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Did you read him today? Iconoclast. Idiot. Heretic. Horse's ass. Call him what you will—he doesn't care.
He reads his mail. He takes your calls. He looks at almost every single sarcastic and anonymous comment you leave beneath his stories on the Star's website.Read more
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The budding star arrived to bona fide Hoosier hospitality when touching down in his hometown after a New York City media blitz.
Originally, a grand arrival greeting had been organized for 9:15 p.m. Thursday—but then Voice victor Kaufman's flight was delayed.Read more
Tweets of the Week: Josh Kaufman Edition
Indy's resident "Soul Man" laid claim to the top prize on NBC's vocal competition, and public figures from Indy mayor Greg Ballard to Justin Bieber and Ellen DeGeneres took to Twitter over the news.
Via @PetethePlanner: "Weird day in Indy. The city got 3rd for #SuperBowl2018. The Pacers got 2nd in their playoff game. And @iamjoshkaufman got 1st on The Voice."Read more
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The Top 3 contestants are mere hours away from finding out that one of them has been crowned the winner of TV's most popular singing show. The night was full of energy, live music—and controversy.
Hoosiers statewide are presumably inclined to pull for Kaufman, and the truth of the matter is this: He is the best vocalist on the show.Read more
Josh Kaufman Seizes Spot in 'The Voice' Finale
He was one of three singers "saved" by America's votes on Tuesday night's results episode.
What's more, Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance to announce that he will perform on the season finale. He may play "All of the Stars," a song he wrote for The Fault in Our Stars film based on John Green's hit YA novel.Read more
Photos: Red Kettle Cook-off Event
Broadcasting vets from the likes of WTHR, WIBC, and more appeared on Georgia Street to try to craft winning patties for charity.
The burger made by anchors and reporters from WTHR-TV garnered the acclaim of Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard's taste buds.Read more
Live Blog: Josh Kaufman Seeks a 'Voice' Top 5 Spot
It's a tight competition now, and three of eight remaining singers will be sent home Tuesday after performing live Monday night.
Follow our (runaway) train of thoughts as one of Indy's own performs for America, his sights set on seizing a spot in the program's Top 5.Read more
Josh Kaufman Aims for 'The Voice' Top 8
The Indy-based singer squared off against nine rivals Monday night, and as we awake from our live-blogging haze, we find him in a good spot to move on.
"[Usher] told me to practice in the mirror—once facing it, once in profile one way, and once in profile the other way, occasionally making eye contact with myself," Kaufman tell IM. "It really helped me focus on connecting with the audience."Read more
Live Blog: Indy's Josh Kaufman on 'The Voice' Top 10 Show
Local singer Josh Kaufman vies for vocal glory.
We're talking all things Kaufman during Monday's live episode. Join us.Read more
Indy's Josh Kaufman Shines in First Live Performance on 'The Voice'
Indy's own delivered the best overall vocal of the night. It's belted high notes that get America's votes, and Kaufman delivered his own with a side of Hoosier humility.Read more


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Waste time and learn something with YouTube
The University of California Berkeley has begun posting full length lectures on the video sharing site. There are already over 200 videos online covering topics from biology and physics to the "principles of nonviolence," and university officials plan to continue adding to the collection.
While watching videos won't earn you a degree, you can probably learn a thing or two by virtually auditing these courses. And lest you think the university's giving something valuable away for free, showcasing lectures from some of the most engaging professors is a great promotional tool for the school.
Now, if they could just make a good lecture half as engaging as a video from the "leave Britney alone" guy. So far most of the UC Berkeley videos have only been viewed a handful of times.
[via CNet]

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Re:The Alliance of Artists should lose this suit (317 comments)
Going after the tool maker gives them the possibility of a bigger pot of gold at the end. People like this don't care who is actually doing the crime, they care about who has the most money that they can go after.
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Don't give them any ideas. Next will be a lawsuit claiming that the primary purpose of the vehicle is to rip copyrighted material and transport it across state lines.
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You can't think of another purpose for a car audio system, other than ripping digital content? Really?
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Seems broad, all right... and obvious, and like there would be prior art.
Actually, it's a patent for "Square wave with rounded corners machine control", so it's OK.
Re:Non-story (268 comments)
On what grounds can a poster sue YouTube for not allowing them to post?
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Does YouTube honor counter-claims?
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According to whose definition of "what is broken" and "is fixed"?
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Unfortunately, most voters are idiots.
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Yes, but now that the information is out there, how many current players have retired early because of it? Only one that I've heard of. Whether or not the NFL deliberately hid information from past players probably wouldn't have made any difference either.
