Turning 65: Ready to Sign up for Medicare?
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At 65 you may be looking forward to different things: having grandchildren perhaps, possibly retiring from your career, or taking some trip that you've dreamed of your whole life. Sixty-five may also be a significant year for you as it may be the first year that you're eligible for Medicare. Medicare is the government health insurance program that provides hospital (Part A) and medical (Part B) insurance to people 65 and older and some under who 65 who qualify because of a disability. Medicare Part A and Part B are called Original Medicare.
You may be automatically enrolled in Medicare when you become eligible. Learn the difference between signing up for Medicare automatically and manually.
If you are signed up for Medicare automatically, your Medicare card will be mailed to you three months before your 65th birthday. Your Medicare benefits will start on the first day of the month you turn 65. If your birthday is the first of the month, your benefits will start on the first day of the previous month.
You can be sure that you address is updated for Medicare by going to your My Social Security account online.
If you don't get Medicare automatically, you can manually sign up for Medicare.
Visit the Social Security You can apply for Medicare only if you're not yet ready to receive retirement benefits.
You might not be getting retirement benefits when you turn 65 because you are still working. In this case, you will have to sign up for Medicare when you retire and lose your employer health care coverage. When your employer coverage ends, you may have a special enrollment period to sign up for Medicare Part B without receiving a late-enrollment penalty.
Generally your monthly premium for Part B may go up 10% for each full 12-month period that you could have had Part B but didn't sign up for it. Similarly, you Part A monthly premium may go up by 10% if you didn't enroll when you were first eligible. However, most people qualify for premium-free Part A and therefore are also exempt from the Medicare Part A late-enrollment penalty.
Do I have alternatives to Original Medicare when you turn 65?
Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) plans: Medicare Supplement insurance plans help pay out-of-pocket costs such as copayments, coinsurance and deductibles. You have a six month Medicare Supplement Open Enrollment Period that begins the month you turn 65 and are enrolled in Medicare Part B.
Medicare Part D: Medicare Part D is prescription drug coverage. Original Medicare generally doesn't cover most of the prescription drugs you take at home which is why some Medicare beneficiaries chose Part D coverage. You have a 7-month Initial Enrollment Period for Part D which starts three months before the month you turn 65, includes the month you turn 65, and lasts three months after the month you turn 65.
You also may want a Medicare Advantage plan.
Medicare Advantage is an alternative way to get your Part A and Part B benefits from a private insurance company. Medicare Advantage plans must cover everything that Medicare Part A and Part B covers, with the exception of hospice care, which is still covered by Medicare Part A. The Medicare Advantage Initial Enrollment Period is the same as the Medicare Part D Initial Enrollment Period, which is 7 months. It starts three months before you turn 65, includes the month of your 65th birthday, and ends three months after your 65th birthday.


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Q: How do I make an existing project on my machine into a GitHub project? I can't believe this is taking me so long to figure out. I go to New Repository and the 3 options are Add, Create, Clone. From what I can tell, none of those do what I want. I want to take my local project at C:\Users\Me\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\MyProject and put those source files under control at GitHub. In other words, as I work on that project, I want the to be able to push/pull/sync/whatever my chances. Isn't this what GitHub is for? From what I can tell, all I can do is create a new folder for a GitHub project and then copy the files over to there. Is that right? Or am I missing something?

A: What you need to do is initialize a git repo in your root file of your project. Use git init in your projects root directory. Then add all files with git add .  and then commit them with git commit or git commit -m "your commit message". Then create a github repo on github. The repo is just the container for your project. Once you have a new github repo you can add the remote link that it gives you in the instructions.
git remote add origin https://github.com/yourgithubusername/yourgithubprojectname.git
git push -u origin master

