France hails San Mateo man for World War II service
Thu ,31/12/20090 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Dec 3, 2009 | by Joshua Melvin
SAN MATEO — During the vicious and bloody fighting to take the town of Montgardon, France, in June 1944, Bill Hagen dove into an empty foxhole to dodge the bullets flying at him.
Moments later the foxhole’s owner returned and told Hagen, an Army medic who had been in combat for less than two weeks, to get out. Hagen complied and, just as the two switched places, an artillery shell exploded overhead, killing the other man and wounding Hagen in the leg. For this injury he was awarded the Purple Heart, the first of many medals he would receive.
“I was just lucky,” he said, sitting in his San Mateo home
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Dohmen Hires Exec with Caremark, Humana and Eli Lilly Experience for New Chief CDO Position
Wed ,30/12/2009Business Wire, Dec 04, 2009
Growing Healthcare Services Business Names Kelli Kovak Chief
Development Officer, Michael Italiano, Senior Director,
Corporate Development
MILWAUKEE — Dohmen,
a 151-year-old, family-held health care services company, has named
Kelli Kovak, Chief Development Officer (CDO) and Michael Italiano,
Senior Director, Corporate Development.
CEO, Cynthia Dohmen LaConte said both executives industry experience
aligns perfectly with Dohmens existing business portfolio and future
strategic direction, Our current service offerings include outsourced
business services to life science manufacturers through DDN
and benefit management services to life science payers through RESTAT.
Everything we do in the Dohmen family of companies is purposed to create
a more efficient, affordable and accessible healthcare supply system
thats our vision. Michaels background in the Pharmaceutical sector
combined with Kellis experience serving Eli Lilly, Caremark and Humana
— a top-tier pharmaceutical manufacturer, the nations largest
prescription benefits provider and one of its largest health insurers
will be invaluable as we look to grow and diversify Dohmens family of
companies.
Kovak said she is excited about working for a company that values
purpose as greatly as its bottom line. Because Dohmen is private, its
able to step back and take a long-term view, rather than being
reactionary. As we evaluate growth opportunities, well recommend only
the start-ups, acquisitions and business alliances that support our
vision of reducing complexities in the healthcare supply system while
increasing accessibility and affordability. Well also work with the
divisional leadership to help coordinate growth initiatives within
Dohmens existing subsidiaries.
Kovak, a registered pharmacist, most recently served as the Senior Vice
President of Catalyst Medical Communications, a Pharmaceutical marketing
communications agency. Prior to joining Catalyst, Kovaks roles
included, Vice President of Clinical Business Support and Vice
President, High Impact Teams for CVS/Caremark as well as Regional
Director of Pharmacy Administration for Humana. Kovak earned a
Bachelors degree in Pharmacy from Purdue University and a Masters
degree in Finance and International Business from the University of
Illinois.
Italiano to Perform Strategic Analysis and Business Case
Development
Shortly after coming on board at Dohmen, Kovak hired Michael Italiano to
serve as Senior Director, Corporate Development. Michaels experience
and ability to perform strategic analyses — to build out a business
case either for or against an acquisition or corporate growth
opportunity — will be foundational to our success, said Kovak.
Michaels recommendations will help guide our decisions as we carefully
choose which companies will further increase Dohmens economic value.
Dohmen has a strong history and a deliberate plan for growth; I feel
especially enthusiastic about its vision to improve the well being of
our communities by helping to create a better health care system.
LaConte adds, Dohmen provides capital infusion to its subsidiaries,
allowing continued authorship of its executives. Were uniting all
companies under Dohmens recognizable umbrella brand while maintaining
each companys individual brands, she said. This cohesive branding
strategy concentrates on the big picture commonalities that connect all
Dohmen companies and makes the whole of the Dohmen product portfolio
greater than the sum of its parts.
Prior to joining Dohmen, Michael held senior level management positions
including leading Kimberly-Clarks Global Alliances and Technology
Acquisitions team and as Director of Corporate Development at Schwarz
Pharma, Inc. At Schwarz, Italiano was involved in a series of high-value
transactions leading up to the ultimate sale of the Schwarz Group.
Italiano began his career with Deloitte & Touche and held various
financial positions with Cooper Power Systems. He earned a Masters in
Business Administration from the University of North Carolina and a
Bachelors degree in Accounting (Magna cum Laude) from the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Legion Applauds Resolution of Flagpole Dispute
Tue ,29/12/2009Business Wire, Dec 09, 2009
WASHINGTON — Calling the decision of the Sussex Square Homeowners Association Board
in Va. to withdraw legal action against a WWII hero, a great decision,
the leader of The American Legion congratulated all parties involved.
This is a victory for reason and I applaud the board for making the
correct decision to permit this American hero to honor Old Glory in such
a fitting way, every day, on his property, said National Commander
Clarence E. Hill. I also commend Legionnaires and all Americans across
the country who flooded Col
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Pharmacists can assist in fall prevention programs
Tue ,29/12/2009HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement, Jan 1, 2010
Pharmacists can assist in fall prevention programs
Medications among most common causes
When St. John Medical Center of Tulsa, OK, started a fall prevention program in 2006, the group included a pharmacist.
