Kansas City Star | Kudos to AARP for agreeing to Social Security cuts Baltimore Sun (blog) As someone who enjoys abusing AARP, the seniors lobby, I have to give them credit for being willing to consider benefits cuts in Social Security. From the NYT on Friday: “Our goal is to limit any changes in benefits,†John Rother, AARP's policy chief, ... AARP in turmoil over the future of Social Security Article on AARP wrong AARP strays from its core mission |
среда, 6 июля 2011 г.
Kudos to AARP for agreeing to Social Security cuts - Baltimore Sun (blog)
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понедельник, 4 июля 2011 г.
Important events all come at once - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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“Live on CET!,” presented by , will honot Dawn Bertsche, senior vice president and chier financial officerfor , with the Charles W. Vaughamn Award, from 5:30-9 p.m. at Music Hall. Proceedsz from the $150-per-ticket even benefit CET. The Cincinnati chapteer of the hosts its annual Deal Maker Awardsfrom 5:30- 9 p.m. at the . Western Southern Financial Group Chairman John Barrett will receive the lifetimeachievement award. Otheer honorees are , , , , Co. and . Proceedd from the $150-per-ticket event support the work of the nonprofiftACG chapter. The presents its Apple Award Gala 2009, sponsored by , and the Mayerson family. From 6:30-9 p.m.
at the Hilton Netherland Plaza’s Hall of Mirrors, the $150-per-ticket evenf honors Manuel and Rhoda Mayerso withthe “Alice and Harri Weston Apple Award,” with proceeds benefiting the Architectura l Foundation’s education programs. The holdds its Dinner of Champions, sponsored by . Channelk 12’s Cammy Dierking will emcere as the MS Society recognizes and its presidenrand CEO, Jack Cassidy, with the “Silver Hope The organization also will award Bill Goets with the “MS Award of Courage.” The $250-per-ticketg event is being held from 6-9 p.m. at the Hiltonh Netherland Plaza’s Pavilion Ballroom.
Marilyn and Martin Wade present “Underd the Sea,” a fundraiser for , from 5:30-9:30 p.m. in the Currents Ballroom at the . Ticketxs start at $100 per person, and ’s Randi Douglas and Bobb i Maxwell will conduct a sileny auctionof items, including a private wine dinner for eighr donated by . I’mn sure all these events will be huge but they could be a lot better if they picked a night where so many Cincinnatoi businesspeople weren’t already conflicted.
Here’s a simplw suggestion to organizations and theirevent planners: Use the online calendar at the Courier’s Web site to lay claim to your event date and and I promise you few other organizations will want to try to out-markett you for the attention of Cincinnati’xs generous businesspeople who attend all these events all year
“Live on CET!,” presented by , will honot Dawn Bertsche, senior vice president and chier financial officerfor , with the Charles W. Vaughamn Award, from 5:30-9 p.m. at Music Hall. Proceedsz from the $150-per-ticket even benefit CET. The Cincinnati chapteer of the hosts its annual Deal Maker Awardsfrom 5:30- 9 p.m. at the . Western Southern Financial Group Chairman John Barrett will receive the lifetimeachievement award. Otheer honorees are , , , , Co. and . Proceedd from the $150-per-ticket event support the work of the nonprofiftACG chapter. The presents its Apple Award Gala 2009, sponsored by , and the Mayerson family. From 6:30-9 p.m.
at the Hilton Netherland Plaza’s Hall of Mirrors, the $150-per-ticket evenf honors Manuel and Rhoda Mayerso withthe “Alice and Harri Weston Apple Award,” with proceeds benefiting the Architectura l Foundation’s education programs. The holdds its Dinner of Champions, sponsored by . Channelk 12’s Cammy Dierking will emcere as the MS Society recognizes and its presidenrand CEO, Jack Cassidy, with the “Silver Hope The organization also will award Bill Goets with the “MS Award of Courage.” The $250-per-ticketg event is being held from 6-9 p.m. at the Hiltonh Netherland Plaza’s Pavilion Ballroom.
