Today's Teamster News 10.03.13

<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/10/teamsters-in-nyc-campaign-to-improve-waste-jobs.html" rel="nofollow">NYC Teamsters begin campaign to create good commercial waste jobs</a>  TeamsterNation   ...<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">New York City Teamsters and their allies have high hopes for a campaign launched today to increase good jobs, recycling and justice in the commercial waste industry. New Yorkers are paying attention...</span><br /><a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20131001/BUSINESS/310010018" rel="nofollow">Teamsters at work after rejecting Wegmans contract</a>  Democrat and Chronicle   ...Truck drivers, warehouse workers and other Wegmans Food Markets employees, who are members of Teamsters Local 118, were at work as scheduled Tuesday following a union vote Monday rejecting a company contract offer...<br /><a href="http://newsitem.com/news/northumberland-county-agrees-to-union-raises-1.1561905" rel="nofollow">Northumberland County agrees to union raises</a>  News-Item   ...Northumberland County commissioners approved Tuesday a collective bargaining agreement with court-appointed, non-professional employees that grants them at least a 3 percent raise next year. The workers are represented by Teamsters Local 764, based in Milton, Pennsylvania...<br /><a href="http://www.bmwe.org/news/2013/FAMES_Q4SafetAlert_1.6.pdf" rel="nofollow">Rail Safety Report Shows Increase in Fatal Incidents in Fourth Quarter</a>  BMWED ...A comparison of roadway worker fatality data over a span of 21 years (1986–1994 and 1997– 2010)<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>indicates that the highest number of roadway worker incidents occur in the 4th Quarter...<br /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-government-shutdown-is-the-will-of-a-pathetic-43-of-the-population-2013-10" rel="nofollow">How Less Than 5% Of The US Population Caused The Government To Shut Down</a>  Business Insider   ...it's just stunning that such few people — a group slightly larger than the population of Illinois — can hold that much power...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/10/01/union-calls-for-fed-workers-to-fight-back-against-shutdown/" rel="nofollow">Union calls for fed workers to ‘fight back’ against shutdown</a>  Washington Post   ...A labor leader representing federal employees is exhorting them to “take to the streets” to protest a partial government shutdown that began Tuesday...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/01/which-lawmakers-will-refuse-their-pay-during-the-shutdown/?hpid=z2" rel="nofollow">Which lawmakers will refuse their pay during the shutdown?</a>  Washington Post   ...Hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file federal employees were forced out of the office Tuesday morning because of the start of a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/government-shutdown-begins-senate-expected-to-reject-latest-house-proposal/2013/10/01/ef464556-2a88-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html?hpid=z1">government shutdown</a> and won't be paid over the course of the impasse. As of noon Wednesday, here is the tally of  lawmakers who have said that they plan to donate or refuse compensation earned over the course of the impasse...<br /><a href="http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/30/ceo-pay-4/" rel="nofollow">Fixing exorbitant CEO pay: All is not lost</a>  Fortune   ...Despite what has felt like relentless insanity, the prognosis for positive changes to executive pay looks better than it has for a decade...<br /><a href="http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2013/10/02/not-shocked-five-states-with-the-worst-food-insecurity-are-right-to-work-states/" rel="nofollow">NOT SHOCKED: Five States With the Worst Food Insecurity are “Right-to-Work” States</a>  We Party Patriots   ...A recent USDA report provides details on our growing trend of food (in)security. In 7 million homes, a family member has skipped meals because money was tight. A look at the five states where food insecurity is a problem (North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi) are also “Right-to-Work” states...<br /><a href="http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/independent-contractors-keeping-it-real/1309301" rel="nofollow">Independent Contractors – Keeping it Real</a>  Construction Citizen   ...Real independent contractors are easy to identify. They are hired to perform a specific project, bring their own tools, have their own business cards, and send you an invoice when the work is done. If people are hired to perform ongoing work, told when to show up and what to do, those workers are not independent contractors...<br /><a href="http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/10/the-cost-of-crushing-dissent-in-new-york-city/" rel="nofollow">The Cost of Crushing Dissent in New York City</a>  Wall Street on Parade   ...Today, we have still not restored the Glass-Steagall Act, the largest Wall Street banks of 2008 are even larger and more dangerous today, and unprecedented levels of wealth and income inequality, enforced by the structure of Wall Street, is spreading economic misery to ever greater numbers of Americans...<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/gops_next_victim_the_postal_service/">GOP’s newest target: The postal service</a>  Salon   ...The government itself wasn't enough. Led by Darrell Issa, they now want to go after your mail delivery...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/technology/google-accused-of-wiretapping-in-gmail-scans.html?ref=business" rel="nofollow">Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans</a>  New York Times   ...Wiretapping is typically the stuff of spy dramas and shady criminal escapades. But now, web company giant Google must defend itself against accusations that it is illegally wiretapping in the course of gathering data about Internet users and showing them related ads...<br /><a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20131002/NEWS06/310020104/american-made-flags-senate-bill-veterans-graves" rel="nofollow">Bill would require Michigan cities to buy American-made flags for veterans' grave sites</a>  Detroit Free Press  ...A bill unanimously passed by the state Senate Wednesday would require Michigan cities to buy American-made flags and flag holders for veterans’ grave sites if those flags are competitively priced with foreign-made products...<br /><a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/new-york-set-to-sue-wells-fargo-over-mortgages/?ref=business" rel="nofollow">New York to Sue Wells Fargo Over Mortgage Settlement</a>  New York Times   ...Fielding complaints from borrowers struggling to save their homes, New York’s top prosecutor is preparing a lawsuit against Wells Fargo, accusing the bank, the nation’s largest home lender, of flouting the terms of a multibillion-dollar settlement aimed at stanching foreclosure abuses...<br /><a href="http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/4807511-74/percent-state-privatization#axzz2ga9VHAeu" rel="nofollow">Poll: Majority in state support fully privatizing wine, spirit sales</a>  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review   ...Millions of dollars in lobbying efforts by groups on all sides of the liquor privatization issue had little impact on the opinions of everyday Pennsylvanians, according to two groups that released a poll Tuesday...<br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/overdue-trash-overhaul-article-1.1474501" rel="nofollow">An overdue trash overhaul</a> (opinion)  New York Daily News   ...Cleaning up commercial collection would help Bloomberg burnish his environmental legacy...<br /><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Thruway-Authority-cuts-more-workers-4858184.php" rel="nofollow">NY Thruway Authority cuts more workers</a>  Times Union   ...New York’s <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=local&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Thruway+Authority%22">Thruway Authority</a> last week quietly laid off about a half-dozen non-union employees. Saying it was a personnel matter, Thruway spokesman Dan Weiller declined to comment on the precise nature of the job cuts or the reason...<br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/01/nc-voting-rights-advocates-federal-lawsuit/2903177/" rel="nofollow">N.C. voting rights advocates applaud federal lawsuit</a>  USA TODAY   ...Voting rights advocates applauded the U.S. Justice Department's move Monday to <a href="http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20131001/NEWS/310010012/Voting-rights-advocates-applaud-federal-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">sue North Carolina for racial discrimination</a> over its tough new voting rules while Republicans in the state called the allegation "baseless."...<br /><a href="http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/60410-pennsylvania-house-nudged-on-online-voter-registration" rel="nofollow">Pennsylvania House nudged to implement online voter registration</a>  NewsWorks   ...A bipartisan coalition is urging the state House to pass a proposal allowing online voter registration in Pennsylvania. The measure, which passed unanimously in the Senate earlier this year, is currently before a House committee...<br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /> </span></span>

