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Directed by Rob Zombie
Starring Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Jeff Daniel Phillips
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
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★★★★★ review by nathaxnne walker (undead) on Letterboxd
There was an interregnum, a period between what had been and what wasn't quite yet, when collapsed revolution collapsed into hedonistic gratification and withdrawal and an inner-focused mysticism or the hardened, militarized fragments of effort at collective action and things felt increasingly adrift like there wasn't a driver or a captain or a steward. This was an incorrect assumption and we don't need those things anyway. It was still the early days of the Counterrevolution, which lasted a long, long time and didn't so much collapse on its own as much as it achieved its ends which, as ends generally are, are insupportable because there is nothing after them. But that is a different story. So what happened back then, and this is critical, is that the collapse itself collapsed and into what? From where did all this go in the time after those times, when post-hippie narcissism wilted under the very real insight that the self is neither interesting nor actually extant, when getting high and getting off become mechanical, compulsive, evacuative of real joy or further peaks of excitement? When violence becomes unleashed from any immediate etiology and turns into a suffocating atmosphere of crushed glass, endlessly inhaled and exhaled? When the dopamine runs its course, when even the norepinephrine runs its course and there is nothing left in the frayed, buzzing circuits that make up what used to be pleasure/reward and even the kinda sick, kinda metallic and self-digusted anxiety that follows, when there is a kind of numbed-out sardonic glare which ends up just watching because doing is too much and it has all been done, but there is an acceptance of pretty much anything as long as it is either novel or close enough to novel or sufficiently pungent to break or excitedly dismay the kind of palate left under a thick patina of rotting (in)organic matter of tooth-residue, mercury poisoning, mucus and blood and saliva. These are the New Kicks but in their exhaustion-before-it-starts, their weary decadence that can't even take pleasure in itself, what fills the space among other things is a broad but mostly shallow fascination with Weimar Germany, when the Democratic Government was itself collapsing but the Nazi's hadn't gotten really boring yet, amphetamines, black leather, pancake makeup, the failure of monetary policy, the promise of the ephemera of deviance, of a sexuality focused upon secondary and tertiary symbolic apparatuses, of crime and the state and the revolution blurred irreparably therefore that much more dangerous.
James Osterberg was adrift after The Stooges fell apart, hitch-hiking aimlessly from town to town, working pickup jobs, falling in and out with local dealers, prostitutes, nightclub impresarios, leaving in the middle of the night without a word, sometimes settling his debts in a heap of bitten and chewed gold coins dating from the 16th Century atop unmade beds, nightstands, bathroom counters. These are what they call Iggy's Lost Years. Some people say he brought justice to frontier towns using esoteric forms of energy channeling, pineal focus and absolute concentration. Other people say, yeah, that, but also whisper about how he stopped doing that stuff and holed up in a filthy house on the outskirts of some place after the darkness showed itself to him for real and if a whisper could whisper they would definitely about that one night a year when he would bring back the blood and the glitz and the danger, the self-analysis and the momentary, unheralded glory of mass-murder-for-hire. This is where Iggy turned, turned in such a way that he could go on from this place to make disco records, cold deadpan records, hollowed-out from years of desert wandering, newly slithered into an incantory croak and mumble and exhortation and always while smiling except when there are no witnesses.
31 is an anti-epic of burnout, of frustration, of a dog returning to its own vomit out of compulsion and need and finding that really, it wanted that cold vomit drying on the carpet more than a lot of other things which weren't really a possibility right then if we are really being honest. There are times when it is nothing but a clinging and nauseous surface film of crass abhorrence in expulsive deo but there are also all the other times where what is behind and underneath that, a darkness that absorbs and blots and falls within its own penumbra, something so tired and sad and yet so very hungry that in the absence of prey it would consume itself or lay dormant, waiting for the next phone call or reason to get up from bed or leave the house, to put on a show again for everyone who has assembled there beyond the floodlights, or tied to a chair, or locked in a bathroom streaked with hysterical tears and clotting mats of blood that isn't just theirs but whose exactly it belongs to might never get discovered, not even on Unsolved Mysteries years and years after the trail goes cold.
★★★½ review by Filipe Furtado on Letterboxd
An impressionistic mirror funhouse of savagery. Some of the provocations are stupid in the arrested development way one would expect from Zombie and a lot of this boils down to little more than him finding fresh ways for torturing his wife. There's a psychosexual quality to this, that makes the term torture porn actual work beyond the usual prudish criticism. Zombie's is getting off on all the depraved material he is feeding on as much as he is commenting on it, but he has a feel for the most horrible imagery American cinema has produced that gives this a jolt of energy beyond mere titillation (which it has plenty of). It is a vile movie for sure as it is a commentary on such vileness and it is main quality is a refusal to offer one any hope of separation from it. That Zombie's style has grown with time accomplished just makes it sting more, his use of light and claustrophobic close ups is first rate and even the fact that most of his set-pieces makes no sense in a shot by shot basis actually turn them more aesthetical arresting. Sometimes I wish he could grow beyond his 70s fetishism as that is the film's major weakness, the first act in particular suffers a lot from that. But the angry mirror remains and the film purposes an avenue to sick imagery out of American culture that is powerful.
★★★★½ review by SilentDawn on Letterboxd
Was an 83, now an 87
Ruthless peaks and valleys of nothing, with space being the only signifier of progression or difference in a scenario entirely shaped with the stench of a person becoming lifeless, becoming meat. The opening scene is what Rob Zombie was born to make - a hilarious, confrontational exploration of our hypocrisies and the violent tendencies we shed. The rest is similarly brilliant, painting savagely and brutally to the inspiration of excess. Blokeh, ill-defined foreground objects, and lingering metallic surfaces compliment the evil. America is one big game, and we're all rats in a maze.
★★★½ review by Michael Stuhlman on Letterboxd
Richard Brake made for a better Joker than Jared Leto.
★★★★ review by Matt Curione on Letterboxd
Oh boy, this is the ultimate video game movie for Trump's America. A gutting look at the rich's oppression of the lower classes, but with much more gore.
Think Running Man meets House of 1,000 Corpses. Malcolm McDowell plays a Barry Lyndon dandy crossed with Richard Dawson and it's just as insane as you can imagine. The rest of the cast brings it as well, with believable depictions of dread and desperation, Sheri Moon as usual, being a highlight. Richard Brake however is really something else, a vile and depraved creation that's the best Joker performance of 2016.
The contestants of 31 are constantly leveling up, forced into enclosed arenas, and put up against increasingly difficult boss battles. Why do studios keep trying to adapt videogames when we have films like 31 that are more entertaining than those could ever hope to be?
Cinematography matches the brutally of the violence. A chainsaw revs up and the screen shakes to high heaven. The viewer is placed in the contestant's shoes with low visibility and a claustrophobic effect thanks to the funhouse lighting on display. This is an oppressive feature.
31 is a visceral trip into depravity and literal class warfare. It may not be for everyone, but if you're down to clown, it's a wild ride.
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Categorizing the Law
Being able to quickly and accurately partition the legal space into coherent, useful categories is crucial to conducting legal research. In service of this goal, various lists and taxonomies of legal topics have been created. Recently, Ravel reworked our own legal topics system to provide ourselves the flexibility to more easily expand the topic taxonomy and to provide a clearer, more immediately useful service for users.
