The Robert Stadium Task Force will meet Thursday, March 22, at 5:30 p.m. at The Centre in the Walnut Rooms. Task Force Chairman Larry Steenberg will receive status reports from subcommittees reviewing ideas for future uses of Roberts Stadium in the categories of sports, parks and exposition center.
Broadway at The Centre: Damn Yankees The Home-Run Broadway Musical – 3/21/2012
Faust, fly balls, and devilishly good fun all meet at the home plate of the 7 Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Damn Yankees. This is the story of a 1950s middle-aged baseball fanatic who trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team in the pennant race against The New York Yankees only to realize the true worth of the life (and wife) he’s left behind. Filled with hit songs like “Whatever Lola Wants†and “You Gotta Have Heartâ€, this show is a musical comedy home run!
Classical Guitar Society Guest Artist Series to Feature Jordan Mandela Knudson
The Classical Guitar Society of Evansville and the University of Evansville will co-sponsor a guest performance by Chicago-area classical guitarist Jordan Mandela Knudson.
The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 in UE’s Wheeler Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $5 for any student, and free for UE students.
Knudson will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata in G Minor, Nicholas Maw’s Music of Memory, and Sergio Assad’s Aquarelle.
Knudson began his musical studies at the age of four on the violin. Shortly thereafter, he embarked on what would be a long search to find an instrument that spoke to him as both a listener and a player. Finally, eight years and nearly as many different instruments later, he picked up a guitar and has not looked back since.
Knudson’s confident technique, creative musicality, and enthusiasm for his craft have won him praise from audiences, as well as in master classes by David Russell, Pavel Steidl, Marcin Dylla, Berta Rojas, and numerous others. He has twice won second prize in the Society of American Musicians competition, in 2009 and 2010.
In summer 2011, Knudson was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with Sharon Isbin.
In addition to solo recitals, Knudson regularly performs in chamber music concerts. He has also played as a soloist with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony and the Signature Youth Orchestra.
Knudson is currently finishing his master’s degree at Roosevelt University in Chicago under renowned guitarist Denis Azabagic.
IS IT TRUE: March 20, 2012
IS IT TRUE: March 20, 2012
IS IT TRUE
that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Wall Street firms are now lining up to become landlords by bidding on pools of foreclosed properties that are being sold in packages by Fannie Mae?…that while it is certain that getting distressed properties off of the market is something that will serve to form a bottom for housing prices there is something about this that stinks?…that there is a rule called the “prevention clause†in some transactions that makes it illegal for a person or business that causes a hardship to benefit from the hardship that it created?…that to see Wall Street firms now picking up residential housing for something like 20 cents on the dollar when it was the practices of Wall Street firms and banks that precipitated many of the conditions that caused both the housing bubble and the housing bust in the first place?…that we are sure that SNEGAL(sneaky but legal) is involved here but it really does not sound well for the firms who created the destruction of wealth to now be buying the basis of the wealth that was destroyed for pennies on the dollar and renting the houses back to the people that were foreclosed upon?
IS IT TRUE that gasoline prices have the whole country by the throat again and this time even people of means are having their lives impacted?…that people with trucks and gas guzzlers are reporting costs of over $100 to fill up their vehicles when only a few short years ago the price to do so was under $50?…that most people seem to have lives that involve one fill up per week?…that no matter how you run the numbers the whole “buy a new $40,000 car that gets better mileage†argument just does not translate into good financial sense?…that when buying a new car there will be a 7% sales tax charged, the insurance will increase, and the annual license fee to the BMV will increase dramatically so getting rid of a reliable clunker will never make financial sense unless of course gas prices go up by another 100%?…that the other hidden costs are added to everything that has to travel to market like FOOD, CLOTHING, CAR PARTS, SERVICES, ETC. ETC. ETC.?…that energy prices are truly the Achilles heel of modern society?…that when calculating the COST OF LIVING increase the federal government intentionally leaves out the costs of ENERGY and FOOD in hopes that the huddled masses will not have the good sense to realize the reality of just how much energy prices affect our day to day life?
IS IT TRUE that if the gas prices continue to climb or even stay where they are now that there is a CAR BUBBLE on the economic horizon?…that first there was a STOCK BUBBLE, followed by a HOUSING BUBBLE that poor public policy and speculators drove that is about to repeat itself with AUTOMOBILES?…that you ask how such a thing could happen?…that suppose for a moment that you are the owner of a GAS GUZZLER that you bought in 2009 for say $35,000 that you still owe $22,000 on?…that in normal circumstances you may have some equity in your vehicle by now?…that lets further suppose that you want to sell your GAS GUZZLER and NO ONE WANTS IT?…that in such a case you are as stuck with that GAS GUZZLER and a homeowner in an “underwater” house is stuck with the house?…that the current gas prices have already started negatively effecting the used car market for gas guzzlers and that this negative effect will start to accelerate rapidly in a couple of months during the travelling season?…that if no one wants your GAS GUZZLER that the value will plummet to a small fraction of what you owe on it?…that is exactly what happened to stocks and housing and the result was massive defaults and the destruction of wealth?…that in times like these WHEN ENERGY PRICES INCREASE THE VALUE OF NEARLY EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS TANGIBLE WILL DECREASE?…that we at the CCO do not pretend to have the answers but we do acknowledge the magnitude of the problem?
IS IT TRUE that speaking of energy companies the Mole Nation reports that Vectren Corporation seems to have a new employee?…that former Indiana State Senator and Director of the Metropolitan Evansville Transit Authority was reported to be working in the booth at last weekend’s HOME SHOW handing out brochures?…that people are beginning to wonder if Vectren is the last resting place for politicians who have reached the end of their time as an elected official?…that we wish Bob well in his new career at Vectren?
