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Education & Workforce Development
New ballet school takes over space left by failed dance group
September 25, 2006
Nick CrewsVictoria Lyras began classes for her newly created Indianapolis School of Ballet Aug. 21 in 10,500-square-foot quarters on
Capitol Avenue that previously housed Ballet Internationale's Clara R. Noyes Academy, which closed in November because
of financial problems. ISB has 20 students so far.
MoreEstate planning lawyers can become specialists: New exam lets Indiana attorneys become certified
September 25, 2006
Michael W.Attorney Jeff Hawkins has focused his law practice on estate planning and administration law for 14 years. He considers himself
experienced but is not yet ready to declare himself a "specialist" or "certified" estate-planning attorney. That happens in
November, and the designation depends on results of an exam. The Indiana State Bar Association has recently adopted a plan
to make estate planning and administration a specialty status of law in Indiana, joining four other focuses that have donned
the stature...
MoreVOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Taxes, school, health costs challenge affluent families
September 25, 2006
Ralph NowakAffluent families face many threats to their wealth. But three forces eroding the legacies in almost all of them are taxes,
education costs and post-retirement health care. Fortunately, with proper planning, there are steps you can take to help ensure
your wealth carries you through retirement comfortably with ample left over for your heirs. Make taxes manageable Taxes may
be unavoidable but they can be managed in a way that makes them less destructive to your wealth. Specifically, the alternative...
MoreTAWN PARENT Commentary: Our dead deserve better than this
September 25, 2006
Forget coming late to the daylightsaving time party. Even higher on the list of things we Hoosiers should be embarrassed about
is our coroner system. Of course, embarrassment isn't the half of it. More troubling is that we elect and counties pay coroners
who need no qualifications whatsoever, other than being adults and living in the county where they're elected. (Their day
jobs range from truck driver to boat pilot.) Worst of all is the hindrance these underqualified officials can...
MoreNOTIONS: Dear philanthropist: Make me a daydream believer
September 18, 2006
Bruce HetrickLast month, I picked up my boys in Fort Wayne, drove north on Interstate 69, hooked a left at Interstate 94, and got off at
the Portage, Mich., exit. There, we whiled away the weekend at a family reunion. The grownups ate too much, caught up on gossip
and puttered around the lake in the speedboat. The teenagers, whom we rarely saw, did X-Box battle in the basement. On Sunday,
after the kids had surfaced for lunch and the grandparents...
MoreStudent sponsorship deal raises money, criticism
September 11, 2006
Andrea MuirraguiThe Indianapolis office of Zurich-based UBS Financial Services Inc. is experimenting with "adopting" the freshman class at
Herron High School as the UBS Scholars of 2010. Its foundation made a $100,000 gift to the startup charter school, and local
employees made a commitment to tutor, mentor and otherwise support its first 92 students.
MoreState's new arts leader plans to take more public role: Indiana Arts Commission's strategy calls for Executive Director Lewis
Ricci to be a vocal advocate for funding
September 11, 2006
Jennifer WhitsonIn the fall of 2005, the Indiana Arts Commission started a rigorous study to draft its next five-year strategy. After public
hearings around the state, the full 15-member arts commission voted this summer to adopt the new plan. And now commissioners
have someone to implement it. The chosen man, Lewis Ricci, is itching to take over the spot and turn the commission into a
bully pulpit for the importance of the arts-and the need for public funding. "Advocacy is one...
MoreTOM HARTON Commentary: Crime takes indirect swipe at the arts
September 11, 2006
In Indianapolis, when the crime rate goes up or kids' test scores go down, it's not uncommon for people to point the finger
at publicly funded sports facilities. "Our priorities are screwed up," observers opine. "We spend too much money on these
playgrounds for the rich, and not enough on cops, courts and public education." The sports establishment here has been batting
away this criticism for years. It goes with the territory in a city where sports is an important...
MoreMuseums trip out over loyal donors: Cultural organizations are offering travel opportunities to generous patrons to inform
them, gain more support
September 11, 2006
Scott OlsonWith a new director in place and a $74 million renovation and expansion complete, the next step for the Indianapolis Museum
of Art is courting donors to financially back the enlarged operations. Those who pledge at least $2,500 to the IMA are invited
to accompany, at their own expense, IMA Director Maxwell Anderson and his wife on a cruise in the fall of 2007 to Spain, France
and Italy. The excursion coincides with the opening next year of the museum's...
MoreBRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Downtown needs a grand, artful facility
September 11, 2006
On Sept. 1, 45 competitors from nearly 20 countries arrived for the seventh quadrennial International Violin Competition of
Indianapolis. Through the middle of September at venues around the city, these talented men and women will compete for one
of the richest artistic prizes in the world. In a few short months, the American Pianists Association will undertake its biennial
competition for the Cole Porter Jazz Fellowship. Again, a cadre of some of the instrument's most accomplished American performers
will come...
MoreYoung architect honored for design of orphanage: Cluster complex plan wins international competition
September 4, 2006
Jennifer WhitsonChunsheh Teo is a driven man. The 28-year-old sometimes works long days as an architectural graduate at Ratio Architects Inc.
and spends his off time building furniture for the home he and his wife recently purchased in Irvington. On a recent weekend,
he built a new fence for the yard. Oh, and he also enters international design competitions in his down time-about seven in
the last three years. "It's just kind of a fun thing to do," Teo said. At...
MoreSt. Vincent makes bigger investment in charity care: Need drives construction of Primary Care Center set to open in mid-2007
August 28, 2006
Tom MurphyHere's a lesson they don't teach in business school: Take an entity that loses $4 million annually and expand it 50 percent.
That's the plan St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital unveiled earlier this month when it broke ground on a new, larger Primary
Care Center serving indigent, underinsured and uninsured patients. That population of poor, mostly Spanish-speaking patients
has more than doubled its annual visits since 2000. St. Vincent officials say the new $4 million center is 10 years overdue.
Their...
MoreCulinary training gains popularity as restaurant boom continues
August 28, 2006
Victoria D. WilliamsIndiana Business College will launch a Chef's Academy downtown next month, offering an 18-month program intended to produce
trained "culinarians." Ivy Tech Community College, meanwhile, is looking for space to expand its two-year culinary arts program,
which has seen explosive growth.
MoreRacing toward a new type of learning center: Decatur, Panther team up on educational facility
August 28, 2006
Scott OlsonMention a career in motorsports to most youngsters and they imagine whizzing around the track like NASCAR's Tony Stewart or
Sam Hornish Jr., points leader of the Indianapolis Racing League. But a partnership between Indianapolisbased Panther Racing
LLC and Decatur Township Schools wants to introduce students to more practical professions within the sport by providing the
resources in a hands-on learning environment. The result is the Panther Education Center, set to open next fall near the racing
team's headquarters at...
MoreNOTIONS: Has our love for labor been lost?
August 28, 2006
Bruce HetrickBruce Hetrick is on vacation this week. In his absence, this column, which appeared on Sept. 1, 2003, is being reprinted.
The Labor Days of my memory are happy-sad affairs. The weather is muggy. The family's gathered at some park or pond, river
or lake. Burgers sizzle on the grill. Frisbees fly through the air. And after supper, there's touch football with dads and
brothers, kids and cousins, until dusk drops her shadowy curtain on yet another summer. In my...
MorePROFILE FIRST JURY INC.: Practice makes perfect Local trial consultants aim to help lawyers prepare for litigation
August 28, 2006
Susan RaccoliPROFILE FIRST JURY INC. Practice makes perfect Local trial consultants aim to help lawyers prepare for litigation Blame the
name. Attorneys could be forgiven if they thought hiring Indianapolis-based First Jury Inc. would get them advice on choosing
a jury sympathetic to their clients' cause. But its staff won't tell them to avoid the woman with her arms crossed or the
man who won't make eye contact. Instead, they'll assemble a jury of their own and stage a mock trial,...
MoreWoman sets sights on freedom: Disability isn't keeping shop owner from goal
August 28, 2006
Candace BeatyTwo doors opened for Pam Evans on Aug. 5-one to her own clothing store and the other to her independence. The Cherry Shop
represents both to Evans, who lost most of her sight over the course of a weekend in 1998 to a genetic eye disease called
angioid streaks. Left with only her peripheral vision, she also lost her career in real estate and corporate sales. After
a period of depression, Evans decided she wouldn't lose it all. "I felt...
