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Bicycling magazine is at it again for the second straight year.
The 2012 Bicycling Fall Classic, presented by Specialized, will take place Sunday, Oct. 7, from the Valley Preferred Cycling Center and will once again feature the "Roubaix-style" finish of completing a victory lap on the world famous Concrete Crater.
The road ride features four distances, including a new 90-mile Gran Fondo (simply meaning long distance or endurance) ride with chip timing to award prizes for the top male and female hill climbers.
Participants can also choose between the 10-, 25- or 50-mile distances that traipse throughout the Lehigh Valley on roads that the editors of Bicycling actually ride themselves and are appropriate for riders of all abilities. The rides conclude with all riders receiving a commemorative Bicycling Fall Classic steel pint glass and a party at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center
All the rides include nutritional, medical and mechanical support.
The rides go off at 1-hour intervals beginning at 8 a.m. with the highest mileage 90-mile Gran Fondo going off first. The 50-mile ride departs at 9 a.m., the 25-mile ride at 10 p.m. and the 10-mile ride at 11 a.m.
For more information or to register, go online to http://www.bicycling.com/fallclassic .
The Bicycling Fall Classic takes place one day after the 2012 Fall VeloFest, formerly called the Fall Flea Market. The Fall VeloFest is the largest bicycling-related flea market in the U.S. and features manufacturers and large cycling retailers selling off equipment, as well as private parties, pro cycling teams, pro cyclists and cycling enthusiasts selling their wares. It is a must-attend event to upgrade your current gear or to get ready for the winter and indoor training seasons.
Via weekend this Saturday, Sunday: This weekend is my favorite race of the year. The LVHN Marathon for Via, featuring a marathon, half marathon and marathon relay, goes off at 7 a.m. on Sunday from Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest and continues through the Lehigh Parkway and the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor trail all the way to Center Square in Easton.
The entry deadline has been moved to Sept. 7, so there is still time to enter. For more information, go online to http://www.vianet.org.
Unfortunately, my group won't be taking part in the relay this year. Lack of training due to injuries has prevented our regular group of four from participating. We usually alternate in a fifth runner, but this year, we'd have to alternate in all five runners.
A family fun walk and kids race takes place beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday from the Arts Quest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. A race expo will take place 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at SteelStacks on Saturday.
Best of luck to all who are taking part to raise funds and awareness for a very worthy cause.
Try the Track: The final Try the Track program for 2012 takes place Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center. Participants 12-and-older learn the basics or riding the 333-meter, 28-degree banked concrete track from top professionals and coaches.
Separate sessions include Guys on Track and Girls on Track. The VPCC will provide loaner bikes. Helmets are required.
For more information or to register, call the VPCC at 610-395-7000.
Tour de Hershey: Get ready for the 2012 Valley Preferred Tour de Hershey bicycle ride on Saturday, Sept. 15, with cyclists riding from the Macy's parking lot at the Lehigh Valley Mall to Hershey Children's Hospital.
The ride benefits Angel 34 to help children fight cancer, and The Hackerman-Patz House at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Cedar Crest.
The 75-mile ride follows old Route 22 to the Children's Hospital in Hershey. Return transportation is the rider's responsibility.
For more information or to register, call 620-533-1923, 610-365-8547, or go online to http://www.angel34.org
Bear Creek running and riding: You don't need snow to take advantage of the slopes and trails at Bear Creek Mountain resort and Conference Center. If you like trails and hills, then get ready for the Big Bear Trail Run 5K and 10K on Oct. 7 at the resort center in rural Macungie. Registration is $20 online in advance or $30 on the day of the race.
Register online at http://www.bcmr.com/events. Register on site between 9-10 a.m. the day of the race. The race begins at 10:30 a.m.
Bear Creek is also hosting the U.S. National MTB Championship Training Camp Series Oct. 19-21 with future camps planned for 2013.
The camps feature a weekend of training that focuses on technique, training and strategy from presenters like Aaron Snyder of SCOTT, Jordan Khalenberg of Giant Mid-Atl, Rob Lichtenwalner of TSEpic, Matt Miller of Giant Mid-Atl, Dr. Greg Huron, Mike Walters, Rich O'Neil of Stan's No Tubes, Bryon Kremer of Cannondale and many more. Power On's Mike Kun and Jon Fencik will be the lead instructors and facilitators.
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A Cal Leandros Novel
Rob Thurman - Author
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When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he's not that concerned. In fact, he can't remember anything-including who he is.
And that's just the way his deadly enemies like it...
I was a killer. I woke up knowing that before I knew anything else.
There was a moment between sleeping and waking where I swung lazily. The dark was my hammock, moving back and forth. One way was a deeper darkness, a longer sleep. But there was more than darkness there. There were trees past the black, hundreds and thousands of trees.
And an ocean blue as a crayon fresh from a brand-new box. A ship rode on its waves with sails as white as a seagull's wings and flying a flag as black as the seabird's eyes.
There were fierce dark-eyed princesses named after lilies.
Waterfalls that fell forever.
Tree houses.
It was a place where no one could find you. A safe place. Of all of it, vibrant and amazing, the one thing I wanted to sink my fingers into and hang on to for my life was that last—a safe place.
