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David Lindner: Scooping Up Life Lessons

By Beth Taylor Do you remember your favorite Lindner’s ice cream flavor? Was it the perfect peach, or maybe butter pecan or rocky road? Or possibly a catchy name like Raspberry Salad or Purple Fink calls back childhood memories of warm summer nights. The man behind the fondly remembered ice cream is David Lindner, an Indianapolis business visionary and, a man who continues to live an incomparably full life.

Lindner spent his childhood in the Irvington area of Indianapolis. His father and uncle started an ice cream plant and store, Lindner’s Brothers Ice Cream stores, Inc. in 1929, known for offering the finest quality ice cream for a reasonable price. He attended grade school at George Washington Julian, School #57, where he encountered a love of learning and met his future wife, Elizabeth. After graduating from Arsenal Technical high school in 1941, he attended Purdue for one year.

In 1942, his college career was cut

short when he volunteered to serve in World War II. With a background in flying and an interest in taking it further, he became an aviator. He flew a CG-4A overseas as a glider pilot and those war experiences shaped his life.

With sharp detail, he recalls packing displaced Parisians into a plane to transport them out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. To squeeze more people onto the cramped plane, he asked everyone to leave behind all possessions. He watched a man toss his pair of shoes to the ground. “After seeing that, I decided never to have a bad day in my life.”

When the war ended, Lindner returned home to the family ice cream business. He spent time re-acclimating to post-war life by diving in and learning every manual job at the company, including packing ice cream cans and scrubbing floors. With limited automation, work nights followed long workdays — especially in the summer.

“We had to go back to the plant every night to fill the stoker and set the ice cream machine,” he said, recalling the days before the factory had an oil-fired boiler.

Lindner quickly assumed a leadership role as the director of the company, working with his mother, Hannah Lindner, who served as president of the growing business following his father’s death in 1940.

After contributing to years of measured growth, Lindner became president in 1961.

By 1986, there were 40 locations, and Lindner’s ice cream regularly earned top billing at national ice cream conventions.

Lindner knew that a key component of business success is understanding what pleases the consumer. “On the East coast, vanilla bean was popular, but here that didn’t work. Our customers liked a good, smooth vanilla ice cream at that time,” he said.

Always one to think from a broader viewpoint, Lindner brought convenience stores and drivethru windows to his stores in Central Indiana. Appealing advertising with coupons attracted new customers.

For all of his successes, he admits to having failed many times, but garnered valuable lessons from each failure.

“Failure makes you get smart and refine your approach,” he said.

During his 40 years with the company, he relied on this knowledge as he found success in other business ventures, such as real estate. After selling the ice cream business, rather than retiring, he began a new phase of his career as an

With 40 Indianapolis area locations, Lindner’s Ice Cream advertisements were a staple of Central Indiana newspapers.

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international consultant for several companies, including Chiquita.

Business success lead to far-reaching philanthropic accomplishments. Lindner served as a board member for numerous organizations including Community Hospital, United Way, Franklin College, and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis to name a few.

grace and gratitude,” said his daughter, Karen Lindner Moriarty, executive director and owner of Lindner Learning Center.

Moriarty continues to enjoy the benefits of his business acumen.

He is the senior executive advisor at the private, family-owned tutoring center.

Working with his daughter at the tutoring center has special meaning to Lindner who discovered that he has dyslexia later in life. Although a poor student, he credits his love of learning for his success. “The philosophy of learning has allowed me to tackle

In addition to helming a thriving, beloved Indiana business, Lindner excelled at fatherhood. He guided his two daughters and later his five grandchildren, to survive any issue by facing it with before

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enormous obstacles in my life and reap rich rewards.” Each year of his adult life, no matter how busy, he has taken a formal course or a class. Most recently, he completed his Stephen Ministry training, so that he can serve as a lay caregiver to people in need.

“Our large, entrepreneurial family greatly benefits from this active coaching in areas of business and finance,” said Moriarty. To help pass on business lessons he’s learned, he and Elizabeth have created and funded investment seminars for their grandchildren.

They also established an annual family vacation to keep the members connected.

Lindner greets each day with a positive mindset and decides how to divide a 24-hour day with intention. He begins each day with calisthenics. “You’ve got to take care of your body; it’s the only one you’ve got.”

As Lindner approaches his 90th year, he feels blessed by the richness of a life well lived. He gladly shares his secret to an active, long life: expect change and embrace it.

Beth Taylor is an experienced freelance editor and writer whose work has appeared in several community magazines during her 15-year career. Crafting a freelance business has provided her the opportunity to stay at home with her two young daughters.

(Opposite page) Beth Taylor, writer for the Geist Community Newsletter, sits down with David Lindner at his Morse Reservoir home. (Above) Early photo of a typical Lindner’s Ice Cream store in 1980.

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Most of us don’t care about the icky stuff that goes along with babies. Some of us find it amusing. In fact, most of my conversations with friends and strangers alike is the bowel movements of my children. Boy, I need to get out more.

Choosing to have a baby is your first step; second step is how you are going to accomplish this.

My personal journey to having a family was an easy one. I was lucky and blessed with conceiving my first two children just by “thinking” about it. However, my third child was more difficult and it took over a year. Mind you, we had stopped trying to have a third after several months of taking Clomid and other helpful drugs to get pregnant failed. And of course, wouldn’t you know it; we were pregnant a few months after we had “stopped trying.” Go figure. But now we are blessed with three wonderful children. Our story is one of many.