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function rbfBasis = rbfComputeBasis( X, k, cluster, scale, show )
% Get locations and sizes of radial basis functions for use in rbf network.
%
% Radial basis function are a simple, fast method for universal function
% approximation / regression. The idea is to find a mapping X->y where X
% and y are continuous real variables. The mapping is linear over features
% of X: y=rbfWeight*features(X). The features are of the form:
%  f_j(x) = exp(-||x-mu_j||_2^2 / 2 sig_j^2 ).
% The number of basis functions controls the complexity of the network. Too
% many basis functions can lead to overfitting, too few to bad
% interpolation. Rbf networks are trained in two phases.  First, the radial
% basis functions are found in an unsupervised manner (using only Xtrain),
% for example by clustering Xtrain.  Next, given the basis functions,
% Xtrain and ytrain, the basis weights are found by solving the system:
%  rbfWeight * features(Xtrain) = ytrain
% At this point, to interpolate any new points, Xtest, use:
%  ytest = rbfWeight * features(Xtest)
% The code below achieves all three steps:
%  rbfBasis  = rbfComputeBasis( Xtrain, k, cluster, scale, show );
%  rbfWeight = rbfComputeFtrs(Xtrain,rbfBasis) \ ytrain;
%  ytest     = rbfComputeFtrs(Xtest,rbfBasis) * rbfWeight;
% Note, in the returned rbfBasis struct there are a number of flags that
% control how the rbf features are computed. These can be altered to
% achieve the desired effect.
%
% For an in depth discussion of rbf networks see:
%  Christopher M. Bishop. "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition"
%
% USAGE
%  rbfBasis = rbfComputeBasis( X, k, [cluster], [scale], [show] )
%
% INPUTS
%  X           - [N x d] N points of d dimensions each
%  k           - number of basis functions to use
%  cluster     - [1]: Computes cluster centers for use as rbf functions.
%              - 0: Evenly centered basis functions (ok for small d)
%  scale       - [5] Alter computed value of sigma by given factor
%                set larger for smoother results, too small -> bad interp
%  show        - [0] will display results in figure(show)
%                if show<0, assumes X is array Nxs^2 of N sxs patches
%
% OUTPUTS
%  rfbBasis
%   .d          - feature vector size
%   .k          - number of basis functions actually used
%   .mu         - [d x k] rbf centers
%   .vars       - [1 x k] rbf widths
%   .var        - rbf average width
%   .globalVar  - [1] if true use single average var for rbfs
%   .constant   - [0] if true include extra basis with constant activation
%   .normalize  - [0] if true normalize overall rbf response to sum to 1
%
% EXAMPLE
%
% See also RBFDEMO, RBFCOMPUTEFTRS
%
% Piotr's Image&Video Toolbox      Version 2.50
% Copyright 2010 Piotr Dollar.  [pdollar-at-caltech.edu]
% Please email me if you find bugs, or have suggestions or questions!
% Licensed under the Lesser GPL [see external/lgpl.txt]

if( nargin<2 || isempty(k)); error('k not specified'); end
if( nargin<3 || isempty(cluster)); cluster=1;  end
if( nargin<4 || isempty(scale)); scale=5;  end
if( nargin<5 || isempty(show)); show=0;  end
[N d] = size(X);

if( cluster )
  %%% CLUSTERS subsample, run kmeans
  maxN=5000; if( N>maxN );  X=X(randSample(N,maxN),:);  N=maxN;  end
  prm.nTrial=5; prm.display=0;
  [IDX,mu] = kmeans2( X, k, prm );
  mu = mu'; k = size(mu,2);
else
  %%% GRID generate locations evenly spaced on grid
  if( d>4 ); error('d too high. curse of dimensionality..'); end
  nBPer = round( k ^ (1/d) );  k = nBPer ^ d; rg=[min(X)' max(X)'];
  del=(rg(:,2)-rg(:,1))/(nBPer-1); rg=rg+[-del del]/2;
  loc=cell(1,d);  for i=1:d; loc{i}=linspace(rg(i,1),rg(i,2),nBPer); end
  grid=cell(1,d); if(d>1); [grid{:}]=ndgrid(loc{:}); else grid=loc; end
  mu=zeros(d,k);   for i=1:d; mu(i,:) = grid{i}(:); end
end

%%% Set var to be equal to average distance of neareast neighbor.
dist = pdist2( mu', mu' );
dist = dist + realmax * eye( k );
vars = min(dist)* scale;
var  = mean(vars);
vars = max( vars, var/100 );

%%% store results
rbfBasis = struct('d',d, 'k',k, 'mu',mu, 'vars',vars, 'var',var, ...
  'globalVar',1, 'constant',0, 'normalize',0);