Re:User of service (170 comments)
It is attitudes like this that encourages treating users like crap.
Yes, Facebook does treat it's users like crap.
Without the users they have zero value of what they have to offer the advertisers
True, but for now they have plenty of users (most of whom probably don't care that their information is being mined/sold). Until that changes, they will continue to treat them like crap.
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Facebook's customers are the advertisers, not the users. Of course they are mining the user's data, that's the entire point of their business.
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I'm hoping that Windows 8 knowledge will prove to be as useful as Microsoft Bob knowledge.
Re:Will this "War on Terrorism" ever end . . . ? (349 comments)
A permanent state of war is not good for any society.
It's good for the people in power. What makes you think that they care whether or not it's good for society.
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Isn't the same, because milling is subtractive, and 3D printing is additive.
So a CNC mill is a 3D eraser.
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How about a customized bullet with your own name on it. You know how they say "somewhere out there is a bullet with your name on it"?
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You're assuming the drones won't be armed.
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Strategies for implementing sustainability: five leadership challenges.
"Sustainability" has come to have many different meanings. It's the latest buzzword among business, government, and nonprofit entities. Business leaders must be wondering if it's just the latest management fad of a concept that will fundamentally change how businesses are managed and measured. This paper is based on the notion that sustainability is more than a fad, but rather is creating a permanent shift in the very nature of business. Since the advent of the paradigm of sustainable development in the 1980s, the private sector has been shifting from a narrow economic conception of responsibility toward a comprehensive approach that attempts to balance economic objectives with environmental pressures and changing societal expectations (Robinson, 2000).
The Brundtland Commission (World Commission on Environment and Development, United Nations, 1987) is generally credited with introducing "sustainability" in their report, Our Common Future. The report states that "Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable--to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Thus the term was coined originally in reference to sustainable development, and the purpose was to encourage development with a dual focus on reducing poverty and taking into consideration long-term ecological effects. Critics have written that the term is an oxymoron, an illusion, or both (Livingston, 1994; Sachs, 1999). The concept has expanded since 1987 and now has a focus on economic profits, social impact, and the environment. The term triple bottom line, or TBL, was coined for this tertiary focus by Elkington (1998) in his book, Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. Elkington also refers to the triple bottom line as the three P's: "people, profits, and planet."
For this study, the author likes the definition set forth by Dow Jones (www.sustainabilityindexes.com): "A business approach that creates long-term shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental, and social developments." The literature on sustainability is expansive. A Google search in February 2009, on the term turned up 28,100,000 entries. A search on "sustainable" leadership turned up 13,700,000, and within Google Scholar, 230,000 entries. The literature includes numerous studies on evaluation and reporting concepts, which will be expanded upon later in this report, and to a lesser extent on how organizations manage their relationships with various groups of constituents, i.e., stakeholder management. However, there is little empirical research on sustainable leadership strategies. In other words, the focus of much of the research is on evaluation and monitoring, with little attention to strategy formulation and implementation of how leaders create a sustainability strategy among organizational members.
Sustainability as a concept is based on the integration of three historically separate communities: those primarily interested in profits, the planet, or people. How can business leaders manage this juggling act? Should the strategy be to treat them as separate communities as an emerging coalition? There is a tendency to view the three communities as contradictory, with competing interests. This results in a balancing act, in which the emphasis is on trade-offs among the three communities rather than on a synergistic approach seeking mutual gain. The problem is exacerbated by separate training of experts in the three fields, the collection of data in each category, and the frequent division of government mandates into separate economic, social, and ecological bodies (Gibson, 2006).
As interpretive research, the primary task of this study was to identify the leadership challenges inherent in managing the triple bottom line. How can the demands of the triple focus be integrated? How is organizational support achieved? How is sustainability coordinated and integrated across corporate, business, functional, and project-level strategies? As noted, much research has been conducted on evaluation and reporting methods. However, sustainability may be more a journey than a destination: It requires continuous management attention as well as development of capabilities (Jones, 2000). This article summarizes the literature in five distinct areas, each representing a leadership challenge. These are discussed along with the implications for capability building. The focus of this study is on the journey, not the destination.
Research Methodology
This paper represents the first phase of a comprehensive research project on sustainable leadership. The larger project adopts a grounded theory approach. This method utilizes secondary data in the form of a meta-analytical literature review to identify existing research (the focus of this paper). The literature is then critically reviewed and analyzed through a process of conceptualization, which disaggregates a mass of data into meaning and related parts or categories. This is followed by the second phase of the project entailing empirical research comprising case studies conducted via a questionnaire and in-depth interviews. The final phase is the development of a conceptual framework for sustainable leadership and validation of the framework.
