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IS IT TRUE April 19, 2012

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IS IT TRUE April 19, 2012

IS IT TRUE that it was refreshing to learn yesterday that some people in control at the Secret Service have been fired from their positions over the recent WHOREGATE scandal that happened in Cartagena, Columbia?…that it still is shocking to accept the fact that the advance team whose job it is to protect the president of the United States got off the plane and headed straight to a whorehouse to drink top shelf whiskey and partake of the paid companionship of Columbia’s “best whores”?…that makes one think “Holy Puta Batman”?…that we expect that the Secret Service will quickly clean the sandbox and get right back to their long tradition of professional service to the United States?

IS IT TRUE that no such thing is occurring at the General Services Administration where smiling government bureaucrats were having their pictures taken in hot tubs and some taking over 100 trips per year to exotic locations?…that no heads have rolled there but that the top head has pleaded the 5th on everything from being in the town to what he had for dinner?…that there is now a hotline established for other GSA employees to report inappropriate spending without fear of retribution?…that several actually were afraid to turn in the wasters to save the taxpayer’s money and that veil of fear has now been lifted?…that the website for reporting waste crashed yesterday?…that we predict that what is now being promoted as a $1 Million self indulgent scandal will rapidly escalate to a Billion Dollar Plus scandal and will take down the entire GSA?…that this is truly an division gone wild and it needs to be reigned in?…that we are waiting to see if and when any real action will be taken as thus far the hearings have mostly been photo-ops for smug politicians (congressmen) to grandstand for the poor folks back home who did not get a government paid trip to Vegas?

IS IT TRUE that the City of Dixon, Illinois is scratching its head today and trying to figure out just how a city employee was able to steal $30 Million and live the life of a Rockefeller right in Dixon without anyone knowing it?…that such a thing tells you allot about the Controller’s office in Dixon, the Dixon City Council, and the Mayor of Dixon running a very loose ship?…that when a civil servant that does not come from wealth and earns an average salary starts collecting exotic things like horses and cars that someone should have enough sense to wonder why?…that only happens when people are engaged enough to have a competent sense of awareness?…that Dixon, IL is not the only city in America that seems to have gone to sleep at the wheel when it comes to oversight of public money?

IS IT TRUE that we would like to recommend those who are interested in the whole Earthcare Energy deal including the market and the competition should read the following report and pay particular attention to the section on harvesting energy from gas let down stations?

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Combined USI choirs perform Spring Concert

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The USI Chamber Choir and Women’s Choir will perform a Spring Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at Trinity United Methodist Church, located at 216 S.E. Third Street in downtown Evansville.

The combined choir will perform Volkmar Leisring’s “O filii et filiae” for double choir from the church’s two side balconies. They also will perform John Rutter’s “Te Deum” for choir, brass and percussion.

The Chamber Choir will perform selections from their upcoming tour to Ireland, May 8-16, 2012. Included will be several arrangements of Irish Traditional music, and the choir will be accompanied by members of the Rowan Tree Irish Traditional band and traditional players from the ranks of the Chamber Choir.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Daniel Craig, director, at 812/464-1736.

The combined choir also is performing Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria” with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra on April 21.

VHS Pet of the Week: “Leopold”

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Hello from Leopold, a 4-year-old neutered DMH! Leopold has come such a long way from when he first arrived at the VHS. He was super skinny and matted. Just goes to show what a little TLC and good food can do for an animal in need. Leopold has blossomed into a gorgeous lion of a cat and is looking for a home where he can be the king! Leopold likes to be the center of attention and can be a bit rough with other cats, so he will need to be the only member of his pride. He needs a nice big chair that he can call his own and stretch out in. Leopold loves to be brushed and will chase a toy mouse until he falls asleep. School age children would be great for Leopold to be around. Oh and if you have a big window he can stare out of, you’ll make his world. For more information on Leopold, give the VHS a call at (812) 426-2563 or visit us on the web at www.vhslifesaver.org.

GE Brochure from 2008: Pressure Let Down Generators for Energy Recovery at City Gates

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The General Electric Company has advertising materials that clearly describe a product designed to work as follows:

“In pressure letdown applications, such as the merging of two transmission pipelines at different pressures, or at the city gate of a gas distribution system, GE turboexpander-generators can safely reduce the pressure of large volume gas streams while at the same time recovering energy in the form of electric power. An expander can therefore be a profitable replacement for other pressure regulating equipment such as control valves and regulators.”

Link to GE Brochure:

GE Pressure Let Down Turbo Expanders

Scholarly Article on Twin Screw Compression

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The article on the following link was published by Richard Langson along with some researchers from a British university. The paper is undated but the references indicate that it was published after March of 2006 and before Mr. Langson left Electratherm. It does detail some conclusions with respect to using a twin screw device to capture energy from the letting down of pressure. The prototype chose water as the working fluid but references are made to pressure limitations when gas is the working medium.