But all that disappeared when I swung the other way, where there were sibilant whispers, an unpleasant clicking, insectile and ominous, and a cold, bone deep and imbedded in every part of me. If I'd had a choice, I would've gone with sleep, safe in the trees. Who wouldn't? But I didn't have that warm and comforting option. Instead, I was slapped in the face with icy water. That did the trick of swinging me hard in the wrong direction and keeping me there. I opened my eyes, blinked several times, and licked the taste of salt from my lips. It was still dark, but not nearly as dark as when my eyes had been shut. There was a scattering of stars overhead and a bright full moon. The white light reflected as shattered shards in the water washing up over my legs and up to my chest. It looked like splinters of ice. It felt cold enough to be. There was the smell of seaweed and dead fish in the air. More seaweed was tangled around my hand when I lifted it, the same hand that held a gun—a big gun.
A priest, a rabbi, and a killer walk into a bar…
A killer woke up on that beach, and that killer was me. How did I know that? It wasn't difficult. I slowly propped myself up on my elbows, my hand refusing to drop the gun it held, and took a look around to see a stretch of water and sand littered with bodies—bodies with bullet holes in them. The gun in my hand was lighter than it should've been. That meant an empty clip. It didn't take an Einstein to work out that calculation. The fact that the bodies weren't my first concern—pissing and food actually were, in that order—helped too. Killers have different priorities.
I could piss here. I wasn't a frigging Rodeo Drive princess. There were only the night, the ocean, and me. I could whip it out and let fly. But food? Where would I get the food? Where was the nearest restaurant or take-out place? Where was I? Because this wasn't right. This wasn't home. I dragged my feet up through the wet sand, bent my knees, and pushed up to stagger to my feet to get my bearings. I might be lost. I felt lost, but I needed only to look closer, to recognize some landmarks, and I'd be fine. But I didn't. I didn't recognize shit. I had no idea where I was and I was not fine.
I was the farthest from fine as those bodies on the sand were.
That was when the killer realized something: I knew what I was all right, but I didn't have a goddamn idea who.
I reached for me and I wasn't there. I took a step into my own head and fell. There was nothing there to hold me up. There was no home and there was no me. Nothing to grab or ground me—no memories, only one big gaping hole filled with a cliché. And that—being a cliché? It bothered me more than the killer part. That part I took so much in stride that I'd automatically used my free hand to start dragging the bodies farther out into the water where they'd be carried away—out of sight, out of mind. The killer in me needed no direction. It knew it wasn't Joe Average, law-abiding citizen. It knew it couldn't be caught with bodies—and definitely not these bodies.
They weren't human.
There were monsters in the world, and that didn't surprise the killer or the cliché in me one damn bit either. They both knew why I carried that gun. Monsters weren't very fucking nice.
I looked down at the one I was currently dragging through the surf. It looked like an ape crossed with a spider—not a good look for anyone. It weighed a ton, was hairy with several eyes on a flattened skull, and a thick tangle of legs sprouting below—six to eight at least. The mouth was simian, but there were no teeth. Instead, there were two sets of mandibles, upper and lower. Both were dripping with something other than water, something thicker. At the sight, the base of my neck began to throb with red spikes of pain flaring behind my eyelids each time I blinked. I released Harry—Hairy, Harry, close enough—into the waist-deep water I'd pulled it into and swiped my hand at the nape of my neck. I felt two puncture marks about three inches apart, then held my hand up to the moon. There was blood, not much, and a clear viscous fluid on my palm. It looked like good old dead Harry had gotten one in me before I'd gotten one in him.
The venom couldn't be too poisonous. I was alive and, aside from my neck hurting and a massive headache from Hell, I wasn't too impaired. I went on to prove it by wiping my hand on my jeans and going back for Harry's friends. Larry, Barry, and Gary—monsters I took in stride as much as I did the moon up in the sky. They were just part of the world. I'd forgotten myself, but the world didn't go that easily. The world I did know, it seemed, so I kept doing what kept you alive in this particular world. I towed all the bodies out into the freezing water—Christ, it couldn't have been more than fifty degrees—and sent them on their way. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen…
I didn't wave.
When it was done, I slogged back to the beach and stood, shivering hard from the cold. I watched as the last body disappeared past the distant moon-spangled waves—they were nice, those waves. Scenic, too much so for monsters. After they were gone, I spun around slowly, taking in every foot, every inch of the beach, and the empty dunes behind me with suspicion. Seeing nothing moving besides me, I holstered the gun… in a shoulder holster my hand knew very well was there. As I did, my skin brushed more metal. I pulled my jacket open wide to see three knives strapped to the inside, right and left, six total. I felt an itch and weight around my ankle, but I didn't bother to check for what kind of death-dealing device it was.
A priest, a rabbi, and a killer walk into a bar… No.
Four monsters and a killer walk into a bar… That wasn't right either.
A killer wakes up on a beach… The monsters don't wake up at all.
I was wearing a leather jacket, sodden and ruined. Something was weighing down the right pocket more heavily than the left. I put my hand in and closed it around something oval shaped. I was vaguely hoping it was a wayward clam that had climbed in while I was snoozing in the tide. That hope choked and fell, dead as the floating monsters. In the moonlight, I'd opened my fingers to see a grenade resting against my palm. There was a cheerful yellow smiley face on the side. The hand-painted, slightly sloppy circle smirked at me.
