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New details in an unsolved murder case. We first told you in March about the Barbara Blackstone case being given a fresh look.
"A former student of Barb's is offering a $25,000 reward in the case. Marc Andreessen..."
Marc Andreessen... known for co-founding Netscape... put up $25,000... saying his first computer teacher, Barbara Blackstone, was young... fired-up and committed to teaching.
"He hopes the reward will bring justice."
Detective Randy Georgeson says NBC 15's story in March generated dozens of tips --- some in Juneau County, where Blackstone disappeared from her property in July of 1987 and others in Lafayette County where Blackstone's body was found 80 miles away.
"Some of the calls are still related to past information that was given. Some of them are new. They will all generate recent follow-ups," he says.
But the piece and Marc Andreessen's generosity also inspired another person to come forward to up the reward fund, in hopes of solving the more than 20-year-old mystery.
"An individual... local resident.. who was a prior student of Barbara Blackstone came forward... "
The donor is offering $5,000... saying it seemed like the right thing to do for the case...
"There's been a lot of new insight put into the case."
...the family...
"Somebody's out there that shouldn't be walking around."
... and the community.
"It's latent, but it's there."
The anonymous donor echoes the feelings of a former colleague of Blackstone's featured in the special assignment.
"Kids were always in her room....when they didn't have to be, after school... before school, lunch, between classes....and they were really happy to be there," teacher Kelly McCann said back in March.
Georgeson says the donations say a lot about Blackstone's lasting impact -- and the commitment to finding her killer.
"I believe the case has much potential."
Wisconsin's Department of Justice is assisting Juneau and Lafayette Counties in giving this case a fresh look. If you have any information, investigators want to hear from you.
Anyone with information can contact Detective Randy Georgeson of the Juneau County Sheriff's Office at (608) 847-5649, Detective Joe Thompson of the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office at (608) 776-4870, Lafayette County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-606-8477, or Juneau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-826-8477.
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 --- 2:40 p.m.
The case touched communities across South Central Wisconsin -- the disappearance and murder of a beloved teacher more than 20 years ago. What happened remains a mystery today, but investigators say the case is solvable -- with your help.
"Kids were always in her room," teacher Kelly McCann says, "After school, before school, lunch ... between classes."
Teachers who knew Barb Blackstone say kids were drawn to her.
"Exuberance always radiated from that room."
Kelly McCann taught English across the hall from Blackstone.
"She just shared that enthusiasm for life and her joy of other people. She truly liked kids," he says.
The memory of Barb survives at the rural school. Her name's etched in a memorial. But the impact of her death more than 20 years ago reaches deeper.
"Even to this day, it's just a black moment in the history of what's gone on here," McCann says.
"This is a new, fresh start for this case," Det. Randy Georgeson says.
Georgeson's cold case takes him back to one hot summer day in July 1987.
"The scene is a rural area in Juneau County, off of County H and Delmore Road."
Barb Blackstone was mowing her yard to prepare for a family picnic the following weekend when she ran out of gas. She went to a nearby station... then back home.
"Barb's car was found there, undisturbed," he says, "The mower was where she apparently ran out of gas ... And the garden tractor also was located by the shed."
Tom Blackstone returned to the house the two built from the ground up to find his wife missing.
"Years ago, it wasn't actually considered anything other than a missing person."
The day Barb disappeared, there were no signs of a struggle down the road or here at the house she shared with her husband. Initially family members held out hope she'd make it home.
"It looks the same... It looks like she should just walk out of the house."
Barb's sisters, Gail and Judy, remember happier times here.
"My daughter was playing with her in the yard in the sprinkler and that's what I want to remember."
But the two also want answers.
"I often think how different everybody's life would be if she were still here today."
About a month after Barb vanished, a hunter found her body 80 miles away in a wooded area of Lafayette County, near Paulson Road.
"The body was located ... as the crow flies, about 7-8 miles away from the residence she grew up at," Georgeson says.
Barb's remains were too badly decomposed to determine how she died. The discovery rattled people in surrounding areas. Barb was one of several women, either found murdered or reported missing, at the time.
"Many people were very scared and weary that they were purchasing firearms at that point in time... People who had never had firearms. They were contacting locksmiths."
Now, decades later, the case still haunts the community.
