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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Alabama State defeats Alabama A&M 31-10 - San Jose Mercury News
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Out-of-pocket costs rising for health insurance - Jacksonville Business Journal:
http://mideastmonitor.org/gambill/061124.htm
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.
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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.
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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.
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:
http://impressionism-art.org/cat97.htm
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."
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
Get Him To The Greek Blu-ray Review - TheHDRoom
http://trawma.net/index/t7
Get Him To The Greek Blu-ray Review TheHDRoom When Greek works, it earns its R-rating with gut-busting hilarity garnered from crude sexuality, heart attack inducing drug use, slapstick violence and ... |
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Hawaii Medical Center: Hospitals are
http://peegel.com/2010/10/tag_heuer_meridiist__novii_konkurent_vertu/
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.
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.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Colin Farrell may be headed to Mars for 'Total Recall' remake - Entertainment Weekly
http://rutgersaaup.org/news/aftjoint224d.htm
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