PHILADELPHA, Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Premier Research Group announces the appointment of Dr. Colin Hayward to the position of European Medical Director. In this position, Dr. Hayward will be responsible for leading and developing the company’s European medical affairs and pharmacovigilance operations, critical components of the company’s global clinical development services offered to the biopharmaceutical industry.
“Dr. Hayward brings medical expertise, clinical knowledge, leadership, and a wealth of experience in key areas important to our customers and will provide an added level of therapeutic insight to Premier’s services,” said Dr. Sue Stansfield, Executive Vice President, Clinical Development. “He will be a tremendous asset for both employees and customers and is a welcome addition to our strong team in Europe.”
Dr. Hayward is a board certified pharmaceutical physician with 12 years international experience in pharmacovigilance, design and implementation of clinical programs and medical affairs. Before joining Roche pharmacovigilance and quickly progressing through a series of positions with increasing responsibility to International Medical Leader, Dr Hayward practiced in the UK Health Service in anaesthesia and intensive care. Most recently Dr Hayward was Director of Prism Ideas Ltd with responsibility for the medical team of this pharmaceutical medicine consultancy. Dr. Hayward attended the medical schools of Guys & St. Thomas’s Hospitals in London. About Premier ResearchPremier Research is a professional services company providing clinical development support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Philadelphia, USA, the company has 21 offices across North America and Europe and operates in over 30 countries worldwide. The company is a leader in performing clinical research in the analgesia, oncology, pediatrics, medical device and neurosciences areas. Additionally, it has grown a strong strategic sourcing group that supports customers in their resource planning and management.
The company offers a comprehensive series of services for every phase of clinical development including, regulatory affairs, clinical trial management, medical affairs and strategic consulting, pharmacovigilance, data operations, biostatistics, medical writing, interactive response technologies, and quality assurance.
For more information please visit,
www.premier-research.com .
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A new year is under way, and the typical resolutions are making the rounds — eat less, exercise more. Why not do something unique and resolve to try a Michigan travel adventure in 2012?
Here are some ideas from the West Michigan Tourist Association:
Soar on a Zip Line
The final few moments before you step off a platform and are sent speeding through the air on a zip line can be heart-pounding. Yet, once youve taken the plunge, the feeling of flying takes over, and youre hooked.
Boyne Highlands in Harbor Springs and Boyne Mountain in Boyne Falls have criss-crossed their properties with a total of 18 lines, including one that stretches 1,350 feet, the longest zip line in the state. They offer tours all year, so you can fly over skiers in January, take in a sunny afternoon in July or enjoy the color display in September — all at 25 miles an hour and up to 50 feet in the air.
Want to climb even higher? Wildwood Rush Canopy Tours in Boyne City specializes in giving breathtaking views that cant be achieved with two feet on the ground, and they go to heights of 80 feet. Their 5,000 feet of zip lines take you high into the canopies near Lake Charlevoix, and they give you a chance to challenge your friends with triple racing lines, the only one in the Midwest.
If youre not ready for a zip experience quite that extreme, Grand Rapids John Ball Zoo is home to a 300-foot line that takes you 40 feet into the air so you can swing about like the neighboring monkeys.
Drive the Dunes
Theres nothing quite like hiking to the top of a towering mountain of sand — except flying down it via a motorized vehicle. Lake Michigans shoreline is spotted with picturesque dunes from Berrien Countys Warren Dunes to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, named the Most Beautiful Place in America by Good Morning America. Adrenaline junkies make the pilgrimage to the Silver Lake Sand Dunes, a sandy mecca that offers one very tempting perk: driving yourself.
The Silver Lake State Park is the only dune system east of Utah that allows the use of private motorized vehicles. The northern third of the park is reserved for this extreme sport. Thats a 450-acre playground built of shifting sands. If you dont own a sand-blasting ORV, fret not. Several outfitters can set you up.
If the thought of driving through an ever-changing landscape is a bit too intimidating, guided services are available, in Silver Lake and other West Michigan communities such as Saugatuck.
The tourist association recommends:
Mac Woods Dune Rides, Silver Lake
Parrots Landing, Silver Lake
Razor Js Adventure Tours, Silver Lake
Silver Lake Buggy Rentals, Silver Lake
Saugatuck Dune Rides, Saugatuck
Ride the Luge
You dont have to wait until 2014 to live out your Winter Olympic dreams. Muskegon is home to one of only four luge tracks in the United States, and its open to the public. While our Olympic counterparts spend years in training to wrap around tight curves at 90 miles an hour, three-time Olympian Frank Masley designed the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex track to give novices a safe luge experience.
