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The subject assigned is the future.
You must have come here very excited to learn of the future.
I will not insult your intelligence.
I must confirm something you already suspect: You are not looking at Nostradamus, Jr., reincarnated up here.
If you learn of Juniors location, please share this information with me.
As we, together, consider the future of textiles and subsequently, textile machinery, perhaps you identify with the words of Winston Churchill: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
What more is there to do? What more can we offer to save textiles in the United States?
In preparing the outline for this presentation on the future, I found myself going in many directions. I consulted with several ATMA colleagues and staff, with other resources in our textile industry and with staff of allied associations.
Many, many good ideas came from these conversations.
From my several consultations no clear future path emerged, however, I thank those who shared their knowledge.
I do know this about today: The U.S. customer base is losing 144 employees each business day, people who wont be using our machines.
I know this about the last five years: We have lost 144 employees of U.S. customers, each business day, people who might have used our machines.
I know this about the future: We cannot maintain a textile machinery and services business depending on the U.S. market alone as the U.S. customer work force shrinks by 144 people each business day.
So, historically, all segments of the U.S. textile industry have offered up enough blood, toil, tears and sweatsome at different times than others.
As we look at the history of textile machinery in the United States, perhaps, we can see future survival techniques, for suppliers and most importantly, for the U.S. customer base.
For survival there is neither a crystal ball nor magic formula, nor is there an encompassing solution in the elements offered up by Sir Winston.
For future survival we do have historical precedents, we have current trends, and we have each other.
Perhaps, we have ignored for too long the potentials of "each other" approaches.
With our historical basewe share similar circumstancesit is just possible that together, we can share or exchange knowledge and resources, and survive collectively. I do not exclude the possibilities of joint ventures, or lesser collective pursuits.
So, today, my theme is to focus on the commonalities of possible survival techniques, historically and currently, for all segments of our shared U.S. textile industry, but in particular, the machinery suppliers and the mills.
I will offer this to you with some examples drawn from ATMAs flexible strategy for survival.
First, let us examine U.S. machinery and exhibitions history as possible bellwethers to the market positions of our respective sectors. There are some lessons here.
Second, we will look at ATMAs definition of its industry in terms of adapting its membership criteria to market circumstances. This too, may have use to U.S. textile interests.
Third, in a new world of competition, we require new alliances. ATMA provides more examples.
When ATMA was founded in 1933 the organization already had a legacy of leadership and history of change extending back to the 1800s. It is in this continuum of change that we discover and re-discover some techniques for new age adaptation.
Of 97 founding companies, only six were based in the South.
Massachusetts lead with 37 and bunched behind were Pennsylvania, New Jersey and you guessed it, Rhode Island. Samuel Slaters mill still stands, not exactly a testament to security of intellectual property, but certainly it is an enduring example of American ingenuity and perseverance. Another score of founders were spread about the North.
Only a handful of these companies remain, and fewer, yet remain in strong market positions.
It is fascinating and instructional that the early Yankee dominance of textiles is paralleled by U.S. textile exhibition history, which in turn, is linked to the rise of ATMA.
Machinery makers had order backlogs and developed a sort of quota system. The mills in the North for generations were in effect, controlled by their supplier neighbors!
In less than a generation the world-class ATMA founding companies would realize, largely by their own initiatives, their need to out-migrate to the South. As that occurred, U.S. machinery producers experienced a rather fast fall in the textile hierarchy.
But then, in 1881, ATMAs New England-based predecessor decided to produce an exhibition in Atlanta.
This single event, some textile industry historians claimed, sparked the industrial revolution of the South. Thousands of mills were given rise by this International Cotton Machinery Exposition.
So, in 2006, there will occur in Atlanta, at ATMAs initiative, another new beginning, a Megatex of shows, 125 years after the meteoric rise of textiles in the South.
For several years, between 1881 and 1969, several exhibitions were produced throughout the North by ATMAs predecessor groups and ATMA. Shows sprouted up as textiles in the South expanded. It got expensive for suppliers.
The geographic shift of major mill production required new approaches. Penetration from Europe rooted itself in the Southeast. ATMA took ATME-I® to Greenville in 1969. For a time this suited marketplace requirements, for the majority of textile segments.
And, concurrently the world of textiles rapidly shrank. We quickly became multinationaloperations, transactions, shows, distributionthe works.
This may discomfort you momentarily: But, please consider that textile machinery producers, regardless of ownership location, have been in a global competitive struggle for about one-half century. We have adjusted to that, just as U.S. apparel and textile interests are now challenged with the necessity of adjusting to unprecedented global competitiveness.
The U.S. textile machinery industry, a generation ago, simply looked upon exports as icing on the cake, as long as they didnt take too much effort. And, they looked upon imports as a nuisance.
In recent years, to survive, U.S.-based machinery producers have exported 30-to-50% of production.
Now, time and circumstances impose more change on all of us. We, collectively, are not simply suffering through a down cycle. We are adjusting to a major industrial transformationa revolution of global naturean age driven by technology and computerization.
This is not just a business cycle. The competitive structure of the industry is altered forever and we are trying to catch up with it, wouldnt you agree?
New terms and new concepts have emerged: "Value added services." "Partnering." All of us are now much more than just manufacturers or just a service company as we realize we have to be both and more to survive.
Things are different in the United States. And, in Europe. And, in Asia.
That doesnt mean the U.S. industry is going away. We are reinventing ourselves. We are repositioning ourselves. Companies will disappear, but the industry sectors will survive at some level and in some form.
For my company, for ATMA and for its members, this is a time of regeneration.
A huge contributing factor to U.S. textile industry deterioration is the 1997 devaluation of Asian currencies that has led to a flood of unfairly priced imports into this country, a 30-40% cost advantage. A misguided "strong dollar" policy on the part of the U.S. Treasury has prevented these currencies from recovering.
We are not alone. Last year, according to the National Association of Manufacturers, the nation lost well more than one-and-one-quarter-million manufacturing jobs. Other sources report much more and attribute the losses to the strong dollar and unfairly priced imports.
One outcome is a severe decline in cash flow, working capital at domestic mills and profits. And U.S. banks have been reluctant to lend to the U.S. textile industry at their critical time of need, except at prohibitively high interest rates.
The question for us in the U.S. textile machinery business is can we help our domestic customer survive.
We need to work with our customers to bring a halt to the damage that the industry is suffering and to give them time to develop a long-range strategy.
That includes trying to convince our government to act to bring down the over-valued dollar to a level that reflects economic fundamentals.
An impressive coalition has been created in Washington that has united manufacturing, agriculture and labor to accomplish this. It is called the Coalition for a Sound Dollar and it is putting enormous pressure on the Administration to bring the dollar back down to normal levels.
ATMA has committed to support the initiatives underway in Washington to address many public issues and to lend our voices to the political forces seeking restoration commitments from our government. But what if Washington fails us, are there alternatives? We should design new strategies with or without Washington.
The rapid and dramatic changes of the marketplace now require all of us to expand our "home" market focus now to be the Americas, the Western Hemisphere.
Unfortunately, wesuppliersno longer can look comfortably to four or five geographically concentrated states in the U.S. as the primary source of economic viability.
In short, we have world overcapacity; basic structural shifts of production; the U.S. textile industry is shrinking; the U.S. dollar is overvalued; the textile world is targeting the U.S.A.; and, Washington is not responding sufficiently.
I agree, it is not fair.
But, it is reality: The U.S. government, the U.S. economic system, simply has not responded adequately to what was being done and what is being done to the apparel and textile industries of this nation.
