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Poll: Golden State not so golden
The Golden State has apparently lost its luster. California residents ranked their quality of life at its lowest mark in 20 years because of the continuing economic downturn. [San Francisco Chronicle]
The poll by UC Berkeley and Field, conducted in February, showed that only 39 percent considered the state "one of the best places to live," compared with the glory days of 1985, when 78 percent gave the state the highest rating.
Californians' self-assessment has gradually declined since then, with occasional spurts of optimism, until the appraisal rock-bottomed in 1992 at the tail end of a national recession.
Jon Christensen, the executive director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, said while the poll reflected personal financial woes. Californians are also bothered by a dysfunctional state government mired in a budget crisis.
Most voters – 47 percent – said immigration had no real impact.
Yet of those who said immigration had changed California, 39 percent said it lowered their quality of life, while 10 percent said immigration made life here better.
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rogerfreberg
Well, we are an immigrant country.
I think one of the most interesting issues about immigration is that it is the one thing that the federal government retains as their right. They decide who gets to come in and who has to stay out. This is an issue that never goes before the public…. which means that it is an internal political decision by definition.
The important issue is the decline in the 'happiness' index — so to speak — in California… and this should not be a surprise to anyone. High taxes, high unemployment, declining public schools at all levels, and insensitive public officials contribute significant to poor public morale. Can you blame companies for leaving California ( BTW, did you hear about the huge Microsoft-size company leaving?)
Immigration is a non-issue… folks go where things are happening… like Brazil.
Well of course happiness is the issue. The elephant in the room is environmental. We dwell in an overcrowded, paved over, noisy, polluted, burdened by corruptionand mass immigration We're hammered by the unceasing scream of BUY THIS and GET THAT!! commercialism with nothing but the promise of more of the above in the future. We try to fool our kids into thinking education is the key, but we really know it won't change anything. What, go to school to learn how to NOT build more crap? They're not buying it anymore anyway, as we really don't. Their response is no longer to change the system as with my generation, it's now "screw everything, let's get drunk and forget everything for awhile".
Who could blame them.
While you xenophobes think all immigrants are unskilled laborers, immigrants started 39% of the businesses in California. Remember, Rupert Murdock is an immigrant. So is the founder of eBay and a co-founder of Google. In addition, 42% of the PhD holders in the California workforce are immigrants.
By your own posting, 61% of the business in Ca weren't started by immigrants and 58% of the PHD holders in the Ca workforce are not immigrants….works both ways.
danika, If you're glad that 58% of the PHD holders in the CA workforce are native born Americans, you're probably ecstatic that American high school students (15-year-olds) ranked 25th out of 34 counties.
opps… that's 25th out of 34 counties in math.
(1) I don't believe your figures. (2) You know as well as I do what fact you're leaving out. Try again.
Yes, and some people believe that the moon is made of blue cheese. I don't waste my time argueing with such fools.
Typoqueen
There are also studies that show that if all the illegal immigrants left tomorrow that this state would go bankrupt. They pay taxes but don't get all the benefits of those taxes. They pay into Social Sec. but they don't get SS. They provide business for merchants and work at jobs that Anglos won't take.
This is nonsense about them being the cause of the high medical costs. I read recently that the majority of illegal immigrants pay for their medical care in cash and that they do pay.
Typoqueen, where does that tired old "They take jobs that anglos……" .come from? America was built by Anglos, ditches, coal mining, assembling, housecleaning, ALL CRAPPY JOBS for Christ's sakes. Who did 'em before??????? IF there are jobs that "anglos won't take ,(now hear it comes so listen carefully, Honey), it's because the THE ILLEGALS HAVE DRIVEN THE WAGES DOWN FOR THEM!! DUHHH !Jesus, what's more obvious.?? If they never showed up then those jobs would still be high paying enough to be viable like they were before! You would do landscape for 28 bucks an hour which is what it would be IF YOU DIDN"T HAVE ILLEGALS DOING THEM!! They drove wages down for Christ's sake, of course anglos HAVE TO keep looking. You think one white guy is going to go into the fields with 100 Latinos? C'mon, Darling. Take care of your own, THEN worry about people who sneaked into your country to drive your fellow Americans wages down and took their jobs.
Look what Latinos do in Mexico do when others try to take their "jobs" (see drug cartels) you have 30,000 murders. That "whites won't do those jobs" garbage is enough to make me explode, sorry.
What's with the 'honey' and 'darling' crap, get off your redneck lingo, I'm not your honey or darling, save that for your unfortunate partner.
Why wouldn't a white guy work with Mexicans picking crops? That's ignorant. Farm workers make decent money. White people don't do it because they don't want to.
You are wrong in regards to your understanding regarding who did these jobs before Hispanics were here to take those jobs. At one time in history it was the Afro Americans that did the dirty work, it was the Chinese labor that built the railroads, dug mines and did other work that white Americans didn't want to do. Never in the history of this country has the dirty work been done by the white citizens.
" Take care of your own",,,,my own? You mean the people that don't have brown skin? What a stupid thing to say. They are human, why would care about white people more than the brown people?
Drug cartels are allowed to flourish due to a corrupt govt..
Don't explode, Karen and Dave are the only ones around on weekends to clean you up.
Let me intro you to reality, I grew up in government housing projects back east. Those projects are now demo'ed due to violence. They were built to house steel workers thus all races migrated there. We did not get along, intermarry or socialize. We fought and claimed territory, People are different colors because for tens of thousands of years they stayed in groups and generally avoided eachother if possible. It works out best for everybody. It's called nature, the root word for natural. And it's still that way today, Here in Los Osos you don't see the Phiipinos hangin with anybody but other Phlipinos, ditto the Mexicans and whites. You don't see whites in the fields. How about prisons? Any mixin' there? Nope, they're in survival mode. You're not because you haven't been obligated to.
You're like other whites who never lived with other races but you are supposed to have all this social knowledge, from where? TV? From your imagination, that's where. You wouldn't have lasted a week in your dreamworld, you would have been taken for whatever was available from you. You wouldn't have survived. You're clueless. Look in the mirror, do you have an explanation for why you are a member of particular individual race? Because your ancestors did what was best for their survival, thus you're here. But with that invalid, inaccurate, wishful thinking, and nasty attitude I'm sure you're genes won't be continuing, see how that works?
Oh my, we have a certified racist in the group. It's always uncomfortable calling someone that but we must call them as we see them. Burned any crosses lately? Betcha don't think Obama is American.
So how do you know how I grew up? You shouldn't assume as it makes you sound racist and just plain stupid. Bet you have southern cross flag on your car.
I grew up around a lot of races. I grew up on military bases. I had neighbors from all of the world and lived in other countries. My dad was extremely conservative but he always said that when he was in WWII it didn't matter what color the guy was next to you in the fox hole, they were all the same and bled the same color blood and they were all brothers. Something tells me that your parents never taught you that. The difference between those in the fox hole and you is education. When people are educated they don't segregate, they do "mix" (whos say's 'mix' in this day and age). When they have parents that aren't racist and provide their children with knowledge then the do "mix". If you hang out with the prison crowd and gangs then yes their will be separation of races in part out of survival but when people are raised right and they are educated that goes away. In your inner circle Mexicans only hang out with Mexicans and Filipinos with Filipinos. In my neighborhood it doesn't work like that. You have your 'real world' but it's not real for everyone. Crazy cr@p here, remind me not to debate you again, you aren't worth trying to have an intelligent debate with. I don't waist time with people like you.
Dammit, that was a good comeback. OK, be interesting to check the voting here. Game on,Typoqueen. Whoever gets more "likes" gets to be righter?
Sorry for disrespecting you last nite, Ma'am. Peace?
If we go by votes then I'm dead in the water.
whatisup
unlisted – what is your source for your self-serving statistics? They seem a little to-good-to-be-true in favor of your argument. You also are mixing legal immigrants vs. illegal immigrants.
The survey was about IMMIGRANTS, not illegal immigrants. Rupert Murdock is obviously not a "wetback."
Where are your statistics source? You made them up didn't you?
No, I'm not blowing smoke up your a__ like Fox does. (BTW, Fox was created by an immigrant.)
The percent of CA businesses started by immigrants comes from the Kauffman Foundation (www.kauffman.org). This and other similar stats, along with examples of immigrant entrepreneurs and their contributions, are highlighted at http://www.creditloan.com/infographics/innovation-through-immigration-by-the-numbers.
The statistic on CA PhDs is from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) (www.ppic.org). I can't find the the specific source of the PhD stat, but the following PPIC fact sheet reports that 41% of all adults who received PhDs (as opposed PhDs in the workforce) are immigrants – http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_ImmigrantsEducationJTF.pdf. Their general fact sheet on immigrants in California is at http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_ImmigrantsJTF.pdf. BTW, since only 27% of Californians are immigrants, the facts that 36% of the businesses were formed by immigrants and that either 41% or 43% of PhDs are immigrants are quite impressive. Will that suffice for now?
The educational ranking of American students comes from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Their website is http://www.pisa.oecd.org.
As it turns out, according to the Census PhD statistics for 2006, the latest I could find, there was a total of 99,110 people with PhD degrees living in California which was 2.7 PhD degrees per 1000 population.
Given that foreign PhD holders are extremely heavily weighted in Engineering and Computer Science, which is big in CA, the 42% number could be accurate, but I can't find the specific statistic either (I suspect that the 42% number might apply to the percentage of PhD degrees awarded to immigrant students at CA universities, but most of these students go back to their countries after they graduate.)
However, even if the 42% number is true, as a portion of the total 36,000,000 population of CA it is not significant because 42% of 2.7 means that 1.13 out of 1000 people in CA are immigrant PhD holders.
In addition, I once again bring up the fact that if there is a problem of immigration in the U.S. it is with illegal immigrants, not legal immigrants and your attempt to confuse the two, while quite good, will not change the reality.
The question should have been, "Has illegal immigration had an impact on the quality of life in California?"
So in the end it doesn't matter that 1) more PhDs in California are IMMIGRANTS than native born Americans or 2) that more California companies were started by IMMIGRANTS than native born Americans or 3) that IMMIGRANTS started companies like Fox, Google, eBay, Intel, SUN, Wang and other more large, innovative and successful American companies.
NOW, you only want to talk about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, which was never the topic.
I think you should change your handle to Rosanne Rosannadanna… oh never mind.
Read my original post below. The study is meaningless as virtually nobody thinks legal immigration is a problem.
Unlisted, let me ask you straight out, "Do you think illegal immigration is a problem?"
" you only want to talk about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, which was never the topic."
I'm not mixing "legal immigrants vs. illegal immigrants," you are. The survey question in the article is about IMMIGRATION, not illegal immigration.
Just because you and other xenophobes assume that the word "immigrant" is always preceded by the word "illegal," doesn't make it so.
When CCN posts an article on illegal immigration, I'll comment on it.
choprzrul
Me thinks those 47 percent are decedents of, or actually are, illegal aliens.
Health care has gotten so outrageously expensive because these medical facilities have to make up for all the free care that is being provided through emergency rooms to illegals. Same thing with education, remove the 35-40% of enrollment of children of parents that do not contribute to education $$. Drop the case load by 40% and health care and education would both be able to float their boats again. As it is, they are sunk and dragging the rest of us down with them.
Welcome to the new PRK.
Health care has gotten so expensive because Hospitals & Nursing homes (among others) pay the Token at the Top (you know, the one at the Chamber dinners and the expensive adverts) millions of dollars per annum with outrageous bonuses for propping up the profits. When an outfit is labeled a "non-profit" that doesn't mean someone's not making beaucoup bucks.
You know – I could go on – but there's no excuse for such ignorance of facts when people obviously have a computer and opposable thumbs. Meh.
opposable thumbs
Choprzrul and brook – You are both correct. Unfortunately, the divide and conquer technique has worked well for both the people at the top and the illegal immigrants vs. the middle class.
The left blames the people at the top for the problems and ignores illegal immigration and outrageous liability lawsuits as a health care problem.
The right blames illegal immigration and lawyers for the health care problems, but cheers the people at the top – even want to give them more through tax decreases.
The bottom line is you are both right, but as long as the top and the illegal immigrants keep the middle class arguing about which of their theories about what is wrong with health care is the "ideologically correct" theory nothing gets done.
The left and right dupes are so caught up in winning their red vs. blue battle they can't see the truth – often they are both accurately identifying a problem, but can not admit the "other side" could have a point.
How has immigration changed our quality of life? Other than not going into the Walmart in Santa Maria I don't see my quality life changed by immigration. The people I know have had their quality of live decline a bit because of the economy just as stated in this article as well as lack of proper medical care. Who can afford to go the dentist, eye doc or any doc.? We only get medical help when we are in so much pain that we can't tolerate it anymore. That's what I feel has changed for the worse.
But I don't trust polls, they are fixed to get the answers that they want. Besides,,wasn't SLO the happiest place in the country?
According to the S.F. Chronicle story the question of immigration was not split into legal and illegal immigration. There should have been the question, "Has illegal immigration had an impact on the quality of life in California?" The poll was a U.C. Berkley pole, so no surprise at how the question was phrased.
What's the difference? We're full, maxed out, overcrowded, packed out, I don't even want gorgeous blond swedish models immigrating at this point. OK, I'm lying.
47% said immigration had no real impact….didn't realize there was so many brain dead people in this state! Good or bad it had an impact.


