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Happy New Year Wishes for 2020
New Year is the time of day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar’s year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of January is often marked as a national holiday wishing you a year fully loaded with happiness.
We wish that every day of the new year to be filled with success, happiness, and prosperity for you and your family.
Have a Happy New Year!
Inspirational New Year’s Toasts
For a memorable New Year’s Eve toast, start with a quote to inspire friends and family. These sayings will provide encouragement for continued prosperity, personal growth, and joy among your guests:
- “Here’s a toast to the future, a toast to the past, and a toast to our friends, far and near. The past a bright dream; may our friends remain faithful and clear.”
- “May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live!”
- “As we start the New Year, let’s get down on our knees to thank God we’re on our feet.”
- “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” — Edith Pierce
- “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
- “Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; here’s to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.”
AG Curtis Hill Releases Preliminary Report On Investigation Update On Status Of Fetal Remains
Attorney General Curtis Hill has released a preliminary report on his office’s investigation into 2,411 medically preserved fetal remains and thousands of medical records discovered in the fall of 2019 among the personal belongings of the late Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, who performed abortions at clinics in Fort Wayne, Gary and South Bend.
Amid new details in the report is the fact that, based on the poor condition of the fetal remains and unreliable nature of the accompanying records, it is not possible to make an independent verification of the identities of the individual fetal remains. Accordingly, Attorney General Hill intends to have the fetal remains interred in a respectful and dignified manner in accordance with state law. Further, the Office of the Attorney General will follow state law in maintaining and safeguarding the medical records until such a time as they can be disposed of properly.
In addition, investigators have determined the remains appear to be from abortions Dr. Klopfer performed in Indiana from 2000 through 2003. At an earlier stage of the investigation, authorities believed the remains came from abortions performed from 2000 through 2002.
“From the time we first learned of the gruesome discovery of these remains,†Attorney General Hill said, “we have sought to exercise our statutory authority with great care and prudence. This case exemplifies the need for strong laws to ensure the dignified disposition of fetal remains, like those passed by the Indiana General Assembly in 2016 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019.â€
Commentary: Dachau’s Lessons For Today
Commentary: Dachau’s Lessons For Today
By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.comÂ
DACHAU, Germany – The dead seem to whisper:
Do not forget.
It’s a clear cold day here at what was the Nazis’ first and longest operating concentration camp. I walk, my shoes crunching the gravel on the pathways, past and through the sites where people suffered and died.
I move first through the bunker where the prisoners slept. The wooden “bunks†are more like shelves, narrow ones at that. The bathrooms look just big enough to accommodate a high school basketball team, not the masses who were stuffed into Dachau.
This concentration camp opened just weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. It was supposed to have a maximum capacity of 6,000 people.
It soon served as a prison for more than 30,000 people whose only crimes were worshipping in a different fashion, coming from a different place or living and loving in a different way. Despite the Nazi mania for cleanliness, disease and pestilence often swept through the overcrowded camp, in part because the Nazis didn’t bother to feed their prisoners well or keep them warm.
More than 200,000 people were imprisoned at Dachau.
More than 40,000 of them died here.
Their bodies were disposed of in a crematorium at a far corner of the camp. The Nazis hanged many of them from rafters right next to the ovens. Others the Nazis forced to kneel, then they killed the prisoners by firing single bullets into the back of the neck.
When the bodies of the dead were burned, their ashes were buried in mass graves, now marked as memorial sites.
It is at those memorials that the whispers seem the most urgent.
Do not forget.
As I stand at one of those memorials, I lift my gaze. The town of Dachau has grown and spread out since the last time I was here, nearly 35 years ago, but it still is a lovely, quiet place, a thriving suburb of Munich.
It is hard to imagine that such horrors could happen in such a seemingly normal place.
But that’s the thing about evil. In its way, it is like water. It finds any crack, over time widens that crack and then spreads where it will. What starts as a trickle becomes a flood.
And ends up in a place like this concentration camp.
Do not forget.
We like to reassure ourselves that what happened here at Dachau couldn’t happen now. We are too advanced. We know better.
But Germany was one of the most advanced countries in the world in the late 19th century and early 20th. Americans hungering for rigorous education traveled to study here. German culture, thought and art were at the front edge of human endeavor.
