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July 10, 2015 DUI Checkpoint Results

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The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Friday, July 10, 2015 at NW 2nd Street and S. 3rd Avenue.  The checkpoint ran from 11:30pm to 02:30am.

A total of 57 vehicles were diverted from NW 2nd Street Street into the checkpoint. Two motorists tested close to the legal limit and were required to obtain alternate transportation.  One motorist was arrested for Opertating while Intoxicated and another motorist was arrested for Possession Of Marijuana, Driving while License Suspended and Failure to Appear.

The operator of a silver 2016 Hyundai 4-door sedan fled from the checkpoint and accelerated to such an unsafe speed as to elude a pursuing Evansville Police officer. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information related to this vehicle or suspect is asked to leave a tip

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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EPD Activity Report

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2015 Digitized Call-to-Artists

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28 Digital works by local artists on display. Come out and support your local arts community.

Dr. Bucshon Comments on 21st Century Cures Passage

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The House passed landmark legislation to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-saving and life-improving treatments for the nearly 10,000 diseases without known cures. H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, is the product of more than two dozen roundtables and listening sessions across the country over the past year and has garnered widespread support amongst doctors, patients, experts, advocates, and medical innovators.

 

Eighth District Congressman and member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Larry Bucshon, M.D. released the following statement after H.R. 6 passed:

 

“This is one of the most important initiatives I’ve been a part of since coming to Congress,” said Bucshon. “As a physician, I’ve seen far too many patients and families face the agony of battling one of the thousands of diseases that currently don’t have a cure. We’ve all been touched in some way by this feeling of hopelessness, whether it’s a friend, family member, or someone in our community. 21st Century Cures gives patients who might be uncertain for what the future might hold, hope for the future. This landmark legislation will undoubtedly improve the lives of patients across the country. What greater calling do we have than to help our fellow citizens live a happier, more prosperous life?”

 

On Thursday, Dr. Bucshon delivered a floor speech urging support of 21st Century Cures and shared the story of Ann Seitz, the late wife of Jasper Mayor Terry Seitz, who passed away in 2010 after a two year battle with ALS. Video of the speech can be accessed here - https://youtu.be/YwilAHVHyHA.

 

H.R. 6 passed the House by a vote of 344 to 77.

 

BACKGROUND ON H.R. 6 (via the Energy and Commerce Committee):

 

The pace of scientific advancement over the past two decades, including the mapping of the human genome, has been impressive, giving us a myriad of genetic clues about the underpinnings of disease. Translating these discoveries into new treatments for patients, however, has proven to be difficult. H.R. 6 accelerates the discovery, development and delivery of life-saving and life-improving therapies, and transforms the quest for faster cures by:

 

  • Removing barriers to increased research collaboration:

 

Experts agree that more collaboration and access to data will produce faster cures and therapies. While protecting patient privacy, H.R. 6 breaks down existing barriers to sharing and analyzing the growing amount of health data generated in research and clinical settings.

 

  • Incorporating the patient perspective into the drug development and regulatory review process:

 

H.R. 6 strengthens the FDA’s ability to take the direct experience of patients with particular diseases and conditions, and the effect of their current therapies and use that data to modify and improve potential treatments.

 

  • Measuring success and identifying diseases earlier through personalized medicine:

 

H.R. 6 provides guidance for the broader, more collaborative development, understanding, and utilization of drug development tools such as biomarkers, which can be used for earlier assessment of how a particular therapy is working and on whom. H.R. 6 would advance personalized medicine, making sure patients can be treated based on their unique characteristics at the appropriate time.

 

  • Modernizing clinical trials:

 

Personalized medicine allows researchers to design more targeted clinical trials that can produce results faster and cheaper. H.R. 6 will allow greater use of patient generated registries that speed the recruitment of participants. It will also allow researchers to screen patients in advance to determine if their genetic predisposition makes them better candidates for targeted therapies. The legislation also clears the way to use new and creative adaptive trial designs and deploy the most modern statistical and data tools, while significantly reducing existing, duplicative or unnecessary paperwork requirements.

 

  • Removing regulatory uncertainty for the development of new medical apps:

 

Regulatory uncertainty has slowed the development of medical apps that generate real time patient data. These apps hold tremendous promise for improving healthcare—saving time, money, and lives. H.R. 6 provides more certainty for app developers, clarifying their regulatory path moving forward and will speed the creation and deployment of these innovative health tools.

