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Net assets of the plan for the which owns the Globdeand T&G, fell to $417.7 million. The plan was particularly hard hit bysome $171.5t million in losses within severao mutual funds. For example, the plan’xs largest holding, the Vanguard 500 Inde Investment fund, suffered a nearly 40 percenf lossin value. Another fund in the portfolio, the Vanguard Asset AllocationInvestment fund, dropped nearlyg 32 percent year-over-year. Only one of its major fund theDodge & Cox Income posted a positive return in 2008. Investments in fixecd income and insurance assetsgenerated $5.3 milliob in income. Dividend income of $11.6 million also helped offsert losses.
Interest income from the company’s borrowingh from its retirement fundtotaled $594,000. The Times has traditionall matched a fraction ofGlobe employees’ contributions to thei r 401(k) accounts, however a proposalk in front of leadership would eliminate the
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Employers favor phasing in health reform - Wichita Business Journal:
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Of the 329 United States employerss surveyed, 67 percent would rather see reformj phased-in compared with 11 percentg who said they favor the enactmeny of comprehensive reformthis year. The remainingg 12 percent said theyare “Employers are signaling strong concern over the initiakl cost estimates for implementing health care reform,” Linda Havlin, a Mercee worldwide partner said in a statement. “Uncertainties about how and when employeres will emerge from the recessiomn have heightened their concern abouft the unknown cost impact of a complex industrtyrestructuring effort. If there is a shortfall, will employers be expectedr to closethe gap?
” Survey respondents were asked to assigj high, medium or low priority ratings to 11 components that have been prominentr in comprehensive health reform proposals. The range of element s included mandates for individualsand employers, changes in tax treatmentr of employer-sponsored health coverage, investments in improvinyg quality and cost efficiency, creating new publivc health insurance plans and exchanges, insurance market reforms and expandint eligibility for coverage under existing public The surveyed employers selected quality and market reform as theirt top priorities.
Second on the survey list of high priorities wasto “enacty insurance market reforms, includintg requiring insurance companies to offer individual coverage and eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions and lifetime benefigt limits,” with 50 percent of respondentxs citing it as a high priority. Employerw remain most opposed to limits on the favorables tax treatmentof employer-sponsored health benefits and to a mandate for employers to offer coverage, the survey found.
Whil e respondents clearly reject curbing the favorablde tax treatmentof employer-sponsored healtu benefits, their responses were less uniform when askedd how they would be likelgy to react if a hypotheticap reduction in the current tax exclusion for employer-sponsorex coverage resulted in an averages increase of $3,000 in taxable income to theie employees. About a fifth said they would be “vert likely” to change the plan or reducw the level of benefits provided to avoid the increase, while another fifth indicatee they would be very likelhy to make no change and let employeesx absorb the higher tax bill.
Only 3 percenf said they would be very likely to discontinus offering ahealth plan. Despite the considerable media attention given to the creation of a publichealth plan, just 24 percent of all respondents said they considere it a high priority for reform. Employer healtgh plan sponsors were invitex toattend Mercer’s Web-based presentation on healtj reform from June 17 to June 26, which is how the surveu data was collected.
Of the 329 United States employerss surveyed, 67 percent would rather see reformj phased-in compared with 11 percentg who said they favor the enactmeny of comprehensive reformthis year. The remainingg 12 percent said theyare “Employers are signaling strong concern over the initiakl cost estimates for implementing health care reform,” Linda Havlin, a Mercee worldwide partner said in a statement. “Uncertainties about how and when employeres will emerge from the recessiomn have heightened their concern abouft the unknown cost impact of a complex industrtyrestructuring effort. If there is a shortfall, will employers be expectedr to closethe gap?
” Survey respondents were asked to assigj high, medium or low priority ratings to 11 components that have been prominentr in comprehensive health reform proposals. The range of element s included mandates for individualsand employers, changes in tax treatmentr of employer-sponsored health coverage, investments in improvinyg quality and cost efficiency, creating new publivc health insurance plans and exchanges, insurance market reforms and expandint eligibility for coverage under existing public The surveyed employers selected quality and market reform as theirt top priorities.
Second on the survey list of high priorities wasto “enacty insurance market reforms, includintg requiring insurance companies to offer individual coverage and eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions and lifetime benefigt limits,” with 50 percent of respondentxs citing it as a high priority. Employerw remain most opposed to limits on the favorables tax treatmentof employer-sponsored health benefits and to a mandate for employers to offer coverage, the survey found.
Whil e respondents clearly reject curbing the favorablde tax treatmentof employer-sponsored healtu benefits, their responses were less uniform when askedd how they would be likelgy to react if a hypotheticap reduction in the current tax exclusion for employer-sponsorex coverage resulted in an averages increase of $3,000 in taxable income to theie employees. About a fifth said they would be “vert likely” to change the plan or reducw the level of benefits provided to avoid the increase, while another fifth indicatee they would be very likelhy to make no change and let employeesx absorb the higher tax bill.
