Byline: GLORIA DeSOLE ALBANY
I join with the masses of middle-class Americans saddened to hear that orphanages are a serious proposal for reducing welfare as we move toward the end of the 20th century. Too few citizens know that the average recipient of welfare is a single, white mother of young children and that she remains on welfare for about two years.
However, the majority remains in favor of reducing the number of …
2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- XLHealth Executive Vice President Paul Serini announced that its disease management program will dramatically improve health care outcomes for the seriously ill Texans who are part of its Medicare Disease Management Demonstration project.
Serini, basing the company's outcome prediction on past experience, said that over a 3-year period, in aggregate, the approximately 10,000 patients enrolled in the XLHealth program will see a 50% reduction in amputations and other serious diabetes foot complications and a 50% decrease in repeat heart failure events.
Additionally, Serini said, "Though never measured before, the …
Mourners and fans memorialized singer Robert Goulet with tributes to his music and his humor.
A Friday funeral service in Las Vegas included Goulet's signature song, "If Ever I Would Leave You," as well as farewell poems Goulet wrote before his death Oct. 30 at age 73.
"There will be sadness and some tears, but shared memories will evoke laughter and that will make me happy," one poem said, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Saturday. "They should discern a chortle from my urn! …
Inspector Roger Tolley, Neighbourhood Inspector for Burnham-on-Sea and Cheddar, has been awarded the 2011 Ray Robinson Award duringa presentation at Taunton Police Station.
The Ray Robinson Trophy is awarded annually to the police officeror group of officers whom it is judged to have made the greatestcontribution to community relations in this area.
Ray Robinson retired from Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1978due to ill health. From his retirement until he passed away, Rayworked tirelessly within the community especially with those whowere mentally handicapped.
During the presentation, after a welcome speech made by ChiefConstable Colin Port, …
(ADPnews) - Oct 20, 2009 - Deutsche Bank (ETR:DBK) may be interested in buying the 135 branches Italian Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (BIT:BMPS) is selling for antitrust reasons, German daily Handelsblatt said Tuesday quoting financial sources.
Banca MPS has to sell the remaining 135 branches, out of a total 150, in order to receive the antitrust regulator's green light to merge …
Mark McGuire checks in from the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles:
Eddie Feldman, the executive producer for ``The Orlando Jones Show'' on FX, grew up in Saugerties. ... If Norm Macdonald can figure out a way to make his TV comedies half as funny as his press conferences, his ``A Minute with Stan Hooper'' on Fox would have a 10-year run. ...
Comic actor Fred Willard is one of the nicest men in Hollywood, even if Joe Garagiola is still mad about Willard's gentle parody of him in the spoof ``Best in Show.'' ...
Get me outta here -- I'm starting to sound like Larry King!BEST BETS
Toying around The New York City Ballet …
Byline: Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn
Dec. 13--A National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) move to grant new licences for WiMax wireless broadband services appears to favour Shin Satellite Plc, local Internet service providers claim.
They say that WiMax should be categorised as a "citizens band" in the industry, in line with global standards.
Citizens bands give interested Internet providers free access to operate next-generation broadband services to the public without having to apply for a new licence.
The $400-million iPSTAR satellite, which was launched earlier this year by Shin Satellite, offers a bandwidth capacity of 45 gigabits per …
