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EVSC Board of Trustees Meet @ 4:00 p.m. 7/23/2012

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The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet in

executive session at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 23, 2012, in the John H. Schroeder Conference Center in

the Superintendent’s office in the Technology and Innovation Center, 951 Walnut, Evansville, IN 47713.

The session will be conducted according to Senate Enrolled Act 313, Section 1, I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1, as

amended. The purpose of the meeting is for discussion of collective bargaining, (2)(A); initiation of

litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened specifically in writing, (2)(B);

purchase or lease of property, (2)(D); and job performance evaluation of individual employees, (9).

The regular meeting of the EVSC Board of School Trustees will follow the executive session at

5:30 p.m. in the EVSC Boardroom, 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, Indiana.

USI’s Hogg, Jones named to NABC Honors Court

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University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball players Brandon Hogg (Edwardsville, Illinois) and Ben Jones (Robinson, Illinois) were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court for academic excellence during the 2011-12 season. The NABC Honors Court recognizes the talents and gifts these players possess off the court and the hard work exhibited in the classroom.

In order to be named to the NABC Honors Court, an athlete must meet a high standard of academic criteria. The student athlete must be a junior or senior academically and a varsity player; have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.2 or higher at the conclusion of the 2011-12 academic year; have matriculated at least one year at their current institution; and be a member of an NCAA Division I, II, III, or NAIA institution.

Hogg, a senior guard and a physical education major, earned honorable mention All-America honors from the Division II Bulletin after averaging a team-high and career-best 16.5 points per game. He also was named NABC first-team All-District and Daktronics second-team All-Region, while being selected for the first-team All-Great Lakes Valley Conference squad.

Jones, a junior guard and sport management major, averaged 3.1 points and 2.2 rebounds per contest off the bench during his first year at USI. Jones scored a season-high 11 points twice in 2011-12, while dishing out a season-best four assists against Berea College and grabbing season-high six rebounds versus Saint Joseph’s College.

Source: USI.edu

IS IT TRUE July 23, 2012

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IS IT TRUE July 23, 2012

IS IT TRUE that we have good news for two candidates in the upcoming November election?…that Democratic County Commissioner, Steve Melcher and Republican County Commissioner, Joe Kiefer are both unopposed in this upcoming November General election?…both Commissioners are known for fairness, honestly and hard work?…that Mr. Kiefer and Mr. Melcher both listen with objectivity when gathering information about local problems and concerns of their constituents? …that both gentlemen get along very well with each other and act as a buffer for Commissioner Marsha Abell when she shows an aggressive demeanor?…that both Commissioners Melcher and Kiefer approach issues in a conservative and non-partisan manner?…we look forward 4 more years of “good public policy” decisions made by Mr. Melcher and Mr. Kiefer?

IS IT TRUE that two sons of Evansville will be on the national stage during the month of August?…that local blues guitarist Boscoe France who plays at the Lamasco Bar and many other Tri-State locations has played his way into the final 6 in the Guitar Center Blues contest?…that the finals will be in Hollywood, CA at the Club Nokia on August 18th and that the City County Observer’s California based columnist Joe Wallace will be there to cheer Boscoe on and report back on the competition?…that Boscoe will be sharing the stage that night with Joe Bonomasu who is fresh off of a concert in Evansville?…that Boscoe is really from Madisonville, KY and is a graduate of Madisonville-North Hopkins High School but that Evansville has embraced his talent and claims him now that he is in the big time?

IS IT TRUE that John Nunn, a proud Harrison High School graduate and son of USI Professor Dr. Les Nunn and his wife will be wearing the colors for Team USA at the London Olympics?…that Nunn will be competing in the 50k (31 miles) race walking event that will be held on August 11th?…that we can all feel a sense of pride on Friday when John Nunn of Evansville, IN enters the Olympic Stadium representing our country in this world class event?…we also encourage other local media and especially the TV stations to cover the 50k race walk event so this native can be watched in his hometown?

