possible to assess this species beyond Data Deficient due to a lack of information on the fisheries operating within its range and catches.
|Range Description:
|Western Indian Ocean: Horn of Africa, Gulf of Aden, Somalia (Compagno 1984). Its restricted known distribution suggests extent of occurrence is less than 20,000 km², although the area is relatively poorly sampled.
|Countries occurrence:
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
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|A largely unknown catshark, living on continental and insular shelves at depths of 37-91 m (Compagno 1984). This species is born at greater than 7 cm, and reaches a maximum size of 48 cm total length (TL), with male adults ranging from 42-48 cm TL and female adults ranging from 43-47 cm TL (Compagno 1984). The biology of this species remains largely unknown.
|Major Threat(s):
This species is small and would be vulnerable to capture in demersal trawl fisheries and some net fisheries. Sharks are reported to play an important role in both the artisanal and traditional Somali fisheries, although no information is available on the catch species composition and other demersal species are reportedly lightly exploited (FAO 2007). This species is very small and is probably not targeted, although it may be subject to bycatch. Although little specific information is available on artisanal fisheries in Somali waters, small-scale fisheries in nearby countries (such as Oman) tend to be opportunistic, using a variety of net-types to catch as much as possible, and similar practices may be used in Somalia (A. Henderson pers. comm. 2007). Fisheries in Somalia are largely unregulated, with numerous reports of widespread illegal foreign fishing in Somali waters (Young et al. 2006, Somali Fisheries Society 2004). The potential for fisheries to expand and increase in effort is also high; Somalia reportedly intends to accelerate fisheries development (Young et al. 2006).
This species may also be affected by habitat degradation on the continental shelf, as a result of agriculture, coastal development and pollution.
|Conservation Actions:
|None in place. Research is required on life-history, the impact of threats and potential and actual levels of bycatch. Surveys are needed to further define this species' distribution and abundance.
|White, W.T., Compagno, L.J.V. & Henderson, A. 2009. Halaelurus boesemani. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161488A5435391. . Downloaded on 23 August 2017.
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The Vision of Hope Fund supports initiatives and innovative strategies that provide adults and communities with the knowledge and tools to recognize risk factors or signs of abuse and learn to become the interveners and protectors of children. Funding is also available for crisis intervention and therapy to help victims of sexual violence recover. Equally critical are efforts to identify and disseminate the most effective treatment interventions in helping young victims recover.
View the call for Letters of Inquiry [1].
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What are the correct append parameters to make bt4-final boot via a pxe server? All I can find on the internet is the following:
LABEL backtrack
KERNEL /backtrack/vmlinuz-126.96.36.199
APPEND netboot=http httproot=http://10.x.x.x/backtrack initrd=/backtrack/initrd.img-188.8.131.52 vga=791 ramdisk_size=10000 root=/dev/ram0 rw
Unfortunately i am doing something wrong because after vmlinuz and initrd are loaded (and executed) I get a busybox shell...I can provide both nfs and http(s) exports for mountpoints. It seems af if the final bt4 dvd doesn't contain the pxe script anymore..


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NVIDIA GeForce 314.07 WHQL Availableby Jarred Walton on 2/18/2013 1:37 PM EST
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biostud - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkwrong digit in title Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkAlready corrected. Reply
JeffFlanagan - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkI'd just like to have reliable HDMI audio, without having to disable and re-enable hdmi audio in the Nvidia driver every single time I switch my receiver back to PC from another source. Let's get the basics right before tweaking performance. Reply
daniel142005 - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkInteresting, which card and OS are you using? I've never had this happen and all I use for audio is HDMI, PC HDMI -> TV -> Optical out to surround sound. Reply
Willardjuice - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkYep I have the exact same issue. In addition, nvidia has never fixed the "silent stream bug". Hdmi audio is the one place amd definitely beats nvidia in (at least wrt drivers). Reply
Kevin G - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkDo these drivers have any references to GK110 based parts? Reply
lmcd - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkUp to 5% or 105% performance?
