Schedule of Events
· Explore local history with the Daughters of the American Revolution
· Vote for your favorite cake in the “200th Birthday Cake Challenge†(Cakes by: The Donut Bank, A Pinch of Sugar, and Daily’s Bakery)
·Performance by Magician Don Baggett (11 a.m.)
· Sing “Happy Birthday Evansville†with the Duke Boys
· Blow-out the candles with the Honorable Mayor Lloyd Winnecke (1:30 p.m.)
Doors open at 9 a.m. Regular Admission Rates Apply.
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Students and employees and their families, and families from the community, are invited to attend the 2012 SpringFest at the University of Southern Indiana from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13 and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 14.
“This year’s SpringFest weekend will be huge,†said Tim Buecher, SpringFest advisor. “There will be fun for the entire family; more carnival rides than ever, great festival food to choose from, and free live music from more than 20 bands and vocalists on both days.â€
The carnival-like atmosphere will include bands, rides, food, and festivities for all ages. The main event happens Saturday evening at 7 p.m., when national hit sensations Mike Posner and Karmin take the stage inside the USI PAC Arena. Tickets for the show are $20 for USI students and $30 for the general public and can be purchased now on campus at the USI Bookstore or on their website: http://usibook.usi.edu.
Free outdoor concerts will begin at 1 p.m. each day.
Friday, April 13
1:00-1:45 – Vulpes
2:00-2:45 – Stella
3:00-3:45 – Cleo
4:00-4:45 – 90s Teenage Angst
5:00-5:45 – “USI Idol†competition
6:00-6:45 – Unkle Samm
7:00-7:45 – Willz Da Renegade
8:00-8:45 – The Machinery
9:00-9:45 – Quin
10:00-10:30 – Paranormal Gang
10:45-11:30 – “USI Runway Showcaseâ€
Saturday, April 14
11:00-11:45 – Deja Blu 5
12:00-12:45 – Blast Off!
1:00-1:45 – A Worst Case Scenario
2:00-2:45 – The Scandalmongers
3:00-3:45 – Be My Doppelganger
4:00-4:45 – Julian Spark
5:00-5:45 – A Stockholm Robot
6:00-6:45 – Elle Maze
7:00-7:45 – Angry Nerdz, 2 Face, Nupin
More than 20 carnival rides will be coming to campus for SpringFest. The list includes Scrambler, Loop-O-Plane, Hurricane, Tempest, Merry-Go-Round, Zipper, Construction Zone, Strawberries, Cha/Cha, Granny Bugs, Tilt-A-Whirl, motorcycles, kiddie ferris wheel, kiddie karousel, The Dragon, Tubs of Fun & Hampton Combo, boats, kiddie swings, super slide, The Jungle, Wacky Shack, and Bounce Castle.
Carnival food such as walking tacos and pronto pups will be available along with fish and chicken sandwiches, beverages, ice cream, and more.
Tickets for rides are $2 each or a wrist band will be available for $16 to ride all day. Rides are free for USI students, and children and grandchildren of faculty and staff members. All events take place in Parking Lot C on campus. Parking is free and handicap accessible. More event details can be found on the SpringFest web site:http://www.usi.edu/springfest.
SpringFest and the concert lineup are supported by an SOS Grant from the Student Government Association and coordinated in conjunction with the USIActivities Programming Board.
A team of six civil engineering majors from the University of Evansville won the University’s first-ever victory in the Student Design Presentation Competition at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Indiana Section meeting in Indianapolis on Wednesday, March 21.
With a presentation of their senior design project, a redesign of the Lincoln Avenue/Outer Lincoln Avenue/Newburgh Road intersection on Evansville’s East Side, UE’s team outperformed civil engineering students from Purdue University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and three other Indiana universities.
UE’s team (Zaid Abdulmajeed of Damascus, Syria; Eli Cook of Paoli, Indiana; Brandon Frazier of Clarksville, Indiana; Mick Montcalm of Lincoln, Illinois; Jake Nardulli of Springfield, Illinois; and Ryan Sisk of Ridgway, Illinois) began working with the City of Evansville in August 2011 to analyze traffic data and develop a site plan for the intersection. They surveyed the busy intersection, developed design alternatives, prepared a decision matrix, and created a final design to improve safety and accommodate increased traffic in the area.
Last week, this team was chosen to represent UE in Indianapolis through an internal competition among three senior design project teams. Five UE civil engineering alumni judged the presentations and selected this team to participate in the statewide competition.