"It's there... latent, but it's there," McCann says.
And it's still open. Det. Georgeson says there is potential in the evidence.
"We are going to submit and work with the crime lab as much as possible to see if we can come up with any DNA."
"I just want it to be solved... I'd like to know who did it... What they did, why, why... why Barb," her sisters say.
...a beloved teacher...
"To gain respect and confidence of high school students in three short years, you have to be quite a person. Barb was that."
and a trusted sister...
"I used to joke that I couldn't do anything without asking her first..."
One of four girls...
"She was the one everybody got along with... She'd be a peacemaker, yeah..."
and a best friend.
"She used to say to me who's better to you than I am. Nobody."
Back in New Lisbon... times have changed. But Barb's lessons - and her legacy - stay the same.
"She'd explain stuff, do things for me... If she was doing that for me, I know she was doing so much more for the kids."
A former student of Barb's is offering a $25,000 reward in the case. Marc Andreessen, who's perhaps best known for co-founding the web browser Netscape, says Blackstone was the best teacher. He hopes the reward will bring justice.
The state Department of Justice is assisting with this case. If you have any information, investigators in Juneau and Lafayette counties want to hear from you.
Below is contact information:
A $25,000.00 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Blackstone's death.
Anyone with information can contact Special Agent James C. Holmes of DCI at (608) 266-1671, Detective Randy Georgeson of the Juneau County Sheriff's Office at (608) 847-5649, Detective Joe Thompson of the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office at (608) 776-4870, Lafayette County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-606-8477, or Juneau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-826-8477.
Barb's husband still lives in Wisconsin. Through Juneau County investigators, he declined to talk to NBC 15 for this report.


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The Bronx district attorney's office says David Villalobos was arraigned Friday and released until another court appearance March 12.
The 25-year-old Villalobos had told investigators his Sept. 21 leap was not a suicide attempt but "a desire to be one with the tiger."
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Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play and nominated for Tony Awards during its original run in 1977, "American Buffalo" has had several successful Broadway revivals in recent years.
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Mamet is a nonjudgmental observer offering the audience a fly-on-the-wall experience as actors disappear into characters he's created. And they're not very nice people.
Set in a Chicago junk yard, "American Buffalo" presents a trio of unsavory, small-time crooks and grifters who are planning a heist. They will "cleverly" rob a local man's coin collection that contains an extremely rare and valuable "Buffalo nickel." (Hence the play's title.)
Portrayed by an impressive cast of North Coast Repertory Theatre veterans, the acting ensemble features James Read as the boorish junkshop owner Donny; Josh Kelly as the unstable young junkie Bobby who Donny has taken under his wing and Joel Agnew as the paranoid, potentiallly violent braggert known as Teach.
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Robyn Hale called to identify the April 11 mystery picture in the Enterprise Pilot as the "Oyster Bay Water District facility on Shutter Lane in Oyster Bay Cove."
Caroline DuBois said, "I absolutely know where it is. It's the Oyster Bay Water District pumping station on Cove Road at Shutter Lane." She explained, "They knew they had to build a new filtration plant because of the toxic chemicals in the groundwater. They have been seeping downhill from Syosset, 300 feet underground, for the past 50 years and have finally reached our drinking water well. There are carbon filters in the new system."