We invite learned people with technology backgrounds to read this and submit opinions with respect to its relevance to the Earthcare deal. There is also a reference to a US Patent #6,296,461 that was issued in 1996 to N. Stosic who was a co-author of this study.

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IS IT TRUE April 18, 2012

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IS IT TRUE April 18, 2012

IS IT TRUE that yesterday the City County Observer made a Freedom of Information Act request to the Evansville Controller’s office, the office of the Mayor of Evansville, to GAGE President Debbie Dewey, and to Gage Chairperson Carrie Ellspermann of Old National Bank?…that the request was for the following?

“access to and copies of all credit checks, background checks, contracts, studies, technical performance reports, purchase orders, terms of payment, power purchase agreements (PPA’s), and other pertinent documentation associated with the recently announced agreement between the City of Evansville and/or its surrogates and Earthcare Energy and its associated subcontractors and/or surrogates. To be more specific the project that I refer to is the recently announced loan and incentive package worth approximately $5 Million that was approved by the Evansville City Council two weeks ago.”

IS IT TRUE that we expect an assertion that GAGE is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act but have it on good authority that for a project that uses entirely public money that is done using money that is from public sources that the CCO will prevail and will be granted access to and copies of all that we requested?…that the outcome is known in advance but the only variable is whether or not the information will be provided without a higher authority forcing its release?…that it has now been 20 days since GAGE President Debbie Dewey was respectfully requested to answer 6 simple yes or no questions regarding the Vetting of this project?…that we still do not have any answers?…that City Councilman John Friend’s questions are not all answered yet either?…that the 20 business day clock on the Freedom of Information Act request filed yesterday now says 19 more days?

IS IT TRUE that for those of you who waited until the last minute to file your federal and state income tax returns that the clock has run out so send in your check?…that the revelations of the last several weeks about the blatant arrogance and in-our-face nature about the way our tax dollars are being spent is enough to make one angry?…that some of our tax dollars have been spent by the Senior Administration of the General Services Administration on travel to places like Las Vegas, Guam, Hawaii, and Napa Valley?…that what has gone on within the GSA that was recently made public is a version of the famous CVB Christmas Party on steroids?…that the advance team of secret service agents whose job is to protect President Obama’s first order of business when landing in Cartagena, Columbia last week was to round up a herd of whores for their own personal pleasure?…that some government spending like $500 hammers seems wasteful but it is wasteful because of the excessive regulation associated with making a purchase?…that such spending is simply what one may call “stupidity in government”?…that when government employees spend OUR DOLLARS lavishly on themselves on things that benefit no one but their self indulgent entitlement minded selves it is a very different story?…that when our hard earned money is spent by civil servants with all of the concerns of Caesar eating delicacies while Rome was burning that it is time to demand change?

IS IT TRUE that the arrogance and condescendence that we have been seeing from the federal government and in some instances by local government are symptoms of corruption?…that it is right there for all to see and yet little seems to be done about it?…that people will not be responsible as long as government continues to set such an egregious corrupt example?

IS IT TRUE that the real tragedy of the growing list of projects that the City of Evansville and its surrogates have failed to VET properly or have hidden from the people of Evansville is that when something really good comes along (and someday it will) there will be no money and no tolerance for the risk associated with it?…that sometimes poor VETTING is legitimate ignorance but other times it is well known up front that a disaster is looming and government officials choose to do wrong with their eyes wide open?…that the Homestead Tax Credit secret meeting is an example of local government CHOOSING TO DO WRONG with their eyes wide open?…that after the fact they said it could not be reversed?…that was just one more CHOICE TO MISLEAD that was consciously made but this time they were wrong?…that Governor Daniels overturned the local buffoonery and a certain amount of egg will be permanently attached to the faces of the ringleaders of that fiasco?

IS IT TRUE that the next time that the CHOICE TO DO WRONG is made with eyes wide open by local officials the results will be just as sobering to the wrongdoers as the Homestead Tax Grab and the $600,000 parking lot were to the last group of people who refused to think things through before spending public money unwisely?

Four USI students receive fully-funded international internships

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The University of Southern Indiana has awarded four Global Engagement Internships that will allow students to travel to Scotland, Africa, and India this summer. The fully-funded internships, coordinated through the Office of International Programs and Services, will provide the students with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of global issues and challenges that impact the world.

Catherine Carver of Deltona, Florida, a USI history major with a minor in anthropology, has been selected as the recipient of the Global Engagement Internship to the New Lanark World Heritage Site in Scotland May 10 through June 22. New Lanark is a restored 18th century cotton mill village connected to USI’s Historic New Harmony through the life and work of Robert Owen, founder of social experiments at both New Lanark and New Harmony.

Carver will help develop a public search room to support access to New Lanark’s collection of photographs, maps, drawings, and documents. The work will connect the New Lanark collection to the collections housed at USI’s David L. Rice Library and in New Harmony.