Leadership Challenges
Stakeholder engagement
The triple bottom line approach represents the three pillars of sustainability. Each of the three can be associated with a specific community of interests represented by various organizations including governmental entities and nonprofits. How does an organization balance the needs of each of these communities? Is balancing the correct approach? The literature reveals a tendency to neglect the interdependence of these factors and to see them as conflicting rather than complimentary (Gibson, 2006). This pillar approach might also encourage a thought process driven by the notion of trade-offs, which may have some implications but should not be the assumed approach to stakeholder engagement. Colbert and Kuruez (2007) conducted a study of companies with positive reputations in terms of sustainable practices, based on community or national awards or global recognition in indices such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Their research found that organizational leaders have different conceptions of what sustainability means to their company. Each of these schools of thought has implications for stakeholder engagement. They found that companies either had a propensity to balance the stakeholder group, or to pursue a more integrative approach. Those in the former group described stakeholder groups as entities whose interests were to be traded off--the various needs of stakeholders were depicted as discrete and mutually exclusive. The triple bottom line approach represented to them three separate types of risks to be managed and mitigated. The latter group held a more inclusive view of sustainability, viewing it as an opportunity to leverage an inclusive stakeholder view to create broad value for society.
The integrative approach to stakeholder management is not new to the theory of strategic management. Although there will always be conflicting demands and interests among stakeholders, there is value in exploring how an organization can achieve benefits for all (Dess, Lumpkin, and Eisner, 2008). This process referred to as "stakeholder symbiosis" in the strategic management literature, recognizes that stakeholders depend upon each other for their success and well-being.
We might understand this concept better when it is applied to our personal lives. An analogy of the three pillar approach might be managing three aspects of our lives: work, family, and personal health. One example of a symbiotic strategy is physical fitness. Good habits and regular exercises have positive implication across each of the three pillars, enhancing overall health, work, and family life. Thus, regular exercise is not a trade-off but a mutually beneficial strategy. Similarly, the leadership challenge with regard to sustainability is to think in term of mutually supporting gains. This perspective is supported by Liebold, Probst, and Gibbert (2002, 16), who contend that "linkages, networks, and symbiosis are the order of the day."
Symbiosis requires leaders to integrate the needs and interests of all stakeholders, not appease them through trade-offs. The related capabilities involve the ability of an organization to engage in a continuing dialogue with each community of interest. The most common strategies appear to be governance frameworks that address cross-pillar concerns. Examples of this include representation on the board of directors from each of the three communities, and representation among senior management. Many organizations have created a management position with responsibility for business sustainability, e.g., vice president for sustainability, or director of sustainability. This also raises the question (which will be explored in later stages of this research project): Who should be the C-level advocate for sustainability?
Creating the culture
Organizational change has become constant, and people are weary of it. Sustainability, like any new initiative, may be received by employees (and other stakeholders, particularly vendors) as yet another fad or the flavor of the month. Organizational change can be compared to rafting, which involves high exertion and stress while in the white water, followed by calmer waters allowing rest and recovery before entering the next set of rapids. No organization should be in the white water all the time. People need time to adjust in between major initiatives. The constant rolling out of new business approaches (e.g., six sigma, project management, lean, etc.) is often compounded by the fact that new changes rarely overlap or integrate with former initiatives. Companies that implement sustainability without addressing these issues run the risk of adversely affecting employee morale and productivity. The response may be resistance to change, accompanied by thoughts of "here we go again."
Companies ate more likely to mitigate resistance to change if the initiative is understood in terms of the desired cultural change. Schein (1993) defines organizational culture as:
A pattern of shared assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.
Schein has conducted extensive research on culture and maintains that culture is the core concept in managing and improving organizational behavior. He also insists that one of the pivotal elements in leading organizations is acknowledging and understanding shared values. It stands to reason that if an organization undertakes an initiative as significant and integrative as sustainability, with all of its far-reaching implications, then sustainability must become a core value.
How can a company infuse sustainability into core values? Understanding the purpose of the change is the starting point. If a change initiative is going to stick, the members of the organization need know its purpose. Why change, and why now? Because the CEO recently went to a conference and heard about 3BL accounting, or attended a session on sustainability, is not a compelling reason to change. Because it is the latest buzzword is not a compelling reason. Because the board of directors wants to improve the company's position in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index is not a compelling reason. Employees need to appreciate and value the reasons for change. Once they are convinced, the organization's readiness can be assessed and a detailed action plan drawn up.