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how are you going to have this baby? Some go into labor and deliver vaginally, and some have to have a cesarean delivery (c-section), some even plan them. Most women want to have their children the normal way, but the new normal is slowly moving towards the c-section route. I, unfortunately, had to have a c-section with my first child because she was breach. The doctor tried to turn her in a procedure called external version, but she wouldn’t budge, so off to the operating room we went.

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My good friend, on the other hand, way other hand, decided to take matters into the hands of a midwife with her third child.

She did the totally opposite of what I did, and I praise her for that. She just let nature take its course. “I chose to do a homebirth because I had a huge laundry list of things I did not want the nurses and doctors to do in the hospital,” she explained. “Examples would include not cutting cord for an hour (there are many health benefits of not cutting the cord right away), not taking the baby away to be weighed and measured (I believe the baby should not be taken out of the mother’s arms for hours), no Pitocin before or after the baby is born, and the list goes on. I truly felt like all my requests would be an uphill battle in a hospital so I went for a more natural environment where I would be more in charge of my birth.”

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from www.wzpl.com me. “I was older when I got married,” Kate explained. “I knew we might have some issues getting pregnant, so I opened up the alternative of adoption to my future husband, Jeff, and he agreed.” After Kate had five failed pregnancies, they didn’t hesitate and quickly turned to adoption. “I would have liked the experience of having a child, but I didn’t really care. We just wanted a family, and there are plenty of children who need a home.” There are a lot of preparations to adopting a child, whether it is a domestic or international adoption, or even adoption through foster care. Kate and Jeff decided to adopt a child from Guatemala. They wanted to make sure their first child had a sibling with similar background, so they adopted a second child from Guatemala.

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The Weidners welcome home Maria, their second child who was adopted from Guatemala.

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cotty’s Lakehouse is a prized member of the Scotty’s Brewhouse pub-grub dining kingdom, launched in Muncie in 1996 by Scott Wise while the ink was still dripping from his Ball State University diploma. He offered a glitzier, sleeker entrant to the college bar scene than the dumpster dive watering holes of my now dimly remembered, but no doubt stellar collegiate years, endowing them with flat screens in every direction; spacious, glittery environs; bountiful comfort food menus and beer choices; and enthusiastic, efficient service. He took the concept to the scholars gracing the college towns of Bloomington and West Lafayette, and on the presumed assumption that more than a few would be taking what they learned to the Crossroads of America, he opened Brewhouses in downtown and northeast Indianapolis, as well as the Broad Ripple brew pub, Thr3e Wise Men Brewing Company.

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Scotty’s Lakehouse, opened in March, 2010, in the southwest corner of Fall Creek and Brooks School Roads in Geist, and while fully accommodating family dining, seems geared to older Brewhouse alums who have put their Hoosier-blessed degrees to profitable use through the years, and enamored of a lively session of schmoozing over burgers and beer after a day of romping about the reservoir and bonding with the sea. Housed in a small strip mall that was the original home of Bella Vita Ristorante before Owners Henri and Shelley Najem moved to the banks of Geist Marina, Scotty’s Lakehouse offers a spacious mix of booths, tables, and high tops, flanking a large 22-stool horseshoe bar showcasing several micro-brews on tap, as well as a smattering of outdoor and sun room seating areas. The cheerier-than-thou waitresses are garbed in denim cutoffs and “Scotty”-labeled tee shirts to further emboss the beachy lakeside effect.

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Scotty’s Lakeside is sub-headed “A Burger Joint,” offering an array of gourmet burgers, where the abundant and creative toppings are the starattractions atop fresh, juicy patties.

The quasi-conventional #1 ($12) offers cheddar cheese, red onions, lettuce, tomato, and homemade chipotle.

The Asian-accented #7 ($13) lays on coriander, Asian carrot slaw, cucumber, and garlic mayo. I suggest you pass on the #3 ($13.50) with its inspired toppings of fried egg, apple wood smoked bacon, and smoked gouda if you’re treating your cardiologist to lunch. He or she is only going to steer you to the turkey and black bean “veggie” burger on the menu for the healthinistas prowling the area in significant numbers.

lavishly topped grilled cheese renditions featuring sourdough bread from Scholars Inn Bakehouse and cheeses from the esteemed Fair Oaks Farms up north. Other noted Scotty menu curiosities include its signature fried pickle chips; the next appetizer fad, batter fried green beans; bison burgers and assorted wraps; root beer from the fabled Triple XXX Drivein West Lafayette; and marshmellow s’more sandwiches for dessert. Scotty’s

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On a recent lunch foray, I opted for the #10 ($12), with the medium-well burger generously endowed with red onion, tomatoes, dill pickle slices, lettuce, and Vermont cheddar cheese, and slathered in garlic mayo, which provided the flavor pizzaz, and hitthe-spot burger bliss. The mayo also insured a rather messy repast which explains why the table setting opts for cloth face towels over paper napkins to wipe the likes of chipotle 1000 island and ketchup, sautéed mushrooms, garlic mayo, and dressing toppings oozing down the chin, or in my case, chins. Sandwiches come with a choice of three seasoned fries, including waffle and sweet potato, with a choice of dipping sauces. I prudently opted instead with the very generous house salad of mixed greens, goat cheese, chopped eggs, tomato, and onions in a tastily tart balsamic vinaigrette. I also worked in a well-croutoned French onion soup, with the broth effectively sweetened by carmelized onions.