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Yvonne Y. Juang1, Chiao-Wen Tu1, Huei-Ping Dong2, Rei-Cheng Yang1, Ming-Shyan Huang1, Tung-Heng Wang1; 1Department of respiratory Therapy, Kaohsiung medical university, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2Foo-Yin University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Background: Studies have demonstrated that heat shock proteins (HSPs) play an important role in the protection of stressed organisms. The development of strategies for enhancing HSPs expression may provide novel means of minimizing inflammatory lung condition, such as acute lung injury. This study aimed to examine that glutanmine (L-alanyl-L-glutamine) inhalation may enhance pulmonary HSP expression and attenuate lung damage in a model of acute lung injury induced by Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) inhalation. Methods: Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 280-380g were randomly assigned to four experimental groups, Group 1:saline inhalation; Group 2:glutamine inhalation (1.5g); Group 3: pretreatment of saline inhalation 12 hours before LPS inhalation (2mg); Group 4: pretreatment of glutamine inhalation (1.5g) 12 hours before LPS inhalation(2mg). Samples were obtained 12 hours after treatment in group 1 and 2, and 8 hours after LPS inhalation in group 3 and 4. Nebulization of inhaled agents was performed by Aeroneb Pro (AERO). The degree of lung injury was assessed by various parameters including pathologic change in lung tissue, and protein concentration, lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) activity, total cells and polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) cell counts in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). HSP 72 was examined by Western blot analysis. The data are expressed as mean±SEM. Statistical differences among groups were determined using paired Student t test. Results: Glutamine, compared with saline administration, led to significant increase in lung HSP 72 both in non LPS-treated rats (group 1 compared with group 2, Pâ¤0.002 ) and LPS-treated rats (group 3 compared with group 4, Pâ¤0.05 ). In LPS-treated rats, pretreatment of glutamine inhalation exhibited less lung injury by the evidences of decrease in histological damage score (11.4±1.5 Vs. 7.0±1.7, Pâ¤0.001) and dramatic decrease protein concentration (2.61±0.63 Vs. 1.02±0.35mg/mL, Pâ¤0.05), LDH activity ( 129.2±24.5 Vs.78±14.48 mAbs/min, Pâ¤0.001) and differential cell counts,PMN % (88.6±7.3 Vs. 52.3±17.6%, Pâ¤0.001) in the BALF. Conclusion: The present results indicate that previous glutamine inhalation associated with the enhancement of HSP 72 synthesis attenuates tissue damage in experimental lung injury. Sponsored Research - None


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Do not use in comatose states or in the presence of large amounts of central nervous system depressants (alcohol, barbiturates, narcotics, etc.).Do not use in pediatric surgery.Do not use in children under 2 years of age or under 20 lbs.Do not use in children for conditions for which dosage has not been established.
Increased Mortality in Elderly Patients with Dementia-Related PsychosisElderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death.
Prochlorperazine Suppositories, USP is not approved for the treatment of patients with dementia-related psychosis (see BOXED WARNING).The extrapyramidal symptoms which can occur secondary to prochlorperazine may be confused with the central nervous system signs of an undiagnosed primary disease responsible for the vomiting, e.g., Reye's syndrome or other encephalopathy.
The use of prochlorperazine and other potential hepatotoxins should be avoided in children and adolescents whose signs and symptoms suggest Reye's syndrome.Tardive Dyskinesia: Tardive dyskinesia, a syndrome consisting of potentially irreversible, involuntary, dyskinetic movements, may develop in patients treated with neuroleptic (anti-psychotic) drugs.
Although the prevalence of the syndrome appears to be highest among the elderly, especially elderly women, it is impossible to rely upon prevalence estimates to predict, at the inception of neuroleptic treatment, which patients are likely to develop the syndrome.
Whether neuroleptic drug products differ in their potential to cause tardive dyskinesia is unknown.Both the risk of developing the syndrome and the likelihood that it will become irreversible are believed to increase as the duration of treatment and the total cumulative dose of neuroleptic drugs administered to the patient increase.
However, the syndrome can develop, although much less commonly, after relatively brief treatment periods at low doses.There is no known treatment for established cases of tardive dyskinesia, although the syndrome may remit, partially or completely, if neuroleptic treatment is withdrawn.
Neuroleptic treatment itself, however, may suppress (or partially suppress) the signs and symptoms of the syndrome and thereby may possibly mask the underlying disease process.The effect that symptomatic suppression has upon the long-term course of the syndrome is unknown.Given these considerations, neuroleptics should be prescribed in a manner that is most likely to minimize the occurrence of tardive dyskinesia.
Chronic neuroleptic treatment should generally be reserved for patients who suffer from a chronic illness that, 1) is known to respond to neuroleptic drugs, and, 2) for whom alternative, equally effective, but potentially less harmful treatments are not available or appropriate.
In patients who do require chronic treatment, the smallest dose and the shortest duration of treatment producing a satisfactory clinical response should be sought.
The need for continued treatment should be reassessed periodically.If signs and symptoms of tardive dyskinesia appear in a patient on neuroleptics, drug discontinuation should be considered.
