New Statehouse occupancy rules seen as anti-union

By Chelsea Schneider Kirk cschneider@post-trib.com December 30, 2011 2:00PM

Updated: December 30, 2011 7:49PM

A high-ranking Indiana House Democrat sees new Statehouse security measures announced Friday as a ploy to keep union members protesting right-to-work legislation out of the building.

State public safety personnel set a new capacity for the Statehouse at 3,000 people ahead of the Indiana General Assembly session that starts Wednesday. State officials estimate 1,700 people work in the building.

Right-to-work legislation that drew large crowds and led to a five-week walk out by House Democrats last year is expected to become a dominating issue this session. The legislation would prohibit unions from requiring workers to pay fees to the labor organizations

?I?ve been there for rallies with many, many more people,? state Rep. Linda Lawson, D-Hammond, said. ?Obviously it?s an attempt to keep union members out of the building. That?s the only way to look at it. It?s never been done before.?

The public is advised to enter at the east door on the Capitol Avenue side. Signs larger than 2-feet by 2-feet and made of material other than cardboard, poster board or other non-injury causing material are restricted.

State Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, sees the new policy as an attempt to block the public from the Legislature.

?This is not the way for the administration to react to citizens? rights to gather and protest,? Rogers said. ?It?s certainly not the way to deal with the many pressing problems of the state as it relates to the economy and jobs.?

The policy was drafted by Indiana State Police, the state?s homeland security department and the state fire marshal?s office. State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell said the capacity number was based on an analysis of what was a safe capacity level for the building.

Whitesell said large crowds that gathered in the Statehouse during the 2011 session created disruptions.

?During the last legislative session, several scheduled events were interrupted or canceled, and we want everyone who visits or schedules an event in the building to have a pleasant and successful experience,? he said in a statement.

AP contributed to this report.

Source: http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/9725892-418/new-statehouse-occupancy-rules-seen-as-anti-union.html

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EU Approves Roche?s Avastin for Ovarian Cancer

The European Commission has approved the use of Avastin, a drug manufactured by the Swiss-based health care company, Roche. Avastin is used to treat women in advanced stages of ovarian cancer.

The illness is regarded as one of the most fatal of the group of gynecological cancers, with annual death rates as high as 140,000 across the world, as per reports from the company.

It is hoped that the approval of this drug will give patients more options to treat the condition, apart from limited surgical and chemotherapy-based alternatives.

"Today's approval of Avastin marks the first major treatment advance in newly diagnosed ovarian cancer in 15 years," stated Hal Barron M.D., Chief Medical Officer (CMO)?and Head, Global Product Development, Roche.

"This is the fifth tumor type for which Avastin has been approved in Europe, making it one of few biologic drugs indicated for multiple cancers," he further mentioned.

Avastin has demonstrated in two Phase III studies that women with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer, who were treated, initially, with both Avastin and chemotherapy before receiving the former alone, lived significantly longer without the disease getting worse (progression-free survival), compared to those who received chemotherapy only.

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Incidentally, the European approval comes after the controversial revocation of the drug by the U.S.'s Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who maintained the drug exposed patients to dangerous side effects like high blood pressure and hemorrhaging.

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Southern California soldier hospitalized after shooting at his homecoming party

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A decorated Army soldier recovering from injuries suffered in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan has been shot at his homecoming party, and family members say he's paralyzed and in critical condition.

Christopher Sullivan, 22, was shot late Friday while trying to break up a fight between his brother and another man at a San Bernardino, Calif., residence.

"My son didn't deserve this. He served his country," his mother, Suzanne Sullivan, told the San Bernardino Sun (http://bit.ly/sjycMA).

Suzanne Sullivan said her son suffered two gunshot wounds to his back, which shattered his spine. Family members told the newspaper that the shooting late Friday left Sullivan paralyzed and in critical condition.

Police said Sullivan's brother and a partygoer got into an argument over football. When Sullivan moved to intervene, the man pulled a gun and opened fire.

The gunman fled the scene before police arrived.

Sullivan was wounded in a suicide bombing attack last year in Kandahar while serving with the 101st Infantry Division. He suffered a cracked collar bone and brain damage in the attack and has been recovering in Kentucky where he is stationed. He was awarded a Purple Heart.

Sullivan was home on leave when the shooting occurred.

"To come home to this, it's so unfair," his aunt Theresa Marquez told the newspaper.

His enlistment would be complete in April, after which Sullivan had planned to come home to go to college.

Family members are calling on the shooter to surrender.

Police have not identified the suspect.

