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|June 2011
|Alan D. Forker, MD, MACP, Governor
- Message from the Governor
- New Fellows
- Report of Leadership Day, May 24-25, 2011, Washington DC
- Health Literacy & MOC Points
- Missouri Chapter of the ACP 2011 Council
- Get Ready for HIPAA 5010 and ICD 10
- PQRS Feeds into CMS Physician Compare
- Chapter Meeting
Message from the Governor
It is my pleasure and honor to say Hello to all Missouri Chapter members, Fellows, and Masters, since this is my first Newsletter as your new Governor. Its a tough act to follow, that Dr. David Fleming. David was an outstanding Governor for our Chapter, so good that he is now the Chair of the ACP Board of Governors, for all 81 Chapters. Thanks, David, for all the personal and professional advice, expertise, and leadership.
At the Annual Meeting in San Diego, April 2011, I was fortunate to walk with the new Fellows of the American College of Physicians into the Convocation. Once again, I want to congratulate each of them for their dedication to our profession and especially to internal medicine. I encourage each of you to get involved with your Missouri Chapters activities. I hope to see each of you at our Annual Meeting, Tan-Tar-A, September 15-18, 2011. More news about the meeting later.
I also encourage each and all of you to speak to me directly, call me (913-579-3990), e-mail me email@example.com (sorry, I dont do Facebook) and tell me how you would like to be involved with your Chapter. We need your input. Would you like to write a personal story about your life and practice that would have a teaching point for all of us? Similar to our Annals of Internal Medicine, ie On Being a Doctor, I would like to publish them in our Newsletter. Only on one condition though: this would not be a platform to voice your political opinions, especially if opposite to that of the policy of the ACP. I can voice my personal opinions in private to any/all of you; but when speaking as your Governor, I am representing the policies of ACP, which I strongly support.
We had a reception at the Annual Meeting in San Diego for our new Master, Warren Lovinger, MD, MACP. What a well deserved honor for such a role model in internal medicine. I have known Warren for close to 20 years, and never ceased to be amazed at his dedication to our profession and his patients in Nevada, Missouri. This is the kind of competent, compassionate physician that our internal medicine training programs in Missouri need to train. And that health care/payment reform needs to vigorously support.
Dr. Warren Lovinger and his family
Some of my priorities as your Governor over the next four years include:
- more involvement from each Board Member in the Chapter, including membership on at least one Committee
- creation of a Strategic Plan. The Board had a Retreat on March 5, 2011, led by an outside consultant/adviser. A preliminary draft is in process, with a final version presented to the Board at our Annual Meeting in September, 2011.
- creation of an Associates (ie internal medicine residents and fellows) Council for the MO Chapter, with representation from most/all Missouri IM training programs.
- creation of a Medical Student Council, with representation from all Missouri medical schools.
- creation of a new Membership Committee: Yippee, already done, with the leadership of Dr. Keith Starke, St Johns IM Dept Chair. The Missouri Chapter has recruited new members in the past primarily through ad hoc efforts of Board Members. We are now really focusing our efforts on new Young Physicians, fresh out of training, and those who are under age 40 who just never got around to joining.
- creation of a new Young Physicians Council: Bingo! As a corollary of the above, Dr. Sarah Florio, an internist in Kansas City/Lees Summit, has volunteered to chair this new committee this past year.
- improve communication from ACP and your Governor to you by a monthly blast e-mail, ie to all membership simultaneously, on whatever topics you provide to me, and/or what I interpret that our society, profession, and ACP should want us to discuss.
- ACP has a program entitled LEAD, which means Leadership Enhancement and Development. As a Chapter, we have not utilized this resource as much as we could/should for development of our future leaders. We need to send some Chief Residents and other Young Physicians to this course held at the Annual Meeting each year. Here are some of the topics discussed at San Diego in April, 2011:
- Residents as Teachers
- Leadership Skills for Internists: Ten Tenets of Leadership
- Evolution of Diversity in Medicine
- Five Tips for Effectively Managing Work/Life Balance
- Patient-Centered Medical Home: Building and Coordination of a Practice
- Internal Medicine Workforce: Challenges and Solutions Meeting Demand
- Internists Role in New Payment and Delivery Models
- Physician Accountability: Profession Police Thyself?
- Addressing Harassment: Spoken and Unspoken
- Get Involved: Volunteerism After Health Care Reform
Leadership Enhancement and Development Program Information
So, lets share stories, volunteer our time to ACP, take care of our patients with the best humanitarian, cost-effective approach possible, and have some fun along the way. Looking forward to getting better acquainted with students, associates, members and fellows who I know only superficially now. I would love to find a good fit for each of you as a volunteer for ACP.
Please join me at the Missouri Chapter meeting in September as we honor David Fleming, MD, FACP as our Laureate Awardee for outstanding service to the Missouri Chapter of the ACP.
Alan Forker, MD, MACP Governor
New Fellows
We welcome eight Missouri physicians as new Fellows since the first of the year.