However, some patients may require treatment despite the presence of the syndrome.For further information about the description of tardive dyskinesia and its clinical detection, please refer to the sections on PRECAUTIONS and ADVERSE REACTIONS.Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS): A potentially fatal symptom complex sometimes referred to as Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS) has been reported in association with antipsychotic drugs.
Clinical manifestations of NMS are hyperpyrexia, muscle rigidity, altered mental status and evidence of autonomic instability (irregular pulse or blood pressure, tachycardia, diaphoresis, and cardiac dysrhythmias).The diagnostic evaluation of patients with this syndrome is complicated.
In arriving at a diagnosis, it is important to identify cases where the clinical presentation includes both serious medical illness (e.g., pneumonia, systemic infection, etc.) and untreated or inadequately treated extrapyramidal signs and symptoms (EPS).
Other important considerations in the differential diagnosis include central anticholinergic toxicity, heat stroke, drug fever and primary central nervous system (CNS) pathology.The management of NMS should include 1) immediate discontinuation of antipsychotic drugs and other drugs not essential to concurrent therapy, 2) intensive symptomatic treatment and medical monitoring, and 3) treatment of any concomitant serious medical problems for which specific treatments are available.
There is no general agreement about specific pharmacological treatment regimens for uncomplicated NMS.If a patient requires antipsychotic drug treatment after recovery from NMS, the potential reintroduction of drug therapy should be carefully considered.
The patient should be carefully monitored, since recurrences of NMS have been reported.Patients with bone marrow depression or who have previously demonstrated a hypersensitivity reaction (e.g., blood dyscrasias, jaundice) with a phenothiazine should not receive any phenothiazine, including prochlorperazine unless in the judgment of the physician the potential benefits of treatment outweigh the possible hazards.Prochlorperazine may impair mental and/or physical abilities, especially during the first few days of therapy.
Therefore, caution patients about activities requiring alertness (e.g., operating vehicles or machinery).Phenothiazines may intensify or prolong the action of central nervous system depressants (e.g., alcohol, anesthetics, narcotics).Usage in Pregnancy: Safety for the use of prochlorperazine during pregnancy has not been established.Therefore, prochlorperazine is not recommended for use in pregnant patients except in cases of severe nausea and vomiting that are so serious and intractable that, in the judgment of the physician, drug intervention is required and potential benefits outweigh possible hazards.There have been reported instances of prolonged jaundice, extrapyramidal signs, hyperreflexia or hyporeflexia in newborn infants whose mothers received phenothiazines.Nursing Mothers: There is evidence that phenothiazines are excreted in the breast milk of nursing mothers.


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Summary:After breaking up with her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of passengers -- a pilot with anger management issues, some oversexed flight attendants, a hip-hop superstar trying to keep it real in coach and a handsome young professor who's been unlucky in romance. Along with a tiny dog named Kaz, these strangers buckle up for love's bumpy ride.


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Disabled boy's death ruled a homicide
Because of parental abuse a severely disabled Ramona boy suffered as an infant, authorities have classified his death on Nov. 29 as a homicide.
Emergency crews responding to a medical-distress call pronounced Samuel Isaiah Dahlke dead at his adoptive family's Ramona home in the 1000 block of Olive Avenue shortly before 12:30 a.m., according to sheriff's officials and the county Medical Examiner's Office.
Chris Dahlke, the boy's adoptive mother, reported she had found her son not breathing when she went to give him medication.
An autopsy determined that the youngster had succumbed to after-effects of a head injury suffered when he was about 6 weeks old, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to police.
Samuel's biological father, Billy Joe Springfield II, was convicted in 2006 of abusing the boy the previous year at an apartment in the Golden Hill district of San Diego. The then-23-year-old defendant was sentenced to four years probation, according to a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office.
The child's name was changed when he was adopted by the Dahlke family.
The San Diego Police Department will work with prosecutors to determine whether to file additional charges against Springfield in light of the child's belated death, SDPD homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney said.
The injuries that Samuel suffered from being violently shaken as a baby left him with permanent disabilities, including blindness, inability to communicate and heart problems, his adoptive sister, Barbara Smith, told the Sentinel.
"He was a shaken baby and he had severe trauma from that initial injury," said Smith.
Smith added that her mother specializes in the care of shaken babies. Three other special-needs children live in the home, she said.
