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It is our position that while the federal govern-ment’s bailout of General Motors Corp. is riddled with ethical, Constitutional, and other significant challenges, it may prove to be financially acceptable. Specifically, the $82 billion bailout for GM, Chrysler, and other participants in the automotive sector executed under the Obama administration may attest as the better of two difficult choices; allow the com-panies to fold and liquidate or attempt a short-term capital infusion.

While the jury is still out on Chrysler, at GM the bailout seems to have turned a highly bureaucratic, slow-moving, and inflexible operation into a profitable company about to announce its second straight quarter of prof-its and looking towards repaying the taxpayers’ investment in full. Clearly some of the decisions made along the way, especially in regards to how the GM bankruptcy was handled and who benefited most remain contro-versial, specifically concerning unions. But many believe that the private sector could not absorb the jobs lost and the impact to other suppliers on the remaining, and financially stable automaker, Ford Motor Company.

In the light of day, we urge Congress to take up the issue of future poli-cies addressing bailouts now, not when the next crisis emerges.

Bailout buyout Energy independenceIt is our position that we must reduce our de-

pendence on foreign oil and the existing decades-old configuration of the internal combustion engine. But we fear that Federal Government subsidies for alternative energy sources like wind, solar and bio fuels are unlikely to produce an ultimate solution. All are expensive and doubtful to satisfy a significant percentage of our energy needs. And while bio fuels assuredly exacerbate carbon emission production there is debate about whether they produce a net energy gain.

We urge that the free market decide the source of energy for our future economy. Government bureaucrats are rarely successful entrepreneurs. How can shifting money via taxes away from wage earners and business to prop up operations that produce energy that is not competitive on the open market be a benefit? Has full consideration been given to the expan-sion of nuclear generation of electrical power and the use of hydrogen pow-ered fuel cells? Neither produce greenhouse gases, or are available in near limitless supply. Many issues must be resolved, significantly the disposal of spent nuclear material, but it seems early in the game for the federal government to pick favorites.

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Every week, we will print a por-tion of the U.S. Constitution, fol-lowed by a portion of the Indiana Constitution. We encourage you to benchmark government policies against these bedrock documents. Today: the Indiana Constitution.

ARTICLE 4. Legislative.Section 2. The Senate shall not exceed fifty, nor the House of Repre-

sentatives one hundred members; and they shall be chosen by the electors of the respective districts into which the State may, from time to time, be divided. (History: As Amended November 6, 1984).

Section 3. Senators shall be elected for the term of four years, and Rep-resentatives for the term of two years, from the day next after their general

election. One half of the Senators, as nearly as possible, shall be elected biennially. (History: As Amended November 6, 1984).

Section 4. The General Assembly may provide by law for the filling of such vacancies as may occur in the General Assembly. (History: As Amended March 14, 1881; November 6, 1984).

Section 5. The General Assembly elected during the year in which a federal decennial census is taken shall fix by law the number of Senators and Representatives and apportion them among districts according to the number of inhabitants in each district, as revealed by that federal decen-nial census. The territory in each district shall be contiguous. (History: As amended March 14, 1881; November 6, 1984).

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COMMEntaRYBy terry anker

Why is it that strategic planning seems so often to be an oxymoron? We often plan things, like trips to the grocery or a weekend getaway. And, we may even think strategically, like paying for the kids’ college or maintaining a marriage. But, we hold out vein hope that some opening in our overly abundant lives will allow us to step away from the business of running the everyday to consider the course to attain our intended goals. Yet in reality, few of our actions reflect any effort toward following a specific path. In fact, we rou-tinely plan for our daily customs without regard to strategic thinking in any form.

Do we really live lives following any specific intention or would it be more accurate to say, that we tend to let our lives live us? Carolyn, my beautiful bride of over 20 years, sums up the mass of our family’s existence as “the full catas-trophe.” She means to say that we exist in a per-petual state of all-in, the full-blown American

dream: kids, pets, mortgage, jobs, aging parents and too much to do! Is such a world inconsis-tent with any real and thoughtful design? Is it possible at the same time to live intentionally and in the moment?

Yet if we are not thinking in advance of our actions, can we hope to end up anywhere more than where the wind blows us? As anyone who has ever sailed will attest, nature cannot be controlled. Some days, the best action to take is to take no action at all. Yet even in the storm, a plan, perhaps better said a destination, must be assessed and re-charted with each passing gale. Even if highly difficult, is it possible to live a directed life without an articulated and imple-mented strategic plan?

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Do we really live lives following any specific intention or would it be more accurate to say, that we tend to let our lives live us?

A couple weeks ago in this space, we opined that the Carmel City Council drove the municipality’s information bus off a cliff with its 2011 budget cuts. We were partially wrong. The councilors, by a 6-0 vote (with Ron Carter absent), actually left $25,000 in the cable-access budget line, or 75 percent less than was allocated for 2010. A coun-cilor’s argument was made this week that 5,000 homes don’t even have Ch. 16 available to them. We’d like to point out there are 23,828 that still do. Still, any way you slice it, we were misinformed, and we won’t be fooled again. We’re fairly steamed around this joint – at ourselves and at the acrimony between the council and Mayor Jim Brainard. On the latter burr, we implore both sides to get together and figure it out. Carmel has too much at stake as Indiana’s leading city to allow it to take a backseat to the counterpro-ductive back-and-forth between the council and mayor. Someone – quick! – hand each side an olive branch.

• • •It was interesting to us, in the wake of

the Republicans’ swoop in to U.S. House of Representatives control last week, that the

underdog Libertarian Party of Indiana will maintain ballot access for four more years. That is based on gaining 6 percent of the vote in the secretary of state race in the gen-eral election; Mike Wherry earned 100,847 votes, the highest number of votes cast for a single “L” candidate in the state’s history. Automatic ballot access is critical to main-taining the state’s only third party. It may not have been enough to make a dent or head-lines, necessarily, but in our view it is signifi-cant. It means for the first time more than 100,000 people said, “Enough with govern-ment as it is. We want and need real change.” In time, we hope that happens.

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» Local Christmas events – Christmas is more than a month away but holiday events are just around the corner in Hamilton County. Country Christmas at Stonycreek Farm, which offers hayrides and the opportunity for families to find and cut down their own Christmas trees, will begin in Noblesville Nov. 21. The Reynolds Free Christmas Light Display at Reynolds Farm Equipment Store in Fishers begins Nov. 23 and lasts all day, every day through Jan. 3. For more in-formation on either event, call 773-3344 (Stonycreek) or 849-0810 (Reynolds).

» A Visit from C.S. Lewis - Join Kevin Radaker, chair of the English Department at Anderson University, Thursday , 7 p.m. at the Carmel Clay Public Librar, as he dramatically portrays author C.S. Lewis. This performance will provide insight into the life and writings of one of the most renowned Christian authors of the 20th century. (Professor Radaker’s pro-gram does not include any references to The Chronicles of Narnia and is intended for audience members 16 years old and older.) Registration not required. For more information, call 844-3362.

» Celebrate Veterans Day – Carmel will hold its annual Veterans Day cer-emony at 11:30 a.m. this Wednesday at the Monon Community Center. Mayor Jim Brainard and members of the lo-cal veterans organizations will preside. Among others: the Carmel Elementary School Choir and the Actors Theatre of Indiana’s own “Andrews Sisters.” The city-wide “Defending Freedom” poster and essay contest winners also will be recognized. For more information: www.carmel.in.gov.

