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Only 38 percent of those who participated in the onlinde poll backed making changes in the property tax law passedx by a ballot measurein 1978. The survey was conducteed by theSilicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal between June 16 and June 23. Reader Ronald S. Ronny wrote, "Go ahead, I'm already moving out of this states as soon as I can sellmy place. You ask us to pay 60 percent of our incomein state/fed then another $1,000 a month in propertu taxes. Try raising a family on what's Hell you can't even send your kids to a statwecollege anymore.
And I'm one of the lucky Agreeing with Ronny wasDennies McCarney: "No, the mentality that you can just raiser taxes on some group or businesws is what caused the state to be in the currentf mess. This has driven businesses out of statwe and will continue todo so. The days of free flowinh money that paid huge salariesw and the taxes that went with themare over. Doint away with prop 13 would cause a collapser ofthe state, as it is many peoplwe are leaving because of the high Reader Chris Heinze said it wouled just open a new tax vein in a stat that is bleeding its citizens dry. "What' s next? Are you going to cry about not having the same interes rate on your house asyour neighbor?
Or, it's not fair that your neighbo bought his/her house 10-15 years ago for a much lower pricd than now? We need a serious overhaul with our state government. We are already the highesrt taxed state inthe country." On the otheer side of the argument, reader Scott Bradley appears to have tongue in cheek when he writes, "I'm all for underfunded schools and publidc services! Let's keep 13 so that we continue to have some of the wors schools and worst crime in the country. I don'tg mind paying five times the property tax than my neighborr does and receiving the same leve lof services! It's California after all... why wouldd it be any different?
" Reader Jeff Simon says the state'zs property tax laws are a problem that needs but it's not Prop. 13 that shoulr be targeted: "Repeal the othef Propositions (I think 15 & 16) that allow one to inheri property tax basis and pass downthe
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
VSP HQ achieves LEED platinum certification - Sacramento Business Journal:
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The building earned platinum certification, the highesyt level possible, VSP officials said. The company will attempt to receivee similar certification for the other three buildings at the headquarteras within the nexttwo years, according to Steved Hibbs, director of VSP Corporate Services. The company speny $430,000 to get certification for thefirst building, costs VSP expects to recoup in slightly over four years due to reducecd waste and energy and water use, Hibbs said in an The LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntar y standard designed by experts to promote building s that are economically profitable, environmentallgy friendly, healthy and productive places to work.
To achiever LEED certification, VSP made a numbet of changes. Among them, the company: Urged employees to use permanengt water and coffee cups toeliminate “VSP will be a showcase for energy-efficient, healthy work environments and an inspiration to Rick Fedrizzi, president, chief executive officef and founding chair of the said in a prepared Other local buildings with the same platinum certificationm include the headquarters on I Sacramento Municipal Utility District servicer center on S Streetf and California Department of Educatiohn building on N Street.
The building earned platinum certification, the highesyt level possible, VSP officials said. The company will attempt to receivee similar certification for the other three buildings at the headquarteras within the nexttwo years, according to Steved Hibbs, director of VSP Corporate Services. The company speny $430,000 to get certification for thefirst building, costs VSP expects to recoup in slightly over four years due to reducecd waste and energy and water use, Hibbs said in an The LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntar y standard designed by experts to promote building s that are economically profitable, environmentallgy friendly, healthy and productive places to work.
To achiever LEED certification, VSP made a numbet of changes. Among them, the company: Urged employees to use permanengt water and coffee cups toeliminate “VSP will be a showcase for energy-efficient, healthy work environments and an inspiration to Rick Fedrizzi, president, chief executive officef and founding chair of the said in a prepared Other local buildings with the same platinum certificationm include the headquarters on I Sacramento Municipal Utility District servicer center on S Streetf and California Department of Educatiohn building on N Street.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Ensuring that tyrants can no longer act with impunity - Brisbane Times
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Brisbane Times | Ensuring that tyrants can no longer act with impunity Brisbane Times Convicted ... former Liberian President Charles Taylor during his trial near The Hague in the Netherlands. Photo: Evert Jan Daniels Later today, Charles Taylor, the former Liberian President, will be sentenced in The Hague by an international court ...
