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Until, that is, an acquaintance tipped her off to a startling rumor: The Magic Kingdom was sending obscene subliminal messages through some of its animated family films, including "Aladdin," in which the handsome young title character supposedly murmurs, sotto voce, "All good teenagers take off your clothes."
"I felt as if I had entrusted my kids to pedophiles," says the Carthage, N.Y., homemaker, who promptly threw the videos into the garbage. "It's like a toddler introduction to porn."
By now, just about everyone had heard the rumors that so shocked Mrs. Runge. Indeed, Disney catapulted into the headlines a few weeks ago on reports that there are subliminal sexual messages in three popular Disney videos: "The Lion King" and "The Little Mermaid," as well as "Aladdin." The charges were reported around the world: TV news shows broadcast the offending snippets in slow motion, among them a scene from "The Lion King" in which dust supposedly spells out the word "sex."
Disney denies inserting any subliminal messages. And the three allegedly obscene sequences are hardly crystal clear; even using the pause button on a VCR, viewers may debate whether they exist. Yet they have quickly become the stuff of suburban myth, like the "Paul is dead" rumor from the heyday of the Beatles or the persistent allegations that Procter & Gamble Co.'s moon-and-stars logo symbolizes devil worship.
As the rumors spread, though, so did a common refrain: Where does this stuff come from? In the case of "Aladdin," the allegation crisscrossed the country, traveling mostly through conservative Christian circles and helped by, among others, Mrs. Runge; a high-school biology class in Owensboro, Ky.; an Iowa college student; and a traveling troupe of evangelical actors. It was passed on by some people who didn't believe it, by others who thought it was a joke, and by a Christian magazine that later -- and apparently to no effect -- retracted its story. At least two waves of the rumor swept the country, from very different starting points.
Most people probably first heard about the allegations in early September, after the Associated Press ran a story saying a Christian group had identified the three subliminally smutty incidents. The articles described the "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" scenes as well as one in "The Little Mermaid" in which it said an avuncular bishop becomes noticeably aroused while presiding over a wedding ceremony.
Disney quickly fired back. "If somebody is seeing something, that's their perception. There's nothing there," says Rick Rhoades, a Disney spokesman. Aladdin's line is "Scat, good tiger, take off and go," Disney says. The company maintains that Simba's dust is just that, dust. And Tom Sito, the animator who drew the Little Mermaid's purportedly aroused minister, says, "If I wanted to put Satanic messages in a movie, you would see it. This is silly."
The Associated Press, as it turns out, didn't ferret out the story itself. It picked up the item from the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. The reporter on that story, Jim Stratton, himself stumbled on the allegations inadvertently. On a slow day at the end of August, Mr. Stratton, who at the time covered health and medicine for the paper, was casually flipping through a copy of Communique, a biweekly newsletter published by the American Life League, an antiabortion group based in Stafford, Va. He was struck by an article warning parents about a scene from "The Lion King" in which Simba, the cuddly lion star, stirs up a cloud of dust. "Watch closely as the cloud floats off the screen," the newsletter instructed, "and you can see the letters 'S-E-X.'"
Bemused, Mr. Stratton called the league, where a spokeswoman told him about the illicit messages in "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid." He decided to see for himself and gathered a dozen or so reporters around a newsroom TV to view "The Lion King" scene. They weren't convinced. "We didn't make a final decision either way on what exactly people were seeing," he says. Still, he decided to write a breezy tongue-in-cheek article about all three incidents for his paper. "We handled it lightly," he says.
Mr. Stratton's source for the story, the American Life League, meanwhile, hadn't actually found the alleged subliminal scenes itself, either. Its article was prompted by phone calls and letters from Christian groups. One of the callers had first read about the "Aladdin" allegation in the March issue of Movie Guide magazine, a Christian entertainment review based in Atlanta.
In a story titled "Aladdin Exposed," Movie Guide alleged that, in a scene on the balcony with love interest Princess Jasmine and her pet tiger, Aladdin murmurs the "take off your clothes" line. The article likened the line to allegedly demonic messages in 1970's rock songs that can only be heard when the albums are played backward. "Thousands were seduced into following the suggestions of these same messages," the magazine wrote. It urged "moral Americans" to write to Disney's chairman, Michael Eisner, asking him to remove the "manipulative subliminal messages."
Overlooked by the Movie Guide reader who repeated the allegations to the American Life League, though, was one important fact: Movie Guide later ran a retraction. After its piece ran, Movie Guide received a letter from Disney saying that the line was actually "Scat, good tiger, take off and go." Movie Guide's publisher, Ted Baehr, decided to clear up the matter once and for all, and took the video to a digital recording studio to decipher the questionable passage syllable by syllable. While the line is hard to understand, Movie Guide concluded, it "falls short of the charge of subliminal viewer manipulation," as the newsletter put in its July issue. Adds Mr. Baehr: "We messed up by not listening before."
Movie Guide, in any case, hadn't ferreted out the alleged subliminal message on its own, either. Mr. Baehr says the publication received a "flood of letters and calls complaining about 'Aladdin'" last December, January, and February.
One of the letter writers was Gloria Ekins, Christian education director of First Christian Church in Newton, Iowa. "I heard it from my daughter" last winter, Mrs. Ekins says. Her daughter Jenny, 17, heard it from her friend Jane Ford, a classmate at Newton Senior High School. Jane, in turn, first learned of the "Aladdin" message from her older brother, Matthew Ford, a college senior at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Mr. Ford would prove to be one of the central figures in the "Aladdin" saga: He heard the line on his own. The college student, who works part time at a local video store and a movie theater, is an electronic media major who hopes to go into the movie business. A self-confessed movie buff, he happened to be watching "Aladdin" one day last January when he stumbled across the alleged line. He had no moral or religious purpose in spreading the word about it. He simply thought it was funny.
"We watch movies to try to find mistakes all the time. Like, there's a car in the background of 'Maverick' when Mel Gibson is talking to the Indians. And if you look in the foreground of 'First Knight' when the horses are charging into battle, you see tracks from a car," he says.
"We were all sitting around the dorm back in January watching 'Aladdin' and I couldn't figure out something he was saying," Mr. Ford recalls. "I said, 'Rewind that,' and then we heard it." He adds, "My friends think it's funny because it's a Disney movie."
Months later, when the "Aladdin" line showed up on the national news, Mr. Ford never imagined he helped start it all. "When I saw the news," he says, "I just thought I wasn't the only one who noticed it."
In fact, almost a year earlier, in the spring of 1994, another teenager did notice the supposedly salacious line -- and he started a separate wave of the rumor that also ended up tearing through Christian circles. Jon Wood, now a 16-year-old sophomore at Green Mountain Senior High School in Lakewood, Colo., says he was watching his younger sister's new copy of the video when he "heard a whisper." He adds, "It was weird, I just felt like something was wrong. I heard something in the background and rewound it, and I just heard it."
Jon, who says he was "shocked" by the line, immediately called his 16-year-old brother, Jake, into the room to show him, too. A few weeks later, the boys showed it to their aunt, Chris Leach, of nearby Fort Collins, Colo., who had just bought the video for her own five children.
Mrs. Leach, whose husband is a pastor, passed the word on to a friend from religious circles, Glen Lee, who at the time was the youth pastor at Calvary Temple Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church in Owensboro, Ky. Mr. Lee in turn told a neighbor, Becky Tomes.
Mrs. Tomes, the mother of two toddlers, listened to the tape in June of 1994 with her husband, but "we didn't really hear it," she says. That didn't stop her, though, from spreading the rumor to another friend, Sheryl Arnold, who listened for herself and decided that, no doubt about it, it was indeed an obscene subliminal message. "We have surround-sound TV," she explains. "And when I listened to it, it was very clear."
Mrs. Arnold told a friend of hers from church, Eva Sturgeon, a Pentecostal singer at Calvary Temple. After church one day, Mrs. Sturgeon passed the word to her brother's girlfriend, Casey Ranson, now a junior at Apollo High School, a public school in Owensboro. Intrigued, Casey brought the "Aladdin" cassette into school and played it for her English and biology classes. "Nobody believed me when I told them, so I brought it to school and when I played it, they heard it," Casey says.
Casey herself told, among others, a classmate named Whitney Underhill, who says with some skepticism, "The more I listen to it, it doesn't sound like 'take off your clothes.' It drops off and is hard to understand." But Whitney nevertheless repeated the tale to a friend of hers, Johnny Henderson, who at the time was a senior at Owensboro High School. He told a schoolmate, Courtney Lindow, who in turn told another classmate, Lauren Hayden.
