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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, April 11, 2018 B- 7 AIRBORNE Continued from page 6 Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court Jacob P. Barr charged with count I unlawful pos- session of syringe, a level 5 felony, count II possession of a controlled substance and count III unlawful posses- sion of syringe. Shelly Kay Church charged with possession of methamphetamine, a level 6 felony. Maiquer A. Salvador charged with count I battery against a public safety offi- cial, a level 6 felony, count II resisting law enforcement and count III operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated. Jalisa Burton charged with possession of metham- phetamine, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Zackary Wheatley charged with theft. Shane Lashbrook charged with check deception. Anthony L. Marley charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Juan A. Castilla-Hernan- dez charged with operating a vehicle without ever re- ceiving a license. Dana L. Groves charged with count I possession of a controlled substance, count II possession of marijuana and count III possession of paraphernalia. Coltyn J. Rainey charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II pos- session of paraphernalia. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court Friendly Finance Corpo- ration sues Nancy Lance on complaint. LVNV Funding sues Edra Cannon AK A Edra L. Dim- mett on complaint. LVNV Funding sues Ca- leb Hulfachor on complaint. Wells Fargo Bank sues David E. Charosky, Jr., Cav- alry SPV I, LLC, and David E. Charkosky, Jr. on com- plaint. Bayview Loan Servicing sues Ted Lee, Helen B. Lee and Theodore Lee on com- plaint. Kaci Marie Biggs Wil- liams sues Michael T. Wil- liams for dissolution of mar- riage. Kimberly Kay Miller sues Anthony Dale Miller for dis- solution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Personal Finance Compa- ny sues John W. Vanwinkle on complaint. Personal Finance Compa- ny sues Roger C. Curry on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Silas Ashley charged with seatbelt violation. Jeffrey Astafan charged with operating a CMV with- out periodic inspection. Ketina Bailey charged with speeding, 44 mph in a 30 zone. Grace Barrett charged with speeding, 83 mph in a 70 zone. Larry Brown charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 55 zone. Ernest Chamlee charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Bailey Corn charged with seatbelt violation. Flint Culbertson charged with seatbelt violation. Jackie Davis charged with driving while suspended. David Devine charged with speeding, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Sally Doyle charged with stopping, standing or park- ing where prohibited. Brent Drake charged with brake hose/tubing chaffing and/or kinking. Oraletta Earles charged with seatbelt violation. Michael Eckiss charged with seatbelt violation. Stephen Fuhrer charged with operating with expired plates. Maddelynne Gamble charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Avery Haller charged with speeding, 44 mph in a 30 zone. Roy Hedge charged with driving while suspended. Thomas Henderson charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Randy Jones charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Raymond McGregor charged with seatbelt vio- lation. Tina Murphy charged with no valid driver's li- cense. Joshia Owen charged with speeding, 61 mph in a 45 zone. Rod Poland charged with brake hose/tubing chaffing and/or kinking. Darius Randall charged with driving while suspend- ed. Mark Reynolds charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Jason Sallee charged with seatbelt violation. Stephen Williams charged with seatbelt violation. Braden Scott charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 20 zone. Michael Snider charged with speeding, 68 mph in a 55 zone. Derek Vickers charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 55 zone. Jeffery Sandage charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Tony Traylor charged with seatbelt violation. Jacob Stevenson charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Angela LaGrange charged with speeding, 82 mph in a 55 zone. Brooke Gladish charged with seatbelt violation. Colten Gladish charged with seatbelt violation. Amir Etziony charged with failure to yield right-of- way to emergency vehicle. Joshua George charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Leslie Wagoner charged with count I no valid driver's license and count II speed- ing, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Frank Paolino charged with speeding, 92 mph in a 70 zone. Jared Swint charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Seth Wilson charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Erin Stottlemeyer charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Josilynn Stidam charged with count I driving while suspended and count II speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Anthony Wagler charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Bradley Dickerson, Jr. charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Thaddaeus Alden charged with speeding, 65 mph in a 55 zone. Kevin Bermudes charged with driving while suspend- ed. Dean Milburn charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Travis Bailey charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Aubrey Hiemer charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Montique Tevis charged with speeding, 86 mph in a 70 zone. Kathy Parker charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Jonathan Shipman charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 60 zone. of the Gujaratis arrived in Britain destitute but rose again to prosperity. It's the same story with the Cu- bans who came to the U.S. and prospered. By losing their most productive peo- ple, both Uganda and Cu- ba became economic bas- ket cases. The general public, ed- ucators and politicians would benefit immensely from reading "Discrimina- tion and Disparities," if on- ly to avoid being unknow- ingly duped. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. book Music to Move Stars cites the tensions brought about by his ailment and everyday life: "The truth was, there were four part- ners in our marriage: Ste- phen and me, motor neuron disease and physics. If you took out motor neuron dis- ease, you are still left with physics. Mrs. Einstein, you know, cited physics as a dif- ference for her divorce…" Jane Hawking does not take a hatchet to her ex- late husband, but offers to the reader her insight as a Christian, into a man whom she concluded was nihilistic. Hawking's militant athe- ism was not always so. Jane writes in the early days of marriage, they could talk some, but Stephen felt re- ligion should be kept qui- et. But as the years passed and his notoriety grew, the darkening of his soul be- came more apparent. Jane wrote, "As he got older, Stephen became more and more hardened in his atheism. As a re- sult, although in the early days their arguments on religion 'were playful and fairly light-hearted,' in lat- er years, they increasingly 'became more personal, di- visive and hurtful." One cannot but sense that as Hawking was ex- amining the universe through mathematical analysis, any semblance of spirituality was set aside. Jane wrote, "It was then ap- parent that the damaging schism between religion and science had insidious- ly extended its reach in- to our very lives: Stephen would adamantly assert the blunt positivist stance which I found too depress- ing and too limiting to my view of the world because I fervently needed to be- lieve that there was more to life than the bold facts of the laws of physics and the day-to-day struggle for survival." We needn't go any fur- ther. Jane was focusing on day-to-day survival as a wife of a famous man who had a disorder that re- quired all of her energies and faith, while Stephen was focusing upon the uni- verse through self-explo- ration. The modern world is filled with men and wom- en just as passionate about their understanding of the world, yet have no in- clination to discover that the realities of God go be- yond the physical universe. They delve into the very ex- istence of mankind itself. Hawking chose to reach for the universe, which cannot be touched, and discarded the face and mind of God, which can be touched. In his world, all Hope was lost. What about yours? Think about it! Continued from page 6 ROOM Continued from page 6 DISPARITY Continued from page 6 CHECKERS Continued from page 6 INNOVATE Continued from page 6 WORLD the old, the sick and the disadvantaged? Who, in short, would serve as his brother's keeper, if not Big Brother himself? The answer, of course, is us. "We the people." Not we, the helpless, ig- norant masses, who cling desperately to our "guns or religion" and anxious- ly await the arrival of a messiah-president to de- liver us from our frustrat- ed, bewildered and embit- tered selves. We Americans need to regain a sense of our own power, ingenuity and cre- ativity. We need to realize that many of the tasks the public sector performs so poorly today could be per- formed far better by the private sector tomorrow. We need to understand that there are more com- passionate ways of help- ing the poor; more en- lightened ways of protect- ing the environment; and more effective ways of ed- ucating our children, heal- ing our sick, and tending to our elderly than relying on the "invisible foot," as Mil- ton Friedman called it, of a distant, muscle-bound bu- reaucracy. In short, we Americans need to open our minds to the untapped potential of freedom, to the hidden strengths of civil society, and to the limitless power of the American spirit. Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation. Visit heritage.org for more information. with a potent ally against re- porting that revealed qual- ity control sloth and false claims of success in its A fri- can AIDS project. The Politi- Fact partisanship is dissect- ed in a 2016 Daily Caller ar- ticle entitled "Seven 'Facts' PolitiFact Got Flagrant- ly Wrong While Providing Cover for Clinton Founda- tion." Mrs. Clinton has also been able to count on Politi- Fact's contentious defense against the accusation that she mishandled confidential State Department emails. Even after former FBI Di- rector James Comey's tes- timony that Clinton did in- deed compromise the secu- rity of those emails, Politi- Fact only conceded that it was "half true" on its Truth- O-Meter. When a Forbes magazine writer asked David Mik- kelson after the 2016 pres- idential election about his employment of partisans on the Snopes fact-check- ing staff, he defended it, in- cluding at least one employ- ee who ran for office. Mik- kelson also disclaimed any duty of transparency, citing a secrecy agreement that was part of his divorce set- tlement. These things are impor- tant to us because Face- book has recently empow- ered Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, Associat- ed Press and ABC News to evaluate our online commu- nication and rule on our au- thenticity. Facebook nominates sto- ries on a dashboard restrict- ed to the consortium's mem- bers. Those members select stories to fact-check or de- bunk, then privately report back to Facebook which us- es their reports to adjust the algorithms by which we may or may not access our con- tent. This is an enormous amount of trust and power to vest in the anonymous de- liberations of unelected ar- biters of opinion. There is no meaningful appeal from their decisions, nor any ob- ligation of notice. The Columbia Journal- ism Review has noted some "mission creep" among the fact-checkers. Fact-check- ing is an information prod- uct, and the more you pro- duce, the more you can sell. This has led to some adulter- ation of the product. The Associated Press newswire, especially, has a reputation for selling coun- terarguments as fact-check- ing. It's not exactly a factu- al dispute whether