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Quarterback Shane Carden, who is ranked No. 1 in the country in quarterback accuracy, has thrown for 3,575 yards and has a TD-INT ratio identical to Cato�s of 32-7.
Wide receiver Justin Hardy has 1,130 yards receiving on 95 catches with eight touchdowns.
The Pirates� defense has been steadily improving over the past month or so.
This past Saturday against N.C. State, the starting unit only allowed 14 points.
�It�s a standard of performance that we expect all our defensive players to meet,� McNeill said.
If the standard is golden Friday and the Pirates leave Huntington with a �W,� then ECU will host the Conference USA championship game next weekend and have double-digit wins for the first time since 1991, when it won 11.
Our beloved news reporter whose covered wars is back! Frank West is going to have his own Dead Rising 2 spinoff. He will be joining Chuck Greene and his mission to clear his name. It’s going to be an epilogue to the main game and will more than likely encourage cooperative gameplay as the two dismember hundreds and hun...
At Tokyo Game Show, producer Keiji Inafune says he just wanted to make fans wait a little bit before revealing him. It’s a good thing he did because the fate of Frank West was unsure and kind of still is. In Valves, Left 4 Dead 2, you can see that Frank West has left a note saying he may not make it and the zombies wer...
To see him alive is great, but will he die at the end of this epilogue? Looks like we’ll have to purchase this to find out. As of now, Case West is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and there’s no set release date. Here’s the teaser trailer below.
So far, elementary school employees and parents have not liked the later school start times.
Should Williamson County Schools keep its later school start times?
The district will have a clearer answer to that question in November when they release a report on how the shift has impacted the district's operations, families and employees.
High schools in the district start about 10 to 20 minutes later this school year.
Williamson County Director of Schools Mike Looney implemented the change after the district considered research on how teens, who naturally sleep later, benefit from later school start times.
In turn, the switch also impacted elementary school schedules.
"By and large, elementary school employees and parents don't like the change," Looney said.
The district is looking at a myriad of data sets including sunsets and sunrises, twilight, traffic congestion data, tardy data, disciplinary data, early dismissal and employee absenteeism for the upcoming report.
Earlier this school year, the district created an email for the public to submit feedback on school start times. That account received more than 1,000 emails.
About 58 percent of the emails supported switching back to the district's older school start times, Looney said.
About 38 percent of emails supported the later start times, and the rest supported flipping the elementary and middle school start times.
As of now, Looney has recommended staying with the later school start times this school year.
Reach Melanie Balakit at mbalakit@tennessean.com.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Swedish furniture retailer IKEA IKEA.UL plans to invest about 2 billion euros more in new and existing Mega shopping malls in Russia by 2020, it said on Thursday, reaffirming long-term expansion plans for the country despite an economic downturn.
The head of IKEA Shopping Centres Armin Michaely, presenting the company’s long-term strategy to tenants, said the next mall — IKEA’s 15th in Russia — would open in Mitishchi, just outside Moscow, in 2018.
“This is a big investment for us,” Michaely said. “We will spend around 260 million euros just on the shopping centre” plus investment in traffic infrastructure.
Out of 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) earmarked for investment in Russia, 40 percent would go to existing stores and 60 percent to opening new stores, he said.
The company is looking to open in smaller cities with populations of between 500,000 and 1 million people, he added.
Michaely said the investment plans would be pushed through despite an economic downturn aggravated by western sanctions.
“There is a bit of a slowdown but we still believe in Russia and that (the economy) will get back to a healthy course. This is why we are committing such a big investment,” he told reporters.
In the 2014 financial year, the company’s tenants in Russia turned over more than 6 billion euros. The company plans to refurbish five Mega malls and also expand three of the five by 2018.
“All tenants who are in Russia are very positive to go with us for extension and confirming they want to expand. But at the moment it’s a bit difficult to get new brands to Russia ... because of the (economic and geopolitical) situation we face,” Michaely said.
Investments in the refurbishment of its stores in Kazan and Yekaterinburg are estimated to cost around 27 million euros each, said Olga Shevtsova, the commercial development director of IKEA Shopping Centres Russia.
The company will also invest 208 million euros to significantly expand its store in the Khimki region of Moscow and 158 million euros to expand another Moscow store, as well as 208 million euros to double the size of its mall in the southern Adygeya region.
