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PHOENIX — Halfway through the Arizona Interscholastic Association Division I Cross Country State Meet, Rincon's Ryan Silva was right on the hip of Cibola's Bernie Montoya.
By the home stretch, though, there was only Bernie.
Montoya became only the second boys runner to win three state championships after he cruised to a first-place finish in 15 minutes, 14 seconds in the second race of the day at Cave Creek Golf Course on Saturday morning.
Several runners in the state have won two state titles — including Kofa's David Mansfield in 1962-63 – but Montoya joined the exclusive club with Chris Schurz, who won three from 1986-88 for Mesa Westwood.
"Three as a collection (is satisfying) I can finally say it," said Montoya, who never got the chance to attempt four straight state titles because he played football his freshman year. "I was always very conservative about saying anything about it but now that I have it, it's a blessing."
Silva, who finished in second place last year with a time of 15:57, seemed to give himself a chance halfway through the meet on Saturday, but Montoya distanced himself on the back half.
"I had to respect Silva because he's a great runner," Montoya said. "Around the second mile I knew I had to push the pace and that's what I did. But it came down to the last 100 meters sprint, it's going to be a tough race to win but at the beginning of the two mile is when I was pushing."
Silva once again finished in second place with a time of 15:50.
Even though Montoya's string of dominating performances in the past year and the last two state finals created a sense of invincibility around him, he doubted whether or not he could win his third straight state championship.
"I was worried about that the whole week because these guys that stepped on the line are really good runners. Ryan Silva is right behind me, anything could happen in that. So I thought what happens if I don't win this race, what are people going to say about me?" Montoya said.
Not only did he have to worry about the pressures of being the two-time state champion, but with the Nike Southwest race coming on Nov. 17, Cibola coach Kris Norton said that training has been difficult — making sure Montoya's pushing himself for that race while keeping enough left in the tank for the state meet.
"It's a tough situation for him because we have to focus on the national race so we had to work him out this week," Norton said. "But he was where I was hoping he was going to be."
"It's definitely a position we're not really used to but for some reason I've never felt too much pressure from that," Norton said about Montoya being the obvious favorite to win on Saturday. "I think Bernie's approach is similar to mine, that we're just enjoying it and staying focused on what we're doing and put it aside and focus on the little things it keeps you from stressing on the bigger things,"
Much has changed for Montoya since he won his second championship in 2011. The senior was thrust into national spotlight for winning the prestigious adidas Dream Mile in New York, became the No. 1 ranked runner according to milesplit.com for a time and has dealt with the distractions that come with talking to and visiting universities – he missed the final meet of the regular season because he was at the University of Texas.
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06.Dec.10 South West Cross Country Championships
The South West Cross Country Championships incorporating the South West Inter-County Championships will be taking place at Bicton College, Exmouth on 9th January 2011.
29.Nov.10 Beginners group brings in new members for Running Club
St Austell Running Club initiated the new group as an extension of the main club and the group has grown from a healthy 25 at the first session to now seeing 45-50 people attending each week. Other group members have become active club members.
17.Nov.10 Armada network plan varied winter programme
Armada Athletics Network have planned a winter of variety for Network members in the South West. There are opportunities for workshops, masterclasses, indoor track and field events, and endurance competitions.
10.Nov.10 Plymouth Musketeers – a club on the up
Plymouth Muskeeters started over a year ago as a small club of a few keen road runners a lot of whom had been members of other local clubs. In that time they have steadily increasing their members.
06.Oct.10 South West Clubs Annex Midland Relays Titles
Bristol and West AC were rewarded from making long road journeys on consecutive days with three set of Midland Road Relay team medals at Sutton Park.
05.Oct.10 South West Cross Country fixtures
Cross-country events cater for everyone, from 11 (often younger) to over 70. Courses can be described as 'multi-terrain without the concrete', and vary widely from fast and grassy to stiff tests of endurance and sanity! South West region has announced its cross country fixtures for the season.


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Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Change, weaves the unfathomable strands of Fate from his Impossible Labyrinth deep within the warp. For the innumerable masses, Fate is a cruel and arbitrary force...but for the Tzeentch's chosen few, it is a path to ultimate power.
