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To his regular readers, David Sedaris needs no introduction, as his life is his most frequent topic of discussion. The product of a large, colorful family of Greek descent, Sedaris grew up in North Carolina before leaving for college and a quasi-vagabond life of work and travel, as memorably described in his best-selling 1997 collection Naked. One such odd job, a seasonal gig as a Macy's Christmas elf, brought Sedaris to national attention when he converted the experience into the piece "The Santaland Diaries." First heard on NPR in 1992, "Santaland" led to more NPR stints, including frequent appearances on This American Life, and more writing opportunities for outlets such as Esquire. But until his Naked editor more or less forced him to quit, Sedaris kept his day job as an apartment cleaner. His latest collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day, deals with, among other topics, speech therapy and moving to France, where Sedaris lives with boyfriend Hugh Hamrick. This year also saw the production of Sedaris' fifth play, which was co-written with sister Amy Sedaris, best known as the creator of the Comedy Central series Strangers With Candy. Shortly before leaving for a vacation on an Italian island, Sedaris spoke to The Onion A.V. Club about his fans, his desire to exaggerate, and the rudeness of the French.
O: What keeps you from making that breakthrough?
DS: A lot of times, I realize it's no different... When I sit down and I think, it's really no different than it would be in the United States. In the United States, I think ask for a light, or I could ask where a record was. But I wouldn't, after somebody cut in line in front of me, say, "Excuse me, the line starts back there." Or, if a cashier hit me up for exact change and I needed that change for something else, I still wouldn't say, "No, that's my change. I'm collecting it, it's mine." So in a lot of situations, it's not really that different. But in the United States, I'll tell myself I just don't want to get into it, when the truth is, I have no backbone whatsoever. Here, I can say, "It's not my backbone, it's my vocabulary." It's not my vocabulary.
O: You were working other jobs full-time until Naked was published, right?
DS: Yes.
O: Does being a full-time writer limit your experiences and give you less to write about?
DS: Yes. It was never a goal of mine to be a full-time writer. I know other people who would never feel that they were a writer as long as they had another job, but I never felt that way. You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time. When you have nothing but time, it's not nearly as satisfying. I don't have any place I need to be. I don't really fit in anywhere.
O: Have you considered any plans to remedy the situation, like going undercover?
DS: I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that. And it's never really worked for me, because it's homework, basically. When you're in the situation, you're looking too hard for what's strange about it. What's strange is that you're stowing away on a ship in the first place. For money. When you write things like that, you always have to make it sound like you just decided to stow away on a ship. Which, if you're the kind of person who decides to just stow away on a ship, they probably wouldn't have asked you to write the article. So, yeah, I don't do very well when I'm sent somewhere to do something. I would like to get a volunteer job, because I don't have any working papers. That would give me a place that I needed to be, and it wouldn't really matter to me what it is, as long as I'd be around other people. If they sent me out to clean graffiti off of mailboxes, that wouldn't be satisfying, because I would be by myself, and part of the goal is to improve my French. So I'd like some kind of a little job where I was with people. Like old people, or retarded people. I'd do anything. It wouldn't matter to me.
O: Do you think you'll actively pursue that when you get back from vacation?
DS: Part of the problem is that I go on these lecture tours twice a year, so I'm going away from mid-October through mid-November. So I need the kind of volunteer job where you can take lots of time off.
O: You've done a number of book tours now. How would you characterize the typical David Sedaris fan?
DS: I suppose that they're radio listeners, most of the people who show up. I guess I've just been surprised that they run the gamut, in terms of age. Sometimes, there'll be a college student sitting next to some grandparents sitting next to a Japanese person. It's all over the place. I look at them sometimes and think, "What are you doing here? Why are you–why?" Because it's just not... When you're on the radio, you don't even imagine an audience. You're just in a room, by yourself. It's the same thing when you're writing. You don't really imagine anybody on the other end.
O: Is it true that Naked was recently optioned for a movie?
DS: Yeah.
O: What are your hopes for that project?
DS: My hope was to do like most people do in a situation like that–that is, take the money, and then nothing ever comes of it. That was my hope. I really like Wayne Wang, the director. I like him very, very much. Today, I don't know what's going on with it. It was supposed to be a movie of the book, and there came a point where he said, "Well, you know, actually, let's not make it about the book." Which I was very relieved about. But the problem is, I never wanted to write a movie in the first place. I go every single day. Saturday I went and saw Apocalypse Now, and yesterday I saw Gloria, the John Cassavetes film. Did you ever see that? They remade it with Sharon Stone, and it was such a joke. Gena Rowlands is just... her age and her look... it sort of needs to take place in 1979. And it's such a great movie. You go and see something like that, and then you leave the theater and you think, "What would I possibly have to contribute?" Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.
O: It's still an enviable position, you have to admit that. A lot of people want to be in your position.
DS: You know what's strange is, the people who want to be in the position are never asked to be in the position. Like, if you don't want to do something, then people really want you to do it. And the more you say, "No, really, I'm sorry, it's really not for me," the more they want to convince you that it is, in fact, for you, and that you'd be absolutely perfect.
O: The inevitable casting question, of course, is who would play you.
DS: Well, Wayne was talking to some people, and the last I heard was that Matthew Broderick had expressed an interest.
O: That'd actually work pretty well.
DS: I'm just crazy about Matthew Broderick. He's so great in The Producers, and I loved Election, and I loved You Can Count On Me. I would have been happy to have written either one of those movies.
O: They're both fantastic. So you have some models to work with.
DS: But you know how sometimes models just don't help. You look at them, and you... I suppose in a casual way, I can understand what it is that makes those movies so great. And I could imitate those movies. But it would just be an imitation. I could imitate them, except, like, make the school teacher Puerto Rican, but otherwise it would be exactly the same story.
O: What led to the decision to do a play every year with your sister? How did you reach that schedule?
