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The original Carnegie library at 40 E. Main St. (1914-1972)

Construction of the “in-between” library at 515 E. Main St. (1972-1999)

Groundbreaking for the new library (1997)

The current library at 55 4th Avenue SE (1999-present)

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A DECADE OF GROWTH AFTER TEN YEARS AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION, THE CARMEL CLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS SEEN ENORMOUS GROWTH AND CHANGE / P2

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A DECADE OF GROWTH

By Brandie Bohney Current in Carmel

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

From its humble beginnings in 1904 in the front room of the telephone exchange, Carmel’s library has grown exponentially along with the city itself. May 2 marks the 10th year for the building at the corner of East Main Street and 4th Avenue SE, and with that anniversary comes much to celebrate.

THE BUILDING The impressive structure that houses the library was built with the future in mind.

“There was a real focus on making this building cutting edge, big enough to last for … a growing community, and technology was a real focus,” said Beth Smietana, the CCPL’s communications manager.

Smietana At 106,000 square feet – triple the size of the former library at 515 E. Main – no future expansion was thought to be necessary for at least 20 years.

“The anticipated build-up population was 85,000 by the year 2020, and we’re over 80,000 in 2009,” said CCPL Director Wendy Phillips. While some renovation and expansion plans are in the Phillips works, “I still think the building itself is spacious enough and hopefully flexible enough.”

TECHNOLOGY In 10 years, technology has changed dramatically, and the CCPL has done its best to stay ahead of the trends.

It’s a difficult balance, notes Phillips, because each new advancement has to be studied to some degree to ensure the library does not invest heavily in a trend that may not last.

“Knowing which (media formats and technology advancements) to adopt and which ones not to (is complicated),” she said, “because we’re using public funds to do this, so we want to be good stewards of that.”

Internet access at the CCPL has changed, too.

“When we built this building, we had wiring in a lot

AFTER TEN YEARS AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION, THE CARMEL CLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS SEEN ENORMOUS GROWTH AND CHANGE the celebration May 2 is the CCPL’s 10th anniversary, and there will be special events from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. throughout the library to celebrate.

• The Spoonman will perform at 10 and 11 a.m. in the Children’s Department.

• Local author Andre Wofford will provide a presentation about his new book at 1 p.m.

• Author, humorist and Current contributor Dick Wolfsie will give a book presentation and signing in the afternoon.

• Concessions, carnival food and carnival games will be available throughout the day.

• An art sale of pieces donated by local artists will kick off.

• There will be a “10 for $10” sale at the bookstore.

All activities are open to the public, and admission is free. For more information, call 317-571-4292.

of our study rooms and other areas for people to bring their own laptops in so they could plug in to the Ethernet and get Internet access,” said Peter Konshak, the library’s IT manager. “And in 1999, that was a really big deal. In 2009, hardly anybody uses that because it’s all Wi-Fi, Konshak which we also (now) have.”

To keep up with the demand, the library has increased its bandwidth twice. And those increases have only barely increased the cost of delivering the service.

“In those ten years, the price of bandwidth has dropped through the floor, so we (most recently) went from three megabits to 15 megabits for just a couple hundred dollars a month.”

THE FUTURE Mobility and automation will play a big part in the

library’s future.

With more and more focus on downloadable materials, CCPL hopes to be able to provide patrons with services away from the building itself.

“Anything that you could download, the library could theoretically provide,” Konshak said. “It’s just getting to that point.”

Phillips explains, too, that a potential new automation system may speed the process of getting materials back on the shelves once they’re returned – a process that the library has so far been unable to speed up significantly.

“We’re also looking at installing a radio-frequency identification system so that materials … will be checked in automatically and pre-sorted,” she says. “It’s not going to happen tomorrow, but in the foreseeable future.”

Also changing to some degree is the building itself: Several expansion or renovation projects are either underway or planned for the future.

Because of a “renewed focus on early childhood literacy,” Phillips said, the library is developing a new area in the children’s department. It will be “an interactive area for preschoolers to become better prepared for formal learning,” she said. That area will open in June.

Inside the library, there will be a new “tween” area; new, more comfortable seating throughout; and a book discussion room to be carved out of the periodicals reading room.

On the outside, a handicapped parking area will be constructed directly in front of the building, and the book drop under the pergola will be removed.

“We’re just excited about the future,” Smietana said.

“We just want to serve the community in the way they want to be served.”

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The current library’s interior

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OUR TAKES It is our position that the Keystone Avenue interchanges at 106th and 126th streets are vastly improved. The tear-dropshaped roundabouts allow east-west traffic to continue unobstructed, which creates striking contrast to the former stoplight intersections.

After delay, squabble, cash crunch and threatened litigation, these central connectors are finally complete and will serve as important unifiers for decades to come.

After seeing the completed project, we urge the state to get moving on the other road that divides our city, U.S. 31.

While roundabouts will improve eastwest travel, it might take drivers a while to get used to the new roadways. Law enforcement officials will need to keep

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a watchful eye for drivers who drive too quickly between the new roundabouts; and all should use caution in these early weeks and months.

It is our position that the recent citizen involvement in civil expression harkens back to an earlier time in American history. Recently beleaguered taxpayers followed the route of more traditional picket bearers and marched in communities around the country, expressing concern over the recent explosion in federal government spending.

Others immediately criticized the events as little more than grandstanding for public attention. (Most would agree that was precisely what was intended).

While supporters of the current supermajority administration squawked about the rancor and impugned the motives of those participants, the important mes-

sage about excessive taxation was brought to the national spotlight in a particularly American fashion.

Railing against taxes is so universal that these individuals must work hard to distinguish between a general disdain for taxation and a specific concern about the current state of affairs. Moreover, these leaders must work to maintain a focus on personal liberty and avoid ad hominem attacks against opposing factions. While we are pleased that the distraction of property associated with the first “tea party” did not occur, it is equally good to know that even the quiet taxpayer will raise a fist if overly burdened.

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ANOTHER TAKE encyclopedic thinking

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greater knowledge exist all around us. ver since my boyhood days, The question is whether we find a way I have had a fascination with to incorporate the pursuit of knowledge words and the use of language. into our daily lives. As the demands of Recently, one of my 20-someour day increase and new and fascinating thing employees said, “You are uses for our free time become the kind of guy who reads the more prevalent, it is no easy encyclopedia.” When I recovtask to incorporate the routine ered from my astonishment pursuit of knowledge. that he knew and understood But does it have to be that what an encyclopedia was – it way? Can we continue enrichseems most young people ment into our latter years? believe all words come from Somewhere along the path the Internet and Wikipedia of life, we have abdicated invented most of them – I education to the young. Yet admitted that as a boy I rouwe believe years should natutinely read the encyclopedia rally bring wisdom. Alternate to put myself to sleep. It is American Idol with the amazing what one can learn Discovery Channel. When over the years in 15-minute Terry there is no Saturday morning increments.

Anker game for the kids, go to the Sadly, much of that acculibrary instead. I’m not sure I mulated knowledge did not could buy a current set of encyclopedias stick. Perhaps even more sadly, many of even if I tried; but I think I will go and the things I learned are no longer rellearn something new today. evant or have been proven wrong over time.

Terry Anker is an associate editor of Current The one thing that did hold true, Publishing, LLC. You may e-mail him at however, is the necessity of constant terry@currentincarmell.com. learning. Opportunities to accumulate

FROM THE BACKSHOP if what we hear really comes true...

The spies have been kind to us recently, and here are a few nuggets we’re obliged to share: (1) Rick Sharp resigned from the Carmel Redevelopment Council, because he “voted for a $91 million Regional Performing Arts Center, not a $150 million Regional Performing Arts Center.” (2) The former Bistro de Paris on West Main Street in the Arts & Design District is said to soon become a more casual eatery.

