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British group watching as USI High Altitude Balloon Flight attempts to break world record

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The engineering design and analysis class at the University of Southern Indiana will be conducting its ninth high altitude balloon flight from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, October 27, during which the class will attempt to set a world record for the highest altitude release of a paper airplane.

The previous record is held by The Register’s Special Projects Bureau in the United Kingdom. The record was set in October 2010 with the launch of their PARIS Vulture 1 spaceplane. The Register recently learned about USI’s attempt to the break the record and will be following and reporting on the project from the UK. You can see the full story in the The Register at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/26/paper_aircraft_attempt/.

The USI class plans to launch the balloon from a site near Rend Lake in Southern Illinois. The landing and retrieval is expected to take place somewhere in Southern Gibson County in Indiana.

Mission Control for the event will be located in USI’s Business and Engineering Center Room 1005. Interested parties will be able to view the launch and the flight trajectory of both the balloon and the paper airplane.

The trajectory of the balloon can be viewed online at http://aprs.fi using the call sign W9MOK.

The trajectory of the paper airplane can also be followed using the call sign W9MOK-2.

Source: USI.edu

IS IT TRUE October 29, 2012

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE October 29, 2012

IS IT TRUE in Friday’s October 26 Courier & Press on page 10A, Rick Davis was quoted as saying the following: “Government was not meant to be efficient. Government was meant to be fair,” Davis said?…the City County Observer has to question the accuracy of this quote and it really does not sound like something that Mr. Davis would say and flies in the face of how he conducts business as an elected official?…such a statement also is inconsistent with the manner in which Rick Davis ran for Mayor and lives his personal life?…we offer our pages as a forum for any candidate for local, state, or national office to let us know what they think about efficiency and fairness in government?…as a practical manner it seems to be impossible for a government that is mired up in gross inefficiency to have any possibility of claiming to be FAIR?…a government can indeed be inefficient and equitable but when it comes to fairness there is really no way to be fair and inefficient as fairness requires a high level of efficiency?…we shall explain this in the following paragraph?

IS IT TRUE that a government that is so inefficient and mired up in regulation and paperwork that it spends $700 on a hammer that can be bought a Lowe’s or the Home Depot for $30 is not fair to any taxpayer at any level of taxation?…such a system of ineptness and inefficiency is no more fair than a government that enters into a contract to buy gasoline for its fleet of vehicles at $90.00 per gallon when gas is abundantly available in the free market for $4 per gallon?…forcing people’s taxes to pay for such gross inefficiencies by governments that overpay for everyday items by thousands of percents is the very definition of unfairness?…that to be quite frank about it, any government that is not efficient cannot claim to be FAIR to even one of its citizens?

IS IT TRUE that some of the polls released regarding the Presidential Election are publishing micro-results that are mathematically impossible to be consistent with the top line numbers of who is ahead and by how much in the election?…a perfect example is a poll released that stated that Romney is leading President Obama by a margin of 47% to 45% that the details contained their estimate that 52% of voters will be female and 48% male?…this poll stated that Mitt Romney was finally leading among women by 2% but leads the President among men by double digits?…that whatever may be true right now for the top line numbers it is absolutely impossible for the above referenced poll to be correct in all that it said?…this really is ARITHMETIC and it doesn’t work?

IS IT TRUE that MOLE #13 tells us that the annual IT budget for the Ford Center is $165,000 but that other similar venues in comparable markets are paying closer to $50,000 for that line item?…VenuWorks had the contract for the IT services at the Ford Center thrust upon them by the City of Evansville through the Evansville Redevelopment Commission?…with mandated contracts that cost over 200% more for the same service than it would in another location sort of ties VenuWorks hands when it comes to being efficient in operating their business and our Arena?…this is just one more example of extreme waste and ineptness in local government during recent history?…this IT revelation on the heels of the City of Evansville issuing a check for over $1.6 Million and not even knowing it at a time that bank statements could not be reconciled really should be a cause for mass overhaul of local government?…speaking of inefficiency the government of the City of Evansville has it bad in both day to day management and future lack of vision?…wanting to spend $20 Million on 8 ball fields or nearly $10 Million of a dog park is not the dreams of a visionary, these are the status quo actions of a runaway bureaucratic nonsense?