Have a nice day!
I looked up at the sky, the beaming moon, and said my first words, the first words I could remember anyway. Baby's first words in his brand-new life.
"What the fuck?"
A killer walked into a motel. Okay, that was getting old fast. I walked into the motel, still damp, but at least I wasn't sloshing with every step anymore. It had been a twenty-minute walk from that beach. There had been houses that were closer, but they weren't vacation houses abandoned in cold weather. People were living in them, which meant I couldn't break in, my first instinct, and squat long enough to get dry and—shit—get dry. I wasn't ready to think beyond that point right now. There were other things that needed to be done. Important things, and while they gnawed at me with tiny sharp teeth to do them, they weren't willing to say what exactly they were. Do. Go. Run. Hide. Tell. But there was no "what" for the "do," no "where" for the "go" or the "run," and no "who" for the "tell."
It was a thousand itches that couldn't be scratched. Annoying didn't begin to cover a fraction of how it felt. It did cover the no-tell motel clerk, however. Annoying covered him hunky-frigging-dory. Wide nose, big ears, enough acne to say puberty was going to last through his nineties, and frizzy blond hair that wanted to be long but ended up being wide instead. He was reading a porn mag with a hand covering his mouth and a finger jammed halfway up one nostril. That wasn't where your hand should be when looking at porn, but whatever. How he got his rocks off was the least of my concerns.
"Room," I said, slapping down four ten-dollar bills on the countertop. Fresh from a wet wallet, which was equally fresh from my wet jeans, the money quickly made a puddle around itself.
The finger descended from its perch and idly poked at the bills. "They're wet."
True that and not requiring a comment. "Room," I repeated. "Now."
He looked past me at the door. "I didn't hear you come in. How come I didn't hear you come in? We got a bell."
Correction—they had a bell. Bells made noise and noise wasn't good. Any cat sneaking around in the shadows would tell you that. It'd probably also tell you talking to a booger-picking brick wall was pointless. I reached past the clerk and grabbed a key hanging on the wall. Lucky number thirteen. I turned and walked back toward the door.
"ID," the guy called after me. "Hey, dude, I need some ID."
I gave him an extra ten. It was all the ID he needed. Zit cream is pretty cheap at any local drugstore, and he forgot about the ID. But it was the first thing on my mind when I opened the warped wooden door to room thirteen, walked through chips of peeling paint that had fallen on the cracked asphalt of the small parking lot, and went into my new home. Hell, it was the only home I'd known as of this moment as far as my brain cells were concerned. I pulled the blinds shut, flipped the light on the table beside the bed, and opened the wallet. The clerk might not need it, but ID would be helpful as shit to me right now. Let's see what we had.
No, not we. There was no we… I had to see what I had. Because it was me, only me. And I didn't know my life was any different from that. The clerk hadn't considered me too social, and I didn't feel especially social, friendly, or full of love for my fellow fucking man. I had a sliver of feeling that it wasn't entirely due to my current situation. If you forgot who you were, were you still who you were? I didn't know, but I thought it might be safe to say that I usually didn't have an entourage of partying friends in tow.
Other than the monsters, the abominations, from the beach.
So… time to see who exactly the nonexistent entourage wasn't swarming around.
I pulled out the driver's license from the worn black wallet and scanned it. New York City. 355 Aviles Street. I was… Well, shit, I didn't know what year it was exactly, so I didn't know how old I was, but the picture that I checked against my reflection in the cracked mirror on the bureau across the room looked right. Early twenties probably. Black hair, gray eyes, flatly opaque expression—it would've been a mug shot through and through if there hadn't been the tiniest curl to his… my mouth. One that said, I have a boot and I'm just looking for an ass to put it up. Okay, social was out the window. I focused on the important thing—my name, clearly and boldly printed beside the picture. My identity. Me.
"Calvin F. Krueger," I said aloud. "Fuck me."
Calvin? A monster-killing, walking goddamn armory with an attitude so bad, even the DMV captured it on film, and my name was Calvin?
Maybe the middle initial led to something more acceptable. F. Frank, Fred, Ferdi-fucking-nand. Shit. I laid the license aside and went back to the wallet. There was nothing. Yeah, a big wad of soaking cash, but no credit card, no ATM card, no video card. Nothing. I had the minimum ID required by law and that was it. That smelled as fishy as I did. I was going to have to get out of these clothes soon and wash them in the bathtub, or the reek of low tide would never come out of them. And right now they were the only clothes I had.
After spreading out the cash on the nightstand to dry, I tried to wring out the wallet. It was worn and cracked, on its last legs anyway, and I kicked those last legs out from under it. It split along the side seam and out spilled two more licenses. I picked them up from the frayed carpet to see the same picture, same address, and two different names. Calvert M. Myers and Calhoun J. Voorhees. That I had aliases didn't bother me—I killed monsters, so what was a fake name?—but the aliases themselves did. How much did I hate myself?
Calvin F. Krueger, Calvert M. Myers, Calhoun J. Voorhees. Seriously, Calhoun?
Then it hit me. F. Krueger, M. Myers, J. Voorhees. Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees. Three monster-movie villains, and I, a monster killer, was carting around their names on my ID. Didn't I have one helluva sense of humor? I thought about the grenade I'd tossed into the ocean, that cheerful yellow smile on a potentially lethal explosion. A dark sense of humor, I amended to myself, but, hey, wasn't that better than none at all?