Lauren proved to be a providential choice. Her father, P.J. Hayden, is principal of a Catholic elementary school in Owensboro, St. Angela Merici elementary. Lauren told him the tale, and Mr. Hayden promptly spread the word among his school's parents, showing the "Aladdin" scene at parent-teacher meetings. "I know a lot of our parents are concerned about subliminal messages," Mr. Hayden says. "I tell them to monitor [Disney movies] like you would anything else. The Disney name is not as squeaky clean as we thought it was."
Among the parents he alerted was Lisa Bivens, who has three daughters. On a February afternoon, she took her children to a local church to see a performance by Radix, a traveling evangelical troupe of performers based in Lincoln, Neb., that uses song and dance to bring home biblical stories and tell morality tales. After the show, Mrs. Bivens mentioned the "Aladdin" episode to the troupe's leader, 30-year-old Doug Barry.
In May, Mr. Barry and Radix traveled to tiny Carthage, N.Y., 45 minutes from the Canadian border, for another performance. Among the audience members was Mrs. Runge, the mother of eight. They spoke together later at a brunch, and as talk turned to the dangers of sex and violence in the media, he repeated the "Aladdin" tale, throwing in another allegation he had heard from a teenager who wrote to him, about the supposed "S-E-X" in "The Lion King."
Mrs. Runge was furious -- and determined to do something about it. Over the summer, she began calling Christian organizations and conservative groups, from Pat Robertson to Phyllis Schafly. She hit pay dirt when she reached the American Life League, which politely thanked her for passing on the "Aladdin" allegation -- it had already heard that one from Movie Guide's readers -- but which promptly published the article about "The Lion King" that led to the Associated Press story that started the avalanche of unwanted publicity for Disney.
No matter that Mrs. Runge wasn't even sure initially that all the allegations were true. "I really couldn't see 'The Lion King' one myself," she admits, "until my teenagers traced it for me on the screen." No matter that her source, Mr. Barry of Radix, now says he isn't convinced himself about all the allegations. "I'm not sure about 'The Little Mermaid,'" he says. Nor does it concern Mrs. Runge that Movie Guide, after spreading the "Aladdin" rumor, has since retracted its story.
"It may be Disney," Mrs. Runge explains. "But it still smells 'pervert' to me."


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Because of the nature of products and services provided as part of hospitality, both social and commercial hosts, share a responsibility in protecting the health, safety, and well being of guests. This is especially true regarding the sale and/or service of beverages containing alcohol.
Both the hospitality industry and society at large, through the legal sale and use of beverages containing alcohol, recognize the role of social drinking and recognize the value that appropriate use of these beverages has in hospitality settings.
We, as hosts, both commercial and social, recognize the importance of responsible hospitality practices and recognize the right of people to choose to drink or to abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages. It is for this reason that we have adopted a sense of responsibility in how we serve our guests. By acknowledging the role of moderation, we recognize the distinction between the appropriate and inappropriate use of beverages containing alcohol.
As members of our community, we support the efforts of community human service agencies that provide a broad range of alcohol related services.
Therefore, we agree to adopt the following responsible hospitality practices, which promote a healthy and safe environment for the benefit of all:
1. Encourage the creation of an atmosphere that promotes group social interaction and provide activities other than drinking.
2. Ensure that servers are aware of responsible beverage service practices.
3. Provide proper supervision and maintain control over the hospitality environment and encourage responsible drinking decisions by all guests.
4. When possible, provide foods that slow the rate of intoxication wherever alcoholic beverages are sold or served.
5. Provide low-alcohol and nonalcoholic beverages whenever alcoholic beverages are sold or served.
6. Increase awareness of the risks involved with the consumption of beverages containing alcohol in association with activities and situations that might result in harm, injury, or death - such as when driving, when pregnant, when underage, and when operating machinery.
7. Recognize the signs of, and discourage intoxication in all situations. Do not serve an intoxicated person.
8. Comply with all social and legal obligations for the appropriate service and consumption of alcoholic beverages, including not permitting service to or consumption by, those under the age of 21.

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In all the hustle and bustle of getting through the end of the fashion season, we've still got a few collections that we didn't get a chance to write about but we think you should see. The first, of course, is Hermes Spring 2013 - Hermes is essential viewing to any handbag lover, even if it's not your style or anywhere near your budget. Keeping up with the goings-on of the best of the best is always worth it, no matter what you're interested in.
Unlike recent season, Spring 2013 featured a good bit of exactly what we want to see from Hermes: bags, bags, bags, and more specifically, Birkins. The Birkin of the season is a giant weekender version with a woven front panel showcasing modern, colorblocked prints. What I loved the most, though, were the gorgeous leather backpacks, one of which we'll surely be seeing on Kanye West as soon as he can get his hands on one. I can't blame him at all.
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Studies for two Yamaha TENORI-ON(s)
Studies for two TENORI-ON(s) by Smith from Franck Smith on Vimeo.
A chap named Nick Ciontea has created a channel on Vimeo collecting odd videos folks have made with or regarding Moog products.
Artist "Smith" says:
This first test is a prepartory work to a series of solo pieces inspired by John Cage's experiments for prepared piano and Conlon Nancarrow's player piano studies.
Yes, things you don't normally expect to go together: Cage/Nancarrow, Moog, Tenori-On. And he successfully erases the Tenori-On's beautiful if predictable signature sound. This is what I imagine music boxes would sound like on Alpha Centauri. In other news: I can't afford this rig.
- 2 TENORI-ON(s)
- MI Audio Pollyanna Octave Synth
- Moog Low Pass Filter (MF-101)
- Moog Ring Modulator (MF-102)
- Moog Bass Murf (MF-105b)
- Jomox M-Resonator
- Rotary Ensemble (Boss RT-20)
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for LPF Resonance)
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for RM Frequency)
- Boss EV-5 for Rotary Ensemble speed
But, involved as that is, it's further evidence you can push sound in new ways. And if online videos do nothing else, they can lay the gauntlet down in terms of what you think possible - both by demonstrating the generic and the unusual.
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A ten-year experiment
by Jeff Foust
|Would people be interested in long-form articles and commentary about the space issues of the day?
The idea behind The Space Review is more than ten years old—closer to 20, in fact. Starting in the fall of 1993, I edited SpaceViews, originally the newsletter of the Boston chapter of the National Space Society, but something that took on a life of its own as the Internet, through email and, later, the web, offered global channels of distribution. It also allowed for longer articles and discussions about space issues of the day, no longer encumbered by the page counts of a print publication.
SpaceViews met its demise in 2000 during the boom-and-bust cycle of the dot.com era (a story too long, and possibly too boring, to go into detail here.) As far back as 2001 I was thinking of a new publication that would allow for the longer articles and commentary that seemed to be missing in the space news ecosphere of the time, and I even had a name in mind: The Space Review. But life, as it so often does, intervened, and the idea sat on the backburner for over a year.
The loss of Columbia, ten years ago February 1, brought the idea back to life. Now, more than ever, there was the need to discuss the big space issues of the day: what was the future of NASA, and of spaceflight in general? What should be doing instead, and why? These are issues not easily discussed in short news articles or blog posts.
I put together that initial article and the basic form of the web site in the course of a few days, and on the morning of February 11, 2003, published the site and sent out an email to a small group of people, letting them know about this new, highly experimental, endeavor.
|So is this experiment a success? That would imply the experiment is over, and that's not the case.
It's tempting to write something like, "And the rest, as they say, was history," but that hasn't been the case. The Space Review gradually developed a readership, particularly in the space community, and contributors followed. But the success this publication has enjoyed wasn't inevitable, but instead through lots of hard work (including hundreds of sleepless Sunday nights putting together each issue) and thoughtful contributions from people inside and outside the space industry, from the US and around the world. And there are many others to thank, far too many to list here.
It's gratifying to hear from industry insiders and others in the space community that they continue to find The Space Review informative and useful. Author and expert James Oberg—himself an occasional contributor to The Space Review—had this to say when I told him about the upcoming anniversary:
I'm grateful for Jeff's commemoration project providing the impetus for expressing views that should have been put into print long ago: the news reports and websites he runs are an absolutely unique, comprehensive, and dispassionately reliable chronicle of these revolutionary years of the space age, The fact that he is diligently at this task is an enormous load-relief to me and I'm sure many other space watchers, who can focus on specific issues, specific travels, specific event responses, knowing that Jeff "has their back" to maintain a log of events with commentaries, available whenever they need to get brought back up to date. Attaboy and molodets, Mr. Foust. May your tribe increase.