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Lakehouse is also achieving acclaim, notably from my daughter, Megan, for its weekend brunches, on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., laying on an impressive spread of omelets, scrambled egg skillet dishes, pancakes and cinnamon French toast, biscuits and gravy, and flavored oatmeals.

With the usual allotment of flat screens festooning the premises, Scotty’s Lakehouse is a natural forum for a Sunday afternoon with the Colts, and thus as good a place as any for a group hug as we and they soldier on awaiting … DEPARATELY AWAITING … for Peyton Manning to come back from medical leave, while wondering whether of diet of burgers and beer would speed his recovery.

Reid Duffy is a former Indianapolis television feature reporter and restaurant reviewer. He is the author of three books, including Reid Duffy’s Guide to Indiana’s Favorite Restaurants.

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Building a Bridge to China: Guanxi The America China Society of Indiana, established by Albert Chen (middle) of Carmel’s Telemon Inc., is a nonprofit that advocates cooperation between Indiana and Chinese companies. Pictured here are the ACSI board members (left to right) Denesa Woods, Carmen Hendrixson, Jenny Massey, Albert Chen, John Skelton, and Windi Hornsby.

(Below) Chen with Andy Ording, former President of ZIPP Speed Weaponry, spoke at a recent ACSI meeting about the cultural challenges and opportunities of working with Chinese companies.

By Stephanie Carlson Curtis Albert Chen is no stranger to building concrete Guanxi (Gwanchee) in business and in life, and he believes education is the mortar that bonds relationships. Thus, he established the America China Society of Indiana, an organization created as a foundation to foster networking, cooperation, and trust between Indiana and Chinese businesses.

Jenny Massey, Vice President of ACSI and director of operations at Bingham Economic. “Economic development is the basis of job creation, which benefits the community.”

As a young man, Chen, a native of Taiwan, arrived on the west coast armed with a degree in tax finance. Speaking little English, he enrolled in Portland State College and earned a law degree and master’s degree in mathematical statistics. After graduation,

An important idea in Chinese culture, Guanxi is based on trust and is similar to doing business on a handshake in Western terms.

Chen would like to take that handshake a bit further by teaching Asians and Americans about each other, their diverse cultures and how to work together to build trust, share knowledge and create opportunities on U.S. soil and abroad.

“My vision is to bring more Chinese companies to Indiana, promote economic development and help companies understand how to do business with the Chinese,” said Albert Chen, founder of ACSI and owner of Telemon Inc., a nearly $500 million Carmel-based telecommunications provider with more than 500 employees at 9 locations.

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I worked with others to form a group that would teach them to give back to their communities,” said Chen.

he went to work with GTE, eventually transferring to Indiana as a manager of the Midwest region. In 1984, during corporate downsizing, Chen was asked to layoff 200 employees.

“I did not feel comfortable firing those people,” recalled Chen.

“After I let them go, I resigned.” No job, no plan and no direction, he knew he had to support his wife and two young children. Thus, his entrepreneurial fire sparked as he turned his knowledge of telephones gained through his previous employer into a thriving business based on the concept of harmony.

While American companies follow legal guidelines when engaging in business, harmony, trust, reciprocity, face, time, hierarchy, and long-term orientation have been identified as key Chinese cultural values.

Chen hopes to encourage goodwill and assist companies in growing their businesses.

“The Chinese still shake hands and make promises,” said Chen. “But in today’s society, companies need well-developed contracts so they don’t forget promises.”

Chen provided funding for the Asian Learning Center of Indiana.

Its mission is to educate, connect and engage Hoosiers about the history, cultures, and emerging business opportunities of Asia through public, private, community and business partnership in Indiana.

“Since becoming an American citizen I feel I need to contribute to this country,” said Chen. “Some Chinese do not want to stay in the U.S. and become citizens. But those who do stay should have a basic loyalty and give back.”

“Developing Guanxi is probably the most important step in Chinese business and needs to be properly cultivated,” said Denesa Woods, who is responsible for ACSI’s business development.

The society invites guest speakers to share their experiences in the Chinese marketplace.

Andy Ording, former President of ZIPP Speed Weaponry, manufacturers of elite bicycle wheels, and current CEO at Business Builder, Inc., explained the cultural challenges of working with Chinese business owners and the opportunities for success at a November meeting.

“In Asia, a tremendous amount of respect is given and expected,” said Ording. “When doing business with the Chinese do the right thing, make promises you will keep, understand the culture and the market, and be realistic.”

Chen is realistic about his vision for ACSI. Filled with ideas, always searching for ways to fill a gap with a solution, Chen started the Asian American Alliance in 1999. He and other community leaders saw a need to mobilize the growing Asian community, inspiring them to contribute their time, treasure, and talents to improving their communities.

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That’s a philosophy Chen and his wife, Margaret, have instilled in their two adult children, Stephanie and Stanley, both of whom work at Telemon and are active in the community. And it’s a principle inherent in the ACSI as the organization strives to encourage positive business relationships with member services focused on business and economic development.

“Our goal is to attract 100 members the first year,” said Woods. “And have a total of 200 to 300 total members.”

