Glenn Hagele is the founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance, (CRSQA) an independent, nonprofit, patient/consumer health organization founded in 1997. CRSQA provides detailed information about LASIK and certifies refractive surgery doctors.
As an advocate for Lasik patients, Glenn Hagele has raised concerns about approval of medical devices by the US Food and Drug Administration and has been quoted in multiple television, radio, magazine, and newspaper articles regarding the potential risk and rewards of Lasik, PRK, LASEK, Epi-LASIK, P-IOLs and other surgical techniques to reduce the need for glasses and contacts.
As an independent consultant from 1982 to 1997 with Creative Marketing Design, Inc. (CMD), Glenn Hagele participated in several different facets of the healthcare industry. Mr. Hagele was responsible for the start-up of a management services organization (MSO) in Detroit and a specialist Independent Provider Association (IPA) in Sacramento. The Sacramento IPA required the recruitment of over 700 medical and allied health professionals for a statewide vision services provider panel. As Chief Operating Officer of the IPA Mr. Hagele negotiated capitated reimbursement agreements with several of the nation's largest health maintenance organizations (HMO).
From 1993 through 1995 Glenn Hagele was the Director of Provider Contracting for Healthdent of California, Inc. In this position Mr. Hagele was responsible for all allied health provider agreements within a dental HMO. Mr. Hagele recruited the appropriate providers at specific geographic locations and accommodated all regulatory agency concerns. Mr. Hagele completed development an integrated relational database software program to track Healthdent's provider panel needs during his tenure at Healthdent. Mr. Hagele was Project Manager of the team that created an analysis of provider reimbursement and developed a new pricing structure for Healthdent's seven beneficiary plans based upon utilization trends.
With CMD's own Senior VisionCare program, Glenn Hagele created a profitable preferred provider organization (PPO) active in 19 states from 1986 through 1995. Senior VisionCare allowed the waiver of Medicare deductible and copayment for qualifying seniors. This product required creative and detailed analysis of federal Medicare regulations. Senior VisionCare withstood the scrutiny of the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services without a single negative evaluation.
Professional Interests
Glenn Hagele is active in several arts organizations in his community and is an adjunct instructor of computer sciences at MTI College of Business and Technology, an accredited vocational college. Mr. Hagele also teaches furniture design and construction, specializing in the Arts & Crafts period.
As an advocate for Lasik patients, Glenn Hagele has raised concerns about approval of medical devices by the US Food and Drug Administration and has been quoted in multiple television, radio, magazine, and newspaper articles regarding the potential risk and rewards of Lasik, PRK, LASEK, Epi-LASIK, P-IOLs and other surgical techniques to reduce the need for glasses and contacts.
As an independent consultant from 1982 to 1997 with Creative Marketing Design, Inc. (CMD), Glenn Hagele participated in several different facets of the healthcare industry. Mr. Hagele was responsible for the start-up of a management services organization (MSO) in Detroit and a specialist Independent Provider Association (IPA) in Sacramento. The Sacramento IPA required the recruitment of over 700 medical and allied health professionals for a statewide vision services provider panel. As Chief Operating Officer of the IPA Mr. Hagele negotiated capitated reimbursement agreements with several of the nation's largest health maintenance organizations (HMO).
From 1993 through 1995 Glenn Hagele was the Director of Provider Contracting for Healthdent of California, Inc. In this position Mr. Hagele was responsible for all allied health provider agreements within a dental HMO. Mr. Hagele recruited the appropriate providers at specific geographic locations and accommodated all regulatory agency concerns. Mr. Hagele completed development an integrated relational database software program to track Healthdent's provider panel needs during his tenure at Healthdent. Mr. Hagele was Project Manager of the team that created an analysis of provider reimbursement and developed a new pricing structure for Healthdent's seven beneficiary plans based upon utilization trends.
With CMD's own Senior VisionCare program, Glenn Hagele created a profitable preferred provider organization (PPO) active in 19 states from 1986 through 1995. Senior VisionCare allowed the waiver of Medicare deductible and copayment for qualifying seniors. This product required creative and detailed analysis of federal Medicare regulations. Senior VisionCare withstood the scrutiny of the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services without a single negative evaluation.
Professional Interests
Glenn Hagele is active in several arts organizations in his community and is an adjunct instructor of computer sciences at MTI College of Business and Technology, an accredited vocational college. Mr. Hagele also teaches furniture design and construction, specializing in the Arts & Crafts period.
Older computers, monitors and most computer projectors use an analog VGA connection with a HD15 connector. Older Macintosh computers have a smaller connection with a mini-VGA.
