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It is our opinion that, with the privilege of liv-ing in a free society that gives us the right to vote for our government representation, it is our responsibility to diligently maintain and protect the integrity of the system.

Politicians come in a variety of forms, from the dedicated and conscien-tious public servant to the egocentric, self-serving power broker. It is up to us to vet our candidates to determine if they truly have the best interests of their constituency in mind and if their version of such matches our own.

As time goes on, it gets harder and harder to disseminate good and correct information from inaccurate facts or deliberate misinformation. This, nevertheless, is still our responsibility.

After the elections, even the most dedicated “civic duty” types may consider their job done. It is also our responsibility to hold our political leaders to the ideals, promises and level of dedication which, presumably, got them elected. Do we check their voting records? Pay attention to bills and legislative activity they attach themselves to? Or do we just believe anything they may say during a public appearance? There should be no such thing as a “safe” seat. We, the people, must be the ones to assure that!

Our representatives Now where’s our cut?It is our position that Herb Simon should pay

the Capital Improvement Board (“CIB”) a sum of $3,560,000 to reimburse taxpayers for losses in revenue that were prom-ised in exchange for subsidies demanded from the city of Indianapolis under duress as the Pacers threatened to move. A consulting group, hired by the Pacers, found that the city would lose $55 million in economic ac-tivity and $17.8 million in annual revenue without its basketball team – a study that was ultimately used publicly to force additional subsidies from Indianapolis than had been previously agreed to. Since the Pacers owner decided to participate in demanding cuts to player salaries causing the season to be cut by 20 percent, we only think it’s fair to request the money we were promised for our investment be returned.

Simon had the opportunity to break and acknowledge the conflict of interest he has – it’s one thing for an owner to defer income while trying to work out business matters. . . it’s quite another to rent your arena for $1 a year, threaten to break the lease unless the city gives you millions, and then cancel the season while you negotiate for more from the players.

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Our nation has all sorts of arcane, nonsensical laws on the books. Each week, we’ll share one with you.

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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 U.S. Constitution.

Article. I. Section. 3. Clause 3: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

Clause 4: The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

Clause 5: The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a

President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

Clause 6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Clause 7: Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

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We love a good steward of the taxpayers’ dollars, and U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) seems to be just that. He has taken Patrick Donahoe, the nation’s postmaster general, to task on scheduled postal rate increases, which are planned for a Jan. 22 rollout. He cites to Donahoe the detrimental effects businesses in our midst would suffer in the wake of hikes as high as, stunningly, 300 percent. While we commend Rokita’s efforts, we wish to remind him he is dealing with the top dog at a nearly insolvent, union-con-trolled government organization. In other words: Good luck, Todd, and thanks for try-ing. (We hope we have to eat those words.)

• • •Kudos to Ron Carter, founder of the Carmel

Farmers Market, and to Pedcor Cos., which has provided the location, on the launch of the Carmel Winter Market at City Center. Pedcor has donated retail space and staff members to help Carter with the event each Saturday (ex-cept for Dec. 24 and Dec. 31) through March 17 from 9 a.m. to noon. What a wonderful, sheltered continuation of the wildly popular outdoor concept and a tremendous amenity for our community! It just keeps getting better.

• • •We congratulate Current columnist Bob

Walters and Carmel resident Sally Feldman

on the recent releases of their first books. Walters’ effort is Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary ($18.99, avail-able exclusively on www.lulu.com) and it is a compilation of the In Spirit columns he has written for Current since 2006. Feld-man’s work, Two Weeks ($11.35, www.amazon.com), is the story of a woman who has had enough of suburbia. Twists and turns abound. … Now, under the heading of Shameless Self-Promotion, Steve and Carmel resident Dale Ratermann combined efforts on a book about the most storied rivalry in all of sports, Ohio State-Michigan foot-ball. I Love Ohio State / I Hate Michigan ($14.95), is available at www.triumphbooks.com and fine booksellers the world over.

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COMMEntaRyBy terry anker

When our boys started the inevitable drive to procure a cellular telephone of their own, we laid out for them the acceptable path that might lead to the successful satisfaction of their desires. They had to achieve a certain chronological age; they had to maintain a certain GPA; they had to be involved in some community-serving or-ganization; and, they had to achieve a definite ma-turity (with we parents as the sole arbiters). Both of our kids have attempted to negotiate these reali-ties – regularly employing a tactic of claiming a desire for compromise. If, the logic goes, we expect them to be a specific number to be eligible for a phone and they are now a lower digit, the “correct” age falls some-where in between. Failure to compromise would be “unfair!”

Innately, I like civic disagreement. It seems good to me to come together in the public square and argue for or against a particular mat-ter in the hopes that resolution can be found.