IS IT TRUE that back before he became the Mayor of Evansville that Lloyd Winnecke was very instrumental in a team effort with the well liked and former Evansvillian Royce Sutton to establish a free dental clinic for local residents who need that service?…that last week that dental clinic made the news for being in tough shape financially?…that the CCO would like to encourage Mayor Winnecke to take a little time out of one of his days and put his marketing talent to the test to come up with a way to make this dental clinic solvent and sustainable?…that proper dental care can save lots of money by preventing trips to the emergency room when something goes wrong with ones dental health?…that this clinic is a very positive part of the legacy of Mayor Lloyd Winnecke?

IS IT TRUE that David Wessel published an extensive article about the budget of the United States of America last week and the CCO would like to share some of the bullet points?…the individual income tax revenues made up just under 50% of the revenue sources in 1960 and that the percentage today is still about the same?…that payroll taxes on the other hand have risen from being 15% of revenues in 1960 to nearly 40% now?…that spending on benefits and entitlements has risen from just over 20% of federal spending to over 50% today?…if every federal employee was fired tomorrow it would not even be enough to cover half of the federal deficit?…that the entire payroll expense for Uncle Sam is only $435 Billion per year including benefits?…the federal government borrowed 36% of every dollar spent in 2011 and little change is presently on the horizon?…that the source for all of this data is the White House Office of Management and Budget?

Evansville Native John Nunn, on USA Olympic Team

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Former Harrison High School cross country runner John Nunn has once again earned a spot on the US Olympic team. Nunn, who represented the United States in the Athens Olympics in 2004 in the 20k (12.4 miles) race walking event qualified this year in the grueling 50k (31 miles) race walk by winning the US trials.

The 34 year old athlete is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Les Nunn. Les Nunn is a professor at the University of Southern Indiana. The 50k race walk will be held in London on August 11th. Nunn currently makes his home in Chula Vista, CA.

The President Builds Roadblocks not Roads

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In response to the “you didn’t built that business” and the aftermath of revisionist interpretations based on nuance, Mark Steyn crafted a very straight to the point article. One of the best quotes was “the stimulus was large enough to build 1,567 Golden Gate bridges, yet for all of that money we do not have one new bridge”.

Excerpts from Orange County Register:

“If this is the best all the King’s horses and all the King’s men can do to put Humpty Dumpty’s silver-tongued oratory together again, they might as well cut to the chase and argue that accurately quoting President Obama is racist. The obvious interpretation sticks because it fits with the reality of the last three-and-a-half years – that America’s chief executive is a man entirely ignorant of business who presides over an administration profoundly hostile to it.

But, just for the record, I did “invest in roads and bridges,” and so did you. In fact, every dime in those roads and bridges comes from taxpayers, because government doesn’t have any money except for what it takes from the citizenry. And the more successful you are, the more you pay for those roads and bridges.
So here’s a breaking-news alert for President Nuance: We small-government guys are in favor of roads. Hard as it may be to credit, roads predated Big Government. Which came first, the chicken crossing the road or the Egg Regulatory Agency? That’s an easy one: Halfway through the first millennium B.C., the nomadic Yuezhi of Central Asia had well-traveled trading routes for getting nephrite jade from the Tarim Basin to their customers at the Chinese court, more than 2,500 miles away. On the other hand, the Yuezhi did not have a federal contraceptive mandate or a Bloombergian enforcement regime for carbonated beverages at concession stands at the rest area two days out of Khotan, so that probably explains why they’re not in the G7 today.

In Obama’s world, businessmen build nothing, whereas government are the hardest hard-hats on the planet. So, in his “You didn’t build that” speech, he invoked, yet again, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. “When we invested in the Hoover Dam or the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Internet, sending a man to the moon – all those things benefited everybody. And so that’s the vision that I want to carry forward.”
He certainly carries it forward from one dam speech to another. He was doing his Hoover Dam shtick only last month, and I pointed out that there seemed to be a certain inconsistency between his enthusiasm for federal dam-building and the definitive administration pronouncement on the subject, by Deanna Archuleta, his Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, in a speech to Democratic environmentalists in Nevada:
“You will never see another federal dam.”

