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This Champion bomber jacket features Washington, D.C.'s DCA (Reagan National) airport code in a roundel design with a vintage propliner aircraft. Embroidery is in black for a clean, minimalist appearance.
This Champion bomber jacket has a comfy fit and a timeless look. Add it to your collection!
Product Features:
- 80% cotton, 20% polyester sueded fleece
- 100% cotton face
- Fabric weight: 8.5 oz/y² (288.2 g/m²)
- Snap front closure
- Dyed-to-match jersey locker patch on the back
- Gunmetal grey snaps with embossed "C" logo
- Champion "C" patch on left sleeve
Size Guide
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|Width (inches)
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Care Instructions:
- Machine wash cold, inside-out, gentle cycle with mild detergent and similar colors. Use non-chlorine bleach, only when necessary. No fabric softeners.
- Tumble dry low, or hang-dry for longest life.
- Cool iron inside-out if necessary. Do not iron decoration.
- Do not dry clean.
- Consult the product label for specific instructions.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, is the capital of the United States of America.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA) opened in 1941 as Washington National Airport. It was named after former president Ronald Reagan in 1998.
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Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth took to his blog yesterday to defend the move, saying the "Home Lens of the Dash should let you find *anything* anywhere." Adding Amazon results is just the first step in expanding the scope of Dash searches from the user's computer to the entire Web, a sensible place to start as Amazon affiliate links will help Canonical fund the development of Ubuntu. "We picked Amazon as a first place to start because most of our users are also regular users of Amazon, and it pays us to make your Amazon journey get off to a faster start," Shuttleworth wrote.
In response to accusations of privacy violations, Shuttleworth wrote, "We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don't trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already." The "we have root" statement raised some more hackles in the comments section of Shuttleworth's blog. Explaining what he meant, Shuttleworth said, "Every package update installs as root."
Shuttleworth also noted that users can use hotkeys to limit search results to local results, such as just applications, or remove the new functionality entirely. The terminal command to do so is "apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping."
In practice, it's not quite as intrusive as, say, the "special offers" on Amazon's Kindle Fire. But user complaints have increased over the past few days as people test out the prerelease version of 12.10. One user filed a bug report suggesting that Amazon make shopping results a separate, opt-in portion of the Dash. Not everyone hates it—a commenter on Shuttleworth's blog wrote, "I only wish I'd known about this before spending £400 odd quid on Amazon last week, I would have affiliated it to Ubuntu."
OMGUbuntu has more on how the Amazon shopping lens works in practice, including screenshots. In addition to the shopping results, the launcher bar in Ubuntu 12.10 comes preinstalled with an Amazon Web app link, the site also reports. But getting rid of it is as easy as dragging the icon to the trash.


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Saturday, June 2, 2012 marked the start of the two day Roots Picnic, now in its fifth year. Held at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, PA, the event featured performances from The Roots, De La Soul, Wale, OCD: Moosh & Twist, Danny Brown, Mr. MFN eXquire and many more. Click through this slideshow to see exclusive photos from the event. All photos by Lucas Alvarado / Far Fetched Future.


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Aperion Audio Verus Forte Speaker System
Typical tower speakers arrive with so many wonderful opportunities for self-injury: When you take them off the truck and when you haul them into the listening room, for starters. And that's not to mention when you unpack them and set them up and when you adjust placement (especially with carpet spikes). But Oregon's Aperion Audio, God love 'em, has finally delivered a tower speaker that even the most physically challenged audiophile can love: the Verus Forte.
If a tower speaker can be cute, the just-35-inch tall, 30-pound, cheerfully moveable Forte accomplishes it. I'll always love Aperion for that, but as it turns out, there's a lot more to like.
Aperion was among the first direct-to-consumer audio outfits and remains a leader of that movement, selling its products exclusively to end-users via its Web site. It's a scenario where everybody wins — except the independent audio specialist retailers, most of whom are out of business and now delivering pizzas.
Unboxing and setting up the Aperion system proceeded without physical trauma. The supporting cast: Aperion's Verus Forte Center, a three-way horizontal center-channel unit with a coaxial midrange/tweeter; a pair of Verus Forte Satellites, small two-ways destined for the surrounds; and the Bravus II 10D Digital Subwoofer.
Each emerged from its carton like a little jewel, nestled in closed-cell foam and swaddled in sateen-lined velvet drapes that revealed glossy lacquered real-wood cherry veneers (except for the sub, which is black), and unusually handsome ones at that.
The Aperions provide nice metal multiway terminals (doubles for biwiring on the towers); multiple choices of carpet spikes or feet; and a nifty hard-rubber base that cradles the center-channel unit, permitting up- or down-angling.
Once I began listening, I confirmed an initial impression of the Verus Forte Towers, and there's no polite way to say it: These speakers are, well, short. Seated-ear height is generally around 37 inches, but the towers themselves are less lofty than that, with an acoustical center closer to 28 or 29 inches. That may not sound like much of a difference, but in this case, hearing naturally balanced treble called for extreme slouching — or angling the speakers sharply rearward by lengthening the front spikes fully and replacing the rears with stubbies, which turned out to be a better long-term answer.


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Three companies that participated in the 2013 ZeroTo510 medical device accelerator program this summer have been chosen to continue to the program's second phrase and get an additional round of funding – $100,000 each, to be exact.
The three companies are Better Walk, Mobilizer and View Medical.
The program is operated by Memphis Bioworks, and both seed funding and follow-on funding is provided by co-investors Innova and MB Venture Partners. In all, ZeroTo510 has accelerated the creation of 12 new companies, more than 25 local jobs and more than $4 million in investments.
Online travel site Expedia is launching a month-long campaign that includes travel giveaways and exclusive travel coupons to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Anyone who wants to take part can visit stjude.expedia.com to enter more than 150 giveaway sweepstakes. Each entry comes with a suggested donation of $5, 100 percent of which goes to the hospital, and participants can choose as many trip options as they want.
