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A Long Beach, California, security guard has been charged with two felonies after breaking up a brawl outside a club in a move out of the movies, reports The Los Angeles Times.
Twenty-three-year-old Gilbert Fonoti was providing security at the Club Cohiba when a brawl began outside the club. Unable to get control of the fight, Fonoti took out his unregistered gun and fired a warning shot into the air.
That's when Fonoti bad luck began.
The bullet traveled over a mile and struck the 49-year-old unidentified woman, who was sleeping on her deck. Fonoti, who could not be reached for comment, was arrested that night and released on bond, according to the Los Angeles County sheriff's website.
Authorities said they pursued charges after ballistics evidence reviewed by the Long Beach Police Department showed the bullet was fired from the gun taken from the defendant.
Prosecutors have charged Fonoti with "two counts of felony discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and carrying a loaded unregistered firearm," reported the Times.
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MAOS blogger and professional filer-of-complaints Chaz Stevens says he submitted a formal complaint to the Federal Elections Commission yesterday in connection with our coverage of Congressman Connie Mack's illegal campaign mailer incident.
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I take exception to Eric Alexander's assertion in the Aug. 19 edition of Newsday, that anyone who voiced opposition to the recent Planning Board decision to approve the "Piazza" project is against a vibrant downtown. Nothing could be further from the truth.
His exact quote: "I don't think you'll ever please the people that don't want a vibrant downtown." I would like Mr. Executive Director of Vision Long Island to know that the only people who don't want a vibrant downtown in Glen Cove are drug dealers and other miscreants – it's bad for business.
There are many reasons to disapprove of this project; some of them were even stated by members of the Planning Board who voted NO. And some were voiced by members of the board who strangely enough, voted YES. Too tall buildings, no piazza in "The Piazza," "bait and switch" tactics, the unlikely marketability of many of the units, the developer's past history, increased traffic, walling off the downtown, etc.
Then there is the "quid pro quo" factor. We know that developers contribute substantial sums to political campaigns, so we question why a project of this magnitude is fast-tracked in a local election year, with little notice to the public so as to minimize public input. It is moving with extraordinary speed to get all approvals in place before the upcoming election. So when Vision Long Island makes ill-informed statements in the press because they support a local project, perhaps Newday should investigate whether Mr. Alexander's salary is funded primarily through the largesse of developers.
The Executive Director of Vision Long Island has the luxury of viewing projects such as The Piazza and the Waterfront Redevelopment in Glen Cove through binoculars. We, the taxpayers, must view them with a magnifying glass.
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TOMS Shoes are a stylish take on the traditional Argentine alpargata slip-on, appealing at once to the Polo Ralph Lauren crowd, surfers and skaters, as well as those of us in between. Yet, the shoes are more than just that. Founded on ethics of social responsibility, they are produced in Argentina in sweatshop free environments. Though it is not necessarily a "green" company, all aspects of the production are monitored to ensure fair labor practices and minimize environmental impact.
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This is a guest post from Kevin Jones, who is a Founder and Principle at Good Capital, and Xigi Media. Xigi (ZIG-ee) is putting on the Social Capital Markets 2008 Conference to bring together all of the people and organizations with a similar deep passion to change the world through sustainable businesses.
The Social Capital Movement Has Begun
The movement to use the power of the market to help people lift people out of poverty that first reached broad public awareness when microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Prize is reaching an inflection point. Moving beyond small loans to groups of women, the movement to use innovative business approaches to social problems is suddenly reaching critical mass, and the leading players in the world, such as Google.org, the Federal Reserve, and The Economist, are convening at an event that is at the intersection of money and meaning.
Mixing the Approaches of Venture Capital and Foundations, Non-Profits
The evidence that there is a new wave of investing, the proof that people are asking for impact along with risk and return is happening can perhaps best be shown by the explosion of social venture funds themselves. From Austin to San Francisco to Johannesburg to Rio, to London, people are finding investors ready to respond to a an approaches that mixes traditional highly engaged venture capital investing targeting problems that used to be only within the sights of foundations and non profits.
Based on my conversations with other funds like ours at Good Capital, I think it may be safe to say that more than half a billion dollars is being raised worldwide from investors who are pioneering a new asset class that draws from philanthropy as much as it does from Wall Street.
I'm having those conversations because most of those new funds are coming a conference in San Francisco where, by standing together and providing context for each other, we can both validate the reality and accelerate the growth of this new social capital market.
Can a Pizza Box Save the Planet?
Pizza. From its humble beginnings in Italy, it has become a food enjoyed across the globe. And though the size, shape, and flavor may vary widely, one thing does not. The box. A sturdy utilitarian container, it does a good job keeping the pizza warm, safe, and easy to carry. Billions are used each year. And they're slacking on the job.