» Burn ban lifted - Carmel Fire Chief Keith Smith has lifted the open burning ban for Carmel. The ban had been in place since Sept. 7. The drought condi-tions that made the open burning ban necessary have improved as well as crop and field situations due to the harvest. Carmel’s outdoor burning regulations can be found in the Public Health and Safety Section of Carmel’s City Code (6-145) at www.carmel.in.gov.

» Weekly rotary meeting – The Carmel Rotary Club will meet Friday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Mansion at Oak Hill, 5801 E. 116th Street. For more informa-tion about Rotary Club or its weekly meetings, visit www.carmelrotary.com.

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COMMEntaRYBy Danielle Wilson

Ugh. I just walked in the door after a very long ten hours at work. All I can hear is the sound of my youngest screaming at her sister, my eldest’s whiney queries as to the nature of dinner, my nine-year old’s shouted requests for help in locating a soccer cleat, and his twin’s begging to “Come upstairs and see what I’ve done to my room!” There are backpacks and shoes and jackets strewn across the living room floor, bowls of Waffle Crisp and Honey Nut Cheerios left for dead on the counter, and vari-ous textbooks, pencils, and folders abandoned on the kitchen table.

Why have I gone back to work? On days like these, I honestly don’t know. The house is in total disarray, I’m exhausted, and I have a headache the size of Montana. All I really want to do is go to bed. “Oh how I long for the sweet release that sleep will bring!” But wait. I’m a

mom. And just because I worked all day doesn’t mean I can come home, put my feet up, and re-lax. Oh no. Being a mom means I have to come home ready to engage with my children, cook dinner, vacuum the office, do the laundry, go to the grocery, drive to soccer, help with home-work, and, if I’m lucky, “entertain” my husband.

Deep breath. In with the peach, out with the green. Okay, I feel better now. It seems I just needed to vent for a moment. Now that I’m finished, I can prioritize my “To Do” list, meet specific goals and table others, and get on with life.

But here’s a quick question for you: Were you trying to “fix” my problems while reading the first two paragraphs? Yes? You’re a man, right? My husband does the same thing every time I complain. He wants to immediately make things better (“Just make the kids clean up”) or, if he’s had a long day himself, to blame me for my issues (“Hey- you’re the one who wanted to

go back to work”). He’s gotten better over the years, but certainly, his first instinct is to “fix.”

If, on the other hand, you empathized with my plight or merely nodded and thought, “That must be hard,” I’d bet my mini-van you’re a mother or therapist. You understand that wom-en oftentimes just need to clear their heads by vocalizing their concerns, and in fact, want no assistance at all in solving their problems. They just want someone to listen, hold their hands, and wait patiently for them to “get it all out.”

When I sat down to write a column on un-derarm hair, this was the result. Who knew? Thanks for letting me vent. Peace out.

Danielle Wilson is a Carmel resident and contributing columnist. You may e-mail her at [email protected].

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Tuesday – Shiel Sexton and CSO Architects are scheduled to sign off on the project and issue a certificate of substantial completion.

Wednesday – The first rehearsal sessions will be held in the concert hall. The first to per-form in the hall will be Mayor Jim Brainard on French horn accompanied by the Center for the Performing Arts’ Artistic Director Michael Fein-

stein. The duo will play for about 20 minutes in this private session and will be followed by a second performance featuring a member of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra. This will officially kick off the three-month tuning process.

Friday – The Palladium’s first group of pa-trons who purchased season subscriptions will select their seats.

November 22 - Single tickets will become available to the public for the first time. Season subscriptions are available now.

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prohibit any of its members from serving on the CRC, though only six of the council’s seven mem-bers were present. Councilman Ron Carter, who served as the president of the CRC, was absent, but his vote would not have been enough to main-tain his eligibility to serve on the commission.

Carter was the only council member cur-rently serving on the CRC. His fellow council members – including Rick Sharp and John Accetturo, who have both served on the CRC

while also holding seats on the council – have cited conflicting obligations as the primary rea-son for this limitation. Accetturo, for example, has often said that a council member serving on the CRC is asked to “serve two masters,” adding that this cannot be done without conflicts.

The council also was considering prohibiting certain property owners from serving on the CRC before receiving negative feedback from the Carmel Chamber of Commerce, which ar-gued that business and property owners need to serve on the commission. The council’s finance committee voted to drop that section of the ordinance last month.

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Before the sun is up, commuters from Car-mel and around Hamilton County are waiting for the bus that will take them from the Meijer parking lot to downtown Indianapolis.

The Indy Commuter Express (ICE) bus routes might be stuck in neutral come De-cember when federal funding expires for the demonstration commuter program. And though city officials and administrators are actively seek-ing alternative funding and grants to continue with the project, passengers are starting to look for alternatives and wonder what the future for public transportation in the area holds.

“They called this a demonstration route,” said Sharon Jordan, a local Carmel resident and daily passenger on ICE, wrote a petition to urge of-ficials to try to keep the routes. “They’re demon-stration route worked. These buses are full every morning, so why are they taking it away?”

Jordan, like others on the ICE buses, like the option and are unsure what they’re next step is. Her only other viable option for public trans-portation, and one she’d used before, is to drive to Nora and take a city bus downtown, extend-ing her day by another hour and a half.

A public meeting was held in October to discuss the potential options available and sta-tus of the buses, though since then there has been no positive word on the future of the system. For the riders, the buses are a cost-effective and efficient way to get from Carmel to downtown Indi-anapolis.

Fem Atlock is a Westfield resident and fresh-man at IUPUI. “I started riding this summer since I don’t have a car, so this is really my only option. I’m saving money too on gas and the couple hundred dollars on a parking pass.”

Established in 2007 with funds from the Congestion Mitigation Air Quality grant, the ICE program was started in Fishers, Carmel and Greenwood as a 36 month test for commuter transportation. Low ridership in Greenwood

resulted in the lines being cancelled and the funding transferred to Hamilton County lines. The federal grants initially covered 80 percent of the cost, while the cities paid 20 percent that were entirely paid for by rider fees.

Carmel mayor Jim Brainard and Mike Hollibaugh, Director of the Department for Community Services, are confident however that funding that is being requested will come through. Taking into account that it is the end of the demonstration route period and a new parking lot might have to be considered that is

less expensive to rent from than Meijer’s, the city said they had been working on finding funding for a long time.

“We’ve been working with CIRTA (Central Indiana Regional Transportation

Authority) to get a grant for a least of couple months,” said Mayor Brainard. “This is a great option for commuters and helps us with controlling our budget. Taking cars off the road helps delay road expansion and

such.CIRTA has been involved with the bus

system since its 2007 launch, and while they are more cautiously optimistic, they also believe that the lines will continue.

“We expect a quick turnaround for the funding,” said Ehren Bingaman, executive direc-

tor of CIRTA. “We want the lines to keep going and have difference strategies. We’re more cau-tiously optimistic as some funding options were long shots and now we feel the third option is a much better one.”