The Tome of Fate is a mind-bending supplement for Black Crusade! The first of four books delving in... [click here for more]
Creatures Anathema is a bestiary of enemies for your characters to face. Each monster is fully detailed and described, including plot hooks that make it simple to place each challenge into an existing game, or to build a story around a particular creature. In addition, Creatures Anathema contains rules for new, exotic alien gear and some new player character options.Creatures Anathema contains ... [click here for more]
The Calixis Sector is plagued with heretics, recidivists, and the unworthy...and they all dwell beneath the faithful servants of the God-Emperor, eroding the backbone of the Imperium's war machine. Whether it is a planetary noble skimming off the top, or a seditious terrorist planning the destruction of an entire Hab-block, it is the Adeptus Arbites who bring them to judgement.Book of Jud... [click here for more]
Investigating corruption within the Ecclesiarchy itself is as delicate as it is dangerous, but when an influential leader is suspected of heresy, you and your fellow Acolytes will uncover an ever-deepening conspiracy that could spell the end of the entire Calixis Sector...The Church of the Damned is the second adventure in The Apostasy Gambit, a Dark Heresy campaign that takes a cell of Acolyte... [click here for more]
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A lovely small Victorian villa , built circa 1876, tastefully decorated and finished with a warm friendly relaxed atmosphere.
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Club Twinning provides Leo clubs with an opportunity to learn about another club and its culture. Leo clubs interested in twinning must follow the Club Twinning Guidelines and submit their club details to be included in the Leo Club Twinning List.
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The Planning Process
The development of the new two-year Plan has been an ongoing process over three years, starting in late 2008. It has involved extensive participation by groups internal to the College and external communities with expertise relevant to the planning process. These communities have come together through a structured series of meetings to develop the initiatives in the new plan.
The first meeting was held in October 2008 when the Planning Committee convened to review the planning process. Preliminary discussions continued through the 2008-2009 academic year, and topics included current issues in education and economic concerns. In addition, the committee considered federal issues that could impact the College, including the reauthorized Higher Education Opportunities Act and the GI Bill.
Regular meetings of the full Planning Committee continued in the 2009-2010 year, and involved faculty, staff and administrators. Among the resources utilized by the committee were the findings of the student, resident, community leader and employee components of the College's Organizational Climate Survey. This survey was conducted by an independent firm to assess how different communities perceive the College. The findings provided detailed insights into the needs of the many constituencies the College serves. Other discussions during this year addressed the findings of the 2000 Higher Learning Commission reaccreditation visit, innovative practices at colleges elsewhere in the country, and data on student success at the College.
In order to fully understand local issues that would impact the College, the committee reviewed local environmental scans and held an expert panel. Two economic scans were prepared during the cycle, the first of which was used to drive a discussion on the College's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Different approaches were considered that could tackle the identified areas, and these discussions fed directly into the plan development. The Planning Committee initially considered expert panels across a wide range of areas. However, as the planning process continued, it was determined that most areas had been fully addressed through other activities. The only area not fully considered was local and regional planning, and experts from the City of Tucson, Sahuarita and Marana shared their expertise with the committee at a panel held in 2010.
Taking into account the input of all of the participants and the results of the ongoing discussions, the full committee engaged in a series of open discussions to formulate the new initiatives. Nearing the conclusion of the 2009-2010 academic year, the initiatives began to take shape. Initiative development leaders were selected and initiative work groups were established early in the 2010-2011 year. The work groups were comprised of planning committee members and other College employees with expertise relevant to the initiatives.
Developments continued through an iterative procedure in which the initiative leaders and their work groups held discussions and then reported back to the full committee. Feedback from the full committee guided the discussions in follow-up initiative meetings. This process continued from Fall 2010 through February 2011 as the initiatives, strategies and action items were fine-tuned to fully capture the needs of the College and our community.
A draft of the plan was discussed with the PCC Board of Governors at a workshop held on March 9, 2011. Members of the Board provided input and discussed issues relating to the plan content. The feedback was incorporated into the strategies and action items. The Plan was presented to the Board of Governors for formal adoption on June 8, 2011. This two year Plan will run from July 1, 2011 through to June 30, 2013.