According to Chen, who is supporting ACSI by providing office space and staff, the organization should be self-sufficient in two or three years. He is convinced strong Guanxi and effective business development will encourage Chinese investment in Indiana as well as promote small businesses to export to China.

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As for Telemon, future building blocks include a ventures into health care and energy industries as he researches ways to fill needs in those areas. “If I have a customer who has a headache,” said Chen.

“I’ll find a solution for him.” And ACSI is the solution to preventing headaches in American and Chinese business collaboration.

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ADHD and Attention Issues Brain training as a treatment for attention struggles

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Brain training can improve attention skills General attention skill is actually a composite of subskills such as sustained attention (staying on task), selected attention (ignoring distractions), and divided attention (attending to more than one task). Effective brain training exercises can isolate and improve a student’s ability in each of the attention sub-skills. This precision targeting of skills makes brain training a unique and powerful treatment option.

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It was a father’s nightmare. Even as I answered the officer’s questions, my mind was racing. What else could I do to find her? I’d searched Ariel’s school. I’d left messages with her friends. Best I could tell, my sixteen-year-old had disappeared between her last class and getting on the bus to come home.

This crisis was coming after a heartbreaking year or two, with Ariel hanging around with the wrong kids and making some poor choices. The problems began when she started high school. There hadn’t been one big sign, just lots of little ones. Like how, on Sunday nights, if my wife or I mentioned school the next day, Ariel’s demeanor would change and she’d say “I know,” in a defeated voice.

Or how I’d tell her about a book I thought she’d enjoy and, instead of getting excited like she used to, she’d frown and say, “No thanks, I don’t like reading.” Or the fact that she was spending hours doing homework every night and her grades were still dropping.

I remember looking at one report card and saying, “Honey, you have to get better grades than these.” Her voice brimmed with frustration and defeat as she said, “Dad, I can’t do it. I’m not smart enough.”

A doctor put Ariel on ADD medication and, initially, it helped. Then the side effects kicked in: headaches, quick temper, loss of appetite, serious insomnia and depression.

She woke up every morning looking drawn and exhausted.

Ariel simply gave up—on education, on her future, on everything. She started skipping school. Getting in trouble.

Late that night, we discovered her at a friend’s house and brought her home. Ariel was safe—for the moment. But we had to find answers and fast. We started researching various learning centers and tutoring options. We spent hours talking with people from Sylvan® and other centers.

When we saw an ad for LearningRx, we began researching brain training, too. I knew we could go to a tutoring center and Ariel would perform better in math or English. But we needed something that would help her with all facets of thinking, learning, and life, and LearningRx was the only system that did that.

Weeks into the program, we started seeing changes.

Homework took less time, and school started making more sense. She also got completely off ADD medications. The brain training exercises got a lot easier, too. We did the Partner program, where she did half her training at the center and half with me at home. The accomplishments were all hers, but it was something we did together, and it was a huge bonding experience for us.

Today Ariel says that LearningRx gave her confidence, hope and a future. She graduated from high school and is going to college. She’s going to be a nurse. I watched my child go from having no hope and no thoughts of the future, to having dreams and hopes. I was losing my baby girl, and now I have her back.

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The Facts Behind Brain Training 5 keys to faster, easier learning through brain training

1. COGNITIVE SKILLS Make Learning Possible Specific brain functions (cognitive skills) are the foundation for all learning. Strong individual skills naturally produce faster and easier learning. The following are key cognitive skills that must be strong for fast, efficient learning: t Attention Pay attention over time and despite distraction t Processing Speed Think more quickly and efficiently t Working Memory Hold on to and use information during the learning process

2. WEAKNESSES When Skills Are Weak

t Auditory Processing Distinguish, blend, and segment sounds accurately t Visual Processing Create and picture mental images while thinking or reading

t Logic & Reasoning Associate concepts and images accurately when problem solving t Long-Term Memory Efficiently recall facts and stored information

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Symptom Can’t focus; easily distracted Homework takes too long to get done Difficulty following directions; lots of starting over Poor reading, comprehension, and spelling Math word problems are hard; poor comprehension Low problem-solving and organization abilities Poor recall of previously learned information

3. NEUROPLASTICITY and Cognitive Change

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to recruit unused neurons and build new neural connections to process new information. It is the brain’s capacity to rewire itself. t Connections can change and grow at any age. t Proper training can stimulate new neural connections. t New connections enhance or restore function. t Training can stimulate faster, easier thinking. t Training can cause neurons to re-route around damage due to traumatic injury.

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BRAIN TRAINING AND COGNITIVE CAPACITY These brain scans reveal physical evidence of increased cognitive activity (see circled highlights) in areas of the brain associated with normal reading skills (top) and changes recorded in a dyslexic (non-reader) after only seven weeks of cognitive training.

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Learning happens when we receive and process information. Cognitive skills are the necessary tools used to receive and process this information.

t One-on-One Training: promotes immediate feedback and personal progress t Targeted: attacks specific weaknesses for greater effectiveness t Proper Sequencing: provides increasing difficulty in easy-to-achieve steps

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t Dynamic Loading: drives skill improvement into automatic/subconscious levels t Increasing Intensity: improvement comes only when skills are stretched t Non-Academic Exercises: makes training fun and motivational

BRAIN TRAINING STRENGTHENS THE KEY SKILLS NEEDED TO LEARN

5. TWO PARTS TO SMART: Processing and Knowledge A car won’t perform well when its tires are flat. In the same way, students can’t process facts, knowledge and information when their underlying skills are weak. This is why repetition (through tutoring or reteaching) usually fails to produce long-term results. Problems will continue until the underlying skills are strengthened. “[The brain] responds to use and disuse by either growing and remaining vital or decaying, and thus, for the first time, we are learning to see mental weaknesses as physical systems in need of training and practice.”

