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Compton's silver tops Americans at cyclo-cross worlds
Louisville, Ky. (February 2, 2013) -- Katie Compton's (Colorado Springs, Colo./Trek Cyclocross Collective) silver medal in the elite women's race led the Americans on Saturday at the 2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. The Americans earned three top-10 finishes and seven top-15 results through the four-race day at Eva Bandman Park in Louisville, Ky.
It marked the first time in the 63-year history of the cyclo-cross world championships that the event was held outside of Europe.
An overnight snow left a thin blanket on the course for the juniors men 17-18 race. With rainbow jerseys at stake the competitors looked past the occasional, brief flurries and sinking temperatures and focused on the their races, entertaining a boisterous crowd of nearly ten thousand spectators on site and thousands more watching the live online stream worldwide.
Elite Women
Compton found herself behind slower riders in the first half of the six-lap, 16.8-kilometer race. As Compton was stuck in traffic, Vos, who got the holeshot, was pulling away from the field. As the race approached its midpoint, Compton, feeling the support from the American crowd, battled onto the wheel of the group vying for third place. As that group turned into its penultimate lap, Compton attacked and was clear of all challengers. Vos, however, was too far ahead for the winner of nine USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships to contest. Compton placed second, 1:34 behind Vos. Lucie Chainel-Lefevre (FRA) placed third, 36 seconds behind Compton.
"Today, I felt like I won a silver, not that I got second," Compton said. "After going through those emotions in St. Wendel (Germany), I wasn't going to put myself in that spot again. I rode well, I made some mistakes, yes, but that is all I can do. Getting second to Marianne [Vos] isn't too shabby, so I'm happy."
Elite Men
With a second-half surge, Tim Johnson (Topsfield, Mass./Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com) moved into 19th place to record the Americans' top finish in the elite men's race. The newly-crowned national champion, Jonathan Page (Northfield, N.H./Fuji Bikes), placed 22nd while Jeremy Powers (Easthampton, Mass./Team Rapha-Focus) finished 25th.
The elite men's race quickly turned into a battle between Francis Mourey (FRA) and Belgian riders Sven Nys, Kevin Pauwels and Klaas Van Tournout. Mourey pulled away from the field for the first three laps of the race while the Belgians chased. As the nine-lap, 25.14-kilometer race continued, the Belgians worked together to chip away at the French rider's advantage before assuming the lead with three laps remaining. Nys outsprinted Van Tournout on the pavement to win the world championship by only two seconds.
"Yesterday, I felt I was getting a little nervous," Nys said. "I thought 'Why am I doing this? It is so stressful, costs a lot of energy,' but in the end when you win and you have this jersey, you say, 'this is why I am doing it.'"
Page remained with the lead group of 15 riders for the first four laps, but some mechanical issues cost him valuable time. Johnson stayed in the middle of the pack before surging into 19th place. Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore./Cannondale-Clement) made a strong move during the fifth lap of the race and moved into 16th place, but he was unable to finish the race.
"I had an okay start," Johnson said. "The second lap in, I had a couple little problems. I really felt like I was moving toward the end. The fans were really incredible. I want to keep riding around."
U23 Men
Zach McDonald (Bainbridge Island, Wash./Team Rapha-Focus) started the U23 men's race in the middle of the pack and broke into the top 10 riders before finishing in 11th place. Local favorite Andrew Dillman (Fairdale, Ky./Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross) was the next American rider, placing 25th. Josh Johnson (Fort Wayne, Ind./Indianapolis Cycling Club) and Skyler Trujillo (Fort Collins, Colo./Boo-Enve) placed 29th and 37th, respectively.
Mike Teunissen (NED) continued the Dutch march to the top step of the podium as he won the race by 14 seconds over Wietse Bosmans (BEL). Wout Van Aert (BEL) earned the bronze medal, finishing 22 seconds behind Teunissen.
Bosmans led the first half seven-lap, 19.58-kilometer contest before Teunissen assumed the top spot with three laps remaining.
The 21-year-old McDonald fought from 17th place into ninth place with three laps remaining, but Michael Van Der Heijden (NED) and Gianni Vermeersch (BEL) managed to sneak past him during the final two laps.
"The crowd was awesome," McDonald said. "It's totally different than racing anywhere else in the world. The crowd is in your favor. It was very nice. They were loud. It really was great."
Juniors Men
A slow start and late mechanical problems cost Logan Owen (Bremerton, Wash./Team Redline) a spot on the podium as he finished four seconds off the podium in fourth place. Curtis White (Delanson, N.Y./Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team) placed 11th, 2:43 behind the race winner Mathieu Van Der Poel (NED). Maxx Chance (Boulder, Colo./Clif Bar Development Cross Team) and David Lombardo (Crystal Lake, Ill./Verdigris-Village CX Team) placed 25th and 27th, respectively.
Van Der Poel and his teammate, Martijn Budding, quickly distinguished themselves as the riders to beat in the race. Behind the two Dutch riders were Belgian competitors Nicolas Cleppe and Yannick Peeters. After completing his first lap in ninth place, Owen, who said after the race he "couldn't hear himself think" due to the crowd noise, turned in three sub-seven-minute laps to overtake the Belgians. A late mechanical issue with his chain cost Owen on the fifth lap of the six-lap, 16.8-kilometer race as he slipped into ninth place. He hit the gas and turned in the second-fastest last lap, but it wasn't enough to catch Adam Toupalik (CZE), who rode away with the bronze medal.
"I felt like I was one of the strongest guys out there today," Owen said. "I had everything going. My training was perfect. My legs felt great. I had to come back from so far back just to get where I was. There's nothing I can do about it. I just have to move on and hopefully get some top tens in the U23s. I feel like I let a lot of people down, but I'll come back next year even hungrier."
2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
February 2, 2013
Eva Bandman Park
Louisville, Ky.
Elite Men
1. Sven Nys (BEL) 1:05:35
2. Klaas Vantornout (BEL) +0:02
3. Lars Van Der Haar (NED) +0:25
19. Timothy Johnson (Topsfield, Mass./Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com) +3:20
22. Jonathan Page (Northfield, N.H./Fuji Bikes) +3:42
25. Jeremy Powers (Easthampton, Mass./Team Rapha-Focus) +4:16
27. James Driscoll (Sandy, Utah/Cannondale Cyclocrossworld) +4:37
35. Daniel Summerhill (Englewood, Colo./UnitedHealthcare) -2 laps
Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore./Cannondale-Clement) DNF
Elite Women
1. Marianne Vos (NED) 43:00
2. Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Trek Cyclocross Collective) +1:34
3. Lucie Chainel-Lefevre (FRA) +2:10
10. Kaitlin Antonneau (Racine, Wis./Cyclocrossworld-Cannondale) +3:19
11. Amy Dombroski (Boulder, Colo./Young Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team) +3:26
15. Jade Wilcoxson (Talent, Ore./Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) +4:14
17. Georgia Gould (Fort Collins, Colo./LUNA Pro Team) +4:24
Meredith Miller (Boulder, Colo./California Giant Berry Farms-Specialized) DNF
U23 Men
1. Mike Teunissen (NED) 48:40
2. Wietse Bosmans (BEL) +0:14
3. Wout Van Aert (BEL) +0:22
11. Zach McDonald (Bainbridge Island, Wash./Team Rapha-Focus) +1:42
25. Andrew Dillman (Fairdale, Ky./Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross) +3:40
29. Josh Johnson (Fort Wayne, Ind./Indianapolis Cycling Club) +4:19
37. Skyler Trujillo (Fort Collins, Colo./Boo-Enve) -1 lap
39. Tobin Ortenblad (Santa Cruz, Calif./California Giant Berry Farms-Specialized) -3 laps
Juniors Men
1. Mathieu Van Der Poel (NED) 40:47
2. Martijn Budding (NED) +0:57
3. Adam Toupalik (CZE) +1:19
4. Logan Owen (Bremerton, Wash./Team Redline) +1:23
11. Curtis White (Delanson, N.Y./Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team) +2:43
25. Maxx Chance (Boulder, Colo./Clif Bar Development Cross Team) +4:58
27. David Lombardo (Crystal Lake, Ill./Verdigris-Village CX Team) +5:04
31. Stephen Bassett (Knoxville, Tenn./Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross Team) -1 lap
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Local meteorologists say Pittsburgh has had worse winters, but psychologist Dr. Michelle Reis points out that it is the incessant nature of these gray, snowy days that is stressful.
