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Brighton's i360 misses target funding date
3:30pm Thursday 17th January 2013 in News By John Keenan, business editor
The developer of a major tourist attraction has missed its target to secure crucial financial backing for the project.
Last year Brighton and Hove City Council agreed to loan almost £15 million to kick-start the i360 scheme.
Plans for the £38 million, 183-metre viewing tower near the West Pier were first unveiled six years ago.
The council-backed loan to developer Marks Barfield was due to be signed off by Tuesday ahead of the authority's Policy and Resources Committee meeting next Thursday, but the final details of the agreement have yet to be hammered out.
Marks Barfield said discussions were ongoing.
Director David Marks said: "There was a target date but we are still in discussion. It's very complicated.
"We have been very careful not to set an absolute deadline because that would give the perception that we have missed something.
"We are in the process of reaching agreement. I very much hope construction will start this quarter but I am reluctant to give a date.
"There are a lot of partners in the deal and a lot of documents which have to be signed at the same time. There's a lot of work to be done."
Council leader Jason Kitcat said: "It was a working target, but financial close is always complex and it is not unusual for it to slip as lawyers and accountants get involved.
"There has always been an element of flexibility over the dates due to the number of stakeholders and complexity of the project.
"We are committed to working with Marks Barfield to get work started on site, with the aim of the i360 opening in spring 2015."
Meanwhile Brighton businessman John Regan said he has formed a consortium to help develop the West Pier in partnership with the i360.
Mr Regan said he has drawn up detailed plans which he will discuss with Marks Barfield.
He said: "A new West Pier has the ability to become one of the principal expressions of the city's vision, transmitting the authentic values of beauty, quality, confidence and integrity."
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BornInBrighton1968 says...
4:52pm Thu 17 Jan 13
mimseycal says...
5:00pm Thu 17 Jan 13
mustaphaLeeko says...
I'm glad something is going to be built, and it WILL provide jobs for locals, so what's not to like, unless you are one of these old moany keep everything in Brighton Victorian / Regency types!
And yes it's a loan, but a SECURED loan on all the assets of the i360, so stop whingeing people!!!!
5:01pm Thu 17 Jan 13
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6:23pm Thu 17 Jan 13
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8:54pm Thu 17 Jan 13
Bristol VR says...
I don't give a fig who is in power in the City Hall, they just need now to chuck this whole thing in the bin and stop this nonsense!
10:28pm Thu 17 Jan 13
HJarrs says...
I hope this delay represents the more conservative and sensible lending environment that we have today. If it does look risky, then public money should be withdrawn.
10:34pm Thu 17 Jan 13
mimseycal says...
If you haven't managed to sort out the funding by now, you are not going to.
I wonder how much this non-starter has cost us to date ...
4:32am Fri 18 Jan 13
Pebbles says...
As I stated a couple of times before.. this will never be built... and I was told by someone that I would "...eat my words..." or to that effect.
I hope it does it built.. but it never will..
"We have been very careful not to set an absolute deadline because that would give the perception that we have missed something. "
This quote could have come directly from 'Yes, Prime Minister' ;)
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Hovite says...
The developers and the council believe it will be used by 800,000 people a year, which works out at 2,191 people a day, 365 days a year.
If the weather, visibility and the tourist season half's it's ideal operational period, it will need 4,383 visitors a day.
I just don't see this happening, who will be blamed for this, the Greens or the council officers who work for and advise them? These officers are the same people that advised the Labour party with this i360 project, the King Alfred Gehry and Black Rock ice rink schemes.
The i360 will fail, the Greens will be long gone and the council officers will continue to advise the next party and will be exempt from the blame of failure once more.
The puppets will come and go but puppeteers will always keep their jobs safe, without any accountability and go on to enjoy their golden pensions.
2:45pm Fri 18 Jan 13
heartthrob says...
Pie in the sky was a great name suggestion though
7:59am Sat 19 Jan 13
deanaprior says...
If you cleared the area and renovated the building how much money could have been made from leasing it as a restaurant, shop, pub or arts gallery. How much money has been lost over 25 years.
This is the age of pop-up shops and restaurants no-one wants to risk money in for long term investments that's why the big wheel can be dis-assembled and taken somewhere else.
Here is a perfect site to have a dynamic changing event you could even put the empty plinth here and you could get it sorted in a couple of weeks.
This tower is not going to happen the West Pier must be the most photographed tourist attraction in Brighton and its wasted.
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Fields of Study
Chinese language, Chinese area studies, Introduction to Classical Chinese, Readings in Modern Literature, Chinese Film
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CET Academic Programs
Middlebury College
Zhejiang University of Technology
Double rooms with Chinese roommates
Program Dates
Spring semester: early February to early June
Faculty Liaison
Sharon Hou
Hangzhou, known as the garden city for the unusual quantity and quality of its parks and greenery, is the capital of Zhejiang province. Located just over 100 miles from Shanghai in eastern China, Hangzhou was China's capital during the Southern Song dynasty in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Today Hangzhou has approximately seven million inhabitants and is home to at least 20 universities, an important emerging technology industry, and temples, pagodas, gardens and museums acclaimed throughout China and the world. Beautiful West Lake, made famous in Chinese literature, offers a scenic respite from the activity of city life. With few international students and abundant opportunities for cultural immersion, Hangzhou offers an ideal setting for the study of Chinese language and culture.