I'd consider 5% a pretty huge regression. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - linkFixed, Mr. Snark. :p Reply
andy5174 - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - linkThese versions all require additional 12mV (default 1.0V) to OC gtx460 to 850-1700-4000 and hence lead to 3~5C increase in temperature. Reply


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Topic: It's been three months...
....since my heart was broken. My dear husband and best friend left me on Nov. 18th., 2011. It still feels very surreal. I think back to all of our 32 years together and I never once thought, even after he was diagnosed that this would really happen. Being a widow at 54 was never contemplated. As others have said in their posts, it's hard to imagine being "single' again when you've been part of someone else's life for so long. There are so many things to get used to, I don't know if you ever really can. I had surgery to replace my knee on Feb. 7th.I'm doing fine but I really miss Tom being here to help me through this. My kids and family have been great but it's just not the same. I miss him so much. I think it will be better when Spring comes but then I will be like Darla and have to greet customers and tell them Tom is gone. Everyone that bought plants and produce from us loved talking to him. Most local people already know but we have a lot of out of town "regulars" and I hate the idea of having to go through these emotions over and over. A relative brought me a story from Ladies Home Journal about Patrick Swayze's wife and her life since losing him. She thought our experiences were almost identical to theirs and she was right. His widow said after two years she is just starting to get up every day and not think that her life sucks. I honestly understand her sentiments. I just hope it is better in two years.
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Happy DiwaliGanesh, Lakshmi and Kuber Puja is the most important puja on Diwali day. But apart from this there are numerous other rituals and festivals that are held on the day. Here is a list of pujas and rituals and festivals observed on Diwali day on November 5, 2010
Abhyanga Snan – Ritual bathing during Diwali
Yama Tarpanam – For dead Ancestors
Naraka Chaturdasi – Deepavali celebrations in
South India
Kali Puja – Worship of Goddess Kali in
Sharda Puja – Dedicated to Goddess Saraswati
Lakshmi Puja – Worship of Goddess Lakshmi
Kamala Mahavidya Jayanti – Worship of Goddess Kamala – Tantric worship of Goddess Lakshmi
Tihar Festival – Diwali in
Chopda Puja – Muhurat Puja in
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By 'eck lad. George is a Lancashire lad, born n' bred. From Rochdale in the north of merry old England! He plays in the local brass band with his dad. Well, George has a vivid imagination and sometimes when he is out playing his trumpet he dreams of days of old…Knights in shining armour, riding his trusty steed, rescuing maidens and marrying a princess. He lives in a world of make believe and fantasy…fighting fire breathing dragons with the ancient Lancastrian martial art of 'ecky thump! In his mind he is a famous king with a magical sword, pulled from the stone….then he wakes and finds the band has arrived at it's destination…the Red Dragon Pub!
This is a fun, funny, cheerful and jolly piece of music. Ideal for kids programmes or media projects involving children. It is playful and a good fit for cartoons, games and other such wacky uses that need to perhaps tell a story or make you smile.
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Sioux Empire Community Theatre Presents THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [ABRIDGED], 1/17
Sioux Empire Community Theatre presents 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]' by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield in the Anne Zabel Studio Theater, January 17 - 26, 2013.
See all thirty-seven of Shakespeare's plays in 97 minutes. This lightning-paced romp throws some of the most treasured plays of all time into one performance, and will have Shakespeare lovers and haters jumping out of their seats and rolling down the aisle in sheer joy.
Show Dates and Times are as Follows: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 7:30pm, Friday, January 18, 2013 at 7:30pm, Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 7:30pm, Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 2:00pm, Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 7:30pm, Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7:30pm, Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 7:30pm and Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 2:00pm.
Tickets are $10 and go on sale Monday November 26th.
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A STEPHEN Thompson-inspired Darlington extended their unbeaten run to eleven games after outmuscling Kendal with a powerful second-half display.
