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Cheri Piebes and John Heinzinger aren’t your typical art-gallery owners.

The couple met at IBM’s head-quarters in New York more than 20 years ago, their positions in the advertising and technology depart-ments a far cry from their duties now at Artisan Masterpiece. Their love for art quickly became a source of common ground, but in the fast-paced lifestyle of corporate New York, it wasn’t exactly their top priority.

That is, until Piebes retired from IBM and decided to move home to Indiana. Raised in Kokomo, she was eager to return to her roots. In her 30 years in New York, she says, she learned more about life and business than she could have ever imagined. Now it was time to use that knowledge to be her own boss.

“Once I decided to retire, I wanted to come home,” she said. “IBM was a wonder-ful company, but I wanted to run things the way I thought they should be run. Within the confines of IBM, I could be creative, but I couldn’t push the envelope that much.”

Heinzinger’s decision to leave New York wasn’t as easy. He was born and raised there, and much of his family still lived in the area. He’d grown used to the city life, and the thought of leaving that behind made him nervous. But after Cheri’s retire-ment, he knew it was the right time to relocate.

“I was a little apprehensive about moving,” he said. “But meeting people here and being a part of the community has made me realize how much I didn’t know. It’s great here. People are friendly and acces-sible, and there is a real sense of community and progress.”

After arriving in Indiana, they decided to pursue their dream of owning and man-aging an art gallery. During their time in New York, the couple made frequent visits to other parts of the world, both for busi-ness and pleasure. In all their travel, they noticed that other countries seemed to pos-sess a greater appreciation for hand-crafted art. They wanted to bring that sentiment home.

In 2004, they opened a single-level store at Merchant’s Square and started turning their dream into a reality. Piebes’ experi-ence studying women-owned businesses at IBM came in

handy, as did Heinzinger’s technol-ogy savvy. Best of all, they were working together, which was one of the major reasons for opening the gallery to begin with.

“Some husbands and wives are perfectly happy doing their own separate things, but we like to be together all the time,” Piebes said. “To me, that is what retirement is all about.”

After a year and a half at their original location, the couple decided to expand their business, moving into a three-story location at Main Street and Range Line Road in Carmel’s growing Arts & Design District. More than ever, the store began to mirror their unique per-

sonalities. The first floor – they call it the “artist’s gallery” – features a wide range of handcrafted pieces, ranging from glasswork to carved tables and lamps, and includes a number of Indiana artists.

The second floor, or women’s bou-

tique, is chock-full of Piebes’ favorite clothing, much of which is exclusive to the store. Perhaps her favorite floor, however, is the third, which houses a variety of art classes. She hires teachers for both children and adults, helping them learn to create pastels, stained glass and pottery, among other things.

In the summer, the store hosts a children’s arts and crafts camp. Geared to accomodate working parents, kids

can come to the camp for a full-day or half-day on whichever days best suit them. Piebes said the camp is “wildly successful,” and she considers it one of the most rewarding elements in owning Artisan Masterpiece.

“I think every child needs to have a creative outlet,” she said. “I love these kids, and it is just wonderful to see their faces when they make something they are proud of.”

After three years working full-time at the gallery with his wife, Heinzinger decided last year to go back to his “day job.” He is a full-time technol-ogy adviser at Electronic Strategies in Indianapolis, but still finds time to help out at the store, working evenings and weekends and spending as much time with his wife as possible.

Piebes, meanwhile, uses her sparse free time to stay involved in the com-munity. She is president of the Carmel Arts Council and the Merchant’s Association in the Arts & Design District, and serves on the advisory

board for the Carmel Business Leader and Carmel International Arts Festival.

Getting away from the shop is tough, but she finds the time.

“When you want to do something and it is important to you, you make time,” she said. “Working at IBM, there is no time to get involved with the community. When I retired, I knew I wanted to get involved.”

Cheri Piebes and John Heinzinger

Children: Ashley and Regan Hometowns: Kokomo (Cheri) and

Scarsdale, N.Y. (John)Education: Cheri - Purdue

University. John - Pace University, magna cum laude

Favorite TV show: “24” (both) Hobbies: interior design

Community involvement: Cheri is president the Old Town Arts District Merchant Association, president of the Carmel Arts Council, and board member of Carmel’s International

Arts Festival.

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It is our position if they are sick, make them stay home! A company offering online job search services from more than 300 offices worldwide, OfficeTeam, recently released a survey indicating that 80 percent of employees report to work frequently or some-what frequently when they are ill. All this means a far greater likelihood of the rest of us getting sick! Those surveyed said that the fear of the im-mense workload awaiting them upon return ranked as the greatest reason for ignoring the bug and show-ing up at the office anyway. Interestingly, managers at the same companies surveyed

believed that employees come to the office when they should not – but at a much lower 20 percent rate or so, suggesting that managers might in fact be suspicious over

those regular “illness” calls. But our bravado is taking its

toll. Illness shared among co-workers and prolonged sick-ness precipitated by a failure to get early care costs U.S. businesses billions in lost dollars each year. In the meantime, portable e-mail and telephone connections

make it far easier for the sickies to work from home for a couple days. So managers, when that sneezing employee shows up – send them home. Please!

YOU MAKE US SICKIt is our position that Carmel is lucky

to be adding the dining establishment Bistro de Paris to its Arts & Design District. Since opening day, this estab-lishment is working to fill a niche in independent table-clothed restaurants in our fair city. It is yet another example of what is happening in our downtown (can we say that yet?). But with this new-found commitment to the small, proprietor-owned and operated set, we have assumed a considerable obligation. Chief among them is the responsibility to take advantage of the goods and ser-vices offered and to help these fledgling businesses – even through criticism if

necessary – find their way to profitability. Start-up businesses, especially ones

in the retail and food-service industries, are notoriously difficult to bring to profitability. And, such businesses with inexperienced operators are even more

challenged. But the district is strong and the Valentine’s Day Art Walk found the streets filled with shopper (and

buyers). But even as some merchants raked in the cash, others were inexplica-bly closed for the evening. We all need to bring our dollars and support to help our city’s small private operations; but they need be ready for us when we get there.

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Like most of us who grew up watching great television and movie science fiction over the years, I find that in my active imagination I am still

waiting for ray guns, flying cars and humanoid robots. While we can take solace in the fact that our cellular phones are not far from the communicator that Capt. Kirk used and the average desktop computer does have access to such copious amounts of information that it would make HAL blush, I can’t stop thinking that we have somehow been cheated.

How could our beloved Walt Disney have been so wrong with his predictions of the house of the future? Sure we got microwave ovens (and the popcorn is wonderful), but where are the sparkling clean, crime-free cities with driverless cars taking us to our destinations? I was certain that we’d have arrived at Mars by now. With a robot around the house, I was going to be free to read more and work less. But instead, we have devel-oped not labor-saving devices but instead labor-making devices. My really cool phone most assuredly releases me from the chains of my desk – I have men-tioned how much I appreciate its freeing characteristics as I sit in a Carmel Dads’ Club game and am still able to respond to an e-mail at halftime. But at the same time, that dang phone has created an impression in people that we SHOULD respond to e-mail at halftime at the ball-game. Let’s not even talk about the phe-nomenon of texting while driving. The volume of calls … and voicemail … and e-mail … and text messages is out of con-trol. How do we keep up with all of the freedom that these devices have delivered?

With each newly discovered tool, we

become more hopeful that technology will relieve us from our labors. We get fat while awaiting a pill that will make us thin. We pine for the day that robots will

free us to spend more time with our kids (and with each other) yet we spend hours each day sitting in front of our ever-enlarging televi-sion sets filling our heads with 300 channels. Recently while discussing the merits of online dating sites, a new enlistee shared with me that she hoped that a computer would be able to do for her what she had failed to do – find the perfect mate. If that is her desire, then I hope so, too. But what do you do after the marriage?

