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Staring down a deadline to sign up for Obamacare, some lawmakers are getting hit by technical glitches or sticker shock. Others are breezing through the website, elated by lower premiums and better health services. And at least one won't sign up at all — opting to pay a penalty instead.
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"It's been less than perfect. It's taken a while," said Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.). "It takes a long time, dropped off, get asked to call back."
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Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) is one of the losers. He tweeted in frustration that the Obamacare website crashed three times as he tried to enroll last week. Once he was able to select a plan, he found that he will pay roughly $800 per month in premiums for his wife and three children — up from the roughly $450 that he is now paying under the Federal Employee Health Benefits program.
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Some lawmakers aren't even trying to sign up. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), one of the health care law's most adamant foes on Capitol Hill, said he's planning on going uninsured and paying the penalty for violating the individual mandate that kicks in on Jan. 1.
"I've pledged that I'm not taking the subsidy," Gohmert said in an interview, referring to the employer contribution for lawmakers' health care plans. "Too many people in my district have lost their insurance because of Obamacare … and because of Obamacare, the remaining insurance is just too expensive. So I'm not going to have insurance, it looks like."
For Gohmert, that penalty would be 1 percent of his congressional salary, or $1,740. He declined to say how much his own coverage under Obamacare without the employer contribution would cost.
While Democratic lawmakers tended to share more positive stories about signing up under Obamacare, they, too, conveyed some frustrations with the enrollment process.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said it took him about an hour to get coverage for him, his wife and two young children. His family decided to switch health care providers this year, but what they'll pay under Obamacare is "not significantly less or more expensive" than their existing plan, he said.
"It wasn't the most elegant Web experience I've ever had, but it functioned," Schatz said, calling the process "a little clunky" at times.
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) said as he was browsing plans, he learned he would face a roughly 75 percent increase in his premiums — from about $400 per month to about $680 for him and his wife. Roe, a physician, said he's tried to sign up at least seven times, including a few trips to the website and a trip to the D.C. exchange experts.
But he couldn't determine which doctors and providers go with which insurance plan.
"I'm not signing up if I don't know who my doctor is going to be," he said in exasperation. "I've got to make sure my doctors in Tennessee take this [plan]."


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About 8 months ago I bought a 500$ cordless combo pack. I felt like a kid at Christmas. I couldn't get to the job and drill or cut something fast enough. I've had milwaukee, makita, bosch, craftsman, ryobi, snap-on, and I can't remember all the other manufacturer's of cordless tools of every kind but never Ridgid. I'm thinking at the next kitchen or bathroom remodel I'm gonna show these bad boys off. The second pipe I cut had a little water sitting in it and that water leaked down the saw blade onto the saw and my hands. This is an abandoned 1/2" supply line with absolutely no pressure in it. NOT A LOT OF WATER, a few tablespoons, maybe....and the brand new 18v li battery is totally dead and will not take a charge no way no how forgetaboutit it's dead. It didn't take too much longer before the other one got wet, It died instantly, too! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You are the same guys that make my pipe threaders and pipe vices and table saw,aren't you?!? What is the matter with you? passing crap like these batteries onto me? I can't afford 240$ to replace them so now I'm out Well Over 500$ for a bag of cordless/powerless tools. My son loaned me one of his little batteries so I'd have "something" to work with but you'll never guess what happened to it today. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? It wouldn't take much to waterproof these batteries or maybe add a reset button to the circuitry. SOMETHING BESIDES NOTHING. I am sooo disappointed with Ridgid. I had total faith I was purchassing the ridgid quality I've worked with for 37 years. I was lied to. I feel ripped off. Can anyone tell me how to modify the circuit board to these batteries to enable them to charge up so I can use my tools? I can't possibly be the only one who's experienced this. There's gotta be a solution.
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Properly registered into the LLSA Program your batteries would/will be replaced free of charge.
