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Top Items:
Fox News:
Petraeus agrees to testify on Libya before congressional committees — Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify about the Libya terror attack before the House and Senate intelligence committees, Fox News has learned. — Petraeus had originally been scheduled to testify …
Discussion: protein wisdom, Hot Air, The Hill, his vorpal sword, Politico, The PJ Tatler, The Other McCain, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com, Taegan Goddard's …, American Spectator, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Lonely Conservative
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Breaking: Petraeus to testify on Benghazi attacks; Update: Petraeus offered testimony
Justin Sink / The Hill: Petraeus to testify on Benghazi
Hart Williams / his vorpal sword: Week One Results: Corpse Humpers v. Peeping Tom(asina)s
Katie Glueck / Politico: David Petraeus will testify on Benghazi
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Petraeus Agrees to Testify
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Bad Memories of Bayshore Boulevard
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: David Petraeus Will Testify On Benghazi, Reports Say
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: BREAKING: David Petraeus Agrees to Testify Voluntarily on Benghazi Scandal
Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator: 'Extraordinary Incompetence' — Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard …
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: David Petraeus To Testify Before Intelligence Committees
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Petraeus to Testify Before Congress, But Not About the Sexy Stuff
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: David Petraeus WILL Testify On Benghazi Tomorrow
Hard questions await Obama at news conference — This is not what the White House wanted for President Barack Obama's first news conference of his second term. — He won't be able to dwell much on his stronger-than-expected victory or even press his agenda for the next four years.
Discussion: ABCNEWS, NewsBusters.org, CNN, TIME, Jammie Wearing Fools, msnbc.com, The Wire, The PJ Tatler, Taylor Marsh, Pirate's Cove, Althouse, Instapundit, First Read, National Review and Hot Air
Ken Shepherd / NewsBusters.org: Politico Predicted Obama Would Face 'Hard Questions' On Sequestration, Benghazi Security; He Didn't
Massimo Calabresi / TIME: The Petraeus Case: Why Wasn't Obama Informed?
Vickey Williams / The Wire: Will Petraeus news, other events overwhelm Obama message at first press conference in 8 months?
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Politico Writes Fake 'Hard Questions' for Obama's First Post-Election Press Conference
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Obama To Finally Hold Press Conference, Will Face Tough Questions He Won't Answer
Ann Althouse / Althouse: Obama is about to do his first full-scale news conference since last March.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit: OH, I RATHER DOUBT THAT: Politico: Hard Questions Await Obama At News Conference.
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review: Conspiracy?
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Open thread: Obama's first press conference in five months
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Krauthammer: White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' For Favorable Testimony On Benghazi — Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday said the White House used David Petraeus's affair to get the CIA director to give testimony about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
Betty Cracker / Balloon Juice: What Am I Missing? — Semi-related to Bernard's post …
Nice Deb: Charles Krauthammer: White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' - "The Sword Was Lowered on Election Day"
Scared Monkeys: Charles Krauthammer: Petraeus Thought He Could Keep His Job ... White House 'Held Affair …
Doug Brady / Conservatives4Palin: Breaking: Petraeus will testify; Update: Jay Carney deflects questions on scandal 10 times in 10 minutes
Ann Althouse / Althouse: Did Petraeus lie to the House Intelligence Committee in the hope of keeping his job?
The Lonely Conservative: Did The White House Hold Petraeus Affair Over Him For Favorable Benghazi Testimony?
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: Krauthammer: White House "Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head" for dishonest testimony On Benghazi...
Directorblue / Doug Ross: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The Petraeus-Broadwell-Kelley Timeline
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Bill Kristol: A source tells me Petraeus wasn't completely honest in his Benghazi briefing to Congress
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin: Jay Carney: It's a 'simple fact' …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill: Obama defends FBI on Petraeus
Paul Wolfowitz / AEIdeas: Forget the gossip: Focus on Benghazi
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
Sex, Lies, and Benghazi
Sex, Lies, and Benghazi
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Carney: Obama "wasn't pleased" with Petraeus scandal when he found out, just after the election
Ashley Killough / CNN: TRENDING: Feinstein says she'll push for Petraeus to testify
Jay Newton-Small / TIME: Senate Intelligence Committee to Probe Petraeus Affair
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama to open 'fiscal cliff' talks with call for $1.6T in new revenues
Obama to open 'fiscal cliff' talks with call for $1.6T in new revenues
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Weasel Zippers
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast: Obama's Opening Bid
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Attacks on Susan Rice 'outrageous' — President Barack Obama offered a fiery defense Wednesday of his administration's handling of the attack on Americans in Benghazi, calling R epublicans' critiques of United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice "outrageous."
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CNN and The Hinterland Gazette
Janet Shan / The Moderate Voice: President Obama Defends Susan Rice Over Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham Attacks on Benghazi
Gregory Wallace / CNN: Obama: Republican criticism of Rice 'outrageous'
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: President Obama Dismisses Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham's Attacks on Susan Rice.
Talking Points Memo:
Obama Defends Susan Rice Against 'Outrageous' McCain, Graham Attack — President Obama on Wednesday defended Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a possible replacement for Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, against criticism from Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh and The Daily Banter
Sophie Quinton / NationalJournal.com:
McCain, Graham Promise to Oppose Susan Rice for State
McCain, Graham Promise to Oppose Susan Rice for State
Discussion: ABCNEWS, New York Magazine, The Fix, LifeNews.com and Outside the Beltway
Sunlen Miller / ABCNEWS: McCain Would Block a Susan Rice Secretary of State Bid
Dan Amira / New York Magazine: President Obama Got Angry Today
Aaron Blake / The Fix: How Obama vs. McCain/Graham poisons the bipartisan well
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com: Pro-Abortion Susan Rice Faces Secretary of State Opposition
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: I Made Susan Rice Talk to the American People About Benghazi
Obama: I Made Susan Rice Talk to the American People About Benghazi
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Obama on GOP opposition to Susan Rice: You want to come after someone over Benghazi, come after me
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Obama defends UN Amb. Rice, invites critics to 'go after me'
Obama defends UN Amb. Rice, invites critics to 'go after me'
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
McCain: Obama Administration Benghazi Investigation Has "No Credibility"
McCain: Obama Administration Benghazi Investigation Has "No Credibility"
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online: Obama Lashes Out at GOP for Attacks on Susan Rice
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Senators Call For Select Committee on Benghazi
Senators Call For Select Committee on Benghazi
Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Caucus, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
John H. Cushman Jr / The Caucus: Obama Defends Susan Rice on Benghazi
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Graham: I'm "dead set" against promoting anyone involved in Benghazi debacle
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos:
Nancy Pelosi swats down Luke Russert's 'offensive' question with a lesson on earning your job — You have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi. When emblem of establishment media nepotism Luke Russert asked if she shouldn't clear the way for younger leadership, being all old and stuff …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ed O'Keefe / 2chambers:
Nancy Pelosi staying put, criticizes Luke Russert for age question
Nancy Pelosi staying put, criticizes Luke Russert for age question
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Election 2012 and The Raw Story
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Was Asking About Nancy Pelosi's Age Out Of Line?
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Video: Was question about Pelosi's age out of line?
Rachel Weiner / Election 2012: Steve Israel to stay on as DCCC chairman
Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story: Pelosi says she will remain House minority leader
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
THE RESET: Pelosi Decision May Affect Budget Talks
THE RESET: Pelosi Decision May Affect Budget Talks
Discussion: CNN
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi to stay on as House minority leader
Nancy Pelosi to stay on as House minority leader
Discussion: The Fix, Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Business Insider, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story and Election 2012
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: Why Nancy Pelosi stayed
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Nancy Pelosi's Press Conference Gets Testy As Luke Russert's Question Gets Slammed
Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari killed by Israeli strike — LIVE BLOG: Israel strikes more than 20 targets in Gaza, killing Ahmed Jabari, who was behind the 2006 abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit; IDF says ready for ground operation in Gaza if necessary; Hamas …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Daily Beast, WorldViews, The Long War Journal, Weasel Zippers, The Agonist and The Gateway Pundit
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard: Israel Takes Out Top Terrorist
Yossi Alpher / The Daily Beast: Strategic Dimensions Of Attacking Gaza
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Ka-Boom... Israeli Airstrike Kills Leader of Hamas Military Wing (Video)
Hamas military chief killed in Gaza air strike
