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Governor Pence to Visit Lake County Tomorrow

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Pence1-400x266 Tomorrow, Governor Mike Pence will visit and tour U.S. Steel – Gary Works in Lake County. Later in the afternoon, he will tour Purdue University Calumet and have lunch with students, and will meet with fourth grade students and teachers at Frankie Woods McCullough Academy for Girls. Details below.

Thursday, June 4:

9:30 a.m. CDT – Governor Pence to visit, tour U.S. Steel – Gary Works
*Upon conclusion of the visit, the Governor will hold a media availability starting at 11:15 a.m. CDT outside the General Office Building. Members of the media must arrive by 10:45 a.m. CDT and wear long pants and closed toed shoes.
U.S. Steel – Gary Works, 1 North Broadway, Gary

12:00 p.m. CDT – Governor Pence to tour Purdue University Calumet, have lunch with students
*Media are welcome to attend.
Purdue Calumet, Powers Building – Room 123, 2200 169th St., Hammond

2:00 p.m. CDT – Governor Pence to speak with teachers, fourth graders
*Media are welcome to attend and are asked to check in at the front desk.
Frankie Woods McCullough Academy for Girls, 3757 W. 21st Ave., Gary

IS IT TRUE JUNE 4, 2015

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IS IT TRUE the Union Bosses held a ‘MEET AND GREET” candidates lunch at the union hall last week? …sitting at table number #1 was Mayor Winnecke, Jonathan Weaver, Missy Mosby, Jim Brinkmeyer, Laura Windhorst, Rose Young and a couple of union bosses? …sitting at table number #2 were Connie Robinson, Steve and Anne Melcher and Dr. Dan Adams and no Union Bosses? …we are surprised that Mayoral candidate Gail Riecken wasn’t invited to this event? …the people at table number #1 were luke warm towards the people sitting at table number #2?   …the union theme is “It’s not what you did for me before but it’s what you promise you’ll do for me tomorrow”?

IS IT TRUE that the Alhambra Board of Directors gave the Arts Council the Alhambra Theater without regard to the role the Arts Council may have, in the future development of the Alhambra Theater? … according to media reports that Representatives from the Arts Council and the Alhambra Board of Directors declined to discuss further details? … get ready for the leadership of both organizations to state this project shall spur economic development and enhance arts and cultural opportunities in the region? Ya, right!!

IS IT TRUE the first order of business for the Art Council and Alhambra Board of Directors is to begin a massive fundraiser to generate approximate $500,000 to renovate the interior shale of the Alhambra Theater before anything can be held in this building? This building may have a record of conducting the longest continual fundraisers in history.

IS IT TRUE if you have any ideas or want to donate to this future project please contact the following 2015 Arts Council Board of Directors? …the Arts Council Board of Directors are: Ann Tornatta, Deaconess Hospital, Dan Carwile, Old National Bank, Robert Musgrave, Chapter 13 Trustee, Eric Renschler, University of Evansville, Kathryn Gieneart, Evansville Courier & Press, Kalah Georgette-Vowels, St. Mary’s Hospital, Shaunda Lynch, Foster, O’Daniel & Lynch, Jack Schriber, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, Alisa Holen, University of Southern Indiana. Anna Beth Pfafflin, VPS Architecture, Julie Graves-Williams, Ivy Tech, Jon Siau, Community Advocate, Ken Haynie III, FC Tucker, Tom Bailey, Vectren, Andrew Herbertz, Tropicana Evansville, Memhet Kocakulah, University of Southern Indiana, Philip Hooper, Berkshire Hathaway, Jeanne Amsler, Ivy Tech, Joshua Armstrong, Director of Downtown Alliance, Kelley Coures, Department of Metropolitan Development, Monte Skelton, Joshua Academy, Jennye Scott, Berry Plastics?

IS IT TRUE we tried to locate the names of the 2015 Alhambra Board of Directors but didn’t secede? …if any of our readers know who they are please send their names to us so we can publish them?

IS IT TRUE that the original design of the new proposed motel downtown had an indoor swimming pool and now the redesign has the pool outdoors?  …it had the expensive UV windows and now the cheapest windows on the market?  …. had central HVAC but now the redesign Hotel has the window HVAC in each room? … had a bar & lounge on the top of the hotel and now the redesign omits the bar & lounge.?  What’s left to omit?