DS: Usually, we start talking about it a few months before, throwing out ideas, and then we get a deadline, and nothing really happens until we get that deadline. Then, we write up a script and get together with the actors, and they read it over, and we throw the script away and start all over again, usually about three weeks before we open. Then it's just a frenzy of activity. My boyfriend does sets, and he directed the last few shows. Everybody contributes. It always seemed like a mistake to me, because the people who are in the plays are really funny people, and it always seems like a mistake to not listen to them, to pull that thing where you say, "This is my play, and I wrote it, and you're going to do what I tell you to do." It's kind of like not every suggestion is taken, but we listen to people.
O: In your non-fiction writing, how do you handle the temptation to exaggerate?
DS: Oh, I just do. With Naked, there were certain things that I tended to exaggerate a little bit more, and then people didn't believe anything. Like, I did hitchhike across the country with my quadriplegic roommate, but nobody believed it. I've been trying to cut back on that a little bit. I was doing one of the things that I used to do in terms of being sent out somewhere; a couple years ago, I went to the county morgue in Phoenix, Arizona. I always wanted to see a lot of dead people, and I had to be a reporter, and I couldn't exaggerate at all. I had to have a tape recorder. It gave me a whole new appreciation for people who can honestly tell the truth, because people just didn't always say what I wanted them to. So my temptation was to change it a little bit, and it could be really funny, this thing that they said. But that's not what they said. They'd never been interviewed before, and they were really looking forward to this article coming out, so it wasn't one of those things like, "Oh, they'll never see it." They couldn't wait to get their hands on it. So I had to deal with all the questions that you have to consider when you're a journalist: moral questions, and questions of fairness, and questions of who are you actually there for. I hated thinking about things like that. I'm much happier the way that I am now, just being able to change things whenever I feel like it. Usually, I do that in terms of dialogue.
O: Do people react to you differently, knowing that they might be fodder for your writing?
DS: Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.
O: Is that a problem?
DS: They often give me stories, saying, "Here's something you might want to write about." Or they'll tell me incidents that happened to them. But often, it's almost like they're auditioning for something. Whenever I'm with [This American Life host] Ira Glass, I notice people doing the same thing with him. It's like they're auditioning.
O: It's probably more of a problem for him.
DS: Yeah, well, because he would actually put somebody on the radio, where I would just steal things from them.
O: You don't read reviews, but do you ever look at your fan sites?
DS: No, I've never seen a web site.
O: There are some out there.
DS: Yeah, somebody told me that one of them said I had six toes. I don't have six toes. Things like that, I just always assume that if I don't see it, it doesn't exist. It'll just go away.
O: What are your plans for the next book? Do you know, or is it still taking shape?
DS: Oh, I started on something, but I don't know if it'll be what I finish doing or not. I don't want it to be like the last few books, so I've been writing some fiction.
O: Are you generally planning to return to fiction?
DS: Yeah, I originally started writing the non-fiction for the radio, because you have to tell true-ish stories when you're on the radio, and I thought, "I don't have to do that." The plays are complete fiction. It's sort of fun to just be making... It's not only making stuff up, it's taking things that I can't write about with non-fiction–either because people ask me not to, or because it's something about me that I really wouldn't want anybody to know–but I can always give someone in a story that experience, and use it that way.
O: Does your essay writing inform your approach to writing fiction?
DS: No, I find lately that listening to things affects my approach more. I've turned into a tapeworm, listening to books on tape. Ira sends me copies of his shows, and I get little things here and there. Have you ever listened to Alan Bennett? He's a national treasure in England, but we don't know who he is in the United States. He wrote The Madness Of King George, and he did this series of monologues called Talking Heads, monologues for different actresses, and they don't sound like they're read. They sound like they're told. Lately, I find myself getting more excited by things that I hear. But I did love that book The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank. It's a guy, and he's an op-ed columnist, and it's his memoirs, and it's really funny.
O: Other than that book, what makes you laugh?
DS: Accidents. I usually don't laugh at jokes. I'll go and see a funny movie, but often... I think I laughed more at Apocalypse Now than I had at any of the funny movies I've gone to see.
O: You say accidents make you laugh. In quite a few of your pieces, you appreciate macabre stuff, but you never really go into detail. Where do you think that comes from?
DS: From never having grown up. I think it's just a juvenile fascination with things like that that most people grow out of, and I never did. I had to have my picture taken the other day for this guy who's a photojournalist for Time. After about the 25th question about dead and starving people, he noticed I didn't have that look of horror on my face that most people would have. "Yeah, but do you ever get to touch them?" I think it's just something I never grew out of.
O: When you're on the radio, I assume people in the studio respond to what you're reading. Do you find that it's different doing public readings? Do you have to pace things differently?
DS: You don't have to pause on the radio. I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read. That's like 70 percent of it right there, figuring out how to read something. When I do it on the radio, I don't imagine. Sometimes there's an engineer there, playing solitaire or talking on the phone, and then you think, "God, this is really awful. They're not even listening." So you just imagine that no one at home is going to listen to it, either. Then you read it out loud in front of an audience, and you say, "Oh, actually, this works." All I ever needed was that evidence.
O: Do you ever get reactions that you don't expect, like laughs in unexpected places?
DS: Yeah. Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever. I was reading something on my book tour. I'd been on this plane, and there was this kid on the plane who was like 5 years old, and he was bald. I naturally assumed that he had cancer. Everyone on the plane noticed this child. When they announced that there would be no beverage service, we were fine with that, but we were all thinking, "Oh, but can't you round up a bag of pretzels for our little friend in 11B?" [I told this story] and the audience was laughing. I was surprised by that. A woman came up afterwards, and she had down on her head. She was bald and had little downy baby hair on her head, and she said that she had a little problem with that, getting people to laugh at a child with cancer, and I said, "That wasn't my intention." But sometimes you don't have control over that.
O: Are there any stereotypes about Paris that you find to be completely true?