BTW, "You are the same guys that make my pipe threaders and pipe vices and table saw,aren't you?!?", table saw no, the others yes. Pretty much all of the "RIDGID" branded power tools you see sold at Home Depot are not manufactured and sold by Ridge Tool but by TTI/OWT. TTI/OWT pays Ridge Tool a fee to put the RIDGID name on the tools they make and sell.I'VE DECIDED I'M NOT OLD, I'M 45 -- PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING.
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The first 3 years the tools are covered without registering them. So I would go that route. As mentioned, the tool has the ridgid name on it, but thats all just a name. Not really the same as your real ridgid plumbing tools.
I own enough propress tools to stock a dozen trucks. They're not intended to be used on wet lines, but who are we kidding, its a tool for crimping copper lines from 1/2"-4". And in service work, its almost impossible to have dry lines. That's why propress is ideal for service. In the 13 years I've owned propress, I can't think of 1 time that I ruined a tool or battery getting the tool wet.
I too would be upset after buying a tool that's designed to work on piping and it couldn't be exposed to a little water. Especially when the batteries are well over $100.00 and the tool is well over $1000.00 alone.
Now I doubt that they will know the battery got wet as I doubt they actuall disassemble them, but I can't see you ruining a batery everytime you cut a wet line. Can you cut from a different angle to let gravity work for you? Can you wrap a rag around the line to prevent water spraying? Can you drill a hole first to relieve the water?
Do you know how the water is getting into the battery? Can you seal off that area of the tool when wet cutting?
Try the included 3 year warranty and see how that goes. If you registered for the lifetime service, you'll be good even longer. Of courses if they disassemble the battery and see water damage, I doubt they will cover it. Because in all honesty, the tool is not designed to be used for wet use, even though plumbers always work with wet pipes. Good luck and let us know how it goes
Rick.phoebe it is
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I have to agree with Rick, this situation occurring more than once needs to be looked at and you need to figure out a different approach in order to save your tools. Regardless of brand, water will damage electronics.
I've cut wet lines with my tools before and I've been lucky enough to not have problems. I'm trying to imagine though how two tables spoons of water poured onto the blade works it way down over the blade clamping assembly, down the tool body with it's many vents etc and into the battery. Were you doing direct overhead cutting? As Rick mentioned could you change angles perhaps in case of water leakage so the battery isn't directly under the line?
I hope you get them fixed, and welcome to the forum
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Originally posted by Big Jim View PostSince Obvious Man is unlikely to provide an answer, I'll give it a shot.
How about not getting them wet?
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Thank you. And yes there are dozens of things I could possibly do to protect the batteries from moisture. In all honesty, I'm 57 yrs old and I don"t want to have to pull an umbrella out if I think there's a chance it will rain on my tools. I expect them to work as hard as I do. rain or shine. And I expect their manufacturer to be at least as responsible as I am.
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I'm not sure what you want from this forum. If it's venting you should expect some comments that may or may not be supportive.
The part I don't understand is why you would repeat a process that had already cost you one battery. This falls into the "fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me" category.
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Originally posted by rofl View PostI'm not sure what you want from this forum. If it's venting you should expect some comments that may or may not be supportive.
The part I don't understand is why you would repeat a process that had already cost you one battery. This falls into the "fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me" category.
bon-7777 I feel for you, it sucks loosing two batteries. They are expensive and from your post, it would appear that you purchased an X4 kit given the $500 price you paid. What also sucks a lot more is the fact that kit has the large batteries. Normally I would recommend picking up a few drill kits when they go on sale and parting out the bare tools but even if you do this you will only get the small batteries.
Given the price of a stand alone large battery, I would consider getting the X4 kit again when it comes on sale or has the jobmax bundled in it. Keep the jobmax and batteries and sell the rest. I did this with a set I purchased last year for $400 when it was on sale and after keeping the batteries I broke even.
Another option would be to part out the tools you already have since you don't have the batteries. You might recoup 2/3's of your money. Then you can decide to rebuy ridgid or another brand if you feel dewalt or makita would hold up better to getting wet.
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It may come true in the future that cordless power tools will be waterproof but the current crop are not.
