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http://dicknsonslumber.com launched a new company portal and redesign strategy with creative consulting and Joomla CMS technical support provided by CNP Integrations (http://www.cnpintegrations.com). This unique new portal presents a beautiful new design strategy by CNPs Fred Sarhadi and the many service resources available in a complex that has grown from over 100 years of doing business in the community of Blue Grass Iowa.

CNP is known for building robust community driven portals for small to medium sized businesses and their ongoing involvement with the Joomla development community. As part of their Community Building Success Program the CNP Integrations team has developed a proven project management process that helps site owners to get the best value out of their technology investment. Our goal is to not just build any web site, turn it on and let the owner have the keys but rather to nurture the potential of the web portal and vision of the project so that our clients can be as successful as possible, says Christopher Nielsen, CEO and co-founder of CNP Integrations.

The new Dick n- Sons Lumber site features a new Brand identity, logo and content strategy. The web site was built using the latest Joomla 3.x release and has beautiful graphical elements interwoven into a Rocket Theme template framework. This new Joomla portal allows users to take advantage of the latest features for viewing the content in a mobile ready responsive design. Joomla is by many the best CMS and one of the most powerful and globally popular content management systems in the world. Users from all walks of life and businesses or organizations from nearly every industry or market niche from small to enterprise level use this open source software. Since Joomla has rich features and well over 10,000 extensions it is ideal for delivering web based solutions for small business. "They listen to your ideas, offer their own expertise, and made suggestions that I had never thought of," says Lola Van De Walle, Owner and General Manager of Dick n Sons Lumber.

To see a full client testimonial and more information about the project, visit: http://www.cnpintegrations.com/joomla-development-portfolio/dick-n-sons-lumber .

CNP Integrations new Community Building Success Program includes not only community outreach like event sponsorships and site marketing and promotion support to clients but offers extensive Joomla CMS centric consulting services which address the common challenges site builders face when building online communities. The success program takes participants on an expedition through important questions and helps them discover the best ways to define clear goals and a comprehensive strategy for community driven sites. We want to be a team player not only in helping to grow the volunteer community that builds the Joomla CMS software but to also empower people that use Joomla for building better online communities. We provide a road map of proven processes and a support team that allows our clients to become more effective with Joomla. We take our customers from start to finish with a close eye on maximizing results. Everybody wins! says Mr. Nielsen.

Details about this Joomla success program can be downloaded from the web site: http://www.cnpintegrations.com/communities/

CNP Integrations has built a world class technical support and consulting practice around delivering enterprise level Joomla CMS support for small to midsized businesses (SMBs), Governments agencies and non-profit organizations using the Joomla CMS. The CNP Integrations team publishes regular news, perspective and educational information on their blog: http://www.cnpintegrations.com/blog.

CNP Integrations is known for delivering world class support for Joomla CMS.

CNP Integrations has an engaged global team of technical and configuration experts and employs highly skilled programmers and project managers with the focus of providing the most responsive web application support services for the Joomla CMS and other compatible technologies. CNP Integrations is a business division of Creative Networks Protocol Inc., a Massachusetts based corporation. CNP Integrations offers premium technical support and hosting with a value building methodology and a proven process of project management success. CNP Integrations primarily provides services across the United States but has serviced customers globally in seven countries on three continents.

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Paula Deen has released three apology videos, explained herself on the "Today" show and her sons defended her, but companies keep parting ways with the celebrity chef following her racial slur controversy.

Check out a list of companies that have ended their partnerships with Paula Deen below.

1. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

On Wednesday, June 26, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it had ended its relationship with Deen, according to the associated press. The retail giant carries a variety of products that feature Deen's name in its 4,000 stores, including cookware.

"We will not place new orders beyond those already committed," a Wal-Mart spokesman told the wire service. "We will work with suppliers to address existing inventories and agreements."

2. Caesars Entertainment

Caesars Entertainment, the company that owns and operates several casinos including Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, announced on Wednesday that it will be stripping her name from four buffet restaurants. However, the company said the restaurant rebranding was a mutual decision with Deen.

3. Smithfield Foods

On June 24, Smithfield Foods announced they dropped Deen as the company's spokesperson. The company also sold Paula Deen-branded hams, in addition to her duties as a spokesperson.

In a statement the company said, "Smithfield condemns the use of offensive and discriminatory language and behavior of any kind. Therefore, we are terminating our partnership with Paula Deen. Smithfield is determined to be an ethical food industry leader and it is important that our values and those of our spokespeople are properly aligned."

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Will Paula Deen go the way of Michael Richards or Charlie Sheen?

One unleashed a bigoted tirade and is no longer a lovable, easily employable clown. The other carved a brand out of crazy - reported hotel N-word rant and all - but is back on TV earning millions.

Her Food Network shows gone, her endorsements crumbling, is Paula Deen - in a word - toast?

A week after Deen's admission of using racial slurs in the past surfaced in a discrimination lawsuit, pop culture watchers, experts in managing public relations nightmares and civil rights stalwarts who have tried to help other celebrities in her position see a long, bumpy road ahead.

