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“Holiday Author Fair”
Dec. 5
Indiana History Center
Whether it’s an episode guide to “South Park,”
a soup cookbook, or a photographic history of Burger Chef, it’s difficult to predict what you’ll find at the Indiana
History Center’s annual author fair. This year, more than 80 select authors will be in attendance, available from noon
to 4 to answer questions and sell their wares. The bestselling writer there will be historical fiction specialist James Alexander
Thom, with his latest, “St. Patrick’s Battalion.”
Speakers in the Basile Theater throughout the day
include Dick Wolfsie (“Mornings with Barney”), photographer Terry Border (creator of the odd, inspired “Bent
Objects”), travel writer Jane Fortune (“To Florence, Con Amore”), and yours truly. Details here.
“Toys”
Dec. 4
ArtBox Gallery
Twenty artists have each been asked to create a singe piece of art based
on the theme “Toys.” Their creations should make the Artbox Gallery at the Stutz II building a great place to
launch a journey through the December edition of the monthly First Friday downtown gallery tour.
Other potentially
interesting stops: Dean Johnson Gallery features three designers approaching the vase, the urn and furniture; the Harrison
Center for the Arts hosts the color-themed “Black and White and Read All Over;” and G.C. Lucas Gallery, for its
final opening on Mass Ave., features “Exploring New Ways,” which includes paintings and solar-plate etchings by
Montana artists Nicholas Oberling and Jennifer Li.
Details on “Toys” here. For a full First Friday rundown, click here.
“Yuletide Celebration”
Dec. 4-23
Hilbert Circle Theatre
Maureen McGovern, the hostess of this year’s “Yuletide
Celebration,” is no stranger to Hilbert Circle Theatre, having joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra there earlier
in the season for a pops concert.
Best known for her pop hits “The Morning After,” “We May Never
Love Like This Again,” and “Can You Read My Mind” (featured in, respectively, “The Poseidon Adventure,”
“The Towering Inferno,” and “Superman,”) McGovern evolved into a well-respected cabaret artist with
a string of Great-American-Songbook recordings, high-profile nightclub gigs and Broadway appearances.
Like Santa’s
pouch, “Yuletide Celebration” is always a very mixed bag. Joining McGovern in this annual mix of the sacred and
the playful will be a Liberace impersonator, a dog act, and the Yuletide debut of the ISO’s new Wurlitzer pipe organ.
Details here.
This Week in IBJ
Cutting out insurance middleman a factor in St. Vincent’s partnership with on-site clinic company. http://www.ibj.com/st-vincent-partners-with-novia-to-start-clinics/PARAMS/article/14785
Quick Shots
A new study shows the drug-resistant infection MRSA is increasingly being tracked into inpatient hospitals by visitors to their outpatient centers. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172102.php?nfid=52235
Senate bill draws kudos, continued doubts
In the blogosphere, health-policy experts have given the Senate health reform bill kudos for trying everything under the sun to reduce health care spending, but there are lingering doubts about whether it will really work.
Former Commerce director joins secretary of state race
Attorney Tom McKenna of Carmel on Tuesday started a three-day series of appearances across the state to kick off his campaign.
Company news
<p><strong>Dow AgroSciences LLC</strong>, which seems to sign a new deal every week, announced two, in fact, in the past eight
days. The Indianapolis-based developer of agricultural products announced Nov. 24 that its Canada subsidiary acquired the
assets of Hyland Seeds, a division of Thompsons Ltd. of Blenheim, Ontario. Dow Agro is adding distribution
capacity for the 2010 launch of its SmartStax variety of genetically modified seeds. Then on Dec. 1,
Dow Agro invested an undisclosed amount in Ontario-based Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. The companies have been collaborating
since 2004 to genetically engineer plant traits, and now will expand their work into field crops, such as corn and soybeans.