Marilyn and Martin Wade present “Underd the Sea,” a fundraiser for , from 5:30-9:30 p.m. in the Currents Ballroom at the . Ticketxs start at $100 per person, and ’s Randi Douglas and Bobb i Maxwell will conduct a sileny auctionof items, including a private wine dinner for eighr donated by . I’mn sure all these events will be huge but they could be a lot better if they picked a night where so many Cincinnatoi businesspeople weren’t already conflicted.
Here’s a simplw suggestion to organizations and theirevent planners: Use the online calendar at the Courier’s Web site to lay claim to your event date and and I promise you few other organizations will want to try to out-markett you for the attention of Cincinnati’xs generous businesspeople who attend all these events all year
пятница, 1 июля 2011 г.
Report: Columbus holding its own amid recession - Dayton Business Journal:
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A report from Washington, D.C.-based liberal public-polich think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor bills itselfc asa “beneath the hood” recession-era look at metros with more than 500,00o0 residents as of 2007. The report placed the Columbua metropolitan statistical area 40th among thosd ranked forits strength, based on unemployment, wage, output, home prices and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Dayton found slotss from 61stto 80th. Toledo was ranked the 10th-weakest major metropolitan area nationwide. Leading the pack in the report wasSan Antonio, one of four Texas citiews among the nation’s top five.
Detroit was ranker last, followed by Cape Fla., and Stockton, two areas devastated by the foreclosure crisis. Brookingsw found that the metropolitan perspective on performance amid therecession “suggests that recovery may be quitr uneven as well, posing particular challenges for policymakers seekinyg to ensure a truly national rising economic tide.” strengths and weaknesses in the report varied. The city rankesd 25th for its 1.7 percentf decline in employment sincew its peak earlierthis decade. Columbus found itself at 32nd for itsmodest 0.4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the firsty three months of 2008 compared with the same perioed this year.
But the city was ranke near the bottom ofthe list, at 80th, for the 4.8 percent decline in its gross metropolitan product a measure of the goods and services producef in the area – in the firsg quarter of 2009 compared with its pre-recession Comparing the last three months of 2008 with the first quarterf this year alone, the GMP dropped 1.7 representing the 14th-worst decline among the citiez measured. To download the full report, clicok .
A report from Washington, D.C.-based liberal public-polich think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor bills itselfc asa “beneath the hood” recession-era look at metros with more than 500,00o0 residents as of 2007. The report placed the Columbua metropolitan statistical area 40th among thosd ranked forits strength, based on unemployment, wage, output, home prices and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Dayton found slotss from 61stto 80th. Toledo was ranked the 10th-weakest major metropolitan area nationwide. Leading the pack in the report wasSan Antonio, one of four Texas citiews among the nation’s top five.
Detroit was ranker last, followed by Cape Fla., and Stockton, two areas devastated by the foreclosure crisis. Brookingsw found that the metropolitan perspective on performance amid therecession “suggests that recovery may be quitr uneven as well, posing particular challenges for policymakers seekinyg to ensure a truly national rising economic tide.” strengths and weaknesses in the report varied. The city rankesd 25th for its 1.7 percentf decline in employment sincew its peak earlierthis decade. Columbus found itself at 32nd for itsmodest 0.4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the firsty three months of 2008 compared with the same perioed this year.
But the city was ranke near the bottom ofthe list, at 80th, for the 4.8 percent decline in its gross metropolitan product a measure of the goods and services producef in the area – in the firsg quarter of 2009 compared with its pre-recession Comparing the last three months of 2008 with the first quarterf this year alone, the GMP dropped 1.7 representing the 14th-worst decline among the citiez measured. To download the full report, clicok .
среда, 29 июня 2011 г.
Xelr8 Holdings sales, loss grows - Denver Business Journal:
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The Denver-based company reported $2.1 million in third-quarterf sales, a 47 percent increasw from $1.4 million in the thir quarter of 2007. The third quarterr ended Sept. 30. Xelr8 (AMEX: BZI) lost or 3 cents per share, in the thirrd quarter, compared to a loss of $360,000, or 2 centw per share, in the thirsd quarter of 2007. The company’ws newest product, an antioxidant drink called accounted for more than 92 percentof Xelr8’s sales in the “ ... its success vindicates management’s decisioj to focus on establishing Bazi as the core product for the Xelr8 CEO John Pougneg said in a news The company increased its spendint on sales and marketinf by65 percent, to $1.