This program is designed specifically for advanced students of Chinese, who wish to attend an intensive language program, as well as pursue area studies courses taught in Chinese. The program is offered through Middlebury College, working in conjunction with CET Academic Programs.
Academic Program
The program starts in Beijing, where students enroll in CET Academic Programs' January Term, a four-week intensive program for intermediate and advanced learners. (This is a non-credit, preparatory course for the spring semester in Hangzhou.)
The Middlebury Program in Hangzhou consists of four courses. The program requires two courses: "Hangzhou Studies," and an intensive one-on-one tutorial on an academic subject of the student's choosing. Then students choose two electives ( 1.0 Pomona credits each). All course work is conducted entirely in Chinese, and the program has a required language pledge.
There is no P/NC option on this program.
Living Arrangements
Students live in double rooms both in Beijing and Hangzhou with Chinese roommates. Students typically eat breakfast and lunch on campus, and dinner in a local restaurant. Pomona provides a meal allowance.
Number of Students
Approximately 2-5 qualified Pomona students; total program enrollment approximately 35-40 students. The host institution, the Zhejiang University of Technology, has an enrollment of approximately 15,000 Chinese students.
Five semesters of college-level Chinese or the equivalent, with at least a B average in Chinese, a B average in the major, and a B- average overall. Students are expected to complete a Chinese language course the semester prior to the term abroad.
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TRAVERSE CITY — A man who said he accidentally shot his girlfriend in the leg while demonstrating how to shoot an attacker faces a criminal charge.
Andre Michael Martin, 25, told a Grand Traverse County sheriff's detective he was "extremely embarrassed" after shooting his girlfriend at their home in the 300 block of West Silver Lake Road in Garfield Township on April 4.
The couple prepared to run errands that afternoon, and Martin planned to open carry his weapon, according to a police report.
Martin demonstrated to his brother in the living room how he generally open-carries his 9mm handgun. The firearm had a round in the chamber at the time.
He then entered the bedroom, where he and and his girlfriend talked about "different calibers doing damage to people if they had to be used in self-defense," court documents state.
"Martin stated he was just about to holster his gun, when he then demonstrated to his girlfriend what he would do to an oncoming person. He stated he pointed the gun forward and down and at some point the gun 'just went off'," a detective wrote in the police report.
Martin said he "must have" pulled the trigger but did not remember doing so and did not intend to.
Responding deputies found Martin attempting to administer first aid to his girlfriend.
The victim told a detective she was "not exactly sure why he had taken the gun out of the holster, but stated it was never pointed directly at her and felt that when the gun had gone off, it was an accident and it was not intentional."
She said her relationship with Martin is "good" and they were not fighting when the shooting occurred.
Martin was cooperative and forthcoming during the investigation, authorities said. He is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing injury, which is a two-year high court misdemeanor.
A preliminary examination is scheduled for May 14. Martin remains lodged on $5,000 bond.


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NORMAN — Ghislain d'Humieres, director and chief curator of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, has announced his resignation, effective Sept. 3, to become director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky.
"During his six years at OU, Ghislain d'Humieres has been an exceptional leader for the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art," OU President David L. Boren said. "It is not surprising that he would be selected to lead an important and nationally prominent museum of art," Boren said.
"At OU, he has brought all of the academic units on campus together to support the museum," Boren said. "He also made the museum more accessible to students with his new program of exhibition preview openings strictly for students.
"He presided very effectively over the building and opening of the new Stuart Wing, and during his tenure, major additions were made to the museum's collections. The Speed Art Museum in Louisville has made an excellent decision. Ghislain d'Humieres will be greatly missed at OU."
D'Humieres, who also serves as the Wylodean and Bill Saxon Chair and associate professor, came to OU from San Francisco, where he was the assistant director for the New de Young Opening under Director Harry Parker III.
An acting director of the museum will be appointed when d'Humieres departs. The acting director will serve until a new permanent director is selected.


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Wanda, I would like to say that what I have put up is theory based on what notes I have and study of census and other based materials.
Can I say for fact?, can I walk directly to her grave? NO! Only based on the theory and likelihood.
I noted that on the memorial. I just don't want our forebears to go down in history, without at the very least leaving a few clues to their existance. Maybe future generations will pick up the cause but until then this is how I can contribute.
Whoever wants to accept it fine and whoever does not its just as fine to me.
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We are working on the family line and it is thought that David and John's Fathers name was John. We also are working on the idea that Ewell was a brother of theirs and possibly a James Roper.
I still am studying the censuses of Ropers in Tennessee right now. It is said that Elizabeth came with David to MO when they left TN.
I don't know why she changed her mind to go with John and Nancy to Pulaski/Wright Co. MO.....
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RE: David Roper
1831-32 purchases of city lots in the area of todays Springfield , MO. This is where they lived very close to the city limits, of which now is a park of which your Rebecca Roper is buried in....
David Roper and Elizabeth Roper nearest, but also not far John Roper.
