Evansville, IN ~ Experience Casting Crowns like never before at The Centre on April 11, 2013 at 7:00pm. “The Acoustic Sessions LIVE!” will take you to the heart of some of their biggest hits including “If We Are the Body,” “American Dream,” “East to West,” and more. Join Casting Crowns for the first time ever in this intimate setting… for an evening that will inspire and encourage.

Casting Crowns is a contemporary Christian and Christian rock band started in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall, who serves as the band’s lead vocalist. Band members along with Hall consist of Megan Garrett, Melodee DeVevo, Hector Cervantes, Juan DeVevo, Chris Huffman and Brian Scoggin.

Contemporary Christian music touring and sales leader, Casting Crowns, has recently received three GRAMMY nominations and news of an RIAA GOLD certification. The band was honored in the Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance category for, “Jesus Friend of Sinners,” and in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Album category for its 2011 RIAA GOLD certified, “Come To The Well”. Mark Hall was also recognized as a songwriter on “Jesus Friend of Sinners,” in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Song category. The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

The band was recently notified that “Voice of Truth,” a song from its 2005 self-titled debut project, surpassed the 500,000 mark in digital sales. This milestone comes on the heels of the RIAA double Platinum certification of its self-titled debut project, and its sixth career Gold certification for “Come to the Well” (Oct. 2011).

The “Acoustic Sessions LIVE!” Tour is partnering with Christian humanitarian organization World Vision (www.worldvision.org). World Vision provides assistance to approximately 100 million people in nearly 100 countries by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Casting Crowns has helped to generate a total of 52,000 child sponsorships for World Vision to date.

Casting Crowns will be at the Centre’s Aiken Theatre on Thursday, April 11 at 7:00pm. Tickets go on-sale Monday, December 17 at 10:00am. Tickets are $46, $36, $26, & $20 a person. You may order your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or purchase them at The Centre Box Office from 10am – 5pm M – F.

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Evansville Redevelopment Commission
AGENDA – Revised
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 – 8:30 am
Civic Center Complex – Room 307

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes of December 4, 2012

3. Approval of Accounts Payable Vouchers

4. Jacobsville Redevelopment Area
Design Review – 101-107 W Franklin/Alva Electric/new storage building & parking area –
Recommended for approval by JACC
Resolution 12-ERC-44 – Authorizing Contract for Repairs at 118 Garfield St in the Jacobsville Redevelopment Area

5. Downtown Redevelopment Area
Resolution 12-ERC-45 – Awarding a Contract for New Accessible Entrance at the Old Post Office
Resolution 12-ERC-46 – Approval of 4th Addendum to Management Agreement With VenuWorks
Resolution 12-ERC-47 – Accepting a Proposal from RTM Consultants, Inc. for Variance Request at Ford Center

6. Other Business

7. Adjournment

* This preliminary Agenda is subject to change. The final Agenda will be posted at the entrance to the location of the meeting prior to the meeting.

Harvard Needs Remedial Energy Math

By ROBERT BRYCE

Investing in and using fossil fuels is so wrong it should be seen as the equivalent of support for apartheid. That is the message being promoted by 350.org, the organization headed by environmental activist Bill McKibben.

Over the past month or so, Mr. McKibben and a rotating cast of activists have held rallies in 21 U.S. cities encouraging students to campaign for ridding their university endowments of investments in coal, oil and natural gas. The effort is modeled on the 1980s effort to get universities to shed investments in companies that did business in apartheid-era South Africa. A few small schools, including Unity College in Maine and Hampshire College in Massachusetts, have responded to the pressure and agreed to rid their portfolios of fossil-fuel stocks.
One of the slogans used in 350.org’s divestment campaign is “Do the math.” OK. Let’s.

Set aside the financial arguments for—or against—investing in companies that produce hydrocarbons. Further, let’s not judge the claims made by Mr. McKibben and his allies that a concentration of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is “the safe limit for humanity.”

Let’s do the math by considering what will happen if we humans—in the words of the campaign—attempt to “go fossil free” and rely solely on “clean energy.” To make the computation simpler still, let’s ignore oil altogether, even though that energy source represents about 33% of all global energy use and is indispensable for transportation.

The absurdity of the calls for a “fossil free” future can be illustrated by looking exclusively at the explosive growth in the world’s demand for electricity, the commodity that separates rich countries from the poor ones. Since 1985, on a percentage basis, global electricity demand has grown by 121%, which is nearly three times the rate of growth in oil demand. Over the past two and half decades, electricity consumption has increased by an average of 450 terawatt-hours (a terawatt-hour is one trillion watt-hours) per year. That’s the equivalent of adding about one Brazil (which used 485 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2010) to the electricity sector every year. The International Energy Agency expects global electricity use to continue growing by about 450 terawatt-hours per year through 2035.

Here’s where the math becomes college-freshman obvious: In 2011, the world had 240,000 megawatts of wind-generation capacity. That fleet of turbines produced 437 terawatt-hours of electricity. Therefore, just keeping up with the growth in global electricity demand—while not displacing any of the existing need for coal, oil and natural gas—would require the countries of the world to install about as much wind-generation capacity as now exists, and they’d have to do so every year.

Put another way, just to keep pace with demand growth, the wind industry will need to cover a land area of some 48,000 square miles with wind turbines per year, an area about the size of North Carolina. Even if that much land were available, no humans would want to live on the land because of the irritating noise generated by those turbines.

There are welcome developments in solar energy: Production is growing rapidly and the price of solar cells is falling. Once again, though, simple math exposes the scale problem.
Recall that we need 450 terawatt-hours per year of electricity production to keep pace with incremental demand. Germany has more installed solar-energy capacity than any other country—about 25,000 megawatts. Last year, Germany produced 19 terawatt-hours of electricity from solar. Thus, just to keep pace with the growth in global electricity demand, the world would have to install about 23 times as much solar-energy capacity as now exists in Germany, and it would have to do so year after year.

And we haven’t even considered the incurable intermittency of solar and wind, a problem that requires backup capacity from fossil fuels or nuclear power.

Last month, the Harvard College Undergraduate Council held a referendum on fossil fuel divestment. (Harvard’s $31 billion endowment is the largest in the country.) With about half of the undergrads voting, 72% voted in favor of divesting. Those students were apparently persuaded by the slick slogans put out by 350.org, such as “We > fossil fuels.”

Harvard is among America’s most prestigious schools. But it is apparent that the students who voted in favor of the divestiture proposal—and presumably to rid the world of fossil fuels—did not do the math.

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THE REGULAR MONTHLY BOARD MEETING OF THE VANDERBURGH COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS COMMISSION WILL CONVENE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012 AT 8:00 A.M.

THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE REITZ HOME CARRIAGE HOUSE LOCATED AT 224 SE FIRST STREET IN EVANSVILLE, IN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING IS A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND IS SCHEDULED FOR 8:00 A.M.