Rooney declined to disclose where the potential homicide suspect now lives.
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He works with a team of professionals, such as our medical physicist, medical dosimetrist, radiation therapists, and an oncology nurse. We also work in coordination with the local American Red Cross that provides drivers, (from Red Cross and ACS), for transportation assistance to appointments.
Our state-of-the-art equipment consists of a Varian 2100SC Linear Accelerator, a Varian Ximatron Stimulator, a CT Scanner for treatment planning, and ADAC treatment planning computer system. The simulator, CT and treatment planning computer are used conjointly for planning and preparation of the patient prior to treatment. The linear accelerator is used to deliver the radiation treatment and is among the most modern radiation treatment delivery machines found worldwide.
IMRT (Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy) is now offered at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Kingsbury Pavilion. This type of treatment is a breakthrough in cancer care because it delivers high doses of radiation precisely to the cancer cells with minimal effect on healthy tissue. It's more effective and typically has fewer side effects.
Following clinical evaluation and review of all pertinent imaging studies, the radiation oncologist, with technical assistance from our medical physicist, uses the treatment planning computer to target the cancer. As the cancer may be deeply located within the body, CAT scan information is often used to assist in this targeting process. The simulator may then be used in conjunction with this computerized targeting process to determine the correct points of entry for the radiation beams on the patient. Once the planning process is complete, the linear accelerator is used to deliver the radiation to the exact location and in the dose as prescribed by the radiation oncologist.


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Facebook Photo of the Week (January 18th ~ January 24th)
Soaping is a hobby that requires practice and persistence, and when a project turns out beautifully it's all worth it. But unfortunately mistakes happen, and sometimes soap doesn't turn out as you'd expect. To help you diagnose any soapy issues, Soap Behaving Badly is a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of soaping mishaps caused by fragrance oils, including ricing, acceleration and seizing. It's a must read for both beginners and advanced soapers! If you are interested in learning more about preventing soapy blunders, our Explaining and Preventing Soda Ash, Why Did My Soap Turn Brown? and How to Prevent Fading and Browning posts are there to help.
The aftermath of our soapy fragrance testing. Check out Soap Behaving Badly to see what happened to (and how to salvage) these poor bars.
But let's focus on projects that were successful! This week we shared a super easy and refreshing Infused Aloe and Rose Water Toner recipe. If you're looking for more of a challenge, we also shared our Striped Berry Champagne Cold Process Tutorial featuring ombre layers separated by thin lines of mica for definition. If you're a fan of ombre, check out these other DIY projects:
Tired and hungry after all that ombre crafting? This Ombre Layered Cake Recipe is sure to pick you up! Speaking of sugary treats, this week we also shared this Brown Butter and Basil Shortbread Recipe, which is a fun spin on the traditional cookie. As for the the Facebook Photo of the Week, the whipped soapy frosting on top certainly looks good enough to eat!
This week's Facebook Photo of the Week comes to us from Majéla of Mollerton Soap. She is one of our international soapers, and hails all the way from Sweden! This stunning Rippled Raspberry Sundae soap features striking swirls of pink, black and white and beautifully textured top. With the abundant amount of curved layers, the swirl in this soap is reminiscent of our Mica Topped Cold Process Soap and the 4 Color In-The-Pot Swirl Tutorial. Wondering how she achieved these stunning, vibrant hues? Our guess is that she used ultramarine pigments, which you can find at Bramble Berry. If you'd like to use more about colorants for both cold process and melt and pour, check out this Talk it Out Tuesday: Colorants post.
Pictured above (from top, clockwise) are Majéla's Black Raspberry Vanilla Soap, Lavender Lime and Vetiver Soap, Polar Breeze Soap, and a Banana Muffin Soap. We are so happy to have Majéla in our soaping community. You truly can find soapy inspiration from all over the world =)
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Post pictures of your crafty creations on the Facebook page each week for a chance to be featured on the Soap Queen blog and receive a sweet soapy package from Bramble Berry (or, if you're an international customer, a soapy gift certificate)!
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Gorgeous soaps! I looked at her website without translating, and it made me want to learn Swedish…I have a thing for languages
Looking at those pictures of soap with discoloration, I think the picture in the middle, of the soap with a brown crust and white middle, looks beautiful! Is there a way to achieve this in CP soap at all? I know the discoloration would normally spread to the entire soap, but being able to halt it somehow would be awesome.