Also the fact that David's first daughter was Elizabeth.
I will be glad to give you other references from Russell Pool and others notes...
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Wanda, was wondering if you would like to accept Lawson and Elizabeth Fulbright's memorials, since they are your line.
Let me know. Thanks, Curt
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Thank you so very much for linking Beatrice to her parents.
Have a great week,
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Wondered if I could use the photo you took of George Washington Nave on our Ancestry Family Tree.
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Thank you so much! I didn't realize there was a duplicate, but you have certainly filled it with information. Thanks again.
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Thank you very much for the information. That is very interesting about the grouping of Rocks. Look forward to your photo if you do get the chance. Thanks again.
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Harold and Wanda, My GGG Grandfather was Buried in this Cemetery(West Point) back in 1863. He was killed by bushwhackers during the Chapter 11 at that time. The family buried him with Rocks as markers. Do you happen to know if anyone has a list of names that would be in the Cemetery? Thought i might do a little searching for his grave site. However with stones only as his marker it may be lost by now.
Any information is appreciated. Thank you
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It's getting like damn paper chain on here!!!!
just go to the home forum page and go to the radio section from there.
Nothing opens when I click on the link. It just goes to a blank screen.....no forum, no opportunity to ask Dana White questions, nothing. I guess he doesn't want to answer our questions. :banghead:
I already posted my questions in the CFZ radio forum.
Hahaha, no I don't want to be a fighter in the least, I know I'd get my ass beat.... I was just joking around referring to Boone saying his feet were like Ali's and all his other posts.... I was just bein a complete asshole I didn't want anyone to take it seriously at all.
Do you want to be a fucking fighter?
Ask It In The Proper Forum!!
From everything I've read, next season's TUF is with more established fighters that have fought in the UFC before... ask Dana if he would ever consider doing a season of people with absolutely no training so that the coaches would have to pretty much teach the contestants everything.... Basically ask if me and Boone are allowed to be on TV so we can be shown that we're not really as bad ass as we think.
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my question is...........When the hell are you gonna spend some bucks to bring over some top competition from Pride for a fight or 2? Fuck making money the easy way building up fighters via TUF. I want to see top competition damnit!!!!!
The 2nd more of a statement, but you get the idea.
Speak the gosple Im feeln that preach on NINJA!
lol I'm a lazy American, what do you expect?
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I do agree that the season is better than last season (although I preferred the music last year). A lot (I mean, A LOT) more interaction amongst the cast. At the same time, it may also be due to expectations. I think last year, I was expecting a lot more from the show that I actually received (although I experienced the biggest surprise at just how wonderful Hayden Panettiere continues to be). This season, my expectations were greatly tempered and I can enjoy the show as is.
If there is a big hole in the show, it's Rayna. Her character is so passive (I mean, Rayna signs Juliette Barnes because Juliette sought *her* out).
Luke is slimy because the actor sucks. I will always hate him because of Smash.


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I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
Sexual intercourse, generally speaking, is very safe for the heart. It's possible it may even be good for you. But some people do die of heart attacks or sudden cardiac arrest during sex. And almost all of those people are older married men cheating on their wives with younger women in unfamiliar surroundings.
I came across this fact while reading Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need, by Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen, both high-ranking cardiologists at the Cleveland Clinic. They wrote:
Men with coronary heart disease do need to follow the rules. When heart attacks occur during or after sex, they almost always involve older men I extramarital affairs with young women. For those men, it would have been safer to stay at home and burn off excess energy on a treadmill in the basement.
Woah. Skeptical, I wrote Nissen, best known for stirring up controversy over drugs like GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia and Merck's Vioxx (both now withdrawn), and asked him to back that statement up with some data. Almost instantly, he sent me two scientific papers.
The first was this paper, a scientific statement from the American Heart Association on sexual activity and cardiovascular disease:
In an autopsy report of 5559 instances of sudden death, 34 (0.6%) reportedly occurred during sexual intercourse.34 Two other autopsy studies reported similarly low rates (0.6%–1.7%) of sudden death related to sexual activity.35,36 Of the subjects who died during coitus, 82% to 93% were men, and the majority (75%) were having extramarital sexual activity, in most cases with a younger partner in an unfamiliar setting and/or after excessive food and alcohol consumption. The increase in absolute risk of sudden death associated with 1 hour of additional sexual activity per week is estimated to be <1 per 10 000 person-years.30
He also sent this paper on the association of sex with cardiac events.
So sudden cardiac death during sex is extremely rare, but when it happens, the claim about extramarital sexual activity holds true. That's one more reason to stay in shape, because that will decrease risk overall. It's also one more reason to heed the dictum coined by actor Paul Newman: Don't go out for a hamburger when you've got the steak at home. And if you do, make sure you're taking your Lipitor.
What a juicy story! Bravo
"The increase in absolute risk of sudden death associated with 1 hour of additional sexual activity per week is estimated to be <1 per 10 000 person-years."
One "additional" hour??? In addition to what??? Have I been missing something? Maybe I just forgot because of the simvastatin.