The rank smell hovering around me and my clothes was getting worse. The stink was incredible. Good sense of humor, good sense of smell, and neither one was doing anything productive for me right now. I left the ID and the money on the table and went to the bathroom. I toed off black leather boots that were scarred and worn, like the wallet. They'd been used hard. Well-worn, they would've been comfortable if they weren't wet and full of sand. How they'd gotten worn, what crap they'd stomped through, I didn't know. I dumped them in the tub that had once been white but was now a dull, aged yellow. It had been used hard too. I related. I felt that way myself—used hard and put up wet. I threw in my jeans, T-shirt, underwear, and even the leather jacket once I removed the knives.
As I did, a small bubble of panic began to rise. I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember a goddamn thing about myself. I didn't remember putting those weapons in my jacket, although I knew exactly what they were for. Knives and guns and monsters; they were the things I was certain of, but when it came to me, I was certain of absolutely nothing.
Shit. Shit. Okay, I obviously knew how to stay alive; those monsters on the beach didn't just kill themselves. People who knew how to stay alive also knew not to panic and I was not panicking. By God, I wasn't. I was sucking it up and moving on. I was surviving. With or without my memory, at least I seemed to be good at that. Calvin the survivor; watch me in action. I was alive to mock my fake names, and I planned on staying that way.
Turning on the shower, I waited until the water was lukewarm and I stood on top of the clothes. There were two small bottles of shampoo and an equally small bar of soap. I used them all, letting the lather run off me onto the cotton and leather around and under my feet.
I learned something about myself while scrubbing up. I killed monsters, and they tried to kill me back with a great deal of enthusiasm, but not just them. I had a scar from a bullet on my chest, another from what was probably a knife on my abdomen, and a fist-sized doozy on the other side of my chest. It looked as if something had taken a bite out of me and had been motivated when doing it. Man and monster; apparently they both disliked me or I them—could be a mutual feeling. It was just one more thing I didn't know. I moved on to something I did know. Besides the scars, I was a little pale, but that could be from near hypothermia or I could be anemic. Maybe iron supplements were the answer to all my questions—iron and bigger, badder guns.
I had a tattoo around my upper arm, a band of black and red with something written in Latin woven in it. Funny how I knew it was Latin, but I didn't know what it said. Yeah, funny, I thought, despite the lurch of loss in my stomach. There was my sense of humor again.
The rest of me was standard issue. I wasn't a porn star, too bad, but I had proof of a Y chromosome. That was all a guy needed. That and some memories. Were a dick and a mind too much to ask for? That was something every guy had to ask himself at some point, even if I couldn't remember the first time I'd asked it. This time the question bounced back and forth inside my skull, hitting nothing on its way. I guessed that proved it was too much… at least for now.
My head still hurt and trying to remember made it worse. I gave up, closed my eyes, and scrubbed at my hair. I shook from the lingering cold of the ocean, but the warm water helped. It didn't do the same for my damn hair, though. It had been in a ponytail, shoulder length. I'd pulled the tie free, but there was something in it… sticky and stubborn as gum or tar. It could be the blood of one of those supernatural spider monkeys from Hell. It could actually be gum. Maybe I fought bubble-gum-smacking preteens from Hell too. I didn't know and it didn't matter. You didn't have to know the question to be the solution.
The answer ended up being one of those knives I'd taken out of the jacket. The shit wouldn't come out of my hair for love or money, and I finally stood naked in front of the cloudy bathroom mirror, took a handful of my hair, and sawed through it. I let the clump, matted together with a green-gray crap, fall into the sink. The remaining wet hair fell raggedly about two inches past my jaw. I didn't try to even it up with the blade, slender and sharp as it was. I could have, some at least, but…
I turned away from the mirror.
Looking at my picture was okay; not recognizing myself less okay; studying myself in the mirror, not okay at all. I didn't like it. I didn't know why, but I didn't. A quick glance was fine, a long look was a trip someplace and, from the acid sloshing around my stomach, that place wasn't Wonderland. I had guns and knives, scars, and dead things; maybe I wasn't a nice guy. If I didn't like looking in the mirror, it could be I didn't like what I saw. Pictures were only echoes. The guy in the mirror was real.
But it didn't matter why I didn't like it, because I didn't have to look. Problem solved. I spent the next fifteen minutes drying off and doing my best to hand wash the funk out of my clothes before draping them over the shower rod to dry. By then I was weaving, had the next best thing to double-vision, and a wet towel in my hand that I used to cover up the bureau mirror. I didn't ask myself why. I was only half conscious and barely made it to the bed anyway. So to hell with whys. I pulled the stale, musty-smelling covers over me with one hand and slapped the lamp off the table to crash to the floor. I was too clumsy with exhaustion to switch it off. This worked the same. The bulb shattered with a pop and it was lights-out.
I didn't think about it then, but the next day I did, when I had more than pain and drowsiness rolling around in my head. I'd woken up with monsters. I was alone, and I was lost. I didn't know where I was; I didn't know who I was. It doesn't get more lost than that. Wouldn't you leave a light on? Knowing what I knew and not knowing anything else at all, why would I want the darkness where monsters hide?