But that is not to say that there are no absolutes. In fact, I believe that our system works best when an unreachable compromise points to the fact that some issues are irresolvable. Vote no and move on. It has become heresy in the popular media to proclaim that a failure to compromise

is, in fact, an action in itself. Many, filled to overflowing with good intentions, take action hoping to “fix” this bad outcome or another. The resulting imperfect “fix” ends up being more prob-lematic than the problem. They have been lost to the dogma that preaches that all problems can (and should) be fixed.

If there is not a natural compromise, is it bet-ter not to compromise at all? And if fundamen-tal tenets of another’s beliefs are compromised, has there been a compromise worth doing?

A failure to compromise

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to proclaim that a failure to

compromise is, in fact, an action in itself.

COMMEntaRy By Kevin Kane

I’m always interested in unique entrepreneur-ship stories and recently saw how some are turn-ing a common act of sports fans into a lucrative business.

I recently followed a friend, Carmel native and current Fishers resident Adam Shear, down-town as he “went to work” trying to secure the autographs of professional athletes. You know the scene: Star players walk off a team bus or out of a locker room and fans ask for their auto-graphs. But this fan does it for a living.

While sports collectibles stores often pay athletes for private autograph sessions, entrepre-neurs like Shear have no budget but obtain the same merchandise – signed sports memorabilia – through patience and clever tactics.

I stood with Shear outside the Marriot on Nov. 26 as he waited for members of the Caro-lina Panthers to arrive in Indianapolis. But there was no guesswork involved. Shear knew exactly where the team would be going and when they would get there. He knows, through experi-ence, that pro sports teams and celebrities often stay at one of three or four downtown hotels. To find out which one the Panthers were using, he picked a no-name assistant coach from the team’s roster and called these various hotels until front desk personnel at the Marriot put him through to the coach’s room. Bingo.

Through online message boards he easily

found the team’s flight number, so we sat in a bar watching college football until the team landed. When they arrived at the hotel, he and the other “autograph people,” as he referred to them, asked players to sign mini helmets, pic-tures and other items as they walked off busses. When that did not work, which Shear said is typical, it was time for the fun part: standing outside the hotel for hours and waiting for play-ers to leave.

That night was unsuccessful, so Shear was out the money he spent to park and drive to and from the hotel, not to mention his time. But getting one athlete, actor, or singer to sign a few items can make his week, as the autographs can sometimes double or triple the value of the jerseys, helmets or CDs he brings with him. Those items then are listed on his eBay store (shearandson1) and priced to sell while still making him a nice profit.

As the recent grad struggled to find available jobs in his field, this business more than kept him afloat. In fact, he said last month was his best ever, as he grossed more than $8,200 from his sales.

It’s strong evidence, I believe, that hard work and clever tactics can overcome very limited resources.

Turning signatures into cash

Kevin Kane is the managing editor of Current in Carmel. You can reach him via e-mail at [email protected].



COMMEntaRy By Danielle Wilson

I’ve been violated! More specifically, some hacker broke into my checking account and tried to use my debit card number. What the *&#@!

I was checking our account online the other day to confirm that Doo and I had both been paid, (still miss the old-fashioned paper checks!), and noticed in pending transactions a $1 payment to something called Google Google, followed by eight, $10 payments to Skype. All well and good if we ever Skyped, or had even installed Skype, but to my knowledge we didn’t owe Skype a skyping dime. Plus, neither Doo nor I was currently in San Diego, where the controversial purchases originated.

I first called Doo to make sure this wasn’t some kind of janky Christmas present (my twin sister does live in California and has been encouraging me to embrace 21st Century tech-nology for some time now) but he assured me it was not. Next I contacted the bank, which, thank goodness, was already investigating. We tracked down the culprit − a textbook purchase I had made at a so-called “eBay subsidiary” − and cancelled my debit card. The bank was able to decline the transactions, so everything worked out in the end, but the whole incident messed with my head.

I am a trusting soul, almost to the point of

naïveté. I believe that people will do the right thing, and when they don’t, I find some excuse for their awful behaviors, like “He has aban-donment issues” or “She’s pregnant.” Doo, on the other hand, is a bit more cynical when it comes to human nature. He was royally screwed over in a business deal a few years ago, and is very slow to trust. He also has a bit of the “Big Brother is watching” syndrome and believes our country is headed for an Orwellian dystopia. Completing my husband’s mindset trifecta is that, as an IT geek, he understands how vulner-able our identities are in cyberspace. Needless to say, Doo was not surprised at all.

But I was. Until that moment, I’d truly be-lieved I was safe. Invincible even. I mean, all the websites say they are secure. They wouldn’t lie, right? Now I’m second-guessing myself. So I’m angry that those stupid thieves tried to steal my money, sure, but I’m even more mad that they compromised what I think is one of the better parts of my personality. Will I ever be able to trust my friend, the Internet, again? I honestly don’t know. But I can tell you one thing: I’m definitely not getting Skype now. Peace out.