DS: The rudeness thing is what you hear most often, but again, it just depends on where you go. I think that for a lot of people who think Parisians are rude, it's because they don't speak the language. They're imagining that people are saying one thing when they're actually saying something else. If somebody slams a door in your face, that's universal. But if you think that somebody's being rude, and then in the same breath you understand that they're looking for a hair brush, and that a hair brush really isn't going to solve their problem, then you look at them a little bit differently. That's the biggest stereotype, that people are rude. The biggest thing I've found about here, and I don't understand it... I had to go to Scotland last week, and I was in Germany a couple weeks before that, and I kept feeling some freedom there, like some big weight had been lifted. It's that in those countries, when you go to buy something, you give the money to a cashier, they deduct what you owe them, and they give you back your change. In France, it's all about exact change. Everyone wants exact change all the time. I have a little coin purse, and when I first moved here, I'd make the mistake of holding up my coin purse and looking for that change, and they would take the coin purse out of my hand and rape me of my change. Rape me of it. At that point, I needed to go to the Laundromat once a week, and they don't have change machines there. It would take me a week to save up change to go to a Laundromat. I'm willing to work with people–it's not like I always give a bill and expect to get change–but sometimes you want to hold onto your change. It drives me crazy here. Like, if I go to buy a newspaper and it's 11 francs now, I'll give the guy 16 francs, thinking he'll give me five back, and he's like, "Don't you have exact change?" I'm kind of working with him already, so it drives me out of my mind.
O: So one thing you miss about America, then, is the change.
DS: Yeah. You notice in New York, guys are much more apt to... it doesn't matter what they're buying, they'll throw down a $20 bill. Whereas women will try to find the exact change. I've never been the kind to throw down a $20 bill. It's just when you're trying, like when the cashier... I was at the grocery store today. The cashier had just settled in, and I had to sit out there and I waited, and I saw her empty all these rolls of change. So I get up there, and she asks me for exact change. It's like, "You're sitting on a mountain of change. You're sitting on a mountain of it." That drives me out of my mind. And if you don't have the exact change, and if you speak with the accent, they automatically assume that you don't understand the money, so they just want to get their hands on your change purse.


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Every cook believes he personally makes "the best" chili. That same cook may spend years perfecting a complex spice mixture or uncovering the ultimate secret ingredient. I applaud him for his efforts. And I will eat his chili with much enthusiasm and great satisfaction.
But let me tell you a little secret: I've never met a chili I didn't like. From my mom's ground beef version (seasoned with a store-bought spice pouch) to the famous "bowl o' red" I enjoyed in Texas, I'll take them all. Heck, I'll even take the chili from Wendy's, as long as it smothers a warm baked potato. Honestly I've never understood the snobbery this simple dish seems to carry. I mean, come on, it's just a hearty bowl of comfort food meant to warm your bones on a brisk day. Even better if it's made with love!
When it comes to my own "perfect" chili, however, I do have some personal preferences I seem to adhere to.
First, when given the choice I prefer chunks of slow-braised beef to the traditional ground. I love when there's big bites of tender meat rather than ground beef drowning in a sea of sauce. I use spicy andouille sausage for a little Southern kick; it really adds a subtle punch that ground pepper just can't pull off. Lastly, I always use a various mix of beans. I know that somewhere out there the purists are flinching, but it's what my mom does so I do too. Other than that, every pot I make seems to be different. It's what I love most about chili. No two batches are ever alike. Just like the cooks that make it.
Here's my standard base recipe. Use it as a jumping off point and go make it your own!
Beef and Andouille Chili
Yields: 8-10 servings
Prep time: 1 hour (including browning the meat)
Total time: 3 – 3 ½ hours
Kitchen tip: Freeze the beef for approximately 45 minutes before cubing; it will be much easier to dice.
Canola oil, or another high heat cooking oil
2 ½ pounds braising beef (preferably chuck or sirloin), cut into 3/4-inch cubes
8 ounces andouille sausage, diced
1 onion, diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 (12 ounce) bottle lager-style beer
1 (28 ounce) can fire-roasted tomatoes
1 cup chicken stock
2 tablespoons good-quality chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 (15.5 ounce) can dark red kidney beans, drained
1 (15.5 ounce) can black beans, drained
Cayenne pepper, to taste
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
To serve:
Thinly sliced scallions, including green parts
Grated cheddar cheese
Sour cream
Cornbread or crushed tortilla chips
In a large Dutch oven or cast iron pot, heat a few tablespoons canola oil over medium-high to high heat. Thoroughly pat the beef dry and season generously with salt and pepper. Working in small batches, sear the beef cubes until all sides are deep brown and a dark fond is forming in the pot. Add more canola oil to the pot if it looks like it is starting to burn. Remove the beef to a separate bowl after browning each batch. After the beef is cooked, add the andouille to the pot and sauté for another 3 – 4 minutes. Remove the andouille and set aside with the beef.
Lower the heat to medium. Add a couple more tablespoons of canola; toss in the onions, stirring occasionally, until soft and golden brown, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and sauté for another 30 seconds. Pour in the beer to deglaze the pan and remove the fond from the bottom of the pot.
Meanwhile, use a pair of kitchen scissors to cut the tomatoes into chunks while still in the can. Add the beef, andouille, tomatoes and juices, chicken stock, chili powder and cumin into the pot. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer the chili for 1-1/2 hours. Add the beans and season with cayenne, salt and pepper to taste. Continue to cook the chili for an additional 30 minutes to an hour, until the beef is very tender and the beans are warm.
Remove from the heat. Bring to room temperature then transfer to the refrigerator. The chili will naturally thicken up as it cools. (I recommend serving this chili 1-2 days after cooking. It just keeps getting better and better.)
To serve, reheat on medium-low until warm. Serve with scallions, Cheddar cheese, sour cream and cornbread.


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BOX loosened Hinton Charterhouse's grip on top spot as a sublime 142 from opener Gerald Hayward guided the visitors to a 131-run victory in Division One on Saturday.
Hayward's knock, which included 14 fours and a six, helped visitors Box to a total of 237-3.
Hinton quickly found themselves in trouble in their reply slumping to 38-5 before they were dismissed for 106 as Box strike bowler Jordan Welsby claimed figures of 4-20.
Beanacre & Melksham got the better of local rivals Bradford on Avon despite being dismissed for 142 having been put into bat.