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Event-Related Evoked Potentials (ERPs) in Speech Perception
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At the Fuji Kindergarten, "Ring Around a Tree" by Tezuka Architects promotes freedom of movement as a tool for learning.
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The most recent project by Yui and Takaharu Tezuka is disarmingly simple: a ring around a tree. The architects have returned to the Fuji Kindergarten, one of their most representative works, to add a small volume to the existing kindergarten. Built between the existing main building and the street, the new construction creates spaces for play, foreign language instruction, and provides an area for the children to wait for the school bus. "Ring Around a Tree" becomes an entry that connects the south entrance to the Fuji Kindergarten with the elliptical central space inside the school itself, a playground onto which all classrooms face.
The Japanese Zelkova
The project consists of a wood and transparent glass volume spiraling upward, enveloping a Japanese Zelkova tree. This is not just any tree anywhere, but a Zelkova with a story and the true protagonist of this project. Planted more than 50 years ago, the Zelkova in the Fuji Kindergarten was hit by a typhoon and almost uprooted. The tree dried out completely but recovered despite general disbelief. Older residents of the area remember this Zelkova because it was the only tree to be used by children for climbing and games even before there was a kindergarten. And before the construction of "Ring Around a Tree," a small tree house had been built in the Zelkova. A "place-playmate" for several generations, as well as temporary shelter from rain and sun for children waiting to go home, in its latest adventure, the Zelkova becomes the natural subject—and living element—around which the Tezuka's design takes shape.
Liberating the body
The preferred space for teaching preschool children avoids the classical dynamics of frontal lectures. In "Philosophical Investigations," Ludwig Wittgenstein writes that what children and foreigners have in common is the absence of knowledge of language and a set of codified rules. This leads them—in the first instance—to learn through the senses and the body. To give the children more freedom to move around the school, the directors of the Fuji Kindergarten requested Tezuka to design spaces without furniture: no chairs, desks or lecterns. As a result, "Ring Around a Tree" offers an architecture where there are no measures taken to constrain space, in order to liberate the body.
Compressed spaces of just one meter high encourage the children's freedom of movement.
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The space created by Tezuka seems to have just two floors, but for the children the building has six floors with volumes that are one meter high. The compressed spaces, which can only be reached by crawling, further the freedom of movement and ability to use the body as a means of learning.
Elements like railings and handrails are very slender, and almost disappear with a height to depth ratio of 1:40. The interior floors are made of wood and all outdoor areas are covered with soft rubber mats to help cushion the children's inevitable falls. Children move up and down from all sides, turning this into a narrative architecture of moving images. A visual turbine driven by the energy of childhood and nature.
"Ring Around a Tree" offers an architecture where there are no measures taken to constrain space, in order to liberate the body.
The "Ring Around A Tree" was designed to function without a need for furniture, leaving as much free space as possible.
Architectural projects are usually not given names. But in this case, it has a name, bestowed by the project's godfather – Peter Cook. A dear friend of Tezuka, Cook was reminded of a children's song that went:
Ring Around the Rosy
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Project: Tezuka Architects
Construction: Nichinan-Tekkou
Structural Engineer: Ohno Japan Co., Ltd/Ohno Hirofumi
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
The school aims for unconstrained spaces that encourage children to learn through their senses and the body.
"Ring Around A Tree," Tezuka Architects, 2011.
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Weird Massachusetts - Our Topic of the Month!
In my life I've had the opportunity to travel a pretty good distance from home. I've seen other countries, I've been all over the United States, and I've explored my own back yard. One thing I've discovered for certain is that we live on a very weird planet. To truly capture the odd folktales, ghostly legends, UFO sightings, and understand the cryptids lurking in a given area, you need to be local for a good deal of time. I was born in Massachusetts. I've lived in a few other states, but I came back. I know the locals and the locales. If I don't know the history or the witnesses, I know who to ask.
I spent most of last year exploring a bizarre place called Massachusetts. In my research I learned that life here in the Bay State was perfectly normal... right up until about 10,000 years ago. And then things started to get weird. Massachusetts has more than its share of ghosts; I knew that years ago. We're old New England, we embrace our history, and we're more apt to talk about our ghosts than some other parts of the country. But we also have our monsters: Pukwudgies, Bigfoot, the Dover Demon, Big Hairy, and the Thunderbird just to name a few. We have Salem -- arguably the world capital of all things witchy. We have Cape Cod, full of sea tales, giant serpents, and Wampanoag creation legends. Every corner of the state has something unusual to share. Sometimes you just need to scratch the surface a bit.
My year of research leads me to my latest book, Weird Massachusetts: Your Travel Guide to Massachusetts's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (published by Sterling). This was the most fun I've had writing a book. I crawled through caves, I trekked through swamps looking for cryptids, and I pored through history books discovering the oddities our forefathers believed in. I hope you'll pick up a copy of the new book, whether you live in Massachusetts or some other wonderfully weird place. This month we're going to dive into the weird state of Massachusetts a little deeper. You might just find a few legends that sound similar to those in your town.
So let's discuss the oddities of not only Massachusetts, but your town as well!
I will definitely be getting a copy of your book. I live in MA near places like Hangtown" in charlton, MA and some really wierd roads in Spencer. Blood cemetery in Charlton, there is plenty in the l;ittle out of the way towns too. My apartment in Charlton had something evil in it that was only eradicated when the apartment it liked was burnt down..... I am an eclectic withch and take a little of everything into consideration in life, the house we are in now is haunted, i think it is more impressions of long ago than a haunting, they cause no problems except for the occaisional missing keys, something pushed over to make noise, the last thing was when "someone" pushed my dvd player out the back of the entertainment center ( it has a glass front no way a person did it) my dogs see people now and then, my dad comes by but that is a feeling not a sighting, he visits with my grandchildren who talk to him and they know who he is and they never knew him in life. my grandson shares the same birthday with my dad. Many things in this State of ours! I am looking forward to your book!
I can't wait to read this book! I live in MA, in fact many towns in MA and always seem to find ghost stories about places and have experienced a few things too. I grew up on the south shore (in a supposed haunted house) near the Bridgewater triangle, went to college on the north shore and heard about the stories around there including Sale, and even southern NH, and now live in north central MA in a haunted house (we only have things go missing for a little bit or unexplained noises nothing big but it's still interesting). i can't wait to read about all the places that i haven't heard about!
WOW sounds like a great book I'll have to get. I hope you have something on the Bridgewater triangle and the Lizzie Borden house. those are the two locations that I lived in or very close to.
Interests:Travelling New England by land and sea, local history, houses - as I am a real estate appraiser, I teach Special Education too, love all the kids I work with... they teach me too, lol, and add lots of smiles to my day....my cats, my goffin cockatoo parrot that is loud, smart and talkative, walking, bicycling, skiing, ice hockey, watching the Patriots, the Bruins and the Red Sox (Woo Hoo.. Fenway Painters..My sister and brother in laws business that paint the Park and my nephew that paints the famous "green monster") lighthouses, antiques, gardening, trying new restaurants, classic movies (love Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock), big band music, laughing and being around others that like to laugh, ghost stories - I love to hear other peoples experiences as I have so many to tell myself.
Weird Massachusetts is great!! Let me tell you this funny story.. I teach Special Education and in April the grade I am working with goes away for a week to a camp in Maine. The kids that don't go for certain reasons stay behind, and the boy I work with did not go and instead stayed behind in school with a group of about 12 kids. We knew that the kids at camp were going to be telling "ghost stories", so I did some modified ghost stories for this group... The next day, a girl brought in Jeff's book "Weird Massachusetts" for everyone to see. Lol, I grabbed it first, and the boy I work with could not take his eyes off of it the whole week... Anyway, in June it was his birthday and I bought him a copy of Weird Massachusetts, his face lit up and he gave me a big hug.... He is 13 years old and really into ghost stories and his favorite from the book was about the "Gloucester Serpent".. He told me to pass along the word to Jeff that it "is the best book ever".. He also wrote about the book the last month of school in a reading log journal he had to write in for Language Arts class..
I bought both "Weird New England" and "Weird US" I will definatly consider buying your book. Those books have been a big inspiration for me in so many ways.
What other projects do you have going?
Edited by darklie, 24 July 2009 - 08:13 PM.
I bought this book long ago and still have yet to read it. I will be surely moving it up on my list of book to read. I also have Weird New York (as I'm originally from there).
I absolutely love this book. My husband and I have date day every Sunday and we always choose something from the book to do. We've been to Sleepy Hollow, The Floating Island, Spider Gates, Johnny Appleseed birthplace, The Big Chair, the Wall of Bones, and a few more that I can't think of right now. But, we're planning on going somewhere again this Sunday, were not sure where though... any suggestions??
I have Weird Virginia and loved it. My husband and I have decided to use it as travel guide to check out some of the places mentioned.