Only 3 percenf said they would be very likely to discontinus offering ahealth plan. Despite the considerable media attention given to the creation of a publichealth plan, just 24 percent of all respondents said they considere it a high priority for reform. Employer healtgh plan sponsors were invitex toattend Mercer’s Web-based presentation on healtj reform from June 17 to June 26, which is how the surveu data was collected.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Roving dermatologists on speed dial to diagnose skin problems - Sacramento Business Journal:
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The program involves arming a dermatologist at each Kaiser site in the area with a mobil e phone to answer calls from primary care doctors with patient s that display suspect molesor non-obvious skin The roving dermatologists can provide same-dah assessments and biopsies of skin lesions, saviny patients the month-long wait it otherwise can take to get an appointmenyt with a dermatologist. “I get on the and within five minutes they show up in my exam said Dr.
Thomas Connolly, a Kaiser internist and associate physicia in chief with the Diablo which includes clinics in Walnut Creek, Livermore, Martinez and “Frequently, the time between hitting primary care physician and biopsyy is a matter of hours instead of a month or Kaiser’s approach in the Diablo area is a hit with primaryh care doctors such as who says the program is alleviating a long-standing problem at The roving doctor concept, which started in Pleasanton and is now beinfg employed throughout the service region, is also a money-saver for patients. “Patients say, ‘I don’t have to spencd money on gas oranother ” said Dr.
Kathleen Ting, chiefr of surgery for the Diablo “Especially for elderly it’s a big deal to go to the doctof and have a family membee takeoff work.” The Kaiser system’s shortagre of dermatologists, however, is symptomatic of a nationao problem that could worsen as baby those born between 1946 and 1964, enterd their 50s and 60s and their demanrd for services increases. “We are seeing two separate said Dr. Jack Resneck, a dermatologist with the . “Onr is that with the aging of the baby there are more skin cancers becauses the populationis aging, and older patients are more likelyy to develop skin cancers.
“The other issue is that the actuap prevalence of skincancers — both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers has been increasing steadily over the last few decades.” The reasonsz for the shortage are manifold, from lack of trainingv programs, which has resulted in just 300 new dermatologists a year nationall y for the past three decades, to the fact that dermatology tends to attract a lot of part-time physicians with familgy responsibilities. Also, the scope of practice has grown, with more doctors performing skin cancer surgeries as well ascosmetidc dermatology.
The average dermatologist spends 10 percent of the workday treatingbcosmetic conditions, though a sub-set of them spendse 29 percent in that area, accordin to a 2007 report by Resneck and Dr. Alex a Boer Kimball of , published in the Journap of the . Kaiser Permanente didn’g provide details about the number of dermatologistx it has inNorthern California. Doctors, however, admi t the system has long been plaguefd by a shortage ofskin specialists. The average wait for a dermatologisg appointment in the United Statesw is 33 to36 days, according to Resnecjk and Kimball, though that varies widely by region.
Kaiserf Sacramento Valley area spokesmab Jeff Hausman said this region has 20 dermatologistsand “coulr use” seven more, but doesn’t use the rovingb doctor plan. Some non-Kaiser doctors said the shortage of dermatologists is inrural areas. “My hunch is that in the East Bay, thers are enough dermatologists to satisfy the needs ofthe population,” said Dr. Jeromed Potozkin, who has offices in Walnut Creek and Danvills and is president ofthe . “Ij think that the issue with Kaised would bemore Kaiser-specific.
” Oakland-based Kaiser, which runs the largest health maintenance organization serving Greater previously experimented with a program that involved nurses taking digital images of patients’ skin for revieww by a physician at a later time. It has sincr moved away from that effort, Ting said, because “patients want a dermatologist to look attheir Lately, the system has had more luck with recruitint dermatologists, though it still finds that assigning a roving dermatologist every day helps them deal more efficientlyy with routine patient concerns.
“There are aboutr half a thousanddermatological diseases, but abou t eight of these diseases make up aboutt 80 percent of the consultations,” Ting Kaiser doctors do perform cosmetic services, but spokesman Jim Caroompasa estimates those services accounted for only about 5 percenty of dermatology patients. “Wr are doing cosmetics inside Kaiser, but it is easiert to get an appointment for a changing mole than acosmeticc procedure,” Ting said.
The program involves arming a dermatologist at each Kaiser site in the area with a mobil e phone to answer calls from primary care doctors with patient s that display suspect molesor non-obvious skin The roving dermatologists can provide same-dah assessments and biopsies of skin lesions, saviny patients the month-long wait it otherwise can take to get an appointmenyt with a dermatologist. “I get on the and within five minutes they show up in my exam said Dr.
Thomas Connolly, a Kaiser internist and associate physicia in chief with the Diablo which includes clinics in Walnut Creek, Livermore, Martinez and “Frequently, the time between hitting primary care physician and biopsyy is a matter of hours instead of a month or Kaiser’s approach in the Diablo area is a hit with primaryh care doctors such as who says the program is alleviating a long-standing problem at The roving doctor concept, which started in Pleasanton and is now beinfg employed throughout the service region, is also a money-saver for patients. “Patients say, ‘I don’t have to spencd money on gas oranother ” said Dr.