The opening partnership of Paul Gilbert (49) and Matt Hunt reached 54 before Hunt departed.
Bradford's bowlers began to make inroads as Ben Brown, John Wiltshire and Joe Veacock all reached the 20s.
Danny Tallentire's spin mopped up the tail as he took 4-16 in 7.2 overs to end the Beanacre innings in the 36th over.
Bradford's reply started slowly in the face of fast, accurate bowling from Brown (2-24 off 12) and Rich Hemmings (2-23 off 10).
Youngster Jack Footner (3-19) and veteran Chris Downham (3-17) wrapped up the home side's innings as they were all out for 108, James Edwards (23), Manoj Perera (29) and Ian Pinchen (14) the pick of their batsmen.
Urchfont skipper Patrick Bromley paid tribute to returning batsman Morlon Simon after his century helped his side to a 155-run win over Collingbourne.
Simon smashed 115 and shared a third-wicket stand off 77 with Joe Dorgan as their side reached 236-8 from 45 overs.
Collingbourne, who had won the toss, were then dismissed for 81 in just 29 overs as Toby Dorgan's 4-7 from five overs and tight bowling from Keith Bills and Simon kept them penned down.
Bromley said: "It was a great win for the team. (It was) a spectacular innings from Morlon who showed some classy shots and some huge sixes.
"He is a huge asset to the team and that shows the damage he can do even on a wet wicket.
"He's playing Combined Services firsts (cricket) now so I'm sure we will see a lot more from Morlon this year.
"The team supported him throughout his innings and we went out to bowl and field really well.
"Toby Dorgan was the pick of the bowlers with some unbelievable spin.
Wootton Bassett captain Darren Beasant hailed Jack Paish as he led the side to the summit with an unbeaten 58 against Malmesbury.
"Jack is almost unrecognisable this year compared to last," Beasant said. "He is absolute class.
"It is not just the number of runs he scores, it is the way that he goes about getting them and he's not satisfied unless he finishes the job off."
Bassett restricted Malmesbury to 174-7 with Jubedur Rahman the pick of the bowlers claiming 3-23 from eight overs.
They then eased home with five wickets and eight balls to spare.
Swindon Civil Service claimed local bragging rights as their bowlers destroyed NALGO to secure a 126-run victory.
Matt Giddings' unbeaten 75 helped Service to 171-8, Zak Anwar taking 5-20 from his 12 overs.
NALGO's reply collapsed to 45 all out, Lee Beaver took 3-1 an d Scott McNeill 3-13.
Division 2
SPYE Park were 28-run victors over Swindon A after scoring 194-6, M Hutchins scoring 73. Tom Foreman hit an unbeaten 56 but Swindon were dismissed for 166.
Wroughton Wranglers edged home by four runs against Keevil after making 171-9, Ben Webber with 55 and Mark McMeeking 43.
Simon Emmett took 3-31 and Josh Hamblin 3-39 for Keevil, whose reply fell agonisingly short on 167 all out.
Simon Tyler scored 51 as McMeeking took 3-18 for Wroughton.
Steve Copland's heroics weren't enough to help Lacock to their first victory of the season as they went down by 29 runs to leaders Bear Flat.
Copland took 7-22 off seven overs as Bear Flat were dismissed for 154, then hit 40 as Lacock were all out for 125.
Division 3
BEANACRE & Melksham 2nd found initial runs hard to come by after being put into bat by Biddestone 3rd, reaching 27-2 off 17 overs.
Youngster AJ Hobbs hit 42 and Gary Ings (11 not out) and Andy Footner (20 not out) helped them to 133-8 as they plundered 26 off the final three overs. Andy Marsh took 2-16 off 12 overs.
Biddestone's reply also struggled early on but youngsters Harry Beazer (29) and Daniel Comport (21) seemed to be turning the game in their favour until they fell short on 117 all out.
Footner took 3-15 from 12 overs, Ings (3-30) and Hobbs (2-15) also weighing in.
Robbie Pamphilon scored 70 and Stef Tyrie 44 in Wootton Bassett 2nd's 236-9 against Potterne 3rd, for whom Kieran Chivers took 4-40.
Potterne were all out for 96 in reply, Tyrie taking 5-16 as Max Bartholomew scored 44.
Corsham 3rd's 93-run triumph over Beehive (Southwick) was set up by their innings of 148, Liam Sumsion scoring 55 and Gabriel Field 36 before they bowled Southwick out for 55, Sam Thomson with 3-21 and Sayeed Ibrahim 4-20.
Division 4
RAMSBURY scored 218-6 against Malmesbury 2nd as Ajay Kumar contributed 69. Malmesbury, despite Theo Blundell's 50, short on 135.
Division 5
JOE Tillyer scored an unbeaten 102 as Goatacre 3rd defeated Bradford on Avon 2nd by five wickets.
Bradford reached 210-9 as Rufus Lakin scored an unbeaten 85 and Barry Garland took 5-35 from 12 overs.
Chippenham 3rd slipped to a two-wicket defeat against White Horse after recording 180-6, Mike Oliver scoring 63 and Dave Hicks 53.
Graham Cuthbertson took 4-26 from 10.4 overs and Paul Cornock 3-6 from four as Warminster 3rd bowled Trowbridge A for 96 before knocking off the runs for the loss of four wickets, the innings finished off by a mature innings from youngsters Bron Wood (14*) and quick-fire 23 not out from Jordan Ashman.
Division 6
LACOCK 2nd recorded 206-9 against Heytesbury & Sutton Veny 2nd, with Matt Lever scoring 52, Mark Simmons 40 and Joe Foley 36.
The reply ended on 113, despite Andy Frost's 41, as Tim Culling took 3-7 in seven overs.
Nick Cranston took 3-22 as Burbage & Easton Royal 3rd dismissed Biddestone 4th for 78 before Alan Wheeler's unbeaten 31 got Burbage home for the loss of one wicket.
Martin Tarr hit 104 in Potterne 4th's 224 all out against Swindon Nalgo 2nd, who were then dismissed for 120 as Rony Alam took 4-20.