The ASCE Student Design Presentation Competition required teams to give a 12-20 minute presentation that addresses solutions to a real-world problem. A panel of three professional engineers from Indianapolis, all of whom earned their degrees outside Indiana, judged each team on its technical merit and communication abilities.
“UE’s team has claimed second place numerous times, but has never won first place outright,†said Brian Swenty, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. “This student team spent hundreds of manhours on this project, and their success in the competition demonstrates that civil engineering students at the University of Evansville possess both technical knowledge and outstanding communication and presentation skills.â€
“Considering that nationally renowned engineering programs such as Purdue and Rose-Hulman participate in the annual Student Design Presentation Competition, expectations are extremely high,†Swenty added, “so I couldn’t be prouder of our students’ performance.â€
The Desert Sun, a Gannet Publication that serves California’s Coachella Valley is starting a division that is dedicated to demanding accountability on a local level. The initial expose’ effort of iSun has been to investigate a FOUL SMELLING STENCH in a minority dominated community. Boy does that sound familiar. In the article announcing iSun it is stated that “There is no greater calling in journalism than to demand accountability. When reporters press powerful people and institutions for answers, we all are beneficiaries. Government enacts positive reform, pocketbooks are protected, neighbors stop suffering.”
Please have a look at this link. Maybe Gannet is taking lessons from independent publishers like the City County Observer that serve mostly as unpaid stewards for the public good.
IS IT TRUE: March 25, 2012
IS IT TRUE that there is a situation about to happen that has the potential to make the City of Evansville an preferred “mark†for every business in the country that is having difficulty obtaining financing to start their latest idea off with a pile of cash?…that in spite of the pleadings of several citizens of Evansville for a public release of a third party technical vetting study of the Earthcare Energy concept with a test under real world conditions and a revised “Investment Summary†that is not full of errors, omissions, and contradictions THE VOTE TO GIVE THEM A $5 MILLION UNSECURED LOAN IS ON MONDAY NIGHTS AGENDA of the Evansville City Council?
1. In your capacity as a CPA would you recommend that your client(s) invest in a business that adds a column of numbers incorrectly in their investment summary?
2. In your capacity as a CPA would recommend that your client(s) invest in a business that is applying for a $5 Million loan but is projecting a cumulative loss of $26,695,185 during its first two years without identifying where the shortfall will be coming from?
3. In your capacity as a CPA would you recommend that your client(s) invest in a business that explicitly states that there will be no founder investment (ZERO) in its investment summary?
4. In your capacity as a CPA would you recommend that your client(s) invest in a business that states on page 3 that the 5th year headcount will be 39 yet conflicts that projection by projecting a 5th year headcount at 120 to the IEDC and on the pro-forma?
5. In your capacity as a CPA would you recommend that your client(s) invest in a business that claims in its investment summary to have a patent that it really does not have?
6. In your capacity as a CPA would you recommend that your client(s) invest in a business that asserts that there is no competition (there is) and summarily dismisses other threats to success such as other technologies that serve the same purpose and low barriers to entry as “two years behind�
IS IT TRUE that if you Councilman Friend and Mayor Lloyd after spending your lives building great reputations in the field of accountancy can answer an emphatic “YES†to all of those questions then by all means provide positive testimony and vote affirmatively on the Earthcare loan resolution?…that your client in this case is the City of Evansville and even though governments do have a different view of the world when it comes to money, governments should share private values when it comes to things like ACCURACY, CONSISTENCY, AND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING?…that the CCO calls upon you two gentlemen to rise above your peers who do not have the letters CPA behind their names and make the same recommendations for the City of Evansville that you would for your own private clientele?…that your private clientele will be watching how this is handled?
IS IT TRUE that the CCO also calls upon the non CPA’s on the Evansville City Council and in the Mayor’s office to look to these financial people for leadership in making your decision?…that you should all ask yourselves the same six questions and pretend it is your own retirement fund that you are considering to make this loan?…that Earthcare Energy may be nice guys who say they are going to create some jobs but the reality of the situation is that we all know the answer to those six questions?…that we all also know that a real world test by a third party which has been written in the Earthcare investment summary as scheduled for completion in 6 days should be reviewed completely by local technology experts before approving any loan?…that then there is the nagging question that many people have been asking the CCO, “should the City of Evansville be an investment bank for an out of state start-up company even if the planning and concept are flawless?”?