Because killers hide there too.
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Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Patients More Likely to Start Insulin When Inhaled Insulin Is an OptionPosted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The availability of inhaled insulin may increase the number of patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes who are willing to start or intensify insulin therapy.
"We believe many more people with type 2 diabetes should be on insulin therapy just to get to goal [blood glucose levels]," said Richard M. Bergenstal, MD, executive director, International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Dr. Bergenstal and colleagues conducted a study to study if the availability of inhaled insulin would affect treatment choice in patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes (defined as hemoglobin A1c 7% or higher).
The trial was a randomized, parallel-group, multicenter questionnaire-based study. Prior to randomization, subjects were stratified into 2 groups: subjects who were on 2 or more oral agents (n = 393), and subjects on 1 or more oral agents plus insulin glargine (n = 216).
Subjects were assigned to receive educational material about standard therapies or to receive educational materials about standard therapies plus about inhaled insulin.
The study found that, when inhaled insulin was an option, the joint decisions made between physicians and their subjects were significantly more likely to include insulin in their future treatment regimen or chose a more intensive treatment in both the group on 2 or more oral agents (47.1% vs. 27.5%, P = .0002) and in the group on 1 or more oral agents plus insulin glargine (66.0% vs. 40.0%, P= .0005).
Nearly all subjects who chose insulin selected inhaled insulin when it was presented to them as an option. The decision by subjects to start therapy or intensify the regimen occurred more frequently when inhaled insulin was presented as a choice.
The researchers concluded that patients with type 2 diabetes, if provided with educational materials on the availability of insulin therapy, are more likely to use insulin, whether it's injected or inhaled, explained Dr. Bergenstal. "But when inhaled [insulin] was available, 2 to 3 times as many [patients] were willing [to use it]," he added.
This study was supported by Pfizer, Inc.
Source: Diabetes In Control: Presented at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 16th Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress (AACE). [Presentation title: Impact of Inhaled Insulin on Treatment Choices in Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Abstract 239]
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A very good friend who is an expat and has been living in Vietnam for the past few years is moving to Paris in a couple of months. He didn't have a clue about Tesla and I managed to get him very excited about the Model S. Alas, on his last trip to Paris he tried to look for the Tesla store and he told me that it had closed. Are they backing off on the date of launch for the Model S in France?
Does enyone know for how long will the store be closed? Will there be a new store in the near future? or will Tesla show their cars on an appointment only basis?
Unfortunately my friend had to go back to Vietnam without having experienced the Model S. I'm sure once he tries the car out he will want to get one...
This page says it is shown by appointment only. http://www.teslamotors.com/paris
You can't just "drop in" any more. Maybe sales are slow in France.
Or maybe they didn't want to waste time operating a display for non buyers.
I did my car deal from beginning to end sitting at home. The car delivered to my front door. The most painless car purchase ever. Was as easy as buying a book from Amazon.
But what about the people that want a hands on experience and do not want to go through the whole process of setting an appointments because of time constraints, like my friend. He was just in Paris for a few days, mostly for work and to make preparations for his move to the city. It would've been really convenient for him to drop by the store and look at the car, maybe even get a test drive.
Had he liked the experience, which I'm sure he would have, he would've probably ordered it online to have it delivered just a month or two after his arrival to Paris.
Now, he'll have to wait until he comes back to settle down, find time to set an appointment during the whole settling down process and wait three or four months more than what he would have waited had he been able to test drive the car and placed his order months before.
Just saying...
(forgot the question mark) But what about the people that want a hands on experience and do not want to go through the whole process of setting an appointments because of time constraints, like my friend?
I visited the LaJolla CA store after I ordered my car and found it difficult to look at the car because the store was filled with curious shoppers. Appointments may be a better way until the cars are more available and the public has had a chance to see them on the road.
The store felt more like a state fair display.
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Customer Service Sucks – After spending nearly $10,000 with Home depot, in a months time. My Son-in-Law was told he could not purchase anything and was locked out....He and my daughter waited to find out what was going on?? And the Clerks they delt with didn't have answers or any knowledge as to why. They continued to wait and finally were told they "They could not shop there for 90 days."....And it was due to having a few returns with no reciept....However they were given In Store Credit, and put the money right back IN THE STORE.....My Son-in-Law is a respectable young man and a General Contractor......Needless to say, He will not be doing business with Any Home Depot in the future. And they lost a Great Contractor who's busy year around and makes pretty big purchases... Lowes here they come!
great store but issues with the key cutting – love the store, the people there are all great selection wonderful. But it has happened twice now, i get a bunch of keys cut (I am a realtor), then when out at the homes not just one does not work but twice, all 3 copies did not work. when i put the keys on top of each other there is a little added bump here or there. the guy even said last time, keep your receipt in case they don't work! so now i go to ace hardware on the plateau, I have gone there on and off for 18 years! and never had a key that did not work.
Worst customer service and worst paint – Derogatory comments to customers
The assistant manager John and the painting associate Rachel refused to admit their mistakes in mixing the paint with the wrong base and in the wrong color. When not able to convince the customer, John ignored the customer and asked Rachel "Do you understand what she's saying?" Rachel was trying to play advocate and answered "No". As an asian woman, I found the above question and attitude derogatory and contemptuous. This is not how customer service should be.
