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The money raised will go toward Sharkey’s pet project — a wild horse sanctuary in California called Return to Freedom. During the luncheon, she spoke about her passion for animals, nature and photography.

“Because I was on the morning show, I would often spend my afternoon driving around taking photos. When I lost my job in January, I wasn’t devastated because it was never my entire life. I was lucky to have 33 years in radio.”

“I took 15,000 photographs when I was there. I’ve always had a love affair with horses, but also protecting animals from harm. Wild horses are the quintessential image of freedom.”

Sharkey credits Ottawa photographer Michelle Valberg for showing her the ropes and her husband for buying her a really good camera.

Ladies Who Lunch is the brainchild of Catherine Landry, who wears a number of hats in Ottawa, including charity fundraiser, event planner and brand developer for Big Rig Brewery. Her countless good deeds in the city have made her almost as famous as her long dreadlocks and endless enthusiasm.

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The U.S. Attorney’s office told RTV6 site administrators can be held liable for counterfeit selling on their website.

The feds have traditionally focused on store fronts, but Facebook and other sites could soon be their next target.

“Selling counterfeit items is illegal, and you could go to jail,” said Gary Woolf, resident agent in charge of Indianapolis' Homeland Security Investigations, the federal agency that investigates counterfeit bags. “The person you’re selling to could be an undercover police officer, undercover federal agent, you never know.”

“It’s absolutely a possibility,” said Brad Shepard, Assistant U.S. Attorney. “We could be going after anyone who violates the law.”

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Investigating Officer, DC Nina Fletcher, said in a statement: "We’re looking to speak with anyone who may have witnessed the actual robbery, heard the woman screaming or saw a motorcycle being ridden at high speed, the wrong way up Queens Road between 11pm and midnight on Thursday night.”

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The report, “vigorously contested” by LVMH, added an incendiary new twist to an acrimonious battle between the two companies.

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The least popular game in the NFL, the Pro Bowl on NBC in 2012, saw 12.5 million viewers. Game One of the 2012 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers, however, featured the lowest number of viewers for an opening game of a World Series ever with 12.2 million. Game Two had fewer people tuned in to watch, despite the fact that it was the championship.

In four games, the World Series had about 50.5 million viewers.

Super Bowl XLVII, the most recent Super Bowl, featured the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. It was rated as the third most-watched television program in the U.S at 108.41 million viewers.

Why is it that when you look around, you see Boston Red Sox hats and Giants jerseys if people aren’t watching the actual sport? And why are people claiming to like it, while numbers continue to decline?

Everyone knows that baseball is the national pastime. It’s synonymous with the phrase. It may be more American than apple pie and bald eagles. There’s even a song written to honor the game that is baseball. This is a reflection of what baseball was a century or two ago, not where it stands now. While it once was the most widely played sport in America, it has been surpassed by the NFL by a vast margin.

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People watch it because they always have since they were children. Their father or mother watched it, so they grew up along with the New York Yankees or the St. Louis Cardinals just like their parents before them — watching for the sake of tradition. Baseball clings to tradition because it doesn’t have much else. It is a slow game that has done little to nothing to change from what it was 100 years ago. People have grown tired of the same thing repeated year after year, while other sports continue to evolve to appeal to broader audiences.

Baseball will always have fans — bandwagoners or not. Some people genuinely love the sport because it appeals to them. Those who enjoy baseball are falling from the majority into the minority quickly. It doesn’t have the flair that other sports continue to promote. Younger viewers just don’t connect to baseball like prior generations. This will be a problem for the MLB in the not-so-distant future.

Professional athletes in the NFL and NBA have personalities that range from in-your-face and eclectic to wise and confident, that can be relatable across many demographics. Baseball doesn’t have anything to compare to them.

What was once special is now classified as generic and boring. There are 162 games in a season, and it drags on and on, never seeming to end.

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Cancer survivor takes on John O'Groats to Land's End challenge

The Coatbridge man, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in May 2012, is getting on his bike to cycle from John O'Groats to Land's End to raise money for a charity which helps others with the same condition.Great discounts on our huge range of SAXO BANK Cycling clothing .

He will be joining 700 other cyclists who are taking on the nine day tour for Prostate Cancer UK.

He said: "Everybody who's doing this is doing it for different reasons.

"I work in the health and fitness industry, I have done for 15 years. But this is the first time I've actually practised what I preach and I feel absolutely amazing.