 

  • Providing new incentives for the development of drugs for rare diseases:

 

Small populations and a lengthy development process often make the discovery of treatments for rare diseases and conditions challenging. H.R. 6 creates new economic incentives for the development of therapies for serious and life threatening conditions, including rare diseases. New incentives will translate to more, faster cures.

 

  • Helping the entire biomedical ecosystem coordinate more efficiently to find faster cures:

 

Finding new cures and therapies requires more than a discovery in a laboratory. H.R. 6 creates a new coordinating mechanism to remove the choke points that slow the connections between scientific discovery, drug and device development, and how these therapies are approved and made available to patients. H.R. 6 improves the entire biomedical ecosystem ensuring the innovation infrastructure works as quickly and efficiently as possible.

 

  • Investing in 21st century science and next generation investigators:

 

H.R. 6 creates the “Innovation Fund,” a dedicated and offset funding stream of $1.75 billion per year for 5 years for the NIH and $110 million per year for 5 years for the FDA that will allow congressional appropriators to invest additional resources without impacting current budget caps. Since experts believe investments in younger scientists will speed the discovery of new cures, H.R. 6 also includes provisions to invest more resources in the next generation of scientists for the next generation of drugs.

 

  • H.R. 6 helps keep and create jobs here at home:

 

H.R. 6 is not only a patient’s bill; it is a jobs bill. The United States has led the global medical device and biopharmaceutical industries for decades, helping us become the medical innovation capital of the world and causing China and others to try to take our innovation and jobs. Because of our leadership, U.S. medical device-related employment totals over 2 million jobs, and the U.S. biopharmaceutical industry is responsible for over 4 million U.S. jobs. NIH funding currently supports over 400,000 jobs at research institutions across the country, including jobs for young scientists. The policies in H.R. 6 will help us fight off foreign competitors so we can keep these jobs, and add more, here at home.

 

  • H.R. 6 reduces the deficit by over $500 million.

Catch the Latest Edition of “The Indiana State Police Road Show”

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Catch the latest edition of the “Indiana State Police Road Show” radio program every Monday morning at your convenience.

This week’s show features Indiana State Police Trooper Patrick Etter and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department volunteer Chaplin Gerry Griffith. Etter and Griffith discuss the upcoming Trooper Bartram Memorial Ride that will be taking place on July11th. The ride raises money that is dedicated to the Trooper Bartram Christmas for Kids shopping spree for identified needy families with state and local law enforcement officers.

Download the program from the Network Indiana public websites at www.networkindiana.com.  Look for the state police logo on the main page and follow the download instructions. The ISP Road Show can also be viewed via YouTube.

Go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu5Bg1KjBd7H1GxgkuV3YJA or visit the Indiana State Police website at http://www.in.gov/isp/   and click on the YouTube link. This 15 minute talk show concentrates on public safety and informational topics with state wide interest.

The radio program was titled “Signal-10” in the early sixties when it was first started by two troopers in northern Indiana. The name was later changed to the “Indiana State Police Road Show” and is the longest continuously aired state police public service program in Indiana.

Radio stations across Indiana and the nation are invited to download and air for FREE this public service program sponsored by the Indiana State Police Alliance and Cops for Kids, a subsidiary of the Indiana State Police Alliance.

Lawyer suspended for distributing pseudoephedrine

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Dave Stafford forwww.theindianalawyer.com

A South Bend attorney who pleaded guilty to federal charges that she supplied a key ingredient to members of a meth ring has been suspended from the practice of law for three years.

The Indiana Supreme Court suspended Tenneil E. Selner for three years without automatic reinstatement in In the Matter of: Tenneil E. Selner,71S00-1402-DI-96. Justices settled 4-1 on the discipline, but Justice Brent Dickson dissented and would have rejected a conditional agreement between Selner and the Disciplinary Commission. Dickson said he believed Selner “demonstrated unfitness to reasonably represent, advise, and serve future clients.”

Selner, 35, pleaded guilty in October 2013 to a single federal count of distribution of pseudoephedrine, having been ordered into federal detention two months earlier. She faced three counts in a federal grand jury indictment filed in 2012.