Poor integrity to hide mistakes
They finally agreed to refund part of the paint and mark down some others. I had to bring the rest of the paint to the Seattle store for a full refund.
The Bellevue store was trying to hide their own mistakes and let the Seattle store fix their problems.
Poor paint quality
The Home Depot Behr paint (premium plus in eggshell sheen) chips off easily when compared with other local paint store like Parker Paint. I would not consider buying paint from home depot again. I'll go where the pro goes.
Higher price
Most products are more expensive than Lowes and there is not as much variety.
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We should know more on Wednesday about the new downtown hotel in Evansville.
City officials are expecting to receive the next round of information from the developer, and the mayor tells us he expects to have the deal finalized this month.
"Think about all those associations that are not coming to Evansville on an annual basis because we don't have a convention hotel. We're leaving a lot of money on the table. We can be attracting hundreds, if not thousands, more people to our community on an annual basis," Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke says.
"Just that percentage of new business could generate upwards of $6 million plus annualized for Evansville. That's good business and that's business we're not currently attracting," says Bob Warren of the Evansville Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
Winnecke says if everything goes as planned, he hopes to break ground sometime in the fall.
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One person was injured after an incident at the Packaging Corporation of American Mill in Tomahawk.
At 9:41 a.m. on Tuesday March 5th, Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputies along with the Tomahawk EMS and Fire Department responded to the PCA Mill after a 9-1-1 call reported an employee was injured.
The victim, 53 year old Mike Slesicki was brought to Ministry Sacred Heart Hospital with severe burns. He was transported by ambulance to the Tomahawk Regional Airport where a fixed wing medical plane was waiting to fly him to the burn unit at UW-Madison Hospitals and Clinics.
Investigators from the Sheriff's Office have completed their investigation at the scene and have turned it over to PCA Officials.
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This is the third incident in the last 5 years in which people were either killed or injured at the mill. The Company was cited for four "serious" violations, including poor ventilation for flammable gases and paid fines of $22,500 after an explosion killed three workers and injured another in 2008. This past July 47 year old Dennis Gougeon and 29 year old Dustin Hale, both of Ontonagon, Michigan were burned by fly-ash at PCA and later died.
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The new rule, proposed on July 3, caused an uproar from meeting industry associations, including the American Society of Association Executives, which filed a petition for the FCC to clarify its impact on tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. The National Association of Realtors also filed a request of emergency stay of the fax rules, as did the National Association of Business Political Action Committees, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and American Business Media, among other associations.
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Top to bottom, Dolphins rookie class proving its worth as season unfoldsby Brian Biggane
It takes time to evaluate any NFL rookie class. A training camp bust can quietly develop into a worthwhile contributor, while a guy who looks like he might be the real deal in meaningless preseason games often fades quickly as the real hitting begins.
But now, with the season one game short of three-quarters complete, it's become clear the Dolphins are getting a lot out of the Class of 2011.
A round-by-round assessment:
1 _ Center Mike Pouncey might have been the safest pick of the entire draft. His twin brother Maurkice made the Pro Bowl as a rookie with Pittsburgh last year and Mike had the same work ethic, attitude and intelligence when he arrived. The absence of offseason workouts certainly slowed his progress, but Pouncey earned raves from quarterbacks Chad Henne and Matt Moore for how quickly he picked up the schemes and was able to make the calls for the rest of the line. He's as much a keeper as Jake Long.
2 _ Running back Daniel Thomas would probably tell you this was a lost year due to a nagging hamstring injury that has limited his availability, but Thomas still led AFC rookies in rushing entering the weekend with 406 yards, then picked up another 25 on six carries against Dallas Thursday. He's not DeMarco Murray, the former Oklahoma star whom the Cowboys selected after him, but he should finish with a respectable 600-700 yards this year, not bad considering Reggie Bush has been the feature back all year.
4 _ With no third-rounder, Clyde Gates is up next, and Gates' stock made a significant jump in the Dallas game. His 39-yard kickoff return with under a minute left in the half set Miami up at its 44, from where Moore directed a 46-yard drive in seven plays to a Shayne Graham 28-yard field goal that cut the Cowboys' lead to 10-6. Gates also did a good job blocking on a few runs and made an 11-yard reception. He's still very raw and a work in progress, but look for the Dolphins to utilize his speed more going forward.
6 _ The role of tight end/H-back Charles Clay continues to evolve as Moore and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll keep finding ways to use him. He's got excellent hands, good speed and is a load to bring down. Hardly a blip on the radar in the early weeks of the season, he's become another weapon in the offense and also has earned an expanded role.
7 _ Cornerback Jimmy Wilson has largely faded from the picture since injuries to Vontae Davis and Nolan Carroll forced him into a starting role a few weeks back. He did make an excellent play on a Brandon Fields punt in the first quarter Thursday, jumping into the end zone and knocking the ball back so Julius Pruitt could down it at the 3. The question going forward is whether Wilson will ever progress to where he can fill a starting job. But it's a plus to get anything out of a seventh-rounder, and Wilson looks like he'll be no worse than a quality backup.