Hamas military chief killed in Gaza air strike
Discussion: Reuters, UrbanGrounds, iOwnTheWorld.com, The PJ Tatler and Atlas Shrugs
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters: Israel launches Gaza offensive, kills Hamas commander
Robbie Cooper / UrbanGrounds: IDF Kills Hamas Leader as Things Heat Up in Gaza
Paul Owen / Guardian:
Hamas: killing of military chief by Israel has 'opened gates of hell' - live
Hamas: killing of military chief by Israel has 'opened gates of hell' - live
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Daily Beast, The Right Scoop, PRI's The World and Business Insider
Matthew Feeney / Hit & Run: Israel's Military Takes to Social Media During Attack on Gaza, Sparks Spat on Twitter
Ali Gharib / The Daily Beast: What Will Obama Do (If Anything)?
The Right Scoop: GROUND OPERATION?** Israel assassinates Hamas military chief following wave of rocket attacks
Matthew Bell / PRI's The World: Israel Kills Head of Hamas Military Wing
Joshua Berlinger / Business Insider: Raw Gaza Footage Shows Destruction From Israeli Bombing
New York Times:
Israelis Launch Major Assault on Gaza, Killing Hamas Commander
Israelis Launch Major Assault on Gaza, Killing Hamas Commander
Discussion: NYT Bits, AllThingsD, The Daily Beast, Weekly Standard and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: In Israeli Attack on Hamas: Shock, Awe and Social Media
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Israeli Army: 'We Recommend That No Hamas Operatives ... Show Their Faces'
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Israeli Airstrike Kills Hamas Military Chief
IDF Blog:
IDF Begins Widespread Campaign on Terror Targets in the Gaza Strip
IDF Begins Widespread Campaign on Terror Targets in the Gaza Strip
Brian Fung / The Atlantic Online: Military Strikes Go Viral: Israel Is Live-Tweeting Its Own Offensive Into Gaza
Carl / Israel Matzav: Breaking: IDF hitting terror sites in Gaza (UPDATED WITH PICTURE OF CAR SWARM)
Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post: Israeli air strike kills Hamas military chief Jabari
Idfspokesperson / The Truth About Hamas: Head of Hamas Military Wing Targeted
Adam Taylor / Business Insider: Why Israel Is Fighting A Social Media War
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Israel Announces Military Campaign In Gaza, Warehouse With Stockpile Of Iranian-Supplied Fajr Missiles Struck...
CBS News:
Sources: Paula Broadwell warned Gen. Allen against "seductress" Jill Kelley — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Gen.Petraeus Scandal — (CBS News) WASHINGTON - As Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta offered guarded support Wednesday for Gen. John Allen, new details emerged about correspondence …
Discussion: The Other McCain, Mediaite, Fox News, americanthinker.com, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Is Krauthammer Right? — The Great Brain says the Obama …
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: CNN Analyst Takes Gen. John Allen's Possible Use Of 'Sweetheart' Very Seriously
Kim Bhasin / Business Insider: It Was An Anonymous Email From Petraeus Mistress Paula Broadwell That Pulled General Allen Into The Scandal
The Reliable Source / Washington Post:
"Social liaison" Jill Kelley: How did she get that title? And what does it mean?
"Social liaison" Jill Kelley: How did she get that title? And what does it mean?
Discussion: Telegraph, WorldViews, Power Line, Althouse and milowent
Jon Swaine / Telegraph: David Petraeus affair: Florida twins courted generals and racked up millions in debt
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: You can't make this stuff up — The Washington Post reports …
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Jill Kelley claims 'honorary' diplomatic status
Jill Kelley claims 'honorary' diplomatic status
Discussion: msnbc.com, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and Business Insider
Dax Tejera / msnbc.com: NOW Today: The shakeup to come
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Majority Supports Path to Citizenship; Greater Division on Other Social Issues — Most Americans support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, an issue that may be high on the agenda of newly re-elected President Obama and the 113th Congress, given the increased importance of nonwhites …
Discussion: The Hill, Business Insider, Arizona Republic and Outside the Beltway
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Support For Legalizing Marijuana Hits A Record Level In A New Poll
Kevin Robillard / Arizona Republic: FONT: — POLITICO.com — Americans overwhelmingly support …
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Majority Of Americans Support Path To Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Poll: Majority of Americans support gay marriage
Poll: Majority of Americans support gay marriage
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Right Wing Watch
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Majority Support For Same-Sex Marriage Remains Solid
William J. Bennett / CNN:
Republicans lost the culture war — Editor's note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of "The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood." He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:
Misreading Election 2012 — The GOP might be out of step with some voters, but Mitt Romney was an unusually unpopular party standard-bearer. — Postelection talk of "lessons learned" is often exaggerated and misleading, and so it is in 2012. — A week after President Obama won re-election, two themes are dominant.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Quote of the Day: "Americans Remain Moderate" Says Pew Research Center's Kohut
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: The Mormon Financier Couldn't Connect
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: The lessons of 2012 may not be what Operation Demoralize says
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Cruising the Web — It's quite a shame that we don't have exit polling from Texas.
Donald Douglas / American Power: The Current American Electorate Is Hardly Stacked Against the Republican Party
Sean Kinney / MiamiHerald.com:
Death of Key West man linked to Obama's reelection — A Key West man who told his partner that "if Barack gets re-elected, I'm not going to be around" was found dead on Nov. 8, with the words "F— Obama!" scrawled on his will and two empty prescription bottles nearby.
Discussion: Mediaite, Gawker, The Raw Story and New York Magazine
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Florida Man Commits Suicide Over Obama Re-Election, Wrote 'F**k Obama' In Will
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Florida Man Angry Over Election Results Writes 'F**k Obama' on His Will Before Taking His Own Life
The Irish Times:
Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospital — Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month. — Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st …
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Woman in Ireland Dies After Being Denied Abortion; Was Told 'This Is a Catholic Country'
Jodi Jacobson / RH Reality Check: We Are All Savita Halappanavar: Catholic Hospital in Ireland Denies Woman Life-Saving Abortion
Henry McDonald / Guardian: Ireland's abortion ban: a history of obstruction and denial
Doktor Zoom / Wonkette: Irish Hospital Lets Woman Die Because Her Life Wasn't 'Endangered' Enough For Abortion
Alex Massie / Spectator: Ireland and Abortion: Cruelty disguised as piety, cowardice misrepresented as principle.
Echidne / ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: Meanwhile, in Ireland, Savita Halappanavar Dies After Being Denied an Abortion
Jessica Luther / Shakesville: Her Name Was Savita Halappanavar
Kathy Kattenburg / The Agonist: Hindu Woman in Ireland Denied Emergency Abortion, Dies
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Where the War on Women Leads
Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber: Savita Halappanavar and the Long Shadow of the X-Case
Almost 1K ballots found in Broward elections warehouse — LAUDERHILL, Fla. (WSVN) — Nearly a thousand ballots that were not included in Florida's final count have been found in a warehouse in Broward County. — Tuesday morning and into the night, there was a buzz of activity …
Discussion: Wonkette, Taegan Goddard's … and The Hinterland Gazette
Pete Wells / New York Times:
Restaurant Review: Guy's American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square — GUY FIERI, have you eaten at your new restaurant in Times Square? Have you pulled up one of the 500 seats at Guy's American Kitchen & Bar and ordered a meal? Did you eat the food? Did it live up to your expectations?
Allahpundit / The Greenroom: Report: Guy Fieri's restaurant exactly as good as you'd expect it to be
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal: On the Question of a (Brilliantly) Negative Restaurant Review
Victorino Matus / Weekly Standard: Killer Review — Let me preface this item by saying I am …
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Great Hatchet Jobs In History
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: Why did Pete Wells review Guy Fieri's restaurant as a series of questions?
Rebekah Denn / The Seattle Times: The most brutal restaurant review on the Internet
Taylor Berman / Gawker: Here Are Some of the Better Lines From the New York Times' Sort of Funny Review of Guy Fieri's New Restaurant
Garth Johnston / Gothamist: Have You Read The Times's Amazing All-Question Guy Fieri Slam?
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
White House 'secede' petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation — Less than a week after a New Orleans suburbanite petitioned the White House to allow Louisiana to secede from the United States, petitions from seven states have collected enough signatures to trigger a promised review from the Obama administration.
Jeff G. / protein wisdom: "White House 'secede' petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation"
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: The Secessionist Boom
petitions.whitehouse.gov: Peacefully grant the city of Austin Texas to withdraw from the state of Texas & remain part of the United States.
Cara Maresca / msnbc.com: If Texas secedes, Austin wants out of Lone Star State
New York Times:
Ryan Sees Urban Vote as Reason G.O.P. Lost — WASHINGTON — As Representative Paul D. Ryan casts about to find an explanation for the defeat of the Republican presidential ticket, on which he was Mitt Romney's running mate, he is looking to the nation's big cities for answers.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh, msnbc.com and The Caucus
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online: Beyond the 'Urban Vote'
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus: Ryan Surprised by Voters in 'Urban Areas'
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Paul rips big government in farewell — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) delivered a blistering farewell speech on the House floor Wednesday in which he ripped the drastic tilt of the U.S. toward expanded government, a devalued currency, persistent wars and the constant erosion of personal freedoms.