Just as gratifying, though, are emails from people, particularly students, who have stumbled across articles in Google searches or other means and found them useful for a paper, project, or just raising their awareness of or interest in topics covered here. After all, the space community can't just keep talking to itself.
So is this experiment a success? That would imply the experiment is over, and that's not the case: there are as many big issues regarding the future of spaceflight today as there were 10 years ago (see "Asking the big questions for the next ten years", The Space Review, this issue.) And there's plenty on my to-do list to improve The Space Review in the months and, hopefully, many years to come.
Fortunately, this experiment isn't a solo one, and I thank you for being a part of it as it continues into its second decade.


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American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe
FRI, Feb 22, 2013
6 pm
Join us for a free tour in American Sign Language of American Legends, without voice interpretation. The tour begins at 7 pm, with a free pre-tour reception from 6–7 pm.
American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe showcases the Whitney's deep holdings of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by the eighteen leading artists: Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Gaston Lachaise, Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. Organized as concentrated one-and two-artist presentations, each gallery will serve as an interdisciplinary, small-scale retrospective. Rotations of art and of artists will be made during the exhibition's yearlong duration.
Please note: we regret that complimentary tickets will no longer be available for ASL students. Museum staff/interpreters will not be able to sign student assignments.
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Sixteen guys have walked in Dan Marino's shoes.
By comparison, for the Miami Dolphins, it's been like trading in the ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" for sandals from Payless.
There is nothing truly special about Damon Huard, Jay Fiedler, Ray Lucas, Brian Griese, A.J. Feeley, Sage Rosenfels, Gus Frerotte, Joey Harrington, Dante Culpepper, Cleo Lemon, Trent Green, John Beck, Chad Pennington, Chad Henne, Tyler Thigpen and Matt Moore.
They are truly indistinguishable from each other. Only one (Fiedler in 2001) threw for 20 touchdown passes in a season. Marino (insert sigh for Dolphins fans) threw for 20-plus touchdowns 13 times, 30-plus touchdowns four...


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St. Augustine-Jacksonville Area Travel Guide
Drink up this St. Augustine tour
Did someone mention beer? Why, yes, it's the good folks at Bon Beer Voyage, a Boynton Beach-based specialty tour company for craft-beer enthusiasts. The company is now running an early booking special for its second St. Augustine Weekend Beer Safari, slated for Sept. 21-23 in the nation's oldest...
Casa Marina puts romance at heart of its operation
February is a romantic month, thanks to Valentine's Day. But, because it specializes in weddings, the Casa Marina Hotel in Jacksonville Beach focuses on romance year-round. Built in 1925, the Mediterranean-style oceanfront hotel offers couples a choice of pretty locations where they can say, "I...
Finding quiet in St. Augustine
I only make it to St. Augustine about twice a year and the trip is always framed by memories of chaperoning elementary-school field trips. Those days are a distant memory now, but the sound of children's voices, not always as whimsical as the ones in my memory, is still part of the soundtrack of...
It's almost time for the traditional holiday lights in St. Augustine
St. Augustine is lovely at night any time of the year, but the holiday season is always special. Starting Nov. 19, a tradition returns with the 18th annual edition of St. Augustine's famed Nights of Lights, in which the historic district of the nation's oldest city will be illuminated with more...
Nature, sunsets are the stars of new cruises in Amelia Island
There's plenty of pirate lore connected with Amelia Island, where the port at Fernandina Beach once was a safe harbor for buccaneer galleons. The pirates are gone, but the port is still a hub of activity. Amelia River Cruises offers daily narrated historic and wildlife sightseeing tours through...
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Shrimp will be the star at this Amelia Island fest
The notion of jumbo shrimp might not make much sense, as comedian George Carlin once pointed out, but the idea of a big shrimp festival still sounds pretty good. That will be the attraction later this month at Fernandina Beach, the quaint coastal town on Amelia Island, north of Jacksonville on...
Check out Amelia Island fun
There's still time to make a summer swing to Amelia Island, the historic spot on Florida's northeast Atlantic Coast known for its pirate lore, ghosts and quiet beaches. The folks at the Amelia Island Convention and Visitors Bureau have been kind enough to send along a list of activities and summer...
Check out budget options to explore Jacksonville
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Museum of pirate lore a nice fit in St. Augustine
In my younger days, I worked as a boat pilot at Walt Disney World, so it's impossible for me to look at any depiction of the high seas and not think of stormy nights navigating a launch on the open waters of some man-made lake. The sensation surfaced again last week on my road trip to the newly...


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kaelswanson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 5 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
We provide learnable lists of data to be sent to a user's email/facebook once a day. Similar to dictionary.com's word of the day but not limited to just words and provides feedback as to how well the user is learning via weekly quizzes.
Students, young professionals, people preparing for big exams i.e. SAT, GRE, MCAT, people trying to learn new language, expand vocabulary, programmers trying to learn new programming language, etc
I need the following two pages:
Landing page - this should be playful and have 3 boxes
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"Expand your vocabulary"
"Learn a foreign language"
"Daily math puzzle"
title: "Progress"
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"Relearn missed questions"
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"Share with friends on Facebook"
Also needs signup box with:
confirm password
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I envision having the name of site on top left, a message reading "Master A New Skill with Just 30 Seconds Per Day" on the top right. The body should have the mascot hovering next to the signup box. The footer (below)
I am looking for something very similar to this: http://99designs.com/web-design/con…ntries/374
The title from supplied images should be on the top left. The mascot from supplied images should appear in the page body.
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All other pages will follow a similar layout, it needs a header with the logo.png on the top left. Navigation to login/home on the top right.
A content area which allow for boxes of information to be put inside (refer to general.jpg). Ideally there should be one content box provided with rounded corners and drop shadows. A footer with links and text as shown in general.jpg.
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Announcement of the new campaign was made during a National Cotton Women's Committee (NCWC) rally at the 2002 Beltwide Cotton Conferences the Council sponsored in Atlanta. It came on the eve of the annual Atlanta Apparel Mart Convention.
Cotton Counts will focus on helping America's students and the general public better understand and appreciate the importance of agriculture, specifically cotton and the U.S. cotton industry's contributions to the nation's economy. Cotton Counts supplants "Grown and Made in the U.S.A. – It Matters" but will retain some of that campaign's elements.
NCWC volunteers will spearhead the Cotton Counts educational effort. The Cotton Foundation is providing support with a grant from Aventis CropScience North America. The grant will help offset the cost of developing and distributing educational materials and for NCWC members' communication skills training.
In making the announcement, Cotton Foundation President James F. "Jimmy" Dodson said, "U.S. cotton, which is part of the world's most efficient agricultural system, is a champion of the nation's economy and the environment. For example, the U.S. cotton industry provides more than 440,000 jobs, contributes a value-added retail impact of $120 billion to the U.S. economy and uses such environmentally sensitive technology as genetically engineered, insect-resistant plants."
The Robstown, Texas, producer said that such statistics, along with the exciting, field to fabric cotton story, are what the National Cotton Council believes need to be conveyed more aggressively – from the schoolhouse to the state fair.
"National Cotton Women's Committee members are partners in family operated businesses that grow, process and market cotton," Dodson said. "They have a vital stake in increasing the awareness of how cotton and agriculture touch their neighbors on a daily basis . . . through the clothes they wear, the furnishings they choose for their homes, the food they eat."
Al Luke, Aventis CropScience cotton business manager, said, "For several years now, the National Cotton Women's Committee has done a tremendous job in raising consumer awareness about U.S. cotton through the Grown and Made program. With more and more of our nation's citizens residing in urban centers and losing their ties to production agriculture, Aventis is very pleased to assist in increasing U.S. cotton's presence inside and outside the classroom."
The NCWC was created in 1987 and is comprised of hundreds of volunteers across the 17-state Cotton Belt. They and their officers all possess considerable educational campaign experience.
