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The New York Times profiles Apple's retail business

The New York Times published a lengthy report today regarding Apple?s retail operations. The article covers a few aspects of the business, but most of it focuses on the employees.

Following the tone of its previous piece on Apple?s supply chain, The Times paints a bleak picture of Apple?s retail employees, describing them as overworked and underpaid?

The entire thing can really be summed up by the first paragraph:

?Last year, during his best three-month stretch, Jordan Golson sold about $750,000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N.H. It was a performance that might have called for a bottle of Champagne ? if that were a luxury Mr. Golson could have afforded.?

Dividing Apple?s overall retail revenue by the number of its employees, the author calculates that, on average, each of them ? including non-sales staff ? made the company $473,000 last year. Wow. Compare that to the average employee?s salary of $25,000 a year, and we admit, it looks sketchy.

But it?s not like Apple is underpaying its employees. The article redeems itself from being a total witch hunt by pointing out that the company actually offers above average pay compared to most other retailers, and surprisingly?good benefits. Each employee is offered health care, 401(k) contributions and substantial discounts on Apple products.

Aside from the pay, The Times outlines a number of other complaints from current and former Apple Store workers, including limited upward mobility, and constant stress from the ever-increasing foot traffic. It also claims that according to internal surveys, employee satisfaction at several locations is ?surprisingly low,? especially among technicians.

Of course, Apple refuted the claim, and issued the following statement:

?Thousands of incredibly talented professionals work behind the Genius Bar and deliver the best customer service in the world. The annual retention rate for Geniuses is almost 90%, which is unheard-of in the retail industry, and shows how passionate they are about their customers and their careers at Apple.?

The entire article is worth a read ? if only for its insight into the lives of Apple Store employees. It really could have done without the?cynicism?though. Newsflash: not everyone in the world ? especially in retail ? is always happy with their job.

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Microsoft Event Drums Up Major Buzz

Microsoft invited reporters and industry experts this week to a special event on Monday in Los Angeles, where it promises to make a "major" announcement. Since then, speculation has been rampant about exactly what that announcement will be, though Microsoft has not released any further details. Theories that the announcement will be tablet-related are dominating the conversation at the moment.

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Howling good time at the National Hollerin' Contest

Courtesy Janice Edwards

Tony Peacock, the 2011 winner of the National Hollerin' Contest, held this weekend in Spivey's Corner, N.C.

By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor

If you?ve ever been shushed by a cranky concertgoer or tight-lipped librarian, here?s your chance to get your revenge. On Saturday, the tiny town of Spivey?s Corner, N.C., will host the National Hollerin? Contest, which promises to be a howling good time.

The event, now in its 44th year, celebrates the ?lost art? of hollerin?, the traditional form of communication that people used before telephones became commonplace. It?s also apparently the highlight of the festival calendar in Spivey?s Corner, which despite its small size ? pop. 48, give or take ? proudly calls itself ?The Hollerin? Capital of the Universe.?

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Not the nation, mind you, or the world but the universe. Sadly, we haven?t checked out hollerin? competitions in other galaxies but with that kind of moxie, we had no choice but to give the contest a shout-out as the Overhead Bin?s Weird Festival of the Month for June.

Hollering, it should be noted, is not the same as screaming or yelling. Instead, it?s a traditional vocalization marked by rapid shifts between natural and falsetto voices that was used throughout the region to communicate with neighbors, call farm animals and family members, or simply celebrate the musicality of the human voice.

?It?s not about how loud you are, it?s about the technique,? said Aaron Jackson, a local volunteer firefighter and Hollerin? Contest committee chair.

In other words, it?s a lot like yodeling but without the lederhosen.

The contest, which is also a fundraiser for the Spivey?s Corner Volunteer Fire Department, was born in 1969 after Ermon H. Godwin, a local radio personality, proposed the idea, partly as a joke and partly to revive a remnant of earlier times.

As Godwin told the Associated Press in 1996, ?A good holler could be heard a mile away. Depending on the holler, younguns? knew when to bring a half-gallon Mason jar of water and when to bring an ax or a hoe to kill a snake.?

Today, the event features hollerin? contests for men, women and children, along with a car show, food booths and whatever other offbeat activities organizers can come up with. Hollerin? aside, one of the most popular events is the greased watermelon roll in which contestants try to catch a slippery watermelon as firefighters use a high-pressure fire hose to keep it away from them.

?If you catch it before it gets out of the zone, you get to keep it,? said Jackson. ?That?s the prize ? you get to keep a greasy watermelon.?

Other events, including whistling and conch-blowing contests, have come and gone over the years but hollerin? is clearly the big attraction, with the best contestants actually hollerin? out ?Amazing Grace,? ?Shortnin? Bread? and other traditional songs.

?You want to pick out sort of a niche holler that you can call your own,? said Jackson. ?That?s what usually wins the contest.?

Rob Lovitt is a longtime travel writer who still believes the journey is as important as the destination. Follow him at Twitter.

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Leaving pets in hot cars : News : UpperMichigansSource.com

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IRON MOUNTAIN -- Many pet owners feel attached to their furry friends, taking them along for car rides and errands.? But as the summer heat moves in, leaving pets in the car can be dangerous.
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What should you do if you see a distressed pet left in a vehicle?? Diane Luczak, Manager of the Almost Home Animal Shelter, says pets should never be left in the vehicle with temperatures over 60 degrees.? The situation can cause heat stroke, severe dehydration, seizures and even death.? She says if you find pets left in a hot vehicle, call animal control

"Call am animal control officer; also go into the store and report it at the service desk and describe the make of the car, and, you know, the dog, so they could page the owner," said Luczak.????

Stacy Christiansen Smith says if you would not be comfortable sitting in the car with the windows only down a couple inches, don't do it to your dog.

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