Business leaders might also review their mission, vision, core values, codes, and commitments in regard to sustainability. Do they reflect the sustainability intent? Most large organizations have a code of ethics. Does the code address the needs and interests of society and the environment? Some companies have also created a list of "commitments" in addition to core values. For example, Novo Nordisk states that their commitments are to financial, environmental, and social responsibility. This also raises the question: How are commitments different from core values? Are we not committed to our values? Perhaps an alternative approach would be to incorporate the commitments into the core values. This might minimize confusion and enhance the clarity of the intent of a sustainability focus.
Holistic thinking
Existing theories of leadership and business strategy have traditionally been based on the role of the leader in reducing complexity and uncertainty. The effective leader is expected to gather data and conduct analysis to understand a situation, develop a strategy for the best course of action, and then lead, direct, and inspire team members around a vision for the future. These approaches to strategy are predictive processes whereby leaders are expected to devise thoughtful, informed, and deliberate decisions that will lead to organizational success. In this view, the effective leader is the grand strategist. The leader is expected to know the way, show the way, and go the way.
Popular strategy models from the last three decades encourage leaders to think of organizations as systems they can control and direct. Organizational leaders face a much more complex world than existed when most of the classical strategy and leadership models were developed. Companies must differentiate their products and services more than ever, while producing at a low cost and balancing the impact of their operations on the environment and society. Many of these objectives seem contradictory and competing, requiring leaders to understand the concept of paradox and to lead in innovative ways, developing strategies that sometimes defy long-held assumptions. Traditional leadership and strategy models are grounded in the Newtonian science of reductionism, which views organizations as mechanistic systems rather than complex organic ones. The literature suggests that an organic approach is more appropriate for a concept such as sustainability.
The dilemma in applying these models today arises from their simplicity. Existing models focus on balancing only a few variables: bottom-line results and human relations, or, as often referred to in the literature, as task and process. The modern business environment is characterized by increasing global integration, connectivity, and complexity, which requires more holistic and organic leadership strategies.
We are just beginning to learn about holistic approaches to business strategy and how the many parts affect one another (e.g., local and global economic systems, human capital, natural resources, social conditions, etc.). The research is also just beginning to explore the nature of managing uncertain and ambiguous situations. Appreciation of uncertainty is necessarily part of the sustainability concept (Gibson, 2006). The leadership challenge is for business leaders to recognize and accept a new reality in which easy answers, quick fixes, and magic bullets are difficult to find (Jonahs, 2005). The pathways to success are increasingly complex and ambiguous, requiring strategies in which organic growth and innovation become the drivers of sustainability.
Organizational learning
The implication of a holistic approach to a complex environment is that traditional management strategies no longer suffice in bringing the necessary organizational change. Spreitzer and Quinn (2001) propose that organizations need the knowledge, energy, and innovation of every employee to meet the challenges of a complex and dynamic environment. This perspective is mirrored by Senge (2006) who asserts that "it is no longer sufficient to have one person learning for the organization. It's just not possible any longer to figure it out from the top, and have everyone else follow the orders of a grand strategist." The organizations that excel in the future will be those that understand how to engage every member of the organization, gain their buy-in to new initiatives, and build capacity for learning at all levels of the organization. Other scholars have argued that a high capacity for learning is a crucial feature of successful organizations (Bedeina, 1986; Mohrman and Cummings, 1989). Specifically in regard to the topic of this paper, several scholars have proposed that the capacity of an organization to learn effectively plays an essential role in sustainability performance (Nattrass and Altomare, 1999; Senge and Carstedt).
Nattrass and Altomoare (1999) stress the importance of organizational learning to support a sustainability initiative:
Our research has shown that for those business corporations that make the commitment to sustainable development, the understanding and practice of the organizational learning disciplines will be the indispensable prerequisites of a successful transformation to sustainability.
Senge et al. (1999) also argue that the development of an organizational learning culture is necessary to foster a culture of sustainability. Jamali (2006), in his research on integrating the triple bottom from a learning organization perspective, identified the most common characteristics of a learning organization. Although he cites 12 different characteristics, Jamali notes that the most important are the notions of systems-level thinking (i.e., holistics) and learning culture.
Another area of organizational learning that deserves attention is leadership development. Dive (2008) notes that distributed leadership is the foundation of sustainable leadership. It would be a mistake to focus only on the top-level leaders, or the "Napoleon Sydnrome" that believes the leadership is the result of only the top person. Sustainable leadership is best achieved by providing an appropriate conceptual understanding of the initiative to every level of leadership.