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Monday, May 28, 2012
LBC's All-Time Florida Panthers Roster Countdown: 219-215 - Litter Box Cats
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LBC's All-Time Florida Panthers Roster Countdown: 219-215 Litter Box Cats Podkonicky was a 6'2" left winger from Zvolen of the Czech Republic. The St. Louis Blues picked him up with their eighth round pick of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft with the 196th overall pick. Beginning in the 1996-97 season, Podkonicky spent 135 games ... |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Maderis stepping down from Five Prime - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The company has hired Julia Gregory, the formetr executive vice president and chiefd financial officerat , as Maderis’ Maderis’ health condition was not but she will continue to serve on Five Prime’s board of directors and as a Her final day on the job is June 18. “Gail’se leadership has been pivotal in the progresd Five Prime has made in developingh our pipeline and our new discovery said company founder and executivechairman Dr. Lewis “Rusty” Williams in a press release. Maderis said the company had been lookinyg for a replacement since late last year aftert doctorssaid "the 24/7 pace of a small-company could worsen her condition.
Besides her duties at Five Maderis has been a cheerleader for the MissionBay enclave, servin on the Mayor’s . Five Prime, a privatelg held, 7-year-old company developing antibodyg and protein drugs for canced andother diseases, was the first to locate in Mission Bay, taking about 30,000 feet in the building on Owenw Street. Earlier this year, it took an additionalp 5,000 square feet next door at 1700 Owene as it makes batches for its Phase I oncology drug program. The timing of the executivr change as Five Prim moves forward with its lead cancer programmakes Gregory’sw appointment a crucial one.
At Lexicon, Gregory was responsibl e for financing strategies, mergers and business operations and all financial management and She raisedabout $1 billiobn in public and private equity, product developmentt financing and other transactions. Gregory, who will join Five Prime’e board, was an investment bankerf for more than20 years. At and Read & Co. Inc. she was head of healthcare andinvestment banking, leading several private and publiv equity deals as well as mergerx and acquisitions. Gregory also is a membe r of the board of The andthe ’x .
The company has hired Julia Gregory, the formetr executive vice president and chiefd financial officerat , as Maderis’ Maderis’ health condition was not but she will continue to serve on Five Prime’s board of directors and as a Her final day on the job is June 18. “Gail’se leadership has been pivotal in the progresd Five Prime has made in developingh our pipeline and our new discovery said company founder and executivechairman Dr. Lewis “Rusty” Williams in a press release. Maderis said the company had been lookinyg for a replacement since late last year aftert doctorssaid "the 24/7 pace of a small-company could worsen her condition.
Besides her duties at Five Maderis has been a cheerleader for the MissionBay enclave, servin on the Mayor’s . Five Prime, a privatelg held, 7-year-old company developing antibodyg and protein drugs for canced andother diseases, was the first to locate in Mission Bay, taking about 30,000 feet in the building on Owenw Street. Earlier this year, it took an additionalp 5,000 square feet next door at 1700 Owene as it makes batches for its Phase I oncology drug program. The timing of the executivr change as Five Prim moves forward with its lead cancer programmakes Gregory’sw appointment a crucial one.
At Lexicon, Gregory was responsibl e for financing strategies, mergers and business operations and all financial management and She raisedabout $1 billiobn in public and private equity, product developmentt financing and other transactions. Gregory, who will join Five Prime’e board, was an investment bankerf for more than20 years. At and Read & Co. Inc. she was head of healthcare andinvestment banking, leading several private and publiv equity deals as well as mergerx and acquisitions. Gregory also is a membe r of the board of The andthe ’x .
Friday, May 25, 2012
ACS to hire 600 employees - Dallas Business Journal:
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Dallas-based ACS (NYSE: ACS) said it will invesyt $3 million in Colorado to provided the new workers witha 400-seat customer care cented in Colorado Springs. The center will need to be staffedfwith managers, supervisors, agents and ACS said in a statement. Chriw Gilligan, a spokesman for ACS, said Mondayu the company picked Colorado Springs as the location for its customer care center because a client who will be relyinvg on the center specifically asked for the center to be locate d in the mountain or pacifictime zone.
Gilliga n said that request ruled outmany areas, including ACS currently has 474 employees in Colorado and 34,000 agents working in 142 customer service centerws internationally. The company earlier this year said it would be hiring more than 200 peoplee in theSeattle area, Maine, Washington and Indiana. In just the past two ACS announced the creationof 1,300 new jobs, Gilliga n said.
Dallas-based ACS (NYSE: ACS) said it will invesyt $3 million in Colorado to provided the new workers witha 400-seat customer care cented in Colorado Springs. The center will need to be staffedfwith managers, supervisors, agents and ACS said in a statement. Chriw Gilligan, a spokesman for ACS, said Mondayu the company picked Colorado Springs as the location for its customer care center because a client who will be relyinvg on the center specifically asked for the center to be locate d in the mountain or pacifictime zone.