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FCC Says It's Cool if Verizon Starts Locking Handsets Again (Updated: Verizon Statement)
Kellen June 25, 2019 @iamkellex
Verizon was just given the green light to start SIM locking new handsets to its network for 60 days, thanks to a partial waiver granted by the FCC. This news out of the FCC is the response to Verizon requesting back in February that it be allowed to lock devices to help deter fraud and theft.
Why did they need to ask the FCC about locking? As we have explained a couple of times now, Verizon agreed to specific usage terms when it licensed 700MHz C Block spectrum for its LTE network years ago. One of the individual terms concerned handset locking, where Verizon had to acknowledge that it would leave its phones open for use on other networks at all times. Unlike AT&T or T-Mobile phones, where you have to fulfill a number of criteria in order to get either to unlock a phone for use elsewhere, Verizon's phones were to remain unlocked.
So in February, months after we posted a story that showed Verizon was working on a new device lock policy, Verizon confirmed that it wanted to start SIM locking phones again. It wanted to lock them for 60 days before issuing an automatic unlock. They said that fraud and theft were increasing dramatically in recent years and this would be a good way to slow that down or stop it. But since the C Block terms would not allow that, they asked the wireless industry-friendly FCC to help them out.
As we predicted would be the outcome in February, the FCC gave Verizon the "OK."
The FCC's partial waiver permits Verizon to lock a customer's handset for 60 days from the date someone activates it on Verizon's network. Once the 60 days are up, this is what should happen:
After the expiration of the 60-day period, Verizon must automatically unlock the handsets at issue here regardless of whether: (1) the customer asks for the handset to be unlocked, or (2) the handset is fully paid off. Thus, at the end of the initial 60 days, the unlocking rule will operate just as it does now, and Verizon's customers will be able to use their unlocked handsets on other technologically compatible networks.
The important points there are that this unlock should happen whether you request it or not, but it should also happen if your phone is on a payment plan and not paid off fully. Once you hit the 60-day mark, Verizon should unlock your phone no matter what.
The FCC adds that there is one exception:
The only exception to the rule will be that Verizon will not have to automatically unlock handsets that it determines within the 60-day period to have been purchased through fraud. As a result, granting the 60-day waiver request is consistent with the policy underlying the unlocking rule, and the rule will continue to promote competition in the handset market place. Indeed, grant of the requested waiver will actually promote the public interest by helping Verizon protect against device theft and fraud. This relief will reduce the black-market value of devices acquired through fraud and thereby reduce the incentive to commit fraud to acquire the devices in the first place.
So at some point in the near future, once Verizon has put together a carefully worded press release, they will implement a 60-day lock policy. That policy will go into effect the minute a phone is activated on their network and should then automatically go away within 60 days. For the first 60 days of your time on Verizon's network, your phone will only work on their network.
In a bit of an interesting note, the FCC gave Verizon a partial waiver instead of issuing a Declaratory Ruling, which is what Verizon wanted. Verizon argued that the wording of the C Block rules already allowed for them to keep handsets locked, but the FCC didn't agree. So instead, they just gave Verizon what they wanted on what could be more limited terms.
UPDATE: Verizon has now issued a statement where they thanked the FCC and confirmed that this new 60-day lock policy will go live "very soon."
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Bidache (, ) es una localidad y comuna francesa, situada en la región de Aquitania, departamento de Pirineos Atlánticos, el distrito de Bayona, y pertenece al cantón de País de Bidache, Amikuze y Ostibarre. Está situado en el territorio histórico vascofrancés de Baja Navarra y es atravesada por el río Bidouze, afluente del Adur.

