Prison company talking to Jackson about care

January 21st, 2011 by installbags

America Service Group announced Thursday that Jackson Health System has asked its subsidiary, Prison Health Services, to negotiate details to complete a contract to provide correctional healthcare services for inmates. coach outlet store The contract, which could run up to 11 years, will cover about 6,100 Miami-Dade inmates, ASG said in a press release. Coach Baby Bags Prison Health Services and Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services have been engaged in a battle for months trying to get the contract, and PHS has emerged as the front-runner. The Public Health Trust needs to approve the final agreement. coach outlet handbags Jackson executives, who have been handling inmate care with Jackson employees, believe that outsourcing the care will save $8 million a year, but they do not appear certain how much such care is costing them at present. coach outlet factory For five months, The Miami Herald has had a request with Jackson asking how much inmate care presently costs the public hospital system. Jackson has yet to respond.

Houston-area prison to shut under budget proposal

January 21st, 2011 by installbags

HOUSTON (AP) — A more than century-old prison in suburban Houston would be closed this year under the proposed budget delivered to Texas lawmakers. The estimated $31.1 million savings with the shuttering of the Central Unit in Sugar Land would be highly visible but only a tiny part of the some $459 million in cuts proposed for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. coach outlet store The biggest hit, almost $224 million out of the proposed $5.4 billion budget for 2012 and 2013, is for cuts in inmate health care and monitoring costs, including a 14 percent reduction in psychiatric and pharmacy care expenses. The agency had requested an overall $6.5 billion. In the last two-year budget, it received $6.2 billion, a figure that subsequently was trimmed slightly. coach outlet online “This is a key starting point for the Legislative committees to begin their discussions about the state’s budget, and the reality is that we are facing some tough challenges,” the agency said in a statement Wednesday. “We will be doubling our efforts in working with our state’s policy makers to develop a budget that both identifies further possible savings, while still allowing TDCJ to continue the key functions necessary for us to meet our priority of providing public safety.” Coach Shoulder Bags Statistics delivered to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice last month showed health care costs through the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010 were $545 million, and left health care providers at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas Medical Branch operating at a combined nearly $22 million deficit. Among reasons cited for the soaring costs was an aging inmate population. The number of inmates over the age of 55 is up nearly 7 percent. UTMB already has proposed stopping the in-prison clinics it now operates, warning its losses could reach $60 million, and last year laid off hundreds of nurses and curtailed clinic hours. The so-called managed health care for the prison agency has been in effect since the 1990s although statistics given to the prison board indicated Texas’ costs for medical care — $9.88 a day per inmate — compared with $28.55 a day for California, the only state prison system that’s larger. coach outlet The legislative budget proposal also calls for elimination of nearly 1,600 jobs in the prison system, which holds almost 156,000 inmates in more than 100 facilities. Almost 12,000 prisoners are 55 or older. The Central Unit, with a capacity of about 1,000 inmates, including 319 in a trusty camp, has about 300 employees. The prison opened in April 1909 when what now is prime suburban Houston land for developers was farm land the state purchased from the Imperial Sugar Co., the city’s namesake. Coach Sabrina Bags Sugar Land officials have been eyeing the land for expansion of the city’s airport and a possible business park. The budget proposal calls for closing by Sept. 1. coach factory outlet Talk of shutting the prison, and presumably selling the 326 acres it occupies, is not new. An appraisal five years ago estimated the value of the land at more than $30 million and in 2007 legislators asked the agency to consider the feasibility of closing the prison and moving the inmates to other units. So far, it has remained open. Coach Maggie Bags Among other cuts listed in the proposed budget is $116 million for community supervision, which provides programs and services to probationers. Misdemeanor supervision would be eliminated, a savings of $27 million, and repairs and rehabilitation of prisons would stop, saving $84.1 million. Coach Tribeca Bags Training for corrections officers and investigations by the agency’s Inspector General’s Office would be curtailed and the Victim’s Services Division would be scrapped.