For Paula Curry, she relies on the ICE bus service not to get downtown, but to reach Car-mel for her job at Summer Trace Without it, she must rely on her employer to pick her up at 96th street, where Indy Go’s bus lines end. “I’ve ridden for two years now,” said Curry. “It’s very sad the lines might be cut. A lot of folk are up-set and depend on this to get around.”

Curry’s situation like other riders brings to light the larger question for the Indianapolis area about what to do about public transporta-tion options. Indy Connect is the initiative put-ting together a full transportation plan for the greater Indianapolis area, including expanding bus routes, widening particular roads, increasing the number of pedestrian and bicycle pathways, and evaluating the potential for light rail in the metro area.

In Carmel the Indy Connect plan would call for an express bus system, while Fishers would be the main point of the light rail line.

Any plan though, must be approved by vot-ers, jump through referendums, wait on state level laws to be passed, and only then could the eventual construction happen, making the proposals nowhere near ready to solve the chal-lenges in the short term, and leaving ICE riders waiting for an answer.

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COMMEntaRYBy Jeff Worrell

Steve Tofaute has always loved to play hockey. He got his start at the Carmel Ice Skadium as a young boy. Now, as a grown man, he plays in an adult league and simply enjoys all aspects of the game.

Michael Sampson is a 6-year-old neighbor of Steve Tofaute. Michael is a boy with Autism. Skating, let along playing hockey, would not have even been a dream for him. Fortunately for Michael and 35 other developmentally disabled and physically challenged children, Steve Tofaute watched a movie about a special needs hockey league in Michigan. After viewing the video once, Steve vowed to start a league here in Carmel.

As with any new endeavor, the organizational and logistic struggles were huge. But slowly, individuals, companies and supporters started to dream along with Steve and bring the Indy Twisters into reality. The team is launching their second season this Sunday, and Coach Tofaute has high hopes for his team. “The first season, we didn’t really play any games, he said. Our time was spent just trying to get the kids accli-mated to a strange feeling under their feet that made it hard to stand up.”

Little Michael Sampson is probably the best example of success. In that first season, he could not even stand upright on a pair of skates. He needed the assistance of a skating trainer, similar to a walker used by the elderly. With dedication,

practice, perseverance and Steve’s coaching, by the end of the season, Michael didn’t just skate to center ice. No, he expertly controlled the puck while skating from one end of the rink to the other.

Coach Tofaute is not going it alone. Jeff Fox, Jim Porter, Dave Carson, Francois Hurtubis and Elizabeth Sampson, all friends and acquaintanc-es, make up the core group of adults guiding the organization. Damar Services, an area special needs agency is helping to guide the struggling league and provide the necessary perspective for dealing with special needs individuals.

The NHL Players Association scored a goal when they gave the league $15,000 to purchase hockey equipment for each player. This will al-low the entry fee to join the team to be just $35 per player.

The video Steve watched that kicked off the league, showed a little girl receiving her letter jacket for completing her first season. Steve said, I remember receiving my first letter jacket and I could relate to her feelings. I want all kids to have the chance at that feeling.” If you love hockey like Steve and would like to get in-volved, check out www.indyspecialhockey.org.

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» Study: Drugs improperly prescribed to kids – The annual number of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, a recent study says. But more than half of the prescrip-tions were for attention deficit and other non-psychotic conditions, the researchers said. The increasing use of anti-psychotics since the mid-1990s corresponds with the introduction of costly and heavily mar-keted medications such as Zyprexa and Risperdal. The packaging information for both says their safety and effectiveness in children have not been established. Anti-psychotics are intended for use against schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses.

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PaREntIngBy Becky kapsalis

I don't know about all of you but I'm pretty disgusted hearing of, yet another, child molesta-tion case discovered in Hamilton County.

The Halloween weekend produced an inter-net child molestation case. The man, 29 years old, was arrested on preliminary charges of sexual battery of a 12-year-old girl. They met on the internet and the jerk admitted to knowing the girl was just 12, and the girl admitted to agreeing to meet this jerk. She rode her bike to the meeting place and, willingly, got in his car where he drove her to be molested.

Three questions come to my mind. What kind of parents/guardians raised this man to be an indecent person? What kind of parents allow a 12-year-old to have unsupervised access to the internet? What does it tell us about the child who willingly subjects herself to abuse?

In both cases, the man and the girl were and are neglected individuals. This does not excuse their disgusting behavior but it sheds light on the fact that their parents need to suffer some of the consequences of that neglect.

For the 29-year-old creep, his parents/guard-

ians should be court ordered to go through a decency course to understand that all behaviors are need driven and all behaviors are learned from someone-mostly parents. A child doesn't suddenly become a child molester at age 29. Somewhere along the lines of growing up he gave his parents plenty of clues that things weren’t quite decent. They neglected him and neglected the clues.

Same thing for the young victim: her par-ents/guardians need to be court ordered to go through a child raising course to get them to recognize that their child has been neglected to the point that she has to turn to alternative methods of feeling loved or that sexual activity gives her control over unfair demands being made on her.

To neglect a child is to spit in the face of the human race. Pay attention!

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Ah, possession. It trips up the best of us, and there are rules to spare.

Take, for example, the rules governing pos-session when there is more than one person or group involved. If I want to say that Nate and Christa have a couch that I really like, I only need the apostrophe-s after the second person’s name: Nate and Christa’s couch is spectacular. In this case, Nate and Christa are a single entity because they own the couch together, so the apostrophe-s goes at the end of the second (or third or fourth, etc.) name.

On the other hand, if the two people own separate things you are somehow comparing, both must show possession. So if Bob and Sam have dogs, but they aren’t the same dogs, and they own them separately, I would put together a sentence like this: Bob’s and Sam’s dogs get along very well. I could avoid the whole issue, of

course, if I restructure he sentence a bit: Bob’s dogs get along very well with Sam’s dogs.

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The hunt is on -- the glossy college brochures are spread across the table next to the results from your career test, but you still don’t know where to begin. You’ve been told that college is about the best four years of your life, so you want to find a school you love that will love you back. It’s time to get up close and personal by using simple tips to connect with colleges.

Connect with college reps at schoolTake advantage of college representative visits

at your high school. They serve as the face of the college and could have a big say in whether you are accepted. Why not meet them at your school and make a great first impression?

Connect at college fairs and receptionsCollege fairs allow you to visit with many

colleges at the same time. Ask them questions, grab their brochures, and provide contact infor-mation. Sticky labels with your name, address, and email makes this process easier. Be brave and bold and explore a school you haven’t heard of before – it may be the college for you. Recep-tions are special events with free food, valuable

information, and knowledgeable people worth meeting, such as faculty, alumni, and current students.

Connect on campusCampus visits are the best way to connect.

Plan ahead, visit several schools over your fall or spring break, and research the colleges before you arrive. Register online for informational presentations and campus tours. Better yet, call the admissions office to arrange a session with the department head of your area of academic interest. Remember, you are a guest, so make a good impression not a bad one.

No matter how you connect with colleges, take the time to examine all the information before you fill out that first application. Soon, you’ll be carving your own niche at the college you’ll call home.

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» Evening with Magic and Candle-light – Artist Nancy Noel will host a holiday event at her Zionsville gallery, The Sanctuary, Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event, entitled an “Evening with Magic and Candlelight” will give guests the opportunity to mingle with Noel as well as fine view a performance by magi-cian Jeff Edmonds. Guests will also have access to a full bar and dinner menu. All are welcome to attend and there is no charge for admission. Call 733-1117 for more information.