This probably makes common sense but I would point out that there's no way to really know what the excess risk is, if any, of extramarital sex, as compared to marital sex. From the study supplied by Nissen it's clear that more men died during extramarital sex. So we know the numerator but of course we have no idea about the denominator. It's entirely possible that elderly men who have been married for a long time rarely have sex with their wives and seek satisfaction outside marriage with younger women. It seems unlikely that the numbers would be large enough to change the major point of this post but after all who really knows what's actually going on out there?
Dr. Husten correctly points out the multiple potential sources of confounding in this type of retrospective analysis.
Science clearly demands a prospective randomized clinical trial. Of course blinding the study could prove a bit tricky….
Perhaps a prospective, randomized clinical trial is in order here? But how to blind it????
I respect Paul Newman, great guy and a good auto road racer. He is correct, if you have steak at home why go out for a burger. I think we are talking about the guys that might if lucky have hamburger helper at home and they prefer a steak. This is not to justify anything here, its human nature to be, let's call it extreme once in a while. These older guys are doing what a base jumper an extreme cliff jumper or a stock car racer does and they don't all make it, is it worth the risk? Most would say it is. Bravo to all extreme fun junkies!
For many men, dying in the arms of a nubile young woman is probably preferable to the living hell of their fat,ugly wives.
Slow News day? Sex always sells you are right.
Do these cardios suuffer from 'inadequacy syndrome' !
What's this? Men who have more sex are more likely to die during sex?
I don't believe it. This sounds like typical bull-statistics meant to scare society straight. There has been a tremendous flux of it lately, so a repeat of the pattern does catch my eye.
I say, think, understand people. It is highly probable that a woman having sex with a man in extramarital affair will tell what was occurring. The cat is out of the bag. However, a spouse in the age group we're talking about for these numbers, has a little more tact and probably knows that talking about the romp in the hay has no relevance to her partner's health history.


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I write from the left on politics and policy.
As the GOP pursues its 'War on Entitlements' as a part of the fiscal cliff ballet, the notion of raising the age for entering Medicare has been gaining steam as a focal point of reform for the financially stressed government health care system.
Perpetual Sunday morning talker, Senator Lindsey Graham, summed it up on a recent "ABC's This Week" installment when noting, "I don't think you can look at entitlement reform without adjusting the age for retirement. Let it float up another year or so over the next 30 years, adjust Medicare from 65 to 67."
Even President Obama is said to have put the notion of raising the Medicare age on the table in his failed negotiations with Speaker John Boehner during the 2011 debt ceiling debacle.
From a political perspective, this may sound like a plan whose time may have come as most would acknowledge that today's 65 year old is significantly 'younger' than the 65 year old of days gone by. What's more, raising the age of Medicare would set a precedent that would, no doubt, hasten a rise in the Social Security age.
However, when you begin to measure the impact of upping the age for Medicare on the population as a whole, a different picture begins to emerge—one that would have a negative impact on virtually all Americans, no matter what their age.
Here's the good news:
According to the Congressional Budget Office, immediately increasing the Medicare age to 67 would save about 5% in the annual Medicare budget—not an insignificant amount of money. Such a move would also have a positive impact on general tax revenues as more 65 and 66 year olds would remain in the work force in the effort to protect their company-provided healthcare benefits or, if they are self-employed, continue earning enough money to pay for their private health insurance premiums for an additional two years.
But then comes the bad news:
With any significant savings to a large government program, there is always a counter-balancing cost to someone. In this case, the cost of saving Medicare that annual 5 percent would reverberate throughout the entire healthcare system in such as way as to negatively impact on virtually everyone with a health insurance policy.
By denying coverage to the 65 and 66 year olds—who currently form the youngest group in the Medicare insurance pool—we are removing the healthiest people from the Medicare insurance equation. That is never a very good idea when attempting to maintain a balanced insurance pool.
For anyone who understands the actuarial "roots" of insurance, it goes without saying that when you remove the healthiest from the pool—and the premium payments they contribute which are far more likely to be used to pay for someone else's healthcare then the premiums paid by older participants—it requires that the absence of the premiums previous paid by those least likely to require as much healthcare be spread among everyone else in the pool.
The bottom line is an increase in the premium costs to everyone else in the Medicare program.
That might not trouble Americans who believe that the seriousness of the Medicare financial problem requires sacrifice—and that the sacrifice should come from those who most benefit from the program.
But this might—
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"As the direct purchaser of all or nearly all medical services, they are in a monopoly position in hiring physicians and can hold down their remuneration, so that physicians earn much less in those countries than in the United States. In addition, they can ration care more directly—at the cost of long waiting lists and much dissatisfaction."
This is actually not correct, though. Outside of NI Canada, all the NHS-style -Beveridge model- systems have thriving private sectors. The government is not in a monopoly situation. It does hold a lot of power as the biggest entity in the market, but there are plenty of activity outside. In some places, like Norway private hospitals bid on surgeries along with public ones if they think they can do it more economically.
It is an often overlooked advantage of single payer that you have far more freedom than the insurances systems -Bismarck type- gives. You can go private and pay out of pocket, get insurance, both far cheaper than in the US…or you can get UHC for less tax money than government healthcare costs you in the US.