The street where Hitler lived when he began his climb to power, for example, also had served as home for Vladimir Lenin while he plotted to remodel the world and Mark Twain as he wrote “A Tramp Abroad†and part of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.â€
The spot where Hitler launched the “beer putsch†that landed him in jail but made him into a folk hero is in a substantial part of Munich. Then as now, Munich was a lively, cultured city, not a backwater or a benighted place. Just a couple hundred steps from where human history took this tragic turn sits one storefront after another of high-end shops that rival those on Madison Avenue.
If evil could flower in Munich, it could flower anywhere.
Do not forget.
As he began his rise, sophisticated Germans treated Hitler as a joke. They called his squared-off mustache a “snot block.â€
But there were Germans threatened by their country’s sophistication, its acceptance of new ideas and differing lifestyles. They longed for simpler times. They feared “outsiders†and blamed them for any loss of status or well-being.
Hitler spoke to their fears.
He might not have made it, though, if many of Germany’s entrenched and wealthy establishment hadn’t thought they could use him to protect their interests and backed him.
It turned out that he couldn’t be used.
That he wasn’t a joke.
And tragedy followed.
Do not forget.
Darkness falls. The camp is closing.
As I walk away, the only sounds I hear are of the gravel’s crunch beneath my feet.
And the whispers of the dead.
FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
  Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.
Porsha P. Walker: Assisting a criminal (Level 6 Felony)
Tamra Jean Betz: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Theft (Class A misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)
Jeffery Lorenzo Currie: Resisting law enforcement (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor), Reckless driving (Class C misdemeanor), Reckless driving (Class C misdemeanor), Driving while suspended (A infraction)
Rian James Poag: Resisting law enforcement (Level 6 Felony)
Charles E. Worman Jr.: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor), Possession of marijuana (Class B misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)
Christopher Michael Silvers: Escape (Level 5 Felony), Attempt Theft (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor), False informing (Class B misdemeanor)
Adrian M. Lopez: Operating a motor vehicle after forfeiture of license for life (Level 5 Felony)
Joe Lovell Blair: Operating a vehicle as a habitual traffic violator (Level 6 Felony), Disregarding stop sign (C infraction)
Lisa Renee Bailey: Theft (Level 6 Felony)
Edy Beaugris: Unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon (Level 4 Felony)
Dara Marie Chamberlain: Theft (Level 6 Felony)
Lawrence Gerard Briggs: Resisting law enforcement (Level 6 Felony), Operating a vehicle while intoxicated (Class C misdemeanor), Operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license (Class C misdemeanor)
Joshua Lee Brown: Auto theft (Level 6 Felony), Driving while suspended (A infraction)
Alvin E. Buckley Jr.: Criminal confinement (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)
Samantha A. Oglesby: Neglect of a dependent (Level 6 Felony)
Bryan E. Critchfield: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 5 Felony), Unlawful possession of syringe (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class B misdemeanor)
Timothy M. Roberts: Operating a vehicle as a habitual traffic violator (Level 6 Felony)
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The Best-Selling Wine in the US
Prosecco, with its light, fruity-flowery flavor profile and affordable price point, has become a Âeveryday wine and the best-selling sparkling wine in the US, as well as the world. And it can be the perfect way to ring in the New Year or any other holiday…birthday…or accomplishment you want to celebrate without paying a small fortune for a similar amount of Champagne. If you want to learn about this tasty tipple that is taking the world by storm, plus some budget-friendly top-shelf bottles for your next bash, keep reading…
From Cheap To Cheerful
At the turn of this century, Prosecco all too often was poorly made—too sweet or even too bitter…fizzy instead of bubbly…and bland, without any recognizable flavors. Then, about a decade ago, Italy’s Prosecco producers changed all of that. They were facing increasing competition from Spain, where Cava sparkling wines offered a better wine for the price. So the Italians started to use higher-quality grapes and paid more attention to the production process.
Today, most of the wines are competent and professional, and many are even better than that. Best yet, Prosecco remains a value, with the majority costing less than $15 a bottle—about one-third the price of entry-level Champagne.
Prosecco 101
It’s made with the glera grape, a white grape that used to be called prosecco, until about 10 years ago. Glera grapes give the wine lemon and stone fruit flavors, much different from the apple and pear flavors in the Chardonnay grape used to make Champagne.