Again, we do not suffer alone. One writer offered this: "Consider what free trade is costing. Americas industrial dynamism and economic independence are vanishing. Company towns are turning into ghost towns. High-paying manufacturing jobs that provided a living wage for one man to raise a large American family on a single income are being shipped to foreign workers."
This industry is no less efficient or productive than those of other countries. However, we do have higher costs imposed by government and other costs consistent with our higher standard of living.
Do we think we can help those countries develop by lowering our standards to their standards? We should not be forced to compete against those lower standards.
When my ATMA colleagues elected me to the Chair in 2001 they did so with full knowledge of my three-part platform aimed at survival as an American association whose membership must now depend on shifting markets.
All three platform parts, to one degree or another, relate to better service offerings to the single-most important market of its membership, that is, the U.S. market.
First, we are re-creating and re-positioning ATME-I®, the American Textile Machinery Exhibition-International.
ATME-I® has been a rapidly declining show in the global show competitive atmosphere. With definitive change it will become of more utility and more representative of your interests.
We now have a plan, it is not the best plan, but it is a logical transitional plan to deliver to you in 2006 an international event that will be second in size only to the European show ITMA. It will be comprehensive and germane to your interests and needs.
As a step toward the redefinition and transition of ATME-I®, there will occur in Greenville in 2004, a consolidated show, which deserves full patronage by suppliers and buyers alike, to meet certain interests and needs of this region.
The 2006 show will be expanded in size, concept and attendance, I think dramatically, and will include as many broadly defined textile industry segments as possible. We have been talking with several other organizing bodies with apparel and textile show interests and intellectual property rights.
The second part of the ATMA platform, quite simply, is to expand ATMA membership. ATMA traditionally limited its membership to metal benders and meticulously held its criteria to the classic definition of manufacturing. For a long time we contemplated the reality of this approach.
We observed that this criteria excluded absolutely legitimate marketplace entities operating in the United States who from the American base established productive working relationships side-by-side with textile companies.
Reliability and serviceability of the association are factors being measured, evaluated and reviewed during my two-year term as ATMA Chairman. I must say this process is harmonious and productive. We have invited participation by prospective members. We have cooperative staff skilled in the administration, and compilation and analysis of member needs and wants surveys.
We are confident that by Summer we will develop a "new product" package without disruption. Historically, ATMA has been adept in re-inventing itself.
It is perfectly acceptable under a non-profit trade association umbrella to direct programs toward profitable enterprise with our customers. And, that is the third part of the platform on which my ATMA colleagues elected me.
While ATMA does have some traditional customer alliances, such as several working relationships with the American Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) and some of the local groups, it has been just in the last few years that we realized the need for more.
We have expanded our alliances with U.S. customer associations and others in the Western Hemisphere. In fact, it is our goal to present to every legitimate textile organization worldwide the virtues and value of dealing with U.S.-based suppliers.
This third part of our platform includes also, alliances within the U.S. manufacturing sector of capital equipment.
ATMA is advantaged that the staff in our suburban Washington, D.C. headquarters have long-term served our specific needs and also have become quite adroit in serving and creating alliances with other capital equipment associations.
There is much to learn from basic manufacturing colleagues. The fruits of this networking process are transferable and directly applicable to better serving our textile industry customers. For example, we have gained insights as to how these colleagues have managed the overabundance of international standards that commonly apply to capital equipment products.
We have gained cost-savings and productivity technique insights to outsourcing.
We have learned more about the utility and future of manufacturers representatives and agents.
There are many more examples of benefits gained by this outreach.
Another example, product liability prevention and defense have a common thread throughout the capital industry sector and we brought much of this to our U.S. customers through cooperative programs with ATMI.
And, on another front, we have gained very valuable insights on the subject of exhibition management, proliferation, and stagnation.
It is importantmore than just a little importantto this administration of ATMA to generate new alliances through peer company association as well as through customer groups, with the goal of expanding marketing opportunities.
The American way is different. In the U.S. of A. trade associations are more prolific and more important to doing business than generally practiced in other parts of the world. Americans place high value on volunteerism and belonging to affinity groups.
It is this recognition of difference, I think, that prompted offshore interests such as the owners of my company, now in the fourth generation, to go beyond looking at America just as a source of sales.
I am pleased to be part of the American system, as I know are many of my European colleagues who have payrolls of American citizenswho pay corporate taxes to a wonderful countrywho have children who are American citizensand who take full advantage of the American system while returning what is expected, and more, to our American communities.
We offer our humility and our gratitude for these conditions of opportunity and contribution.
In the larger context, as the year began, we were told to look for slow recovery, maybe. The National Association of Manufacturers predicted economic recovery overall by close to two percent, but warned that manufacturers cannot expect to share in much of that, particularly capital equipment manufacturers.
It is deplorable that America, once the model of self-sufficiency, now receives 40 percent of its manufactured goods from offshore.
ATMAs purpose is to improve business conditions within the textile machinery industry of the United States within a global context.
We also encourage the use of the products of the industry and protect, promote foster and advance the common interests of our members as manufacturers and distributors of textile machinery on a worldwide basis.
Most of our members are small-to-medium size, centering on the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, although member organizations are also located in the Northeast, and Midwest.
In the last decade an increasing and significant number of us around the ATMA Board table, regardless of our citizenship, report to offshore owners. Regardless, the vast majority of us are charged to profitably operate business in the Americas, plural, the Americas.
The U.S. apparels and textile plunge has greatly harmed ATMA members. You know the crippling impact of the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in North Carolina since 1997.
There is no question that the global textile infrastructure is being reinvented. Our survival challenge is to anticipate its eventual design and function.
Recently, top markets for American-made textile machinery include Mexico, Belgium, Canada, Singapore, China, Germany, Brazil, the UK, Japan, and Italy.
The top six U.S. textile machinery import sources are Germany, Japan, Italy, France, Switzerland and Belgium.
Over recent years our trade balance is negative, about 40-60%, but we are not so confident in these delayed and sporadic government statistics.
We hope to obtain more timely and more reliable data resources in the near future.
The Caribbean Basin Initiative and African Trade Bills should promote stronger textile machinery markets in the Caribbean region in the short-to-mid term and many African nations over the long-term. Chinas admittance into the World Trade Organization also could bode well for increased U.S. textile machinery exports over the medium and long-term.
U.S. textile machinery manufacturers, therefore, generally face an improving market position, with world textile consumption increasing or at least, new textile producing markets in development.
I must repeat: ATMA works toward the survival of its members and the common good of the U.S. textile industry. We must operate in world markets in order to serve our most valued market, the U.S. producers.
This is why every year we always ask leaders of ATMI and selectively, other associations, to attend our meetings and if not for delivery of formal speeches, to network, and to share with us in that networking process the goals and predicaments of the industry. We seek to identify respective roles we might fulfill to the betterment of one another.
Another role ATMA has filled quite nicely is to provide some key administrative support services to the American Textile Alliance.
The American Textile Alliance was created three years ago through the efforts of several textile association leaders.
ATMA immediately offered its cooperation and we have directed our staff to provide high priority to participate in and to assist Alliance activities by all means appropriate and timely.
The Alliance agenda is useful and we would like to see its spirit and use expanded at a progressive rate. We see among our customer associations too much duplication, too much of the same, not enough collective action. Suppliers resources have shrunk to the point of being unable to support the dozens of separate organizations.
We are not interested in supporting public dissension. We are most anxious to support a united U.S. textile industry as united positions are deliberated and as they are announced.