» Civic to hold auditions – All are welcome to audition for the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre’s “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” Nov. 15 and 16, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Campus of Marian University, 3200 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis. Just show up. No appointments are necessary. Call 924-6770 for more information.

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DISPatChESBy Samantha Volpe Current in Carmel

Fresh Films is a program that gives teens a chance to replace the professionals on a film set. This type of op-portunity doesn’t come around to just anyone, but Carmel High School senior Ann Jarzynski got to experience it all.

During fall break, Jarzynski worked with nine other teenagers in

Chicago to create an original drama film, “Ring-ing of the Belles.” Competing against teams from both San Francisco and Los Angeles, Team Chicago spent six days hard at work on each step of the filmmaking process - running casting calls, scouting locations, coordinating permits and releases, shooting, edits, and even direct-ing the film.

The film was finished and entered into a nationwide contest, and Jarzynski is asking her neighbors in Hamilton County to help her team achieve victory.

The winning crew of this film contest each receives mini-digital cameras, which will give Team Chicago’s members the right tools to ad-vance their knowledge and practice in filmmak-ing. Jarzynski said she has always had an interest

in film. Originally, she aspired to become an actress but soon discovered her love for the pro-duction side, too.

Jarzynski is focused on applying to colleges where she can major in filmmaking, and her experiences with Fresh Films in Chicago only solidified her aspirations.

“This is 100 percent what I plan to do with my future,” she said. “My heart is in film and I really hope to make a career out of it someday.”

To help Jarzynski’s team in its quest to win

this national contest, vote online at www.fresh-films.com for their film, “Ringing of the Belles.” America’s favorite will instantly become the win-ners, and voting is unlimited from Nov. 4 until Nov. 18.

Jarzynski said the team worked hard to de-velop this film and would appreciate all votes.

“I am very interested in film, as is the rest of my team, and we would love the support,” she said.

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Award-winning cartoonist for Cur-rent in Westfield Tim Campbell hosted a Halloween party with his wife Barbara at their Carmel home Oct. 30. Attendees came in a variety of costumes ranging from Popeye to the J. Seward Johnson statues in the Carmel Arts & Design District. The latter was worn by Current Sales Executive Jeff Johnson (top left).

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The Carmel Arts Council presented Prelude, a formal evening of cocktails, dining and enter-tainment, Oct. 30 at the Ritz Charles. The annual formal evening raises money for the Center for the Performing Arts and new this year were performances by the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, which will relocate to Carmel in 2011. 1. Frank and Katrina Basile (left) with Katherine and Dan Appel 2. Sue Collier, Jim Burrel and Jeff Worrell 3. Cherie Piebes (left) and Doreen Squire Ficara of the Carmel Arts Council 4. Rod McComas (left) with Cheri and Rollie Dick

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White ChristmasThe Christmas holidays arrive early at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, 9301 N. Michigan Road, with Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” continuing through Nov. 21. Based on the favorite Paramount Pictures film, the musical tells the story of two entertaining Army bud-dies who pay tribute to their former general by putting on a show in his picturesque, but struggling, Vermont inn. Tickets range from $35 to $58. Price includes a buffet, with a fruit and salad bar, unlimited coffee, tea and lem-onade. For reservations and show times, call the box office at 317.872.9664 or visit www.beefandboards.com.

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The Belle of AmherstCarrie Schlatter of Irvington will bring to life the words of Dickinson when she appears as the famed American poet in Civic Theatre’s production of “The Belle of Amherst” at 7 p.m. Nov. 11, 8 p.m. Nov. 12-13 and 2 p.m. Nov, 14 at Marian University (3200 Cold Spring Road). Tickets can be purchased by calling 923-4597 or visiting www.CivicTheatre.org.

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IntERIORSBy Vicky Earley

Eclectic style, defined as a blend of furnishing styles from a mixture of sources, allows individ-ual style to shine like no other, but only when a thoughtful plan is followed. It is not defined as anything goes!

In the hands of the unskilled, the declaration of “My style is so eclectic!” can easily translate to “I don’t know who I am and I really don’t know what I like!”

Before I say anything else, I need to qualify this statement: there are homes that are simply a collection of belongings and things that have been accrued over the years. Although these homes do not reflect even a remote thought about a decorating style, they can be filled with love, happy people, and treasured memories. These are wonderful homes that do not declare any specific style, even eclectic.

One the other side of the fence is the home-owner who desires a more refined look in their environment. This person will choose to select furnishings with a goal of home that is appoint-ed in a style that is visually and functionally ap-

pealing. If that homeowner goes forth with only a vague idea of what they are trying to achieve, eclectic style can be perceived as a safe fall-back.

In reality, it can be a disaster in terms of fi-nances and outcome.

A successful Eclectic room should feature pieces with commonalities to create harmony within the design. A shared theme or compo-nent should tie the following elements together:• One of a kind items and unique pieces• Neutral background color palettes • One or two antiques tucked in the mix• Collections and sets of similar pieces • Contrast in color or finish • Traditional and modern elements carefully

juxtaposed• Rough fabrics mixed with elegant textiles • Worn surfaces combined with refined

surfaces Think of decorating as making soup...if you

prepare your concoction with carefully selected diverse ingredients such as beef, carrots, onions, peas potatoes, one bay leaf, pepper and stock, you will have an “Eclectic Soup”. These ingre-dients are rough with fine (beef and onion), one

of a kind (bay leaf ), and collections (the veg-etables) against a neutral pallet (the stock) ...the perfect definition of Eclectic.

Hodgepodge Soup is random purchas-es thrown together without a plan. If I made soup with things just because I like them, it would be comprised of shrimp, parmesan cheese, Diet Coke, lattes, romaine lettuce, pret-zels and raspberries. This Hodgepodge Soup would be a huge disappointment the simmering was complete. Rooms that are decorated this way are an even bigger disappointment because of expense that cannot be recouped.

If you are truly skilled at interior decorating, take a stab at eclectic. If not, the advice of an expert would pay off many times over, unless you would like a steaming bowl of my Hodge-podge Soup!

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Ladies, let’s face it. None of us gets up in the morning, walks to our closet to pick out our clothes for the day and thinks, “Today, I just want to look plain, boring and frumpy.”

What a joke! Yet, there is a converse possibil-ity that is almost as equally absurd which is to wear only the latest trends and build your iden-tity on that alone. This can be exhausting, over-whelming, and a hugely expensive way to shop.

Truth be told, if you try too hard, you risk appearing insecure or as if you’re seeking to find your identity. On the flip side, if you don’t try at all, you may look like you’ve lived under a rock for 20 years.

So where is the balance between Overachiever Wannabe and Underachiever Bore? Never fear! The solution is so simple: Purchase good basic items and add trendy pieces that are compli-mentary on you. I often tell clients, “Just be-cause something is trendy does not mean you should buy it!”

So, for Fall 2010, watch for the trends that are flattering to your age and your body shape. Let’s look at a few to wet your appetite:

1. Sheer fabrics and Cut Outs: These are a great way to highlight toned parts of your body without causing embarrassment or sacrificing modesty.

