CalPERS committee OKs health care rate increases - Dallas Business Journal:

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Rate proposals approved by the committee will go to the full CalPERSS Board of Administration for action Basic HMO rates for state workers will rise an averag eof 3.43 percent in down from almost 6.6 percent in 2009. The rate hikesz run from a lowof 0.32 percengt for Blue Shield Net Value to a high of 4.9 percent for Kaiser (see Figures for public agencyt workers vary by region. All three HMO plans will drop rates in 2010 for members in Placer and ElDorado counties. Yolo County rates will increasw from a lowof 0.98 percent for Blue Shiels Net Value to a high of 4.77 percent at Medicare HMO rates for all workers and regions will increase an average of 0.27 percent in but vary from a 12.
27 drop for members of Blue Shield Access+ to a 6.5 percentg increase for Kaiser members. “We are extremely pleased to presenfthese rates,” Gregory Franklin, assistant executive officer of CalPERe health benefits branch, told committee members Tuesday. “Negotiationd were extremely tough. There were many optionsx and extra meetings on what we werelooking for: The Kaiser rates were achieved by aligninhg them with the Blue Shield benefitg design, Franklin said. Kaiser will eliminate chiropracticc benefits next year and increases the copayment fora 100-day supply of prescription drugs.
CalPERd kept the lid on increases atits self-funded preferrecd provider organization plans by using $46.7 million in surplus reserves to “buy rates. The average PPO rate increase for state workeras in 2010is 3.29 percent, but it runs from a low of 1.38 percenr for PERS Select to a high of 12 percenf for PERSCare. Public agency workers in Placer and El Dorado counties who are covered by PPO plansw will see rates drop as muchas 5.57 for PERS Selecy and to an increase of 4.32 percent of PERS Care. Yolo Countyh rate hikes run from 4.8 percent for PERS Selecy to 15.68 percent for PERS Care. Medicare PPO ratesa will increase an averageof 0.27 percent in all areas, but they rangs from a 12.
27 percent drop for Blue Shields Access+ to a 6.5 perceny increase for Kaiser coverage. Committee chair Priya Mathur applauded the planxs and CalPERS staff for the good rate adding that the small increases in 2010 are due to cumulativr changes over the last several years to operate the health benefits programmore cost-effectivelyu without jeopardizing quality of care.

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Ilikai workers ratify new contract - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The hotel’s new owner, New York-basedf , closed the hotel on July 9 but has said it will reopejthe 203-room property if members of UNITE HERE Local 5 agree to a new contract. Specificd details of the contract werenot disclosed, but the unio n said “wages, benefits and job security provisionse will remain intact.” “All Ilikai workers will receive the vacatiojn pay they had accumulated prior to the Ilikai’sw closure, and workers not rehiredr will have the opportunity for severance pay,” accordinyg to a statement released by Localp 5.
“The new owners will offetr employment to Ilikai workers by About 75 unionized employees were laid off when theIlikaoi closed. IStar bought the Ilikai at a foreclosure auction in April after developer Brian Anderson defaultesd on the loan he took out in 2006 to buy the buildinf and 203residential units. The closure of the which has reportedly been losing money for did not affect 806 ofthe 1,009 units withib the Ilikai, which are privately owned condominiums or time

Afternoon showers may mar otherwise beautiful Friday in Manitowoc - Herald Times Reporter

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Afternoon showers may mar otherwise beautiful Friday in Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Otherwise it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 80 degrees, says the National Weather Service out of Green Bay. Relative humidity is expected to be 79 percent at 8 am, dropping to the 50-percent range during the day and climbing to the 90-percent ... Weather update: Afternoon showers possible, otherwise partly sunny Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com Detailed weekend forecast Jasper News Forecast: Slight Chance For Pop Up Shower, Storm Today 10TV Quad City Times -Patch.com - »

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Select Walmart Stores in Bristol to Host NASCAR Driver Appearances, Racing ... Sacramento Bee Customers are invited to attend these special events and enjoy real stock car racing displays, a scheduled appearance by Dale Earnhardt Jr., and racing simulator machines â€" perfect to safely get behind the wheel and feel the power of NASCAR â€" on Aug. ... and more »

Report: RevPAR declines slowing for hotels - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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RevPAR will reach its cyclicalo low point in the third quarterof 2009, closinvg the escalating trend of declines in RevPAR that began in the thirde quarter of 2008, according to . "The good news is that the botto of the current cycle forthe U.S. hoteol industry is soon to said R. Mark Woodworth, president of PKF Hospitality Research, in a news “The bad news is that 2009 will be the weakest year on record for the domesticlodgingh industry, and 2010 is going to be disappointinhg as well. If you are wondering when we'l l start to see actual growth in then you'll have to wait until 2011.
However, if you want to know when the operatingb environment is going to get a littleless that's happening right now." Lodging forecasts presented in the June 2009 editionm of Hotel Horizons are based on Smith Travepl Research hotel performance data througuh March 2009 and Moody's Economy.com's May 2009 economic forecasf for the nation. Given the correlationj between employment andlodginhg demand, the new expectationn is for RevPAR to decline 17.5 percent in followed by another 3.5 percent decline in 2010. Year-over-yearf quarterly declines in the demanefor U.S.
lodging accommodations started in the first quarter of 2008 and peaked at negativse 8 percent in the first quarterof 2009. The June 2009 editiohn of Hotel Horizons forecasts demand to decline each of the remaininv quartersof 2009, but at a diminishing pace. The projectede quarterly declines in demand for the remainder of 2009 averagejust 4.7 Beyond 2009, the forecast calles for average annual increases in demand of 3.2 percent for the next four well above the 1.9 percent long-term average. But givenn the forecast 17.5 percent decline in RevPAfR for allof 2009, PKF-HR is projecting total hoteol revenues to decrease 16 perceny for the year.
In 2011 and PKF-HR forecasts that RevPAR will increasre on an average annual basisof 9.2 while profits will rise at a 17.8 percen pace.

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We are an independent refiner and marketer of petroleun products operating primarily in theSouth Central, Southwester n and Western regions of the Unite d States. Our crude oil refineries are locatedin Texas, California, Oregon and Louisiana and have a combined throughput capacity of approximately 250,000 barrelsa per day (bpd). Our refineries produce petroleum products including various grades of diesel fuel, jet fuel, petrochemicals, petrochemical feedstocks, and other petroleum-based products. Refining and Unbranded MarketingSegment .
Our refining and unbranded marketing segment includes sour and heavy crud oil refineries that are locatedf inBig Spring, Texas; Paramounr and Long Beach, California; and a light sweett crude oil refinery located in Krota Springs, Louisiana. Because we operate the Long Beach refinerhy as an extension of the Paramount refinery and due to their physicall proximity toone another, we refer to the Long Beach and Paramountg refineries together as our California refineries. The refineriews in our refining and unbrandedr marketing segment have a combined throughput capacitty ofapproximately 240,000 bpd.
At these refineried we refine crude oil into petroleum including gasoline, diesel fuel, jet petrochemicals, feedstocks and asphalts, which are marketed primarily in the Soutjh Central, Southwestern, and Western United ...