I have little doubt of the survivability in the Western Hemisphere of American-based suppliers and mills if we concentrate our forces in new modes. While we work toward political remedies we should not delay consideration of long overdue strategic business cooperation.
There are no short-term fixes beyond miracles from Washington.
Our associations provide fertile ground for creation of strategic business alliances, vertically and horizontally. Realistically, for those companies that have some business and some reserve resources, we are looking at mid-term and long-term approaches.
You have listened politely to this opus on the future. Everyone has opinions based on the information available to them, and based on how hard they have been hit.
From your position, are there any bright lights? Are there possible avenues for pursuit by our collective industry, or for pursuit by individual companies?
I, and ATMA, would most sincerely appreciate your feedback to these questions.
Allow me to summarize what has been offered today directly, or implied, as items for action to survive the future:
1. Our mix of markets and marketing methods will not be the same, ever again. The golden goose has no more eggs to lay.
2. I recommend you read an excellent article in last weeks issue of Southern Textile News, titled "American Textile Machinery." It offers survival insights for all textile segments in the U.S.
The deftness of content pre-empted much of what I anticipated offering today. Read it, please.
3. Markets are shrinking while they are shifting. Specialize. Export. Think about joining ATMA in one of its trade missions abroad, particularly South of the border. Quietly, a few years back, we did just that with some U.S. mills.
4. Adjust. Seek alliances vertically and horizontally, domestically and offshore. Outsource. Offer to be a source. Offer your products to competitors; seek competitor products for your market. Ask your suppliers if they have offshore customers interested in alliance discussions. Inform your suppliers of possible alliances with offshore supplier entities.
5. Promote consolidation of industry collective resources. Eliminate duplicate and triplicate expenditures of dollar and human resources.
6. If you are qualified, join ATMA. It is the only U.S. association that solely represents machinery supplier viewpoints. It is adaptable and agile and it is recognized throughout the world for its longevity.
7. Refocus the worlds attention to our turf, our leadership, our creativity. For example, support Megatex in Atlanta in 2006 to achieve global repositioning. This concentration of exhibitions, conferences, and interests has many virtues.
And again, export.
This is easier said than done because of the requirements of successful exporting. I will conclude with my view of those requirements.
First, have quality product globally attractive.
Second, target a significant market share, whatever or wherever the market.
Third, acquire a solid financial base sufficient to research and develop event of new products.
Fourth, offer a package of services before sale, during sale and after sale. For example, prepare and undertake joint research with your customers. Provide reliable after-sales services.
Fifth, stay close to your customer at all times. Be accessible. Produce close to this place of production.
Adaptation and survival are the key issues in this global market. Let us work together toward this end.
Thank you.


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Verizon's LTE fastest, T-Mobile takes second place, while AT&T provides in rural America
0. phoneArena 27 Jun 2011, 15:13 posted on
The annual test of the nation's largest carrier networks reveals that Verizon's 4G LTE is the fastest and most stable of them all, T-Mobile's 4G HSPA+ comes second, while AT&T performs best when you step out of major cities...
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1. The_Miz (Posts: 1496; Member since: 06 Apr 2011)
I wonder how much Verizon stuffed their pockets for this lol.
10. Shemus Shaughnessey (unregistered)
Are you lost, fella?
16. jogutier (Posts: 324; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
@ The Miz, I luv HATERS!!!
2. topshelf1800 (unregistered)
verizon doesnt stuff pockets they actually invest in their network. Sprint spends more money annually on NASCAR than their network, so they lose.AT&T claims to have 4g but they have a boosted 3g signal, also lose. LTE is the future for now and verizon built that network. no bandwagon stuff here Verizon as far as network goes gets it done all other carriers are in the rear. just check consumer reports for the last 10 years only company that came close was Altell and look where they are now....
3. bluechrism (unregistered)
But is T-Mobile "4G" :)
7. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
yea, sprint and ATT say that as well, yet Tmo beats them all exept VZW. woops.
19. buck (unregistered)
You idiots, AT&T hasn't even begun to deploy 4G...and notice the commercials say.....There GETTING faster with 4G! AT&T's 4G won't launch until mid July...from there it's kick ass and take names! They worked on enhancing 3G to HSPA so when 4G is not available instead degrading all the way back to 3G you have HSPA+ which is something the Big Red nor sprint can say they have!
27. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
uhh. buck, theyve already launched LTE in New York. And they have been calling their slow ass HSPA that only goes to 12mb/s "4g". But hey, Sprint only goes to 12mb/s and they get to call that "4g" too. whats your point?
31. The Joker (unregistered)
Let me just go ahead and tell you that Verizon is the ONLY carrier with LTE rights in entire US. AT&T doesn't even have half the rights that Verizon has so it'll be the same old battle. AT&T will have fast coverage in some areas but Verizon will be the more reliable and widespread coverage
4. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
ahh, they tested my city. Average is lower than I expected concidering what I, but it also depends on time of day and area like anything else. While the average for my city is less than what i post on my 3g vibrant which is around 5mb/s, it does hold up with what i was saying about being able to keep up n beat vzw's LTE in my area. They beat tmo by a measily 0.24 on an average test which means they were fighting back n forth.
20. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Furher proof how little you know. In the other article you send Verizon could only get theoretical speeds of 30 Mbps and here we see they are getting real world. Also T Mobiles average speeds are under 4.
26. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
proving again, your an idiot. They did the tests in the beginning of june. The network was upgraded mid/late june. I posted results in this thread with PICTURES of current speed results, which are again, FASTER than what LTE got in my area, just like i said before.
their theoretical cap is in the low 30s. They didnt hit 30 they hit a SPIKE in the high 20s. By the same token Tmobile hit spikes around 16s, JUST LIKE I SAID BEFORE.
30. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
BTW, im talking about jacksonville, my town. im aware that it hit a spike in the 30's somewhere in the national test, but hey, I dont live there... lol
34. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
If you can read it says high for Verizon was 37. How can theoretical be in the 30's if VZW is getting that real world?
5. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
6. stealthd (unregistered)
I can't wait until LTE is everywhere. With roaming agreements coverage could stop being an issue entirely.
8. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
just realized, they did the test in jacksonville on june 2. They upgraded it to the "42mb/s" max on like the 18th. Thats why its not reflecting the speeds that ive been seeing lately. Oh well, still good though.
9. Shemus Shaughnessey (unregistered)
How can AT&T get the gold in the rural areas, especially with a success percentage being that low?
11. Sw1tchUp (unregistered)
Haters gonna hate on T-Mobile but they know were fast and that thats why At&t wants some of that
18. Galen20K (Posts: 541; Member since: 26 Dec 2008)
I heard THAT! people like to follow misconceptions and be popular by hating the under dogs even tho they consistently match or Outperform the "slightly" bigger fella's. well I don't really expect much from people anyways so whatever, let them be as ignorant as they like.
12. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
here is what I ran this morning on my 3G vibrant on tmobile. Its a higher average than their 4G test from the beginning of the month, proving to any doubters that the speed limit cap raise actually affected average speeds.
and just because its awesome, heres my vibrant's quad score on a 2.3.4 kernel overclocked to 1.54ghz. :) :)
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23. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
Here is some pics of my LG-Slate 4g from like.. 10 minutes ago running speed tests.
PC Mag did the speed test in jax on june2, the network was upgraded mid/late June.. this is the current results.