Rick, if the U.S. government were in charge of technology, today we'd be paying $30,000 for an early 1980 's era computer.
Why is that virtually every industry that has little to no government footprint has experienced dramatic technological advances, low prices and increasing consumer satisfaction? Computers, aircraft, electronics, farming, vision repair.
As you know, there is a savings feature in the HSA. When, and if, that savings feature expires, presumably in the case of a catastrophic illness, then the insurance feature kicks in. HSA's do not expire when the savings balance expires. It IS a health insurance policy. Or is it you that lacks understanding?
i don't know about those HSAs — after reading this, it doesn't seem to save much
You are way off base with the computer comparison. The microcomputer would not exist without government investment. Businesses at the time were more than happy with their cheaper, room filling boxes of vacuum tubes. There was no incentive to invest in much more expensive technology that does the same thing. However, thanks to Uncle Sam's free spending ways, I can read about your disregard for government investment on my cell phone.
HSA's should be called HAW's (Healthy And Wealthies)…because that's the only people they seem to work for, as well as because they are a sad sick joke on us.
Hi Rick, Huge fan of your logic! First time replying.
To me, the entire american healthcare systems is a an irregular patchwork quilt of care. As you highlight in your article, making one system available for all will have positive effects for all by balancing out the pools. It was a great insight of yours to see the reciprocal effect of lower costs for the private plans as the higher risk factors move to the medicare plan and conversely the medicare plan succeeds by the significant altering of the actuarial statistics of their pool by adding younger, low risk factors.
The american phenomenon of super-sizing strikes healthcare as well. As a result, hospitals, doctors and insurance companies are busy "building the practice" ( i.e. making as much profit as possible), doing whatever it takes to up those quarterly earnings reports, even if it means letting a few employees go or switching to inferior products or bringing in people without the proper skills or, whatever it takes to eke out another 2% off the bottom-line.
I don't know about you but I believe that healthcare is in fact an inalienable right, part of the social contract and not something to be bartered or speculated with as if a commodity of wheat. It is an outrage of mankind that our well-being is reduced to lotto ( buy a ticket for health, you get a chance to win, don't buy a ticket and you will lose). We leave our lives in the hands of private investors, and that is a scary fact when we look at the recent crash caused by greedy investors.
The changeover has to be made but with change comes resistance. We screamed when they said we had to add new area codes… but we got over it, we cursed the inhumanity of the big box store and how it crushed the american dream… as we flocked to them, we worried and fussed about changing television broadcast from analog to digital and when it happened? Nothing, not a peep.
Just do it!
I'm not an expert on insurance or single-payer, but I can only relate my experience living in a single payer country, Japan. Basically you either get 70% or 80% of your medical costs paid for, depending on which program you use. Employer and employee split the cost of the premium, which is based on salary, not health. So if you get an increase in salary one year, you get the equivalent of getting soaked with higher taxes the next year. However, if you cannot maintain your salary level (happened to me in a sales incentive heavy job after Lehman downturn), you will be digging into your savings to pay the premium for the next year.
Additionally, 70 or 80% of your bill is nice if you have a small problem, like a toothache or a cold. However, people tend to visit the doctor for things like a cold or a fever, and doctors often become prescription writers who may or may not have time to spend time with you to understand your health situation.
Of course, when you have a big problem, such as cancer, that 20-30% you are paying gets very expensive. My mother-in-law's battle with cancer was a great financial burden to my wife's family, and ultimately she didn't survive. My friend also had some kind of circulatory problem with his leg, and feared he was going to lose it to amputation for some time. He still has yet to get a real explanation on what the problem was. So in serious cases of people I know, socialized medicine is 0 for 2.
I am not defending our medical system as ideal. Employer provided health insurance made more sense when people didn't change jobs much, and obviously now we have problems with people who cannot obtain it. It is also a problem for people who suddenly have a serious illness, like cancer. But I am not impressed with the prospect of a single payer system. For the record, I currently am not enrolled in Japan's social insurance, and pay my medical bills out of pocket. I know it is risky, but there are very few private insurance options.
In my opinion the corporate medical insurers are the money changers in the temple of medicine; they add no value but cause much aggravation. USA needs to get smart and switch to universal coverage, everybody in and nobody out. If the wealthier people choose to go with a concierge or boutique medical practice, that's their choice. But even now the concierge practices often require patients to have additional insurance for hospital coverage.
Privatization is not always more efficient than the public sector, depending upon what the issue in question is–we can see that with respect to the health and health insurance industry.
The big problem with the public sector is that the "right" people don't get to skim off a part of the pie… bureaucrats and practitioners get it rather than health industry CEOs and managers and stockholders. This is, by ideological definition, inefficient (because efficiency actually means profit rather than any structural or practical efficiency–the structural or practical efficiency that does exist only exists insofar as it is perceived to increase profit).
This is why there is a constant pressure to shift social security/retirement (or any public sector structure) to the private sector… so that people can make money off of it. It isn't a concern about efficiency or large-scale economics. Those are usually rationalizations (not by everyone involved in the argument, but it is on the part of the prime movers in the argument–there are always believers as well as manipulators).