They'll have the ability to enter each giveaway once a day for all of September. The options include getaways to Bali, Hawaii, Morocco and more.
At the end of the campaign, a winner will be chosen at random for each trip.
Tennessee state Rep. Joe Carr, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander's bid for re-election, makes his first Memphis campaign appearance Saturday, Sept. 7.
Carr, who is running in a 2014 Republican U.S. Senate primary challenge of Alexander, is speaking at a "Beat Lamar" forum at 3 p.m. at Jason's Deli, 3473 Poplar Ave.
The forum is a gathering of Tea Party activists who will take a straw poll to gauge local support for Carr.
BankTennessee's office in Atoka is now a full-service bank branch.
Since August 2012, that location has been a loan production office and unable to take deposits like a full-service facility.
BankTennessee president and CEO Jim Rout said the location's conversion to a full-service branch is an initial step in the bank's growth plan, which includes having the Atoka location filling a gap between Shelby and Lauderdale counties.
American businesses added 176,000 jobs in August, a private survey showed. That was fewer than in June and July but roughly in line with the monthly average for the year.
The payroll company ADP said professional and business services firms added 50,000 jobs. Manufacturers created 5,000, reversing a drop in July, and construction firms 4,000. Companies in all industries and of all sizes hired in August, ADP said.
The ADP figures come a day before the Labor Department will release its jobs report for August. The department's report will capture both private- and public-sector job growth for the month.
The ADP figures often vary from the Labor Department's official job figures. According to ADP, private employers have added an average 170,000 jobs a month this year through July. The Labor Department shows companies added an average of 196,000 new jobs a month through July.
Americans' cautious spending on clothing extended into August, capping a weak back-to-school selling season for retailers.
Several retailers including clothiers Cato Corp. and L Brands Inc. recently posted disappointing revenue during the month, which falls in the middle of the second biggest shopping period of the year.
The results raise questions about whether Americans will spend during the winter holidays in November and December, a time retailers can make up to 40 percent of their revenue for the year. While the back-to-school season, which runs from mid-July through mid-September, isn't an absolute predictor of how Americans will spend during the winter holidays, it does offer insight into consumers' mindset.
Overall, revenue at stores opened at least a year — a measure of a retailer's health — rose 3.7 percent in August, according to a preliminary tally of 8 retailers by the International Council of Shopping Centers. That's up slightly from July's 3.5 percent gain, but below the 6 percent gain in August last year.
Only a sliver of retail chains report monthly sales figures, and the list doesn't include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Macy's Inc. and many other large chains. In total, the retailers that report monthly data represent about 6 percent of the $2.4 trillion in U.S. retail industry sales.
Orders to U.S. factories fell in July by the sharpest amount in four months, held back by weaker demand for commercial aircraft and heavy machinery. A key category that reflects business investment plans also fell.
Factory orders dropped 2.4 percent in July compared with June, when orders rose 1.6 percent, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Orders for core capital goods, a category viewed as a proxy for business investment spending, fell 4 percent in July.
Core capital goods are considered a good measure of businesses' confidence in the economy. They include items that point to expansion – such as machinery, computers and heavy trucks – while excluding volatile orders for aircraft and defense. The July setback was expected to be temporary.
Orders for durable goods, items expected to last at least three years, declined 7.4 percent, a slightly bigger drop than the 7.3 percent fall estimated in a preliminary report last week. It was the biggest decline since a 12.9 percent fall in August 2012. Orders for nondurable goods, items such as chemicals, food and paper, rose 2.4 percent in July after a 0.5 percent decline in June.
Excluding the volatile transportation category, factory goods orders were up 1.2 percent.
Companies in the U.S. service sector expanded at their fastest pace in nearly 8 years last month as sales and orders grew and employers ramped up hiring.
The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday that its service-sector index rose to 58.6 in August from 56 in July. It's the highest point since December 2005. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
A measure of hiring rose to 57, the most in six months. That's an encouraging sign for the job market because the service sector employs 90 percent of the U.S. workforce, including retail, construction, health care and financial services.
Consumers appear to be spending more at auto dealerships, retailers, hotels and restaurants. The housing recovery is also spurring growth in real estate.
The report "implies that the economic recovery is gathering a real head of steam," said Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics.
Two U.S. congressmen are visiting Memphis this week as part of a road tour across the country in an effort to advocate for comprehensive tax reform.
U.S. Rep. Dave Camp – R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee – and U.S. Sen. Max Baucus – D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee – will visit the FedEx Express World Hub Monday, Sept. 9. They'll talk with company leaders and customers about how the tax code affects their respective businesses.
Their first stop Monday will be at a family farm in Oakland for what's being billed as a "kitchen table conversation." The tour then moves to the FedEx World Hub.
The two committee chairmen have been traveling the country, collecting feedback about the U.S. tax code. They started in Minnesota's Twin Cities, meeting with workers and executives at 3M and at a family-owned bakery.
Then they headed to Pennsylvania and New Jersey to visit a few small businesses. Next up was a trip to Silicon Valley for meetings with tech companies Intel and Square.
The Memphis chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women will host a lunch meeting Sept. 19 on the state of the local commercial real estate market.
Experts from CB Richard Ellis Memphis, an affiliate of CBRE Inc., will highlight the market for office, industrial and retail space, as well as investment properties. The State of the Market Report is sponsored by The Daily News and CBRE Memphis.
The event will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Chickasaw Country Club, 3395 Galloway Ave. Tickets can be purchased by Sept. 13 at www.crewmemphis.org.
Memphis City Council members approved a four-month moratorium Tuesday, Sept. 3, on any new demolition permits for city properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
But the resolution was amended to not apply to any demolition permits already issued, including the one for the Nineteenth Century Club building in Midtown. The planned demolition of the property by its new owners to make way for a restaurant is on hold, pending a Chancery Court decision on whether the club's sale of the property was legal.