Gslate wide shot for proof
Gslate up close so u can read the speed history
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24. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
"whooos the speeed king noooooow" :)
13. VerizonFan (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Jun 2011)
They should have tested in Seattle cause the market here must be way different I have a thunderbolt for Verizon an EVO 3d for sprint and a g2 for tmobile and I have never gotten above 1.7 mbps on my g2 but in speedtest Verizon rules I get 26 to 31 constant never gotten any lower and on my EVO 3d I always get between 11 to 15 never got any lower but I notice my web pages and YouTube videos open and load faster on my EVO 3d than my thunderbolt there has been a couple times where its loaded the desktop YouTube page 20 sec faster than my thunderbolt so they shoulda came here maybe woulda had diff results
21. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
thats funny, since sprint's wimax is only capable of 12mb/s, not 15. nice try.
25. wumberpeb (Posts: 453; Member since: 14 Mar 2011)
On the right day, although its rare, ive seen 12-14 Mbs here in Albany NY on an Evo Shift. Oddly enough, ive never seen better than 10 on an Epic or Evo, or even a 3D. Dont have an answer for that one...
Im pretty sure i cant crack half a megabit on 3G, however. Sprint 3G is terrible
28. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
CDMA 3g is great for coverage but yea, it doesnt have any speed to it at all.
14. xmguy11 (unregistered)
"AT&T provided better performance in more rural areas," I don't know what PC Mag has been smoking. But here in rural Tennessee (between Chattanooga and Nashville. AT&T sucks! Even their coverage map shows this. T-Mobile shows better.
15. xmguy11 (unregistered)
Verizon (3g for now) is king here!
17. jogutier (Posts: 324; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
Hercules, hercules, hercules. YEA VERIZON !!!!
22. Socalvenom (unregistered)
As a new At&t customer and former Sprint Customer I can honestly say both company's are great but it all depends on where you live Im currently in Compton Ca and I"v never had a drop call on At&t or Sprint, Verizon's okay but to over priced for me I currently have a family plan $69.99 700 landline minutes and free night&weekends+$30 unlimited mobile talk for familys on any network and unlimited text,$50 for 2gb on each phone. That's $149.99 w/ tax its $164.99 but I added a 15% discount thanks to my school and I pay between $135 and $140 a month that's just as good of a value as sprint's family plan Wimax is okay but what didn't convince me was the fact that it doesn't cover everywhere while At&t's Hspa+ not "4g" covered everywhere in LA I went. In all the speed I received where okay from as low as 1.02Mbs down 85kbs up to as high as 5.7Mbs down 1.56Mbs up. On the Iphone 4 just in case anyone was wondering.
29. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
u can get 2 completely unlimited plans from tmobile for 140 BEFORE discount. unl talk text and web. no overages. period.
32. VerizonFan (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Jun 2011)
Yea the highest I have got is 15.2 mbps and it could be because there expanding here in the greater Seattle area Ima network engineer and help roll out towers for 4g right now for sprint cause there the only ones upgrading and laying out in Washington but my ping is still pretty high at 120 where my thunderbolts in the 80's but when were setting up towers and running them thru the test sprint has more bandwidth than any others we have setup so it processes things faster not quicker
33. VerizonFan (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Jun 2011)
And no overages unless u hit 90,000 texts than tmobile charges u any carrier does and then they throttle u at 5 gigs but that that's every carrier in the u.s.

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I don't know--you can get the Avengers steel case with a $7.50 deposit (and subsequently cancel the preorder and keep the case if you so desired) and the Dead Island: Riptide steelbook when you place a $5 preorder for the game (again, you could cancel the preorder and keep the steelbook if you wanted).
Hopefully not a lot of people are doing doing this. It's pretty scummy.


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The 10-year partnership will allow Sodexo to access chef Irvine's knowledge of nutrition and fitness in its aim to benefit the quality of life for military members, the vendor said in a news release.
Sodexo hopes that Irvine's popularity as the host of Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible" will draw attention to its commitment to nutrition, health and well being. Irvine also has a military history himself—before embarking on his culinary career, he...
The cafeteria at the Smithsonian's new National Museum for African American History and Culture is intended to be an extension of the museum, showcasing stations that offer cuisines from different geographic locations such as the Creole coast and agricultural South, Time reports .
The eatery, Sweet Home Cafe, was set up to highlight the wide range of African-American cuisine, Executive Chef Jerome Grant told Time. When it officially opens later this month, it will serve dishes such as shrimp and grits, pan-roasted oysters and a fried catfish po'boy.
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Chicago youth to Obama, Congress: We want to work!
CHICAGO - A group of African American youth and community organizers who gathered to watch the State of the Union address were most interested in what the president had to say about jobs.
Suburbs see huge growth in poverty
Over one-third of America's poor are now living outside of urban centers according to a new survey released last week.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A girl who escaped a western Kentucky house fire that killed her mother and eight siblings is recuperating from burns and communicating with her hospital nurses, a family friend said yesterday.
Kylie Watson wrote "I'm hungry" on a dry erase board from her hospital bed, pastor Tim Burden said. Burden said the 11-year-old girl's father, Chad Watson, is also making progress at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Eight of Chad Watson's children and his wife, Nikki, died in a house fire in rural Muhlenberg County early Thursday morning. Investigators say the fire was likely ignited when a combustible material made contact with a baseboard heater.
"The whole community is mourning. This is a tragedy, and it could happen to any of us," said Duane Harvey, a neighbor who was the first person to arrive at the fire just after 2 a.m.
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p>Unable to coax a convincing performance from the lovely Heather Graham, he seems more comfortable focusing on plot threads two and three, but the connective tissue between the stories is tenuous at best, confused in doses and uninteresting in general. It's full-bore melodrama all the way, with very little in the way of unexpected developments or unique perspectives. Each characters gets a crucial (yet pedantic) life lesson (or three) as they muddle through their respective miseries before the flick trudges to its inevitable series of conclusions, some bittersweet, some hopeful, all pretty generic. Despite the omnipresent tragedies and emotional speed bumps the screenplay doles out, not much in the way of sincere emotion manages to seep through the screen.
Typical misery-laden Sundance fare all the way, Alfredo De Villa'sAdrift in Manhattan offers three semi-connected stories of angst, loss, loneliness and general unhappiness. Have a ball. Story #1 -- Heather Graham (Boogie Nights) plays miserable optometrist Rose Phipps, a heartsick woman who is suffering over the loss of her young son while dismissing the offers of reconciliation that her recently estranged husband (William Baldwin, Backdraft) keeps tossing out there. Story #2 -- Victor Rasuk (Raising Victor Vargas) plays a semi-creepy young photography enthusiast who has a subtly unsettling relationship with his mother and a potentially unhealthy obsession with the aforementioned (miserable) optometrist/hottie. Story #3 -- Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos) plays an old painter who is gradually going blind, but slowly kick-starts a tentative romance with a co-worker played by (an excellent) Elizabeth Pena (Jacob's Ladder) -- but will the younger woman (gasp) accept a man who is losing his eyesight??
Do any of these mini-movies sound particularly enthralling to you? How about all three in one 89-minute block? Well, this kind of flick is the absolute bread and butter of the Sundance Film Festival, which makes for a pretty depressing afternoon or two, trust me. While not exactly what you'd call a bad movie, Adrift in Manhattan is simply too predictable, familiar and obvious to warrant much in the way of attention or enthusiasm. (Throw a rock into any year's Sundance guide and you're guaranteed to hit at least two or three multi-pronged grave and oh-so-earnest weep-dramas like Adrift in Manhattan) A well-polished indie-style soap opera, the movie is packed with quivering lips, angry tirades and cathartic sex ... but none of it really adds up to a whole heck of a lot. Director Alfredo De Villa (who traveled somewhat similar territory in his Washington Heights) has a knowing touch for emotion and nuance, but ladles the angst so liberally that the movie begins to feel a little bit like a Lifetime Channel flick.
