The Columbus Dispatch reviewed the concert put on by Journey, Pat Benator, and Loverboy last night and gave them all thumbs up including Journey’s 100 minute closing set. Those of you who are fans and were planning on attending tonight’s scheduled show at Ford Center can click on the link below to relive 1981.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/07/journey_pat_benatar_loverboy.html
IS IT TRUE November 8, 2012
IS IT TRUE that Disney On Ice World of Fantasy show is scheduled at the Ford Center on March 28, 29, 30, and 31st of March, 2012?…the concert featuring classic rock and roll entertainers Journey, Loverboy, and Pat Benatar has been cancelled at the Ford Center?…this same tour played in Louisville’s Freedom Hall in August to a sellout crowd of nearly 20,000 people?…by keeping Freedom Hall in operation Louisville is able to have classic rock concerts at classic rock ticket prices and seldom find themselves in a position of having to cancel concerts due to low ticket sales?…that finding uses for Freedom Hall have not been particularly difficult for Louisville but Evansville didn’t even give Roberts Stadium a creative chance to find new uses?…Louisville’s YUM Center along with Evansville’s shiny new Ford Center are partners in absorbing financial losses and passing them on to the populace in spite of good attendance at most events?
IS IT TRUE that the Wall Street Journal has on its front page today a county by county map of the United States showing each county as red (republican) or blue (democrat) to show how each county voted in the presidential election?…this map adds some clarity as to how the country is ideologically divided when compared to the state color maps that we are all familiar with from watching the election returns?…what becomes clear is that the ideological division in the country are strongly between urban areas and rural areas with the exception of some counties that are overwhelmingly populated by African Americans or Latinos?…that the red state of Texas had a few pockets of blue?…that Dallas, Austin, and a string of counties on the border with Mexico all voted for President Obama with the rest of the state painted red?…Democrat dominated California does not look so blue on a county by county map?…the highly populated coast with the exception of Orange County are all blue but the inland areas are pretty red?…our neighbor state of Illinois is a Republican state with one big Democrat run city named Chicago that nullifies the will of the rest of the state by a large amount?…what is really clear is if the election results were broken down into urban counties that President Obama would have gotten his landslide?…if this was a rural election Mitt Romney would have won an overwhelming majority?…it is possible to drive from one coast of America to the other and never pass through a county that went for the President?…it is not possible travel across the country and stay in Obama country?…that starting from either coast there are only two possibilities to get even 2 states deep before facing a red county in every direction?
IS IT TRUE that the stock market dropped over 300 points (2.3%) yesterday while the American dollar fell against 16 other non-banana republic currencies?…this came on the heels of not only the American election results but some news releases from Europe stating continued failures of bailout programs?…the other driving factor is the so called “fiscal cliff†that is looming at the end of the year if Congress and the President do not find a compromise to avoid the malaise that happens when the fiscal time bomb that was conveniently set for 6 weeks after the election during the last compromise in 2010 before the House of Representatives was taken over by Republicans?…this fiscal cliff is a golden opportunity for President Obama to bring out that guy from 2008 we got to know as candidate Obama that seemed able to do anything and put him to work on solving this problem?…this is no time for the politics of class warfare to dominate the President’s agenda or for the Republicans in Congress to obstruct logical solutions put on the table by the President and the Democrats?…if these folks can’t settle on a real tangible solution to avoid the fiscal cliff then we are headed for one horrible four years when it comes to the economy?…if President Obama gets his way on soaking the folks in the top tax bracket (and we suspect he will) that the additional taxes collected per year will only amount to 2% of the federal budget or 7 days of government spending?…it will become easily apparent that raising the top marginal tax rates is all about the politics of class warfare and not about a real solution to the fiscal crisis?
