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ST. MARY’S WELLNESS CENTER TO OFFER HEARTMATH® RESILIANCE ADVANTAGE PROGRAM

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St. Mary’s Wellness Center at Epworth Crossing will present HeartMath®, the Resilience Advantage Program – Skills for Personal and Professional Effectiveness in January.

This HeartMath high impact program delivers a practical skill-set to respond dynamically and effectively to pressure, emotional challenge and change. Fifteen years of client results show significant, sustained improvements in health costs, productivity, stress levels, resilience, cognition and emotional well-being.

At the program’s core are easy-to-learn self-regulation tools and resilience-building practices that help individuals become more balanced, aware, and high functioning. Benefits include: Ability to focus, process information and solve problems, regenerative sleep, increase vitality and resilience while reducing stress, worry, frustration & fatigue.

A key component is the award-winning emWave® technology, real-time monitoring of the impact of emotions of physiology and cognitive state.

  • Recognize subtle stress signals before they become chronic.
  • Learn powerful techniques to boost performance, resilience and quality of life.
  • Be less reactive, think clearly and make good decisions under pressure

HearthMath® will be led by Wellness Coordinator Helen Emge Shymanski, a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and certified health coach. Shymanski has been professionally trained through Duke University Integrative Medicine, HeartMath®, and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

The program is a four-hour package series. Participants have a daytime option across four different days:

  • Tuesday afternoon: January 20th, 27th, and February 3rd and 10th from 12:00 – 12:50 p.m.

The cost is $110 per person and includes the required HeartMath® Manual. Please call 812-485-5725 by Tuesday January 13th to register. For more information, visit StMarysEpworth.com/classes.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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 Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Matthew Dunn              Burglary-Level 5 Felony

Theft-Level 6 Felony

Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor

Marc Jones                 Domestic Battery-Level 6 Felony

Johnny Morris Jr          Domestic Battery-Level 6 Felony

John Munoz Jr              Carrying a Handgun without a License-Level 5 Felony

Possession of a Synthetic Drug or Synthetic Drug Lookalike Substance-

Class A Misdemeanor

Otis Murry Jr              Residential Entry-Level 6 Felony

Criminal Mischief-Class B Misdemeanor

Nicholas Oliver               Fraud on a Financial Institution-Level 5 Felonies (Two Counts)

Forgery-Level 6 Felonies (Two Counts)

Kima Shelby               Domestic Battery-Level 6 Felony

James Short                   Domestic Battery-Level 6 Felony

Criminal Mischief-Class B Misdemeanor

Possession of Marijuana-Class B Misdemeanor

Darius Smith                  Fraud on a Financial Institution-Level 5 Felonies (Two Counts)

Forgery-Level 6 Felonies (Two Counts)

James Smith Jr            Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator-Level 6 Felony

Joshua Smith               Intimidation-Level 5 Felony

Steven Alvey              Battery Against a Public Safety Official-Level 6 Felony

Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor

Milinda Case                Possession of Paraphernalia-Level 6 Felony

William Chastain         Burglary-Level 5 Felony

Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor

Ryan Gaw                      Burglary-Level 5 Felony

Zachary McCool         Carrying a Handgun without a License-Level 5 Felony

Driving While Suspended-Class A Infraction

David Moreno              Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury to a Pregnant Woman-Level 5 Felony

Tracy Rager                   Intimidation-Level 5 Felony

Michael Scott                 Domestic Battery-Level 6 Felony

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law

A Special Announcement By Gail Riecken

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Dr. Bucshon’s Statement on 114th Congress

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Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. released the following statement after taking his official oath of office as U.S. Representative for Indiana’s 8th Congressional District.

 

Dr. Bucshon stated:

 

“I’m honored to be sworn in as a member of the 114th Congress to represent the 8th District of Indiana,” said Bucshon. “The New Year presents a new opportunity to build on our accomplishments of the past few years and move forward good, Conservative policy. The American people spoke loud and clear by expanding our Republican majority in the House and electing a Republican majority in the Senate because they are tired of inaction. I’m ready to work to promote the priorities of hardworking Americans – lower costs at home, more take-home pay, expanded choice and opportunity, and a stronger America abroad.”

 

BACKGROUND:  

 

Congressman Larry Bucshon, a physician from Southern Indiana, is serving his third term in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the 114th Congress, Bucshon will serve on the influential House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

 

The 8th District of Indiana includes all or parts of Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, and Warrick counties.

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Judge grants motion to make nonsurgical abortion ruling final

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IL for www.theindianalawyer.com

A federal judge has granted the state and plaintiff’s joint motion to make final her December ruling that a 2013 law regarding nonsurgical abortion clinics violates the Equal Protection Clause.