This makes perfect sense: enrollees want to know whether their health plan covers a particular service, as well as how much they owe when the service is used (that owed remainder is called “cost sharing”). Covered benefits and cost sharing affect people’s willingness to get needed care, especially when that care’s cost...
* Includes the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Federal Employees Health Plan (FEHBP), TRICARE Military Health Coverage, and miscellaneous public health programs.
This commentary examines the covered benefits and cost sharing policies in public health plan proposals, digging into this one of several points of difference across such proposals.1 In particular, comparisons are made between: Medicare for All (S. 1804) which largely replaces private coverage; Medicare Part E (S. 2708...
The boundaries of benefits covered by health plans has changed over time. In the 1950s and 1960s, health plans covered “major medical” benefits, such as hospitalization and physician and laboratory services—but little else. Today, the scope of health plans is broad, frequently including services not typically considere...
Public policymakers have long discussed how to determine what should or should not be covered by health insurance, and which policy tools are the most effective in implementing those determinations. States, which have the primary role in regulating fully insured health plans, have passed hundreds of “benefit mandates” ...
Covered benefits also change with the times. In part these changes have come in response to fluctuations in the coverage offered in the private sector. For instance, today, Medicare has separate hospital (Part A) and outpatient (Part B) coverage, which were the norm in the 1960s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. Medica...
Most proposals to offer a public plan build off of existing ACA or Medicare benefits (Table 2). Medicare X, which is effectively a public plan offered on the same terms as private plans in the Health Insurance Marketplaces, would offer the ACA’s essential health benefits. Similarly, the Medicaid buy-in would extend to ...
Typically, insured people pay some dollar amount to a health care provider when they use a service, an arrangement called cost sharing. These payments come in several forms: an annual deductible (amount spent before coverage begins), coinsurance (a percent of what the provider is paid), or co-pay (a nominal dollar amou...
Cost sharing and premiums are inextricably related: the higher the cost sharing, the lower the premium. Who pays, however, is not the same.
An aggregate measure of the amount of cost sharing for a plan is its actuarial value: the percent of the estimated average cost for a set of benefits paid for by the plan. In 2011, Medicare’s actuarial value was 80 percent, while a typical large employer plans was 86 percent. The ACA has standardized actuarial values i...
Beyond the overall level of cost sharing, policymakers have set specific cost sharing amounts per service or for overall covered benefits. The ACA requires non-grandfathered private plans to limit annual out-of-pocket costs for covered benefits to $7,350 for an individual plan in 2018. It requires the same plans to cov...
As with their choices on covered benefits, the authors of the public plan proposals tend to stick to cost sharing policies in existing programs. Older adults in the Medicare buy-in proposal would pay the same cost sharing for services as other Medicare enrollees. Medicare X would offer silver and gold plans, like other...
Many health plans enrollees have second sources of coverage to fill in benefit gaps or reduce high out-of-pocket spending. About 86 percent of people with Medicare have “Medigap,” employer coverage, or some other form of secondary coverage. This supplemental coverage pays for both extra benefits (e.g., dental care) and...
Having multiple health plans or programs paying for the same person’s health care also complicates coordination of care and pits the different sources of coverage against each other.
Some public programs also provide extra coverage for low-income people. Medicaid covers a wide range of benefits with little to no cost sharing because most of its enrollees are poor or disabled: for them, an uncovered service or high copay is tantamount to a denial of care. Medicaid from its start has wrapped around M...
Only two of the public plan proposals address supplemental coverage. The Medicare buy-in proposal would allow older adults to access Part D, Medicare Advantage, and Medigap plans. And the Medicare for All proposal would direct Medicaid to cover long-term services and supports. Additionally, it would permit supplemental...
Similar to benefits, cost sharing for low-income enrollees would mirror what other enrollees in Marketplace plans receive in the proposals that would create Medicare X, Medicare E, the Medicare buy-in, and the Medicaid option. The House version of the Medicare buy-in bill and the Medicare Part E bill would separately i...
Policy related to health benefits and cost sharing is extensive and important for ensuring access to care and financial security. Most progressive proposals to create some type of public plan propose including existing health benefits and cost sharing policies from the ACA and Medicare. This approach would facilitate s...
This commentary does not explore other features of benefit design such as provider networks and utilization management, which also affect premiums, access to services, and use of services.
A proposal to create a public plan for the individual and small group market (CHOICE Act, S. 194, H.R. 635) has the same benefit and cost sharing as Medicare X.