To his credit, De Villa does bring a workmanlike visual sensibility to the proceedings, presenting a New York City that's as casually cold as it is undeniably vibrant. If only the screenplay possessed a little more of that energy. It's an admirable experiment to be sure, but De Villa's raw visual style is at constant odds with Adrift in Manhattan's undercooked and over-familiar recipe. If you're the sort who enjoys movies because of their familiar trappings (and there's certainly nothing wrong with that), you'll probably appreciate the whole of the flick a lot more than I did.


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Charleston Moves has hired Kurt Cavanaugh, who formerly worked with the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, to be its first paid executive director.
The Lowcountry's nonprofit bike and pedestrian advocacy group said Cavanaugh will begin work here on Aug. 4.
He will replace Tom Bradford, who has led the group as a volunteer for years.
Cavanaugh previously worked as deputy director for the alliance, park conservancy group that helped maintain North Brooklyn's 100-plus parks, playgrounds and green spaces. Since 2012, he managed its administrative, fiscal, and programmatic operations.
Before that, he directed the East Village Community Coalition, a quality-of-life and historic preservation advocacy organization with a $200,000 annual budget. He also co-founded Greensboro N.C.'s bike advocacy group.
Stephanie Hunt, Charleston Moves' board chair, praised Bradford for helping the group make "enormous strides," adding, "Kurt comes to a region primed to become a premier walking-biking community."
Charleston Moves has pushed for adding a bike-pedestrian lane to the northbound U.S. Highway 17 drawbridge over the Ashley River and for its goal of a "Battery to Beach" route that would connect the Isle of Palms with Folly Beach via downtown Charleston. It also is opening new offices at 1600 Meeting St. in the Neck Area.
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Chichester crash sends six to hospital
Two seriously injured
Published 7:59 AM EDT Aug 26, 2013
A crash in Chichester sent six people to the hospital on Sunday night.
The accident happened at the intersection of Route 4 and King Road.
Police said two cars were involved, and two people suffered serious injuries.
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I gave another person the basics of this liefstyle, showed my before and during pics and gave them the site information for MDA. I hope she 'listens' because she could relly benefit. She walked into the clinic this morning carrying "The Biggest Loser Cookbook" so I know she is open to change, just not sure how drastic.
I showed her where to get the Primal 101 information and told her the most important thing to read is the definitive guide to grains. She was open to eating meat, fat and reducing carbs, but said she couldn't cut out pasta. We talked about addicition and food poisons...and especially reducing inflammation (I work in physical therapy, so she is here for an 'itis'). We shall see if she embraces it.


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Finishing my book(s).
American Soldier says,
The crowd that has been around for a while know that I wrote a book at one time. It sits idle in a folder named 'Book'. It ends when I came back from a deployment that never sent me overseas. It details about 6 months of my life during the deployment and parts of my life that dive into the core of who I am.
Then there is the aspect of what happened after the book was finished and the eventual deployment to Iraq.
I wonder if such a book would still be marketable?
If you are a publisher, know a publisher or are generally interested in my book, let me know.
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I am not a publisher, nor do I know any, but you bet I would buy your book!!
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I do know a publisher actually- same one that published Toby Nunn's book. They're called Authur House. They're a 401k client of mine. I don't know who does the actual publishing there, but I do have some decent contacts. They're an on-demand publisher and handle a lot of non-fiction.
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THE Western Cape grape farmer who has made a commitment to pay a minimum wage of R105 a day to workers has accused the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) of not playing ball.
Cape Orchards Company director and farmer Gerhard de Kock was reacting on Wednesday to statements made on Tuesday by Cosatu Western Cape provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich that a deal had been struck in the Clanwilliam area.
Mr Ehrenreich told the South African Press Association the agreement, which would see workers be paid a minimum daily wage of R105, up from the current R69, had been reached with a significant number of farmers.
He said the agreement would be used as a model for similar deals if farmers' association Agri SA agreed to it on Wednesday.
However, Mr de Kock said he had not signed an agreement, but had made a commitment to implement the new wage from the first quarter of this year.
In return, Cosatu would undertake that his and other farmers' workers would return to work on Wednesday.
"Cosatu are not playing ball. Workers in the Hex River Valley, in particular, have not returned to work despite Cosatu's promises," he said.
Mr de Kock said he had made the commitment on behalf of the following farms:
Sigma and Arcadia in Clanwilliam; in the Hex River Valley the farms of Lombardy, Tweespruit, De Doorns House Estate, Somerlus, Exhex, Normadie Elspiek, Mordow and Idle Winds; in Carnarvon, the farms Medoc and Duiker Kloof; and in Touwsrivier, a farm called Langwater.
All these farms are associated with Cape Orchids Company either through direct ownership or through a management contract.
Mr de Kock said the commitment for the new minimum wage applied to about 1,000 farm workers, who he claimed were not unionised.
"These workers are allowed the right of association. But they don't want to be unionised and so Cosatu does not represent them," he said.
Mr de Kock said the combined annual output of these farms was about 4-million boxes of table grapes.
The area is currently at the height of the table grape harvesting season.
The town of De Doorns is the centre of the main table grape area of the Hex River Valley and has been the main flashpoint of the recent strike action.
On Tuesday a man died after allegedly being hit by rubber bullets in an incident linked to the strike, which the Independent Police Investigations Directorate is investigating.
The Department of Labour is due to hold its third round of public hearings on farm worker wages in De Doorns on Wednesday evening.
Workers have been striking for the past two weeks demanding that their minimum daily wage rise to R150.


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"no man might buy or sell, save he that had the _mark_"
Gees. He´s interpreting that wrong.
Germany´s gonna leave the Euro-zone and return to their old currency. Shortly thereafter it will be the only currency still worth anything. Then you will obviously need the "Deutsche _Mark_" to buy anything.


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Located inside Raccoon Creek State Park are the Frankfort Mineral Springs, once the spot a nationally recognized health spa during the 1800s. Trails pass through the site, which held a building until it was destroyed by fire in 1932. The mineral water still flows and is surrounded by flowers in the summer and ice formations in the winter.


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Govt to pay state fuel retailers Rs 550 cr oil subsidy
The government fixes retail prices of LPG, kerosene and diesel, leading to revenue losses at state-run IOC, Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
New Delhi: India will pay Rs 30,000 crore to state-owned fuel retailers forced to sell at cheaper government-set rates in the first half of the year, said three sources who saw the finance ministry's confirmation letter. The government fixes retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas, kerosene and diesel to protect the poor, leading to revenue losses at state-run Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
The payout by the finance ministry, nearly 46 per cent less than the Rs 55,400 crore the oil ministry had been seeking, will be released after parliamentary approval is granted, the sources said. The finance ministry pays cash subsidies to state oil retailers while state-run upstream companies - Oil and Natural Gas Corp, Oil India Ltd and GAIL (India) - sell crude oil and associated products at a discount.
India raised the price of diesel in mid-September, after a gap of more than a year, and capped annual sales of subsidised cooking gas cylinders to six per household. The three fuel retailers received the letter from the finance ministry on Thursday morning, the sources said. IOC, the largest fuel retailer, will receive a government subsidy of about 161 billion rupees, while HPCL and BPCL's share will be about 66.7 billion rupees and 72 billion rupees respectively, they said.


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BEREA—Greg Little caught four passes for 77 yards against the Ravens, but he will be remembered for the one he didn't catch.