Hands off the goods, Internet thieves

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

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» Night with the Lady Greyhounds – The Carmel High School Girls Basketball Team will host its annual Night with the Lady Greyhounds event this Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. at the CHS varsity gym. All Carmel girls basketball players grades 1 through 8 are invited to play ball with the Lady Hounds. Ticket price of $30 includes pizza, a t-shirt and a ticket to the team’s Dec. 21 game. For details or to register, e-mail [email protected].

» Mail letters to Santa – Santa and Mrs. will be at the Santa house at Range Line Road and Main Street from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. this Saturday. Additionally, the San-ta Mailbox will be by the ArtSplash Gal-lery at 111 W. Main St. through Dec. 23. Each letter will be personally answered and mailed back to each child.

» Miss Congeniality – Courtney Walsh, a 2009 graduate of Carmel High School, was selected as Miss Congenial-ity at the Miss Indiana USA pageant held at the Renaissance Hotel Nov. 27. Walsh is a college junior majoring in English and Art/Photography.

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down the street from its current location.The Chamber was closed last week as it

moved out of its current office at 37 East Main St. and into its new location at 21 S. Range Line Rd., Ste. 300A.

Though the new office provides some ad-ditional space, Chamber President Mo Merhoff

said the move is simply a result of the Chamber being at the end of its current lease, but remain-ing in the Arts & Design District, she said, was important.

“We’re excited to stay close by in the down-town area by moving about a block away,” Mer-hoff said.

The Chamber’s daily hours of operation – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 – will remain the same.

Chamber has a new location

REaDER’S VIEWS

Editor,Regarding the new sculpture at 136th Street

and Range Line Road: While we appreciate the efforts to add public art to our community, we were disappointed that the art work recently unveiled at this roundabout was created by a Los Angeles-based artist. Our hope is that prior to the selection of Brad Howe’s artwork, works from local artists were first taken into consid-

eration. If not, then the Carmel Redevelop-ment Commission should consider supporting local artists whenever possible, whether funded privately or with taxpayer money. There are many excellent Hoosier artists whose works we would all be proud to see displayed in our community.

Mark and Shelley Lisby46033

Editor,I think you should put the new ordinance

saying that reverse parking is prohibited in the arts center garage in the “strange laws” section of your paper. This has to be the dumbest or-dinance to date in Carmel. City Councilman Rick Sharp said that reverse parking was only an issue 15 minutes before an event and creates

a lot of anxiety. The anxiety could be greatly reduced if everyone just left a little earlier to the event. Just seems to me like Mr. Sharp was late to an event because someone backed into a spot, and now he decided to pass an ordinance to stop it. Sounds like sour grapes to me.

Kurt Katterhenry46032

Editor,I live near 106th Street and Lakeshore Drive,

and since someone removed the 5,000-pound load limit signs on 106th Street between Key-stone Parkway and Gray Road, semis and other heavy-load trucks are using 106th for a detour around Keystone and 96th street. This is a resi-

dential area and the noise and dirt are unneces-sary. It is a safety hazard along this street and tears up the road. We do not need these large trucks cutting through our neighborhoods.

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By Kevin [email protected]

A Carmel native is hoping to continue making a name for himself in the entertainment industry.

Actor Blair Jasin recently moved to Los Angeles to build upon his biggest role to date – a part as Bobby in the remake of Footloose, which was released in October.

“I play (lead actress) Julianne Hough’s older brother, who is the catalyst for why the town stops dancing,” Jasin said. “The whole intro is about me, basically.”

Jasin was born in Indianapolis but considers himself one of Carmel’s own. He moved to the city just before kindergarten, and after attend-ing Woodbrook Elementary and Clay Middle School, Jasin moved to Atlanta before his fresh-man year of high school. While his immedi-ate family remains in Georgia, Jasin said the majority of his extended family lives in Indiana, with some of his relatives – who have the same last name – currently attending Carmel High School.

Jasin got his first taste of acting during his own high school days making short movies with his friends. At the University of Georgia, he took his first acting classes, which both erased his serious stage fright and further piqued his interest in the craft. Though he had always planned to study business, he instead decided to make a bold move when it was time to declare a

major, taking his first major step toward becoming a professional actor.

“I said to myself, ‘You know what, I’m going for it. I want to do something that I’m going to love,’” he said. “I don’t regret the decision at all. It’s been a fun, interesting ride.”

Jasin said the absence of a consistent paycheck originally “scared the hell” out of him, but he’s been able find fairly steady work in independent films, a small role in the TV series Single

Ladies and multiple commercials. In fact, his face could be seen on the packaging of Nerf ’s Super Soakers years ago.

“All of my family members in Indiana have one of my guns,” Jasin said.

But the part in Footloose, he said, is by far his biggest to date. He was offered the role last Au-gust after auditioning as a finalist for one of the film’s male leads.

“I’d never been a part of something that big, that Hollywood,” he said. “It was really, really exciting and if nothing else, it just fueled my fire even more.”

Now in L.A., he’s already landed his next gig – a romantic role in an upcoming music video featuring female pop group L2. Jasin said he’s simply looking for experience and steady work in the near term, but ultimately hopes his move west will soon land him a role in a new TV se-ries or a bigger role in another feature film.

