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McAfee, Inc. Reports 26 Percent Growth on Record Revenue of $397 ...
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
McAfee Secure Search Service, delivering one of the safest online search experiences for consumers, and McAfee SECURE(TM) for Web Sites, ...
Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial ... CNNMoney.com (press release)
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Horizon Bancorp Announces Record Second Quarter and Year-to-Date ...
MarketWatch - Jul 21, 2008
Horizon Bancorp may be reached on the World Wide Web at www.accesshorizon.com. Its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol HBNC. ...HBNC

CPI Financial
Investor Relations Earnings Release
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
"Our year-to-date ongoing earnings are 5 cents per share ahead of last year and we are on track to deliver earnings from continuing operations within our ...
Provident New York Bancorp: 23% Increase in Quarterly EPS to $0.16 CNNMoney.com (press release)
State Bancorp, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Earnings and Declares ... CNNMoney.com (press release)
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Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Jul 30, 2008
The call will be web-cast live by CNW Group and available for replay for thirty days. A link to the call is available from the shareholder information ...TSE:SM
TransAlta announces strong second quarter results; on-track to ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Jul 31, 2008
Year-to-date net earnings are lower due to the after-tax equity loss of $65 million related to the write-down of TransAlta's Mexico business. ...TAC
American Equity Reports Second Quarter 2008 Operating Income of ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 30, 2008
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statement was made and the company undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking ...AEL

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West Coast Bancorp Reports 2008 Second Quarter Earnings
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Jul 21, 2008
For more information, visit the Company's web site at http://www.wcb.com. Statements in this release regarding future events, performance or results are ...
Sun Bancorp, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results Primenewswire (press release)
Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results MSN Money
Washington Banking Reports Second Quarter 2008 Eps of $0.25 Trading Markets (press release)
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thinkorswim Group Inc. Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
CNNMoney.com (press release) - Jul 31, 2008
The call is being webcast by Thomson CCBN and will be available through our Web site at www.thinkorswim.com under Investor Relations. thinkorswim Group Inc. ...SWIM
UMC Reports 2008 Second Quarter Results
FOXBusiness - Jul 30, 2008
UMC can be found on the web at http://www.umc.com . Except for statements in respect of historical matters, the statements in this release contain ...UMC

Earthtimes (press release)
C&F Financial Corporation Announces Second Quarter Earnings and ...
MarketWatch - Jul 25, 2008
The decline in quarterly and year-to-date earnings for 2008 included the effects of (1) margin compression and competition for loans and deposits on net ...
StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Earnings PR Newswire (press release)
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Using neighbors to date web documents -
S Nunes, C Ribeiro, G David - … ACM international workshop on Web information and data …, 2007 - portal.acm.org
... and finally in-links (r=0.28). ... In this work we explore and evaluate a complementary
technique to date web docu- ments, specifically HTML documents. ...

Spatial and temporal variation in the structure of a freshwater food web -
PH Warren - Oikos, 1989 - JSTOR
... Food web structure As expected from Tab ... 1, food webs classified by habitat and sample
date show considerable ... m m fi z 30 - 20- 10- 0.04 0.12 0.2 0.28 0.36 0.08 ...

Fluorinated Organic Compounds in an Eastern Arctic Marine Food Web -
GT Tomy, W Budakowski, T Halldorson, PA Helm, GA … - Environmental Science & Technology, 2004 - pubs.acs.org
... 936X(04)09620-8 Web Release Date: October 26 ... An eastern Arctic marine food web was
analyzed for ... analyzed, and mean concentrations ranged from 0.28 ? 0.09 ng/g ...

… in Plants Online version contains Web-only data. Article, publication date, and citation information …
V Garcia, H Bruchet, D Camescasse, F Granier, D … - The Plant Cell Online, 2003 - Am Soc Plant Biol
... Online version contains Web-only data. Article, publication date, and citation
information can be found at www.plantcell ... 1 gl2-1/CH1 GL2 340 49 89 18 0.28 ? b ...