Ever. So the president can carry forward his “vision,” but it apparently has no more real-world application than the visions he enjoyed as a member of his high school “choom gang” back in Hawaii. Incidentally, I was interested to learn from David Maraniss’ enlightening new biography that, during car-chooming sessions, young Barry insisted all the windows be rolled up so that no marijuana smoke would escape. If you can seriously envision President Obama opening a 21st century Hoover Dam, you need to lower the windows on your Chevy Volt.

The Golden Gate Bridge? As Reason’s Matt Welch pointed out, the Golden Gate cost at the time $35 million – or about $530 million today. So, for the cost of Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill alone, we could have had 1,567 Golden Gate Bridges. Where are they? Where are, say, the first dozen? If you laid 1,567 Golden Gate Bridges end to end, you’d have enough for one Golden Choom Bridge stretching from Obama’s Punahou High School in Honolulu over the Pacific all the way to his Occidental College in Los Angeles, so that his car-chooming chums can commute from one to the other without having to worry about TSA patdowns.
A stimulus bill equivalent to 1,567 Golden Gate bridges. A 2011 federal budget equivalent to 6,788 Golden Gate bridges. And yet we don’t have a single one.

Because that’s not what Big Government does: Money-no-object government spends more and more money for less and less objects. For all the American economy has to show for it, President Bob the Builder took just shy of a trillion dollars in stimulus, stuck it in his wheelbarrow, pushed it halfway across the Golden Gate Bridge, and tossed it into the Pacific.

Instead of roads and bridges, Obama-sized government funds stasis and sclerosis: The Hoover Dam of regulatory obstruction, the Golden Gateway to dependency. Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americans signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not “disabled” as that term is generally understood. Rather, it’s the U.S. economy that’s disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency. What Big Government is doing to those 85,000 “disabled” is profoundly wicked. Let me quote a guy called Mark Steyn, from his last book:

“The evil of such a system is not the waste of money but the waste of people. Tony Blair’s ministry discovered it was politically helpful to reclassify a chunk of the unemployed as ‘disabled.’ A fit, able-bodied 40-year-old who has been on disability allowance for a decade understands somewhere at the back of his mind that he is living a lie, and that not just the government but his family and his friends are colluding in that lie.”

Millions of Americans have looked at the road ahead, and figured it goes nowhere. Best to pull off into the Social Security parking lot. Don’t worry, it’s not your fault. As the president would say, you didn’t build the express check-in to the Disability Office. Government built it, and, because they built it, you came. In Obama’s “visions,” he builds roads and bridges. In reality, the President of Dependistan has put nothing but roadblocks in the path to opportunity and growth.

That he can build. That’s all he can build.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-364707-build-golden.html

IS IT TRUE July 20, 2012

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IS IT TRUE July 20, 2012

IS IT TRUE that the recent statement by President Obama regarding his hectoring of the entrepreneurs of the country that they “did not build their businesses” and that the real key to their success being government infrastructure was one of the most ill-informed and preposterous statements that most of us who have experience in the startup world have ever heard?…that the CCO would like to put this into another perspective that we hope will be understood?…that if the President was correct the following would also be true?…that NBA stars could attribute their success as professional basketball players to the courts and hoops that the government put in playgrounds across the country?…that practicing 12 hours a day when some of their other classmates chose other activities had little to do with it?…that buying a basketball had nothing to do with it either?…that being born with athletic talent also played second or third fiddle to the patch of blacktop that the government built?…the same goes for the entire United States Olympic team?…that the practice, dedication, 5 am runs and swims, and good old DNA had nothing to do with who made the team and will compete for gold medals?…it is the roads, street lights, and police cars bought by the government and not hard work, ambition, coaching, and equipment bought by family members that put that team in those uniforms that were made in China?