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Is anybody know how to convert Excel to MySql?I got a large data of excel which I want to insert into MySql table.but I could not figure it out how to do that?any suggestionsthanks
Save it as a CSV file, then use a LOAD DATA INFILE query to import it.
I've been puzzled by how to do this correctly.
I have 216 records in a CSV. I've created my fields in MySQL to match to fields created in the Excel file.
After I attempt to import it with CSV using LOAD DATA, it imports 216 records (as it should) but all fields are 'NULL'.
Attached are two samples. One is the Excel File, and the other is the result after importing into MySQL. I'm not familiar with this method of importing, and would appreciate any assistance.
Thank you!
please do a SHOW CREATE TABLE for the table
then show the LOAD DATA command that you used
Thank you for your prompt response!
You'll have to forgive me, but I just simply went to phpmyadmin, accessed the table I wanted to Import to (which was all ready created), then I went to 'Import', selected the CSV file, selected 'CSV using LOAD DATA', kept the defaults of:(unchecked) Replace table data with file(unchecked) Ignore duplicate rowsFields terminated by ;Fields enclosed by "Fields escaped by \Lines terminated by auto(checked) use LOCAL keyword
Attached is an image of my table.
Is the semicolon really the delimiter in your file?
No, the comma.
then you should change this --
fields terminated by ;
to this --
fields terminated by ','
Ms office excel 2007 offers you the connectivity to all database . You have ODBC connections where you can connect to external source and fetch data into excel. All you need is the credential of database.
aleserlee, it seems you have overlooked the fact that the data here is being extracted from excel, not fetched into excel
[quote="r937,post:8,topic:45516"]then you should change this --
That worked absolutely SPLENDID! Thank you! Now I'll know how to do this in the future!
You guys at Sitepoint are awesome!


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A MAN has admitted taking his ex-partner prisoner and threatening to cut her throat in a 25-hour siege which brought a large part of Burnley to a standstill.
Luke Paul Entwistle, 20, of Escott Gardens, appeared at Burnley Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to false imprisonment of Emma Brown, from Darwen, between last December 29 and January 1 this year, making a threat to kill her to PC Simon Strickland and other officers of Lancashire Constabulary and also affray last December 30 at Burnley. He was remanded in custody until a hearing at Preston Crown Court on May 6.
Prosecutor Parveen Akhtar had earlier told Burnley magistrates Ms Brown was held against her will and officers were deployed from Greater Manchester Police.
Miss Akhtar said police spoke to the defendant through a window.
He was said to have been holding a kitchen knife and said Emma Brown was 'going to get it'. Entwistle had told officers: "If any of you come into the property I will cut her throat."
Ms Brown had been held at the defendant's flat on Escott Gardens.
She emerged unharmed on New Year's Eve after police negotiators were called in.
Armed police, four ambulances, police dogs and a fire crew had surrounded the house through the night after police were called.
DI Neil Marr said: "This was a resource intensive incident which caused us a great deal of concern for all the occupants in the house, including Entwistle. I am pleased he has pleaded guilty as this saves the victim the added trauma of giving evidence."


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Mondozai - Monday, February 24, 2014 - linkThe fact that an interative improvement is touted as a "very big deal" says a lot about just how lowered people's expectations have become in a saturated smartphone market where each successive year brings lesser and lesser major jumps.
In many ways this was always logical - and inevitable - so it isn't very surprising. But it's easy to see why Google are half-dissing the smartphone as passé - and especially Sergey Bri - because they are just such a fast-moving company, and the business is starting to feel glacial to them, even if still very profitable. (Glacial in terms of development, not volume). Reply
Mondozai - Monday, February 24, 2014 - linkinterative = incremental. Reply
colinisation - Monday, February 24, 2014 - linkIncremental? I'm sorry what do you expect, the mobile phone has existed for over a decade and mobile internet for more than 5 years. I think its a very big deal when a manufacturer can simplify their supply chain and deliver better battery life at the same time with a smaller lighter device.
Sounds like a big deal to me. Reply
littlebitstrouds - Monday, February 24, 2014 - linkSome people just like typing bitchy comments, laced with their elitist thought process. Reply
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Federal authorities said there's a "definite possibility" that two letters containing white powder sent to the Jacksonville offices of Florida's senators this week came from the same source.
The FBI said an analysis for both substances were negative for harmful substances, and the letters are undergoing forensic examination.
The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department hazardous materials team and Jacksonville Sheriff's Office bomb squad were called to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's office on Tuesday afternoon after two staff members discovered a white powder in a letter.
The duPont Center on Prudential Drive was evacuated and two people were evaluated before the substance was deemed safe. Rubio was in Washington at the time.
On Monday, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson's office on the 20th floor of the Riverplace Tower -- less than one-half mile from Tuesday's incident -- was evacuated after staff found a powder inside a threatening letter.
Nelson was in Jacksonville for a fundraiser but had already left his office by the time the substance was discovered. The powder turned out to be cornstarch.
There was no word on what the substance sent to Rubio's office was.
The FBI is investigating both incidents, telling Channel 4 that the bureau is "proceeding on the presumption they?re connected." The U.S. Capitol Police are also investigating.
An FBI spokesman said any evidence gathered will be presented for possible criminal charges.
Meanwhile, other elected leaders in the River City are beefing up their security measures as a result of the letters containing suspicious substances. The offices of Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., and Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., are taking extra precautions.
At Brown's office, in addition to having to be buzzed in at the front door, a security measure that took affect in January, workers are taking steps to thoroughly scan incoming mail.
"We'll stop him (the mailman) at the door, take the mail, and then use gloves, etc., at least for the next couple weeks," Ronnie Simmons, Brown's chief of staff, said in a phone interview.
U.S. Capitol Police provided the name and address from where the letters were sent to the senators to Brown's and Crenshaw's offices.
Simmons said that while Brown's office cannot provide that contact information as the investigation remains active, he said it's a good lead investigators are following and something to help guide the office staff as they sort through the day's mail.
"They also told us how to shake the mail and see if there was a powdery substance in it," Simmons said.