“We wanted anyone on the group who could possibly prevent a patient from falling,” says Polly Robinson, PharmD, clinical pharmacist with St. John Medical Center.
Robinson, as the pharmacy representative on the committee, assessed safety by reviewing and assessing each patient’s risk for falling, including patients’ potential risk from their medication regimen.
“The group wanted a pharmacist to assess each patient’s medication as they entered the hospital,” Robinson recalls. “That would be nice, but we didn’t have the money to hire 10 more pharmacists to do that.”
So Robinson researched the issue and found that one of the most preventable and reversible causes of falls is patient medications and that patients who’ve already fallen are most likely to fall again.
“So we chose to focus on those patients who’ve already fallen,” she explains. “We review their medication and identify common causes of falls.”
Each time a patient falls, a nurse enters data into a hospital computer system, and that information is reviewed regularly.
A pharmacist reviews the charts of patients who’ve had a fall and sees which of their medications could be changed, such as lowering the drug dosage, Robinson says.
When a change is made and approved by a physician, the pharmacist documents the change and labels it in the “falls” category, she adds.
This information is stored electronically and can be used to chart trends and for quality improvement initiatives. (See sample information from Falls Review Sheet (http://www.newslettersonline.com/ahc/img/hbqi012010_sheet.pdf).)
For example, the hospital has made some changes in standard prescription dosages to prevent falls, including changing temazepam (Restoril.sup.[R]) 30 mg orders to 15 mg dosages for patients who are 65 years or older. Or these patients are changed to a more selective GABA agonist, such as zolpidem (Ambien.sup.[R]), with 10 mg prescribed for patients who are younger than age 65 or 5 mg prescribed for patients who are 65 years or older, Robinson says.
“We noticed Restoril often was the culprit in falls,” Robinson notes. “So we focused on that medication and reviewed a lot of preprinted order forms.”
With physicians’ approval the dosage was lowered and changed.
Now that zolpidem is available in a generic form, it can be used as a safer drug that is not more expensive for the hospital, Robinson says.
“Before zolpidem was a more expensive drug and it was prescribed in 10 mg for everyone,” she adds. “So we added age-dosing.”
Also, physicians previously would select a pain medication from four or five different opioid choices
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Dental discounts now ‘en Espanol’.(Technology)(DentalPlans.com)(Brief article)
Tue ,29/12/2009Best’s Review, May, 2008
DentalPlans.com, an online marketer of discount dental plans, has launched www.PlanesDentales.com, a Spanish-language version of its full-service Web site. The new site makes discount dental plans more accessible to Hispanic individuals, families and businesses across the United States.
Important information on the key differences between discount dental plans and dental insurance, plan details, testimonials from plan members and frequently asked questions also are available in Spanish. Visitors also can compare plans and find participating dentists by entering their ZIP code into the search tool
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What Life Insurance Advice Do I Need to Know About?
Sun ,27/12/2009Honest life insurance advice is more of an asset to you than the actual insurance policy if you receive advice that is useful in helping you select a policy. The reason for the above is that you, the consumer, can make a better decision for you and your family with information that’s honest, reliable, and true, as you do not want to make a mistake in signing up for insurance that’s not tailored specifically for you and your needs.
Owning life coverage is one of the greatest assets that you could have, right along with owning a house, and you will be able to financially protect your loved ones with your policy after you have died on and left them. Before you die and leave this planet, you will want to find the policy that will take care of your family in the future, which means that they can spend time remembering their beautiful memories of you instead of worrying about how they will pay for your funeral and burial/cremation costs.
Nevertheless, before you invest your money into a policy, a well-known piece of life insurance advice that I want to bestow upon you is in knowing the difference between term insurance and whole life (or permanent) insurance coverage. Term life coverage is a policy that insures you for a length of time like 5, 10, 20, or maybe even 30 years, depending on what you want, but then it will expire after those years have crept by and leave you uninsured, unless you choose to renew the policy again. As a result of only giving you, or rather your family, the death benefits, it is generally looked at as having the lowest costs of any life protection out there.
However, whole life coverage remains with you for all the years of your life here on the Planet Earth. It will not expire like a term life policy does, and it also comes with several investment advantages and assets that are not offered with a term life policy, such as a cash value fund and so on. Because of those extra benefits, you can expect to pay more money each month on your premiums in comparison to the premium of a term life plan.
Also, more life insurance advice would be for you to sign-up for a free quote not only with one company, but with several companies instead. The explanation for this is that you’ll want to perform a comparison to see which company and policy is the best option for you to invest in, as various companies have been known to charge a different price for the exact same policy than another company charges.