With 4:45 to play in the game and the Browns trailing 23-13, Little went high into the air in the end zone and couldn't come down with the pass that would've made it 23-20. Instead, Phil Dawson kicked a 52-yar d field goal to make it 23-16.
"You dream and go over things over and over in your head," Little said. "It comes down to those three to seven or eight plays where you have to make a spectacular effort.
"In this league there are not many blowouts," he said. "We just have to find those one or two plays that we need to win."
If Little would've made the catch, the Browns could've tied the game at 23-23 on their final drive. Instead, the Browns drop to 0-4.
Pat Shurmur still insists that Little is improving.
"(Little) dropped an obvious one, but there was progress made that might not be noticed by those not privy to everything we do," Shurmur said.
Little has 11 receptions for 151 yards and one touchdown.
Shurmur once again said he has 'zero tolerance' for dropped passes.
Little was targeted 10 times and did connect with Weeden on a 43-yard play on the Browns 94-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter to make it 9-7. Later in the game, Little caught a 22-yard pass to set up a 50-yard field goal by Dawson to cut the Ravens lead to 23-13.
Weeden tried to throw to Little on the game's final play, but threw the ball uncatchable out of the end zone. Shurmur said Weeden was hit as he threw the ball.
Little knows to be considered a great player, he is going to have to make great plays.
"I just know in order to be a great receiver and be great, you have to make a great play that people remember that when a play is made."
Little says he's doing everything he can to get better.
"(You get) more chances as you get more game experience," he said. "I feel like I'm making progress every week, but it comes down to making that spectacular play sometimes."
Shurmur said he's seen cases before with players who went through stages in their careers of dropping the ball, but then put it behind them. He noted Brandon Gibson when he was with the Rams as a player in a similar situation.
"There is a lot you don't see we work on from philosophically on how you approach catching the ball and out on the field," Shurmur said. "I've seen a lot of players that have worked through it. You just keep working every week."
No Doom and Gloom: Shurmur said he refuses to talk doom and gloom despite the Browns 0-4 start. No team has ever made it to the playoffs after starting the season 0-4.
"No doom and gloom here," he said. "We're going to do what we can to go to New York and beat the Giants.
"We need to win the game."
Shurmur said he doesn't see the team giving up.
"I'm confident our guys are going to bust their tails all year," Shurmur said. "That's the little tunnel we live in."
Shurmur said he really likes the team he has.
"They work extremely hard and play extremely hard, but they have to play better," he said. "This is the group of guys I want to get this fixed with. These are my guys and I want to get it done with them."
Cribbs Update: Shurmur said that WR/KR Josh Cribbs came home with the team after suffering what appeared to be a concussion on a punt return in the first quarter.
"Josh is doing well today," Shurmur said. "He's doing much better than you might expect."
Shurmur said he didn't have a problem with the hit.
"It was a good tough hit," he said. "I didn't like the fact that Josh got hurt."
Ward Dinged: Shurmur disclosed that S T.J. Ward injured his right thumb against the Ravens.
"He's being evaluated," Shurmur said. "There's a chance we might have to do more evaluating."
Shurmur did compare the injury to DB Ray Ventrone, who is back playing after missing a game with a similar injury.
Amazing Phil: K Phil Dawson booted three field goals from 50 yards and beyond to keep the Browns in the game.
"Phil Dawson is amazing," Shurmur said. "He just keeps going."
Dawson tied Doug Dieken in playing in his 203rd game with the Browns. He trails just Lou Groza (216) and Clay Matthews (232) in games played for the Browns.
Injury Update: A couple of other players were injured with undisclosed injuries in the Ravens game. DB Usama Young was seen on the side line being looked with by the medical staff.
"We'll let the dust settle and be back on the field Monday," Shurmur said.
Also, after WR Travis Benjamin returned a 40-yard punt filling in for Cribbs, he was not on the field at the end of the game when the Ravens punted. WR Jordan Norwood was out there. Shurmur didn't disclose what was wrong with Benjamin.
"He had a little issue."
Fujita in New York: Shurmur confirmed that LB Scott Fujita was in New York meeting with Commissioner Roger Goodell on the 3 game suspension that was over turned by a panel. Fujita was supposed to meet with Goodell a couple of weeks ago, but was unable to attend as he was rehabbing a knee injury.


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The Internet is buzzing. As of 10:20pm Tuesday night Players and select owners are still meeting.
Ron Burkle is a major factor in the talks:
Hearing that Ron Burkle has been voice of reason today. Obviously, with Crosby in room it creates a interesting dynamic.
— John Shannon (@JSportsnet) December 5, 2012
First good news we've seen in two months.
Via The Sporting News:
Also in on the meeting, which has taken several formats and broken up into various subgroups: Bruins owner and labor hawk Jeremy Jacobs, Larry Tanenbaum of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Jeff Vinik of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Mark Chipman of the Winnipeg Jets and Murray Edwards of the Calgary Flames. NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly is present, as well.
Crosby, Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller and captains Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks and Shane Doan of the Phoenix Coyotes lead the 18-player group, along with special counsel Steve Fehr.


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Does your mood change between the breakfast table and the time you reach your office?
It could be because of nasty weather, a traffic jam or any of a thousand other reasons.
But try this explanation: You could be one of those people intensely affected by colors in your environment.
From your apartment, down the hallway, out the door and to your place of work, you continually pass a variety of shades and hues. If you are an individual that has a strong psychological response, color can act like a kaleidoscope shaking up your life, color expert Leatrice Eiseman says. She has spent the last 26 years studying our reactions psychologically and physiologically as part of her job as Director of the Pantone Color Institute, a color specification system.
Eiseman crosses the country doing seminars about "The Power of Color" for the public at museums including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC as well as for those working in the fields of fashion and interior design and in graphics departments of big businesses. She thinks it's a topic that deserves your attention.
How can color affect you? She offers a short list. (For more, you can turn to "Colors For Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors" which she wrote in 1998, published by Capital Books.)
Red: Can make you feel excited, sexy, full of energy, alive. For some, it actually increases the heart rate.
Yellow: Can make you feel cheerful, optimistic, full of hope. There's an inherent connection to sunshine. If you don't have a sunny apartment, you can brighten your interior by painting walls a pale yellow. However, keep away from greenish yellows. They can make you feel a bit uncomfortable or nauseous.
Orange: Combines the positive traits of both reds and yellows. But since it is also a known appetite stimulant, keep it out of your home if you are forever dieting.
Blue: Can make you feel calm. When you wear it, others perceive you as capable of being their leader. Business people are told to wear it, especially the dark blues, when making important speeches and presentations. Most say some shade of blue is their favorite color.
Green: There's an enormous range of shades. True greens and those tinged with blue make you feel rested and at peace with nature. Strident yellow-greens may leave you feeling disgusted or slimy and ready to head for a refreshing shower.
Purple: Combines the excitement of red, the tranquility of blue. Those with an artistic bent will feel more creative in a purple room. Non-artistic people sometimes find it confusing and keep away from it. In countries with kings and queens, it is seen as the most regal color. Some think of it as the most spiritual color.
Brown: The color of hearth and home. Makes you feel comfortable and content. Especially liked by people who are not pretentious. When you wear brown, others perceive you as level-headed, reliable and responsible. First cousin to brown is beige, which is considered neutral and chosen by many for their dcor since it withstands trends in color.
Black: You might feel especially chic, sleek and sophisticated while dressed in black, but others associate it with death and mourning and keep away for fear of becoming sad. It is rarely mentioned as a favorite color, though some think of it as the color to wear to be perceived as tough. Up until the middle of the 20th century, it was the color used for phones, cameras, office equipment.