The Mintcakes led through Warren Beattie's penalty – Kendal's first successful spot-kick in six attempts – before the prolific Amar Purewal levelled matters before the break.
Thompson gave the visitors the lead as a Jordan Robinson strike and a late double from substitute Dale Hopson ensured the Quakers left Parkside Road with an emphatic win.
Dave Foster made a solitary chance to his line-up from Kendal's last match against Cammell Laird with the fit-again Danny Mitchley coming in for Callum Hoctor.
The first chance of the game fell to Mitchley in the sixth minute after a long clearance from Danny MacDonald caught the wind and evaded the Darlington defence.
In the clear, the former Blackpool forward fired past keeper Mark Bell only for his effort to strike the underside of the bar, with the rebound cleared off the line by Alan White.
Kendal's bright start to the game continued and the home side opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 16th minute after Joe Tait handled Danny Coid's corner.
Despite Bell guessing correctly, the ball spun off the former Blyth Spartans stopper into the opposite corner of the net – Beattie's third goal since returning from a knee injury in December.
Conditions were making free-flowing football extremely difficult with Darlington, playing into the wind in the first-half, struggling to make much headway in the attacking third.
However, against the run of play the away side levelled on 32 minutes as Purewal headed home a deep Stephen Harrison cross the right flank.
A minute later, Ricky Mercer crashed an effort into the side-netting from Colin Watson's pull-back after he and Mitchley – who remains the league's top scorer with 20 goals – combined on the right.
Darlington were a different proposition after the break with Kendal enduring the worst of the conditions, MacDonald producing a superb finger-tip save from Thompson's clipped effort.
Thompson – who started his career at Middlesbrough before moving onto Port Vale and scoring twice in 17 appearances – was having an ever-increasing influence on proceedings.
With 20 minutes remaining, a neat move saw Coid find Beattie, with the skipper's deflected effort from the edge of the area drawing a save from Bell.
Moments later Darlington were ahead as Thompson's angled drive from the left corner of the penalty area found the net – the 24-year-old's 18th goal of the season.
Martin Gray's side made the game safe in the 80th minute with Thompson once again the attacking influence as he picked out Hopson on the right wing.
The substitute cut inside only for his progress into the box to be halted, with Robinson on hand to drill a low shot across MacDonald and score his first goal for the club.
With Kendal changing to a more attacking formation in a bid to reassert themselves in the game, Darlington took full advantage in the final stages to add gloss to the scoreline.
Hopson's storming run from just inside the Kendal half saw the substitute surge through the Kendal defence before rounding MacDonald and slotting home.
And deep into injury time, Nathan Fisher and Purewal combined to set up Hopson who tapped home a well-worked fifth for the visitors.
High-flying Darlington now trail league leaders Warrington Town by seven points, with Kendal having the opportunity to do their north east rivals a favour this weekend when they travel to Cantilever Park.
Kendal Town: Danny MacDonald, John Ross, Jack Smith (Lewis Finney 81), Warren Beattie, Will Bell, Kevin Brown, Ricky Mercer, Danny Coid, Danny Mitchley, Maison McGeechan (Callum Hoctor 57), Colin Watson (Mike Rushton 62). Subs not used: Ross Lloyd, Rob Wilson
Darlington 1883: Mark Bell, Stephen Harrison (Jonathan Davis 77), Terry Galbraith, Alan White (c), Chris Hunter, Jordan Robinson, Rob Ramshaw, Joe Tait (Dale Hopson 65), David Dowson (Nathan Fisher 78), Amar Purewal, Stephen Thompson. Subs not used: Matthew Lovegreen, Peter Jameson
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We headed out to a restaurant for dinner. I promised my wife a salad. On the way, she suggested we stop and pick up stuff to cook for dinner instead... THREE grocery stores later . . .
Man, I'm stuffed. ^^^ AND three glasses of tea!!!
I was so hungry that I ALMOST didn't take pictures!