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August 2, 2013 • Milwaukee Post • 17 Two Milwaukee women arrested after fight TOWN OF BROOKFIELD – Two women were arrested and several others complained of being pepper sprayed during a fight Saturday evening at Chuck E. Cheese's. Town of Brookfield Police Lt. David Mironischen said officers responded to a report of a fight at Chuck E. Cheese's, 19125 W. Bluemound Road, at about 8:48 p.m. July 27. The Town of Brookfield Police Department was assisted by State Patrol officers and Waukesha County Sheriff's Department deputies due to the large number of people involved in the fight, estimated to be about 20, Mironischen said. Two 28-year-old women from Milwaukee were arrested, processed at the Police Department and received municipal citations for disorderly conduct and battery, Mironischen said. During the incident, one woman allegedly used pepper spray on several other people who complained of pain and were treated by the Town of Brookfield Fire Department, which was also on scene. No one was transported to the hospital for any injuries. Mironischen said the fight began after one child was reportedly taking too long at the ticket redemption counter and another parent said something critical, which was overheard by another parent. "Things got heated and the fight broke out," he said. "It was quite the puzzle to put together because we had so many different people with different versions," Mironischen said of the incident. In 2008, the Brookfield Town Board discussed revoking Chuck E. Cheese's liquor license after numerous calls to the business due to fights, thefts of license plates Some groups still at odds with Obamacare contraceptive mandate Much of Wisconsin unaffected By SHANNON VENEGAS Special to The Post MADISON – Since the federal government revealed its latest compromise on the contraceptive mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, many local religious organizations are unaffected while others await word from the United States Conference of Catholic bishops. A recent compromise supposedly extended the umbrella of organizations deemed exempt and allowed an extra five months for other borderline organizations to comply with an accommodation. The Catholic Hospital Association, for example, has accepted the federal government's terms. However, many religious organizations, such as that of America's Catholic bishops, are calling on the administration to exempt any business with moral objections and believe the compromise is just biding time. "The vast majority of what they're calling the compromise is much the same as the first," said the Rev. Paul Hartmann, president of Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha. "They're just offering more time to create another plan, to create some sort of barrier or shield in the payment process." Catholic Memorial has self-funded trust for insurance Catholic Memorial participates in an insurance program through a self-funded trust program accessible to faithbased organizations known as Christian Brothers Trust which exempts them from the contraceptive legislation, said CMH controller Dawn Keller. Keller added that they do not know if the legislators will make additional changes to the definition, but they are under their current plan until 2014. "Even at some sacrifice of cost, we would continue to do that as long as we can afford to do that," Hartmann said. "It's our preference not to be mandated to provide contraceptive or abortive coverage. For as long as we can feasibly, economically do it, we'll make that sacrifice." Kim Wadas, associate director for education and health care for the Wisconsin Catholic Conference in Madison, said while most religious organizations such as churches, affiliated parishes and religious orders are exempt, other religious organizations may be able to make accommodations, allowing their employees to seek contraceptive services through a third party . "How it's supposed to work in theory is that the accommodated entity doesn't have to facilitate acquiring coverage, but their employees still should be covered," Wadas said. Wheaton Franciscan is one of these organizations that can make an accommodation. According to spokeswoman Anne Ballentine, they support efforts to expand affordable health care access, but are concerned by the mandate. Currently, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is not affected until January 2014. The newer legislation indicates that Wheaton Franciscan will probably not be held responsible for costs and it intends to comply in a way that maintains its Catholic identity . Hartmann: 'Somebody has to pay for it' There are many, though, who still feel this accommodation encroaches on religious rights. "Essentially somebody has to pay for it," Hartmann said. "That's essentially what we're most concerned about it. That we're still cooperating making it available when it's against our teaching. Are we just labeling it something different?" On a local level, much of Wisconsin is actually unaffected, Wadas said, as contraceptive coverage was already mandated by the 2009 State Budget Act. This however, does not affect those who are self-insured because the state cannot enact laws that affect self-insured plans. Self-insured businesses will be affected by the federal government, with few exceptions. Wadas said there are questions as to whether Catholic charities could meet the standards of religious employers. She indicated they may need to seek an accommodation. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Executive Director the Rev. David Bergner said they are still waiting on an answer from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as the lawyers review the latest compromise. Milwaukee Catholic Charities is self-insured through a health care trust, so, Bergner said, they may have more freedom in their decisions. Meanwhile, Wadas said that some of the lawsuits that have advanced are from private employers who have not offered this coverage to their employers as a matter of personal conscience and had to comply by Aug. 1, 2012. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has led the charge against the mandate. To see a list of businesses who have filed lawsuits, visit www.becketfund.org. and vehicles, and drug use in the bathrooms. That same year, the business electively decided not to renew its liquor license. Mironischen said things have been going fine at the pizza restaurant recently and neither alcohol nor drugs are suspected of playing a role in the July 27 fight. Employees were helpful during the police response and had tried to diffuse the fight, he said. – Katherine Michalets, Special to The Post Medical College gets grant to study infectious cycle of polioviruses Post Staff MILWAUKEE – The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a one-year, $360,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the ways in which polioviruses replicate and become infectious. William Jackson, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at MCW, is the primary investigator of the grant. Poliovirus is a member of a group of viruses called picornaviridae, which also includes common human viruses such as coxsackievirus, which causes hand, foot and mouth disease, and and rhinovirus, the primary agent of the common cold. This class of viruses also includes foot and mouth disease virus, which is devastating to cattle herds. The different viruses in the group appear to replicate in the same way, and the methods of replication are not fully understood. In this project, Dr. Jackson will study tiny bubbles of membranes, called vesicles, in cells infected with poliovirus. An infected cell quickly fills with vesicles, which are believed to then become acidic, creating an environment which helps the virus change into its infectious form. By studying the nature of the vesicles and the way in which infection promotes their development, researchers will learn how this medically important family of viruses subverts cellular pathways to replicate itself. This will provide information to ultimately help identify therapeutic targets that may ultimately lead to treatments against multiple viral diseases.

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