Depending on the pizza, having a plate to set it on is a necessity. want to store what you don't eat? Good luck, that bulky box often requires you to muscle other things out of the way to make room. What if the box could double as a plate? And triple as a compact post meal storage container? It can, using the same ol' box, remixed. It's called the Green Box.Click to continue reading »
The Pickens Plan, Hybrid Electrics and National Leadership
In his eponymous plan to break the stranglehold imported oil has on the American economy, former oil man and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens puts together a cogent, well reasoned argument and strategy centered on coincidentally carrying out two key national initiatives over the next decade: having wind power supply 22% of national electrical power production and shifting the natural gas currently used to supply 22% of national electrical output to transportation.
The Hybrid Owners of America is all in favor of Part One of the "Pickens Plan" but argues that using natural gas as a transportation fuel makes no sense when technological advances, energy security and environmental concerns are driving growing demand for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles and finally giving auto manufacturers the impetus to manufacture them on a large scale.
Whether it's hybrid-electric or natural gas powered vehicles, perhaps the biggest question and challenge remains, however, a point raised by former Intel CEO Andy Grove in a recent article in The American magazine: how can the huge population of existing vehicles be converted to make use of cleaner, domestic fuel/energy sources as quickly as possible?
5 Top Countries for Renewable Energy Investment
There has been a rush of investment into renewable energy in recent years. In 2007, global wind energy capacity grew by 27% and solar energy sales grew an estimated 50%.
Ernst & Young produced a report that offers insight into where future growth is likely to occur by examining a variety of indices including long-term wind, near-term wind, and all renewables.
The top five prime nations for renewable energy investment are:
Texas Enacts E-Waste Recycling Program
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TECQ) has officially implemented the Computer Equipment Recycling Program for their state. The program will expand free electronic recycling options for consumers. The wording in the program shows that the commission means business. Manufacturer's must offer a take back program for their products in order to sell them. Similarly, retailers are not able to sell new computer equipment unless the manufacturer appears on TECQ's approved list. Thankfully for computer shoppers in Texas, just about every major manufacturer, including Dell, HP, Apple, Toshiba, Sony, and Lenovo, appears on the list.
Taking a Bite out of Cement's Global Warming Potential
Hardcore greenhouse gas (GHG) geeks will recall that cement is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, with approximately 1 ton of CO2 equivalent emitted into the atmosphere for every 1 ton of cement produced. Damn. Forget your carbon guilt from flying, people! Cement is responsible for 5% of the Earth's CO2 emissions, and it's the third largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the US according to the EPA.
A new technique has the potential to change cement's impact on global warming, and I wouldn't be writing about them if there wasn't a great business opportunity here as well. Calera has created a process for incorporating waste CO2 emissions from a power plant into the cement manufacturing process. His system sequesters a half a ton of CO2 for every ton of cement created.
Constantz used biomimicry, the process of looking to nature for design inspiration, to get his idea. Sea coral create marine cement as one component of the reef building process, and the coral combine calcium, magnesium, and seawater to make their tough-as-nails product. Constantz has figured out a way to mimic the same process using the spent CO2 as a material source. "We are turning CO2 into carbonic acid and then making carbonate," Constantz says. "All we need is [sea] water and pollution."Click to continue reading »
Global Businesses Pledge Eco-Patents for Free Public Use
Nine months after the launch of the Eco-Patents Commons, three global business heavyweights have recently entered the arena. On Monday, GreenBiz reported that Xerox, DuPont, and Bosch all pledged to free eco-patents to the public domain, joining the ranks of Sony, Pitney-Bowes, Nokia, and spearhead IBM.
According to GreenBiz, the January 2008 launch was "an unprecedented step in the development of clean technologies," with businesses essentially giving away ideas so that other businesses could utilize and develop upon their innovations. The recent inclusion has more than double the eco-patents now available.
Some of the new additions include patents from Xerox that use vacuum extraction to quickly, cheaply, and more efficiently remove hazardous wastes from soil as well as a patent from DuPont to turn non-recyclable plastics into fertilizer.
Colorado State University Wins International Sustainable Technology Transfer Award
The 2008 Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer, protected by HRH Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, was awarded last week to Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory. The honor was bestowed at COPENMIND, an exhibiton and conference dedicated to research, innovation, and technology through university/industry partnerhsips, .
In 2002, students at the Laboratory entered a cleaner-burning 2–stroke snowmobile engine into a contest sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. The snowmobile engines, intended for use in Yellowstone National Park, won the prize and led laboratory director and professor Bryan Wilson to helping his graduate students and CSU's College of Business form the non-profit Envirofit to commercialize the idea.