“I’m out here to attack it,” he said.

Carmel native works toward his next feature film

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By Kevin [email protected]

Edy Stoughton said there is something keeping her awake at night.

She’s the head of a private Carmel school that is unknown by many in the com-munity – at least until their children are in need of its services. Midwest Academy has an enrollment of about 90 children in grades 4-12, many of whom were teased in larger schools, couldn’t succeed in a tra-ditional academic environment, or both. Nearly a third of Midwest’s students have

Asperger’s syndrome, and many more have other social or learn-ing disorders.

The school, the only of its kind in the state according to Stoughton, does not accept students with conduct or severe be-havioral issues. Rather, it exists to offer good but discouraged kids a second chance at education, if not a final one.

But Stoughton does not know where this “school of second chances” will be in a little more than one year.

“We’re pretty much in panic mode right now,” she said. “We’re running out of time.”

Midwest’s lease on its current facility at 801 Congressional Blvd. will be up in early 2013, and while Stoughton and the school’s board believe Midwest won’t be able to renew the lease, a change of scenery is desperately needed anyway.

Midwest bills itself as a different type of school, and its appear-ance backs up that claim, though not necessarily by design. Stu-

dents and faculty make the most of a 16,000-square-foot office building, as adjustments have been made in the last four years to help meet the children’s instructional needs. Lockers were added, a former executive office is now a small library and a garage in the back of the building now houses the school’s art room.

But some of the building’s limitations cannot be overcome. A large break room serves as the school’s cafeteria, and without space for a kitchen, Midwest students must either bring their lunches or purchase food brought in daily from places such as Donatos and Chick-fil-A. Students also are without a designated area for outdoor activities and exercise. Without a gym, the students are bused to ancillary locations for physical education classes. During recess, children play in the parking lot of the of-fice complex, but the presence of other businesses brings courier

trucks through the lot several times per day. Space both is and is not an issue. Myra Cocca, vice chair of

Midwest’s board of directors, said the school is not overcrowded at its current enrollment level, but this is because some prospec-tive students remain on a waiting list. Right now, Midwest does not have room to grow.

“Students are coming to us needing alternative education and we want to be able to tell them ‘yes’ whenever possible,” Cocca said.

Defining the school’s needs in a new building was the easy part. What Stoughton said makes her anxious, however, is the evaluation of all available options and significant fundraising that must be done in a short amount of time.

“We’re not in this for some glorified building, but we can’t stay where we are,” she said. “I’ve seen private schools fall apart doing this. It becomes so consuming and so hard. I don’t want us to be in that group.”

On Midwest’s wish list is a space with about 30,000 square feet, a full kitchen and a gym. According to consultants, Midwest likely could not build this for less than $5 million, an amount several times greater than the school’s small building fund. Pur-chasing an existing facility also is an option, but Stoughton said Midwest would like to remain in Carmel, where most of its stu-dents live.

Despite the tall task ahead, Cocca said the board is not yet ready to begin considering temporary, last-resort solutions. She’s confident that a permanent home will be found by the time the school’s current lease expires.

“We’re open to a lot of options,” she said. “There could be a win-win out there for us.”

Midwest Academy is in desperate need of a new facility

Although it is reviewing many options, Midwest Academy would prefer to leave its current 16,000 square feet of office space for a newly constructed school with about 30,000 square feet. Consultants have told the school of less than 100 students it would need roughly $5 million to construct such a facility. “Is it an impossible dream? I don’t know that anyone has done this on our budget and at our size,” said Head of School Edy Stoughton. “But no one would think a school like ours would be this successful.”

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Artist’s rendering of the new school, as envisioned by students.

Midwest Academy’s 90 students attend school in a 16,000-square-foot office building.

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A local photographer hopes to make more than 200 people smile this weekend.

Chelsea Moore, a Carmel resident and co-owner of CW Photography (www.chelseaandwendy.com), has organized a group of photographers and stylists for Saturday’s global Help-Portrait event. Started by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cow-art, Help-Portrait is an annual worldwide event in early December during which photographers donate their time, talents and equipment to take professional portraits of individuals who other-wise could not afford them.

For the past eight weeks, Moore has recruited other Hamilton County photographers and stylists to help her provide a special day for less fortunate individuals and families. There is no money involved, and no pictures taken this Saturday will appear in any photographer’s portfolio. These photo and beauty professionals are donating their time simply to provide some-thing special for those who really need it.

“It’s all about making the less fortunate feel appreciated, and it really does,” Moore said.

“You think it’s just a photo but they come in off the streets and people are seeing them for who they really are.”

This will be Moore’s second con-secutive year of organizing an In-dianapolis team and her third par-ticipating in Help-Portrait overall. With a little help from her friends, Moore has posted flyers at area food banks and shelters, hoping to draw as many people as possible

to the event – both in front of and behind the camera. Moore said she’ll have about 40 vol-unteers helping her this Saturday, doubling last year’s number. And while last year’s local event was deemed a success, with about 200 people photographed, Moore said she’s aiming to top that number this year.