Reis is the author of a recent book on coping with loss or a serious illness. And the lesson in that kind of coping can apply to learning how to deal with winter blues.
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Enter Spenser, who has been hired by the comely Mary Lou Buckman to investigate the murder of her husband. The Buckmans, a pair of L.A. transplants, moved to Potshot and started a modest outdoor tour service. It is Mary Lou's belief that when her husband refused to pay The Preacher and his men protection money he was killed. Without any witnesses, Spenser has little to go on, and it's clear the local police chief won't be doing much to help. Calling on his own cadre of tried-and-true cohorts, Spenser must find a way to beat the gang at their own dangerous game.
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- Daniel
- 09/05/2003
A 'POTSHOT' at Potshot
The title of this book makes almost too good of a target. OK -- To make it short and sweet -- it's got a good beat, but it's hard to dance to (my apologies to those of you too young to have watched American Bandstand). Parker's Spenser series of books have always been written sparingly, and this is no exception (As an example, Potshot has more than 50 chapters -- Parker outdoes Papa H in hes conciseness). One of the reasons that many of the previous Spenser books have worked is that Parker has kept the plot somewhat simple and, more importantly, does not include the cast of 'Ben Hur.' In this departure, there are 7,8,9, ??? characters with speaking parts in this book. Had Potshot been longer, Parker might have gotten around to fleshing the thing out. However, he stayed the course, and the result is a bunch of characters with only a patina of character development.
However, after the nit picking above, I still enjoyed the book. Spenser, Susan, and Hawk are at their best and if you have been a long time reader, you can easily forgive Parker's attempt to 'stretch' as illustrated in Potshot.
Lastly: This is an unabridged book and the reader is good enough to not get in the way.
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- Bob
- 25/03/2003
Same ol' Spenser
If you've read any Spenser novels before, you probably don't really care about the reviews... you're going to read (or listen to) it anyways.
That being said... you won't be disappointed by Joe Mantegna's reading of these books, although I found the accents that he gives the female characters hysterical. The "he said, she said" comment of the previous reviewer is valid, but I didn't find it overly distracting.
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- Herb
- 27/11/2007
a good read
I liked the narrator and the collection of characters...it kept my attention although the ending was not as crisp as I thought it could have been
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- Chablis from Seattle
- 07/11/2012
One of the best Spenser outings
Where does Potshot rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
Potshot is one of my favorite audiobooks, but, then, I am an avid Robert Parker fan. I like Jesse Stone and Sonny Randall, but Spenser and Hawk are the best! This plot is absorbing, convoluted, as usual, and entertaining, because of the plethora of characters involved. Who can NOT enjoy the bi-play between Hawk and Spenser, but this book adds the rest of the rascals....including Bernard Fortunato, Horse, Cholo, etc.....Very funny.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
The plot is intricate, and, as usual, Parker begins the book with one presumption, but, through all the plot twists and turns, the issue of murder becomes another problem. At the end, multiple issues are solved, the characters have developed sufficiently to end with the necessary plot resolution.
Which scene was your favorite?
Any scene in which Spenser, Hawk and the cohorts interact is both revealing and hilarious.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
To not listen to this all the way through makes it a scattered plot. The reader needs to keep track of all the plot threads.
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- Robert
- 16/05/2012
Spenser's Magnificent Seven
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes,This is a truly fun romp. This is RBP wrapping a western movie inside of a detective novel. Spenser goes out west to investigate a murder and ends up needing to clean up a town, Our favorite tough guy PI gathers his tough guy friends for assistance. The Parker characters kibitz as you would expect, This is a fun almost silly wish fulfillment Yarn.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Spenser. He is the reason the story happens.
Which character – as performed by Joe Mantegna – was your favorite?
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
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- Anonymous User
- 09/12/2007
A good Spenser story
A good Spenser story, as usual. A little Susan romance. A cast of characters. A couple of fights. You might think you probably know the answer to the mysteries. Good mysteries do this.
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- Gary
- 04/10/2007
Excellent Spenser book. I enjoyed this book
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- Rexm
- 27/01/2003
I really like the book...But
The story line and characters were quite good. And I had a hard time putting the book (mp3 player) down.
But like one of the other readers of another Robert B. Parker book said. The narrator repeating "I said", "He said", "She said" following every line of dialog, drove me crazy.
The narrator did a great job changing voices for each character, so I dont know why he has to end each line of dialog with "I said".
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- Milo L. Carlson
- 20/06/2020
Vintage Parker
Smooth Tale in the.classic style of Robert B Parker and his psychology. I love it.
- Nicholas May
- 07/01/2020
Great get together of Spenser and his pals
Another great Spenser tale, read beautifully by the narrator. Can't wait for the Spenser series on Netflix!!


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CNN -- Years ago, a frustrated boy with a violent temper attacked his own mother with a hammer (his older brother restrained him). He stabbed a schoolmate over a dispute about which radio station to listen to; the knife blade luckily hit a belt buckle.
Carson wants to continue educational efforts and find ways to reform the health care system when he retires.
That brash teen today is a world-renowned neurosurgeon and the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
Dr. Benjamin S. Carson made medical history in 1987 by performing the first successful surgery that separated twins conjoined at the back of the head. He also became known for his expertise in pediatric brain tumors and methods of controlling seizures. In 2008, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country's highest civilian honor.
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He and his wife, Candy, started a scholarship foundation to help children with strong academics and humanitarian qualities to pay for college.
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Sonya Carson "would not accept the victim mentality. She wouldn't let us accept the victim mentality. No excuses. She didn't make excuses, and she didn't accept excuses," Carson said.
She turned off the TV, sent Carson and his brother to the library and made them write weekly book reports. Meanwhile, she worked several jobs to support her two sons. She is now 80 and lives with Carson in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"Everybody has problems. They just come in different forms. If that problem for you becomes a containing fence, then you become a victim. Once you think you're a victim, you are one, and you're not going anywhere."
In the same way, Carson's biography has resonated with people like 22-year-old Douglas Nivens II of Baltimore, Maryland.
Nivens' mother was killed when he was 4 years old, and his father was imprisoned for her murder. His aunt raised him, and he endured relentless teasing for his interest in academics while attending public schools in Baltimore City. During middle school, Nivens picked up Carson's autobiography, "Gifted Hands," and immediately identified with it.
"It was a relief to see someone grew up in the city and didn't have a luxurious life but overcame it all," he said. "I love stories about underdogs, those who overcome adversity and do something."
When he was in middle school, Nivens won two $1,000 scholarships from the Carson Scholars Fund, which helps children with strong academics pay for college.
"When it came to times of doubt during high school, when I talked to my adviser, they would say, 'You got this award. Not everyone gets it. You're not dumb. You have the tools to be successful in life,' " Nivens said. "That's what really helped me in terms of self-esteem and management in high school."
He graduated with honors from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in May.
"I probably should not be where I am," said Nivens, a budget analyst for the U.S. Social Security Administration. "I went to Baltimore public schools. My father's in jail; my mother is dead. Statistically, I should not be here. I should be on parole somewhere or even dead. I never looked at it that way. I made it through."
Carson said he's heartened by stories pf people who've been inspired by his biography.
"My message is that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you," Carson said. "Not somebody else, and not the environment. If you have a normal brain, you're capable of incredible things."
