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A Study of the Effect of LY2216684 on Lorazepam
This study has been completed.
Eli Lilly and Company
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First received: January 10, 2011
Last updated: April 14, 2011
Last verified: April 2011
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The purpose of this study is to determine how much lorazepam gets into the blood and how long it takes the body to get rid of it when given together with LY2216684. Information about any side effects that may occur will also be collected.
|Major Depressive Disorder
|Drug: LY2216684 Drug: Placebo Drug: Lorazepam
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effect of LY2216684 on the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Lorazepam in Healthy Subjects
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: LorazepamU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Eli Lilly and Company:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Pharmacokinetics of lorazepam, maximum plasma concentration (Cmax). [ Time Frame: Predose, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours post lorazepam dose ]
- Pharmacokinetics of lorazepam, time to maximum plasma concentration (tmax) [ Time Frame: Predose, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours post lorazepam dose ]
- Pharmacokinetics of lorazepam, area under the plasma concentration curve (AUC) from time 0 to ∞. [ Time Frame: Predose, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours post Lorazepam dose ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Change from baseline in cognitive function. [ Time Frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 8 hours on Day 3 ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: LY2216684+lorazepam, placebo+lorazepam
Oral 18 mg doses of LY2216684 on days 1-6 with a single oral 1 mg dose of lorazepam on day 3 in treatment period 1. Oral doses of placebo on days 1-6 with a single oral 1 mg dose of lorazepam on day 3 in treatment period 2. There is a washout period of at least 7 days between dosing periods.
Drug: LY2216684
Administered orallyDrug: Placebo
Administered orallyDrug: Lorazepam
Administered orally
Experimental: Placebo+Lorazepam, LY2216684+Lorazepam
Oral doses of placebo on days 1-6 with a single oral 1 mg dose of lorazepam on day 3 in treatment period 1. Oral 18 mg doses of LY2216684 on days 1-6 with a single oral 1 mg dose of lorazepam on day 3 in treatment period 2. There is a washout period of at least 7 days between dosing periods.
Drug: LY2216684
Administered orallyDrug: Placebo
Administered orallyDrug: Lorazepam
Administered orally
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Are overtly healthy, as determined by medical history and physical examination.
- Male subjects - Agree to use a reliable method of birth control during the study and for 1 month following the last dose of study drug.
- Female subjects - Are women of child-bearing potential who test negative for pregnancy at the time of enrollment, have used a reliable method of birth control for 6 weeks prior to administration of study drug, and agree to use a reliable method of birth control during the study and for 1 month following the last dose of study drug; or Women not of child-bearing potential due to surgical sterilization (hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy or tubal ligation) or menopause (at least 1 year without menses or 6 months without menses and a follicle stimulating hormone [FSH] >40 mIU/mL).
- Have a body weight >50 kg.
- Have clinical laboratory test results within normal reference range for the population or investigator site, or results with acceptable deviations that are judged to be not clinically significant by the investigator (potassium, magnesium, and calcium values must be within the normal range).
- Have venous access sufficient to allow blood sampling as per the protocol.
- Have normal blood pressure and pulse rate (sitting position) as determined by the investigator.
- Are reliable and willing to make themselves available for the duration of the study and are willing to follow study procedures.
- Have given written informed consent approved by Lilly and the ethical review board (ERB) governing the site.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Are currently enrolled in, or discontinued within the last 30 days from, a clinical trial involving an investigational drug or device or off-label use of a drug or device other than the study drug, or are concurrently enrolled in any other type of medical research judged not to be scientifically or medically compatible with this study.
- Have known allergies to LY2216684, lorazepam, benzodiazepines, or related compounds.
- Are persons who have previously completed or withdrawn from this study or any other study investigating LY2216684 within 6 months prior to screening.
- Have an abnormality in the 12-lead ECG that, in the opinion of the investigator, increases the risks associated with participating in the study.
- Have a history of or current cardiovascular, respiratory, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, hematological, or neurological disorders capable of significantly altering the absorption, metabolism, or elimination of drugs; of constituting a risk when taking the study medication; or of interfering with the interpretation of data.
- Have a history or show evidence of significant active neuropsychiatric disease or have a history of suicide attempt or ideation.
- Regularly use known drugs of abuse and/or show positive findings on urinary drug screening.
- Show evidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or positive human HIV antibodies.
- Show evidence of hepatitis C and/or positive hepatitis C antibody.
- Show evidence of hepatitis B and/or positive hepatitis B surface antigen.
- Are women with a positive pregnancy test or women who are lactating.
- Intend to use over-the-counter or prescription medication (including hormonal contraceptives) within 14 days prior to dosing unless deemed acceptable by the investigator and Sponsor's medical monitor, except for influenza vaccinations.
- Use of any drugs or substances that are known to be substrates, inducers, or inhibitors of UGT within 30 days prior to dosing.
- Have donated blood of more than 500 mL within the last month.
- Have an average weekly alcohol intake that exceeds 14 units per week, or are unwilling to stop alcohol consumption 48 hours prior to each study period and while resident at the CRU (1 unit = 12 oz or 360 mL of beer; 5 oz or 150 mL of wine; 1.5 oz or 45 mL of distilled spirits).
- Consume 5 or more cups of coffee (or other beverages of comparable caffeine content) per day, on a habitual basis, or any subjects unwilling to adhere to study caffeine restrictions.
- Have used any tobacco-containing or nicotine-containing products (including but not limited to cigarettes, pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco, nicotine patches, nicotine lozenges, or nicotine gum) within 6 months prior to enrollment.
- Have consumed grapefruit or grapefruit-containing products 7 days prior to enrollment and during the study.
- Have a documented or suspected history of acute narrow angle glaucoma.