Moore’s group, one of about four participat-ing in Help-Portrait in the Indianapolis area, will work at the Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation center, 964 North Pennsylvania St., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday. Those interested in contributing time or money can call Moore at 332-0594. To learn more about the event, visit www.help-portrait.com or www.facebook.com/helpportraitindy.

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What is the most im-portant part of this scene: a tiny, precious baby, swaddled and sleeping safely and snugly in a com-fortable crib? Of course the baby is the most important piece of the picture. But, to Fred Koberna and the Golden K Kiwanis Club, the crib is what makes the scene picture-perfect.

Determined to send perfection to the other side of the globe, The Golden K woodworking shop came up with a project that not only helps orphanages in Mala-wi in Southwestern Africa, but recycles some of the perfectly usable baby cribs that would have otherwise ended up in our landfills. Perhaps you remember hearing about a government ban on the sale and resale of drop-down-side baby cribs. So did Fred, which prompted him to contact the Day Nursery Association and accept four shipments of unwanted cribs, totaling 99 baby beds. Almost half of those cribs are now on their way to Africa to help with the crowded situation in Malawi orphanages through a partnership with a Christian mission group.

However, Fred did not stop there. He chal-lenged his fellow woodworking Kiwanians to

find other uses for the illegal cribs. And so they did, much to the delight of Carolyn Dederer, CEO of the Day Nursery As-sociation. She will be the recipient of two hand-crafted benches which will be auctioned at an up-coming fundraiser for the non-profit agency. So far, the Golden K woodwork-ing shop has produced 14 benches and other creative items, all from the wood

of discarded drop-side baby cribs. The work these ladies and gentlemen are do-

ing with cribs is really just the tip of the iceberg. Since 1942, the workshop staffed by Golden Ks has been making and donating toys to 26 local charities for the holidays. Yes, 1942. Starting in Bob Udell’s basement, Kiwanis racks up 230 man hours each month getting ready for the big month of December. What most likely started as a great way to leverage a hobby has turned in to the perfect gift.

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Jeff Worrell is a local businessman. He recognizes volunteers on “Connecting with Carmel” on cable channel 16. Contact him at [email protected]

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En route to the 2011 Indiana Class 5A football championship, Carmel High School’s No. 2-ranked team was becoming known as the Comeback Kids. �ey had triumphed in playo� games against No. 7 nationally ranked Warren Central (down 20 points) and Center Grove (down 17 points). So, in came perennial power Penn for the title match, and it was over shortly after kicko�. Coach Kevin Wright’s team “played from ahead” this time as an eager “home” crowd cheered on CHS in Lucas Oil Stadium on Nov. 26. In the end, the Greyhounds crushed the Minutemen, 54-0, which proved to be a resounding exclamation point on a 14-1 season.

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The Carmel Repertory Theatre is putting a twist on this Christmas classic by bringing audi-ences closer to the story’s original form. “It’s a lot closer to the actual version of that Charles dickens wrote,” director Jonathan Hor-ton said. “It’s more about the ghosts and the apparitions that come to (Scrooge). It’s more like ‘Did this really happen, a la Wizard of Oz?’ Or was it a dream that Scrooge had?’”

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Central Indiana Dance En-semble will present its 12th annual performance of the Nutcracker this weekend, featuring dancers from various places in the In-dianapolis area. The Sugar Plum Fairy, for example, will be played by Carmel’s Megan Noonan and Taylor Hall. Morganne Campbell, also from Carmel, will dance the Snow Queen role.

More than 100 dancers and new choreography will be featured in this year’s production, giving the show a unique twist that sets it aside from Nutcrackers of years past.

“Every year we make changes to keep the choreography fresh and to best showcase our dancers’ talents,” CIDE Artistic Director Suzann DeLay said. “This year I’m excited to present our new choreography for Act I and the addition of Russian Trepak with our three male dancers.”

The show also features the return of guest artist Steven Wright in the role of Dr. Drosselmeyer as well as a new guest artist, Butler University ballet student Matt Doolin, as the Male Arabian.

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For the past several months you may have seen my mild diatribe regarding the increasing use of carbohydrates in the standard American diet (SAD). Whether it’s in the form of high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar or even the amounts that make it into our catsup, cereals, bagels and specialty coffee drinks, the average American now consumes over three pounds of sugar per week, as opposed to five pounds of sugar per year in the early 1900s.

Beyond the obvious increased caloric intake, why do we often find weight increases that seem to exceed calories consumed? Or, why does it seem as though despite adequate food intake, that some people have voracious appetites? Chances are, it’s related to leptin, a hormone that controls appetite and energy uptake and expenditure.