Let it happen. The district doesn’t need another empty storefront. (3) A cluster of Carmel artisans purportedly is in the process of breaking away from the current coalition to start its own organization, in which “the focus will be on equality.”

Apparently, no favorite sons there, eh?

••• Employers would pay elevated taxes according to a reworked plan the Indiana House Democrats delivered last week. They see it as a method by which to repair Hoosier Nation’s bankrupt unemployment insurance fund. Of course, under this new strategy, there is no provision for reducing benefits paid to the jobless, which Republicans favor.

There goes our whiz-bang Legislature, telling business owners what they must do.

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Brian Kelly & Steve Greenberg Memo to Albert “Whoreatio” Gore: Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap. The Australia Antarctic Division Glaciology Program did the report.

••• Maybe you didn’t notice, but we did.

Indiana House Democrats gave up on permanent property tax relief before the deadline. Tax Day (remember, Mardi Gras to liberals) was the deadline for the third reading of bills in the House. The Dems decided to adjourn until the following Monday. This all means the idiots who elected these idiots – along with the rest of us – saw any hope for permanent constitutional property tax protection go down the drain. It’s the spending, stupid! Cap or no cap, they’ll tax us into oblivion.

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resident Obama was recently criticized for attempting to handle too many crises at once, after declaring he was attempting to drastically revise the tax code, while at the same time reforming healthcare, stabilizing our financial system and plucking a hostage out of a boat off the African coast. When criticized, Obama said a leader has to handle what is thrown at him, and that presidents do not have the luxury Sue of choosing and prioritizing.

Finkam You probably have an opinion about Obama’s handling of the various issues facing our nation at this tumultuous time.

What would you do if you possessed his power? Would you have spent your first 100 days on the same issues?

Anthony Gomes, a blues-rock recording artist, has a song titled “If You Could Rule the World.” The lyrics, driven by a soulful acoustic guitar, go like this: If you were to ask me how to make a

better way I’d be tongue tied and twisted I wouldn’t know just what to say We got crime and pollution, hate and segregation Our children have guns but no education I don’t know why we have to live this way Things have got to change one of these days What would you do if you could rule the world?

Seems like we’ve come so far but this journey’s only begun Freedom floats like a bird in the air Idealism can burn like the sun We got to find a solution, fight a revolution As we heal the world it’ll bring some resolution The irony is truly strange That you’re the only one that you can change What would you do if you could rule the world?

What would you do?

Sue Finkam is interested in making a difference in the community through healthy conversation. You can participate in the conversation by posting a comment on her blog at www.youarecurrent.com.

DISPATCHES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GOLF TOURNEY – On May 12, the Hamilton County Habitat For Humanity will present its third annual golf tournament at Prairie View Golf Club, 7000 Longest Dr. in Carmel. The organization’s goal is to raise funds for the construction of one home for a family. For a registration form and schedule of events, visit http:// www.hfhhc.org/Portals/2/Documents/ HFHHC_2009GolfOuting.pdf or call the organization at 317-896-9423.

PEYTON MANNING CELEBRATES WITH RILEY - On May 8, St.Vincent Health and the St.Vincent Foundation will host the second annual Peyton

Manning Children’s Hospital Celebration of Caring gala at Lucas Oil Stadium. This year, the premier event will have an “Under the Big Top” theme, for which the health system will transform the inside of Lucas Oil Stadium with 1920s circus decoration and performances.

COP ON A ROOFTOP - For the second year in a row, Indiana police officers will stake out Dunkin’ Donuts rooftops to benefit Special Olympics Indiana. On May 1, beginning at 6 a.m., police officers with the Law Enforcement Torch Run® will serve time on the roofs of 18 Dunkin’ Donuts (including both Carmel locations) to raise awareness and donations for Special Olympics Indiana.

In return for the police officers doing time at their stores, Dunkin’ Donuts will donate $5,000 to the Torch Run program’s efforts.

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having met a major parenting milestone: hough I wrote this two years ago, all kids out of diapers.

I think many of you can appreciNo big whoop, right? Wrong! Four ate my frustration. Enjoy! months later, my husband and I are having I’m in potty-training hell, and a heated discussion about whether her I’m not exactly sure what I did little tush will still fit into a sizeto deserve it. I waited until she four diaper. Stop the insanity! showed interest. I praised the All my mommy friends keep “pee-pees” and double-praised reminding me that she won’t go the “poo-poos.” I never punto kindergarten in diapers, and ished her for accidents. deep down, I know that to be a And yet somehow, on the fact. But with the end in sight, eve of her third birthday, she is it’s very difficult to be patient, worse now than when she first especially with a 2-year-old who started about nine months ago. really is “terrible.” It’s as though We go through at least three she senses “This is it” and wants changes of pants/socks per to draw out my misery as long day and occasionally a car seat as possible. Or more likely, she cover. Unless I physically place knows that by not using the her on the toilet every couple Danielle toilet, she’s getting a lot of athours, odds are I’ll be searching Wilson tention – something she’s confor a puddle sometime before stantly fighting her siblings for. nightfall.

Only the wet kid gets the diaper change, And it’s not like she’s my first; she has ya’ know? three older siblings who all use the restHer delay could also be that she has a room quite efficiently, although I’m still touch of her father’s ADD. Often, she gets having issues with my boys and their aim. so focused on what’s she’s doing – playing (How urine gets on the wall opposite the with Barbies or designing a Lego castle – toilet is beyond me!) that she just “forgets” she’s sans diaper. Or Actually, now that I think about it, my possibly, like her father again, she hates previous potty-training experiences were to miss out on anything and can’t possibly sorely lacking in, well, experience. My spare two minutes to use the restroom. oldest was in daycare during his formiWhat if her favorite cheerleader costume dable years and learned to go potty from has already been selected by the time she his babysitter. (God bless you, Margarite, comes back? wherever you are!) And despite all my Whatever the reason, patience and perattempts to stop them, my twins actually sistence will be the keys to our daughter’s did it on their own once the pediatrician becoming “a big girl.” Like everything else told them they were too old for diapers. in parenting, if we love her unconditionSo really, this is my first attempt at potty ally, things will eventually work out for the training a toddler. best. Definitely by college, right?

In the beginning, my youngest did it Follow-up: I am happy to report our surprisingly well. She’d sprint to the bathnow 5-year-old is finally potty trained and room yelling “I go pott-eeeeee, I go pottthat skipping the diaper aisle always makes eeee,” scramble onto the seat facing the my day. Kindergarten, here we come! tank, nimbly turn around without falling Peace out. in, and do the deed. Of course, we had a couple mishaps the first week, and we still put diapers on her for naps and nighttime, Danielle Wilson is a Carmel resident and contributing columnist. You may e-mail her at but after that, I declared her officially danielle@currentincarmel.com. potty trained and congratulated myself on

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JAPANESE GARDEN THE REALIZATION OF A DREAM

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four craftsmen from Kawachinagano. The ore than three years ago, gate itself – more a work of art depicting Joyce Wozniak dared to dream that a retention pond traditional Japanese architecture – will, for decades to come, mark the entrance to the behind Carmel City Hall garden for all whom engage in its beauty. could become the anchor Throughout the festivities, for a peaceful, serene Japanesesigns of warm and close friendstyle garden. Kumiko “Kay” ship were everywhere. Hand Brunson and Barb Moshier gestures and facial cues seemed shared the dream with her, and enough to overcome the lantogether, the threesome exceedguage barrier. The repeated ed all expectations by creating bows, although unusual to our not just a garden, but a piece of culture, were genuine, respectground that vividly illustrates ful and gracious. It was a great the results of intercontinental sight. friendship.