"I’m in my mid 50s and I’ve never done anything like this. People in work convinced me to go for it and since I’ve paid my money there’s no turning back.

"We've had a lot of bad weather for cycling in so on days where I couldn't get out on the road I was in the garage on a turbo trainer, which is like a spin bike.

"My wife had been watching Homeland - the Sky Plus always had to be set for it – so I thought I’d watch it. I got it up on the iPad, stuck in the earphones and watched the whole two seasons cycling in the garage.

"But being out on the road is a whole different kettle of fish."

Wille discovered he had cancer after a chance visit to his doctor. The 55-year-old went to his GP suffering from sore ears. But tests to find out what was wrong showed he also had cancer.

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He said: "I had gone to the doctor with sore ears and tests showed there was something else wrong with me.

"But there was nothing wrong with me that I could see - no symptoms or anything. I didn’t have a clue.

"Everyone around me was a lot more worried than I was. My wife was crying when we went outside.Big Garmin Cycling and Fitness is a family owned shop serving the Helena area since 1986. She just burst into tears."

Despite the shock and severity of his diagnosis, the health and fitness manager was determined not to let it get to him.

Just five weeks after an operation to have his prostate removed in July, Willie was back working part-time at his gym in Anniesland.

He said: "When the doctor told me I had cancer,We work with all Castelli Cycling computers. my attitude was 'well what are you going to do about it?'.

"I was really confident the doctors and the NHS would do what they had to do.

"It was difficult having a catheter, being bagged up and covered in scars and staples. It was very difficult at first.View profiles and information for the Team RadioShack Cycling 2012 race team and riders here.

"I had to make plans for the possible future, for insurance purposes and things.

"But I was always really confident that I would get through it, and that pushed my progress.

"I was back at work part-time five weeks after my operation. I did two days on then three days off then I was back full-time after a few weeks."

He added: "I wouldn’t recommend that, though."

In January, Willie was given the all clear.

So when an advert for Ride Across Britain came through his letterbox he thought he’d give himself the challenge.

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Toronto through the eyes of Tom's Place's Tom Mihalik

Tom Mihalik brand to say he got his PhD at Spadina and College. He started alive with his ancestor at age 12, lending a duke in the family's buzz accouterment business that his father, William, started in Kensington Market in 1958. Arriving in Canada afterwards the Hungarian revolution, the Mihalik ancestors begin association with the added new Canadians in the breadth and connected to advance their retail business.

The abundance became Tom's Abode in 1980, eventually accumulation the acceptability "as a abode for suits," aboriginal and foremost. The business today occupies over 15,000 aboveboard feet, alms absolute apparel in every amount ambit and, "the casual swimsuit," quips Tom. A ancestors business through and through with Tom's son, Tom Jr., now acceptable operations, Tom Mihalik has absolutely apparent Toronto advance through his storefront over on Baldwin Street. I bent up with Tom on the additional akin of his abundance to apprehend about some of those observations firsthand.

What did Kensington Market attending like if you were a boy?

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What was the association like?

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Kensington Market is one of those Toronto spots breadth the car vs. bike agitation seems to appear to a head. Breadth do you angle on the issue?

I anticipate the Market needs both. We accept to accept parking spaces because we are aggressive with anybody in the city-limits — we are aggressive with malls that accept accoutrements and accoutrements of parking spaces. We absolutely acceptable the humans who are application bicycles; they should aswell be able to esplanade their bikes. But there should consistently be admission to Kensington Market by car.

And streetcars?

I never admired the streetcar. I anticipate the streetcar was the affliction affair to appear to Kensington Market; we're absolutely blocked in. You cannot acquaint me that an aged brace can just go on the alms and use the streetcar. The streetcar drops them off in the average of the road, they accept to airing into Kensington, again they accept to airing out with their arcade accoutrements and jump on top of the streetcar. That didn't do any amends to Kensington Market. It ability accumulate the air cleaner, it ability be acceptable for the environment, but it wasn't acceptable for us.

How does an absolute business survive in Toronto for added than 50 years?

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What admonition would you accord to anyone searching to accessible their own accouterment boutique in Toronto?

My admonition to is consistently accept a dream, and don't be abashed to put in the time, because you will be abundantly rewarded. And don't advertise accouterment one day, and do a restaurant the next day. Stick to it. Work hard. Don't be afraid that all you're accomplishing is working, because you're architecture your future. You accept a lot of time to relax if you get old.