Adventure-seekers as young as 8 are outfitted and taught the skills needed to cruise at 30 mph down the icy lane with six curves and two starting points. The $40 price will not only give you multiple runs (three to eight depending on session size), but also a fancy certificate and bragging rights for life.
Need a few months to work up the nerve? The luge is open year round with a warm-weather wheeled option — the only one in North America.
David Hockney thinks that over his lifetime art has become less. He blames the art establishment (museums, galleries, art schools) for becoming over-enamoured with conceptual art: It gave up on images a bit the artist laments.
By which he means that the artworld ignored figurative art: paintings, sculptures, videos and installations that aim to represent the known world: the sort of work Hockney makes: landscapes, portraits and still lifes.
Instead he feels, museums and galleries have jumped too willingly into the unmade bed of conceptual art where lights go on and off in a game of philosophical riddles. But Hockney says the power is with images, and in neglecting them the artworld has diminished the very thing it aimed to protect: art.
Its difficult to ignore Hockneys latest images that now fill the vast galleries of the Royal Academy in London. They are huge (two paintings are about 10-metres across), they are innovative (numerous iPad print-outs and an 18-screen film installation), and they are very colourful (purple paths and orange tree trunks aplenty).
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The Rothstein Kass Family Office Group (
http://www.rkco.com/Site/FamilyOffices/CorpContent.aspx ), a division of professional services firm Rothstein Kass (
www.rkco.com ), today announced the release of “The Single-Family Office Healthcare Advantage,” a comprehensive study highlighting the increasing use of concierge healthcare providers by single-family offices. The report features the findings of a survey of 151 single-family office executives, indicating that more than half currently use a concierge healthcare provider. Research conducted in 2009 found that around 36 percent of single-family offices were doing so at that time.
“The single-family office model continues to grow in popularity as wealthy families appreciate their ability to combine financial and lifestyle aspects under a unified family strategy. Due to the uncertainty surrounding healthcare systems in the United States and around the world, families are increasingly turning to single-family office executives for assistance with long-term healthcare concerns,” said Rick Flynn, Principal and Head of the Rothstein Kass Family Office Group. “Though most single-family offices now offer some level of concierge healthcare support, the scope and quality of service can vary greatly from provider to provider. It is important to work closely with clients to develop a strategy that best fits their individual requirements.”
Notable survey findings include:
94 percent of those surveyed cite management of severe medical conditions, as the top reason for engaging concierge healthcare providers.
Over 83 percent of single-family offices engage concierge healthcare providers to help them better deal with and use the healthcare system.
While over 90 percent of single-family offices cite immediate access to emergency care physicians as a very important service, only around 17 percent currently have this service.
Over 77 percent of single-family offices find it very important to remotely monitor chronic conditions, while only about 24 percent of them currently have this service.
Second opinions from leading physicians, over 84 percent, and access to top quality healthcare when traveling, nearly 75 percent, are also cited as top reasons for engaging a concierge healthcare provider.
About Rothstein Kass:
Rothstein Kass is a premier professional services firm that has served privately held and publicly traded companies, as well as high-net-worth individuals and families, for more than 50 years. As trusted advisors to our clients, Rothstein Kass provides accounting, auditing and tax services, as well as a full array of integrated services, to clients across industry spectrums and in all stages of organizational development. At the core of Rothstein Kass’ remarkable success lies our commitment to hiring, developing and retaining employees that represent an entrepreneurial spirit mirroring that of the sophisticated business and financial services communities that we serve.
The Rothstein Kass Family Office Group offers a wide range of financial, wealth planning and lifestyle management services to family offices and high-net-worth individuals. Composed of seasoned financial professionals and certified public accountants, the Family Office Group applies proven expertise with the utmost discretion and attention. A division of the Rothstein Kass Commercial Services Group, the Family Office Group does not provide investment allocation, asset management or advisory services.
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By D. Orlando Ledbetter
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here is a look at how the Falcons running backs match up against the Giants linebackers.
In-Your-Face Fitness: Go ahead, run into old age
Several studies suggest that running does not lead to joint injury. So growing older doesnt have to mean abandoning the exercise, so long as youre careful.
After months of speculations, all is set for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party, to choose the man who will partner him as his running mate for the December 7 polls.
Information available to theNew Statesmanindicates that the National Council of the NPP is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Tuesday, 17 January 2012, to among others, consider the man the flagbearer has nominated for the running mate position.
The NPPs Constitution gives the presidential candidate the prerogative to select his running mate, in consultation with the National Council of the party.