I love, love love all of them !
Amazing !
Have a good week-end
Thank you Bramble Berry! I'm so happy to see my soaps on your wonderful blog! My website is in swedish but on my Facebook page/group I share my soapy pictures and write in english so please feel free to join! Hugs to you all!
Love her Rippled Raspberry Sundae! Stunning colours and the topping is fantastic!
So beautiful! Very inspiring. And I'm Swedish so – Bonus!
These are all beautiful! Great job!
Wow, just gorgeous!
As Goethe discoloration, I thought I saw vanilla color stabilizer for cp soap for sale somewhere. Am I remembering correctly? Has anyone tried it and does it work?
Wow, just gorgeous!
As far as discoloration, I thought I saw vanilla color stabilizer for cp soap for sale somewhere. Am I remembering correctly? Has anyone tried it and does it work?
I love seeing your posts. They are inspiring and seeing what talented people are doing is very interesting. Love it all!


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The information provided in this section addresses tax treatment of distributions from the ORP by the Internal Revenue Service. This information is not intended to be considered or construed, in any way, as tax advice. Participants should discuss these issues and their personal tax situation with qualified counsel.
Tax Deferral
Contributions to the ORP are tax-deferred. This means that participants do not pay current income tax on the contributions when they are remitted to their ORP account. The contributions and their related investment earnings are subject to regular income tax when drawn from the plan and paid directly to the participant.
Hence, the contributions and investment earnings that grow in a participants account are tax-deferred. The income tax is deferred to a later date.
Taxes are due each year when funds are drawn from the plan. A stream of income, or a series of payments over several years, would incur income tax liabilities only on the amount distributed in any given year.
A single, lump sum payment would mean that all of the funds distributed are taxable in a single year.
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Certain distributions to participants younger than age 59 ½ may be subject to an early withdrawal penalty imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. These payments are generally short term distributions, such as lump sums and other streams of income structured for a period less than the participants life expectancy. The Early Withdrawal Penalty is applied in addition to regular income tax due on the amounts distributed.
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Some distributions from the ORP may maintain their tax-deferred status if they are rolled over to either another qualifying retirement plan or a Rollover IRA. These payments are typically either a single payment (lump sum) or a series of substantially equal payments structured for less than ten years.
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Payments from retirement plans (directly to participants and beneficiaries) that are short term in nature (e.g. generally structured for fewer than ten years) are subject to mandatory income tax withholding by the Internal Revenue Service. The mandatory withholding rate is 20% of the amount distributed.
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Behind the Barlett & Steele Awards: Inside 'A case of shattered trust'
SILVER AWARD: Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett, reporters at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, received the silver award in the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for their series "A Case of Shattered Trust."
By Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett
In early 2011, call after call came into the Journal Sentinel newsroom from current and former employees of one of the nation's largest manufacturers of alcohol wipes describing filthy conditions at the plant in nearby Hartland: A worker had packaged the wipes with bloody hands. An owner drank coffee in the supposedly-sterile production area.
Triad Group and its manufacturing arm H&P Industries had voluntarily recalled some lots of alcohol wipes out of contamination concerns. And in Texas, the parents of a 2-year-old boy blamed the death of their son on contaminated wipes.
When Shanoop and Sandra Kothari filed their lawsuit in February 2011, blaming Triad for their son's death, the story had been picked up in the Houston media and MSNBC.com began investigating the issue.
But with Triad in our backyard, a privately-held company that had attracted little attention over the years, we were uniquely situated to provide depth to a developing story with major national implications. The accountability, we would find, fell at the doorstep of the plant and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
(The company denies its products are to blame for that death, as well as other deaths or injuries that are the subject of various lawsuits around the country)
Opportunities to alert hospitals and clinics and the public to an emerging problem – common alcohol wipes contaminated with a potentially deadly bacteria – had been missed. Indeed, there is no public alert called for in such outbreaks, even when deaths occur. And the FDA had known of problems in the production facility for years, but had not taken action against the company.
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What's more, we'd later find that wipes were still in personal medicine cabinets – they also were sold by major drug store chains, sometimes under their own label – many months after the recall.