3 million, in the quarter from the year-agpo period. The company sells its products througj network marketing and independent Denver Broncos football head coach Mike Shanahan is one ofseveral high-profiles endorsers of Xelr8 in professional athletics.
The Denver-based company reported $2.1 million in third-quarterf sales, a 47 percent increasw from $1.4 million in the thir quarter of 2007. The third quarterr ended Sept. 30. Xelr8 (AMEX: BZI) lost or 3 cents per share, in the thirrd quarter, compared to a loss of $360,000, or 2 centw per share, in the thirsd quarter of 2007. The company’ws newest product, an antioxidant drink called accounted for more than 92 percentof Xelr8’s sales in the “ ... its success vindicates management’s decisioj to focus on establishing Bazi as the core product for the Xelr8 CEO John Pougneg said in a news The company increased its spendint on sales and marketinf by65 percent, to $1.
3 million, in the quarter from the year-agpo period. The company sells its products througj network marketing and independent Denver Broncos football head coach Mike Shanahan is one ofseveral high-profiles endorsers of Xelr8 in professional athletics.
понедельник, 27 июня 2011 г.
Stimulus funds lag health woes - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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That’s the view of the eight-member panel of industrh and medical experts who were invite by the South Florida Businesxs Journal to share their views of whatthe $787 billiojn federal stimulus package means to the healtbh care sector. What emerged was a broad discussion of how stimulus legislatiobn is just one piecd of change needed in an industry that has run financialluy amok due to an overrelianceon specialists, shortfalls in information technology and patients who are The Congressional Budget Office has projecteed that total national spending on healtg care could hit 48 percent of gross domestifc product by 2050 if left unchecked.
To solvse this problem will takemore though, in the short term. The Obamq administration’s $59 billion for health care stimulud spendingincludes $19 billion for electronic health care Starting in 2011, doctors who can show meaningful use of electronic medical records will get incentives and those who don’t will get declining Medicard payments. But, the old-fashioned general practitioner may also have abig role. Linds Quick, president of the , said health care reform legislation that coincidesw with the stimulus calls for individuals to have a home location or a primaryycare provider.
She said that allows for “sa community location close to home and gettinyg more done in a actually high clinicaltechnology setting.” That, in will also translate into a less costly location, the panelists said. Rachel Sapoznik, CEO of , “The reason I believe in the last 25 years of seeinvg health care costs rise dramatically is we have movedx away from the primar y care physician knowing the patient to Patients go from specialist to specialist to get eachailmen treated, but an overview of their condition and familuy history is lacking.
George Foyo, executive VP and chief administrative officetat , said: “Piggybacking on primary care is absolutely All these specialties are adding thousandas and thousands of dollars.” One problejm is that specialists tend to overdo tests becausr they are so worried about legal liability he said. Dr. Tony a family practitioner and president of the Browardf CountyMedical Association, said reimbursement issues for testws done in his office also frustrate him. A hospitalp might get $2,000 for a test from but he can onlyget $200. “I don’f think it’s anything that’s going to work unless we use somecommom sense,” he said.
Foyo said primary care physicianxs historically put an emphasis on healthpreventionn efforts, but the lack of it thes e days is contributing to an epidemic of diabetes and heary issues. Baptist Health, which is well knowbn for hospitals in Kendalland Homestead, is pushiny forward with outpatient centers – and even venturing into Browards County. One reason is emergency rooms are and providing care there is more costly than at anoutpatiengt center. “Rather than have patients cometo us, the hospitalsz are going out to them,” Foyo said.