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Reading Problems and Dyslexia The secret weakness behind most poor reading Brain Training Produces Reading Improvement These gains (combined with a 188% gain in word attack skill and a 230% increase in working memory efficiency) helped these LearningRx students jump past many of their classmates and become better readers.

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Most struggling readers have a corresponding auditory processing skill weakness.

Auditory processing weakness can manifest in several ways: difficulty distinguishing between similar sounds, trouble recognizing simple sound combinations, and struggling to accurately blend sounds together. Any of these cognitive skill weaknesses will hinder fluent reading. Only a reading program that uncovers and strengthens weak auditory processing skills has any chance of producing lasting reading improvement. This is where the power of brain training makes the difference!

Brain training leads to increased reading potential Effective reading help begins by identifying any weak underlying skills — like memory or auditory processing. Skill-specific training exercises build strength. Once a strong cognitive foundation is restored, a unique sound-to-code reading system develops new reading techniques and habits in the student. Reading is quickly transformed from a slow, choppy effort into a fast and efficient learning tool.

An assessment is the first step. To see if cognitive skill weaknesses are the cause of your or your child’s reading difficulties, contact a LearningRx Brain Training Center today.

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But that wasn’t the worst of it. By the time my son Dillon reached high school, he seemed ticked off most of the time.

He was acting out in class. He was disrespectful. Teachers would call me at home and tell me, “Your son needs to be more respectful in class.” As if I didn’t know!

At home, I’d tell him to study for a test and he’d refuse. He’d say, “I don’t have to study. I understood the homework.”

And he had. So why did he fail every test?

After we got him tested at LearningRx, it all made sense, because his short-term and working memory skills were really weak. Now we realize he really did understand the concepts as he learned them; he just couldn’t hang onto them. No wonder he was frustrated and mad at the world. We kept thinking he was lazy. To motivate him to work harder, we took his cell phone away, took his car away, but it never seemed to work out like we’d hoped.

It makes so much sense, looking back, now that we know what was going on! Within weeks of starting brain training he was doing things he never could have done before. The first thing I noticed was that Dillon wasn’t spending nearly as much time struggling over homework. In fact, he finished his assignments so quickly that I wondered if he was actually doing the work! The only thing that convinced me was the improvement in his grades as C’s and D’s turned into A’s and B’s.

Before long, he was using his cell phone at school to snap

pictures of A’s on tests and homework assignments and text them to me, too excited to wait until he got home to show me the good news!

But what I really loved was that Dillon simply became a happier, more confident kid, both at school and at home.

Suddenly he didn’t have to fight so hard. The kid that teachers used to call and complain about was suddenly behaving better in class.

His literature teacher, who had Dillon as a student before and after brain training, told me my son was a different kid.

In chemistry, he did so well that he started tutoring other kids. He actually told me, “Mom, this stuff is easy.” I’d never heard that before!

His final year of school, he was taking the kinds of tough classes he never would have attempted before brain training, including honors chemistry and an advanced calculus class.

To this day he’ll try something new and say, “Mom, before LearningRx I couldn’t have done that.”

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People we can help The real value of brain training is measured by its power to improve lives.

Struggling Students: Brain training attacks learning problems at the cause and strengthens weak skills. This makes learning easier and self-esteem and confidence skyrocket. Lifelong struggles can be overcome in only a few weeks of brain training.

Career Adults: Learning challenges are presented with every new job or potential promotion. Brain training can strengthen weak skills at any age. Faster learning is a significant career advantage and can open otherwise inaccessible doors.

High-Achieving Students: Brain training uncovers hidden learning potential and maximizes already strong learning skills in advanced students. Enhancing thinking and reasoning speed truly gives advanced students an unmatched competitive edge.

Senior Adults: Natural aging does impact memory and reasoning skills, but these declines are not inevitable. Brain training takes advantage of cognitive reserve and the brain’s ability to change — its lifelong ability to build new pathways, memory, and reasoning “power centers” — to reverse or slow down the effects of aging.

Preschool to First-Grade Students: Brain training with LearningRx’s LiftOff program eliminates any hidden skill weaknesses before they have a chance to dampen that enthusiasm, hinder learning, and create frustration. School success is virtually guaranteed.

College-Age Students: Brain training helps students hit their college years in full stride, and avoid the sense of being overwhelmed. Maximize your college investment with brain training.

Accident Victims: Specific brain training exercises quickly rebuild individual cognitive skills lost due to traumatic brain injury. Training rehabilitates the brain and restores lost mental function by allocating new neurons, synapses, and pathways to compensate for any damaged areas and loss of function.

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Routine is the Enemy In my ten year career as a personal trainer, I have heard countless times, “I don’t need a trainer, I just want a workout routine.”

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through fat like a car driving 50 miles an hour in first gear. But remember, change nothing, nothing changes. Seek out a qualified health and fitness professional to help you add new and exciting movements to your programming. Make your time in the gym matter. Get to your goal and have fun along the way.