The club was the impetus for the original terms of the moratorium sought by council members Janis Fullilove and Lee Harris.
The council also approved a resolution that sets the stage for relocating the Christopher Columbus statue in Downtown's Columbus Park to Marquette Park in East Memphis. The resolution spells out that the Italian-American organization UNICO will pay all costs for moving the statue, which it donated to and located in the Downtown park in 1987.
And the council approved the allocation and appropriation of $12 million to the Pyramid Redevelopment Project. That is the city's portion of changes to The Pyramid in preparation for work by Bass Pro Shops to develop its retail store and other attractions. The $12 million is to "off-set and complete the project's contract obligations" by the city, according to the resolution.
In other action Tuesday, the council approved a special use permit that permits the historic Lee House, at 690 Adams Ave., to be converted into a five-room bed-and-breakfast.
Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band will be in Memphis in November.
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and the Gary Sinise Foundation are teaming up to host a benefit concert Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in honor of Marine Cpl. Christian "CB" Brown. The concert featuring Gary Sinise, well-known for his role in "Forrest Gump" as Lt. Dan, and his band will be held at the Memphis Cook Convention Center and will launch "Operation CB," an effort to raise money to build Brown a "smart home" in Munford.
Brown enlisted in 2009 and was sent to Marjah, Afghanistan, for his first deployment. After returning safely, he volunteered to redeploy to Afghanistan. He led 163 combat missions as squad leader.
In December 2011, Brown stepped on an improvised explosive device and was seriously wounded. His treatment required, among other things, amputations of both legs.
Memphis-based marketing communications agency archer-malmo continues to grow its ranks.
The agency has made four new hires, including Lukus Blackford as a search engine optimization and analytics specialist, Cary New as a public relations senior account executive, Casey Lissau as associate creative director and Christina Comas as retail marketing account coordinator.
That growth helps illustrate why the agency recently was named to the Inc. 5000 list, a ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The Agency Post also recently put archer-malmo on its Agency 100, a list of the fastest-growing advertising and marketing agencies in the U.S.
Blackford is supporting archer-malmo's digital team on SEO projects for all agency clients and social media listening and online reputation for Zoetis.
New spent the last 15 years at Viking Range Corp., where she specialized in corporate and B2B media relations. Most recently, she was the media chairman/director for the Viking Classic PGA Tour Golf Tournament.
Lissau previously was a senior art director at Sullivan Branding. Over the last 10 years, he's also picked up more than 20 regional ADDYs and more than 40 local ADDYs.
Comas will support local marketing activities for all of the Palm Beach Tan corporate markets. She's held marketing department roles with various local organizations, including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and most recently as a marketing coordinator for the Germantown Performing Arts Center.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, UT Medical Group Inc. and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center have teamed up to create a new academic physician group, officials said.
The new practice, UT Methodist Physicians, launched on Sept. 1 and includes urology, surgical oncology and most adult medicine specialties, such as internal medicine, pulmonology and endocrinology.
New economic realities are pushing local hospitals to purchase physician practices at a pace not seen since the last wave of consolidation in the 1990s. In Memphis, many physicians have chosen to align with the region's three major hospital systems: Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp., Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Saint Francis Healthcare.
Fifty-three doctors and 80 supporting staff members have joined the new UT Methodist Physicians group, becoming Methodist Le Bonheur employees.
"As Methodist continues to align with physician practices whose goals closely mirror ours, this is the right thing to do for our patients," said Gary Shorb, president and chief executive officer of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. "It will ensure that we are all on the same page regarding quality measures and efficiency of patient care."
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven has been given state approval to add therapeutic radiation equipment to its existing radiation services at the hospital.
The Mississippi State Department of Health issued a certificate of need for the project this week. Mississippi requires a certificate to avoid duplication of health care services and control costs.
Baptist Memorial Hospital proposes to increase the number of radiation therapy units that are used for regular service from one to two. The project will entail converting the existing backup unit at BMH-D to regular, full-time use.
There is no capital expenditure for this project.
Memphis-based Triumph Bank has finalized the purchase of Merchant & Planters Bank divisions M&P Bank Home Loans and Community Bankers Mortgage Group.
Triumph assumed official ownership effective Aug. 31, according to Triumph chairman Hilliard Crews.
M&P Bank Home Loans is a consumer mortgage provider with offices in East Memphis, Collierville and Little Rock. Former M&P Bank Home Loans offices and all staff will operate as Triumph Mortgage, a division of Triumph Bank.
The purchase will more than quadruple Triumph's mortgage division staff.
Triumph also is adding a wholesale and correspondent lending division to its business with the purchase of Community Bankers Mortgage Group.
U.S. home prices jumped 12.4 percent in July from a year earlier, reflecting a housing market that's increasingly favoring sellers amid a tight supply of available homes for sale.
Real estate data provider CoreLogic said Tuesday, Sept. 3, that home prices in every state but Delaware climbed on annual basis in July.
Ninety-nine of the 100 largest cities reported annual price gains.
Home prices grew 27 percent in Nevada, to lead all states.
CoreLogic also says prices rose 1.8 percent from June, the 17th straight month-over-month increase.
Consistent job gains and mortgage rates that are still historically low despite recent upticks are spurring more people to buy homes.
That's helped drive prices higher.
CoreLogic says U.S. home prices are now within 18 percent of their peak levels reached in April of 2006.
Spending on U.S. construction projects rose in July, led by strong gains in housing and nonresidential projects.
Construction spending increased 0.6 percent in July compared with June when activity was unchanged, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, Sept. 3. The June performance represented an upward revision from an initial estimate that spending had fallen 0.6 percent.
Total construction activity rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $900.8 billion in July, the strongest performance since June 2009.
The July gain reflected a 0.6 percent rise in housing construction with both single-family and apartment construction posting gains. In June, housing had fallen 0.9 percent.
Government projects fell 0.3 percent in July with state and local spending down 0.4 percent. That drop more than offset a 1.1 percent rise in the smaller federal category.