Gulledge Pledges To Modernize Coroner Office

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*I will be a full time Coroner, serving the citizens of Vanderburgh County – in the office every day.

*I will hire deputy coroners with careers or backgrounds that are associated with medical fields or law enforcement – a professional staff.

*I will create a better working relationship with first responders, hospital emergency room personnel, health department, and funeral homes – a partnership.

*I will work closely with social groups to search for answers to issues facing the community such as; prescription drug overdose deaths, suicides, violence with our youth and other death trends – proactive in the community.

*I will have more direct supervision over the office of Vanderburgh County Coroner – responsibility will be mine.

*I will bring evidence handling and collection of pharmaceutical drugs, money, and valuables within the standards of law enforcement agencies – better accountability.

*I will have a position on the Indiana State Coroner’s Training Board – creates recognition and respect from other Indiana County Coroners.

*I will create a more professional image of our county by instilling standards of behavior by leading by example, training and reinforcement of professional guidelines – excellence is a habit.

*I will utilize existing technology to track trends relevant to the Coroner’s duties – prevention and awareness.

*I will integrate the Coroner’s office with the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy to promote a better understanding with law enforcement agencies – a teaching mission.

The Incredible Shrinking President: by Mark Steyn

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Excerpts:

“We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,” said Hillary Clinton. Secretary Clinton was talking about the fellow who made the supposedly Islamophobic video that supposedly set off the sacking of the Benghazi consulate. And, indeed, she did “have that person arrested.” By happy coincidence, his bail hearing has been set for three days after the election, by which time he will have served his purpose.”

“The only remaining question was whether the administration had knowingly lied or was merely innocently stupid. The innocent-stupidity line became harder to maintain this week after Fox News obtained State Department e-mails revealing that shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern, less than a half hour after the assault in Benghazi began, the White House situation room knew the exact nature of it.

“After seven hours fighting numerically superior forces, my son’s life was sacrificed because of the White House’s decision. Why would Obama and Biden do such a thing? Because to launch a military operation against an al-Qaeda affiliate on the anniversary of 9/11 would have exposed the hollowness of their boast through convention week and the days thereafter — that Osama was dead and al-Qaeda was finished. And so Ty Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Chris Stevens were left to die, and a decision taken to blame an entirely irrelevant video and, as Secretary Clinton threatened, “have that person arrested.” And, in the weeks that followed, the government of the United States lied to its own citizens as thoroughly and energetically as any totalitarian state, complete with the midnight knock on the door from not-so-secret policemen sent to haul the designated fall-guy into custody.”

“The Obama administration created a wholly fictional story line, and devoted its full resources to maintaining it…Nevertheless, when the president and other prominent officials stand by as four Americans die and then abuse their sacrifice as contemptuously as this administration did, decency requires that they be voted out of office as an act of urgent political hygiene.”

“Charles Woods says that at the ceremony Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a “loud and boisterous” voice, “Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?”

“Yet oddly enough, the more furiously Obama and Biden have waved their binders and talked up Sandra Fluke, the more his supposed lead among women has withered away.”

“Both videos — the one faking Obamagasm and the one faking a Benghazi pretext — exemplify the wretched shrinkage that befalls those unable to conceive of anything except in the most self-servingly political terms. Both, in different ways, exemplify why Obama and Biden are unfit for office. One video testifies to a horrible murderous lie at the heart of a head of state’s most solemn responsibility, the other to the glib shallow narcissism of a pop-culture presidency, right down to the numbing relentless peer pressure: C’mon, all the cool kids are doing it; why be the last hold-out?