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Cruz started with a joke: "So, is this the Obama re-election party?"
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Blessings were also called upon Texas and the tea party.
Cruz criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the federal health care law, which he called 'a shot heard round the world"
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They took his lead, answering "Yes we can" when Cruz asked if they could take the U.S. Senate, repeal "Obamacare," and so on.
Cruz spoke after a roster including Richard Mourdock, who beat longtime incumbent Richard Lugar to win the GOP nod for U.S. Senate; FreedomWorks leader Dick Armey, former House majority leader; and radio host and CNN contributor Dana Loesch, who blistered the media over mistakes in coverage of the Colorado shootings and other issues.
"I studied journalism for a while, and then I said, 'Screw this,'" Loesch said.
Up later in the program: Conservative U.S. Sens Mike Lee and Rand Paul.
UPDATE: Lee and Paul were joined by Sen. Jim DeMint in speaking to the crowd and in meeting with reporters afterward, along with Cruz and Mourdock. They expressed confidence in Cruz's chances in Tuesday's election.
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Kube Hotel in Paris is located in one of the few unrehabilitated areas left in the city, which is of some interest. The only special place to see around is the Centquatre, the new cultural center in northern Paris. Kube Hotel is a quite hype place, up to now mostly known for its Grey Goose Vodka Bar, completely carved and decorated in ice, where for € 38, you can spend half an hour drinking vodka cocktails in ice-cube glasses. It seems to be a great success, though you have to wait for a free seance,every half hour, Wednesday to Saturday from 7 PM to 1.30 AM, Sunday from 2 PM to 11 PM. Monday and Tuesday for groups, on resevation only. Not more than 20 persons at a time. As I rather go for warm places, I never tried it.
Now, and up to March 21, you may spend an unforgettable night on top of Paris roofs, in the Ice Kube Room. Better do it with a passionate sweetheart. Expensive prices are for two : € 750 from Monday to Thursday, breakfast included. € 850 if you wish to have dinner. Night will cost you € 1000 from Friday to Sunday, € 1100 with dinner.
For this price, you can even carve a heart with your names on the walls.
Nights of December 24 and 25 are sold by auction on e-bay, as well as St Valentine night on February 14.
More adventurous and less wealthy ? Join the homeless who sleep in shacks ore under igloo tents in Bois de Vincennes, you'll be freezing as they do, sometimes to death, It's just a bad joke, I would not recommand it, unless you really have too.
Otherwise, the hotel also provides heated room and a restaurant.
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A month after tearing his ACL, Drake took the stage with Lil Wayne and the Young Money crew to perform his hit song "Best I Ever Had" on Friday night – but the injured rapper lasted just a few seconds before slipping and collapsing on the stage.
In a video posted to YouTube, the star is seen falling to the ground at the Camden, New Jersey performance on the "America's Most Wanted" tour and being carried off stage by his crew while Wayne finished the song by himself.
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Drake seemed in good spirits afterward, though, Tweeting, "All is well."
"On the bus laying down… getting surgery this week but I'm walking," he Tweeted. "Than my whole [Young Money] family for the help!"
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The oil and gas industry's water problem has led to a rush of ideas to use alternatives.
One of them, presented at an energy conference in Houston Thursday, involves using natural gas to produce natural gas (or oil).
Other efforts to cut down on water use — a typical well in the Eagle Ford Shale uses about 6 million gallons of water — have focused on using materials like carbon dioxide or nitrogen to create a foam substitute. Those foams can be used to fracture underground rocks, helping to release oil and natural gas trapped inside.
But David Vandor, chief technology officer for Expansion Energy, argued that using a form of natural gas makes more sense than water or other alternatives. He spoke at the World Oil Shale Energy Technology Conference, which is taking place this week at Norris Conference Centers in CityCentre.
"In effect, you can say that the introduction of those materials is a contaminant," Vandor said. "It's not what's within the well. The basic principle that we've been pursing is to go after the hydrocarbons in the well with a hydrocarbon that is not a contaminant."
Expansion Energy's approach is unusual, involving what the company calls cold-compressed natural gas instead of water or other materials.
A separate effort to use a water alternative for fracturing has incorporated hydrocarbon substances, such as the natural gas liquids propane and butane, but not lighter natural gas components like methane.
Expansion Energy's approach, which has not been tested in the field yet, would create what Vandor described as a "dense fog" of compressed natural gas that would be mixed with other substances to develop a foam.
The foam would incorporate the same types of sand used in fracturing processes of other wells.
Vandor said the approach would allow oil and gas companies to fracture underground formations and produce hydrocarbons with some key advantages.
"Certainly the natural gas that you use to create the process comes back," he said. "That's a good thing because what you've done is you've loaned the natural gas to create the process. You didn't use it up."
Traditional hydraulic fracturing results in large amounts of wastewater that need to be either treated or disposed of because of contaminants involved in the fracturing or production process.
The Expansion Energy process still would result in water produced from the well, but would not involve huge amounts of fresh water to be combined with chemicals and sand, then put into wells, removing the environmental strain and post-fracturing water treatment involved, Vandor said.
The process would also involve substituting much of the equipment at a well site with a plant that could cool and compress natural gas for use in wells. That plant also would be able to cool, compress or treat natural gas that comes out of the well, Vandor said.
Expansion Energy executives could not fully answer questions about how much gas would be required for a well and how much water would be saved with this process. Attendees at the Shale Energy Technology Conference also asked about the cost-per-barrel and how effective the natural gas foam would be at fracturing, when compared with water.
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Dressed in olive-green fatigues and brandishing placards touting the legality of the AR-15 assault rifle, an estimated 300 to 400 gun rights advocates descended on Albany on April 14 in a show of unity intended to send a message to the State Legislature: Don't take our guns.
Protesters began their march through the state's capital in the shadow of the 119-year-old Capitol building and headed downhill to the Times Union Center, before they dispersed in a parking lot on a side street.
Many came, they said, to make a statement: The AR-15 assault rifle must stay legal across the country. The AR-15, which fires between 90 and 180 rounds per minute, was the gun used in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, in which 17 students and teachers were killed.
Since then, mass protests, with hundreds of thousands of gun-regulation supporters, have taken place across the nation, including student walkouts on March 14, in which roughly a million young people took part.
Lost in the recent debate, the Albany protesters said, were the voices of law-abiding gun owners who have never committed crimes with guns. As part of its ongoing "Safety and the Second" series, the Herald was in Albany to hear them.
"The majority of law-abiding citizens should not be punished en masse for the actions of the mentally imbalanced," said Christopher Pajarillo, an Army veteran who served in Honduras and Panama and fought in 1991 in Operation Desert Storm in Iraq, otherwise known as the first gulf war.
Pajarillo, who's from Syracuse, was exceedingly polite as he spoke. He immediately followed most questions with a sharp "Yes, sir" or "No, sir."
"The people against gun control were not invited to the conversations" in the wake of Parkland, he said. "If the common-sense gun laws that have been in place since 1934 aren't working, they might want to think about getting rid of them and talking to us about what we would want."
Pajarillo was referring to the National Fire Arms Act of 1934, Congress's first in a series of gun-control measures over the decades. The act imposed a tax on the transfer of weapons from one owner to the next.
Ray Switser, a hunter from Washington County, a half-hour north of Albany, said that Saturday's rally was months in the planning. Anti-gun-regulation protests have occurred regularly, he said, since the State Legislature passed, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed, the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013, otherwise known as the SAFE Act. It was voted on in the days and weeks after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, in which 26 children and teachers were killed.
Many gun owners, Switser said, now worry that the state government might move to further limit gun rights. He, like every protester who was interviewed, began by saying that he had come "to support the Second Amendment."
"We don't like the government telling us what to do," Switser said.
As he spoke, the crowd chanted, "Cuomo's gotta go," "Guns are good" and "We will not comply."