- Have Gilbert's Syndrome
- Subjects determined to be unsuitable by the investigator for any reason.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01275144
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01275144
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|Evansville, Indiana, United States
Sponsors and Collaborators
Eli Lilly and Company
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Chief Medical Officer, Eli Lilly
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01275144 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
H9P-EW-LNCG ( Other Identifier: Eli Lilly and Company )
|Study First Received:
|January 10, 2011
|Last Updated:
|April 14, 2011
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depressive Disorder
Depressive Disorder, Major
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
Behavioral Symptoms
Phenylethyl Alcohol
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Gastrointestinal Agents
Hypnotics and Sedatives
Central Nervous System Depressants
Anti-Anxiety Agents
Tranquilizing Agents
Psychotropic Drugs
GABA Modulators
GABA Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Anti-Infective Agents
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Center for Teaching and Learning Mathematics awarded another Title IIB Grant
The Center for Teaching and Learning Mathematics at UNI recently was awarded a Mathematics and Science Partnership Title IIB grant. The Title IIB grant, entitled Making Sense of Mathematics and Teaching: Learning and Leading (MSMT II), will provide ongoing funding for Making Sense of Mathematics and Teaching (MSMT) professional development courses.
The Title IIB grant will support professional development over three years, beginning summer 2012. In collaboration with Heartland AEA, Prairie Lakes AEA, and Green Hills AEA, the CTLM will serve 50 elementary teachers in four school districts: Creston Community Schools, Saydel Community Schools, Fort Dodge Community Schools, and Waterloo Community Schools.
Six MSMT professional development courses will be offered focusing on numbers, operations, geometry, measurement, algebraic thinking, and rational numbers. The courses are aligned to the Characteristics of Effective Instruction and the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice.
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Archbishop Fernando Sebastian of Pamplona has called for "an act of reparation" to be made on July 15 for the blasphemy committed by the Muthiko Alaiak club, which carried a banner of the crucified Christ with his hand raised in the Nazi salute during the San Fermin Festival.
The San Fermin Festival is often better known as the festival in which the running of the bulls takes place in Pamplona.
"Several San Fermin clubs have included pictures of me on the banners which could be considered offensive. If they went no further than that I wouldn't have said anything because it's not worth going to the media just to settle personal questions," the archbishop said. However, he went on, in the case of the Mutiko Alaiak club it is "completely intolerable."
The actions by the club profoundly wound "the religious sentiments of many thousands of Christians," Archbishop Sebastian stated, adding that the San Fermin Festival "gives no one the right to insult or wound the sentiments of others, including their religious sentiments."
Therefore he has invited the faithful to gather at the Santa Marta la Real Square on July 15 to participate in a procession that will end with Mass at the Cathedral.
"As the one responsible for the Church in Navarra, I publicly protest this behavior that profanes one of the most sacred symbols for Christians and degrades the social and humane quality of our festival," the archbishop said. He encouraged Catholics to "demand respect for the symbols of our faith through all legal means," and he called on authorities to defend the right of Catholics "to be treated with respect and to be protected in our beliefs and religious sentiments."


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Who is the Best Asian Rhinoplasty Surgeon to Remove Donor Rib Cartiliage (Bridge and Tip)?
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Many North Texas farmers will continue to have peaches available, just fewer than a month ago. J.T. Lemley, the Canton farmer who's a regular at the Dallas Farmers Market, expects to have peaches through at least mid-September.
Ham Orchards: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Saturday. 11939 County Road 309 (at U.S. Highway 80), Terrell; 972-524-2028; hamorchard.com.
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Celebration Farmers Market: 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. 4515 W. Lovers Lane at Bristol, Dallas; 214-352-0031; celebrationrestaurant .com (choose "market").
Collin County Farmers Market: New this year, open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Fairview Farms, 3314 N. Central Expressway, Plano; 972-345-0484; collincountyfarmersmarket.org.
Coppell Farmers Market: 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. 793 S. Coppell Road at Burns; 972-304-7043; coppellfarmersmarket.org.
Dallas Farmers Market: Open seven days a week. Saturdays, find local farmers and ranchers in Shed No. 1; Shed No. 2 houses restaurants and specialty vendors selling pastured meats, spices, deli fare, Venezuelan roasted chicken, pralines, pickles, Bundt cakes and barbecue at Pecan Lodge, one of the Texas BBQ Posse's top picks. 1010 S. Pearl St., Dallas; 214-670-5880; dallasfarmersmarket.org.
Eden's Organic Garden Center: Market day, 9 a.m. to noon the first, third and fifth Saturday every month. 4710 Pioneer Road, Balch Springs; 214-348-3336; edensorganicfarm.com.
McKinney Farmers Market: Two locations: 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays at Chestnut Square Historic Village, McDonald and Anthony (park in the lot on McDonald), and 3 to 7 p.m. Thursdays at Adriatica, 6851 Virginia Parkway; 972-562-8790; chestnut square.org.
Oak Lawn UMC Farmers Market: Newbie market this year. 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. 3014 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas; 214-521-5197; olumc.org
Saint Michael's Farmers Market: 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. 8011 Douglas Ave., Dallas; 214-384-4047; saintmichaelsmarket.com.
White Rock Local Market: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. On the first and third Saturday of the month, the market sets up at Lakeside Baptist Church, 9150 Garland Road at Lunar Lane, Dallas. The second and fourth Saturday, it's at the original site, Green Spot Market & Fuels, 702 N. Buckner Blvd. at Northcliff, Dallas; whiterocklocal market.org.
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High Cost Is Still Number One Thing Keeping People From Getting Health Care Coverage
The main reason that more uninsured haven't signed up so far is it still seems too expensive, even under the Affordable Care Act. From Kaiser Family Foundation:
This reminds me of candidate Obama's main complaint against the idea of the individual mandate, which if mandates alone worked we could end homelessness by just mandating everyone buy a house. The problem is cost, not a lack of desire.
Health insurance is very expensive. Even with the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act buying and/or actually using the required coverage can still be a financial burden for many.
This cost issue can be addressed by throwing even more subsidies at the problem or ending the significant overcharging of Americans for all health care services compared with the rest of the first world. Of course, Democrats wanted to both cut deals with the industry and get a low CBO score, so we were left with an Affordable Care Act which is short on the "affordable" part for many.
Sadly, instead of focusing on addressing this cost issue, a group of Senate Democrats plan to "fix" the law by creating the illusion of affordability with new "Copper plans." These would be extremely high deductible policies which would have lower premiums because they would not actually protect people from unforeseen medical expenses.