Woman arrested for smuggling drugs into prison

January 21st, 2011 by installbags

A woman was arrested after she was caught allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs to a New Plymouth Prison inmate last Friday. The Prison Telephone Monitoring System alerted prison staff to a planned narcotics throw-over into the prison. coach outlet store The information prompted prison staff to start a search operation, including stopping vehicles entering prison grounds. “During the searches a vehicle with two female occupants was stopped and staff observed the passenger of the car conceal an item in her clothing,” said New Plymouth Prison manager Peter Madsen. coach handbags outlet “Staff asked her to hand over the item and she removed a package from her hip waistband and gave it to staff. The package was covered in clear tape, measured 80mm by 40mm and had a stone taped to it, no doubt in order to make it heavy enough to throw over the prison perimeter.” Coach Hampton Bags The package contained cannabis oil and cannabis leaf. The two visitors were held and police were called. The woman was charged with coach outlet handbags possession of cannabis plant and cannabis oil and will appear in the New Plymouth District Court later this month. Coach Spotlight Bags The driver of the car got a warning from police and both banned from entering the prison for 12 months.

Living Social: Sponsored celeb tweets are making us angry

January 20th, 2011 by installbags

LivingSocial.com may be a great way to find daily deals, but we’re #annoyed with their latest marketing strategy. coach outlet store On Wed. (Jan. 19) we started noticing a few celebrity tweets with the hash tag “#ad” on the end of them which advertised for the social buying company. We’re no strangers to the concept of sponsored tweets, but the problem here for us is that each tweet is exactly the same! Coach Travel Bags “Jersey Shore’s” Vinny Guadagnino tweeted, “just found the site with the best 1-day deals, LivingSocial… check ‘em out -> At the same moment, an identical tweet showed up from cast mate Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and the new host of “Entertainment Tonight,” Nancy O’Dell. coach handbags outlet Upon a quick search, we found that Kendra Wilkinson, Chris Brown, Holly Madison, Lauren Conrad, all four of the elder Kardashian siblings and many more had carbon copy tweets. At least they could pay these people to switch it up a little bit — like Paris Hilton. coach outlet online We fully embrace social media and modern companies’ willingness to use it to their advantage in marketing campaigns, but this has pushed us into full backlash mode. No, we do not appreciate our home pages being cluttered with the same post several times over within a single minute. Coach Claire Bags And as for you, celebrities, there may be a few “UnFollow” clicks in our future. Depending on how mad we still are 10 minutes from now. Despite what a wonderful of a company LivingSocial may be, its very existence is now tainted in our minds and we will throw our full support behind its No. 1 competitor, Groupon. Until they undoubtedly do something else to irritate us, that is.

Amazon Earnings And LivingSocial

January 20th, 2011 by installbags

Amazon’s earnings are out next week, January 27th. Apple crushed expectations yesterday and today we have eBay out so we’ll have a couple of good coach outlet store reads on the device (Kindle) and e-commerce market from those two heading into the Amazon results. Over on sister-blog, eBay Strategies, we saw Amazon’s Q4 grow 36% from a same-store-sale basis. When we look at all customers, not just the ones that have been with us for a year, they were up well over 100% for us. Coach HOBO Bags From a Wall St perspective, there is a lot of interest in a statement Amazon made in Q3 that they are building a bunch of new Distribution Centers (DCs). James Mitchell at Goldman has a note out that they have tracked 7 newly announced DCs. This is an interesting topic to me so we’ll be spending some more time on it in 2011. It definitely impacts sellers as it speaks to the FBA capacity as well as first-party sales. Coach Sling Bags We’ll have a full report out shortly after Amazon announces next week with all of our usual seller-based highlights. One datapoint that we’ll work on is the size of Amazon’s 3P GMV. Once 2010 is in the books, we’ll have a better idea of how that played out and how close they are to surpassing other marketplaces in scale. LivingSocial Amazon deal - Coach Garnet Bags Living_social_amazon_deal Also today, if you haven’t heard/seen it, LivingSocial is running a great deal - 50% off of a $20 Amazon gift card. Amazon rarely has coupons of any kind so this is a great opportunity - especially if you have are a Kindle or Prime user, you probably already spend $20 on Amazon a month anyway, so why not enjoy half off? It’s limited to one per user, but the users are done on a unique email basis (don’t connect to facebook), so you can game the system somewhat by using multiple email IDs (but you didn’t hear that here coach outlet handbags As of this writing (1pm ET) there have been over 500k purchased. The deal launched at 8am and at 1pm hit 500k - so that’s a 100k/hr pace. The deal ends at 8am tomorrow, but you can figure the last 4-6hrs will be dead, so call it 18hrs at 100k, I think this could hit 1.8m purchases or $18m to living social for $36m in Amazon purchases. Amazon invested $175m in LivingSocial around the time that Google was rumored to be buying Groupon, so this definitely an interesting experiment by Amazon/LS to see if they can drive some strong joint customer acquisition as well as sales @Amazon. coach handbags outlet As best I can tell, the deal only went out to the LS list, Amazon hasn’t promoted it. I imagine this could be a first step and a broader promotion to the Amazon list could be a nice follow-up that would substantially swell the LS list size by piggy backing on Amazon’s >100m active consumers. Amazon also owns Woot and Zappos so there could be other tests they could do with those brands before going all-in on the Amazon side. SeekingAlpha Disclosure - I am long Amazon and Google. eBay is an investor in ChannelAdvisor where I am CEO. I am a LivingSocial member and did buy the Amazon deal today!