Dow Agro’s investment secured it a commercial license option for Agrisoma technology.</p><p>The <strong>Indiana
Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute</strong> has received $2.5 million to help it turn laboratory discoveries into
treatments faster. The money will be used to bring the <strong>University of Notre Dame</strong> into the institute, now a
partnership of Indiana and Purdue universities. Other funds will go to build up the institute’s Web site
and to figure out best practices for community-health efforts. Nearly $1 million of the funds will be used to recruit patients
to participate in clinical trials conducted by physicians at the Indiana Clinic, a new joint venture of the <strong>IU
School of Medicine</strong> and the Indianapolis-based <strong>Clarian Health</strong> hospital system.</p><p>Officials of
<strong>Wishard Health Services</strong> released details Tuesday of their first
request for bids on construction of a new Wishard hospital downtown. Hospital officials
are looking for contractors to build a 2,300-space parking garage, the first of five buildings to
house the new hospital. Marion County voters agreed Nov. 3 to back bonds that Wishard’s
parent organization will sell to fund the $754 million project. A meeting about
the bid process will be held Dec. 17. The new hospital is scheduled to open in December
2013.</p>
People
<p><strong>Dr. Denise L. Johnson Miller</strong> has been named director of the St. Francis Breast Surgery Program, effective
Dec.1. Miller comes from Stanford University Medical Center in California, where she directed cancer outreach and melanoma
surgery programs.<br /><br /><strong>Jeff Smulyan</strong>, CEO of Emmis Communications Corp., has been
named co-chairman of Hoosiers Work for Health, an industry-funded group promoting awareness of social and
economic impacts of the health care industry. Smulyan replaces former Indianapolis mayor <strong>Bart Peterson</strong>,
who took a job as a senior vice president at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. The group’s other co-chairman is <strong>Jim
Morris</strong>, president of Pacers Sports and Entertainment.</p><p><strong>Dr. Anh-Danh Phan</strong>
has joined the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department
of Ophthalmology as a visiting assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology. Phan received her medical
degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.</p>
CBO: Health insurance costs to stay high
If Congress passes health reform, the number of people buying insurance on their own will more than double by 2016, according
to projections by the Congressional Budget Office, as health reform requires all Americans to have health insurance.
SEC probing Durham deal with Texas firm
A Texas company acknowledged Tuesday that the SEC is investigating transactions between it and Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co.
Local IT consulting firm plans to add 200 workers
Indianapolis’ largest computer consulting firm is seeking property-tax abatement relating to its plans to create 200 high-paying
jobs and invest $600,000 in new equipment.
Danica Patrick grabs steering wheel of her own career
Danica Patrick is taking control of her own career path, while her dad, T.J., takes a back seat. But her proclamation that she wants to partner with Pepsi might be a major misstep.
Man accused of selling drugs at Clay Terrace
An Indianapolis man is behind bars after a cocaine bust near a popular Carmel shopping mall. The Hamilton-Boone County Drug
Task Force arrested 27-year-old Jaime Agustin. They say he was selling cocaine near Clay Terrace. The drug task force said
18 grams of the drug were confiscated during a three-month investigation.
Virus outbreak prompts euthanization of 65 cats
The Humane Society of Indianapolis has euthanized 65 cats over the past 10 days after a common feline virus mutated out of
control. The director of operations for the Humane Society said the organization has never had a virus outbreak this extensive.
Cat adoptions have been put on hold until next month. The agency also is not accepting any new cats. Dog adoptions are continuing
as normal.
Woman reports attack by police impersonator
A woman says she was attacked about 3 a.m. Tuesday near State Road 38 and Hague Road in Noblesville by a man she thought was
a police officer. The woman told police she pulled over after she noticed a silver car with a red light behind her. A man
impersonating an officer asked her for her registration. When she reached to get it, the man got inside the vehicle and held
a weapon to her neck. The woman said she was able to scare the attacker off with a knife she had in the car. FOX59 will have
more at 4 p.m.
Carmel buying 12 acres for new well field
The city of Carmel has agreed to buy about 12 acres adjacent to the Mansion at Oak Hill for a new well field.