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The Hot at Fashion Week: Christian Louboutin Shoes
After a week of fashion shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, there are few trends that stand out, among them: pale tones and sexy Christian Louboutin Shoes. These open-toed booties from Nicole Miller's Spring 2011 collection are a good example of spring's pale palette. After four seasons of subdued shopping by luxury buyers, looks for spring were dominated by white, nude and other neutral colors, which gave the clothes on the runway a softer, lighter look. It was a real shift from recent shows, where designers had picked darker colors that seemed to reflect the gloomy mood of the economy. This trend even extended to the fingertips with a peachy-nude-putty-colored nail polish worn by models in the Marc Jacob show and a manicure of beige polish, with a thin coral arc applied by celebrity manicurist Jin Soon Choi at Prabal Gurung's runway show. Overall, many of the looks for spring were uncomplicated and versatile, which should help these clothes make the transition from the runway to the stores as retail buyers remain selective in their purchases. What was wild? The Christian Louboutin Shoes-both on and off the runway. (You have to see for yourself. Look at our slideshow.) It stands to reason. Consumers can only shop their closets for so long. Eventually, they have to start buying again, but they will look for pieces that will work with what they already own (hence the neutrals) and that will make a fresh new statement (cue the shoes.) Find big Christian Louboutin sale at www.uChristianLouboutin.com


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Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (NYSE:ITUB) gained 0.54% with the closing price of $13.00. The overall volume in the last trading session was 7.72 million shares.Company Growth Evolution:
ROI deals with the invested cash in the company and the return the investor realize on that money based on the net profit of the business. Investors who are keeping close eye on the stock of Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (NYSE:ITUB) established that the company was able to keep return on investment at – in the trailing twelve month while Reuters data showed that industry's average stands at 0.01 and sector's optimum level is 0.40.
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (ITUB) have shown a high EPS growth of 5.00% in the last 5 years and has earnings decline of -4.40% yoy. Analysts have a mean recommendation of 2.60 on this stock (A rating of less than 2 means buy, "hold" within the 3 range, "sell" within the 4 range, and "strong sell" within the 5 range). The stock appeared $14.53 above its 52-week highs and is up 0.62% for the last five trades. MA ended last trade at 13.00 a share and the price is up more than 30.69% so far this year. The company maintains price to book ratio of 2.13 vs. an industry average at 3.09. Its sales stood at 10.60% a year on average in the period of last five years. A P/B ratio of less than 1.0 can indicate that a stock is undervalued, while a ratio of greater than 1.0 may indicate that a stock is overvalued.
PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ:PACW) ended its day at 50.40 with the rising stream of 0.54% and its total traded volume was 1 million shares less than the average volume.
The average of this ratio is 0.01 for the industry and sector's best figure appears 0.40. PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ:PACW), at its latest closing price of $50.40, it has a price-to-book ratio of 1.33, compared to an industry average at 3.09. A lower P/B ratio could mean that the stock is undervalued. This ratio also gives some idea of whether you're paying too much for what would be left if the company went bankrupt immediately.
PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ:PACW), stock is trading $57.53 above the 52-week high and has displayed a high EPS growth of 16.10% in last 5 years. The 1 year EPS growth rate is 3.80%. Its share price has decline -0.22% in three months and is down -0.16% for the last five trades. The average analysts gave this company a mean recommendation of 2.20.


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Top 6 Cars for Senior Drivers
Few activities in modern American life are as ubiquitous as driving. Many people start driving as teens and continue to rely on an automobile for primary transportation as senior citizens. And the ranks of America's senior drivers are growing. The latest to join are the baby-boomers, a generation that, unlike many of their parents, grew up with one or two cars per household and a vast network of roads and highways on which to use them.
The role of the automobile in American life was established during the boomers' formative years and remains intact today. Driving is still the best way for many Americans to get to a grocery store or doctor's appointment, or travel to visit friends and family.
Fortunately, automobiles have never been better. The 40 million Americans aged 65 years or older have a broad range of vehicles that will suit the discerning tastes of a driver with decades of experience behind the wheel. Our top six picks are affordable, safe, comfortable and practical. Plus, they represent a variety of body styles to suit diverse needs.
2013 GMC Acadia
Our first pick is a crossover--not quite an SUV but offering the same elevated driving position. With space for either 7 or 8 passengers, the Acadia is available with a second-row bench or a pair of captain's chairs. The third-row bench can seat three or fold flat to accommodate more cargo.
Because of its unibody construction, the Acadia has a lower step-in height for easier accessibility than a truck-like SUV. And crossovers are typically more efficient; the GMC Acadia is rated at 17 mpg city and 24 mpg highway with front-wheel drive. All-wheel drive is available, too, and it can improve safety on wintry roads. Its fuel economy is 1 mpg lower in both city and highway driving.
The 2013 GMC Acadia starts at $34,875. The very well-equipped Acadia Denali, which bolsters driver and passenger safety with a front center airbag, is priced at $46,770.
2013 Hyundai Genesis
If space for five passengers is sufficient--or for drivers who just prefer the traditional, 4-door sedan shape--the Hyundai Genesis combines luxury, efficiency, technology and an excellent warranty. It comes nicely equipped with a 333-horsepower V6, leather seats and automatic climate control for $34,200. Add the $4,800 Premium package for amenities like navigation, a glass sunroof, a power rear sunshade and rain-sensing wipers.
Even without available high-tech options like a lane departure warning system, the Genesis packs a range of standard safety equipment. Eight airbags protect occupants. Ultrasonic parking sensors and a backup camera are also included.
In terms of cost of ownership, the Genesis is a good choice, too. Fuel economy is EPA-rated at 19 mpg city and 29 mpg highway. And being a Hyundai, this luxury sedan gets the automakers excellent 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty.
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Sometimes you can't beat a pickup. The quintessential American truck is perfect for hauling the occasional load or pulling a trailer. But unlike in the old days, today's trucks are as sophisticated as their people-hauling counterparts, offering comfort, safety and economy.
The RAM 1500 Crew Cab is a great example. Soft-touch materials and chrome accents give the interior an upscale look and feel. The RAM's large proportions provide ample space for five or six passengers. Along with standard stability control and brake assist, six standard airbags protect the RAM 1500's occupants.
Instead of a big V8 under the hood, the RAM 1500 gets the job done with a new, 305-hp 3.6-liter V6 and a new, 8-speed transmission to go along with it. The whole package means good full-size pickup fuel economy of 18 mpg city and 25 mpg highway. Of course, two traditional V8s are still available--the big Hemi engine making a whopping 395 hp.
With 2-wheel drive, a nicely equipped RAM 1500 SLT Crew Cab is priced at $33,520. A top-trim 4-door RAM 1500 Laramie Longhorn is just over $44,000.
2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid
The conventional Toyota Camry represents one of the best values among mid-size sedans, a category that's positively packed with tough competition. The fuel-sipping gasoline-electric Camry Hybrid adds excellent efficiency to the mix while sticking to sedan design inside and out. This means drivers can enjoy hybrid fuel economy without compromising on style or space.
Well, at least the Camry Hybrid matches its conventionally powered stablemate on passenger space. The hybrid's trunk is smaller by 2.3 cu-ft to accommodate its battery pack. But aside from that, the two cars are nearly identical.
The big difference is fuel economy. The Camry Hybrid is EPA rated at 43 mpg city and 39 mpg highway. That's a huge improvement over the 25/35-mpg rating of the 4-cylinder Camry or the 21/30-mpg rating for the Camry V6.
The Camry Hybrid still packs all the comfort and safety equipment typical of the model. Power folding side mirrors; keyless entry and push-button start; cruise control; a tilt-telescope steering wheel; and Bluetooth handsfree are all standard on the $25,990 Hybrid LE. It also includes safety equipment like stability control, brake assist and ten airbags.
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2013 Subaru Forester
Like the GMC Acadia, the Subaru Forester offers a ride height well suited to seniors. Sized between a typical sedan and an SUV, the Forester makes ingress and egress exceptionally easy. Passengers need not climb up nor bend way down to get in. The Forester is positioned such that most people can simply sit and swing their legs in.
Once inside, the Forester is accommodating, too. An upright seating position and dash puts all of the controls within easy reach. And its standard height-adjustable driver's and front passenger's seats and tilt-telescope wheel allow occupants to tailor their positions further.
Named an Insurance Instititue for Highway Safety (IIHS) Top Safety Pick, the Forester offers the normal array of airbags, but also includes all-wheel drive as standard equipment across the model lineup, from the base Forester 2.5X to the top-of-the-line 2.5XT Touring. All-wheel drive provides extra traction in bad weather and on dry roads, too, helping drivers to maintain control and avoid accidents. Other safety systems like stability control and brake assist are standard as well.
The Forester 2.5X is rated at 21 mpg city and 27 mpg highway. It starts at $21,295. The 2.5XT gets 19/24 mpg and is priced just under $30,000.
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2013 Honda Odyssey
Like the Forester, the Honda Odyssey minivan also offers excellent accessibility but in a considerably larger package. When it comes to easy entry and exit, minivans are ideal--not too high, not too low and with wide-opening doors. That goes for the front and also the second row, which is accessed through huge sliding doors on both sides of the vehicle.