LivingSocial Amazon Deals, A Great Hit

January 20th, 2011 by installbags

If you are a shopaholic, LivingSocial has exactly what you want. It is a group buying site, which provides amazing discounts on goods and services, coach outlet store when a group of people sign up for a particular product. These discounts on are the best deals ever available on online shopping. There deals include all sectors which includes meals, saps, shopping and all other purchases. Buzz up! coach factory outlet Last December Amazon had declared there $175 million investment in LivingSocial, to help the site locate in various other regions. On January 19th it gave away the best deal for Amazon. It had offered half Price deals in Amazon.com and in less that eight hours over 80,000 signed up for Amazon deals. Coach Tribeca Bags LivingSocial deals for Amazon.com included the offer of getting a $20 voucher of Amazon in $10. Needless to say, the deal is a great hit and from the profit point of view the site is close to earning $4 million from the deal. This results in a net revenue of $2 million which will then be split between the two. coach outlet factory The website seems to be determined to win over the world with all it’s amazing deals and their approach. It is now available in Facebook and Coach Baby Bags Twitter and has also declared incentives for people who bring in more buyers. If three other people sign up for the deal due to your recommendation then you get a Amazon voucher for free. LivingSocial Amazon deal is open for only it’s US customers but the site is now be accessed in Canada, UK, Ireland and Australia. Amazon hopes LivingSocial to earn a revenue of $500 million in 2011.

Teenager ‘accidentally’ shoots two people at California High school

January 19th, 2011 by installbags

‘accidentally’ shoots two people at California High school

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GARDENA, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — A teenager on Tuesday morning injured two students at a high school in California, police said, in

what is being described as an ‘accidental’ shooting.

The shooting happened around 10.30 a.m. local time when the handgun of a 17-year-old boy discharged at Gardena High School located

in the 1300 block of West 182nd Street in Los Angeles. It left two other students injured.
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Gardena police were rushed to the campus, as well as police helicopters, to aid in search efforts for the suspect. He was later arrested

and identified as a Gardena student, although his name was not immediately released due to his age. A lockdown was later lifted.
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According to officials, the handgun which was inside the boy’s backpack may have accidentally discharged, causing the injuries. However,

police are continuing to investigate the incident and have placed the boy into police custody.
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Gardena High School is a public school in Los Angeles and has 3,203 students registered as well as 145 faculty members. The school

reportedly carried out random metal detector checks to prevent weapons from being taken inside.

India Digest: Government to Clip Ministers’ Discretionary Wings

January 19th, 2011 by installbags

Here is a roundup of news from Indian newspapers, news wires and Web sites on Wednesday, January 19, 2011. The Wall Street

Journal has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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Government to Clip Ministers’ Discretionary Wings: Rocked by the recent spate of scams, the government is all set to reduce or even

abolish most of the discretionary powers that central ministers and chief ministers presently enjoy. Arbitrary use of these powers, many

of which are loosely defined, has been largely blamed for the some of corruption scandals in high offices. (Source: Hindustan Times)
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Sister Seeks Intl Pressure on Pak for Sarabjit’s Release: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, who is facing death sentence in Pakistan for a string of

bomb blasts in 1990s, today sought international pressure on the neighbouring country for her brother’s release. (Source: Press Trust of