Years from now, when the April 22 marked the 15th cherry blossom and dogwood anniversary of the sistertrees are standing tall, a new city bond between Carmel generation of visitors will enjoy and Kawachinagano, Japan.

Jeff their first glimpse of the garden, It also happened to be the unaware that it was the dream day residents of Carmel and Worrell of three Carmel women. To Kawachinagano gathered Kumiko, Joyce and Barb: ありがとう. together at the new garden to dedicate Thank you for the dream. the Sukiyamon gate, Yukimi lanterns and Rankei stone lanterns, all gifts from Jeff Worrell is a local business owner. He the generous people of our sister city, recognizes volunteers on “Connecting with Kawachinagano.

Carmel” on cable channel 16. Contact him at The Sukiyamon gate was constructed in jworrell@advantagemedical.com Japan and assembled on Carmel land by

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CARMEL TEEN GROUP WINS $10,000 GRANT

By Chelsie Lanning Current in Carmel

Photo by Kevin Carter

By Saima Hassan Current in Carmel

Anyone who has seen the harrowing Pulitzer Prize winning picture by Kevin Carter will find it difficult to get the abysmal image out of their minds. The picture was taken in famine-stricken Sudan and shows an emaciated child crawling toward the UN food center. A few feet away, a vulture looks on, waiting for its prey to give up on its struggle.

In many third-world countries and some developed ones, starvation continues to rage as an untamed beast. Some glimmers of hope, though, can be seen in organizations and individuals who exist to stem this scarcity of food.

Two such people are the dedicated Dan and Nancy Hintz who have bravely shouldered this responsibility. The duo mans the Indianapolis satellite of Kids against Hunger, a non-profit organization devoted to ending worldwide hunger in children. The couple resides in Carmel, and in spite of having a family to manage and a full-time job each, they are committed to giving their time and efforts to this cause.

A food-packing event occurs every third Saturday of the month in two shifts from 10-12 p.m. and 1-3 p.m. at the Red Cross, Noblesville building. On average, 80 people attend one shift and can pack enough food to feed 45 people for a year.

In their first year, the pair was alone, but lifting the 50-pound bags of food eventually led to severe back problems.

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This is when the much-needed relief from the young men at Cathedral High School and other volunteers arrived.

Both Cathedral and Carmel high schools have a KAH club as part of their extracurricular activities and make a tremendous difference by volunteering their time every month.

Off-site packaging events also take place at churches and schools.

Corporations can host packing events as a team-building exercise or use it as a service project for their conventions.

They have the flexibility of sending the food to any charity of their choice. The only requirement is proof of the charity having received the meals.

While talking about the impact of participating in this charity, the Hintzes focused on how it raises the level of compassion in people, particularly in children. As Nancy said, “Feeding the people is one half of it, changing hearts is another.”

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Last week, local youth environmental group Carmel Area Roots & Shoots was named one of the five winners of the nationwide Clorox Green Works “Green Heroes” grant contest.

The group was among 10 national finalists, whose entries were posted online at the Clorox Web site. Open voting has been open since Jan. 15 for the contest.

The top five vote-getters received $10,000 grants.

Because no member of the group – which consists of middle and elementary school girls – is over 18, group leader Lauren Wilson’s mother, Margot, served as the adult supervisor.

“A lot of these kids have really good ideas for projects, but nowhere to get the money,” Margot said. “The youth have embraced this whole green movement a lot easier and faster than adults. Hopefully this will motivate and empower them to make changes.”

The group’s project idea is called the Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program.

They hope to provide funding for 22 youth-driven, eco-friendly community projects throughout the next two years.

The grant will be divided into $250, $500 and $1,000 micro-grants, which will be

offered to Carmel-area scouting, school, church and other youth groups for green projects.

Clorox hosted the contest to promote its new Green Works line of eco-friendly cleaners. Lauren and Margot got the idea when they saw the grant advertised in the grocery store.

“We were at the store and just saw a little plastic ad by the price tag that said, ‘You can be a green hero,’” Margot said.

“We thought $10,000 could do a lot of good green things for this city. It was just kind of a shot in the dark, but it’s pretty cool” The group received help writing the proposal from Carmel’s director of community relations, Nancy Heck. Because Margot is also a member of Carmel Green Initiative (a nonprofit green group), she took advantage of connections to surrounding green groups and sent out mass e-mails asking people to vote for them daily online.

“It was really interesting to open up my e-mail in the morning,” she said. “I would get e-mails to vote for us that had been forwarded five times, and they would make their way back to me.”

“When I got the e-mail saying we won, I had to read it several times for it to sink in. This whole thing is just wonderful.”

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DOC O’NEAL, CARMEL’S KING OF GOLF

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ow’s this for being an all-time Carmelite? John “Doc” O’Neal was not only a superstar on Carmel’s very first state championship team (the golf team in 1970). He and his mates earned a second state championship in ’71. And Doc is proud to point out he was present for Carmel’s 100th state championship – the girls’ basketball state champs – at Conseco Fieldhouse last year. Not many can claim to have helped earn Danny the first and witnessed O’Malia No. 100!

Doc graduated from Carmel High School in 1972 and earned a golf scholarship to Purdue, from which he graduated in ’76. He and his wife Carol have four children – all Greyhounds. Two have graduated from Purdue. One is currently at Eastern Kentucky. And the youngest is a budding golf star at CHS. The names of his fellow golf champs rolled off his tongue: Pete Holm, Russ Craig, Don Currise, Steve Norris, Bill McDaniel, Paul Rivest and Gary Duke – a veritable early-seventies Carmel “who’s who!”

Though he joined his dad, the late Carmel icon Jim O’Neal, in the insurance

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business upon college graduation, he’s continued to play amateur golf and teach golf, and his path has led him to his current position as general manager at Wood Wind Golf O’Neal Club (formerly Hanging Tree and Bent Tree) on 161st Street.

As Doc’s amateur golf career blossomed (he was state amateur runner-up in ’97), he continued to “give back to the game of golf.” He helped start the Indiana Golf Foundation, located in Franklin at the Legends course, to “train kids how to play golf ” beginning in 1996.

In the late 90s, he and Steve Henke started The Golf Preserve on land that is now The Bridgewater. He spent “nine great years there” and never intended to leave, until Paul Estridge Jr. made him an offer he couldn’t refuse at Wood Wind.

He started there in July of ’08. Estridge hopes to develop a beautiful golf community when the economy recovers, and this course is the keystone.

Doc O’Neal and Carmel-area golf.

Growing with the community!

Danny O’Malia is a Carmel resident. You may e-mail him at dannyo@thetrustpointe.com

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bruises and other body problems. The car in this situation is a problem, and the consequences are what need to be treated by an emergency room physician/surgeon.

This is how it is with fibroibromyalgia pain is a myalgia. Endocrine problems, perfect example of cenmetabolic problems and viral tral neuropathic pain. problems may be such “cause,” It is felt in the muscles, but the actual illness is in the but it resides within the central nervous system. Chasing central nervous system. a car or a driver would not help Fibromyalgia is pathology of an injured person. In the same pain perception with, of course, way, treatment of muscles and multiple triggers in the body. other organs do nothing to Nevertheless, the main illness reduce pain from fibromyalgia. is within the central nervous As surgeons try to fix an system. Because of that, treatinjured person’s problem, physiment with anti-inflammatory cians who treat fibromyalgia Dmitry Arbuck medications, injections and need to fix the nervous system.