On the mid-range Odyssey EX, the sliding doors are power operated, further improving ease of use. The EX-L model adds a power function for the tailgate, leaving only the driver's and front passenger's doors to be operated manually.
Thanks to its boxy shape, the Odyssey offers safe, comfortable and accessible accommodations for seven or eight passengers, depending on the configuration of the second row. All rows are protected by curtain airbags, part of a system that includes front- and side-impact airbags for driver and passenger, too. A backup camera is now standard across the Odyssey lineup.
Should you need to pack heavy for a long trip or bring an antique home from a flea market, nothing beats a minivan. Fold the third row for extra space, or drop both the second and third row for nearly 150 cu-ft of space.
The base 2013 Odyssey LX is priced at $28,575 and is EPA rated at 18 mpg city and 27 mpg highway. The top-trim Touring models improve on both city and highway economy numbers by 1 mpg each.
All six of our top picks for senior drivers combine a bit of what we've always expected in an automobile--convenient personal transportation--with the characteristics that we now take for granted. Cars were not always as safe, comfortable and reliable as they are today. And new technology is pushing efficiency, too, allowing us to go further on a gallon of gas. That's great, because anyone who's been around for a while knows fuel isn't getting any cheaper.


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This truly revolutionary line up consists of the RC-3 Loop Station, RC-30 Loop Station and finally the RC-300 Loop Station which are all available here at Dolphin Music.
The Boss RC-300 is the daddy of all Loop Stations. It features three dedicated stereo tracks with their own individual volume knobs and transport-control footswitches. The unit also houses a number of high quality professional effects, an Expression Pedal which can be assigned a variety of parameters, and a huge working area for creating the ultimate in live looping performances. Why take our word for it, thats why we have included the videos below which showcase the amazing capabilities of these pedals, and the sounds available at your fingertips or toes as the case may be...!!!
The Boss RC-30 is a twin pedal loop station with two synchronized stereo tracks and built-in looping effects. Each track can be individually controlled by its own dedicated onboard fader and track select buttons. You can plug a microphone or any instrument directly into the RC-30 as the unit has a built in XLR input operating at the usual 48v phantom power so the user can sing, rap and beat box at their leasure to create some amazing vocal loops.
The final unit in this range is the small but equally powerful Boss RC-3. Housed in a stomp box sized case - of which Boss users will be ultimately familiar with - the Boss RC-3 is a one track, amazingly powerful and fully equipped compact looping pedal. With up to three hours of onboard recording time, storage for a huge 99 loops, a "real drums" rhythm guide, and USB 2.0 compatibility.
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PARK CITY, UT (Dec. 9) - After 10 years as head coach of the U.S. Adaptive Cross Country Team, Jon Kreamelmeyer is assuming a new position as development coach with the goal of developing athletes to be future members of the Team.
Kreamelmeyer played a pivotal role in building a strong and consistent program with athletes winning Paralympic and World Championship medals over the past decade. He is excited to bring that same passion to helping new athletes move up the pipeline.
"It's something that just came about and for as long as I can remember, there's only been one cross country person," Kreamelmeyer said. "The focus of this is to do outreach that establishes and enhances adaptive cross country programs throughout the nation, and the ultimate goal is to create a development team for the U.S."
Kreamelmeyer's position will allow him to travel the country to enhance or completely build up development programs for disabled cross country, which will feed advanced athletes to national competition.
"It's been a struggle because we've never had the opportunity for someone to actually go out and do outreach to adaptive programs throughout the country. There's never been time to do that," Kreamelmeyer explained. "For the betterment of the program, I thought we probably ought to jump on it. Otherwise it would go away."
In the meantime, as Kreamelmeyer prepares for his new duties, the program is expected to name a new coach shortly.
"This is a great opportunity for our athletes to have someone with Jon's experience working in development," said USSA Adaptive Program Director Sandy Metzger. "He is great in working with athletes and will continue to have an enormous impact on our program."
"It's been the best experience and the best job I've ever had in coaching. The program has come a long way, and there's no doubt it has a ways to go, Kreamelmeyer said. "I would hope for a new coach who has experience, compassion, new ideas, energy, a big smile and someone who's ready to take on a program that has been very good."
One of the highlights of Kreamelmeyer's career was seeing Steve Cook (Salt Lake City) win two gold and a bronze at the 2006 Paralympics, a year after he won the overall World Cup title. According to Kreamelmeyer, whoever takes on the head coach position will have a very promising team to lead of new athletes into the 2010 Paralympics.
"Out of six categories, we only have athletes in one, which we were in second in the world last year," Kreamelmeyer said. "So, we have a good base, we just need athletes who will step in when the present team retires.
"It's going to be a building situation and the new coach and I are going to work hand-in-hand a lot."
The cross country season begins Jan. 3 with the ConocoPhillips U.S. Cross Country Championships in Anchorage.


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Advisers to Lululemon Athletica LULU, +2.42% founder Dennis "Chip" Wilson have been sounding out private-equity firms including Leonard Green & Partners to judge their interest in taking the maker of fashionable yoga gear private, people familiar with the situation said.
No deal is in the works, and people in the industry said a buyout would face significant hurdles given the premium that would be required atop the company's $6 billion market capitalization. But the moves do show that Wilson is actively exploring options as he seeks to exert more influence over how Lululemon is run.
Though he remains a director, Wilson relinquished his role as CEO in 2005 and stepped down as chairman in May. At the company's annual meeting in June, Wilson said he has grown increasingly unhappy about the strategic direction set by the board and cast his votes against the company's new chairman and another director.
"We have no comment on any transaction until Chip has made his decision and we are moving forward with it," said Jim Courtovich, a spokesman for Wilson. A spokesman for Lululemon declined to comment. Leonard Green didn't respond to a request for comment.
Wilson has been at odds with the board for some time. About six months ago, Lululemon had discussions with bankers about advising the company in the event Wilson decides to sell his 28% stake, people familiar with the situation said.
Buyouts led by founders who have moved on from their companies can be hard to orchestrate. An effort by the former chief executive of Best Buy to pull one off failed last year.
Lululemon's shares have lost about 30% of their value this year. Still, a buyout would require a private-equity firm to write a large equity check in addition to the debt it would use. Some firms are wary of joining with the outspoken Wilson, the people in the industry said. Late last year, the founder stirred up controversy when he suggested that problems with pilling and sheerness in the company's yoga pants were partly the fault of overweight customers.
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Product Review: FreshForce Citrus Juicer from Chef'n
I juice lemons and limes nearly every day; I use citrus juice constantly in everything from salad dressings to cocktails to cakes and cookies. So I am always on the lookout for good tips (like these from Emma, this morning) and tools for juicing more effectively. So when Chef'n sent along this new juicer model, I was excited to try it out!
Previously, my favorite juicer was this plastic contraption. It gets the job done very effectively, and it keeps the seeds out of the juice. But it's a pain to clean! At other times I've used an old-fashioned Jadeite juicer/reamer, a handheld wooden reamer, and a simple fork. The problems with these simple, relatively gadget-free methods include their tendency to splatter juice everywhere, and the seeds that always end up in the juice.
I had just been considering a handheld citrus juicer, like these juicers we covered recently. They are simple and very effective.
Chef'n's juicer is built like these bar staples, but theirs is much more solidly constructed than most of the other I've seen. It's made of heavy plastic and steel; this thing weighs a full pound. It uses a "dual-gear mechanism" to exert lots of force on the lemons and limes. Chef'n claims that it can squeeze out 20% more juice than "conventional hand-held juicers." I didn't test that claim specifically, but I do know that this juicer has been great for me. Here are the pros and cons:
• Works like a dream. Insert half a cut lemon or lime, upside down, and the juicer squeezes it into a dry shell of itself.
• It keeps the juice directed in a narrow stream into your bowl or cup; it doesn't splatter or get your hands sticky at all.
• The seeds usually stay out of the juice; sometimes they pop out when you open the juicer, though.
• It cleans up easily; I just throw it in the dishwasher.
• The major con is its size. I have had no problem juicing lemons and limes, but a grapefruit half would not fit in this juicer. I will stick to my reamer and Jadeite juicer when juicing grapefruit.
Overall, two thumbs up! We like many of Chef'n's tools, and this one definitely goes in the keep pile. It's effective, easy to use, and well-designed. It has quickly become my favorite juicer, bar none, and it's constantly in use in my kitchen. Yes, $20 is a bit steep for a citrus juicer, and if you juice citrus only occasionally, you might be better off with a simple reamer. But if you juice multiple lemons or limes every day, like I do, this might be a worthwhile tool for you.