They also see a week full of missteps and believe the queen of comfort food reacted too slowly to her latest controversy at a time when hours count. They say it could take years, if she can make it back at all to the earning power she has enjoyed.

"Paula Deen has, I would say, taken an irreparable hit because she had this appearance of being more or less a nice older woman who cooks food that's bad for you. That in her own way sort of made her lovable," said Janice Min, editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles.

"But this presents a whole other picture of, `Wow, maybe she's just an old racist white southern woman.' That image is hard to shake off for a large chunk of people," Min added.

So far, what could go wrong pretty much has, said Larry Kopp, president of The TASC Group, a communications firm for sports figures and celebrities with experience in high-profile, racially charged cases. His current clients include the family of black teen Trayvon Martin, whose shooter, George Zimmerman, is on trial for second-degree murder.

In celebrity terms, where do Deen's troubles land her in the crowded hierarchy of misbehavior?

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Hess AG: Press statement of the insolvency administrator

Dr Grub confirmed as insolvency administrator

Villingen-Schwenningen, 26th June, 2013 In the course of the insolvency proceedings of the company Hess AG Form + Licht, the meeting of creditors was held on 26th June, 2013, at Local Court of Villingen-Schwenningen. Stuttgart lawyer Dr Volker Grub was confirmed by a large majority in office as insolvency administrator by the well-attended and turbulent meeting with just under 50 creditors. The applications of Christoph Hess and six companies related to him to deselect Mr Dr Grub were rejected.

The creditors' committee, which was already installed by the court on 20th February, 2013, with Thomas Harbrecht (Euler Hermes Kreditversicherungs AG), Reiner Neumeister (Chief Authorised Representative and Managing Director of IG Metall Villingen-Schwenningen) and Frank Schulze (Ostschsische Sparkasse Dresden) was also elected.

Dr Grub identified liabilities relevant to the insolvency proceedings amounting to EUR 104,9 million. These include claims for damages from the shareholders on the occasion of going public on 25th October, 2012, with EUR 35,65 million and from the minority shareholder HPE Pro Institutional Fund B.V. Amsterdam with EUR 14,0 million. As determined by Dr Grub, the assets only amount to EUR 32,75 million resulting in an over-indebtedness of approx. EUR 72,1 million. Hence, one can only expect a quota of at most 16%. Provided, however, that the further processing continues favourably.

Dr Grub reported to the creditors' meeting that the balance sheets from the year 2007 onwards must be corrected due to false accounting. On the basis of the net income (earning after taxes) there is a need for correction so far in the amount of at least EUR 26,4 million for the years 2007 to 2012. These numbers were also confirmed by the auditing company Ebner Stolz Mnning Bachem. The net income for the financial year 2011 alone needs to be adjusted downwards by EUR 10,3 million.

The correction of balance sheets does not exclusively serve to correct the tax balance sheets and to reclaim paid taxes, but also serves as basis of liability with regard to the previous Management Board Christoph Hess and Peter Ziegler, supervisory board members and consultants when going public.

The continuation of book values of the former Management Board lead to a totally different result at the accounting date 30th April, 2013. Assets reached EUR 74,3 million while liabilities amount to EUR 33,6 million. The accounting so far even results in EUR 40,7 million equity capital. The significant differences arise from the claims for damages on the part of the shareholders with EUR 49,6 million, not considered liabilities of Hess AG for subsidiaries, associated companies and companies of the 'shadow world' with EUR 20,3 million as well as allowances for intangible assets and investments.

Meanwhile, Dr Grub is satisfied with the continuation of the company. The target figures are being reached. The income from the continuation of business operations covers the resulting expenses in full.

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How can you identify trustworthy themes and plugins? There are a few telltale signs. Here are some ways you can identify trustworthy themes and plugins so you can be rest assured the code is of good quality and, more importantly, safe.

WordPress plugin directory contains a rich and abundant collection of free themes and plugins. The great thing about the directory is that it is maintained and policed by a great team of contributors, including people like Ipstenu who is contributes directly to the WordPress core.

This maintenance is invaluable as they are very quick to act on reports for untrustworthy content. Abusive themes and plugins are promptly removed, and the majority are reviewed before the first iteration is published.

In the directory, look at download counts. Yes, there may be a new plugin which will obviously have a low download count but, generally, a plugin with more than 100,000 downloads is something you can trust more.

Additionally, any registered user can review a theme or plugin and rate it out of 5. Reviews are a great indication of how the plugin performs on people's sites. Reviews may also be useful to double check on specific features, or possible conflicts with other themes and/or plugins running on your site.

Read reviews that are rated 1/5. Reviewers generally rate something 1 out of 5 if a plugin is genuinely of low quality or doesn't work, but sometimes a user can give something a low rating because it doesn't work for themonly, not knowing that some other conflict may be happening. In addition, WordPress mods do check on reviews to overlook their substance.

Each theme and plugin hosted at the directory has its own support area. Take a quick look inside to see if there are a lot of issues and, if so, how much they could affect your own installation.

Also look at the proportion of threads labeled [resolved]as this shows the author's own activity within the area and if evidence that support is offered and potential bug fixes are being seen to.

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