Historia
El castillo de Bidache fue el centro de poder de los Gramont. Ocupado e incendiado en 1523 por las tropas españolas comandadas por Filiberto de Chalôns. Antonio I, se proclamó príncipe soberano de Bidache en 1570, manteniéndose hasta la Revolución Francesa, que arrasó el castillo en 1796.

Heráldica

Cuartelado: 1.º, en campo de oro, un león rampante, de azur, armado y lampasado de gules, que es Gramont; 2.º y 3.º, en campo de gules, tres flechas de oro, armadas y emplumadas de plata, bien ordenadas y puestas punta abajo, que es Aster; y 4.º, en campo de plata, una libre rampante, de gules, acollarado de azur y bordura de sable, con ocho bezantes de oro, que es Aure. Sobre el todo, escudete de gules con cuatro otelas de oro, que es Comminges.

Grito: ¡Dios nos ayude!

divisa: Dei gratia sum id quod sum (Por la gracia de Dios soy lo que soy)

Demografía

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Lugares de interés
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Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Web oficial de Bidache
 Bidache sen el Institut géographique national
 Bidache en el Insee

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Gli Aus-Rotten furono un gruppo Crust punk che venne formato all'inizio degli anni novanta a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Il loro stile combinava la cruda secchezza dell'Anarcho punk dei primi ottanta con un nuovo e più pesante sound. La maggior parte delle loro canzoni andava contro il governo, il capitalismo, il sessismo, la pena capitale, la religione ed altre tematiche sociali controverse.

La band è forse famosa, non per la sua originalità musicale, ma più per i suoi testi nichilisti e iconoclasti (ad esempio People Are Not Expendable, Government Is e As Long As Flags Fly Above Us, No One's Really Free) e per i loro inni anti-fascisti.

Gli Aus-Rotten si sciolsero all'inizio del 2001. I componenti della band andarono a formare gruppi come i Caustic Christ ed i Behind Enemy Lines.

Formazione

Ultima
 Dave Trenga - voce
 Adrienne Droogas - voce
 Eric Good - chitarra, voce
 Bill Chamberlain - chitarra
 Corey Lyons - basso
 Matt Garabedian - batteria

Ex componenti
 Ajax - chitarra
 Richie Carramadre - batteria
 Doug Weaver - batteria
 Pat Crawford - batteria
 Tim Williams - batteria

Discografia

Album studio
 1996 - The System Works for Them
 1999 - ...And Now Back to Our Programming
 2001 - The Rotten Agenda

EP
 1993 - Anti-Imperialist E.P.
 1994 - Fuck Nazi Sympathy
   1994   - Aus-Rotten/Naked Aggression – Split EP

Raccolte
 1997 - Not One Single Fucking Hit Discography

Demo
 1992 - We Are Denied... They Deny It (demo)

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February 2018 - The South Wing laid bare!
Of all the mysteries which surround Chirk Castle, its original appearance and function are by far the most commonly discussed, with the South Wing at the centre of many arguments. Is it purely a Tudor construction, or does it represent the skillful re-usage of an inner curtain wall of a far bigger castle?
In compiling this article on some of the key features in Chirk Castle's South Wing, I am indebted to Archaeologist Ian Brooks, whose recent comprehensive survey of inspired much revision of thought... In future blogs I will also present evidence from our ongoing programme of archaeological work to reveal more of the history of Chirk Castle – Dendrochronology and Paint Analysis will feature, as we attempt to establish facts, rather than merely repeat folklore.
The Chapel dominates the ground floor of the South Wing. It is 14.64 metres long, and is double the height of any room in the rest of the wing. The Western wall is made up of a studwork partition which divided the ground and first floor. On close inspection, this partition shows two different building styles, above and below the mid-rail. There are openings to this partition: two on the ground floor level (including a blocked up opening in the northern side) and one at first floor.
The west face of this partition is exposed in the room we now call 'Lady Margaret's Room' (known in the early part of the twentieth century as the 'Organ Loft') where we can see that the top rail is notched with a series of joints - to receive floor joists? This may suggest the existence of an earlier ceiling.
The three windows in the chapel are known to be Nineteenth century in origin. The fireplace in the Chapel is relatively plain, but the over-mantel is more complex, as it is constructed from a highly decorated Seventeenth century cupboard front! Sadly, although the locks are evident, the keys are lost. The Chapel's internal porch has many characteristics associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, which suggests it is related to Lord Howard de Walden's 1912 restoration.
The north wall of the Chapel shows two blocked up windows, and is very interesting – these windows display early English decoration from possibly the late Twelfth, or early Thirteenth century. The position of the windows implies that there were in fact no buildings against the Eastern curtain wall, when this Chapel was first constructed. We wonder, therefore, why a Chapel would occupy a position which we assumed was occupied by a southern curtain wall? This feature hints that the Southern curtain wall may NEVER have been completed – or even built in the first place.
From the courtyard, looking at the South Range it can be seen that the majority of windows light the first floor and attic levels, and above the upper line of these windows is a series of inverted 'V' shapes in the stonework, forming a series of peaks and troughs. Generations of tour guides have informed visitors that these lines mark the original Tudor gables… but examination of the timberwork on the inside of the wing reveals that the roof structure runs ninety degrees in the opposite direction, and cannot match up with the 'gable' theory. These 'scars' may be the remnants of a decorative arcade which ran along the top of the building... further investigation is needed before we can be certain of anything.
The Servants' Hall doorway shows a scar from a wooden bolt on its surface, together with a very simple latch – and later lock. The main floor is stone-flagged and the ceiling beams, being quite ornate, would suggest that the room was once used as a Dining Room, before it was given over for the servants' use. It is odd that it should have started life thus, as it is unconnected with any of the other rooms in the South Wing, and the only access is from the courtyard – food had to be transported from the kitchen openly, and in all weathers.
The eastern end of the Servants' Hall has a beam running at ceiling height, with a series of peg holes along its length – their function is unknown, but they presumably relate to the use of the hall before its known function. Below this line of pegs is a shelf which has a central gap – assumed to have been the original siting of a tall piece of furniture, such as a clock. There is a second door in the south eastern corner of the room which gives access to a garderobe (toilet) similar to the others in the castle.
Now used as a Function Room, at 16.43 metres long (54 feet) this is by far the largest secular room in the castle: two early Twentieth century fireplaces feature in the south wall, and five beams, each resting on a corbel on the south side, span the room – they are then embedded in the north wall. These beams, it will be observed, have a slot cut in their undersides (approximately 1.5 metres from the north wall) suggesting that the Great Chamber was divided at some time, with a corridor running between the doors at either end. Once again, we cannot be sure when this took place.
At the western end of the room there appears to have been a second, centrally-placed door, but this turns out to be wholly artificial. The door on the south wall leads to an 'L' shaped garderobe, which is now neatly quarry-tiled.
Supported by the western side of the Chapel partition, these stairs show some interesting features, including some very clear 'carpenters marks'. Through the partition are two modern doors (one upstairs and one on the ground floor) but there are also two blocked doors, which may have been part of the original building scheme. One of these blocked doors is on the ground floor, and is partly hidden by the wall dividing the Tudor Stairs from the area called the 'Tudor Lobby'.
This first floor door is clearly a modern feature, but there is a partial door-head visible immediately to the south of it, which may suggest that the Tudor Stairs' landing post-dates the construction of the partition, a thought which might be confirmed if we look at the ground floor, where a series of blocked mortice-holes suggests the existence of a structure which may once have been attached. It is a possibility that we have the remnants of a 'dais canopy' here, suggesting that the Main Hall started to the west of the partition. If this is so, we may have to reconsider the original shape (and position) of the Servants' Hall.
The 'Tudor' staircase itself has simply-turned balusters, which are topped with a square-sectioned handrail. One of the rectangular newel posts has carpenters' marks scratched into it, suggesting it has been re-used, but as the staircase is constructed from (probably) Jacobean panels which do not match very well, it might be logical to conclude that the 'Tudor Staircase' was designed to look older than it is... it may actually date from the Eighteenth century at the earliest... but the steep staircase to the West of the 'Tudor Staircase' landing is older.
So, I am afraid that we still cannot confidently describe the layout of Chirk Castle in its earliest form, and it would be foolhardy to attempt a hypothesis based on just a few pieces of evidence. The original 'look' of the South Wing remains an enigma for now, and this article may raise more questions than you had had before!
Meticulous ongoing archaeology will hopefully provide us with some answers. As before mentioned, over the winter period Dendrochronology and Paint Analysis have already taken place, and any results will be brought to you in this blog, as will details of further archaeological investigation as it happens.