Matallica fans have been foaming at the mouth in anticipation of the band’s new album, something they haven’t experienced since the 2008 release of the critical and popular hit LP Death Magnetic. Recently, Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, gave a vague indication that the band was actually in the process of recording t...
How many songs has Metallica written for the new album?
The writing process for the majority of Metallica’s albums have followed the same process. A large slew of guitar riffs written primarily by James Hetfield, sometimes Kirk Hammett, and rarely the band’s bass player, (that now being bass virtuoso Robert Trujillo) are reviewed and selected. Hetfield and Ulrich then mix a...
From Hammett’s comments to Billboard, it sounds like Metallica is about halfway through compiling a few dozen “first pass” demos. When another dozen or so are compiled, the band will start whittling away at them to find their final tracks for the new record.
Hammett himself composed the primary riff for Metallica’s perhaps most iconic – and probably most popular – song, Enter Sandman.
There’s no word yet on who will produce the new album. Uber-producer Rick Rubin was brought on to produce the band’s last album after the dismissal of Bob Rock, the band’s longtime producer that put together Metallica’s breakthrough self-titled 1991 LP, sometimes referred to as The Black Album. Metallica has been criti...
Whatever the criticisms concerning production and length of time between albums, Metallica remains one of the largest musical draws in the world. Since 1991, Metallica has released 6 LPs and each one has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Over the span of their 33-year career, the band has sold well over 100 mil...
Today the Oceti Sakowin camp lies in ruins, but there have been many victories along the way.
Ever been to a game where it appears the two teams have been given separate rules of engagement? That what it’s like trying to follow what has been going on at Standing Rock over the last year.
Both sides—the water protectors and law enforcement—witness the other preparing for battle. On one side, the police deploy military weaponry and an ever-expanding ground force; they advance every chance they get, and use arrests and legal tactics, spend huge amounts of money, and create chaos as a game plan.
The water protectors respond with prayer. They also engage social media to increase awareness, raise money, and gather petition signatures; they appeal to treaty rights to stop the Black Snake.
Wednesday, February 22, was point water protectors. It was a David and Goliath moment. The police had the water protectors surrounded and had delivered the final ultimatum from Governor Burgum to evacuate.
But something held them back.
Was it the fires ignited early in the morning by the water protectors? Was it the mainstream media, corralled into a separate area, that distracted the police?
Perhaps it was the groundswell of social media along with the local presence, including churches and others from nearby Mandan, declaring, “We are watching.” A contributing factor was certainly the indy journalists, who swarmed the area and still had enough battery power to get their messages out. Indeed, it seemed to ...
The police also delayed until two hours after the dreaded 2:00 p.m. deadline for the camp’s eviction. Maybe they slowed down after realizing that chasing and arresting nine people—and possibly breaking the hip of one—and harassing people while video cameras are rolling live is not the best PR for your team.
All of this surely played into the police decision to back off and allow the water protectors to remain in camp overnight. I have to think a final card played on Wednesday made the difference: As the women, children, and disabled people walked to the south gate, and to “safety” from arrest, those who remained blocked t...
When those of us who had moved out of arrest territory got word that the police had backed off, it hit me. The lawyers must have had time to consider the meaning of stepping through the boundary the water protectors had erected. Apparently police even asked water protectors to sign some kind of release in case of harm—...
One would think this would be seen as a welcome and dignified conclusion to this phase of the “game.” But logic does not seem to be the rule here, and certainly not for supporters of DAPL, who insist that putting fallible oil pipelines under precious water makes some kind of sense.
I do not know whether or not the DAPL pipeline will be completed through the headwater of the Missouri River. I am certain, however, that the Standing Rock water protectors and their supporters from around the world, have dealt fossil fuels a serious blow.
Editor’s note February 23, 2017: Today is a different phase of the fight. The National Guard, and law enforcement from North Dakota and Wisconsin have arrested dozens, and the camp lies in smoldering ruins. Water protectors set ceremonial fires on Wednesday to several wooden structures, and heavy equipment was at work ...
Governor David Ige just signed Senate Bill 1030 into law, making it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. Hawaii is the first state in the nation to raise the age of sale of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to 21. Maui Now graphic.
The legal smoking age in Hawaiʻi rises to 21 on Friday when Senate Bill 1030 is enacted into law as Act 122.
