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Libraries closed for holidays
All Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library locations will be closed for the upcoming holidays.
EVPL will be closed:
Wednesday, December 24th and Thursday, December 25th for Christmas
Wednesday, December 31st and Thursday, January 1st for New Year’s
Download eBooks, eAudiobooks, music and more any time at www.evpl.org.
The Downside of Living Alone
The number of Americans who choose to live alone continues to grow.
So finds a recent Current Population Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. According to The Washington Post, the survey found that “the proportion of Americans who live alone has grown steadily since the 1920s, increasing from roughly 5 percent then to 27 percent in 2013.â€
The Post reports the number of men living alone doubled to 12 percent from 1970 to 2012. Some 15 percent of households are comprised of women living alone. In large urban areas, such as Manhattan and Washington, “about half of households have single occupants, and in some neighborhoods the proportion is two-thirds…â€
And why are more people living alone? Because they want to. The more their economic means have allowed it, the more people have chosen to get their own digs.
As someone who lives alone, I’m just not so sure this is a good thing.
I compare the way many single people live today with the home in which I grew up. I lived with five sisters, two parents and a dog. Until I was 12, we had only one shower. We had to share and be considerate of others.
This was during the ’70s and ’80s, when the shag haircut — the long, full Farrah Fawcett hair — was all the rage, which meant my sisters were spending a lot of time washing, conditioning and drying their hair in our only full bathroom.
My poor father spent many of his adult years sitting on his bed in his robe, waiting to get a shower so he could go to work or to the store. His bedroom was at the far end of the house, however. No sooner did he hear the bathroom door open and begin heading down the hallway than he’d hear it slam shut again — someone else going in to get a shower.
The only way I ever got in was by threatening to use my sisters’ toothbrushes.
Our house was a chaotic place. Friends, family and neighbors were always coming and going. The doors were never locked. If you set anything you owned on a table, somebody would relocate it and you’d never see it again. And when something broke, which was about a dozen times every day, my sisters blamed me and everyone was happy.
Well, unlike the way I grew up, I live alone now and have total command over my little world. This is not good. Because there is no one to tell me to clean, I follow the P.J. O’Rourke school of thought: I clean my place about once every girlfriend.
You see, because I live alone, most daily activities are all about me and only me. And because so many people are living as I do, I wonder whether more of our population is becoming more isolated and insular.
More of us are coming home to orderly little worlds that have not been disturbed by the presence of other people. We don’t hear the sound of a baby crying or a stereo playing. We don’t know the scent of cookies being baked as a gift to us. We don’t know the chaos or uncertainty that always occurs when you live with creatures as unpredictable as human beings — people who help us escape the narrowness of ourselves.
No, instead we know an orderly little existence. We have total control over every piece of furniture, every ounce of shampoo in the bathroom and every scrap of food in the refrigerator — though I admit I don’t toss things out of my refrigerator often enough.
Much like comedian Blake Clark, I had one milk carton in my refrigerator so long, it had a picture of the Lindbergh baby printed on the back of it.
KEVIN HART “WHAT NOW” TOUR
| Saturday, January 24 7:00pm Live Nation presents |
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| Kevin Hart, one of the foremost comedians and entertainers in the industry today, is bringing his “What Now†tour to the Old National Events Plaza’s Aiken Theatre. With his passion for stand-up and entertainment, Hart continues to tour the country to sold-out audiences.
In the movies, Kevin will next be seen in the Chris Rock directed film, Top Five, alongside Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld and Whoopi Goldberg, and has already completed production on three other comedies slated for 2015, Screen Gem’s The Wedding Ringer, Get Hard, opposite Will Farrell and Ride Along 2, the sequel to this year’s one-hundred-million-dollar blockbuster hit of the same name. Hart starred earlier this year in About Last Night, a re-make of the iconic 1986 film, which opened to huge box-office success as well. |
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Tickets go on-sale today at 9:00am!