Fred J Balis, MD FACP, Creve Coeur
Carla A Dyer, MD FACP, Columbia
Syed K Hussain, MD FACP, Ballwin
Uzma Z Khan, MBBS FACP, Columbia
Brian P Miller, MD FACP, Arnold
Nora L Porter, MD FACP, Saint Louis
Clay F Semenkovich, MD FACP, Saint Louis
Chokkalingam Siva, MD FACP, Columbia
If you are interested in learning more about Fellowship you may attend the Fellowship Tutorial held during the Chapters annual CME meeting at Tan Tar A. If you cannot attend then, please contact Patrick Mills email@example.com and we will find someone in your area to offer guidance prior to submitting your Fellowship application.
Report of Leadership Day, May 24-25, 2011, Washington DC
For those of you who have never experienced ACP Leadership Day, let me tell you about it. Around 400 internists, associates, and medical students attended from 44 states and DC. Missouri was represented by a team of 9 - our largest contingent - Alan Forker, MD, MACP Missouri Governor; David Fleming, MD, FACP Chair ACP Board of Governors; Sarah Florio, MD Kansas City; Vanessa Kuwajima, MD MU resident; Nazir Lone, MD MU resident; Kenneth Poole, MD St Johns resident; Christopher Wieland, MD IM Wash U / Barnes resident; Anita Sarathi MD Wash U / Barnes IM resident; Brandon Johnson - MU student; Amanda Turner - MU student; and Nathan Moore Wash U student.
We made 10 congressional visits on May 25, following a full day of information sharing on May 24. The four key priority issues for ACP are:
- Eliminate the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. ACP published a white paper on May 5 which is available on the Advocacy section of ACPonline, www.acponline.org/advocacy. It recommends five years of stable payments with further evaluation of new payment models, such as the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Then followed by a 2nd Stage of implementation. Good chance for bi-partisan support, but no money in the FY 2012 budget currently.
- Keep supporting discretionary Workforce Programs, such as: a) the National Health Service Corps (which has grown from 3,600 to 7,530 doctors since implementation of the ACA; b) Training in Primary Care grants, especially in ambulatory internal medicine residencies; c) continued funding of Community Health Centers, up to $18 million with ACA.
- Keep funding mandatory programs of ACA to Strenthen Access to Primary Care, Improve Quality, and Lower Costs, with a) specific support of the Medicare Primary Care Incentive 10% bonus, if meeting meaningful use guidelines: b) raise Medicaid payments to the level of Medicare (the current Medicaid/ Medicare ratio in Missouri is 65%); c) support for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: needed to accelerate broad pilot-testing and adoption of new payment and delivery models, such as the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
- Support key policy changes with current bills in the House and Senate, such as the Help, Efficient, Access, Low-cost, Healthcare (HEALTH) act of 2011 (S.218, H.R.5) which would cap awards for non-economic damages, plus support funding of pilots of health courts, in which Medical Liability claims would be heard by expert judges, not presented to less knowledgeable lay juries.
I have now participated in ACP Leadership Day four times. I never thought I would participate in the political process: no impact; Im too busy being a doctor; cant be bothered; and takes too much time and money. Please let me know firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in 2012 Leadership. We will likely know who is attending from Missouri by September 1. The Chapter pays a portion of the expense. Its worth ityou have a feeling of participation in the political process. One specific experience: Representative Vicky Hartzler (R-4th District) was over at the Capitol attending a meeting. She had an aide bring us to her and met us in the hall. She was a model of graciousness, and willing to listen to both sides of the story, ie not a closed mind/only one approach. Plus, we got a tour of the Capitol, including the Rotunda and Statuary Hall. You should try ityou might have as much fun as our group/team did sharing stories about medicine and life. Good way to mentor the next generation of internists.
Health Literacy & MOC Points
The Center for Health Policy at MU has a new program that helps internists use good health literacy techniques in their clinic practice and importantly it was recently certified by the ABIM and will provide 20 MOC points to those who complete the program. If you are interested you may contact email@example.com or go to http://healthpolicy.missouri.edu/projects/hlmoc.shtml for more information.
Web sites you should know
Missouri Chapter of the ACP 2011 Council
The following is a list of your governing council for the Chapter. If you have questions and/or comments please contact Dr. Forker; a council member in your area; or Patrick Mills (573-636-5151 / firstname.lastname@example.com).
Alan D. Forker, MD, MACP Governor Kansas City
Brent Beasley, MD, FACP Kansas City
Melvin Blanchard, MD, FACP St Louis
Tom De Fer, MD, FACP St Louis
Bishnu Devkota, MD, FACP St Louis
Carla Dyer, MD, FACP Columbia
Andrew L. Evans, MD, MBA, FACP Springfield
David Fleming, MD, FACP Columbia
Sarah Florio, MD Kansas City
Kim Jamison, MD, FACP Columbia
Pradeep Kapoor, MD, FACP St Louis
Caroline Kerber, MD, FACP Columbia
Robert Lancey, MD, FACP Columbia
Bridget McCandless, MD, FACP Kansas City
Joseph J. Muscato, MD, FACP - Columbia
Tracy Norfleet, MD St Louis
Thomas J. Olsen, MD, FACP St Louis
Miguel Paniagua, MD, FACP St Louis
Chris Perryman, MD, FACP Kansas City
Naveed Razzaque, MBBS, FACP St Louis
Keith Starke, MD, FACP St Louis
Bill Taylor, MD, FACP Springfield
Adam Whaley-Connell, DO, FACP Columbia
Richard B. Whiting, MD, MACP St Louis
Anne Winkler, MD, PhD, MACP Springfield
David Wooldridge, MD, FACP Kansas City
Megan Wren, MD, FACP St Louis
Patrick Mills Executive Director Jefferson City
Get Ready for HIPAA 5010 and ICD 10
As part of new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) legislation, all covered entities must submit claims under the new Version 5010 transaction standards by January 1, 2012. Claims will only be processed by payers under this new format. End-to-end testing must be complete and successful well in advance of the December 31, 2011 deadline. The change to 5010 is needed prior to the ICD 10 format due October 2013.