The same mechanism applies to the public schooling system and voucher programs, to a large degree.
We saw the same thing happen with privatization of aspects of the military.
I trust the government far more than I trust insurance companies or Wall Street financiers. Insurance companies and financiers are CERTAINLY not working in my interest by ANY stretch of the imagination… because that is not why they exist–they exist to make themselves (and others) money. I trust them to do what is best for THEM–sometimes I happen to get lucky and its good for me too, but that is not a requirement (from their perspective).


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The Chiefland Cheerleading Team held a mid-summer cake auction and the politicians, public officials and community turned out to satisfy their sweet tooth.
Auctioneer Chad Johnson who handled the bidding at the Thursday, July 17, event said 46 items — and some that were donated back to raise money a second and third time — netted nearly $5,000 for the team's expenses.
"For a summertime fund raiser it was very successful," Johnson said.
Property values are up a smidgen this year, so the Levy County Commission will be giving property owners a break, tentatively dropping the millage from last year's 8.3307 to 8.2741 mils.
Fanning Springs City Council was on the verge of joining the technological age at an emergency meeting held last Tuesday, the object in question being whether or not absent council members could join meetings, and participate, via Skype or FaceTime.
The books are not yet closed for the Aug. 26 primary and 4,443 absentee ballots are in the mail headed to voters who requested them. Another 46 have gone out to Florida residents who are in the military – who received 16 electronically, or who work or travel overseas.
A 7-year-old from Gainesville suffered serious injury and an 8-year-old companion from Trenton suffered minor injury after both were in an ATV accident on private property on Northeast 10th Avenue on Thursday afternoon.
The younger child was transported to Shands Hospital at UF Health in Gainesville for treatment.
Both are not being identified due to their ages.
The Chiefland City Commission will consider a proposed contract for a new city manager and a staff recommendation to go with a 5 percent increase in city employee health insurance coverage when it meets Monday night at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
Interim City Manager/Deputy Clerk Mary Ellzey, who has been offered the city manager position would receive a $65,000 per year salary — just $500 a year more than what was paid to Kevin Gay, the city manager whose contract the commission refused to renew at the end of May.
A Chiefland woman has been arrested on two counts of cruelty to animal charges after a veterinarian's office reported the family's pet, a young Shepard mix, had been brought in with gunshot wounds.
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation on Tuesday ordered insurance companies to terminate a 1.3 percent assessment on most property insurance policies that has been used to pay off past hurricane claims.
The assessment will be eliminated on policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2015 — 18 months ahead of schedule, due to an early payoff of the bonds used to pay the claims.
One person was airlifted and another was transported to Shands Hospital at UF Health following a Friday July 18 wreck involving three vehicles on U.S. Highway 27A south of Bronson.
Frederick Anthony Roech, 43, of Bronson was airlifted with serious injuries, while the passenger in his vehicle, Kimberly Dawn Moore, 39, of Bronson, was transported due to minor injuries.
Mosquitoes are expected to be bad this season, and county officials are urging residents to take precautions.
"I think it's gonna' be a monster," said Levy County Director of Parks and Recreation and mosquito control Matt Weldon about the swarms of biting insects he predicts will be an issue during coming months.
Florida, with about 80 known species inhabiting the state, is no stranger to the mosquito, but recent rains and rising temperatures guarantee the problematic pests will be out in droves.
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By ASHLEIGH LIVINGSTON
---- — PLATTSBURGH — Completion of a new building on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus has been delayed, in part, as work that the college judged inadequate is redone.
According to SUNY Plattsburgh Vice President for Administration John Homburger, one of the structure's exterior walls was not constructed according to specifications, prompting college officials to request the wall be rebuilt.
"There really wasn't a safety issue, per se," Homburger said. "It was purely workmanship.
"It was obvious that the workmanship was not at a standard that was acceptable to us."
Located at the corner of Draper Avenue and Cornelia Street, the academic building was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects and is being constructed by the Pike Company, based in Rochester.
It will be the future home of SUNY Plattsburgh's Department of Computer Science and School of Business and Economics.
The $14.2 million project is funded by the five-year plan of the SUNY Construction Fund.
The setback, combined with other construction-related delays, has pushed the building's substantial completion date from the end of this month to mid January 2013.
Concerns about the adequacy of the building's exterior wall, Homburger said, arose over the past couple of months as it was taking shape.
College officials, he noted, found it didn't meet their visual expectations and also had also not been constructed to specifications when it came to through-wall flashing.
SUNY Plattsburgh Capital Project Manager Richard Larche explained that through-wall flashing catches water that may enter the interior of a wall and dishes it up from the back surface to the front surface of the wall and then outside.
Without properly installed through-water flashing, he said, there is a potential for water to build up in a wall's interior, necessitating future repairs.
"If you don't address those issues, you live with them, and that's what we have grown to get much better at," Homburger said.
"By doing it properly, it reduces the potential for maintenance in the future."
However, according to Homburger, the Pike Company was reluctant to fulfill the college's request for a new wall, as it felt the workmanship met construction-industry standards.
"The fact is they felt that the workmanship was fine," he said.