Gray: You may feel quiet and contemplative around light grays, sturdy and resolute in the presence of medium grays but quite uncomfortable when the backdrop is that of dark gray reminding you of days in your childhood when you were confined indoors because of a storm. Charcoal gray is another good shade of clothing for those doing public speaking and presentations. However, grays are rarely mentioned as a favorite color.
White: Can make you feel absolutely quiet. Of all paint colors, it is the most popular. It is especially favored by those who are fastidious and that's a good thing since white in dcor requires constant attention to cleaning. Many living in the city see it as a clean refuge from polluted air and grimy streets. Is white a neutral? Not if it is a bright white, but there are many others tinged with green, blue, pink, yellow, beige.
Eiseman, who lives in a claret red house on Bainbridge Island in Washington state, makes a few more points about color:
Whether you decorate a room in warm shades or those that are cool, your guests will feel more comfortable if you color-balance the room by adding a tone from the opposite color family -- warm with cool, cool with warm.
No two people have exactly the same reaction. While there are certain generalities, it is also known that very personal associations affect our feelings about color. For example, if your mother decorated the house entirely in a pale blue, you could find that color boring and want an opposite when you do your own place. If you had colds often as a child and had to swallow red cough syrup, anything you come across now in that particular shade of red can make you feel uncomfortable or to recall a word you used then "icky."
As an expert in this field, Eiseman is called upon to forecast trends. What will the buying public find comfortable to wear or use next? Some colors are in today but will be out next year. That's important to clothing and furnishing manufacturers who plan and work 12 to 24 months ahead.
Eiseman meets twice a year with other members of the Color Marketing Group, based in Alexandria, VA, that figures out upcoming trends. Colors popularized in hit movies or museum exhibits can spark a trend. So can colors associated with a news events. Environmental issues in the 1990s made greens popular, for instance.
She reports that the hot colors now for car finishes are the subtle metallics. They speak volumes about money and prestige and make those who choose them feel successful.
But if you are talking about connection between colors and behavior, she suggests you avoid purchasing a red car. Red cars are most stolen, most hit and most likely to get speeding tickets.
For babies' bedrooms, new parents don't go for trend colors but rather the bright primaries -- red, yellow and blue. It's too stimulating, says Eiseman. Babies are happier in pastel rooms.
Do others agree with Eiseman?
Dr. Mary Gregerson, Director of Health, Environment and Performance Psychology at the Family Therapy Institute of Alexandria, VA, "There's a lot of ongoing research showing that people can individually respond to color aesthetically, psychologically and physiologically. The results of one study showed that prisoners have been less aggressive toward others when their cell walls are pink."
Architectural interior designer Mary Drysdale, President of Drysdale, Inc. based in Washington, DC: "Yes, people will be happier living with colors they prefer for whatever reason they like them.
"But keep in mind that color isn't static. The same color can be perceived differently on the walls of a small room, a large room, a room filled with furnishings from the opposite side of the color spectrum. Even placement affects color. It can look one way when used vertically and another when used horizontally. If you want proof of this, go into your kitchen and look at the countertop and backsplash. If the same material was used, does it look the same or does one appear darker?"
Interior designer Victor Shargai, President of Victor Shargai Associates, Inc. based in Washington, DC: "The type of lighting also affects our perception of color. A fabric on a sofa or a wall paint will appear one color on a day filled with sunlight and quite another when it's cloudy or raining and at night when lights are on rather than a natural source of lighting."
Both Drysdale and Shargai agree that all of this information is further complicated by the fact that no two people see the exact same shade when looking at a color just because we are biologically different.
They also agree that most people who tell their interior designer that they will absolutely not consider a particular color are usually surprised to find they like some shade within that color family especially when combined with an opposite shade used for a trim or accent.
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Imagine walking into your home and every electronic device adapting to your current mood or preference. You could set the heating to the appropriate level, you've already turned the oven on before you got to the door and you've switched on soothing anti-work jazz music to ease you into the evening, all without lifting a finger.
Another area Professor Coleman is focusing on is the idea that the BMI could read signals that are emitted from other parts of the body, which are then transmitted and interpreted by another, similar device.
Take speech, for example. There is a phenomenon known as subvocalisation, which is essentially communication before it is vocalised. When we read a word or sentence we internally hear the sound each word makes, which helps us understand and process the information we're taking in.
This is a completely natural process and it helps to reduce cognitive load. Most people will be unaware that they're doing it but as they read sentences or prepare to speak, their throat muscles actually move even if nothing is actually said.
Professor Coleman believes that his BMI device can be attached to a person's throat to read subvocalised speech, transmit the muscle movements to another device – for example, a smartphone - and translate the thoughts into words, wirelessly.
It's truly fascinating stuff and the potential applications are endless. It could change lives for people who are unable to communicate vocally and relieve the stress of having to learn an alternative form of communication.
A more radical, science fiction-type use would be to have person-to-person conversations with just thoughts - although society would probably have to develop a new type of thought etiquette and your dirty, darkest twisted fantasies would have to be saved for a special 'sub-conscious hour' that you have alone every evening.
Police would arrest you for thinking about throwing a Twix wrapper on the floor and you'll always know the truth when your girlfriend says she's 'fine', when she's not fine at all. All because of a temporary tattoo.


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Standing on two long, thin pieces of wood, four fifth-grade students held pieces of rope in each hand and worked together to lift and move the boards across the grassy field, racing against other fifth-grade students at Valencia Meadows Park on Friday.
"Get them closer together," one of the students said, hoping her teammates' legs and feet would move in unison to slide the boards along the grass.
The kids found a rhythm and began chanting "left, right, left!" and quickly moved ahead of the competing team.
Under cloudy skies, the students used their imaginations — as well as their wood-and-rope accoutrements, designed to make walking more difficult — to transport themselves to the beginning of the 19th century.
The kids were learning to travel as Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their Corps of Discovery did from 1804 to 1806 during a historic trek from a spot near Hartford, Ill. to the Pacific Ocean, which was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.
The activity was designed by their fifth-grade teachers to mimic the struggles of Lewis and Clark's tough cross-country trip.
The team of four was part of 130 fifth-graders from Meadows Elementary School who took part in the school's "Lewis and Clark Day," said Patricia Porter, the fifth-grade social studies teacher.
"It's a fun, hands-on way to learn about living history," said Amy Dobry, one of the fifth-grade teachers who organized the event.
The students were joined by 25 parents who set up stations and led lessons for the students.
The all-day event included a lunch break where students feasted on "buffalo burgers" and snacks.
Friday marked the fifth year Meadows Elementary School hosted "Lewis and Clark Day" for its fifth-graders.
In small groups, students rotated through 12 stations spread over Valencia Meadows Park. Students got a visit from Sacagawea, the American Indian woman who helped Lewis and Clark. The students also built origami canoes from paper and played a fishing game.
Audrey McIntosh's team won the crossing-of-the-mountains exercise on the two boards.
Audrey, 11, reflected on how hard it would be to go through mountains on foot.
"Imagine how hard it would be to go up and down," she said.
"It helps you learn a little bit more," Audrey said.
Lewis and Clark Day has grown steadily in size over the years to become an end-of-the-year event the fifth-grade students look forward to.
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Dan Reichenbach's shot from just inside of half court was the difference in overtime for the Salisbury boys as they upset Wilson in the District 11 quarterfinal round Friday.