Document Classification is a common task that usually relies on at least some amount of human-sourced information to assign labels to documents. In our case, we have a provided set of labels corresponding to legal topics that we must assign to opinions. We allow potentially many labels per document, making this an instance of multi-class, multi-label classification.
For our particular use case, we use a Binary Relevance approach, where a classifier for each individual label/topic is trained independently and subsequently evaluated on texts. This setup allows for multi-labeled predictions while still using straight-forward linear models. While this is a fairly standard approach, we make use of an interesting annotation framework to maximize the effectiveness of our annotators' time and reduce the time needed to roll out new topics into our system.
Prior to this work, the topic model in use at Ravel was based on a fixed Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model, summarized in Fig. 1. After selecting an arbitary value for the number of LDA clusters, the trained model was manually examined and human-readable labels were simply assigned to the various clusters as appropriate. New documents were assigned an LDA cluster and simply inherited that cluster's topic label.
Because many of the clusters represented no particular coherent topic, only a subset of opinions received a label under this scheme, and each opinion could only receive a maximum of one – both of which are not ideal properties for our purposes. Furthermore, to add new topics to this model it would need to be entirely retrained and each new cluster would need to be reanalyzed – there would be no assurances that existing clusters would survive the retraining. This particular fact is the most problematic for a system that will eventually expand to several hundred topics in the end.
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Typical document classification systems involve getting top level labels for exemplar documents from annotators and allowing a featurization routine to extract useful features from those documents that are then used to make predictions on new, unseen data. In the original Ravel topic system, there was a single feature (namely the LDA cluster that the document fell into), and a hard-coded mapping to labels based on those features. Because there were no top level labels on the documents, the actual learning potential of the model was minimal; the model itself was unsupervised.
As a pilot study for a new model (shown in Fig. 2), our annotation team provided several hundred top-level labels for documents in our corpus. Then, rather than using LDA clusters as features, a standard lexical featurization was conducted, where the features for a document became the counts of the words used in that doucment. The intuition being that if documents we label as "Intellectual Property" frequently contain references to things like 'copyright' or 'trademark', we can learn to associate those words with the topic of "Intellectual Property".
While this process is a well-used one, the particular details of our situation complicate it. For one thing, the taxonomy of topics into which we are classifying is rather large and will fluctuate and expand over time. As such, we place a high value on our ability to quickly and reliably create new topics. However, adding a new label under standard document classification practices involves actually obtaining a set of documents that should have that new label – the more the better, but a few dozen as a reasonable minimum. This is not an easy task if, for example, the topic is highly specific; we may not have access to a large enough set of relevant documents to support the new topic.
Instead of requiring that we assemble a new set of documents for every new topic that we wish to support, our solution allows our annotation team to simply describe the nature of those documents. This is done by having the annotators associate important phrases from documents with topic labels rather than providing top-level labels for the entire document itself, shown in Fig. 3. While the existence of a labeled document set is helpful in that it provides a straightforward source for those important phrases, this process can actually be run entirely independent of the corpus – annotators can opt to supply their own key phrases in lieu of actually having to obtain a corresponding set of documents. In our case, a smaller number of whole documents were labeled after the fact in order to provide an evaluation set.
Structuring the model in this way provides a few benefits. First, these new annotations directly provide the feature weightings that all topic models need to function rather than relying on the learning algorithm to both select important phrases and then learn the weightings. Second, the annotation task is now very low-intensity and can be done quickly and cheaply (the interface used by the annotators is shown in Fig. 4). Finally, building the model around key terms and phrases relates the entire system to the well-known idea of boolean search; in some ways, each topic is a sort of archived search result, where our annotators have provided a tuned search query that returns a particular set of topically relevant documents.
The most obvious changes made by this work are that a much higher percentage of the Ravel corpus are now assigned topics, and most labeled documents now receive multiple topics. This means that finding interesting cases at the intersection of topics is easier than ever. For instance, browsing case law by sets of topics like "Intellectual Property" combined with "Employment Law" is now possible.
To see one example of the new topics system in action, check out the new Law Firms Analytics dashboards (on the left) to see firm by firm breakdowns of commonly litigated topics.
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Effects of Dietary Bacillus-based Probiotic on Growth Performance, Nutrients Digestibility, Blood Characteristics and Fecal Noxious Gas Content in Finishing Pigs
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Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
Volume 19, Issue 4,
2006, pp.587-592
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Effects of Dietary Bacillus-based Probiotic on Growth Performance, Nutrients Digestibility, Blood Characteristics and Fecal Noxious Gas Content in Finishing Pigs
Chen, Y.J.; Min, B.J.; Cho, J.H.; Kwon, O.S.; Son, K.S.; Kim, H.J.; Kim, I.H.;
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of supplementation with bacillus-based probiotic (Bacillus subtilis,
; Bacillus coagulans,
and Lactobacillus acidophilus,
) on finishing pigs growth performance, nutrients digestibility, blood characteristics and fecal noxious gas content and to determine the optimal addition level of this probiotic preparation. A total of forty eight pigs with an initial body weight (BW) of
were allotted to three dietary treatments (four pigs per pen with four pens per treatment) according to a randomized complete block design. Dietary treatment included: 1) CON (basal diet); 2) BP1 (basal diet+bacillus-based probiotic 0.1%) and 3) BP2 (basal diet+bacillus-based probiotic 0.2%). The experiment lasted 6 weeks. Through the entire experimental period, ADG was improved by 11% (p<0.05) in pigs fed diets supplemented with 0.2% bacillus-based probiotic compared to pigs fed the basal diet. ADFI and gain/feed were not affected by the treatments (p>0.05). Supplementation of bacillus-based probiotic did not affect either DM and N digestibilities or blood characteristics (p>0.05) of pigs. Fecal ammonia nitrogen (
-N) measured at the end of experiment was reduced (p<0.05) when pigs were fed the diet with 0.2% bacillus-based probiotic. Fecal butyric acid concentration also decreased significantly (p<0.05) whereas acetic acid and propionic acid concentrations were not affected (p>0.05) when pigs were fed diets with added bacillus-based probiotic. In conclusion, dietary supplementation of bacillus-based probiotic can increase growth performance and decrease fecal noxious gas content concentration.
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Latitude: 50.863 / 50°51'46"N
Longitude: -0.9263 / 0°55'34"W
OS Eastings: 475658
OS Northings: 107608
OS Grid: SU756076
Mapcode National: GBR CDW.SRF
Mapcode Global: FRA 86YT.GXW
Entry Name: Manchester Cottage manchester House
Listing Date: 6 October 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1026139
English Heritage Legacy ID: 301374
Location: Westbourne, Chichester, West Sussex, PO10
County: West Sussex
District: Chichester
Civil Parish: Westbourne
Built-Up Area: Emsworth
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Sussex
Church of England Parish: Westbourne St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
NORTH STREET (west side),
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One building. C18. Two storeys. Two windows. Stuccoed. Modillion eaves
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Teak can withstand different weather patterns and climates making it a wonderful material for floor mats and a variety of bathroom accessories. However, like anything used on a regular basis, a little upkeep may be needed every once in a while. We proudly offer the products to help you maintain your teak and keep it looking its best. We offer a deep cleaning kit designed to clean without harming the wood or your hands - it even includes a bit of teak conditioning oil as a finishing step. To maintain the rich tones of the woods, it is recommended that you apply teak oil to heavily used items, or items exposed to water or steam every 6 months, so we offer two sizes of oil for just this purpose. Should you wish to add or replace the rubberized strips along the bottom of any product, a maintenance kit is also available. Please note, though the kits are specifically sized for the mats, the rubberized strips may be cut to fit other products as well.