Envirofit was founded in 2003 and helped bring to market a retrofit kit for 2–stroke engines in the Philippines and and other developing nations. The ubiquitous 2–stroke engine in these countries are an enormous contributor to air pollution and health problems. According to an article in Discover magazine, one 2–stroke engine produces the same pollution as 30 to 50 4–stroke engines.
Envirofit and the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab was just getting started.Click to continue reading »
HP Selling Notebook in its Own Messenger Bag
How do you reduce packaging when selling a laptop? Ship it in a messenger bag made of 100% recycled materials with all the accessories included. For its Pavilion dv6929, HP has reduced 97% of the cardboard and plastic traditionally used in packaging by doing just that.
With the laptop, HP won Walmart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge, a competition among electronics manufacturers focused on reducing the environmental impact of their products. The $798 laptop is sold exclusively in Walmart and Sam's Club retail locations. Customers are also able to bring in their old computer to the store and have it recycled free of charge.
To B or not to B: B Lab Expands its B Corp List and Service Partner Program
The folks at B Lab have been busy since we last featured the independent certification group here. There's the new website, the new video shot by Tri-film, the quarterly newsletter, and several new certified B Corporations. Currently 124 companies across 31 industries have attained the B Corporation certification, meaning they have passed B Lab's triple bottom line certification process, and they have changed their governing documents to include stakeholders' interests.
Companies that make the grade benefit from the growing community of B Corporations and the resources of B Lab, including discounts from B Lab service partners and the right to use the B Corporation certification logo in their branding and marketing. Millions of green consumers benefit from the assurance they are doing business with companies that are really doing good, and not just companies that are doing really good green washing.
Cambodia: From the Killing Fields to a Thriving Garment Industry
Cambodia has come a long way from the "killing fields" of the 1970s when 1.7 million people were killed by the communist group the Khmer Rouge. In 1993 it became a constitutional monarchy, and during the same time period began developing a garment industry. Cambodia's garment industry grew rapidly with $20 million worth of export in 1995 to over $1 billion in 2001.
In 2000 Nike temporarily pulled out of Cambodia after a British documentary discovered underage workers in one of the company's contractor factories. Since then Cambodia has worked to create a garment industry that treats its workers fairly. The International Labor Organization (ILO) started Better Factories Cambodia in 2001 in order to monitor and report on conditions in Cambodian garment factories. Better Factories works with the Cambodian government and international buyers to make sure the garment factories have favorable working conditions.


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By Stephen M. Deusner , February 5, 2006
A perfect piece of ass, a birthday candle in a circle of black girls, the new blue blood, and the great white hope: According to the National's third and best album, Alligator, singer and lyricist Matt Berninger is all these things and more. These aren't idle boasts, but the eerie thoughts of a multitude of characters Berninger slips in and out of from song to song and verse to verse. Alligator was one of the most complicated, conflicted, and compelling albums of 2005, full of strange wordplay, oddball imagery, and sly humor often at odds with the band's large, anthemic sound. It warranted and rewarded repeat listens, which made it one of the year's best growers and landed the album at or near the top of numerous year-end lists.
Between releasing the album and landing it on lists, the National embarked on arguably the biggest indie tour of 2005, with fellow Brooklynites Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. That pairing created a little controversy as many audience members showed up for the buzzed-about Clap Your Hands but left before the National took the stage. Unphased, the band skipped the country for a two-week European tour before playing a New Year's show with Clap Your Hands at the Irving Plaza in New York.
So, all in all it's been a big year for the National. I called Berninger on a cold Monday evening-- presumably between episodes of "The West Wing"-- to discuss the year past and the near future.
Pitchfork: You just played the New York Guitar Festival this weekend.
Matt Berninger: Yes. Two nights ago.
Pitchfork: How'd that go? Were you part of the Nebraska concert?
Berninger: Yes. We played "Mansion on the Hill". They invited us to do that about a year ago. It was pretty cool. They had a ton of different artists playing different songs, and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
Pitchfork: Did you change up the song very much, or did you just play a straight cover?
Berninger: Yeah, we did change it up. The song itself is just Bruce [Springsteen] playing guitar and harmonica and singing, so we played a full-band version. Sort of mellow, though...we didn't turn it into a rock song. It was a little nerve-wracking, but it was fun. Apparently Bruce liked our version. But unfortunately I left right after the song to come home and watch "The West Wing", and it turns out the rest of the guys in the band drank whiskey with him for an hour or so. I kinda missed that opportunity. But it was a good time. It was a cool event, but it's a strange thing to take an album and turn it into a whole evening. It's impossible to do it justice It was a celebration of Nebraska, but in some ways, I think it's hard to do that. I might have preferred just to put the album on the stereo.