Gilliga n said that request ruled outmany areas, including ACS currently has 474 employees in Colorado and 34,000 agents working in 142 customer service centerws internationally. The company earlier this year said it would be hiring more than 200 peoplee in theSeattle area, Maine, Washington and Indiana. In just the past two ACS announced the creationof 1,300 new jobs, Gilliga n said.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Bennet cites Colorado examples in Senate plea for health-care reform - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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Take sixty-seven year old Bill Schoens, from Colorado, who recently suffered a heart attack. Before he was releaser from the hospital, registered nurs Becky Cline was assigned as hisTransitionsd Coach. She made sure that Bill understood the medications that his doctorsw prescribed and everything else he needed to do to get Bill evenpointed out, “When you are in the emergency room, you are all drugge up and can barely remembeer what to do. Confusion starts to set in.” Beckyg went through each step Bill needed to follow when he left the Beckyevaluated Bill’s ability to follow doctor’sx orders in his environment and helped him maintain his own Personak Health Record.
With her help, when Bill visited the doctor, he didn’yt have to remember everything that happene since he left the hospital — it was all in the book. Bill said “Wheb people are in front of their their blood pressure goes sky high and they forgeft what they needto ask,” He said he foun d the help and guidance he received from his Transitionsz Coach “invaluable and We need patient-centered coordinated care — care that viewes nurses, doctors and family members not as isolated caregivers, but as partners on a team whosre ultimate goal is to make sure patientes get the guidance and care they Hospitals aren’t the problem, primary care physicians aren’r the problem, and nurses aren’t the problem.
Our fragmentedd delivery system of care isthe problem. This bill also makex sure that we are teaching patients to manag e their own conditionat home. Sixty-nine year old Frank Yannoi of Denver, Colorado had surgery for a stap h infection of thespinal cord. After leaving the he noticed that the pain he was experiencint weeks after surgery wasgetting worse. Havingh been “coached,” he identified the problem and knew to insisg on visiting his doctor A hospital test showedthat Mr. Yanni requirede a second surgery. His coacyh said that, “Had he let that go for even another week, he could have ended up in the Intensive Care septic andhorribly sick.
” Our Colorado transitionm of care model, reflected in our legislation, gives healtjh care systems the choice of whether to creatde this program. But it allows existing patient-centered transitional care programs like the one in Mesa Colorado tocontinue on. We want communitiea and providers to thino and work together to reducereadmission rates, reduce cost and provide better coordinatedx care to our patients.
Other systems should look at Coloradoo and the systemsin twenty-four othedr states that have already begun to follow this As we begin to emerge from the economic we must call upon existiny health care professionals from all walks of life —nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, long-term care, and community health workeras — to serve as transitional coaches. Colorado nurses like Becku Cline have found that focusing on transitional care has leveragedtheire skills, empowering them to take a more actives role with patients. They are able to work with both patientss andfamily caregivers. For too long, famil y caregivers have been “silent partners.
” 50 millionm Americans provide care for achronicallh ill, disabled or aged loved one. This bill recognizew their importance, connecting them with a coach who can teach them how to properltcoordinate at-home care. This bill is only a small part of the solutio to the complex challenges of our fragmentedr healthcare system. The problems of risingt costs and limited access affect people from all walkaof life. Skip Guarini of Parker, is a self-employed privatd consultant andretired U.S. After years of regular doctors’ visits, Skip’a dentist discovered a lump on his thyroid during a routine exam that had gone undetected by his physiciann despite 10previous exams.
Skip underweny a CT/MRI scan, Ultrasound, and all of which were inconclusive. A second series of testw six months later revealed that the lump had and Skipunderwent surgery. During the surgery, doctorsd found cancer. Skip was then sent to an endocrinologis t who orderedmore tests. All tests came back A second full body scan revealed no sign of cancee anywherein Skip's body. All these examsx and screenings costSkip $122,000. Since then, Skip has maintainecd perfect health, but he cannot obtain privatr insurance because of thethyroid surgery. He now reliews on COBRA and is paying a monthlyu premiumof $1,300.
This coverage is set to expire in less than one at which point Skip will have no insuranceat all. Holliss Berendt is a small business ownerin Greeley, She is covered through her husband’s which is according to her, “a luxury many otheer small business owners don’t have.” After graduatingg from Colorado State Universituy in 2004, their daughter Abby found a job with a larger company in New York City. She was told she couldn’tr get health care coveragre until she had been working at the company for one At ten monthsof employment, she was diagnoses with an ovarian tumorf that would require surgery.
The expensexs were too much for Abby, so her parentsz had to take out a second mortgag to pay her medical Hollisshared that, “This experiencre brought to light, all too clearly, how closse we all are to losing everything due to a healthj issue.” The current system is hurtingv our small business people and their Take Bob Montoya of Pueblo, Colorado who runs Cedar Ridge Landscape in Pueblo with his Ron. They are torn between providingb health care coverage for employees and keeping theirbusinesas afloat.