IS IT TRUE that the packets that were distributed to the Evansville City Council yesterday had in them a multiple page document that is seeking approval to move money around from one budget to another?…that there were about 5 pages of such money shuffling requests?…that buried on the bottom of a page in the middle of the document is a request to shift funds to pay for 2 of the raises recommended by the compensation committee last week?…that adoption of this money shifting does not guarantee any raises but only defines where the money will come from to pay for two of the raises?…next Monday night will be very interesting as the approach that Councilman John Friend spoke of to examine the salary schedules before authorizing raises makes all of the sense in the world?…it also has the potential to put to rest the issue of having uncompetitive compensation packages?…that uncompetitive compensation is a hallmark of places that can’t or choose not to compete?…if you do not believe that you should hold a baseball game between the Evansville Otters and the St. Louis Cardinals and see who wins?

IS IT TRUE that President Obama formed a group of elite business leaders into a group that is called “The White House Jobs Council”?…this high powered group was put into place by the President the 26-member posse of CEO’s was re-organized in early 2011 to show Obama’s really serious commitment to job creation?…that the President has not found time in his schedule to call this group that includes GE CEO Jeff Immelt (the real outsourcing czar) together in over six months?…that had the President actually taken time out from his busy schedule that has included over 100 fund raisers and 10 golf outings that he may have known that the private sector was not “doing just fine”?…that if one wants to get a hit that the first things that one has to do is pick up the bat and walk to the plate?…then one has to take a few swings?…that in the case of the much publicized White House Jobs Council, the President of the United States has not even taken the time to go into the dugout?…that we guess this must be the dugout’s fault?

IS IT TRUE that between alley beatings over $20 in Evansville to a senseless act of violence in a Denver movie theatre that our country seems to be playing out some frustrations on the streets?…that anyone who would blame the streets, alleys, movie theatres, and light posts for such crimes is completely out of touch?…these were individual choices made by the perpetrators who should pay the consequences for their choices to commit these crimes?…the growing Covetous Class that really seems to believe that they are entitled to other people’s things or lives is not good for America, does not reflect the values that built this country, and need to be reigned in so as not to make up enough of a majority to vote in people that make their marauding malfeasance legal?

House Fire

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House Fire

Released by District Chief Dan Grimm
Public Information Officer

July 19, 2012

House Fire, 917 SE 6th Street

Fire Investigator Joe Mayer ruled the cause of this morning’s blaze as Accidental. Eight fire units, including 3 additional units, responded to the mid-morning fire that consumed the structure’s attic area and sent the occupant to a local hospital for smoke inhalation. District Chief Amy Smith said she called the additional units for extra manpower and to provide firefighter rehab due to the high heat index. According to Captain Mike Kane, EMS Coordinator, a special firefighter rehab unit which contains fans, water misters, chairs, an easy-up for shade and lots of water is set up on scene allowing firefighters to recuperate during emergency responses or training.

The firefighter rehab unit responds to emergency scenes when requested by the Incident Commander (IC).

Questions? Dan Grimm, 436-4428 or Investigator Joe Mayer, 426-7336

A Different Slice Of Miami Vice

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L. Brent Bozell, Conservative Syndicated Columnist
This article, written by nationally syndicated conservative columnist L. Brent Bozell, is sponsored by OXFORD MORTGAGE, EVANSVILLE, IN. SCOTT KLUEH, PRESIDENT. CALL (812) 476-9740.