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Obama Pushing Immigration as New Doubts Emerge in House
White House Effort Comes as Boehner Says No Votes Will Be Coming From GOP
The White House is intensifying its push to get an immigration overhaul through Congress this year, but House Speaker John Boehner cast new doubt Wednesday about the prospects for quick action.
President Barack Obama brainstormed at the White House Wednesday with religious leaders over how to persuade House Republicans to move on the issue. Last week, the president met with business executives to urge them to speak out for action. He is planning other immigration events on the road, with a mix of national and local outreach,...

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AARP MedicareComplete Choice Medicare Advantage Plan for Washington County, ME
What is AARP MedicareComplete Choice?
AARP MedicareComplete Choice is a 2019 Medicare Advantage plan from UnitedHealthcare that's available in Washington County, Maine.
- It is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) health plan.
- It includes a prescription drug plan (Part D).
- It has the same health insurance benefits as Original Medicare.
- It offers extras that Medicare does not cover.
- The maximum out-of-pocket cost with this plan is $5,500 .
- The monthly premium is $80.00 (plus your Part B premium).
AARP MedicareComplete Choice vs. Medicare
This PPO plan replaces your Original Medicare coverage. You agree to let UnitedHealthcare manage your Medicare benefits.
PPO health insurance allows you to choose your own primary care doctor, specialists and other healthcare providers. If you're on a budget you can lower your out-of-pocket costs by using the plan's provider network.
AARP MedicareComplete Choice Review
These are the areas of the plan that are important to compare and review:
- Premium: This is the amount you will pay monthly, above and beyond your Medicare Part B.
- Maximum-Out-Of-Pocket (MOOP): This is the most you will pay for co-pays and co-insurance before the plan pays 100%.
- CMS Ratings: Important measurements across 9 different areas that will help you understand how well this plan will care for you.
- Prescription Coverage: Medications are expensive, so you'll want to know how this plan covers your prescriptions.
- Co-pays & Co-insurance: If you see the doctor regularly, including specialists, you need to know what you'll pay for each visit.
IMPORTANT: Unlike Original Medicare, your out-of-pocket expenses are capped with this plan. As a result, you won't be vulnerable to excessive medical bills due to an accident or a critical illness.
CRITICAL: AARP MedicareComplete Choice includes a Medicare drug plan with its own deductible and co-pays. If you have regular prescriptions, make sure your medications are covered at a favorable price before you join this plan. Prescription drug plans vary significantly by plan. Make sure you have the best coverage.
How Much Does AARP MedicareComplete Choice Cost?
The premium on this plan is $80.00 per month. That includes your prescription drugs, as well. Plus, you must continue to pay your monthly Medicare Part B premium. Co-payments and/or co-insurances also apply with most healthcare services, except preventive care mandated by CMS (see R5329-001 Summary of Benefits below).
Although the health plan itself does not have a deductible, the prescription drug plan does. It's $0.00 per year. That means you have first dollar coverage.
IMPORTANT: When evaluating this plan, look past the monthly premium. Identify the costs of the healthcare services you use most. Only then will you uncover the plan's value for your personal situation.
What is the Maximum Out-of-Pocket (MOOP) Limit?
Unlike Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans must set an annual Maximum Out-of-Pocket limit on inpatient and outpatient healthcare services. The AARP MedicareComplete Choice plan MOOP is $5,500 . Once you reach this amount of spending on your co-payments, all of your Medicare Part A and Part B services will be covered at no additional charge.
Plans can set their MOOP at a voluntary level of $0 to $3,400 (for in-network services) or a mandatory $3,401 to $6,700 (in-network). Combined totals for in-network and out-of-network are generally higher.
NOTE: MOOP does not include what you spend on monthly premiums. It also does not apply to your prescription drugs or Part D deductible.
CRITICAL: It is important to evaluate the combined annual MA/MAPD premiums and MOOP versus what you might expect to pay for a Medicare Supplement in Washington County. Some Medicare Supplements offer less overall financial risk than Medicare Advantage.
Medicare 5-Star Ratings
In this section we show you the quality rating for this UnitedHealthcare plan. Each year CMS rates health plans (Part C) in five broad categories and drug plans (Part D) in four broad categories. We do not recommend joining a plan with an overall rating less than 3.0. The following marks will give you an idea of the level of care you will receive if you join this health plan.
Does AARP MedicareComplete Choice include Medicare Part D?
This plan includes prescription drug coverage (Medicare Part D). If you have regular prescriptions, it's critical that you evaluate your costs using the plan's formulary.
In addition to the monthly premium and Part D deductible, the drug plan has copayments (fixed dollar amount) and/or coinsurances (percentage) that you must pay when you pickup your medications. Here's the drug coverage schedule for this plan:
|1 (Preferred Generic)
|$3.00 copay
|2 (Generic)
|$10.00 copay
|3 (Preferred Brand)
|$45.00 copay
|4 (Non-Preferred Drug)
|$95.00 copay
|5 (Specialty Tier)
How Much are the Copays & Co-Insurance?
In this Summary of Benefits section we outline high-level information about the plan's co-payment and co-insurance costs for inpatient, outpatient, preventive care, transportation and other healthcare services.
AARP MedicareComplete Choice vs. Medigap
To compare AARP MedicareComplete Choice with a Medigap plan (Medicare supplemental insurance), you need to evaluate your healthcare and financial needs. Look at the total potential cost with each plan type, not just the monthly premium, and choose how you want to use medical care (locally or nationally).
To help you make a better decision, we created our How-to Choose the Best Medicare Plan guide (opens in a new tab). It will help you understand how to compare AARP MedicareComplete Choice with Medicare Supplement plans in Maine. Medicare Plan F in Maine is the most popular.
Contact UnitedHealthcare
For more information about this plan, call their prospective members line, or visit their website:
For assistance 24 hours a day, call 800-633-4227. TTY users should call 877-486-2048. If you qualify for Medicare but have not yet enrolled or verified your enrollment status, you can do so on the Social Security Administration website. You can learn more about the Medicare Advantage program on www.medicare.gov or the Wikipedia page.
Medicare Part C Plan Availability
AARP MedicareComplete Choice is available to beneficiaries living in Brookton, Danforth, Lambert Lake, Topsfield, Vanceboro, Waite, Addison, Beals, Calais, Cherryfield, Columbia Falls, Cutler, Dennysville, East Machias, Eastport, Grand Lake Stream, Harrington, Jonesboro, Jonesport, Lubec, Machias, Machiasport, Meddybemps, Milbridge, Pembroke, Perry, Princeton, Robbinston, Steuben, Wesley, Whiting, Baileyville, and all other areas of Washington County, Maine; Medicare plans are the same throughout the County.
Related Information
Looking for the 2020 AARP MedicareComplete Choice information? When available, it will be published here:
The Medicare Advantage plan data on MedicareWire comes directly from CMS.gov and is subject to change. CMS has neither reviewed nor endorsed the information on this site.
The health insurance benefit information provided on this page is a brief summary only, not a complete description. Limitations, co-payments, and restrictions may apply. For more information contact the plan directly at (800)555-5757 or (711)- for TTY users.
The MedicareWire website is available for educational purposes. Our goal is to present information accurately and without bias, based on our interpretation of factual information. However, this site is not intended as a substitute for legal, health, or financial advice from a licensed professional. On this page we help consumers research and compare:
AARP MedicareComplete Choice is a 2019 Medicare Advantage Plan (PPO) for Washington County, Maine residents. It has a $80.00/mo premium and $5,500 max out-of-pocket limit. Compare star ratings, benefits, premiums, co-pays, deductibles and prescription drug coverage with other Part C plans.
The UnitedHealthcare logo and name are legal U.S. trademarks of UnitedHealthcare. We make no claim to the marks whatsoever. All trademarks remain the property of their owner and are used by MedicareWire only to review, editorialize and describe the products and services offered by UnitedHealthcare (the trademark holder). The use of third party trademarks on this site in no way indicates any relationship, connection, association, sponsorship, or affiliation between MedicareWire and UnitedHealthcare. MedicareWire is a comparison and research website that does not offer Medicare insurance products. We use brand names and logos for editorial purposes only, as permitted by U.S. Trademark Fair Use Law and the laws of the Great State of Maine. Insurance carrier legal and brand protection departments concerned with the unauthorized use of protected marks and brand names, please read our Partner with Us! page.
This Medicare Advantage plan information is maintained by David Bynon and was last updated on .


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- The game started with the Knicks down 13-3 and it looked like one of those sluggish starts that the Knicks seem to be having just about every game lately. Them Amare came into the game and the Knicks instantly rallied to finish the quarter up by 5. It was downhill for Sacramento from then on as the Knicks ended up going up by 50 points. Yes, 50 points.
- Carmelo Anthony ended his streak of 31 straight 20+ point games, falling 2 short of the franchise record. He finished the game with 9.
- Tyson Chandler had his 2nd straight game with 20 rebounds. Ties Camby for the franchise record.
- Amare Stoudemire went 10 for 10, one shy of the franchise record for most shots without a miss. He's been so good on offense lately, just a pleasure to watch. Two months ago me would be amazed at how excited present day me is to see Stoudemire enter the game.
- I bet everyone in Seattle who is watching tonight is real psyched for the franchise they are getting.
- In a game where the Knicks won by 39 how the hell did Ronnie Brewer still manage to have a plus/minus of minus 10?
- If Miami loses to Toronto tomorrow the Knicks will have the #1 seed and Mike Woodson will be coaching the all star game.
- 2nd game in a row with over 30 assists and the Knicks also outrebounded the Kings by 22.