The attorney general’s office and Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed the motion Tuesday asking Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to finalize her Dec. 3 ruling granting partial summary judgment in favor of Planned Parenthood.

The judge did not rule on the plaintiff’s due process claim nor did she issue a final judgment, which Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said prevented the state from appealing.

Magnus-Stinson entered her final judgment and permanent injunction Wednesday in favor of Planned Parenthood, opening the door for the state to appeal if it chooses to do so. The attorney general’s office said Wednesday no decision had been made regarding an appeal.

Carnegie selects USI for Community Engagement Classification

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The University of Southern Indiana has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of 240 U.S. colleges and universities to receive its 2015 Community Engagement Classification. USI first received this classification in 2008 and has now been successfully reclassified in 2015. Additionally, 121 institutions earned the classification during the 2010 selection process, bringing the total to 361 campuses nationwide to hold the designation.

Colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement were invited to apply for the classification as part of an extensive restructuring of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Unlike the Foundation’s other classifications that rely on national data, this is an “elective” classification—institutions participated voluntarily by submitting required materials describing the nature and extent of their engagement with the community, local or beyond. This approach enabled the Carnegie Foundation to address elements of institutional mission and distinctiveness that are not represented in the national data on colleges and universities.

In its notice to the University of reclassification, the Carnegie Foundation said USI “documented excellent alignment among campus mission, culture, leadership, resources and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy community engagement, and responded to the classification framework with both descriptions and examples of exemplary institutionalized practices of community engagement.”

“This is the first time that there has been a reclassification process,” said Amy Driscoll, consulting scholar for the Community Engagement Classification, “and we are seeing renewed institutional commitment, advanced curricular and assessment practices and deeper community partnerships, all sustained through changes in campus leadership, and within the context of a devastating economic recession.”

The Foundation, through the work of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, developed the first typology of American colleges and universities in 1970 as a research tool to describe and represent the diversity of U.S. higher education. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (now housed at Indiana University Bloomington’s Center for Postsecondary Research) continues to be used for a wide range of purposes by academic researchers, institutional personnel, policymakers and others.

US News Names USI Graduate Nursing Program to Best Online Programs

The University of Southern Indiana’s Master of Science in Nursing program, offered through the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was ranked 36th in the nation by U.S. News and World Reports as part of its Best Online Programs rankings released Wednesday.

Charlie Hebdo Massacre won’t Scare Cartoonists

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On Wednesday, a group of thugs broke into the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and brutally massacred 12 people, including cartoonists, journalists and security officers.

It was an attack on free speech. It was an attack on civilized society. And it was an attack on a brave publication full of cartoonists who all too often have had to deal with threats, ridicule and anger.

Back in 2011, Charlie Hebdo’s offices were firebombed and destroyed after the magazine named the prophet Mohammed as its “editor in chief,” featuring him on the cover in a cartoon saying, “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter.”

How did the magazine respond? With a new issue sporting a cover drawn by French cartoonist Luz that featured a bearded Muslim kissing a cartoonist with the headline “L’Amour plus fort que la haine” — “Love is stronger than hate.”

I spoke briefly with Charlie Hebdo’s editor, cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier (who published under the pen name “Charb”) nearly a year after the firebombing, when a man was arrested after threatening to decapitate him. What impressed me then and sticks with me through this terrible tragedy is his absolute unwavering defense of making fun of Islamic radicals.

Charb’s intent wasn’t to insult Islam but instead to scrutinize it in the same way that all religions and politicians sometimes deserve. If he could feature Pope Benedict in an amorous embrace with a Vatican guard, why was making fun of Muslims off limits?

“Mohammed isn’t sacred to me. I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don’t live under Quranic law,” he later told the AP.

Just this week, Charb drew a cartoon observing that there haven’t been any terrorist attacks in France. The cartoon featured an armed jihadist twisting a famous French phrase to say, “Wait!… one has until the end of January to present one’s season’s greetings.”

Charb, and fellow French cartoonists Jean Cabut (who went by the pen name “Cabu”), Bernard Verlhac (who signed his work “Tignous”) and Georges Wolinski, were among those tragically killed in Wednesday’s barbarous assault.

So far, 12 people have been reported dead, including a security officer who reportedly pleaded for his life before being shot at close range by the fleeing suspects.

The dead were all brilliant. All brave. All defiant. Now victims in a senseless act of war against journalism and the freedom of expression.

I wish I could call many newspapers today brave, but as I went through the coverage by the New York Daily News and the Telegraph, I saw file photos of a defiant Charb holding up copies of Charlie Hebdo with the cartoons censored and blurred out. Not only are you failing to honor the work of fallen journalists, you’re doing the bidding of the very terrorists that want to dictate what can and can’t be covered.