Bill Wells, of East Berne, in the Albany region, said he owns a gun for protection. "I want to defend myself if ever I have a need," he said.
Another protester agreed to an interview, but did not want to be identified. "I'm not telling you my name," he said. "You put someone's name in the paper, and the next thing you know, you've got the cops knocking on your door — in New York, specifically."
The man, who lives in Clifton Park, had a thick beard, and wore a baseball cap and sunglasses. He said he was a veteran who had served in Iraq, but would not offer details about his military service. He said he did not grow up with guns, but is a gun owner now. He hunts, he said, and he wants to own a gun "just because."
He said that Americans must have guns to protect against tyranny, and added that he was willing to take up arms against the government if he believed it was necessary to stop a dictator. Asked to elaborate, he said that the recent actions of the FBI's leadership border on tyranny, and that he was upset that the agency had "spied" on Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser who was placed under surveillance because of possible ties to Russian undercover agents.
"I'll fight for the government," the man said. "I'll fight against it."
He added that he believes the Parkland students who have recently organized gun-control rallies should "keep their mouths shut." "I don't think they should dictate policies," he said. "The kids should not have been allowed to walk out."
Did you know?
New York state has a gun ownership rate of 10. 3 percent — far below the national average of 29.1 percent — according to a BMJ Injury Prevention report issued in June 2015.
According to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 7,803 firearms were recovered and traced in New York in 2015; the majority (4,041) were handguns.
The website Wallethub ranked New York 48th in the country in firearm ownership, and 47th in firearm industry jobs.
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New York's SAFE Act defined
In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the New York State Legislature passed, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed, one of the nation's toughest gun-control measures. The legislation was titled the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013, otherwise known as the SAFE Act.
Key provisions of the SAFE Act included:
Mental health alert. Under the measure, doctors, psychologists, nurses or clinical social workers are required to report to local health officials when there is reason to believe that patients are likely to engage in conduct that will cause serious harm to themselves or others.
Tougher assault weapons ban. New York had already banned assault weapons before the act, but the legislation more strictly defined such weapons and implemented an immediate ban.
Stronger regulation of ammunition. The act introduced the strongest ban on high-capacity magazines in the country, with a limit of seven rounds.
Universal background checks. The legislation requires all gun transfers among private parties, except immediate family members, to be conducted by a federal firearms licensee and to be subjected to a National Instant Criminal Background Check.
Webster provision. The murder of a first responder who is engaged in his or her duties is a Class A-1 felony, with a mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole. The provision honors two first responders who were killed in the line of duty in Webster, N.Y., in December 2012.
Keeping guns out of schools. Possession of a firearm on school grounds or a school bus was bumped up from a misdemeanor to a Class E felony.
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A rubberized pole-vault runway and landing pad were mounted on a 125-foot by 50-foot barge moored to the river bank. The crowd went bonkers as nearly 80 athletes from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Wisconsin soared above the river.
"What an amazing weekend!" said event organizer Jeremiah Burish, Director of Sales at La Crosse Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. "We had incredible competition, high energy, and great costumes. The vaulters rang the bell 24 times to celebrate their personal bests!"
Also cheering the competitors, in spirit, was Maggie Steele, the storybook heroine of the young adult novel, Maggie Vaults Over the Moon. In what has become a River Vault tradition, copies of the inspiring novel were awarded to winners in each category.
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released their latest national estimate of the number of homeless across the country. While there are several points of good news, there are also sober realities that must be acknowledged.
The Good News
Broadly speaking, in January of this year 633,783 people were homeless. This is virtually unchanged since last year when 636,017 people were homeless. Given the soft economic climate, keeping homelessness from increasing is notable. Even more notable however is the continued decline among veterans and those defined as being chronically homeless. The decline in these two sub-populations of the homeless is a reflection of the ongoing focus on these categories by the federal government and communities since the unveiling of the Opening Doors plan from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2010.
In the last year, homelessness among veterans declined by 7.2% (4,876 people) and among the chronically homeless there was a 6.8% decline (7,254 people).
Focusing on the national disgrace of homeless veterans should need no explanation.
The focus on the chronic homeless is the result of time-tested and data-driven analysis, which shows the cost savings that result from moving the long-time homeless into housing. When people are stably housed, they are less likely to interact with the police, courts, and emergency responders. The resulting cost-savings to municipalities and states is a compelling fiscal rationale for focusing on eliminating homelessness, particularly during these times of tight budgets.
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When the Opening Doors plan was released in 2010, it set the ambitious goals of ending veteran and chronic homelessness by 2015, and ending homelessness among children, families, and youth by 2020. The Plan presented strategies building upon the lesson that mainstream housing, health, education, and human service programs must be fully engaged and coordinated to prevent and end homelessness.
Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly clear that despite the consistent declines, unless more communities focus on service coordination, we are unlikely to reach the 2015 goal.
What You Can Do
Ultimately, homelessness as we know it will end once individual communities take the necessary steps to end it among neighbors. So what should cities be doing?
While recognizing the solution to homelessness in a community can be apparent, implementing that solution can be another matter. To help cities overcome these challenges the 100,000 Homes Campaign was formed in an effort to place 100,000 of the most vulnerable homeless into housing.
To help with the local implementation of recognized best practices, the Campaign has partnered with the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the VA, and HUD to offer Rapid Results Housing Placement Boot Camps. These boot camps bring together community stakeholders such as HUD and VA staffers, outreach teams, service providers, landlords, and housing authority representatives from participating communities to brainstorm and develop local plans for enacting national best practices that will revamp local systems to quickly find housing for homeless individuals.
What are other things that your city can do?
- Get to know who the homeless are in your city. Knowing someone's name and how long they have been homeless not only personalizes that individual, but allows a trusting relationship to be built. Those relationships are central to people getting off and staying off the streets.
- Prioritize the use of vouchers that turn over for veterans and chronically homeless individuals. When a person that has a voucher moves out of the program, what is done with that voucher can vary widely depending on the administrating agency. Working with voucher providers to have turned over vouchers prioritized for use by veterans and the chronically homeless can have a dramatic impact on the number of people living on the street.
- Create prioritization based on the vulnerability index. When someone lives on the street, the likelihood of them dying is on par with some forms of cancer. Homelessness can cut a person's lifespan by an average of 25 years. These are stunning facts. In Boston, Dr. Jim O'Connell with Healthcare for the Homeless developed the vulnerability index which uses eight key health indicators to determine which of a city's homeless are most at risk for dying on the street. To better save lives and dollars, those with the greatest risk of death should be at the front of the line for housing.
- Align your city's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness with the federal government's Opening Doors plan. To guide your city's overall work, it is important for your city's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness to be aligned with the federal government's Opening Doors plan. Prioritizing resources and ensuring they are well coordinated and focused on identified populations allows cities to take action in a deliberate manner that can be measured and refined to ensure progress is seen.
Read the report and see your area's progress toward ending homeless. For more information about having a Rapid Results Housing Placement Boot Camp in your city and the 100,000 Homes Campaign, visit http://100khomes.org/.


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LEHI, Utah – Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis has a lot of respect for former teammate Jeff Cunningham and the incredible goal total he has amassed over his career.
"I would say nothing short of incredible," said Kreis. "If you average his goals over the number of seasons he's played, you get an impressive number."
Cunningham currently sits tied with Jaime Moreno at 132 goals for the most career goals in league history. Over a 13-year career – two years fewer than Moreno – that averages out to a shade more than 10 per season. He'll have a chance to overtake the D.C. United icon on Saturday against Kreis' RSL.
"It's one thing for forwards to have a good year here, and a good year there," Kreis said, "but him doing it on a consistent basis and to average it up and it turns into the number he has – it's just impressive, very, very impressive."