MoreCharter schools leader tackles new role: Mayor chooses Harris to launch broader public education program
August 28, 2006
Scott OlsonThe Indiana General Assembly's decision in 2001 to hand Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson the keys to the city's new charter
schools initiative marked the first time in the nation that a municipal leader had been given the authority to grant charters.
The unusual approach to improve educational opportunities here has earned the city several accolades, including last month's
prestigious Harvard University Innovations in American Government Award. Now the mayor wants to expand upon the program's
success and launch a not-for-profit...
MoreLean manufacturers take stock of accounting innovation: Fishers company optimistic movement will gain favor
August 28, 2006
Anthony SchoettleThe leanest aspect of lean manufacturing is moving from the shop floor to the accounting office, where a new recordkeeping
system is gaining a following. Proponents of so-called lean accounting say it's better than traditional accounting at measuring
the cost savings and efficiencies of lean manufacturing, a business-improvement strategy that shortens the time between customer
order and shipment. Instead of simply looking at inventory levels and sales numbers as traditional accounting does, lean accounting
measures things such as worker productivity...
MoreECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Simplistic ideas get in way of efforts to increase wages
August 21, 2006
Patrick BarkeyTo the small cadre of economists who have worked their entire professional lives trying to understand the complexities of
how and why the labor market rewards some skills, occupations and people more than others, the popularity of the idea of a
government-mandated minimum wage must be depressing. But it shouldn't be surprising. The notion that complex market outcomes
can be explained by simplistic notions like greed or discrimination-solvable by the stroke of a lawmaker's pen-will probably
always have a superficial...
MoreIU hires consultant for business plan overhaul
August 21, 2006
Peter SchnitzlerTaking a page from Purdue University's playbook, Indiana University has quietly put its economic-development efforts under
review. IU hired Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group this month to examine its process of economic development and evaluate
whether it matches Gov. Mitch Daniels' business-first agenda.
MoreRETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Programmers make lousy site designers
August 21, 2006
Tim AltomMany, perhaps most, Web sites are hard to use. That applies to commercial sites, personal sites, almost any kind of site.
In the early days of the Web, nobody was surprised at this, because the Web was a dancing bear. The wonder wasn't that it
danced gracefully, but that it danced at all. Today, visitors are much more discerning. In fact, there is a cottage industry
in lambasting poorly designed sites. One of my favorite places to go on the...
MoreSPORTS: A grim look at what the city's future could hold
August 21, 2006
Bill BennerI was having a fitful time trying to sleep. For some reason, the word "priorities" kept running through my mind. Then, suddenly,
I felt as if I were awake, standing in downtown Indianapolis. I caught site of a calendar in a storefront window. I blinked
and shook my head. It read August 2026, but the city didn't look 20 years more modern. If anything, it looked 20 years older.
It was as if time had passed by the Indy I...
MoreState's Medicaid goal: better, cheaper care: FSSA says new approach will boost efficiency
August 21, 2006
Tom MurphyBetter care through better management. That's the mantra behind the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration's push
to limit Medicaid's cost growth to 5 percent annually. The state entity announced this month that it awarded $4.4 billion
in contracts to three managed care organizations to provide coverage for pregnant women and children under its Hoosier Healthwise
program. Next, Indiana wants to hire care managers to monitor the well-being of every Medicaid recipient in its aged, blind
and disabled category. That...
MoreProfessor reinvents classroom: Improving interaction reason behind DyKnow
August 21, 2006
Scott OlsonDave Berque knew his first college teaching assignment couldn't get any worse when a fire in the overhead lights barely got
a reaction from his students. "I was in a room with more than 100 people and only seven noticed it," said the chairman of
DePauw University's Computer Science Department. "They were spending all of their energy copying notes and couldn't think
about what was going on." The experience as a graduate student in the mid-1980s at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
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These quaint,obsessed musings by the stalkers are certainly entertaining, but I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, all the yelping below has to do with Zak Brown.
