Coach Profits Plummeting

Coach Inc. sales are plunging due to handbag shoppers taking their foot traffic and dollars to Micheal Kors and other rivals. The company targets mostly upper middle class and the high class populations with its $600 handbags. Coach said profits fell 20% amid a steep drop in sales in North America. Sales will continue to fall through the rest of the year, the company said. The company is trying to expand its products by producing more lifestyle items like clothing and accessories vs. just handbags. Coach rivals include Vera Bradley, Kate Spade, Micheal Kors, and Tommy Hilfiger. 

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304893404579531354011791062

Door County to Become Roadless

Construction to eliminate all county highways and roads will begin June 30th, 2014 just in time for the peak of the tourist season. Roads including Highway 42  and 57 will be completely deconstructed and bike paths will replace them. All back roads and county roads will also be torn down. The county board made this decision in order to to aim for the goal to be the "greenest" county in America. For transportation, a bike rental unit will be built at the entrance of the county. Bikes including single, tandem, triplet, mountain, dirt, city, style, Islamic, trikes, Swiss, hydro bikes will be available to rent. Also stationary bike will be unavailable for senior citizens that are unfit to take on 60+ mile trips. Visit the Door County website for more info! 

China is Fat

The People's Republic of China is following in the USA footsteps and getting fat. Experts say that Chinese soldiers are getting significantly chubbier. According to a report in the PLA Daily, a new study finds China’s soldiers are, on average, two centimeters taller and have waistlines five centimeters broader than 20 years ago. The fatter servicemen are now in need of bigger equipment because they don't fit into the tanks designed for the human body 30 years ago. 

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-19/chinas-chubbier-soldiers-need-bigger-tanks

8 Reasons Why Sky the Terrier Was the Perfect Dog to Win Westminster Kennel Club's Best in Show

A 5-year-old wire fox terrier named Sky was Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Her handlers name was Gabriel Rangel. Sky loves to kiss people and she loves everybody. Rangel says that Sky has a diva type personality. Here's 8 reasons why she deserves her title: #1 Her cute puppy face. #2 Her walk is fantastic. #3 She's fierce. #4 She simply has the "it" factor. #5 She showed poise and class #6 She was a gracious winner. #7 She didn't like her ribbon #8 Apparently she can talk! 

http://www.eonline.com/news/510207/8-reasons-why-sky-the-terrier-was-the-perfect-dog-to-win-westminster-kennel-club-s-best-in-show

Super Bowl Sex Trafficking

Sixteen children, ages ranging from 13-17, were called in missing by their families last weekend. The FBI made a crackdown on sex trafficking surrounding the Super Bowl weekend. In child exploitation cases like this, law enforcement officials said operations are designed to remove the young victims from a life of exploitation and abuse. The young people were taken by pimps facing emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. "This is the most recoveries we've had at one time", Michael Osborne of the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children Unit told ABC News.
http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/FBI-16-juveniles-recovered-in-Super-Bowl-prostitution-sting-243532301.html

Boston Marathon Suspect

The final decision was made regarding  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the death penalty today. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was twin brother of  Tamerlan, who were both involved in the Boston Marathon bombing killing 3 people and leaving hundreds wounded. Prosecutors allege that Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, ethnic Chechens from Russia who had lived in the Boston area for about a decade, planted two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with police. Dzhokhar pleads not guilty even tho there is enough evidence to call that he is guilty. Ok 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/us/boston-marathon-bombing-case.html?_r=0

Day-time Sleeping Throws Genes Off

Staying awake at night and sleeping during the day affects your natural body clock, and that negatively affects everything. Researchers from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre in England 
disrupted the sleep patterns of 22 test subjects by letting them sleep at night the first day of the study and then forcing them to sleep from noon until 6:30 p.m. on the second and third days of the study. After taking blood samples, the doctors found gene activity to be impaired. According, to Everyday Health, "Genes carry the instructions for making proteins. Proteins make up just about every kind of chemical signal, hormone and tissue in the body... The timing of when proteins are made is important because their production should correspond to our behaviors." Therefore, 8 hours of sleep every NIGHT is essential. 

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/daytime-sleeping-could-throw-genes-out-whack/ncwpy/