Can people be so compatible that they no longer need to find ways to get along? Will the service provide a follow-up each year that tests for ongoing compatibility? If times get hard, do we blame the algo-rithm for our failing marriages?

For me, I often leave my phone in the car and cut the umbilical cord. Even this short break causes some who reach out great anxiety. I guess they think that I am trying to avoid them – and for that I am sorry. But, I endeavor to live my life in the present. My days are not neatly cata-logued on video. My kids don’t have a running “True Hollywood Story” of their years on the planet; but they can say they did have my direct and undivided atten-tion. No one hopes for the invention of the future more than I – teleportation will be my favorite – but it mustn’t re-place our role in our own lives.

Terry Anker is the associate editor of Current in Carmel. You may e-mail him at terry@cur-rentincarmel.com.

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Steve Greenberg & Brian Kelly

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TAx CUTS: THEY FAvOR WHO?

FUTURE PERFECT STILL A DREAMIs anyone nauseated by the noise poli-

ticians make, especially at the national level, about wanting to end the Bush tax cuts because they “favor the rich?” Well, according to Investor’s Business Daily, in 2005, the latest full year for data, the top 1 percent of earners accounted for 21.2 percent of all income, but paid 39.4 per-cent of all federal taxes. The top 5 percent earned 35.8 percent of all income and paid 60 percent of the taxes. That’s right: The top 5 percent paid more in income taxes than the remaining 95 percent combined. Interestingly, in 1980, the top 1 percent paid just 19 percent of all taxes and the top 5 percent just 37 percent. We suppose that when a lie is repeated often enough, folks tend to believe it.

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Anyone else troubled by the closing of the Circuit City store at Clay Terrace (other than mall manager Ken Simmons and local government)? We find it disap-pointing that the Richmond, Va.-based electronics retailer closed up shop last month, leaving Best (?) Buy as the lone close-proximity option. At Circuit City, we got honest answers. At Best (?) Buy, we

get snotty Me Generation kids shrugging us off as stupid middle-agers (shaddup!) We’re not saying here that Circuit City was unjustified in its move. It knows its business well more than we, but Carmel and Westfield deserve options. Actually, we have one: the Circuit City store at Castleton.

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We just can’t win. Accompanying an editorial in the Feb. 26 edition was a pho-tograph of Democratic presidential candi-date Barack Obama. A caller and a writer, each noting our longstanding anti-Hillary stance, said we should have made room for her photo, too. Well, guess what! It wasn’t our selection. You might be surprised that the person who did make the call is a liberal.

Editor:Wow! I must say that I was a little

shocked and taken back by your article that I read from today’s mail in Current In Carmel’s latest issue dated Feb. 26, 2008.

I am glad to see Carmel looking at the National Issues, such as the election. However, to have an article on page 3 titled, “It’s All About Choices,” with a good picture of Obama. … Choices? Yet, no other political picture was provided. I be-lieve that Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is the first female candidate and the first former

spouse of a U.S. president to run for the USA presidential office herself, as you did mention, deserves the respect to provide her picture. Choices? The democratic side of the presidential race is not yet complete; however, both pictures were not provided. Yet, choices?

Are the ‘Choices’ being represented in the Current In Carmel?

Let’s present all sides, so all choices can be seen!

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STUDENTS ON DEAN’S LIST: A number of students from Carmel were named to the Valparaiso University Dean’s List in recognition of their academic accomplishments during the fall semester. They are Daniel Brunette, senior history major; Molly Mullins, freshman marketing major; Micah Borcherding, senior physics and secondary education major; Christopher Bednarczyk, freshman mathematics major. To be eligible for the dean’s list, students must achieve at least a �.50 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and be enrolled full time.

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Danielle Wilson

SICK DAYS ARE NOT IN THE bENEFITS PACKAgE

I recently did the one thing that moth-ers are never, ever supposed to do. Ever. I got sick. I’d been feeling really lousy all day and chalked it up to the usual “not enough sleep because

of storms/snoring husband/kids up at night.” At the library that evening while tutoring, I had to excuse myself from simplifying expo-nents to race for the bathroom. I made it just in time to lose my peanut butter and jelly dinner. (Whoever was in the second stall, I apolo-gize! And I’m not bulimic!) Though I actually felt much better when I returned to my student, we decided to cancel the rest of the session so I could head home for some rest. As if!

The next morning, still running a low-grade fever and feeling queasy, I got kids ready for school, made lunches, and took care of a precocious 3-year old. (Unfortunately, my brilliant idea to have her play “nurse” and take care of her “sleeping patient” lasted only 20 minutes.) My husband went on to work just like any other day with the only exception being that he made his own coffee.

Because that’s just it; moms can’t rest, even when we’re sick. With dads it’s dif-ferent. We all know that had the tables

been reversed, not only would our spouses have taken sick days, but they would have moaned and groaned the entire time they were bedridden. “I’m cold,” “I’m hot,” “I need some soup,” “Wah, wah, wah.” And we would have gladly waited on them because taking care of people is what we do best. It’s the ultimate “I’m needed” confirmation.

But who took care of me? Where was my mommy when my tummy hurt? “Oh, sorry Soccer Mom, didn’t you get the memo? You’re SOL if you get sick. It’s in the fine print of parenting.” Luckily for me I have wonderful neighbors. When I called for some Campbell’s chicken noodle and ginger ale, one brought the soup straight over and the other went to the store and bought them for me in addition to some soothing Jell-O. Now that’s service!

Moms just can’t afford to take a day off, period. My 14 hours on (and off) the couch resulted in a household gone awry:

messed-up naps, no dinner, our gecko going without food for another day, the trash not being taken out, delayed bedtimes, and no baths, just to mention a few. I couldn’t call in a sub or have a

co-worker cover my shift. I also couldn’t just lie in bed and nurse myself back to

health because I had my energetic pre-schooler running around, part of the day without clothes! As much

as I wanted to ignore her, she just isn’t old enough to take care

of herself (as any child with access to Kool-Aid, graham crackers and softened butter

will happily demonstrate.) So unless we’re in the hospital or unconscious on the floor, we moms still have to be moms.

The moral of this story? Don’t get sick! Wash your hands obsessively, OD on vi-tamin C, and wear a surgical mask in the presence of germ-infested toddlers. I’m not kidding! We have to stay healthy because we’re the only ones who know how to keep our families running properly and efficiently! Can you imagine the horror that would result if all moms of the world suddenly fell ill? (Maybe that’s the real reason the dinosaurs died off, all of the mommysaurs got the flu.) Anyway, I hope to goodness that was my one illness for the year. My family can’t withstand another one.

Peace out.

Danielle Wilson is a Carmel resident and con-tributing columnist. You may e-mail her at danielle@currentincarmel.com.

I am fortunate to have the opportunity to highlight volunteers on Cable Channel 16 during the newsmagazine television show “Connecting With Carmel.” The

one-hour production that airs each day features a segment spotlighting local volunteers working in our community. CarmelCAN! as it is called, matches people with various skills who are looking for opportunities to get plugged in, stay active and give back to others in their own town

During the seg-ment, I routinely ask people with some time on their hands to donate those spare hours to our community by calling the CarmelCAN! hot line at 814.1111. A sur-prisingly large number of viewers pick up the phone and take the first step toward making Carmel a better place to live, work and raise a family. So many offers of help

pour in each month that the job of pair-ing them with an organization looking for ready, willing and able bodies is more than I can personally handle. The CarmelCAN! Volunteer Program clearly needs a volun-teer of its own.