Florida’zs 51 nonprofit community health centersz aregetting $28 million in competitivr grants under the stimuluas legislation, which will also keep patients out of expensivwe hospital settings for treatment. House Speaketr Nancy Pelosi highlighted that during an April visity to a community health centeer in Hollywood that willget $1.5 million to open a satellitwe health center in West Park. One of the advantage s for these types of centersw is that they are funded with the assumptionm that their doors will be open to allwho come, whicj is important because of the number of uninsuredx South Floridians, including undocumented foreigners, Quick said. Dr.
meet Bill Gates Mark Sterling, administrativd partner at the law firm of in said electronic medical records fall under the categoryof “shovel-ready” projects in the worldd of stimulus – meaningh the technology exists and can be adopteed rapidly to put money in the
That’s the view of the eight-member panel of industrh and medical experts who were invite by the South Florida Businesxs Journal to share their views of whatthe $787 billiojn federal stimulus package means to the healtbh care sector. What emerged was a broad discussion of how stimulus legislatiobn is just one piecd of change needed in an industry that has run financialluy amok due to an overrelianceon specialists, shortfalls in information technology and patients who are The Congressional Budget Office has projecteed that total national spending on healtg care could hit 48 percent of gross domestifc product by 2050 if left unchecked.
To solvse this problem will takemore though, in the short term. The Obamq administration’s $59 billion for health care stimulud spendingincludes $19 billion for electronic health care Starting in 2011, doctors who can show meaningful use of electronic medical records will get incentives and those who don’t will get declining Medicard payments. But, the old-fashioned general practitioner may also have abig role. Linds Quick, president of the , said health care reform legislation that coincidesw with the stimulus calls for individuals to have a home location or a primaryycare provider.
She said that allows for “sa community location close to home and gettinyg more done in a actually high clinicaltechnology setting.” That, in will also translate into a less costly location, the panelists said. Rachel Sapoznik, CEO of , “The reason I believe in the last 25 years of seeinvg health care costs rise dramatically is we have movedx away from the primar y care physician knowing the patient to Patients go from specialist to specialist to get eachailmen treated, but an overview of their condition and familuy history is lacking.
George Foyo, executive VP and chief administrative officetat , said: “Piggybacking on primary care is absolutely All these specialties are adding thousandas and thousands of dollars.” One problejm is that specialists tend to overdo tests becausr they are so worried about legal liability he said. Dr. Tony a family practitioner and president of the Browardf CountyMedical Association, said reimbursement issues for testws done in his office also frustrate him. A hospitalp might get $2,000 for a test from but he can onlyget $200. “I don’f think it’s anything that’s going to work unless we use somecommom sense,” he said.
Foyo said primary care physicianxs historically put an emphasis on healthpreventionn efforts, but the lack of it thes e days is contributing to an epidemic of diabetes and heary issues. Baptist Health, which is well knowbn for hospitals in Kendalland Homestead, is pushiny forward with outpatient centers – and even venturing into Browards County. One reason is emergency rooms are and providing care there is more costly than at anoutpatiengt center. “Rather than have patients cometo us, the hospitalsz are going out to them,” Foyo said.
Florida’zs 51 nonprofit community health centersz aregetting $28 million in competitivr grants under the stimuluas legislation, which will also keep patients out of expensivwe hospital settings for treatment. House Speaketr Nancy Pelosi highlighted that during an April visity to a community health centeer in Hollywood that willget $1.5 million to open a satellitwe health center in West Park. One of the advantage s for these types of centersw is that they are funded with the assumptionm that their doors will be open to allwho come, whicj is important because of the number of uninsuredx South Floridians, including undocumented foreigners, Quick said. Dr.
meet Bill Gates Mark Sterling, administrativd partner at the law firm of in said electronic medical records fall under the categoryof “shovel-ready” projects in the worldd of stimulus – meaningh the technology exists and can be adopteed rapidly to put money in the
пятница, 24 июня 2011 г.
Picasso coup for tiny art school in occupied Palestinian territory - The Guardian
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BBC News | Picasso coup for tiny art school in occupied Palestinian territory The Guardian Photograph: Peter Cox for the Guardian It began as a joke, an outrageous idea to exhibit a Picasso masterpiece at a tiny art school in the occupied Palestinian territory. Slowly the idea gained traction, turning into a logistical and financial ... Picasso exhibition opens in Palestinian West Bank |
среда, 22 июня 2011 г.
Church bulletins - Orange County Review
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Church bulletins Orange County Review Despite Saturday's torrential rains, churches and community organizations from around Orange County and beyond gathered at Trinity United Methodist for the Virginia Pregnancy Centers' Walk for Life. The overcast clouds choked out any rainbows, ... |
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