IS IT TRUE that the Ford Center was over four times that of the Hotel project in dollars and came in on time and under budget?  … after three and one half years and millions over budget even before any groundbreaking, there’s still no hotel.?  …the Ford Center, on time and under budget?  . . .new proposed hotel, very tardy and very much over budget?

Please take time and vote in todays “Readers Poll”. Also we just posted the current City County Observer TRI-STATE VOICES TV show for you’re viewing pleasure.

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The Life Of An Aging Baby Boomer

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Raging Moderate by Will Durst
Population scientists describe the Baby Boom generation as anybody born between the years 1946 and 1964. Which means the youngest of the Baby Boomers turned 50 last year, and the oldest will turn 70 next year, which is just so wrong. We Boomers are the architects of the youth culture. We invented young people for crum’s sakes. We’re the Pepsi Generation… that had a minor fling with Coke.
But fear not. As we evidenced throughout the entirety of our flower-powered history, this autumn of our lives will be charged into with unwavering optimism, a firm commitment to affect positive change and pockets full of drugs.
The first item of business that needs to be put in order is the nomenclature. Is it really necessary to refer to us as elderly seniors winding down our golden years? We’re vintage. Classic. Enduring. Seasoned. Steadfast. Resilient. Ripe. And accumulating ripagosity every day.
But all you kids out there shouldn’t think that growing old is all gloom and doom. No. No. No. There’s an equal amount of marvelous traveling hand in hand with the gruesome. Compare for yourself, the 10 major advantages and disadvantages of being an aging baby boomer.
The 10 Major Disadvantages to Being an Aging Baby Boomer.
1. Exorbitant cost of replacement parts.
2. Sex and drugs and rock and roll and now naps.
3. When acid flashbacks meet dementia. On Prozac.
4. Turns out that old adage was right: the good DO die young. Which explains why we’re still here.
5. Your children are no longer reliable sources when it comes to tech support and all the grandchildren have lost the ability to pick up a phone.
6. Grandma’s field of butterflies tattoo is now a flock of pterodactyls.
7. Looking at Harold & Maude from Ruth Gordon’s point of view- not Bud Cort’s.
8. Rumors abound that despite the name, sexagenarians, alas, don’t really engage in a lot of sex.
9. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome, getting old means doing the same things you always did, with constantly varying results.
10. No jet packs.
The 10 Major Advantages to Being an Aging Baby Boomer.
1. Fewer peers means less peer pressure and it diminishes every day.
2. The phrase: “lifetime supply” becomes a much more imaginable concept.
3. Always one ear hair so long and thick you can cut cheese with it.
4. No longer have to worry about being the fresh young thing in prison. Sweet.
5. Knees are better at predicting the weather than that guy on TV.
6. Just saying “irritable bowel syndrome” creeps young people out so much they go away.
7. Can always tell people the battery in your hearing aid is shorting out, even when you’re not wearing a hearing aid.
8. Totally lack the energy and often forget to keep lifelong grudges active.
9. The Rolling Stones can be heard in elevators.
10. Going to the bathroom 3 times a night turns out to be a highly effective means of home security.
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Copyright © 2015, Will Durst, distributed by the Cagle Cartoons Inc. syndicate.

The Robot Zoo June 8- Sept 7

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Exhibit Title: The Robot Zoo
A traveling children’s exhibit that reveals the biomechanics of giant robot animals to illustrate how real animals work. (2,500 square foot interactive exhibit)

Itinerary:

The Kley Exhibit Hall at Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden welcomes it’s first traveling exhibit. Zoo visitors can explore The Robot Zoo daily from June 8 -September 7, 2015. Cost is $2.00 (or 2 tokens) to enhance your zoo visit with this unique exhibit experience.

Tongue Gun – Triggering a joystick on the model of a robot chameleon’s head fires a long tongue at insect targets to show how the reptile catches food.

Hide and Seek – Children can blend in like a chameleon. Wearing a coat that matches a wall in the background, kids can watch themselves appear and disappear on a video monitor.

Swat the Fly – This activity tests participants’ reaction time (about one-twelfth as fast a house fly’s). Visitors use their hands to “swat” each fly as it lights up.

Sticky Feet – Kids, wearing special hand and kneepads, can try to stick like flies to a sloping surface.

Robot Animals: Chameleon, Platypus, and Housefly

Highlights:

Three robot animals and eight hands-on activities reveal the magic of nature as a master engineer.