While the only starter in the group is Pouncey _ thanks in great part to the development of Bush as a feature back, at least for now _ General Manager Jeff Ireland's first draft without Bill Parcells hovering over his every move has been impressive, mostly adding depth in areas the Dolphins needed it and finding an anchor for the O-line for years to come.
Will it be enough to save Ireland's job after previous mistakes like Pat White, Patrick Turner and 2008 fourth-rounder Shawn Murphy? That remains to be seen. But on its own merit it's a job well done.
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Comments On Apr 17, 2013:super strong, well made, fit 100% perfectly. Ground clearance is not as good as expected... I am XC racer and I tought that this was the solution for my kfx434, but I have a 3/4'' space between the skid and the chain/rotor that is ''loose''. I took a look to cut the spacer of the skid to make it closer, but not possible due to swing arm bolt that will took skid anyway. between the 2 ''waves'' for chain and rotor, space in maximised. On the other side, you can be 100% sure to not bent your rotor or chain, even if you bent the skid... and by the way it is designed, no chance to have a rock stick between the chain and skid, because clearance in lower at the entrence of chain than under the sprcoket... hope that help!
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It was more than a bit ironic and just a touch comical that Jack Nicklaus found himself in a wine facility in the Napa Valley in 2009, a table filled with hundreds of wine glasses before him. Nicklaus, the greatest player of all time, had never been much of a drinker during his championship career.
He wasn't really drinking this day, either. He was tasting blends of what would become his own wine label. "I had to spit it all out or I would have been looped," says Nicklaus.
Bill Terlato, the Golden Bear's partner in the venture and the Terlato Wine Group's president and CEO, insisted that Nicklaus be involved in the winemaking from the outset. "It was Jack, [sons Jackie and Gary], me, my father, Tony, and brother John," says Terlato. "We did the tasting of the blends. There was a great photograph taken where there is like 50 wine glasses in front of each of us, hundreds of glasses on the table. Somebody took a picture and sent it to [Jack's wife] Barbara, who couldn't believe it." It was only a matter of time before Nicklaus jumped into the vats with both feet. He did just that in 2010 after the wines created that day were finally ready for the market.
From rolling vineyards to rolling fairways, from restaurant to clubhouse, from the first tee to the first sip, wine and golf are a natural pairing with their common links to the earth, or terroir. Golf and wine each depend on land, and the people who shape it and take sustenance from it. A natural association. And over the last two decades, those golfers with wine affiliations now take up more than one tee time, or even two.
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player—the greatest threesome in history—each has his own wine label. Greg Norman has long had his own label as part of his vast Great White Shark business empire. David Frost was born to the vineyards in South Africa. Fellow South Africans Ernie Els and Retief Goosen have their own wines, and like Frost, their own vineyards.
Six-time major champion Nick Faldo has a wine from Australia. The greatest player in the history of women's golf, Annika Sorenstam, is producing wine at the boutique level. So is Luke Donald as is Fred Couples. And Mike Weir, Canada's best player, is turning out wines from the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario.
More than a few have ended up with the family-owned Terlato Wine Group. Bill Terlato is a good player himself, and really got started by working as an advisor to Donald whose wines are produced by his company. Terlato's company also imports Ernie Els' wine to the United States.
"Certainly in the brand recognition area they had lots of offers flying around out there, but they all wanted their names attached to a quality wine," says Terlato. "They think that having a high-quality wine fits with who they are as persons, and fits their brand." For Nicklaus, who introduced his wines in June, it was about capitalizing on his name while also realizing that there was a great deal of joy in the process. It didn't hurt that Bill Terlato was a member of Nicklaus' The Bear's Club in Jupiter, Florida.
"When we first came together I sort of tried to talk him out of it," says Terlato. "I told him that it wouldn't be a case of just finding a commercial wine to slap his label on because we aren't the right sort of people for that. I said you need to be involved, need to know about the wine, participate in the tasting and blending, understand where it came from, the vineyards and the lots. He was all okay with that."
The wine business isn't just for fun. For legends such as Nicklaus, Palmer and Player, wine offers them an opportunity to expand their profile, both from a business angle and a personal angle. They can put their own labels in the clubhouses of courses they design and on the corporate tables of companies they represent.
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Ariel Russo was hit by an SUV on the Upper West Side Tuesday.
The fire department admitted it took a 911 operator four minutes and 18 seconds to notify EMS, and it took three minutes and 52 seconds for an ambulance to arrive.
Cassano said a dispatcher left the terminal for a shift change and missed the calls, which were picked up when another dispatcher sat down.
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However, Israel Miranda, the president of the EMS and Fire Inspectors' Union, is laying the blame on the city's new 911 system, which has seen issues since a recent upgrade.
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CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb. 23, 2013 – Freshman left-hander Jailyn Ford (Hot Springs, Va./Bath County) twirled a two-hit shutout in leading the James Madison softball team to a 1-0 win over No. 14 South Florida as part of a doubleheader split on day two of the NFCA Leadoff Classic Saturday. JMU started the day with a 3-1 loss to Indiana at the Eddie C. Moore Softball Complex in Clearwater, Fla.
The win over 14th-ranked (ESPN/USA Softball poll) USF is the highest-rank opponent JMU has defeated in its 11-year history. The Dukes ran their record to 7-2 overall and 3-1 in the NCFA tournament. Indiana improved to 9-4 while USF dropped to 6-6.