Today's Teamster News 10.03.13

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NY bathers splash into new year with ocean swim (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhvgOOuewNsq9EXKoaWzMvZXyfjl8nj8wGhbj-dejrhCW95I4vL8WNCGwZxnXiv6uMKpSwppokBTk4jZaWS8RbMGHXA9ekkTbzTrfazQRGva-r1aaFDs-iLWPMp3ImufOEMMUMDE2Y6Y/s1600/ce3e392923514ec38cf9755b02b0b184-ae38398a1e1f4e23848e566410b2e7a4-0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhvgOOuewNsq9EXKoaWzMvZXyfjl8nj8wGhbj-dejrhCW95I4vL8WNCGwZxnXiv6uMKpSwppokBTk4jZaWS8RbMGHXA9ekkTbzTrfazQRGva-r1aaFDs-iLWPMp3ImufOEMMUMDE2Y6Y/s320/ce3e392923514ec38cf9755b02b0b184-ae38398a1e1f4e23848e566410b2e7a4-0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388759550002_11784" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of brave bathers rang in 2014 with a plunge into the icy ocean off Coney Island.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="yom-loading" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Members of the Coney Island Polar Bear and Ice Breakers clubs and other hardy swimmers stripped down to their trunks or dressed in costumes on Wednesday for the annual New Year's Day splash.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388759550002_11800" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Some people hit the surf dressed only in bikinis or briefs. A group of guys wore bow ties and top hats and had a tea party, and others waved giant American flags. Temperatures outside were in the low 30s. People screamed at the shock of the cold water.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388759550002_11806" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Polar Bear club president Dennis Thomas, whose club has hosted the annual dip since 1903, said it was a perfect day for a swim.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388759550002_11811" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It was a glorious beach day," he said. "New York City beaches are great even in the winter. We love being out in it."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Thomas has been a member for more than 30 years and has done countless swims. Others, though, were jumping in for the first time.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="5b7cea96-a71a-30d6-a6bd-67235a53e6f1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/over-250-people-ran-40-f-degree-potomac-photo-110329496.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Over 250 people ran into the 40 (F) degree Potomac&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 172px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Over 250 people ran into the 40 (F) degree Potomac&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="172" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BJuqNXpnu9Y72ikn2XPgGg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE3MjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c6eb7f132854b300470f6a706700b482.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Over 250 people ran into the 40 (F) degree Potomac River during the 11th Annual Polar Bear Plunge, W …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Michael Haltman and his 17-year-old son, Cory Haltman, took the plunge to raise awareness for the bone marrow donation registry. His 23-year-old daughter, Samantha Haltman, is donating bone marrow to a patient struggling with blood cancer, and they wanted to show support.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The water was a shock — Haltman said he felt it was difficult to breathe.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I wore a winter coat until it was time to go, but others were out there for an hour and a half only in bikinis," Haltman said. "Parts of my body are still re-emerging. The sun wasn't out. It was freezing. Water temperature wasn't much warmer."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Polar Bear club swim raises money for Camp Sunshine, a camp for children with life-threatening illnesses. The club hosts swims weekly during the winter months.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Just east of Coney Island at Brighton Beach, the Ice Breakers plunged into the Atlantic. The group has 14 members over the age of 70, including 90-year-old Michael Friedman. The group is a loose membership of eager winter swimmers who raise awareness for environmental issues.</div><div class="body-related-container" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388759550002_11840" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 300px !important;"><div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="8f1cc223-b6e0-3455-a1d8-33685ac85227" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/swimmers-improvise-formal-tea-jumping-frigid-waters-coney-photo-110329173.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Swimmers improvise a formal tea after jumping into&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; 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width: 300px;">Swimmers improvise a formal tea after jumping into the frigid waters at Coney Island beach in New Yo …</div></div><div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="10" data-uuid="8875fc6f-51bf-3bfc-b0e5-b0a2e42bf3e9" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/swimmers-emerges-jumping-frigid-waters-coney-island-beach-photo-110329745.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="A Swimmers emerges after jumping into the frigid waters&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 193px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; 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NY bathers splash into new year with ocean swim (BLOG)

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of brave bathers rang in 2014 with a plunge into the icy ocean off Coney Island. Members of the Coney Island Polar ...