Resolving the issue took time, he added, as several people were called in to look at the wall, including officials from the SUNY Construction Fund, who agreed that the wall did not meet specifications.
Ultimately, the Pike Company agreed to tear it down and has begun to reconstruct it.
"When we don't get listened to in a reasonable way, we'll stand our ground, and that's what we did in this case," Homburger said.
"The most important thing is keep the project going, and that was the right decision everybody made."
A representative for the Pike Company declined to comment.
As of now, the rebuild comes at no additional cost to SUNY Plattsburgh; however, Homburger added, the Pike Company could file a claim stating that the college is responsible for some or all of the cost of reconstructing the wall.
"It could end up in a claim that they felt that it (the first wall) was fine, and then we would argue with them that it wasn't fine," he said.
The actual cost of the rebuild has not yet been assessed, though Homburger noted it's likely not a great deal of money.
Other factors contributing to the delay in the building's completion include modifications having to be made to the structure's design and the placement of functions throughout the building.
"All of those things happen, and sometimes they're no one's fault, sometimes they're oversights, and sometimes they're just by design," he said. "And they've all kind of slowly accumulated to this point now where we have lost time."
It was originally anticipated that SUNY Plattsburgh's Computer Science and Business and Economics faculty would move into the new building over the college's winter break in December and January and that classes would be conducted there beginning at the start of the spring semester in 2013.
However, the college now plans for faculty to move in over the spring break in mid March, with the first classes likely scheduled there in summer and fall of next year.
"It'll be there, and it'll be essentially empty for a couple months waiting for us to occupy it," Homburger said.
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Katie Couric is a natural in front of the teleprompter, but could the CBS Evening News anchor keep the rhythm of a waltz or the fluid footwork of the quick step?
Couric thinks she could: "My secret fantasy, sadly, is to be on Dancing With the Stars," she told US Magazine.
But the 53-year-old mother of two was not completely convinced she was ready to go from the newsroom to the ballroom.
"I don't know, those skimpy outfits!" said Couric. "Seriously, it'd be like, 'Paging Jenny Craig, stat!'"
Couric's other reservation about competing on Dancing With the Stars was joining the ranks of reality TV stars like Kate Gosselin and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino.
"I really don't understand the whole genre to be honest with you," she added about reality TV. "You know, God love them if they're willing to invite people into every aspect of their personal life."
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Dave Magazu '80 is in his third season as the Denver Broncos offensive line coach —a position in which he owns six years of NFL experience and 29 years overall. Denver's offense has put together a record-setting year thanks to the efforts of quarterback Peyton Manning, as the Broncos set new NFL records for offensive points in a season, passing touchdowns, and passing yards gained. Under Magazu's watch, the offensive line has allowed the fewest sacks (20) and the third-fewest quarterback hurries (54) among the 32 NFL teams. Magazu earned a degree in Physical Education and was a four-year starter as a defensive tackle and a member of both the 1976 and 1978 teams that allowed the fewest points (128) in the past 45 years of Springfield College football program.
Jessamyn McIntyre '04 has a multitude of media roles dealing directly with the Seattle Seahawks. In addition to being an Executive Producer at 710 ESPN Seattle, McIntyre is a co-host of the Fone Zone at Northwest Cable News. The 'Fone Zone' is a popular Seahawks post-game call-in show and airs directly after the Seahawks network broadcast. McIntyre graduated with a degree in Communications/Sports Journalism and was a four-year member of the women's volleyball program at Springfield College.
Ron VanDeVeen '89 is the current Senior Vice President of Events for MetLife Stadium, which is set to host the first-ever Super Bowl in the New York metropolitan area. VanDeVeen graduated from Springfield with a degree in Business.
Brendan Burger '08 will serve as a Club House Assistant during the Super Bowl for the Denver Broncos, accommodating the team and ensuring things run smoothly during their time in the stadium. Burger, who graduated with a degree in Sport Management, has spent the last five-plus years as an Equipment Assistant for the New York Jets.


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U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett was in the giving mood on Tuesday, with local law enforcement agencies being the beneficiaries.
Hogsett doled out oversized checks totaling more than $50,000 in federal grant money to the Floyd County Sheriff's Department, Clark County Sheriff's Office and the Jeffersonville and Clarksville police departments.
The funds were drawn from the U.S. Justice Department's Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant that is designed to support local law enforcement programs across the country. The grants are intended to be flexible, and can be used for new initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment and supplies, according to Hogsett.
Hogsett, federal attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, first met with Floyd County Sheriff Darrell Mills and Floyd County Commissioner Steve Bush and presented a check of $12,000. Hours later Hogsett met with Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore and police Chief Chris Grimm.
"We try to bring as much funding in from the federal government as we possibly can," Mills said. "We want to bring funds back to the community to help us keep up with the bad guys."
Hogsett handed over a check of $40,257 to Moore and Grimm, with the money to be shared among the Jeffersonville Police Department, the Clark County Sheriff's Office and the Clarksville Police Department. The Clark County Sheriff's Office will receive approximately $3,000 and Clarksville police will be allotted nearly $14,000. An additional $4,000 will go toward grant administration fees.
Grimm said the nearly $18,000 his department will be allotted will go toward radios used by officers and to purchase Taser cartridges.