In 2006, Cunningham joined Kreis in Salt Lake and the Jamaican striker went on to score a whopping 16 goals that season – good enough for Golden Boot honors. He also had 11 assists that year, making it arguably his best season in MLS until he recorded 17 goals and eight assists a year ago in Dallas.
The following year, however, changes occurred in Salt Lake. Kreis was elevated to the coaching position at the start of May, and by month's end, Cunningham was sent packing off for Toronto in a trade for Alecko Eskandarian.
"For me, it had everything to do with the vision I had for the team," Kreis said of that swap. "He obviously was an extremely talented player, and still is. But we've always had the mind set here that it's always about the team, and so we have had to sacrifice along the way a lot of talented players to build what we think is a successful team.
"So he was a player in the same mold – we had to sacrifice a very talented player in order to build the team in the way that we envisioned it."
Cunningham will likely relish the opportunity for the last word on Saturday when his streaking FC Dallas team visits Rio Tinto Stadium.


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Cost: $5.00 from your local Wal-Mart
My skin type: Recently, probably because of the stress of moving/new school/& homework/tests I've been breaking out more than normal. I would say that my acne is usually mild. I get breakouts here and there, usually they're small normal pimples, but I am known for getting cystic acne. And if you don't know what cystic acne is, google it. It's disgusting and they hurt worse than you know. But like I said I've been breaking out more than usual and it's frustrating, and such a confidence crusher. :( My friend recommended this and said that she uses it whenever she felt a pimple come on and it would go away... For my skin type I highly doubt it would have worked for me.
What it claims to do: Mark Treatment treats pimples fast while diminishing the appearance of post-acne marks. This breakthrough formula is infused with a special oil dissolving technology that allows for delivery of acne medication, Salicylic Acid, to fight breakouts. The unique formula with Glycolic Acid promotes gentle surface skin turnover, improves skin's clarity and diminishes the appearance of post-acne marks.
Directions: Cleanse thoroughly before applying medication. Cover the entire affected area with a thin layer one to three times daily. If bothersome or dryness or peeling occurs, reduce application to once or even every other day.
What I claim it does and how I use it: At first this product didn't work for me. I would put it on my cystic acne when I had it, which didn't do anything; didn't even reduce the size or redness. I thought it was a fail. So I tried a different approach to using it:
♥ I would wash my face with a cleanser, then apply a toner, then moisturizer and then apply this to my common break out areas. I would apply it whether I had acne or not. Apply makeup like usual.
♥ Now I wouldn't just apply it once a day, I applied it in the morning when I was getting ready, and then after classes, which is my mid-day. I would wash my face with my cleanser again, this time not using toner or moisturizer and then apply this all over my common break out areas again, apply makeup like usual.
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Since I do this three times daily if a pimple does surface I feel like it actually reduces the swelling & pain, which if you ever had cystic acne, you know how it feels.
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I could go on and on how much I love this product seriously, what can I say? This actually works on my cystic acne, imagine what it does for normal acne.
Cons How much more effort I am putting into not getting acne. Tops I would normally only wash my face twice a day, but now 3 times, that might also be contributing to why I'm having less breakouts, either way I'm happy.
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We've got just a few more release date shuffles to share on this unofficial "Release Date Thursday." Following release date news for the X-Men: First Class sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Robopocalypse, as well as Independence Day 3D, here's a brief rundown of a few more dates:
- Disney's Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp has been moved from May 31st to July 3rd, 2013.
- Marvel's Thor 2 is shifting slightly from November 15th to November 8th.
- The sequel Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters has been pushed back to August 16th from March 15th, 2013.
- The Ben Stiller-directed remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will land on Christmas Day, 2013.
- The currently untitled comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig has been set for April 5th, 2013.
Hit the jump for more on each of the aforementioned films.
Hot on the heels of Fox's announcement that Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse will now open in 2014 as opposed to July 3rd, 2013, Disney has swooped in and grabbed the holiday weekend for director Gore Verbinski's big screen iteration of The Lone Ranger. Armie Hammer stars as the titular hero, with Depp taking on the legendary sidekick in grand fashion. The film will now be up against Independence Day 3D and Despicable Me 2.
Additionally, Thor 2 has been moved up one week to November 8th. The film faced no competition as of yet on the November 15th weekend, but Lionsgate's sure-to-be-massive sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens on the 22nd so Marvel is giving Thor 2 a chance to have some legs. The film will now open against DreamWorks Animation's Me and My Shadow and the One Direction Concert Movie (oh boy!). Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones) is onboard to direct with production set to get underway in London in a few months.
Fox has pushed Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters back all the way to August from a previous March 15th date. The film currently faces no opposition on its opening weekend, but opens one week after Sony's Robocop remake. The majority of the first film's cast returns, led by Logan Lerman, but Thor Freudenthal takes over directing duties from Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus.
Ben Stiller's currently filming remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has been given a coveted Christmas Day release date for 2013. Stiller also stars in the film alongside an impressive cast that includes Kristin Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine and Patton Oswalt. The only other film currently slated for Christmas 2013 is the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot.
Finally, the recently announced comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy has been given an April 5th, 2013 release date. The "buddy cop" movie will be directed by Paul Feig and centers on the strained working relationship between a high-strung FBI agent (Bullock) and an unconventional Boston cop who team up to take down a Russian gangster.


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Boxer Dog
Boxer Dog Facts
|Common Name
|Boxer Dog
|Average Size
|61cm (24in)
|Average Weight
|32kg (70lbs)
|Average Lifespan
|11 years
|Tan, Black, Brown
|Average Litter Size
|Intelligent, fearless and strong
|Should be trained from an early age due to their independent nature
Boxer Dog Location
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Boxer Dog
Boxers are a bright, energetic and playful breed and tend to be very good with children. They are active dogs and require adequate exercise to prevent boredom-associated behaviours such as chewing or digging.
Boxers have earned a slight reputation of being headstrong, which can be related to inappropriate obedience training. Owing to their intelligence and working breed characteristics, training based on corrections often has limited usefulness.
Boxers, like other animals, respond much better to positive reinforcement techniques such as clicker training, which affords the dog an opportunity to think independently and to problem-solve.
Boxers were originally a docked and cropped breed, and this tradition is still maintained in some countries. However, due to pressure from veterinary associations, animal rights groups and the general public, both cropping of the ears and docking of the tail have been prohibited in many countries around the world.


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CES 2010 Samsung has shown off IceTouch, the first ever MP3 player to sport a see-through screen.
It's a total gimmick, of course, but an amusing one. It's fun - once, at least - to turn it around and look at all the menus written backwards. Likewise, peering past the 'Now Playing' screen to what's in front of you.
Cute, but what's the point?
We can't see much point to it otherwise, but at least the IceTouch has a decent enough media player spec: 16GB of Flash storage; the display is a 2in full-colour OLED panel; decent codec support including Flac, Ogg and MP3HD; video support that takes in MPEG 4, WMV, H.264, Xvid and DivX; an integrated FM tuner; and Samsung's 5.1-channel sound enhancement tech.
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The company also pledged that the IceTouch "continually analyses and adjusts audio levels to reflect the producer's intended sound". How it knows what a given producer intended remains a mystery...
...either way round
The IceTouch - aka the YP-H1 - will go on sale sometime during the first half of 2010. ®


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Damage reported from magnitude-5.7 quake in Calif.
GREENVILLE, Calif. — Residents in rural northeastern California assessed damage to their homes and businesses Friday from a magnitude-5.7 earthquake, one of the strongest temblors to hit the densely forested region in decades.
The quake centered near Greenville downed chimneys and sent items tumbling from grocery store shelves when it hit shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday. It also ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water, leaving 300 people under a boil advisory until further notice.
"Without question, it's the strongest quake I've ever felt here," Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood said. "It was very unsettling, and it lasted long enough to create a measure of anxiety."
Despite the damage, no injuries have been reported.