Q. "What is the difference between the Burmese Teak and Plantation Teak?"
A. The manufacturer states that the Burmese teak they use is "made of pure heartwood from mature Teak trees grown in the Indonesia/South East Asia region. Heartwood Teak provides an elegant piece with unique grain patterns and a beautiful rich color giving any area an immediate WOW factor. The high silica content in teak makes it an ideal wood to use when a slip resistant surface is needed and the natural oil makes the wood resistant to mold and mildew." The plantation teak is FSC certified and "comes from trees harvested from an actual plantation of younger Teak trees. Since we only use the heartwood of the tree, it has all the same qualities of old growth Burmese Teak but it is a little lighter in color." In both cases, the manufacturer states that the teak is harvested from reclaimed, sustainable forests, working with reputable, certified growers dedicated to maintaining the world's rainforests.
Q. "I would love to order one of the custom shower mats, but my shower floor slopes down to the drain. Will my shower mat be stable and secure?"
A. According to the manufacturer, these mats rest on a least three wooden "feet" that run the width of the mat. These feet have a premium non-slip rubber strip bonded to them that compresses and grips the shower floor in six spots, creating a safe, comfortable , stable place to stand, while still allowing water to drain effectively.
Q. "How does the water drain off the mat?"
A. Actually, the water drains right through the mat. These mats are built with 1/8-inch spaces between the slats so that water drains right through to the shower drain. In addition, the legs of the mat are situated so as not to interfere with drainage.
Q. "Will the mat slide around or move on the wet shower floor?"
A. According to the manufacturer, the bottom of each floor mat features germ-free rubber strips to keep the mat stable and slip-resistant while showering.
Q. "Will the mat stain my marble or tile shower floor?"
A. No. One of the great things about teak is that it's rich color does not have to be enhanced with dyes or stains, so you get a great-looking mat that will not discolor your fine shower surfaces in any way.
Q. "Do I have to worry about mold or mildew with my in-shower mat?"
A. No. Teak is renowned worldwide for its resistance to mold, mildew and rot. It is also germ-free and all our mats are sanded smooth for maximum comfort against your feet.
Q. "How do I maintain my teak product?"
A. These teak products are as close to maintenance free as you can get. They resist mold or mildew and will maintain their beauty whether finished or unfinished. To maintain the finished look is no different than polishing your wood furniture. Every few months simply apply teak oil (available in any hardware store) to the surface of your product with a cloth. This process takes only a few minutes and will renew the finish on your teak product. Of course, you can choose to let the teak age naturally. In time the teak oil will dissipate and the teak's natural oil content will continue to ward off mold and mildew. For information on the care of teak, click here.
Q. "How do I clean a teak floor mat?"
A. Cleaning teak is very simple. Use a mild solution of soap and water (for heavily soiled teak a mild solution of bleach and water) simply apply to the surface of the product and wipe or scrub off. This will remove the surface dirt and restore the teak to its natural beauty.
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As best I can determine, this cover was first released on the album Kid Show Themes by the T-Boppers in 2008 by Essential Media Group LLC. It has subsequently been released under multiple publishers, the most prolific being Renegade Media Network LLC and Bobby Jones Party Music. The albums are primarily collections of '70s party tunes or Halloween music.
Both of these seem like bad choices. In the former case, "Pac-Man Fever" was released in late 1981, not the 1970s. In the latter, I don't understand what makes "Pac-Man Fever" a Halloween song. Saying "because it involves ghosts" is a real stretch.
And to make things even more fun, there are three versions of the song: the regular one, one with Halloween sound effects playing in the background, and a karaoke version with the lead vocals removed. The easiest way to identify it is that they all have a running length of 4:05 (with one exception).
So to be clear, all the albums listed below contain the exact same song, aside from those three differences. Yes, even though they each list different artists, and publishers, they're all the same recording, minus the differences in sound effects of lack of vocals for a karaoke track. The following are organized alphabetically by publisher, then band name.
This one is odd. All the album covers say the "Party Band Kings", but on Amazon the artist is listed as the "Party Hit Kings".


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Local 506—Back in 2000, when the singer now known as Bill Callahan was still recording under the name Smog (but before he was briefly named (smog)), he wrote a relatively playful country-rock rollick about dying, lust and relishing one after the other sets in: "Dress sexy at my funeral/ my good wife/ dress sexy at my funeral/ for the first time in your life," he opened in the thick, stately baritone he's perfected during two decades of lyrical darkness. "Wear your blouse undone to here/ and your skirt split up to there/ Oh, dress sexy at my funeral/ my good wife." Callahan encouraged his widow to regale the graveside gatherers with tales of their sexcapades—once on railroad tracks, then in the dimly lit rear room of a bar, even on a nearby tombstone. He hoped that all of those little sexual deaths—les petits morts, as the French would say—would trump even his ultimate end.
In April, Callahan issued Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, the second LP under his given name and a record that made that funny, little 9-year-old tune burn like a branding iron. Muted, measured and careful, the bulk of Eagle catalogues Callahan's suffering, one assumes, after his break-up with wild-voiced harpist Joanna Newsom. "Love is the king of the beasts/ And when it gets hungry, it must kill to eat," he stoically sings on "Eid Ma Clack Shaw," again suggesting that love and its ways are bigger than life. One song earlier, he's even made preparations for his absence, leaving the world memos of things that need to be said should he not return. "Done me in," he closes, exhaling in an end-of-everything kind of way.
But Eagle's lovesickness is balanced by sweetness and resolve: He enjoyed what he had, and remembers it fondly if painfully. On "Faith/ Void," he repeats "It's time to put God away" a few dozen times over a steely nine-minute closing country waltz. The song seems less about religion, though, and more about self-dependence. That is, his life has to be bigger than anyone else's love or light. Callahan has been recording since the late '80s, and this is one of the high-water marks of his career and the year in music. So, yes, he does OK for himself. Lights open and back Callahan at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10-$12. See www.local506.com. —Grayson Currin


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How You Can Help
Travelling To The Resort
- If possible, travel by train. If you are flying, consider an airport transfer rather than hiring a car.
Support Sainte Foy
- Eat in local restaurants, use local shops, and support local businesses as much as possible during your stay.
Conserve Electricity
- Turn out lights which you are not using.
- Turn down heating which is set too high rather than opening the windows. Turning down your thermostat by just 1℃ could cut our carbon dioxide emissions by over 5%.
- Switch off unused appliances at the plug, and try not to leave mobile phone chargers plugged in for longer than they need.
Reduce Water Usage
- Due to popular demand we wash towels mid-week in our catered properties. If you don't need your towels washed please tell your chalet hosts.