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NYC Teamsters make splash with campaign to fix commercial waste industry

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mvRRrpHIivMAalRn2qPwNEj16CXOySzVNOEG3-IMTKRsXQeTvULIY_W7IN0SMFEBlNnN3s0x5J0K_P3ZNMONyrakSagxvP_L-SkokV2mmdmgjbUYUObaywMy8eYoeRUcwle915V-oyAM/s1600/joint+council+16+NYC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mvRRrpHIivMAalRn2qPwNEj16CXOySzVNOEG3-IMTKRsXQeTvULIY_W7IN0SMFEBlNnN3s0x5J0K_P3ZNMONyrakSagxvP_L-SkokV2mmdmgjbUYUObaywMy8eYoeRUcwle915V-oyAM/s400/joint+council+16+NYC.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teamsters JC 16 President George Miranda and Teamster brothers and sisters</td></tr></tbody></table>New York City welcomed the news yesterday of the Teamsters' new coalition to reform the commercial waste industry, an alliance that includes small businesses fed up with shakedowns and environmentalists fed up with fighting air pollution.<br /><br />Sean Campbell, president of Teamsters Local 813, told a news conference yesterday what union members are fed up with. The <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/306815-report-suggests-commercial-waste-management-reform/" rel="nofollow">Epoch Times</a> reported on his remarks:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Growing up, jobs in the sanitation industry were good paying jobs with good pension plans. Now the majority of private owners pay very low wages and little in benefits. Many break the most basic health and safety regulations.</blockquote>At the same news conference, Teamsters International Vice President George Miranda (and Teamsters Joint Council 16 president) called on the city to work with unions and community groups to tackle commercial waste in New York City.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It's time we open a new phase of recycling with New York's commercial carters.</blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS04dH5uqOyJg3j2QTpAlkaB4al4TU83bLYsIl-PnLH1MhT0EGALivp-ajVILgemHUjylrDumbRLnVV-iLfaWcmHq1wzn4jZlx060jiMRnxl_XlcX1_bHnfmHCKpCDYzyukeSDu3QVlvfT/s1600/Errol+Louis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS04dH5uqOyJg3j2QTpAlkaB4al4TU83bLYsIl-PnLH1MhT0EGALivp-ajVILgemHUjylrDumbRLnVV-iLfaWcmHq1wzn4jZlx060jiMRnxl_XlcX1_bHnfmHCKpCDYzyukeSDu3QVlvfT/s400/Errol+Louis.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Errol Louis with Bettina Damiani of Good Jobs<br />New York, which endorsed the coalition's report.</td></tr></tbody></table>New York City's beloved <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/overdue-trash-overhaul-article-1.1474501" rel="nofollow">Daily News columnist</a><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/overdue-trash-overhaul-article-1.1474501" rel="nofollow"> Errol Louis</a> wholeheartedly endorsed the plan by what he called "an unlikely environmental activists and neighborhood groups." Louis explained what's wrong with New York's commercial waste industry:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...the commercial trash removal system has been an environmental and economic scandal for decades. In 1996, prosecutors indicted dozens of carting company executives, accusing them of running the garbage firms as branches of the Genovese and Gambino crime organizations. The mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, created a government agency, the Trade Waste Commission (now called the Business Integrity Commission), to weed out the crooks. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">But Rudy didn’t kill the beast. This year, federal prosecutors arrested 30 waste haulers, calling them members of the Gambino, Genovese and Luchese crime families and accusing them of racketeering — everything from loansharking to shaking down legitimate businesses and dividing up the New York area into territories controlled by different mobsters. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">To make matters worse, according to Transform Don’t Trash, a large number of commercial waste companies compete in the same neighborhoods, with multiple diesel-powered trucks running up and down the same streets, spewing soot and leaving potholes and chewed-up pavement in their wake. A lack of oversight leaves low-level waste workers badly underpaid and exposed to poisons, disease and accidents, making trash collection and removal one of the 10 deadliest occupations in America. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">And most of the garbage finally arrives in low-income, outer-borough neighborhoods. Manhattan, which generates 41% of the city’s commercial waste, has only 2% of the city’s solid waste transfer stations and 3% of the recycling facilities, according to the coalition.</blockquote>

JC16 NYC waste NYC Teamsters make splash with campaign to fix commercial waste industry

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Your Teamster union dues: Never settle, never stop, always fight to stay on top