But with brushless motors now appearing it may be possible to have waterproof tools at a reasonable price,
or should I say affordable price for the average user.
For underwater work I used hydraulic or pneumatic driven tools. Depending on where you are the hydraulic tools can
be a problem if they develop a leak. Then you might have a reportable 'spill' on your hands and have to deal with the
cleanup costs and making reports to USCG, EPA, and others. We have a pneumatic Hilti drill on one job for wet work
which was not cheap, but neither are the electric Hilti drills as we all know.
Toughest tool to find for underwater work has been torque wrenches. They're available just not from too many sources.
Seem to be used mainly on oil platforms and by commercial divers."It's a table saw, do you know where your fingers are?" Bob D. 2006
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I have 2 brand new batteries that are dead, one isnt even 2 months old. They to got a little wet. was working outside, started to rain lightly and the two batteries we had out that got damp are dead... I get your not suppose to get electronics wet... but this kind of irks me, they should have a protective coating on the electronics in these. Its a cheap deal, heck I bet that new rustoleum water proof crap HD is pushing would do the trick with one coat.... Temped to take all my batteries apart and coat them to protect them from something this stupid. I don't get to irritated at Ridgid as my tools have been reliable, but this sorta thing kind of ticks me off...

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The latest update for Day 3's "The Mahafaly of Madagascar" featuring IMB missionaries Grant and Jodie Waller is available here.
The Day 4 story of "Chaps and the Big E" highlights Navy Chaplain Fred Holcombe and his ministry on the USS Enterprise. Check out his update and prayer requests.
Day 5 featured a 12-year-old deaf girl who went on a mission trip with her dad when she was 10 years old to lead a VBS in El Pozon, Colombia. The missionaries who work with the Deaf in Colombia are Charles and Betty Thomas* (names changed). You can find information on their ministry here.
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Montessori Philosophy
Montessori is a revolutionary method of observing and supporting the natural development of children. Montessori educational practice helps children develop creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and time-management skills, to contribute to society and the environment, and to become fulfilled persons in their particular time and place on Earth. The basis of Montessori practice in the classroom is mixed age group (3 ages - 6 ages in one class), individual choice of research and work, and uninterrupted concentration. Group lessons are seldom found in a Montessori classroom, but learning abounds. As you read through these pages you will discover the unique practices that make Montessori the fastest growing and most successful method of education today. - The International Montessori Index, www.montessori.edu
The Purpose of Montessori Education
Dr. Maria Montessori believed that no human being is educated by another person.· She must do it herself or it will never be done.· A truly educated individual continues learning long after the hours and years she spends in the classroom because she is motivated from within by a natural curiosity and love for knowledge.· Dr. Montessori felt, therefore, that the goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the child with facts from a pre-selected course of studies, but rather·to cultivate her own natural desire to learn.
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Like Dr. Montessori, Dr. Bloom believes "that the environment will have maximum impact on a specific trait during that trait's period of most rapid growth." As an extreme example, a starvation diet would not affect the height of an eighteen year-old, but could severely retard the growth of a one year-old baby. Since eighty percent of the child's mental development takes place before he is eight years old, the importance of favorable conditions during these years can hardly be over emphasized.
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The Environmental Protection Agency retained the legal right to curb greenhouse gases from large power plants, refineries and chemical factories, adding to a string of environmental court wins for the Obama administration.
The U.S. Supreme Court today largely upheld the EPA's requirement for emitters of gases tied to climate change -- backing the rules for large facilities, while barring them for smaller polluters such as apartment buildings, schools or restaurants. After the decision, facilities responsible for 83 percent of emissions still need a permit.
"EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case," Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote for the majority, said in announcing the decision today.
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In each of the earlier cases the court deferred to the agency in figuring out how to apply complex statutory language, something Scalia, a frequent critic of the EPA, did in part today.
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The decision doesn't touch President Barack Obama's more comprehensive climate-change proposal released June 2 to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants. No precedent was set that could alter that plan, said Ricky Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University.