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For years, Microsoft has complained to the companies that make Windows PCs about the overall experience those hardware manufacturers are delivering to their customers. Companies like Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, Acer and others license Windows as the operating system, then add software touches to make the notebooks and desktops unique.
These original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, also charge other software developers to place their programs on the hard drive. These are often trial versions that must be purchased before they'll work as intended, or they're "lite" editions that lack features available in the full, paid release.
By taking money in exchange for placement of software on these computers, the OEMs can charge less for their products, essentially subsidizing part of the cost for the buyer. That's a big reason why Windows PCs cost less than those made by Apple, which does not sell real estate for third-party software on its hard drives.
This collection of add-on apps has come to be known as crapware, and as far as Microsoft is concerned, it's the bane of Windows' existence. In conversations with Windows product managers in the months before the releases of both Windows 7 and Vista, I was told Microsoft was hoping to convince OEMs not to junk up their systems with trialware and programs that duplicate Windows' own features.
But as anyone who's bought a brand-name, mainstream PC in the last five years knows, those pleas fell on deaf ears. Crapware is as bad as it ever was.
Now, Microsoft has decided to take matters into its own hands.
The company's first step in this process was its Signature line of PCs, the desktop and notebooks sold in Microsoft's own retail stores and through its website. For OEMs to have their computers sold through these channels, they had to provide Microsoft with a cleaned-up Windows image. The Signature PCs have software necessary to make unique hardware features work, but that's about it. These computers cost a little more than the ones you'll get at stores like Best Buy, but they give the user a much better experience.
And on Monday, Microsoft went even further. While the company has made hardware for years – mice, keyboards, Xbox game consoles, the now-discontinued Zune media players – it has never made personal computers. That changed with the announcement that, later this year, it will sell its own branded tablets running Windows 8.
According to a Reuters story, Microsoft didn't tell its hardware partners about its Surface products until a few days before the unveiling. And some partners, including Acer and Asustek, didn't know about it until Monday's event.
As Patrick Moorhead – President & Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy and a former AMD executive – writes at Tech.pinions, this changes the relationship between Microsoft and its hardware partners forever. And frankly, the PC industry brought this upon itself. This is Microsoft's way of saying "enough is enough". For too long, Microsoft's hardware partners have been doing it wrong.
According to comments made at the Monday event, Surface had been a project at Microsoft for several years. It was kept under the tightest wraps, and for good reason – if its partners knew what the company was up to earlier, it would have had a difficult time getting them to fall in line with the radical changes coming in Windows 8. It's no coincidence that Microsoft waited to reveal the Surface tablets until PC makers had trotted out their own products that will run Windows 8. Now that Surface has surfaced, it will be difficult for the OEMs to walk away in anger.
I agree with the thoughts of Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance, who says the Surface should "shame the PC industry":
Let's be clear, though: Microsoft making hardware is not a natural action. It's what the company does in times of desperation. With the release of Windows 8 looming, Microsoft was indeed desperate for a hardware company to do something to blunt Apple's runaway tablet machine. The Surface tablet represents an indictment of the entire PC and device industry, which has stood by for a couple of years trying to mimic Apple with a parade of hapless, copycat products.
Rather than complaining, PC makers ought to take note of what Microsoft has produced. It has one tablet—a 9 mm thick, 1.5 pounder—that will run on low-power ARM chips and arrive around October. The black device has beautiful, beveled edges; its shell is made of what Microsoft calls vapor-deposited magnesium, or VaporMg. (Brushed aluminum is so last year, Apple.) It also has a built-in kickstand. Best of all, the device comes with a cover that locks firmly in place, unlike Apple's flimsy iPad protector, and which functions as a proper keyboard. Both the kickstand and cover-cum-keyboard seem such obvious ideas now that we've seen them, yet the great army of PC makers failed to think up anything so clever over the past two years.
In other words, rather than piling on crapware to differentiate their systems, the hardware makers should have innovated with, you know, different hardware.
Those who attended the Surface launch and got the chance to handle the tablets praised them for their sleek design. Of course, the tablets on display amount to prototypes – the fine print on the spec sheet posted online says the devices could be altered before they actually go on sale. And it's telling that Microsoft wouldn't actually let any of the journalists attending type on the Touch Cover, the tablet cover that doubles as a touchscreen-like keyboard. It may be cool, but it's apparently not ready for a critical appraisal.
Steve Ballmer said back in 2010 that the next version of Windows was going to be Microsoft's riskiest product bet ever. With the launch of Surface, that prediction has come true in spades.
Windows 8 itself has drawn decidedly mixed reviews, with many critics disliking its hybrid nature – part traditional Windows desktop, part touch-based, mobile OS. Surface helps get around that because the first tablet to be released will be the one running Windows RT on an Nvidia-made ARM processor, which deprecates the desktop – you can't run legacy Windows software using it. A Surface tablet that uses an Intel processor, which will run "classic" software, won't come until three months after Windows 8 is released.
I suspect the creators of Windows 8 would love nothing more than to throw out the old-school Windows desktop and go with the new Metro interface alone, but the change-averse Windows customer base wouldn't stand for that. Keeping the Windows desktop is like training wheels on a new bicycle. Eventually they will come off, but not yet.
A Surface tablet that forces users to the Metro side of the house – particularly one that has an aura of cool – will help that process along. In that sense, Surface is more about Windows than it is about being a hot hardware product.
Here's hoping that the OEMs will take the grownup approach and use Surface as the inspiration to up their collective game. The competition between Apple and Microsoft once brought significant innovation to the nascent PC industry. Surface may reignite that spark again, with users being the primary beneficiaries.
It's a big risk, and there's no guarantee it will succeed. But Microsoft deserves thunderous applause for taking the chance.