All Seats are $59.50
IS IT TRUE December 22, 2104
IS IT TRUE in nearly every interview with Mayor Winnecke about the death of the downtown hotel project as we know it, Old National Bank CEO Bob Jones is standing with him offering somber support?…we do want to point out that ONB entered into this hotel situation with a good civic intention and remains committed to being a good corporate citizen?…no other Evansville based company large or small stepped forward to attempt to bridge the funding gap between public subsidies and the developer’s comfort level for a purchase price?…the stark reality of what has transpired makes it crystal clear that the market value for the entire project to a private developer is only $37 Million which is less than the construction estimate for the hotel excluding the apartments and the parking garage?…that is remarkably close to the newly appealed assessment for the ONB headquarters?…given the size of the project it is prudent to assume that the value of the ONB headquarters and the hotel/apartment complex is about equal?…as we stated last week, SANITY PREVAILED WHEN THE FREE MARKET DYNAMICS WERE NOT TAINTED BY GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE?
IS IT TRUE we are mystified that the naming rights for The Centre were not appraised a year ago when this scheme was concocted?…one would think that the first logical action prior to an announcement and a happy dance would have been to commission a professional appraisal of the advertising value of the naming rights for The Centre?…we are 100% sure that ONB would never enter into a funding agreement to finance the purchase a piece of property without an appraisal?…we are also sure that ONB would make the borrower pay for the appraisal?…the enthusiasm of cocktails with the Mayor at the rooftop bar must have blinded the analytic reality of those normally good banking minds?…this is testament to the power of a dream no matter how unattainable that dream may be?…the $400,000 per year naming rights deal right across the street for the larger and busier Ford Center should have guided the thought process on the first agreement but it did not?…there is a strangeness about this valuation debacle that begs for some answers?…the writer knows Bob Jones and knows that he is neither a fool nor a liar?…this is not the kind of thing that elevates one to be the CEO of a public bank and a respected leader across the country?…it makes one suspect that we have not heard the whole story yet and that something other than the lack of 6.5 Million is driving this implosion?
IS IT TRUE the coalition of the clueless (ONB, HCW, & City of Evansville) apparently can’t even agree on how short the ONB naming rights were?…Rick Huffman has been quoted as saying the shortage was $8M while Bob Jones says it is $6.5 M?…Huffman was even quoted as stating the project budget was $78 M when it has been common knowledge for over a year that the budget was $71.3 M?…these gaps and the other clueless claim by Mayor Winnecke that the hotel will create 800 jobs when even the biased Hunden Study only claims a fourth of that, are reasons to conclude that this coalition of the clueless has never possessed the mental horsepower to take on a project of any size?…anyone or any group that cannot add and subtract can surely not manage so much as a little league team?
IS IT TRUE the CCO is a bit disturbed at the confessions of Mayor Winnecke that there have been known funding gaps for 3 months, yet he was putting out a press release every couple of weeks about the looming start of construction?…that was misleading and disingenuous?…telling the truth no matter how bad it may have looked would have been and will always be the right policy?…we have to wonder why anyone with a memory would believe a word that comes from the Winnecke Administration about projects or job creation?…that statement about creating more jobs than the hotel was proposed to have rooms took the cake for either incompetence or dishonesty?…as we have said many times, the nonsense and fluff needs to stop?…it is time to get serious about PLANNING and INFRASTRUCTURE neither of which Evansville will survive without?…the bridge to nowhere and the backhoe sentinel are monuments to failing to think, plan, and implement?
IS IT TRUE we are glad to see that the City of Evansville has received a grant of $600,000 to demolish some blighted houses?…at Tom Barnett’s estimate of $5,000 per house for demolition, this money will get rid of 120 blighted houses that need more work than they will ever be worth?…according to Barnett we now have only 9,880 more blighted homes to go to get rid of all of the abandoned homes in the City?