The court's refusal in October to consider arguments over the EPA rules left business groups fighting the permit requirement, which they said could have ultimately affected millions of facilities.
"The real concern was the bringing in of much smaller manufacturing entities," said Leslie Hulse, a lawyer at the American Chemistry Council, which advocated the divided approach the court adopted.
Today's ruling heads off that possibility, limiting the rules to a few hundred facilities that already have to get permits for other pollutants. The justices said greenhouse-gas emissions by themselves can't serve as the trigger for a permit requirement.
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The case splintered the court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy joined Scalia's opinion. The four Democratic appointees -- Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- said they would have gone further to back the EPA.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said they would have barred the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions even from the largest sources. They said the court was wrong in 2007 when it said the agency could regulate climate change under the Clean Air Act.
Scalia blasted what he termed the overreach by the agency in requiring a facility to get a permit solely because of greenhouse-gas emissions, which he said would expand the program to include many smaller facilities that lawmakers did not intend to include in the lengthy, expensive process.
That approach "would bring about an enormous and transformative expansion in EPA's regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization," Scalia wrote.
'Rhetorical Ammunition'
That language will give rhetorical ammunition, though not a controlling legal precedent, to groups that may challenge the administration's power plant plan, said Roger Martella, a Washington lawyer who represented the American Chemistry Council in the high court case.
The permitting requirements are part of the EPA's Prevention of Significant Deterioration program under the Clean Air Act. Under that program, facilities must install the best available technology to control emissions from new or modified major sources of air pollution. That permitting process can take a year or more.
The industries primarily affected by the requirements are power plants, chemical facilities, oil and gas projects and cement plants, according to the EPA. Companies that have applied for permits include Calpine Corp., ExxonMobil Corp. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. Since 2011, 172 greenhouse-gas permits have been issued, according to the EPA.
Mercury, Carbon
The heart of the decision focused on requirements in the Clean Air Act that facilities get a review if they emit any air pollutant at 100 tons or 250 tons, depending on the type of source. While that is a large amount for traditional pollutants such as mercury or sulfur dioxide, it could cover many thousands more facilities if carbon dioxide emissions were counted at that level.
"Like EPA, we think it beyond reasonable debate that requiring permits for sources based solely on their emission of greenhouse gases at the 100- and 250-tons-per-year levels set forth in the statute would be 'incompatible' with 'the substance of Congress's regulatory scheme,'" Scalia wrote in the majority opinion.
Before today's decision, the EPA had instituted a provision to "tailor" the applicability of the permits to larger facilities as a way to get around the tonnage requirement. EPA said it would eventually move to apply the rules to polluters of all levels, but that approach was tossed by the court today.
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is·lets of Lan·ger·hans(lahng'ĕr-hahnz),
cellular masses consisting of several to several hundred cells lying in the interstitial tissue of the pancreas; they are composed of five different cell types that make up the endocrine portion of the pancreas and are the sources of insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide, and gastrin.
Synonym(s): islet tissue, Langerhans islands, pancreatic islands, pancreatic islets
pancreatic isletsIslets of Langerhans Anatomy Clusters of cells in the pancreas that form the endocrine portion and secrete insulin and glucagon
Langerhans,Paul, German anatomist, 1847-1888.
islets of Langerhans - cellular masses composed of different cell types that comprise the endocrine portion of the pancreas and are the source of insulin and glucagon. Synonym(s): islet tissue; Langerhans islands; pancreatic islands; pancreatic islets
Langerhans cell granulomatosis
Langerhans cells - dendritic clear cells in the epidermis that are active participants in cutaneous delayed hypersensitivity.