The advance in housing activity pushed residential construction to its highest level since September 2008. The increase for nonresidential building was led by a 6.1 percent increase in construction of hotels and motels. Office building and the category that covers shopping centers also showed gains.
Total construction is 5.2 percent higher than it was a year ago, with residential activity up 17.2 percent and nonresidential construction up by a more modest 2 percent. Public construction is down 3.7 percent from a year ago as all levels of government are still facing tight budget constraints.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Breen is the new chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
Breen's new position is based on seniority on the federal bench and his never having held the position before.
He succeeds Judge Jon P. McCalla, who took senior status in August. McCalla had been chief judge since 2008.
The chief judge handles administrative duties for the set of U.S. district judges for the Western District of Tennessee, which has offices in Memphis and Jackson, Tenn.
For the past year, Memphis-based creative agency Bigfish has implemented a branding initiative it's called "The Year of You," putting an emphasis on the things that its clients and the community at large are doing.
That message led to a desire to focus on three key areas of the business: not-for-profits, health care and membership organizations such as fraternities, sororities and alumni associations.
The company has developed a "Community Leader" model to help facilitate its plan. Bigfish president Tim Nicholson is leading the company's efforts with a suite of solutions developed by his team.
Addie McGowan, social giving community leader, will work with not-for-profits and alumni segments of membership organizations and higher education via the company's social giving platform. Mandy Willhite, e-learning community leader, will leverage the company's training platform for membership organizations and health care.
Bigfish also is partnering with GIN System, a full-service technology solutions provider, and is developing similar relationships with third-party payment processors, content creators, database integrators and offline service providers whose work supplements its own.
Employees at The Barnett Group, a benefits consulting company, are ramping up training and preparation on health care reform policies, laws and regulations, mandated benefits and compliance deadlines.
Several members of the group recently completed their Healthcare Reform Specialist Certification, a designation given to insurance agents, brokers and health care consultants who complete a specialized course and exam and fulfill a minimum number of requirements each year.
The designation also requires specialists to remain up to date on best practices, rules and changes to the Affordable Care Act.
"The Affordable Care Act can be tricky and difficult to understand, so if we can ease the process for our clients, we're going to continue to take advantage of opportunities that provide additional training and education," said Ed Barnett, founder and president of The Barnett Group.
Barnett Group employees who have completed the certification are Ed Barnett, Wes Barnett, Chirag Chauhan, Jonathan Edwards, Lindsey Harmon, Brandon Kimbrough, Carla Lyles, Judi Mixon and Dora Da Silva.
U.S. consumers barely increased their spending in July as their income grew more slowly, held back in part by steep government spending cuts that reduced federal workers' salaries. The tepid gains suggest economic growth is off to a weak start in the July-September quarter.
The Commerce Department said that consumer spending rose just 0.1 percent in July from the previous month. That's slower than June's 0.6 percent increase.
Consumers cut their spending on long-lasting manufactured goods, such as cars and appliances. Spending on services was unchanged.
Income rose 0.1 percent in July following a 0.3 percent June gain.
Overall wages and salaries tumbled $21.8 billion from June – a third of the decline came from forced furloughs of federal workers.
Consumers' spending drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity. The weak spending report led some economists to sound a more pessimistic note about economic growth in the current July-September quarter. It follows July data showing steep drops in orders for long-lasting manufactured goods and new-home sales.
"This is a disappointing report on a number of levels," said James Marple, senior economist at TD Economics. "Prospects for a pickup in economic growth in the third quarter hinge on a broad-based acceleration in spending by households and business to offset the ongoing drag from government. The data for the first month of the quarter are not following this script."
A measure of U.S. consumer confidence slipped this month from a six-year high in July, as Americans expressed less optimism about the coming months.
The University of Michigan says that its final reading of consumer sentiment dropped to 82.1 in August from 85.1 in the previous month.
Americans said they were less confident that the job market will improve but more confident that their income will rise.
Even with the decline, the index is nearly 8 points higher than a year ago. That suggests consumer spending could pick up later this year.
A separate report Friday showed that consumer spending barely increased in July as income growth slowed. Consumer spending drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity.
In-Rel Properties Inc. could face "imminent default" on a $60.8 million loan secured by Clark Tower, a 33-story office building at 5100 Popular Ave., according to a Fitch Ratings report released Sept. 5.
As of July 2012, the building's top three tenants were Concorde Career Colleges, Continental Traffic and Wade Hartfield, Fitch data shows. At that time, the loan did not pass Fitch's refinance test, indicating a potential for loan default. That same Fitch report estimated loan losses of up to 7 percent.
Clark Tower was once home to The Summit Club, an exclusive private Memphis dining club that closed its doors in 2003. Today, the 33rd floor is occupied by Tower Center Memphis, an event space with panoramic views of the city. The space can be rented for social and corporate events.
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Western states eye water from Missouri River
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Even as drought-stricken Midwestern states squabble over diminishing water supplies in the region, a new federal-state study raises the idea of constructing a 670-mile pipeline to divert water from one of the Mississippi's major tributaries to help seven arid states in the West.
For two years, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have been considering ways to provide more water for the growing populations in the West. A plan scheduled for release later this month will include a proposal for a pipeline to ship water west from the Missouri River, along with a number of less ambitious options.
The pipeline proposal, which would cost an estimated $11.2 billion and take 30 years to complete, is expected to intensify the debate over how to ease one growing region's shortages without harming the interests of others.
Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Dan DuBray said the pipeline idea is in the very early stages, a long way from reality. "The idea of constructing conveyances to move water resources between other basins and the Colorado has been raised before and was once again submitted as an idea in this process," DuBray said. He said the proposal will be evaluated but that the agency doesn't view it as "among the most practical or cost-effective proposals submitted."
Any plan for diverting significant amounts of water from the Missouri would encounter opposition from some in the Midwest given the drought and competition for water resources.
