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There now are100 to180
Florida panthers, but their
growing presence and
dwindling habitat means
more deadly encounters
on roads. So far this year,
19 have been struck by
vehicles. Local,1B
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A longtime Pasco County
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Break alleged
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Tallahassee police wrote
traffic tickets in a hit-and-run
case involving a starting
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USF will examine two gulf oil spills, 30 years apart, to assess
what happens to the oil released — should there be another.
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IXTOC I, JUNE 3, 1979
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After their blowouts, fires burn in the Deepwater Horizon, top, and Ixtoc 1 spills. Deepwater Horizon flooded the
northern Gulf of Mexico with oil; Ixtoc 1 did so in the south, in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico.
Gary Shelton
says his goodbyes
he University of South Florida’s
College of Marine Science is getting a $20.2 million grant to
continue leading studies of the
impact of the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon disaster — in part by studying
the impact of another Gulf of Mexico oil
spill that happened in 1979.
“By looking into the past, it should
enable us to look into the future,” said
oceanographer Jacqueline E. Dixon,
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The longtime columnist
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Bowl win, the Stanley Cup
and a wonderful run to the
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The last time Florida State
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with their running game.
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bring challenges
BY IVAN PENN
Times Staff Writer
Off-road running and biking
bring another level of mental
and physical challenges,
inspiring athletes to hit the
trails. Personal Best
While Florida utilities continue to argue that solar panels
on rooftops and over parking
doesn’t make economic sense,
the business and government
communities seem to think otherwise.
The latest: Lockheed Martin
plans to build a large-scale solar
system at its Pinellas County
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that it continued spewing for nearly a
year, dumping more than 3 million barrels of oil into the gulf.
Two months after the initial blowout,
the first tar balls began showing up on
the Texas shore. Soon the state’s entire
coastline was coated. A thousand birds
needed cleaning. Tourism dropped by 60
percent.
Mexican and American scientists were
given millions in government funds to
track the effects of the Ixtoc spill. But
facility, joining Great Bay Beer
Distributors, Tampa International Airport, C.W. Bill Young
VA Medical Center and James A.
Haley VA Medical Center.
Together, those facilities will
produce almost 11 megawatts of
electricity, enough to continually
power more than 1,400 homes.
Lockheed Martin’s solar operation, a canopy-style system that
will shade employee cars in its
.
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parking lot in the 3600 block
of Tampa Road in Oldsmar,
is expected to produce up to
2 megawatts of electricity. That
would be one of the largest solar
arrays in Tampa Bay.
The Oldsmar facility employs
380 people, and provides systems engineering, software
development and other services
for the aerospace, technology
and defense contractor.
Curt Engel, general manager for Lockheed Martin mission systems and training, said
the company expects to reach
a contract for the deal within
the next 30 days and begin construction in early 2015. The solar
array would become operational
before the end of 2015, he said.
“This makes both ecological
and business sense, from our
.
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dean of USF’s marine science program.
The Ixtoc 1 spill occurred in a section
of the gulf called the Bay of Campeche,
just north of the Mexican coast. Problems with drilling muds led to a blowout at the government-owned rig, which
caught fire and collapsed — just like BP’s
Deepwater Horizon rig off the coast of
Louisiana four years ago.
“Many things were similar,” Dixon
said.
The fire and scattered debris from
Ixtoc 1 made capping the well so difficult
Consumers who buy health
insurance on their own can start
shopping for coverage today
when the Affordable Care Act
marketplace opens for its second
year of business.
Most exchange plans in Florida will come with higher premiums, the state insurance regulator reported. Of the 11 returning companies, eight filed average rate increases ranging from
11 to 23 percent, and three filed
rate decreases ranging from 5 to
12 percent, officials said.
But experts often point out
that consumers shouldn’t pick a
plan based on the monthly premium price tag. A high deductible — the amount a consumer
must spend out of pocket before
the plan starts to pay benefits —
can mean that patients who need
medical services might spend
a lot more than if they had purchased a plan with higher premiums but a lower deductible.
Premium subsidies, which
vary according to your income,
are another key factor. More than
90 percent of Floridians qualified
for a subsidy in 2013, the federal
government has said. Although
subsidies for states, including
Florida, that did not create their
Nuclear
force to
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The company’s canopy-style panels will cut its reliance on utilities.
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Been to a Black Friday event
to kick off your holiday shopping
yet? Slacker.
By the calendar, the biggest
day of the retail year isn’t supposed to happen until Nov. 28,
the day after Thanksgiving.
Don’t tell that to hordes of
shoppers who are already snapping up deals online and in
person through Black Fridaythemed events. From Home
Depot to Walmart to a cluster of
small businesses in downtown
St. Petersburg, there’s no shortage of early deals.
It’s all part of the effort to get
into shoppers’ wallets early for
what promises to be the strongest retail season in years.
The National Retail Federation
has predicted sales in November will rise a relatively robust
4.1 percent to $616.9 billion,
besting a 3.1 percent increase
in the 2013 season. If that holds
true, it would be the first time
holiday sales jumped more than
4 percent since 2011.
Matthew Shay, president of
the retail federation, acknowledged the lagging economic
recovery “is still top of mind for
many Americans” and will affect
.
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Shoppers navigate carts at a Tampa Target on Black Friday
last year. Many retailers aren’t making customers wait for
deals in what might be the strongest retail season in years.
Widespread issues in
the arsenal and staff
prompt the changes.
Associated Press
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE,
N.D. — The Pentagon will spend
an additional $10 billion to correct deep problems of neglect
and mismanagement within the
nation’s nuclear forces, Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel declared
Friday, pledging firm action to
support the men and women
who handle the world’s most
powerful and deadly weapons.
Hagel ordered top-to-bottom changes in the nuclear arsenal’s management, which he said
had been allowed over the years
to backslide, afflicted by broken
and missing equipment, poor
leadership and inadequate training and staffing.
Hagel told a Pentagon news
conference Friday morning —
before flying to Minot Air Force
Base in North Dakota where
many of the nuclear force troubles began — that the Defense
Department will boost spending
on the nuclear forces by about
10 percent a year for the next five
years, saying there is no problem on this issue the Pentagon
can’t fix. That would be a total
.
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