Working out should never be something you do without a plan, but if your plan is to continue to train the way your high school football coach taught you 20 years ago, or running the same 3 mile route 3 times per week, then you are very much wasting what in all of our busy lives is our most precious possession — time.

The human body is a fantastic dichotomy as it pertains to exercise – it first struggles then adapts. The exercises that seem dreadfully hard today will be easier tomorrow. This is a sign of progress, but it is also a sign of accommodation, meaning inherently your routine looses its effectiveness every time you repeat it.

For those who strength train, the way in which you work out a specific muscle group should always be different than the last workout for that particular group. You can vary duration, weight, sets, intensity, and movements. For those of you who run, bike and or swim for distance, try focusing your routine around interval training for the next 30 days. Go hard for 20 seconds and then rest for 10. Repeat this 8 times for an amazingly difficult 4-minute routine.

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Happy Dog Hotel Opens in Carmel Leaving for the holidays but want to give your dog the royal treatment?

At Happy Dog Hotel & Spa, dogs receive lavish treatment complete with scrambled eggs for breakfast on the menu every day.

Doggie Daycare: Play time is essential and the friendly Happy Dog Hotel & Spa staff will personally get to know your dog and put together a schedule that works perfectly. Prices: Full day $24 and half day $12.

Located in the Carmel Arts & Design District, the new 6,000 square foot Happy Dog Hotel & Spa, which opened December 18th, is conveniently located at 233 2nd Avenue SW on the Monon Trail.

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Dr. Jeff and Kari Schoonover:

Indiana Vein Specialists (left to right) Natalie Gilman, Practice Administrator; Diana Clauson, Scheduling Coordinator, Kari Schoonover, Dr. Jeff Schoonover, Maggie Haley, RN, Nurse Sclerotherapist and Nathan Watson, Vascular Ultrasound Technologist.

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Jeff Schoonover grew up in Blissfield, Michigan, where kids rode their bicycles everywhere and were raised with a strong appreciation for community. When he went to high school, he got a job at the local pharmacy delivering prescriptions.

“I knew how important the business side of a doctor’s office was so I concentrated my studies in the fields of business administration and marketing,” Kari said. “As it turns out, our interests have complimented our careers as a couple,” she adds with an easy smile.

“Every time I delivered a prescription, I could see in a small way that my job made a difference and how much it meant to the people who were sick or just needed the scripts to maintain their health. It was a good feeling to be able to help families,” he said. From that time on, Jeff Schoonover knew that helping others was what he wanted to do. When he went to a Lutheran youth conference, he met a girl named Kari. She was from Chicago. They would become pen pals all through high school, attend college together and later, partners for life.

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The opening of Indiana Vein Specialists located at 11876 Olio Road (Fishers, Indiana) in October of 2011 speaks to Jeff and Kari’s dedication and dream of making a difference in people’s lives. It is estimated that there are more than 80 million men and women who suffer from some form of venous disorder. Heredity is the number one contributing factor that causes varicose and spider veins and, since most veins lie deep beneath the skin’s surface, vein disorders are not always visible to the naked eye.

Indiana Vein Specialists offer multiple state-of-the-art solutions to people who suffer from vein problems. Veins that

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cause leg pain, swelling, recurrent superficial blood clots, bleeding or ulceration are prime candidates for treatment.

Veins that cause other symptoms such as aching, heaviness and fatigue or that are cosmetically unappealing, may also benefit from treatment. There are two general treatment options: conservative measures such as compression stockings, leg elevation, analgesics and corrective measures such as endovenous thermal ablation, chemical ablation, sclerotherapy and surface laser treatment.

In many cases, a combination of treatment methods works better and the sooner these symptoms are addressed the better.

About Dr. Jeff and his team Prior to starting Indiana Vein Specialists, Dr. Jeff practiced vein disease treatment at one of the largest vein clinics in the nation and served as a regional medical director. Before then, he practiced family medicine in Yorktown, Indiana and is board certified in family practice. He also served as a physician for 4 years in the United States Air Force where he achieved the rank of Major.

The highly trained staff at Indiana Vein Specialists include: Natalie Gilman, Practice Administrator, Maggie Haley, RN, Nurse Sclerotherapist, Nathan Watson, Vascular Ultrasound Technologist and Diana Clauson, Scheduling Coordinator.

This team shares the Schoonover’s vision of creating a medical practice dedicated to presenting a welcoming

atmosphere and skilled patient care.

Jeff and Kari reside in Hamilton County with their two sons, ages 12 and 6. They are an active family and enjoy participating in triathlons as a relay team together. You may find them on the lacrosse fields, at the pool or biking on the Monon.

When you visit Indiana Vein Specialists, take notice of the beautiful framed pictures dotted throughout the tastefully furnished office suite. Both Jeff and Kari, as well as their oldest son, are amateur photographers, and their 6-year-old is a budding artist. The entire family contributed to the office dĂŠcor. This truly is a talented family that works together to create just the right kind of a welcoming patient atmosphere in ever so many ways!

For more information on the medical services of the Indiana Vein Specialists, please visit www.indyveins.com or call for a personal consultation at (317) 348-3023. The office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. No referrals are necessary.

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Changes Underfoot from ICC Floors (7226 East 82nd St). The planks alternate between from 3 ¼” to 5” for a varied look. Matt Santimi of ICC Floors says the random pattern adds a little character to the floor. “Homeowners can go with a very random pattern with plank sizes or just a couple different sizes as Rachel chose to do in her home.”