The Missouri River flows from North Dakota to Missouri and provides drinking water, recreation, hydropower and irrigation in six states. The drought has left river levels so low that shipping companies are warning that barge traffic downstream on the Mississippi could come to a standstill by the end of the year. States on the Mississippi are calling for the release of more Missouri River water into the Mississippi, but northern states are objecting.
Some conservation organizations argue that future water demand in the West should be met with conservation and policies that increased water reuse. Those measures are the focus of the more modest options in the plan. Constructing a major pipeline is "absurd," said Jason Bane of the Boulder, Colo.-based Western Resource Advocates.
But some Western interests are pressing for more aggressive steps.
Patricia Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority said the nation must keep an open mind to a variety of ideas for meeting water needs, including pipelines that could provide a dual benefit: Removing excess water in flood-prone areas during high water periods and taking it to areas that have a need for water. "Maybe it's time for us to look at marrying the concepts of flood control and drought protection," Mulroy said. "We've seen in the middle portion of the country some devastating flooding going on. Should we be talking about preserving those floodwaters somehow and not putting New Orleans at risk and some of the other communities at risk year after year?"
The Missouri River pipeline plan notes that water wouldn't be diverted during droughts. But Bane said that if both the West and Midwest are in drought, water battles would almost certainly ensue.
The pipeline proposal calls for a large treatment plant near Leavenworth, Kan. The pipeline would run roughly adjacent to Interstate 70, with the flow moved in part by a series of high-capacity pumping stations. It would supply roughly 1.2 million households in the Western states.
The Western states now depend heavily on the Colorado River. In announcing the water demand study early last year, the Bureau of Reclamation noted that the natural water supply of the Colorado River basin varies from year to year, with localized shortages now routine.


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How to combine payment term standardization with an early-payment discount program to manage cash better.
As more and more trading partners leverage business networks to manage invoices and payments, a term has emerged to describe the phenomenon: "the networked economy." In most cases, discussions about the networked economy have involved movers and shakers in procurement and finance. In too many companies, the conversation has left out an important stakeholder: the treasurer.
Why should a corporate treasurer be interested in an e-commerce initiative? That could be a $100 million question. Treasury policies focused on static discounts and maximizing float can undermine business performance. Savvy treasurers who can translate today's collaborative procure-to-pay approaches into better cash and working capital management have the opportunity to drive new strategies that increase profitability and cash returns.
New Approach to Managing Cash
One area of low-hanging fruit for many treasury teams is early-payment discounts from suppliers. As increasing numbers of buyers and suppliers settle transactions over digital business networks instead of on paper and by mail, the pace of commerce accelerates. Invoices can be approved and scheduled for payment in days, which gives treasurers a new opportunity to manage cash better. They can capture more early-payment discounts for risk-free, double-digit cash returns.
For organizations looking to increase their returns on cash in the current low-interest-rate environment, there's arguably no better option than to seek out early-payment discounts from suppliers. The treasury, procurement, and finance functions can work together to set a hurdle rate, the minimum rate of return the company is willing to accept in exchange for paying early. Then they can define the amount of cash the company is willing to use to obtain these discounts and identify which suppliers or supplier groups to include in the program. Although some may be concerned about the negative impact that early-payment discounts may have on days payables outstanding (DPO) and working capital, a treasury team that pays close attention to payment terms can have the best of both worlds.
Payment terms sometimes seem like the neglected stepchild of corporate finance. Too often, an assortment of diverse payment terms proliferates as buyers negotiate contracts with suppliers without following a predefined strategy. For an organization with a team of buyers and thousands of suppliers, it's not uncommon to have more than 100 distinct sets of payment terms, and the list often includes oddball terms such as net-7-day or net-15-day terms with no early-payment option.
The inability to get payment terms under control can contribute to worsening DPO metrics. As an example, the average DPO at one energy company we worked with fell over a three-year period from more than 50 days to less than 30 days, a level well below the norm for its industry. When the company realized how its DPO had moved, it supported a payment terms–extension program. The company closely examined its payment terms and worked on extending those terms with many suppliers that it was paying faster than the standard in the industry.
For many organizations where terms extension is practical, choosing and applying a handful of industry standard payment terms, supported by early-payment discounts, can have a dramatic impact on cash earnings and working capital. A certain segment of spend—such as utilities, telecommunications, taxes, property leases, and charitable contributions—will always be exempt from consideration. Likewise, key suppliers accustomed to being paid in less than 30 days may not be willing to negotiate either terms extensions or early-payment discounts.
Still, about two-thirds of a company's total spend, on average, should be ripe for a program that involves some combination of terms extension and early-payment discounts. How an organization decides to match payment term offers to different suppliers will depend on several variables, including commodity category, vendor size, potential risk to the business, ease of collaboration, whether it is a mission-critical partner, and cash-flow demands. Reliable transaction data from a business network can prove to be a great asset in this analysis.
Attention to Payment Options
When approaching suppliers to negotiate or re-negotiate payment terms, a company may want to offer a choice of payment options that could include supply chain financing and p-cards, along with early-payment discounts, and tie these into a check-to-ACH conversion project.
Supply chain financing would be reserved for large, strategic suppliers that could work with the buyer's bank on receivables financing to leverage the supplier's lower cost of capital. Take the case of an overseas vendor that stocks critical parts for a U.S. manufacturer. If the manufacturer requires the vendor to maintain a minimum inventory level to fill orders on demand, supply chain financing would be a good option to finance that inventory.
On the other end of the spectrum, for transactions in the range of $5,000 or less, companies may want to offer a p-card program to card-accepting suppliers. An organization's p-card purchases may be extensive, but they're unlikely to represent a large proportion of the company's total procurement. For example, you may use p-cards with 80 percent of your total suppliers, but p-card purchases may represent only 20 percent of your total spend.