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Day 1: The first part of the trip starts high up in the páramo – the Ecuadorian equivalent of the arctic tundra – and ends in low montane cloud forest at the edge of the Amazon basin. Once we reach our first destination, we throw our bikes on the jeep's roof and drive back up the pass to the Papallacta hot springs for a soothing swim in the natural thermal pools. If the day is clear, views of Antisana Volcano will bedazzle.
After lunch we drive over the Papallacta pass at 4200m and remount our iron horses for the two thousand meter (over 6000ft.) whiz downward to Tumbaco valley just outside of Quito. Altitudes: 4200-2500 m. (13900-8300 ft.)
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he first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.Overview from themoviedb.org
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More than 100 years ago, on an island far, far away, a bushy-bearded man hauled his big boxy camera up to picturesque hilltops and down to cascading waterfalls, capturing life on glass plate negatives.
The Society of Mary appointed Brother Gabriel Bertram Bellinghausen, S.M., to introduce its educational mission to the Hawaiian Islands, according to Kimberley Neuenschwander, assistant archivist for the Marianist Archives. Bellinghausen took over St. Louis College in Honolulu in 1883 and increased the size of the student body tenfold over the next 22 years. It was just one way in which he was prolific.
While in Hawaii, Bellinghausen shot nearly 2,000 photographs, which Father Paul Vieson, S.M., director of the Marianist Archives at UD, describes as "marvelous" and "incredibly clear."
"They're very valuable in the sense that they record pictorially all the flora and fauna and a lot of the life in the Hawaiian Islands in the late 1800s and early 1900s," Vieson said.
Bellinghausen saw it all through the 8-by-10-inch glass sheets — panoramic views of the Marianist order lined up in heavy black robes outside St. Louis College, stark shots of bunches of ripe fruits, portraits of the Hawaiian monarchy, collages of St. Louis College's track and field stars, crisp views of Honolulu's architecture and more.
But in his day, capturing these images was no simple feat.
"It was a big set-up to take the pictures," said archivist Jennifer Gerth. "The [glass] plates themselves, that was the actual film he put in the camera."
Today, the Marianist Archives holds approximately 1,250 of Bellinghausen's plates, boxed and neatly lined up across 23 shelves, secured with neon green bungee cords. Before arriving at UD, this set of plates traveled from Hawaii to Cupertino, Calif., the site of the former Marianist Pacific province's archives, Vieson said. The provinces were later combined, and their archives consolidated in Dayton. Vieson said other plates remain at the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Historical Society.
"The people giving them away didn't know just how valuable they would be," Vieson said.
Neuenschwander said Bellinghausen's photographs have been displayed at UD at least twice. Tom Patterson, adjunct visual arts teacher at Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton, scanned the plates several years ago and printed a selection of them for the exhibitions. The scans were also sent to Chaminade University, right next to what is now known as St. Louis School.
"These photos are valuable for us [the Marianists] because they give us pictures of the schools we had," Vieson said. "They're also valuable because there are pictures of the brothers and priests who were there — Marianists and other missionary groups as well — which you otherwise might not get. They really are a treasure."


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PUBLISHED: 12:26 20 June 2014
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Thieves have made off with two bicycles from a garage in Thetford.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident which took place between 8am on Saturday and 7pm the following day at an address in Teasel Drive.
The garage door was forced open and two bikes were stolen from inside, along with a tool box.
The bikes are described as a black Carrera Fury mountain bike and a white Carrera Valour ladies mountain bike.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact PC Stuart Locke at Thetford Police Station on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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"Clint Eastwood, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, tells his companions that when everything looks bad and it seems you can't win then you must get mean, "mad-dog mean," in order to survive. This is the basic attitude necessary for effective self defence and has always been a precept of the martial arts that if we must choose between technique and fighting spirit, then go for fighting spirit everytime.
The bare-knuckle pugilists who fought in the Prize Ring valued courage or "bottom" above all other attributes in a fighter. Captain Godfrey, the author of A Treatise upon the Useful Science of Defence (1740/47)1, comments on one Boswell, a leading pugilist of the day "Praise be to his power of fighting, his excellent choice of time and measure, his superior judgement, dispatching forth his executing arm! But fye upon his dastard heart, that marrs it all! As I knew that fellows abilities, and his worm-dread soul, I never saw him beat, but I wished him to be beaten. Though I am charmed with the idea of his power and manner of fighting, I am sick at the thoughts of his nurse-wanting courage. Fair well to him, with the fair acknowledgement that, if he had a true English bottom, (the best fighting epithet for a man of spirit) he would carry all before him, and be a match for even Broughton himself."2"
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Cowher won't return next season, but will he ever?
Published: January 4th, 2009 | Tags: Bill Cowher, Chuck Noll, Dick Vermeil
There's no longer a question of whether Bill Cowher will coach next season. He will not. The more pertinent question is, will he ever coach again?
Those who know Cowher well insist the two coaches he continually thinks and talks about are former Steelers coach Chuck Noll and former Eagles, Rams and Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil. These are the two models in which Cowher helps measure his career.
Now think about both men. After 23 seasons of coaching the Steelers, Noll walked away in 1991, never coached again and never missed it. Cowher thinks about that often.
And he's also said to also think about the Vermeil model. After coaching the Eagles from 1976 to 1982, Vermeil walked away from the game and spent 14 years away from it in television before returning in 1997 with the St. Louis Rams. Vermeil stayed out for 14 years, and those who know Cowher insist he has pondered that possibility, as well as the one of not coaching again.
Now a lot changes from one year to the next. But in this year, Cowher is no rush to return to the sideline.


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A file that surfaced during a raid at a private investigation firm led prosecutors to believe that Rancho Cucamogna developer Jeff Burum may be tied to the illegal phone hacking of a witness in his San Bernardino County public corruption case, according to a court motion.
The file, seized during a search at El Segundo-based Thomas Dale & Associates on Jan. 31, 2013, bore the name of Burum's attorney, Stephen Larson, and Bill Postmus, San Bernardino County's former assessor and Board of Supervisors chairman.