IS IT TRUE that both Boeing and Lockheed Martin, Americas two largest defense contractors responded to the election results quickly and decisively by announcing layoffs and cut backs of well over a Billion dollars each?…the fiscal cliff is driving the stock selloff too as the tax on capital gains is scheduled to roughly triple on January 1st?…we invite you to imagine you are faced with a scenario of having an investment of a stock or small business that will be subject to the having the tax laws changed in the middle of the game and that you have say $10 Million in gains?…if you sell before the end of the year you get to keep $8.5 Million but if you wait till next year you only get to keep $5.5 Million?…under that scenario and there are many such scenarios out there this is the last chance to sell and keep your earned income for at least 6 years and maybe longer?…a similar situation exists with inheritance taxes that are set to increase from 35% to 55%?…a two generational inheritance tax of a Million bucks above the exclusion will result in a Million dollars (taxes already paid on this by the person that earned it) seeing $550,000 taken by the government on their passing and another $247,500 taken when it passes to their grandchildren a few years later?…that hard earned Million bucks will have turned into $202,500 in two passes through the inheritance confiscation laws?…tax laws like this devalue everything they touch and provide a disincentive to earn?…anyone who thinks it is fair for $1 Million in hard earned after tax dollars to be taxed down to $202,500 going from granny to the grandkids would have been more at home in the now fractured and dissolved USSR?
IS IT TRUE we hope the Congress and the President both recognize the error of their ways and find a way to avoid this “fiscal cliff†that is truly a destroyer of value and ambition?…the campaign is over and it is now time to govern?…that campaign promises cloaked in “soak the rich†rhetoric will solve no problems, will make more problems, and are no way to govern?…as the protesters of the 60’s used to chant, “the whole world is watching†and there are only 7 weeks to find a solution?…we hope the bunch of you prove yourselves worthy?
The City of Evansville will hold a VOICE visioning session from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 14, in Carter Hall in the University Center.
VOICE is Evansville’s community-wide, citizen-driven vision process that allows community members to share their ideas, hopes, and visions for Evansville’s preferred future.
Through sessions facilitated by Leadership Evansville, VOICE aims to bring together diverse members of the community to discuss their dreams for Evansville in an open forum. The facilitation is led in such a way that respectful conversations will occur, all voices will be heard, and opinions will be documented, ensuring that the entire community has the opportunity to take part in creating a desired future.
“This is really about building trust amongst the members of our community and learning that if we all join together and have civil dialogue about our future desires and current issues, we can create a strong society that will thrive and grow,†said Mayor Lloyd Winnecke. “Through this effort, I am confident that Evansville will become a place where people from all over will want to live, work and play.â€
Multiple VOICE sessions have been held throughout the year to obtain feedback from people of all ages, ethnic and religious backgrounds, and neighborhoods.
The VOICE Process:
• Leadership Evansville will facilitate discussion sessions at easy-to-access public locations, such as Evansville Public Library System branches and Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation schools. The sessions will be advertised in neighborhood newsletters, the newspaper, television, radio and Internet.
• Comments from each session will be available to the participants and the public. A summary and detailed notes will be posted on the VOICE website within one week of the session.
• Once all comments are collected, additional community sessions will occur to verify that the information collected truly represents participants’ opinions.
• Then, common themes and ideas will be grouped by topic area to serve guidance for those organizations, businesses, universities, individuals and government bodies with interest in that topic to move forward with further research and planning toward a common goal.
“I firmly believe that communities with a shared vision, and appropriate processes to capture, record, and inspire action around common goals can achieve healthier, more vibrant futures,†said Lynn Miller-Pease, executive director of Leadership Evansville . “The approach we are taking with VOICE is allowing citizens to actively create and participate in envisioning their own their own future so they can dream big and be part of making it happen.â€
With generous support from the Efroymson Family Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, the University of Evansville is pleased to welcome Thomas Dang Vu, a Vietnamese-American artist and New York City resident, as the first speaker in the new Emerging Contemporary Artists Lecture Series.
Dang Vu will present a free, public lecture on his career and work at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 15 in the Melvin Peterson Gallery (corner of Lincoln and Weinbach avenues).