Engaging Interactives

Chameleon

1. Keep an Eye on You

The robot model of a chameleon’s head shows how the real reptile views the world: through eyes that work independently. As visitors move each of the robot’s eyes with a joystick, they can see on two color monitors the separate images the robot’s eyes “see.”

2. Tongue Gun

Triggering the Tongue Gun demonstrates how a real chameleon shoots out its long, sticky-tipped tongue to reel in a meal. Sharpshooters use a joystick to aim the head of a robot chameleon, then press a button to fire its long tongue at one of several insect targets.

3. Hide and Seek

Visitors can blend in like a chameleon. Wearing a coat that matches a wall in the background, visitors can watch themselves appear and disappear on a video monitor as they move back and forth in front of the wall.

Platypus

4. Mister Platypus

Visitors of all ages can build a platypus or their own whimsical creature by adding different animal parts, such as an alligator’s tail or an elephant’s trunk, to the model of a platypus’ body

5. Robot Body Shop

Drum mounted machine parts allow visitors to manipulate some of the mechanical devices used to construct the robots, such as hinges, pumps, springs and shock absorbers.

Housefly

6. Eye to Eye

Visitors can stand behind a 5-foot-tall cutout of a housefly and get a fly’s-eye view through two 19-inch compound eyes. A real housefly can’t see fine details unless it’s up close, but its eyes (each with about 4,000 six-sided lenses) can detect even the slightest movement in all directions.

7. Swat the Fly

This activity tests participants’ reaction time (about one-twelfth as fast as a housefly’s). Visitors use their hands to “swat” the backlit image of each fly as it randomly flashes.

8. Sticky Feet

Visitors wearing special hand and kneepads can try to stick like flies to a sloping surface.

USI Super Summer sessions open for registration

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USIUSI’s Education Services and Partnerships in Outreach and Engagement, will offer two, one-week Super Summer sessions for children ages Pre-K4 through 14. Morning classes from 9 – 11:30 a.m. and afternoon classes from 12:30 – 3 p.m. will be available. Operating every summer since the early ‘80s, Super Summer has provided a variety of enrichment opportunities to hundreds of children.

Session one will take place June 8-12 at Hebron Elementary, located at 4400 Bellemeade Avenue in Evansville. The second session will take place July 6-10 at the University of Southern Indiana. Classes offered include Spy Academy, Radical Robots, Building Balsa Wood Bridges, Passport To…, Hands-On Art, Learn Español and more.

In celebration of New Harmony’s recent bicentennial, a special weeklong, multi-disciplinary course (Bugs, Shells and Pottery: 201 Years of New Harmony Science and Art) will be held June 15-19 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A limited number of students in grades 6-8 will spend five full days in New Harmony engaging in activities focused on entomology, architecture, geology, pottery and more. Transportation will be provided and students should bring a non-perishable lunch, water bottle, hat, sunscreen and bug spray.

Registration is $90 for each course or $85 per course when registering the same child in more than one class or when registering two or more children at the same time. The New Harmony course is $130 and includes transportation from USI to New Harmony.

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation students, who are eligible for the free and reduced lunch program, may enroll in two courses for a reduced fee of $10. Reduced-fee enrollments are limited and do not apply to the New Harmony class.

Free lunchtime supervision will be available for those enrolling in both morning and afternoon classes. Children enrolled all day and staying for lunch must be five years or older and should bring their own non-perishable lunches and drinks.

For more information, including a complete Super Summer schedule and registration information, visit USI.edu/SuperSummer, or call USI’s Outreach and Engagement at 812-464-1989.

 

 

 

Congratulations 2015-2016 Global Scholars!

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The Institute for Global Enterprise is pleased to announce the Global Scholars for the 2015-16 academic year. Congratulations to Dr. Robert Dion, Department Chair of Law, Politics, and Society, and Associate Professor of Political Science; Dr. Lora Becker, Associate Professor of Psychology; and Dr. Atefeh Yazdanparast, Assistant Professor of Marketing. Each Global Scholar will receive a stipend and travel allowance.

Robert Dion

Dr. Robert Dion
Department Chair, Law, Politics and Society
Associate Professor of Political Science

Dr. Dion will pursue original research into the treatment of religious groups in contemporary Western democracies. Important cross-cultural tensions have flared up in recent years in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States – including right here in Indiana this year. In many instances, the disputes have revolved around how to accommodate the wishes of religious minorities. A comparative case study could yield a richer understanding of why some nations approach these matters in the ways that they do.