- If you are using the washing machines in your properties, consider washing at 30℃.
- Do not use more water than you need.
- Report any dripping taps to your chalet hosts or to the Concierge Service as soon as possible.
- Due to popular demand, some of our properties have hot tubs installed. If you do use the hot tub during your stay, please ensure that the cover is correctly replaced to stop heat escaping.
Responsible Tourism Policy
Environmentally and socially responsible tourism is perhaps at its most important within the ski and snowboard industry, where the livelihood of whole regions depends on predictable yearly snowfalls.
Why Enforce This Policy?
Première Neige is strongly committed to doing everything possible to work with the local community to reduce climate change; without sacrificing the standards and service which our customers have come to expect.
The policy below cannot claim to be a fixed or final document. As our understanding of climate change grows, new technologies and ideas are introduced, and so our policy and procedures change to reflect this. As a result, we welcome all suggestions so please do let us know.
What Do We Do As A Company?
Energy Efficiency
Unless specifically requested, all of our client communications are paperless and we email our newsletters and booking forms.
All of our electricity is supplied by EDF, the company with the lowest CO2 emissions in Europe.
Managing guest properties year round, enables us to switch off hot water and electrical appliances when they are not in use and ensure radiators only come on during cold periods.
Reducing C02 Emissions
Public transport is often difficult and unreliable in the Alps. Therefore we promote the use of minibus transfers over hire cars, enabling us to combine small groups. All of our minibuses are diesel powered and regularly maintained to reduce pollution.
Sainte Foy is a mountain village and therefore facilities are limited, meaning that we do have to make trips to nearby towns. Wherever possible we combine these in order to save diesel.
Train travel to and from the UK is swift, easy and efficient. Transfers from the station to resort are very well priced.
Staff Involvement
Our staff are trained on environmental tourism and they are encouraged to put theory into practice. This can be as simple as shutting the windows before they leave, or picking up litter around resort.
Our Maintenance Team work hard all year, to restore and preserve local historic landmarks.
Our offices are involved in responsible tourism too. We shut down computer monitors and other electrical equipment overnight and recycle as much as possible.
Helping To Support The Local Community
Where possible we source fresh, local products for our catered chalets. Our bread is bought from the local bakery in Sainte Foy and our meat from a quality butcher in Aime.
We encourage our guests wherever possible to use local businesses. Our Concierge Service will help you book a restaurant or a massage.
Ski resorts are often unpopulated during the summer which can make a year-round life very difficult for local people. Première Neige have a year-round presence in Sainte Foy and bring in much needed summer business including our centrally-located crèche.
Wherever possible, we are phasing energy saving lightbulbs into our properties and in all of our catered chalets the friendly chalet hosts are trained to separate the recycling from the rubbish.
All of our chalets are built to incorporate the use of local building materials including wood, lauze and stone.
We take responsibility for many of the communal areas in Sainte Foy. During the winter you will see us out snow clearing, and during the summer we tidy and maintain large areas of the resort. This enables us to ensure that chemicals are not used on the snow, and that salt levels are kept to a minimum.
What Does The Resort Of Sainte Foy Do?
Grooming machines hydraulics run on environmentally friendly vegetable oil and the engines meet the European anti-pollution norms.
To compensate for those areas that have been cleared of vegetation for ski runs, the local forests of Grand Bois and the Monal are listed as protected forests. Skiing is prohibited in these areas.
Sainte Foy organises two citizens days a year. Litter left by tourists is picked up and with the help of volunteers including Première Neige, a major cleanup of the resort takes place.
A major reforestation campaign began in 2005, and at the rate of 200 to 800 saplings a year, there are now over 3800 new trees in and around the ski areas.
We are heavily involved in restoring and preserving local historic landmarks; our maintenance manager helped restore the chapel which is next to the Marquise run.
Sainte Foy use only water and air in their snow making machines, opting out of the addition of unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals. With careful management and modern equipment, the pistes remain smooth and well groomed.
Sainte Foy actively encourages the use of public transport and a free bus service runs from Sainte Foy village to the resort.
Reducing Environmental Impact On The Mountain
- Do not drop cigarette butts whilst skiing. Put them in a pocket and bin them once back at the chalet.
- Take all litter back to the chalet with you, and dispose of it in an environmentally friendly manner. Rubbish left out can be eaten by animals which disrupts the fragile ecosystem of the area.
- Do not pick wild flowers or disturb wildlife unnecessarily. Do not ski over young saplings, or in national park areas. Damage is often only identified come summer.
- When staying in our self-catered properties, please sort your recycling from your rubbish and ensure that you place it in the correct resort bins. When staying in a catered property, this will be done by your chalet host or chef but please do your best to help.


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There's one word to describe the sights you'll see in New Zealand: dramatic. Whether it's the mirror-like lakes, soaring mountains or the wildlife of Queenstown, there's nowhere quite like the Land of the Long White Cloud. Strap on those skis, take to the slopes and enjoy the trip.
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Helping you safely navigate the cancer maze
Cancer Patients without Borders...
Cancer treatments are not equal worldwide.
A stage IV patient with a negative prognosis in one country may be seen as curative in another.
Why we help patients access advanced overseas treatments?
Personal experience: Grace Gawler Institute founder, Grace Gawler, knows what it like to be a patient with a life-challenging condition who has fallen through gaps in the medical system. In December 1997 she awoke after routine surgery to discover that her rectum was paralysed.
This unexpected event was to change her life drastically. Consecutive surgeries followed, ileostomies, colostomies and removal of damaged and impacted colon were band-aid treatments that bought time; but her long term prognosis was grim.
In 2002-03, with just one Australian physician supporting her decision to seek an experimental treatment developed in the Netherlands, (15 others were not in favour); she left Australian to seek her optimum recovery. Her experimental surgery involved a long stay in Rotterdam.
The procedure involved surgically implanting a bionic device and electrodes in her lower back and buttock; designed to mimic the nerve supply that no longer functioned.
Not tried before for her condition, it was successful and a world first! Every day her device still pulses at 6 volts and is responsible for Grace getting her life back; ending those years of colon surgeries and failing ileostomy procedures.
Replacement surgeries are ongoing. The battery operated device needs to be replaced approximately every 3-4 years. So far Grace has undergone 23 surgical procedure since 1997.
The procedure is now performed in Singapore, but still not available in Australia.
Click here BBC Interview – Grace explains her 'world first' procedure in the Netherlands
Helping Patients Navigate the National & International Cancer Maze:
With Grace's successful overseas treatment history, it is not surprising that one of the Institute's key initiatives involves helping patients find valid medical solutions overseas when solution are not available in their home country.
The need: When it comes to cancer treatments, not all countries are equal in what they can offer. Some proven treatments and procedures may be registered for use in some countries – but not others.
We believe that life is precious and that well-being & good life quality is the right of all cancer patients as it is their right to explore all possible options to extend their life with good quality.
We are committed to assist cancer patients to navigate the complex international cancer treatment maze with support and guidance.
New Technologies: Over the Decades we have developed close collaborations with experts in many medical fields.
As well we have embraced the highest levels of medical science and technology including advanced genomic testing and monitoring tools.
