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To balance their budgets without cutting police and firefighters, those St. Paul departments already have laid off plumbers, office assistants and other civilian support staff.
They're looking to outside grants to hire crime analysts or technology specialists, and their vehicle fleets are being replaced or expanded slowly, though that likely will increase repair costs.
"The pendulum has swung as far as it can safely swing in reductions in support services," Fire Chief Tim Butler wrote in a June 10 budget memo to the mayor's office.
But there's no cash windfall on the horizon. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman has alerted the city's 17 departments that they'll be expected to cut their combined spending by at least $2 million next year. The goal is to whittle away a foreseeable $9.6 million gap in the 2015 budget.
Budget memos to Coleman's office from directors of several of the city's largest departments reveal how big a task that might be. The police and fire departments are both hoping to increase rather than reduce spending on what they deem core city services -- which they say are already suffering from lean staffing.
The Department of Public Works is trying to figure out how to keep up with snow emergencies, demands for road salt and pothole repair while switching to a wheeled-cart-based home recycling program by spring 2015.
The Parks and Recreation Department, which recently privatized management of the Como and Phalen golf courses to save money, is trying to figure out how to continue its hanging basket program and whether to charge for parking in regional parks. Stump removal is competing with tree pruning. New facilities such as Pedro Park and Victoria Park will further bite into the budget.
But it's the two public safety departments that have sounded the loudest alarm. Mayoral spokeswoman Tonya Tennessen emphasized that all of the city's department heads have been asked to ponder hypothetical cuts and budget increases for discussion purposes.
"It's important not to draw conclusions about what will be in the mayor's budget, as these documents do not reflect that," she said.
Many steps remain before the 2015 budget is finalized. Coleman will deliver his annual budget address on Aug. 13, when he'll reveal his strategy for filling in fiscal holes. His proposal will launch four months of discussions with the St. Paul City Council, who will meet with department heads from mid-August through late September.
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By Mandilee Loomis
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Two Republicans are squaring off in the Aug. 5 primary to see who will face incumbent Daniel Kildee in the November general election. The 5th District includes Genesee County, part of Saginaw County and Bay and Arenac Counties.
Allen D. Hardwick-R, 50, Davison.
Hardwick is a small business owner and computer technician. He is the owner and sole proprietor of Computech Computer Services.
He is seeking office in the U.S. House of Representatives in Michigans 5th Congressional District.
He was a high school graduate of Paint Valley High in Bainbridge, Ohio; and attended Pickaway-Ross VoTech, Apprentice Electrician, Class of 1981.
Community involvement: For the last 10 years I have been very active in servant and leadership roles in my church and community serving as Usher, Home Group Ministry Leader, Mens Group Ministry Chair, City Wide Community Outreach Program, building maintenance and the IT department. Until just recently I headed a live and archive video streaming ministry of which I started and have been working it for the last 2 years.
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This country is going in the wrong direction and I want to make a difference and help take this country back to our founders roots.
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By Elizabeth O'Brien, MarketWatch
Imagine youre remodeling your home. The plumber is installing the pipes, the electrician is running the wiring, and the roofer is laying the shingles. Problem is, theyre each doing their job in isolation, never talking to one another even though theyre working on the same project.
That would never fly on a building site, but thats the state of health care for most patients today. Despite working on the same projectyouphysicians and other medical professionals across different offices don't often communicate about shared patients. You almost dont have a general contractor to look over the whole thing, said Jennie Chin Hansen, CEO of the American Geriatrics Society.
By middle age, many of us have at least one chronic health issue. In 2009-2010, 21% of adults ages 45 to 64 had two or more chronic conditions, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Among those 65 and over, that number rose to 45%. (Examples of chronic conditions common among older adults include high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and arthritis. Mental health conditions, such as depression and schizophrenia, are also considered chronic conditions.)
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And patients often see a specialist for each chronic condition, in addition to a primary care doctor. They go to someone for their kidney stones, someone for their diabetes, and someone for their cardiac condition, said Dr. Steven R. Counsell, president-elect of the American Geriatrics Society and Mary Elizabeth Mitchell Professor and director of geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Heres the issue: A lack of coordination among all these medical professionals can result in a host of problems, including adverse drug interactions, conflicting instructions and duplicated tests, all of which can be hard on the health and the wallet.