IS IT TRUE that it has now been 72 hours since the City County Observer offered Earthcare Energy a free supportive story if they will send us a third party assessment of their proposed technology that was conducted under real operating conditions as set forth in the report from Concurrent Technologies where they recommended to the Air Force that they should conduct such tests if they really wanted to consider implementing a solution utilizing the Langson device to capture step down pressure from gas transmission lines and turning it into electricity?…that we will extend this offer indefinitely as the financial projections in the “Investment Summary†do not even merit being read for anything but consistency until a real world 3rd party validation by a recognized testing company like Concurrent Technologies has been completed and made available to the people of Evansville?…that between our two 4 year universities, a decent number of companies, and wayward engineers who want to see Evansville do the right thing that there really are a fair number of people who will understand such a report?
The Louisville Courier Journal reports that an impromptu pep talk from Evansville Memorial’s Kyle Kuric was the catalyst that got the Cards to go on an 18 – 3 run against Florida that is sending them to New Orleans next week. Read the link, it will make you proud.
It is a long read but a good primer on what is out there and how old the technique is. Two lists of installations as old as 30 years are tabulated.
IS IT TRUE: March 24, 2012
IS IT TRUE that it has now been 24 hours since the City County Observer offered Earthcare Energy a free supportive story if they will send us a third party assessment of their proposed technology that was conducted under real operating conditions as set forth in the report from Concurrent Technologies where they recommended to the Air Force that they should conduct such tests if they really wanted to consider implementing a solution utilizing the Langson device to capture step down pressure from gas transmission lines and turning it into electricity?…that we will extend this offer indefinitely as the financial projections in the “Investment Summary†do not even merit being read for anything but consistency until a real world 3rd party validation by a recognized testing company like Concurrent Technologies has been completed and made available to the people of Evansville?…that between our two 4 year universities, a decent number of companies, and wayward engineers who want to see Evansville do the right thing that there really are a fair number of people who will understand such a report?
IS IT TRUE that GAGE leader Debbie Dewey and two other people one of which is a high ranking Vectren official made the “touch the prototype†pilgrimage to Langson Energy’s Carson City, Nevada facility this week and have verified that the unit in the youtube video does exist?…that no one really doubted that the lab model shown working with a shroud over the “invention†and running at an intake pressure of 70 psi in the youtube video existed?…that running in a controlled condition at pressures that are 90% below real world conditions does not constitute TECHNICAL VETTING?…that even in her letter to the City Council there are no references to any real world testing being completed?…that proclaiming this to be ready for production based on a lab model at fractional operating conditions is the equivalent of pronouncing a new car from a company that has never produced cars to be ready to produce because they have a prototype that will go around the block at 10 miles per hour?…that the CCO will be doing our best to post a copy of this letter prior to Monday’s City Council meeting?
IS IT TRUE that we also have it on good authority that the Evansville City Council will be calling for a vote on this on Monday night?…that the sponsor of the resolution is none other than Finance Committee Chairman Councilman John Friend, CPA?…that Councilman Friend has shared with the CCO that he is not comfortable with the state of the financial projections in the “Investment Summary†provided to the Council through GAGE?…that there are many questions that he has expressed a desire to get answers for including why Earthcare claimed to have a patent when one does not yet exist, whether the number of jobs is estimated at 39 as it says on page 3 or 120 that is in page 5, who will be buying the $10 Million in stock referred to on page 9, and where they intend to borrow the $25 Million referred to on page 9?…that Councilman Friend also expressed a need to see in the pro-forma exactly when the $2.5 Million per year payments will start being made to the City of Evansville as there is no provision to do that in the 5 year financial projections?
IS IT TRUE that in all reality this concept maybe the best thing since sliced bread for Evansville but the untested nature of the device and the inconsistencies within the “Investment Summary†are so far from being ready to be evaluated for investment purposes that the only reasonable action for the City Council to take is to defer a decision on this loan until a real world test is published and a pro-forma that reads like an adult wrote it are made available?…that Ms. Dewey does write in her letter that the patent that has been applied for really does not matter to the success of the project?…that the patent application is only on the concept of combining existing commercially available parts to capture let down pressure and convert it to electricity?…that she even admits that another entity could enter this market but that Earthcare would have a two year head start?…that there are many computer companies that do not exist that had a two year head start on companies like Dell and Apple?…that Earthcare is projecting to lose $26.7 Million during their first two years anyway?…that if this business is a large as studies indicate that there will be many players in this game and some of them with have hundreds of millions of dollars backing them?…that two years and an application patent that may someday be issued, and a $5 Million loan from the City of Evansville will not be sufficient capitalization to compete in such a market?
IS IT TRUE that despite what Earthcare has asserted that there are already players in this market?…that a simple Google search reveals three?