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We the undersigned petition the Fayetteville School District to initiate a formal audit of the entire school library system, to appoint a parent led committee from this point forward to review objectionable material, and to remove offensive material from student access without parental consent.
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8 Seconds Saloon
111 N. Lynhurst Drive, Indianapolis IN 46224Giddy-up, cowpokes, the dancin' lines is formin' over yonder at 8 Seconds Saloon, Inda-napolis' pre-mier country music venue and night club. And...
Honkey Tonk
2802 Brookside Ave., Indianapolis IN 46218This small working class bar caters to the country crowd.
Red's Place
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A local "Cheers" establishment with plenty of people you know and fun.
Silver Dollar Saloon
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Friendly and relaxed neighborhood spot.
Jesse's Sports Grille
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Enjoy the latest sports game on one of seven TVs while drinking from the full-service bar and eating a filling meal. When the game isn't on, you can...
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Having travelled all over Italy it was purely chance that we settled on the Garden Paridiso and we couldn't have been happier that we opted for this particular site. As we arrived late into Treviso I had booked a taxi to take us direct to the site as, at that time, the buses are no longer running. I spoke to... More
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I like the word. Vindaloo.
I had big plans for today's post. I knew it would be my 100th, so I really wanted to play it up. Do something special. Tell you about how my colleagues joined me for my very first Indian lunch, and how the Chicken Paradise was so spicy and so delicious it almost brought tears to my eyes, and how the server made sure I knew that the hellfire in my mouth was only a "mild spice." And how I have a special place in my heart now for naan.
Naan. I like that word, too.
That was my plan. I was going to spin that into an 800 word story, much like my first Sushi experience. Lucky for you, Jen said she was planning to spend a day in New York before flying out to Cabo, and Jack suggested going to Soho to watch for celebrities.
Next thing I knew: Scoop on Celebrity Sightings!
"New York is crawling with them, and you'd never know it. They fit right in there, because real New Yorkers don't care. You wouldn't believe who I've seen just sitting outside at a sidewalk café."
He begins by saying he once spotted Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro—one of them in a Broadway play. (I've admired and confused those two esteemed actors all of my life, so I'm equal parts "Wow!" and "Which one was Scarface?")
This is when the conversation gets interesting.
"I saw Bruce Springsteen at a shop once. I'd just seen his show in Cleveland the week before, so I wanted to tell him how much I'd enjoyed it. Bruce was just standing there with his hands on his hips, staring at the ceiling, while his wife and kids checked out a display of sunglasses. I said, 'Hey man, I loved your show last week.' He said thanks and introduced me to his family. Can you believe it? He wasn't a musician at that moment. He was just a nice guy—a husband and a dad waiting around at the mall."
"One time, on the street, I saw this women. She looked really familiar. I kept watching her, thinking, 'Do I know her from somewhere? Why do I feel like I've seen her before?' Then she smiled at me. Julia Roberts! We just stood there, smiling at each other." He jokes, "It's like we had a 'moment.'"
A few days later, I'm at Starbucks with Angela and Shannon. Angela joined the editorial team a few weeks ago, and she has flown in from Seattle so I can train her in person. She'd picked the Indian restaurant the other day, so she'd heard all of Jack's stories. I think she kept quiet then because she knew she could trump him.
Now we're talking about Seattle, and the late 80s-mid-90s Grunge Rock scene. Angela says she worked at the Sorrento Hotel when Grunge was at its height, and since she worked in Sales and Reception, she encountered a lot of celebrities.
"I helped Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love check out once. They used everything in their room but the towels. They pulled the mattresses off the beds and threw those Styrofoam packing peanuts all over the floor. And they had a huge doll collection lined up around the room."
"Oh wow…did you see it?" I ask. I'd always heard that Kurt wrote "Doll Parts" for Courtney's band, Hole, and now I know why.
"No, we heard it from the cleaning staff. They always let us know what was happening upstairs."
We laugh.