Most sparkling wine is non-vintage—that is, the grapes used to make the wine come from several years of harvests. Prosecco is no exception.
Prosecco tends to be lower in Âalcohol, often just 10% or 11% and rarely more than 11.5%. That compares with 13% to 15% for still wines and 12% for most other sparkling wines.
Prosecco is made in northeastern Italy, and only wine made there can be called Prosecco. The lone exception is Australia, which is not bound by the rules of the European Union. The country is in the middle of a legal battle to be able to use the name, which its winemakers feel entitled to as the grape that they’re growing for this wine was called “prosecco†until fairly recently.
Prosecco is a little sweeter than other sparkling wines, even when it’s labeled brut—which is a sparkling-wine talk for a dry wine. You’ll also see ÂProsecco labeled as “extra dry,†which, confusingly, is a little sweeter than brut. In both cases, the wines aren’t as sweet as white Zinfandel, for instance.
Prosecco has a second fermentation in a steel tank, which still wine doesn’t go through. All wine is fermented, of course. This process is what turns the sugars in the grape juice into Âalcohol. But Prosecco and other sparkling wines go through a second fermentation, which gives them those great little bubbles. Prosecco’s bubbles aren’t quite as tight or persistent as Champagne, giving it a softer texture.
Top Prosecco Picks
These Proseccos, at a variety of prices, provide a taste of what the Italian sparkling wine has to offer…
Carpenè Malvolti 1868 ÂValdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG NV, about $30. This higher-end product competes admirably with the Champagne market. It is balanced with tight, bursting bubbles and lemon-lime fruit. The DOCG designation is part of the Italian wine-naming system, which is based on where the grapes are grown. It’s meant to denote a high-quality product made under strict regulations and to assure the buyer that it was produced in the region it claims, since some pieces of land within the same area produce grapes that make higher-quality wine.
Adami Prosecco Brut Garbèl NV, about $16. A bit like a Spanish Cava, with an almost green-apple fruit taste and less lemon and lime. The bubbles also are sturdier. That makes it a zestier wine, and it’s mild sweetness comes across as part of the whole and not something that stands out. Adami is one of my favorite Proseccos.
Nino Franco Rustico Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG NV, about $16. This sparkler is one of Prosecco’s great values, costing about as much as the most popular supermarket labels but offering layers and layers of interest. It’s not quite as soft as the most well-known brands, and the bubbles are tinier and race more quickly to the top of the glass, making a very Âpleasing Âsensation while you’re drinking it. There’s also a fuller, richer mouthfeel, and the lemon-lime fruit isn’t quite as candied. This is a great holiday sparkling wine—consumer-friendly in both price and taste.
Valdo Prosecco Brut NV, about $13. This is a Prosecco for wine drinkers who don’t think they will like anything other than Champagne. Whereas most Proseccos have a single note of sweetness, Valdo has more structure, with a noticeable beginning, middle and end. The beginning is almost yeasty, a common quality in Champagne, while the lemon fruit is barely sweet and the bubbles are tight and zippy. It speaks to what wine geeks call terroir—making a wine that reflects where the grapes are grown.
Astoria Prosecco del Veneto NV, about $13. Another oustanding value, the ÂAstoria has an almost creamy quality that takes it beyond the sweetness of the grape. There is some apple fruit to go with the lemon, and the bubbles are tiny and firm.
Prosecco Cocktails
Prosecco’s less expensive price and Âsofter approach also make it ideal for adding mixers to create fun cocktails. Its sweetness doesn’t need to be enhanced much at all, allowing the character of the wine to show through.
Prosecco Mimosa: This twist on the brunch standard has a tart and herbal flair. Take one-half cup of grapefruit juice, thyme leaves from five to six sprigs of fresh thyme, one tablespoon of honey and a handful of ice. Mix well, strain into two Champagne flutes and add chilled Prosecco. Garnish with Âadditional thyme leaves.
Prosecco Negroni: This delicious twist on the famous cocktail couldn’t be much easier to make. Mix four parts chilled Prosecco, one part sweet vermouth and one part Campari. Serve in an old-fashioned glass with a twist of orange peel.
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