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgfE_nkFh3Pre52eezR0KMOZ2zFySg9EcChdwSxxh4Qsx17G-ptdklRAJChvzprWYJZA7Ct3pYm-QUsJGtqhsskmOd5h76c0RwrNdou4FoK9kMteKrr-FO-mKvi3vSocKuUXQWlKI5qyve/s1600/teamsters+812.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgfE_nkFh3Pre52eezR0KMOZ2zFySg9EcChdwSxxh4Qsx17G-ptdklRAJChvzprWYJZA7Ct3pYm-QUsJGtqhsskmOd5h76c0RwrNdou4FoK9kMteKrr-FO-mKvi3vSocKuUXQWlKI5qyve/s320/teamsters+812.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><i><a href="http://teamsterslocal812.com/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 812</a> in Great Neck, N.Y., posted this great piece about what it does for its members on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teamsters-Local-812/369957549750238?fref=ts" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 812 Facebook page</a>. We just <b>had</b> to share the whole thing with you: </i><br /><br />A <a href="http://teamster.org/" rel="nofollow">union</a> gives every member the opportunity to stand up for justice and dignity. Our struggles are about more than contracts – they are about the right of everyone who works hard for a living to have some power on the job, some way of talking back to management without worrying about being fired.<br /><br />We are a group of workers in the <a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/brewery-soft-drink" rel="nofollow">beverage industry</a> — an organization that joins us together to give us a voice in the workplace, strengthens our rights on the job and secures a better life for ourselves and our families. Your dues provide the resources necessary to run this organization.<br /><br />Dues pay for the costs involved in negotiating contracts, handling grievances and arbitrations, legal representation, educating members and stewards on how to resolve problems.<br /><br />Dues pay salaries for union organizers and staff, the cost of running the office (rent, phone, utilities, copying, supplies, printing, mailings).<br /><br />Dues pay for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teamsters-Local-812-Shop-Steward-Page/278183408909689" rel="nofollow">shop steward</a> training programs, rally and strike expenses and everything else we need to fight for justice.<br /><br />Dues pay for our website, 812 newsletter "The Voice" and the Local 812 RV. Our RV has saved lives through medical testing, assisted in shop service and organizing campaigns while advertising our union, our mission, our purpose and our goals for the future.<br /><br />We have worked hard to make our union stronger. We have won industry-standard new contracts to protect benefits, preserve retirement, and ensure that Teamsters Local 812 members have the respect and dignity they deserve. During strikes we preserved health insurance and pension benefits and made sure all strikers could return to work proudly or be placed in other companies with the same or better pay and benefits. Those strikes included Pepsi Meadowbrook (1987), Pepsi Newburgh (1989), Canada Dry (1996) and Coca-Cola (2000).<br /><br /><ol><li>In 2011, Local 812 stopped Coca-Cola from closing the Haulage Department, saving 100 trailer jobs that were destined to be outsourced.</li><li>In 2012, through the Political Action Committee of Teamsters Local 812, we saved 200 jobs due to the over $20 million worth of damage caused by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teamsters-Local-812-Shop-Steward-Page/278183408909689" rel="nofollow">Hurricane Sandy at the Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn facility of Phoenix Beverages</a>. We did it by rallying Politicians to come to the aid of the company. </li><li>In 2013, we saved 120 jobs at Pepsi Bottling Ventures (Long Island) after it was purchased by Pepsi Cola of New York, guaranteeing jobs, hours, seniority and benefits for all. </li><li>Teamsters Local 812 successfully fought and won in court Gov. Patterson's "fat tax" and <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-big-teamster-victory-nyc-sugary-drink.html" rel="nofollow">Mayor Bloomberg's "Big Soda Ban</a>," saving hundreds of union and non-union beverage jobs in New York. </li><li>Successfully fought Coke to reinstate and create merchandiser mileage rights, merchandiser route picking, bargaining unit work, merchandiser work language for pack-outs, drivers' rights, scheduling improvements, and successfully fought labor standards in the warehouse while increasing by over 150 new members in Coca-Cola.</li><li>Successfully negotiated to save over 60 jobs at Oak beverages in Brooklyn after the company announced the closure. We succeeded in no job loss, increased pay for travel, transportation for others by private bus to travel to the other Oak facility. </li><li>Route picking in Anheuser Busch of New York and increase of 40 new union jobs.</li></ol><br />Over the past three years, we have won significant contracts for 98 percent of our membership at a value of over $1 billion. At companies like Coca-Cola Refreshments, Pepsi Cola of New York, Pepsi Bottling Ventures, Pepsi Cola Distributors Association, Canada Dry of New York, Snapple Beverages, Good O, Anheuser Busch of New York, Clare Rose, Anheuser Busch of Long Island, Ippolito Distributors, Anheuser Busch of Staten Island, Union Beer, Anheuser Busch in Brooklyn, Boening Brothers, Miller, Yuengling on Long Island, ACG Gas, Long Island, 5 Boros, Westchester and Rockland counties, Borough Recycling, Betta Way Trucking, as well as many smaller independent beverage distributor contracts. These contracts have set the standard in the overall beverage industry across the nation.<br /><br />We have negotiating committees already in place for 2014 contracts at Phoenix Beverages, Lobo Distributors, Long Feng Trucking, Windmill Distributors, Cedar Beverages, Phoenix MTO Recycling, and Oak Beverages. These companies deliver products such as Miller Beer, Heineken, Guinness, Yeungling, Bass, Georgi Vodka, Polar, Colt 45 and more.<br /><br />We are organizing Big Geyser in Long Island, Craft Beer Guild in New Paltz, Oak Beverage Salesmen, Phoenix Merchandisers, not to mention the victories at Snapple Newburgh, Lobo Distributors, Phoenix MTO and others.<br /><br />Your dues payments make sure we have adequate finances to continue our progress. Together, we can and will improve conditions and build power for Soft Drink and Brewery Workers throughout the New York region and country.