Biochemistry major Chelsea Heibel, a junior from Fort Wayne, Indiana, is spending eight weeks in Ghana, May 10 to July 8, with the World Endeavors volunteer program. She will spend up to four weeks in the city of Kumasi, where she is staying with a host family in the city’s suburbs and working in the maternity wing of the local hospital. She has a CNA and the focus of her work there will be with pregnant women and young mothers.

Jordan Whitledge of Evansville, a senior business administration, economics, and political science major and 2011-12 Student Government Association president, will spend six weeks with World Endeavors in Jaipur, the capital and largest city of India’s Rajasthan region, July 6-August 18. While in India, Whitledge expects to work with the homeless and serve as an English tutor.

Brittney Van Laeken of Evansville, a nursing major, is headed to a remote area of India this summer. Her internship is being coordinated through Cross-Cultural Solutions, one of the oldest international volunteer organizations in the region. Her trip, from May 25 to June 4, will take her to the city of Dharamsala in the Himalayas. Since 1959, the city has been an enclave for the Dalai Lama and the exiled Tibetan government. Her work will include a focus on adults with alcohol and substance abuse problems.

Source: USI.edu

University of Evansville Launches Diversity Initiatives

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This spring, the University of Evansville is taking major steps to improve its diversity strategy: conducting two surveys about diversity on campus and developing a campus-wide supplier diversity program.

One of the core goals of UE’s strategic plan, “Transforming Tomorrow: Our Students, Our University, Our World,” is to model and teach social responsibility in the local and global community. This includes creating and expanding initiatives related to diversity.

To gather concrete data to better inform these efforts, UE is utilizing the Diverse Learning Environments Survey, created by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The survey captures student perceptions regarding the institutional climate, campus practices as experienced with faculty, staff, and peers, and student learning outcomes.

On March 12, all UE students received a personal e-mail inviting them to take the DLE survey. Each respondent who completes the survey before the April 23 deadline will be entered into a drawing for prizes such as an iPad. In the fall, UE will receive a report of the survey results.

“UE has never undertaken a survey of this kind,” said La Toya Smith, diversity and equity officer and chair of UE’s Institutional Diversity Council. “We look forward to receiving the results, which faculty, administrators, and staff will use to help improve the campus and students’ experience at UE.”

Staff and administrators will also complete a separate survey to evaluate their experiences at work, level of job satisfaction and engagement, experiences with others, and level of cultural competence. In addition, this survey will assess UE staff and administrators’ perceptions of the institutional practices and the campus climate regarding diversity. The survey will begin next week and end in mid-May. Data will be used to create a detailed diversity action plan.

Finally, UE signed a contract with Diverse Business Solutions in January to improve its supplier diversity program. Under this contract, DBS is currently assessing UE’s purchasing behavior, supplier database, current contracts, and purchasing needs. The company will research and report on the diverse supplier capacity within a 50- and 100-mile radius of UE, and make recommendations. In August, DBS will present a comprehensive report to UE.

“We are pleased and honored to have been selected by the University to assist them in this process,” said Jeffrey Rode, the company’s president and CEO. Founded by two supplier diversity executives, Diverse Business Solutions provides an array of products and services to the supplier diversity industry — including supplier diversity program development, diverse certification management and preparation, and diversity expos and events. DBS, a diverse business itself, maintains offices in Evansville and Greenwood, Indiana.

Tupac Comes to Life at Coachella

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Technology has progressed to the point that Tupac Shakur, a pioneer in the rap music field who was murdered in Vegas 15 years ago gave a posthumous performance at the Coachella Music Festival last weekend in Indio, CA. Joining the image of Tupac on stage was Snoop Dogg who is showing his age when Pac is not.

Life often imitates art and the technology that brought Tupak back to the stage at Coachella may someday allow speeches and instruction to be given in a way that seems real. As bandwidth increases and stages are adapted to holographic media, the Beatles, or a young Bob Dylan may be giving concerts or Professor Einstein may deliver a lecture using this technology.

Unfortunately Tupac used a word that starts with M and ends in cker that offends some people in his after death concert. Those of you who are offended by that word should not watch this video but those who enjoy Pac’s music or are technophiles should check it out. This is the first of many such events brought to you by a Coachella Valley business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVGIRsKXdo

Guns and Hoses Ready for 5th Year

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The final days of training for area cops and firefighters are upon us. Their months long training for Saturdays nights Guns and Hoses 5 charity boxing event will be put to the test as 911 Gives Hope continues to provide financial help to non-profits that help tri-state kids and people with special needs.
There are still tickets available for this event. They can be purchased at any ticket outlet or at the Ford Center.

The tickets prices are:
General Admission $15 ($5) for kids
Reserved seating is $20, $25, and $30

Last year, 911 Gives hope gave out over $100,000 to local charities. That amount would not be possible without the public’s support.

This year, there is a video series that follows an Evansville Firefighter and an Evansville Police Officer as they prepare to face each other in this year’s event. The first two parts of the 3 part series can be viewed by going to: http://beyondbadge.com/