%%% optionally display
if( abs(show) )
  if( show<0 ) % if images can display
    siz = sqrt(d);
    I = clusterMontage( reshape(X,siz,siz,N), IDX, 25, 1 );
    figure(-show); clf; montage2( I );
    figure(-show+1); clf; montage2(reshape(mu,siz,siz,[]));
  elseif( d==1 ) % 1D data
    figure(show); clf; hold on;
    minX = min(X,[],1 );  maxX = max(X,[],1 );
    xs = linspace( minX, maxX, 500 )';
    for i=1:k
      ys = exp( -(xs-mu(i)).^2 / 2 / var  );
      plot( xs, ys );
    end
  elseif( d==2 ) % 2D data
    figure(show); clf;
    minX = min(X,[],1 );  maxX = max(X,[],1 );
    xs1 = linspace(minX(1),maxX(1),25);
    xs2 = linspace(minX(2),maxX(2),25);
    [xs1,xs2] = ndgrid( xs1, xs2 );
    xs = [xs1(:) xs2(:)]; n = size(xs,1);
    for i=1:k
      mui = repmat(mu(:,i),[1 n])';
      ys = exp( - sum( ((xs - mui)).^2, 2 ) / 2 / var );
      surf( xs1, xs2, reshape(ys,size(xs1)) );
      hold on;
    end;
  elseif( d==3 ) % 3D data (show data+centers)
    figure(show); clf; hold on;
    scatter3( X(:,1),X(:,2),X(:,3),12,'filled');
    scatter3( mu(1,:),mu(2,:),mu(3,:),30,'filled');
  end
end

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In keeping with the Festival's tradition, the month-long Visual Arts Festival 2014 will be launched at The George Hotel, Swaffham with a reception and a presentation of the forthcoming events.
This year, the launch reception will be followed by a photographic talk by the renowned wildlife photographer Chris Knights.
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This application form is for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Medical) for the January 2019 intake at Plymouth University ONLY.
Trainees on a recognised training programme within Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education and/or Severn Postgraduate Medical Education who wish to study the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Medical) at Plymouth University are invited to submit an application for funding support.
Trainees will be considered for funding who wish to study the PG Cert Ed (Medical) course beginning January 2019 at Plymouth University.
Funding is up to 50% of the training costs of one year's fees (excluding residential components or travel expenses).
Only one application per person will be considered for the Bursary award offered by the Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education and/or Severn Postgraduate Medical Education, at any time, in this financial year of funding.
Applications are considered and awarded in accordance with the guidance.
Awards are agreed by the Funding Panel.
When allocating funding the emphasis is on enhancing professional development and, as such, more importance will be placed on how the course contributes to your development rather than the qualification attained on completion.
The applicant must hold a recognised training post with Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education or Severn Postgraduate Medical Education and a substantive contract of employment for at least 6 months from the start date of the course for which you have applied for a Bursary.
Foundation Trainees are NOT eligible.
Where an applicant is unsure of their place of employment at the beginning of the course evidence must be provided that they will still be registered on a training programme with Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education or Severn Postgraduate Medical Education.
Applicants must secure a place with Plymouth University for the January 2019 intake and complete the University application form separate to the PGME application form. Your acceptance letter must be attached to your PGCE Application.
Funding will not be awarded to applicants who have already started the course in the academic year for which they are applying for the funding. Retrospective payment will not be made.
The applicant must not have been awarded a bursary or funding from Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education or Severn Postgraduate Medical Education within the previous two years from the commencement date of the course.
Applicants must notify the Senior Business and Education Manager via penpgce.sw@hee.nhs.uk if they defer or fail to take up the course for which they have applied. This may result in the applicant having to the pay the full amount of the course.
These signatures must be scanned electronic signatures or wet signatures. We are unable to accept typed/printed signatures.
The applicant must ensure that those supporting the application (as listed above) agree that the course represents an integral part of the trainees personal development plan (PDP) as identified through the NHS appraisal process.
Unsigned or late applications are unable to be considered.
There are only limited awardable places on the Plymouth University course for January 2019, which are partially funded by Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education & Severn Postgraduate Medical Education.
Applications will be dated upon receipt.
An application is not an automatic guarantee to receive funding.
The application process for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Medical) Bursary fund is consistent across all applicants and each application is considered on its own merit. The process for the application is listed below.
The Application form will be available here from the opening date.
Applications for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Medical) Bursary can be submitted from Tuesday 6th November 2018.
The closing date for applications is Tuesday 20th November 2018.
Each application must be submitted on the standard application form and will be assessed against the scoring framework.
All applications will be acknowledged by an email stating confirmation of submission within 3-5 working days of receipt.
Any queries regarding the application process or an individual application should be emailed to Penpgce.sw@hee.nhs.uk.
The Senior Business and Education Manager is responsible for the PGCE Bursary Fund and is supported by an administrative team.
Each application will be assigned its own unique reference number.
Funds will only be awarded if successful with the application.
Each application will be scored on its own merit and scored against the scoring framework.
Applicants must ensure they have completed the relevant University application form for Plymouth University and have proof of a place with the University before applying for the bursary, OR have proof of application if the University's closing date has not yet been reached.
The Funding Panel will be constituted from members of Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education and Severn Postgraduate Medical Education Senior Management Teams.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by email by Friday 7th December 2018.
A copy of the agreement will be provided to the Education Supervisor of the training programme.
Retrospective payments cannot be made. Applicants must notify the Senior Business and Education Manager via Penpgce.sw@hee.nhs.uk if they defer the course or fail to take up the course.
IMPORTANT: This may result in the applicant having to pay for the course in total for which they have applied.
Upon completion of the funded course, the successful applicant is requested to provide evidence of completion by providing a copy of the awarded certificate or evidence of the required minimum attendance for the course, within 6 weeks of completion.
If the successful applicant is unable to provide satisfactory evidence of completion of the funded course, they may be asked to reimburse the sum of the awarded fund as provided via this process.
If the course would be recommended to a colleague and why.
This document will aid the Panel to assess the benefits of the Bursary Award and any future benefit of the course.
By accepting the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Medical) Bursary Award applicants agree to have published their feedback of the course.
This process will be reviewed annually or as necessary.
Amendments may be made during the application and scoring process if inconsistencies, errors or areas of concerns are identified and this will be communicated to affected applicants accordingly.
The decision of the Panel is final. There is no appeal process.
The PGME reserves the right to withdraw its funding or the application for a Bursary award at any time.


