Affordable Care Act: the Marketplace and what’s
changing in 2014
Whether you’re uninsured,
you’ve been denied coverage in the past, or you just want to explore new
options, the Health Insurance Marketplace will give you more choice and control
over your health coverage. The Marketplace will operate in all states, so no
matter where you live you’ll have access to coverage. In the Marketplace, you can compare coverage
options based on price, benefits, quality, and other features important to you.
You can choose the combination of price
and benefits that fits your budget and meets your needs. You can get lower costs on coverage: the
Marketplace application will tell you if you’re eligible for a new way to get lower costs on your monthly premiums or out-of-pocket costs for private insurance. You’ll also learn if you can get free or
low-cost coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Essential health benefits are
covered in the Marketplace: All plans must offer a comprehensive
set of essential health benefits including
doctor visits, preventive care, hospitalization, prescriptions, and more. Pre-existing
conditions will be covered: Plans
won’t be able to deny you coverage or charge you more due to pre-existing health conditions, including a pregnancy
or disability. You can get help in
your area: If you need help finding a plan,
several kinds ofhelp will be available to give you
personalized assistance with the process.
Fees begin: Beginning 2014, most people are
required to have health coverage. If
they don’t, they may have to pay a fee. Open
enrollment for Marketplace plans begins October 1, 2013. Coverage begins as early as January 1, 2014. Find out how you can get ready now.
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (born 1948) is
an American cartoonist,
best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. In 1975, he became the first comic strip
artist to win a Pulitzer, traditionally awarded to editorial-page
cartoonists. He was also a Pulitzer
finalist in 1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Trudeau
Pulitzer Prize past winners
& finalists by category http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat
Reactions to simple
expressions and what they mean
Methinks “uh huh” may also
mean that someone is pretending to be listening / following along, while in
fact is distracted with something else.
UH...oh
means something bad will happen or I think I just made a mistake.
Most young children pick up simple expressions
easily and also non-verbal mannerisms such as pointing with the index finger.
Non-verbal communication is a system consisting of a range of features often used together to aid expression. The combination of these features is often a subconscious choice made by native speakers or even sub-groups/sub-cultures within a language group. The main components of the system are: Kinesics (body language) Body motions such as shrugs, foot tapping, drumming fingers, eye movements such as winking, facial expressions, and gestures; Proxemics (proximity) Use of space to signal privacy or attraction; Haptics Touch; Oculesics Eye contact; Chronemics Use of time, waiting, pausing; Olfactics Smell; Vocalics Tone of voice, timbre, volume, speed; Sound symbols Grunting, mmm, er, ah, uh-huh, mumbling; Silence Pausing, waiting, secrecy; Posture Position of the body, stance; Adornment Clothing, jewellery, hairstyle; and Locomotion Walking, running, staggering, limping.
Non-verbal communication is absent in the written word. Without facial expressions and gestures,
words (notably in e-mail) may seem harsher than intended.
100 Mostly Small But
Expressive Interjections by Mark Nichol Check words
beginning with U to find variations of spelling used in the last muse (Common expressions--easy to use, but hard to write out?)
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-mostly-small-but-expressive-interjections/
Sept. 25, 2013 The
first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes has been unveiled,
opening the door to a new generation of digital devices. "Cedric" is only a basic prototype
but could be developed into a machine which is smaller, faster and more
efficient than today's silicon models. Nanotubes
have long been touted as the heir to silicon's throne, but building a working
computer has proven awkward. The
computer operates on just one bit of information, and can only count to 32. "In human terms, Cedric can count on his
hands and sort the alphabet. But he is,
in the full sense of the word, a computer," says co-author Max Shulaker. "There is no limit to the tasks it can
perform, given enough memory". In
computing parlance, Cedric is "Turing complete". In principle, it
could be used to solve any computational problem. It runs a basic operating system which allows
it to swap back and forth between two tasks - for instance, counting and
sorting numbers. And unlike previous
carbon-based computers, Cedric gets the answer right every time. Carbon
nanotubes (CNTs) are hollow cylinders composed of a single sheet of carbon
atoms. They have exceptional properties
which make them ideal as a semiconductor material for building transistors, the
on-off switches at the heart of electronics.
For starters, CNTs are so thin - thousands could fit side-by-side in a
human hair - that it takes very little energy to switch them off. James Morgan
Read much more at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24232896 See
also Stanford Researchers Create the World's First Working Carbon Nanotube
Computer in Nature World News, Sept. 26. 2013 at http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4173/20130926/stanford-researchers-create-worlds-first-working-carbon-nanotube-computer.htm
and Carbon nanotube computer in Nature, international weekly journal of science
at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7468/full/nature12502.html
September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years)
in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of
the year. Events:
1580 – Sir Francis
Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1777 – British
troops Philadelphia campaign occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1789 – Thomas
Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is
appointed the first Chief Justice of the United
States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General,
and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1907 – New Zealand
and Newfoundland each become dominions
within the British Empire.1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_26
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