Wilson forced overtime late in regulation and then Gerald Terry hit a shot with 3 seconds remaining in OT that appeared to be the game winner. But Justin Aungst fired a pass to Dan Reichenbach at half court and after one dribble his shot hit nothing but net giving Salisbury a 57-55 win.
Joining the Falcons in the District semifinals are the Central Catholic Vikings who cruised to a huge win over Tamaqua 77-37.
Parkland's girls were among the winners in the quarterfinals. The Trojans' 49-30 win means a rematch against Nazareth in the semifinal round.


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Football's vanishing spray was a big hit during the 2014 World Cup, and on Wednesday, the Barclays Premier League announced the spray will be used in England's top-flight league during the coming 2014-15 season.
The news was first confirmed by the league's official Twitter account:
BREAKING: Vanishing spray will be used in the Barclays Premier League from the start of this season #SprayForBPL pic.twitter.com/uiTPXT4Ph3— Premier League (@premierleague) July 30, 2014
Vanishing spray is a foamy substance officials can spray onto the pitch to indicate where the wall has to be placed on free-kicks, making it harder for defenders to sneak closer to the ball.
The foam vanishes from the pitch in just a couple of minutes, so it doesn't leave any confusing lines on the grass for both the players and spectators.
Chief Executive Richard Scudamore is a big fan of the new innovation:
Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore: "Vanishing spray benefitted referees, players, and all those who watched the World Cup"— Premier League (@premierleague) July 30, 2014
So is The New York Times' Stefan Bienkowski:
Premier League adopting the vanishing spray for this season. Undoubtedly the best signing of the summer transfer window so far.— Stefan Bienkowski (@SBienkowski) July 30, 2014
While the system wasn't perfect during the 2014 World Cup (defenders still frequently stepped over the line without any form of retribution), the simple idea of a mark on the pitch influences how players react to free-kick takers.
More importantly, the rapid spreading of the spray's usage (the Premier League isn't the first league to announce its introduction) indicates football may finally be embracing new technology that can only benefit the game in the long run.
As shared by Sky Sports News, the Scottish League could be the next competition to fall for the popular spray:
The head of SFA referees will investigate costs of introducing vanishing spray to help refs in Scotland. Give #SSN your views on the spray.— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) July 29, 2014
La Liga, Serie A and the Ligue 1 are three of the biggest leagues that have already secured contracts with the company behind the product, and now the marketers can add arguably the biggest league in the world to their client list.
Will the popularity of vanishing spray lead to more technological innovations?
The usage of vanishing spray won't be a major change in the Premier League landscape in 2014-15, but it could be the first step towards the biggest and controversial innovation of them all—instant replay.
The popularity of the spray and the usage of goal-line technology at the 2014 World Cup seem to point towards a definite change in mentality amongst football's lawmakers, so fans should expect more changes to follow.


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The Continual Argument – Monster Keywords V.S. Long Tail Keywords
Hopefully if you're reading this, you have a decent grip on link building, backlinks and exactly why websites rank where they do. I'm going to cover some overlooked aspects of SEO and why targeting long tail keywords over monsters is a good idea.
Understanding how and why a website ranks where it does is imperative. If you don't, read some of my other articles:
- The Truth About Anchor Text And How To Use It
- Blog Networks Shutting Down, The End Of Link Building?
- The No Follow Tag And Its Secret To Preserving Page Rank
- Google Page Rank: How To Increase Page Rank
- What Is Page Rank: Google Page Rank Finally Explained
- Link Quality, How To Build Quality Backlinks
- Link Volume, How Many Links Can You Really Build?
- Link Building – The Importance Of Link Diversity
- How To Improve Search Engine Rankings By Improving Your Site
- Honest Guide To Keyword Research
- The SEO Pyramid Strategy Explained
- The Truth About Off Page SEO
- On Page SEO Versus Off Page SEO
Once you truly understand why sites rank where they do, you can make instant judgments and know precisely what it will take to rank for a certain keyword. Once you can estimate what it will take to rank for a keyword, you can calculate how much it will cost you. (Just like with paid marketing)
And once you know what it will cost you, you can figure out if it's a good investment. People forget that SEO is just like any paid traffic generation strategy. With paid marketing, you absolutely must crunch the numbers.
You must estimate or calculate how much X amount of paid traffic will make you. You need to know that your marketing is profitable. If you spend $1000 on PPC, you're going to need to sell at least 11 units of a $100 product to make the marketing worthwhile.
Usually with paid traffic people calculate three things: how many visitors they need per subscriber, how many subscribers they need per sale and how much they can spend per visitor. Knowing those three metrics allows you to spend serious money on traffic.
The same concepts apply to search engine optimization. Unfortunately most SEO's just pick a few keywords, optimize their sites and start building links. They spend hundreds of hours doing SEO just hoping the keywords they rank for will eventually make them money.
A lot of the time, SEO isn't worthwhile. Generally, the fools who don't know anything about SEO want to rank for the insanely high competition keywords. In the Internet Marketing niche, people want to rank for terms like "internet marketing", "make money online" and "how to make money".
The kind of keywords that get tens of thousands of monthly searches, the monster ones.
The reality is the monster keywords just aren't that lucrative. Sure, once you rank for them they're probably going to make you a lot of money. But – the upfront cost required to rank for monster keywords is usually far greater than the end result i.e. profit.
Long term, ranking for monster keywords is most definitely worthwhile. However, when compared to ranking for long tail keywords; it's simply a waste of time. It might take you $7000 and one year to rank for the term "make money online". So that's seven grand and a whole year of no results.
If you put that money into ranking for long tail keywords, you'd see traffic within weeks or even days. Ranking for long tail keywords is logically smarter. As you should know, the majority of searchers click on the top three ranking websites.
So if you can't rank top three, there's really no point in ranking at all. That's why targeting monster keywords is a shockingly bad idea. Even if you do get on the first page, breaking into the top three positions is difficult. And when you do break into the top three positions, don't think you're done.
There's a lot of maintenance. Why? Simply because you've got serious competitors. Everyone chases the monster keywords so if you stop doing SEO when you reach page one you're going to fall behind. When you stop trying to rank for a monster keyword, the rest of page one will start to outrank you.
With long tail keywords, you generally have far less competition. So there's very little maintenance involved. In fact, with many long tail keywords you'll remain on page one for months or even years after you stop building links.
Also, 90% of the time you're going to generate far more traffic targeting long tail keywords. If you go after a few monster keywords, it will probably take months or even years to rank for them. By that time the monster keywords might not be so popular. Some keywords lose half their monthly searches in a matter of weeks.
One event can kill a keyword. With long tail keywords you're going to be less dependant on 1 source (keyword). That's another incredible benefit that most SEO's and webmasters overlook. Just like you need to diversify your income and traffic sources, you need to diversify the keywords you target.
Relying on 5-10 keywords to send you all your traffic is a ridiculous idea. I laugh at the people who go after the monster keywords as I know, they'll probably be getting no results a year down the line. They may rank for the keywords, but not in the top 3 spots where all the traffic is. Or the traffic has died down and they've wasted all their month.
With long tail keywords you can rank fast so you can predict how much traffic you're going to get and probably how much money you're going to make. All because of the speed. If you go after "make money online" on the basis that it now gets 100,000 searches a month and your website converts at 4% from those kind of searchers. Well… You're freaking high as a kite.
As in 8 months time which it might take you to rank page 1, the keyword may only get 30,000 searches a month and your website might only convert at 2%. In conclusion, target long tail keywords first. If you have the resources target monster keywords, but remember; by the time you rank for them it may be a whole different ballgame.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
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