• Find it: Chef'n FreshForce Citrus Juicer, $19.99 Amazon
Apartment Therapy Media makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.
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GRAHAM � Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson says he�s losing too many employees and the solution is simple.
Pay them.
Johnson has a proposal for doing exactly that. He wants to provide his employees with a pay raise in 2013-14 using available funds within his budget to keep more of them from leaving the department for financial reasons.
Since the county�s budget retreat on April 15, Johnson has met with County Manager Craig Honeycutt to develop a retention and staffing plan designed to decrease the office�s employee turnover and improve morale. Johnson had planned to present the plan to the commissioners in January but pulled the item off the agenda after the county suggested he wait until the budget season.
Johnson said Thursday he isn�t required by law to ask for the commissioners� approval on how he uses funds within his budget since he is an elected official, but he is presenting it to the commissioners as a courtesy. The retention and staffing plan doesn�t require the county to increase taxes because Johnson will be using money saved by not filling seven full-time positions and two-part time positions in his department.
Johnson said a 9- to 15-percent pay increase is needed for his department to narrow the salary gap with other law enforcement agencies including the Burlington Police Department.
Based on a report issued by the Alamance County Human Resources Department, the employee turnover rate for deputies is 8 percent, with the turnover rate for the detention staff at 10 percent. Johnson said his department continues to lose employees to other law enforcement agencies in the region, including the Guilford County Sheriff�s Office, Burlington Police Department and Chapel Hill Police Department, because other departments offer more competitive salaries.
Through April, the Sheriff�s Office lost three deputies and six detention officers in 2013 with 40 years of combined experience through turnover. In 2012, 11 deputies and 20 detention officers with 167 years of combined experience left for other jobs outside the department. Thirteen deputies and 12 detention officers with 144 years of combined experience left the department in 2011 through turnover.
Johnson said if his department continues to experience the same turnover, he would likely no longer accept state misdemeanants or U.S. Marshals Service inmates at the Alamance County jail and only house the county�s local inmate population. His staff would be stretched too thin to do otherwise.
Pointing to the report from the county�s human resources department, Johnson said it isn�t fair to only compare his department�s turnover rate with that of other sheriff�s departments because municipal law enforcement agencies should also be part of the discussion.
Turnover rates for deputies in other sheriff�s departments in the area include: Forsyth County at 9.8 percent; Orange County, 6 percent; Durham County, 14.6 percent; Davidson County, 4 percent; Caswell County, 5.7 percent; and Chatham County, 5.8 percent, according to the county study.
Guilford County Sheriff B.J. Barnes said that turnover in his department is lower among his deputy staff than his detention staff. In 2010, 26 employees left the Guilford County Sheriff�s Office, while 44 employees left the department in 2011 and 45 in 2012.
Barnes said about 12 former Alamance County Sheriff�s Office employees have come to work in his department over the past two to three years. The starting salary for deputies with the Guilford County Sheriff�s Office is $33,962, Barnes said.
Orange County Human Resources Director Nicole Clark said there hadn�t been any former Alamance County Sheriff�s Office employees hired with the Orange County Sheriff�s Office over the past year. The Orange County Sheriff�s Office provides $35,683 for starting deputy salaries.
Clark said Orange County provided its sheriff�s office employees with a 2-percent pay increase July 1, 2012 after providing the employees with up to a $1,000 bonus in 2010-11.
Alamance County Sheriff�s Office�s salary range for its deputies is between $30,660 and $49,053 with the average salary for deputies at $33,116. Detention officers with the Sheriff�s Office earn between $30,660 and $49,053, with the average salary at $31,275.
RANDY JONES, Johnson�s spokesman, said employee retention remains a problem because Alamance County has lost its competitive edge and can�t attract the best law enforcement personnel.
�It�s become a shrinking candidate pool,� Jones said. �We are getting really hit. I know we are losing to other agencies.�
Jones said he doesn�t understand why there was opposition to Johnson�s proposal earlier this year. Johnson said he believed he had support from at least four commissioners in January for his plan before he was asked to delay the request by Commissioner Chairman Tom Manning until budget time.
�I don�t know what they will do, but I need at least 9 percent or we are going to continue to lose people,� Johnson said. �We have the money we need at 9 percent and it�s not going to raise the budget a dime.�
Johnson said he doesn�t believe the U.S. Justice Department�s two-year investigation and current lawsuit against him over allegations he and his department discriminated against Latinos has anything to do with the recent turnover rate. The primary reason for his department�s turnover is because surrounding agencies pay higher salaries.
Johnson said the Burlington Police Department was in the same situation five years ago with retention issues due to pay and took action to curb the problem.
Burlington approved a 12-percent salary increase for the city�s police department on Nov. 28, 2008 to become effective Jan. 1, 2009 during a time when that department had retention issues.
Johnson said he didn�t expect to match Burlington police�s salaries but hoped to at least narrow the gap between the two departments.
The turnover limits deputies� ability to create rapport and build relationships with the community, said Jones. Some deputies leave after serving two or three years. Since Jan. 1, 2011, $634,796 has been spent to hire and train new deputies in Alamance County.
Johnson said he would attend the Alamance County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, which begins at 7 p.m., to address any questions the commissioners may have about his plan.
Honeycutt didn�t provide any details about the plan last week and said he would present it as part of his recommended county budget to the commissioners.


text: Very well said. Thanks Dan. Dale-KL7XJ On 9/20/2012 9:48 PM, Daniel Schultz wrote: > Amsat is living in a brave new world where launches are fully commercialized > and nobody gets a free ride anymore. We will either adapt to that paradigm > shift or we will cease to exist. > > Things were a lot different in the 1960's and 70's. In 1961 an Air Force > general had enough authority to allow Oscar 1 to be bolted to the side of his > launch vehicle. It is like this in the early days of all new technological > ventures. The internet in the early 1990's was a lot more free-wheeling before > the "suits" took notice of it and started to regulate it. > > In today's world the bean counters are fully in charge, and nobody rides for > free. When you have commercial companies offering $10 million to place 100 kg > in orbit, that becomes the market price, and the only way to lower that price > is to expand the supply of launches. > > This development is especially ironic because Amsat created the entire small > satellite industry. There was a time when industry and government experts > laughed at us and our little toy satellites. We proved that small satellites > are valuable and now everybody wants to launch them. A little company called > Surrey Satellite Technology grew out of Amsat endeavors. > > AO-40 was a once in a lifetime opportunity. ESA offered us a 600 kilogram ride > on one of the first Ariane 5 vehicles and we voted to go for it. The reasons > for AO-40's failure have been covered before, and further analysis will not > add to the discussion. It is not a mistake to throw deep sometimes. If AO-40 > had worked as designed, it would have revolutionized amateur radio. We gambled > and lost and we will most likely never see another 600 kg launch opportunity. > > The Eagle project was started about a decade ago in hope of launching a more > modest HEO replacement for AO-40, and to be able to do so on a regular basis > so that a single satellite failure would not ground the entire program. This > effort was overtaken by the tidal wave of cubesats. With every single > university on Earth launching a cubesat all of the available launch > opportunities are filled with pea-pod launchers and there is no room for > Eagle, unless someone writes a check for $10 million. > > Since cubesats are the only available launches, Amsat has started the Fox > program to participate in the cubesat trend. Amsat can help its case by making > Fox the best engineered cubesat ever built, which should not be too hard > compared to some of the other cubesat designs that I have seen. > > The university cubesats use amateur radio frequencies as inexpensive data > downlinks, but they do not otherwise contribute to the basis and purpose of > amateur radio as defined in part 97. Education is mentioned in part 97 but > many of these cubesat programs just barely touch on the communications aspects > of space flight. > > I also don't think that most of the student built cubesats are teaching proper > engineering techniques, I wonder how many of them have gone through thermal > vacuum or radiation testing. Some cubesat groups are still purchasing off the > shelf ham HTs and simply removing the plastic case before mounting it in the > satellite, because they "don't know how to design an RF system". I doubt that > the students are learning the engineering and career skills that they will > need to survive in the real world when they get entry level jobs at Boeing or > Lockheed Martin after graduation. Nevertheless there is substantial financial > support for student built satellites which are perceived to be training and > inspiring the next generation of engineers, while ham radio has a public image > of being the last century's technology, a hobby of elderly men using Morse > code and vacuum tube radios, and nobody with money to donate cares if hams can > use a satellite to work rare DX countries. Our link to education is likely to > be one of our only ways to secure low cost launches in the future, so we had > better find ways to work with and direct the student groups toward building > well engineered, long lived satellites with a real communications mission in > mind. > > We can also look around and take notice of what other groups are doing in > space. Many different forms of electric propulsion are in development or are > now flying, and this technology has the possibility to enable some of the HEO > missions that we desire. What if we had been able to propel ARRISSat into a > higher orbit instead of helplessly watch it reenter a mere six months after > deployment from the ISS? What if we had been able to nudge AO-13 away from its > destructive resonance and prevent it from reentering far too early? > > Another area where Amsat has failed has been in the news media. When Amsat > does not receive credit for its accomplishments, others are free to rewrite > history and claim that they were the first to accomplish every new thing, > sometimes claiming credit for things that Amsat first did three decades ago. > The universities have professional public relations staff who know how to > plant favorable news stories in the media. When Amsat launched AO-40 some of > us tried to get the mainstream news media interested in the story, but not > having professional contacts in the media, our efforts fell flat on the floor. > The funding follows the publicity, and when Amsat misses out on the publicity, > the money goes elsewhere. How is it that we launched AO-40 with barely a > mention in the popular press or in space industry publications? > > Those of you who are lapsed Amsat members and will not rejoin until a HEO is > launched really should reconsider. The membership dues are not that high, and > we still need your active participation if any of this is to come to fruition. > Giving up on Amsat by lapsing your membership pretty well insures that we will > never again have a HEO satellite. > > 73 > > Dan Schultz N8FGV > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? 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Kansui Summinagashi Single Bevel knives feature a Jigane, which is made by repeatedly folding together two layers of different types of carbon steels. This unique process creates a Jigane with 16 exceedingly thin, alternating layers, called Damascus. The Jigane is then forge welded to a layer of high carbon steel (blue paper #2) and tempered to Rockwell c63º. This process imparts a visual tension to the blade and a brilliant sharpness to the cutting edge. Because blue steel is a carbon steel, these knives must be dried after use to provent rust or tarnish.