One final aspect of organizational learning that should be addressed is the notion of individual commitment, or buy-in. Some organizations are taking steps to reinforce a personal sustainability ethic. For example, Wal-Mart has implemented the Personal Sustainability Program, referred to as PSP. It is not uncommon to see employees at the corporate office wearing lanyards that say: "What's your PSP?" This concept encourages every employee to identify strategies to minimize environmental impact in their personal lives and to share these strategies with others. This encourages dialogue about sustainability, and infuses the concept into the day-to-day culture of the organization.
A thorough treatment of organizational learning interventions that might support sustainability is beyond the scope of this paper, but a few examples are listed in Table 1.
Measurement and reporting
The extant literature on sustainability focuses largely on the implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems. Perrin and Tencati (2006) report that over a period of 15 years, more than 100 standards and management solutions were developed to evaluate and report the economic, social, environmental, and sustainability performance of organizations. Some of the most common systems include triple bottom line (TBL) accounting, the balanced scorecard, international standards such as the sustainability reporting guidelines fostered by the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. One of the most well-known approaches is TBL accounting, which has been adopted by 68% of the Fortune 250 (KPMG, 2005).
The proliferation of reporting systems has created confusion and lack of clarity for management, employees, and external stakeholders. The purpose here is not to evaluate the relative merit of any one system, but rather to ask whether there should be one single system. Business leaders understand there is not any one barometer for measuring financial performance. Financial evaluation of a firm is multi-faceted and includes measures related to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statements, earnings per share, etc. Just as there is not a singular measure for measuring financial performance, there is not a silver bullet for measuring sustainability.
The leadership challenge represented by sustainability measurement and reporting systems has to do with the integrative nature of the issues and whether these systems really make a difference. Cerin (2002) suggests that the traditional environmental, social, and sustainability reports are defined more as public relations products than as effective methodologies to control and manage the corporate performance. The main challenge facing business leaders has to do with strategy formulation and implementation, rather than which measurement system to use. Anthony and Govindarajan (2004) define the systems used to implement management control as follows:
Management control systems are tools to implement strategies. Strategies differ between organizations, and controls should be tailored to the requirements of specific strategies. Different strategies require different task priorities, different key success factors, and different skills, perspectives, and behaviors. Thus, a continuing concern in the design of control systems should be whether the behavior induced by the system is the one called for by the strategy.
This topic also cannot be considered without referencing the previous discussion regarding holistic systems and the ability to manage ambiguous situations. Many business managers have a propensity to follow directions outlined by a particular process or control system, rather than to deal with ambiguity. The leadership challenge is to create a culture of innovation and creativity that will identify appropriate strategies for implementing sustainability and then choose the appropriate measurement and monitoring system, based on what will work within the unique culture of the organization.
Summary and Conclusions
This article contributes to the sustainability literature in three ways. First, an analysis of the extant literature on sustainability reveals five leadership challenges: stakeholder engagement, creating the culture, organizational learning, holistic thinking, and measurement and reporting. The common thread in these five areas is integration. Any one area cannot be considered without looking at the whole.
Second, the fallacy of a measurement or reporting focus is that the emphasis becomes the destination rather than the journey. There is no silver bullet to ensure success. In fact, part of the difficulty lies in determining what success means for a particular organization. The approach of simply implementing common measures does not encourage innovation or creativity. Sustainability is an integrated effort that requires dialogue among the various communities of interest and organizational learning directed toward every employee level. Business leaders who implement a piecemeal approach to sustainability are unlikely to achieve the desired results.
Third, this report is the first phase of a research study based on the grounded theory approach. As interpretive research, the primary task of this phase of the study was to identify and conceptualize the leadership challenges involved with a sustainability initiative. The next steps are to collect qualitative data through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews, followed by the development of a model for sustainable leadership and pilot testing of the model.
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Derek E. Crews, Texas Woman's University
Dr. Crews teaches strategy, management, and leadership. He focuses his research on sustainable leadership, supervisory skills, productivity, and transportation and logistics management. In addition, he has provided consulting and training services for numerous Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, economic development groups, and universities.
Table 1. Organizational Learning Implications Organizational Learning Implications Category Interventions Talent Management * Integrate sustainability objectives into recruitment and selection process to seek better fit with new hires. * Acquire talent with knowledge and skills to support a sustainability initiative. Training and Development * Support sustainability objectives through training initiatives at all levels of the organization. * Integrate sustainability intent throughout mentoring, coaching, and career development processes. Leadership Development * Identify the role of leaders in aligning business objectives and processes with sustainability. * Provide development opportunities and drive dialogue among all levels of leadership to build conceptual consensus on sustainability.