The project began with a crew tearing out the original flooring room by room. The tile on the kitchen floor was taken out, the carpet in the adjoining rooms pulled up, and the light wood flooring strips in the entryway were taken away piece by piece.

“It is best to do this when everyone is out of the house,” says Quade. “It’s a lot of noise as they tear the floor up and it is kind of hard to watch. Once that part is done, the installation goes pretty well.”

Realtor Rachel Quade decided to replace 1,900 square feet of flooring in her Cambridge home with ICC Floors in Castleton.

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hen it comes to flooring, it’s a big decision to change what’s underfoot in your home. But when Geist resident, Rachel Quade, decided to Invest in her Nest and update her 10-yearold home, that’s exactly where she started. Rachel decided to replace her neutral carpet and light wood floors with the latest in hardwood flooring.

“It seems as though every beautiful home I would walk into, I would see hardwood floors,” says Quade, a realtor with F.C. Tucker & Co. who walks through a variety of homes every week.

This job took nearly 4 days to complete and the investment into this nest was close to $20,000 for about 1,900 square feet of flooring in the home. Was it worth it?

“We love it!” says Quade. “Of course, now I see other upgrades I want to do.”

The classic hardwood floors have a clean look and, considering they don’t hold dirt and dander like carpeting, wood flooring can be a healthy choice for your home as well.

Some of the newer offerings can add a touch of old world elegance with distressed planks, the hand-scraped wood and the wider widths of wood planks.

“I knew that was the change I wanted to make in my own home and, I didn’t want to wait until it was time to sell like so many homeowners do. I wanted to enjoy it now!”

Overall, hardwoods can harmonize with just about any architectural theme and interior design in a home. In the case of Quade’s colonial style home, the wood flooring blended right in and helped create a visual room-to-room continuity to the main floor of the home.

Quade chose Shaw brand engineered hand-scraped oak wood flooring called “Sleepy Hollow” in a rich brown stain

Choices in wood flooring today range from oak, maple and black walnut that can range from $5 to $8 per square foot.

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Green B.E.A.N. Brings the Farmer’s Market to Your Front Door

By Jennifer Alderman

One of summer’s little luxuries is being able to amble through the local farmer’s market, sampling new foods and picking up fresh, local produce. But what if summer mornings are consumed by soccer games or baseball practice, and what happens when the farmer’s market goes away with the winter weather? Where can a shopper turn to find good local foods? *Green B.E.A.N.Delivery, a home delivery service of organic produce and natural groceries has a solution to this dilemma.

Founded in 2007 by Matt Ewer and Beth Blessing, a husband-wife team and Indiana natives, Green B.E.A.N. sought to fill a hole in the local market by providing convenient and affordable access to foods from local farmers and artisans. Says Matt, “We knew that everyone has a busy life, and so we felt that if we could make healthy food options convenient that it would be utilized.”

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General Manager of Full Circle Farm, they decided to return to Indiana to start their family and to fulfill their dream of owning a farm. Matt’s knowledge of buying, selling, and growing produce combined with Beth’s nutritional acumen, they decided to work backwards toward reaching the goal of owning a farm. First, they would partner with local farmers and artisans to delivery their goods and eventually purchase their own farm where they would grow many of the organic items that they deliver.

Top: Beth Blessing & Matt Ewer, owners and founders of Green B.E.A.N. Delivery, with their daughter and dog on the Feel Good Farm in Sheridan, Indiana. Above: A typical small bin from Green B.E.A.N. Delivery contains enough fresh organic produce for a small family.

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Starting with just 4 employees and utilizing word of mouth and social media as marketing tools, Green B.E.A.N. has grown to having nearly a 100 employees and delivering approximately 2,000 food bins to customers in the greater Indianapolis area. When asked for his opinion as to why the organization grew so quickly, Matt responded, “We have a good understanding that you only grow when you are providing a good product. Since the beginning we have been very focused on the quality of our products and service.”

So how does Green B.E.A.N. work?

A customer simply logs on to the website (www.greenbeandelivery. com) and creates an account. The only requirements for membership is a standing order totaling $35 or more. This standing order consists of the produce bin you select and the frequency of delivery, either weekly or bimonthly. The produce bins come in small (for a small family or 2-3 people), medium (sized for a family of 4), or large (sized for a large family). Additional options include a fruit only bin and a produce plus groceries bin. All bins include a mix of seasonal produce. A unique aspect of Green B.E.A.N. is that, unlike similar food delivery services (such as a CSA), members may customize their bins with items they can choose from the company website. The company delivers each bin to the customer’s home on their scheduled date.

“Lots of members have reported weight loss after starting the program,” says Matt. “If healthy food choices are dropped off at your door, you will eat healthier.”

Heather Mullins of Carmel, whose family has been using Green B.E.A.N. for 2 years, agrees. “We decided to use Green B.E.A.N. because we wanted fresh organic produce and dairy in our home at

all times. We also thought if we had produce automatically delivered to our house we would be more likely to eat it, and we were right.”

This year Ewer and Blessing realized their dream when they opened Feel Good Farm, a 60-acre organic farm in Sheridan, Indiana. “The B.E.A.N. in our name stands for Biodynamic Education Agriculture and Nutrition, and in 2011 we really focused on agriculture by opening the farm,” says Ewer. In addition to the foods they

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Board by board, ICC Floors workers removed Quade’s old flooring in her entryway to make room for her “Sleepy Hollow� planks.