Lucky for us that Rosemary Conard just happened to be tuned in and watching Connecting With Carmel a few weeks ago, because now she finds herself head vol-unteer of sorts. As the new CarmelCAN! Volunteer Coordinator, Rosemary is going to help keep track of all of the details and information that it takes to keep the may-or’s volunteer initiative running smoothly. A resident of Carmel for more than 51 years, Rosemary herself was looking for a

way to stay active and connected after the recent passing of her husband. Instead of just sitting around, she encourages those who might be in her same situation to get up off of the couch, get out of the house and join the ranks of those that CAN!

She didn’t raise her hand and step for-ward as a volunteer to get anything other than a rewarding experience helping her fellow citizens. But she is now the star of the show she was only just viewing weeks earlier. Rosemary Conard is featured all month on Connecting With Carmel as our volunteer of the month, and I encourage you to tune in and get to know her. Because she is our volunteer of note, another sur-prise awaits her. Doug Kemp, the owner of Dooley O’Tooles located on Carmel Drive just east of Range Line Road, is giving every CarmelCAN! featured volunteer of the month two free dinners and an appetizer. He contacted me almost a year ago with the offer and has been quietly rewarding our volunteers every month since.

Jeff Worrell is a local business owner. He recognizes volunteers on “Connecting with Carmel” on Cable Channel 16. Contact him at jworrell@advantagemedical.com.

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By Ellen GilmerCurrent In Carmel

Hundreds of Carmel High School students stretched their legs between songs and listened intently to compelling stories from students and community members about how Riley Hospital for Children has affected their lives. The students winced during stories of struggle and cheered when learning of triumph. This was the purpose of the night.

The students raised a record-breaking $129,866.31 for Riley at the nation’s single largest high school dance marathon Feb. 23, a press release from Riley Children’s Foundation said. More than 750 students participated in the six-hour event of music, food, dancing, socialization and guest speakers, including a video testimonial from Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Each student pledged $75 to dance from 4 to 6 p.m. The original goal of the committee of three school staff members and 50 students was to raise $75,000 for the Ryan White Infectious Disease Center at Riley.

Jason Mueler, assistant manager for commu-nications at Riley Children’s Foundation, said the students’ hard work and time devoted to the event matched that of entrepreneurs.

“In a sense, they’re running a small business and doing really impressive things,” he said.

Senior event coordinator for the Riley Children’s Foundation Katherine Cain said she was more than satisfied with the night’s outcome.

“What was accomplished tonight was noth-ing short of remarkable,” Cain said in the press release.

Senior Annie Greenberg was the top fund-raiser. She raised a total of $3,618, mostly by sending out letters in family Christmas cards. She said that she was motivated to do that after being sick in October (she was hospitalized with pneumonia and sepsis).

“I wanted to start paying forward, and this was an excellent way to do it.”

The marathon was sponsored by Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, based in Carmel, which committed $15,000 to support the event for the next three years.

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CHS STUDENTS RAISE RECORD FOR RILEYThe Carmel ash tree population is in danger. The enemy: an invasive

beetle, smaller than the picture of Abraham Lincoln on a penny. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an exotic beetle from Asia, was found in

southeastern Michigan in 2002. It likely arrived from packing material made from ash wood in Asia.

The beetles’ larvae feed on the inner bark of ash trees, restricting the trees’ ability to transport water and nutrients, and effectively destroying the trees.

EAB’s were discovered in northern Indiana in 2004, and appeared on ash trees in Carmel/Clay township along the Hazel Dell Parkway in Jan. 2006.

Tonight, the Carmel Department of Community Services is hosting an public information meeting to discuss the impact of EAB and the benefits of trees.

Here are some more facts about the Emerald Ash Borer:• Adult beetles are bright

metallic green in color. Adults are one third inch long and one sixteenth inch wide. They are present from mid-May through late July.

• EAB has killed more than 20 million ash trees in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

• EAB moves slowly—only about half of a mile per year

• EAB’s expansion is acceler-ated by humans when infested ash firewood and logs are moved to new areas.

• Campers should only buy firewood near campsites, and should not transport firewood to new destination trip.

• If you see this beetle or notice trees with signs of damage report the information to the Indiana Department of National Resources at 317-232-4120

• Information gathered from Purdue University Entomology at entm.purdue.edu/eab; Indiana DNR at www.in.gov/dnr

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What: Public Meeting to Discuss Emerald Ash Borer and the Benefits

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Where: Carmel Clay Public Library at 55 Fourth Avenue SE. In the first

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AP EXAM SIGNUP: Carmel High School students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses have until Friday to register for May examinations. Students who earn a specific score, usually � or higher on a five-point scale, earn college credit for the course. Students enrolled in an AP course received an individual exam registration form in February. Each exam costs $8�, except for math and science, which are $8. For more information, call 571.59��, (x.74�9) or email mcottone@ccs.k1�.in.us.

TOP SOLOISTS, GROUPS: Several Clay Middle School musicians earned gold medals at the Indiana State School Music Association competition. Christina Hwang won for her piano solo, and The Music Men (Branden Clemens, Eric Dick, John Evelo, Henry Googasian, Nate Harcourt, Scott Jackoway, Mike Phipps, Jacob Vahle, Josh Vahle and Ryan Wiegand, Mark Sangiorgio and Wathen Young, Ian Bossung, Jack Googasian, Chris Hsu, Mike Mykyta and Eric Wiegand) and the Triple Trio (Amanda Koopman, Emma Nalin, Monica Ramirez, Renee La Schiazza, Abby Schneller, Abigail Sears, Shelby Shadrick, Sarah Stoesz and Patricia Spears) won for vocal ensembles.

SHAKESPEARE WINNERS: Carmel High School has named the winner of its Shakespeare recitation competition, with the first-place student qualifying for the regional competition at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis. Senior Dahlia Shvets presented a monologue from “The Merchant of Venice” to capture first place in the competition that was open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Junior Bat-el Miller finished in the runner-up spot, with senior Jacob Ahdoot capturing third.

KINDERGARTEN SIGNUP: Carmel Clay Schools will register kindergarten students for the �008-�009 school year March 11. Students must be at least 5 years old by Sept. 1 to start kindergarten next August. Registration will take place in all 11 elementary schools from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to � p.m. March 11. Because the school district is in the process of changing attendance boundaries for the next school year, parents are asked to determine their child’s school on the district Web site, www.ccs.k1�.in.us by clicking on “�008-�009 School Boundaries” under hot topics.

Since ALL HUMAN LIFE is a product from parents, the buck stops with us.

How often have you heard (in various ways), “The parents are

driving me crazy,” “I can’t stand the parents.” We say these things as though we are not the parents we are talking about. When we sit in judgment over other parents – we’re, essentially, judg-ing ourselves. WE are the only people that will and can change the world. How we parent is how we shape the world. Whether or not we are a parent – we are products from parents, therefore we must all begin to parent within ourselves and well past the point of our children coming of age.

Our only responsibility to our children is to foster their NEEDS. They NEED us to keep them healthy: mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. That’s all they NEED from us. That’s how we show our intentions, transparencies, purpose and hope for them. When we become totally aware of our importance to our children and when we understand what influences we want to pass on to them we won’t have the desire

to point fingers. And only then can we put the oneness of (good or bad) behavior on them. And it is certainly not within our right to pass judgment on the child.

On the flip side, what responsibility do our children have to us? They have the responsibility of taking care of their own WANTS. THEIR WANTS are not OUR WANTS. Their WANTS tell us their choices and become clues for us. We can hold them ac-countable for their WANTS.

