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Friday, 30 September 2011
Blast 'hits Turkish military HQ' - BBC News
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Another drop in Colorado sales-tax revenue - Kansas City Business Journal:
percent — in May from the same mont theyear before, girding legislators for what they expect will be anothef round of cuts in next year’s fiscalk budget. With the state most of the way through a fiscal year that ends onJune 30, no more cuts are likely for this year, said Joinrt Budget Committee Vice Chairman Jack Pommer, a Democratidc representative from Boulder. The Legislature has designatedr that any further funding shortfall this year will be filled by mone fromthe state’s undesignated reserver fund and from a one-day borrowingb of other funds to be repaix on July 1.
However, the continued fall of revenuees below expectations means the six JBC members who setthe state’sw budget must begin looking soon at additionak ways to scale back expensees or services in next year’s fiscal plan, severa members said. “I guess this means we’re not out of the woodas yet,” Pommer said. “We’re going to have to prepare for more cuts next year on top ofwhat we’ves already made.” Legislators filled a $1.
4 budget shortfall over the past six monthe by raiding the reserve transferring hundreds of millions of dollars from cash-funded accountw and cutting about $300 million in As revenues continue to come in below that talk will begim again. State sales-tax receipts for May were off by $30 a 17.9 percent drop from last year. Individualk income taxes fell by $66.3 millioj or 19.7 percent, and corporate incom e taxes droppedby $2.2 million or 13.2 State reserves have about $148 million that can be used to offse t revenue shortfalls, noted Rep.
Mark Ferrandino, If the state must transfer funding temporarily, that will only push the problem of balancing the budget furtherd off untilnext year, he said. “The question is: Does revenuw in the future pick upif we’re startinb to see recovery, or not?” Ferrandino said. “We’re starting to see some indications that the economy is startintto recover, if not level
Monday, 26 September 2011
Hell's Angels motorcycle club member facing charges in deadly casino brawl - CNN
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
New Facebook Profile Design and Vocabulary - Business Insider
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Thursday, 22 September 2011
Husband: Kimberly Fry Said She Wished Daughter 'Wasn't Around' - Patch.com
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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Cases of the Swine Flu viruws are growing throughout the Dayton area and with suspected cases threatening to close down an areamiddle school. Generalk Motors Corp. said Tuesday it has a deal to sell off itsHummed brand, but the name of the buyer and purchaser price are not being disclosed. Statd and local officials have been working the past several days to contacgtNCR Corp. amid rumors the company migh t relocate its headquarters and Dayto operationsto Georgia. NCR confirmed Tuesday morning it will relocate its headquarters andnearly 1,300 Dayton-areaz jobs to Georgia. The worst of the economic downturj likelyis over, and the U.S.
economy may grow by abouy 3 percent in the second half of the a top economist at Wells Fargk told a Denver audience Thursday Shares ofMonsanto Co. continuefd to slide early then perked upa bit, afte r the company reported Wednesday that its fiscal 2009 earnings would be at the lower end of guidanced because price cuts by Chinese competitors and wetter weather in the U.S. have led to loweer sales of its Roundup glyphosate State and local officials expressed anger Tuesda y at the lack of communication fromNCR Corp. abouty its plans to relocate its headquarters from Dayton to AKSteel Corp.
stands to lose more than $9 milliohn as a direct result of GeneralMotors
Saturday, 17 September 2011
EMR contractors face stiff compliance expectations - bizjournals:
Under HIPAA, contractors who find a security breach that could exposwa patient’s health history to anyone outside of the medica profession are required to notifhy all individuals who are affected. The changes, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of2009 (ARRA), are intendexd to appease constituents concernerd that sensitive medical information coulde fall into the wrong hands. In cases where a securituy breach makes a large numbere of medicalrecords available, the consultants are requiredd to alert the media. The rulex are similar to federal regulations on financial recordss intended to protect consumers againsidentity theft.
Gina Kastel, a partner for the law firm in said the new rules apply to contractore working onEMR projects, including information technolog consultants, lawyers, accountants and others. “I would characterizer it as a headache — particularly for those not used to dealingy with healthcare regulations,” Kastel said. “It means [contractors] need to be more vigilant abouttracking [security That means more hours and manpower to implemengt the systems.
” Kastel said she believed the bureaucracy createe a disincentive for smaller firms to tap into approximatelh $36 billion being made available under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of the federal stimuluss plan. “It might not be worth the hasslew for a lot ofsmalkl firms,” Kastel said. “You have to comply and continuseto comply.” Kastel said she’s also concernedd about the aggressive timeframe in which contractorxs are expected to conform with the new She noted that medical professional and financial services had many years to get up to speee with HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
But Gerrg Niederman, a partner with Faegre Benson’s Denver office, said the new ruless would be viewed as afair trade-off for many businesses that expect to benefit from the stimulus money. “Thid is clearly a higher compliance burden, no doubr about that,” he said. “Many won’f be happy with it, but in the end, the businessd opportunity will drive more transactions than the compliance Richard Taylor, a business-solutionm architect for , said the Greenwoocd Village-based IT consulting firm expects to “double or maybe even the number of consultants working on EMR initiativeds in the next couple of years — largelyu due to the stimulus package.
Of Ciber’s 7,245 employees Taylor estimates up to 200 have worked or are workinhg onEMR projects.