Traditional Japanese chef's knives differ from European styled knives in that they are sharpened with a bevel on only one side. The opposite side is slightly hollowed. Because of this, these knives can generally be honed to a sharper edge than can double bevel knives.
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It's like the tale of David and Goliath, but who's the underdog and who is the giant in the payday lending debate depends upon whom you ask.
Religious groups, business organizations, advocates for the poor and others sick of the industry say they can't compete with the money payday lenders spend on powerful lobbyists, donations to legislators and advertisements touting themselves as a helping hand to those in need.
Industry officials say going up against well-funded and influential voices at the legislature - the faith community, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, AARP, Better Business Bureaus of Virginia - puts them at a disadvantage, especially when their opponents made no secret of wanting them driven out of the state.
Both sides have spent the year gearing up for another battle at the General Assembly, which convenes Jan. 9. Last year's session started with more than a dozen bills to either reform or repeal the industry and ended without action.
"It's this constant David and Goliath down at the General Assembly, but the faith community knows how that story ends," said the Rev. C. Douglas Smith, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy executive director.
Industry opponents like Smith say momentum is on their side. The number of supporters has exploded over the summer as churches, local governments and new anti-payday lending groups have gotten involved.
Last session, payday lenders had almost 20 professional lobbyists in their corner. Industry opponents, who usually consist of nonprofits, have teamed up with lobbyists for the upcoming session. Their goal: Cap the annual interest rate payday lenders can charge at 36 percent.
A 2002 law championed by Republican Del. Harvey Morgan of Gloucester, who now opposes payday lenders, allowed the industry to bypass the state's usury laws and charge $15 for every $100 loaned up to $500 to be paid back on the borrower's next payday. Counted as an interest rate, it comes up to about 390 percent for a two-week, $100 loan.
Payday officials say that's not a fair assessment, because the $15 is a fee that does not accumulate. Most lenders have displayed posters listing their annual percentage rates and fees.
The posters are one of several reforms instituted by the Community Financial Services Association, the industry trade group that represents two-thirds of all payday lenders nationwide.
In February, as Virginia and other states debated reforming the industry, the association announced a $10 million public education campaign to try to clean up its image, including ads and financial literacy programs with self-imposed reforms like extended payment plans and a ban on ads that promote payday advances for frivolous uses.
"Payday lenders are appealing to the population of people that need them. Our job is to appeal to a community that is concerned and get them to act out of that concern, so we don't have to take on payday lenders head-to-head," said Jay Johnson, state chairman of the Virginia Organizing Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan social justice group.
In 2006, about 434,000 people in Virginia took out almost 3.6 million loans worth $1.3 billion, according to the state Bureau of Financial Institutions.
The debate has spawned several new groups, some of which wanted more opportunity to get involved in political campaigns than nonprofits are allowed. Newport News businessman Ward R. Scull III established Virginians Against Payday Loans after one of his employees got deep into debt after taking out several payday advances.


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Moral Hazard Lies On Wall Street, Not Main Street
Blog post • Aug 30, 2012 18:48 EDT
If there is only one thing that I hope to see as an attorney, it is the law applied fairly to all sides of the courtroom.
And there has been no greater sense of frustration for me than to see the banks, time and time again, not be held to the same standards as you or me.
It has become standard practice for banks to wiggle and maneuver and do everything possible to escape accountability.
But perhaps even more maddening is when those in power refuse to dig their heels and go after these banks. The latest example: the Justice Department's refusal to prosecute Goldman Sachs.
They hedged their bets and sought to make money on the backs of their clients. This is nothing new to any of my readers, nor is the Justice Department's lack of reprisal.
Both Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone's excellent political reporter, and the New York Times Opinion Page called Eric Holder on the carpet, and now it is my turn.
No one is suggesting that prosecuting Goldman Sachs would have been a walk in the park. But prosecuting them was necessary, if the climate of Wall Street is ever going to change.
What is absolutely maddening about all this is that by allowing Goldman Sachs to skate, the DOJ is all but announcing that the banks can continue to engage in other unconscionable and illegal activities without the fear of retribution This is called a moral hazard — encouraging certain negative behavior by allowing it to continue.
"Ironically" — we only hear about moral hazard in the media, it's FROM the banks, or government officials like Edward DeMarco, who are alarmed at the notion that homeowners might participate in moral hazard. They will use that alarmist notion, despite the fact that it has yet to be substantiated, as a reason not to do principal write-downs or provide homeowners the meaningful assistance they need.


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The days of wrench-toting, grease-speckled roughnecks heading out to oil rigs may be limited, according to experts in oilfield industries.
The days of wrench-toting, grease-speckled roughnecks heading out to oil rigs may be limited, according to experts in oilfield industries.
As safety regulations tighten and as drilling exploration becomes a more advanced science, oil companies are hiring increasingly more skilled workers.
At a presentation to the South Central Industrial Association Tuesday, Joe Leimkuhler, vice president of drilling for LLOG Exploration, showed the audience a new, circular deepwater exploration rig that will reach Louisiana's shores in January. The new semi-submersible rig will be capable of drilling in depths up to 40,000 feet below the ocean surface where sub-surface temperatures can reach more than 400 degrees.
What the new rig will not be doing is employing very much manual labor.
"The entire process will be automated," Leimkuhler said. "This is an entirely hands-off process."
Deepwater exploration, considerably more expensive than conventional near-shore drilling that occurs in 1,000 feet of water or less, has become feasible as scientists have developed 4D seismic mapping methods that can chart previously hidden beneath salt formations along the deepest parts of the Gulf floor.
Meanwhile, conventional, near-shore rigs are expected to be dismantled over time as oil runs out in those areas.
"The thing about just leaving high school and expecting to find employment, those days are coming to an end very quickly," said Kirt Templet, human resources director at Houma-based Chett Morrison Contractors.
Chett Morrison provides services to offshore wells that range from construction of rigs to diving and repair work. Templet said as the education requirements for offshore workers continue to rise, it is becoming more and more difficult to find the labor he needs in state.
"We're a privately owned company and we want to keep our Louisiana people working as much as possible," Templet said. "That's becoming harder and harder to do, you know. It puts a strain on contractors. But if you want to keep up and stay competitive that's what you have to do. It is only getting more and more that way."
Contracts have already been signed to open 15 new deepwater rigs by 2015 and deepwater oil production is projected to reach all-time highs, surpassing production before the 2010 drilling moratorium, by years end.