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Timiskaming South was a Canadian electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the northeastern part of the province of Ontario. It was created in 1924 from parts of Nipissing and Timiskaming ridings.

It consisted of the southern portion of Timiskaming District, along with portions of Nipissing District and Sudbury District.

The electoral district was abolished in 1933 when it was redistributed between Nipissing and Timiskaming ridings.

Members of Parliament for Timiskaming South
Ernest Frederick Armstrong, Conservative (1925–1926)
Malcolm Lang, Labour (1926–1930)
Wesley Gordon, Conservative (1930–1935)

Electoral history

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|Conservative
|Ernest Frederick  ARMSTRONG
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|Labour
|Malcolm   LANG
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|Labour
|Harold Milton Tremaine   WELCH
|align="right"|1,882
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|Labour
|Malcolm   LANG
|align="right"| 7,309

|Conservative
|Ernest Frederick   ARMSTRONG
|align="right"|6,411
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|Conservative
|Wesley Ashton   GORDON
|align="right"| 8,729

|Liberal-Labour
|Malcolm   LANG
|align="right"| 7,195
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|Conservative
|Hon. Wesley Ashton   GORDON
|align="right"| acclaimed
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See also

 List of Canadian federal electoral districts
 Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

 Website of the Parliament of Canada

Former federal electoral districts of Ontario


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In 1969, the army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program at St. John's University adopted a portion of the University crest as the design for its distinctive institutional insignia. The medallion, a radiant gold sun on a black shield surrounded with Latin inscription "Induamur Arma Lucis," became a part of the official uniform insignia for all ROTC cadets at St. John's University.
The medallion, with its inscription which means "Put on the armor of Light, " was approved by the Department of the Army's Institute of Heraldry, the division which ensures that all military decorations meet certain standards of design, originality, and historical accuracy.
The phrase "Put on the Armor of Light" comes from St. Paul's letters to the Romans (13:12) in the New Testament. Paul exhorts the Romans to disavow immorality, adopt the teachings of Jesus Christ, and share in the mutual enlightenment of the worship of God and the fellowship of man.
Father Walter Reger, O.S.B., a former dean of the college, and Father Angelo Zankl, O.S.B., developed the design and adopted the phrase for the university crest over 60 years ago. The insignia, containing both the sun, a symbol of academic enlightenment, and the shield, a symbol of military science is especially appropriate for both disciplines.