812 beverage contract organizing Your Teamster union dues: Never settle, never stop, always fight to stay on top

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Giants revival the latest twist in the always unpredictable NFC East

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/dam/assets/131119132227-new-york-giants-nfc-east-single-image-cut.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p>I'm starting to think the New York Giants have the rest of the NFC East right where they want them. This is a division that has a rich recent history of being Curveball Central in the NFL, giving us a playoff team that we never saw coming, and you have to wonder if it's happening again. Are the once-left-for-dead Giants in the process of becoming the first team to ever start 0-6 and still make the playoffs? Did I really just write that sentence?</p><br /><p>All I know is something weird and unexpected seems to happen in the NFC East playoff race on a regular basis, and the Giants, winners of four games in a row, suddenly own the division's longest winning streak of the season. If Tom Coughlin's resurgent team beats the faltering Cowboys (5-5) at home on Sunday, it will stand 5-6, just one game behind first-place Philadelphia (6-5, on a Week 12 bye) with five games remaining.</p><br /><p>That's right. One game back with five to play, with the Giants' only remaining division games at that point being two meetings with last-place Washington (3-7), a team that looks ready to really unravel in the final six weeks. That we're even considering the playoff possibilities of a Giants team that has been outscored 256-192 this season, with 29 turnovers, is improbable enough. But that's the state of things in this year's NFC East, and really, late-season strange has been the division's default setting since roughly 2005.</p><br /><p>A brief history lesson of the weirdness is in order:</p><br /><p>* 2005 -- Washington starts the season 5-6 and is tied for last place with Philadelphia after Week 12. But Joe Gibbs' team catches fire down the stretch, winning five in a row -- including the final three against division rivals Dallas, the Giants and Philadelphia -- to finish 10-6 and claim the NFC's second wild-card berth.</p><br /><p>* 2006 -- Philadelphia starts 5-6 that year, losing No. 1 quarterback Donovan McNabb to a season-ending knee injury in a Week 11 loss to Tennessee. But with Jeff Garcia taking over at quarterback, the Eagles go 5-0 in December, winning three consecutive division road games in Weeks 14-15-16. At 10-6, Philadelphia claims the NFC East title, beating out Dallas (9-7) after the Cowboys had started 8-4, and the Giants (8-8), who had once been 6-2.</p><br /><p>* 2007 -- The Cowboys cruised to a 13-3 record and the No. 1 seed in the NFC that season, but of course it was the No. 5-seeded Giants (10-6) who got to celebrate, storming to an unlikely Super Bowl title on the strength of three consecutive road playoff wins and that memorable upset of the vaunted 18-0 Patriots in Arizona. The weirdness really began with New York's inspiring 38-35 Week 17 <em> loss to visiting New England, a defeat that somehow set the Giants up for greater things in the weeks ahead.</p><br /><p>* 2008 -- After 12 weeks of the regular season, the Eagles were 5-5-1 and in last place in the NFC East, 4½ games behind the first-place Giants (10-1). But the Eagles closed fast once again, winning four of their last five games, including a huge Week 14 upset of the Giants in the Meadowlands. Philadelphia (9-6-1) made the playoffs as the NFC's No. 6 seed, beat the top-seeded Giants and third-seeded Vikings on the road in the playoffs, and weren't stopped until a defeat by Arizona in the NFC Championship Game.</p><br /><p>* 2010 -- The entire division race came down to one play that season: DeSean Jackson's game-winning 65-yard punt return as time expired in Philadelphia's ridiculous 38-31 comeback win at the Giants in Week 15. The Eagles trailed 31-10 with 8:17 left in regulation, but somehow beat New York for a sixth consecutive time. Philadelphia finished 10-6 and won the East. The Giants finished 10-6 and missed the playoffs despite starting 6-2, and later sitting 9-4.</p><br /><p>* 2011 -- Much like the current season, the division was a bastion of mediocrity for most of 2011. The visiting Giants were humiliated by New Orleans in a 49-24 Week 12 loss on Monday Night Football, and then came home to drop a 38-35 showdown with the undefeated Packers. Again, the near-miss against a perfect team sparked something for the G-Men, because New York went 3-1 down the stretch and beat Dallas in Week 17 to claim an unlikely division title at 9-7, becoming the first NFC East champion with fewer than 10 victories. Another four wins in the playoffs, including at top-seeded Green Bay and No. 2-seeded San Francisco, and the Giants had another improbable Super Bowl trophy.</p><br /><p>* 2012 -- Washington's seven-game season-ending winning streak was predicted by absolutely no one. Even Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan talked about starting to evaluate his players for 2013 when Washington lost at home to Carolina in Week 9, falling into sole possession of last place in the division at 3-6. But after a Week 10 bye, Washington was unbeatable, winning out to earn its first NFC East championship since 1999. The Redskins scored 27 points or more in six of their final seven games, going 5-0 against division rivals during that run.</p><br /><p>It's quite a track record of the unforeseen, and there's no other division in the league that can match it. So who cares if this season's Giants rank 28th in the NFL in points with 192, and have a woeful minus-11 turnover ratio that's tied for second-worst in the league (29 giveaways, 18 takeaways)? This is the NFC East, where anything can happen, and usually does.</p><br /><p>You can't overlook the rally the Eagles have mounted themselves, with a three-game winning streak that has vaulted them into first place at 6-5. But underestimating the Giants has proven to be a miscalculation when it comes to the NFC playoff picture, as history bears out.</p><br /><p>New York hasn't lost since Oct. 10, and the Giants are getting their mojo back on defense and in the running game at the right time of the season. And let's face it, the breaks do seem to be lining up in their favor, with New York in its past four games drawing the likes of the Josh Freeman-led Vikings, an injured Michael Vick and ineffective Matt Barkley in Philadelphia, a gimpy Terrelle Pryor for Oakland, and an Aaron Rodgers-less Green Bay squad. And now here comes a visit from the so-so Cowboys, in their first game since being destroyed 49-17 by New Orleans in that Week 10 Sunday Night Football massacre in the Superdome. The Cowboys beat New York 36-31 in Week 1, but that was eons ago. Dallas swooning in November and December is another staple of life in the NFC East.</p><br /><p>The Giants' six remaining opponents have a .508 winning percentage, but that stat is largely pumped up by their Week 15 home game against Seattle (10-1), the likely top seed in the NFC. New York's other games after the Dallas matchup seem winnable if the Giants stay hot: at Washington in Week 13, at San Diego in Week 14, at Detroit in Week 16 and home against Washington in Week 17.</p><br /><p>Maybe there's no explaining how New York is still alive in the playoff race. Maybe it's just an occurrence to be gawked at, like a freak show at the fair, or a 10-car pile-up on the highway. The Giants are 4-6, have legitimate playoff hopes, and might just have the division within their grasp after the franchise's worst start since 1976. The only thing we know for sure is it's mid-November, and the NFC East is getting weird again.</p><br /></div>

