| Dynastrosi Labs hires recent WKU graduate
Ian Rice, a December Western Kentucky University graduate, was recently hired as a design engineer at Dynastrosi Laboratories in Bowling Green.Rice graduated with a degree in physics and will be responsible for developing conceptual designs and proposals for clients. He will be heavily engaged in additional research and design work for the company.Dynastrosi Laboratories is a research and development company providing engineering and design services for the wind energy, motorsports and aerospace industries.Nottmeier becomes principal broker Alex Nottmeier has been promoted to principal broker of Neal Turner Realty.Nottmeier has been a commercial real estate agent with Neal Turner Realty for more than 11 years, serving sellers, buyers, tenants and landlords with their commercial and industrial real estate needs throughout southcentral Kentucky.Nottmeier is one of only seven individuals in Kentucky to earn both his Certified Commercial Investment Member and Society of Industrial and Office Realtors designations and the only one in Kentucky with both designations outside Lexington or Louisville markets.Neal Turner Realty, founded more than 20 years ago, is a boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm in Bowling Green.Embry becomes KOEMA presidentDr.
Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment.
David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss roommate apparently arrived at the apartment at 1218 S. Main St. about 2 a.m. and found the victim on the floor in the kitchen area of the apartment, according to a press release. The roommate called police. The death is being investigated as suspicious, said Moscow Police Department Assistant Chief David Duke. The apparent cause of death is a single gunshot wound to the head. No gun was found in the apartment, Duke said. .
Scientology writes; Gawker rises
"If Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch was an 8 on the scale of scary, this is a 10," Nick Denton wrote on his media and gossip Web site Gawker.com on Jan. 15, when he posted an internal Church of Scientology video in which Cruise rhapsodizes about his religion. The page has been viewed over 2.3 million times, a record for Gawker. At Scientology's request, YouTube and other sites took down the copyrighted video, but Gawker refused, instead posting and mocking the reproachful letter sent by a Los Angeles lawyer representing the church. As for whether Gawker will be hauled into court, Karin Pouw, a spokeswoman for the Scientologists, issued a statement that further action had not been "contemplated, let alone decided." Equating the lawyer's letter with a threat of a lawsuit amounts to "unsubstantiated rumors" by "those wishing to create further controversy and media attention," she wrote.
My Kafkaesque town hall battle
There is a line in that grim but absorbing movie The Lives of Others, about the East German police state, which reminds me about the altercation I have just had over my council tax. In the film, the Stasi interrogator, instructing a class of students, explains how to tell the difference between a guilty and an innocent suspect: "An innocent prisoner will become more angry by the hour due to the injustice suffered," he says. "He will shout and rage. A guilty prisoner becomes more calm and quiet. Or he cries." I am not quite sure what this says about me, because, at the hands of my anonymous town hall interrogators, I shouted and I raged, but I also came close to weeping, so perhaps they succeeded, finally, in convincing me that I was not as innocent as I pretended. The Stasi, after all, suspected that every citizen of the GDR was more or less guilty of subversive behaviour.
Judicial Sales
That Portion of Ground BEARING MUNICIPAL NO. 4659 GAWAIN DRIVE, city of New Orleans, in the matter entitled: INDYMAC BANK F.S.B. VS LENA M. SMITH Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans No. 2007-13339 By virtue of a WRIT OF seizure and sale to me directed by the Honorable The Civil District Court of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will proceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the City on January 31, 2008 at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described property to wit: LOT 8, SQUARE 5, THIRD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT CASTLE MANOR SUBDIVISION MUNICIPAL NO. 4659 GAWAIN DRIVE ACQUIRED MI 777674 Writ Amount: $92,591.69 Seized in the above suit, TERMS CASH.
Living your bucket list
If you're the kind of person who would list among his or her paramount life goals, "Read a story about one's important life goals," congratulations. You're doing it now. But maybe you're got other things on your mind. You want to play the guitar, or dream of throwing out the first pitch. You yearn to shake the damn truth out of Tom Cruise. These are life's ultimate to-do lists, lists that transcend the clutter on your office desk and give meaning to your existence. One popular Web site, 43Things.com, lets users post their own lists, with items both frank and fanciful, such as: Donate blood. Kiss in the rain. Go to Italy. Continuing with the recently opened film, "The Bucket List," in which two terminally ill old-timers (played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) set out to achieve their own, such lists have taken on added urgency, one that's all the rage.
Gambling deal foes bicker over state's take
Depending on whom you ask, the four gambling deals up for a vote in the Feb. 5 election will generate more than $400 million a year or create a net loss of $60 million for the state.Supporters of the gambling agreements struck by four Southern California tribes, including the Pechanga band near Temecula, have aired TV commercials saying their deals would generate more than $9 billion for the state. The tribes hoping to expand their casinos say that money could help the state close the multibillion-dollar budget gap. One of their TV ads features Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger saying the agreements would mean "billions and billions of dollars over the next two decades."In a study released Monday, the tribes increased their estimate to $16 billion over the 22-year life span of the agreements by adding a few extras, such as additional tax revenues and revenue-sharing payments for poor tribes with no casinos."We've been trying to be very conservative with our numbers," said Roger Salazar, a spokesman for a coalition of tribes supporting the agreements.
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