2. Over the knee boots: Word to the wise, do

not attempt this unless you are at least 5’7’’. Otherwise, you’ll end up looking like a little girl playing dress-up. Not what we are going for! Put tights on your long slim legs and pair with a mini skirt to pull this look off well.

3. Jewel Tones: Look at your hair, skin, and eyes. If you are warm with golden tones or soft with little contrast in your color-ing, jewel tones will make you look like you have the flu. If you have coloring like Snow White or Gwen Stefani, you can rock those bright hues!

4. Fitted Sheath Dresses: Perfect on an hourglass physique no matter what your weight. How great is THAT?!

5. Trench Coats: The Military Look is still around so have fun with all types of fabrics from velvet to wool as you define your waist with the trench’s belt.

Watch the length and don’t be afraid to wear it shorter than the hemline of your dress.

These are a few tips to remember as you start shopping like a wild woman. Choose trends that make you your most wonderful! And when in doubt, don’t.

Missy Higgins is the owner of Sublime Today, a personal image consulting firm with a new studio in Broad Ripple. For more information visit www.sublimetoday.com.

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Part of a long tradition of herbal remedies and traditional folk medicines, Elderberry ex-tract has been used for its healing properties for centuries. Elderberry fruit contains many important nutrients, such as vitamins A, B and C, flavonoids, tannins, carotenoids, and amino acids. It is derived from the fruit of the Sambu-cus nigra or Black Elder, a small tree located in Europe, Western Asia, North Africa, and North America.

Elderberry is best known for its anti-viral properties, and elderberry has long been used to boost the immune system. Small clinical studies has have shown that the elderberry extract found that elderberry helped curb in-fluenza when taken during the first 48 hours of symptoms.

One clinical study performed in Norway, published in the Journal of International Medi-cal Research in 2004, studied the treatment of influenza infections among 60 patients aged 18 to 54 years during the flu season. The patients studied had the flu symptoms for less than 48 hours prior to treatment, and were either given a placebo or an elderberry extract four times a day for five days. Those receiving the elderberry

extract had relief of symptoms an average of four days earlier than the placebo group.

The elderberry is thought to stimulate the immune system by enhancing production of cytokines by monocytes, which regulates your immune response. Also elderberry has been shown to inhibit the spread of the influenza virus by preventing the adhesion of the virus to the cell receptors. And the elderberry contains the flavonoid anthocyanins which has an anti-inflammatory effect. Essentially, it boosts your immunity, inhibits spread of the virus in your body, and helps relieve the aches and pains as-sociated with the flu.

To shorten the recovery time from the flu, begin taking an elderberry extract as soon as you start to feel sick. Flu can have serious risks, particularly in the very young, the elderly and persons with deficient immune systems. Always consult with a doctor if flu presents a serious risk to your health.

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» Machines allow mind reading – A new advance in brain-machine interfaces could enable scientists to one day decode what a person is thinking simply by moni-toring brain cell activity. In the research, scientists connect the activity of single neurons to images on a computer screen and demonstrate how a person can fade these images in and out by simply thinking about the pictures. So far, the researchers have found four image-specific neurons for each of their 12 participants. The next step would be to map thousands of these neu-rons with their related image or concept.

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We have all heard of one form or another of the anti-aging drug class, known as retinoids. These retinoids, which are Vitamin A deriva-tives, are an extraordinary treatment for your complexion. Topically, they are most commonly used to treat acne (an oral form is known as Ac-cutane), wrinkles, scarring and sun damage.

Retinoids, in their most potent topical form are known as Tretinoin, Retin A, Renova, Tazorac, Retinoic acid and others. This drug has been prescribed for 20-25 years because of its efficacy in treating common skin concerns.

Tretinoin works at the molecular level to help regulate how cells function. It binds directly to receptors on skin cells to increase cell turnover. It keeps cells focused on maturing, dividing, and behaving normally.

Tretinoin is also proven to boost collagen production. Collagen is what gives your skin its structure, elasticity and youthful firmness. Where sun and UV rays break down collagen, Tretinoin prevents enzymes from breaking it down. It is very important that users of Treti-noin wear sunscreen on treated skin.

Some physicians argue that Tretinoin causes skin to thin and look older. The epidermis may be thinner with use of this product because the

dead skin cell layer is exfoliated. However, the dermis layer of the skin is actually thickened. Skin is healthier, more evenly toned and deep down is more structurally sound. Tretinoin improves overall skin texture, shrinks pores and prevents skin cells from getting trapped in pores, which cause whiteheads and acne.

With initial use, patients may experience flaking and redness because of the rapid skin cell turnover. If patients work with their physi-cian through this phase, they will see excellent results. It usually takes about 24 weeks to see dramatic improvement in deep wrinkles and scarring.

There are over 300 “retinol” containing prod-ucts on the market. However, Tretinoin is the active form of this vitamin A-derived drug class. The prescription topical formulation, Tretinoin, acts directly on skin cell receptors, where over-the-counter retinols have to go through many enzyme pathways to act in the same manner. Do your research, and talk to your doctor about any contraindications.

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By kevin kane Current in Carmel

Construction began just a few months ago on a new development in Carmel, but those involved in the project are talking about what it could mean to the future of one other facility in particular.

Browning Investments is in the early stages of creating a 37-acre, mixed-use development on the northeast corner of U.S. 31 and 131st (Main) Street. The development is simply titled Meridian & Main and will feature a variety of retail and office space as well as a hotel. Much of the office space is expected to be occupied by businesses in the medical field, and those involved in the project say this will increase the lifespan of St.Vincent Carmel Hospital and ben-efit the local economy as a result.

Mike Shaver of Wabash Scientific is serving as the economic development consultant for Meridian & Main and he does similar consult-ing work for cities such as Carmel. Shaver said all hospitals have a natural lifespan. As medicine and technology change, they eventually become outdated, and in many cases it’s easier and cheaper to relocate these facilities rather than undergo extensive renovations. Because Merid-ian & Main will house medical specialists such as Indiana Spine Group, which has a building under construction there now, Shaver said the development could prevent St.Vincent from ever relocating for this reason.

“The synergy between [the Indiana Spine Group] and St.Vincent can make this as perma-nent a facility as anyone would care to make it,” he said.

Indiana Spine Group’s 60,174-square-foot facility is said to be the first free-standing build-ing in the state completely dedicated to spine care and centralizing all aspects of treatment in one location. The three-story building is sched-uled to be completed next fall and will feature state-of-the-art equipment and training facili-ties, expected to draw specialists from all over the country. Shaver said having these types of facilities could have helped other cities.

“One of my other clients is Beech Grove and the fact that St. Francis is moving has devastated that local economy,” he said. “If they would have had an investment like this, St. Francis could have extended its life span in Beech Grove.”

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When I had arrived at the office on Sunday, someone else was there. She was at the other end of the building so I choose not to bother (or scare) her and just went straight to my desk at the end of the hall. As she left, she turned off the lights in the hallway; I got up and turned them back on. On Halloween Sunday, this seemed to be the making of a scary move. And, it was. I sat back down and went back to work, all alone in the building.