“We are very excited to bring Thomas Dang Vu to campus,†said Stephanie Frasier, associate professor of art and chair of the Department of Art. “Everyone from UE and area high school students to community members will appreciate his deeply introspective artwork, learn from his expertise, and discover what it is like to live as an artist in New York City.â€
Born in Saigon in 1970, Dang Vu was five years old when Communists ransacked his family’s home and took his father, an architect and engineer, to prison, then split the Dang Vus’ home into residences for other families. At 16, Dang Vu moved to the United States with his family after they obtained green cards. He attended public high school in Atlanta, earned a scholarship to Savannah College of Art and Design, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. Today, he is a photographer, designer, art director, and merchandiser, serving as executive designer for coordinates for Dillard’s clothing labels Alfred Dunner and Samantha Grey.
In April, the Department of Art received $10,000 from the Efroymson Family Fund to create the Emerging Contemporary Artists Lecture Series, which will bring a contemporary artist to Evansville each semester for one academic year (beginning this fall) and provide enhancements to the Melvin Peterson Gallery, such as a projector, screen, and laptop.
The Emerging Contemporary Artists Lecture Series will provide free lectures to UE students and the community, as well as workshops and studio demonstrations for specific classes and arts organizations.
“With the support of the Efroymson Family Fund, we’re thrilled to establish this series, which will support emerging artists around the nation while benefiting UE and the entire Evansville community,†Frasier said. “We hope the series will bring new patrons to the Melvin Peterson Gallery, increase UE’s stature in the art community beyond our region, and help attract talented art students to UE.â€
The University of Evansville wishes to thank the Efroymson Family Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, for its support of the arts at UE. Since the fund was established in 1998, it has awarded more than $70 million to nonprofit organizations in central Indiana and beyond. For more information on the Efroymson Family Fund, please visit www.cicf.org/efroymson-family-fund.
For more information on Dang Vu’s lecture and the Emerging Contemporary Artists Lecture Series, please call the Department of Art at 812-488-2043.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by our program:
TSGS has announced that the program will feature Retired USI Professor Larry Goss. He will lead a discussion “Traveling at 33 RPM in an IPad world.” That single phrase describes the situation we as an organization and as individuals find ourselves. The technological changes that have occurred in storage technology, computing, and archiving in general are forcing us to migrate our methods for genealogical research and communication away from a heavy reliance on print media toward the faster (and cheaper) methods of storage and distribution that are becoming commonplace with the use of smart phones, androids, iPads, and digital readers. His discussion will focus on using Digital technology to the advantage of TSGS. Ask him questions… so you will understand the full impact of what changes digital publishing, archiving, etc. will mean in financial changes and all of the other benefits. Mark this date & time in your calendar!
This is a program you don’t want to miss. The time has come for us to take full advantage of all the computer age has to offer. Looking forward to a big crowd so we can learn together what changes need to be made for the growth and future of our society. We will be looking forward to seeing you at the meeting and enjoying a very interesting and informative program.
You do not have to be a member to come and participate at the society’s monthly meetings (except, no meetings in July and August).
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel meetings… the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice. Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check our blog (http://tsgsblog.blogspot.com/) for cancellation notice or call Willard Library (812-425-4309).
Two Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation administrators have been named Principals of the Year by the Indiana Association of School Principals (IASP). Thompkins Middle School Principal Bryan Perry, and former New Harmony High School Principal and now Assistant Principal of Lodge Community School, Douglas Mills, will officially be named District 11 Middle School Principal of the Year and District 11 High School Principal of the Year, respectively, on Sunday, Nov. 18, at the 2012 Principals of the Year Recognition Celebration.
District Principals of the Year are elected by their peers and one principal at each school level – elementary, middle and high – is selected in each of the 12 districts. Out of the 12 principals selected at each level, one will be selected as the State winner at the award celebration.
District 11 is located in southwest Indiana and is comprised of Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties.