The earthquake was felt in Carson City, and as far away as San Francisco, 230 miles southwest; and in Oregon. About four dozen aftershocks have been reported, including a magnitude-4.9 temblor that struck early Friday.
Pacific Gas & Electric said about 660 customers lost power on the southwestern edge of Lake Almanor at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Electricity has since been restored.
At least three houses had moderate damage including collapsed chimneys and cracked plaster. County officials said the total damage isn't yet known because many homes in the area are seasonal and unoccupied.
Hagwood added supermarkets and other stores "had a lot of things come off the shelves."
Susan Shephard and her husband, Alan Shephard, who run the Quail Lodge at Lake Almanor near the epicenter, said they were watching "The Hunger Games" on TV when the whole building started shaking.
"All of a sudden things started falling off the shelves, mirrors fell off the wall, vases fell down to the floor, everything started crashing," Susan Shephard told the Redding Record-Searchlight. "It felt like the end of our world."
The epicenter was not far from High Desert State Prison in Susanville, but wardens reported no power outages or damages to the facility or its operations, said Jonathan Parsley, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The quake was the most powerful to hit the mostly wilderness region since 1934, said Keith Knudsen, deputy director of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
It appeared to have occurred along a strike-slip fault line similar to the San Andreas. More than 9,000 people including from neighboring states logged onto the USGS website to report feeling the jolt.
"It was a pretty good size quake," Knudsen said.
The quake hit a rugged region where the Sierra and Cascade mountains meet. More than 100 lakes and 1,000 miles of rivers and streams flow through more than a million acres of national forest. About 22,000 people live in Plumas County.
The region's seismicity is not well-studied because the terrain is rugged and dollars have been spent on analyzing faults in more populated corridors like the San Francisco Bay area where the earthquake risk is higher. Since Thursday's quake, scientists are mulling putting more portable monitors near the epicenter.


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Individuals facing insurmountable debt can get free legal information on bankruptcy and obtain necessary forms at NLSLA's weekly Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Clinic. The seminars are an extension of the NLSLA Bankruptcy Self Help Desk at the Woodland Hills Bankruptcy Courthouse, which leads the nation in pro se, or unrepresented, filings. In order to assist these represented parties, the Bankruptcy Self Help Desk is open two days a week and available to both debtors and creditors.
*Time constraints may limit each session to the first 6-8 people. Please call 1-800 433-6251 extension 138 for more information.
*Questions & Answers and Chapter 7 Seminars Alternate starting times each week, so please call to make sure you attend at the time that is right for you. For more information call 1-800 433-6251 extension 138.
The Self-Help Desk is closed from 12:00 – 1:00 PM.


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ECCO Shoes have served me well over many years. As I select items for travel ahead, I immediately turn to ECCO products. Recently, I discovered that ECCO is celebrating 50 years of producing reliable and comfortable shoes that also look terrific. In the past I have purchased my shoes at a nearby store. Not this time. I just didn't have time to drive, park, look for my size, etc. This has been my first experience in ordering online and among other advantages to looking online was that I also found a wonderful purse to further enhance my travel experience. I was delighted when my huge box arrived only a few days after my order went in.
During April ECCO historical story telling took place to celebrate fifty years in business. ECCO almost shouts "passionate shoemaking" and it is impressive that the company has sustained its spirit for a half century. The US headquarters is in Londonderry, NH and the brand is known for it's great product, comfortable footwear anchored in style, simplicity, functionality, quality and craftsmanship – a true testament to its Scandinavian heritage.
Founded in 1963, ECCO has produced more than 350 million pairs of shoes globally. Each pair of ECCO shoes is touched by 210 pairs of hands before they reach the consumer – a unique value proposition of the brand that is one of the only vertically integrated footwear brands in the world. Through owning and managing every step of the shoemaking process; from tanneries to stores, ECCO can thoroughly provide quality assurance and control of its products. "We are shoemakers at heart and with over 4,000 branded sales locations in more than 90 countries we are, of course, also a large retailer, said chief operating officer, Michael Hauge Sørensen. "This is a business model that provides ECCO with two strong platforms in our quest to become the best shoe company in the world. While never compromising on quality shoemaking, we increasingly turn our attention to consumer demands and needs."
When I tried on my new shoes, what impressed me most was I suddenly had more energy and found myself standing straighter. I didn't expect this but it is sure to enhance my travel experience.
As the world's second largest lifestyle footwear manufacturer, ECCO is staying ahead of the competition by turning to its Scandinavian heritage for innovative design and modernization of its collections. Strong product performance and consumer demand has led the brand to its second-consecutive record-breaking year. "We see the changes around us every day and recognize that ECCO has inherited an obligation to stay competitive and innovative," said Sørensen. "2012 became an exceptionally good year for ECCO, secured by an extraordinary effort by the entire global team along with solid market performance by many successful products."
For more information on ECCO and to celebrate in 50 years of passionate shoemaking, visit: http://passion.ecco.com and www.facebook.com/eccousa
Some very interesting information on ECCO's history follows:
· 1963, the company was founded by Danish shoemaker Karl Toosbuy
· 1984, first fully owned factory established in Portugal
· 1990, establishes ECCO USA - later to grow into the single largest market
· 1991, builds a factory in Indonesia. The site includes production and a tannery and today is the largest production unit with more than 5,500 employees
· 1993, demand rises and ECCO builds a factory and tannery in Thailand
· 1996, first flagship store opens on the famous Oxford Street in London
· 1996, enters the golf shoe market - today the fourth biggest producer of golf shoes
· 1998, opens factory in Slovakia
· 2002, ECCO goes to Asia
· 2005, production is established in Xiamen, China
· 2008, builds a tannery alongside the shoe factory in Xiamen
· 2011, celebrates 1,000th store opening at Mall of America, Minneapolis, USA
· 2013, celebrates five decades of shoes with its 50th Anniversary
ECCO is a world-leading brand of shoes that combine fashion and comfort. It has built its success on uncompromising quality and innovative technology. It is noteworthy that ECCO is the only major shoe manufacturer in the world to own and manage every step in the shoemaking process. The company's employees are the life force behind the products: designing, developing, producing, selling and taking responsibility for every last detail of the brand experience. ECCO is expanding at a fast pace, and today products can be found in almost 4,000 branded sales locations worldwide. However, ECCO's aim has never been to be the biggest - but always to be the best. ECCO USA is based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. For more information: visit www.eccousa.com, 800.886.3226.
In my search for shoes I have noticed a wider range of ECCO shoe choices each time I look for shoes. In addition, now there is a wide range of purses and other accessories. I have had ECCO shoes last for more than ten years and still look and feeling good. The only problem is that old shoes are old, and new shoes are so uplifting. Get a pair of ECCOs soon. You will love them.
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Our new book about PowerPivot 2013 is finally available in printed edition, too!
The title is Microsoft Excel 2013: Building Data Models with PowerPivot and it is a partial rewriting of the previous book about PowerPivot for Excel 2010. In the previous book we had a target audience that included advanced Excel users and BI developers, because at that time there was no option to get the same engine in Analysis Services. But 30 months are elapsed, a new version of Analysis Services has been released and in this new book we focused mainly on Excel users. For this reason, we wrote a comprehensive book of all the feature of PowerPivot, but most important we tried to pass concepts of data modeling that might be pretty obvious for a DBA and a BI developer, but are completely new to an Excel user that never had the ability to create a data model with more than one table.
This book is focused on Excel 2013, so we included specific feature of this release related to PowerPivot, such as writing DAX queries and linked back tables, and features unique to Excel 2013, such as Power View. However, all of the PowerPivot features (so the 85% of the book) are good also for PowerPivot for Excel 2010 in its latest release (SQL Server 2012 SP1 PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010), so you can safely use this book for both version of Excel.