Our medical oncology colleagues can also assist with providing access to targeted treatments as recommended by precision medicine diagnostics. In terms of state of the art treatments; we enlist our international experts to provide you with treatment opinions, not available in your home country.
We can assist with referrals to Immune Therapy Centres, Proton beam and Cyber-knife centres located in Asia; treatment options not available in Australia.
Our Global Cancer Navigation Service:
- We are more than a referral service – more comprehensive & personalised; we provide guidance & management at every step.
- Our unique service is based on our founder's 42 years experience helping cancer patients. Click to view our Navigation Package
- No Bias: importantly – we receive no financial remuneration from the hospitals and experts we refer you to for an opinion.
- The only remuneration we receive is from you, the patient on a fee for service basis. Because we are very thorough, more time is spent than is charged for. Extra costs for time can be substantial – however our charity status allows us to subsidise extra services by way of donations.
- Along with your medical team, we help match you to centres of excellence with expertise in your particular cancer- within Australia and globally.
- Close collaborations with some of the world's leading oncologists – Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Germany, the UK, EU and the USA also means we can fast -track opinions.
- We understand that international travel for cancer treatment can be daunting. We can assist with logistics, travel information whilst guiding you through your treatments.
- We maintain a close connection with you while overseas and can provide liaisons with your local doctors and oncology team – essential for long-term monitoring and maintenance.
- We also offer psychological & emotional support.
Patients from the UK, Canada, USA and other Northern Hemisphere countries can also access advanced treatments overseas when these are not available or accessible in their home countries countries.


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A woman is in critical condition at Allegheny General Hospital Thursday night after a shooting in Pittsburgh's Central North Side, police said.
Around 8:45 p.m. police responded to the 600 block of Redknap Street. The victim had fled there from Ehlers Way after being shot in the upper leg, according to police.
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DRIVERS are likely to spend nearly five days a year stuck in traffic and waste nearly £1,000 because of congestion, a new report has revealed.
The Local Government Association, which represents councils, is calling for more funding and powers to be given to local authorities to tackle problems on our roads.
Initiatives such as Oxfordshire County Council's efforts to combat congestion by working with smart technology are highlighted as one of the potential solutions.
Councillor Judith Blake, LGA Transport spokesperson, said: "Congestion can have a significant impact on our towns, cities and communities, and act as a drag on local growth. Worse still, it can lead to toxic air and reduced quality of life.
"When the average motorist is spending a working week every year sat in traffic on major roads, and losing almost a £1,000 in the process, it's clear that councils need to be able to do more to tackle this growing problem."
The LGA's report found that the average speed on an A road is just 25.2mph, 1 per cent slower than it was this time last year.
This is leading to increased air pollution, which leads to 40,000 premature deaths annually, and will cost the economy £300 billion a year by 2030.
Earlier this year Oxfordshire County Council became the second authority in the UK to partner with Waze, a traffic smartphone app that helps to tackle congestion.
Drivers using the app - which works as a sat nav - passively give information using GPS and can report crashes and roadworks which are then passed onto other drivers, helping them to avoid the most congested routes.


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Bluetooth grows, shines in medical, industrial apps
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Now, according to a report from market watcher In-Stat, Bluetooth is showing most growth potential in the Industrial/Medical market. The analyst expects shipments of Bluetooth-enabled devices in this segment will see a CAGR of about 85 percent between 2009 and 2014. the analyst also notes that this growth in the industrial and medical markets will be driven by Bluetooth Low Energy.
Brian O'Rourke, principal analyst, In-Stat, says that "The health and wellness market represents a new and relatively untapped opportunity for Bluetooth, particularly Bluetooth LE." He enumerates "The range of equipment includes heart rate monitors, blood-sugar measurement solutions, exercise and fitness equipment, and much more. The technology enables doctors to receive patient results via Bluetooth mobile phones, among other devices."
Other findings in the report include that Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii controllers have Bluetooth, and PMPs, game consoles, and game controllers are the main drivers of Bluetooth growth in CE devices.
Also, while the Bluetooth 3.0 standard that combines Bluetooth with Wi-Fi entered into the market in mobile phones in 2010, classic Bluetooth technology will remain dominant in phones indefinitely.
And for now, the Bluetooth USB adapter market will remain robust due to Bluetooth's lack of ubiquity in the mobile PC space and low penetration of desktop PCs.
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As the ugly outings piled up and his ERA spiked toward the stratosphere, Royals reliever Peter Moylan headed for a fact-finding mission in the club's video room on Thursday afternoon. In 20 appearances this season, Moylan, a 38-year-old side-armer, had posted a 9.20 ERA, the kind of number that could cause a pitcher to question his job security. Yet the overall results did not seem to match up with his overall performance, nor did it resemble what he saw while inspecting video clips from his season.
It's been an odd season, Moylan conceded, the kind where one can be optimistic about a monstrous ERA. In 16 of his first 20 games, he had logged a scoreless appearance. In three of the other four, he had surrendered at least four earned runs. The season has profiled as feast or famine. But Royals manager Ned Yost said Thursday that he has not lost trust in Moylan, the veteran reliever who returned to the Royals this season after a solid campaign in 2016.
"You look at the numbers from the outside, and it's like 'Holy (crap), this guy can't get anyone out,'" Moylan said. "But it feels like I'm throwing well. And I've thrown the ball as well as I (ever) have."
So what's happened?
Moylan believes some of the 9.20 ERA can be explained by poor luck, an assessment he loathes to make, while the other part stems from his inability to stop the bleeding while working in mop-up duty. Here are the specifics: For most of his career, Moylan has staked a reputation as a righty specialist, a side-armer who can neutralize right-handed hitters with a deceptive delivery and an effective slider. The skill-set makes him an ideal reliever for certain matchups in the sixth and seventh innings, and he worked his way into a high-leverage role with a strong start, opening April with 10 straight scoreless outings.
"He's a guy that I like to use in the seventh inning or the sixth or seventh inning if we have a lead," Yost said.
In his last 10 outings, however, Moylan has allowed 15 earned runs. He gave up five earned runs to the Chicago White Sox on April 24. He surrendered five in a 12-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on May 10. He allowed four in an 11-7 loss on Wednesday against the Yankees.
The situations have contained a common thread. In each, Moylan entered with the Royals trailing by at least three runs. Yost desired at least a full inning of work. Moylan was called on to get left-handers out.
"If it's a close game, Ned's not going to use me against those lefties," Moylan said. "But in a game like last night, it's my opportunity to show I can get those guys out."
For now, Moylan has struggled to handle left-handed batters. In 20 games, they are hitting .571 against him while right-handers are batting just .239 with a .300 on-base percentage. This, however, is where Moylan and Yost believe some misfortune has played a role.
"If you look at the hits I've given up to lefties — the No. 9 hitter in Chicago hits one out on a hanging slider," Moylan said. "But otherwise, it's not like I'm getting smashed."
As he prepared for his team's series finale against New York on Thursday, Yost echoed the sentiments.
"His last 10 hits," Yost said, "I guarantee eight of them have been jam shots or off the end of the bat or infield hits."