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From the makers of Campaign Season 2016, get ready for the not-that-new-and-definitely not improved Campaign Season 2020! This bad boy's got all the things you hated about the last season, juiced up with even more features scientifically designed to drive you mad, from bad-faith arguments to anti-intellectualism. Plus we've got so many brand-new features designed to increase your stress levels, including: Having to pay attention to The View now! The guy from Starbucks! Tucker Carlson's thoughts on beauty pageants! If you can't wait, good news: the 2020 campaign is available now, earlier than ever, poised to take over your life and all your conversations for the next 19 months whether you like it or not.
Ok but for real: the 2016 election cycle was so stressful it spawned a new psychological condition called headline stress disorder, led to a national study looking at the impact of election stress, and chiseled the concept of "self-care" into our brains forever. That study from the American Psychological Association found the first statistically significant spike in anxiety in 10 years thanks to the last election. The campaign "season" is just so torturously long—the same amount of time, according to the New York Times, could fit seven Canadian elections, or 41 (!!) French ones. By comparison, based off the timelines of their original presidential campaigns in 2000 and 1992, respectively, George W. Bush wouldn't be announcing until June; and Gov. Bill Clinton wouldn't be on our radar until October.
The 2020 cycle is bound to be hell on your mental health, mainly because none of the problems of 2016 have been addressed, some have been made worse and one party is certainly going to dig in on their win-at-all-costs mentality, backed by a propaganda channel fueled by screeching caucasity. And for all that, people still will still probably go into the polls relatively uninformed about what the candidates even stand for.
You cannot control how the campaign season will go or how long it lasts, but you can control how much of it you take in and how it affects your mental health. Much like how you wouldn't get up from your couch and try to run a marathon tomorrow, mental health specialists and campaign veterans say you need to start preparing yourself now if you plan to get through this without throwing your phone and then yourself into the nearest toilet. Yes, professional runners out there (journalists, politicians and other sadistic wonks) will always seem more prepared than you.
But like most things in life these days, from eating to reducing your waste footprint, you just need to do less. Consume less news, use social media less and, yes, as stunning as this sounds in 2019, pay less attention to the campaign.
Studies over the years have said campaigns as short as six weeks are enough for voters to make up their minds; others say America should strive for the several-week quick turnaround in British politics. You can't control how long the campaign season lasts, though, so you have to control how much you pay attention to it.
For a brief, weird period in the 2000s, the men of America were obsessed with building man caves, a place to watch sports, scratch themselves and otherwise have a safe space to flex that Y chromosome. While the trend seems to have died out, the idea is one you can apply to ingesting news. Create yourself a news cave, or at least designate a space you go to just to read the news each day.
The idea is to have a space where you're not distracted by other things and you can just burn through your news diet of the day and then step away. Print news, of course, will always be more informational, nuanced and less stressful than the entertainment masked as news on cable TV or the literally endless stream (as in, it's literally designed to keep you reading and clicking links and reading more) of online news or the outrage firehose of social media.
"Be proactive about [news consumption]; don't just get pulled into it," said Kiran Dintyala, a stress management consultant and author of the book Seven Keys To Surviving The Trump Presidency.
It's also OK to skip a story if you know it will trigger your stress, too. "If I'm having a rough week, I just clip all the news stories I wanted to read and put them aside until i'm ready to go through them," Borchard said. (A digital clipping app like Pocket works too).
The APA study showed that constant breaking news—from alerts to the latest bonkers tweets—turn news consumers into hyper vigilant attack dogs ready to pounce. We're all looking for reassurance from the latest news alert that something, anything is getting better, which means we keep checking the feed. It's terrible for managing your stress because it means you never back off the adrenaline cliff.
Yes, it feels like news is happening all the time, 24 hours a day, with new developments percolating up through the timeline even at the wee hours of the night. Cable news has a particular love of slapping its "BREAKING NEWS" banner on any story to keep you on the edge of your seat (did you catch the BREAKING NEWS that the Titanic sunk a century ago?). In actuality, you're not learning that much outside of what you ingest during your news diet time. The candidates need to go home and pet their dogs and the president probably actually schedules more daily TV-watching time than you.
Dintyala offers a way to prove this to yourself: start writing a journal of everything you think happened that day in the news. After a while, you might notice we are no closer to impeachment, the results of the Mueller investigation, or picking the Democratic nominee than we were last week.
The goal is to avoid getting sucked back into the swirling vortex of your phone, which is what those alerts are specifically designed to do. You can stay informed without giving in to a social media addiction (and yes, ironically, phone apps can help you stay off your phone too).
Of course, tuning out of the news and submerging yourself facedown in a bubble bath for the next year and a half is not a luxury many people can afford. The election will once again put the very bodily safety of women, immigrants, minorities, trans people and other groups on the line.
The key here is balance. To tune out entirely is to abdicate your responsibility as a citizen, to obsessively hit 'refresh' every 30 seconds is to render yourself so burned out and stressed as to be utterly unhelpful, not to mention miserable.
Part of the way West strikes this balance is to think like a foreigner trying to understand the American news. He avoids American cable news and sticks to getting his information from the BBC and Al Jazeera English. They act more like an outside explainer of the sport of politics, rather than, say, the New York Post beat writers speaking to deeply ingrained, riled-up fanbases. Outlets such as The Guardian and the Financial Times are also highly regarded by many journalists.
The problem with political anxiety is that it is in fact never ending. You can try to swim against the anxiety, fighting bots in the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past (the 2016 election). Or you can manage these anxieties by simply writing it down and giving a name to them.
He suggested listing your anxieties and specific fears about the campaign season, and then assigning a probability to each one. For instance, Stosny said if he's worried that a tanking economy after the election might cost him his job, he'll research the vulnerability of his industry to the general economy and the financial viability of the company he works for, then assign a probability on a 10-point scale. If the number is high, he'll write what steps he can take to prepare should he lose the job.
"Anxiety is useful because it makes you plan ahead," he said. "When it gets destructive is when you don't plan, when you keep thinking of all the bad things that might happen." Thinking, for instance, that if someone wins the "world is going to end" is too abstract a thought and will only produce more anxiety. The planet will most likely not entirely blow up, so what are you specifically worried about? And what action can you take to help alleviate those worries?
Picking a lane and locking in on it is also key to not feeling powerless during the campaign, Stosny said.
It is easy, and even tempting, West said, to let off some steam by yelling at protesters or counter protesters, mocking someone on Twitter, or knocking a MAGA hat off someone's head. But those kinds of things just serve to raise your adrenaline, feeding an addiction that will give you energy in the moment but lead to depressing crash later. Individuals online or on the street are just avatars of the thing you're really mad at, he said.
Twitter outrage and cable news shout-fests are popular because they are cheap shots of adrenaline. You can open up the timeline and tap into a sweet hit of outrage that will gas you up at any hour of the night, much like if you, say, had a giant Costco-sized pile of cocaine in your closet at all times. But instead of opening up the very tempting cocaine closet, open your drawer and get out your running shorts instead.
That run or walk is a good time remind yourself that Twitter and your other feeds are not the real world: they are self-curated flat landscapes that have almost no bearing on how most people think.
When it comes to in-person political discussions, particularly with family or friends, Borchard finds it helpful to write down her points ahead of time to be prepared. If it gets too hot, she'll have an escape plan: getting up to do the dishes at dinner, for instance.
You should also accept that you will almost certainly be driven mad by the people who refuse to accept facts and science as an argument, as this is a thing we do in America now apparently. Undercutting their beliefs with actual facts just won't work, experts say. Instead go for storytelling or narrative, Wright said.
"Having a personalized touch to these issues that we're talking about can sometimes help people see things in a different way," Wright said. Avoid triggering defensiveness by adding new information to the conversation instead of arguing their lack of facts, Stosny said.
You can get through this season if you just do less: be active in the causes you believe in, but know that pickling your brain with every bit of nasty effluent from the campaign will only stress you out. And also keep in mind that every politician will inevitably end up being a disappointment in some way.


The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, is meant to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending.
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Everyone can get coverage. All Americans can join any health plan without getting denied for pre-existing health issues.
Everyone must get coverage. All Americans (with few exceptions) must have health insurance or pay a tax. As long as you stay on your Intuit medical plan, you're covered.
No more limits. Specifically, there are no annual or lifetime limits on essential health benefits.
Our plans are more heavily regulated. We now have many more rules to monitor. Unfortunately, this means that more resources are being directed toward compliance rather than toward you, our employees.
We have new costs. Direct taxes on large employers, as well as indirect taxes on insurance companies and medical equipment providers, mean higher overall costs for our plans.
The health care landscape will keep changing. Since the ACA was approved, new companies have emerged to help you interact with the health care system in a better way. We're monitoring them closely, looking for opportunities to provide you with more valuable benefits.
The health insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, are one-stop shops for people who can't get affordable coverage. You're welcome to shop in the marketplace. But employees have affordable coverage available through Intuit (with Intuit paying 90–95 percent of the cost of your coverage) so you won't find a better deal through the marketplace.
Dependents whom you choose not to cover, or other family members, may be covered under the health care marketplace. Visit www.healthcare.gov for more information.
Much like Form W-2 and Form 1099, which include information about the income you received, the 1095 provides information that you may need when you file your individual income tax return. The 1095 is a required document under the health care reform law that you can use to show the government that you've met your obligation to have health insurance.
Our national health care law requires every American to have health insurance—and just like you have paperwork to prove you have auto insurance, the 1095 is a way to prove you have health insurance.
It's a tax document, similar to your W-2, that gives the IRS information about your health insurance. It helps the government verify that your coverage meets the requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The 1095 serves as proof that you've met your obligation to have health insurance. If the government requests proof that you have health insurance and you're not able to supply this form, you may have to pay a fine to the IRS (2% of your yearly household income or $695 per person for the year, whichever is higher).
Part 1 has your personal information (name, address and Social Security number) as well as our company information, including our Employer Identification Number (77-0034661).
Part 2 includes information about your medical plan—specifically, you will see a 1A code, which means that the Intuit medical plans meet government requirements for the minimum coverage a company our size must provide. Read your W-2 to find the total costs of your specific coverage.
Part 3 lists "Covered Individuals"—the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers for those covered under our health insurance. This may include you, your spouse/domestic partner, children or other dependents.
It also lists the "Months of Coverage" that each person was covered by our health insurance. Say, for example, you were covered for all of 2016 but got married in August and added your spouse. Your "Months of Coverage" will be listed as all 12 months, but your spouse's will be listed as August through December. Note: The "plan start month" on your form will be listed as "08." This represents the start of our plan year (August). It does not indicate the month that your or your family member's coverage started.
Verify your family members' information in Part 3—the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and "Months of Coverage" all of you had our health insurance in 2016. If you and your family got health insurance from another company, Part 3 should be blank.
Report any errors to HR Connect. If you're covered under Kaiser, you'll need to contact them directly to report any errors.
Keep it! Just like your W-2, you'll need to save your 1095 Form with all of your tax records. You do not need to enter any data from your 1095 on your 2016 tax return. It is for documentation purposes only.
If you don't receive your 1095 Form by the end of February—don't panic! With millions of these forms going out at the same time, yours could be delayed a bit. However, contact HRConnect. They'll help you confirm that the form is already on its way, or make sure it gets sent to you immediately.
The 1095-A gets sent to Americans who got their health insurance through one of the insurance marketplaces or exchanges.
Americans who work at a company that offers a fully insured health insurance plan (one where the claims are paid by an insurance company) and has 50 or more full-time employees. This applies to the Kaiser HMO and HMO Blue plans. If you're enrolled in one of these plans, you'll receive a 1095-B Form.
The 1095-B will arrive in the mail at home around the same time as your 1095-C. It will be in an envelope from Kaiser or BlueCross BlueShield and will be marked as a tax document. It's a companion document that contains similar information about you, our company, our insurance carrier and your health insurance.
When you receive it, keep it and check it for accuracy just like with your 1095-C. Report any errors to Kaiser or BlueCross BlueShield.
The 1095-C goes to Americans who work at a company that offers a self-insured health insurance plan (one where the claims are paid by the company, not an insurer) and has 50 or more employees. Intuit meets these standards, so you will receive one—even if you didn't get your health insurance through Intuit.
However, your spouse or another family member/dependent may get a 1095-C as well, and/or the A or B version, depending on where they work and where they got their health insurance in 2016. For recordkeeping purposes, save ALL 1095 Forms that you and your family members receive.
If you have questions, you can get help from a private tax adviser or the IRS at irs.gov.
If you find errors on your 1095-C Form or if you don't receive the form by the end of February, contact HRConnect. If you find errors on your 1095-B Form, contact your health plan carrier directly.
The IRS has issued an alert to taxpayers regarding an email scam. The scam involves fraudulent forms related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As part of the scam, fake CP2000 forms and requests for payment have been sent electronically to numerous individuals across the country.
CP2000, a tax notice related to the Affordable Care Act, is commonly sent to taxpayers through the U.S. Postal Service. The legitimate form is never sent by email. In fact, the IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers by email.
If you receive a scam email, you should forward it to [email protected] and then delete it from your email.
You can also receive IRS scams by phone or through demanding letters. Go to Reporting Phishing and Online Scams for more information.
You might be wondering if you'd be better off staying with Intuit's medical plans or switching to a government run marketplace. See what might be right for you! Select your employment status below and find out.
Because you are not eligible for coverage with Intuit, you can take advantage of the many medical plan options on the new marketplaces. You'll find a variety of plans to meet your needs and budget, and you may even be eligible for a government subsidy to help pay for coverage.
If you live in California, you can search for a new plan on coveredca.com, which is California's health plan marketplace. If you do not live in California, you can search for coverage on healthcare.gov.
Intuit's medical plans already meet all the requirements under the law, so you don't need to take any action. And, because Intuit pays for about 90-95% of the cost of your benefits, you won't find a better deal on the marketplace!
You may have a heard of a subsidy—money to help you purchase a plan on the marketplace. The subsidy is only available for those who can't get coverage through their job, so you won't be eligible for it. However, you won't need it because Intuit's medical plans are a great value.
You can get even more value from your plan when you participate in the biometric screening. You and your covered spouse/domestic partner can each earn up to $2,080 per year in paycheck credits by completing your biometric screening and being nicotine-free.