Postmus is a key witness in San Bernardino County's Colonies corruption case, in which prosecutors allege Burum bribed three former county officials to facilitate a $102 million legal settlement between the county and Burum's real estate investor group, Colonies Partners LP., in November 2006. The settlement ended a nearly 5-year legal battle over flood control easements at a 434-acre residential and commercial development in Upland bankrolled by Colonies Partners, which at the time consisted of 32 investors.
In a motion to dismiss the case on grounds of prosecutor misconduct filed in July, Larson argued that the raid at Thomas Dale & Associates, or TD&A, amounted to subterfuge – a ploy by prosecutors to invade the defense camp and plunder through hundreds of pages of documents protected under the attorney-client privilege in order to get a leg up in the Colonies case.
Larson said prosecutors knew he retained Thomas Dale & Associates to conduct surveillance on Postmus, and that investigators and prosecutors not affiliated with the Colonies prosecution should have been assigned the phone hacking case.
In their motions responding to Larson's allegations, which were filed in court March 28 but remained under seal until April 4, prosecutors said Larson did not inform them he had hired TD&A until four days after the search, during a Feb. 4, 2013 hearing before San Bernardino Superior Court Judge A. Rex Victor, who signed the search warrant.
Prosecutors maintain that Larson did in fact inform them in fall 2011 he had retained two private investigators from Marina del Rey and Canyon Country, a suburb of Santa Clarita, to conduct surveillance on Postmus, but Larson never told them about TD&A until the court hearing on Feb. 4, 2013.
"The fact that – after a thorough investigation that led to the TD&A search – Burum became a likely suspect in the phone hacking scheme (given his prior use of threats and intimidation to influence Postmus), did not eliminate the prosecution's duty to conduct the investigation even if it led to him," Deputy District Attorney Reza Sadeghi wrote in his motion.
Larson said he will be filing his responses to the prosecution's responses on April 18. A hearing on the motions is scheduled for May 21 and 22 before Judge Michael A. Smith.
"As will be demonstrated in our replies to be filed next week, the government's oppositions mischaracterize and miscomprehend our arguments," Larson said. "We remain confident in our motions and look forward to the hearings."
Investigators suspect Thomas Dale & Associates subcontracted with a woman in Fairhope, Ala., Theresa Speer, to use Postmus' personal information to gain access to his online AT&T cellular phone account, then reroute all his billing and call information to a separate Yahoo e-mail account. The practice is known as pre-texting.
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Department in Alabama worked with the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office initially on the case in tracking Speer and serving a search warrant at Speer's doublewide in 2011. Speer admitted that Thomas Dale & Associates was one of her clients. She told Bremner she had been paid $55 to track Postmus' address, but was never successful in obtaining Postmus' cellular phone billing records, which would have cost upwards of $250, according to a search warrant affidavit.
The case is still under investigation, district attorney spokesman Christopher Lee said.
A grand jury indicted Burum, former county Supervisor Paul Biane, former assistant assessor and labor union president Jim Erwin, and Mark Kirk, former chief of staff for Supervisor Gary Ovitt, in May 2011 on multiple charges including criminal conspiracy, bribery, misappropriation of public funds and conflict of interest. Burum stands accused of funneling $400,000 in bribes through phony political action committees secretly controlled by the county supervisors who voted in favor of the settlement or members of their staffs.
All four defendants deny any wrongdoing.
Postmus pleaded guilty in March 2011 to 15 felonies in connection with the Colonies case and a companion corruption case at the Assessor's Office in which he admitted to using his elected office for political gain, inflating the office budget by $1 million so he could hire nearly a dozen friends and cronies at high salaries to help run his political machine.
Postmus admitted to accepting a bribe from Burum in exchange for his vote approving the settlement and political favors in perpetuity. At the time of the vote, he was chairman of the Board of Supervisors and the most powerful politician in the county.
Postmus approving the controversial Colonies settlement was the last major decision he made as a county supervisor before leaving the board to become county Assessor after his election in November 2006.
In his motion, Sadeghi said the discovery of the file at TD&A bearing Larson's and Postmus' names gave prosecutors in the Colonies case probable cause to search for materials related to Burum and to use the name "Burum" as a key word when searching the hard drives of computers seized from TD&A during the search.
A similar pattern of conduct alleged in the Colonies case also prompted prosecutors and their investigators to zero in on Burum as a possible suspect in the phone hacking case.
Burum stands accused of, among other things, having hired private investigators to follow Postmus and Biane and rummage through their trash in order to dig up dirt that could be used to incriminate them. It was a tactic prosecutors say Burum used to intimidate and coerce Postmus and Biane into settling the lawsuit.
But that does not necessarily mean Burum hired TD&A specifically for the purpose of hacking into Postmus' cell phone, Sadeghi said in his motion.
"But, did it give the people probable cause to investigate further to see who else may be involved in the conspiracy to illegally hack their witness' (cell phone) account? Absolutely it did," Sadeghi said.


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When Greg Whiteley first heard about a meeting with the Romney family to discuss whether he should run for president in 2008, he thought it sounded like the beginning of a great documentary. Little did he know that he would end up with "MITT," a Netflix original documentary that provides an intimate look at Mitt Romney and his family over the course of two presidential campaigns. Continue reading


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Airbus Nears First A350 Flight
Impending Flight Tests Add Pressure to Ensure Firm, Suppliers Gear Up Output Smoothly
TOULOUSE, France—Airbus aims to fly its new A350 jetliner for the first time in coming days, a milestone in achieving the company's target of getting the aircraft approved and into service next year.
For program manager Didier Evrard, the start of flight testing only increases pressure to ensure that Airbus and its suppliers are gearing up production smoothly.
Manufacturing missteps have recently tripped up Airbus, a unit of...


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NOEL GALLAGHER is putting in serious graft to make this year's Teenage
Cancer Trust gigs line-up one to remember.
He's got KASABIAN and PRIMAL SCREAM on the bill for the
brilliant cause already – as well as a night of comedy headed by RUSSELL
BRAND and NOEL FIELDING.
Noel, who has taken over curating this year's shows from the usual organiser ROGER
DALTREY, said: "The Teenage Cancer Trust do a brilliant job and I've
always been more than pleased to lend my support to their fundraising
More acts are still to be announced for the shows in March in London but
tickets for the gigs already confirmed are available from Friday, priced at
£25. Keep up to date at teenagecancertrust.org.