Pain Management Modern medicine, unfortuother “body” modalities do not help with fibromyalgia. nately, is much better at treatMedications that work within the cening broken bones than a malfunctioning tral nervous system, however, will decrease central nervous system. Because of that, the pain. fibromyalgia is more difficult to treat than Fibromyalgia is a prime example of a a motor vehicle-induced trauma. software problem in which the computer is structurally intact but does not function. Dmitry M. Arbuck, M.D., is a psychiatrist and An example: Imagine a pedestrian is hit by pain management specialist at Meridian Health Group. For more information, visit a car and sustains a number of fractures,

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an occasional series on the topic of chronic pain. All articles are available on the Current archive at www.currentincarmel.com.

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HAIR THAT AGES YOU - Believe it or not, even very healthy hair can age a person if styled or cut badly. Consider curls: corkscrew spirals are a product of the 1980s; for a more modern and less matronly look, go with long, tousled layers of soft curls or waves. Blocky, straight-across-the-forehead bangs will age you, but slightly longer, side-swept bangs instantly soften and modernize your look. And yanking back your hair into a tight ponytail or bun always adds years. Use a little hairspray at the crown of your head to add a little bit of volume and turn back the clock.

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GARNISH YOUR BAD BREATH - Parsley adds more than green to your lunch plate; it’s also a breath-saver, because it contains chlorophyll, a known breath deodorizer.

So pick up that sprig garnishing and chew it thoroughly. Or toss a few handfuls (even add some watercress to the mix) in a juicer.

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“The elliptical is mindless and by far the least effective machine for fat loss,” says L.A.–based Torri Shack, who’s certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. “It uses momentum, not muscle force. Most people don’t use enough resistance.”

This machine may increase your heart rate and sweat level, but to burn fat using one, Shack says you’ll need to

GO PLAY Stuart Brown is a psychiatrist who keeps his office in a treehouse and has some advice for you -- it’s time to play, reports Janice Lloyd in USA Today (3/24/09).

Stuart makes his point about play in his new book, “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul.” His point is that adults tend to forget to play, and he suggests that the “opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.” He also thinks adults are more at risk because of the recession. “If we’re going to adapt to changing economic and personal circumstances the way that nature armed us to do, then we have to find ourselves having some play time virtually every day.” But he also warns that “play is a state of mind” more than it is a particular kind of activity. He says, for instance, that it’s not play if you get ticked off while playing golf.

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DISPATCHES IS YOUR MONEY READY? – Somerset CPAs’ Wealth Management Team will host a three-part seminar series explaining how to take control of your financial future by overcoming today’s retirement challenges and being prepared for the unexpected. Each will be held in the Somerset Conference Center, 3925 River Crossing Parkway in Indianapolis.

There are no fees to attend. Part one, “Is Your Money Ready,” will be April 30 from 6:30-8 p.m. If you are concerned about overcoming today’s retirement challenges, you will want to attend this special advanced retirement briefing. For more information and future dates, visit www. somersetcpas.com.

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‘CURRENT’ COLUMNIST RELEASES BOOK – Kent Burns, a recruiting expert and recurring DOUGH columnist, recently released “The Why Guide to Your First Job – College Edition.” In it, he condensed many of the tools he uses as one of the top executive recruiters in the nation.

The pocket guide aims to help young people increase their chances of being hired and positively impacting their salary. The book is available for $9.99 (plus shipping) exclusively at www.kentburnsonline.com.

LOCAL RE/MAX ASSOCIATES EARN DESIGNATION - The following associates from RE/MAX Ability Plus in Carmel are being recognized for completing the Certified Distressed Property Expert course and earning a CDPE Designation: Jimmy Dulin, Michael Mergell, Robert Kim Baxter, Jayne Gauci, Pam Jones, Rick Pierce, Libby Cyman, Phil Herman, Brett Young, John Deck, Tad Braner, Angela Dant, Warren Griffin, Dave Galt, Terry Brown, Brad Ansen, Diana Vowels and Tom Colvin. Realtors with the CDPE designation have valuable training in short sales that can offer the homeowner much better alternatives to foreclosure.

BUSINESS NETWORKING – The Carmel Alumni Business Networking group will meet April 29 (and again May 13) at Dooley O’Tooles, 160 E. Carmel Dr. The group offers shared business contacts to expand your cliental, an idea-exchange to enhance your sales, and opportunities to reunite with your fellow classmates. It meets every first and third Wednesday.

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Most of the reason behind numbers them accordingly, the situation above is the rethen reviews them with the cipient’s reluctance to embrace intended recipient. He makes new technologies and ways in comments on each corresponwhich the world is evolving. dence, and then the assistant Think of technology like softactually crafts a reply and sends ware upgrades for the world. it as though he sent the comIf you don’t continue to make munication – every day. Layers! some effort to try the latest The Internet is just a comversion, you might soon find munication choice. Like the it’s impossible to upgrade. telephone, television, or meetWhether it is as simple as using ing in person – they are just e-mail or embracing social choices, and some are more interactive than others. It networks, you have to explore David Cain emerging technologies, or you shouldn’t be that confusing or Marketing might find you are too many complicated. versions back to be compatible.

For most, however, the idea that online communications (like e-mail) David Cain works at MediaSauce, a digital are more convenient makes someone media and online marketing company in answering them for you appear strange.

Carmel. David welcomes your questions or Most would agree that it’s OK to forward comments at David.Cain@MediaSauce.com. an e-mail here and there and ask someone

If you don’t continue to make some effort to try the latest version, you might soon find it’s impossible to upgrade.

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AlphaGraphics (12955 Old Meridian St. in Carmel) is offering job seekers a complimentary set of 25 resume copies, 25 sheets of blank paper for cover letters and 25 matching envelopes. This is a limited time offer for out-of-work-residents.

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LOOKING FOR WORK/NEW EMPLOYEES? Send your abbreviated resume (in the format below) to hire@currentincarmel.com and we will feature it without your name. Companies are encouraged to e-mail us (again, hire@currentincarmel.com) to express interest in any featured candidate. We will send all company information to the candidate, who is free to contact the employer if interested.

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eith Ferrazzi wrote a great book called “Never Eat Alone” – I recommend it to people all the time. Given that it’s graduation season, here are three of the most important secrets to success in real life that they didn’t teach you in school, courtesy of Keith …

You can’t get there alone.

further by helping others achieve their dreams, too, rather than trying to outdo them.

If you’re starting college, look for ways to help your classmates succeed in your new surroundings. Form study groups. Share your research on potential career paths. If you’re starting your first job, maybe you could help your new boss’s child with college admissions advice.

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Start strengthening your relationships now, before you really need them later.

Advisors will not be asIn the classroom, it was signed to you. You should acmostly about your individual tively seek your own mentors. performance. But even if you Your college may have prograduated Summa Cum Laude vided an academic advisor from the Ivy League, success in from the time you first set foot real life will require relationon campus. However, once Kent Burns ships. Who you know deteryou step off campus, it’s your On Success mines how effectively you can responsibility to find the guidapply what you know. ance you need. Start connecting So stay in touch. This is a perfect time with people you respect who can help you to send an e-mail to everyone you and get a leg up in each aspect of your life, your family knows to update them on personal and professional. Make it as easy your accomplishments, what your goals and convenient as possible for them to talk are for the future, and what kind of help with you, and always look for ways to conyou could use. tribute to their success, too.

There’s more than one valedictorian in real life. You’ll succeed by helping others

succeed, too.

In school, everyone’s striving for the same honor. But with so many different paths available in real life, you’ll get

Kent Burns is a Carmel resident, investor and cofounder of CrossConfirm. He is also a professional speaker and author of What’s Your Why? He can be reached at kent@currentincarmel.com.