Last Summer with the help of Pierre and Marie Prinvil we went to Haiti to try and set up two of our shelters. Try as we might though, Pierre and I could not get the shelters out of customs. However the trip was not a complete loss as friendships were made and we were able to help out around the orphanage where we were staying. This fall on Sept, 18th we are planning to return to Haiti and set up shelters for some of the many families who are still homeless after the earthquake. This time we are working with several groups that have years of experience in getting aid in the hands of the people who need it. Our plan for this trip is to kick it off with the World Maker Faire in New York and fly to Haiti from there and rendezvous with our shelters.
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John Herdman: The Herdman Effect
As the Head Coach of the Canadian Women's Soccer Team, John Herdman took a group once called a "struggling squad" to one that captured the hearts and minds of Canadians when they won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Under his leadership, the team also took a gold medal at the 2011 Pan Am Games in Mexico?the first Pan Am gold in Canadian soccer history. As we look ahead to the FIFA Women's World Cup, TSN examines what they've dubbed "The Herdman Effect", breaking down just how John motivated and inspired the team to make their incredible comeback. Watch here.
In his riveting talks, John–who was a nominee for 2012 FIFA Coach of the Year–stresses the importance of developing a high performance culture, learning to overcome adversity with grace, and the role of leaders to inspire trust, confidence, and success, whether it's on the field, in the workplace, or in the home.


"College courses and extracurricular activities have been initial footsteps into my career as an engineer [and] I believe that an internship will open the door to unlimited opportunities. I look forward to using my current skills and passions as well as developing new ones through working with Trinseo this upcoming summer," said Bukovec.
She also was able to honor a teacher who sparked her loved of chemistry, and she chose Jeanne Clark, her AP chemistry teacher at Chardon High School.
"Before taking chemistry my junior year with her, I thought I wanted to be a journalist. However, through her class I discovered my own passion for experimentation and theory in chemistry and knew that I wanted to study it further. Therefore, this nomination is to show how grateful I am to have had Jeanne help me recognize my desire to pursue chemical engineering," Bukovec said.
Bukovec does undergraduate research in the biochemistry department. In addition, Bukovec is also involved with a variety of student organizations, including Engineers Without Borders, the Miami Triathlon Club, the Outdoor Adventure Club, and the Miami Climbing Club.


Kevin and Mari had the worst Saturday. Car troubles and repair shops made for an anything-but-fun day, but they gamely rallied for our evening session at Acadia Trail Park.
Oh my goodness, just look at their smiles! From the minute they arrived at the park until the light was gone, Kevin and Mari were the picture of happiness; they just lit up in front of the camera! Their love for one another just radiated all evening, and I had so much fun capturing their relationship.
The pair left the session with lifted spirits, and I loved that I got to help make that happen.


To help boost productivity, control buttons are located on the 9 Family Tractors CommmandARM to access individual hitch settings. There are three buttons — set, lock, and load depth. There is also a rotary encoder that allows for finite movements of the hitch. The rotary encoder is detented so it clicks for each movement Also, located under the CommandARM are hitch adjustment controls for raise/lower rate.
Both of these hitch command options are easily programmable in the CommandCenter display by pressing the load depth shortcut key, followed by simply using the thumbwheel and confirm key to dial in the desired settings.