Meanwhile, converting payments from paper checks to an electronic format such as ACH makes sense for payments that aren't a good fit for supply chain financing or for p-cards. Compared with paper checks, ACH payments offer lower costs and some protection against fraud for buyers, while helping suppliers decrease days sales outstanding (DSO). Any accounts payable group that is cutting paper checks daily, or even several days a week, should consider reducing paper check runs to once a week. This will motivate more suppliers to accept ACH payments.
New Potential in Dynamic Discounts
That brings us to one more option for those exploring new payment terms with their suppliers: dynamic discounting. Traditional discounts, such as 2 percent 10-net-30 are static—on day 11, no discount exists, so the buyer has no incentive to pay before day 30. In contrast, dynamic discount opportunities continue on a sliding scale up to the due date of the invoice.
With dynamic discounts, a company can capture standard discounts, as it normally would, but also take advantage of additional discount opportunities from the purchase date up to the net term of the invoice. These may include both smaller discounts (on the sliding scale) for payments received after the standard discount deadline and discounts at a higher face-value rate for payments received before the standard deadline. Discounts can be captured at any time of the month or year, but they tend to spike upward at the end of the fiscal quarter or fiscal year. Suppliers often have higher demand for cash at these times, so they are more willing to accept discount offers in exchange for immediate payment.
Businesses that combine dynamic discounting with electronic invoicing usually get up and running with an early-payment discount program before the e-invoicing or dynamic-discount solution is in place. This "rapid ramp" approach targets suppliers that either have offered discounts in the past or have never been approached with the idea of early-payment discounting. For suppliers that agree to participate, the buyer initially assigns a mutually agreed-upon standard payment term and captures the discounts manually. Once the e-invoicing and dynamic discounting software are in place, those solutions handle the discounts automatically, and they can expand to include the sliding-scale discounts. One oil and gas company that followed this approach identified nearly $1 million in savings through early-payment discounts in three weeks.
For many suppliers considering p-card payments, dynamic discounts may be a better option. Their flexibility is a major advantage. P-card merchants have fixed fees, and suppliers have no leverage to negotiate the rates. They can, however, counter a buyer's discount offers as part of a negotiation over accelerated payment. Plus, the cost to accelerate payments is well below p-card rates.
Another factor to consider is that suppliers in certain industries may be more likely to embrace discount programs. In retail, for example, the factoring of receivables is a common practice for supporting a supplier's cash flow needs. Dynamic discounting can serve as an appealing alternative, where the cost to the supplier of accelerating payment is typically lower than the financing charges of a factoring firm.
Boon to Working Capital
When a business follows a best-practice approach to dynamic discounting, it can expect 20 to 25 percent of targeted suppliers will opt for discounts. Top performers can save $2 million to $3 million in early-payment discounts for every $1 billion of targeted spend and earn 24.6 percent annualized cash returns on average, typically higher than p-card rebates. There's also the considerable working capital impact of a program that extends payment terms, which can free up about $3 million in cash for every $1 billion per day of DPO improvement.
For companies that combine a payment-term extension program with pursuit of early-payment discounts, the net result is win-win. The buyer can help many of its suppliers get paid sooner, but at the same time it's capturing some early-payment discounts, it's also freeing up valuable working capital by extending payments for suppliers that don't accept the discount. For an organization with $4 billion of spend and an average four-day DPO extension across 60 percent of that spend, that's nearly $28.8 million in freed-up working capital. Extend DPO by 15 days—going from 30- to 45-day standard terms—and, well, you do the math.
What's holding your company back? With interest rates at historic lows and many suppliers strapped for cash, the time is right to take a closer look at how your organization is managing cash and working capital. If your income statement shows healthy margins, sizable cash balances, and little debt, there could be no better strategy to improve bottom-line results.
Chris Rauen is a solutions marketing manager for Ariba, an SAP company. In this role, he is responsible for marketing programs that educate finance, procurement, supply chain, and other business professionals on the transformational potential of the Ariba Network and Ariba's cloud-based financial solutions. Before joining Ariba, Chris spent more than 15 years in business-to-business marketing for technology innovators OpenVision, Documentum, and Xign Corporation.
This story was previously published in Treasury & Risk.
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Interview: 'The Lone Ranger' star Armie Hammer
It didn't take long for acclaimed actor Armie Hammer to decide after being cast in the title role of "The Lone Ranger" that in addition to playing the part, he was going to make it a way of life.
"That was best part about this whole thing -- we all got to live it," Hammer told me in a recent interview. "We camped and worked together, and at night we'd have bonfires and karaoke parties, then go to bed and start again the next morning at sunrise."
And then, of course, there were the physical demands of the role, which include riding on horseback, running on top of moving trains and wobbling atop the film's "Spirit Platform," which towered over a canyon in Dead Horse Point State Park in Moab, Utah, with a 2,000 foot drop.
Oh, and that was the easy stuff.
"The role also included a combination of being thrown off horses and dragged behind stuff," Hammer enthused.
Opening in theaters nationwide Wednesday, "The Lone Ranger" tracks the origins of the famed masked man as told through the point of view of Tonto (Johnny Depp), his faithful partner on the Western trail. Beginning the film as John Reid, a man of law, an extraordinary series of events unfold to transform Hammer's character into the Lone Ranger, a legend of justice.
"The Lone Ranger," of course, has incredibly rich history, starting as a radio serial in 1933 on WXYZ Radio in Detroit. Becoming a national phenomenon, the radio series ran for 21 years, producing nearly 3,000 episodes.
The character became more popular than ever, though, with "The Lone Ranger" TV series starring Clayton Moore in the title role and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. Running from 1949 until 1957, "The Lone Ranger" also spawned two movies and a character that would become a pop culture icon.
See the trailer for "The Lone Ranger" below.
Hammer said the major difference between "The Lone Ranger" radio and TV series in comparison to the new movie is how instrumental Tonto -- a lone Cherokee Indian warrior who helps revives Reid after deadly shoot-out -- is to the overall story.