He said Brown's office is relieved the letters sent to both senators' offices turned out to contain harmless substances, but he said it could be some type of warning, and Brown's staff is taking it very seriously.
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Industry titan and NAB chairman Michael Chaney was on the hustings on Thursday repeating the now obligatory call for productivity growth. But he followed up with this:
Mr Chaney also called for tax breaks for savers to encourage them to take out deposits.
He also repeated calls for the government to open up Australia's $1.3 trillion superannuation sector as a source of funds for the banks.
"Resolving this funding issue would help us avoid constraints on Australia's economic growth," he said.
It is interesting to speculate about this contention. Would opening up Australia's $1.3 trillion superannuation sector to banks help us avoid growth constraints? Chaney basically means we should channel more savings to the banks so they have more money to lend out. He needs to make this suggestion because the banks are effectively at "peak debt" when it come to borrowing money offshore.
If the banks were to set about shifting their orientation from mortgages to business loans then Chaney's suggestion would work. Assuming the business received the credit on better terms and the subsequent investment was productive, we would be growing the economy's capacity for the long term. Through either making business more efficient or through generating export income, the boosted investment would shrink the current account deficit. The growth would be sustainable.
But, if Mr Chaney is simply suggesting that we channel Megabank more savings for it to continue its habit of lending to households for swapping existing houses then it will not work in the long run. As the banks loaned more and asset prices increased, deposit growth would almost certainly fall. Chaney wants to boost the attractiveness of deposits as well, and we should, but cutting FID is hardly going to cause a stampede. To illustrate, here is a chart of the history of ADI deposit growth:
The period from the turn of the millennium to the GFC is when Australia borrowed offshore most intensively to fund growth via asset inflation. Note that deposit growth was good but much slower than it has been since. The great likelihood is that even if the banks get their hands on more super savings, they will need to soak up ever greater slices as deposit growth falls back.
As well, rising asset prices will increase consumption, which would also lead to greater imports of consumer goods and increase the trade deficit. The end result is that the current account deficit will increase and either the banks, the government or some other part of the private sector is still going to have to look offshore for an increasing amount of capital, either in the form of equity or debt.
In today's environment this will have one other effect. It will also, inevitably, boost interest rates and therefore the dollar. The new equilibrium would likely be one that continued to hollow out export industries, by definition our most productive, and if history is any guide, the borrow-and-consume model would weigh on productivity.
So growth may be boosted for a time. But it would also be held back and, more to the point, if Chaney's policy suggestions are followed we will still have to fund a widening current account deficit somehow, just not through his bank.
While the terms of trade remained elevated for a short time, that might be via the resources sector and its importing of capital or selling of equity. It might also be the equity market, which could become more internationalised. It could also be via the government and deficit spending (most likely in my view because growth would remain lacklustre), at least until its debt levels reached a point of downgrade, making debt more expensive for the banks as well.
One really does wonder when Australian elites will confront the real vulnerability of the miracle economy, that its growth model is dated. Not until global markets pick them up and dump them right in it, I suspect.
David Llewellyn-Smith is the editor of MacroBusiness, where this article was first published.


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Europe's main stock markets have dropped with workers across indebted eurozone nations taking part in co-ordinated general strikes in protest at their governments' deep austerity programs.
London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies dropped 1.11 per cent in Wednesday trade to 5,722.01 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 gave up 0.94 per cent to 7,101.92 points and Paris' CAC 40 fell 0.89 per cent to 3,400.02 points.
Madrid slid 0.27 per cent and Milan shed 0.52 per cent.
"Against a backdrop of unrest and strikes across Europe, share markets have slipped back once more as investors once again adopt a safety first approach in the absence of any positive drivers," said Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets UK.
In foreign exchange deals, the euro rose to $1.2746 from $1.2703 late in New York on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the European single currency had hit two-month low points against the dollar.
Gold prices dipped to $1,725.75 an ounce in trading on the London Bullion Market on Wednesday, compared with $1,726.25 on Tuesday.
Baton-wielding riot police and demonstrators clashed in central Madrid on Wednesday during a general strike that was part of a Europe-wide anti-austerity protest.
Spain and Portugal witnessed the first co-ordinated general strike in the Iberian Peninsula, with train, bus and metro services shut down, factories idled and more than 700 flights cancelled.
Those actions were backed by temporary walkouts in Italy, the third biggest eurozone economy, and Greece, which is fighting to avert default despite having approved plans for 13.5 billion euros ($A16.37 billion) in spending cuts and tax increases.
Hewson said third quarter GDP contractions of 7.2 per cent in Greece and 3.4 per cent in Portugal "illustrated the economic malaise that Europe is currently buckling under," and said they did not bode well for Spanish, Italian, French, German and eurozone figures due out on Thursday.
European markets were also suffering losses owing to worries about the US economic outlook.
Following last week's re-election of President Barack Obama, traders fear a stand-off in Congress in addressing the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts that are due to take effect on January 1 unless a deal is brokered ahead of the new year.
The package, drawn up during fraught spending cap talks last year, could tip the world's biggest economy back into recession.
And in Germany a survey on Tuesday showed investor confidence had worsened in November as the eurozone crisis began to drag on its biggest economy.
However, there was some good news for Greece with the threat of a default this week receding after it raised 4.0 billion euros in short-term bond auctions, which should help plug a financing gap left by the stalled loan.
Asian shares rose on Wednesday as a Greek bond sale on Tuesday eased fears of an immediate default.
Sydney gained 0.20 per cent, Seoul rose 0.23 per cent, Hong Kong climbed 1.20 per cent, and Shanghai rose 0.37 per cent.
Tokyo ended flat after electronics giant Panasonic said it may slash another 8000 jobs and Toyota recalled 2.77 million vehicles over water pump or steering problems.


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LIVONIA, Mich. - Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter has gone public with his plans to seek the Republican nomination for president.
A day after Local 4 broke the news that the 45-year-old would run, he sat down with Local on Friday.
