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U.S. Preventive Medicine Appoints New Independent Chairman and Directors

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U.S. Preventive Medicine appoints new independent chairman and directors while adding governance, transparency and financial reporting protocols.

JACKSONVILLE, FL AND DALLAS, TX (PRWEB) January 18, 2013

These new directors take the place of prior board member and USPM President Joel Bender, M.D., and former General Counsel Paul Risner. Ron Loeppke, M.D., MPH, FACPM, USPM Vice Chairman and Christopher Fey, Founder and CEO, remain as directors on the board.

David Gee is a very welcome addition USPM as the companys new independent chairman. David is a very successful businessman, investor and proven leader with an extensive track record in numerous industries, including logistics, media and health care. We are fortunate to have David as our chairman, said Christopher Fey.

David Adams successful career has been built around technology startups in the data integration, supply chain and health care industries. Prior to his current position as co-founder and CEO of HealthcarePays, he was the founding CEO of InteliTap, the global leader in data capture, management and consulting in the hospitality and brewing industries. Adams leadership helped the company grow from zero to $25 million in revenue and a globally dominant position in the hospitality management space. Adams also held management positions with TrenStar, McKesson Medical, Pepsi-Cola, Viewlocity and i2 Technologies after 12 years as a Naval Aviator.

Michael Mirt has more than 30 years of experience in the health care field, ranging from Medicare Advantage, employee benefits, hospitals, health systems and clinic operations. As HealthSpring president, Mirt was responsible for all operating facets of the company that included approximately $5.5 billion in annual revenues. He was actively involved in management presentations and negotiations for the recent nearly $4 billion sale of HealthSpring to Cigna. Prior to his position at HealthSpring, Mirt held leadership positions at AmeriChoice, Cigna, NYLCare Health Plans of the Gulf Coast and St. Francis Health Corporation.

I am excited by both the opportunities and challenges ahead as we focus on USPM growing its business platform across numerous sales channels. I am also committed to implementing complete governance, transparency, quarterly financial reporting and accountability, said David Gee. The appointment of new independent board members is an important step in this process.

About U.S. Preventive Medicine (USPM)

U.S. Preventive Medicine (USPM.com) is a leading, cloud-based global preventive health movement focused on saving lives and money by keeping people healthy and better managing chronic conditions before they progress. Innovative productsThe Prevention Plan web-based health management platform and Macaw mobile health & fitness appare based on the clinical science of preventive medicine: primary (wellness and health promotion to keep healthy people healthy), secondary (screening for earlier detection/diagnosis) and tertiary (early evidence-based treatment to reduce complications and disability). The company is accredited in wellness and health promotion by NCQA (the National Committee for Quality Assurance) and disease management by URAC. More information can be found on Facebook (Facebook.com/ThePreventionPlan), Twitter (@USPM) and YouTube (YouTube.com/thepreventionchannel). Macaw is available for free download on iPhone and Android smartphones at MacawApp.com.

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Ethnic minority students 'forced into medicine and law'

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Universities must also set challenging targets designed to increase the number of students admitted from deprived backgrounds, poor-performing schools and ethnic minority families, it said.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Prof Ebdon said: One of the underlying reasons for the under-representation of ethnic minorities in some highly-selective universities is because they apply for medicine and law both highly competitive courses and a significant amount of that is parental pressure.

Colleagues tell me these students may not always be personally committed to medicine or law as a career but that is the career their parents want for them.

Prof Ebdon, former vice-chancellor of Bedfordshire University, said that the pressure could take a major toll on students.

Deans of medical schools tell me some students face this terrible dilemma of a strong push from their parents but actually they then decide that medicine is not for them.

Last year, Prof Ebdon insisted that schoolchildren should ignore the dreadful snobbery that puts pressure on them to push for places at elite universities.

He said pupils should be encouraged to pursue the most appropriate route into the workplace, including taking up vocational courses and apprenticeships.

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Liberty North band joins inaugural parade

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Hello, Pennsylvania Avenue.

Theres only one marching band in Missouri scheduled to perform at the inaugural parade in Washington Moday.

Thats the Screamin Eagles Marching Band from Liberty North High School.

The band will join 47 others from across the country playing in the inaugural parade before President Barack Obama as well as an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 spectators in and around the National Mall.

To be selected, the band had to survive a long culling process.

The Joint Task Force - National Capital Region, which is coordinating the inaugural parade, also was in charge of selecting the units ,such as bands and drill teams, that wanted to be included.

Applicants had to submit video and audio files to a task force website. Representatives ultimately reviewed about 3,000 applications before presenting about 300 of them to a separate committee for final selection.

The video submitted by Liberty North High School band director Shane Fuller showed the band playing The Liberty Bell March, by John Philip Sousa.

I think part of the reason we were selected is that we had the patriotic style that they were looking for, said Fuller.

Plus, its The Liberty Bell March by a band from Liberty.