Leptin is a hormone which was first discov-ered in a strain of morbidly obese mice. These mice were not only obese but had huge appe-tites. It was learned that they had genes which deprived them of the hormone leptin (from the Greek word for thin). Now before you run out and say, “I told you so, it is in my genetic make-up,” this is a very rare finding in humans. No, the reason most people struggle with weight is because of the interactions between leptin and body chemistry.

Leptin is produced from fat cells and signals the brain to reduce appetite so you stop eating. At that time, the body will then begin using its stores of fat and other energy sources for fuel. This is a long term reduction of appetite as op-posed to that which comes after just eating a meal or the time between meals. The absence of leptin can result in uncontrolled eating and morbid obesity.

If a problem exists with leptin getting into the brain, then it never gets the signal to reduce appetite. Trigylcerides in the blood stream, produced by the liver processing carbohydrates, are the most potent inhibitor or blocker of the brain being able to pull the leptin across the blood stream and into the parts of the brain that interact with the hormone.

Bottom line: Control of what you eat from a carbohydrate load will have long term effects on your appetite and ability to gain and lose weight. Hormones are involved, but so is the interaction with sugar and insulin. Correct diets, in concert with the right exercise plan, will help to lower leptin levels and thus positively affect a new level of metabolism, food and weight management.

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Dr. Roger Spahr is a board certified physician in family medicine who practices Functional Medicine with Ailanto Group. To reach Roger, write him at [email protected].

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» Workers forfeiting $34.3 billion – The aver-age American worker earned 14 vacation days this year but will only take 12 of them, accord-ing to a survey by Expedia. That’s about the same number of days they left on the table last year. Altogether, Americans are giving up 226 million unused vacation days this year. Con-sidering that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average full-time worker earns $39,416 a year -- that’s $34.3 billion worth of time. The biggest reasons for not vacationing: lack of planning and workers’ fears that being out of the office will make them “next on the list,” according to the survey.

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As the holidays officially arrive, and the first one passes by, I find myself primed to easily slip into the holiday spirit as I fret about all the work still on my desk. To me, the holidays are a reminder of how the rest of the year works for most of us. You have some big things going on and a bunch of smaller things that feel like they are drowning you. We all have a tendency to focus on only the big things and let the smaller things remain undone.

In sports, they say defense wins games. In busi-ness, the same probably applies, as you certainly have to control expenses and limit risk. But for both the world of sports and your business, you need points on the scoreboard or dollars on the income statement to win. You need offense or you can’t be the champion. When I’m reminded of all the things left undone, I rally the offense. Get the team on the field and score some points. Defense might keep you in every game, but of-fense is how the winner is ultimately decided.

More often people and businesses take a defensive approach to their future. They play it safe; they play to not lose: benchmarking competitors, copying best practices, removing

all risk, over-thinking all decisions. Instead, of-fense means innovation. Offense means taking a couple of shots downfield throughout the game. Offense means trusting your talent and your instincts when you need them. And, offense also means working through some of those details even when there are bigger distractions.

Do you want to be the deer or the shotgun? Are you the cat or the mouse? Do you want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? In business, like sports, you have to have some numbers on the board to win – you have to have some offense. As the distractions of the holidays are here for busi-nesses everywhere, I’m planning on being aggres-sive with the workdays between the holidays. I’m planning on setting up meetings, getting business charged up, and taking some momentum into the new year. Too much defense and you’ll wake up on Jan. 2 and discover you aren’t any farther ahead then you are now. This year for me it’s more cat, less mouse. This year it’s more offense.

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David Cain works at MediaSauce, a digital media and online marketing company in Carmel. David welcomes your questions or comments at [email protected].



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Question from Lindsey J. from Fishers: I had a claim last month and it got me thinking a little more about insurance. I’ve got a hectic month ahead with the holidays and wanted to know what insurance concerns I should keep in mind.

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provide unique risks that we don’t always con-sider. I won’t touch on winter driving. It’s some-thing we deal with every year and I urge you to be careful. But let’s concentrate on some things you might not be thinking about.

Despise it or hate it, Indiana winter just keeps coming back. Every year it brings ice, cold, wind, rain, snow and a couple of nice days. This is a recipe for increased risk when you combine the elements with travel and the inevitable guests the holiday season brings. We deal with the increased risks of driving in winter condi-tions every year, but we don’t always think about the risk of just walking.

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You’re liable for what happens to people on your property and preventing claims from occurring is your responsibility.

Another thing to worry about when we talk about people coming to your property is holiday parties. Holiday parties often include alcohol and serving alcohol can lead to some ugly liabil-ity situations if one of your guests causes some havoc. It is rare, but the best way to prevent liability issues is to be responsible. Don’t over-serve and don’t let impaired friends or relatives leave your house behind the wheel of a car.

Last, each winter an estimated 108,400 resi-dential building fires occur in the United States, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Candles, Christmas trees and cooking are all common causes of residential fires. Keep these causes in mind and reduce your risk by not leav-ing candles or cooking unattended and turning off your Christmas tree when you’re not home (and when you go to bed).