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Together they have formed company Noble Bond Ltd and are part of Creative HQ, Wellington's business incubator. They're now working in partnership with Wools of New Zealand to develop the technology into a business.

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Polish village transforms itself into a ski resort

Just years ago, winter was a dead season for the Kotelnica Mountain, quiet under a quilt of snow.
Today, Kotelnica vibrates with activity from countless ski fans who flock to the new resort, one of Poland's trendiest.
The amazing transformation happened in a decade and reflects the inventiveness and spirit of enterprise seen in Poland since a market economy arrived with democracy in 1990.
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Ten years on, Bialka Tatrzanska, about a 90-minute drive from the Renaissance city of Krakow, is among Poland's leading centers for skiers of all ages and levels, and a favorite family winter sports venue, though less demanding and more modest compared to many Western European resorts.
A recent ranking of Poland's ski centers by the Onet.pl Internet portal listed it as the country's second-most-popular ski resort based on quality of slopes and other amenities. In first place was Krynica Gorska, which has been around longer and boasts more challenging slopes.
Bialka Tatrzanska has a school employing some 80 instructors who stay busy in their black-and-orange jackets from morning until well after dark. It has six large and nine small ski lifts that take some 15,000 skiers per hour to the top of the Kotelnica and Bania mountain slopes. The longest route is 0.9 mile.
A thermal spa, built with a $26 million loan, opened this season, and a second hotel is under construction. All of them have created hundreds of jobs.
At the foot of the Kotelnica peak, the village of less than 2,000 residents now thrives on visitors who mostly lodge in private houses, eat at the inns and shop in newly built supermarkets. Some 10,000 tourists can be accommodated at a time.
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Vasyl Grib and his friends drove 600 miles from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.
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Sharks' road gets rough in loss to lowly Blue Jackets

On their longest trip of the season, the San Jose Sharks skidded into a roadside ditch.

San Jose was embarrassed, 6-3, on Tuesday night by the Columbus Blue Jackets — a team well-entrenched in the NHL's basement and one the Sharks thumped, 6-0, at HP Pavilion in late January. The loss dropped San Jose to 1-4-1 on its nine-game journey and its once healthy lead at the top of the Pacific Division has virtually disappeared.

The disappointing performance came the same night the Canadian sports network TSN reported the Sharks were "a strong contender" to land the big prize at the Feb. 27 trade deadline, Columbus captain Rick Nash. The price would not be cheap, but after a fourth consecutive loss, general manager Doug Wilson might be ready to do something dramatic.authentic canada goose coat

With or without Nash, the Sharks aren't in a good place.

"We've pretty much hit bottom now and hopefully we can dig our way out of it," captain Joe Thornton said, "because we're definitely in a race now to get into the playoffs."

While coach Todd McLellan was most concerned about his team's lack of urgency, San Jose's troubles also could be traced to undisciplined penalties that led directly to three Blue Jacket goals.

"Right now, as fragile as this team is, we can't take those undisciplined penalties," Thornton said.

Antti Niemi started the game in goal for the Sharks, but was gone after 15:18 of the first period after giving up three goals on 11 shots. Backup Thomas Greiss ended up taking the loss as Columbus center Jeff Carter's hat trick led a suddenly explosive Blue Jacket offense.

R.J. Umberger,canada goose jackets Nash and David Savard also scored for Columbus, while the Sharks got two goals from Logan Couture and one from Thornton.

Columbus jumped all over the Sharks early, holding a 4-0 lead after the first period. And two of those goals came on power plays after Joe Pavelski was sent to the box for showering Blue Jacket netminder Steve Mason with snow and Ryane Clowe earned two minutes for roughing while another fight was already going on.

Pavelski didn't like the call against him, but recognized his own responsibility.

"I think it's soft on my part and on the ref's part, but it's a judgment call," he said.authentic canada goose jackets "The game happens fast, the puck was kind of laying there, we all reached for it. " I guess you just can't give him any reason to call it."

Two goals 26 seconds apart — the first when Colin White's shot from the point went into the net off Thornton's skate at 5:11, the second on a 26-foot snap shot by Couture that Columbus goalie Steve Mason could only wave at — did make it a 4-2 game.