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Jenny Ebert recently sent me the fab wedding of Maureen and Nathaniel, 2 incredibly talented people who just HAPPENED to have 2 weddings in 2 totally different styles. I'll let Maureen tell you about it…
Though technically, Nathaniel and I had one actual wedding… we sort of had two.
We were married on a Friday night in June this past summer, at the gorgeous Church of Our Saviour on Park Avenue. Our closest local (New York) friends came to witness the ceremony, so it was small and intimate. Thematically our wedding(s) didn't really have a theme or a color scheme, other than to embrace the surrounding elements at each event. So, Friday night was about chic modernity, with a bit of "sparkle," to emulate the twinkling lights of New York City. The 8 bridesmaids wore their own dresses— the only criteria being that they either be champagne or pale gold. Nathaniel's dark grey suit was custom-made and his entourage wore matching ties and charcoal suits, as well.
I wore my Mother's dress, which was thrilling for both of us. I worked with a local designer, Gregory Nato (who recently launched his own line of bridal dresses called "Fancy") Because my parents were married in December, my mom's gown was heavy and long. Very full-coverage. So Gregory and I met numerous times and he totally re-shaped the dress. It was cut to the knee, and he re-built the whole top, including a low-cut back with about 5 of her original buttons. He even cut the train, so I had a short train going down the aisle! I removed it after the ceremony. My shoes were Guiseppe Vanotti, adding some definite sparkle there, as well.
We dined afterward on the roof of 60 Thompson along with our wedding party/spouses and our immediate families. It was a crystal clear evening and everything twinkled as we hoped it would. Our guests enjoyed the spectacular views of New York while they ate a casual but exquisite meal, catered by Kittichai. Overall, the evening was contemporary in look and feel, and everything we possibly could have hoped for in our wedding.
Stay tuned for pictures from the second wedding this afternoon…
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Students are rehearsing at Spencer County Middle School this week for this weekend's summer show, the junior version of "Into the Woods" by James Lapine.
A cast ranging in ages from middle school through college has been preparing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day this week, and the show will open Friday evening at 7.
Other performances are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Admission is based on a sliding scale donation, meaning those attending are asked to donate what they are able, but donations are not required to watch the show.
Kentucky counties are being urged to apply for up to $3,000 each in waste tire removal and recycling grants. The money is available through the Department for Environmental Protection's Division of Waste Management Waste Tire Trust Fund.
"Eligible expenses under this grant are the actual costs that the county incurs during the grant period for disposal or recycling of waste tires," said Chris Fitzpatrick, manager of the Recycling and Local Assistance Branch within DWM. "Other expenses, such as labor and equipment costs, are not eligible."
Mount Eden residents came out in full force Thursday night in an effort to keep their post office from closing later this year.
Hoping there is strength in numbers, about 200 residents filled the fellowship hall of Mount Moriah Baptist Church seeking answers from United States Postal Service representatives. Expecting an overflow, a speaker was also set up outside the hall so everyone could hear.
The postal representatives on hand said Thursday's crowd was the largest they have seen from about 40 meetings this year.
Spencer County is among 45 Kentucky counties selected to share a $1.3 million federal grant for the creation of a new Public Library Workforce Center to be housed at the county's public library.
Library Director Debra Lawson said she couldn't yet release details on the total amount of money received at the local level because bids were still being collected for equipment, but could confirm the grant would fund a mobile computer lab to be located in the library's public meeting room.
Police seized 32 guns from a Bloomfield Road residence on July 5 after finding out a man at the residence was a convicted felon.
After investigating, Kentucky State Police and the Spencer County
Sheriff's Department arrested Tony D. Hilbert, 41, according to a news release.
Police seized 26 long guns and six handguns.
What started as an ordinary day in June, ended as anything but for Ochs Lane resident Betty Shouse and her great-granddaughter, Hayleigh Whittington.
Eight-year-old Hayleigh and her 18-month-old sister, Lydia, spent the day with Shouse – as they often do – and all the way up until 4 p.m., the day was a normal one.
Shouse spent a few minutes talking on the phone to Hayleigh's dad, Josh, who was in California at the time, then sat down in a chair in her living room.
Citizens will get a taste of the Spencer County Fair this weekend when it opens for a few events on Friday and Saturday.
Rides will not be at the fairgrounds, located off Ky. 44 on Fairgrounds Road, until Tuesday, July 26, but plenty of family activities are stirring up, starting with a cornhole tournament Friday at 7 p.m. at the pavilion.
The horse pull starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the track.
Festivities open up again Saturday, starting at 5 p.m. with the antique tractor pull at the ring.
The cause of a Taylorsville teenager's untimely death was ruled accidental by the Jefferson County Coroner's Office last week.
Deputy Coroner Jim Wesley said last Wednesday that 17-year-old Paige Nicole Wimsatt died June 3 at a Jefferson County residence of multiple substance intoxication.
"This has been ruled by my office as accidental," Wesley said.
Spencer County was hit with widespread flash flooding on Tuesday afternoon.
Main Street was temporarily shut down around 5:30 p.m. due to high water. The waters receded in that area and the roads were open by 6:30.
Motorists are reminded to travel with caution, not driving through standing water.
A fire at 4437 Taylorsville Road stopped traffic and demanded the attention of several Taylorsville-Spencer County firefighters around 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Sgt. Cameron Canan said the incident involved a carport located next to a mobile home.
"There was a carport that had a deck on top of it — it had caught fire and with the heat, it melted the vinyl siding on the mobile home and garage next to it," Canan said.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation and the names of the homeowners were not available as of Tuesday afternoon.
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The federal government said it would raid the foreign aid budget for more than $375 million to cope with a predicted rise in arrivals of asylum seekers, while claiming credit for a fall in arrivals from Sri Lanka.
The government planned to divert the aid money to fund asylum seekers and offshore processing, Foreign Minister
The decision to ease budget pressures and help cope with the massive asylum seeker numbers was condemned by the opposition and aid groups, including Caritas Australia and World Vision. The money will be spent providing food and accommodation for asylum seekers in Australia.