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A 65-year-old Lincoln woman has been charged with stealing more than $60,000 from her disabled neighbor.
Loris Austin is facing four felony forgery charges for stealing the money between 2004 and 2011 while paying her 72-year-old neighbor's bills. Prosecutors say Joeann Self had authorized Austin to write checks to pay her bills, but nothing else.
The missing money was discovered in 2011 after Austin started telling Self that she didn't have enough money for things she needed. Self is a retired school cafeteria worker who lives off Social Security.
Austin is free on $1,500 bond and is scheduled to return to court for her preliminary hearing on April 10th.
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The Arden Bridge technically shouldn't be called a bridge, since there is no bridge right now fording the Little Pend Oreille River. The bridge, which traverses the river along the Old Arden Highway south of Colville, hasn't been reconstructed yet.
The historic span was closed in 2011 after sustaining an undermining of its foundation from spring runoff.
Jason Hart Assistant County Engineer for Stevens County, said that work on the bridge is has been idled for the winter. The construction site is scheduled to re-open in March.
When the doctor told Dawn Nelson that she had cancer in 2005, she was six months pregnant with her first child. Test results had revealed a cancerous tumor in her stomach, and Nelson was informed that she probably wouldn't live to meet her baby girl.
Out of a desire to have her baby know who she was, Nelson began to write a memoir of her life. Unknown to Nelson, this book would change the course of her career.
"We decided to go ahead and have her [the baby]. And I started writing my first book so that she would know who I was," explained Nelson.
Thieves helped themselves to a cup of coffee at Talk-n-Coffee in Colville last Wednesday evening, but not just any cup. The coffee shop's white, sheet metal cup sculpture, which bears the Talk-n-Coffee logo, was stolen from its resting place on the sidewalk in front of the business, located at 119 East Astor Avenue.
The cup, which was made at a local metal worker's studio in 2007, stands at over three feet tall and serves as a float in community parades and is considered an enjoyable landmark for, "the coffee shop family" according to Talk-n-Coffee owner Scott Sanders.
Editor's note: This is the fourth installment of Colville physician Dr. Barry Bacon's travelogue/report from the African continent and his ongoing work there. This story picks up after the events described in "Widow Powered" which appeared in the 12-12-12 edition of the Statesman-Examiner.
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Barman's Country Store in downtown Colville wasn't very active last Friday afternoon, save for the sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis's rambunctious, "Great Balls of Fire" playing over the loud speakers and the occasional groan of wooden floorboards as a few customers looked at wares. Employees manned a lunch counter and soda fountain where no one stopped in to order a sandwich and soup, or an old-fashioned milk shake.
Stevens County resident Velena Hawthorne doesn't have television, but her family does have Internet. So last Friday, as she was idly glancing over the contents of Google news, she saw the headlines saying there had been a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, CT.
As she scrolled down the article, she saw that the majority of those killed were children, all under the age of 10. She gasped audibly, causing her boyfriend, Tyler Peterson, to come in from the next room to see what was wrong.
Hunters during deer hunting season, or any other hunting season for that matter, hardly garner more than a glance from passersby on the street or in a store or restaurant in Stevens County. It's business as usual in one of the most verdant and popular hunting regions in the Northwest.
So not very many people may have paid much attention to a middle-aged man making his way around Colville and Loon Lake with a 16-year-old boy in tow, both dressed in warm clothing and hunting apparel.
Up and coming musician, singer and songwriter Aaron Gabriel of Chewelah, shares his perspective on creating that perfect song, a plethora of which can be found on his new album, "An Uninvited Guest." Gabriel will celebrate his CD release with a live performance Saturday, Dec. 29 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Chewelah Civic Center. Admission is free and CDs and posters will be available for purchase.
The album is also available on Amazon, CD Baby, iTunes and Spotify.
For more information, go to www.aarongabriel.net.
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In 2013 the Colville's Auto Vue Drive-in theater will celebrate its 60th birthday, and its retirement party at the same time. Owner Steve Wisner said he will not re-open the drive-in after the summer of 2013 because he can neither afford new technology or repairs to the movie screen.
To stay in business, Wisner must buy a new digital processor for the drive-in that will cost $82,000. Movie suppliers will make the switch from 35 mm film to a digital format after 2013, and Wisner will not be able to buy movies on film for his processor any longer.