You can download the first chapter of the book from the book page on SQLBI web site. And if you want to attend a training in a classroom or online, look at the complete list of available trainings on PowerPivot Workshop web site. The next online courses are scheduled on April 22-24, 2013 and June 17-19, 2013 (following online workshops are every other month).
Here are the links to directly order the book on Amazon around the world:
And here is the list of chapters:
This book should help you starting with PowerPivot at the very beginning, and you will probably use only the first chapters at that point. Over time, you will use following chapters and will learn more advanced techniques. This is not a book you can digest in a couple of days (after all, it is 500 pages long!), it will be your companion for several months, until you will master PowerPivot!


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Newly minted production company Mammo Media is heading for "Black Friday," acquiring John Sullivan's action-thriller spec script.
Story revolves around a young man desperately trying to save his fiance when she's kidnapped inside a mega-mall on the busiest shopping day of the year.
"It's a tense, Hitchcockian thriller that just really spoke to us," said Matt Moore, president of the banner. Mammo is seeking co-financing partners with the aim of starting production late this year.
Mammo Media and Sullivan are also working with Arcana Studios on "The Reaper," a comic book that's a modern-day take on the Grim Reaper mythology with assassins imbued with the power to kill by touch. The comic is expected to be released this summer.
Arcana has a partnership with Benderspink, which reps Sullivan.
Sullivan penned screenplays "Fear of the Dark," "Rapid" and "Recoil."


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Edible DNA: A Fun Twist to Science Your Kids Can Swallow
Do they like to eat?
How about creating a fun activity that shows your kids why we are all different yet very much the same.
The project is creating edible DNA.
In this article, I'll help you explain the molecule of life that is DNA in kid-friendly terms, show you how you and your family can discover some of your unique genetic traits and teach you to make a delicious model of the DNA strand that your kids will love.
Why Should We Learn About DNA?
Has your daughter ever wondered why she can roll her tongue but her best friend can't, no matter how hard she tries?
Or why you're left-handed but everyone else in your family is right-handed?
Maybe your son wishes his curly hair was straight like his sister's?
What causes all these differences, even between siblings who have the same parents?
The answer lies in our DNA, a special kind of molecule that holds the code—the instructions—for every cell in our bodies.
We all like to remind our children that they are unique and special: "There is only one You," we tell them. "There can never be another You!" DNA is what makes this true. DNA determines the characteristics that make each of us different from anyone else in the world. What a sweet concept.
It's also a very important scientific concept, which may open your children's eyes—whether they're blue, brown, hazel or green—to the discovery of their own special traits such as blonde hair or large feet or brown skin.
Learning about DNA in the sweet, kid-friendly activity you'll find below is a great way to teach kids some science in a fun way and encourage them to celebrate our differences.
It's also a tasty sculpture you can eat for dessert.


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Weighty records: Dieters to get files, not money
Positive Changes Hypnosis promised its clients that they would "adopt the characteristics, behavior, and habits of naturally thin people." Instead, at least three of their clients adopted the characteristics and behavior of highly irate customers- and they want their money back.
Those customers will undoubtedly be as diverted as I was by the latest chapter in the Positive Changes saga. I've written about the Charlottesville center, which closed in November 2002, three times now.
In the first column ["Disappearing Hypnotist," January 30, 2003], I reported the experience of Terry Fry, who paid $1,477 for a one-year contract. She lost 25 pounds in four months, and stated that "everything was going well"– until she arrived for her November 1 session and learned that owners David and Heidi Porter had closed their West Rio Road office, leaving only a sign saying that clients would be contacted by mail. Fry wasn't contacted, however– then or ever– and continues to believe that Positive Changes owes her $984 for the eight months left on her contract.
Fry was soon joined by a woman I called Pat Foster ["Fly Away," February 20, 2003], who not only lost no weight, but, by her own reckoning, was out $400 on her six-month contract when Positive Changes folded. Foster's concern, however, wasn't money; she wanted her records back, because she had discussed her medical and psychiatric history– and felt she had the right to know where her records had gone.
I next heard from Debbie Holt, who figured she'd lost "about $530" on her contract ["Updates," June 19, 2003]. In the course of my research for that column, I learned that Positive Changes, which was headquartered in Virginia Beach, had declared bankruptcy. When I tried to reach founder Patrick Porter– David's brother– my call was returned by Keith Alessi, who informed me that he had bought certain assets of the bankrupt corporation, along with the franchise centers in Virginia Beach, Newport News, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Alessi was at pains to emphasize that he could not be held responsible for any "trials and tribulations" at a franchise he'd never owned, but promised to talk to David. If he did, it didn't lead to any grievances being redressed.
By then I'd heard from three of the four Porters: founder Patrick, bankrupt franchisee David (via voice mail), and Michael, the brains behind Positive Changes' nutritional program. Now, thanks to a recent email from Heidi, I've collected the whole set.
Heidi began by stating that I'd been given some "misinformation" she wanted to correct. "We opened our office in Charlottesville with the sincere hope that we could make a difference in the lives of the people there. Unfortunately, we opened without $20,000 in start-up money that we had been promised. We also started the day before 9/11, which didn't help business either. Those two factors were the main reason we weren't able to make it past our first year."
Patrick, on the other had, attributed the center's failure to the drought.
You don't have to read between the lines to see that relations are a little testy in the Porter clan. "We received absolutely no assistance from the corporate office"– i.e., brother Patrick– "even though we had been told when we opened that we would always receive support from them. Imagine our disappointment that David's own brother refused to help us stay open when he had the means to do so," Heidi wrote.
Patrick, she claimed, had made "many... false statements" to me, including his version of how they had closed the office. Patrick first told me he had learned the Charlottesville office was closing "the same way the clients did"– but then admitted, when pressed, that he'd found out a month earlier. Heidi, by contrast, claimed, "Patrick was the one who advised us to leave in the way we did." Seeking business advice from her brother-in-law, she declared, "was the biggest mistake we ever made."
As for client records, "I have no problem forwarding client files to anyone who requests theirs." According to Heidi, she's in the process of returning Foster's file; other former clients should contact her at the Newport News center (757-249-3082), where she and David are now– truly– employees.
Do you have a consumer problem or question? Email the Fearless Consumer, write her at 100 Second Street NW, 22902, or call 295-8700 ext. 406.


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Biden's Working-Class Coattails
The VP's biggest job this campaign season is to win blue-collar voters in key states for his boss.
Vice President Joe Biden will play an outsize role in the fall campaign, taking the stage as much as or more often than President Obama himself. Why? He has more campaign firepower with the millions of middle- and working-class voters in key Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states.
Biden will emphasize his working-class roots at dozens of campaign stops as well as in local media interviews, targeted election ads and the fall debates. Talking the talk of the common worker without appearing to be overly political is a craft he's honed over decades in public life and through a long string of successful elections.
Even though the vice president is prone to the occasional gaffe or unscripted comment that can rattle the White House staff, he is also a huge campaign asset, connecting with factory workers, construction crews and small shop owners. He's far better at it, in fact, than either Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney, both of whom frequently exude an air of wealth and Ivy League elitism.
So Biden will be on the road a lot, sometimes accompanying the president, but more often making solo appearances as the event headliner.
He'll be a regular visitor to some states sure to be key in the election, including blue-collar-rich Pennsylvania, where Biden claims a boyhood home. The son of an auto dealer, the vice president spent his early years in the gritty, working-class hub of Scranton, where the Biden family, of modest means, lived in a small house.
The vice president's plane will also land many times in Ohio, where a flurry of campaign stops in small towns could prove critical to winning the state. Obama took Ohio four years ago by a margin of five percentage points. The race will likely be tighter this time, especially with Romney and GOP-leaning independent groups flooding the state with resources -- something 2008 GOP nominee John McCain did not do. Biden will also seek to shore up support for Obama in working-class areas in and around Cleveland and Cincinnati.