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The days grow shorter, the weather turns cold, all the beautiful colors of fall have faded into shades of gray. Lights appear on houses in many of our neighborhoods as if to push back against the darkening sky. And our communi-ties celebrate winter holidays of many stripes.

For the Jewish community, the winter months signal the approach of Hanukkah, a relatively mi-nor holiday in the Jewish calendar, but especially important in modern times for a few key reasons:

Hanukkah tells the story of the historical battle between the Maccabees and the Greco-Syrian army under the rule of Antiochus IV. Antiochus issued a series of decrees banning Jewish practice and defiled the Temple in Jerusa-lem. In one of the earliest struggles for religious freedom, the Jews fought back, and after three years they asserted their independence and re-dedicated the Temple. The story, told from this perspective, is an important reminder of how precious is our right to religious expression and our responsibility to ensure religious tolerance.

In recent years, our Christian neighbors have become passionate about reclaiming a religious Christmas from attempts to commercialize and sanitize it out of existence. I have never been offended by an honest, “Merry Christmas”

any more than if someone wished me a “Good morning.” I appreciate the sentiment. The in-gredients that make up the Christmas spirit are universal love and fellowship, and the religious significance of Christmas cannot be separated from that spirit. I feel the same way about Ha-nukkah. It’s not just a poor substitute for mid-night mass – Hanukkah has a long, proud (and religious) history all its own. I hope we might all use this season to reconnect not only to our loved ones, but to the strength of our traditions that give us a sense of community and allow us to celebrate real diversity.

Finally, Hanukkah is important because it fills our homes with light and laughter. And if we can temper the number of gifts we receive, perhaps we can also make this a season of giving more than getting. Many families commit to volunteering during this month, or collect toys and clothes for those in need. There are so many ways to honor tradition and also give it a mod-ern spin. So what if it’s a minor holiday? Life is short, and we all could use a reason to celebrate.

Rabbi Brett Krichiver of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation can be reached at [email protected].

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“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name … Jesus … Jesus Christ is Lord …” – Philippians 2:9-11

Awhile back I worked with a guy whose dad, who bankrolled the business, would occasionally forget or grossly mispronounce names of people I figured he (the dad) probably knew. Not to their faces, of course, but in conversation.

The guy once pulled me aside and explained, “When dad screws up a name, it means he either doesn’t like, trust or respect that person, or they’re expendable. He does it intentionally.” One day from around a corner I heard the dad refer to me as “what’s-his-name” and knew it was time to move on.

So how do we treat the name of Jesus Christ. Do we forget it? Ignore it? Fear it? Trust it? Share it? Respect it? Love it? Make an effort to understand it? Make an effort to hide it? Find it expendable?

How we treat the name Jesus Christ, or any name, reveals much about our relationship with that person, place, or thing … or God. We can be assured that God knows our names, numbers the hairs on our head and that the only thing God doesn’t remember about us is our sin, because the blood, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ – God’s son – covers those sins.

God also knows whether, in faith, we name

Jesus Christ as our Lord.There is unimaginable power in the name of

Jesus Christ – the power of life, the power of forgiveness, the power of adoption, the power of knowledge, light, truth and eternity – the very power of God. As humans we tend to want the power to fix the “light and momentary” pains and troubles of this temporal, fallen world, but that is truly nothing compared to the power of God in His eternal Kingdom.

This is all basic Sunday school stuff, which leads us to the wider cultural net of system-atically taking the name of Christ out of Christmas.

Nowhere in the New Testament does it say Christ wants a holiday or a festival or a feast in his name … in Christ’s name we are forgiven for all time. Amen. We must confess Jesus Christ as Lord, all the time. Amen. Jesus Christ is in our hearts, all the time. Amen. How can any holiday be any more special than “all the time?”

The truth is … it can’t. But removing “Christ” from “Christmas” is an attempt to remove the name of Christ from public view … and that’s a likeable, trustworthy, respectable name that is – eternally – not expendable.

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A primary objective of landscape design is creating drama, excitement, color, texture and fragrance around patios, front entries and incred-ible outdoor living spaces. Flowering trees, shrubs and perennials are exciting to discuss and fun to design and plant. Even testosterone-riddled teens get a buzz out of seeing a hundred butterflies hanging around a cluster of butterfly bushes, or the intense fragrance of sweet autumn clematis consuming a mood-generating pergola. Throw in a boulder fire pit, a few pizzas and a case of Mt. Dew and they are easily occupied.

With our active lifestyles encouraging many to spend as much time outdoors as possible nine months of the year, creating winter interest in the landscape is a pretty low priority … until now.

The basics of creating winter interest focus on the structure, or “bones,” of the property. Are there an appropriate number of deciduous trees or large spruce framing the house? Do they create a ceiling and help your space feel intimate while providing a hint of privacy and intrigue? Bed lines are a critical component of structure too. Are they substantial enough to be meaning-ful or a wimpy afterthought adding little value or dimension?