"We take the stance in our movie that, 'Without Tonto, there would be no Lone Ranger.' It's very similar in the television show because without Tonto, the Lone Ranger, would have died out there in the canyons," Hammer explained. "But with our story, Tonto teaches John Reid how to become the Lone Ranger, instead of rescuing the man who is the Lone Ranger."
Of course, Hammer didn't officially become the Lone Ranger until he started wearing the mask, which effectively introduced him to a whole new set of sensibilities as an actor.
"What I didn't think about before hand was, 'As an actor, I emote with my face,' only to realize, 'I'm going to put on this mask, which effectively hides my face and keeps people from seeing what I'm thinking,'" Hammer explained. "So you have to learn to act all over again. You have to use body language and different things to get your ideas across."
Of course, a big part of acting is reacting, and Hammer said Depp couldn't have made his job any easier.
"He makes it the easiest thing in the entire world," Hammer said. "I was pleasantly surprised by how normal he was. He was so approachable and so much more easygoing than he would have to be, need to be or could be."
Hammer got to experience Depp extrapolated, in a sense, by working with director Gore Verbinski, who was at the helm of three of the actor's "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, as well as "Rango."
"Gore's just confident and in control," Hammer said. "He was the leader of the ship, there was no doubt about it."
In a separate interview, Verbinski told me Hammer perfectly embodied the quality of a classic actor that he was looking for to play the Lone Ranger.
"By design, I couldn't get Jimmy Stewart for the role, so I wanted to find somebody for this movie who had classical bones and a little out of time, because I wanted to throw the character of John Reid against Tonto and against Johnny," Verbinski explained. "So I needed somebody like Stewart in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' who you could really believe in everything he's saying."
The main thing that won Verbinski over with Hammer was the positive demeanor of "The Social Network" and "J. Edgar" star.
"When Armie came in to see me about the role, I noticed he had an amazing enthusiasm and optimism, and he is a little out of time. He didn't grow up in Hollywood, and he didn't have the cynical attitude that you get with so many young actors these days. He was genuinely enthused," Verbinski recalled. "Once we put the hat and mask on his and had him read a few lines, it was obvious that he had the ingredient that I wanted against Tonto."
While Verbinski put Hammer through the paces with some rigorous physical demands for the film, Hammer said he did have one advantage going in: His time atop the iconic horse, Silver, wasn't his first ride.
"I grew up riding and hung out around ranches all of my life," recalled Hammer, 26. "If any, the movie was like, 'Oh, I get to hang out around a ranch all day? Great! It sounds like a wonderful way to get paid."
Equine experience aside, Hammer was still required to attend "Cowboy Camp" on location in New Mexico with his fellow collaborators to learn the Western way of doing things.
"They loaded all of the actors up in a van when we got there and took us out to a horse ranch. They said they were going to leave us out there until they 'beat the city out of us,'" Hammer said with a laugh.
Bring Me The News film critic Tim Lammers is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and annually votes on the Critics Choice Movie Awards. Locally, he also reviews films on "KARE 11 News at 11." As a feature writer, Tim has interviewed well over 1,000 major actors and filmmakers throughout his career and his work is syndicated nationwide.


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Higher blood-sugar levels, even those well short of diabetes, seem to raise the risk of developing dementia, a major new study finds. Researchers say it suggests a novel way to try to prevent Alzheimer's disease — by keeping glucose at a healthy level.
Alzheimer's is by far the most common form of dementia and it's long been known that diabetes makes it more likely. The new study tracked blood sugar over time in all sorts of people — with and without diabetes — to see how it affects risk for the mind-robbing disease.
The results challenge current thinking by showing that it's not just the high glucose levels of diabetes that are a concern, said the study's leader, Dr. Paul Crane of the University of Washington in Seattle.
"It's a nice, clean pattern" — risk rises as blood sugar does, said Dallas Anderson, a scientist at the National Institute on Aging, the federal agency that paid for the study.
"This is part of a larger picture" and adds evidence that exercising and controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol are a viable way to delay or prevent dementia, he said.
Because so many attempts to develop effective drugs have failed, "It looks like, at the moment, sort of our best bet," Anderson said. "We have to do something. If we just do nothing and wait around till there's some kind of cocktail of pills, we could be waiting a long time."
About 35 million people worldwide have dementia; in the United States, about 5 million have Alzheimer's disease. What causes it isn't known. Current treatments just temporarily ease symptoms. People who have diabetes don't make enough insulin, or their bodies don't use insulin well, to turn food into energy. That causes sugar in the blood to rise, which can damage the kidneys and other organs — possibly the brain, researchers say.
The new study, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, just tracked people and did not test whether lowering someone's blood sugar would help treat or prevent dementia. That would have to be tested in a new study, and people should not seek blood-sugar tests they wouldn't normally get otherwise, Crane said.
"We don't know from a study like this whether bringing down the glucose level will prevent or somehow modify dementia," but it's always a good idea to avoid developing diabetes, he said.
Eating well, exercising and controlling weight all help to keep blood sugar in line.
The study involved 2,067 people 65 and older in the Group Health Cooperative, a Seattle-area health care system. At the start, 232 participants had diabetes; the rest did not. They each had at least five blood-sugar tests within a few years of starting the study and more after it was underway. Researchers averaged these levels over time to even out spikes and dips from testing at various times of day or before or after a meal.
Participants were given standard tests for thinking skills every two years and asked about smoking, exercise and other things that affect dementia risk.
After nearly seven years of follow-up, 524, or one quarter of them, had developed dementia — mostly Alzheimer's disease. Among participants who started out without diabetes, those with higher glucose levels over the previous five years had an 18 percent greater risk of developing dementia than those with lower glucose levels.
Among participants with diabetes at the outset, those with higher blood sugar were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia than diabetics at the lower end of the glucose spectrum.
The effect of blood sugar on dementia risk was seen even when researchers took into account whether participants had the apoE4 gene, which raises the risk for Alzheimer's.
At least for diabetics, the results suggest that good blood-sugar control is important for cognition, Crane said.