He said he will officially announce his candidacy on Saturday during an Independence Day festival at Whitmore Lake, about 30 miles west of Detroit.
"It's there because I live in Michigan. July 2 is when they actually signed the Declaration of Independence before it was issued to the public on July 4," he said.
He is also expected to play guitar with his band at the event.
The Livonia Republican said he would push for a fundamental restructuring of government and for Wall Street banks that received federal bailout money to free up credit.
"The republican electorate is not satisfied with the field as it is, so they are receptive to the new message and another candidate at this point in time. Whether or not they respond to my message is up to them, but if I don't ask and put in front of them, they'll never have the chance to consider it much less accept it," McCotter said.
McCotter was elected to his fifth consecutive term in Congress in November. Before that he was a lawyer, a state senator, a Wayne County commissioner and a community college trustee.
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The local bands who will be performing at this year's Otley Fake Festival have been confirmed.
The event will be headlined by tribute acts Kazabian, Four Fighters and Green Date.
Five local groups will be joining those acts on the stage of the festival's marquee at Wharfemeadows Park.
They are: John Palmer Acoustic Band, Old School Enemy, Cut Yourself in Half, Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers and Otley's own The Puppeteers – who will be opening the whole show.
Event licence holder Iain Angus said: "Choosing the support bands to perform at Fake Festivals is a long process and not a very easy one. We have a roster of bands that we know are extremely good and very professional, but we always like to look out for new talent too.
"We don't just randomly pick a band, but we actually go to gigs to get an idea of how they would perform on our big stage, and also to assess their talent."
He added that The Puppeteers, who had the honour of being the very first band to play at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, produce "a punchy, dynamic combination of modern music that is rock infused with a strong rhythmic bite".
Early bird tickets for the festival are on sale until May 7 from www.fakefestivals.co.uk, and cost £15 for adults, £8 for ten to 17 year olds, and £38 for a family of two adults and two young people. Admission is free for children under ten.
Anybody who buys a ticket will also receive a free ticket with free camping for the three-day The Big Fake Festival at Thorseby Park, Nottinghamshire, in September.
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In the crystal balls of the European Union's political and bureaucratic establishments looms a mortifying vision: voters in next year's European parliament elections punish mainstream parties and vote en masse for their populist, radical right and anti-EU nemeses.
The humiliation of such a result would be compounded if, as has happened in every ballot for the EU assembly since direct elections began 34 years ago, turnout were to sink to a record low. Between 1979 and 2009 turnout fell from 62 to 43 per cent, a trend cited by the EU's critics to reinforce the argument that the bloc's shortcomings are not just economic but democratic in nature.
Eurosceptic, anti-establishment and ultra-right parties certainly have their tails up at the moment. To varying degrees, voters in many of the EU's 27 countries are fed up with economic recession, mass unemployment, the erosion of the welfare state, political corruption and perceived high levels of immigration. A Gallup poll conducted last month in six member-states – Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK – showed that absolute or relative majorities in every country agreed that the EU was "going in the wrong direction". Read more


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Tolu OmotolaClass: R-Senior
Position: F/C
Height: 6-3
Previous School: TCU
Hometown: Houston, Texas
2011-12 (R-Jr.)
• Ended the year third on the team and 10th in the Big South with 6.6 rebounds per game
• Already ranks 35th on Liberty's career rebounding list, with 414 caroms in two seasons with the Lady Flames
• Team went 9-0 when she scored in double figures, with all nine of those games coming against Big South opponents
• Posted 9.9 ppg during Big South Conference play
• Tied her career high with a game-high 12 rebounds against Lipscomb (Nov. 26), in the consolation game of the Vanderbilt Thanksgiving Tournament
• Scored 13 of her 15 points during the second half of a come-from-behind win at Charleston Southern (Jan. 16)
• Reached double figures in the scoring column in a career-best four games in a row (Feb. 6-18), averaging 13.5 ppg during the span
• Played a career-high 39 minutes during a double overtime triumph over Charleston Southern (Feb. 11), contributing 11 points and nine boards
• Notched a career-high 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds during the regular-season finale against Radford (March 2)
• Her performance against the Highlanders included a career-best 10-of-14 performance from the foul line
• Picked a good time for her first career double-double (11 points, 11 rebounds), in the Big South Championship semifinal game against Charleston Southern (March 10)
• Averaged 8.3 rebounds per game during the Big South Championship
2010-11 (R-So.)
• Started all but one game at power forward during her first season on the court with the Lady Flames
• Ranked second on the team in blocked shots (27) and total rebounds (196) and third in steals (36)
• Stepped up her play during Big South Conference games, averaging 9.9 ppg and 6.4 rpg
• Liberty went 12-2 when she scored in double figures
• Scored in double figures for the first time at Liberty during a Nov. 16 win over Virginia Union, ending the game with 12 markers
• Tied for the team scoring lead during a return trip to her home state against eventual national champion Texas A&M (Nov. 22), contributing 13 points and seven rebounds
• Blocked three shots in consecutive games, at North Carolina Central (Dec. 18) and VCU (Dec. 21)
• She became the first Lady Flame with three rejections in back-to-back contests since Avery Warley on Dec. 28-29, 2008
• Grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds in each of Liberty's regular-season meetings with High Point (Jan. 3 and Feb. 5)
• Just missed her first career double-double in a home win over Gardner-Webb (Feb. 12), tallying 17 points and nine boards
• Two games later, scored a season-high 19 points at Radford (Feb. 19), making all seven of her foul shots
• Played well at the Big South Championship, averaging 10.3 ppg in three games
• Tallied a career-best six steals in the title game against Gardner-Webb (March 13), tying for Liberty's season high
• Trained with the Nigerian National Team during the summer of 2011
2009-10 (So.)