"I also helped Duran Duran check out once. They were past their prime by then. It was kind of sad to see them standing around all tired in their crushed velvet jackets."
"Do you remember Alice and Chains? I checked in Layne Staley once. All the bell hops were like, "OH MY GOD, THAT'S LAYNE STALEY!!!" I think Layne thought I was cool because I wasn't freaking out on him. But really, I just didn't know who he was. I was surprised, though. He was such a little guy with that great big voice."
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I love stories like this. And I'm not even the sort of person who reads celebrity gossip magazines. It's just that I like flash reminders from the universe that we're all just people skulking across the same soil at the same time. Basically we want the same things: To breathe in the air, and to survive; to form connections and blood lines and friendships and spiritual understandings; to find knowledge and comfort in the lessons others learned before us; and to communicate what we've learned—to pass it along, like ancient storytellers, from generation to generation.
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A TALENTED musician has celebrated the release of a solo album featuring some of British music's most prolific stars.
Natasha Lea Jones, a former member of avant-folk rock group Pooka and multi instrumentalist, said she had achieved a life ambition after bringing everyone who has influenced her musically onto one record.
Her second solo effort, a powerful yet delicately written album called Soar, features Rainbow singer Graham Bonnet, collaborator with PJ Harvey, Rob Ellis, and producer and string arranger for Massive Attack, Iron Maiden and Depeche Mode, Wil Malone.
Natasha, a former Wiganer, has been living in Robin Bank Road since 2002 after the split of her band led her from London to Darwen to be closer to her family.
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Mad About Seashells
Collectors have long prized mollusks for their beautiful exteriors, but for scientists, it's what inside that matters
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When Phil Quinton got rolled under a log at a California sawmill some years ago, he crawled out and went back to work. It turned out that he had a crushed spine. After an operation the pain just got worse, Quinton says, and he learned to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. Eventually, his doctors put him on massive doses of morphine until he could no longer stand the side effects.
Then a doctor told him about cone snails—a group of marine snails, beautiful but deadly—and a new drug, a synthetic derivative from the venom of one of them, Conus magus, the magician's cone. Quinton had actually seen cone snails kill fish in an aquarium and on television, and it was a kind of magic, given that snails move at a snail's pace and generally cannot swim. "It took 20 minutes," he says, "but the snail came over to the fish and put out this long skinny thing and touched it, and that fish just froze."
The snail's proboscis was a hypodermic needle for its venom, a complex cocktail of up to 200 peptides. Quinton also knew that cone snails have at times killed people. But for the drug, called Prialt, researchers synthesized a single venom peptide that functions as a calcium-channel blocker, bottling up pain by interfering with signals between nerve cells in the spinal cord. The third day after he started taking Prialt, says Quinton, now 60, the pain in his legs went away. It wasn't a miracle cure; he still had back pain. But for the first time in years, he could go out for a daily walk. He owed his recovery to one of the most underrated pastimes in human history: shell collecting.
The peculiar human passion for the exoskeletons of mollusks has been around since early humans first started picking up pretty objects. Shellfish were, of course, already familiar as food: some scientists argue that clams, mussels, snails and the like were critical to the brain development that made us human in the first place. But people also soon noticed their delicately sculpted and decorated shells. Anthropologists have identified beads made from shells in North Africa and Israel at least 100,000 years ago as among the earliest known evidence of modern human culture.
Since then various societies have used shells not just as ornaments, but also as blades and scrapers, oil lamps, currency, cooking utensils, boat bailers, musical instruments and buttons, among other things. Marine snails were the source of the precious purple dye, painstakingly collected one drop at a time, that became the symbolic color of royalty. Shells may also have served as models for the volute on the capital of the Ionic column in classical Greece and for Leonardo da Vinci's design for a spiral staircase in a French chateau. In fact, shells inspired an entire French art movement: Rococo, a word blending the French rocaille, referring to the practice of covering walls with shells and rocks, and the Italian barocco, or Baroque. Its architects and designers favored shell-like curves and other intricate motifs.