But Clowe overheated again just two minutes after Couture's goal. Called for cross-checking, Clowe earned another two minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct when he slammed the penalty-box door so hard the boards rattled.

"It was a bad call on the penalty so I got upset," Clowe said.

San Jose did kill off 3:22 of the double minor, but Savard scored through traffic, and Columbus once again had a three-goal lead and all the momentum.

The teams traded goals in the third period — Carter notching his third on an easy tap-in, Couture getting his second on a power play by deflecting a shot from Pavelski — but the game was long-decided by then.

With 69 points, the Sharks are tied with the Phoenix Coyotes on top of the Pacific Division, but have two games in hand and one more victory. The Los Angeles Kings aren't far behind with 66 points.

"I don't know if some guys really understand where we are at this point in the season and how the season is dwindling quickly," McLellan said. "You can't just come to the rink and wear a jersey. You have to find a way to contribute. There's been a few that haven't lately and that'll be my job tomorrow. We'll address it in one-on-ones."

He noted that not everybody is playing with a lack of urgency, but that some players have been "missing in action" for a while now and that needs to change.

As for Clowe's costly lack of discipline in the second period, McLellan said he liked neither the call that led to the outburst nor the outburst itself.

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Thornton, like the coach, questioned the lack of urgency in the locker room.

"You can talk so much but it's up to that individual to come out and perform," he said. "This is why we get paid — to perform every night — and for whatever reason everybody's not on board."

Plenty to dazzle on NYC runways

Fashion Week, the industry's World Series, ended Thursday with shows by legendary designers Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. The eight-day stretch featured a head-spinning number of trends from jackets inset with iridescent panels to moody colour combinations of plum and navy. We've pared down the list to some of our favourite and most-talked-about looks set to arrive at stores just in time for fall.Our cheap canada goose generally gives all variations of lower price canada goose parka,

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SEVERAL designers favoured sheer-sleeved dresses for fall. Jill Stuart, known for her nice-girl clothes, took a walk on the naughty side with dresses that showed a little skin, albeit under cover of chiffon or lace. Her crystal-embellished frock is best saved for nightclub-hopping. Note: Body stocking advisable.

Moody colour
NEON is so yesterday, and the jewel tones of this winter have evolved into dark and romantic emeralds and clarets for next winter. Even upbeat Tommy Hilfiger paired plum with black and mustard with olive for his military-themed collection targeted at uptown girls.

McQ debuts in London with magical techno fairytale

Alexander McQueen launched the autumn/winter range for its McQ label in London on Monday, flaunting military-inspired twists on British design classics as a fairytale cottage pumped out techno beats.

For its cheaper, more wearable sister line McQ, the British fashion house teamed thickly belted trench coats with black furry neck mufflers, and English tweed overcoats with tartan and big army boots.canada goose parka

US Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Hollywood actress Salma Hayek were in the front row to see the diffusion line's first ever catwalk show, one of the most hotly anticipated events of London Fashion Week, which closes Wednesday.

Chunky leather belts toughened up feminine, A-line dresses in tulle and brocade for the women.

Layers of lace and netting, heart-shaped necklines, elbow-length gloves and skirts covered with embroidered flowers created a fairytale look echoed by a dreamy closing sequence.

Autumn leaves drifted under the spotlight onto a lone model in white tulle, who bent down to pick up a rope lying amid the wood chippings covering the catwalk.

As she followed the cord, the back wall of the minimalist venue rose to reveal a floodlit woodland scene featuring real trees and an ancient-looking cottage -- which proceeded to pulsate with strobe lighting and a throbbing beat.

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A few gold chains glinted from their hips, but in a manner more suggestive of a dangling gentleman's pocket watch than of grunge rock.

Apart from a sequence of black dresses covered in multi-coloured flowers, the palette stayed muted, ranging from camouflage tones of brown and khaki to crimson and black brocade and forest greens.

There were also a few flashes of Black Watch regimental tartan, including a kilt teamed with a military jacket and a pleated sleeveless dress underlaid with lace.

The glitzy showmanship could not have contrasted more with McQueen's understated creative director Sarah Burton, who shuffled onto the catwalk in jeans at the end to give a sheepish wave.

Alexander McQueen himself committed suicide in 2010, but his designs remain hugely popular -- particularly since Burton designed the wedding dress of Prince William's bride Kate Middleton last year.

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