Web Release Date: March 7, 2008 -
CW Peng, TY Ke, L Brohan, M Richard-Plouet, JC … - feeds.acs.org
... ASAP Article , 10.1021/cm071038e Web Release Date: March 7 ... transformation of Figure
2d showed only one pair of fringes with distance 0.28 nm ? 0.34 nm ...
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Web Release Date: September 27, 2000
F Trautner, EH Cutin, CO Della Vedova, R Mews, H … - Inorg. Chem, 2000 - pubs.acs.org
... 10.1021/ic000253t S0020-1669(00)00253-6 Web Release Date: September 27 ... energy
differences E(HF) = 2.41, E(MP2) = 0.64, and E(B3LYP) = 0.28 kcal mol - 1 ...

Coincidences: Remarkable or Random? -
S Inquirer, S Briefs, S Features, W Columns - csicop.org
... be obtained by adding the probabilities for forty-one persons for the 2P (0.28)
and >2P ... an 83% probability that at least two should have died on the same date. ...

Web Release Date: June 20, 2002
S Afternoon, C Enzymology - Biochemistry, 2002 - pubs.acs.org
... 10.1021/bi025165u S0006-2960(02)05165-6 Web Release Date: June 20 ... were for
2,3-butanediol 6.0%:-0.86; ethanol 4.0%:-0.24; propan-2-ol 3.0%:0.28; butan-1 ...

[PDF] An experiment to characterize videos stored on the Web -
S Acharya, B Smith - Proceedings of MMCN, 1998 - inforoots.org
... 3.5 Duration Movies on the Web are short. ... Date Range ... 0.58 IBBPBB 15.7% 0.70 IBBPBBPBBPBB
8.1% 0.50 IIP 3.5% 0.70 IPBB 2.0% 0.62 IPBBBPBBBB 1.9% 0.28 IPBBIBB 4.2 ...

[PDF] TREC2001 Question-Answer, Web and Cross Language experiments using PIRCS -
KL Kwok, L Grunfeld, N Dinstl, M Chan - Proceedings of the TREC-10 Conference, 2001 - scils.rutgers.edu
... We applied our PIRCS system for the Question- Answer, ad-hoc Web retrieval using
the 10-GB ... what long 201 0.21 0.28 0.30 0.31 47% ... date 42 0.25 0.32 0.35 0.32 26 ...
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If You Want Fair And Affordable Health Insurance For The Uninsured, Ask The Public To Design It

Article Date: 19 Nov 2006 - 5:00am (PST)
From Massachusetts to Hawaii, many states, counties and cities are working on ways to provide new health insurance options to the 45 million Americans who lack health coverage.

But the devil's in the details: Which treatments and preventive measures will the new plans cover? How much will they charge for doctor's visits and trips to the emergency room? Which doctors and hospitals will accept them? How much will they cost?

A new study published in the November issue of the journal Health Affairs reveals a promising way to deal with this thorny problem: Let the public decide.

In fact, the study suggests, grassroots decisions about what's fair, and what's affordable, may lead to coverage that will be acceptable to participants even though they are less costly than average health plans.

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The study involved nearly 800 California residents from diverse backgrounds who took part in a project that asked them to design the best possible health plan for the uninsured, using a limited amount of dollars. The project, funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and organized by the nonprofit Sacramento Healthcare Decisions, used a game-like computer program called CHAT (Choosing Healthplans All Together) developed by University of Michigan and National Institutes of Health researchers.

Individually, and in small and large groups, the 798 participants picked from a range of options - including different coverage levels for preventive, chronic and last-hope care; different options for access to doctors; a variety of co-pays for appointments, hospital stays and ER visits; options for dental and vision care, different premium levels, and more.

Each of the options "cost" them a certain number of points, which were calculated based on actuarial estimates of the real-world costs of those coverage options. Just like in the real world, the amount of points (dollars) available to spend was limited.
 