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Private security hired for church service

Two men in brown sport coats, right, standing outside Friendship Baptist Church in York Sunday identified themselves as employees of Morgan Investigation Services and said they were contracted by the church's board of elders. (DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS -- PAUL KUEHNEL)

Two men in brown sport coats and the word "security" on their black turtlenecks were standing outside Friendship Baptist Church Christmas morning.

They identified themselves as employees of Morgan Investigation Services and said they were contracted by the church's board of elders.

Both were carrying handcuffs and said they have the authority to take someone into custody and contact the local police.

A church member last week asked York City Police Chief Wes Kahley to provide a police presence for the Christmas service after Mayor Kim Bracey's mother reportedly was punched in the face by another church member.

The dispute reportedly was over an interim pastor's comment about a church member from the pulpit.

York Mayor Kim Bracey declined to comment on the presence of the security personnel or why they were needed.

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Sean Walsh dies at 21; California Army National Guard specialist from San Jose

When Sean Walsh was 8 or 9 years old, his mother recalled, he'd knock on a friend's door in his San Jose neighborhood, and if the boy wasn't home, he'd ask for his sister. If she wasn't there, he would settle for whoever was home.

"So what are you doing?" he would ask the other kids' mom and invite himself in, said his mother, Cheryl Walsh.

"That was Sean," she said. "I can't tell you how many of the neighbors felt like he was a part of their families."

Many from the old neighborhood now mourn Walsh, as do others who knew him from Prospect High School in Saratoga, the Santa Clara Police Department's Explorer program and the California Army National Guard's 185th Military Police Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade in Pittsburg, northeast of Berkeley.

The 21-year-old Army National Guard specialist was killed Nov. 16 in a mortar attack on his base in eastern Afghanistan's Khowst province, on the Pakistani border. It was about a month before his unit was to finish a yearlong tour and head home to the East Bay.

Born in Upland, Walsh moved to San Jose in 1994 with his mother, a pharmaceutical sales representative.

Besides being a goodwill ambassador to the neighbors, he was an avid skater and sometime surfer whose other interests included cars, dirt bikes and his German shepherd, Lena, who helped cement his plans for a career in law enforcement as a K-9 officer.

"He definitely loved that dog," said Brian Garcia, 21, who became fast friends with Walsh when both joined the Explorers four years ago. "He would do anything for Lena. He was so attached to her. Being a K-9 officer was a perfect fit for him."

Officer Bill Davis, advisor to the Explorer program, described Walsh as a "cross between Ferris Bueller and James Bond" and said "he had a certain charm about him." Walsh was dedicated to the program and spent hundreds of hours on community service projects, police training and ride-alongs with officers, Davis said.

"He had that drive, that intelligence," Davis said. "He was making all the right moves, all the right decisions to someday become a police officer, whether it was in Santa Clara or somewhere else."

Garcia said his friend was serious about law enforcement and joined the Army National Guard's military police unit at age 18 for the experience and competitive edge it would give him later. But Walsh was anything but all business, he said.

"He was a jokester, and his sense of humor fit in perfectly with mine," Garcia said. "For anyone having a tough day or not a good week, he would always find a way to get them smiling or laughing."

One of Walsh's favorite moves might be best described as not-so-fancy footwork.

"Whenever a song came on the radio, we'd step out and start dancing to it in the funniest way we could ?people thought it was hilarious," Garcia said.

YouTube videos posted after his death show Walsh having fun even while deployed in Afghanistan. He is ever smiling and mostly mugging for the camera as he's shown in his off-time playing a ukulele, slurping noodles, lifting weights and dancing.

Sgt. Isabel Salazar, who posted a video with the message "You will be missed, but never forgotten," said Walsh parlayed his good nature into amicable relationships with Afghan security guards and villagers.

"Even though he couldn't speak their language and they couldn't understand ours, somehow he'd make friends with them and have full conversations with them," she said. "He was friends with everybody."

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Saratoga was packed for Walsh's funeral Dec. 3. Police, firefighters and soldiers joined with the fallen guardsman's friends and family ? including his father, Kenneth Walsh of Ontario ? at the church and at burial services at Oak Hill Memorial Park.

When he wasn't on a mission, Cheryl Walsh said, her son called or emailed her twice a day from Afghanistan. They often would talk about his plans for the future, which included trips to Disneyland, Hawaii and New York, earning a college degree and buying a used BMW.

Their last conversation, just hours before he died, ended the way they all did.

"We finished every phone call with 'I love you,' " she said. "That way, I always knew that if anything ever happened, those would be the last words we said to each other."

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