The craving for shells was even powerful enough to change the fate of a continent: at the start of the 19th century, when rival French and British expeditions set out for the unknown coasts of Australia, the British moved faster. The French were delayed, one of those on board complained, because their captain was more eager "to discover a new mollusk than a new landmass." And when the two expeditions met up in 1802 at what is now Encounter Bay, on the south coast of Australia, a French officer complained to the British captain that "if we had not been kept so long picking up shells and catching butterflies...you would not have discovered the south coast before us." The French went home with their specimens, while the British quickly moved to expand their colony on the island continent.
The madness for shells that took hold of European collectors from the 17th century onward was largely a byproduct of colonial trade and exploration. Along with spices and other merchandise, ships of the Dutch East India Company brought back spectacularly beautiful shells from what is now Indonesia, and they became prized items in the private museums of the rich and royal. "Conchylomania," from the Latin concha, for cockle or mussel, soon rivaled the Dutch madness for collecting tulip bulbs, and often afflicted the same people. One Amsterdam collector, who died in 1644, had enough tulips to fill a 38-page inventory, according to Tulipmania, a recent history by Anne Goldgar. But he also had 2,389 shells, and considered them so precious that, a few days before his death, he had them put away in a chest with three separate locks. The three executors of his estate each got a single key, so they could show the collection to potential buyers only when all three of them were present. Dutch writer Roemer Visscher mocked both tulip maniacs and "shell-lunatics." Shells on the beach that used to be playthings for children now had the price of jewels, he said. "It is bizarre what a madman spends his money on."
And he was right: at one 18th-century auction in Amsterdam, some shells sold for more than paintings by Jan Steen and Frans Hals, and only slightly less than Vermeer's now-priceless Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. The collection also included a Conus gloriamaris shell, for which the owner had paid about three times what his estate was getting for the Vermeer.
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I saw a White plastic container on Westward Ho! Beach. It had a whole load of White shells in strand clumps, with live creatures inside, with black tuft like frilly feelers. What were they please.? Viv Foley
Posted by Viv Foley on February 12,2013 | 08:59 AM
I have shell ancient shell. i have search the internet i have never see it. it was 50 year old and it healed sick people tell me what kind of shell i have?
Posted by Edgardo R. Ipanag on September 8,2012 | 06:18 AM
I have a nice collection of shells ,But i was told i might have one that might be worth some money its about 4ins long, and light brown in colour with dark markings . i heard one sold for a lot of money in the states is that true but i dont know the name of the shell.
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Today I found a leopard spotted shell and a round brown w/black stripe shell completely sealed which floats and was wondering if these could have washed up from other countries on to Ormond by the Sea shore because of the hurricanes, I would like to know what kind of shells these might be. Thank-you much, Anne
Posted by Anne Carpenter on September 22,2010 | 11:17 PM
I live in Myrtle Beach SC and have lived here my whole life. I married a man from England so of course when his family visits we are always off to the beach. On one of our visits my mother-in-law noticed that there were black shells along the beach. She is convinced that it is a result of oil, as in pollution. I'm not convinced that this is the reason why some are black. They do not look as though they have any residual oil on them. I have looked and can not find out why this is. So I was wondering if someone could provide me with some information about why some shells on the beach are black, is it ever the result of pollution?
Posted by Nicole Farley on May 17,2010 | 10:03 AM
Does anybody know what sea / weather / chemical / bacteria condition would result in washed up sea shells that are normally white (e.g oyster) to be deep pure black? For the first time we can recall in 50+ years, we found pure black sea shells along the south coast of South Africa.
The shells seem to still have a white inner core, and the white shine through where the base of the mollusc was attached, but the rest seems coated probably a millimeter thick with black instead of white layers. This applies to the inside as well as outside of the shells.
Posted by Johan Buys on April 9,2010 | 09:51 AM
Great article, full of interesting stories, nicely written.
Posted by Susana Costa on November 5,2009 | 07:40 PM
Hello out there, if anyone see this message, do any of you know the history of displaying sea shells on wooden snake stands? Thank you, an'ya
Posted by an'ya on November 4,2009 | 02:04 PM
We loved the August 2009 issue of the Smithsonian mostly because of the fabulous article about shells, so many different species including rare ones are found in the Philippies, the country of our birth. We also appreciated the article and pictures of Herod's tomb, as we have toured the Middle East including Lebanon before, again Jordan and Israel in 2000, and last time Dec.2008-January 2009: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. My sister just in January 2009 visited Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, toured Masada & vicinity and sites in-between. The Smithsonian magazine is pricelss!
