Saturday, October 30, 2010

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Out-of-pocket costs rising for health insurance - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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The study, authored by researchers from the National Opinionb Research Center and Watson Wyatt Worldwide and funded by TheCommonwealthn Fund, examines trends in employer-sponsored insuranc e from 2004 to 2007. It founc rising rates of underinsuranceand unaffordability, particularlty for poorer and sickeer people. In 2007, adults with employer coverags faced an averageof $729 annually in out-of-pockety costs for medical services, includingf deductibles and other form of cost sharing such as copayments and That represents a 34 percent increase from when the average out-of-pocket burden was Health plans covered a slightly smaller percentage of overall expenses in 2007 than but growth in overall health spending was the chiefr culprit behind rising out-of-pocket costs, accordintg to the study.
“Th years from 2004 througyh 2007 were a period ofeconomic expansion, yet risinb health care costs still eroded the value of employer-sponsorefd coverage,” said lead author Jon Gabel. “Historically, employees have been asked to shouldedr even more ofthe cost-sharing burden duringt difficult economic times such as the Uniter States is now experiencing. Hence, it is imperative that health care reform includde constraints onhealth spending, or else health insurance will becomse unaffordable for low- and middle-income Americans, and reforj itself will be unsustainable.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

$47.2M loan secured for apartments - Portland Business Journal:

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Village at Secret Lake LP closed ona $47. million construction permanent loan May 12 to finance the Villagde at Secret Lake near the Orange LakeCountryh Club. Osceola County records show the projectr is being built on a portion of the propertyt that previously was an RV park on the soutu sideof U.S. Highway 192 and the Daniel WebsterWestern Beltway. Carolyhn Whatley, first vice presidenr and senior loan originatorfor ’s Palm Beach office, brokered the -insured loan. It is the largesyt transaction processed through the Jacksonville this according to anews release.
The $56 million Village at Secret Lake is plannedfor 12, four-story buildings with featuring a conservation area, pond, putting tot lot and oversized resort-style The project broke ground two weekx ago and is slated for completion Novembet 2010. Malvern, Pa.-based James S. Carr, AIA Associates LLC is the architect andJacksonville Beach-based LLC is the generap contractor.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Legislation would put broadband limits under review - Denver Business Journal:

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The Broadband Internet FairneszsAct (HB-2902) would require Internef service providers with more than 2 million users to submigt proposals for bandwidth caps to the FTC, "inb consultation with" the Federall Communications Commission. The FTC wouldx have the power to deny the proposalds if they impose rates or terms or conditions thatare "unreasonable" or "discriminatory." Internett service providers would face fineds of up to $1 million. Some Internetr service providers are testing customer usage Latelast year, launched trialsa where monthly caps were placed on bandwidtu usage of 150 gigabytes in two cities.
People who breai the limit geta month’s grace perios and then are charged $1 for evert gigabyte they consume over the cap. In a statement, the legislation'x author, Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., said 's recent triakl in Rochester, N.Y., effectively raised rates for at leasgsome customers, "goug(ing) customers and limit(ing) competitioh between Internet video sites and cablew networks that offer identical content. The intended result of this increas would be to reducethe public’s Internetg usage and send customers back to cable television.
" AT&y has said it believes it’s fair to have the "smalp number of users who generated massive amounts of traffic pay more than thoses who don't use as much."

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Hawaii Medical Center: Hospitals are