SPORTS Giants revival the latest twist in the always unpredictable NFC East

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Ben Scrivens, Kings shut out Rangers, 1

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-528982be/turbine/la-sp-kings-rangers-20131118-001/600" width="600"/> </p><br /><p>NEW YORK -- Ben Scrivens made 37 saves in his second consecutive shutout, and Tyler Toffoli's second-period goal held up as the winner as the Los Angeles Kings completed a successful Eastern road trip with a 1-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday night.</p><br /><p>Dominic Moore thought he tied it with 2:41 remaining, but the goal was disallowed because he kicked it in with his right skate.</p><br /><p>Scrivens, filling in for injured regular Jonathan Quick, followed up a blanking of the New Jersey Devils on Friday with one against the Rangers. Los Angeles went 3-0-1 on the trip, winning the final three games.</p><br /><p>Scrivens has gone 156 minutes 2 seconds without giving up a goal over three games since Aaron Ness of the New York Islanders scored in the second period of the Kings' 3-2 win on Thursday.</p><br /><p>Los Angeles is 5-0-1 in its last six.</p><br /><p>Henrik Lundqvist stopped 29 shots in the hard-luck loss. The Rangers, 7-3 in their last 10, failed to follow up on their 1-0 win at Montreal on Saturday with backup Cam Talbot in net. New York dropped its second straight at home.</p><br /><p>Scrivens' best stop came six minutes into the third period when his right arm stopped Mats Zuccarello's shot off a rebound in front.</p><br /><p>Toffoli broke the scoreless deadlock 1:23 into the second period with his fourth goal in just seven NHL games this season. Toffoli, who netted the winning goal late in regulation against the Islanders, cashed in again with some help from the Rangers.</p><br /><p>The 21-year-old center spun and fired a shot from above the circles. Lundqvist slid to his right to get into position to make the save, but the puck hit the skate of New York defenseman Anton Stralman and caromed to Lundqvist's left and into the vacated part of the net.</p><br /><p>Lundqvist thrust backward in the crease in disbelief and disgust as the Kings celebrated.</p><br /><p>The Kings needed a break to get a puck past Lundqvist, who appeared sharp after getting a game off. He kept the Rangers in it as Los Angeles held a 10-2 shots edge in the first half of the second period.</p><br /><p>During an extended flurry in front, Lundqvist made several in-close saves and was bailed out when one drive struck the left post behind him.</p><br /><p>The Rangers certainly had their chances at the other end against Scrivens, but he was also up to the task. New York had back-to-back scoring opportunities while short-handed, including a 2-on-1 break that failed to produce a shot.</p><br /><p>Then the Kings were called for three consecutive penalties midway through the second - including a call for too many men on the ice and another for delay of game - but New York couldn't take advantage despite having a pair of abbreviated 5-on-3 power plays. The Rangers' goal at Montreal on Saturday was scored during a 5-on-3 advantage.</p><br /></div>