Sarah Palin was, as she claimed, motivated by purpose rath- er than ambition. It's a mat- ter of opinion, but the A.P. fact-checked it. There was a quota to meet. When a sen- ator complained in an op-ed piece that Obamacare is un- constitutional, the A.P. fact- checked that it's not uncon- stitutional until the Supreme Court rules that it's uncon- stitutional. As long as truth matters, fact-checking will mat- ter. But just because some- body prints up "Fact Check- er" armbands and ball caps doesn't mean they're more honest and credible than anybody else. We'll always need our own thinking caps. SHERIFF JOHN JOHN For Homeland Security. For Pike County. If elected Sheriff, I'll bring the following qualifications into office: ● Certified by the U.S. Department of State to protect U.S. embassy personnel overseas – security of U.S. personnel in a hostile environment for travel between home and work - emergency rescue and evacuation if needed ● Certified in conducting security assessments on public and private facilities to identify vulnerabilities to active shooters and terrorists that would use weapons of mass destruction Democrat Ballot PAID FOR BY BELLAMY FOR SHERIFF COMMITTEE Nationally accredited Nationally accredited PIKE COUNTY READY TO SERVE ● Certified Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) instructor for how to design, conduct and evaluate training exercises ● Certified Continuity of Operations Planner (COOP) for preparing counties, cities and states on how to survive a catastrophic event – this is done by testing emergency systems, plans and procedures to identify gaps and vulnerabilities, and taking the appropriate corrective actions Pandora or iHeartRadio or podcasts or a bunch of au- dio files you've saved to your memory card, your phone can replace your boombox, your CD player and your iP- od. You can even use it in the car if, say, you wish like the dickens there were a jazz/ opera/deep-southern-blues radio station somewhere within 3,000 miles of your morning commute. • Books: There is a lot of pleasure to be had in turning the pages of a real, hardback book. However, books are heavy and sometimes you forget to bring them with you when you leave home. Thankfully, you can read anything you want on your phone for the right price, or in many cases—such as the daily Bible readings or clas- sical novels in the public do- main—for free. • Calculator: Tipping doesn't have to be hard. Neither does calculating your production line's first pass yield, since calculators come standard on phones now. • Sleep: Do you think a lot at night when you wish you were sleeping? Do you have a small child? Do you live two blocks from an ac- tive railroad? Do all of the above apply to you? Turns out there are dozens of free apps that will play soothing sounds continuously, just waiting for you to download them on your phone. Crank it up to drown out whatev- er noise is driving you bat- ty, and snooze away. Jill's favorite app does soft pia- no over raindrops, but since I'm more of an artistic type, I prefer wind chimes and creepy chanting over exot- ic birdsong. • Television: I'm not rich enough to afford cable or satellite, and I'm not handy enough to reroute our an- tenna to where we keep the T V. But I can gladly shell out $ 8 a month for a television streaming service on my phone. There are at least four different streaming ser- vices that all offer different shows and movies, but all of them are way, WAY cheap- er than traditional paid T V, and none of them have that huge awkward block of adult channels you wish you weren't indirectly fund- ing with your cable subscrip- tion but always seem to have to pass through while your grandma looks over your shoulder and you're just try- ing to get to the 24-hour "A Christmas Story" marathon at every family gathering. ( What, you don't watch "A Christmas Story" on Presi- dent's Day?) Anyway, I've said it be- fore, but phones are incred- ibly useful, and you can use them to waste your life or make your life better. See you next week, and I hope your life is a little better than it was today! food, the safety of the food , the quality and taste of dif- ferent foods based on the na- tionality of the passengers, the different professions who travel like those in different sports, those on special diets, those with allergies, and the list goes on. • • • Another interesting as- pect I did not realize is the amount of machines that maintain the right temper- atures and maintain cabin pressure to prevent bacteri- al growth and deterioration of flavor both on the ground and up in the air. I did not know the different flight crews especially the pilots and co-pilots eat different kinds of food to make sure that they do not get sick at the same time. I did not realize that be- fore the food trucks could approach a plane for load- ing of food, the drivers and their trucks are carefully checked by security via a special pathway to the tar- mac. I learned disposal of un- eaten food, leftover food, and cleaning of silverware and plates also undergo strict procedures. So my purpose in shar- ing this story is to just broad- en our appreciation for the amazing progress mankind has achieved in the field of aviation and travel, and that our ingenuity seems to go by leaps and bounds. It does not seem we have yet seen the end of how far new inventions and innovations push mankind to seeming boundless limits. In the meantime, most of us are likely going to re- main grounded in our lo- cal settings, and that's fine and dandy. Because any- more, international travel has become quite complex and very challenging. And sometimes dangerous. So, bon appétit. Humor of the week: An elderly woman was sipping on a glass of wine while on a long flight to Europe. She was traveling with her hus- band. She then says, "I love you so much I don't know how I could ever travel with- out you.". Her husband then turns to her and asked.." Is it you or the wine talking?. The woman then replies..."It's me...talking to the wine." Have a great week.!