IS IT TRUE finally, we are disturbed to learn through a very well placed MOLE that HCW never executed a franchise agreement with Hilton?…Rick Huffman told Evansville Living over a year ago that he had this in hand?…it was discovered in March that his claim was not true?…Huffman and the Mayor doubled down on that story in June right before they learned the bids for the hotel were well over budget?…today, there still is no franchise agreement, which in all likelihood means they did not have a loan in place either?…we hope that when, and we do mean when, another opportunity for a hotel comes up that it will be with a company whose priciples will be transparent about project milestones and that they will be throuroghly vetted before the City Council jumps into a $20 Million bed with them?
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Fired IDEM employee entitled to unemployment benefits
Jennifer Nelson for www.theindianalawyer.com
The Indiana Court of Appeals found a 25-year state employee did not breach a duty reasonably owed to her employer when she failed to meet monthly quotas because she thoroughly reviewed cases instead of quickly approving expenses.
The appeals court ruled Friday that the review board of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development erred when it denied Suzanne E. Esserman’s claim for unemployment benefits after finding she was discharged for just cause. Esserman worked for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management from February 1989 until her employment was terminated in January 2014. When she was fired, she was a senior environmental manager 1 within the Excess Liability Trust Fund section, which reviewed claims submitted by owners and operators who had underground storage tanks that required remediation and cleanup. The ELTF program reimbursed for specific costs incurred in those cleanups.
Beginning in June 2013, IDEM instituted quota requirements for employees. For several months, Esserman did not meet her quota because she performed in-depth reviews of files and found other employees signed off on overcharges. She believed it was important to save the department money, but the department instead fired her for failure to meet work expectations.
Esserman sought unemployment benefits, but a deputy from the DWD, an administrative law judge, and the review board all found that IDEM terminated her for just cause.
“We note that there will always be a balance between efficiency and thoroughness in administering programs such as the ELTF program. Nevertheless, in addition to controlling administrative costs, it is in the interest of Employer to limit improper distributions for cleanup costs by ensuring that claims are processed accurately and that substantial overpayments exhausting limited resources are not authorized by reviewers and quality control reviewers,†Judge Elaine Brown wrote in Suzanne E. Esserman v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, and Indiana Department of Environmental Management, 93A02-1406-EX-441.
The judges also noted that many of the months Esserman didn’t meet her quotas were when she was out on medical leave of absence.
“Additionally, we cannot say that a reasonable employee would understand that attempting to process claims accurately leading to possibly significant savings to the ELTF, and especially considering that the employee would have been held responsible for inaccurate payments of claims or held liable or discharged for knowingly authorizing overpayments, would be considered a violation of a duty reasonably owed to Employer for the purpose of being ineligible for unemployment benefits,†Brown continued.
IDEM did not meet its burden of establishing Esserman breached a duty reasonably owed to it. She is entitled to benefits under her claim.
Discover Peru with USI’s Alumni Association
The University of Southern Indiana alumni, their families and others are invited to explore some of the world’s greatest ancient sites next spring in a trip to “Peru: Ancient Land of Mysteries.†The 10-day trip, offered through the USI Alumni Association, is set for May 16-25, 2015, and offers an optional five-day, four-night Peruvian Amazon post tour extension. Registration is now open to the public.
The expedition includes round-trip air transportation to Lima, Peru, where the group will be immersed in the archeological treasures Peru offers: Machu Picchu, the “Lost City of the Incas,†the historic city center (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Other highlights include arriving at Machu Picchu via the famed Vistadome train, exploring San Francisco Monastery, visiting Pisac Market, investigating Ollantaytambo Ruins, enjoying an exclusive culinary demonstration at the base of Machu Picchu, relaxing at Lake Titicaca and much more.
The Peru tour, booked through Lifestyle Tours, will depart from Evansville Regional Airport. The trip includes 14 meals: nine breakfasts and five dinners. Rates are: single/$5,549; double/$4,849; triple $4,819.
For more information call USI Alumni and Volunteer Services at 812-464-1924 or contact Tracy Wilson or Ken Meyer with Lifestyle Tours at 812-682-4477 or tracylifestyletours@gmail.com. Space is limited.