Prior to joining Vigilant, Mr. Harris served as Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of Associated Press, the world’s
largest news organization. Past experience also includes serving as
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Remote Management
Systems, Inc. Previous positions span nearly 20 years in top posts with
AOL Time Warner Inc., including Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Read the rest of this entry »
NJ teen shot in chest, drives self to hospital
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Police in Trenton, N.J., say a teenager drove himself to a hospital after being shot in the chest by a masked man.
The teen is expected to survive after undergoing emergency surgery.
Trenton police say the unidentified 19-year-old was shot early Friday as he was walking along a downtown street after parking his car.
Officers say he heard a gunshot and felt a burning Read the rest of this entry »
Forget about the number on the scale. It’s time for a three-day Love Your Body event held on campus today through Wednesday, put on by the Cal Poly Women’s Programs and Services.
Student coordinator of Education Programs and nutrition senior McKenzie Hall modeled the three-day series after the National Organization of Women’s Love Your Body campaign.
Hall’s main goal for the three-day workshop is to promote a healthy body image and she emphasizes Read the rest of this entry »
The donation is being made in part to GalleryCollection.com’s “Show Me aSmile” Greeting Card Gift Giving Program, developed for patients beingtreated in children’s hospitals.
“Imagine how a child must feel having to spend a birthday or a specialholiday in a hospital bed,” commented H.L. DeVore, Chief Marketing Officerof GalleryCollection.com. “We’ve created this program to help hospitalsbring smiles to the faces of their young patients. There is Read the rest of this entry »
Starting in December, Mrs. Phillips, 57, will be the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's deputy secretary of public health services. This new job will allow her to oversee statewide efforts in AIDS, family health and other initiatives. The job pays $143,270.
“My current job is the best job of my career and I'm anxious to go forward into a new challenge,” Mrs. Phillips said. “This is a wonderful, wonderful county and wonderful Read the rest of this entry »
– The vast majority of patients in traditional family planning programs
are female. Funded for five years, the new male services program will
explore ways to make family planning programs more welcoming to men.
“If we are going to be successful in preventing unintended
pregnancy, we need to serve men,” said Tristan Ruby, Director of
Adolescent & Male Programs. “After all, women do not get
pregnant Read the rest of this entry »
Childhood Anxiety Found Best Treated With Both Drugs, Therapy
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — Children suffering from separation
anxiety, social phobia and generalized anxiety disorders benefit
most when treated with both
's antidepressant Zoloft
and psychotherapy targeting behavior,
said.
Although each method alone is effective, the combination
works best, according to the study published online
today in the
. The study, funded
by the U.S. government, Read the rest of this entry »
Identica and HID provide state-of-the-art vascular biometric solution for St. Louis fitness centres
, to provide a state-of-the-art vascular biometric solution to the entire franchise of Club Fitness centers, a 25-year-old chain located across the St. Louis, MO metro area.
Identica, a leader in next-generation biometric identification and security solutions, will embed secure
contactless smart card technology from HID Global, the trusted leader Read the rest of this entry »
October 20, 2008 13:04:00
Victorian scientists believe cattle can be made more environmentally friendly by changing what they eat.
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) says it has been able to reduce the methane gas emissions from a dairy herd by increasing the fats and oils in the animals’ diets.
The DPI’s Chris Grainger said in a trial, methane emissions were cut by 12 per cent, by feeding the cattle cotton seed.
“One of the most promising Read the rest of this entry »
An 18-year-old Morgan Hill man, who witnesses say was driving erratically, died Thursday after crashing his car into a tree, police said.
Morgan Hill police identified him as Matthew Mikaelsson. The 17-year-old teenager in Mikaelsson’s car was in stable condition at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Witnesses told police that at about noon they saw a Mitsubishi Eclipse speeding on Condit Road near Duane Avenue. As the car passed the Carl’s Jr. Read the rest of this entry »