The more exotic choices such as Brazilian cherry can run as high as $14 per square foot.

For more information on flooring options, pricing and installation, you can go to www.iccfloors.com or “Invest in Your Nest� on atCarmel.com.

Jill Zaniker (Simply Sweet Shoppe), Bob Shade (ArtSplash Gallery), and Larry Greene (Case Design/Remodeling) present keys to Madeline and Stacey O’Hara, winners of the Carmel Fire Department Christmas Assistance Program gingerbread house.

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Business Spotlight Each piano has its own complete process of being built. Restoration follows the original design of first construction.

When the work is completed with a used piano, the gift of being restored has been carefully and painstakingly delivered.

The atmosphere within this area invites a visitor to inquire about the history of these wonderful musical instruments. The stories told are magical.

Piano Solutions is backwards of what you might expect from a piano retailer, but it is exactly how it should be as most people looking to buy a piano, either new or used, have no idea about the anatomy of the instrument or the differences between the various piano types. Having a shop immediately inside the front door reinforces the true nature of Piano Solutions’ business with emphasis on quality and piano repair services.

Piano Solutions: Finely Tuned

By Andy Murphy It’s all backwards. You enter into a storefront area filled with vintage pianos and an all-but-hidden desk sitting to the far left. Did I just walk in the back door?

Where are the luxurious showrooms, water fountains, and granite floors?

An opened doorway leads you directly into a large workshop area where pianos are sitting in various stages of repair and restoration. Parts and tools are scattered across work tables, all within the reach of technicians who are busy restoring heirloom instruments to their original quality of sound and structure.

Once you’ve had a chance to see the structuring of different pianos, you are ready to venture on to the adjacent showroom and recital hall that houses nearly 300 pianos. These areas present an impressive array of new and used pianos from around the world. With prices ranging from $500 to more than $200,000, customers have an open invitation to sit down and play. There are no “Do Not Touch” signs at Piano Solutions, even for the $200,000+ C. Bechstein grand piano that sits among other notable brands such as Estonia, Kawai, Kohler & Campbell, Wm. Knabe, Pearl River and Charles Walter (an Indiana-made piano).

Co-owners Greg Durthaler and Brian Hostetler have crafted their business into a comprehensive rebuilding and service company that just happens to sell quite a few pianos. They are considered piano historians with a national reputation for delivering restoration excellence in this industry.

(Top) Co-owners Brian Hostetler and Greg Durthaler have crafted Piano Solutions into a comprehensive piano refurbishing, sales and service business. (Below) Piano Solutions was selected to restore legendary composer Hoagy Carmichael’s piano.

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“When people walk through our front door, we know they’ve already made up their minds to buy a piano. They are looking for direction and our job is to help them select an instrument that meets their musical needs and budget. You don’t have to spend

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a fortune when buying a good piano, and being able to service every brand we sell is an important part of our identity,” explains Durthaler.

Their unique trade-back program provides customers with a risk-free purchasing experience—allowing the original piano purchased to be traded for more instrument as players improve.

highly recommended that you visit Piano Solutions — the reverse designed piano company. As you listen, you will hear the sounds of music created by this wonderful, centuries-old instrument. Time spent at Piano Solutions can indeed be a magical experience.

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“One of the most rewarding components of our business is when people call us and purchase pianos sight unseen. They trust us to find a piano that will serve them both musically and aesthetically. That’s quite an honor and it’s what Brian and I and our whole team strive for every day,” he adds with thoughtful reflection.

Webster’s Dictionary defines a piano as a stringed instrument having steel wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard. It should be noted that these sounds emit a musical tone that by any definition is pure magic.

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Thanks to a couple Center Grove brothers, the Center Grove Community Newsletter will debut in April, 2012. Dann and Jody Veldkamp have teamed up to launch atCenterGrove. com and an accompanying monthly print publication, the Center Grove Community Newsletter. The Newsletter will be the third of a local network of local community newsletters published by TownePost LLC which currently publishes the Carmel (atCarmel.com) and Geist (atGeist. com) Community Newsletters.

If you are interested in advertising, please feel free to contact Tom Britt at (317) 823-5060 or email tom@atgeist.com. Early advertisers will enjoy additional visibility online as we ramp up the marketing in mid-January to the south side business owners.

“We’ve been closely involved in the incorporation efforts to create the Town of Center Grove,” said Jody Veldkamp. “In looking for ways to foster communication to our neighbors, we came across TownePost.com and Tom Britt, who coincidentally was raised in Center Grove.”

Britt, who now resides near Geist Reservoir, launched the Geist Community Newsletter over 8 years ago after seeing a need for more localized news. In 2009, he launched the Carmel Community Newsletter and launched TownePost.com to satisfy the need of small business owners to network locally. Today, over 33,000 newsletters per month are being mailed in Geist and Carmel with quarterly inserts going into Lawrence (atLawrence.com), Noblesville, and Zionsville.

Dann Veldkamp recently retired from Eli Lilly & Co. and was looking for his next career move.

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The Center Grove Community Newsletter will be direct mailed to nearly 13,000 residents and businesses in the 46142 and 46143 zip codes with additional retail distribution through area Marsh, Kroger and CVS Pharmacies.

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