For now, Yost appears poised to maintain his trust in Moylan. On Thursday, he said he does not view ERA as a fair metric for relievers. But Yost could be more cautious about the circumstances in which he deploys the side-armer. On Wednesday, Moylan entered with the Royals trailing 6-2 in the fifth inning against the Yankees. Yost did not want to burn up his bullpen in the middle innings. So Moylan faced four hitters who batted from the left side; he allowed two hits, a walk and a sacrifice fly while yielding four runs.
"In a situation where the game was tighter, he wouldn't have faced those lefties, probably," Yost said. " … We don't put him in that position. But when you're down five, you're trying to stay away from (left-handers Mike) Minor and (Matt) Strahm."
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October Old-Time Week at the Augusta Heritage Center
October 15, 2017 @ 3:00 am - October 20, 2017 @ 11:50 pm
October Old-Time Week!
October 15-20, 2017
October Old-Time Week focuses on West Virginia's rich traditions of old-time music. Classes meet 9 a.m. – noon with an afternoon cultural session each day and afternoon classes. Presentations from master artists, late night jam sessions, and much more fill out the week.To register, specify October Old-Time Week and select the class that you would like to attend.
Stay for the West Virginia Fiddlers' Reunion, October 20-21, a celebration of West Virginia fiddlers. The Reunion kicks off Friday night with a square dance and continues Saturday with performances by West Virginia's master fiddlers, a flatfoot dance contest, instrument vendors, and the Augusta Store.
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Ben Townsend
Bio: As a member of The Fox Hunt, Old Sledge, The Iron Leg Boys, The Hackensaw Boys, and now as a solo performer, Ben has traveled across the country and around the world spreading his unique take on West Virginia regional old-time music. Born and raised in Romney, West Virginia, multi-instrumentalist Ben Townsend has studied Appalachian traditional music extensively. He is also a successful engineer, whose label, Questionable Records, has released popular traditional albums, as well as albums of music from genres across the board. Ben's most recent record, Deep End Sessions, Volume 3: Ben Townsend and Friends, has recently been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category.
Master Artist
Kirk Judd
Bio: Kirk Judd has lived, worked, trout fished, and wandered around in West Virginia all of his life. Kirk was a member of the Appalachian Literary League, a founding member and former president (and JUG recipient) of West Virginia Writers, Inc., and is a founding member of and creative writing instructor for Allegheny Echoes, Inc., dedicated to the support and preservation of West Virginia cultural heritage arts. Author of three collections of poetry Field of Vision (1986), Tao-Billy (1996), and My People Was Music (2014), and a co-editor of the highly acclaimed anthology, Wild, Sweet Notes – 50 Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950 – 1999, he is widely published. Kirk was honored to be one of the 5 readers selected for the installation ceremony of Louise McNeill Pease as Poet Laureate in 1979 at the WV Cultural Center on the Capitol grounds in Charleston, and currently sits on the board of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation headquartered in Hillsboro, WV. He is internationally known for his performance work combining poetry and old-time music, and has performed poetry in Ireland and across West Virginia at fairs, concerts, and festivals for the past 35 years.
Banjo – Beg.
Kim Johnson
Banjo – Beginning: Since this is a beginning class, it's not necessary for anybody to know any tunes at this point, but knowing some of the basic clawhammer motions would be helpful. Since banjo is partly a rhythm instrument, it's very helpful for beginners to learn to play in time with others right from the start. Playing with other people will help your timing. The emphasis in the beginning class will be on getting started out right and also learning some basic West Virginia tunes. Kim learned to play by accompanying Wilson Douglas, and his method was to "try and get some of the notes that the fiddler plays. There's no way to get all of them, just get what you can." She never learned from tab, so participants won't be doing any of that. After Wilson passed away in 1999, Kim started playing with Lester McCumbers. His Calhoun County style was a little different from Wilson's, but still in the same central West Virginia family. Each fiddler plays differently than the others, and participants need to learn to listen to and follow what the fiddler does, unless their goal is to be a solo banjo performer.
Participants should feel free to bring any recording devices, video recorders, cameras, etc. so they can get the most from the class. And also…a banjo.
Bio: Kim Johnson is from Clendenin, West Virginia, and has been playing banjo since about 1978. During that time, she has played at countless music festivals throughout the Appalachian region and has performed and recorded with several of West Virginia's older generation of master fiddlers. Kim performed extensively with renowned Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas from 1981 until his death in 1999. She recorded a CD and three cassettes with Wilson, whose soulful, mountain style of fiddling is still sought after today. Kim was also fortunate to be able to play with Calhoun County fiddler Lester McCumbers. In 2002, Kim and Lester recorded a CD with Lester's wife Linda, a lifelong traditional West Virginia mountain singer. In 2004, she accompanied Lester when he entered the fiddle contest at the Appalachian String Band Festival at Clifftop. Lester won the blue ribbon that year, taking first place among 95 fiddlers of all ages. Since Lester's passing, Kim has been playing music with a younger generation of musicians, and was invited by Jesse Pearson and Cody Jordan to join their band, the Modock Rounders. The band has performed at several festivals and events during the last few years, including the Vandalia Gathering, Clifftop, the WV Folk Festival, the Jewel City Jamboree, and Augusta's Fiddlers' Reunion. The Modock Rounders released Old Tunes & New Blood: Legacy of Wilson Douglas in 2015 and Home Music in 2016.
Banjo – Int.
Rachel Eddy
Banjo – Intermediate: Class description coming soon!
Bio: Rachel Eddy was born and raised in rural West Virginia near Morgantown, where her father got her started playing fiddle as a little girl. Pretty soon she realized that it was more fun making old-time string band music than just about anything else, which she has done pretty much full time since. Rachel performs on fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and bass, as well as singing and telling stories throughout the eastern US and Europe. She has recently relocated back to West Virginia after living the last 5 years in Stockholm, during which time she invigorated the Swedish old-time scene, inspiring dozens of people with Appalachian music and dance. Rachel has taught fiddle, banjo, and guitar at Augusta; Sore Fingers Summer school in the UK; and various weekend workshops from the hills of West Virginia to Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, London, and Wales. From the connection of working with a dedicated student or performing solo in front of small audiences to the collective charge of leading large jam sessions or tight ensembles in front of thousands of festival goers, Rachel's love for traditional music comes from the heart! Over the years, she has had the honor of sharing stages, workshops, and recording sessions with the likes of Tim O'Brien, Erynn Marshall, Dirk Powell, Adam Hurt, Rayna Gellert, Russ Barenberg, Bruce Molsky, Mark Schatz, and a month-long tour in Germany with the g'earls from Uncle Earl. She has four full length albums: The Morgantown Rounders (2006), Hand on the Plow (2008 solo), Chilly Winds (2010 duo with Kristian Herner) and Nothin' But Corn (2014 solo). Rachel's most recent news is that she's teaching Appalachian music and dance at West Virginia University and has just been picked up on their label.
Banjo – Adv.
Bob Shank
Banjo – Advanced: Class description coming soon!