For a checklist of how to get ready, go to: www.cms.gov/Versions5010andD0/Downloads/w5010PvdrActionChklst.pdf
To understand all the reasons for the standard format upgrade, go here: http://www.cms.gov/Versions5010andD0/Downloads/w5010BasicsFctSht.pdf
Missouri Medicaid FAQs
PQRS Feeds into CMS Physician Compare
CMS has launched its Physician Compare website www.medicare.gov/find-a-doctor. The site currently allows individuals to search for a physician or other healthcare professional by specialty, type of professional, and location. The site also includes information about physicians and other professionals who satisfactorily participated in the Physician Quality Reporting System (formerly known as Physician Quality Reporting Initiative or PQRI). The Web site does not yet contain physician and eligible professional performance information. CMS is required to implement a plan for making information on physician performance publicly available through Physician Compare by January 1, 2013. The reporting period can begin no earlier than January 1, 2012. Many physicians have inaccurate information on this website. If your information is not correct, then check your data in the PECOS database.
Chapter Meeting
Poster contest
The Missouri chapter poster contest has limited its total number of posters at 110, all submitted by Associates, for the past few years. This year we plan to add 20 poster slots for students. We are communicating with the clerkship directors at each school in an effort to expand this already successful competition. If you are attending the meeting and want to assist with poster judging, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Doctors Dilemma
During our chapter meeting at 7am on Saturday morning we will have four teams of Associate members face off in a medical Jeopardy format. The teams will represent IM training programs from MU, SLU, St Lukes (STL) and Wash U.
Meeting Schedule 22 hours of CME Tan Tar A in Osage Beach
ACP Missouri Chapter Meeting Brochure
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What's New
Contact Information
Alan D Forker, MD MACP
Missouri Chapter Governor
Patrick Mills
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Selestine Womack Glass
- Last Updated on 02:17 PM 04/12/12
On Monday morning, April 9, 2012, our beloved mother, grandmother, aunt and friend was called to her heavenly home. She was born Sept. 1, 1949 in Halifax County to the late Jack Womack and Edna Barksdale Womack. At a young age she accepted Christ and joined County Line Baptist where she remained a faithful member until her death. She was formerly employed by Dan River Mills and cleaned homes for many years.
She was joined in holy matrimony for 37 years to the late John David Glass. Selestine leaves to cherish a devoted son, Christopher Glass of Ringgold; two grandchildren, whom she truly adored, Shemeara and Temera Glass of Sutherlin; one god-daughter, Major Kim Stone of Arlington; one sister, Janice (Bryant) Dunkley of South Boston; three brothers, David, Wayne, and Wilburt of Washington, D.C.; two aunts, Selestine Powell of Nathalie and Catherine Logan of Newport News; her mother-in-law, Thelma Glass of Java; five brothers-in-law, Herman (Daisy), George (Linda), Garland (Louise), Joe (Rosa), Grover (Margaret); three sisters-in-law, Mattie Sue, Yolanda, and JoAnn (Sherman); a host of nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, cousins, relatives, and friends. To include devoted friends, Bernice Stone, Linda Glass, Shirley Wimbush, Joan Brown, Eunice Slayton, Christy Stone, Sheree Glass, and Hazel Coleman. Her siblings, Linda Gayle, Catherine, Eddie Louis, Ivory Wallace, Malcolm, Jack, Randy, and Quentin Earl, also preceded Mrs. Glass in death.
Services will be held Saturday, April 14, 2012, at County Line Baptist Church, located at 10151 Chatham Road, Vernon Hill, VA. 24597.
Viewing will be from noon until the time of the service at 1 p.m.
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Dear Editor,
The Pauls Valley High School Key Club would like to sincerely thank all of the generous people from around the community who donated items and assisted with the Lone Grove tornado relief effort.
After the first few days of the drive, we were getting a little worried due to the lack of donations received.
However, after a few more days of spreading the word, the people of Pauls Valley and the surrounding area came through.
We are proud to say that we took a full trailer down to Lone Grove loaded with everything from food items to common household items.
We took the trailer to the First Baptist Church of Lone Grove, and as we were unloading the trailer of goods and taking them into the building, I could not help but notice the various people and families in the building receiving assistance and trying to recover from this tragedy.
Something in particular I thought was interesting was a woman from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) came up to me and asked where we were from.