He'll highlight areas of economic recovery and promise more help for struggling Ohioans than a Romney White House would provide. And he'll cite local economic stimulus projects, saying the state would have been worse off without the federal aid that Romney has lambasted as wasteful spending.
Other stomping grounds for Biden: Missouri and Iowa. He'll be dispatched to the two states more often than Obama, focusing especially on the sprawling working-class areas of St. Louis and Kansas City, both of which have strong Democratic leanings. In 2008, Missouri could hardly have been closer. McCain ended up winning the state with 49.4% of the vote to Obama's 49.3% in a recount after the national election had already been called.
In Iowa, expect Biden to make repeated appearances in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport to talk it up with farmers, shop workers and other locals. Obama won Iowa in 2008 by a fairly comfortable 54% to 45%. But some of Obama's early appeal has worn off there, and the race is shaping up to be far tighter this time.


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Everything to Consider When Painting Your Front Door
Boost your home's curb appeal with a project that can be done in a day.
Boost your home's curb appeal with a project that can be done in a day.
You probably remember your favorite Halloween costume from your childhood … but what about your least favorite?
A Reddit user in Germany shared a photo of their "salad" which left a lot to be desired.
She doesn't want her husband to find out about it.
A perceptive Google Earth user discovered an abnormally shaped object near the coast of Antarctica, setting off a flood of comments from YouTube users.
This video of a mysterious object in the sky is taking TikTok by storm.
She came within feet of the terrifying sea creature.
On top of being an actress and entrepreneur, Tia can now add designer to her resume.
Epic Games is once again under fire for allegedly copying a popular dance move without giving its creator any credit.
A Chick-fill-A worker is going viral after sharing a "secret" dessert item so obscure, you might have some trouble ordering it.
The young man, named Kevin, was standing outside a Nashville Target store playing violin with a sign reading "Need to help my mom with rent, God bless," on Aug. 9.
Wooyoo the Samoyed is going through a shedding phase.
The stylish masks feature the brand's iconic floral motif, and they're double-layered, yet breathable.
Team RAR is moving into the 15,000-square-foot mansion, which is just down the street from Kylie Jenner.
Rayne Fisher-Quann was scrolling through her Twitter feed one day when she spotted a post that didn't quite sit right with her.
This really takes "family style" dining to a whole new level.
A teenager is going viral after tricking her family with a hilarious social media prank.
The U.S. hit another grim milestone on Monday with more than 5 million Americans now infected with the coronavirus. Although there is a push to increase testing and develop a vaccine, experts continue to suggest that if all Americans wore masks, the pandemic could be brought under control "within weeks." In the spirit of that mission, a new study published in Science Advances is shedding light on which masks are most effective — and which may actually be hurting the effort to curb COVID-19.
A TikTok user is freaking people out after capturing a "haunted" toy moving on camera.
The new clean haircare brand to hit Sephora is Bread Beauty Supply. The Black-owned brand caters to 3A–4C hair with just three steps. And yes, we tried it.
A massive, ultra-rare fish has washed up on the shores of a popular Australian beach.
You wouldn't believe which popular actors also auditioned for parts in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Otterbox just announced an Echo Dot stand that looks like The Child — and it's cute as a button.
Social media users are divided over a photo of a jumpsuit that has a face mask built right in.
Black history is American history. In this week's episode of Verizon's #Next20, David Hubbard spoke with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad to discuss recent events and the importance of studying Black history as a blueprint to build a more equitable future. "What's important in 2020 is really understanding why we have not taught these histories, how these systems were built and the possibility for dismantling," said Dr. Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Ever wonder how to get a high priority table at a place like Nobu?
This is the first time the sale is available online and there are so many great deals on cookware to shop.
A man is stirring major internet controversy after sharing his response to his co-worker's "vegan dining club."
The best transparent face masks, according to teachers.
Ayesha Curry is the ultimate quarantine fitness inspo. Back in May, the 31-year-old Canadian-born actress and mother-of-three took it to Instagram to reveal that she lost 35 pounds amid the COVID-19 pandemic by her showing off her toned physique on full display in a two-piece bikini.
The catch? The shipping fee.
This pocket-sized drive has more storage than the iPhone 11 and most high-end laptops—and it's on sale for only $35 right now.
17-year-old Jeffrey Spencer can get some serious height out on the water.
Home chefs beware: Gordon Ramsay is on TikTok, and he's critiquing recipes like there's no tomorrow.
HIIT training burns fat long afer the workout is over. It requires you to exert yourself to the max for short intervals punctuated by recovery periods.
Bravo is standing behind the stars that make up its roster of iconic reality shows, and they're taking notice. When the death of George Floyd fueled protests, overdue conversations about racism and calls for change earlier this summer, Bravo quickly became wrapped up in the conversation, with the network swiftly firing personalities from "Vanderpump Rules" and "Below Deck" in response to outrage from fans over racist incidents from their pasts. The network then doubled down on its stance against racism by doing more to uplift the voices of its Black talent, through initiatives like special episodes of "Watch What Happens Live" and an Instagram Live series called "Amplify Our Voices." Bravo will also air a roundtable discussion called "Empowering Race in America: A Movement Not a Moment" on Sunday, August 9, night after "The Real Housewives of Potomac."
Over the past few months, Aina had been sharing snippets to an Instagram account titled Forvr Mood, which is the name of her new company.
More than 1,500 reviewers are singing the praises of this nightgown that doubles as a daytime dress.
This one-of-a-kind smart TV brings together both live over-the-air television and your streaming content on the home screen.
As expected, you probably haven't given much thought to rubber bands beyond their basic use of holding things together.
Purell hand sanitizers kill 99.9 percent of germs and bacteria.
Ree Drummond shared all the sweet details of the couple's proposal.
Raise a glass to Rose, Sophia, Dorothy, and Blanche.
KNOMA supplies financial assistance to "native New Orleans culture bearers," a community that Delfeayo Marsalis says has been repeatedly overlooked in times of crisis.
Honey has been lauded for its medicinal purposes for generations, but did you know that it also has major skin-care perks? It's a natural anti-inflammatory and antibacterial ingredient, which means it can be called on to aid in a variety of derma maladies. And for all those fine-line-erasing enthusiasts out there, you'll be happy to know that honey has also been shown to help build collagen and elasticity, an essential element in any antiaging playbook—even when it comes to hair. If you're thinking about taking a more natural approach to beauty, picking up a product or two that call on this golden nectar is a good place to start.


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Today is Veterans Day, and in honor of our veterans, many stores are having outstanding sales with special military discounts for active and retired military with photo IDs. I want to thank those who are serving or have served in the military and their families. Those stores offering a Veterans Day discount include:
Belk: Active duty personnel and veterans will receive discounts on Nov. 11 and 12 with military ID: 20 percent off regular- and sale-priced purchases storewide; 15 percent off home and shoes; 10 percent of electrics/coffee with limited exclusions
Food Lion: Active and retired military personnel will receive a 12 percent discount off entire shopping order on Nov. 11 when you present your military ID and MVP card.
Harveys: Active and retired military will receive a 12 percent discount off shopping order with military ID and Rewards Key.
Home Depot: Home Depot offers a year-round, 10 percent discount, up to $500 maximum to all active duty military personnel, reservists, retired or disabled veterans and their immediate families. A valid military ID is required. In addition a 10 percent discount is also offered on Veterans Day. If you ever have trouble receiving your discount or have questions, they suggest you call the Home Depot's Customer Service line at 1-800-466-3337.
Lowes: 10 percent off in-stock or special order merchandise up to $5,000 (maximum discount $500). Not valid on purchase of gift cards or on lowes.com. Offer available to all active, reserve, retired, and honorably discharged military personnel, VA benefits recipients, and their immediate families who present valid military ID or other proof of service at time of purchase.
Toys R Us: 20 percent off one regular-priced item with military ID on Nov. 11 and 12.