Senator Carr said the move was a legitimate use of aid funds.
Meanwhile the number of asylum seekers coming from Sri Lanka has slowed sharply despite earlier predictions that overall arrivals by boat could top 30,000 next year.
No boat carrying asylum seekers from Sri Lanka has arrived in the past 12 days and so far this month 43 asylum seekers have come from Sri Lanka compared with 1240 arrivals in October.
Immigration Minister
Some 6500 asylum seekers have arrived from Sri Lanka since June. The government has returned almost 700.
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle, who was one of a panel which recommended changes to asylum seeker policy that were adopted by the Gillard government, predicted a surge of asylum seekers if current trends continued.
"Last month there were 2600 arrivals and at the current rate of arrivals we could see upwards of 25,000 to 30,000 people coming,'' he told a parliamentary inquiry into asylum seeker policy.
"There is simply no way our navy has the capacity to get to every boat in distress under those circumstances.''
The head of the panel, former defence forces chief
"With the monsoon season upon us now, I think it's inevitable there will be further loss of life at sea,'' Mr Houston said.
More than 200 people have died since the panel submitted its report. The panel made 22 recommendations, including restoring offshore processing at Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
Mr Houston said the return policy sent a "very powerful message'' to people smugglers and would-be clients that if they are not genuine asylum seekers they will be sent home.
Senator Carr described on Monday details of a four-point plan to assist Sri Lanka in dealing with asylum seekers attempting to make their way to Australia.
Australia will give Sri Lanka extra surveillance and search and rescue equipment and host a training program on maritime surveillance for Sri Lankan naval officers.
A $700,000 advertising campaign will target Sri Lankan towns and villages identified as people-smuggling hot spots.
Australia hopes to cut demand for economic migration with a $45 million AusAID program for Sri Lanka over five years .
Opposition immigration spokesman
"Since Sri Lankan boats began arriving en masse seven months ago the Coalition has consistently called for Labor to reach an agreement to help Sri Lanka turn them around,'' Mr Morrison said.
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman
Ms Bishop said it looked as though it was not only Australians who could not trust the Prime Minister's promises on aid, but also some of the poorest countries around the globe could not trust her.


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267 Spanish exomes reveal population-specific differences in disease-related genetic variation." Mol. Biol. Evol.. 2016. Abstract"
Acceleration of short and long DNA read mapping without loss of accuracy using suffix array." Bioinformatics. 2014;30:3396-3398. Abstract"
Accuracy of sequence alignment and fold assessment using reduced amino acid alphabets." Proteins. 2006;63:986-95. Abstract"
Actionable pathways: interactive discovery of therapeutic targets using signaling pathway models." Nucleic Acids Res.. 2016. Abstract"
Alignment of multiple protein structures based on sequence and structure features." Protein Eng. Des. Sel.. 2009;22(9):569-74. Abstract"
Alignment of protein sequences by their profiles." Protein Sci. 2004;13:1071-87. Abstract"
An anaerobic mitochondrion that produces hydrogen." Nature. 2005;434:74-9. Abstract"
Analysis of chronic lymphotic leukemia transcriptomic profile: differences between molecular subgroups." Leuk Lymphoma. 2009;50:68-79. Abstract Download: PDF (2.27 MB)"
The AnnoLite and AnnoLyze programs for comparative annotation of protein structures." BMC Bioinformatics. 2007;8 Suppl 4:S4. Abstract"
Annotated draft genomic sequence from a Streptococcus pneumoniae type 19F clinical isolate." Microb Drug Resist. 2001;7:99-125. Abstract"
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Assessing the impact of mutations found in next generation sequencing data over human signaling pathways." Nucleic Acids Res.. 2015;43:W270-W275. Abstract"
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
~ Theodore Roosevelt (inscribed on the wall of the U.S. Capitol Building)
On May 21, I participated in a congressional staff briefing organized by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and the Breast Cancer Fund in conjunction with Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The topic was the President's Cancer Panel report, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, released on May 6. The essay below is taken from the first half of my presentation. The second half appears in this space next week. My co-presenters were physician Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., science director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, and epidemiologist Richard Clapp, D.Sc., M.P.H., first director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry and a professor at Boston University's School of Public Health.
I was last here in Washington, D.C., just a month ago as part of a film and book tour. My book Living Downstream, which explores the environmental links to cancer, has recently been released as an updated second edition as well as a documentary film. The movie version premiered here as part of the a special screening hosted by the DC Environmental Film Festival.
A few hours before the film screening, I jogged over to the Smithsonian Institution to visit the new Hall of Human Origins and its life-like mannequins of Lucy and other hominids. I'm a biologist; I have an abiding fondness for natural history exhibits. I also had a special reason for this particular visit.
My 11-year-old daughter, had, a year earlier, cut off ten inches of her hair and donated it to the sculptor John Gurche, who had been commissioned to create these reconstructions of early humans. John is our neighbor in the village in upstate New York where we live. So my job was to report back to my daughter about how the hair looked on its new human owners.
Here's the part of the story I want to emphasize. The donation of the hair created a dilemma for Faith—and not because of the trauma of cutting it. Indeed, she and her friends have repeatedly grown out their hair and then cut it off and given it away. But the usual recipient of the girls' hair is an organization called Locks of Love, which makes wigs for, among others, children with cancer. So Faith worried that donating her hair to an ancient human might deprive a contemporary human—maybe a girl like herself—of a ponytail.
I don't know a more poignant metric for the steady rise in pediatric cancers over the past three decades than this: in a ritual marked by reverence and solemnity, it is now a rite of passage among middle-school girls to provision children bald from chemotherapy with their own hair. It has become ordinary and normal to do so.
If middle-school girls, who don't always have a reputation for kindness, can care so deeply about their compatriots with cancer, surely we adults can match their cherished donations of hair with a spirit of urgent curiosity and action about the growing shadow that this disease casts over U.S. infants, children, and adolescents. Our actions should, above all else, seek to prevent cancer among young people by protecting them from carcinogens.
And this is where the President's Cancer Panel report, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, has much to offer us.