Bio: For more than three decades Bob Shank has been a benchmark for American banjo players. Not bluegrass or old-time, or classical or ragtime, but all that and more. A sixth-generation West Virginian, Bob began his musical journey at age 5 with drums and piano and by age 13 he was firmly hooked on banjo. And then guitar. And then hammered dulcimer. And an abiding rock and roll sensibility. That all led to the formation, with Sam Morgan, Mark Walbridge, Pete Tenney, and Glen McCarthy, of the successful crossover band, Hickory Wind. Hickory Wind's fusion of various traditional musical forms over (and under) layered with rock rhythms and fills got them all the way to opening for some of the best known acts of the time, including Steely Dan, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, and Jackson Brown. As Flying Fish recording artists, the band toured 30 American states and 20 countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, recording three very favorably reviewed albums in the process. A new compilation of previously unreleased Hickory Wind material, No Fish Today, is available from CD Baby.
Fiddle – Beg.
Joe Herrmann
Fiddle – Beginning: This workshop is for folks who have some experience playing and learning tunes. There is no need to have a huge bag of experience, but the class isn't for folks with no experience. The workshop will focus on a rhythmic approach to playing fiddle tunes using tunes with roots in West Virginia and the surrounding region of Appalachia. Being part of October Old-Time Week will allow you to surround yourself with an undeniable wealth of inspiration for the tradition of fiddle and banjo rhythms.
Bio: Joe Herrmann is a singer and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded The Critton Hollow String Band with his wife, Sam Herrmann, in 1975. He has toured internationally and recorded 8 albums. Joe plays music that draws from his background in traditional, folk, and old-time traditions.
Fiddle – Int.
Dave Bing
Fiddle – Intermediate: In this workshop, Dave Bing will use local tunes as a tool for explaining bowing rhythm, left-hand technique, dynamics, and all the things that make a tune fun to play and listen to.
Bio: Dave Bing's first Augusta experience was in 1983 when he and his brothers performed in concert for Old-Time Week. Two years later, he began teaching beginning fiddle and has taught every year since, developing his style of teaching to include all aspects of West Virginia fiddling. Dave began playing guitar at five years old, banjo in his mid-teens, and fiddle soon after. He was lucky to learn from several old-time fiddlers who had different styles, and he incorporated them into what has become his own style of fiddling. Dave has performed and taught old-time fiddle and banjo internationally with annual workshops in Spain and England. His style of teaching focuses on the rhythmic bowing techniques, different left hand methods, dynamics, and timing that make an old-time fiddle tune more appealing to listen to and more fun to play. In addition to teaching, Dave currently plays and performs with the trio High Ridge Ramblers. He now lives in Roane County, West Virginia, with his wife. He plays on his tractor on their farm, plays and teaches old-time West Virginia music, and builds violins.
Fiddle – Adv.
Bobby Taylor
Fiddle – Advanced: This workshop will focus on bowing techniques and noting patterns for playing old-time fiddle styles. The goal of these sessions will be to share techniques that will be useable in other tunes. Bobby will provide avenues for playing both smooth and spirited styles. Learning some new tunes and just having fun, participants will go over passages many times to try and lock in the feeling and soul of the tunes. At the end of these sessions, participants will leave with new ideas on how to pull good tone and to create easier flow within tunes. Some tunes may be written out, but it is necessary for everyone to have a recording device. It is always good to have these recordings for future reference so the tunes are not lost.
Bio: Bobby Taylor is a fourth generation West Virginia fiddler. He plays several styles of old-time and contest fiddling, but got his early start from the legendary Clark Kessinger, who influenced a world of fiddlers. He has a melting pot of old-time fiddle styles including the styles of his father, Lincoln Taylor (1911-1995), Ed Haley, Mike Humphreys, Benny Thomasson, Reece B. Jarvis, Doc Roberts, French Carpenter, and scores of others. He was the 1977 West Virginia State Open Fiddle Champion. In 2003, Bobby received the Footbridge Award. This award was presented by FOOTMAD (Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance) for his contributions to old-time music. Bobby was presented the 2010 Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor, by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. When fiddle enthusiast West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd passed away in July of 2010, Bobby was honored to be chosen to play Senator Byrd's favorite fiddle tunes during the public visitation in the West Virginia Capitol rotunda, for the official memorial service, and for the private funeral services for the Byrd family. He was inducted into the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair Hall of Fame in Ripley, WV, in July of 2012 for his musical contributions to the State of West Virginia. Bobby has been the coordinator of West Virginia's Vandalia Gathering contests at the State Capitol in Charleston since 1979. He was the contest coordinator of the Appalachian Open Contest from 1984 through 1987 and he has been the contest coordinator of the Appalachian String Band Music Festival contest since 1990. All of these events are sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Bobby retired as Library Manager of the West Virginia Archives and History Section of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History after 37 years of service. Bobby is a certified national fiddle judge. He is a nationally recognized consultant on rules and judging procedures for heritage music competitions. He has judged the Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia state championships and is a judge at the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, Virginia. He is a former judge of the Grand Master Fiddle Championship in Nashville, TN. He was selected to judge the 2007, 2010, and 2012 Western Open Fiddle Championship in Red Bluff, CA. He was a judge at Jana Jae's Grand Lake National Fiddle Fest in 2006, 2007, and 2009 in Grove, OK. He judged the Grand National Fiddle Championship in Weiser, ID, in 2008. In addition to judging, Bobby has a long history as a fiddle instructor. He has taught fiddle workshops at Augusta and Allegheny Echoes in West Virginia, the 2012 and 2015 Midwest Banjo Camp in Michigan, and the 2013 Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, WA. He has performed on musical tours in Australia and Ireland. He was a featured performer at the National Folk Festival in Australia in March of 2008and at the Library of Congress and the Kennedy Center on August 16, 2012. The Library of Congress show was recorded for their permanent collection.
Hammered Dulcimer – Beg.
Sam Herrmann
Hammered Dulcimer – Beginning: This workshop is designed for complete beginners, or those that have just gotten a toe in the water (or even a foot). The workshop will build from the bottom up, through the basics and on to learning tunes. Sam loves to help people get started. Participants will leave the class with some tunes, practice techniques, and an inspiration and confidence to follow their desire to play. Participants should be sure to bring a recording device. Feel free to contact Sam about any concerns or questions at email@example.com.
Bio: Sam Herrmann has played hammered dulcimer since building her first one in 1975. Co-founder of Critton Hollow Stringband in 1976, she has toured extensively in the US, Canada, and the UK, performing and teaching workshops at many major festivals. Her band was considered the "house band" in the early years of the Augusta Heritage Workshop, and Sam taught the hammered dulcimer repertoire class for many summers. Sam's dulcimer playing has always focused on traditional fiddle tunes.
Staff Musician
Hunter Walker
Bio: Beckley native Hunter Walker has been in demand as a teacher and performer in Appalachia and surrounding areas in recent years. He has performed at prestigious venues such as Theatre West Virginia, the Vandalia Gathering, and Mountain Stage. While proficient at guitar and mandolin, he is best known for his virtuosity and innovation on the banjo and mountain dulcimer. His skill on the dulcimer has merited him the titles four time WV State Dulcimer Champion, TN Open Grand Youth Champion, three time Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention Dulcimer Champion, Mid-Atlantic Regional Dulcimer Champion, as well as numerous other first place finishes at Fiddlers' Conventions. When Hunter is not teaching, you may spot him jamming at festivals. He is excited to see the rich Appalachian music heritage passed on.