Lora Becker

Dr. Lora Becker
Associate Professor of Psychology

Atefeh Yazdanparast

Dr. Atefeh Yazdanparast
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Drs. Becker and Yazdanparast will collaborate on cross-cultural neuromarketing research examining emotional responses of citizens in a collectivist culture (China) as compared to those living in an individualistic culture (Australia). They will be consulting with Rafal Ohme, PhD, Visiting Professor at Renmin, University of China; and Saman Khajehzadeh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Marketing and Mr. Lee Marquardt, Behavioral Laboratory Administrator, Department of Marketing, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia about neuromarketing techniques and procedures.

As Global Scholars, the recipients of this award will engage in scholarship, curriculum development, and activities related to preparing our students and community for global leadership, citizenry, and success. The Global Scholars program is supported by the John H. Schroeder Global Scholar Endowed Fund and Lilly Endowment Inc.

Daily Off Topic Forum June 4, 2015

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Appeals court sides with EPA on air pollution limits

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indianaBy, TheIndianaLawyer.com

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency complied with the law in deciding which areas of the country failed to meet federal limits on smog-forming pollution that can cause asthma and respiratory illness.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected challenges from states, industry and environmental groups that claimed the agency was being either too strict or too lenient in determining which areas satisfied federal ozone restrictions.

States including Mississippi, Indiana and Texas had challenged the EPA’s finding that certain areas within their borders were violating the standard. A finding of noncompliance means states have to spend money to reduce ozone levels.

Connecticut and Delaware argued that the EPA should have designated more than a dozen eastern states in violation, saying their air quality was being hindered by other states.

But the court said the EPA’s decisions had not violated the Constitution or any provisions of the Clean Air Act.

EPA spokeswoman Liz Purchia said the agency is pleased with the decision and would continue to work with states “toward implementing ozone standards to protect public health as required by the Clean Air Act.”

The Obama administration recently proposed even stricter emission limits on ozone of 65 to 70 parts per billion, below the existing standard of 75 that President George W. Bush put in place in 2008. The EPA has estimated that cutting ozone emissions to 70 parts per billion would cost industry about $3.9 billion in 2025.

Business groups say the latest proposal is unnecessary and would be the costliest regulation in history.

Ozone, the main ingredient in smog, is a powerful lung irritant that has been linked to a range of health problems. Smog is created when emissions from cars, power plants, refineries and other factories mix in sunlight and heat.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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nick hermanBelow is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Jamar Banks                  Theft of Firearm-Level 6 Felony
Carrying a Handgun Without a License-Class A Misdemeanor

Stephen Sandefur      Burglary-Level 2 Felony
Battery with Moderate Bodily Injury-Level 6 Felony

Kyle Biggs                   Resisting Law Enforcement-Level 6 Felony

Jasmine Edwards          Battery by Bodily Waste-Level 6 Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor
Disorderly Conduct-Class B Misdemeanor

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law

Missing 3 year old reunited with family, no charges expected

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After a lengthy search for 3 year old Montez Cooper, police found him in a laundry room at the apartment complex where he was last seen.

The laundry room did not have any signage and officers were not told about its’ existence during the overnight search. Officers checked the door during the search and discovered it was locked. The officers believed it was an apartment unit and upon not getting a response, continued with their door to door search.
Officers were told about the laundry room by a manager who had come to the complex around 8:00am to allow officers to check several vacant apartment units. While escorting the officers, the manager mentioned the laundry room and unlocked it. A detective found Montez inside. He was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital for a precautionary checkup and released to a family member.
Although officers who responded to the scene at 8:15 Tuesday night were told Montez could only have gotten out of the apartment through a rear window, police believe he walked out the front door with the intention of going to the laundry room to wash his shoes. His shoes were found in the washing machine and he told police he was in there to clean his shoes. Nobody noticed Montez leave the apartment or go into the laundry room.
Although the laundry room is supposed to be locked, police believe someone left it unlocked and Montez was able to push the door open enough to get in. Once inside, the task of pulling the door open to get out may have proved too much for Montez. While struggling with the door knob, he locked the door.
At this time, investigators do not feel they have probable cause to charge anyone with a criminal offense.
The Evansville Police Department would like to thank everyone who helped search for Montez and all those who shared his information in an effort to help us return him safely to his loved ones.
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