Ford faced just one over the minimum in throwing her third shutout of the season. She improved to 3-0 while giving up just the two hits and striking out six.
Sara Nevins took the loss to drop to 2-2. She allowed one run on seven hits and three walks. She struck out eight in a complete-game effort.
Freshman catcher Erica Field (Manassas, Va./Osbourn Park) went 2-for-2 and was intentionally walked to lead the Madison offense. Ford added a single and a RBI while senior center fielder Jasmine Butler (Winter Garden, Fla./West Orange) went 1-for-3 with a run scored.
Centerfielder D'Anna Devine and right fielder Lee Ann Spivey had the only two hits for the Bulls. Spivey beat out an infield single in the first while Devine had a one-out seeing-eye single in the seventh.
JMU strung together three hits in a span of four batters to plate the game's only run in the top of the first. Butler started the rally with a one-out infield single. She moved to third on a single to right by Field and scored on a single to right field by Ford.
Butler's run was her 100th career run scored, making her the fourth player in school history to reach triple digits in runs scored.
The Bulls never really threatened the Dukes' lead. They never advanced a runner past first base as Ford dominated in the circle, including retiring 17 consecutive batters at one point.
In game one of the day, Indiana scored the first three runs of the game and fought off a late JMU rally for the 3-1 victory.
Lora Olson earned the win for IU to improve to 5-1 on the season. She limited the Dukes to one run on seven hits and two walks while striking out six. Meaghan Murphy pitched a perfect 1 2/3 innings in relief to earn her first save of the season.
Sophomore right-hander Reba DePriest (Apache Junction, Ariz./Skyline) fell to 1-1 with the loss. She allowed two unearned runs on one hit and two walks in 2 2/3 innings. Sophomore Miranda Kemp (Haymarket, Va./Battlefield (Iowa State)) made her JMU debut in relief. She gave up a run on four hits and a walk while striking out one.
Five different players recorded a hit for the Hoosiers led by second baseman Shannon Cawley going 1-for-3 with a walk and a RBI. First baseman Kassi Farmer added a walk, a single and a run scored while left fielder Kelsey Brannon contributed a 1-for-3 day with a run scored.
Sophomore left fielder Morgan Heath (Yorktown, Va./Grafton) paced the JMU attack with two hits and a RBI. Sophomore designated player Sarah Mooney (Huntersville, N.C./North Mecklenburg) doubled and walked in two official at-bats and junior shortstop Caitlin Sandy (Fayetteville, N.C./Jack Britt) finished 1-for-3 with a run.
Indiana capitalized on a pair of JMU fielding errors to jump ahead 2-0 in the top of the third. Brannon led off with a single to right-center. After a couple of outs, Farmer worked a walk to put two on with two out. A sharp ground ball to second should have ended the frame, but a Madison miscue allowed Brannon to score. The Dukes made a pitching change, but Kemp's second pitch led to a ground ball to short that was misplayed for a second run-scoring error.
A one-out walk in the top of the fourth helped the Hoosiers extend their lead. Shortstop Shelby Gogreve worked the free pass and moved up to second on a two-out single by right fielder Bri Meyer. Cawley brought Gogreve home with another single up the middle to make it 3-0.
The Dukes played small ball to get on the board in the bottom of the fifth. Sandy led off with an infield single and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and a stolen base. After a strikeout, Heath beat out an infield hit to the second baseman for the RBI single.
Madison threatened the IU lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, loading the bases with one out, but Meyer threw out a runner trying to score on a sacrifice fly to extinguish the danger.
JMU closes out the NFCA Leadoff Classic on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. against No. 12 Louisiana-Lafayette.
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Rich Communications Services (RCS) is the platform that enables the delivery of communication experiences beyond voice and SMS, providing consumers with instant messaging or chat, live video and file sharing – across devices, on any network.
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By enabling operators to generate new revenue streams through the creation of apps and B2B services, RCS can be a route to getting a return on IMS investment from the very start.
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By enabling operators to generate new revenue streams through the creation of apps and B2B services, RCS can be a route to getting a return on IMS investment from the very start. RCS Hosted Solutions are also available for fast implementation and "pay as you grow" costs without the need to purchase and install IMS equipment in an operator's infrastructure. Hosted Solutions enable an operator to deploy RCS as a stand-alone set of services in advance of LTE, VoLTE and HD Voice services.
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Rich Communication Services Real Time Market Status
What is the GSMA doing to help?
The GSMA has established a market-leading, interoperable RCS platform. Supported by a strong ecosystem comprising of operators and device manufacturers, this platform is gaining momentum with 23 country launches to date and a total of 87 operators committed to launch by end of 2015. For consumers in some markets the presence of these RCS services is through the joyn™ brand, which acts as verification that devices and services carrying the logo have been accredited.
The GSMA continues to work to extend the reach of RCS by helping our ecosystem partners develop inter- and intra-market interoperability. At present, we are working with operators who have already rolled out RCS services to explore the technical and commercial considerations of an RCS interconnect hub. Our findings have been used to establish a standard technical protocol and share best practice for implementing consistent global interoperability of RCS in an all-IP world.
*The protocols of IP network but in a managed non-public domain
joyn is a certification trade mark of the GSMA