In October 2008, I came before the panel—which has reported to the president and guided the direction of the National Cancer Program since 1971—to describe the results of my professional research on pesticides and cancer. Let's look at what the report has to say on this topic.
First, the report correctly stresses that pesticides are toxic by design—they are intentional poisons intentionally introduced into our environment. More than a few of these have the power to contribute to cancer. Forty different pesticides registered by the EPA and on the market are classified as known or suspected carcinogens.
Second, says the report, we have solid evidence that people are routinely exposed to chemicals used in agriculture, and these exposures occur through multiple pathways. Pesticides used in farm fields are tracked inside homes and found in the dust of carpets, for example, where children crawl. Pesticides drift in the air and are inhaled. Pesticides run with rainwater into streams and groundwater and thereby enter our tap water. Pesticides are found as residues in food.
Third, two groups of people are especially vulnerable to these multiple exposures: children and those who grow our food, namely, farmers and farmworkers. Farmers have elevated rates of certain types of cancer (such as prostate cancer), and so do their children (who suffer higher than average rates of leukemia).
Fourth, the report expresses concern about pesticides that contribute to cancer by altering developmental pathways. These pesticides are called endocrine disruptors, and one example is the weed killer atrazine. As the report details, atrazine exposure of rats in early life can alter the pace of estrogen production and so alter the development of the breast in such a way that its architecture in adulthood is different. As other studies reveal, the altered structure of the mammary gland makes it more vulnerable to carcinogenic assault in later life. These effects occur in lab animals at concentrations approaching background levels for some U.S. girls.
The report recommends that we choose organic food—food grown without the use of pesticides—to protect ourselves and our children from inherently toxic chemicals, some of which are hormonally active. This is good advice. I practice it myself in my own household. Nevertheless, as many of my readers point out to me, a package of Twinkies is still cheaper than a bag of organic carrots.
Here is where the government, I believe, has a role to play in making cancer-preventing dietary choices available and affordable for the citizenry and in divorcing our food system from its current dependencies on carcinogens.
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Knowing the hilarious anguish that was spread across Rob Ryan's face on Sunday, it's hard to think anyone could have felt worse when Tom Brady led the Patriots down the field and beat the Saints' defense in the final seconds of New England's win.
But Ryan's brother, New York Jets coach Rex Ryan, is the king of hyperbole and one-uppers. So of course he thinks the loss was worse for him.
"That was a horrible day for the Ryan family," Ryan said on ESPN radio of Sunday, when the Jets also lost to the Steelers. "… I feel terrible for my brother, but definitely felt worse for us. That's the truth. There's no question that's the truth."
Rex Ryan's Jets are playing the Patriots this Sunday. Ryan wasn't quite ready to call the matchup a "must-win," but he did say it would be nice if Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski could rehab another week rather than returning.
The rematch is a tall task for New York, which already lost to New England in Week 2 — which is partly why Rex Ryan was hoping his brother could help.
"Heck yeah, you want to see [the Patriots] lose," he said. "You want every team in your division to lose, in particular New England, of course."
Rob Ryan was beside himself after Brady's drive, although he did a pretty good job in the second half of containing the Patriots' offense. Rex Ryan was asked whether he'd look to his brother to get some tips for going against New England the second time out.
"I've played against him more than he has," Rex Ryan said. "… Trust me, if there's any tip by now, he's given me everything. But will I check with him again? Of course. Absolutely."
Be sure to tell him how much the loss stung, Rex.
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THE Church Of England's second most senior cleric has given his blessing to a new garden at Hartford High School.
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, visited the Church of England school to officially open the Garden of Reflection.
Dr Sentamu is a high-ranking cleric in the church, and is second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
He is also the officiator of the Archbishop of York Youth Trust Award, which encourages young people to engage with their community.
Year eight pupils from the school have just completed their third project to achieve the award.
The garden has been designed and developed by pupils, who will also maintain it. Pupils asked for the garden to provide an area of quiet contemplation and reflection during the school day.
A cherry blossom memorial tree is the focal point of the garden, which has four raised beds to represent the four pastoral houses and a living willow archway.
Dr Sentamu walked through the archway to cut a ribbon to officially open the garden before offering his blessing.
"We are honoured to host this visit from the Archbishop," said head teacher Mike Holland.
"We took the rare step less than two years ago of becoming a Church of England high school, and have made a great deal of progress in developing the less tangible aspects of school life such as Christian ethos and spirituality."
Assistant head teacher Tim Lee is the co-ordinator of the school's involvement in the Archbishop of York Award, and described Dr Sentamu's visit as "a truly amazing day."
"I feel extremely privileged to have had such a high profile leader of the Church of England visit our school," he said.
"Our pupils are aware of the role they have to play to be positive citizens and actively seek to complete projects that will support our school, Northwich and wider communities.
"Pupils and staff alike were touched to have this acknowledged by the Archbishop."
During his visit Dr Sentamu spoke at an assembly of 270 young people, visited classrooms across the campus and spent an hour with The Christian Union.


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The Eselalm, Pension Sonnenhof's private mountain cottage, is a 20-minute walk away and features a playground and a petting zoo. Traditional Styrian specialities are served there.
Within a few minutes walking distance, guests find 3 bakeries to enjoy breakfast.
The Sonnenhof offers free private parking and has a lockable bicycle shelter. A public ou...tdoor pool and the stop of the free ski bus are 2 minutes away. It is a 5-minute walk to the cross-country ski run.
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February 21st, 2013
Rebuilding the Solidarity of the APOA Part 2
Rehires versus First-Timers: Why the Division and How do we Fix it…
It's one of those topics everybody has either talked about or listened-in on a conversation about for the past several years. The opinions are strong, divided, and often based on an individual's past experience, either good or bad. It is a topic which has lead to a noticeable division on our Department and inside our Union (and don't you find it ironic the word "union" is used here). I'm talking of course about the Return-to Work program instituted approximately 10 years ago. You know these officers by the more common reference "Rehire."
Some officers say it frequently: "F the Rehires!" "Send 'em all back to the field." I also get to hear rehires talk about how the union screwed them and no one cares about them. As the bid approaches, I've heard strong opinions from both sides about return-to-work officers.
