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[Regnum] A deterioration in the geomagnetic environment on Earth is expected over the next two to three days, resulting in weak magnetic storms. The Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported this on its Telegram channel on April 10.
According to the report, models show a 90% probability of weak magnetic storms and disturbances over the next three days, from Friday to Sunday. These are associated with a medium-sized coronal hole on the Sun. Scientists say these storms should have reached Earth by now, but have not yet happened.
The most likely occurrence is magnetic storms of levels G1 (weak) and G2 (moderate). However, strong storms are completely excluded.
On April 2, the Institute of Applied Geophysics reported a solar flare of the penultimate magnitude. It lasted over an hour. This event was accompanied by plasma emissions, and when such clouds reach Earth, they can trigger magnetic storms.
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[Regnum] An international team of researchers discovered a previously unknown island during an expedition to the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. This was reported by the press service of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
A team of 93 people has been exploring the northwestern part of the sea since February on the German icebreaker Polarstern. During their work, the scientists discovered that an island had "appeared" in an area previously designated as a "danger zone" on maps.
"Looking out the window, we saw an 'iceberg' that looked quite dirty. Upon closer inspection, we realized it was probably a rock. We then changed course and headed in that direction, and it became increasingly clear that we were looking at an island," said researcher Simon Drutter.
Scientists have determined that the rocky island is approximately 130 meters long, 50 meters wide, and approximately 16 meters high. Researchers speculate that the island was not mapped because its ice cover makes it easily mistaken for an iceberg in satellite images. A name for the island will be chosen soon.
Earlier in April, Russian scientists discovered a new geographical feature in Antarctica— an oasis at Cape Berks. They studied 18 previously unexplored lakes and concluded that the oasis at Cape Berks is a stable, cohesive formation. The oasis is home to penguins, seals, Antarctic petrels, and several other birds. Previously, this feature was considered a rock. The oasis is proposed to be named after the distinguished polar explorer and Antarctic explorer Arnold Budretsky.
[FoxNews] The Navy is canceling a long-delayed overhaul of the USS Boise after costs ballooned to nearly $3 billion, with Secretary of the Navy John Phelan saying the submarine no longer made financial or strategic sense to repair.
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine already had consumed roughly $800 million and would require another $1.9 billion to complete — despite offering only about 20% of its remaining service life, Phelan said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Instead, the Navy plans to redirect funding and skilled labor toward building and delivering newer Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines, part of a broader push to accelerate ship production and overhaul troubled acquisition programs.
"At some point, you just cut your losses and move on," Phelan said.
I use Costco for eye exam because the visit cost is less than my co-pay with insurance.
I stopped using the FSA as the lousy $500 savings is not worth the hassle. The same insurance company that sent a doctor $2400 for a medical procedure harassed me for years to prove I spent $60 in copay (they have the proof they sent $2400 to the same doctor…)
I got a prescription that I have had repeatedly for 30+ years. Go to CVS and they said I cannot have the topical; I should use the pills. I said “f it. What is the cost of the topical”. They said $1800! I called my health insurance and it was CVS who makes the decision! and they again denied me. I went to Mark Cuban’s cost plus website and got 2 tubes of the topical (delivered) for $28.
I could go on but the bottom line is I pay for Insurance but use it less and less.
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Explain CVSHealth, they bought Aetna lock stock and barrel
Obunghole care killed the industry, my old company John Alden was killed by that MLR. Ours was 75%, so of every dollar we paid 75% in claims. The remaining 25% paid the expenses, which includes premium taxes to every state, fund the insolvency requirements, rent, utilities, employees, and fund for the years actuary screwed up. We could underwrite in those days, charging a proper premium for the risk, you know insurance.
You can’t price for the risk which is why only 4 carriers are left, you have to own the providers
Never forget health insurance a direct result of FDR wage and price freeze in 1942. We can’t increase your salary so we’ll hire a doctor
Healthcare inflation tracked regular inflation until LBJ Medicare and Medicaid, Nixon inventing HMO’s, HIPPA with bubba and the final blow ACA, not to mention you have to deal with every state’s bureaucracy….sorry retired last week and filed for SSI
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