Pitchfork: That was your last show until this spring. It seems like you spent the entire year on the road.
Berninger: We toured about 10 months and finished right before the holidays. We're just kinda trying to stay home and relax and start work on the new record.
Pitchfork: Most of that time with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: How did the two bands hook up for that tour?
Berninger: It was earlier in the year. We played with them at Mercury Lounge. There were a bunch of bands playing one night for Johnny Beach's birthday. He just invited some of his favorite bands-- the bands he had booked over the years. And we met them there and got along really well. And that's when they gave us their record and we fell in love with it right away and asked them to join us on the tour we were going to be doing in November. Then they blew up. It was funny. I think their record was one of my favorite records of the year. When we went on tour, they were already more well-known than we were when we hit the road.
Most of the shows were great. There were one or two awkward shows where a lot of people left when they were finished, so we had to stiff up and face that situation. But all in all the tour went really well and we got along really well. I think it was good for both of us. I think they were at a point where they were just starting to tour and they were I guess a little resistant to their own hype, the buzz that was going on, questioning it a little themselves. Before we did the tour, we said you guys can do a tour by yourselves and they said absolutely not. They wanted to stick to their plan and do what they do.
They knew it was funny that there were shows where there would be just a huge contingent that was clearly there see Clap Your Hands, and there was a lot of stuff being talked about like this was a battle of the bands. We saw a lot of that happening, and it was funny. Ultimately, a lot of that was kind of irritating, but we were laughing at it and had a good time. In the end they invited us to do a New Year's show at Irving Plaza. There will probably be more shows in the future. People wanted to see a trainwreck, but it was a great tour for us.
Pitchfork: I saw that you kicked their ass in soccer in the Indie Rock Showdown.
Berninger: Yeah, we won at soccer. They're better players, but we, well, we cheated. I guess that's really part of it. We played dirty soccer.
Pitchfork: The album was a grower-- it came out early in the spring and built a lot of momentum over the year. It seemed to have a lot of staying power.
Berninger: We've heard that a lot. I guess that makes some sense that it's called a grower or a slow burner. But you can interpret that in different ways. At first that sounds like "at first I didn't like the record but then I started liking it later." The record came out in April, but it seemed like it wasn't until almost the end of the year that people started talking about it and paying attention to it. And, you know, that's all out of our control, and it was nice to finally have people listening to it and getting into it. It's a record that isn't immediately catchy. There really aren't any big hit songs or pop songs on it. I'm not sure how anyone describes those types of songs. So when we released it we knew it wasn't going to be a huge splash record, but it's validating to have people much later start to really fall in love with it. So it's been a nice year.
Pitchfork: I don't want to say it was a difficult record, but it did seem very complex. It wasn't very accessible immediately, but after time some of the humor came through. I thought it had a kind of cumulative effect, with all the songs working in connection with each other.
Berninger: When we were recording and writing the record, we had a lot of songs. Some songs would stick with us in the writing process and when we were in the studio, and we would keep listening to them for weeks and weeks and weeks. The ones that grew on us were the ones we fell in love with the most. When we put the final record together, those were the ones we finally chose, so it makes sense that that would be the listening experience.
But yeah, there's a lot of little stuff in the songs that I think aren't about one thing. They're a little murky, and that's on purpose. Songs that you can interpret differently after three or four or five listens are the songs that we've always been in love with. That's what the record turned into for us, and we collected the songs that had the most staying power for us. It's not something we think about when we're writing, but it is when we're choosing what's the best of things we've done. We try to edit out the bullshit, but even if it's fun bullshit, it's hard for us to stand behind it if it doesn't hold up after 20 listens.
Pitchfork: I did notice that listening to Alligator back-to-back with Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, there did seem to be a lot of difference between the two albums. Sad Songs seemed was much more direct, but this one is more oblique. There was no set meaning to these songs, and you seemed to be talking around things. Was there something that changed your approach between these two albums?
Berninger: I think on Sad Songs the songs are a little more obvious about what they're about. Musically, I think we've just been getting better as band playing together. I think that one thing that I was trying do with Alligator is cut out any lyrics that sounded like obvious statements or big lyrical ideas. The big ALL CAPS lines or lyrics only sound good once. They might make sense and sound right for one day, then you'd realize that it's just not quite true, not quite right, that the truth is a little mushier than that. As far as lyrics go, the mushy lines are a little bit...well, they could be interpreted a few different ways; meanings could move around a little bit. So the whole record is kinda like that a little bit. There are love songs on there that are slipping out of positive and negative and confusion, and there are little bits of political stuff that are neither positive nor negative.