It was a Sunday afternoon and I was at the office trying to get a jumpstart on the next week. Headphones in, volume as high as it goes, I had created my own world. Out of nowhere, three police bust through the open door and surround me. Most of the details from there are blurry, but I do remember my heart beating. I remember the emotion. My odds of being shot, because a co-worker thought I was a bad guy robbing the building, had to have increased by my choice to get a head start on the month. As I provided identification including photos of me with my kids on my desk, I was left to restart my jumpstart. I thought about the recently concluded incident and decided I learned some-thing from the whole event. Below are three lessons I learned as while my heart pounded through my chest. • Change Requires a Catalyst. Something

that scares you can change your mindset. I was reminded that usually game chang-ers for me are the things that scare you but you survive them nonetheless. When I went back to work, I had better ideas. I was scared into a whole new perspective. Inno-vation and fresh ideas are always there, feel the fear and push on anyway. Doing things differently often requires a catalyst.

• Always Say Hello. It’s a good idea to always say something when you see someone you know. I knew someone was in the build-ing and I should have said hello, it’s the nice thing to do. Being more interested in working and less interested in being polite put me at risk. It can do the same for a business too.

• Be Prepared to Explain. You should always have a good reason for what you are doing. People like rationale and explanation. Be prepared to answer, “Why does this makes sense?” the same as you would answer, “What are you doing here?” Believe me, it makes things easier.

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Three lessons I learned at gunpoint» Job fair – The Noblesville Economic Development Department and Noblesville Mayor John Ditslear will host a Hamilton County Job Fair Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds, 2003 Pleasant Street, Noblesville. The event will feature dozens of employers looking to fill a variety of positions and there will also be three 45-minute sessions providing tips on interviewing, résumés and strategies for finding employment. For more information, call 776-6345.

» Showroom relocated – Affordable Kitchens and Bathrooms has moved its showroom to 1000 Third Av. SW, Suite 120, Carmel. Its phone number also changed to 575-9540. Learn more at www.affordable-kandb.com.

» Two new stores open at Clay Terrace – Clay Terrace has added two new names to its lineup of upscale shops. JEM Jewellers and Escapades have opened in the lifestyle center, just in time to welcome holiday shoppers. JEM specializes in custom jewelry creations, including bridal jewelry and mother’s jewelry. In fact, more than 15 years ago JEM Jewellers

created the unique Mother’s Bracelet, which remains a hallmark of the collection today. Escapades is a women’s specialty boutique featuring designer clothing and accessories, including Brighton Collections.

» More shoppers conduct online research – Research shows 58 percent of adults have done research online about the products and services they buy, and about 25 percent have posted comments or reviews online about the things they buy. On a typical day, 21 per-cent of adults search for product information online. This is an increase from 15 percent in 2007 and 9 percent in 2004.

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A well recognized yoga studio in Broad Ripple has opened its first Car-mel location in Clay Ter-race. Co-owners Heather Thomas and Karen Fox hope that the new studio will find success in its location and accessibility to Clay Terrace’s other features, and only days since their opening have seen classes filling up quickly.

The Yoga Center focuses on the practice of Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga. Both studies complement each other for slower focused classes of Ashtanga, and more dynamic and physically challenging Vinyasa.

At The Yoga Center, all classes are taught in a “hot” environment and with a louder than usual music and unusual playlists to really challenge those practicing and focus on the more rigorous poses.

“We induce chaos,” said co-owner Heather Thomas. “When some-one backs into your car one day or you have a crazy day at work, that’s chaos. The world isn’t a peaceful place so we teach how to handle it.”

Additionally the large classroom also lacks mirrors to help students focus on their own practice, rather than the distraction of comparing their yoga progression to other students. The studio also sells some yoga apparel, mats and other things to help with practice.

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» One-fifth have tried video chat – Almost 20 percent of American adults have tried video calling, either online or via their cell phones, research shows. That figure comes from adding up the number of adults who said they either had made a video or teleconferencing call online (17 per-cent of adults have done that) or made video calls on their cell phones (6 percent of adults have done that). These figures translate into 23 percent of Internet users and 7 percent of cell phone owners and were gathered in a sur-vey of 3,001 American adults (ages 18 and older) between Aug. 9 and Sept. 13, 2010.

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»iPods can contribute to hearing loss – Hearing loss typically develops slowly from prolonged exposure to thousands of high-decibel insults to the ear, many of which come from everyday gadgets, like iPods or hair dryers. MP3 players set at 50 percent volume can pump out sounds up to 101 decibels, well over the recom-mended safety threshold. To combat this, keep your MP3 player’s volume as low as possible and noise-cancel-ing earbuds to block out ambient sounds, reducing your need to jack up the volume.

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tEChnOlOgYBy gary hubbard

It’s always been dangerous to conduct private business on public Wi-Fi networks, but the danger just elevated 1,000 fold this past week. A programmer at a hacker conference in San Diego released a free add-on to the Firefox browser to illustrate how dangerous it is to login to any unsecured website on a public hotspot.

Sidejacking refers to the ability to hijack a web session on another computer that is connected to the same open Wi-Fi net-work (someone sitting by your side, hijacking your web surfing session).

Anyone that downloads the plug-in introduced this past week can start monitoring the traffic on any open Wi-Fi network and capture the ‘session cookies’ that are common to how most web-sites work with registered users.

For instance, when you sign into your Facebook account, a session cookie is sent back to your machine for any other requests you make during that session. Once you log off, the session cookie is terminated and is no longer of use.

If someone sitting near you is on the same unsecured network, they can literally snatch a copy of the session cookie out of the air and start using your account as if you had just logged into their computer. And just to ease your mind a bit, banking sites or other secure websites that use the HTTPS protocol on all pages cannot be exploited by this tool, only exchanges that are unse-cured HTTP.

There are a number of ways to avoid getting hijacked that

range from changing your behavior to installing special software.First and foremost, don’t ever login to any of your e-mail,

shopping or social networking accounts through a web browser on a public network ever again (or install the add-ons in the next paragraph).

If you have a smartphone that you occasionally use on public Wi-Fi (because it’s faster than the cell data networks), download the associated social media apps instead of going to Twitter.com or Facebook.com on a web browser.

If you want to make sure your web browsing sessions are not captured while on public Wi-Fi networks, you can install a free Firefox add-on called Force TLS (http://bit.ly/9CzNPE) or if you use Google’s Chrome, install KB SSL Enforcer (http://bit.ly/d5thKD) both of which automatically redirect you to secured pages for the sites that you choose.

If your laptop is part of a corporate network, it may already have VPN (Virtual Private Networking) software installed, which will also protect you.

All of these security programs will add ‘overhead’ to your ses-sions and in some cases functionality may be impacted but the tradeoff is more than worth it.

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RElatIOnShIPSBy Rachael noble

There’s nothing like embarrassing yourself on a first date. Here are some practical tips from yours truly, someone with years of dating experience but who still seems to find a way to embarrass herself on many a date.

1. If you are going to wear false eyelashes, do be sure that they are properly glued to your eyelid. There’s nothing like creeping out your date by that spider looking thing dangling in front of your eye.

2. When wearing a push-up bra, it is especial-ly important to secure the “push up” part. There’s nothing like being out and about on a romantic picnic and your item of lingerie falls out and blows in the wind all the way down the hill. And further, don’t try to ex-plain what it is that just happened. Just let it go, girlfriend. Just let it go.