Langerhans granule - a small membrane-bound granule first reported in Langerhans cells of the epidermis. Synonym(s): Birbeck granule
Langerhans islands - Synonym(s): islets of Langerhans
pertaining to the pancreas. See also pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus, cystic pancreatic duct.
pancreatic abscess
occurs as a complication of acute pancreatitis or subsequent to pancreatic surgery due to bacterial contamination but is most common as an extension from a leaking gastric ulcer.
pancreatic acinar atrophy
the islets of Langerhans remain normal but acinar tissue atrophies and exocrine function is compromised. Seen most commonly in large breeds of dogs, particularly German shepherd dogs. Clinical signs are related to the exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (see below).
acute pancreatic necrosis
see acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
alpha cells cells in the islet of Langerhans which secrete glucagon.
pancreatic anomaly
includes acinar hypoplasia and congenital Islet of langerhans aplasia.
beta cells comprise the majority of pancreatic islet cell population; secrete insulin.
pancreatic bladder
a diverticulum in the pancreatic duct like a gallbladder in the bile duct. Seen in some cats.
pancreatic C-cells
cells in the islet of Langerhans with no known function.
pancreatic calculus
small concretions, 4 to 5 mm diameter, in the pancreatic ducts, caused by chronic inflammation. Seen, usually in large numbers, in cattle.
pancreatic cysts
anomalous obstructions of ducts, often associated with similar cysts in kidneys and bile ducts.
pancreatic delta cells
cells in the islet of Langerhans; known to secrete somatostatin, and vasoactive intestinal peptide.
pancreatic duct
one of the two excretory ducts of the pancreas. Depending on the species, it may unite with the common bile duct before entering the duodenum at the major duodenal papilla. Absent from the pig and ox which only have an accessory pancreatic duct (developed from the dorsal primordium) which opens on the minor duodenal papilla. See also bile duct.
pancreatic duct obstruction
congenitally by agenesis of the duct, by pancreatic lithiasis or inflammation; causes initial distention followed by atrophy of acinar tissue.
pancreatic ectopic tissue
small masses of pancreatic exocrine or endocrine tissue found occasionally in the wall of the stomach or intestines and in the gallbladder; presumed to be functional.
pancreatic enzymes
the exocrine secretion into the intestine includes amylase, endo- and exopeptidases, and lipase. The endopeptidases include trypsin, chymotrypsin and elastase, the exopeptidases are the carboxypeptidases A and B.
exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
insufficient secretion of digestive enzymes, usually due to loss of acinar tissue from idiopathic atrophy or acute or chronic inflammation, causes maldigestion and malabsorption with diarrhea, steatorrhea and weight loss.
pancreatic fibrosis
a sequel to pancreatitis, pancreatic duct obstruction, zinc poisoning.
pancreatic fluke
see eurytrema.
pancreatic gastrinoma
a gastrin-producing tumor arising from the delta cells of the pancreatic islets that causes hypergastrinemia, hypersecretion of gastric acid and ulceration of the upper gastrointestinal tract. Occurs rarely in dogs. See also zollinger-ellison syndrome.
pancreatic hypertrophy
physiological response to diets high in protein and energy.
pancreatic islets
islets of cells scattered through the pancreas; contain alpha, beta, C and D cells.
pancreatic islet cell tumor
see gastrinoma, insulinoma.
pancreatic lipase
enzyme released from the exocrine pancreas; catalyzes the hydrolysis of dietary lipids in the presence of bile salts. See also lipase.
pancreatic lithiasis
see pancreatic calculus (above).
pancreatic nodular hyperplasia
hard, pale elevations on the surface of the gland; involve only the exocrine tissue; common in old cats and dogs; cause unknown; no discernible effect on patient.
pancreatic polypeptide
secreted by the pancreas into the blood but has no apparent function.
pancreatic trypsin inhibitor
see trypsin inhibitor.


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There is certainly an abundance of advanced books on Galois representations and automorphic forms. What I'm wondering is more simple: What is the basic connection between modular forms and representation theory?
I have a basic grounding in the complex analytic theory of modular forms (their dimension formulas, how they classify isomorphism classes of elliptic curves, some basic examples of level N modular forms and their relation to torsion points on elliptic curves, series expansions, theta functions, Hecke operators). This is all with an undergraduate background in complex analysis and algebra (Galois theory). I also know a little bit about the basics of algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry, if that helps. More importantly, I have a basic background in the representation theory of finite groups. My question is, then, could one example how modular forms and/or theta functions relate to representations of groups?