We worked on Alligator for a long time, and I kept going back and changing stuff to make it a little more slippery. We didn't want the footing on it to be too solid because that's much more interesting and closer to reality. I think when you really think things through, they get more complicated. So I cut out a lot of stuff that just felt like they were cool lyrics. I would try to get rid of that because it just wouldn't taste good after a couple of days. I wouldn't like the sound of it.
Pitchfork: Have you started writing for the new album? Any ideas how you want it to be different from Alligator?
Berninger: I've been writing a lot of stuff, and there are little things we're piecing together. But we don't have any kind of vision or big idea yet, and I hope we don't. Alligator shifted around a lot until the very last minute, and I think it's more exciting for us not to know what we're gonna do until we finish. So we don't have a strategy or a plan. I doubt it will sound like Alligator because I think we'll do what we've done on most of our records-- put on different shoes and walk around in different rooms. I think we wouldn't be as excited if we were writing similar kinds of songs. I think we're doing it to surprise ourselves and inspire ourselves and keep us interested.
Pitchfork: What are you doing to stay busy until then? Besides watching "The West Wing".
Berninger: I'm on season 5 now, I'm gonna run out of "West Wing" soon. We've been relaxing as much as we can. Being gone for so long, things fall apart in your life at home. So we're trying to put that all together. I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective. I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice. We're really trying hard not to think about the band, just to fill our heads with other stuff. The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
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Its beginning to sound as if one of my brothers works for these guys but I have no affiliation to them other than they made my life very easy after having had a bad experience with one of the other membership software packages being advertised on this site.
get it - its worth it.
Thanks for your comment, but did you request the registration control plugin in the support system? In the user manual, section 4.3, we have instructions there: "If you don't want the visitor to register before the payment is approved, you may submit a
ticket at https://www.opensource-excellence.com/tickets to ask for a registration control plug-in.
The logic of the plug-in is: when a visitor joins a membership, he/she is asked to register first,
but if he/she doesn't go through the whole payment process, his/her joomla user account will be
Therefore, please submit a ticket in the support system and we will give you the download link for this plugin then.
Best regards,
OSE team
If more payment gateways were added, this would be a rock star.
I'm using it for a college program and was able to setup a basic ACL and subscription quickly to offer courses on our website. Managing the back-end is fairly intuitive. There's even a bunch of free add-ons to work with document management and downloads if you want to include those in your subscriptions. However, the product isn't quite designed to handle all aspects of an educational site just yet; though Helix and his team have been listening to my requests and expressed desire to include these features in the future.
Keep up the good work!
Now I can control my orders and control the product interface a lot more than the more generic quickcarts that the others have.
Beyond everything else, the support that I received from OSE has completely impressed me. They helped me with small details that I realized later had to do with other components and not necessarily, however they helped and never told me to go seek help elsewhere. I am new to programming and they were patient with me.
Please do the world of Joomla a favor and invest in Open Source Excellence! If products and support have this strength, the Joomla community can only get better.
For example, menu module restriction does not work with cache enabled.
Check "Cache and menu module" ticket http://projects.opensource-excellence.com/viewissue.php?issue_no=41
You can not test it without buy it. If you buy it, and you are not satisfied, they don't refund it.
Thanks Eric,
Did you request a refund from the Billing department? Seems we have not received any request for this? Also, we have sent this issue to the developers and we have solutions for this issue now. We try to make the component to work on all websites/servers, but we cannot guarantee it until the issue arises. However, we try to sort out all issues as soon as possible.
Also, we have the demo site, and a new demo site is under construction, so we feel sorry that this gives you inconvenience. Could you please also contact us if you have further issues for this through our ticket system:
Best regards,
OSE team
Best few quid I ever spent, and I will be purchasing more of their products very soon!


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Campbellsville Business and Professional Women's Club members will visit local high schools Tuesday, Aug. 26, to encourage students to register to vote in honor of the day being Women's Equality Day.
Last week, club members joined Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young as he signed a proclamation proclaiming tomorrow as "Women's Equality Day" in Campbellsville.
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Kelli Brooke Oschwald and Traver Maurice Dabney were married on Saturday, July 10, at First Presbyterian Church in Lexington.
Walmart co-manager Gary Cunningham presented $500 to Taylor County Habitat for Humanity.
The Patriot Quartet will be in concert on Sunday, Aug. 29, at Good Hope Baptist Church.