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She said that it was very generous of us to do something like this, and that she has been to many disaster areas around the United States, but she is always so impressed by Oklahomans and how they take care of each other in times such as this.
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The Chickasha High School boys soccer team lost its regular season opening game at Carl Albert on Tuesday night.
The Fightin' Chicks (0-1) are still in an early stage of development, and Carl Albert provided a high level of competition right off the bat for the team.
"Doesn't get much tougher," head coach Scott Parkinson said. "If it was me, I probably wouldn't have had them play Carl Albert the first game out, but it was a game we had to honor."
The Fightin' Chicks lost 3-0, but Parkinson said there are benefits to starting the year off with a game like that.
"I think we've played a state champion this year and two state semifinalists, it's good to see the boys in real difficult situations having to problem-solve the games themselves and under high pressure," Parkinson said. "We know that when we get into districts, the competition level is going to drop slightly, and hopefully they'll se the game comes a lot easier to them.
"It's a baptism of fire, but it should ease up," he said.
The Chickasha boys graduated some of their most productive players last season, including goalkeeper Jeral Willetts, midfielders Jaime Ruiz and Hunter Bailey and forward Ben Sanders.
Ruiz and Sanders were responsible for much of the offense last season, and the Chicks are still looking for the players who will step into those roles this year.
"We're still not sure on our personnel yet what our strongest team is, and we're asking the players to basically step up and use the 10 hours a week of practice to show they deserve a spot," Parkinson said. "It's keeping the competition for places fairly strong."
Some of the players that have stood out early in the season include seniors Nathan Stewart, Devin Warden and Kyle Mosley, goalkeeper Harrison Ford and sophomore Cooper Mosley and Devin Warden.
Chickasha's next game is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12 at Del City High School. The girls will play at 5:30 p.m., followed by the boys at 7:30.


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Wake County's four best 4A girls tennis teams dominated Tuesday and advanced through the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association dual-team tennis tournament in impressive fashion.
The four teams dropped one set while dispatching two previously undefeated teams and three conference champions.
"I think our playoff success is indicative of how good the tennis is in our area," said Millbrook coach Kristy Blake, whose Wildcats knocked off previously unbeaten Fayetteville Britt 9-0. "You play really good people in your conference and in your non-conference matches and it gets you ready for the playoffs.
"We pretty much won all of our singles 0 and 0, and each of their singles players had been undefeated. It is like being in a different league. The tennis in our area is unbelievable."
The dominance was not unexpected.
Undefeated Broughton, the defending state 4A dual-team champion, has won 11 state titles in the past 18 years and has been in the dual-team championships 16 times during the same period.
The Caps (20-0) moved to the third round by beating PAC-6 champion East Chapel Hill (18-6) 5-1.
Broughton faces a challenging third-round match with Panther Creek (18-1), a 6-0 winner over previously undefeated Clayton (18-1 and the Greater Neuse champ). Panther Creek's only loss was a 5-4 setback against Broughton.
The other area quarterfinal has Millbrook (14-2) facing Green Hope (15-4), a 6-0 winner over Garner (16-4).
Green Hope's No. 1 Karena Zhang, No. 2 Jurasia Horvat and No. 4 Priyanka Srinivas took 6-0, 6-0 wins, and the Falcons won each of the singles matches in straight sets.
Green Hope ousted Millbrook in the second round last year.
"The Millbrook squad is excited to have a rematch against Green Hope ... and we look forward to giving it a good match next Tuesday," Blake said.
Gibbons, NCSSM roll
And it isn't just the area 4A teams that are dominating play.
Cardinal Gibbons, a 6-0 winner over previously undefeated Eastern Wayne, has been in the 3A finals two of the past three years and was the state titlist in 2011. The Crusaders are 25-1.
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Art Beat Scenes are locations where approved Visual, Performing & Culinary Artists are placed.
Each Scene typically contains a performing venue and space for booths.
Street Closings: Michigan Street will be closed from Colfax to Wayne. Additionally, Washington St. will close from Woodward Ct. to St. Joseph Street, and Jefferson St. will
close from the Leighton parking garage to St. Joseph Street.
Parking: On-street parking is free throughout downtown on weekends. The Main-Colfax and Leighton Garages will offer free parking. See parking map below for more information. The City will also create a few temporary handicap parking spots on Colfax and Jefferson.
Walking Route: The Art Beat Walking Route this year has been condensed to about 3 blocks.
Free on-street parking is available on downtown streets during the weekend. Other free surface lots available include:
1. North of the Morris Performing Arts Center - #4
2. East of St. Joseph County Public Library (off of Michigan St) - #11
3. SE corner of Main & Western
The following Parking Garages will be free to the public on Saturday:
1. Main & Colfax Garage (#3)
2. Michigan & Jefferson - Leighton Garage (#6)
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Saturday, 6 November 2010
8 Comments:
- Dutchess Roz said...
Hey Shirley
Lovely post! I have read "Not that kind of girl" & "A crowded marriage" by Catherine Alliot and LOVED them :)
If you like these kind of books I recommend reading all Marian Keyes books or Sophie Kinsella, both BRILLIANT.