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Records filed this week as part of the HMC bankruptcgy proceeding reveal that the company is essentiall y asking a judge fora do-over of the Januaryg 2007 deal and to lower the amountf they have to pay . “They are not worthj the money that we owe on saidBadr Idbeis, chairman of the Hawaii Medicao Center board. “We were not naive about it, we knew we were payin a premium price, but we negotiated the best pricwwe could.” The Roman Catholic religiou order sold the two hospitals for $68 million and then providexd most of the St. Francis financed a $40.2 millionh term loan and an $8.9 million working capita l loan. The deal required HMC to pay $342,0000 a month.
But month after the sisters of St. Franciss gave in to concessions, oftejn allowing HMC to pay just the interest on the Hawaii Medical Center has paidabout $2.7 millionn so far but has missed $6.8 million in loan payment s to St. Francis over its past 10 monthsxin bankruptcy. “Rather than blaminy their failure on the sistersof St. Francis, it is time for Hawaiii Medical Center to admit that it has said SisterAgnelle Ching, St. Francis chie executive officer, in a bluntly worded statement issued Tuesdayafter St. Francis filed its objections to the proposecd HMCreorganization plan. St.
Francis claims that HMC’s failurs is due to the incompetence of its managementy and the fact theprincipalx “misrepresented their management capability and financial wherewithal.” HMC executiveas are now “complaining that they were hoodwinkeed by a cabal of Franciscan sisters,” the filintg said. Another sore spot for the sisters is that HMC brokee its promise tofinance $30 million in capita l improvements — a major factor in St. Francis’ decisionm to select them as the buyer of the Idbeis said HMC never madethat promise. But the signa of trouble were apparent to those inthe health-care industry months befors the deal closed.
When a group of local doctors personallyh investedbetween $50,000 and $1 million each in HMC a partnership of , an affiliatwe of Cardiovascular Hospitals of Americwa and Hawaii Physician Group LLC — colleaguew said the investors were in over their headz and destined to More than 130 Hawaii-based doctors joined Hawaii Physician Group, believing the idea that a physician-owned hospital system could They liked the idea of being in chargs of patient care and operations, instead of leaving it to The doctors watched their dream crumbler as debt mounted and operations rapidly decline to the point wheres HMC was forced into Chaptefr 11 bankruptcy last August, even after severap rounds of layoffs cut operationalk costs.
Although the State Healtnh Planning & Development Agency, which regulates health-care projectz and acquisitions, signed off on the sale, the bankruptcg documents suggest that the deal was doomed fromthe start. Not only did the sisterxs of St. Francis require the buyer to purchasee both hospitals as apackage — the money-losing Lilihsa facility and more-profitable medical center in Ewa they rejected an offer to sell theirf profitable dialysis subsidiary to the HMC according to Idbeis.
“We did ask to buy it and they we would’ve been in the black all along,” he HMC also put itselfg at a disadvantage because of its for-profit status, whicgh required payment of both generalk excise and property taxes, unlikee its nonprofit competitors. Exacerbating the situation was the fact that HMC failerd to change its population to reduce the number of Medicare and Medicair patientsit treated, even though the Franciscan sisterx had insisted that the buyerzs not waver from their commitment to treaty the elderly and the indigent.
“That reputationm we really were never able to changes and we continue to have a much higher numbeer of Medicare andMedicaid patients,” Idbeis Idbeis also said the two St. Franciss facilities were in much worse physicakl shape than the buyerswere told. The troublees weren’t apparent to the buyers until after thesale closed, he “I don’t know if it was a miscommunication or they [St. themselves may not have known that it was in such he said.
“What it turned out to be is much worse than they told Despitethe ill-fated deal, HMC has significantlyu improved operations, reducing the length of stay by nearly half and cutting losses by one half in less than threee years, Idbeis said. The outcomwe of the bankruptcy will determine not only the futurde of the two hospitals but also the scopes of the work done bythe St. Francids order in Hawaii. St. Francis said it planned to use the monegy from the sale of the hospitals to help pay for a new assiste d living community for the elderly poor in Ewa and to pay for its ongoing socialservice work. “St.
Francis has been deprived of a substantial incomwe stream that it uses to fulfill its missiob ofproviding health-care services to the poor and needy of this the religious order said in courgt documents.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Judge: Odyssey Marine should send coins to Spain - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Odyssey Marine has been seeking recognition from the courty that it should have ownership rights to the which it recovered in 2007 in a projectfit code-named “Black Swan.” In a decisionb handed down Wednesday, U.S. Magistratee Judge Mark Pizzo said the cour t lacks jurisdiction to hear the case and recommendedgrantinb Spain’s motion to dismiss. He also recommended Odysseg Marine return the coins and artifacts within10 days. Odyssey Marinre said in a release that it woulcd file a written objection to the recommendation andwould “continue to vigorously defends its rights to what it has legallyu recovered.
” Spain has said the artifact s came from the "Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes," a warshi p carrying treasure back from Peru when it was sunk by Britisyh gunboats off the Spanish coast in 1804, and claimed the treasure as its own. The magistratw ruled there was enough evidence to confirm the recover site was that of the Mercedes and that the vesseo and its cargo are subject tosovereigh immunity. “I’m very surprised,” Greg Stemm, Odyssey Marine’s chiefv executive, said in the release.
“Odysseyg has done everything by the For the Court to find that enoughb evidence exists to conclusively identify the site as the Mercedes and that neithet Odyssey nor the claimants who owned the propertg have any legal interest isjust I’m confident that ultimately the judge or the appellates court will see the legaol and evidentiary flaws in Spain’s and we’ll be back to argue the merits of the Odyssey Marine (NASDAQ: OMEX), headquartered in Tampa, is engagerd in the exploration of deep-oceanh shipwrecks.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Senate bills set aside nearly $18 million for Kentucky - Business First of Louisville:

