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Bright yellow cars with mouse ears are being seen in more countries than ever. Orlando-based Truly Nolen, which uses the colorful cars as a marketing tool, is growing overseas. It is now in 58 countries, including Mexico, Saudi Arabia, China, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

About one-third of the companys revenue now topping $150 million is from international operations, company president Scott Nolen said.

The company headquarters and training facility, which faces Interstate 4 near downtown, is a good hub for international business, he added. He said the global footprint of Truly Nolen is the largest of any pest control company in the world, but some companies have more revenue globally from large corporate accounts.

He cited the following reasons that Orlando is a good place for international business:

--Good international flights from Orlando International Airport.

--Local resorts need pest control

--Orlandos fun image fits with his philosophy that employees need to have fun.

--Tourists who visit Orlando are exposed to the Truly Nolen brand.

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Michael Jackson's former housekeepers have claimed he lived in deplorable conditions inside Neverland Ranch The singer allegedly threatened throwing 'doo-doo snowballs' at staff Jackson's living conditions reportedly led to a bedbug outbreak He allegedly peed on the floor in front of a housekeeper the day after his Oprah interview

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Published: 15:00 EST, 10 August 2014 | Updated: 06:36 EST, 11 August 2014

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Michael Jackson reportedly lived in deplorable conditions inside Neverland Ranch.

The New York Post spoke with his former housekeepers about the alleged filth.

A woman identified only as 'Maid No.1' told the newspaper, 'Michael sometimes ran around where the animals were, and hed track... poop throughout the house and think nothing of it.

'Then, if you said something, hed threaten to make doo-doo snowballs and throw it at you.'

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Michael Jackson's former housekeepers have claimed he lived in deplorable conditions inside Neverland Ranch The singer allegedly threatened throwing 'doo-doo snowballs' at staff Jackson's living conditions reportedly led to a bedbug outbreak He allegedly peed on the floor in front of a housekeeper the day after his Oprah interview

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Published: 15:00 EST, 10 August 2014 | Updated: 06:36 EST, 11 August 2014

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Michael Jackson reportedly lived in deplorable conditions inside Neverland Ranch.

The New York Post spoke with his former housekeepers about the alleged filth.

A woman identified only as 'Maid No.1' told the newspaper, 'Michael sometimes ran around where the animals were, and hed track... poop throughout the house and think nothing of it.

'Then, if you said something, hed threaten to make doo-doo snowballs and throw it at you.'

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He was the King of Poop.

Neverlands manicured lawns and fairy-tale facade masked a house of horrors and madness, five of Michael Jacksons maids revealed to The Post.

Michael sometimes ran around where the animals were, and hed track ... poop throughout the house and think nothing of it, Maid No.1 recalled. Then, if you said something, hed threaten to make doo-doo snowballs and throw it at you.

When Oprah Winfrey visited the Los Olivos, California, ranch for an interview in 1993, it was pristine. Floors were waxed, walls scrubbed and windows power-washed.

It was after she, guest Elizabeth Taylor and TV crews left the next morning that the real Jacko appeared.

He literally peed on the floor of the entryway, right where you saw Oprah walk in. It was surreal. He just stood there, unzipped his trousers and watered the floor, Maid No. 2 said.

Jackson had been relatively clean and orderly up until 1993, when 13-year-old Jordan Chandler became the first child to publicly accuse Jacko of molestation.

The accusations sent Jacko into a stupor, with the singer checking into drug rehabilitation in Switzerland and hiding out overseas until attorney Johnnie Cochran secured a guarantee from the Los Angeles district attorney that he would not be arrested upon his return to the States.

He literally peed on the floor of the entryway, right where you saw Oprah walk in. It was surreal. He just stood there, unzipped his trousers and watered the floor.

His whole life changed after 1993 when he had to pay that boy off. Im telling you, he was the dirtiest, most unsanitary person in Hollywood, Maid No. 3 said.

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HOUSTON (AP) - The first time Jessica Sharon landed at the Houston Center for Sobriety, she was too drunk and strung out on drugs to remember arriving.

She woke up bleary-eyed and confused, surprised to be resting, unshackled, on a firm cot in a quiet warehouse in the shadow of Minute Maid Park; this was decidedly not jail.