On January 1st, Hawaiʻi will become the first state in the nation to raise the age on the sale of tobacco products and e-cigs to 21.
Governor David Ige said the legislation is part of the state’s comprehensive tobacco control efforts to help reduce tobacco sue among youth and increase the likelihood that children in Hawaiʻi will grow up to be tobacco-free.
State officials say that in Hawaiʻi, 86% of current adult smokers begin smoking before 21 years of age; of these, 34% start smoking between 18-20 years old.
Gov. Ige also signed House Bill 525, which made Hawaiʻi state parks and beaches smoke-free as of July 1, 2015. Under the law the use of all tobacco products and electronic smoking devices, or e-cigarettes are banned from use at the facilities. It applies to all areas of the parks, including beaches, picnic and camping ...
Here in Maui County, a bill that effectively banned tobacco use at county parks, beaches and recreational facilities became law last year.
The project, costing tens of millions of pounds and expected to take several months, will also see the waste gas and dust extraction system being replaced.
Tata Steel has launched an ambitious project to significantly extend the operational life of one of the two huge blast furnaces of its UK's largest steelworks at Port Talbot in South Wales.
The plant's giant Blast Furnace 5, which has been running for the past 15 years producing almost 30 million tonnes of iron, is now being drained so vital engineering work can be carried out inside, extending its life by five to seven years, Tata Steel said Friday.
"This is the biggest single investment we have made at the Port Talbot site for more than five years and demonstrates our commitment to building a stronger and more sustainable steelmaking business in the UK now and in the future," said Bimlendra Jha, CEO of Tata Steel's UK business.
Once the heart of the furnace, which is normally more than 1,200 degrees Celsius, has cooled, skilled engineers will begin work to replace parts of the heat resistant interior and vital structural parts, it said.
Alan Coombs, Chair of the Port Talbot multi-union committee, said: "This investment in Port Talbot is a huge vote of confidence in the workforce, and follows some other major investments which will help sustain the steel industry in the UK."
Tata Steel said Blast Furnace 5 life extension project is a critical part of the company's long-term strategy to strengthen its operations in the UK and will underpin improvements throughout its UK supply chain.
Confirmation of the investment came at the same time as the announcement in June of definitive agreements being signed by Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel to form a joint venture of their European steel businesses.
On Friday, project engineers began what is known as a salamander tap of the furnace. This involves a number of holes being drilled through the base of the furnace to fully drain it of liquid iron. The operation is carried out remotely and it is expected it could take more than a day to remove all the remaining iron, th...
Tata Steel is one of Europe's leading steel producers, with steelmaking in the Netherlands and the UK, and manufacturing plants across Europe.
In June, it had announced a historic 50-50 joint venture with German steel giant Thyssenkrupp, creating Europe's second-largest steelworks after NRI steel magnate Lakshmi N Mittal-led ArcelorMittal.
UPDATE: Beyonce’s camp says that she isn’t attached to One Hit Wonders, so perhaps this was a bit of over-exuberance on the part of the filmmakers. Still a crazy good cast if you ask me.
EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure preemptive deal, Sony Pictures is collaborating with Ryan Murphy on One Hit Wonders, a musical comedy pitch that will be written as a star vehicle for Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Beyonce and Andy Samberg.
Murphy is attached to direct, and he will write the script with his Glee cohorts Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Murphy will produce with Paltrow (who has practically become a Glee cast member) and the latter makes her debut as a producer on this film. Murphy hopes to direct it after he completes The Normal Heart.
Paltrow, Witherspoon and Diaz will play three singers who each scored a top hit song in the 1990s before watching their careers go down the drain. They decide to form a super group. Samberg and his Lonely Island cohorts will be involved in generating music for the film, I’m told. The project came out of a dinner Murphy...
Would you drive your car on a busy highway if you had no idea how to drive yet? Hint: Crash=Divorce!
As I'll explain shortly, becoming an armchair relationship expert is actually one of the most important stages of your divorce prevention strategy, next to transforming your marriage into a "Hurt-Free-Zone."
No, I'm not suggesting that you actually learn or apply clinical counseling techniques. But I am suggesting that you really master some critical couple's communication strategies that the world's leading therapists would teach you if you were to attend marriage counseling.
What's the bottom line about saving your marriage? It takes some basic skills to safely operate and care for your emotionally healthy marriage, just like it takes some basic skills to safely operate and maintain your car.

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