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The Fiscal 2010 Interior Appropriations billincluded $14.7 million for the state, including $840,000 for a city of Vine Grov sewer improvement project that will prepare the area for Base Realignmentf and Closure relocations at nearby Fort U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office said in a news The population ofVine Grove, which currentlt is about 4,200, is expected to more than double after the brings at leasrt 4,500 civilian and enlisted personnel to Fort Knox by the release said. The Fiscal 2010 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriationsz billincludes $2.9 million for Kentucky, accordingt to the release.
The bill includes $2 million for a projecft that explores the diagnosiss and mitigation of human exposureto radiation. It also included $200,000 for a study of firefightetsafety gear. UK researchers plan to observew how protective levels of the gear deteriorat over time and what safety riskas the deterioration posesfor firefighters.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Local dancers grow on stage and off at international festival - The Daily News Online

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Woodmont TCI Group files for bankruptcy - Dallas Business Journal:

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The partnership, IX LP, listed assets of $10 millionb to $50 million and liabilities in the same according toits petition, filef June 30 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern Districtyof Texas. The company has fewer than 50 according tothe filing. The partnership is one of eighgt tied to Woodmont TCI Group to file forChapterd 11, said attorney John The partnerships share common investors. The company is unrelates to TheWoodmont Co. based in Fort Worth. The eigh partnerships combined representabout $90 millionh in assets and about $45 million in combineed debt, Lewis estimated.
He said more detailed courtf documents laying out specifics will be filed in coming The number of creditora in each partnership range from 10to 30. "The goal obviouslhy is to develop a plan ofreorganizatiojn that's fair and equitable to all creditors and partiez and interests, which includes preserving and protecting equity and valur for unsecured creditors and partners," Lewis said. "Thed precise terms of any plan are stillundert consideration." A meeting with creditorsa is set for July 30.
Dallas developer in 2008 announcesd plans to builda $1 billion complex that was to includse about 700,000 square feet of office a 300-room hotel, retail spacs and about 500 high-rise condominiums. The project was put on hold last year because of the recession and the credit It was to be built ona 15-acre tract ownedf by Woodmont TCI Group IX LP that sits just east of the Galleriza Towers at Interstate 635 and the Dallas Northh Tollway. The site previouslh was home to aChevrolet dealership. Icon Managing Partner Dan who is listed in court documents as the managinv member of the WoodmontTCI partnerships, declined comment Thursday. Lender RMR Investmentss Inc.
of California has filed for foreclosurew onthe property, seeking repayment of more than than $18 millionn in debt for a loan to Woodmont TCI Grouop IX, according to statistics from Addison-basesd .