India)
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Cabinet to Consider 51% FDI in Multi Brand Retail: With the recent uproar on rising food and vegetables prices providing a handy trigger,

the Manmohan Singh Government is all set to give its approval to 51 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the multi-brand retail

sector with the Commerce and Industry Ministry likely to move a Cabinet note next week. (Source: The Hindu)

Goldman Warns Against Investing in India: Goldman Sachs , the US investment banking giant, has issued a short-term alert over

investing in India and China due to the impact of rising inflation, advising clients to rotate into Wall Street and other bourses as a safer

bet over coming months, a media report said on Tuesday. (Source: Economic Times)
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Delhi Feels Tremors as Quake Hits SW Pakistan: A powerful earthquake of 7.4 magnitude struck southwestern Pakistan in the small

hours of the day, tremors of which were felt in parts of northwestern India, including the national capital. (Source: Press Trust of India)

Fearing Action, ‘Wife-Beater’ Diplomat Seeks Patch up: Fearing administrative action and possible loss of job, the Indian diplomat in

London docked for domestic violence told TOI on Tuesday he wants to patch-up with his wife. (Source: The Times of India)
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Pathan Powers India to Thrilling win in Third ODI: India and South Africa produced another excruciatingly tense contest, and much like

the second ODI at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, it was India which held its nerve, here at Newlands on Tuesday. (Source: The Hindu)

Pakistan earthquake: Major 7.2 quake near Afghanistan felt in Dubai, New Delhi

January 19th, 2011 by installbags

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a strong 7.2 magnitude tremblor struck a remote area in southwest Pakistan at 8:23pm GMT

January 18, 2011, (1:23am 1/19/2011 local time). The earthquake occurred 640 miles west-southwest of Islamabad, near the borders

of Iran and Afghanistan, and was felt as far away as New Delhi, Jaipur and Dehradun in India, and in Dubai reports CNN.com.
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The earthquake occurred on Wednesday, January 19, 2026 at 01:23:26 AM at the epicenter, or Tuesday, January 18, 2026 at 20:23:26

UTC. The epicenter is located at 320 km (about 200 miles) southwest of Quetta near Kharan, Balochistan.
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Buildings in Karachi - about 400 km west of the epicenter - show signs of cracks. No word of fatalities have been reported.
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CNN.com quotes Kurt Frankel of the Georgia Institute of Technology as saying, “It’s not uncommon for this region to have earthquakes. It

is where two tectonic plates come together, he said.”
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Ricky Gervais Hints “Office” Appearance, Suggests Steve Carell Replacement

January 18th, 2011 by installbags

His running of the Golden Globes was superb; his jokes were biting and welcomed. Nasty? He didn’t say anything that people in the audience last night weren’t thinking. The Globes are a joke, run by crazy people who fight among themselves in front of the actors during press conferences, and insist on having their pictures taken with the stars.
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Ricky’s best jabs, though, were at gay scientologists and Mel Gibson. Wow.

After the awards show I caught up with Ricky at the HBO party on the lower level of the Beverly Hilton. He was having a drink with friends, quietly, coming down from the adrenaline rush of the show.Around him the room buzzed with HBO’s winners and players from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson to Steve Buscemi and the gang from “Boardwalk Empire,” and Richard Kind, Robert Wuhl, Mark Wahlberg, and even Sean Diddy Combs.
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Gervais told me a couple of important things about “The Office.” Of course, he’d introduced Steve Carell by crying that the American actor was leaving their “cash cow.”
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Who would Ricky like to see replace Carell? “Will Arnett,” he said. “I always thought so. No one’s asked me but that’s what I think. He’s perfect.”
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Ricky also gave Showbiz411 a couple of clues–hints–about what’s to come. He may yet appear on the Anerican show, and soon. “Watch on the 27th,” he said, “and you’ll get an idea of who’s going to be running The Office.” Will he be on that episode? “Just watch,” he reassured me.
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Meanwhile, Ricky’s new HBO show starts this week. And he’s getting ready to film a new series for the BBC and HBO called “Life’s Too Short.”
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As for the Golden Globe gig: it was rehearsed. The people he poked fun at knew what was coming, In a perverse way, HFPA president Phil Berk somehow enjoys the negative attention. Go figure.

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