Below are my opinions. I know I risk upsetting many people and I do not claim to have all of the answers but this is an issue we must address as a union so that we can be, a UNION.
So what caused the division among return-to-work and first timers?
When APD first began taking advantage of the State law to allow retired PERA retirees to return to work, they did so like many other agencies to supplement manpower. As the Department either reached out to some of these individuals or had those individuals approach them for jobs, special considerations were made. A separate bid list was established for these employees. Why you ask? Well some of them wanted to come back and were willing to don the uniform, they just weren't willing to have their seniority start all over again with the new guys, i.e. they didn't want to show up to the bid and chose between graveyard or, well graveyard. They wanted days with weekends off. The Department accommodated this request because they wanted the numbers. Unfortunately, the APOA was not blameless in this either, the union allowed two bid lists to be established.
This was problematic. Not only were two "classes" of employees created, there was division among the two because the first time officers realized their own bid seniority was not improving as fast with this system and some spots on days or swing with weekends off were held out from the regular bid in order to accommodate the rehire bid. This was clearly not fair to the first time officers hired before the rehires who were now getting better spots.
Gasoline was then thrown on the fire: the Department (and sadly the union) allowed return-to-workers to come back directly into "inside" positions. The normal line of events for a first time officer was of course to be in the field and then test for positions as they were circularized. Not for this other class of employees though. Some of them, not all mind you, were allowed to simply "rehire" back into a detective position, support position, or admin position. Rightly so, first time officers were upset at this travesty and eventually the union put a stop to the practice.
The anger over the discrimination against the first time officers remained and contributed to some officers' extreme dislike of rehires.
While it was always a bad, dividing practice, to have two separate bid lists, it became worse when the State changed the law allowing retirees to come back to work. APD quit hiring these individuals and those remaining on the rehire bid list were then stuck in seniority. Now the shoe was on the other foot. The rehires did not see their own ability to get better shifts improve with time on the department and they grew to hate the separate bid lists.
How Do we Fix the Division?
The fact is, everyone should have always been on the same bid list. The practice of allowing two bid lists was discriminatory against the first-time officers originally. Now, the return-to-workers believe it to be discriminatory against them because they cannot ever move up the list. While I believe it to be ironic that rehires feel discriminated against by the very system their predecessors created so as to have a special status, the fact is it does need to be fixed because it never should have existed to begin with.
Secondly, regardless of anyone's personal beliefs on return-to-work, double dipping, etc., all of these men and women are police officers. They have a secondary source of income, but that is really no different than someone retiring from another job and becoming a police officer, or owning a secondary business, or whatever. Some of the hardest working, and most passionate officers I know are rehires. Their status of being a "rehire" does not change the risks they take and, frankly, there are benefits to bringing back someone with experience. I, like many others, am disappointed with how the City and the Union together handled this issue originally, but I think we can settle our differences.
I encourage all members to get over the mistakes of the past. No one should have been hired directly into an inside job and no second bid list should ever have been established. Having said that, these were mistakes that are in the past and cannot be completely undone. All we can do is move forward. There is a benefit to everyone to merging the bid lists. Some officers will feel that it hurts them because they might get pushed down the overall list by 10 or 20 spots. However, those same 10 or 20 spots will no longer be held off the available spots when it comes time to bid. We have plenty of other battles folks. It seems to me that any one of us, if we were stuck with no freedom to ever bid for a better shift, would want something to change.
It is time for us to stand together as a union and leave the past in the past….
Greg Weber
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Cornell's Ferlin Signs with Boston
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The Boston Bruins have signed Cornell junior forward Brian Ferlin to an entry-level contract.
Ferlin skated in 32 games for Cornell this season, and led the team in goals (13) and points (27), while his 14 assists were tied for fourth on the team. In total, Ferlin appeared in 92 collegiate games in three years at Cornell (2011-14) where the 21-year-old racked up 31 goals and 41 assists for 72 points with a plus-25 rating.
Prior to joining Cornell, the winger skated for two seasons (2009-11) with the Indiana Ice in the USHL. In 2011 Ferlin was second on the team in assists (48), third in points (73) and fourth in goals (25) and plus/minus rating (+26). With the Ice, Ferlin appeared in a total of 112 USHL games, notching 31 goals and 58 assists for 89 points.
Ferlin played in 13 total USHL playoff games with the Ice, accruing 2-6=8 totals with six penalty minutes.
Boston drafted the 6-foot-2, 209-pound native of Jacksonville, Fla., in the fourth round (121st overall) of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.


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Pink is the new black, cobalt is the new black, hunter green is the new black – everything is always the "new black." One thing I have noticed, though, is that black is never out of style, nor is it really ever out of season. Just ask Karl Lagerfeld, who practically lives in his black suit with black fingerless gloves and black sunglasses. Black is flattering on everyone and is known for its slimming effects, so what better time to wear it than now?
This Fashionista rocks the (lack of) color by wearing monotone black. The black leather jacket is great because it is a transition piece between seasons. Even though spring seems far away with all of this snow, the black leather jacket will be a great staple when it starts to warm up. Paired with a blouse, leggings and boots, like our Fashionista, you are ready for winter. But take that same coat and put it with your favorite tank top and shorts, and you can easily put some edge into your spring wardrobe.
Wearing a black shirt with a white pattern is an easy way to make a statement. The blouse really stands out against the leather coat and black leggings without the need for color. Black and white were also really popular on the spring 2014 runway and was seen at shows like Helmut Lang and Narciso Rodriguez. This is a great trend to get behind because it is so wearable, which makes getting dressed before that 8 a.m. just that much easier.
Our Fashionista finishes off the outfit with the perfect pair of black boots, which have fun detailing with crossing leather straps on the upper calves and the ankles. Having a killer pair of black boots is the best way to kick your style into high gear.
Stay simple with black on black because if there is one thing you can count on, it's that black is always in style.


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Phil Satre '75 has been recognized by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Business as a 2011 inductee to the Nevada Business Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have contributed to the success of Nevada's economy.
Satre served as chairman of the board of Harrah's Entertainment (now known as Caesar's Entertainment Corporation) and is chairman of the board for NV Energy.