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Half the property insurance premium for every Colorado homeowner is caused by claims from people who built, and continue to build, their homes in hazardous areas. Clearly they have no problem burdening the rest of the state in their desire to live where they please.
They are either ignorant of, or callously oblivious to, the terrible risk to life and property that comes with that choice. And when the inevitable disaster strikes, they turn to the rest of Colorado for help in shouldering the burden through our own homeowner's insurance. It is not without a great deal of forbearance that we watch as they continue to build homes, malls, car dealerships and airports right smack in the middle of Hail Alley.
The gulf between the Front Range and the Western Slope is sometimes bigger than the Continental Divide that separates us. Over here in Grand County, we used to live in a forest, but now, according to Gov. John Hickenlooper's Task Force on Wildfire Insurance and Forest Health, we live in the Wildland-Urban Interface — also known as the WUI. The Front Range forces seem clustered and ready to tackle this newly defined problem.
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Soul singer Robin Thicke and his actress wife Paula Patton have separated after nine years of marriage.
The Blurred Lines hitmaker began dating Patton when he was 14 and the high school sweethearts welcomed their first child, son Julian, in April, 2010.
However, despite cuddling up for the cameras at the Grammy Awards just last month, the couple has decided to call it quits.
A statement issued to People.com reads: "We will always love each other and be best friends, however, we have mutually decided to separate at this time."
Thicke and Patton wed in 2005.
The couple's relationship has come under scrutiny in recent months after Thicke was photographed with socialite Lana Scolaro at a post-MTV Video Music Awards party in New York last September.
In the shot, Thicke appeared to be cupping the blonde's backside and she subsequently went public with claims that he didn't stop there, telling Life & Style magazine the singer hit on her, while Patton watched.
At the time, Patton's representative dismissed Scolaro as "just a girl looking for attention" and insisted the actress and her husband "aren't concerned" about the cheating rumors.
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Swedish Crayfish Party – How I Celebrate
Swedes all over Love their crayfish party and there are many ways to host this type of party, and this week, our People's Hero Roxanne shares her way of celebrating through a few simple questions.
Where do we usually find you during the crayfish festivities and what are the essentials?
This is a tradition I usually celebrate back home in Sweden. You would probably find me at my friend's house sitting in their garden (warning the neighbors beforehand about the loud singing that might occur throughout the night)
One of the essentials – except for the actual crayfish – is of course the aquavit (snaps). And it is law amongst my friends to sing a 'snapsvisa' called 'helan går' (everything goes) before we take a shot of Skåne aquavit.
What do you eat at the crayfish party?
Crayfish of course –a lot of them. We usually also have a lot of other sea food such as prawns as everyone don't like crayfish. To our crayfishes we serve a variety of other food that goes really well with the sea food.
We always have Vasterbotten quiche, different types of bread (crispbread of course), cheese with caraway or with cloves and many different styles of nibbles (sour cream and onion crisps being my favourite to snack on throughout the night).
Is there any essential that is a must have?
Snapsglas! (shot glasses) how would you drink all the snaps otherwise?
What is your advice for the crayfish rookies that want to host the festivities?
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Applied Materials Inc., long whipsawed by the chip industry's business cycles, reported a 71 percent drop in first-quarter profit but pointed to signs of a rebound.
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Ku-ring-gai Historical Society incorporating the Ku-ring-gai Family History Centre
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- (02)9499 4568
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Research Costs
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Open Hours
- 10am to 2pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (except the first Saturday of the month)
Approximate Membership
- 500
Membership Cost
- $30 single, $35 household
- The Historian, published annually, $20 (free for members)
- Newsletter published monthly
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Our Society was formed in 1963, has over 500 members, mainly present and past Ku-ring-gai residents, and includes an active family history group with worldwide interests. The Society is committed to the collection, preservation and dissemination of information relating to the history of Ku-ring-gai. We maintain an interest in Heritage issues, particularly if the site or persons associated with it have historical significance. We encourage research into local and family history of the Ku-ring-gai area and its residents.
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|Slow Cooker Turkey Breast
Let's talk turkey! This column is full of handy turkey tips! How to cook a turkey breast in a slow cooker. How to cook a whole turkey or a turkey breast the day before. How to make turkey gravy and turkey stock. How to cook turkey giblets. Plus lots of tips for cooking a Thanksgiving turkey.
Frugal shoppers know that for during November and December, turkey is dirt cheap. I like to buy an extra turkey breast or two or three. Some times it's to have extra white meat for our Thanksgiving meal or after-Thanksgiving turkey sandwiches or turkey soup. Some times it's to have a breast on hand for an easy, healthy slow cooker supper during the holidays or the winter months. And there's nothing easier than cooking a turkey breast in the slow cooker, you're going to love this recipe!
People are beginning to plan their Thanksgiving menus. I can tell: already people are poring over the collection of Thanksgiving vegetable recipes at A Veggie Venture, especially the World's Best Green Bean Casserole, the traditional holiday casserole, except updated with fresh green beans and fresh mushrooms.
The traditional Thanksgiving meal has many moving parts. It's not hard to cook, it just takes planning and plotting. This morning I saw a supermarket ad, a full Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce and rolls) for eight for $8 a plate. That's a bargain, I understand its appeal.
Still, isn't there a psychic pleasure in cooking special family meals ourselves? For the next few weeks, my aim is to offer up simple Thanksgiving recipes to give cooks new confidence to tackle the Thanksgiving meal.
First up, the turkey. It's oh-so-easy to cook a turkey breast in a slow cooker. I'm newly in love with a programmable slow cooker, especially the 'keep warm' setting that turns on automatically once the food is cooked.
But more than that – this is the real magic – the breast may be cooked and sliced the day before, then warmed in the microwave before serving. It works for whole turkeys too, a trick I learned from my mother many years ago, and produces moist, flavorful turkey while avoiding all the kitchen mess just before serving. Neatniks will love this!
HOW TO COOK A TURKEY THE DAY BEFOREFor many reasons – convenience, timing, clean-up – some cooks prefer to cook the turkey the day before serving. Trouble is, turkey meat is just so moist and flavorful straight off the bird. My mother taught me this microwave trick, I remember it working like a charm.
THE DAY BEFORE First, cook the turkey the day before, in the oven, in the slow cooker, or however suits. Here's my favorite method, How to Dry Brine & Roast a Whole Turkey.
THE DAY BEFORE Now find a microwave-safe dish that's small enough to fit into the microwave but large enough to hold as much turkey as will be needed for serving. Place a small microwave safe bowl or ramekin in the center. After the turkey has cooled a little, carve the turkey, slicing for servings. Arrange the meat in the dish around the bowl. Overlap the slices but don't pile them higher than the rim. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
SERVING DAY Before serving, fill the small bowl half full of water and reseal the plastic wrap on the microwave-safe dish (a tight seal is needed, you might need to replace the plastic wrap). Place in the microwave and heat on high until the meat is heated through, how long will vary depending on your microwave, how much meat there is, how cold the meat is before going in. Leave the plastic wrap over the turkey until just before serving, so the meat stays hot, then lift off and remove the water bowl to serve. That's it, so simple! The meat is moist and hot and perfect for serving.
Before starting, make sure that the turkey breast will fit inside your slow cooker, preferably without touching the lid. If it doesn't, cut the "breast" (which is actually both breasts) in half and cook them one at a time. For a rough guideline, a six-pound breast barely fits into a six-quart slow cooker.
What are giblets? Giblets are the turkey's heart, liver and gizzard. In a whole turkey, you'll find the giblets in a small paper bag inside either the neck end or the 'other' end, be sure to check both, one will hold the turkey neck. A turkey breast package may or may not include giblets. To cook the giblets, cover all but the liver with a little water and simmer gently for 30 minutes for a flavorful stock that makes great gravy. If you like, chop up the cooked giblets and put them into the turkey stuffing. Since there's just one small liver, cook it in a little butter until just barely cooked and eat right out of the skillet. Cook's treat!
Measure the thyme leaves into your hand, then rub between your fingers over the skillet to release the oils.
If needed, brush up on how to safely handle meat.
Time to table: 3 – 7 hours
Serves: Varies with breast size, allow 1/2 pound uncooked weight (including bone) per serving
- 1 turkey breast, skin on, bone in, about 4 – 5 pounds, thawed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 ribs celery, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black peppercorns
- 1 quart chicken stock, preferably homemade chicken stock
Remove the sack of giblets (see TIPS) from inside the turkey. Rinse the breast inside and out under running water. Pat dry with paper towels.
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil on medium high until shimmery. Add the breast, letting cook on all sides for 2 – 3 minutes a side until golden. Transfer to the slow cooker, breast side down if possible, on its side if needed.
In the same skillet, add the onion, celery and garlic and cook until just golden, stirring often. Stir in the thyme and pepper. Stir in the chicken stock. Pour over top of the breast.
Cover and cook on Low for about 6 hours or on High for about 3 hours, until a meat thermometer inserted into the meatiest part of the breast registers 165F.
Transfer to a platter, cover breast with foil while making the Turkey Gravy. (Not making gravy? Let the turkey rest for 20 - 30 minutes before slicing.) Slice and serve.
After serving, 'pick the turkey' by cutting or tearing off as much meat as possible. Use the carcass to make Turkey Stock.
Time to table: 20 minutes
Makes about 4 cups
- Hot liquid from slow cooker (or 4 cups Homemade Chicken Stock or 4 cups chicken broth)
- 4 tablespoons flour
- Salt & pepper to taste
Transfer the liquid from the slow cooker (if you like, add the stock from cooking the turkey giblets too) to a large pot and bring to a boil on medium high. Place the flour, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. A tablespoon at a time at first, add about two cups of the liquid to the bowl, stirring to incorporate each addition before adding another. Slowly whisk the broth-flour mixture into the pot. Return the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Reduce the heat and let the mixture simmer until the desired thickness is reached.
Even when the turkey meat is gone, the carcass will yield wonderful stock for using in soups, stocks, sauces and more. If you don't have time to make stock right away, throw the carcass into the freezer for a day or two. Otherwise, put the carcass, a rib or two of celery, a carrot or two and some onion wedges onto a baking sheet and put under the broiler – yes, the broiler. It will take about 10 minutes for the carcass and vegetables to brown. Don't be afraid of a little burn, either, it really adds flavor.
Transfer the carcass and vegetables to a stock pot (or even back into the slow cooker on high) and cover with water. Add a bay leaf and about five peppercorns. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to maintain a slow simmer for about an hour. For the first 30 minutes, skim off and discard the gunk that accumulates on top.
Turn off the heat, let cool, then strain through a colander and discard the solids. For extra-clear stock, strain through cheesecloth one or more times.
I like to freeze the stock, How to Freeze Stock in Canning Jars. But if you prefer, use freezer bags – and do be sure to use freezer bags, not just plain ziplock bags; the double-line bags work better than the zipper bags. Two cups at a time, pour the stock into quart freezer bags, it helps to "stand" the bag up in a bowl, turn the tops over to the outside, then fill the bags through a funnel. Then seal tightly, making sure the zip up tight! Label and place carefully flat in the freezer; once the bags are frozen, you can store them upright.
For more tips about making turkey stock, see my cooking lesson for Homemade Chicken Stock, it's filled with tips and techniques. But really, making homemade stock needn't be a big production, I think of it as No-Big-Deal Homemade Chicken Stock.
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German medical team arms man, twice
World's first double arm transplant
Medical science has given a 54-year-old German farmer new hope to again indicate how large a fish he's caught by successfully fitting him with a new pair of arms.
Munich University Clinic said doctors spent 15 hours grafting fresh limbs onto his body, in what they believe is the world's first complete double arm transplant.
The amputee lost his original set in an accident six years ago. He consulted the microsurgery unit which performed the operation after two failed attempts to use prosthetics.
The farmer's name, as well as the identity of the donor who died shortly before the surgery, was not released.
Transplant team chief Christoph Hoehnke told reporters that he was touched to see the patient's wife instinctively reach for his hands when she came to his bedside after the operation, according to the AFP.
The procedure was done by 40 doctors, nurses and assistants spread across five teams working arm-in-arm. "The whole thing went according to script," Hoehnke said.
Before his bones could be cut, doctors had to fill the man's blood vessels in his arms with a cooled preservation solution. Then bones were joined, followed by arteries and veins to ensure blood circulation began quickly as possible.
Although the patient can't yet applaud the doctors' work, they expect his network of nerves to expand at about one millimeter per day. It's predicted to be at least two years before he will be able to use his new hands without assistance.
However, doctors can't rule out that the patient's body may reject the foreign limbs. He'll be taking medication that suppresses the immune system for the rest of his life to lessen the chances of this happening.
The clinic said that until now, only transplants of the lower arms have taken place. The upper arm poses a greater challenge to get the circulatory system to handle the change. ®
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Tanning beds raise melanoma risk, US study finds
Indoor tanning beds sharply increase the risk of melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, and the risk increases over time, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, and others experts called for tighter regulation.
They said people who use any type of tanning bed for any amount of time are 74 percent more likely to develop melanoma, and frequent users are 2.5 to 3 times more likely to develop the skin cancer than people who never use them.
Nonetheless, the study confirms prior research linking indoor tanning beds with melanoma, and answers any lingering questions about whether the practice is safe, or if the risk depends on the type of tanning bed used.
"We found that it didn't matter the type of tanning device used; there was no safe tanning device," said DeAnn Lazovich of the University of Minnesota, whose study appeared in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
Studies had suggested younger people were at greater risk, but Lazovich said the risk rises with frequency of use, regardless of age, gender or the device used.
"The increased risks we have reported are the risks associated with indoor tanning above and beyond any other known risk factors for melanoma," Lazovich said in a telephone briefing.
Dr. Allan Halpern, chief of dermatology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, told the briefing that melanoma cases are on the rise in the United States and the findings strengthen the case for regulating tanning beds.
He said the World Health Organization already classifies tanning beds as a human carcinogen, but in the United States, tanning beds are considered a class 1 medical device - "which is the equivalent of tongue depressors," he said.
The FDA has been reconsidering this classification and on Wednesday the agency released a video saying the use of any ultraviolet or UV-emitting device for the purpose of tanning should be avoided.
"I'm hopeful it will be very helpful in the hands of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to move forward to regulate this industry," said Halpern, who was not involved in the research.
For the study, Lazovich and colleagues studied 1,167 people diagnosed with melanoma and compared them with 1,101 people who did not have melanoma.
The team asked people which type of tanning bed they had used - those that emit UVA radiation or UVB radiation.
They found that melanoma risk was about 3 times greater among people who had used tanning beds that emit UVB rays and 4.4 times greater for UVA-emitting devices.
They also found that risk increased with use. They defined frequent use as people who used indoor tanning for more than 50 hours, or more than 100 sessions, or for more than 10 years.
Still, experts say the absolute risk than an individual person will develop melanoma from tanning bed use is small.
Melanoma is fairly rare, accounting for about 3 percent of skin cancer cases, but it causes most skin cancer deaths, and doctors have few effective treatments to offer once the disease has spread.
According to the American Cancer Society, 68,000 people were diagnosed with melanoma in 2009, and 8,650 died of it.
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I'm curious if anyone has an opinion on perhaps certain people with certain mindsets latching onto Thelema, who have a perpetual or frequent 'identity crisis' kind of aspect to their personalities, or lack of direction?
Take, for example, Borderline Personality Disorder - something I unfortunately have, and a sort of "Schizo-OCD" (think Howard Hughes). Anyway, it dawned on me that maybe myself and some others, perhaps use Thelema internally at least as an excuse not to set goals in life.
Why? It seems to me that avolition is in fact optimal to maintain as a Thelemite unless and until one has received his or her True Will. I have made contact with my HGA, and received his name. I've been the kind of person who is good at analyzing and even hyper-intellectualizing, but not actually making decisions, planning physical activity... basically poor executive function.
No doubt, some of this if not much may be chemically induced, but I believe I made my question clear: Could Thelema be, or has it been to your knowledge, adopted by persons who either lack volition or use it to perpetuate the state of avolition, as a reasoning or even 'excuse'? This could be very complex to speculate upon given multiple factors and a relative vagueness about my thought process and maybe wording. I'm also pressed for time, so thank you for patience and I look forward to any responses if appropriate.
C. Norman from Waterbury, CT, USA