Here a review about Sophie's latest book: http://www.dutchessroz.com/search/label/Book%20Review
I love all these kinds of books so if you ever want to borrow any ? ;)
xoxo Roz
- 6 November 2010 18:53
- Shirley said...
Thanks Roz, i'll deffo pop on over and have a look! :D xx
- 6 November 2010 19:49
- Aysh said...
Heya hun! Awww great post, I am a sucker for a good romance, with a bit o'comedy & drama thrown in too! I've always noticed Catherine Alliots books but have never read so will deffo be checking them out! Gosh I have so many fav authors but if I were to narrow it down some I would say, Marian Keyes, Fiona Walker, Louise Bagshawe & Sandra Brown...& thats cutting it down! You could say I'm a bit of a bookworm ;)
Aysh xoxo
- 6 November 2010 20:14
- Dami.J.Lawal said...
hey, great post. i enjoy a little bit of literature as well, a good authour that i like is 'sophie kinsella' great humour and always ends in romance. Still searching for books by her.
take care, x
- 6 November 2010 20:22
- Lola said...
I am not a reader in the slightest but i really like the way you described the book as a whole, especially the part when you said 'She captures the reader with every word'. It makes me want to be captured. I can see myself picking it up and getting hooked.
- 6 November 2010 20:53
- brooklyndolcevita said...
I'm an avid reader and I'll definitely check this book out.
By the way, I too love journals!
- 7 November 2010 13:08
- nbudham said...
Hi Shirley,
I tried searching for the books you recommended in my local library here in the U.S.but wasn't successfully, I will check to see if the books are available on Amazon in the mean time I'm reading "Daughters of Darkness" by V.C.Andrews (Ava and Lorelei...Two beautiful sisters with a chilling family secret. One hungry desire that could shatter their blood ties forever.) I'm a big fan of Vampire novels, also a fan of V.C.Andews books, She's the bestselling author of "Flowers in the Attic"
- 8 November 2010 17:11
- Sankofa said...
I adore reading and I'll read anything as long as it's interesting. Haven't really read anything with a lot of romance in it lately but I know I've read a few of Catherine Alliot's books many moons ago. I enjoyed them as well as Jill Mansell's and Louise Bagshawe's books. Definitely check out Louise Bagshawe if you like Alliot.
If you're in a more "literary" mood check out "I capture the castle" by Dodie Smith and "The thing around your neck" by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. Let us know more about your reading habits; I'm nosy!
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Quintiles says it plans to invest more in Asia as the biopharm industry continues to develop rapidly over there.
Rise of Asian biopharm creates investment targets for Quintiles.
Anand Tharmaratnam, head of Asia markets at Quintiles, said that global biopharm companies accounted for 90 percent of Quintiles clients in Asia only 3 years ago, whereas the ratio of global to local clients is now closer to 50:50 today. That's a dramatic shift in only 3 years.
Tharmaratnam attributes the rapid growth to government support and return of highly qualified staff (with an entrepreneurial bent) from the US. Korea, Singapore and Taiwan in particular were singled out as biopharm hotbeds. The rapid growth in India and China has also stimulated global pharma companies to locate more and more operations there to open up these potentially lucrative markets.
Anyone think the US needs a policy to further promote US Biotech growth and industry health to maintain our current leadership position? Or can we just watch Asia grow at our expense?
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
The father of the gunman in the Connecticut school rampage says his family is saddened and struggling to make sense of what happened.
Peter Lanza says in a statement released late Saturday that "our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy."
Investigators are trying to learn more about Lanza's son, 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza, who gunned down 26 people including 20 children at a Newtown elementary school. They've questioned his older brother, who's not believed to have been involved in the rampage.
Peter Lanza says "no words can truly express how heartbroken we are" and that relatives are "in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can."
Other relatives say in a statement that they share the grief of the Newtown community and the nation.
A sheriff in New Hampshire, where Nancy Lanza once lived, read the statement Saturday, saying the family is trying to understand "the tremendous loss." Rockingham County Sheriff Michael Downing said Lanza's brother James Champion, a retired police captain in Kingston, N.H., and other relatives express their "heartfelt sorrow" and "the whole family is traumatized by this event."
Champion would not discuss what might have triggered his nephew to go on the shooting spree.
Nancy Lanza's family described her as kind, loving and considerate. She was once a stockbroker for John Hancock in Boston.


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Wesley Snipes just celebrated his 50th birthday—in federal prison. The film star remains there over tax charges. See Actor's depressing 50th birthday. You may think Snipes was mislead by advisers or just plain foolish to end up in jail over tax charges.
Maybe, but he's not alone and it could have been much worse. After all, Snipes was convicted of failure to file, a misdemeanor. Filing falsely is a felony. You can be prosecuted for failure to file or for filing falsely.
You must file a tax return each year with the IRS if your income is over the requisite level. Snipes is over, way over. As Snipes' misdemeanor convictions show, failing to file carries smaller penalties than filing fraudulently.
The U.S. taxes all income wherever you earn it. So forget arguing that only foreign-source income is taxable, making your domestic income exempt. There is a convoluted argument that foreign income is different, but don't bother making it.