Samuel Kessler, a freshman at Campbellsville High School, competed at semi-finals competition of the Coca-Cola Talent Classic at Kentucky State Fair on Saturday. He sang "New York State of Mind" and accompanied himself on the piano.
Those competing on Saturday were between ages 13 to 21 and must have won a preliminary competition to advance to the semi-finals.
Semi-final contestants were divided into groups to perform and the overall top 20 contestants will advance to finals.
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Campbellsville University
Five Campbellsville University professors recently toured and performed in Korea on an 11-day tour that included 20 performances at universities, churches, high schools, and city venues in and around Busan, South Korea.
Campbellsville Business & Professional Women's Club recently named its new officers.
They are Renay England, vice president of membership; Fran Deener, secretary; Marilyn Neumann, president; Karen Harden, vice president of social media; and Bethany Shively, treasurer.
The club meets the second Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at Creek Side Restaurant. All working or retired women are invited to attend.
Brianna Burden was the guest speaker for August's meeting of the Campbellsville Business & Professional Women's Club.
Burden is the owner of Awaken Boutique in Campbellsville. She shared practical ways to freshen up the fall wardrobe.
This year's annual Green River Lakeshore cleanup is Saturday, Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Those who would like to participate in the trash pickup should come to the Smith Ridge Boat Ramp, State Park Pavilion, Site One Boat Ramp or the Holmes Bend Boat Ramp.
Lunch will be served and prizes given away at 12:30 p.m. at the Green River Lake State Park picnic shelter at the state park.
Volunteer boat drivers are needed to man boats for the event. Drivers are also needed for the fishing with a veteran event on Saturday, Oct. 4.
Campbellsville University's Theater Department will host auditions for the musical, "Dolly Parton's 9 to 5!" on Monday, Aug. 25, and Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 6:30 p.m. at CU's Russ Mobley Theater.
The musical is based on a movie of the same name, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. The plot involves three women - an overworked office manager, a jilted wife and an objectified secretary - who conspire to depose their smarmy boss and begin making woman-friendly changes in the workplace.
Chrissy Warren and Shawn Canada of Campbellsville announce their engagement.
Warren is the daughter of Tony Bright and Pamela Bright of Campbellsville. She is the granddaughter of Marjorie Hunt of Campbellsville.
Warren is a 2013 graduate of Campbellsville University with a Bachelor of Science degree in education.
She is employed at Wurth Oral, Facial & Cosmetic Surgery PLC in Campbellsville.
Canada is the son of Glen and Carole Canada of Campbellsville.
Campbellsville resident Melvin Doug Martin was recently inducted into the National Association of Conservation Districts Southeast Region Hall of Fame.
The award was presented at the NACD Southeast Region annual meeting in Louisville last month.
Presenting the award were Earl Garber of Louisiana, NACD president, and Dan Ellison of Mayfield, Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts president.
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As our servicemen and women return home we will build on our previous success helping Veterans get an education to enhance their lives both personally and professionally. Manhattanville College is committed to helping Veterans for their service to our great nation by offering exclusive scholarships and benefits to be used in conjunction with VA Education Benefits. At Manhattanville College, Veterans will attain a first class education at little to no cost.
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VMware earnings: A solid quarter
Summary: Company gets boost from momentum in virtualization, reports a 37 percent jump in revenue in the fourth quarter.
As virtualization and cloud computing trends continue to see growth, VMWare has also seen growth.
For its fourth quarter, VMware reported net income of US$198 million, or 46 cents per share, up from 31 cents in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue was US$836 million, a 37 percent increase. Wall Street had been expecting earnings of 44 cents per share on revenue of US$803.8 million. (Statement)
For its fiscal year, the company reported net income of US$639 million, or US$1.51 per share, a 51 percent jump from the US$1 per share reported for fiscal 2009. Revenue was US$2.9 billion, up 41 percent from the previous year. Wall Street had been expecting earnings of US$1.49 on revenue of US$2.82 billion for the year.
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text: I was casting about for images that seemed compelling enough to create a post around and started to see a few that were resonating, when I realized they were all the work of the same stylist: Emma O'Meara. Here's the thing: I wouldn't typically do a post that focuses on a stylist, because honestly I'm usually very turned off by what I see stylists do. And that's the crux of the matter–I believe that good styling should be invisible, unseen, unnoticeable; like good acting from a talented actor, you don't see him plying his craft. And so much of what I see in home decor images that have been styled sticks out as styling–the odd pair of high heels in the kitchen, bedclothes disarranged in exactly the same way on every bed in every bedroom shot ever, washi tape everywhere… you know what I'm talking about. It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine. So when I saw these images and really liked them all and then found out they've all been styled by the same person I was very pleasantly surprised. BTW, and not for nothing, they were all photographed by Nikole Ramsay; these two make a great team.