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Owner: Cindi Berry Address: 220 W. 161st St. Westfield, IN 46074 Web: snapfitness.com/westfield Phone: 317-867-SNAP Snap Fitness has a new owner. Westfield resident Cindy Berry acquired the business in February. With a business background working at Corporate America, she saw potential in the fitness club. She looked at small businesses and wanted to do something that would keep her schedule flexible for her children. Snap Fitness came along and it was “a perfect fit.” She said the previous owners – friends of hers – didn’t have enough time to devote to the club.

“They were running it very well, but they didn’t have the time for the marketing side of the business,” she said. “I don’t have a

BERRY background with fitness, but I do have a background with business management.

So I saw a lot of potential with marketing.” Berry said the fitness industry drew her in because it’s necessary for people’s wellbeing. Snap Fitness offers two personal trainers who give members a free personal fitness consultation, during which they make assessments and set goals with the members.

MONEY MATTERS What is the worst experience with customer service you’ve ever had? Why was it so bad?

“I bought a refrigerator at HH Gregg. They delivered and installed it, and it leaked all over my wood floors. When I called them to fix it, they said they didn’t have any record of the purchase.”

Christina Johnson Carmel

“Customer service in general is dead. People act like it’s a hassle to help you. I worked in retail for years, and I just think good customer service is no longer around.”

Hector Minakata Carmel

“Bed Bath and Beyond had a sign for a product that promised a rebate. When I called to ask why I hadn’t received it, they said I missed the date. I called again, and finally they honored it six weeks later.”

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level a playing field where employers have ear Senator Evan Bayh and an unfair advantage. The facts do NOT Congressman Baron Hill, support this claim. The Bureau of Labor I have been a supporter of Statistics reports the following for 2007: yours for many years, as well Teamsters won 48.6 percent of their as a contributor. I have known elections.

Evan since college. This is the The Service Employees first time I have felt compelled International Union won 72.8 to write about the very alarmpercent of its elections. ing issue of the Employee Free Unions won 69.2 percent of Choice Act. elections at companies where The EFCA would virtually 500 or more employees voted. unionize the restaurant workers.

The Indiana Manufacturers There is no way we can have a Association reports that from viable industry in Indianapolis 1995 to present, the UAW has if that condition exists. Do you won 45 percent of its elections. realize that in some convenI believe these statistics distion centers they have to have a prove the unions’ claim. They plumber to water the plants? An actually demonstrate just the electrician to plug things in? A Brian opposite. Please ask the unions maintenance expert to move an Shapiro that support EFCA how they office machine from one side of can explain these numbers. the desk to another?

Raising the minimum wage for all The ramifications of this act are unacindustry is fine. Sticking businesses with ceptable. Businesses will suffer and busiridiculous work rules is counterproductive. ness owners would have their hands tied If this occurs, I will no longer be able to as union organizers roll up their sleeves to support you. swell their memberships.

I have taken the time to look at union Brian Shapiro is a Carmel resident and contribelection win rates over the last few years.

It is relevant because the unions are claim- uting columnist. He owns Shapiro’s Deli and is a non-practicing CPA/JD. You may e-mail him ing they desperately need the EFCA to

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Bebawi why “Imitation” does Pride, discipline and luck not scandalize the “voice of won’t get you to heaven. Many Christ.” would agree with “pride and “The mystics of the Middle luck” being worldly, but think Ages are the undisputed trea“discipline” is a ticket to heaven. sure of Christianity,” George Discipline is important, but only offered. “They speak to love, if it is discipline of faith. forgiveness, humility – topics Having discipline to work Bob Walters people don’t debate – rather hard – even for the Lord – is Spirituality than to major or minor docstill just discipline, and still just trines which divide us. Our work. union with and light in Christ is not a Faith, forgiveness, humility, grace, disputed doctrine.” mercy … this is the face of the Christian As to “the voice of Christ,” Bebawi rewalk. Yet aren’t we often stuck on fabuminds, “Christ did not go into a retreat lous? I know I am. of silence after the New Testament. He These things are swirling around in my speaks to every believer’s heart. The voice head because I just finished reading the of Christ in the inner life is an accepted mystical, spiritual Christian classic, “The fact.”

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Remember, there are no design police, and yesterday’s rules are often today’s design myths.

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There will be great fun, We are also pleased to music and excitement for all announce that this year for of us kids of all ages. Our the first time, CarmelFest planning committee has has gone green. You will

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Sherry Russell serves on the CarmelFest committee as the Volunteer Chair, where she and her team solicit members of the community to serve two-hour shifts during CarmelFest. Her committee is tasked with securing approximately 200 volunteers each year. If you would be interested in volunteering at CarmelFest, go to www. carmelfest.net to register.

Sherry lives in Carmel, has two children, D.J., and Alexa, and is a health insurance agent with AFLAC and American Health Solutions. She is a member of the Carmel Rotary Club.

gary Frey have an opportunity to recycle some of your CarmelFest trash this year, and keep our beautiful community at the forefront of the green initiative.

Please check our Web site, www.carmelfest.net, often for event updates and schedules. If you need specific information, please contact us at info@carmelfest.net. I look forward to seeing you all at CarmelFest 2009.

country, rock, and Americana Central Indiana’s favorite sons (and their daughters) are back by popular demand for their July 3 show. Having played the world over, the band seems to thrive on its hometown performances year in and year out. Featuring Hamilton County residents Tim and Tom Wright, John McDowell and Keith Claghorn of Carmel, and Frank Bradford, the songs you love to hear are the ones they perform. It’s a total package: tight harmonies, flawless instrumentation, and humor in a well-paced, polished, and wide-ranging show that’s sure to please.

- Sue Westermeier, Entertainment Chair

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Valentina with her painting, "Russian Winter"

Oil paintings such as “Russian Winter” (16 x 20 inches, $500), which depicts an archetypal snowy Russian landscape, and “European Town” (11 x 16 inches, $400), which reminds the viewer of any number of restive European cities, are typical of her earlier style of painting. Newer canvasses are infused with the light she sees here in the United States. For example, “Sea Sunset” (11 x 14 inches, $300), which depicts the Florida seashore, is brighter and more saturated with the optimistic colors of the New World.

Floral paintings like “Sunflowers” and

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Although she likes to paint the art capitals of Europe and conjure images of her Russian homeland, Valentina Shvyrkova isn’t homesick for her native Moscow.

Upbeat Carmel is a welcome change from the oppressive mood of post-Soviet Russia, so while Shvyrkova is planning a visit to her hometown soon, she’s perfectly content to live in the United States now.

“There are many more opportunities for work here,” she said. “And the people are, in general, far happier in temperament than the average Russian, who has a tendency to melancholy.”

Shvyrkova has been painting since childhood. She enrolled in art school out of high school and worked as an interior decorator in a Moscow retail store before her husband’s career in computer electronics took the couple halfway around the world.

She paints primarily in oil on canvas, and the images come from her memory: landscapes, people and scenes that recall places she’s been privileged to visit.

“While they depict the real world, my paintings also have a romantic touch through impressionist strokes of color,” she said. “I want to capture subtle color fluctuations and atmosphere under various lighting conditions. I’m very much influenced by the work of Claude Monet in that regard.”

“Iris Bouquet” offer a special opportunity to reference works of leading French Impressionist painters, but Shvyrkova puts her own spin on the up-close compositions.

Shvyrkova’s works, which sell for less than $900, are on view at the Blue Egg Gallery (430 N. Range Line Rd.), through mid-May and at the Carmel Arts & Design District offices (111 W. Main St.) indefinitely.