If voting for Obama is like the first time you have sex, it’s very difficult to lose your virginity twice. A flailing, pitiful campaign has now adopted Queen Victoria’s supposed wedding advice to her daughter: “Lie back and think of England.” Lie back and think of America. And then get up and get dressed. Who wants to sleep with a $16 trillion broke loser twice?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331806/incredible-shrinking-president-mark-steyn#

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

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Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine

Karl J.R. Arndt’s A Documentary History of the Indiana Decade of the Harmony Society 1814 – 1824 opens a window on the doubts and certitude of George and Frederick Rapp. George wrote his adopted son, Frederick, a letter from New Harmony, Indiana dated March 10, 1815 (see pp. 106 – 109) and said:

“Your letter (from Frederick to George) convinced me that your presence at home (Pennsylvania) was very necessary, that difficulties had developed. It is with our people as with Israel when Moses was on the Mount of Sinai for forty days. They began to make idols. When will our people learn to be prudent? It is very good that you cleansed the community again (emphasis added). Further, it is astonishing how the enemy (the Devil?) lays out snares and nets where he found occasion in the lusts of marriage. You have done well in putting off a disgrace to me and the congregation for this time.”

The letter provides no other details, but one surmises George saw himself as the modern Moses and, perhaps, saw Frederick’s actions much as those of Jesus in cleansing the temple of the money changers with carnal knowledge being the culprit that needed to be expelled.
In his letter, George further vents his frustrations to Frederick concerning George’s inability to purchase the property that now is Mt. Vernon from the McFaddens:

“Concerning the land sale (in Harmonie, Pennsylvania), you may do as you think best and as fate extends a hand to you. I cannot do anything about McFerle’s (McFadden’s) land (in Posey County, Indiana). They are really stubborn. They believe that the county seat will come there and one party will make a petition for this purpose.”

Posey County’s first county seat was at Blackford, but the McFaddens were campaigning for it to be moved to McFadden’s Bluff (Mt. Vernon). This may explain the largesse of Frederick Rapp’s donation of land to the county in return for the county seat being moved from Blackford to Springfield in 1817. However, it appears the Harmonists were out maneuvered by the “south of Big Creek” faction as Mt. Vernon became the county seat only eight years later.
It is fortunate we have these marvelous letters preserving the details of the Utopian community that has been so significant in our county’s history. As one reads of the purchase of land or the making of whiskey or the hopes for the second coming, it brings to mind what our posterity will have to refer to.
Somehow it just does not seem likely that an email message or a Facebook post will give our descendants of the year 2215 much faith in the value of what we have left them. Let’s see, “R u ok?; Y, u?” coupled with an image of someone T. Bowing, leaves one somewhat less than satisfied.

Mayor Winnecke’s Weekend Schedule

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Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke

News Advisory
Mayor Winnecke’s Weekend Schedule

Tonight, October 26, 2012

Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will be at the Ford Center to watch the Evansville IceMen take on the Kalamazoo Wings. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. The game starts at 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, October 27, 2012
Mayor Winnecke will greet guests at 9:15 a.m. as they arrive at The Center for the annual Pastor’s Conference. More than 400 pastors and church leaders from Evansville, Henderson, Princeton and surrounding communities are registered to participate. The conference will focus on Christian unity, outreach and Evangelism. The event is being coordinated by Rev. Jim Stuteville, pastor at God’s Way Church.

Mourdocks Campaign Manager Pleads For Help

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Evansville’s Richard Mourdock

Hoosier,
Now, more than ever before, is the right time to stand together and join with Richard.

We just received polling from the last two nights and the race is dead even — 44% to 44%. It’s going to be neck-and-neck. The team working the hardest is going to win.
We’ve always put our faith in our grassroots campaign, not the news media or big money, but in the grassroots. And now, with just days to go, we need you to stand with Richard and help set the record straight.

We need your help to get the truth out about who Richard is – and help fight back against the distortions and misrepresentations currently being pushed by the Washington Democrat machine on behalf of Congressman Joe Donnelly.

Here’s what you can do:
•Go to our Online Action Center and use it to post supportive messages about Richard
•Sign up to work the polls on Election Day
•Sign up to volunteer at one of our phone centers
•Donate to the campaign
We Hoosiers have always stood strong for the right to life – and against those would attack and distort a candidate’s sincerely held religious beliefs for political gain. Let’s continue that tradition and work hard in the final days to finish this campaign strong.

Keep Fighting,

Jim Holden
Campaign Manager