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The Carol Ann's Carousel was named to honor the life and philanthropy of Carol Ann Haile, according to the information page at mysmaleriverfrontpark.org, and is being funded by a $5 million donation from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
It will sit in a tree-lined plaza amongst a two-story staircase, water cascade and a series of water curtains. The plaza's lower level will hold a conference center and offices, which will open up to Mehring Way and overlook the lower area of the park. The riverfront carousel is slated to open May 2015.
There will be 44 animals and characters featured on the carousel's platform, and community engagement sessions are currently being hosted in order to gather as many ideas as possible. The public is invited to share their ideas until June 9, when later the park design team will decide on the final designs based on the city's suggestions.
Carousel Works of Mansfield, Ohio, the world's largest wooden carousel manufacturer, will hand carve and paint each animal and character chosen. Ideas are also being gathered for several mural scenes to be painted on the carousel. Jonathan Queen, a local artist, will paint based on what citizens deem what makes Cincinnati unique — its parks, traditions, landmarks.
This riverfront icon will offer a standard two-minute ride and operate year-round.
It was sad news to hear that Thom Shaw, a well-known local printmaker and artist, passed away July 6 from complications due to diabetes. Unfortunately, I heard the news too late to write something in time for the memorial service that took place July 17.
On Saturday afternoon, I attended my first "Met Opera: Live in HD" transmission at the Regal Cinema in Deerfield Township — John Adams' Doctor Atomic.
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips, says, "Secrets can be good and bad." But there's one less secret today, now that he's announced the company's 17th season, eight productions, kicking off in July.
If you're looking for a ride in the time machine this weekend, I recommend that you try to score a ticket for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). The 1962 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner satirizes the corporate world of the early 1960s, and there are some echoes that sound pretty funny 56 years later.
Even as the Showboat Majestic opens another show this summer (The Art of Murder by Joe DiPietro kicks off tonight and continues through Aug. 28), it's time to announce the 'boat's 90th season in 2012, featuring an all-American slate of musicals and comedies to please patrons aboard America's last showboat, a National Historic Landmark. Here's the 2012 season:
Taft Museum of Art has named its new director/CEO to replace Eric Lee, who left in the spring to head the Kimbal Art Museum in Fort Worth. She is Deborah Emont Scott, recently chief curator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and before that the museum's Sanders Sosland curator of 20th Century. She becomes the sixth director in the Taft's 77-year-history.
The Cincinnati literary scene suffered a loss last summer when Brock Clarke moved to Portland, Maine, to take a job teaching creative writing at Bowdoin College. Through his work as a writer (via two short-story collections and three novels, including 2007's well-received An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England) and educator (he taught creative writing at UC where he brought in such guest speakers/authors as Chris Bachelder, Sam Lipsyte, Heidi Julavits and Jonathan Lethem), Clarke was a one-man literary juggernaut who produced, nurtured and promoted the written word with unwavering commitment, creativity and good taste.
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Producing Artistic Director Ed Stern today announced that he will leave the esteemed regional theater after two more seasons, following the 2011-12 season, his 20th. Ed's tenure at the Playhouse predates CityBeat's coming into existence: He began in 1992, two years before CityBeat began publishing. I had the pleasure of writing about the recovery of the theater under Stern for EveryBody's News and then for CityBeat; the Playhouse was in desperate financial straits when Stern and Executive Director Buzz Ward took over — a $1.25 million accumulated deficit.
Over the weekend, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati announced its 2009-10 season, and it's full of works you've never heard of but will be glad that D. Lynn Meyers has picked. ETC generally offers premieres of works that have been presented elsewhere, but not locally, and she's kicking off the season with a powerful piece, Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations (Sept. 2-20).