3. Always call your date by the correct name. Enough said.

4. If you have poor eyesight, always wear your contacts when going out. There’s nothing like making flirty eye contact with a guy across the room, only to find out when you start to approach each other (cue romantic music), that not only is he NOT waving at

you (as you dorkishly wave back), but he is in fact older than your grandpa, accompa-nied by his wife (whom you thought was perhaps his shorter wingman) and he and his wife who is now glaring at you, pass you by for the person they were actually waving at behind you (music comes to a screeching halt). Not good.

5. High heels rock. But take into consideration your nervous first date jitters as you pick out your shoes. Wearing 8 inch heals is never a good idea when there’s a possibility you may walk down a cobble stone street and your ankle does that whole I’m-tired-of-this-and-I’m-totally-gonna-give-out-on-you-now thing. You know what I’m talking about, ladies. Where your ankle fails, dropping you to the ground? So not cool. On the other hand, the redeeming factor is that you may position yourself in need of rescue and to that end, perhaps your prince charming may find your clumsiness endearing.

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SPIRItUalItYBy Bob Walters

A much ballyhooed news story recently re-ported that 95 percent of Americans, according to the new book “America’s Four Gods,” have an opinion what God is like.

In a presumably random survey of 1,648 adults, God was broken into four pieces: Authoritative, Benevolent, Critical, Distant. “Which of these is how you view God?” was the question. The results came back evenly divided among the four. Five percent of respondents said they are atheists or agnostics.

And that, the authors claim, is how Ameri-can’s see God. I would guess, too, that the secu-lar news media was happy to see that mystery solved: “Here’s what people think of God. Next question.”

Oh dear. We do like to put God in a box, don’t we? Here’s some news: We can’t divide God.

Presumably the comforting aspect of the survey for non-believers is that God can be a “settled thing.” Here’s what God is, here’s what people think, here’s how people behave who think about God in certain ways. If we can just define God, I took the story to say, we can get on with the truly important affairs of our lives. You know, our needs.

While I am thankful and joyful to have God

to think about, to praise, to worship, man’s opinion of God does not define God; God de-fines God.

Better to ask, “What is God’s opinion of man?”

Psalm 8:4 eloquently pleads of God, “what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” The all-time best answer for that one came in the person of Jesus Christ, when God arrived on earth. Talk about huge news.

A survey of who believes that will sort out more about the current state of man’s relation-ship with God than any survey assessing man’s opinion of a divided God. God sent Jesus into a fallen world amid broken humanity because the Truth is God loved us, and wanted us back.

The totality of God is unknowable, but the part of God that is in our hearts is to be trea-sured. We should pay Him back by loving and trusting his son and by rejoicing in the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Surveys and knowledge don’t really do that. God reveals Himself only to faith.

Bob Walters (www.believerbob.blogspot.com, email [email protected]), beginning his fifth year writing this column, thanks and congratulates Current publications for four years of being a light in this community.

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Randy Sorrell is president of SURROUNDINGS by NatureWorks+, a Carmel home improvement firm. He may be reached at 317-679-2565, [email protected] or www.choosesurroundings.com.

REMODElIngBy Randy Sorrell

By Randy SorrellOne of our final projects this year reflected

familiar themes for 2010. Themes of business in general and family specifically where conser-vative budgets are married with great visions of how to improve our lifestyles and homes with-out busting the bank account to do it. We still desire the full zoom package, but are willing to retrofit existing decks, patios, landscapes and in-terior rooms to get there. Modest self participa-tion with a shovel or paintbrush is still in vogue and the art of price negotiation has caused more pain than I care to visit.

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The National Federation of Independent Busi-ness notes that a 1 percent price reduction to the consumer typically results in an 8 percent reduction in operating profit. Fortunately, the converse is also true. My seasoned guidance to both savvy consumers and hungry business own-ers is to be mindful when negotiating. Also, be prepared for escalating prices in first quarter 2011 as demand, both here and abroad, directly impact the cost of goods and resulting price to you. If you have a project to act on, do so now.

RETROFITS RULEPerhaps the ruling discovery of the year,

clearly reflected in the featured project, is that smartly designed retrofits can produce fun-

capable spaces that ooze elegance and satisfy Carmel’s continued cocooning hunger. This retrofit patio is loaded with color. The Reading Rock faux, full color, slate paver is very leading edge, blends well with the original concrete and is fitting for the style of this beautiful home and Carmel neighborhood.

Important access from the driveway to the pa-tio was handled with a generous 48 inches wide walk that breezes through ornamental grasses and a carefully transplanted ornamental Redbud tree. Imagine that this great cedar privacy panel has three trash receptacles silently tucked behind it. Taking advantage of fun neighbors and hap-py kids, this slate infused seat wall, column, fire feature will be the site of many celebrations.

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KITCHENSBy David Decker

Cabinet space is essential to kitchen storage, and cabinet style is essential to kitchen décor. Cabinet design, however, is essential to kitchen function.

The kitchen is typically the most equipped, stocked, busy, multi-tasked and occupied space in a home. How the cabinets are designed to

facilitate the demands of “the heart of the home”, along with appliances, countertops, lighting,

technology, furniture and access, can make a kitchen a happy place or a pit of despair.

Well, maybe “pit of despair” is a bit of over-acting, but I honestly do tell customers over and over, functional design is the single most impor-tant element in replacing kitchen cabinetry.

How you live, who you feed, how you cook, how often you cook, how you entertain, wheth-er you’re tall or short, mobile or limited, and what preferences you have are all part of a very fluid, human and complex kitchen equation.

Multiply that by all the available choices of cabinet materials, hardware, finishes, placement, size and even technology, while setting and keeping the project within a budget, and profes-

sional design becomes invaluable.A properly designed kitchen will have plenty

of cabinet space and style, but nailing the overall functional design is what makes new cabinets, and really the whole kitchen, a success or failure.

I got an email from a young couple who just moved into a premium, nearly-new home with a spacious, richly-appointed kitchen featuring high-end appliances, custom hardwood cabi-nets, lots of space, lots of style.

Yet when they started unpacking kitchen boxes, they realized only then that the kitchen had no pantry, no place for seating, nowhere really to even stand and talk.

And these people like to entertain.They laughed it off, but I appreciated the

story. Design. Design. Design.It needs to be right the first time.

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hUMORBy Dick Wolfsie

If you had to live on one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Meals are a great time to chat about this, especially if it’s the fourth time in a week you’re having leftover meatloaf.

I decided to ask some folks what food they would pick. I called my old college roommate, who once lived on Coors for three months. He opted for Chuckles, the licorice ones, but only after I nixed his first choice: orange PEZ.

Then I asked my wife to name just one food. She picked three or four, because there is no one food to make a good beef stew.

The answer to this question was easy for Chris Voight, an unrepentant spud lover who also just happens to be Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission. Un-happy with the local school district’s decision to cut fattening foods from the lunch menu, Chris pledged to eat nothing but taters for 60 days. Approximately 1,200 of them.

Because of his executive position, Chris decided to put his money where his mouth is, as opposed to his hero, Mr. Potato Head, who can put his mouth where his nose is and his ear where his eye is. As you read this, Chris has probably made it about halfway through his potato marathon.

Chris wants you to know that potatoes are

full of vitamins and minerals, which makes that silly slice of orange they drape across the plate on Denny’s Grand Slam breakfast seem redun-dant. Need your daily C? Just order another platter of home fries. I have a friend who eats the Grand Slam every morning and he hasn’t had a cold in 30 years. He weighs 300 pounds, but not a sniffle.