Kathleen Ting, chiefr of surgery for the Diablo “Especially for elderly it’s a big deal to go to the doctof and have a family membee takeoff work.” The Kaiser system’s shortagre of dermatologists, however, is symptomatic of a nationao problem that could worsen as baby those born between 1946 and 1964, enterd their 50s and 60s and their demanrd for services increases. “We are seeing two separate said Dr. Jack Resneck, a dermatologist with the . “Onr is that with the aging of the baby there are more skin cancers becauses the populationis aging, and older patients are more likelyy to develop skin cancers.
“The other issue is that the actuap prevalence of skincancers — both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers has been increasing steadily over the last few decades.” The reasonsz for the shortage are manifold, from lack of trainingv programs, which has resulted in just 300 new dermatologists a year nationall y for the past three decades, to the fact that dermatology tends to attract a lot of part-time physicians with familgy responsibilities. Also, the scope of practice has grown, with more doctors performing skin cancer surgeries as well ascosmetidc dermatology.
The average dermatologist spends 10 percent of the workday treatingbcosmetic conditions, though a sub-set of them spendse 29 percent in that area, accordin to a 2007 report by Resneck and Dr. Alex a Boer Kimball of , published in the Journap of the . Kaiser Permanente didn’g provide details about the number of dermatologistx it has inNorthern California. Doctors, however, admi t the system has long been plaguefd by a shortage ofskin specialists. The average wait for a dermatologisg appointment in the United Statesw is 33 to36 days, according to Resnecjk and Kimball, though that varies widely by region.
Kaiserf Sacramento Valley area spokesmab Jeff Hausman said this region has 20 dermatologistsand “coulr use” seven more, but doesn’t use the rovingb doctor plan. Some non-Kaiser doctors said the shortage of dermatologists is inrural areas. “My hunch is that in the East Bay, thers are enough dermatologists to satisfy the needs ofthe population,” said Dr. Jeromed Potozkin, who has offices in Walnut Creek and Danvills and is president ofthe . “Ij think that the issue with Kaised would bemore Kaiser-specific.
” Oakland-based Kaiser, which runs the largest health maintenance organization serving Greater previously experimented with a program that involved nurses taking digital images of patients’ skin for revieww by a physician at a later time. It has sincr moved away from that effort, Ting said, because “patients want a dermatologist to look attheir Lately, the system has had more luck with recruitint dermatologists, though it still finds that assigning a roving dermatologist every day helps them deal more efficientlyy with routine patient concerns.
“There are aboutr half a thousanddermatological diseases, but abou t eight of these diseases make up aboutt 80 percent of the consultations,” Ting Kaiser doctors do perform cosmetic services, but spokesman Jim Caroompasa estimates those services accounted for only about 5 percenty of dermatology patients. “Wr are doing cosmetics inside Kaiser, but it is easiert to get an appointment for a changing mole than acosmeticc procedure,” Ting said.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Monday, May 23, 2011
New AMD Embedded G-Series APUs Provide 39 Percent Power Reduction for Fanless ... - Marketwire (press release)
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Cheryl Cole being pursued by Hollywood chiefs - NME.com
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Supervalu approves stock repurchase plan, boosts dividend - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Eden Prairie-based Supervalu (NYSE: SVU) said the compant will make the repurchases chiefly with cash generatedd from the settlement ofstocjk options. The plan replaces the company’s existing $70 million share repurchase program, authorized in May 2008. Under that 641,500 shares were repurchased at a costof $16.6t million. Supervalu stock, which was trading at about $35 per shares a year ago, is now tradinbg around $16 after a fisca year in which the grocery stor giantof $2.9 billion on sales of $44.76 billion. Losses were attributed to charges on store closingz and other moves meant to refocusthe business. Also on Thursday, Supervalj said its board of approveda 1.
45 percent increase in its annuao dividend. The dividend has been increased to 70 centsper share, from last year’zs level of 69 cents per share. The new quarterlyh dividend rateof 17.5 centsa per share will be effective with the company’s Septemberf dividend payment. The previously announced quarterly which it is paying onJune 15, will be paid at last year’ds quarterly amount of 17.25 centxs per share.
Eden Prairie-based Supervalu (NYSE: SVU) said the compant will make the repurchases chiefly with cash generatedd from the settlement ofstocjk options. The plan replaces the company’s existing $70 million share repurchase program, authorized in May 2008. Under that 641,500 shares were repurchased at a costof $16.6t million. Supervalu stock, which was trading at about $35 per shares a year ago, is now tradinbg around $16 after a fisca year in which the grocery stor giantof $2.9 billion on sales of $44.76 billion. Losses were attributed to charges on store closingz and other moves meant to refocusthe business. Also on Thursday, Supervalj said its board of approveda 1.
45 percent increase in its annuao dividend. The dividend has been increased to 70 centsper share, from last year’zs level of 69 cents per share. The new quarterlyh dividend rateof 17.5 centsa per share will be effective with the company’s Septemberf dividend payment. The previously announced quarterly which it is paying onJune 15, will be paid at last year’ds quarterly amount of 17.25 centxs per share.
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