Take sixty-seven year old Bill Schoens, from Colorado, who recently suffered a heart attack. Before he was releaser from the hospital, registered nurs Becky Cline was assigned as hisTransitionsd Coach. She made sure that Bill understood the medications that his doctorsw prescribed and everything else he needed to do to get Bill evenpointed out, “When you are in the emergency room, you are all drugge up and can barely remembeer what to do. Confusion starts to set in.” Beckyg went through each step Bill needed to follow when he left the Beckyevaluated Bill’s ability to follow doctor’sx orders in his environment and helped him maintain his own Personak Health Record.
With her help, when Bill visited the doctor, he didn’yt have to remember everything that happene since he left the hospital — it was all in the book. Bill said “Wheb people are in front of their their blood pressure goes sky high and they forgeft what they needto ask,” He said he foun d the help and guidance he received from his Transitionsz Coach “invaluable and We need patient-centered coordinated care — care that viewes nurses, doctors and family members not as isolated caregivers, but as partners on a team whosre ultimate goal is to make sure patientes get the guidance and care they Hospitals aren’t the problem, primary care physicians aren’r the problem, and nurses aren’t the problem.
Our fragmentedd delivery system of care isthe problem. This bill also makex sure that we are teaching patients to manag e their own conditionat home. Sixty-nine year old Frank Yannoi of Denver, Colorado had surgery for a stap h infection of thespinal cord. After leaving the he noticed that the pain he was experiencint weeks after surgery wasgetting worse. Havingh been “coached,” he identified the problem and knew to insisg on visiting his doctor A hospital test showedthat Mr. Yanni requirede a second surgery. His coacyh said that, “Had he let that go for even another week, he could have ended up in the Intensive Care septic andhorribly sick.
” Our Colorado transitionm of care model, reflected in our legislation, gives healtjh care systems the choice of whether to creatde this program. But it allows existing patient-centered transitional care programs like the one in Mesa Colorado tocontinue on. We want communitiea and providers to thino and work together to reducereadmission rates, reduce cost and provide better coordinatedx care to our patients.
Other systems should look at Coloradoo and the systemsin twenty-four othedr states that have already begun to follow this As we begin to emerge from the economic we must call upon existiny health care professionals from all walks of life —nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, long-term care, and community health workeras — to serve as transitional coaches. Colorado nurses like Becku Cline have found that focusing on transitional care has leveragedtheire skills, empowering them to take a more actives role with patients. They are able to work with both patientss andfamily caregivers. For too long, famil y caregivers have been “silent partners.
” 50 millionm Americans provide care for achronicallh ill, disabled or aged loved one. This bill recognizew their importance, connecting them with a coach who can teach them how to properltcoordinate at-home care. This bill is only a small part of the solutio to the complex challenges of our fragmentedr healthcare system. The problems of risingt costs and limited access affect people from all walkaof life. Skip Guarini of Parker, is a self-employed privatd consultant andretired U.S. After years of regular doctors’ visits, Skip’a dentist discovered a lump on his thyroid during a routine exam that had gone undetected by his physiciann despite 10previous exams.
Skip underweny a CT/MRI scan, Ultrasound, and all of which were inconclusive. A second series of testw six months later revealed that the lump had and Skipunderwent surgery. During the surgery, doctorsd found cancer. Skip was then sent to an endocrinologis t who orderedmore tests. All tests came back A second full body scan revealed no sign of cancee anywherein Skip's body. All these examsx and screenings costSkip $122,000. Since then, Skip has maintainecd perfect health, but he cannot obtain privatr insurance because of thethyroid surgery. He now reliews on COBRA and is paying a monthlyu premiumof $1,300.
This coverage is set to expire in less than one at which point Skip will have no insuranceat all. Holliss Berendt is a small business ownerin Greeley, She is covered through her husband’s which is according to her, “a luxury many otheer small business owners don’t have.” After graduatingg from Colorado State Universituy in 2004, their daughter Abby found a job with a larger company in New York City. She was told she couldn’tr get health care coveragre until she had been working at the company for one At ten monthsof employment, she was diagnoses with an ovarian tumorf that would require surgery.
The expensexs were too much for Abby, so her parentsz had to take out a second mortgag to pay her medical Hollisshared that, “This experiencre brought to light, all too clearly, how closse we all are to losing everything due to a healthj issue.” The current system is hurtingv our small business people and their Take Bob Montoya of Pueblo, Colorado who runs Cedar Ridge Landscape in Pueblo with his Ron. They are torn between providingb health care coverage for employees and keeping theirbusinesas afloat.
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