Melissa Johnson and the Stevens County Stompers clogging group will host a holiday variety show at the Colville High School auditorium on Friday, Dec. 14 at 6:30 p.m. The show will have performances of dancing, martial arts, singing, harp and piano pieces, featuring the Stevens County Stompers, along with their own Hannah Johnson and also Donna Jo Smith. Other guest performers are The Engell Family Band, Sweet Adelines, Ann Benedict's dancers from Northern Ballet and Performing Arts from Chewelah, White Dragon Kung Fu, and the Miss Colville royalty court.


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Smooth move: Restaurant Week opens in style
Charlottesville Restaurant Week kicked off Monday night with a bang. Over at Brookville Restaurant, co-owner Jennifer Pendleton, who'll be marrying her chef-partner Harrison Keevil later this year (congrats!), says they "did awesome, about 50 people, which is great for us on a Monday." Plus, she says the phone has been "ringing off the hook all day." A lot of large groups have booked, like 14 and 12 tops, so she says things are filling up fast. But you might have a chance Sunday.
Over at the Blue Light Grill, Bang!, TEN, and the C&O Restaurant it was the same story.
"There have been calls all day long," says the C&O's Lindsay Bell, who was managing the packed house on Monday. "We've had to reserve seats in the Bistro, which are usually for walk-ins. Sorry, but we're booked for the entire week." Hey, you never know, give them a call and they might squeeze you in. Tip: request a late seating.
"We saw people we've never seen before, and a lot of people from out of town," says Bell. "Where do they hear about this?"
Bell said everyone appeared to be having a good time, though no one wanted to sit outside on the steamy night.
"The kitchen has got it down now," says Bell. "Everything went real smooth."...
Preservationists 'speechless': Pre-permit Ingleside demolition raises ire
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It never truly feels like summer until you throw (or attend)
that first al fresco cocktail party; whether you look
forward to the tasty and fruity cocktails or the delicious hors
d'oeuvres to nibble on, summer entertaining is generally the
highlight of the season.
Just throwing together a few friends, lawn games, and beer in your back yard? Don't be afraid to serve restaurant-quality munchies for your guests to graze on. Summer 2011 is all about spoiling your palate with pops of flavor, color, and class. The Hook asks our favorite restaurateurs– with some of the best patios and outdoor eateries in town– to plot the perfect cocktail party menu for any summer soiree.


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This section gives information on the franchise sector in Ireland.
The term 'franchising' has been used to describe many different forms of business relationships, including licensing, distributor agreements and agency arrangements. In its most familiar sense, the term ?franchise? has arisen from the development of what is called 'business format franchising?.
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Well, I survived the second annual Sweeney Family Reunion.
The latest event was a bit different than the first. During the initial reunion, held three years ago, there were many folks who hadn't seen each other in decades. In people years, that's pretty long.
There were some new relatives on board this time around, but also many returning Reunion Vets. I guess that means the first reunion was a success. Or else those who attended have short memories.
Color me green...along with everyone else
Personally, I am really pleased that the entire world has gone "green." Evil chemicals, from all indications, are a thing of the past. At least if you believe what you read. While I'm glad that many of the disease-causing chemicals that have been forced upon society are no longer being used, the entire concept does have a troubling side.
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It was like a police interrogation. Without the dead body. Yet.
The story was told to me while I was at a gathering the other evening with some people I had just met. It didn't matter, though, because like many people who have had a life-altering experience, they were ready to spill their guts.
Time to Twitter
I'm running late this week. Must be I'm spending too much time on Twitter again.
OK, that may not be entirely true. In fact, I was not exactly certain what it is that Twitter is — or does — until I looked it up.
Whistling in the dark
We hadn't owned a pet in quite awhile before obtaining a "packaged cat" about a year-and-a-half ago for Christmas. I have detailed a few of the kitty's exploits in this space, but have some updated observations.
I guess one thing that needs to be cleared up is the "ownership" issue. "Holly" (it's that Christmas tie-in) is pretty much the owner of the folks who give her a warm place to reside and who feed her (when I remember).
Tunes for sale. Cheap.
I heard some disturbing news on the radio this week. Along with all the well-documented effects of our economic Re-Pression, as I like to call it, have been some lesser known side effects.
The story I heard told how one particular shop that purchases used compact discs has been flooded with returns. Apparently the "economic downturn" has plenty of folks turning in their tunes for cash. Now that's blues music. Or is it green music?
That's how I remember it. I think.
I don't believe I'm alone when it comes to not always being able to remember things.