Like many of the roughly 7,000 other admissions at the sobering center since it opened 16 months ago, she left fairly quickly the next morning, grateful to have dodged jail time but not quite ready to accept offers to get her into detox.

When Mayor Annise Parker opened the center at 150 N. Chenevert St. last year, the idea was to cut police costs and reduce recidivism, creating a place other than jail for those whose only crime is public intoxication. Prior to the centers opening, police were making about 17,000 arrests a year in Houston for public intoxication, racking up between $4 million and $6 million in police costs.

The sobering center has reduced that number significantly: From June 2013 to June 2014, Houston police booked just shy of 2,500 people on public intoxication, according to sobering center numbers. The center admitted more than double that number during the same time period.

Sharon is among those who have come back to the center for help, weeks or even months after declining more services.

For more than a decade, she has been battling crystal methamphetamine and alcohol addictions that seemed impossible to beat. Stretches of sobriety were eclipsed by hazy weeks spent high or drunk, often both.

Months after her stay at the sobering center, the 32-year-old hit her grace of God moment. She called her recovery coach at the sobering center and asked for help. Then, she came back.

Im honestly terrified because there have been other times where Ive gotten sober and thought I was done and then I relapsed, Sharon told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/X0bXZH). But it takes what it takes and eventually, it just clicks. I hope this is when its going to happen. I have all the resources I need.

Officials said the sobering center is still not being used to its full capacity, but the numbers should pick up as more jurisdictions turn to the facility. In April, Metro, Harris County Sheriffs Office, constable precincts and University of Houston police started dropping off intoxicated people at the location.

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MINNEAPOLIS (MCT) -- Kristy Allen and Mark O'Rourke are bee ambassadors with deceptively similar messages. Allen, founder of a small business called the Beez Kneez, pedals through the Twin Cities selling honey from a bike trailer and handing out lawn signs that read, "Healthy bees, healthy lives." O'Rourke, a seed-treatment specialist for Bayer Crop Science, travels the country with sleek interactive displays to promote the company's insecticides and its views on honeybee health.

Allen wears a helmet with bobbing antennae. O'Rourke sports a bee-yellow shirt with the Bayer logo.

But behind their cheery outfits, they are polar opposites in an intensifying national conflict over what's killing the hardworking insect that has become a linchpin of the American food system.

In a struggle that echoes the scientific discord over climate change, both are striving to win public support in a fight over the pervasive use of pesticides and the alarming decline of bees. Whoever sways the public could influence the fate of the honeybee long before scientists or regulators render a verdict. "Perception becomes reality," said David Fischer, director of pollinator safety for Bayer AG, a leading manufacturer of the insecticides under debate. "We are a science-focused company. But that's not going to convince beekeepers and the public."

There is remarkably little dispute about the underlying problem: Honeybees are dying. Beekeepers across the United States are losing a fourth to a third of their hives each winter, a decline that has exposed them as a fragile link in the nation's food supply chain.

U.S. agriculture depends on bees to pollinate $15 billion worth of crops annually -- a third of the food we eat. Every year, commercial beekeepers traverse the country with millions of hives, moving them like migrant laborers through blooming fields of almonds, apples, melons and other crops. Even as the number of U.S. hives has dwindled to 2.5 million, the number of crops depending on them has quadrupled.

The adversaries even agree on some of the causes: A flowerless rural landscape dominated by monoculture cash crops, and the spread of invasive parasites and diseases.

But a decade after honeybees began their precipitous decline, they are still in trouble, and the conflict over the role of insecticides is reaching a crescendo. Bayer sponsors an annual "Bee Care Tour" of universities and community events, while its lobbyists work Washington. Kids in bee costumes protest at Home Depot stores, and gardeners have become their advocates at garden stores and nurseries where they wield considerable power on behalf of the bee.

The White House is paying attention. Last month, President Barack Obama ordered his Cabinet to come up with a strategy for protecting bees, including a mandate to "assess the effect of pesticides."

"There needs to be that public pressure," said Jennifer Sass of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The public can change it -- even if the (government) does not act."

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