Network television is a pretty dreary place in the summer time. It’s somehow the perfect time for Hollywood executives to throw millions of dollars at ever-dumber sexualized content. It’s hard to tell what offends more, the raunch or the sheer stupidity of it all.
The network calling itself “the CW” is barely noticed at any time of the year, if quality were a determinant. So instead they seem to be competing for some kind of Nobel Sleaze Prize this summer with a Miami-based “reality” show called “The Catalina.”
Hotel owner Nathan Lieberman developed the show simply to promote bookings at his own hotel. That is how pedestrian our “entertainment” media have become. Illogical, too: Lieberman told one interviewer his audience is too young to book rooms with him. “The CW is a good fit for us because their demographic is very young. Even though at The Catalina the rates aren’t inexpensive enough for the spring-break-type crowd, eventually they will grow up and have memories of the place they would like to visit again.”
After watching the show, it is fair to suggest it’s Lieberman and his oversexed employees who have the growing up to do. With only a limited run of episodes, “The Catalina” had to make an immediate impact, so they ramped up the raunch from the debut episode. Viewers were introduced to staffers such as David: “I love David,” said one female employee. “He’s just a big ball of horny energy.”
Apparently, he’s competing with Eyal the bartender, who explained his sexual preference thusly: “What’s my preference? My preference is very, very pretty. In any form. I do men, I do women, I do couples. … If you’re pretty, it’s good.”
The Parents Television Council tagged this show as “Worst of the Week” four times in six weeks. In the third episode, as the hotel prepared to promote a book called “Sex in South Beach,” Eyal proclaimed, “This is a sex weekend. I think we should all have sex with each other.” He asserted, “Sex cures the world. It’s the answer to your problems. It’s the answer to everything.”
It certainly wasn’t the answer for the CW. The show debuted to almost a million viewers, but quickly dropped to an average of about a half-million viewers. Even hormonal teenagers can see the stupidity.
Lieberman relentlessly tried to locate the wildest vibe possible, rewarding a couple with free shots for tonguing and groping each other on the patio furniture so everyone could watch. He explained the vision for his hotel (and the TV show): “Basically, it’s my personality turned into a rock n’ roll (bleeped f—) palace.”
The “C” in “CW” does not stand for class.
Lieberman also attempted to use a pair of panties allegedly given to him by a guest as a pocket square, which he called the “pocket panty.” The hotel was so wild in the legend Lieberman was building that he implied the staff was asked to provide contraceptive room service. One female staffer re-enacted one apparent phone call: “He was really horny and he needs a condom. ‘I need a condom. I need a condom, like right now.'”
The second episode celebrated Gay Pride Week, and it was more of the same. Hotel manager Stephanie insisted the male staffers were there almost as sex workers: “I don’t care if they have to shake a tail feather, take their shirts off, do body shots, whatever it is to increase the sales for the hotel, they better do it.”
Two of the female staffers went to a gay club and felt accosted by a stripper, who thrust his pelvis at close range. One said, “What the (bleeped f—) just hit me in the face? We still have bruises on our faces!” The other replied: “Next time, I’m wearing a helmet.”
Maybe this is why God gave us (SET ITAL) scripts (END ITAL)?
Another plotline in that episode featured Stephanie, the 30-something hotel manager, flirting with Renaldo, the wine salesman. This is the woman Lieberman told the audience has “A-plus cleavage.” Later, a hotel employee explained how awesome it was that Lieberman let them copulate in the empty hotel rooms. Viewers were “treated” to an “unintentional” walk-in on Stephanie in the midst of implied glorious coitus with Renaldo.
Corporations actually paid money to be associated with this gunk. To be precise, that’s businesses selling products to young girls: Verizon cellular phones, L’Oreal and Maybelline, among others. These companies are paying for soft-core porn to be peddled to children via a network that redefines imbecility.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. To find out more about Brent Bozell III, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

Money being Reallocated for Salary Increases Afterall

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Mayor’s Chief of Staff Steve Schaefer
Recommended for a Salary Increase of over $10,000

The packet for the Evansville City Council was distributed today and money is being shifted around to cover at least two of the salary increases recommended by the Salary Review Committee last week. The details are on the following link.

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