In fact, a variation of this bogus theory is the one that got Mr. Snipes in trouble, consigned to three years in prison. Stay away from other crazy arguments too.
Example: You file your original return April 15 and state you aren't subject to income taxes because they are unconstitutional and you are not a slave to the federal government. You had better file an amended tax return properly reporting your income and paying your tax before the IRS contacts you to tell you they disagree with your original return. See Ten Tax Protestor Claims To Avoid.
Once you've filed your return, you can't be prosecuted for failing to file an amended return, even though something may happen after you file that makes clear your original return contained mistakes. Yet if you knew the return was inaccurate when you filed it you should amend it to make it accurate without delay.
The IRS rarely brings up an originally filed return in audits or criminal prosecutions once the taxpayer comes forward and attempts to correct it by filing an amended return. But to take advantage of this rule you need to be proactive. You need to make the correction before the IRS finds your error.
In 2008, Snipes was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns. He reported to prison on December 9, 2010. He was initially sentenced to McKean Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in northwest Pennsylvania. He is now at the adjacent prison camp, a minimum security Club Fed, where he is inmate number 43355-018.
According to E! Online, this federal prison camp houses roughly 290 white-collar inmates. Remember Snipes in "White Men Can't Jump"? Perhaps in his new digs Snipes should start shooting a sequel: "White-Collar Men Can't Jump."
In his immensely successful screen life, Snipes normally cares about film release dates. But his next release date is more important: He's scheduled for a July 19, 2013 release. That means less than a year to go.
Robert W. Wood practices law with Wood LLP, in San Francisco. The author of more than 30 books, including Taxation of Damage Awards & Settlement Payments (4th Ed. 2009 with 2012 Supplement, Tax Institute), he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. This discussion is not intended as legal advice, and cannot be relied upon for any purpose without the services of a qualified professional.
For your information, I did some checking on our Federal Income Tax Act. I found that the United States illegally taxes individuals. The law was never legally ratified by the states. Therefore, it is a fraud. Furthermore, I looked up more on this and found that the Federal Reserve Act Wilson signed was the deathnail to the American Nation as it created a 3rd party that has undo influence to make profits for corporations and cause depressions at will.
Yes, also if you notice Ed and please look through my comments on this thread and see that the Author of this article does not address my very simple question, he says that income taxes are legit yet he has not shown the law that says that it is legit. He can't produce that law because it doesn't exist, everyone who rallies for his view are benefiting from the hoax of Federal Income Taxes and the IRS is what ensures this hoax continues with fear tactics, violence, jail time, and asset forfeiture. Watch the movie people Watch the Movie!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNeVu8wUak
I'm surprised he didn't call Barry The Impostor president for a pardon — then again Barry doesnt like to associate with Blacks.
That's very true. Obama makes me wish for the likes of Sharpster, Jerkson, and Fara-con. These clowns are penny ante extorsionists as compared to Obama.
Informative article, but you do not make clear why Snipes gets three years for three misdemeanor counts. I would like to hear more about that and whether this is unusual. It might be that Snipes other activities and interests, perhaps the fact that had been under FBI surveillance because of his security firm business?
There is much more to this simple "tax conviction." The law is not applied in a just manner.
Informative article, but you do not make clear why Snipes gets three years for three misdemeanor counts. I would like to hear more about that and whether this is unusual for such a case. It might be that Snipes' other activities and interests, (perhaps the fact that had been under FBI surveillance because of his security firm business) had something to do with the length of time here, perhaps as a "warning"?
There is much more to this simple "tax conviction." The law is not applied in a just manner. Do you agree?
Is anyone safe?
Mr. Wood nice artical; however McKeaon is spelled incorrectly. It should be McKean County.
If I was even remotely able to bring in the type of money he did I would of paid every cent I was supposed to and not have to go to prison. It makes absolutely no cents (pun) to even try to outwit the IRS.


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Facebook launches Internet.org app in Zambia
The Internet.org movement now has a mobile presence. Facebook announced Thursday that the Internet.org app is available to those in the landlocked southern African country of Zambia.
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Facebook's end goal: To be the cross-platform platform
Facebook is making its pitch to games developers: to survive you need to be cross-platform. To be effectively cross-platform, you need to dance with Facebook.
While Facebook celebrated another successful quarter last week, there was a little bit of troubling news about the future of the company's games economy. Chief Financial Officer Dave Wehner summed up Facebook's games dilemma in the quarterly earnings call:
Our current games payment revenue comes entirely from desktop usage and we are seeing declines in the number of people using Facebook on desktop, a trend that will make growing this business challenging going forward.
So at Casual Connect in San Francisco, Facebook made its sales pitch to game developers from all over the world: go mobile with us.
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IgnitionOne, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, announced recently an update to the company's digital marketing suite, adding deeper analytics capabilities.
The company's DMS Analytics 2.0 now offers a proprietary Focus Heat Map product to help social marketers identify areas of importance based on performance. The new system makes reporting faster by more than 50 percent and adds flexibility to digital marketing analysis.
Roger Barnette, President of IgnitionOne, described the company's newest offerings:
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Facebook Gifts shop to shutter Aug. 12
This holiday season, Facebook (may) not prompt you to shop in its gift store for loved ones. Facebook is ending its Gifts program, which allows people to buy physical presents and digital gift cards for friends, on Aug. 12.
