Climbing is a great sport for all kids. Not only does it help for physical fitness, it also develops a high level of self-confidence. Once kids begin climbing they develop a strong positive attitude, and a willingness to take on challenges both physical and mental that might have scared them away before they learned to climb. Parents tell us their kids often do better in school after they go climbing.

I put my pants on and I didn't even look, I just went out the window.

The next few weeks until Thanksgiving is a very important time for us and it's also a heavily promotional period. We'll continue to have more mid-week and weekend sales similar to this past weekend.

A lot of times with local option measures it will depend on what the town wants. If they signal with their vote and say they want it, she will help get it through.

The stores that are in the process of closing are scattered all over the country and they're our lower-performing stores.

We're developing these high-performance products to enhance our private-label brands.

We try not to focus on specific words, and we don't have a standing policy that says you have to use holiday or Christmas or one or the other. We just want our customers to feel comfortable whatever faith they may be and ask sales associates to be sensitive to that.

We were expecting a veto right off the bat from him. I think it's getting a lot of support.

We've invested a lot in improving our stores and we're working heavily on our marketing. But it all starts with the merchandise. If you don't have the things people want, they're not going to come in.

We got into the game fairly early. We had a successful catalog business already, so going to the Internet was a natural extension. It's been our fastest-growing channel of business for a number of years.