Barbara E. Cohen covers the arts for the Current community newspapers. Please send comments or story ideas to barbara@i-writersstudio.com.

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STARTING BITTERSWEET - American bittersweet is a deciduous, twining climber grown for its attractive berries.

It can be propagated by seed in the autumn or spring or by soft-wood cuttings in the summer. You’ll have to check with plant and seed suppliers regarding its availability. Plants should not be harvested from the wild because they are becoming scarce.

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DON’T ASK FOR A DOGGIE BAG ABROAD - The takeaway bag for the balance of our dinner is an American phenomenon. Ask a French waiter if you can have the rest of your cake to go, and you might find him scooping up scraps from everyone’s dessert plates, assuming it’s actually meant for your dog. Taking food home is tacky to people in many other countries, who don’t go out as often and generally eat smaller portions than we do. The forerunner of the doggie bag actually evolved in the Old World, though — in ancient Rome, to be precise: Many guests at a banquet would bring their own oversized napkins and, at the end of the night, fill them with leftovers.

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What she likes about Cheeseburger in Paradise. I really like it because it is super laid back. It is a relief from (Carrabba’s) because we are a little more high-end.

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The Turkish dishes at Istanbul Café provide a source for balanced diets and vegetarian diets. Chef Sabahat Kurucay is from Turkey, which is where she learned to cook. She has been a chef for a decade now. Lunch menus and takeout are available at Istanbul Café.

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The most popular scale fish consumed in this country is salmon.

For decades, fish mongers, scientists and purveyors have all tried to capitalize on our preference by expanding choices and eliminating seasonality.

Although we have many new choices Chef Michael available, in the Vlasich process they have Culinary Explorer created diseases like anemia, along with fungal- and bacteriabased ailments.

Originally, there were two basic types of salmon: “Pacific” and “Atlantic.” Ten years ago, 90 percent of the salmon consumed was the Pacific-specific Alaskan variety. But in the present age, the scientists producing hybrid salmon use the Atlantic species, which allows them to farm-raise the fish and offer different sizes and color tones.

Anemia is an infectious disease found only in Atlantic salmon, though is not transferable to humans.

The pendulum has swung back to the wild salmon, as they all are free of the disease. While this nation has safeguards in place, we all must realize the inspectors are

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EXPLORING THE RPAC Members of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra gathered last week for a tour of their future home, the still-under-construction Regional Performing Arts Center at City Center Drive and 3rd Avenue SW. 1. The RPAC is about 40 percent complete according to Mike Anderson, senior project manager for Shiel Sexton, and is on schedule to open in the fall of 2010. 2. Dan Moriarty discusses a rendering of the 1,600-seat building before leading members of the CSO on a tour of the facility. 3.

“Welcome to your new home,” Anderson told members of the orchestra as they got an inside look at the construction of the RPAC. Anderson, with plans in hand, leads members of the orchestra through the backstage area where their dressing rooms will be located. 4. CSO members check out the backstage area.

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BOOK REVIEW The Red Leather Diary

By Lily Koppel New York Times reporter Lily Koppel found a dumpster outside her apartment building and learned management was clearing out abandoned property in the building’s storage area. She discovered many treasures from pre-World War II including a red leather diary. The inscription from 1929 stated that it belonged to Florence Wolfson, who received it for her 14th birthday. Feeling a connection with the young woman who faithfully recorded her experiences and thoughts for five years, Koppel used an investigator and found Wolfson still alive in Connecticut. After Koppel returned the journal to her, she developed a personal relationship with Wolfson that resulted in the publication of her biography.

“The Red Leather Diary” is an engrossing, fast-paced story about a highly gifted teenager from an immigrant family becoming a sophisticated young woman in the 1930s. The biography also reveals the vibrant cultural life of New York City between the wars.

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If your yard isn’t fenced, yet you want your garden be uninviting for the many deer that roam and forage through our neighborhoods, the folks at Better Homes & Gardens want you to know there are solutions.

Hungry deer will eat almost anything.

Even if your yard is fenced, they will jump the lower hurdles. It partly depends on what else is available and how hungry the deer are. You’ll tempt trouble by planting deer favorites, which are often smooth, tender and flavorful plants. A few tastebud tantalizers can be enough to lure them into your yard. Some typical deer favorites include: • Shrubs/trees: arborvitae (thuja occidentalis) • Azalea (rhododendron) • Balsam fir (abies balsamea) • Berries • Dogwood (cornus mas) • Fraser fir (abies fraseri) Also: Chrysanthemum, clematis, daylily; Geum, hyacinth, rose, Trillium, tulip,

apples, beans, broccoli, hosta, lettuce, peas, raspberry, strawberry, sweet corn and Vinca minor.

There are many deer deterrents, and effectiveness varies largely based on how quickly your particular deer adjust to them. Some common deterrents: • Mothballs • Thorny branches • Hair clippings • Decaying fishheads • Blood meal • Garlic • Fabric softener • Floodlights • Noisemakers • Hidden fishing lines • Sprinklers

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The naturalized water feature is purposely hidden from view as visitors walk around the corner of the house. The intrigue of hearing, but not yet seeing, creates a sense of urgency. What started as a pondless water feature quickly grew into a shallow pond intended for seasonal fish and dangling toes.

Like most cool outdoor stone patios or decks, they are benign without the poetry that pulls it all together.

Flowering ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials are critical to creating the sense of space we all long for after another thankful, yet intense, week at the office.

What does your space look like or need? Occasionally, a few minor adjustments can cause a huge impact. Other times we simply need to start fresh and accomplish a complete renovation.

As more of us determine to stay home, wouldn’t you love to “love your backyard”?

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love my backyard, I love my backyard, I love my backyard,” Carrie Petty squealed when the fourweek transformation was finally complete. The previous muddy mess was now a spectacular outdoor living escape with plenty of space to lounge, hang out by the oversized outdoor fire pit, and drink in God’s incredible creation.

Within a few days, most of the neighbors had Randy visited, and the Sorrell official christening happened that Friday evening with a gigabyte of kids sitting on the seat wall just out of reach of the warming fire. Some hung out on the repositioned play set or in the newly created lawn courtyard meticulously carved in a very-cool arching fashion.

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using an aquarium gravel cleaner For Current in Carmel

The purpose of this siphoning unit is to remove wastes from aquarium gravel, which are generally not removed by power-operated filters. Wastes that collect in the gravel bed often take on an unsightly appearance. They also can produce decay and gases toxic to fish and plants.

Aquarium owners who use gravel cleaners benefit in many ways. Top on the list is convenience.

If used properly, aquarium gravel cleaners …

• Whisk dirt away, leaving clean gravel intact.

• Leave fish, plants and decorations intact.

• Save hours in aquarium cleaning time.

• Result in cleaner, healthier conditions for aquarium inhabitants.

Easy to use: Just follow these simple steps

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Place large rigid intake tube of aquarium cleaner into aquarium gravel.

Position a leak-proof bucket on the floor beneath the aquarium. The bucket must be positioned below the water level in the aquarium for the siphoning to occur naturally.

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Start siphon unit. This is done best by issuing a sudden, short draw of breath into the flexible tubing. Water, containing suspended dirt particles, should quickly begin to flow into the bucket.

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Allow gravel to rise up (three to four inches) in the rigid intake tube of the aquarium gravel cleaner before pinching the flexible tubing to stop water flow.

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While still pinching the flexible tubing, lift the rigid tube from the

gravel and move to another spot for cleaning. Start siphoning again. Repeat process until one third of the aquarium water has been removed.

Remember ...

No more than one third of the aquarium water should be removed from the tank during any one cleaning. Removing too much can deplete helpful bacteria strains living in your aquarium, and as a result, upset the balance of biological filtration.