In exchange for Selner’s plea, the government dropped charges that she conspired to manufacture meth and that she manufactured a substance that contained meth. She was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, and according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Selner was released to probation in November 2014.

Selner “admitted purchasing pseudoephedrine four times at different drug stores and then providing the pseudoephedrine to two other individuals, allowing those individuals to evade the identification statutes governing the purchase of pseudoephedrine,” according the court opinion.

One of those people, Jason Buzzard of Plymouth, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on charges of conspiracy to manufacture meth, according to federal court records.

Justices wrote Selner “actively engaged herself in the introduction of a controlled substance into a marketplace occupied by current and future victims of a devastating addiction. It should go without saying that such misconduct warrants severe discipline.”

The federal government recommended a sentence on the lower range of guidelines incorporating treatment, followed by supervised release. A sentencing memorandum noted Selner had a prior criminal record with three misdemeanor convictions, six other contacts with the legal system, and “a severe history of substance abuse.”

Selner was admitted to practice in 2006 and had no prior disciplinary history, according to the Indiana Roll of Attorneys.

Daily Off Topic Forum July 12, 2015

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Public – Private Partnership Launches New AmeriCorps Program to Help Communities Build Resilience

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Federal agencies, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Cities of Service announce Resilience AmeriCorps initiative as part of Administration’s effort to build climate resilience nationwide

WASHINGTON – Building on the President’s Climate Action Plan, today the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), The Rockefeller Foundation, and Cities of Service, announced a new commitment to launch a Resilience AmeriCorps pilot program.

Resilience AmeriCorps will help communities plan and implement efforts necessary to become more resilient to shocks and stresses, including extreme weather and other impacts of climate change. Through the pilot program, AmeriCorps VISTA members will serve in up to 12 communities in 2015-2016 to support the development of resilience strategies that will both help communities better manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.  AmeriCorps VISTA members will build volunteer networks to carry out program initiatives, and create education and outreach materials to strengthen awareness and citizen engagement in low-income communities.

“EPA understands that environmentally overburdened communities are often those most in need of resources to help prepare for and respond to climate change,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “We are excited to support the new Resilience AmeriCorps pilot program and look forward to its potential for encouraging service opportunities that will meet local needs.”

“National service is a powerful and proven solution to local issues communities face today, including making communities more resilient, especially those most vulnerable in the face of disasters,” said Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Wendy Spencer. “This partnership will expand the role of our AmeriCorps VISTA members in strengthening communities and will build on AmeriCorps VISTA’s long history of partnering with federal agencies, philanthropy, and city leadership. I am confident that the work of our AmeriCorps members will have a significant impact on these communities and its residents.”

“At the Department of Energy, we are strong advocates for public-private partnerships to enhance the resilience of our Nation,” said Deputy Energy Secretary Liz Sherwood-Randall.  “Through this initiative, we will help some of our most vulnerable communities become more resilient and get better prepared to meet the challenges of climate change and extreme weather.”

“Crisis is increasingly part of the 21st century, which is why it is imperative that communities – large and small – place a premium on building resilience. With collaborative efforts across all sectors we can ensure our country is prepared for the inevitable shocks and gnawing stresses so that disruptions no longer become disasters,” said Dr. Judith Rodin, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. “The new Resilience AmeriCorps program will create a new generation of talented individuals who are committed to building resilience, and who can support cities today while deepening the bench for innovative leadership in years to come. Resilience is a journey, not a destination, and the time to embark on it is now.”

“As communities around the nation become more vulnerable to severe extreme weather and climate related events, NOAA and its partners are working to build resilient communities and economies,” said Holly Bamford, Ph.D., assistant NOAA administrator for NOAA’s National Ocean Service performing duties of the assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management.  “These pilot projects are an exciting step in providing communities with the tools, information, and services they need to become more resilient.”

“We are excited to help lead the country’s first Resilience AmeriCorps with our federal partners and the Rockefeller Foundation,” said Cities of Service Executive Director Myung J. Lee. “Cities of Service works with our mayors to help engage their citizens, improve their communities with impact volunteering, and achieve results. We are glad to be a part of this program that will strengthen cities structurally as well as socially, toward greater national resilience.”

The pilot program is one of a series of actions the White House announced in support of the Administration’s commitment to building resilience in vulnerable communities. Resilience AmeriCorps was developed in response to a recommendation made by the President’s State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience.