But just having them say they ‘want’ without describ-ing what their investment to their want will be, is enabling. “I want a car.” “That’s OK if you can show me how you will participate in getting your ‘want’ met.” “I want to play the piano.” “That’s fine. I’ll help you find a teacher. Are you will-

ing to pay me 25 cents per week from your allowance to help pay for these lessons?”

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On April 13, 1738, the 32- year-old Benjamin Franklin wrote to his parents, Josiah and Abiah, who were appar-ently concerned about his

religious beliefs:“I have your favor of the 21st of March

in which you both seem con-cerned lest I have imbibed some erroneous opinions... Doubtless I have my share... A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness, who affirms that all the doctrines he holds are true; and all he rejects are false. And perhaps the same may be justly said of every sect, church, and society of men when they assume to themselves that infal-libility which they deny to the popes and councils.

“...My mother grieves that one of her sons is an Arian, another an Arminian. What an Arminian or an Arian is, I cannot say that I very well know. The truth is, I make such distinctions very little my study. I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. And the scripture assures me, that at the Last Day, we shall not be examined what we thought, but what we did. And, our recommendation will not be that we said,

‘Lord, Lord,’ but that we did Good to our fellow creatures. See Matthew 25.”

An Arian did not believe in the Trinity, that Jesus was of the same substance as God. Rather, Arians believed Jesus to be of a similar substance as God. Arminians did not believe in predestination. Arminians

believed salvation was open to all mankind, not just Christians, or the baptized, or any one particular Christian sect. Franklin refers his parents to the Last Judgement account of Matthew 25: 31-46, which has no mention whatsoever of Jesus judging all nations by faith, but rather deeds/works. Those rewarded fed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, took in the stranger, clothed the naked, visited the sick and imprisoned. Those punished did not feed the hungry, did not give drink to the thirsty, did not take in the stranger, did

not clothe the naked, did not visit the sick and imprisoned.

Bruce Braden is an author and poet. He is the editor of “Ye Will Say I Am No Christian: The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values.”

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong …

(Stephen Stills, “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield, 1967)

There is a philosophical sucker’s trap into which Christians occasionally stum-ble. It goes something like this:

“If you think Jesus is the one, true and only way to salvation, then you are saying everybody else is wrong. That’s selfish to think that way, and Jesus wasn’t selfish.”

Therefore … what? Jesus is wrong? Truth doesn’t exist?

Let’s look at that.We Christians strive dili-

gently and joyfully to mature in our personal and individu-ally unique relationships with Christ. We are to witness to it (Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 1:8), yet it is clear in the Bible that not everybody will “get it.”

Humans tend to forget that we are the variable in the equation of God’s grace and truth. God doesn’t change, but we do. In comparison with God’s perfect simplicity, ours is a fairly complicated existence. We deal with a fallen world, accidents, surprises, etc. God doesn’t have to deal with the unknown.

Out of necessity we are very busy with

ourselves, trying to make sense of both the human and the divine. But the gift of grace we receive as part and parcel of our faith in Christ is supposed to, it must, unlock our love for others. It can’t be selfish. When I know the truth, that truth doesn’t change because someone

disagrees with it, ridicules it, attacks it, or is annoyed by it.

So here is a radical, non-PC idea: what if, in fact, the Christian truth is right?

I have a pretty persuasive argument: a real relationship with Christ, a Bible, a church, 2,000 years of Christian theo-logical development, 6,000 years of biblical history, a deep, abiding, daily, palpable faith in God’s truth and love as revealed in Jesus through the Holy Spirit … and plenty of people around me every day who think I am wrong.

I can’t always adequately explain to others why they need Jesus, but give me the time and I’ll do my best to explain – with love and grace – why I can’t live without Him.

It’s the right thing to do.

Bob Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) is stunned when he realizes 1967 was 41 years ago … and he remembers this song so well.

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IT ISN’T JUST IDOL WORSHIP WATER ON THE bRAIN

Another season of “American Idol” has begun, and as usual I’m not watching.

I have a bone to pick with the people who foisted this gar-

bage on the American public. Actually, several bones. OK, an entire skeleton.

Not only do I believe this program is contributing more than its share to the Dumbing Of America, I think it is quite possibly changing popular music, and not for the better.

Let’s start with the Dumbing Of America, since it’s probably the more critical of the issues. Or at least the most visible, this being an election year.

To do so, we’re going to have to draw on my experience as music critic for a newspaper that no longer exists. Sherman, set the wayback machine for The Indianapolis News, circa 1990. Here we find pop music critic Mike Redmond – long-haired, bearded, wearing jeans, motorcycle boots, and a leather jacket over a Hillbilly Central T-shirt – going through his mail, most of which is devoted to rebuttal of a recent concert review.

In this review, Mr. Redmond panned a popular kiddie singing group of the time, New Kids On The Block. Or, as he christened them, Joey, Jordan, Jonathan, Donnie, Danny, Fred, Barney, Doc, Sleepy, and Grumpy. As you might sur-mise, he went about this task gleefully, and New Kids fans are writing to express displeasure.

Some examples:“Dear Mr. Redmond: You suck. New

Kids rule. NKOTB 4 Ever! Jennifer.”And “Dear Mr. Redmond: (Expletive).

Yours truly, Ashley.”Then he finds a letter that attempts to

ensnare him in the steel-cable web of logic:“Dear Mr. Redmond: If New Kids are so

bad, then HOW COME EVERYBODY LIKES THEM???? HOW COME THEY SELL MILLIONS OF ALBUMS AND RECEIVE PLATINUM RECORDS????

HOW COME THEIR CONCERTS ARE ALWAYS SOLD OUT???? Yours truly (NOT!), Jennifer, Ashley and Britni.”

This is the formula of “American Idol.” Never mind the comments of the

Snotty Englishman, the Once-Respected Bass Player and the Professional Ditz. The proof is in the audience vote, which reinforces the notion that pop-ularity indicates ability.

Now think back to your high school student body president and you’ll see how it simply isn’t true. It sure wasn’t at my high school, anyway. And no, it wasn’t me. Better yet, think back to the Grammy Awards of 1990. The award for best new artist went to ... Milli Vanilli. So much for popularity indicat-ing ability.

This gets us to the other issue – music. If you accept the stipulation that we are dealing with an extremely gullible audi-ence – we’re talking Professional Wrestling Gullible – then you’ll see that the popular-ity-equals-ability fallacy is fueled by the histrionics and vocal gymnastics of the singers. The more dramatic the display, the more ridiculous the melisma (all those vocal loop-the-loops and backflips), the better the singer – or so goes the “thinking.”

This works its way into the mainstream and becomes the standard. This is why all new pop singers sound so much alike. This is why you seldom hear the National Anthem being sung as written anymore. They’ve been American Idol-ed.

But I seem to be in the minority these days. Oh well. Idol Fans, go on without me. Have fun. Enjoy the show. But don’t get too caught up in Idol Worship. After all, I have it on good authority that New Kids rule.

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I’m not the smartest consumer in the world, but the other day when I was scanning the label on my bottled water to make sure there were no carbs in it, I saw something strange.

“Best if drunk by December 31, 2008.” Well, that’s New Year’s Eve, and I am at my best if I’m drunk before the year changes, but I don’t think that’s what they mean.

That gave me just a year to gulp down the product, or else. Or else what?

I think it’s fair to ask what is actually going to happen to this water after two years. It can’t lose its nutrient value. It doesn’t have any. It can’t lose its color. It has none.

One company I spoke to said the water changes in taste after a year. Changes to what? I sure wouldn’t know. With a bag of Doritos and a jar of Redd Foxx Salsa, I can’t tell the differ-ence between Budweiser and Maplehurst Farms.

And so what if my Evian tastes funny. There’s a world of difference between funny-tast-ing water and funny-tasting mayonnaise. Trust me.