It's evident that Moffett was pushing the right buttons and corporate America is now trying to squash him. He just wanted to withdraw the free pilot services provided to the company by the pilots to try and put some pressure on a company that has not been interested in negotiating a contract in over 5 years. The company does not provide a contract because not having one has saved them a bundle of money. Shame on any Republic pilots not standing behind their union leader just because things are getting tough, can you not see such strategic moves by the company as putting the last union president in a corporate position and into THEIR pocket. Do you really believe the last union president is so appalled at the attempts by Moffett, do you not remember his oppositions to the company? We stood behind him. It has been proven over and over again for thousands of years without fail, a man cannot serve two masters. Anyone that believes people vote contrary to their paycheck and livelihood deserve to be taken advantage of, the recent statements by the former union president are laughable as he denounces the current union president from his new corporate position. Have you ever seen a drafted sports player score points for his previous team, it cannot be done, he is not on the pilots side anymore, he gets his money a different way now than you and I do, and he should not be allowed to remain on the seniority list. A drafted player brings strength, credibility, tactical knowledge, and a strategic advantage to his NEW team, he would not be drafted or paid were it otherwise. We are all forced to choose only one side to play for and support, not doing so has many references in life such as insider trading and shaving points, all illegal for good reason. This basic fact is why corporate moguls, scientist, and engineers all sign non-discloser agreements and non-compete clauses, as protection in case they are lured into switching sides as our former union president has done. No NFL coach ever drafted a player so that both teams could benefit and better understand each other, they are recruited to win the game against that former team, period. Likewise the company does not recruit the former union president by accident or mutual understanding, its strategy. Don't confuse playing the game with good sportsman-like conduct in support of common business and prosperity goals, with the requirement to only play for one side. Good men we all love and favor fall subject to this manipulation, often without their knowledge, and it is not a betrayal of their friendship to oppose them when they switch sides. If we did not love and trust them, they would not have been chosen and lured to the other side in the first place. The deception by the drafted player is not made at a conscious level, it's just human nature and it's all about money and power which corrupts our ability to be objective and loyal to two masters. This is why our court system created the defense attorney, and why our military created counter intelligence. Its strategy and its propaganda, and it works, and that's why the "powers to be" manipulate the chess pieces by sometimes changing their colors. Some players know they are being manipulated when their color is changed, but it brings them more money and power so they do not care. The rest have good intentions but do not even realize they are being manipulated. This tactic is also known by another name, Divide and Conquer. In battle sending an imperfect message with an imperfect team is obviously not ideal, but it's still being sent by YOUR team, your union leader, a leader that has common goals and common rewards with you, they are the best, because we have elected them to do a job for us. If you are not backing Moffett but believing the spin by those that have recently switched sides, you are taking food out of your own mouth. Showing unity and backing an imperfect situation still results in taking just as much ground, it's about unity and bargaining power. It's not necessary to wait around for that perfect attack because it will never come, the company will spin and attempt to destroy anyone that gets in their way. Ultimately it's not about any specific attack anyway, ASAP or whatever it makes no difference, it is and always has been only about power. If this company cared about safety it would not build pairings with 8 hour overnights, come on, are you that naive? Besides, do you really think Hoffa cares, no, he got a call from corporate America and was squeezed into denouncing Moffett. If he didn't they would spin the safety card against him and the Teamsters National with implication for truckers, future contracts, insurance rates etc...saying something like the Teamsters use safety as a bargaining chip, blah blah blah... Do you really think any pilot is going to do something unsafe for the contract, absolutely not, the only ones threatening safety here is the company with reduced rest, fatigue, and poverty. Do you not find it odd that Hoffa and the Teamsters are opposing a Teamster president publicly? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and work with one of their own? Why did they not sit down and help him strategize, correct any mistakes, and charge ahead? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and leverage a contract for all those pilots that have been paying Teamster dues, isn't that why we have all been paying Teamster dues in the first place? I sure haven't been paying dues so that the Teamsters National could come along and write this kind of an article undercutting our union leader and our unity. Whose side is the Teamsters National really on, it's obviously not the Republic pilots side.
No matter what Moffatt does the company is going to spin it like he is the terrorist and brainwash people like you into believing it, wake up, back your players that are trying to change things for you and your livelihood. Where has Hoffa been for the last 6 years, except collecting our dues. Seriously, do you really think an FO going for upgrade, signed off by a checkairman ready for the upgrade, who then fails, is not even capable of returning as a First Officer.
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