On Wednesday, July 15 at 2 p.m. EDT the White House will host a Google+ Hangout to discuss the important role of community service in helping vulnerable communities become more resilient. The event will feature speakers from the Administration, The Rockefeller Foundation, Cities of Service, and local communities engaged in building community resilience. Members of the public are encouraged to ask the participants questions during the livestreamed conversation using the Twitter handle #ActOnClimate.

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The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, Social Innovation Fund, and Volunteer Generation Fund programs, and leads the President’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve. Since 1994, more than 900,000 Americans have provided more than 1 billion hours of service to their communities and country through AmeriCorps. For more information, visit NationalService.gov.

Cities of Service is a national nonprofit that supports a nonpartisan coalition of mayors and city executives to design and implement high-impact volunteering initiatives addressing multiple issues from supporting youth and education, to disaster preparedness and neighborhood revitalization. It provides technical assistance, programmatic support, planning resources, and funding opportunities. Founded by Michael R. Bloomberg in 2009, Cities of Service is comprised of more than 200 cities in the U.S. and UK whose mayors are committed to engaging citizen volunteers to solve local pressing challenges. Cities of Service helps coalition cities share solutions, best practices, and lessons learned, as well as spreads awareness about meaningful work happening in cities. Visit citiesofservice.org to get involved, and follow @citiesofservice on Twitter.

For more than 100 years, The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission has been to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. Today, The Rockefeller Foundation pursues this mission through dual goals: advancing inclusive economies that expand opportunities for more broadly shared prosperity, and building resilience by helping people, communities and institutions prepare for, withstand, and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses. To achieve these goals, The Rockefeller Foundation works at the intersection of four focus areas – advance health, revalue ecosystems, secure livelihoods, and transform cities – to address the root causes of emerging challenges and create systemic change. Together with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation strives to catalyze and scale transformative innovations, create unlikely partnerships that span sectors, and take risks others cannot – or will not

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Sherri Brown’s Open Letter To EVSC Board Members

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 Sherri Brown’s Open Letter To EVSC School Board Members

To EVSC School Board members,

Thank you for the opportunity to speak at Monday’s meeting. I figured that after approximately 1 and 1/2 hours listening to speakers it probably becomes difficult to remember everything that was said. I tried to find the minutes for the meeting but could not find any. I looked at the EVSC Schools website, but could only find Dr. Smith’s comments. How do you review what happens at the meetings? How do you know you didn’t miss or forget something important? How does anyone check back and review history? Are public speakers mentioned? Are there any records as to what these speakers said? If there is not record of public input then the minutes are not actually a complete and accurate reflection of what transpired at the meeting. Are there minutes somewhere? If so, would you please tell me how to find them?

I, honestly, do not know what protocol is pertaining to public comments. I do know that I would not have spoken unless I felt the issues were important and that my comments would be of value. For this reason I am sending you a copy of my comments. I thought this would especially be of value to the two board members who could not be present at Monday’s meeting. I know many people are worried about viruses so I am copying and pasting my comments instead of sending them as an attachment.

One new item-while doing research I ended up on the City-County Observer website. They had recently filed a Freedom of Information Request concerning the most current EVSC Superintendent employment contract, and they provided a link to that contract. As you must be aware this is a 5 page document. I would like to draw you attention to Item 9 on page 5. It states:

If during the term of this contract, it is found that a specific clause of the contract is illegal under federal or state law, the remainder of the contract not affected by such a ruling shall remain in force.

I am not a lawyer, but doesn’t it seem that this item totally takes care of your concerns pertaining to taking union dues out of employees’ paychecks. One simple sentence. If you are truly concerned about what impact future laws might have on the deducting of union dues, is this not the answer? Why did you put it in Dr. Smiths contract, but not consider putting it into the Teamster contract? It appears that you have been engaged in a fight for several months over an issue that you already resolved. And, I might add, it didn’t cost the taxpayers thousands of extra dollars for an expensive Indianapolis lawyer to do so. It is almost elegant in its simplicity. Can someone explain this?

And last but not least, would you please respond in some way so that I know you did, in fact, receive this email read it. I have been told that the board member are not opening emails from their constituents. I have not accepted this as the truth because it is just too awful to be true. Any response will work. I hope and pray I get a response from each of you. Again, thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,
Sherri Brown

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