The fact I sometimes can't recall something that I "learned" can be pretty annoying. For instance, I'm terrible with driving directions. Much of this is due to the laziness inspired by usually having a "navigator" during out-of-town trips.
Turn it up. Louder.
"Progress" is a funny term. In recent years, more and more people are coming to the realization that "progress" isn't necessarily a good thing. For instance, using a bunch of additives mixed up in a laboratory to make our food grow faster, larger and have brighter color is not necessarily beneficial.
The same with the vehicles we drive.
What are the chances?
Some stunning news was reported this week on my Home Page. It seems that "only half the population understands what a precipitation forecast means well enough to make a fully informed answer to that tricky question of whether or not to bring an umbrella."
That leaves half of us all wet, I guess. Or not — depening on one's luck.
Now who's the dork?
For years, I have started my mornings from early spring through early fall with a review of the box scores to check the progress of my Fantasy Baseball players.
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Halemaumau is just over ten minutes away and is an effortless way to view a live volcano - it's next to the Jagger Volcano Museum and is a must-see part of the area. Plan a trip into the Volcanoes National Park after dark.
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The former Rhode Island congressman will bring the memoir out a year from now.
"I realize that I have an enormous opportunity to turn my biggest liability — my illness, which includes addiction — into an asset to help countless numbers of Americans who quietly suffer and cannot afford treatment or risk telling their employers," Kennedy said in a statement.
"That's why I'm writing this book. I hope that by telling the real story of my own personal struggle, I can kick off my lifelong mission: to destigmatize addiction and other neurological ailments, and break down the barriers between research and treatment of different types of brain disorders."
Publishers Houghton Mifflin say the book will be a best seller.
"Coming clean about his family and himself is an important first step in his initiative to help the millions of Americans who suffer from similar afflictions,"they said.
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Do you serve cheese for Thanksgiving? Or maybe you're bringing it along as your contribution? How do you know just exactly how much to purchase, so you have just the right amount? Nothing worse than not enough cheese, right? (Though leftover cheese ain't that bad.)
There's a little formula that you might not know about, which could inform your wedge-choosing this Thanksgiving day.
Winter Recipe: Classic Vegetarian Nut Loaf
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Ah, nut loaf. Not the sexiest-sounding main dish, but that hardly matters once you've taken a bite. Rich, chewy, umami-loaded and very satisfying, nut loaf has won the hearts and palates of many people — even non-vegetarians. Here is my favorite recipe for this classic dish, along with alternative serving suggestions and, of course, ideas for leftovers.
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A few months ago I found myself in Italy at the top of a hill at dusk, surrounded by olive trees and nibbling fresh cheese made by a blonde curly-haired man straight out of a Renaissance painting. "Is this heaven?" I pondered. There is something truly idyllic about I Due Falcetti, a small artisanal cheesemaking operation in Tuscany run by Francesco Bagnoli.
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This isn't the first time I've written about Salvatore Ricotta. I love their cheese. And I'm not the only one.
Lucky me, I paid the facility a visit the other week, and witnessed (and even helped in) the making of a batch of ricotta. Herein, all the details, plus information on what makes their cheese so crave- and praise-worthy.
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Here's a thought: What if you never had to approach a cheese counter again with that blank stare, grasping for words in an effort to describe that one cheese you had the other day? It was what, "kinda creamy, but not too runny, and maybe with a pinkish rind, and I don't know... it was just really, really good... but I can't remember the name." Sound familiar?
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Store Review: Campbell Cheese & Grocery in Brooklyn
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It's rare for a specialty food shop to really blow you away—especially in Brooklyn. We're (blissfully) saturated with fine food stores here. It's not tricky to find a spot with a well-curated selection of well-crafted cheeses, cured meats, honeys, chocolate, and the like. And so when one shop stands out from the rest, it's all the more special.
I did some perusing the other day at Campbell Cheese & Grocery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And blow me away it most certainly did. A few times over. I only wish it were located just a bit closer to my apartment.
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One of the oldest living Americans has died in Brooklyn.
Earlier this month, NY1 introduced you to Ernest Peronneau, who was turning 112 years old.
Peronneau died at his Clinton Hill home Wednesday.
He was believed to have been the oldest living African-American man.
Peronneau was born in South Carolina in 1902 and moved to New York when he was 16. After trying his hand at different jobs, he eventually worked as a bricklayer and helped construct some iconic buildings around the city.
He was also active in the civil rights movement and worked with such leaders as W. E. B. Du Bois and Walter White.
Peronneau's funeral will be held on Monday at Piro Funeral Home.
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