Matt Phillips of Zionsville spent 13 years working in retail before leaving the corporate world to launch his own online retailer last year.
Parker Gwen, an ode to his children's names, is the culmination of time Phillips spent working for Best Buy, Groupon Goods and HH Gregg. And it's a response to what he believes is largely missing from today's shopping experience: a one-stop shop for all the products that fill your home.
His online store sells a curated selection of home products, ranging from smart-home devices to furniture. Now, Phillips and Tiffanie Morrison of Crown Point—a former co-worker he brought into the business—are preparing for Parker Gwen's second holiday shopping season, one in which they plan to increase sales fivefold.
During 2018's fourth quarter, Phillips anticipates his company will make more than $600,000 in sales, compared to $100,000 during the last three months of 2017. The increased revenue would put the co-owners in a good place to hire their first employees soon, up to seven team members, Phillips said.
The company's growth comes even though Parker Gwen has no warehouses and owns no inventory. Phillips and Morrison—who continue to live in separate cities—never touch the merchandise.
But they join a growing number of startup retailers who do business by serving as a sort of expert middle man between companies that make and distribute products and the customers trying to find them.
It's a risky business, but Jim Okamura, a partner at Chicago-based retail consultant McMillanDoolittle, said Parker Gwen might be offering the kind of convenience customers are looking for.
The online store targets women ages 35-45 (based on the research that women make a majority of the home-related purchasing and style decisions) with what Phillips calls a full "home experience." In today's retail scene, few stores sell furniture and decor while also offering TVs, audio equipment and smart-home devices, such as the Ring doorbell or the Amazon Echo, Phillips said.
Best Buy, for example, sells a plethora of home entertainment products, but shoppers won't find a couch there. Similarly, Pottery Barn has home decor and furniture but not TVs and audio equipment.
Parker Gwen can fill that void in the marketplace, he said.
Okamura said few retailers offer "that full range" of products that Parker Gwen does.
But he can't predict whether customers will trust the entire look and feel of their home to one provider, he added.
Phillips is trying to set Parker Gwen apart by providing excellent customer service. Interacting with customers is what Phillips loves most about retail, and he said those relationships have been lost as retail has moved online.
Parker Gwen is "the online experience but with the customer in mind," he said.
Phillips and Morrison handle everything from delivery issues to questions about bringing an entire room together.
Recently, a potential customer commented on one of Parker Gwen's Instagram posts, inquiring whether a coffee table and accent chair in the photo would complement a couch she already owns. That's the kind of question Phillips and Morrison want to specialize in answering.
Parker Gwen has no headquarters. Phillips mostly works from an office in his home but this year was awarded a membership to Zionsville's co-working space, ZWorks, by the Boone County Economic Development Corp. Morrison works from her home in Crown Point.
Before launching Parker Gwen last year, Phillips spent a year at HH Gregg as senior vice president of merchandising, trying to help save the company from going under.
When the company announced in April 2017 that it was shutting down, Phillips didn't want to have to move his family from Zionsville for a new job. They'd only been there a year and liked their neighborhood and school.
So he called on his entrepreneurial spirit and his experience in consumer electronics to launch Parker Gwen. He called Morrison—with whom he had spent two years commuting from northwestern Indiana to Chicago for work at Groupon—to ask if she'd be interested in helping him. They had spent many hours in the car talking about their passion for retail, all the changes the industry had undergone, and what was missing.
She agreed to join his team.
"We're just trying to put our touch of magic on something we're really passionate about," Morrison said.
The company launched to family and friends in September 2017 and officially opened for business two months later.
Phillips and Morrison choose every one of the products sold at Parker Gwen.
The company works with 26 to 28 suppliers across its product categories. Phillips and Morrison established some of those relationships in their previous careers and have established others at trade shows, including the High Point Market furniture show in High Point, North Carolina.
Once the pair finds products they want to feature on the site, they set up contracts with those vendors. But Parker Gwen never purchases the products.
Instead, when a customer buys something at parkergwen.com, the company sends a purchase order to the supplier, which has a few days to fulfill the order. Morrison then works with the customer and shipping companies to arrange for delivery and set-up, if necessary.
Phillips said the website is designed to offer shoppers a curated shopping experience, meaning they can shop by style (modern farmhouse or midcentury modern, for example) or search individually for a product. Either way, users won't be overwhelmed by results, Phillips said.
For example, when searching for a leather sofa, the site returns just 56 results. A more specific search yields even fewer.
Larger retailers offer a much wider range of products (at Amazon.com, for example, the same search leads to more than 1,800 options), but the quality is uneven and unpredictable, Phillips said.
Offering fewer products, then tracking reviews and returns, allows Phillips and Morrison to determine which products fall short of customer expectations.
"We're filtering out the noise so a consumer can feel more confident purchasing from us and knowing they're going to get a great product," he said.
With the holidays just a few weeks away, all of Phillips' and Morrison's attention is focused on having a successful Christmas season.
But once January comes, they hope to be in a place to grow the business.
Phillips said he already has seven positions in mind he'd like to add. And he's already started talking with venture capitalists and angel investors to earn the funding to take the business to the next level.
Okamura, who leads McMillanDoolitte's digital strategy practice, said that, because Parker Gwen's whole-house product lineup is a unique concept and because many of today's young shoppers are comfortable purchasing furniture and more online, Parker Gwen would probably appeal to them.
But to grow the business, Parker Gwen will have to amass a good number of reviews that show it consistently executes its brand promises, he said.
Morrison said the reviews (130 so far) already posted to the company's website show that, even when customers aren't 100 percent happy with a product—one reviewer received a product in poor condition but left a raving review about Parker Gwen's efforts to quickly send a replacement—they're pleased with the customer service.
While all of Parker Gwen's business is currently based online, Phillips hopes to eventually open "experience centers" in major markets where customers can test products before purchasing them.
Ultimately, he hopes to make Parker Gwen an omnichannel experience, he said.


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Q: Re-posting  value into  I want to re-generate user's input values onto textarea with specific format.
I've created input  and 'select' with various 'options' inside as well as 'button' that triggers the function.

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here..?

A: In your code your are getting the value of the textarea and storing it in final variable which is just a string. What you need to do is get the reference of the textarea in the final variable and then set the value.
Working Code:

function myFunction() {
    var finaL = document.getElementById("textArea");
    var spacE = " | ";
    var a = document.getElementById("input1").value;
    var b = document.getElementById("input2").value;
    var c = document.getElementById("selecT").value;
    finaL.value = a + spacE + b + spacE + c;
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A: just update code to this

what i change is from this
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Product Name "Fu Dog (Komainu) "um" Ring"
Komainu, often called Fu-Dog in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures either guarding the entrance or the inner shrine of many Japanese Shinto shrines or kept inside the inner shrine itself, where they are not visible to the public. They can sometimes be found also at Buddhist temples, nobility residences or even private homes.
komainu is meant to ward off evil spirits, modern komainu statues are almost identical, but one has the mouth open, the other closed. This is a very common characteristic in religious statue pairs at both temples and shrines. The open mouth is pronouncing the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, which is pronounced "a", while the closed one is uttering the last letter, which is pronounced "um", to represent the beginning and the end of all things.


Los Taxes is constantly evaluating and researching ways to improve the delivery of Financial Services to the Hispanic Community. As such, we have an open door policy to analyze what different stakeholders might develop for implementation as part of Los Taxes Centers. If you think your skills, materials, ideas, projects or financial background will assist Los Taxes to expand their services to the Latino community, please contact our Executives for an appointment. We strongly believe that no idea is too small to be heard.


Red tea is one of the sixth best kind of Chinese tea. It is an oxidative-fermentative tea. What makes it distinctive is its reddish color: the tea and its residues are close to red. Teas grown in India and Sri Lanka are well known as red tea, so Chinese red tea are, by and large, less represented. There are a variety of tea in China, but red tea is not locally consumed very much. Interestingly, however, China exports more red tea than any other tea; it stands at 50 % of its gross production and has been gaining in global popularity.


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Utrikesutskottet (UU) är ett utskott i Sveriges riksdag. Utskottet bereder ärenden om rikets förhållande till och överenskommelser med andra stater och mellanfolkliga organisationer samt bistånd till annat lands utveckling. Utskottet bereder även ärenden om utrikes handel och internationellt ekonomiskt samarbete. Detta gäller om ärendena inte tillhör något annat utskotts beredning.

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Acts 10:15 The voice spoke again. "Nothing is unclean if God declares it to be clean." And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay." Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." But the voice spoke again: "Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean." But the voice said to him again, "God has made these things clean, so don't call them unholy!" And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." And the voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy)." And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."
And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."


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An infection characterized by accumulation of pus under the tooth or between the tooth and gums. Abscesses are usually painful. Initially, they are localized but they may lead to swelling and can spread to other parts of the mouth, head, and elsewhere in the body.
Though the infections can sometimes be managed with the use of essential oil, disinfecting toothpastes and mouthwashes, and internal antimicrobial herbs and formulas, most abscesses should be treated by professionals since complications can become serious, even life-threatening.
Temporary measures to reduce pain can include the use of cinnamon, clove, myrrh, and/or wild oregano oil. One can also use chaparral and/or spilanthes to reduce pain. To reduce the risk to other organs, such as the heart, one can use Indigo Drops and/or Hibiscus Elixir. These should be regarded as temporary safety measures until the underlying cause is resolved by a dentist.
Tooth decay goes by a number of names, including caries and cavities. This is caused by bacteria and may be shallow and painless or deep. Normally, cavities would be drilled out and filled with a dental material such a amalgams (containing mercury and silver and other metals), composites, or glass ionomers. Sometimes, other materials are suggested by dentists. If decay is extensive, the dentist may recommend an inlay, onlay, or crown. There are numerous options for materials that should be carefully considered.
Patients should engage their dentists in discussions over the pros and cons of each option and make decisions according to their specific needs. In some cases, patients are so sensitive to the materials that they take matters into their own hands.
Chaparral or neem powder can sometimes remove the decay. Then, the tooth needs to be remineralized. This process can be aided by a number of different herbs and minerals, used both directly on the tooth and ingested. These include horsetail, wheatgrass, and haritaki as well as foods and supplements that are high in minerals, especially silica, calcium, and phosphorus.