Replacement water always should be conditioned with an aquarium water conditioner to ensure the health of your aquatic pets during routine water exchanges.

Article courtesy of Petland, Carmel. For more information, contact Juan Lopez at 317-569-PETS.

pets of the week Nala is a 5-year-old female red and white collie/Australian shepherd mix. She is a sweet and gentle girl in need of a special person willing to give her lots of TLC. Nala has hip dysplasia, which should have been treated when she was a puppy. It wasn’t, and she is now dealing with the consequences.

She can still get around, and she enjoys going for walks, but she will likely need medication to help her deal with the pain.

Kiara is a 3-year-old female tabby with white DSH. Kiara is a very sweet girl who is spayed and litterbox trained. She was surrendered by her owners because they couldn’t afford to care for her. She isn’t happy about losing her home, but she is more than ready to start over with a new family who will love and care for her. Kiara is good with children and enjoys playing with other cats. She could use a routine dental cleaning, but then she’ll be ready to enjoy the comforts of home.

For more information on these and other animals at the Humane Society, call 317-7734974 or go to www.hamiltonhumane.com.

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DO CATS HATE YOUR BABY? - There’s an old rumor that cats hate babies and will crawl into their cribs to smother them.

But experts say this tale probably began because cats, attracted to soft, warm bedding, probably curled up near babies who died from other causes. Because they were found near the babies, the cats got the blame for the death. Feline veterinary specialist Elaine Wexler-

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ecause of my visibility, my wife gets a lot of questions about how I write my humor column.

Her favorite: “Your wife certainly is funny. She says the cleverest things.”

This drives me up the wall, because I am the one who puts the words in her mouth every week.

The most common question is whether the stuff I write about in my columns is really true. “If it is true,” people ask Mary Ellen, “why do you let him write Dick Wolfsie about such personal Humor matters? And if it’s not true, why do you let him make up such baloney?”

Most of the stuff I write about is admittedly an exaggeration. But here’s the problem: I have written so many columns that people think I am always looking for a column idea. God forbid something really tragic should happen …“Hello, Missing Persons Bureau? This is Dick Wolfsie. My wife has been gone for two days.”

“Yes, Mr. Wolfsie, very amusing. We here at Missing Persons are aware of the use of hyperbole to create a humorous and whimsical effect.”

“I’m not trying to be funny, officer. I believe my friend Alan has run away with my wife.”

“I think we know where you’re going with this: ‘And I really miss him.’ Sorry, Dick, just a bit predictable.”

“Look, for the last time, I am not writing a humor column. My wife is missing.

She has been gone two days, not three.

Now, maybe I’m being a little paranoid, but doesn’t that seem a little funny to you?”

“Not the way you tell it.”

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Maybe I’m overthinking it. Maybe it’s enough to say this nice woman from Scotland has a lovely voice, a pleasure to hear in this cacophonous age.

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“yes” votes from the judges, which means guess by now the Internet video of she gets to trade her voice for whatever’s Scottish singer Susan Boyle has been behind Door Number Two. viewed at least twice on just about OK, here’s what I like about the story: every computer on the planet.

Frizzy, frumpy, frowsy looks-like-me Talk about pervasive. I receive at nobody from little village in least 10 Susan Boyle YouTube Scotland wows the world with links per day from people tellher cheeky pluck (or is that ing me, “You HAVE to see plucky cheek?) and splendid this!” If every one of those 10 voice. sends it to 10 others, and they That’s a great story. You can’t send it to 10 others, and they NOT like that story. I’m also send it to 10 others – well, it’s fond of that song, sad as it is, only a matter of time before the and am always relieved when a Amish are going to be talking singer doesn’t louse it up. If you about her too. want to know what I’m talkHmm. For the benefit of you ing about, look up the version Amish folks out there, I suppose sung by Aretha Franklin. It’s I’d better explain: on YouTube, too. Aretha, I love Susan Boyle is a 47-year-old Mike Redmond you, but this was not one of Scottish woman who astonished Humor your better ideas. the “Britain’s Got Talent” proBut here’s what I wonder about: gram, one of the million or so TV shows Frizzy, frumpy, frowsy nobody wows the on which people get up and perform in world with her splendid voice. front of a panel of celebritroid judges.

The question is: Would we be paying Anyway, Susan is ... oh, how can I say this much attention if Susan Boyle were this? Well, she seems very nice, and she a babe? I’m inclined to say no. Would has a winning personality. I’m sure all the people in her neighborhood just adore her. people be going on about her voice – “angelic” and “unbelievable,” they’re calling She ... oh, heck. Let’s just say it. Susan is it – or would they just say it was nice? Like not a beauty. She’s what you might call 3F I said, I wonder.

– frizzy, frowsy and frumpy.

Oh well. Maybe I’m overthinking it.

Basically, she looks like me.

Maybe it’s enough to say this nice woman The audience tittered (they do that in from Scotland has a lovely voice, a pleaEngland) when she came onto the stage. sure to hear in this cacophonous age. You Then she opened her mouth to sing, and might even say the world needs it right everything changed.

Susan has a beautiful voice. Clear, pretty now, and that’s why her video has spread good range, not bad as far as dynamics go, like wildfire. And someday soon even the Amish will see it. Although, being Amish, and with a throbbing vibrato that splendidly matched the emotion of the song she they’ll have to download it by kerosene lamp. had chosen: “I Dreamed A Dream” from the musical, “Les Miserables.”

Mike Redmond is an author, journalist, Well, the place went nuts. People leapt humorist and speaker. Write him at mike@ to their feet cheering, clapping, throwmikeredmondonline.com or P.O. Box 44385, ing babies into the air, and, in most cases, Indianapolis, IN 46244. catching them. And when it was over, Susan Boyle had received the coveted three

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James Timothy Hidding, 48, passed away April 20. He was born June 20, 1960 in Golden Valley, Minn. He was a 1982 graduate of St. John’s University with a bachelor of science in analytical chemistry. Jim worked as a state toxicologist for North Dakota State University in Fargo. Jim met his wife, Linda at the university and they were married July 29, 1989. They relocated to Carmel in August 1993, and he worked at Methodist Hospital.

Jim continued to work with Covance Central Laboratories until he became disabled. He was preceded in death by his mother, Virginia Ann Hidding. Survivors include his father, John Bernard of Shorewood, Minn.; wife; Linda; son, Matthew; daughters, Kristen and Rachel, all of Carmel; stepdaughter, Nicole (husband, Denny) of Burnsville, Minn.; stepson, Derek of Largo, Fla.; three grandchildren, Isaac, Leah and Micah of Burnsville, Minn.; sister, Mary Sherman and family of Dayton, Ohio; brothers, George and family of Victoria, Minn., John Bernard III, Twin Cities and sister, Sarah (husband, John) of Philadelphia, Pa.

grammatical throwdown over commas

By Brandie Bohney Current in Carmel

STACY CARMEL STUDENT WINS STATEWIDE AWARD – Amelia Stacy, a student at Carmel High School, received an Excellence Award for her design work as part of the Indiana High School Architectural Design Competition. More than 100 high school students got a chance to experience what it’s like to be an architect and face the challenges of designing an environmentally friendly structure that includes solar power, wind turbines and more. Stacy was among only three students to win an Excellence Award.

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CHS ADVISER EARNS NATIONAL CERTIFICATION - Carmel High School yearbook adviser Nicole Wilson has been named a Certified Journalism Educator by the Journalism Education Association.

To earn certification, teachers must either earn a college major or minor in journalism or complete a two-hour written exam. Wilson was one of 31 teachers from across the nation – and the only individual from Indiana – to earn certification this spring. Wilson joins 17 other Hoosier teachers who have been named Certified Journalism Educators since the program began 18 years ago.