Posted by Diane C. Ebro on August 30,2009 | 07:36 PM
I'm surprised that Mr. Conniff didn't mention that Shell Oil, one of whose predecessors,Shell Transport and Trading, was actually started as an importer of goods from the Orient to England. Shells were a big component of those goods; hence founder Marcus Samuel's choice of the name.
Posted by Len Gillan on August 10,2009 | 03:54 PM
I love this article. i believe that I may see it soon in the Smithsonian Magazine to which I subscribe.
Thugh I'm not an orgaized clooector, I have always had more pleasure in strolling the beach collecting shells than swiming. I have filled boxes of them from every beach, ocean and sea that I have visited. Especially, from the Atlantic, the Caribean, the Pacific, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Aegean an some very small ones from fresh water picked at Lake Savan in Armenia. It is a wonderful hobby that carried me to even buy some beautiful ones - though not too expensive - at the stores. I wish I had the space and money to have display furniture for them. However, I have some in trays and shelves around the house. This allow me to enjoy their beauty whenever I have the time to see them in detail.
Thanks for offering such a great article about this beautiful work of nature.
Posted by Hector Moreno on August 7,2009 | 12:26 AM
OMG!I didnt know that a cone snail could harm you!
Posted by dlynne on August 7,2009 | 06:06 PM
I have a wide array of shells, but one that puzzles me the most is a cowrie shell with the Lord's Prayer etched into it in script. My mom got it from her mother's family who said it was from the Civil War time span! I wonder if anyone else has heard of or seen somthing like this??
Thank you! I really enjoyed the article!
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- You enroll later than when you were first eligible to join Part D.
- You have gone for more than 63 days without other drug coverage that is considered as good as Part D coverage.
What is the late enrollment penalty?
At least an extra 1 percent of the national average premium will be added to your premium for each month that you delay and are without creditable drug coverage, and you will pay the penalty (which increases each year along with the average premium) for as long as you have Medicare drug coverage. In other words, if you delay for 20 months, your Part D premiums will always be at least 20 percent more than other people pay — or you would have paid if you'd signed up on time.
For 2012 the national average premium is $31. So each month you go without coverage adds 31 cents (1 percent of $31) to your monthly premium. For example, if you sign up for Part D during open enrollment in November or December 2012, and you've been without creditable drug coverage for 20 months after first becoming eligible to join Part D, your penalty would be $6.20 a month or $74.40 over the year on top of your regular plan premiums. If the national average premium increases or reduced in 2014 and subsequent years, your penalty gets higher or lower also.
How can I avoid a late penalty?
Avoiding a late penalty depends on what is the "right" time for you to sign up for Part D. Depending on your circumstances it could be:
- When you turn 65 (and have no other drug coverage that is as good as Medicare), you need to join a Part D drug plan during the 7-month initial enrollment period when you can sign up for Medicare Part A and Part B. This period runs from three months before the month of your 65th birthday to three months after it. For example, if you turn 65 on July 16, you should join a drug plan before the end of October at the latest (with coverage starting Nov. 1) to avoid a penalty.
- When you become eligible for Medicare through disability (and have no other drug insurance as good as Medicare), you get a similar seven month period to sign up for Part D as well as Parts A and B. This period runs from three months before the 25th month in which you have received Social Security disability payments and ends three months after it.
- When you lose drug coverage (for example, from a current or former employer or union) that is at least as good as Medicare, you would not pay a late penalty if you then enroll in a Medicare drug plan and begin receiving Part D coverage within 63 days of losing your original coverage.
- When you lose drug coverage under COBRA, you would not pay a late penalty if you enroll in a Medicare drug plan and begin receiving Part D coverage within 63 days of your COBRA drug benefits ending, provided that these benefits (an extension of employer benefits after retirement or losing a job) are considered at least as good as Part D.


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