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Local Artist’s Work on Exhibit at UE’s Melvin Peterson Gallery
An exhibit of the work of local artist Laura Foster-Nicholson will be on display at the University of Evansville’s Melvin Peterson Gallery beginning this month. This exhibit of tapestries – titled “Space and Light: Weaving a World†– will be shown from September 14 through October 17. The Peterson Gallery is open Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday from noon to 3:00 p.m., and Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 6:00 p.m. For more information on the exhibit or the gallery hours, please call
Adopt a Pet
Squeakers is a 2 year old male, grey tabby. He is a cuddle bug and loves to talk. His adoption fee would be $30 which includes his neuter, vaccines, microchip and a bag of food.
The VHS is open for adoptions and viewing Tuesday – Saturday from Noon – 6 PM. You can check out more animals on our website at www.vhslifesaver.org.
USI Dental Hygiene Clinic to offer free dental cleanings for veterans
The University of Southern Indiana Dental Hygiene Clinic will provide free dental cleaning, fluoride and X-rays for military veterans this fall on October 5, October 7, November 9 and November 11 (Veterans’ Day).
The dental hygiene program collaborates with Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI-AHEC) and USI’s Veteran, Military & Family Resource Center to offer these special clinic hours for veterans. USI Dental Hygiene faculty will supervise the students working in the clinic.
Appointments are required and can be made by calling 812-464-1706. Proof of military affiliation and a picture identification are required.
The USI Dental Hygiene Clinic is located on the USI campus in the Health Professions Center Room 1040.
The dental hygiene program at USI is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association, a specialized accrediting body recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation and by the United States Department of Education.
Southwest Indiana AHEC began as a regional center in 2008, and it is hosted by the University of Southern Indiana in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. SWI-AHEC is part of a national network with a mission to improve health by leading the nation in the recruitment, training and retention of a diverse health workforce for underserved communities.
TO REVIVE AMERICA, RESUSCITATE THE AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR
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By Tom Purcell
Here’s a sobering fact: American entrepreneurship is in decline for the first time since the U.S. government started measuring it.
And U.S. Census Bureau data show that the U.S. ranks “12th among developed nations in terms of business startup activity,†according to Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup.
Believe it or not, when measured in per-capita terms, socialist countries such as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand and Sweden now have more startups than we do.
So does Hungary, formerly part of the Soviet bloc, as well as Italy, which hasn’t had many successes in the economic prosperity column since before the Roman Empire collapsed.
Israel, which is a hub of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic wealth production, is the only country ahead of us that makes any sense.
But it gets worse.
“You never see it mentioned in the media, nor hear from a politician that, for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births,†writes Clifton.
According to the most recent numbers, 400,000 new employer businesses — those with one or more employees, which Clifton says are the real engines of economic growth — “are being born annually nationwide, while 470,000 per year are dying.†Whereas in 2008, business startups outpaced shuttered businesses by 100,000.
If these sorry numbers don’t worry you, they should.
Clifton says that “when small and medium-sized businesses are dying faster than they’re being born, so is free enterprise. And when free enterprise dies, America dies with it.â€
Declining American freedom is contributing to the decline of free enterprise. According to the sixth edition of the Legatum Institute’s Prosperity Index, released last year, America now ranks 21st among the top 25 freest countries in the world.
It isn’t rocket science. Freedom, entrepreneurship and economic prosperity go hand in hand, write the Fraser Institute’s Donald J. Boudreaux and Jason Clemens in Forbes:
“In a free market, entrepreneurs devise new products, as well as new methods of production and distribution. If consumers find entrepreneur Jones’s new product valuable enough to buy it at a price that covers its cost, Jones reaps profits. If consumers find entrepreneur Smith’s new product to not be worth the price necessary to cover its costs, Smith suffers loses that are his to bear.â€
The consensual transaction through which consumers and entrepreneurs spend their own money “is by far the best means yet devised for ensuring not only that scarce resources are used as productively as possible, but also that creative human effort is continually called forth to discover ever-newer and better ways to use resources,†they write.
But America is inhibiting, rather than encouraging, consumers and entrepreneurs nowadays. It’s no wonder, then, that the economic recovery we have experienced since 2009 is the slowest in more than 70 years, says The Wall Street Journal.
And that doesn’t bode well for any American.
Want a strong military? Want to provide health care for the needy? Want to pay off our rapidly growing bills before they sink us?
Then America better remember how to unleash the genius of American entrepreneurs: tax simplification, fewer nutty regulations, lower government spending and debt to free up investment capital … .
Clifton says that America’s 6 million small businesses provide jobs for more than 100 million Americans — which produces a significant portion of the tax base we need to fund all that the government does.
“These small, medium and big businesses have generated the biggest economy in the world,†he writes. This “has allowed the country to afford lavish military and social spending and entitlements. And we’ve been able to afford all of this because, until now, we’ve dominated the world economy.â€
If we want to enjoy renewed economic prosperity, we need a renewed burst of American entrepreneurship.
As goes the American entrepreneur, so goes America.
Governor Pence Statement on August Unemployment Report
Indianapolis – Governor Mike Pence issued the following statement as Indiana’s unemployment rate decreased to 4.6% in the month of August.
“Over the past twelve months, Indiana has added more than 60,000 private sector jobs, and our unemployment rate continues to fall. Indiana’s labor force participation rate continues to outpace the national average even as unemployment decreases, indicating that Hoosiers continue to be encouraged by our growing economy. Rest assured that my administration will continue to pursue policies that make Indiana a state that works.â€
USI professors to present “RADON: Health, Hazards, and your Homeâ€
Dr. Kent Scheller and Dr. William Elliott, associate professors in physics and geology at the University of Southern Indiana, will present “RADON: Health, Hazards, and your Home†at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in room 1101 in the Education and Science Center.
Their free public lecture talks about the presence of radon gas in the Tri-State. Scheller and Elliott will present findings of their research on environmental radon, its source and where it is most abundant locally. The hazards of radon in your home will be discussed, along with the options of homeowners to remove this dangerous, radioactive gas.
Scheller and Elliott’s paper, “Geochemical and γ ray characterization of Pennsylvanian black shales:
Implications for elevated home radon levels in Vanderburgh County, Indiana,†was accepted and published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity this summer.
Radon is a radioactive gas that results from the decay of uranium in the Earth’s crust. The study characterizes the presence and relative quantity of radon precursors in the Pennsylvanian black shales of southwest Indiana. Cores were drilled on the USI campus to a depth of 780 feet during exploration for coal-bed methane. Gamma ray logs of the cores were taken to measure radioactive activity. Characteristic gamma rays from various isotopes were identified confirming the presence and relative quantity of radon precursors in core samples. Geochemical analysis of cores was also conducted to measure presence and quantity of trace metals and radon precursors.
Of 744 homes tested in Vanderburgh County from 2007 to 2013, 169 homes (22.7 percent) had elevated radon levels greater than 4 pCi/L. Additionally, 246 homes (33.1 percent) had measured radon levels of 2-4 pCi/L. About 80 percent of radon levels greater than 4 pCi/L are located in proximity to the Dugger and Shelburn formations, or the Shelburn and Patoka formations. These formations are stratigraphically associated with Pennsylvanian black shales, which are interpreted to be the ultimate source of radon in Vanderburgh County. High radon levels also occurred in homes built on alluvium, terrace deposits, and outwash adjacent to the Ohio River.