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If you have ever been interested in trying out an online casino, there is no better time than the present to give it a try. There are literally hundreds of casinos operating over the internet, and they are all fighting to get your business, which means that no matter how you do at the tables, you can win.
Of course, every single casino website is different. Most offer the same kinds of games, such as blackjack, craps, roulettes, and online slots. However, they try to differentiate themselves by offering different slot games, or exciting variations of the house rules on blackjack. However, you are bound to find a few dozen casinos that have the games you want.


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It's easy to underestimate the sheer unattractiveness of CableCARDs and the one-way-only devices that have so far accepted them. I mean, 594 consumer electronics items have CableCARD slots, the entire cable industry has been forced to support the scheme for years, and the 2007 "integration ban" was designed to make third-party products just as compelling as non-CableCARD set-top boxes offered by the cable companies. Surely someone must be buying CableCARD-ready TVs?
And yet, in the last three months, only 2,000 CableCARDs have been requested by customers—a number that covers the entire US. When the top ten cable operators are lumped together, they've only provided 374,000 CableCARDs in the entire history of the program.
To say that these numbers are "uninspiring" is an insult to "uninspiring." Perhaps a better comment would be, in reference to the entire program, that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a... ah, nevermind. Another folksy metaphor ruined.
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association issued its occasional report to the FCC today on CableCARD deployments, and it's more evident than ever that the program hasn't worked. Initially designed to break the cable industry's stranglehold on programming navigation devices (think set-top boxes), the initiative has found little consumer uptake.
Much of that is due to the limitations of host devices, which until this year have not generally supported two-way operation and therefore could not support electronic program guides, video on demand, and pay-per-view features. Most cable users simply went with the cable company box, which featured two-way operation and needed no CableCARD.
After the integration ban went into effect last summer, however, CableCARD usage exploded in one particular sector: the set-top box market. Now that cable operators had to use the same technology everyone else was using, third-party devices should have looked more attractive, but buyers don't seem to care. The low number of CableCARDs issued has us wondering how well TiVo's HD DVRs are selling in the US.
Though only 374,000 CableCARDs have been issued to customers, set-top boxes sent out from cable companies with CableCARDs already loaded have been flying off the (central office) shelves. More than 7.8 million such boxes have been deployed since last summer. As the NCTA notes, "in less than 15 months, cable operators have deployed more than twenty times as many CableCARD-enabled devices than the total number of CableCARDs requested by customers" in the last four years.
With tru2way just around the corner, we'll have a chance to see how the same basic idea can work when devices have real two-way access to the cable company systems. Physical CableCARDs are still required for security, so the costly FCC-mandated program may turn out to have real value at last.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Frozen," the soundtrack to Disney's $1 billion grossing animated film, spent its fourth consecutive week atop the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, edging Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer for the top spot.
"Frozen," which has ridden the popularity of the film and its hit song "Let It Go" by Broadway actress Idina Menzel, sold 149,000 copies last week to reach 1.9 million in U.S. sales since its release in November 2013, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
It is 2014's biggest-selling album so far with about 1.6 million copies sold this year.
"She Looks So Perfect," an EP (extended play) from 5 Seconds of Summer, sold 143,000 copies in its opening week. The Aussie quartet, which developed a strong following on YouTube, gained international exposure as the opening act of popular boy band One Direction.
Album "La Gargola" from rock group Chevelle entered the chart at No. 3 with 45,000 in sales and singer-songwriter Christina Perri's "Head or Heart" debuted at No. 4 with 40,000 in sales.
Other new releases in the top 10 include country duo Dan + Shay's debut album "Where It All Began" at No. 6 with 29,000 in sales and bluegrass group Nickel Creek's "A Dotted Line" at No. 7 with 27,000 in sales.
Last week's No. 2 album, the self-titled release from Colombian pop star Shakira, fell to fifth with 29,000 in sales, a 66 percent drop.
Singer-producer Pharrell Williams' song "Happy," which is from the soundtrack to the animated film "Despicable Me 2," was again atop the digital songs chart with 284,000 downloads in the past week.
Overall album sales for the past week totaled 4.9 million, a 14 percent decline from the same week last year. Album sales so far in 2014 total 66.6 million, a 16 percent decline from the same period last year.
Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Patricia Reaney and Lisa Shumaker