Many flat digital screen monitors have a connection following the DVI-standard (Digital Visual Interface) whic means the signal doesn't have to make a detour via analog. DVI was developed by a number of leading computer and monitor manifacturers and exists in a assortment of varieties: DVI-Analog (DVI-A), which only supports analog transfers and therefore works well with traditional CRT monitors. DVI-Digital (DVI-D), which only support digital transfers. DVI-Integrated (DVI-I) which supports both digital and analog transfers and therefore works with both digital and traditional monitors.
DVI can also have one or two channels. One channel can send 165 million pixel per second with 24 bits per pixel to the monitor. With one channel, called Single Link, the computer can handle monitors up to UXGA resolution (1600x1200 pixels) with a refresh rate of 60Hz. With two channels, called Dual Link, you can use monitors with very high resolution, HDTV (1920 x 1080 pixel), QXGA resolution (2048 x 1536 pixels), or even higher.
The connectors on the DVI cable are constructed so that they can't be connected in the wrong way, despite the fact that the connector for DVI exists in five variations, depending on wheter it handles analog and/or digital transfer, and in the digital transfer occurs in one or two channels. Monitors and video cards that are exclusively digital cannot be connected to analog, for exemple, even if they can be connected to the equipment that handles both analog and digital signals.
The DVI standard also supports DCC (Display Data Channel) and EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) that enables computer to communicate with the different extensions for monitor, for example in order to show wide-screen images.
To connect a monitor or projector with a VGA connection to computers with DVI requires that the DVI signal be analog, as well as the use of DVI-A to VGA adapter for connecting the signal.
Mini-DVI is a version of DVI that is used in some Apple laptops and, with the help of an adaptor, can be converted to DVI, VGA, S-video or composite video.
Many flat digital screen monitors have a connection following the DVI-standard (Digital Visual Interface) whic means the signal doesn't have to make a detour via analog. DVI was developed by a number of leading computer and monitor manifacturers and exists in a assortment of varieties: DVI-Analog (DVI-A), which only supports analog transfers and therefore works well with traditional CRT monitors. DVI-Digital (DVI-D), which only support digital transfers. DVI-Integrated (DVI-I) which supports both digital and analog transfers and therefore works with both digital and traditional monitors.
DVI can also have one or two channels. One channel can send 165 million pixel per second with 24 bits per pixel to the monitor. With one channel, called Single Link, the computer can handle monitors up to UXGA resolution (1600x1200 pixels) with a refresh rate of 60Hz. With two channels, called Dual Link, you can use monitors with very high resolution, HDTV (1920 x 1080 pixel), QXGA resolution (2048 x 1536 pixels), or even higher.
The connectors on the DVI cable are constructed so that they can't be connected in the wrong way, despite the fact that the connector for DVI exists in five variations, depending on wheter it handles analog and/or digital transfer, and in the digital transfer occurs in one or two channels. Monitors and video cards that are exclusively digital cannot be connected to analog, for exemple, even if they can be connected to the equipment that handles both analog and digital signals.
The DVI standard also supports DCC (Display Data Channel) and EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) that enables computer to communicate with the different extensions for monitor, for example in order to show wide-screen images.
To connect a monitor or projector with a VGA connection to computers with DVI requires that the DVI signal be analog, as well as the use of DVI-A to VGA adapter for connecting the signal.
Mini-DVI is a version of DVI that is used in some Apple laptops and, with the help of an adaptor, can be converted to DVI, VGA, S-video or composite video.
The Dark Overlord of the Universe is the main villain in the film version of Howard the Duck. It resembles a vicious scorpion-like creature the size of a truck.
The Dark Overlords were a powerful race of demonic aliens that wreaked havoc across the galaxy until they were banished by an unknown force to a realm known as the Nexus of Sominus, which "lies beyond the planets", and described only vaguely as "a region of demons". Then, one evening in 1986 a scientist named Dr. Walter Jenning was using a laser spectroscope device in an attempt to send Howard the Duck back to the planet Duckworld. The machine went haywire and ended up targeting the Overlords’ domain, bringing one of them to Earth in the process. Upon arrival, the Dark Overlord was fused into Dr. Jenning’s body and slowly began to possess him. Although Jenning tried to warn Howard and Beverly about the Overlord, they assumed that he was merely delusional from the explosion caused by the malfunctioning laser.
Story
While trying to evade police who were after Howard, Beverly took him and Jenning to a diner. Prior to entering, the Overlord fully possessed Jenning’s body and used its demonic powers to force Howard to give him the control key in order to activate the laser and bring the rest of its comrades to Earth. It kidnapped Beverly and went to Jenning’s laboratory to activate the laser. With the help of lab assistant Phil Blumburtt, Howard managed to purloin an experimental disintegrator gun to defeat the Overlord.