SPORTS Ben Scrivens, Kings shut out Rangers, 1

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NYC Marathon

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color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="horizontal-reaction0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="horizontal-reaction0-left" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="horizontal-reaction0-icon" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="horizontal-reaction0-facebook_img" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -46px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction0-right" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-right" id="horizontal-reaction0-count" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto 0px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px; zoom: 1;"><span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-right gig-share-counter-text-right" id="horizontal-reaction0-count-value" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">360</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-right gig-button-container-twitter gig-button-container-twitter-count-right gig-share-button-container" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="horizontal-reaction1" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="horizontal-reaction1-left" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="horizontal-reaction1-icon" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="horizontal-reaction1-twitter_img" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -62px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction1-right" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-right" id="horizontal-reaction1-count" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto 0px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px; zoom: 1;"><span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-right gig-share-counter-text-right" id="horizontal-reaction1-count-value" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">122</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-right gig-button-container-pinterest gig-button-container-pinterest-count-right gig-share-button-container" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="horizontal-reaction2" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="horizontal-reaction2-left" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="horizontal-reaction2-icon" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="horizontal-reaction2-pinterest_img" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -78px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction2-right" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-right" id="horizontal-reaction2-count" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); 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border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-facebook gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-vertical gig-share-button-container-vertical" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 60px;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td align="center" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-top" id="vertical-reaction0-count" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FtopCountImg.png%7C55%2C37%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 37px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px auto 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: middle; width: 55px; zoom: 1;"><span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-top gig-share-counter-text-top" id="vertical-reaction0-count-value" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">360</span></div></td></tr><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-top" id="vertical-reaction0" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 60px;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="vertical-reaction0-left" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="vertical-reaction0-icon" style="background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="vertical-reaction0-facebook_img" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FtopCountImg.png%7C55%2C37%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -63px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div></td><td id="vertical-reaction0-right" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td style="background-image: url(http://assets.nydailynews.com/nydn/img/static/bg/share-dot.png); background-position: 0px 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-twitter gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-vertical gig-share-button-container-vertical" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 60px;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td align="center" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-top" id="vertical-reaction1-count" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FtopCountImg.png%7C55%2C37%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 37px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px auto 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: middle; width: 55px; zoom: 1;"><span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-top gig-share-counter-text-top" id="vertical-reaction1-count-value" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">122</span></div></td></tr><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-top" id="vertical-reaction1" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 60px;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="vertical-reaction1-left" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="vertical-reaction1-icon" style="background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div id="vertical-reaction1-twitter_img" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FtopCountImg.png%7C55%2C37%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -79px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div></td><td id="vertical-reaction1-right" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td style="background-image: url(http://assets.nydailynews.com/nydn/img/static/bg/share-dot.png); background-position: 0px 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-pinterest gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-vertical gig-share-button-container-vertical" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; color: #4d4d4d; float: none; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 60px;"><tbody style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td align="center" style="background-position: 0px 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-top" id="vertical-reaction2-count" style="background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FtopCountImg.png%7C55%2C37%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cpinterest%2Cgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Clinkedin%2Cdigg%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); background-position: -8px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 37px; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px auto 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: middle; width: 55px; zoom: 1;"><span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-top gig-share-counter-text-top" id="vertical-reaction2-count-value" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">1</span></div></td></tr><tr style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="background-position: 0px 50%; 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" height="541" itemprop="associatedMedia" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505294.1383500492!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/186708999.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" title=" Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya is the first one to cross the finish line during Sunday's NYC Marathon. " width="635" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">ELSA/GETTY IMAGES</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya is the first one to cross the finish line during Sunday's NYC Marathon.</div></h4></div><div class="story-rail p402_hide" style="border: 0px; clear: both; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"></div><div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Priscah Jeptoo and Geoffrey Mutai have won the women’s and men’s titles in the New York City Marathon in its triumphant return after a 1-year hiatus.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The two Kenyans waved their flag in celebration while thousands cheered in Central Park.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeptoo, 29, overtook Bronx resident Buzubesh Deba with an impressive final kick and sped across the finish line to thunderous applause, clocking in at 2 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds for the grueling 26.2-mile race.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deba, 26, finished second for the second straight time, having claimed No. 2 in 2011 as well.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeptoo trailed the Ethiopian-born Deba by more than three minutes halfway through. But she made her move as the race entered Manhattan and passed Deba with more than two miles to go.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mutai, 32, ran away with the men’s crown, powering through the home stretch amid autumn foliage to break the tape at 2:08:24.</div><div class="story-img" itemid="/polopoly/polopoly_fs/1.1505301.1383500800!img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/marathon-5-1103.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="<p> Geoffrey Mutai crosses the finish line Sunday to capture the NYC Marathon.</p> " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505301!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/marathon-5-1103.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">ANDREW SAVULICH/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h4><div style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Geoffrey Mutai crosses the finish line Sunday to capture the men's crown in the NYC Marathon.</strong></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearly 50,000 runners are making their way through the five boroughs — with tenfold that number of fans and security officials lining the route to ensure safety.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police officers were “everywhere,” several race fans told the Daily News, with foot patrols on many street corners in response to the bombings at the Boston Marathon earlier this year.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Helicopters hovered over the starting village all morning and the NYPD said it was the first year that metal detector wands were used for everyone at the site.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/new-york-city-marathon-2013-gallery-1.1505428" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PHOTOS: NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2013: RECORD NUMBERS HIT THE TARMAC</strong></a></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But tight security or not, marathon mavens said they were thrilled to welcome the runners back after missing out in 2012.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last year, officials canceled the mammoth event due to the havoc wreaked by Superstorm Sandy.