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Why are so many people I know so resistant to the ongoing reinvention of the Broadway musical? Why should love of the great classics of the form — South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls — blind us to the creative explosions that have been erupting on Broadway in the past several years? I have never seen a musical that plumbed the sorrowful complexities of love as deeply as Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza. And Grey Gardens was the richest, saddest, most hilarious examination of an incredibly difficult subject that I could possibly imagine. (My best friend and I had one of our rare disagreements when he told me that he thought Scott Frankel's music sounded as if it was written by a high-school student; I found it an uncannily perfect fit for Michael Korie's lyrics — the best lyrics, incidentally, I've heard in years.) Both The Light in the Piazza and Grey Gardens had difficulty finding their audience, and Grey Gardens never really succeeded in doing so. But despite the fact that they both took place in the American past, these shows crackled with a modern sensibility — and not enough people cared.
Recently, I urged friends to catch Next to Normal, which now stars husband-and-wife artists Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley as a couple whose lives are blighted by the wife's ongoing mental illness. The score, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, is an amazingly demanding one, and it's unthinkable that the stars could get through it without exercising everything they know about technical command, about holding back vocally and not getting so lost in the emotionalism of the music and words that they do themselves permanent vocal damage. Yet I've seldom seen two performances in the musical theater that I thought showed less artifice, less obvious "control." One of Mazzie's strong suits is her astonishing ability to generate heat onstage. Anyone who witnessed her brilliant turn as Lily Garland in the Actors' Fund of America concert version of the Cy Coleman–Betty Comden–Adolph Green On the Twentieth Century, back in 2005, will know what I mean. In Next to Normal, her tormented Diana seems utterly skinless: there is no barrier between her and the audience; she submerges herself so deeply in the role that you wonder if she will ever be able to come back for the curtain call. As her husband, desperately trying to see his wife through an illness for which the "remedies" are notoriously short-term and not even understood fully by the doctors who administer them, Danieley gives a moving, beautifully judged performance. The scene in which he reluctantly agrees to let Diana undergo electroshock treatment is all but impossible to shake off. Mazzie and Danieley plan to be in the show until January. It would be a grave mistake to miss them.


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Innovation is key to becoming a 'people-centric' business
When I think of "Inclusion and Diversity", I automatically think about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce environment: providing all employees with learning and development opportunities, ensuring employees with disabilities have the right tools and resources and educating all employees on how to work with people with disabilities, sending out regular communications on techniques for how to strengthen inclusion and diversity in the workplace and so forth.
Reading this article from UTalkMarketing.com this morning over a cup of coffee made me question my own definition of "Inclusion and Diversity." I came to the conclusion that my view on this subject was far too narrow – I was focussing on it from a purely internal perspective and needed to think outside of the box and include an external perspective too. Inclusion and Diversity isn't just about making your diverse workforce feel included; it's also about ensuring that your customers feel included AND that their voices and their business needs lie at the heart of your business.
The author of this article, Chris Beswick, argues that businesses need to develop a relationship with their customers, look at the world from their perspective and appreciate the problems they face and the things they aspire to. Instead of focussing on their own products and services, businesses need to put greater focus on their customers' problems and tensions – it's not "what you do", i.e. what you sell; what you provide, but rather "how you do it", i.e. how you fuel innovation and differentiation.
Yet Beswick argues that true customer-centricity is only possible if you first become people-centric. In his words the only way you can provide an exceptional end-to-end customer experience is to ensure that everyone in your organisation understands how to collaborate on solving your customers' problems.
How do you extend Inclusion and Diversity to your customers? Share your thoughts below.
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Former UT football player, Houston lawyer Nunnally dies
Knox Nunnally, a prominent Houston trial lawyer and a member of the first University of Texas football team to win a national championship in 1963, died Monday of complications from brain cancer. He was 69.
In the three years Nunnally played for the Longhorns under legendary coach Darryl Royal, the team won 30 games, lost two, tied one, and did not lose a game against UT's archrivals, the University of Oklahoma or Texas A&M University.
While some other members of the team went on to professional careers in the National Football League after leaving UT, Nunnally stayed on to pursue a law degree. In 1968, he joined the Houston law firm Vinson & Elkins where he practiced until his death.
"Knox, when he came to UT, he said he was going to get a business degree and go to law school and work for a big firm," said his longtime friend and former teammate Ernie Koy, who played professionally as a running back for the New York Giants. "He never changed his mind."
A legendary lawyer
In his more than 40 years at Vinson & Elkins, Nunnally started more than 150 jury trials and received jury verdicts in more than 100. In 2000, he was named by Texas Lawyer as one of the 100 Legal Legends who helped shape law and lawyering in Texas in the 20th century.
"He very zealously represented his clients, but he did it in a very professional way," said Houston attorney David Beck, who met Nunnally in court and became a close friend. "He didn't take statements parties made personally, and he never attacked parties personally. He could advocate a position, but do it in a nice, but devastating way."
Nunnally was born to Miles Dillon Nunnally and Linnie Mat Knox Nunnally in Haynesville, La., on Jan. 26, 1943. He was raised in West Texas, graduating in 1961 from Midland High School and earning All West Texas honors in football and basketball.
He entered the University of Texas at Austin in 1961 on a football scholarship, and he played as a defensive end for the Longhorns at two Cotton Bowls and one Orange Bowl.
In a paid obituary written largely by himself, Nunnally recounts having been part of a Longhorns defensive squad that won victories over teams led by quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Joe Namath, including a goal-line stand against top-ranked Alabama in the Orange Bowl in 1964 that preserved a Texas victory.
He graduated from the University of Texas School of Law with honors in 1968 and joined what was then known as Vinson, Elkins, Weems, Searls and Connally as a junior trial lawyer. In 1975, he was named a partner at the firm. That same year he married Kay Clyde Webb.
Texas family man
Nunnally was lead lawyer in some significant cases in Texas. He successfully defended Conoco in federal court in Galveston after the 1984 Alvenus oil spill off the coast of Louisiana; he was lead trial counsel for Bridgestone/Firestone in litigation related to tire failures on certain Ford vehicles; and he successfully defended Colonial Pipeline Company in Jefferson County against lawsuits brought as a result of one of the largest inland gas line spills in U.S. history.
In his paid obituary, Nunnally claims his most important case was successfully defending a U.S. Marine officer in 2008 at a court of inquiry at Camp Lejeune against charges his unit violated the rules of war in killing as many as 19 Afghan civilians after their convoy was targeted by a car bomb.
Nunnally's son, Kevin Knox Nunnally, a U.S. Marine Corps captain and veteran of three tours in Iraq, said his father was a gregarious man who had many friends, including Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who remembered him Thursday as "a great man, a close friend and an outstanding Texan."
Kevin Nunnally said his father was a "perfect dad and a perfect husband" who loved dove hunting in northern Mexico, where he was known by the locals as Ocho-Ocho (his football jersey number was 88), and history, taking his family on trips that visited every Civil War battle site in the nation and never seeing a historical marker on the road he could resist.
Nunnally is survived by his wife and son.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 3471 Westheimer.


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I reviewed the Getty Villa on Yelp. Although I have given it 4 out of 5 stars it I have two critiques of its collection from a professional standpoint, namely:
I think the Villa itself could be put to better use than as a merely beautiful container for the objects. The villa, being a replica Roman villa, could be better used to explained Roman social customs. The first thing to point out is the owner of the original villa was the Roman equivalent of J. Paul Getty: a very rich man. The structure of the Roman familia could be discussed; the roles of the paterfamilias, his wife and children, and the household slaves. It could go into the daily routine of the Roman household, etc. It could also be used to explain how Greek models of cultured life penetrated Roman life, for example, in the form of the peristyle garden. It also could at least have one interior room with the actual interior decoration of a Roman villa; rather than the heavily Georgian-period block colour models that it follows.
Last, I am not sure of the layout of the collection. Museum studies isn't my area of expertise, on reflection I am sure that the thematic grouping of the objects could be improved. For example, in amongst the portraits (divided into men and women) there are a jumble of portrait heads and funerary monuments, Greek and Roman, with no explanation of the difference between burial practices and their evolution over time, and the social role of the portrait busts and monumental statues. I also had minor issues with some inscription translations put onto the cards.
Does anyone think these are unfair criticisms?


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text: Social works, now more than ever. Building a seamless social experience into everything you do, helps an organization become faster, more flexible, and responsive to evolving digital, business and client needs. Accenture's social enterprise -incorporating Twitter and our own capabilities like Accenture Circles and the Stream - empowers rapid, real-time collaboration across a diverse set of global employees, businesses, clients and communities. At Accenture, we are on track to becoming a fully social global enterprise, and the lessons we've learned can help our clients speed their own transformation.