Pitzer to Lecture on New Book
Dr. Donald Pitzer, professor emeritus of history and founding director of the Center for Communal Studies, will present a public talk on his recent book New Harmony Then and Now (Indiana University Press, 2012) at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in Kleymeyer Hall in the lower level of the USI Liberal Arts Center.
With images by Darryl Jones, New Harmony Then and Now is a photographic and historic celebration of two of America’s great Utopian communities, both of which began at New Harmony, Indiana. One of these, founded by the German Harmonists under George Rapp, was at New Harmony from 1814 to 1824.The more famous community began in 1825 and was the work of the Welsh industrialist Robert Owen, whose earlier mill and village at New Lanark, Scotland was one of the most influential social experiments of the day.
Pitzer is a long-time scholar of New Harmony. His previous works include America’s Communal Utopias, New Harmony’s First Utopians, and New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen’s Seedbed for Utopia.
Following his talk, Pitzer will be available to sign books from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Center for Communal Studies (Liberal Arts Center Room 2009). Light refreshments will be available.
Entrepreneurship Fair Showcases UE’s Student-Founded Businesses
From cupcakes to custom suits to colorful African jewelry, approximately 50 students in the University of Evansville’s Schroeder Family School of Business Administration are showcasing their products and services today at an entrepreneurship fair.
The fair will run from 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. in the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building atrium. Admission is free and open to the public.
Sixteen student-founded businesses are taking part in the fair as part of a two-semester curriculum in entrepreneurship, taught by UE assistant professor of management Joe Trendowski.
During the fall semester, students enrolled in Business 269 (Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship) form a business plan and secure loans for start-up costs. In the spring, they continue their efforts in Business 270 (Experience in Entrepreneurship) by launching and marketing their businesses.
“This curriculum not only walks students through the entrepreneurship experience, but gives them a real-world opportunity to put their academic knowledge into practice,” said Trendowski. “Today’s entrepreneurship fair is a chance for students to share their hard work with the UE community.”
One of those students was sophomore Taylor Parker from Louisville, Kentucky, a business management major. His business, Ekisa Designs, sells jewelry and other small crafts handmade by Ugandan widows. Proceeds return to the widows and also benefit Fields of Dreams, a partner organization that promotes soccer and education to help Ugandan orphans.
“I’m big into social entrepreneurship — how I can use my business to help someone else,” said Parker. “Business 269 and 270 have given me organizational skills and helped me discover ways of overcoming challenges in starting a business.”
IS IT TRUE: March 19, 2012
IS IT TRUE: March 19, 2012
IS IT TRUE that that Vanderburgh County Commissioner,Commander of the Vanderburgh County Veterans and newly installed member of Gage Board of Directors, Steve Melcher along with Evansville City Councilman and Budget Chairman, John Friend, CPA never received an invitation from GAGE President, Debbie Dewey or Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke to join them on their “VIP” bus trip to Crane Naval Base?…that to exclude actively engaged and highly qualified elected officials from this trip is amazing?…that neither of these gentlemen are happy about this oversight? …that the members of the Evansville City Council were invited by Ms. Dewey last week to hop a flight to Nevada so they could all lay hands on a prototype Langson Energy device that is shown on youtube?…that when they are needed to vote blindly the City Council gets a last minute invitation to Nevada but when it is a bus trip to Crane some of them do not seem to be wanted?
IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Bond Bank has a little over 11 Million dollars in its account?….that about 4 million dollars is committed to a water and sewer project? …if we round off the above figures to 11 million and 4 million that would leave the Bond Bank account with about 7 million dollars?…that if the Mayor and the President of GAGE get their way to loan 5 million dollars to a proposed start-up company that would leave the Evansville Bond Bank with only about 2 million dollars in this account?…that if this is this correct this a prime example of “bad public fiscal policy”?…that we wonder what can be accomplished with the remaining $2M if trouble comes calling which in a town that can’t mow its grass or assure that the contents of a toilet will find its way to the treatment station is a guarantee?…that for $2M we could build 10 more FDP houses to sit empty?…that we could refurbish 8 one bedroom apartments that could be bought for under $100,000?…that we could even reverse the direction of one street?…that regardless of what the future value may be that the City of Evansville does not need to be within $2 Million of its bond bank credit limit?
IS IT TRUE we wonder about the status of a start-up loan that Venue works received from the Weinzapfel Administration so they could begin to market the Ford Center?…that if the Ford Center has had the financial success that it supposedly has had that it is time to start repaying that loan?
IS IT TRUE that Mole 9 tells the CCO that the past Parks and Recreation Director who was famous for not keeping up with the maintenance in the City of Evansville parks is now the newly appointed Director of Park Maintenance?
IS IT TRUE that it explicitly states in the Investment Documents of Earthcare Energy that the testing that was recommended by CTC to be done on the Langson Energy device will be finished by the end of March of 2012?…that this being the case, shouldn’t it be prudent to delay committing any funding until this testing is complete and disclosed?…that with the testing so close to completion it would be appropriate for Earthcare to disclose to the Evansville City Council immediately exactly what tests are being run and who is doing the tests?…that such a technical undertaking should be nearing completion by now if it is to be finished and a report generated by March 31, 2012?…that is only 11 days from now?…that while they are at it Earthcare should advise the City Council where the $34 Million in additional loans that are disclosed in the cash flow section of their prospectus will be coming from?…that to date we know where they are counting on $5M to come from?…that at the burn rate proposed the $5 Million will be gone by Labor Day unless other funding is secured?