The medical community recognizes the problem, and there are early, hopeful signs of change. The Affordable Care Act provided for the creation of accountable care organizations, also known as ACOs, which are groups of medical providers that have a financial incentive to provide more efficient care. Nearly 11% of Medicare beneficiaries are currently served by one, and the concept has also gained traction outside of the government program.
Medicare, which covers some 52 million adults ages 65 and over and those with certain disabilities, plans to introduce a chronic-care management code next year, allowing doctors to bill the government for certain non-face-to-face time they spend helping patients manage chronic conditions. Private insurers have also begun to reimburse medical providers for care coordination, whether thats paying the salary of a staff care coordinator or a paying a per-member monthly fee as part of a patient centered medical home, another model for improved primary care. Insurers are realizing that these upfront payments can save bigger costs down the line.
Historically, insurers have reimbursed medical providers per procedure, a payment structure that critics say lends itself to overtreatment rather than coordinated, efficient care. Doctors typically didnt receive any payment for calling another doctor on a patients behalf. And even if they did, many couldnt realistically do that for every patient, since a full-time primary care doctor in a single-specialty practice has a median count of 2,223 patients, according to MGMA-ACMPE, the largest membership association for medical practice managers in the U.S.
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General manager, Kevin Webster, on the deck of an Oyster 625 being built at Oyster Yachts workshops at Hoveton. Picture: Denise Bradley
Stephen Pullinger Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:00 AM
EDP Top 100 firm Oyster Yachts is seeking to hire a range of new tradesmen as it prepares to step up production at its newly-expanded workshops in Hoveton.
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Site general manager Kevin Webster said they would be looking to take on an extra 10 staff in the next two months and probably a further 10 by the end of the year.
Jobs advertised last Thursday in the EDP included boat joiners/ outfitters, electrician, marine engineer, technical and quality assurance manager and technical administrator.
Mr Webster said: With 130 on the workshop floor at the moment we are already the second biggest employer in Hoveton after Roys. Apart from the jobs advertised we have just taken on six apprentices, two more stores people and other joiners.
The luxury yacht builder, which bought the former Landamores site in Tunstead Road, Hoveton, two years ago, has been successful in bucking the tough economic climate and seeking out new markets such as Russia and Poland.
Mr Webster said: Some of the boats we now have on order are not for delivery until 2017.
To further build on their impressive order book, they are currently working on two new models, the 545 and 475, both revamps of earlier designs.
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GLASGOW Around this time four years ago, Canadian team general manager Scott Stevenson was scrubbing floors at the Commonwealth Games athletes village in India.
Canadas team had delayed its travel to New Delhi for as long as a week for some athletes because of serious concerns about hygiene and security in the village.
Canadian officials called the athletes quarters unlivable. Canada was among several countries that talked about pulling out.
Four years later, Stevenson and the rest of the Canadian team in Glasgow can focus on competition rather than cleaning and that alone could help Canada climb back into the top three on the Commonwealth medal table.
The challenge of Delhi was incredible, said Stevenson. We were looking at turning on taps that ran right to the floor. Flushing toilets that didnt flush. There were live wires. We had to buy equipment and cleaning supplies.
We had to be, in so many ways, responsible for getting the village ready ourselves.
Stevenson arrived in Glasgow to inspect Canadas living quarters, and their some-385 beds. He was three or four rooms into it when he sat back and realized Wait a second, I havent made one note yet.
Here, we could hit the ground running, Stevenson said at the teams opening news conference Tuesday.
Canada is gunning for a top-three finish in Glasgow after finishing fourth in New Delhi behind Australia, England and the home country.
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MANILA, PhilippinesIt must be the songs that Rommel Montoya sings that have helped him in his fight against non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen and other organs of the immune system.
It may also be a combination of many things, including his intake of three glasses of malunggay juice every day. According to Rommels mother, Lourdes Montoya, her 15-year-old son seems to have beaten the disease although doctors at Philippine General Hospital have recommended that he undergo a positron emission tomography (PET) scan, an imaging test that uses a radioactive substance called a tracer just to make sure.
My husband, Remegio, is a mere electrician and is not capable of producing the P120,000 amount needed for the procedure which will be done at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital. I am asking your readers to please help my son, she told the Inquirer.