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Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism’s Genius for Failure – Video

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Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism #39;s Genius for Failure
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former trader and hedge fund manager, a best-selling author, and a groundbreaking theorist on risk and resilience. Taleb drew wide attention after the 2007 publication of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, which warned that our institutions and risk models aren #39;t designed to account for rare and catastrophic events. Among other things, the book cautioned that oversized and unaccountable banks using flawed investment models could bring on a financial crisis. He also warned that the government-sanctioned housing finance agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were sitting on a "barrel of dynamite." One year after The Black Swan was published, a global banking crisis was brought on by the very factors he identified.Nassim Nicholas Taleb (PHOTO CREDIT: Sarah Josephine) Taleb doesn #39;t identify as a libertarian, but he often sounds like one. He has argued that we need to build a society where major actors have "skin in the game" and our public intellectuals can bloviate without subjecting the rest of us to the consequences of their bad ideas. He supported Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential election and has cited the libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek as an influence. Taleb has called New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman "vile and harmful" and coined the phrase the "Stiglitz Syndrome" after Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, which refers to the phenomenon of public intellectuals being held utterly unaccountable for ...

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WWIII DOOM China Vs. Japan SHOWDOWN Disputed Islands – Video

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WWIII DOOM China Vs. Japan SHOWDOWN Disputed Islands
China #39;s People #39;s Liberation Army, or PLA, has been ordered to prepare for war in a training directive issued this week. The order comes from the General Staff headquarters, which oversees the army. eng.chinamil.com.cn Forces should train to, quote, "fight and win battles," the directive said. The strong words are in striking contrast to previous ones. Those had focused more on coordination within different branches of the PLA. In particular, the use of the word "dazheng," Chinese for "fighting wars," has not been seen before. Japan was not mentioned in the directive. But this commentary in the People #39;s Liberation Army Daily conjures up images of the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. It goes on to suggest Japan is gathering other East Asian countries to quote, "contain China." eng.chinamil.com.cn Some Chinese military officials have urged a quick strike to assert China #39;s sovereignty over the contested Diaoyu, or Senkaku, Islands. This is the metaphor they use: "kill a chicken to scare the monkeys." But some political commenters think that the talk of war is empty. That #39;s because the Chinese regime has more to lose than gain in an all-out war. [Lan Shu, NTD China Analyst]: "The Diaoyu Islands offer very little material interests, except it can hype up nationalism sentiments. The CCP will lose and ten ASEAN countries will immediately team up with the United States and Japan. China has not engaged in direct military conflict since 1979 with Vietnam. Right now ...

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Maserati – Passing close to the North West tip of the Falkland Islands – Video

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Maserati - Passing close to the North West tip of the Falkland Islands
Got so close to the North West tip of the Falklands islands the seals were swimming around the boat like dolphins and when we couldn #39;t see them we could certainly smelll them! Our first sight of land since leaving New York 21 days ago.

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Colorado man accused of running phony credit union in Virgin Islands

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Stanley Roberson, which may not be his real name, is accused of running a bogus credit union under the name Stanley McDuffie.

Federal regulators say a Colorado man for years ran a bogus credit union through the Virgin Islands and bilked more than $532,000 from unsuspecting customers.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, the Securities and Exchange Commission says Stanley McDuffie who the SEC and Colorado law enforcement say is also known as Stanley Roberson, Stanley Battle and Stanley Robertson-Baffle did this by offering unrealistic returns on certificates of deposit he advertised on the Internet.

The SEC says the purported credit union, known as Her Majesty's Credit Union, was no such thing at all and that it was little more than a funnel for McDuffie to siphon funds from a tiny office in Denver and later in Watkins.

The case is the latest in a string of efforts by regulators to determine what the business was really up to. As Roberson it's unclear which is his real name he was jailed in late 2010 when a Denver district court judge found him in contempt for refusing to provide documents to Colorado's banking commissioner during an investigation into Her Majesty's.

McDuffie, 46, has said in court papers that he has never been convicted of contempt, implying that McDuffie and Roberson and the others are all different people. Whatever the truth, the SEC so far can't seem to get any two of them in the same place at the same time.

McDuffie could be reached only through his lawyer, E. Dale Parrish of Golden, who said his client wasn't ready to comment. Telephone numbers listed for McDuffie's home and businesses here and in Hampton, Ga. the same ones used by Roberson have been disconnected. Parrish said McDuffie ultimately will be vindicated.

"All I can say is there is much more to this than even the SEC knows," Parrish said.

He added that the credit union has since closed because of the pressure.

"Stan feels as if the closure was forced and leveraged," Parrish said.

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China objects to US comments over Diaoyu Islands

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Beijing, Jan 20 (IANS) China is firmly opposed to comments made by the US about the Diaoyu Islands, a foreign ministry official said here Sunday.

"We urge the US side to adopt a responsible attitude in regard to the issue of the Diaoyu Islands," said Qin Gang, a foreign ministry spokesperson, while addressing media relating to comments US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made Friday.

"It (the US) should be careful with its words, and act and maintain regional peace, stability and the general situation of China-US relations with practical actions and build credit with the Chinese people," China Daily quoted Qin as saying.

At a joint news conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, Clinton said the US did not not take a position on the ultimate sovereignty of the islands.

She, however, admitted that the Diaoyu Islands was under the administrative authority of Japan, saying the US opposed any unilateral actions to undermine Japanese authority over the islands.

"The comments by the US side are ignorant of facts and indiscriminate of rights and wrongs," Qin said.

The US cannot deny its historical responsibility on the issue of the islands, Qin said, referring to the fact that despite opposition from China, the Washington put the islands under the control of Japan after the World War II.

Qin said the Diayou Islands and its affiliated islets have been the inherent territories of China, which is an undeniable fact backed up by historical records and international laws.

Qin said the primary source of persistent tension over the islands lies with the Japanese government. He said Japan insisted on carrying out the wrongful action of purchasing some of the islands and continued to adopt escalating moves.

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