Howard fired upon the possessed Jenning, successfully freeing him from the Dark Overlord’s presence. Now, the Dark Overlord revealed its true form and attacked Howard. It then activated the laser to summon the rest of the Overlords. With little time left, Howard narrowly defeated the Overlord with the disintegrator and then sacrificed his only means of returning home to Duckworld by firing on the laser, and thus sending the mid-flight Overlords back to their imprisonment.
The Dark Overlords were a powerful race of demonic aliens that wreaked havoc across the galaxy until they were banished by an unknown force to a realm known as the Nexus of Sominus, which "lies beyond the planets", and described only vaguely as "a region of demons". Then, one evening in 1986 a scientist named Dr. Walter Jenning was using a laser spectroscope device in an attempt to send Howard the Duck back to the planet Duckworld. The machine went haywire and ended up targeting the Overlords’ domain, bringing one of them to Earth in the process. Upon arrival, the Dark Overlord was fused into Dr. Jenning’s body and slowly began to possess him. Although Jenning tried to warn Howard and Beverly about the Overlord, they assumed that he was merely delusional from the explosion caused by the malfunctioning laser.
Story
While trying to evade police who were after Howard, Beverly took him and Jenning to a diner. Prior to entering, the Overlord fully possessed Jenning’s body and used its demonic powers to force Howard to give him the control key in order to activate the laser and bring the rest of its comrades to Earth. It kidnapped Beverly and went to Jenning’s laboratory to activate the laser. With the help of lab assistant Phil Blumburtt, Howard managed to purloin an experimental disintegrator gun to defeat the Overlord.
Howard fired upon the possessed Jenning, successfully freeing him from the Dark Overlord’s presence. Now, the Dark Overlord revealed its true form and attacked Howard. It then activated the laser to summon the rest of the Overlords. With little time left, Howard narrowly defeated the Overlord with the disintegrator and then sacrificed his only means of returning home to Duckworld by firing on the laser, and thus sending the mid-flight Overlords back to their imprisonment.
Oswald Chitter is a fictional mouse character who appears in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis. He is the son of Jacob and Annabel Chitter, a sickly albino runt. He was born on the 11th of June in the Skirtings and played a large part in the downfall of Jupiter.
During The Dark Portal, he is most often seen with Picadilly, the cheeky city mouse. They went in search of Audrey Brown's mousebrass in the Sewers. Oswald's main part in the book is when he disguises himself as a rat to regain the mousebrass. However, he is found out by Finn, a one-eared rat and almost killed. Oswald manages to kill Finn by pushing him onto his own knife. He is knocked into the Sewr Water when he confronts Jupiter.
He plays a minor part in The Crystal Prison, where he is dying. However, he is revived by his cousin, William Scuttle and his good friend Audrey Brown with the Starwife's medicine.
His importance in The Final Reckoning rivals Audrey's herself. He and Arthur are the ones to discover that the food is gone, but after that he sees to drift out of the story altogether, until the Starwife lights a beacon fire to summon the Bats, Orfeo and Eldritch. Oswald's sensitive eyes spot the Bats in the distance, and he is borne off to the Council of Bats, and placed before the Bat Elders. He collects the Book of Hrethel and bombards Jupiter with the paper, wounding him terribly. However, Oswald doesn't survive the adventure. His parents are given his mousebrass-the sign of utmost bravery.
During The Dark Portal, he is most often seen with Picadilly, the cheeky city mouse. They went in search of Audrey Brown's mousebrass in the Sewers. Oswald's main part in the book is when he disguises himself as a rat to regain the mousebrass. However, he is found out by Finn, a one-eared rat and almost killed. Oswald manages to kill Finn by pushing him onto his own knife. He is knocked into the Sewr Water when he confronts Jupiter.
He plays a minor part in The Crystal Prison, where he is dying. However, he is revived by his cousin, William Scuttle and his good friend Audrey Brown with the Starwife's medicine.
His importance in The Final Reckoning rivals Audrey's herself. He and Arthur are the ones to discover that the food is gone, but after that he sees to drift out of the story altogether, until the Starwife lights a beacon fire to summon the Bats, Orfeo and Eldritch. Oswald's sensitive eyes spot the Bats in the distance, and he is borne off to the Council of Bats, and placed before the Bat Elders. He collects the Book of Hrethel and bombards Jupiter with the paper, wounding him terribly. However, Oswald doesn't survive the adventure. His parents are given his mousebrass-the sign of utmost bravery.