It is only when the nominee has not been a member of the party for at least five years that the presidential candidate requires the express approval of the Council.
The process for the selection of Nana Akufo-Addos running mate started in 2009. The party believes the pre-Council consultation has witnessed enough contributions from members to the DEBATE, which constitutes the first element of the running mate selection process.
What is now left for the party is to DECIDE and DISCIPLINE.
With the decision expected to be made tomorrow, party gurus such as Osei Bonsu Amoah, Member of Parliament for Aburi-Nsawam, believe all members of the party should ensure discipline and rally behind the presidential ticket for immediate aggressive and well-focused campaign to commence towards the Victory December 7 agenda.
Speaking to the New Statesman yesterday, Mr OB Amoah urged the rank and file of the party to respect and abide by the decision of Nana Addo and work together in all unity and sincerity to kick out the obviously confused and incompetent Mills-Mahama led NDC government from the corridors of power.
Several sources in the NPP say the nominee will come from one of four names that have gained grounds within the rank and file of the party: MND Jawula, Lepowura of the Kujolobito Gate of Lepo-Kpembe in the Northern Region; Ambrose Derry, Deputy Minority Leader and MP for Lawra/Nandom; Alhassan Haruna, Deputy Managing Director of Metro TV; and Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2008 running mate of Nana Addo.
What is clear is that there will be no change, at least, in terms of the geographical background of the candidate.
In anticipation of a running mate being selected this month, sources close to the Greater Accra Regional secretariat of the NPP, say the party is planning a regional rally where the running mate of Nana Akufo-Addo will be outdoored.
Monday, Jan. 16 is a special day at the LosAngeles County Museum of Art, in more ways than one.
The first reason?Its the holiday honoring the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and, as it has in the past, LACMA jettisons admission, with the assistance of Target, to commemorate the day.
But this particular Monday is also important for Metropolis II fans, or those people intent on becoming fans:The much buzzed-about Chris Burden sculpture will be open and running at specific times throughout the afternoon and evening of Jan. 16.
We make mention of this because, from here on out, the newly debuted kinetic piece will only run on Fridays and weekends. Making a Monday showing special indeed. It does only whiz around at certain times, so youll want to make sure you time for your visit just right.
Oh boy.Over a thousand small cars, all zooming. Good stuff.
Roger Federer Up And Running In Melbourne
16 January 2012
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Roger Federer looked to have put his back problems behind him as he started his Australian Open campaign.
Federer was forced to pull out of a semi-final clash in Doha but to issues with his back but he made a strong start as he came through in straight sets.
But the former world number one didnt have it all his own way as Alexander Kudryavtsev put up a fight in the opening set.
The set went with serve until Federer finally made the breakthrough at the back end of the set to take it 7-5.
At the beginning of the second Kudryavtsev took a medical time out to receive some treatment to his thighs and that seemed to damage his concentration.
Federer broke immediately to gain control of the second set to take it 6-2.
He dropped just two games in the third and final, however Kudryavtsev managed to break the world number three.
He wrapped up the win 7-5 6-2 6-2 to progress into the second round.
Speaking to the ATP after the match Federer said: Im always excited. I felt it actually walking down that Walk of Champions, getting out on court and feeling like, you know what, I have good intensity and I am really excited to see the Aussie crowd.
I was anxious to find out how I was going to play, how my opponent was going to play me.
I was really excited and a little nervous actually going into it, which was a good feeling to have. Im looking forward to the other matches.
In that second round he will face Andreas Beck as he saw off Eric Prodon 6-4 6-3 4-6 7-5.
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TOKYO, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Japans monetary base rose
13.5 percent in December from a year earlier, Bank of Japan data
showed on Thursday.
Details were as follows (in percent, year-on-year, final
column shows seasonally adjusted month-on-month change in
monetary base):
Monetary BOJ note Coins Current Bank Month-
base issuance in circ deposits resrvs on-month
Dec +13.5 +2.3 +0.2 +61.3 +62.5 -43.3
Nov +19.5 +2.4 0.0 +99.1 +90.9 +41.2
Oct +17.0 +2.6 0.0 +84.6 +77.5 +12.5
Sept +16.7 +2.9 0.0 +84.9 +86.3 +16.4
Aug +15.9 +2.7 0.0 +79.4 +80.0 +14.9
July +15.0 +2.7 0.0 +73.3 +69.3 -6.3
* denotes a revised figure
Average outstanding monetary base:
Dec: 118.0195 trillion yen ($1.54 trillion)
Nov: 118.4978 trillion yen($1 = 76.7400 Japanese yen)