What about people who buy bottled water for the sole purpose of storing it in case of a terrorist attack?

“Harold, I have some bad news for you. We’ve been hiding in the basement now for two months and I think our bottled water has expired.”

“Pour it down the drain, Maude. I know how little will power you have when you get dehydrated.”

Then I read that the American Red Cross advises changing your bottled water every six months. I doubt I’ll remember. I haven’t changed my tartar sauce in 13 years. There is a jar of honey in my pantry that I took with me when I hiked to the bottom of the Grand

Canyon in 1969.I also have cheese in the fridge that has

been aged 12 years, but when I brought it home, the package said there was only a month left to eat it. I say: “Age it 11

years. Give me the extra 12 months.”

So what should you do with this expired water? You can’t just pour it down your kitchen sink. There’s probably some government regulation against it — a government program to collect and prop-erly dispose of expired water. I’d like to know more about this. With my luck, I’ll end up buying property next to an expired water dump. There go the real estate values.

By the way, I checked my cans of Pepsi and 7-UP. There

are no expiration dates. I think this is great news for anthropologists of

the future. When they dig up my remains in a frozen block of ice, I’ll be knocking down a Fresca, my diet drink of choice.

“Dr. Gallagher, this an-cient man we found with the Channel 8 ball cap has some-thing called a Fresca in his hand. Looks like some kind of prehistoric drink. I think the drink is 4,000 years old. Can we taste it?”

“Is there an expiration date on the can?”

“No, professor. No expira-tion date.”

“Go for it. Just be sure it’s not pure water.”

I know we are all going to die, but I’m glad people don’t have expiration dates printed on them. Although, at the age of 60, mine should probably read: BEST IF USED BY DECEMBER 2035.

Dick Wolfsie is an author, columnist and speaker. Contact him at wolfsie@aol.com.

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The average entrepreneur is most often “a married white man in his 40s who attended but did not complete college.” He also has plenty of company: “Each year in the United States, more people start a business than get married or have children. And as much as 40 percent of the U.S. population will be self-em-ployed for some part of their work life.”

However, “America is no longer a par-ticularly entrepreneurial country; nor are we in much of an entrepreneurial era.” According to Shane, entrepreneurship in

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likes this book, he faults Shane for failing to mention Joseph Schumpeter, he of “creative destruction” fame, who said that entrepreneurs are less interested in making money than in challenging the status quo and creating change -- a characteristic that puts them at odds with the establishment and, he says, has led to “a long tradition of vilify-ing entrepreneurs.”

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Last week you read all about the op-portunities that exist in the market for long-term holdings in the area of single family residential rentals. We start there because this is the

simplest, easiest to identify, and most importantly easiest and cheapest to afford and operate of all the various types of real estate investments with the lowest possible risk.

Now let’s move on to “need-based” real estate investments. For example, if you need a place to live, and you are plan-ning on being there for a while, you will probably buy a house. You don’t consider the mort-gage payment an “investment.” You need it anyway! So if you don’t own a home and need one, buy one. Over the long run, you may spend not much more than you would on a comparable rental, but in addition to the various tax benefits, you will also see the benefits from the reduction of your principal balance as well as property ap-preciation at the time of sale.

Nearly everyone who read the last paragraph said, “of course, that’s common sense and everybody understands that.”

I would say that we do have an over-whelming majority of homeowners in Carmel. At the same time, we have a lot of business owners and entrepreneurs, too. If you fit in this category, do you lease your offices or warehouse space?

More than 75 percent of all busi-nesses are worth less than the real estate they occupy. Service businesses, retailers, restaurants, lawyers, accountants, and healthcare- these types of companies are

not easily marketable as a business entity. For the most part, they serve to pay the bills, and if you are good at what you do, a salary. Small- to medium-sized busi-nesses rarely sell as an exit strategy for the

founder(s). Now retailers are in quite a tough spot. When you need walking traffic, you almost have to rent. Likewise, if your healthcare business is based on the convenience of being in a building connected to a hospi-tal, you almost have to rent. If you have the budget to build your own hospital or mall and compete with some very savvy developers, you are way out of my league.

If your business is not so dependent on a high traffic or niche location, you might con-sider purchasing or constructing your own facility. If you have

some money to put down, decent credit, a solid business track record of at least two

years, and a good idea of where you will be from now until 10 years from now, you can enjoy the same kind of benefits you get personally for owning your home corporately for owning your own building.

You may spend a bit more initially to get this facility online, but you will enjoy a consistent cost of overhead for years to come and eventually a paid-for building that may be worth more than the

business itself when you decide to sell or retire.

Nathan Thornberry, a Carmel resident, is owner of Residential Warranty Services. You may e-mail him at pnthornberry@blackberry.nextel.com.

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Kent BurnsOn Success

Lots of people have said something to me on the whole Kent Burns, Version 3.0 article that ran two weeks ago. E-mail messages, com-ments from people that I saw

while out and about in Carmel, comments made to my wife, Patti, other friends and family, people who read my blog, you name it. It was cool, and it really got me thinking. Upon further reflection, I think I un-derstand the response. It’s the power of dreams. Everybody has dreams. In America, it’s who we are – it’s embedded in our culture. Therefore, when we see somebody put himself “out there” and says he’s going for it, what do we do? We encourage them. We cheer them on.”

That’s why the message reso-nated with so many people.

Now…what if you’re a person who is thrilled when someone else does this, but just can’t ever see yourself doing it? Hmmm... I think it’s time to drill-down on that. The first question obviously, is why? Follow the rule of 5 Whys. Keep asking Why until you get to the real root cause. Maybe it’s simply fear. That’s noth-ing to be ashamed of. Heck, I was scared when I went from Version 1.0 to Version 2.0. I’d never been a recruiter before.

Didn’t know anything about it. But I didn’t let the fear change my decision or stop me. Eddie Rickenbacker was a World War I flying ace and drove in the Indy 500 four times. Rickenbacker said that there

can be no courage unless you are scared. Attempt to manage your fear; don’t simply yield to it.

Perhaps you haven’t “gone for it” because certain cir-cumstances in your life don’t allow it at this point. Might be kids in college, might be ill-ness, there might be multiple hurdles. Here’s the important thing – don’t stop dreaming, and don’t give up. Plan for it. Assume that it will happen. Expect your time to come, and there’s a good chance it will.

It’s great to cheer someone on when they decide to take a big risk, and thanks to all of you who have cheered me on in the past few weeks. Just don’t live life without taking any risks of your own. I want to cheer you on, too.

Kent Burns is a Carmel resident, professional speaker and author of “What’s Your Why?” His blog is www.kentburnsblog.com and he can be reached at kent@currentincarmel.com

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MONEY MATTERSDo you believe the doom and gloom reports about

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“I don’t think it will get that bad. It may slow down, but when you’ve lived as long as I have, you know that some-times things go up and some-times they come down.”

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“No. Based on personal experi-ence, I don’t think it is doing that poorly.”

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“I believe we are currently in a recession. My investments are crashing, the housing market is going down and my retirement is slithering away from me. To me that marks a recession.”

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WHOLE-GRAIN BENEFIT: People lose weight by filling up on whole grains may be particularly heart-healthy. In a recent study of obese adults at risk of heart disease, researchers found that those who trimmed calories and increased their whole-grain intake shed more belly fat and lowered their blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is a marker of chronic, low-level inflammation in the blood vessels; both abdominal fat and CRP, in excess, are linked to heart attack and stroke.

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KNEE POWER: A new knee-mounted device converts the kinetic energy of strolling, sauntering and striding into usable electricity. The energy harvested could work to power portable electronics, such as GPS locators or cell phones or supply electricity to motorized prosthetic joints and implanted neurotransmitters. “There is power to be harvested from various places in the body, and you can use that to generate electricity,” said Arthur Kuo, University of Michigan professor.