The percentage of deepwater activity is also rising sharply, expected to jump from 15 percent of total activity in 2012 to 20 percent in 2014. Louisiana, meanwhile, is hosting the lion's share of deepwater activity; Port Fourchon handles 90 percent of all deepwater-related service activity in the Gulf.
Fletcher Technical Community College has already taken steps to provide its students with more advanced technical training. On the recommendation of four major oil producers, Fletcher is devoting an entire floor of a new, four-story facility to labs catered to students in applied science in integration production technologies.
BP has already contributed $1 million of $4 million for computer equipment and software needed to operate the state-of-the-art lab facility.
That, according to Chancellor Travis Lavigne, is long form for offshore drilling skills, which now include basic engineering and computer science proficiencies.
Increases in safety regulations alone have increased the training requirement even for workers on older, more traditionally staffed rigs. South Louisiana Technical College in Morgan City provides a 28-day safety training course — designed to mimic the 28-day shifts workers spend offshore — that companies require even the most basic offshore employees to complete.
"It's not your daddy's oilfield," said Earl Meador, regional director of South Louisiana Tech. "People cannot go to the workforce without training now. There's a whole collection of courses that are required by employers."
South Louisiana Tech churned out 3,600 students last year from its satellite campus for offshore safety training.
The education requirements aren't exclusive to high-tech deepwater rigs like the one LOGG Exploration has commissioned.
As the education demands for oilfield workers continue to climb, so do wages. "Two years, 60k" reads a brochure distributed by BP that explains the associate program at Fletcher.
"That's the starting salary for students hired with an associates degree, $60,000 a year," Lavigne said. "Nearly all of our graduates get interviews. I have seen students who have been working out there two years making close to $100,000. And that's six months a year."


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Why millionaire pitcher Daniel Norris lives in a van
July 12, 2016, 11:37 a.m. by Michael d'Estries
The 21-year-old, who received a $2M signing bonus from the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011, says he enjoys living the simple life.
Are older cyclists endangering themselves?
September 14, 2015, 11:26 a.m. by Lloyd Alter
NPR headline says deaths and injuries are spiking — but it's wrong.
A Smarter way to find your way around Paris (and maybe other cities)
January 20, 2015, 11:59 a.m. by Lloyd Alter
Paris can be pretty unfriendly to tourists, but SmarterParis is a friendly new app that can make it easier.
Why the Google car could change everything
January 5, 2015, 5:53 p.m. by Lloyd Alter
It's the cutest little thing, that Google car. And it might just change how we think about cities.
Two retired Solar Decathlon homes seek deep-pocketed buyers
February 24, 2014, 1 p.m. by Matt Hickman
Due to a change of plans and a dearth of on-campus space, Solar Decathlon teams from USC and Santa Clara University seek to sell their solar-powered dwellings to private buyers starting at $250K each.
Why crash test dummies prefer electric vehicles
September 12, 2013, 2:30 p.m. by Josh Goldman, Union of Concerned Scientists for LiveScience
Double bumpers, engines in the trunk and overall stability have made electric cars some of the safest on the road.
Dad cuts commute, joint-custody shuffle with downsized digs [Video]
June 4, 2013, 4:54 p.m. by Matt Hickman
A Sonoma County father finds the best way to cut his daily commute along with a carbon-intensive joint custody situation is to buy a townhome directly next to his ex-wife and cut a hole through a shared wall.
Can the electric car change the world? [Infographic]
June 1, 2013, 9:17 a.m.
Buyers have been slow to purchase electric cars, and cities slower still to support them. What can be done?
New Google Maps for mobile features Zagat reviews and new offers
May 15, 2013, 4 p.m. by Mark Spoonauer, LAPTOP
Android and iOS users alike will benefit from a redesigned Google Maps app that will include ratings, deals and an incident reporting feature.
Kids who bike, walk to school have better concentration
February 20, 2013, 2:28 p.m. by Jenn Savedge
New Danish study confirms that walking and biking to school helps kids perform better throughout the day.
London to be an 'ultra-low emission zone' by 2020
February 19, 2013, 3:03 p.m. by Jim Motavalli
London Mayor Boris Johnson is proposing that only electric cars and other unspecified green vehicles be admitted downtown, but the devil is in the details, and the plan could get watered down.
A taxidermy-themed storage solution that's minus the fur, plus the fixie
January 15, 2013, 7:30 p.m. by Matt Hickman
Ideal for faux taxidermy enthusiasts and/or design-conscious bike commuters, Trophy Bicycle Holders offer a smart, space-saving storage solution in the form of two 'iconic silhouettes.'
Your 2018 fall foliage guide
Now you know the best time to be a 'leaf peeper' in any part of the U.S.
Why do leaves change color in autumn?
Learn about the natural mechanisms that produce breathtaking fall foliage each year.
Test your fall knowledge
The days are getting shorter and pumpkin spice seems to be everywhere: It must be fall.
10 best places outside the U.S. for fall color
These places around the world that equal U.S. locales when it comes to colorful scenery.
5 classic fall recipes
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EMC-Juniper Deal? Not So Fast, Say Analystshttp://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/10/18/emc-juni...Citi's Kevin Dennean reiterated his Buy rating on Juniper today, but doesn't see the logic behind a sale from Juniper's standpoint: "While we have no direct insights into JNPR's supposed hiring of an investment bank or supposed receipt of an offer to purchase the company, we definitively do not believe JNPR is shopping itself at this time. Simply put, we don't think the set-up is ripe for a company-driven sale: JNPR has major product cycles just kicking in (T4000 core router upgrade, PTX converged transport solution, QFabric data center solution), still-healthy margins (down significantly from 2010 levels, but a still-healthy 15% operating margin last quarter), solid cash flows ($212mln CFO, $124mln FCF last quarter), and healthy balance sheet ($3.4bln cash & ST investment, $2.4bln net cash). We don't see JNPR as a company in distress or facing the existential challenges/risks that would typically motivate a sale."Elsewhere, Wells Fargo's Maynard Um, who has an Outperform rating on EMC, also criticized the likelihood of that company's purchase of Juniper. He notes that deals of this size are unusual, and EMC would do better to take on a smaller target: "We believe the recent hiring of a CTO with primarily networking background as well as the potential softening of the relationship with Cisco (partially believed due to VMWare's (VMW) acquisition of Nicira and recently announced server partnership with Lenovo) has raised an increasing view that EMC may be interested in acquiring a networking asset. Given our view that EMC will grow to be a key competitor that offers a full solution (selling the stack of storage, servers, networking, software, and networking), we believe this has merit. However, we do not believe JNPR would be an attractive target because (1) the majority of Juniper's business is from the service provider segment, (2) Juniper has limited data center presence and its key data center platform (Qfabric) has garnered little traction, (3) the EMC, Cisco, VMW JV is, in our opinion, unlikely to unwind at this point in time, and (4) EMC recently hired a new CTO with networking background, which we think suggests EMC is unlikely to make a large acquisition. Brocade, which has been mentioned in multiple media outlets as another possible acquisition target, has good networking assets but also supplies EMC's competitors, the revenue from which could be at risk if acquired by EMC and, hence, in our view, making it less attractive. Privately-held Arista Networks, which is focused on data center networking fabric, could be an interesting acquisition, as has been speculated in the press, though the recent hire of Michael Lehman as CFO suggests, to us, an IPO route (Arista's press release notes that Mr. Lehman led former companies through the process of becoming "IPO ready")."
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SEATTLE, Feb. 26, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VIEVU, the industry leader in body worn video (BWV) for law enforcement, security, and emergency responders, today announced a major upgrade to VERIPATROL, its secure, encrypted video management system for the storage, retrieval and management of video evidence. New features include advanced video "lock down" for case sensitive evidence, enhanced user interface with mobile viewing, and the ability to provide certified courtroom ready audio transcripts direct from the software for ongoing cases/trials.
VERIPATROL exceeds evidence standards and does not allow officers to tamper, edit or delete video, using a FIPS 140-2 compliant digital signature process to prove file authenticity. VERIPATROL installs in standalone, network, mobile or cloud-based environments; and can also be securely integrated through an advanced SDK into existing video systems or other video management platforms (i.e. Dash cams, interview rooms or other third party software, et al).
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VIEVU cameras are used by more than 3,100 law enforcement agencies with customers such as Oakland PD, Houston PD, Dallas PD Atlanta PD, and Phoenix PD. Agencies continue to deploy BWV cameras as studies on the effects of police-worn BWV continue to show its benefits. A study of the Rialto PD in CA showed an 88% decline in complaints filed against officers, and a 60% decline in use-of-force.
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