“More freedom of expression and not less demonstrates courage in the face of attacks,” the Association of American Editorial Cartoonist said in a statement. “Shrinking from a newspaper’s watchdog role only encourages more terror.”

The brave cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo gave their lives to advance the freedom of expression, and they paid the ultimate price to defend the ability of all cartoonists to make fun of anyone.

The power of cartoons are undeniable, and as someone who’s received threats, I can I understand why they’re so scary to powerful, small-minded radicals.

I just wish they’d get a sense of humor.

Rob Tomce ias a cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Press Of Atlantic City and Cagle Cartoons.

IS IT TRUE January 9, 2015

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IS IT TRUE well known and highly respected local Attorney Mike Woods is the “Elect Gail Riecken For Mayor” campaign Chairmen? …we hear that Mr. Woods is doing a masterful job in bringing back  the Democratic party Vanderburgh County splitter groups back together?

IS IT TRUE that we are pleased but a bit surprised to learn that Governor Pence has included a sum of $19.2 Million in the Indiana state budget for the IU Medical School that is slated to come to downtown Evansville when all the cash is in place?…that only leaves a gap of $30.8 Million that needs to be budgeted by the other partners (USI & IVY Tech) and paired with the $55 Million handout that the Evansville City Council has approved for the right to select the location of the facility?…as a reminder, this facility could have gone to The Promenade or to Warrick County without tapping the wallets of the taxpayers of Evansville to the tune of $55 Million?

IS IT TRUE with the hotel deal in real financial jeopardy and the IU medical school looking like a dose of reality, it is time to forget about the hotel until the medical campus is completed?…there are several reasons for mothballing the hotel at this time and one of them is that there will need to be some margin available if the project should run over budget with the medical school as it did with the hotel?…Evansville obviously cannot afford to pursue both of these projects at the same time and may just hose the pooch and mess them both up by running out of money in the middle of the construction cycle?…the other reason which is the most important one is that with a medical school in place, the probability of finding a private investor who is willing to take a chance on a hotel will increase dramatically?…at the very least the subsidy required for a hotel after a medical school is in place will be much lower than it was before the medical school became a reality?…subsidizing something that one may get for free fits into the field of insanity as many of these downtown projects have been for many years?

IS IT TRUE the freezing season is upon us and in addition to the discomfort from being cold, Evansville is about to be reminded of one of its legacy problems for failing to have a routine maintenance program?…the old cast iron pipes are about to start freezing and breaking just like they did over 200 times last winter?…when these old pipes break they tend to take some streets with them when the water undermines the subsoil under the roads?…we hope that the powers in place have bought enough salt or beet juice to treat the roads this year, because they surely did not do so last year?…it is bad enough to have the pipes break and have sinkholes form but it is worse if the snow covers the holes and people drive into them?…there is one more thing that is likely to break and that is the decrepit sewer system that we spent a paragraph on yesterday?…we once again shake our heads in disbelief that our elected officials are infatuated with fun and games nonsense when the water distribution system and the sewers are aged and failing?…this is simply irresponsible?

IS IT TRUE that the City of Evansville has issued a raise order to demolish the historically significant Owen Block Building?…the cost to tear the old girl down will be $85,000 and will avoid a $3 Million refurbishment bill?…it was four years ago that the CCO predicted a minimal refurbishment would cost over $1.4 Million and the cost has increased since then to over $3 Million due to neglect?…while even we alleged cold hearted money grubbing capitalist that writes for the CCO hates to see such classic architecture demolished, but I do realize this is the right thing to do?…the McCurdy can’t be far behind for many of the same reasons?…if there was a real high end intelligence driven economy in Evansville, a private investor would have done this job and made a profit doing it?…fun and games will not fix this situation?

IS IT TRUE the news from Paris about the killings of 12 journalists who were dedicated to doing satirical articles and cartoons about some of the more nonsensical things that go in France and the world?…the parallels between the City County Observer and Charlie Hebdo are many, but the thing we have in common in abundance is a fearless demeanor in calling out things that we think need improvement?…we also share common bonds with Charlie Hebdo in taking particular pleasure in outing that which is nefarious, sneaky, and poor public policy?…those 12 journalists were murdered for their fearless nature?…the CCO Editors/Writers  have been threatened with bodily harm for some of our writing as well?…in solidarity with all of those who are willing to write about things that need to be changed we stand with our deceased French brethren in saying “Je Suis Charlie”, and hope for a day when there is no longer a need for satirical writers who are willing to risk their lives to out corruption, idiocy, and evil in this world.

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Keep Pets Warm and Safe

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If you are cold they are cold. Bring your pets inside.

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