In the end, the participants came to agreement on what to cover, what kinds of tradeoffs to make, and how much would be reasonable for participants to pay out of their own pockets. The result was a package that, for example, would pay for the least-expensive medicines first for chronic diseases like diabetes; give basic care for pregnancy, mental health, and rehabilitation; and cover only proven preventive tests and exams. But it wouldn't cover last-ditch catastrophic care, extraordinary end-of-life care, and conditions that interfere with quality of life but aren't seriously disabling.

In all, the authors calculate, the plan would cost two-thirds of the average cost for insurance plans in California. But still, the study participants didn't elect to make participants pay the maximum out-of-pocket costs.

"They made many trade-offs to avoid saddling individuals with high co-pays and deductibles," says lead author Marge Ginsburg, executive director of SHD. "They also chose comprehensiveness of coverage over choice of doctor, and made a clear distinction between health care needs that are vital to basic living, and those that are less essential to productivity and longevity."

Ginsburg's organization conducted the project, called Just Coverage, to solicit public input on the elements of basic health insurance coverage - in other words, if everyone had health insurance, what would be the minimum they would need?

The CHAT game is designed so that individuals progress from designing a plan on their own, to working in small groups, and then to a larger group. A number of sessions lasting two and a half hours, and each involving 10 to 12 people, were held in 2005 and 2006. Half of participants were from Sacramento County. The participants varied in age, economic and educational background, and insurance status, though they were not fully representative of the California population.

Although the researchers report the general consensus achieved by most participants, there were some major differences in the insurance choices made by people of different backgrounds. For instance, people with lower incomes and lower levels of education were more likely to include a category of coverage called "quality of life care" which included coverage for infertility, impotence coverage, and coverage for injuries that only affected athletic performance, not daily ability to function. The authors note that more research needs to be done on this kind of difference in viewpoints about the "necessity" of coverage for this kind of care.

Another aspect of the findings is that people seemed largely willing to forego coverage for "last hope" long-shot types of treatment. However, this kind of limit would represent a major change, because doctors and patients currently have a lot of discretion in choosing such options.

"We anticipate that by making basic coverage more affordable, it will be more possible to expand coverage to the uninsured." says co-author Marion Danis, co-inventor of CHAT and head of the Section on Health Ethics and Policy at the National Institutes of Health.

"When the public participates in designing basic benefit plans for the uninsured, they make well-reasoned tradeoffs," says co-author Susan Dorr Goold, M.D., MHSA, MA, an associate professor of internal medicine and health management and policy, director of the Bioethics Program at the U-M Medical School and co-inventor of CHAT. "This kind of participation may be key to developing plans that prospective participants will choose and will accept, especially when coverage is mandated as in Massachusetts' recently enacted health reform. A publicly-designed plan that limits coverage may be more acceptable to them than one designed from the top down."

The Massachusetts reform will require all state residents to have health insurance, and will offer a variety of public and private plans and subsidies depending on age, health status and income. The individual mandate is subject to the availability of affordable, credible coverage, but the details of affordability and what counts as credible coverage have not yet been decided.

In fact, Goold and a graduate student, Nancy Baum, address that very issue in a new essay in the Hastings Center Report, a leading medical ethics journal. The essay examines the potential impact on individuals depending on how "affordable" is defined -- and how insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays are set -- by the Massachusetts board called the Connector. Although the Connector board includes representatives from "stakeholder" groups, it may benefit from seeking further public input into the plans it designs before finalizing them, the authors say.

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The Sacramento project is the latest use of CHAT, which also has been used as far afield as Texas, Oregon, New Zealand and India to gather people's thoughts on how best to use limited health care resources. The options, and the number of points each one costs, can be changed depending on their circumstances - and can be based on actuarial calculations of real-world costs. A separate version, called REACH, has been developed in which low-income employees choose among various benefit options (not just health insurance).

Contact: Kara Gavin
University of Michigan Health System
 
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