The news was first reported by TechCrunch, but Facebook has confirmed this decision to Inside Facebook:
We'll be using everything we learned from Gifts to explore new ways to help businesses and developers drive sales on the web, on mobile, and directly on Facebook.
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In part I of our series on strategies for navigating the Facebook ad campaign maze, we looked at how marketers can successfully launch and manage their Facebook campaigns. Today's post examines the best ways to get the most out of your Facebook ad creative.
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As I wrote in a previous Inside Facebook post, Facebook has made it clear to marketers that it wants – and its users expect – a compelling, visually appealing reason to engage with a brand's ad. That requires smart, compelling creative that recognizes the intelligence of the average Facebook user. No more generic ad creative or text-heavy wall posts. Instead, those must be replaced with high-quality ad creative that uses engaging images and limited text.
Instagram launches Bolt in New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa
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Optimize your Facebook advertising performance with the right bidding
Facebook is running one of the largest auctions on the Internet and it enables anyone to buy advertising space on Facebook through the online auction. However, the auction doesn't work like a traditional one: the highest bid is not always enough to win it. A well-performing ad – e.g. high click-through rate and positive ad engagement – with a combination of high enough bid will allow you to win the auction and get your ad shown on Facebook.
Selecting the most suitable bidding type helps you to improve your campaign performance. At the moment Facebook offers four different options: Cost per click (CPC), Cost per thousand impressions (CPM), Optimized CPM (oCPM) and Cost per action (CPA). There is no golden rule for the right type, thus I recommend you to test different options. However, there are some tips for you how to go forward with testing.
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"It was just she was going out of town a lot," Rowland said. "I started getting advertisements for lawyers in the mailbox. Just my gut instinct, you've got to be careful."
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"I'm still having a hard time sleeping," Patel said. "I'm still having anxiety leaving my house and going out and doing the normal things I like to do."
Gutierrez's ex-husband said on Wednesday afternoon he still hadn't figured out how to explain what happened.
"I still haven't told her daughter yet—my daughter—because I get all choked up just thinking how the daughter's going to feel," Rowland said.
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> SOUTHERN INDIANA — Funeral services for Shaun Roux, 23, of New Albany, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Christ Gospel Church, 2614 E. 10th St. in Jeffersonville, with burial in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park in New Albany. He died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013.
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Polls for Tuesday's primary election closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday and the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/LA County Clerk released preliminary voting tallies that Arcadia Patch updated for over six hours on its live blog.
In the 49th District Assembly race, former San Marino Mayor and Republican Dr. Matthew Lin was ahead from the start, when only 4.5 percent of precincts were reporting—absentee voters—and he maintained the lead until the end, with 51.3 percent of the vote with 100 percent of voter precincts reporting.
"They have a whole union—Judy Chu, Mike Eng," Lin said to Patch of candidate and Montebello School Board Member Ed Chau's supporters. "It's not easy for me to run a race."
However, Lin told Patch Tuesday night—technically Wednesday morning since it was just after midnight—that he was not surprised by his significant lead ahead of Chau, a Democrat, who garnered 35.9 percent of the vote with 78 percent of precincts reporting at the time. Chau later showed 35.6 percent of the vote with 100 percent of precincts reporting.
"I do not have any special interests behind me," said Lin, who is supported by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich (who won re-election Tuesday) and Sheriff Lee Baca. "Ed Chau is backed by special interests. In the future he'll probably have to do exactly what those people want. I'm much more independent than Ed Chau."
Chau is backed by incumbent 49th District Assemblyman Mike Eng, who is termed out in November, and Eng's wife Rep. Judy Chu, who is running to represent Arcadia in the newly drawn 27th Congressional District.
Chau told Patch that Lin's significant lead was "somewhat expected since we have two Democrats running in the race," but added, "Because of the presidential election in November, I believe there will be more Democrats coming out to vote and that will play to my favor."
Democrat Mitchell Ing, who has been largely silent during the Assembly race but openly critical of his view that Chau moved to the district to run for Assembly, earned 13.2 percent of the vote.
Lin told Patch that Ing called him and offered to endorse him in the November election.
"It's a non-issue," Chau told Patch of those who question his residency. "I'm the candidate who has served the district the longest and covered the largest area—Montebello, Monterey Park, San Gabriel. I've had a law practice in Alhambra for more than 10 years."
Chau said his top four priorities are job creation, improving public education, public safety and cleaning up the environment.
"I need to work hard, presuming I'm one of the top two," said Chau when 78 percent of precincts were reporting.
Looking forward to November, Lin also said he plans to work hard learning more about state issues, particularly jobs.
Check back on Patch for further election updates.
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Palm Pilot Development Tools
One of the great things we can do with Linux and GNU tools is build an environment for cross-platform development. The perfect example for cross-platform development using Linux is the Palm Pilot development tools for Linux. In this article, I will explain the tools and methods you should use in order to program this small but very smart machine from your own Linux machine.