Married with developing critical structure are evergreens, the workhorse of the land-

scape. These basics drivers of winter interest grow in many shapes and sizes and often are guided by the formality of the neighborhood and home. Yews, boxwood, junipers, spruce and pines fall into this category and are tagged ev-ergreens because they remain green throughout the year. Deciduous trees, on the other hand, drop their leaves in the winter, although many have intriguing winter interest as well, to be considered in a future article.

Boxwoods lend themselves to more formal spaces while yews and junipers seem a little more relaxed and approachable. And anytime we can sneak in a few princess blue hollies, with their showy orange winter berries, we do. They demand protected northern or eastern exposures where the harsh sun and pounding winds don’t scorch them. Try an anti-desiccant spray in the winter if exposed.

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(Disclaimer: This is about the movie, not any of our neighbors!)

Picking the right kitchen for your home re-quires skill, design, money, time, at least a little bit of patience and most definitely a keen sense of proportion.

Sometimes a lack of that sense (of propor-tion) is funny. Think of Clark Griswold in the movie “Christmas Vacation.” He of power-grid-crushing light displays, sequoia-sized Christmas trees, completely non-discerning relatives, an utterly ungenerous employer and – when vi-sions of sugar plums should have been dancing in their heads – children having a SWAT team burst through their bedroom door on Christmas Eve.

Ah, classic movies … over-the-top works!But when it comes to custom home improve-

ments – a new kitchen, for example – Clark Griswold’s sense of proportion would be any-thing but funny.

A $75,000 kitchen in a $150,000 neighbor-hood? That will never pay off when selling the home. A tiny galley kitchen in a sprawling, 5,000 square-foot house? Don’t worry about af-fecting the home value because it will probably never sell anyway. Ultra-modern shiny steel cab-inetry in a traditional-style home? With fuchsia hot-pink highlights and marine-blue neon wall backlighting? How about a $10,000 cook top,

or hand-cut Italian marble floors paired with inexpensive, 30-year-old cabinets?

Over-the-top definitely doesn’t work.It’s one thing to express a unique personality;

it’s another to lack a sense of proportion. The most satisfying and successful custom home improvements will always bring into harmony budget, needs, wants, tastes, style and value. Proportion is that inner, quiet sense of “this is right,” the absence of which can make a movie funny, turn a kitchen improvement into a liabil-ity, or make a home un-sellable.

It is in this arena that a custom home im-provement professional can be indispensable and help keep things in proportion. A kitchen should be ample but not overboard in terms of cost, materials, design or features.

Clark Griswold makes me laugh, but he didn’t know when to say “enough.”

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David Decker is president of the Affordable Companies which includes Affordable Kitchens and Bathrooms and most recently “Affordable Custom Flooring” based in Carmel (317-595-9540, www.the-affordablecompanies.com). Email him at [email protected].

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When Mary Ellen and I used to see movies in the theater, I would drive her crazy. She claimed that if I paid better attention, I wouldn’t ask so many stupid questions. And the problem goes way back:

“Why are people jumping off that ship, Mary Ellen?”

“It’s the Titanic, Dick. Is all the screaming on board interrupting your nap?”

“Mary Ellen, what is that guy doing up on the roof?”

“Fiddling. Did you miss the name of the movie?”

Yes, that’s how dense I used to be, but I have improved. And if I do get a little confused, I don’t pester my wife. I go outside and talk to the ticket-taker who has seen the film four times.

Back at home, however, my ability to focus is getting worse. For some reason, on the small screen I have an even tougher time following storylines and keeping the characters straight. The problem is I am distracted while viewing the movie: playing with my smart phone, wres-tling with the dog, or, more likely, dozing off on the couch. As soon as I get in that reclining position, Mary Ellen makes me promise I won’t fall asleep. I can’t keep that promise, but I have developed a few techniques to appear attentive.

First, I am adept at sleeping with one eye open, so if I position myself correctly, it appears

as though I’m awake. This technique usually works, but last week Mary Ellen got up to take a full look at me to confirm I was really watch-ing. She thought I was winking at her. “This is weird,” she said. “You’re telling me that True Grit puts you in a romantic mood?”

Once in a while, I’ll rouse suddenly from a slumber and try to outsmart her. I offer an astute generic observation about the movie to make her think I have been concentrating. “What great acting, don’t you think, Mary Ellen?”

“I suppose so, but that is a very odd thing to say about the Muppets.”

Sometimes, if I awaken during a film, I’ll begin chuckling just to show Mary Ellen that I’m enjoying the movie. This worked the other evening while watching “The Forty-Year-Old Virgin,” but didn’t cut it the next night during “The Elephant Man.”

I’m really doing the best I can this holiday season. Tonight Mary Ellen wants to watch “Apollo 13” on the classic movie channel. I’m going to drink a lot of coffee and not take my eyes off the screen. This would be a lot easier if I had seen Apollo 1 through 12.

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