To tell the story in a way that would resonate with readers, we broke the mold of our traditional investigative stories and weaved the multiple elements into a single accountability narrative. We worked on that story, but spun off shorter-term watchdog pieces and followed developments, such as when U.S. Marshals raided the plant in April, seizing $6 million worth of product and effectively shutting down the plant.
The timeline of the case gave us a framework of accountability:
Harrison Kothari, a healthy and typical 2-year-old when he was admitted to a Houston hospital for a low-risk surgery, was set to go home when he suddenly became ill on Nov. 29, 2010. He quickly died.
When the autopsy results came back, it showed his death was caused by Bacillus cereus. Weeks earlier, nurses at a hospital in Colorado had noticed strange infections cropping up among their patients. Blood cultures tested positive for Bacillus cereus.
Hospital workers notified the Colorado Health Department, but officials there didn't notify the FDA or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until the following week. It took another six weeks for Triad and the FDA recall the wipes.
But we dug much deeper than the timeline.
We requested FDA inspection reports detailing the agency's visits to the plant dating to 2000. The agency provided them, but with heavy redactions.
They showed investigators had found the company wasn't following proper procedures to sterilize wipes in May 2010, but they took no enforcement action. Instead, they accepted the company's promise to correct the problem.
That followed a pattern from earlier inspections. A close look at the reports showed FDA inspectors repeatedly found serious violations of good manufacturing practices at Triad's plants. For instance, we found the FDA was aware the company wasn't properly testing its water supply, that drugs that didn't meet specifications were tagged as acceptable, that equipment was dirty and products were left uncovered. The FDA was also aware that suppositories had been contaminated with metal shavings.
Never once did the agency – tasked with protecting public health – issue even a warning letter, demanding improvement. In June 2011, FDA officials admitted they should have taken a tougher stand with Triad in 2010.
One of the challenges of this story was that it was investigative in nature, with numerous accountability angles, but also the personal story of a family's horrible loss. We viewed the story in terms of key scenes and wrote it in chapters, which we rearranged several times for maximum impact. Some key information, including that Harry had died, was not included until later in the story, building tension and suspense. The story opened with a narrative scene (Harry's hospital room as he took ill), which we broke in the middle, and then returned to. So, the writing took a risk – which our editors encouraged – and it paid off in engaging the readers and leading them through a complicated story.
Since the story ran, we have continued our work.
We learned that the company many hospitals and drug stores turned to after Triad's wipes were recalled also had a troubled manufacturing history. We searched the FDA's records and learned that company had recently recalled wipes and are pursuing more documents.
In that same story we revealed how the FDA refused to release the recall audit reports, making it impossible to assess how effective the recall was. One area woman had wipes in her medicine cabinet six months after the recall but got the runaround from the FDA when she called to ask whether they were part of the recalled lots. They were. Simple changes to the bar-code tracking system, experts said, could mean a more efficient recall process, both from stores and within hospitals and clinics.
The calls from potential sources, of course, have continued.
And so has our reporting.
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Audition notice for holiday show
Auditions for the PowPAC production of "Mr. Scrooge and Mr. Dickens" will be at the theater at 13250 Poway Road, upstairs in the Lively Center, in Poway at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24, and Tuesday, Oct. 25.
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has awarded the first three grants in a new research program on cell-based therapy of heart, lung, and blood diseases.
The program, Specialized Centers for Cell-Based Therapy for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases, involves both basic and clinical research but is heavily focused on clinical applications of cell-based therapy.
"Recent advances in stem cell biology and transplantation have set the stage for the next level of research emphasis: a program that emphasizes the translation of knowledge about cell-based therapy into clinical practice," said NHLBI Director Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D.
According to Dr. Nabel, the $6.5 million program is anticipated to stimulate clinical research efforts on important public health problems for those with heart, lung, and blood diseases. The program will attempt to solve some of the problems and challenges of cell-based therapy including repair of damaged heart muscle, reducing immune complications due to graft versus host disease, and enhancing the interaction of adult stem cells and their tissue environment. Many of the 5-year studies will begin with preclinical animal or laboratory research to support an Investigational New Drug Application submission to the FDA followed by Phase I and II clinical studies for safety and effectiveness, respectively.
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