• Did not play while completing a year in residency after transferring from TCU
Previous School
• Made 20 appearances during the 2008-09 season at TCU, helping the Horned Frogs go 20-11 and qualify for the NCAA Tournament
• Averaged 2.1 ppg, 1.9 rpg and 0.6 bpg for the season
• Scored a career-high eight points versus Texas-Arlington (Nov. 20)
• Twice pulled down six rebounds (Nov. 23 vs. Sam Houston State and Jan. 7 vs. Colorado State)
• Hit both of her field goals in TCU's victory over No. 3 Cal (Dec. 7) in the championship game of the Colliers International Classic
• Made her NCAA Tournament debut during TCU's first-round loss to South Dakota State (March 22)
• Played her senior season at Bellaire High School, after spending her first three high school years at John Foster Dulles High School
• Named to the Nigerian Under-19 National team in May 2007
• Rated the No. 44 power forward nationally as a senior by the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report
• Averaged 8.0 ppg and 6.8 rpg as a senior, helping Bellaire go 36-2 and win the Texas Class 5A Region III title
• Named third team All-Greater Houston Area by the Houston Chronicle after the year
• Nominated for the 2008 McDonald's All-America Team
• Averaged 10.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg and 2.0 bpg as a junior at Dulles
• Earned second team all-district recognition as both a junior and senior
• Daughter of Abel and Lola Omotola
• Sister of Kemi Omotola (20) and Simon Omotola (13)
• Birthday is June 28
• Born in London, England and moved to the United States when she was seven years old
• Major is psychology


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Lowa Tibet GTX
Best boot I have ever placed my feet into. As the…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $350
Best boot I have ever placed my feet into.
- Comfort
- Best for backpacking
As the song says "simply the best." if you find a better boot buy it! I know you won't, these bad boys will keep your feet dry and comfortable while backpacking or hiking.
The first pair of Lowa boots I purchased were the…
Price Paid: over 3
The first pair of Lowa boots I purchased were the GTX Mountain Hunter. However, this boot being insulated proved to be too warm for the bow season. So I found a pair of Tibets and purchased them.
After about 3 years they developed a leak. I took them to a Lowa retailer, not the one i purchased them at, and they helped me send them to Lowa to see if it was a durabilty issue. It was, and i got replacement boots. :)
However, I decided to purchase another pair also. These are my go-to boots down to 20* F
Stiff, comfortable, great support, great company. I have two pairs of Lowa Tibets gtx and one gtx Hunter. Great boots!
I bought these boots as a semi-rigid boot for general…
Materials: leather, gore-tex
Use: dayhikes, via ferrata, off trail
Break-in Period: 1 week city walking + 2 hours hike
Price Paid: 200 EUR
I bought these boots as a semi-rigid boot for general alpine use. After a week walking around town, I took them for an easy 2 hour hike. That was enough to break them in sufficiently for a 9 hour T4 hike on mixed rocky ground including VF in the range A-C and some grade I climbing. The boots felt good, comfortable and though the temperature was more than 30C, and we were approaching the peak from the SE with the blazing sun being mercilessly bright, my feet never felt too hot. I always felt quite comfortable with respect to balance and grip on both the rock and the metal studs and ladders.
Finally, the boot is quite sturdy and inflexible. It only bends slightly when you put your full weight on one foot, but on the other hand they are not too uncomfortable to run in should you want to. Finally, they can take a crampon, so they should be usable on glaciers as well.
I cannot say anything about their durability at the moment, though the rubber outsole seems to have already been visibly worn somewhat.
Update: May 9, 2008
(A year update) One of the most excellent boots I've had in a while, which I bought as a tougher replacement to my Scarpa ZG20.
Fit and Stiffness: These are supposed to be backpacking books, so they are pretty stiff - just a notch softer than mountaineering boots. They are nevertheless even sufficiently comfortable for brief runs if necessary. The lacing system is superb, allowing you to tune the tightness of the upper and lower parts separately.
The upper part feels comfortable when you let it loose.
The width of the toebox is average.
Temperatures: I wore them in temperatures up to 30C with no major discomfort - the boot really breathes well. They feel warm in temperatures down to around freezing - I haven't used them in lower temperatures.
Terrain: The boots feel secure in trails, on rocks, on scree, on snow (ankle-deep), on via ferrata and grassy slopes. Haven't really tested their waterproof capacity.
Durability: I have only had them for a year, but they still look great. Outsole is holding up.
These boots work great! I have had them almost two…
Materials: leather, Gore-tex
Use: backpacking
Break-in Period: 100 miles
Price Paid: $225
These boots work great! I have had them almost two years and probably have put 800 dry and comfortable miles on them. They are the first boot I've had that has kept my feet dry from tromping through wet slush all day!
-good under foot cushioning, thank god!
-stiff sole is great for off-trail exploration, but still very comfy to walk lots of miles in.
-somewhat narrow fit, which is good for me
-great waterproofness
-Super tough build
-Heavy, so they won't be your first choice for day hikes
-They can be hot in the summer, but any all leather boot will be, Gore-tex or not
I'm a large format (4x5)landscape photographer, and I usually carry about 60-65 pounds for 4-5 day trips, maybe a bit lighter in the summer, and lighter yet if i can find someone to go with me and i can make them carry the tent, cooking stuff, and other crap, but most of the time it's just me. Anyways, I put a lot of stress on boots, and these have held up the best, and I see myself using them for another year or more. I would not get them resoled, only because I have had bad experiences in the past with resoling my boots.
To date I have put roughly 200 miles on these boots…
Materials: All Leather/Gore-Tex
Use: Rough Trail with Heavy Packs
Break-in Period: Almost out of the box - surprising for their stiffness.
Weight: 4 lb. 6 oz (size 11 Medium)
Price Paid: $215/$270
To date I have put roughly 200 miles on these boots from moderate trail hikes to bushwacking/mountain climbing in British Columbia and they have performed superbly. I have a wide, lower volume forefoot and a narrow heel and they fit great (the European lasts are reputed to fit a wider variety of feet than the U.S. lasts tend to).
The downside is that they are a stiff boot and a bit on the heavy side (4 lb. 6 oz./pr in size 11M) due to their contruction, but for carrying a heavy pack in rough terrain/off-trail travel they are excellent. As such, some folks might not care for them as an all around boot.
I liked them well enough that I bought a second pair just in case Lowa changes/discontinues the model.
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