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WARM UP WITH A CIRCUIT: When you use weights, circuits can be a great total-body workout. But they’re most valuable without weights as a warm-up of the nervous system, joints, and muscles. Because a circuit stresses the entire body, it’s more effective than a treadmill jog, which primes only your lower body. An added bonus? When using a circuit as a warm-up, you need only your body weight or a barbell.

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DISPATCHES THE bENEFITS OF MASSAgE THERAPY

The typical initiation to massage is motivated by a stressful or painful condition. But massage’s many benefits go deeper and offer you far more than you may have ever

suspected. Regular massage can greatly benefit your overall health and well-being. Read on to learn some of the wonderful health aspects available to you through massage.

The most obvious benefit is that a full body massage makes you feel great. The stress-relieving, soothing results are enough for many to include massage as a regular part of their lives. But what are the less obvious benefits?

The first sense to develop is your sense of touch. It’s not surprising when you consider that each square inch of your skin contains roughly 50 nerve endings. With as many as five million total touch receptors in your skin relaying messages to your brain, your body’s initial response to massage is to relax. Simple safe touch has been shown to lower blood pressure and

reduce the heart rate. Touch can also signal the brain to produce endorphins, your body’s natural pain suppressors.

Going deeper, massage can re-store suppleness and strength to your muscles, improving their overall function. It’s the ideal treatment for releasing tension or muscles in spasm and helps to release toxins such as lactic acid (produced by muscle tissue during exercise), as well.

The nervous system is your communi-cation network, sending messages con-stantly that determine proper functioning throughout our body. Stress can affect the ability of the nervous system to do its job. The many nerve endings found in the skin and muscles are soothed by mas-sage, and this contributes to keeping your internal lines of communication open and

operational. Massage also

aids in main-taining flex-ibility in your joints. These joints are thor-oughfares for nerves, veins and arteries, so their free-dom of move-ment allows energy and blood to flow unimpeded.

As you can see, massage offers more benefits than you may have imagined. It’s good to know that something that feels so

great can contribute to your long-term health as well.

Eve Olson, M.D., is the owner and founder of the Olson Center for Wellness. For more information, please e-mail askdrolson@currentincarmel.com, or call 705.1400.

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Essential Fatty Acids 3 and 6 (EFA’s) are molecules the human body cannot make and must come from food. The two EFA’s: omega-3 (n-3) and omega-6 (n-6)

are crucial for all cell and tissue functions. Good news is that n-3 fats affect cells and organs and can reverse chronic degenerative diseases. The seed is a source of essential n-3 but is short in lin-oleic acid rich n-6.

When cooking and eating, it’s best to limit omega 6’s singularly when possible. Linoleic acid (LA) is found in the primary oil added to most processed foods. Excessive omega-6, which comes from soybean, peanut, corn, sunflower seed, cottonseed, soy, sesame and safflower oils is not good for your health and can cause a variety of health problems such as water retention, raised blood pressure and encour-aged blood clotting. A ratio of 3:1 omega 6: omega 3 is what you need.

Research indicates that Lignan in flax seed, a powerful antioxidant, possibly has anti-breast and colon cancer properties. They flush excess estrogen out of your body, reducing the incidence of estro-gen-linked cancers, such as breast cancer. Lignan in flax is a powerful antioxidant that reduces oxidative DNA lesions in

cancer. Lignan has antibacterial, antifun-gal, and antiviral properties.

Endorsed by the American Heart Association, omega 3 is of utmost impor-tance and is almost entirely missing from

today’s Western diet of pro-cessed foods that use mostly omega 6 oils. Flax seed helps prevent heart disease by low-ering LDL, reducing blood pressure and reducing strokes from clots. Use of golden flax oil can lower pesky tri-glycerides, improved mental clarity, help manage diabetes, depression, arthritis, allergies, circulation problems, ADHD, Alzheimer’s, skin disorders, and gout. Flax can stabilize blood sugar; boosts immunity, protects you against respira-tory infections. It may prevent kidney damage in Lupus.

Sprinkle ground flax on everything you eat or eat it by the spoonful: hot and cold cereal, pancakes, soup, salads, smooth-ies, marinara, stir-fries, or to pasta dishes. By the way, ground flax seed will act as a thickener in soups, sauces and stews.

Wendell Fowler is a retired chef, as well as an inspirational speaker, health humorist, story-teller and author. Contact him at fowlerindy@aol.com or go to www.wendellfowler.com.

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TALKING RABBIT: So you are probably wondering if a rabbit can really be “smart”? Well this bunny can teach you tai chi, read your e-mail, report the weather or stock market, pull RSS feeds and tell you the time. We’d say that’s pretty smart - but he’s also got personality. Nabaztag can move his ears, play music, talk and whistle, and his body can show off hundreds of colors and special patterns of light. Sometimes he will even have his own random things to say, as long as you can put up with his moods! $179.

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ONLINE SHARING: Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information — from videos to presentations — and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world. Invite co-workers, classmates, or your entire organization to edit your site with you to keep it fresh and up-to-date. And let as many or few people view your site as you want.

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KEEP TRACK OF KIDS: Smart Target’s Kiddo Kidkeeper Proximity alarm helps bring peace of mind to the parents of adventurous children using a wearable wireless transmitter. When a child has wandered out of a pre-set range, the transmitter will trigger a visual and audible alarm on the parent’s receiver, prompting them to reel the kid back in. The device offers two range settings of 1� and �6 feet, it is waterproof, and it can monitor up to four kids at once. There is no pricing information on the official site, but a Romanian site was selling it for the equivalent of $170, which should be a decent indicator.

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When we attend any large conference or business meeting, we often return with a stack of business cards with miscellaneous

notes scribbled on them that need to be processed.

The value of a business card scanner is based on the value of the information that you want to scan. If you are in sales, busi-ness development or any other position that relies heavily on keeping in touch and you don’t have a good structured process already in place, they can be worth their weight in gold.

They are certainly more ef-ficient than manually inputting business card info into your address book, but they are not perfect.

We did a test on one of the more common units that you’ll see in electron-ics and office supply stores: The CardScan Personal (www.cardscan.com - @ $150 -$160 street price).

The installation and calibration only took about five minutes and was very easy. From a hardware perspective, all business card scanners are quite similar. So the real key is the software that does the organizing and OCR (optical character recognition).

We scanned 80 business cards that

ranged from traditional simple formats to elaborate layouts and color schemes.

The “government issue” business cards scanned in flawlessly. The name, title, company address, phone, fax and e-mail

information were all captured perfectly.

Unfortunately, most compa-nies get more creative with their business cards these days, so don’t expect that kind of accu-racy for most of your scans.

Of the 80 scans we did, 57 of them required some editing of the results, but most of it was minor.

More important, it doesn’t take much to fix the minor issues (often you simply cut and paste from one field to another or type in a company name).

Once we had the 80 cards scanned and cleaned up, we were able to export the entire database of information into a file that could be imported into my Outlook contacts. The instructions on how to import the file into Outlook was includ-ed on the screen once we completed the export from within the CardScan software.

Gary Hubbard is owner of Data Doctors Computer Services at www.datadoctors.com. Have a technology question? Send it to CurrentInCarmel@datadoctors.com.

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DISPATCHES SCANNINg HELPS CARD COLLECTORS

I think most folks would be surprised at how often a customer will ask us to check out a problem with their car and we are unable to re-create the symptom as they described. So many

times, I have taken a test drive only to be disappointed with no symptoms, even when riding with the customer.