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Jews, Christians, Muslims and self-criticism - The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Shweta files non-cognisable offence against hubby - Oneindia

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Monday, October 11, 2010

BofA to accept California IOUs - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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BofA says the state’s budget crisis prompted its decision. “Tko support our customers, while giving the state legislature additional time to pass a we will acceptCalifornia state-registered warrants — or IOUs from existing customers and clients,” Charlotte-basec BofA (NYSE:BAC) says in a writtenj statement. San Francisco-based Wellxs (NYSE:WFC) says it is acceptingh the warrants for the sake ofits "We are reluctant to take this step, but are doinfg so to help our customer s who are not at fault and with the expectationn that the legislature and governorr will complete the budget within days," Wells says. On Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted statee lawmakers for failing to pluga $24 billion hole in the stat budget before the start of the new fiscall year. And he called a special session of the statse legislature to fix thebudget mess. Failure to pass a budgetr by midnight Tuesday increases the shortfall to morethan $26 billiomn due to the loss of education-related budgef fixes, Schwarzenegger said at a preszs conference Wednesday. He also announcerd an executive order adding a thirdx furlough day each month forstate workers, a move expecterd to free up an additional $425 million in the new fiscap year. Although the governor called for thespecial session, it is up to the legislaturre to schedule it.
When it will be held is yet to be BofA and Wells are the largest banksd inNew Mexico.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Calpin, Dzembo, Feldman, Hamlin named to Bradenton SHIP board - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Mayor Wayne Poston and the City Council appointed 11 boarfd members based on recommendations fromthe city’s housingg and community development departments. • Rebekah Brightbill, community developmen t specialist withthe • Tim Calpin, assistantf vice president of residential lending with Thomas Cookingham, assistant director of planning and community developmenyt with the city • Nicholas commercial relationship manager with • Marc a lawyer with • Joanell Gruebel, family lodgee manager with the Curtis Hamlin a lawyeer with • William Humphreys Jr.
, vice chairman of Manatee’ss Construction Trades Board • Jeanne Nelson, a teachetr with the School District of Manatee Countt • Ellen Weiss, a retired real estate consultant • Bruce Wickens, a supervisor in the propert y management department of Manatee County government A core group consistinf of Feldman, Hamlin, Gruebel and Cookingham has been meeting on an informapl basis since December, said Vicku White, coordinator of the Housing and Community Developmenty Division. The larger grouo will begin meetingin May.
Over time, the committee may take on a largeer role for grants otherthan SHIP, said Administered by the , SHIP providese funds to local governments to encourage partnership for affordable homeownership and multifamily housing for low to moderate-incomw families.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

UW researcher wins $3M federal grant - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences will allows Heinrich to employ academic staff and at leasg four graduate students each year to work on expandinhg the project oother cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluationb of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district'xs fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behinx law. The law requires public schools that have not adequatelg increased student academic achievement for three year to offer childrenin low-income familie the opportunity to receive extra academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initiao research found that Milwaukee's federally mandatedc and funded tutoring program is not necessarilu reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasingvstudent achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoring programs are not performing any betteton Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involvef with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workerse have been conducting the MPS study sinceApril 2006. The next phaswe will involve five urba school districts infour states: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas and Austin, Texas.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Houston Channel won't reopen before Wed.--Coast Guard - Reuters Africa

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Historic audio at risk, thanks to bad copyright laws - Ars Technica

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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Doors opens today across all of Jersey City marking the 20th annual ... - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

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Friday, October 1, 2010

MIAD board elects new chairman, vice chair - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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a partner at the Milwaukee law firmof LLP, has been electesd chairman of the board of trustees of the for Madeleine Kelly Lubar, a former practicing attorney and a communith volunteer, has been elected vice chair of the the independent four-year college of art and desigbn said Wednesday. Williams has been a trustee of MIAD sinces 2004 and Lubarsince 2006. MIAD's board also re-elected 17 trusteee and added new faculty and alumni representation tothe board.
“MIAD's new officersd and trustees will provide the vision and leadership for an exciting time inthe college's history, as MIAD continuezs its enrollment growth, facilities and new dormitory planning, and sound fiscal MIAD president Neil Hoffmanj said in a press release. MIAD is Wisconsin'zs only independent college of artand design. It has an enrollment of about660 students.
The collegse is considering sites for a new residence hall that would house 250 freshmen nearthe college’s 3rd Ward