I'm asking this in part because I imagine a number of students with similar background as I have would have learned about modular forms and thus might be interested to understand how they relate to representation theory, despite not having an extensive background in more advanced results in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra needed for advanced study in the field.
Here are some ideas which might bear fruit: In analytic number theory, one often sees sums over characters - but characters are also very relevant in representation theory. In particular, Jacobi sums come up in both number theory and representation theory (and quadratic forms then relate to theta functions). Is there a connection here?
In addition, Hecke operators are symmetric-like sums over elements of groups, which would suggest a strong connection to representation theory.
Or is the connection to representations of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$? Quotients of this group appear as Galois groups of extensions of spaces of modular forms, so they might be given representations by acting on these spaces?
The point of listing ideas is to show the kind of intuition I might be looking for. One of my ideas might be fruitful, or they all might have nothing to do with why representation theory connects to modular functions. The point is that I'm looking for basic ideas that someone with an elementary background might be able to understand.
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Morgan Stanley has been one of the biggest gold bulls on Wall Street, often arguing that it is the most attractive commodity investment in the commodities market.
Just over a year ago, Morgan Stanley's analysts argued that the "four pillars" of a gold bull market would send the yellow metal to $2,175 by the end of 2013. These pillars:
- Rising investment demand through ETFs
- Controlled central banks selling, and significant buying by emerging market central banks
- Gold buy-backs
- Weak mined supply growth
But in the wake of the recent sell-off, the analysts led by Peter Richardson have published a note titled "Gold: Crumbling Pillars."
"In our view, the dramatic sell-off in the gold market since 12 April has all the hallmarks of panic-driven, stale long liquidation, stop-loss and capitulation selling in the face of a concerted short sale that began in New York on Friday April 12," says Richardson. "We trace the origins of the short sale assault to the 10% reduction in CME margins for gold futures contracts that took place in November 2012."
"The subsequent the erosion of some of the major pillars supporting the gold bull market that occurred in the interim provided fertile ground for such a successful and attractively priced assault on the long skew to investor positioning in the market."
They note three trends that have destroyed their old thesis:
- ETF liquidation
- Speculation over European central bank selling
- Nervousness over the possibility of the Fed pulling QE early
Richardson and his team have slashed their gold price target to $1,487 for 2013 (from $1,773) and $1,563 in 2014 (from $1,845).
This is much higher than than the $1,370 level we're seeing today.
But that's not to say gold will head straight up from here.
"Given the magnitude of the volumes traded in futures markets over the past three days, the dramatic rise in open interest and the heightened volatility of recent days, we are reluctant to try and identify a hard floor in the retracement that we have seen in the spot market," they warn.
Here's a look at the ugly gold chart of late:
Get the latest Gold price here.


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Half brother is reported suspect in death of California autistic boy
MENIFEE, Calif. – The teenage suspect arrested on suspicion of murder in the disappearance of an 11-year-old California autistic boy is the child's half brother, a person close to the investigation said Thursday.
The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, told The Associated Press that charges could be filed as soon as Friday against Terry Dewayne Smith Jr.'s 16-year-old half brother, whose name has not been released.
Police found a body matching Terry's description Wednesday in a shallow grave under a tree about 75 feet from the house where he lived with his mother, half brother and other family members.
The boy was reported missing Sunday by his mother, Shawna Smith, and was last seen Saturday evening by his half brother, authorities have said.
A posting on a Facebook page devoted to the search said Terry's family worried he might have wandered off without food, water or special medication.
Authorities said late Wednesday that a 16-year-old male family member was arrested on suspicion of murder but declined to describe how the suspect was related to Terry.
The death was the result of "a domestic issue" at the house, said Menifee police Chief John Hill.