text: Interview: King Vows to 'Pull out the Real Truth' About Pigford Print article Send a Tip by Lee Stranahan 28 Apr 2013 post a comment More: Pigford Iowa Republican Representative Steve King has been sounding the alarm about fraud in the Pigford black farmers' settlement for close to a decade and has been ruthlessly attacked by settlement advocates as well as nearly every media outlet that covered the story. When the April 26h edition of the New York Times broke a front-page story about fraud in the settlements that also revealed new details about the direct involvement of President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, it was a major development in the multi-billion dollar scandal and signaled the beginning of a new era of investigation into Pigford. Breitbart News spoke exclusively with the tenacious congressman who also strongly hinted that he would call for hearings into Pigford and the other politically motivated farmers' settlements. Breitbart News: Congressman King, you've been an outspoken critic of the Pigford and the other, related farmers' settlements. What was your take on the New York Times report? Rep. King: Well, I'm going to say first that Andrew Breitbart was vindicated and I feel vindicated. I had some applications that were put into my hands as far back as 2002 or 2003--applications that were fraudulent and had been used for the Pigford settlement. Andrew Breitbart picked up evidence like that and drove it through the media, and of course he was excoriated for it. I think he lost some of his credibility for a short period of time, even with places like Fox News. I know that that bothered him that his credibility would be challenged. The New York Times article makes it clear that we were right all along. When you come out and speak truth sometimes you'll get a lot of arrows fired into your back but now it's time to take some action and follow through and start to shut down the fraud that is Pigford. Breitbart News: What sort of action? Rep. King: Well, I'm considering a number of different things. I chair the sub-committee that has oversight over the USDA, so there's one vehicle to take a serious look at the activities of the USDA in regards to these settlements and perhaps to put the brakes on it. I want to be sure that I'm working with the chair of the Agriculture Committee and the chair of the Judiciary Committee because their cooperation is essential to the success of any kind of congressional inquiry. A number of tools are available. One of them is congressional hearings. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over Eric Holder and the Justice Department and should have oversight into the management of the Judgment Fund; oversight but not direct management of it. The Ag Committee of course has jurisdiction over my sub-committee and over the USDA. We're very well positioned and hopefully in working in cooperation with the two respective chairs, we could start to pull out the real truth about the Pigford and the three other farmers settlement cases. Breitbart News: You mentioned the Judgment Fund, which is something the New York Times story highlighted--that the Obama administration appeared to have side-stepped Congress and used this fund for billions of dollars that went to these farmers' settlements. I think a lot of people aren't even aware of what the Judgment Fund is or how it functions. Is the Obama administration's use of this fund a concern for you? Rep. King: Well, the Judgment Fund is essentially a pool of money that nobody has oversight over except the Justice Department and presumably the Executive Branch. An example would be BP's oil spill in the Gulf. They settled with the Justice Department--that money gets rolled into the Judgment fund and then the Executive Branch and Eric Holder, they do what they will with that money. There's no congressional oversight, so that's sidestepping Congress. Breitbart News: You have no intention of dropping the farmer settlement issue? Rep. King: No, I have no intention of dropping it. I've been working on this issue for years and the New York Times article answers those who have been claiming that my criticisms were politically motivated. Now we have voices on both ends of the political spectrum who have recognized how corrupt and fraudulent these farmer settlements are; they appear to me to be a cynical effort on the part of the administration just to hand out taxpayer dollars in order to curry favor with certain groups of people. The Obama administration believes that Republicans are afraid to step up and make an issue because their first defense is to call us racists. Of course quite a lot of Republicans who are afraid of being called racist. It's not something that I enjoy, either, but it's something that I experience almost every day. Breitbart News: You came under heavy attacks and were called a racist by many in the media in 2010 for using the word 'urban' in regard to President Obama and Pigford claims but you were literally talking about people who don't live in rural areas, right? Rep. King: I was going clearly off of the Webster's definition of urban: somebody that lives in a city area and primarily in a high-population concentration area. It's a simple definition. It was a surprise to me that anybody could take that and twist it into something that said 'black.' But truthfully, Pigford is about writing checks from the federal government and handing them to black people. That is what it's about...I don't see that it changes the subject matter to declare the expression 'urban' to be somehow discriminatory. I think the Obama administration has long seen these settlements as a carrot and a stick operation to drive a wedge between people; on one hand to declare Republicans to be racist and on the other to get people to identify themselves as memberships in a race category or an ethnic category or gender category, give them a grievance and pay them off. It's a political endeavor on their part, and it strengthens them politically. Of course, they don't mind the country going deeper into debt for dishonest reasons, either. Breitbart News: Also, the New York Times article had proved you right. It actually mentioned the high-concentration of people filling out forms were urban people. Rep. King: Clearly it was. And we know that we don't have a lot of farmers in the urban areas but we have a lot of Pigford recipients in the urban areas. The was even a reference in the article about entire apartment buildings having claimants for Pigford, as if they organized the building rather than people that somehow were farmers. I think if we could get at the real data--that is, the list of the applicants--I think we'd find all kinds of things about the depths of this corruption.


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The encounters were impossible in DF groups because the type of players there lead to massively increased healing requirements in comparison to guild groups.
What exactly do you want us to do about this? Just make it impossible to fail? Do you even want to play a game? I just don't think anyone gets what you're trying to say here.