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Ricky Swallow solo show at NGV Australia
Art Press Release from Australia. Published by Rebecca Gabrielle Cannon on Wednesday 21 October 2009.
An absolutely wonderful collection of sculptural and watercolour works by the Australian artist Ricky Swallow recently opened at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
His first major Australian show since 2006, The Bricoleur, curated by Alex Baker, brings together an intriguing mix of Swallow's well known, meticulously detailed, lifelike wooden sculptures (for example his classic table of hand-sculpted wooden fish Killing Time 2003-4) complimented by more permanent works in bronze.
A surprise collection of Swallow's lesser-known watercolours, which were first surveyed by curator Steven Alderton in Ricky Swallow: Watercolours (Art Museum at the University of Queensland), are also included in the show.
The thing which grabs me about Swallow's sculptures is his absolute mastery of contradiction in form.
When I look at the work of Renaissance masters, with life-like human forms in marble; I feel the weight of the marble, not the weight of the human body. With Swallow's work, my perception is constantly torn between that of the depicted object and that of its material.
While looking at the back pack in Fig.2 (2009, pictured right), with its soft, material folds gently enveloping mysterious content, one can feel the heaviness of its contents, the lightness of its covering. This perception of weight makes no sense to a mind which reads the object's texture of wood and knows the item should have an average dispersed weight equaling that of wood.
Likewise barnacles grow on what should be plastic balloons; two sets of fragile human bones hold hands in a too-late moment of intimacy – one which, made from annodised bronze, will – by contrast – last forever. The collection brought together in The Bricoleur reinforces Swallow's engagement with the themes of permancence; to me suggesting the fraught value of art as an impossible attempt at permanence.
The Bricoleur is a must-experience opportunity to inspect Swallow's incredible sculptural work in close detail.
http://artabase.net/exhibition/1837-ricky-swallow-the-bricoleur
Ricky Swallow (born 1974, San Remo, Victoria, Australia) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA . He won the Contempora 5 award in 1999 and represented Australia at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Click on the following images for more detail.

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