</div><div class="story-img" itemid="/polopoly/polopoly_fs/1.1505296.1383500525!img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/usa-newyork-marathon.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="<p> Geoffrey Mutai breaks the tape at 2:08:24.</p> " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505296!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/usa-newyork-marathon.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS</h4><div style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Geoffrey Mutai breaks the tape at 2:08:24.</strong></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“My cousin said, ‘Why are you going? Look what happened in Boston,’” said Jackie Morrison, 49, a tourist visiting from London, said. “I said, ‘This is here. This is now. You can’t be scared.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Morrison, like others cheering on contenders in the 26.2-mile road race, said she loves the beloved event for its “atmosphere.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 43-year-old marathon, which kicked off in 1970 with just 127 participants, now attracts competitors from around the world and boasts a live television audience of 330 million people.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s energetic, and the wheelchair athletes are so inspiring,” Morrison gushed, looking on as American competitor Tatyana McFadden completed a historic marathon “Grand Slam.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">McFadden won the women’s wheelchair race after also triumphing in the London, Boston and Chicago marathons this year. </div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No other athlete has won those four races in the same year.</div><div class="story-img" itemid="/polopoly/polopoly_fs/1.1505274.1383497618!img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/marathon-1-1103.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="<p> Priscah Jeptoo of  Kenya competes in the NYC Marathon on Sunday. Her winning time was 2 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds.</p> " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505274!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/marathon-1-1103.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">MARCUS SANTOS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h4><div style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Priscah Jeptoo of  Kenya competes in the NYC Marathon on Sunday. Her winning time was 2 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds.</strong></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 24-year-old Maryland resident, who was born with a spinal defect and left at a Russian orphanage as a baby, was adopted by an American family.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She also won the 2010 New York City Marathon.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/nyc-marathon-boston-doc-run-emotion-article-1.1505706" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RELATED: NYC MARATHON 2013: BOSTON DOCTOR HAS RUN OF EMOTION AT RACE</strong></a></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mayor Bloomberg, wearing an orange running jacket, hung medals around the necks of the male and female winners, who beamed back at Hizzoner and the crowd.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The double win for Kenya marked the third time that the country has captured the men’s and the women’s race titles.</div><div class="ym-inline" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ym" id="ym_662210526407498782" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ryan Vail of Oregon and Adriana Nelson of Colorado were the first Americans to finish in the men’s and women’s competitions. They both placed No. 13.</div><div class="story-img" itemid="/polopoly/polopoly_fs/1.1505277.1383498178!img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/524316134.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="<p> Geoffrey Mutai heads to the finish line on route to winning the NYC Marathon.</p> " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505277!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/524316134.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GETTY IMAGES</h4><div style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Geoffrey Mutai heads to the finish line on route to winning the NYC Marathon.</strong></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enthusiastic supporters buoyed the spirits of tired runners as they covered mile after mile.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On 4th Ave. in Midtown, Eli Zodo, 55, gave air high-fives at sweaty strangers jogging by.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s really exciting to have the marathon back,” Zodo said. “I’ve been coming here for years. It was sad after what happened in Boston and the storm last year.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They are all struggling to keep pace. But they are smiling. The marathon makes people happy.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/mcfadden-wins-nyc-marathon-sweeps-women-wheelchair-division-article-1.1505708" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RELATED: TATYANA MCFADDEN COMPLETES GRAND SLAM AT </strong></a><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/mcfadden-wins-nyc-marathon-sweeps-women-wheelchair-division-article-1.1505708" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NYC MARATHON 2013</strong></a></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue tape separated the runners from the gawkers, but viewer Raul Gomez, 50, still felt 100% part of the marathon action as he pointed at a participant trotting along in a Superman shirt.</div><div class="story-img" itemid="/polopoly/polopoly_fs/1.1505243.1383530019!img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/usa-newyork-marathon.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="<p> A runner carrying the U.S. flag and wearing a T-shirt that says 'Boston Strong' crosses the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during the marathon.</p> " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505243!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/usa-newyork-marathon.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS</h4><div style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A runner carrying the U.S. flag and wearing a T-shirt that says 'Boston Strong' crosses the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during the marathon.</strong></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Go Superman, go!” Gomez shouted. “I want to see you fly!”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many in the race and alongside were remembering the storm that crippled the city last fall.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“When the race got cancelled I grabbed some buddies and went down to the Jersey Shore to help out,” said Jan Wright, a 47-year-old retired police officer.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/newspaper-man-mother-mind-races-marathon-cancer-charity-article-1.1505605" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RELATED: <span class="p_textOutput" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NEWSER HAS HIS MOTHER IN MIND AS HE RACES MARATHON FOR CANCER CHARITY</span></strong></a></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maria Murphy, 55, journeyed from Toms River, N.J., where she weathered Sandy last year.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is electricity in the air,” said Murphy, wearing a “Restore the Shore” sweatshirt. “No one is fearful. There are police all over.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Boston tragedy was also on the minds of many runners.</div><div class="story-img" itemid="/polopoly/polopoly_fs/1.1505244.1383530020!img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/usa-marathon-new-york.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Even the runners themselves were checked by police before the start of the New York City Marathon Sunday." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1505244!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/usa-marathon-new-york.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PETER FOLEY/EPA</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 25px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even the runners themselves were checked by police before the start of the New York City Marathon Sunday.</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I decided nothing was going to stop me,” said tough Beantown resident Jen Watter, 38.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“What should you be scared about?” added Richard Lindo, 58, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “Just because something happened in Boston, doesn’t mean it will happen here.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/marathon-2013-fdny-captain-runs-honor-late-father-article-1.1505798" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RELATED FDNY CAPTAIN RUNS MARATHON IN HONOR OF LATE FATHER</strong></a></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There were plenty of light moments as the race wore on.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaron Bliss and members of his Platinum Mustache singing group trekked up I-95 from Philadelphia to serenade the runners.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We sing to them and tell them to work hard and keep going,” Bliss said. “We also sing to them about breakups. So if someone just remembers that their girlfriend left them, that will give them the fire to run faster.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--------</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RUNNING THE NUMBERS</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ING New York City Marathon is billed as the largest one-day live sporting event in the world. Here’s what that means, by the numbers:The ING New York City Marathon is billed as the largest one-day live sporting event in the world. Here’s what that means, by the numbers:</em></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">26.2 miles</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearly 100,000 applicants</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughly 50,000 participants</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61% men, 39% women</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">118 entrants under age 20</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">31 entrants over age 80</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">350 athletes with disabilities</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 million spectators along the route</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">330 million TV viewers</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More than 8,000 volunteers</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23 Olympians representing 23 countries</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">62.370 million gallons of water and 2.3 million paper cups for thirsty participants on the go</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">100 tons of litter and debris</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 hours, 8 minutes, 24 seconds to complete the race for men’s winner Geoffrey Mutai</div><div style="border: 0px; 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