The discovery of the body brought an end to three days of non-stop searching by volunteers and law enforcement officers who combed the scrubby hills around this rural town 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles on horseback, from the air and using bloodhounds.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the body had been stashed near the boy's house the entire time and, if so, how initial searches failed to turn it up.
Riverside County sheriff's Deputy Albert Martinez did not return a call for comment Thursday. Authorities never ruled out the possibility of foul play, he said earlier. Hill declined to answer questions about the search at a news conference Wednesday and provided few details about the case.
The discovery of the body and subsequent arrest was devastating for the hundreds of volunteers who fanned out in 100-degree temperatures to look for Terry since the weekend.
Many skipped work or joined the search after work to check abandoned trailers and campsites in the hills around town and pass out fliers in nearby towns.
Among them was Marisa Bell, who joined the search from a nearby town because her own 9-year-old son has autism and she sympathized with the mother. Her own child is prone to wandering off because of his condition, she said.
With news that an arrest was made, Bell's worry turned to anger.
"The family allowed so many of us to come out and look and to come out and find this little boy," she said. "I said, `Oh God, here is a mom and a little boy just like mine.' Apparently, that just wasn't true."


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Swear, I don't have a sentry gun fetish. Although it would be cool to meet a girl who did (I don't judge). Last week we churned up a video of a guy who developed a paintball sentry, and now reader Mohammed I. passes along a less functional, but no less impressive version: A Lego Sentry. Props to the builder, and especially for the game-screen render around it. Seriously, new desktop pic. It's a work of art and should stand for all time. Until some bastard-ass Spy whips up a Lego sapper.
Team Fortress 2 Sentry [Lair of the Legomancer, via Shift Gamer, thanks reader Mohammed]


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|HOF Class of '03
Jay Renehan joins the Kings Point Athletic Hall of Fame as one of the Mariners' most respected and successful intercollegiate sailors in the program's accomplished history. A four-year letterwinner with the Blue and Gray sailing program, Renehan helped the Kings Point contingent to two ICYRA Coed Dinghy National Championship Titles, the Academy's only ICYRA Team Racing National Championship Title, and two ICYRA Coed Dinghy National Championship Runner-up Trophies during his four seasons on the waters of Long Island Sound. He was named the captain of the squad for both the 1984 and 1985 campaigns and graduated with the distinction of being the only college sailor to have been awarded All-American status as a Crew (1983), Honorable Mention Skipper (1984), Skipper (1985) and the College Sailor of the Year (1985).
After winning his division in nine of the 13 intersectional regattas during his senior year, he earned the coveted Everett B. Morris Trophy as the College Sailor of the Year. However, Renehan's success was not just limited to the waters at the Academy. A father of three, he has been able to continue his competitive sailing career as a world-class athlete while being employed by Boeing as a Design Engineer. A five-time member of the US National Sailing Team, he finished second at the Olympic Trials in the 470 Class in 1988 and the 1999 Olympic Trials at the 49er Class. In addition Renehan was the US National Champion at the 49er Class in 1998 and has been a three-time winner of Tasar North American, and won the Tasar World Championships in 1992.


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PDSF maintenance 2/7/12
January 30, 2012
On Tuesday, 2/7/12, we are planning to do some maintenance on PDSF. If all goes well users should not notice any impact on their work, however, we do want to announce it just in case there are unexpected problems.
One purpose of the maintenance is to add some new filesystem managers. This should help alleviate some of the sluggishness that some of you have noticed recently.


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Posted by Craig on November 11, 1997 at 03:52:09:
In Reply to: Re: What Is Subject To Tax ? GI? posted by Craig on November 11, 1997 at 03:12:27:
: : "26 CFR § 31.3401(c)-1 Employee.
: : (a) The term employee includes every individual performing services if the relationship between him and the person for whom he performs such services is the legal relationship of employer and employee."