As a result, you will want to perform good enough research to obtain the quote that’s best for you, but at a nice price that is appealing to your pocketbook as well. Also, be conscious of the amounts offered for your coverage, the amounts that you will have to pay each month for your premium, and also the amount of death benefits that your beneficiaries may receive once you die. You will definitively want to die knowing that your loved ones are financially alright after you are dead and no longer with them.
The last bit of advice that I will give to you is that you may like to purchase a term life policy if your needs are only temporary and you have no children to take care of, and/or you are single or unmarried
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TestOut Offers Complete LabSim Training Suite for Cisco Certified Network Professional Exam
Fri ,18/12/2009Business Wire, Dec 01, 2009
Final Course, 642-845 ONT, Added Today, Providing Practical, Hands-On
Training with Online Labs
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah — TestOut Corporation – an award-winning* provider of online labs for IT
certification training – today launched the final course of its Cisco
Certified Network Professional (CCNP) training suite, the Optimizing
Converged Cisco Networks (642-845 ONT). TestOut now provides all four
courses needed to pass the CCNP exams, with hundreds of online lab
simulations, training videos and demonstrations, and practice exams.
CCNP
provides a network professional with knowledge and skills required to
manage the routers and switches that form the network core, as well as
edge applications that integrate voice, wireless and security into the
network. The Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks (642-845 ONT), one of
four qualifying exams for the CCNP, will certify that the successful
candidate has important knowledge and skills in optimizing and providing
effective quality of service (QoS) techniques for converged networks.
By using our LabSim
642-845 ONT course, networking professionals get practical, hands-on
experience from wherever theyre taking the course at home or in a
classroom,? said Noel Vallejo, CEO, TestOut. Instead of having to
practice implementing scalable multilayer switched networks with real
hardware, for example, our online lab simulations enable students to
simulate the experience from their own computers while receiving instant
feedback on their performance.?
The LabSim Cisco 642-845 ONT course is available individually or as a
bundle with the other three courses:
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Building
Converged Cisco MultiLayer Switched Networks (642-812):
Comprised of the methods that explain how to create an enterprise
network by taking complete care of all the matters related to
installing, configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting network
infrastructure devices such as Catalyst Multilayer Switches. -
Building
Scalable Cisco Internetworks (642-901): Provides the
basic knowledge of creating proficient and flexible enterprise
networks, including the installation, configuration, monitoring and
troubleshooting of network infrastructure devices. -
Implementing
Secure Converged Wide-Area Networks (642-825):
Provides the awareness of processes used to realize remote access and
VPN client configuration.
About TestOut
TestOut provides award-winning* IT certification training for
individuals and academic institutions worldwide, focusing on enabling
practical, hands-on experience with the LabSim online labs
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Actel to Present at Barclays Global Technology Conference
Fri ,18/12/2009Market Wire, December, 2009
Actel Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ACTL)
Maurice Carson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will
present at the 2009 Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference, to be
held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, on December 9,
2009 at 3:00 p.m. P.T. Both the live webcast and replay version of the
webcast will be available
at http://cc.talkpoint.com/barc002/120809a_rb/?entity=70_KG4EYHU .
About Actel
Actel is the leader in low-power FPGAs and mixed-signal FPGAs, offering the
most comprehensive portfolio of system and power management solutions.
Power Matters. Learn more at www.actel.com .
Actel name and logo are registered trademarks of Actel Corporation
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COMEDY SHOWCASE: THE AMAZING DERMOT [...]
Thu ,17/12/20090 Comments | Western Morning News, The, Dec 4, 2009
COMEDY SHOWCASE: THE AMAZING DERMOT 10.35pm, Channel 4 This stunning new comedy stars Rhys Darby as Dermot Flint, a failed TV hypnotist trying to resurrect his career. Dermot lands himself in hot water after an unfortunate incident involving two brothers, some French kissing under hypnosis and a highly publicised court case.
In the space of a week, his wife leaves him, his TV show is cancelled and he checks himself into rehab. Numerous attempts to get his life back on track are thwarted by his large ego, a body double and a deaf nurse.
Dividend Declaration: Delaware Enhanced Global Dividend And Income Fund Announces Dividends
Thu ,17/12/2009PR Newswire, Dec 1, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today, Delaware Enhanced Global Dividend and Income Fund (the “Fund”), a New York Stock Exchange-listed closed-end fund trading under the symbol “DEX,” declares a monthly dividend of $0.1025 per share. The dividend is payable December 24, 2009, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 11, 2009. The ex-dividend date will be December 9, 2009.
The Fund’s primary investment objective is to seek current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. The Fund invests globally in dividend-paying or income-generating securities across multiple asset classes, including but not limited to: equity securities of large, well-established companies, securities issued by real estate companies (including real estate investment trusts and real estate industry operating companies), debt securities (such as government bonds, investment grade and high risk, high yield corporate bonds, and convertible bonds), and emerging market securities. The Fund also utilizes enhanced income strategies by engaging in dividend capture trading, option overwriting, realization of gains on the sale of securities, dividend growth, and currency forwards.
Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest: (1) at most 60% of its net assets in securities of U.S
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