Baked potatoes are the mainstay of Chris’ diet but he warns potential devotees of his cur-rent regimen to take their preparation seriously. Chris has dined on the simple baked potato, the twice-baked potato, and the yummy thrice-baked potato. Also, French fries, mashed pota-toes, potato pancakes, gnocchi and tater tots. Has Chris gone a bit over the edge in his quest to publicize his favorite veggie? “I don’t want people to take the potato for gratin.” Yeah, that’s the way he talks now.

After the first two weeks of his single-food plan, Chris admitted he was feeling a little ill. Half-baked was the term he used. This past Thursday, he discovered you can buy vodka made out of potatoes. Now he’s half-fried.

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Dick Wolfsie is an author, columnist, and speaker. Contact him at [email protected].

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hUMORBy Mike Redmond

I got up bright and early to head to the office of my new doctor for a routine check up. Well, I call her new even though I’ve been seeing her for a few years now. Still, Dr. Buffy is doctoring me in the wake of the legendary Dr. Shecky, the world’s funniest (he thinks) physician, who took care of me for 20 years before he retired.

We talked about the customary stuff: blood pressure (excellent), cholesterol (excellent), and, weight (oops). And then, I mentioned that my right hip had been aching for a month or so. Buffy asked a few questions, did a little poking and prodding, and then decided I should get an X-ray, just to see if there was anything going on in there.

So off I went to the X-ray office. I usually don’t mind X-rays. My hip was really starting to hurt, though, and it seemed like every time the attendant moved me she made sure to put me in a position where I got the maximum amount of pain for my insurance dollar. It hurt so much I even forgot to make the old “I think my eyes were closed” joke when she came out to change films.

I expected to hear from Buffy in a few days regarding the results, but the phone rang na hour later. “Have you got some time to talk?” my doctor asked.

Three times in my life I have had a doctor scare the bejeezus out of me. The first was when a cardiologist looked at my chart and said “This is very, very serious.” The second was when Shecky told me he was changing all my prescrip-tions to suppositories. And then there was the call from Buffy, in which she basically said there was a tumor growing in my hip joint.

A half-hour later, I was back getting an MRI of my hind end, a claustrophobic’s nightmare of a procedure that took about 45 minutes. And, judging by the heat generated as the magnetic waves passed through my caboose, left my buns a delicate golden brown.

The result, apparently, indicates that the tumor is benign. Whew. But Dr. Buffy still rec-ommends we go see Dr. Heiny Surgeon to get it removed. So yippee for me. I don’t have a ma-lignant butt tumor but I still get to have surgery.

You had better believe I’m relieved. And grateful.

After all, now I know for certain what it means when you say your entire day was just one big pain in the rear.

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PEtSBy Dr. greg Magnusson

Let’s talk about bugs for a moment. Fleas are about the most guilt inducing parasites. Nobody ever wants to admit their dog or cat has fleas, like that somehow means your home must be dirty or you must be a bad pet mommy or dad-dy. Ridiculous! Here are some basics you need to know about these nasty little blood-sucking creatures.

First of all, yes, they suck blood. We just finished Halloween, so think of them like little jumping vampires. They’re tough little buggers, and, just like vampires, they’re tough to kill. Poisoning them seems to work best. Veterinar-ians love poisoning fleas so much you should see how many concoctions we’ve come up with.

Every veterinarian thinks he or she sells the best flea poison in town, so I’ll leave it to you and them to decide which particular flavor is best for your pets. But take my word for it, whatever you’re buying at Wal-Mart that the box says “works as well as what your vet sells but for cheap”, doesn’t. I promise you, we don’t make a lot of money off flea meds, so please just buy the good stuff from your vet and save every-one a lot of headache.

Flea biology, part 1: A flea egg takes up to four months to develop into an adult.

Flea biology, part 2: Fleas like warmth. So if it’s cold outside, the fleas aren’t developing, and you don’t need flea stuff on your pet, right? Well, first of all, don’t forget about all the poor itchy little woodland creatures. In Indiana, the most common winter flea hosts appear to be wild mammals such as coyotes, raccoons, and opossums

Second, guess where it’s warm in the winter?

That’s right, inside your house, where it’s always summer. If some nasty flea manages to lay her eggs in your carpet in October, guess when they’re going to hatch? Yup, January. That’s why your vet recommends year round flea control. Nobody cares about the flea eggs lying dormant under a foot of snow, it’s the little buggers on the raccoons and in your couch we’re worried about.

So, in summary, please buy year round flea control from your veterinarian. We hate fleas as much as you do.

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Dr. Magnusson, a practicing veterinarian for the last decade, is now the owner of Leo’s Pet Care, a new veterinary hospital located at 106th and College. Contact Dr. Magnusson at [email protected] or 317-721-7387 (721-PETS).

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Across1. Small taste of a Steak ‘n’ Shake shake4. Butler Bulldogs devotee7. Fall behind10. Do work at the Current12. Foundation14. Window ledge15. Indianapolis ___, 222 E. Mar-ket St. (2 wds.)17. “Cast Away” setting18. Plug receptacle19. Shoe add-on for ice21. Partner of now22. Hatfield or McCoy, e.g.23. Maneki Neko bar26. .001 inch27. Poem of praise30. Carmel Farmers Market corn serving31. ___ Creek Park35. Indianapolis ___, 41 E. Wash-ington St. (2 wds.)40. Foreword, for short41. Dan Coats: “I’m a Hoosier, not a ___ Heel!”42. Dick Lugar, e.g., briefly43. James Whitcomb Riley’s “nightfall”45. Emotional poetry48. Small kangaroo

51. Your father’s car at Hamilton County Auto Auction54. Noted artist at the IMA55. Looks for57. ___ Hession Photography58. Indianapolis ___, 110 W. Washington St.61. Tear apart62. Stocking material63. 2007 Indiana Teacher of the Year, ___ Shults64. Fraction of a joule65. 007, for one66. Summit

Down1. Parts of a min.2. Village ___3. Indianapolis Indians throw4. Wide’s partner5. Inquire6. Family girl7. Tweety Bird’s speech defects8. Apportion9. Carmel subdivision: ___ Oaks11. Conner Prairie youth group: Prairie ___12. Carmel HS’s Louisville Slugger13. Pull strings for Mellencamp’s band14. Like16. Woody’s Library Restaurant

handout20. French farewell22. Foremost24. “Understand?”25. Is down with27. Sansui Japanese Restaurant sash28. Hoosier Park horse color29. Indy’s winter hrs.32. Econ. indicator

33. Neighbor of a Vietnamese34. Building addition36. Dubois County town named after a country37. Zionsville artist Nancy and family38. Portland, Indiana’s county39. Former Indiana governor44. Twangy, as a voice46. Big Ten school

47. American Red Cross Founder, ___ Barton48. IPL worker49. Breezing through50. Indianapolis tennis champ, ___ Becker52. Broadway song: “I ___ Know What Time It Was”53. Hamilton County Courthouse

figure54. French father55. Indiana Pacers’ bio bit56. Colts’ center Jeff Saturday’s first responsibility59. Kiss Z Cook meas.60. Like a fox


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