Earlier, doctors told Lourdes that Rommel must undergo the test to check if the cancer cells had really been killed or merely transferred to another part of his body.
Lourdes can be reached at 0915-9422607. For donations, her BDO bank account number (Las Pias branch) is 002661028974.Santiago R. Alcantara
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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Oversee the electrical installation field component, and ensure that projects are in compliance with national, state, and local codes. Responsible for interpreting line drawings, product literature. Successfully plan, permit, schedule, and execute the installation of the projects and maintain the proper company documents for each project. Responsible for installation, commissioning and service of Company's specialty VFD products, Rod Pump Controllers and general oilfield electrical equipment Represent as a field contact for the customer, interacts with the customer with integrity, and with a professional appearance and attitude - develop and maintain customer relations. Promote the merits of our Products and Company and sell additional equipment based on knowledge of customer needs as well as find out information regarding our competition that will be useful to the Company. Relay to Manager or appropriate sales personnel field intelligence and needs of the customer. Maintain log charts to document electrical repairs Work assignments carried out to the highest quality level. Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by supervisor within the physical constraints of the job.
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World War II veteran Mike Marcus, of Monee, holds medals and memorabilia from his service. | Supplied photo
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Mike Marcus saw some of the world while serving in the military police during World War II.
Years after his discharge, Marcus got to see more of it while traveling with his family, and this week his world will come to him when the Monee veteran celebrates his 100th birthday on Saturday.
Marcus served from 1944 to 1945 as a U.S. Army staff sergeant in the European and Pacific theaters. He was a part of the 93rd Coast Artillery unit and 785th Military Police Battalion, Company D. During his service, Marcus earned several medals and certificates of merit.
After serving, Marcus eventually trained as an electrician and worked as an electrical inspector until he was 90 years old. He now has a large family that includes grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who will gather for his upcoming birthday party.
Born on Chicagos South Side, Marcus graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1928 and briefly attended a city college. He later joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and spent a year cutting down trees in the state of Washington for $5 a day. An additional $25 a day of pay was sent to his parents.
Marcus worked a few other jobs in Chicago before Uncle Sam came calling.
On May 5, 1941, Marcus was drafted into the Army, but after basic training, he was hospitalized for three months in San Francisco following surgery. When he was released, Marcus was sent to the Mojave desert and floated among several companies. His original company already had been deployed overseas.
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The coroner told WDRB that 34-year-old Anthony Warner died at the scene.It happened at the site of an off-campus housing development being built for U of L students.
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After wrapping up a nine-month electrician training program at Everest College-San Bernardino in 2011, Kenneth Dewar hoped to get the career placement assistance he had been promised.
Then he spotted his own photo on a campus wall featuring "successfully placed" graduates. The school had counted his sporadic gigs as a freelance audio engineer, work he secured before ever enrolling.
"I was a mark in their book, and they didn't want to change it," said Dewar, 39, whose attempts to get placement assistance went nowhere.
As federal regulators move to shut down Everest's parent company, Corinthian Colleges Inc., corporate documents and interviews with company insiders provide a behind-the-scenes portrait of how Corinthian persuaded hundreds of thousands of low-income students to fork over as much as $40,000 for vocational degrees.
Interviews with staffers and students, along with government lawsuits and company regulatory filings, reveal a systematic effort to manipulate data used to recruit students and retain eligibility for federal student aid the lifeblood of company profits.
Federal and state investigators have long viewed Corinthian, based in Santa Ana, as one of the most problematic players in the troubled for-profit college industry, which has come under scrutiny for predatory marketing.
The student loan pipeline fueled the company's rapid enrollment growth, peaking at more than 110,000 students in 2010. Corinthian charges students up to 10 times the cost of a comparable community college education. That requires many of them to take on more debt than they can repay leaving taxpayers on the hook for mass defaults.
"It just made you feel dirty after a while," said Tyrone Gaines, who worked in corporate marketing and training at Corinthian's Santa Ana headquarters for three years ending last July. "They don't make money; they take money from the taxpayers. That's their whole business model."
Corinthian spokesman Kent Jenkins declined to make company executives available for interviews. In a statement, he said there is "clear evidence that students at Corinthian Colleges are well served by their education."
Jenkins cited a 61% overall graduation rate and a 69% job placement rate. Allegations of manipulating job placement rates are "without merit," the company said.
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