: : I think people should be looking for the legal relationship which the IRC has in mind when it speaks of "legal relationship of employer and
: : employee", considering the following:
: : "All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends, are
: : objects of taxation; ... The sovereignty of a State extends to every thing which exists by its own authority, or is introduced by its
: : persmission;..." (p.435) Chief Justice John Marshall McCulloch v. Maryland 4 Wheat 418, (S. Ct. 1819)
: : In many instances, the Government is maintaining that "the legal relationship of employer and employee" "exists by its own authority, or is introduced by its permission." For example, if the industry is licensed or permitted, then the "legal relationship of employer and employee" in that industry "exists" by government's authority and "is introduced by its permission." Every company subject to OSHA or EPA inspection or permits is in this category.
: : Every enterprise which is subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act likewise has a "legal relationship of employer and employee" which "exists" by government's authority. This includes all companies required to pay minimum wage or recognize a union. Only companies which conform to this Act are "permitted" to create the "legal relationship of employer and employee."
: : Every industry which is franchised or exists only with government
: : approval likewise has a "legal relationship of employer and employee" which exists" by government's authority. Insurance Companies, Transportation Companies, Communication Companies: all exist solely by government's authority and create "the legal relationship of employer and employee" with its permission.
: : All of the rights to fruits of labor and free enterprise were common law rights. The government has taken virtually all "occupation" and "enterprise" out of the common law. Where a job exists directly or indirectly by government's authority, the "legal relationship of employer and employee" exists by government's authority and is taxable. All corporate jobs exist by government's authority because the corporation is a creation of the legislature. Government has likewise taken the "person" out of the common law by pre-emptive creation via birth registration of a public record of NAME upon
: : which rests the unrebutted presumption that JOHN DOE exists by
: : government's authority and that John Doe and JOHN DOE are one and the same. JOHN DOE is "legitimized" (i.e. "exists") in statute law by the "license" that "permitted" the civil law marriage of his parents. Certainly, every legal relation between employer and employee has the employee name of JOHN DOE. [The government stopped at enterprises of eight or fewer. This was possibly not an arbitrary cut off. There is possibly a court case somewhere.]
: : Every time people vote for government regulation they are attaching the taxing power onto the subject of the legislation because they are giving government the argument that the jobs in the regulated industry are permitted to exist by government's authority. This is a reaching argument, to be sure, but it is their argument. Argument like it, derived from McCulloch v Maryland ante, is the legal basis for American corporate socialism. The fine line between saying government creates the corporations in the industry and implying that government creates the industry is easily crossed.
: : Look at the order in which government built the Income Tax box. First corporations were brought into American law. Then, birth registration and marriage licensing was introduced. Then, State licensing of industry and professions under police power. Then, creation of "federal states" via the Buck Act and wholesale federal licensing and regulation of banking, industry, and agriculture in Roosevelt's first 100 Days. Then Social Security with a grant of concurrent jurisdiction from the federal to the State. Then, the income tax was imposed on "individuals".
: : Social Security is a legal relationship between the person and the federal government which is taxed. The "legal relationship between employer and employee" which "exists" by authority of State agencies is taxable by the State with or without Social Security, Buck Act, or any federal zones at all. New York levied an income tax around the turn of the century, I believe.
: : The mailbox at your house is federal property. I don't yet understand the necessity of the Zip Code for the federal enforcement scheme.
: : But, sure it is that most of those who are trying to understand income tax liability have only found a few strands of the legal web in which government has ensnared us.
: Employee: defined @ IRC Sec.3401 (c)
: Employees incurring No tax liability:
: IRC 3402 (n)
: Now, remember Section 7806 and the fact that Title 26
: is not positive law. Put aside 3401 (c) and 3402 (n)
: for a moment.
: Let us humor Ourselves for a brief moment and examine
: the meaning of Gross Income @ section 61 and CFR
: 861. Notice the difference between 'items' and 'sources'
: If You are assumed to 'have'-'Gross Income' there may be a tax liability.
Now, Do You maintain that I am subject to a direct tax?
. . .I don't have any 'Gross Income' so what is
the taxable activity that 'I' am engaged in that makes
Me subject to and liable for a duty/impost/excise tax?
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