While sometimes it’s the car not cooperating, good com-munication skills will increase the odds of finding the prob-lem. Many times we will find things needing repair that are not related to the symptom, so specific details are important. Similar to a doctor interviewing a patient, the technician needs to ask the right questions to help the customer describe the specific circumstances under which the symptom or symptoms will most likely occur.

Noises can be notoriously difficult to identify especially if the technician cannot re-create the symptom. Then we get into the dilemma of how to charge a customer when the cause cannot be identified. I know I don’t like to pay for an opinion

that renders no value. So help us help you… What does it sound like? Squeak, rattle, knock, clunk, and clank? When does the noise occur? Is the car: sitting still, driving fast/slow, turning right/left,

going over bumps, braking? Where is the noise coming from? Front, rear, center, right, left, under the car, under the hood, in the passenger compartment?

The scenarios describing how and when these things happen are endless. A simple question my friend and seasoned techni-cian, Randy Badger asks, “How can the technician re-create the symptom?” This ques-tion applies to pretty much all symptoms. So when deciding to bring your car in for a symp-tom-related repair, take some

time to observe the conditions at the time of the symptom and be specific when de-scribing them to your technician. This will help your technician help you!

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Ralph F. Morgan, 94, Carmel, passed away in his home on Feb. �4, �008. He was born on July �5, 191�, to the late John and Ida Morgan in Marion County. Mr. Morgan

served as the senior vice president with Central Rubber Supply Company having worked there 45 years. After retirement, he worked with C.P. Morgan Company for more than �0 years. Mr. Morgan attended Indiana Business College and graduated from Harvard Business School Executive Program. He was a member of Carmel Lions Club, Carmel Rotary, Carmel Toast Masters and numerous other community organizations. He was preceded in death by his wife, Maxine Moffitt Morgan, and one sister, Mildred. Survivors include children Chuck Morgan (Roxy) and Judy Pope (Roger) both of Carmel; grandchildren Anne Ford (Caleb) of Denver, David Morgan (Sarah) of Carmel, Elizabeth Fraiz (Matthew) of Louisville, Jeff Pope (Nicole) of Carmel, and Matthew Pope of Torrance, Calif.; and great-grandsons Jonathon Blake and Peter Graham Morgan. Friends and family gathered Feb. �7 in Leppert Mortuary, Smith Carmel Chapel. A memorial service was held in Carmel United Methodist Church, of which

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TASTE OF CARMEL: Presented by the Orchard Park Elementary School PTO, Taste of Carmel raises funds for student programs and projects at the school. Activities include sampling menu items from �0 to �0 Carmel area restaurants, silent auction and live entertainment. It will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Ritz Charles, 1�156 N. Meridian St. Tickets are $�0 in advance or $�5 at the door.

BROADWAY SELECTIONS: The Carmel Symphony Orchestra will present “Bernstein & Webber: Broadway Hits” at 7:�0 p.m. on March 15, at Westfield High School, 18�50 N. Union St. Vocalists Jerry and Kathleen Hacker will sing music from “West Side Story,” “Cats,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Phantom of the Opera” and more! Tickets ($�0 adults, $15 seniors, $5 teenagers, free under 1�) are available now by calling 844.9717. For more information, go to www.carmelsymphony.org.

DUNLAP TO SPEAK: Author Phil Dunlap will return to the Mystery Company, ��� Second Ave. SW, Carmel, at � p.m. on Saturday to talk about and sign copies of “Blood on the Rimrock,” his latest police procedural set in the American West. For more information, go to themysterycompany.com.

CARMEL IDOL: Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Thursday for Carmel Idol at Carmel High School’s auditorium. The event is put on by Student Venture and local youth ministries around Carmel. For information, go to carmelidol.com.

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Carmel resident Karen Land is one of more than 35 artists from the Stutz Artists Association who created a new piece for the grand opening exhibition at the Stutz Art Space Gallery.

The exhibi-tion, opening Friday, is the first one at the new gallery in which all of the artists with studios at the Stutz were eligible to participate. To ensure room for a painting or sculpture from each artist and to throw down the gauntlet for the association’s members, all of the artists were asked to create something using the same 16-inch-by-16-inch format.

“Everyone was given an identical square panel, with all of the challenges of work-ing in that limited space and in a square composition,” said Land, who moved her studio into the Stutz building about a year ago. “Also, we weren’t allowed to provide traditional framing, to keep the pieces more similar in format.”

Land enjoyed painting “Shift,” which

is both a tightly cropped image of a woman in a shift dress and a metaphorical statement about change, which is often thought to appear in dreams as wind or tornadoes. The mixed-media image was created with more than 30 layers of acrylic paint and mulberry paper, giving a deep texture to the figural study.

Not providing a frame posed no prob-lem for Land, who typically embellishes her canvases with little “secrets” in the area usually covered by a frame. For ex-ample, the words “equipment optional” augment a painting of a football player in another of her creations.

Land’s paintings, which are heavily influenced by the techniques and subject matter of artists as diverse as the painter Edgar Degas and the photographer Diane Arbus, explore humanity through close-up images of people. Antique photographs often provide a starting point, as they did for “Shift” ($600).

“People ask why I chop off the heads or limbs,” Land said, whose paintings sell for $75 up to $1,200. “Sometimes, the story is in the stance or the gesture, and the face is a distraction. It’s my way of emphasizing the universal rather than the individual.”

With each object by a different artist, the Stutz exhibition, which is open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays through March 28, is a chance to experience the creativity of a large number of artists at one time.

“This show is like a row of tiny windows into our artistic souls,” said Land. “We adopted the fixed format as a display of group unity, but in the end, this approach emphasized each artist’s individuality.”

An opening reception is set for 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, in conjunction with the Indianapolis Downtown Artists & Dealers Association (IDADA) monthly First Friday gallery tour. More information is available at www.stutzartists.com.

Barbara E. Cohen is a freelance writer who covers the arts for Current in Carmel and teaches art history at Ivy Tech Community College. Please send comments or story ideas at barbara@i-writersstudio.com.

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Special eventsWorld’s Smallest Children’s Art Gallery Dates: � to 4 p.m. Sunday and March 16. Carmel Elementary Art Students under the direction of Abbey Browning, art teacher, will exhibit their work. Location: 40 W. Main St. Phone: 844.4989.

Carmel Idol Date: 6:15 p.m. Thursday. Location: Carmel High School’s auditorium, 5�0 E. Main St.

Coming of Spring-Floral Expressions Exhibit Dates: Through March, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Location: Blue Egg Gallery, 4�0 N. Range Line Road. Phone: 5�6.4696.

Taste of Carmel Date: 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Fundraiser for Orchard Park Elementary School PTO. Location: Ritz Charles, 1�156 N. Meridian St. Tickets: $�0 in advance or $�5 at the door.

MusicCarmel Symphony Orchestra Date: 7:�0 p.m. March 15. “Bernstein & Webber: Broadway Hits.” Location: Westfield High School, 18�50 N. Union St. Tickets: $�0 adults, $15 seniors, $5 teenagers, free younger than 1�. Phone: 844.9717. Web: carmelsymphony.org.

Mickey’s Irish Pub Friday: Toy Factory: Saturday: The Late Show. Location: 1�644 N. Meridian St. Phone: 57�.9746. Web: mickeysirishpub.com.

Emerson Hart Date: 9 p.m. Friday (doors open at 8). Location: The Music Mill, �7�0 E. 8�nd St., Indianapolis. Tickets: $15. Web: themusicmillvenue.com.

Jennifer Kirk and Friends Date: Thursday and Friday. Location: Kincaid’s at Clay Terrace, 14159 Clay

Terrace Blvd., Carmel. Time: 6:�0 to 9:�0 p.m. Featuring half-priced appetizers and drink specials for beer wine and cocktails, everyday from � to 7 p.m. and from 9 p.m. until closing. Phone: 575.9005 Web: kincaids.com.