Flatfooting from Scratch Mini-Course
Becky Hill
Flatfooting from Scratch: Class description coming soon!
Bio: Bio coming soon!


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Accommodations, Rates, Deposits
Weekend rentals are available from September to June. During July and August, preference is given to week rentals - weekends will only be made available for booking starting in May. Long weekends are an exception and can be booked for a three day rental.
We offer a spacious five bedroom, three bathroom guest house with two on-property cabins, six rustic cabins in the woods, and wilderness camp sites.
We prefer to rent to mature, responsible adults and families who appreciate the beauty of nature, respect the antiques on our property and those of us who live here. Partying is encouraged as long as it's done without disturbing others. We do rent to large groups but may request a security deposit which would be returned if there is no damage to the house or property.
Check availability on our bookings calendar page. For rates and information about our tours and day-use options, visit our rates page.
If you would like to reserve our guest house or cabin, contact us using the online form (on the "contact us" page), send us an e-mail or call us at 519-874-4038 or our cellphone 519 550-1812. Then, send in your deposit. The easiest way to do this is through our website link under PayNow. You can use your credit card or Paypal account.
To pay your deposit please fill out the name and e-mail address associated with the booking, and then enter in your deposit amount on the next page and complete your payment.
Minimum stay 2 nights
deposits are required at time of booking
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|$30 per night per family
Lots of room on the property and campsites for extra tents and trailers. We charge $20 per night for either. We're now charging $10/night for firewood with all cabin and campsite rental. The rental rate per night depends on the number of bedrooms you use BUT you do have access to the whole house. The other rooms are not rented out to anyone else once it's booked by a guest.
Guests are welcome to bring their own ATVs to ride the well-groomed trails. Cost is $10 per ATV per day.
Guest House
- 5 bedrooms
- 3 bathrooms
- two flat screen TV's with full satellite reception and two dvd players
- front porch and back deck with full size BBQ
- CD player
- games table and wood stove in lower level
- assortment of bicycles
- patio chairs and picnic table
- outdoor fire pit
53800 McQuiggan Line
Vienna, Ontario N0J 1T0
Everything you need is in the house. Bring your own food or eat out— there are restaurants close by. There is a propane barbecue on the back deck. Full access to hiking trails, ponds, fishing is included. Scroll down for photos of the guest house.
Guest house bunkies
Cabin #1 on Guest House Property
Inside View of Cabin #1 on Guest House Property
Inside view of Cabin #2 on Guest House Property
There are two cabins ("bunkies") on the guest house property. These cabins have full electrical power, a small refrigerator, and beds— bring your own bedding or sleeping bags. There is again no running water in these cabins but just outside the door there is
an outdoor tap. These cabins are unheated and uninsulated. They are intended as guest house "overflow" for large groups wanting to camp together— some rough it and some stay in the house. There is an electric BBQ for cooking if you don't want to start a fire. Bring your own camping gear (dishes/cooking utensils/towels). If you are a camper, these cabins are large, clean, and have comfy beds and you don't have to pitch the tent or pull the camper! Bring the whole family or a bunch of friends and enjoy a "private campground" experience.
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Cabins to rent
All cabins cost $75/night, except the Beaver Lodge which can sleep 6 people and is $100/night.
All of our cabins are very rustic and meant for those who love nature and camping. All are insulated and come with the basic necessities - utensils, dishes, cutlery, kettle, pots, coffee pot or bodum, wood stove, outdoor fire pit, propane burner for cooking, and an outhouse. The Hunt Camp cabin has full electricity with a hot plate and small fridge; the straw bale and train station cabins have solar power for lighting and charging cell phones or plugging in a radio. The other cabins have no lighting so please bring your own battery-powered lights. None of the cabins have running water or electricity (they do have outhouses). Potable water is provided in 5-gallon containers. You need to bring your own bedding or sleeping bags but pillows are supplied. What these cabins offer is a private, secluded, beautiful site in nature for those who love to camp but would prefer to be in a building. The "lower bush cabin" and "beaver lodge cabin" overlook the Otter river and the "train station" and "straw bale cabin" overlook the valleys.
Two Person Shower
We now have a great two person shower complete with a light, mirror and electrical outlet if you want to spruce yourself up by shaving or using a hairdryer. It's in the back of our barn in an awesome rustic setting and offers a unique hot shower with an outdoor feel. All campers, whether in cabins or campsites, are welcome to use it
Eagles Nest (Treehouse) Cabin
This is a unique cabin up in the trees overlooking the Otter River down below. It's a great couples retreat and for adults only. There's an amazing view sitting on the back deck up in the trees. There's a very comfortable futon that folds out to a double bed for sleeping. The cabin is very isolated at the back of a hog back on the property. Isolation plus!
Beaver Lodge Cabin
This is our largest cabin for families or groups. It has a double, two singles (king) and another single bed. Overlooks the river and beaver den.. Can sleep up to 6.
Lower Bush Cabin
This cabin has an amazing view of and access to the river. It has a double futon as well as a couch for sleeping.
Our "Lower Bush cabin" has a double futon bed and couch for sleeping.
Train Station Cabin
Circa 1890s restored train station, ready to rent as a cabin. It has a 3/4 bed and double futon for sleeping. It's situated on a hill overlooking a valley below and has solar lighting.
Straw Bale Cabin
This unique building is all straw inside the walls which keeps in cool in the summer and cozy warm in the winter with a wood burning stove. There's a fantastic sleeping loft with a king size futon mattress, as well as a futon and pull out couch downstairs. It overlooks the valley below and has solar lighting.
Hunt Camp Cabin
This is a very old hand-hewed pre-Confederation beam building. It has full electricity with a small fridge and a two burner hot plate for cooking. It has two comfortable single beds with room for two more cots if needed. It's located on the homestead where we live.
Wilderness Camp Sites
All sites are very scenic and isolated, with fire pit, wood and outdoor toilet (thunderbox) provided. Most are bordering the Otter with access for fishing and canoeing , and use of all the trails and property is included. Drinking water is available.
Special Occasion Barns
New to Otter River Farms, pre-1900's Barns for Special Occasions and are now available for weddings, family reunions, stags, etc. The perfect location for photos opportunities.
Two old beam barns built in the early 1800's. There are two barns to choose from. One has hydro available and the other is powered by solar panels for lighting and D.J setup.
It is important to see before booking an event.
Day use of either barn for reunion or wedding only is $300. To hold your reception in the barn the cost is $700. You can bring your own tables and chairs or we charge $100 for use of our tables, chairs, and tablecloths for 50 people. If you have more than 50 guests you're welcome to put up a tent at no extra cost.
You have to supply your own food, decorations, dishes and glassware, and music system. We're happy to provide a beautiful rustic setting for your wedding but you have to want to do the work yourself.
The upper barn behind the guesthouse can only be rented for a reception if the guesthouse is also booked for two nights by the wedding party. Cabins and bunkies are always an option for wedding guests to stay over.
Want your wedding in a beautiful outdoor space with a rustic barn? You do all the set up and arrangements. Contact us for more information.
Guided ToursGuided tours - couples only - on a very quiet Polaris electric side-by-side.