CARMEL ELEMENTARY EARNS $1,000 WELLNESS PRIZE - Carmel Elementary School is one of two schools in Indiana to earn recognition from the Jump Kids Jump Movement, an organization that encourages young people to be physically fit and active. Fourth graders at the school jumped to victory by tracking their jump rope practice and completing other healthy challenges, such as participating in the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart.

Thirty-five elementary schools from around the state participated this year, with more than 3,500 students involved.

CHERRY TREE POSTER CONTEST WINNERS - In recognition of Earth Day, Cherry Tree Elementary School sponsored a poster contest that was open to all grades. Thirty-five students entered the competition, the theme of which was “What Kids Can Do to Save the Earth.” The Cherry Tree Student Council and Parent-Teacher Association Green Committee selected four winners: Allie Vanneman, first place; Grace Ravenna, second; Claire Adams and Molly O’Connor, tied for third.

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If you don’t believe raging debates can be waged about grammar, ask a group of grammarians from different backgrounds about terminal commas, and then watch the sparks fly. You’ll never again see such a flurry of aggressive arguing and rationalizing in your life.

At this point, you may be asking what the heck a terminal comma is, anyhow. And why would all those uppity grammar-crazed smarty-pantses (pantses? Igh.) be so enraged about its use?

I’ll tell you. But first, I’ll tell you a little story. Work with me, here.

Writing for Current is my first real journalism gig. I used to teach high school seniors how to read literature and write arguments. Then I had kids and stopped teaching.

As an English teacher, I stuck to a common English style of writing: MLA style. MLA stands for Modern Language Association, and these folks more or less make the rules for documenting sources in research writing for most academic purposes. In journalism, the most common style is AP (Associated Press) style, which is quite a bit different from MLA, including in the area of use of terminal commas.

Why am I telling you this? MLA style dictates that terminal commas are a necessity. AP style says just the opposite: No terminal commas, please.

A terminal comma is the comma before the conjunction and in a list or series. For almost any use other than journalism, I think most grammarians would agree the terminal comma is necessary. The most basic reason is to avoid making the last two items on the list appear as though they are a single compound item.

A fantastic example of the necessity of the terminal comma is the popular and probably-fictional dedication,

“I dedicate this book to my parents, Ayn Rand and God.” No one has ever – to my knowledge, anyway – found a real book with this dedication, but the humor lies in the meaning implied by the lack of the terminal comma. Without it, it seems Ayn Rand (a militant atheist) and God are the author’s parents. Not likely. If you put in the terminal comma, however, it becomes a more logical – though not much less ironic – list. Maybe the author was influenced by Rand’s style of writing. Or use of terminal commas.

A less inflammatory example: I took my sisters, Tammy and Sarah. Without the terminal comma, it appears as though my sisters are Tammy and Sarah. But if Tammy and Sarah are actually my best friends and I have eight sisters, the sentence really requires that terminal comma. There’s a big difference between two people and 10. Especially if I’m taking them all out to dinner and the theater at my expense.

And here’s another argument in favor of the terminal comma: My three favorite meals are lasagna, pineapple and ham and eggs. Hmmm. So do I like pineapple and ham or ham and eggs? It’s impossible to tell without the terminal comma.

Now, to be fair, even AP style would require a terminal comma in at least that last example. I think. I’m still trying to get a grip on this crazy style of writing.

My poor editor. Deleting all those terminal commas I feel compelled to include. Why must there be changes in style for different types of writing, anyhow? If we just all did things the way I like them done, it would be so much easier – for me. That’s exactly what all those AP experts believe, too. And that’s why the argument rages on.

Brandie Bohney is a grammar enthusiast and former English teacher who developed a mastery-learning system of teaching grammar to high school seniors. If you have a grammar-related question, please email her at bbthegrammarguru@gmail.com.

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who were forbidden to go on dates in high ow many of you remember your mom or dad forbidding school. Instead of arguing with their paryou to do something? Maybe ents, they merely lied about who they were going out with, while secretly meeting they didn’t actually say, “I forbid you …” But nonethetheir boyfriends. They felt terrible lying to less, you got the message that their parents, but justified their you had better not do it decision because they believed their parents “didn’t underHow many of you were tempted to try whatever it was stand” or “were too strict.” you were forbidden to do?

Some of the consequences Remember Adam in the Garden were dire. The girls who got caught lost the trust of their of Eden and the forbidden parents and never understood fruit? why they couldn’t go on dates.

When dealing with children of any age, we need to keep in Where is the lesson here?

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I BUY: Jewelry, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Rolex, Diamonds, Old Coins, Bullion Coins, silverware, Old watches, estate items and anything of value. Call 317-496-5581 or visit us today at www.indyestatebuyer.com

SERVICES

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“STIMULOUS SALE”

Friday and Saturday, May 1st and 2nd; 8 am - 5pm 10735 Towne Road just above 106th street; across from llama farm. Multi Family & generational sale of sales.

Antique & traditional furniture, Decorating accessories of every type, art, household items, costume jewelry, clothing, shoes, etc, etc, etc

WE’LL BAIL YOU OUT DON’T MISS IT!

FOR SALE

All NEW KING PILLOW TOP Mattress Set. $250 Sill in bag Can Deliver (317) 223-9301

FOR SALE

All NEW QUEEN PILLOW TOP Mattress Set. $190 Sill in bag Can Deliver (317) 223-9301

489.4444 ext. 203 FOR SALE

FOR RENT

FOR SALE

Carmel Condo For rent

NOW HIRING

ExEcutivE officE spacE rEntal!!

Bed- Cherry Sleigh Bed BRAND NEW, in box $400. Can Deliver 317-679-3575

Help Wanted

Caregiver wanted for gentlemen in Carmel. Must be CNA; Must have good driving record and skills. Two Shifts Available.

Call JoAnn @ 317-626-5340 Call from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

NOW HIRING PART-TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT

(Expanded Duties a plus) WITH A GREAT PERSONALITY AND A CAN-DO ATTITUDE NEEDED FOR A CARMEL FAMILYFOCUSED DENTAL OFFICE. WE REQUIRE AT LEAST 1 YEAR OF EXPERIENCE. INTERESTED APPLICANTS CALL LINDA FOR AN INTERVIEW AND DETAILS 581-1200

One bedroom, with den, one bathroom at Hunter’s Glen; newly renovated. Non-smokers, no pets. Call 846-1452

Fully wired office space for rent, two story building, 2 office spaces for rent on second floor 1120 sq ft, high speed internet, heat, A/C, water, electricity and trash included, unfurnished, smoke free, parking lot available, conveniently located near the intersection of US31 and SR 32 in Westfield, Indiana, only minutes away from shopping centers and restaurants for only $550.00 a month each with a $400.00 deposit.

Call Cecy @ 867-2566 for info

REAL ESTATE Need a Loan Mod? FREE Mortgage Audit $800 Value for FREE! Stay in Your Home Reduce Your Payments Call Judith 317-836-5320

HAVE STUFF FOR SALE? CALL DEB VLASICH! 489-4444 ext. 203

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 www.currentincarmel.com

SERVICES

With Baker Scott

317.876.3116

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Beginners thru Advanced All styles Electric-Acoustic-Bass Private Lessons Parent-Child Lessons

Ancient Chinese doctors used foot massage, combined with acupressure, to provide relief and remove a body’s ills. Soak your feet in warm Chinese herbal water. Once feet relaxed, we will apply herbal lotion and apply acupressure to stimulate and restore your balance . . . all in a tranquil spa-like atmosphere.

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