"It takes away some of the costs that the city doesn't have to put forward," Grimm said of the grant funds. "We have a lot of outdated radios that move in and out, and they are not cheap."
Grimm said it is especially beneficial to receive the funding as less and less federal grant monies are being distributed to law enforcement agencies across the country.
"The federal grants are drying up. A lot of them are no longer available," Grimm said. "It helps tremendously with buying equipment that, otherwise, we, potentially, couldn't purchase. It helps keep the stuff our officers use on a daily basis up to date and in working order."
Moore said he was impressed by having the federal attorney make the special trip to Jeffersonville.
"For Hogsett to come here — that is pretty darn significant," he said.
While in New Albany, Hogsett also took time to honor seven law enforcement officers with U.S. Attorney's Awards. The seven officers played key roles in the arrest and conviction of 14 individuals involved in a multistate drug and gun trafficking ring.
The officers included an undercover officer with the Floyd County Sheriff's Department, a trooper from the Indiana State Police and federal officers. Names are being withheld to protect identities.
Hogsett said only 20 U.S. Attorney's Awards were given out in the Southern District which includes 60 counties, and two-thirds of the state's population. He said the awards are given annually to officers who "go above and beyond the call of duty."
"This was an important collaboration effort between law enforcement officials. This operation was bringing large amounts of drugs and guns to Southern Indiana and Kentucky," Hogsett said during the short ceremony at the Pine View Youth Center and Government Center in New Albany. "If we are not cooperating and collaborating with one another in this day of stressed resources, then we are not getting the job done."
All 14 arrested have already accepted plea agreements and are currently serving time.
"The investigation was huge for this area," said Thomas Gorman, assistant special agent in charge with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Louisville. "This was a violent organization that brought destruction to this community. Now it's gone and that has made a significant impact to this community."


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It is nearly impossible to find the words to properly describe the insanity that was the Style Villa. Overwhelming, ridiculous, surreal, fabulous – these words are all accurate, but by no means do they say it all. Let me start from the beginning…
Earlier this summer, Zazzle was offered an exclusive invite to be a part of one of the most attended celebrity gifting suites in the industry. The Style Villa. The Style Villa is renowned for attracting huge stars, and for attaining levels of cool that all other events only aspire to. What did participation get us? Three days of hosting a stylish and sexy poolside bungalow at the swanky Venus Pool Club at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, where only the very posh are privileged enough to sunbathe and sip cocktails. Access to celebs and other industry A-listers were promised, and Zazzle decided to put our best foot forward by attempting something we hadn't done before – taking the Zazzle show on the road. So we fired up the party bus, stocked up on redbull and cheezits, and headed to Vegas! When we arrived, we took our suped-up apparel printers poolside, and allowed celebs to design their own tees and have them made on the spot. Needless to say, it was a HUGE hit. Here is day one…
Thursday, September 7:
It is over 100 degrees, but the team is performing beautifully – we unload our truck, and set up our bungalow without a hitch. Many hours, empty water bottles, and sweat soaked shirts later, everything is perfect and running smoothly. Ready for the big event! See the photos here:
Friday, September 8:
Opening Day! The sun was shining, the pool was sparkling, and the temperature was rising. Dozens of gorgeous bikini clad models slinked poolside passing high end shots, cocktails, and snacks. My team (consisting of four handsome, single guys) somehow sweet talked them into our bungalow for a quick photo op. That's Zazzle's very own Freddy Fresh!
Since most people were traveling on Friday, it was a pretty slow day until late in the afternoon when we saw some of the biggest names in the music industry! We made a shirt for Timbaland that read "Timbo da King". Apparently, it went over so well his "people" called our people and asked for MORE of them! We printed them up, delivered them to his hotel and he wore them to his big Vegas partay that very night! Lookin good Timbo. Check it out here:
While superstar 50Cent refused to enter bungalows of any apparel companies (I am guessing due to an existing endorsement deal), we got an indirect request to create a shirt for him. Our designer Josh worked his wizardry and whipped up this baby for him, inspired by his recent cash-in with SmartWater:
While we couldn't get a photo of the actual delivery, he was thrilled with it, and let us know by shouting, "I can whe-are dis!" with a huge grin. He really showed us love by wearing it out that very night! Apparently the SmartWater folks weren't too happy with the public display of his recent earnings, as the SmartWater PR team came to find me the next morning to learn the details… that's what happens when people express themselves!
Coltrane Curtis hung out with us for a bit, making a totally raunchy and inappropriate shirt! While he went a little off the deep end with his shirt design, he was a very good sport, and allowed me to deck him out with lipstick in order to leave his kiss print for our Sealed With a Kiss campaign coming up in February of '08.
Last, but not least, Desperate Housewives star Josh Henderson left his lip prints and designed several custom shirts. Josh was great and had a lot of fun with it. Not to be outdone, Zazzle's own star in training, Mike Karns got in on the action (seen in the middle). Rumor has it Mike's in the running for a walk-on roll as the next love scandal on the show….has there been a milkman? :)
All in all, a fabulous and successful day! Stay tuned for juicy details from day two!