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Crews bracing for hot northerly winds in Gippsland
The weather bureau has upgraded its forecast for hot northerly winds on the Aberfeldy fire in Gippsland for Thursday.
The bureau is now predicting northerly winds on Thursday morning, easterlies in the afternoon and back to hot northerlies overnight Thursday and Friday.
The South west change is now expected later, about midday on the fire-ground.
The fire travelled about 50 kilometres from Aberfeldy to Glenmaggie last Friday burning 22 houses and scores of sheds and outbuildings.
Towns on the southern edge of the fire from Walhalla across to Coongulla could be under threat with the northerly winds.
Some rain is possible with the change on Friday.
Further east crews are still trying to round up a series of fires near Orbost started by lightning late yesterday but the main effort remains on the southern containment lines of the growing Aberfeldy fire.
The upgraded weather comes as fires services diverted aircraft away from the Aberfedly fires to fight the Orbost blazes.
Fire crews have about 36 hours to do as much work shoring up containment lines.
Emergency crews have also been frustrated by recent fires closer to Melbourne, may have been caused by machinery sparks.


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IntangibleBeer wrote:Absolutely awesome.
I was fortunate to be in the stands for some of those fabulous Mario goals. The person commenting on the faceoff-factor site said it for me, too.
Lemieux was better than Gretzky. Mario wasn't surrounded by talent and protectors. He played with a lot of absolute stiffs and made them look good, too. Until DeBartolos took over the team and put a decent front-office team together, he had to battle those idiots, too.
It is a true shame that circumstances weren't kinder to him during his playing days.
IntangibleBeer wrote:Absolutely awesome.
pugilist13 wrote:I dont know if I can ever make a statement that Mario was better than Gretzky..
GSdrums87 wrote:Gah, I never got to see Lemieux play live in his hayday, just when he returned from retirement.
sil wrote:I hadn't even turned 5-years old yet. My first real memory of Lemiuex was his amazing between-the-legs goal vs. Vancouver in either '93 or '94.
Pitts wrote:GSdrums87 wrote:Gah, I never got to see Lemieux play live in his hayday, just when he returned from retirement.
The same as my son. And, I tell him all the time, if you never saw Mario live during the late 80's, early-mid 90's, you just can't imagine how truly amazing he was. I know it's so over-stated, but if health didn't knock him down a few notches, there would be no debate over who was the best.
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Think about this.
If you took every one of Gretzky's goals away he ever scored....he would have more assists then anybody has points. That just blows my mind and always has. Just his assists beat anyone in total points. That in my opinion says that Gretzky in the end was better then Mario, even if Mario stayed healthy in his career.
Also...thanks for posting that video! Brings back the memories.
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Not Only Can You 'Compete With Free' You Have To If You Don't Want Your Business Overrun By Piracy
from the basic-economics deptRob Reid, who recently got a ton of well deserved attention for his hilarious TED talk on copyright math, has a WSJ op-ed piece, in which he tries to explain why there's so little ebook infringement, compared to music infringement. The crux of his argument? Even though the big publishers aren't really great about this stuff, rather than fight the technology, they were actually quick to embrace the technology and make authorized works available for purchase. Contrast that to the music industry, which sued every advancement in technology, including the first MP3 player, and didn't actually license an MP3 download store until many, many years after MP3 players were widely available.
Compare this to the situation in books. Although it had some small-time forerunners, the Kindle, like the Rio MP3 player, brought portability to a mass market. But the Kindle launched with licenses rather than lawsuits from the key rights-holders in its domain, and offered more than 90% of the day's best sellers when it shipped.This highlights a key point that many of us have been trying to make for a long, long time. The "answer" to the "piracy question" is not greater enforcement or more draconian laws, as the entertainment industry keeps telling us, but rather more legitimate services that can provide good value to consumers. The music industry failed at that for so long, that it really helped drive the culture of infringing music.
This meant that consumers discovered digital books through a licensed experience that delighted them. Exciting hardware, a critical mass of titles and Amazon's retail sensibilities were all integrated into a single elegant package that piracy has never matched.
Of course, piracy emerged anyway. Countless unlicensed e-books can be found online, and millions of people use them. But sales figures suggest that relatively few of these downloads represent foregone purchases. Most Kindle, iPad and Nook owners seem to view piracy as a low-rent and time-consuming experience compared with the sanctioned alternatives. They probably wouldn't if the publishers had kicked things off with a five-year content boycott.
For years, we've pointed out that of course you can compete with free. But what Rob's article is highlighting is even more fundamental. Not only can you compete with free, you must compete with free or you're going to lose out. If you don't offer a legitimate alternative, people will flock to the illegitimate ones. Yes, some people will always infringe, but over and over again we see how legitimate services pull people away from file sharing and towards paying -- if they provide enough value at a reasonable price.
Now, I know that some will quibble with one other major difference between books and music that Rob sort of leaps over in his piece: it was much easier to create digital music than ebooks. You could just take CDs and drop it into your computer and there you go. There really wasn't a simple equivalent for books. Sure, lots of people have scanners, but that's a laborious process. Still, I'm not convinced that was really as big a deal as I'm sure some will make of it. That's because once a single copy of a book is digitized, it's very quickly available all over the place. And there were plenty of people working to digitize books long before the Kindle came along. It might have been a limiting factor, but certainly not a complete hindrance to ebook infringement.
Either way, the key takeaway can hardly be challenged: the way to deal with piracy is to offer good legitimate services, and preferably more than just one, so they can compete on adding value. Unfortunately, many in the industry like to just dip their toes in the water with a few services -- and as soon as they become successful, seek to raise prices. That's no way to encourage a long term market success.
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After trying out three electronic devices - iPads, Netbooks and Chromebooks - for several weeks in a pilot study, the Estherville Lincoln Central District Technology Team Monday recommended to the ELC Board of Education that the district adopt Chromebooks as the device of choice for one-one-one technology.
While the board did not take action at Monday's meeting, funding for the project was already approved when the physical plant and equipment levy budget was approved.
In presenting the findings, Jenny Nitchals said the pilot project was conducted from the end of February through March by 12 students and 12 teachers. Speaking in favor of Chromebooks were Ciara Minion and Kayla Jensen, students participating in the study.
ELC High School Principal Frank Christenson said three students had been picked from each high-school class along with a variety of staff for the pilot project.
Students and staff took surveys after using each device for two weeks. Nitchals said 60 percent of students favored Chromebooks while 60 percent of staff favored Netbooks.
While Chromebooks don't run Microsoft Office, Christensen said Google automatically updates the machines. And admitting more difficulty in downloading with E-readers with
Chromebooks, he said PCs are not going away anytime soon.
Librarian Lili Jensen said Chromebooks don't interface with library programs and that Chrome, a Google browser, is the only one available on the machines.
Christensen also said a driving force favoring the Chromebook was cost. Along with that was ease of setup. Christenson said the technology department could set up 400 Chromebooks in three days.
Christenson said next year he'd like to purchase Chromebooks for teachers and put labs in different areas.
Board member Kathy Cornwall said she would have liked to have seen more people who favored Netbooks come to the meeting to explain why they did. Superintendent Tara Paul said she believed Chromebooks would serve student needs.
Christensen said the Technology Team had also received recommendations from the AEA. He said a lot of schools had gone from Netbooks to Chromebooks but none went from Chromebooks to Netbooks.
Paul noted the $279 cost as an advantage too, and that Spirit Lake was going from MacBook Pro to the Chromebook. She also said the pilot study showed that students could do anything they were asked with the Chromebook, and that buying the Chromebook offered the opportunity to spend less than what the district had planned.
Christensen said he was not trying to rush the board into any decision and that a year had been spent researching available options.
"We are behind" neighboring school districts in one-one-one technology, Christenson said, adding that he wanted to let teachers have the machines for a year before they were issued to students.
"We are behind our neighbors," Christenson said. "I think we did this (pilot study and recommendation) in a timely manner. I think we were well represented."
Cornwall questioned whether the Technology Committee had been transparent with teachers.
"I think we have," Paul said, noting that extra devices were available for teachers to check out and that everyone knew the pilot study was going on.


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APEX has a great feature called Page Locks which enables developers to lock a page so that they're the only one that can work on it at a given time. Other developers can view the page, but can not make any changes while the page is locked.
To lock a page, click on the lock icon located in the top right corner of the page as displayed in the following picture:
You will need to enter a comment and then click the Lock Checked button. For the comment it is recommended that you enter what case/bug number you're working on and what impact it may have on the page. The history of these comments, both for locking and unlocking the page, is logged. Before you invest a lot of time with detailed comments it's important to note the following points that may be relevant within your environment.
Page locks are not retained when an application is copied or exported. This makes sense as you don't want page locks to propagate in an export file.
Like page locks, the lock history is not retained when an application is copied or exported. If you tend to move the development copy of your application between workspaces this may be an issue. This may effect the level of detail for lock comments that you require the developers on your team to use.
If you want to backup the page lock comment history you can access them from the following table:
FROM apex_040000.wwv_flow_lock_page_log
WHERE lock_flow = :app_id
ORDER BY lock_page, action_date


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