The Palm Pilot is a very smart hand-held computer based the on the Motorola 68000 Dragon Ball CPU. A few models are on the market: PalmIII, PalmIIIx, PalmV and PalmVII. (The older machines are Palm-1000, Palm-5000, Palm-personal and Palm-professional). All of the new models use the PalmOS-3.x as their operating system. The basic functionality of these machines is the same. The differences between the new models are mainly the RAM size, the screen type, the battery and the shape of the machine. Details about the Palm devices can be obtained from http://www.palm.com/.
The Palm Pilot operating system uses the RAM to store and organize its "files". Each file on the RAM is actually a Palm Pilot database. Each database has a header indicating the type and the creatorID of the database. The type can be anything: it is a 4-byte value the programmer can assign to his application or data. A type of appl is actually an application. If we assign a different type of database to an application, we will not be able to see it when we press the application button on the Palm Pilot. The creatorID is another 4-byte value; the PalmOS uses this value to identify the database (like a name for a file). The combination of type and creatorID is unique, so we need to apply for a creatorID if we want to give our application to other people. Databases can store resources such as bitmaps, executable code, forms and more. An application, for example, stores its User Interface objects and its code.
To program the Palm Pilot, we first choose a programming language. Many tools and compilers can be run on our Linux desktop to program our Palm Pilot. Here, we use the gcc ANSI C cross-compiler to demonstrate a simple program. Palm provides its SDK (software development kit) and documentation for free, and it is downloadable from http://www.palm.com/. A handy book to have would be the MC68328 Dragon Ball manual from Motorola (for more information, see the Palm web site).
The most important tool we need to install is the gcc cross compiler. The good news about this compiler is that by the time you read this, it should be supported by Palm itself. You should be able to find the gcc, binutils, gdb and prc-tools somewhere at the http://www.palm.com/devzone/ web site. No version of gcc comes with palmOS support out of the box yet; there are some patches to install. The patches come with the prc-tools package, containing the tools needed to combine all resources into a prc (PalmPilot resource database) file. I recommend using the gcc-2.95.2 version and not the earlier 2.7.2, because it fixes many problems. The binutils-2.9.1 should also be patched, as well as gdb-4.18, if you want to be able to debug your application. There is a good chance that by the time this is printed, this group of software will be in one big compressed tar file. The installation instructions for the cross compiler are very simple and may be found on J. Marshall's web page at http://homepages.enterprise.net/jmarshall/palmos/. (This page is about to move to the official Palm site, somewhere under the devzone section.)
Palm Pilot applications use FORMS to interact with the user. These forms contain bitmaps, buttons, tables, check-boxes and many other user-interface objects. A great tool to build these forms for the Palm Pilot, called pilrc, was written by Wes Cherry. The current version (2.4) can be downloaded from http://www.scumby.com/scumbysoft/pilot/pilrc/. It comes as source code and has very good HTML documentation. Listing 1 is an example of a simple pilrc file which builds a simple form, alert, menu and help string. (Please note that the Bitmap with ID 10 was created directly as a resource; there is no reference to it in this file except the ID.)
The command
pilrc /usr/local/example/hw.rcp
will build the two UI objects in this file: the form and the string. Each of these objects will be in a separate file. We will combine these files with the actual code into a prc file (application database) later, using the build-prc command that comes with the prc-tools package. To view the form without actually writing the application, we can use the pilrcui tool. This tool is bundled with the pilrc package. For more information on the UI objects and the use of pilrc, you should look at the Palm official documentation and the pilrc HTML documentation.
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Currently, an individual with a full-time job at the minimum wage and a family of three to support will fall below the federal poverty line. These workers, despite putting in regular hours, are struggling to provide basic necessities for themselves and their families. By allowing the minimum wage to remain at a nearly unlivable level, we have deemed certain jobs not worthy enough to meet even our country's minimum standard of living.


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This supplement has been used in connection with the following health conditions:Heart & Circulatory HealthSee Related Concerns (1)CloseAtherosclerosisDose: Refer to label instructionsThough not yet proven in clinical research, animal studies suggest that rice protein-based diets result in less buildup of atherosclerotic plaque compared with animal protein-based diets. (more)Athletic PerformanceDose: Refer to label instructionsSome athletes believe rice protein may also improve blood flow to muscle to enhance growth and repair. However, no research has investigated the effects of rice protein on athletic performance. (more)Weight ManagementSee Related Concerns (1)CloseObesityDose: Refer to label instructionsDieters who are gluten or dairy sensitive and looking to supplement protein might consider rice protein, though its actual benefits for weight loss have not been studied.(more)AtherosclerosisDose: Refer to label instructionsAnimal studies suggest that rice protein-based diets result in less buildup of atherosclerotic plaque compared with animal protein-based diets.1 This effect may be due to mechanisms involving antioxidant function,2 cholesterol metabolism,3 or insulin function.4 Controlled human studies are needed to determine whether consuming rice protein can prevent or treat atherosclerotic disease.References
1. Burris RL, Xie CH, Thampi P, et al. Dietary rice protein isolate attenuates atherosclerosis in apoE-deficient mice by upregulating antioxidant enzymes. Atherosclerosis 2010;212:107-15.
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