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At Oktoberfest this people fidgeting in line to use the facilities can pass the time readinbg marketing messages from30 port-o-john sponsors. At last year'x Oktoberfest, the record crowd of 35,000 partygoers caughy organizers — who hadn't ordered enough portablde toilets — with their pantx down. Crowds spilled into the museum'ss corridors waiting for relief duringthe three-day festival, and work crews had to be callef in to empty the receptacles in So this year, Oktoberfest Chairman Rip Hale ordered an additional 30 portable toilets and sold $100 individuap sponsorships to help pay for the extra load.
The who call themselves the "port-o-john 30," are memberzs of the museum's associate board and people who appreciat the art institutebut don't take themselvees too seriously, Hale said. What does a sponsorship provide? Each toileyt will display an inscriptionthat "If it weren't for (sponsor's name) sponsoring this you'd be in a world of hurt right now. Be sure to say thanks next time you see Hale said the sponsorships are a way of spoofiny themselves afterlast year's toilet troubles, but they also raised an additionao $3,000 for the museum. Oktoberfest, slated for Oct.
4-6 this is one of two annualk fund raisers for themuseujm — the Art Ball is the other. The festivalo features German food, dancing, music (headlined this year by localo bandBuck Naked), and plenty of brew. The evenft raises $300,000 annually. Bottoms up! The historix Engineers Club of Dayton, founded in 1914 by area pioneere Col. Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering, is going On Aug. 10, more than 80 club members gathererd with the Nutter family for the grand openingt of the Nutter CyberSafari Pub, a meetin room/bar on the first floor of the Monument Avenue building that featuresw such high-tech amenities as Internetf access, smart boards and teleconferencing.
The site of the Nutterr Pub originally was used as a machine shopfor prototypes. Club officiald hope the pub will attract more youthful membersx and help boost itsmembership roll, whichj is around 680, including many members older than age 70. At its peak in the Engineer's Club had 837 a number that gradually declined during theGreaft Depression. The Nutter Pub is the latest cog inthe club'ws plans to become more hip. In recent the club established a partnershipwith Dayton'w i-Zone initiative, a networkingy and consulting group whose meetings attract many of the area's technology-minded people.
To gain admittance to the Nutter Pub, patrons must be club membersw or sponsored bya member. Zoe Nutter, wife of the late Ervibn J. Nutter, donated the money to build the pub and donated several stuffed gazelle heads she and her husband hunted duringg anAfrican safari. Historic artifacts also are on including thefirst pilot's license, issuede to Orville Wright. Cheaters, beware Ernst & Young LLP, one of the world'e largest professional services firms, recently announcer the findings of a groundbreaking studyy onworkplace fraud.
The study found one in five Americah workers are aware of frau in their workplace and 80 percent woulds be willing to turn in a colleague thought to be committint afraudulent act. However, only 43 percent actuallyh have. The new study, conducted by the researcjh firmIpsos Reid, surveyed 617 American workers by telephone June 3-6. According to the American workers estimate employers lose 20 percent of everyy dollar earned to some type ofworkplacr fraud. When asked which specifif acts employees wereaware of, 37 perceny reported "theft of office items.
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