TheaterArt Dates: Friday-Sunday, March 14-16. Location: Carmel Community Players, 15 First Ave. NE, Carmel. Tickets: $1� to $15. Phone: 815.9�87. Web: carmelplayers.org.

West Side Story Dates: Through March ��. Location: Beef & Boards Dinner Theater, 9601 Michigan Road, Indianapolis. Tickets: $�� to $55; includes buffet. Phone: 87�.9664. Web: beefandboards.com.

Thoroughly Modern Millie Dates: Through March ��. Location: Indianapolis Civic Theatre at Marian College, ��00 Cold Spring Road, Indianapolis. Tickets: $�5 to $��. Phone: 9��.4597. Web: civictheatre.org.

My Fair Lady Dates: Today through Sunday. Location: Clowes Hall, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., Indianapolis. Phone: 940.9696. Web: broadwayacrossamerica.com.

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Art of the HolocaustWhen: During regular library hours, through March �1Where: Main lobby, Carmel Clay Public Library, 55 Fourth Ave. SE, CarmelCost: FreeDetails: An exhibition of photographs from the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education in Cincinnati.Info: 814.�900, www.carmel.lib.in.us

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Starting in April, Current in Carmel will publish a monthly Arts calendar, in con-junction with the Carmel Arts Council.Galleries, theater groups and other arts-related groups based in Carmel are asked to share their information with Doreen Squire Ficara, executive direc-tor of the Carmel Arts Council for inclusion in the calendar.The schedule calls

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Artisan Masterpiece Enrollment for March, April and May art classes at Artisan Masterpiece, 19 E. Main St., is now open. Class offerings are available for both adults and children including Oil, Watercolor, Pastels, Stained Glass, Potters Wheel, Basic Drawing Fundamentals and Basic Painting Fundamentals For more information or registration, call 818.0774 or visit www.artisanmasterpiece.com

Museum of Miniature Houses “Two Sisters’ Collections” contains handcrafted miniatures of Emma Rogers and the collected dolls of Rose Chevrolet. The Rogers’ displays are room boxes ranging from elegant bathrooms to formal living and dining rooms and feature two glamorous sets of wedding gowns. The Chevrolet dolls are baby dolls from the Madam Alexander collection. The exhibit runs from through May �5. The Museum of Miniature Houses is at 111 E. Main St. For more information, call 575.9466 or visit www.museumofminiatures.org

Joe’s Butcher Shop Every Saturday in March, stop by Joe’s Butcher Shop and Fish Market, 111 W. Main St., Suite 110, to sample one of the exquisite tasty treats offered from the store. Sampling begins at 11:�0 a.m. and lasts until samples are gone. For more information, visit www.joesbutchershop.com or call 846.8877.

Carmel Clay Public Library Visit the Main Lobby of the Carmel Clay Public Library, 55 Fourth Ave. SE, to view a special exhibit from the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education in Cincinnati. For more information, call 814.�900 or visit www.carmel.lib.in.us

Artichoke Design Studio Artichoke Designs, �40 W. Main St., is hosting “Design After Hours,” a complimentary one-hour individual in-studio consultation with a designer. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Reservations required. The event takes place first

Thursday of the month through June, from 6-8 p.m. To set up an appointment, call 571.8087.

Carmel Old Town Antique Mall “Deal with the Dealer Day” offers complimentary snacks and a chance to meet directly with the dealers in their shops. Visitors can also receive free appraisals of their items with a three item limit (no guns, stamps, coins or fine art please). It will be Saturday from 11 a.m. – � p.m. at the mall, �8 W. Main St. For more information, call 566.1908 or visit www.carmeloldtownantiquemall.com

St. Patrick’s Day at Muldoons Join your friends at the oldest Irish bar in Carmel for authentic corned beef and cabbage and a bagpiper! There will also be fun festivities and give-aways! Muldoons is at 111 W. Main St., Suite 100. Call 571.1116 for more information.

St. Patrick’s Day at the Old Town Tavern Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with green beer and authentic bagpipers at the Old Town Tavern, �9 W. Main St. For more

information, call 846.5545.

Spa Open House at Joy of Raphael On March �7, Enjoy complimentary massage, skin care analysis, hand “facials,” ionic foot baths, body fat analysis, refreshments. Enter to win fabulous spa give-a-ways. Dr. Carolyn will be presenting “Hormones Making You Crazy? Learn How You Can be You Again With Natural Therapies” (5:�0 p.m. & 7:�0 p.m.) and “Toxic Chemicals in Your Home: Are They making You Fat & Sick?” (6:45 p.m.) Reservations for talks is required, seating is limited. Joy of Raphael is at 40 N. Range Line Road. For

more information, call 848.�818 or go to www.JoyofRaphael.com

“Altered Books: What Are They?” An altered book is any book, old or new, that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art. Liza Hyatt will talk about the history of this new art form and the materials that can be used in transforming a book into art. at 7 p.m. March �7 at the Carmel Clay Public Library, 55 Fourth Ave. SE. For more information, call

the Readers’ Advisory desk at 814.�987

MARCH ACTIVITIES IN CARMEL ARTS & DESIGN DISTRICT

RSVP to Cathy Myers by March 11 at cathy@businessleader.bz. or by calling (317) 273-8701.

March Cover PartyHonoring Bill and Mickey AdkinsTuesday, March 11 • 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.The Atrium, Clarian North Medical Center11700 N. Meridian St.

Come for food, fun and networking at the Business Leader’s February Cover Party

saluting Bill and Mickey Adkins of Mickey’s Irish Pub. Connect with your community’s business leaders, enjoy appetizers, and win

prizes in this fast-growing, business-to-business networking event!

Thanks also to:

presents

Don’t just live in Carmel. Live healthy.The 2008 Carmel Mayor’s Wellness Challenge

is underway and there’s still time for youto join. Even if you’re not a Wellness Challenge

participant, you can begin your quest fora healthy lifestyle by attending FREE seminars.

Visit carmelmayorswellnesschallenge.com to register for the seminars and learn more about

the Carmel Mayor’s Wellness Challenge.

Clarian North Medical Center is located at116th & Meridian, Carmel.

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Carmel ClaySchools

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Wednesday, March 56:30 - 7:30 p.m.Sleep: How to Get It, What to Do If You Are NotPresented by Dr. Thomas SullivanClarian North Learning Center

Monday, March 106:30 - 7:30 p.m.The Simplified Home: Tricks & Techniques to Calm the Chaos at HomePresented by Janet NusbaumClarian North Learning Center

Wednesday, March 126:30 - 7:30 p.m.Kid Proofing Your HomePresented by Kent McCool from Home Safe HomesClarian North Learning Center

Monday, March 17 and Wednesday, March 266:30 - 7:30 p.m.Healthy Cooking ClassPresenters for the 17th are Annessa Chumbley and Ruthanne Hilbrich. The 26th is presented by Chef Peter Fulgenzi.Clarian North Learning Center

Wednesday, March 19 and Monday, March 246:30 - 7:30 p.m.Maintaining Your Fitness Routine Presented by Velocity Sports PerformanceClarian North Learning Center

Tuesday, March 255:00 - 7:00 p.m.End of Challenge Open House & Awards EventSponsored by Methodist Sports Medicine / The Orthopedic SpecialistsVelocity Sports Performance1402 Chase Court, Carmel

Wednesday, March 266:30 - 7:30 p.m.Total Knee & Hip ReplacementPresented by Dr. Charles VanMeterMeeting House @ The Village of West Clay2000 E. New Market Street