For those without diabetes, "it may be that with the brain, every additional bit of blood sugar that you have is associated with higher risk," he said. "It changes how we think about thresholds, how we think about what is normal, what is abnormal."
Study: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1215740
Alzheimer's info: http://www.alzheimers.gov
Alzheimer's Association: http://www.alz.org
Warning signs: http://www.alz.org/10signs


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Preventing Obesity
Preventing Obesity in Children and Teens
Facts about prevention
Obesity is a chronic disease affecting increasing numbers of children and adolescents as well as adults. Obesity rates among children in the U.S. have doubled since 1980 and have tripled for adolescents. About 17 percent of children aged 2 to 19 are considered overweight compared to over 66 percent of adults who are considered overweight or obese.
Earlier onset of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity-related depression in children and adolescents is being seen by healthcare professionals. The longer a person is obese, the more significant obesity-related risk factors become. Given the chronic diseases and conditions associated with obesity and the fact that obesity is difficult to treat, prevention is extremely important.
A primary reason that prevention of obesity is so vital in children is because the likelihood of childhood obesity persisting into adulthood is thought to increase as the child ages.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC, breastfed babies are less likely to become overweight. The CDC also reports that the longer babies are breastfed, the less likely they are to become overweight as they grow older.
Children and adolescents
Young people generally become overweight or obese because they do not get enough physical activity in combination with poor eating habits. Genetics and lifestyle also contribute to a child's weight status.
Recommendations for prevention of overweight and obesity during childhood and adolescence include:
- Gradually work to change family eating habits and activity levels rather than focusing on a child's weight.
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Movie review: Twists keep 'Broken City' intriguing
Maybe it's time to put the idea of bad movies being dumped into January release dates to a rest. This crime drama, which explores the nastiness and sleaziness bubbling just below the surface of New York politics and police departments, is both an actors' showcase and a crackling good story.
In the midst of a look at a tight mayoral race between the longtime incumbent Mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe) and the upstart, much younger rich guy, Jack Valliant (Barry Pepper), we get tales of murder and cover-ups and cheating and various other illegal and immoral activities.
Detective Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) was forced to take a fall seven years ago and has since opened up his own private investigator agency. All is going fine for him and his lone assistant, the ditzy but hard-working Katy (Alona Tal). Well except for the fact that his clients aren't paying him on time. But a call from the mayor, who all those years ago made him step down, brings him some much-needed cash … if he'll use his P.I. camera to find out who's sleeping with the mayor's wife, Cathleen (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
So begins a series of stories that starts in one unassuming place, leads to another, connects a fact here and there, then proceeds to fire out a succession of them, loading up the script – from first-timer Brian Tucker – with one surprise after another.
But on top of this plethora of plot twists is the added factor that we get to see a parade of characters that not only dislike each other, if some of them had their way, they would have their nemeses rubbed out.
Remember, we're dealing with cops and politicians here. Oh, wait, we're also dealing with husbands and wives, and boyfriends and girlfriends, and fathers and sons. It's rare to see a film so chock full of hatred among both main and minor characters. But it makes for some intriguing viewing, and listening, as practically every bit of dialogue is sharp and believable.
A quick warning for those with delicate ears: There's lots of salty language. There's also some harsh violence, but more is threatened than actually committed onscreen. And, for good measure, we get a brief car chase.
Wahlberg has a terrific turn here, showing many sides of his character, generously sharing Taggart's strengths and weaknesses. Crowe more than makes up for his wooden performance in "Les Miserables" with a combination of laidback appeal and quiet intimidation and, by the way, a heck of a New York accent. Zeta-Jones' Cathleen is one of the most complicated characters in the film, and she plays it well. It's too bad that she isn't given a bit more screen time to flesh it out even more.
The film's strongest point is its plentiful supply of secrets, and how they're eventually revealed. Most movies as hardboiled as this one would save something like that for a big ending. But in "Broken City," they seem to come flying out every quarter hour or so. Characters here have their own secrets, they're keeping secrets of others, and some even hide secrets from those who have secrets. But don't worry. There are plenty left for a nicely played, out-of-the-blue ending.
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Greg Zyla: Is my 1968 Mercury worth restoring?
Q: Hi, Greg, I have a 1968 Mercury Montego with a six cylinder engine and a "three on the tree" standard transmission. I believe Mercury only built 20 of these cars in 1968, so I am wondering if this car is worth restoring back too new condition? It is in pretty good shape. Please advise and thanks very much. Ray Owens, email from Ohio.
A: Ray, I receive several letters like your every year, and in your case, I'll try to be as specific as possible. First and foremost, your 1968 Mercury Montego will never under any circumstances be a desirable collector car like the status of cars sold at Mecum or Barrett Jackson classic auctions. Your car is currently listed under NAPA Old Car prices somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,620 to $2,948, mainly because of the six-cylinder engine which is a 10-percent deduction in value. The three-speed standard isn't even listed, but I would assume it would be another deduction of five to 10 percent. When new, your Montego sold for a base of $2,504, but the model came in many different variations.
Had your Montego been the two-door with a 428 Cobra Jet engine and 4-speed transmission with the Cyclone Ram Air package, the value would jump to a minimum $25,000 in good shape. This comparison let's you know what collectors look for these days when considering 1968 Mercury Montego for purchase.
Enthusiasts who restore their cars do so for one of three reasons: first for enjoyment, second for investment, and third for enjoyment and investment. If you were to spend thousands of dollars restoring your Montego with the three-speed standard on the column, you will never get that money back when you resell, but you may have fun and do so for personal fulfillment. If this is the case, have at it but keep in mind a full restoration of a "no real-collector-value" car or truck can set you back some serious money.
However, from what I read into your letter, you are seeking guidance on whether to spend money on this car and if it is worth it to do so.
Thus, my answer is a firm no.
I would, however, enjoy the car as it does have local car show value and is indeed a rare conversation piece. In ending, maintain your Montego well and spend wisely on visual upgrades. Thanks for the letter.
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